Posted on 01/07/2025 6:36:50 PM PST by Bullish
Democratic President Joe Biden took credit for a report of decreased illegal immigration and faced fierce backlash on social media.
The post on X attributed to Biden claimed that "unlawful" border crossings had dropped by 60%. The Biden administration has been heavily criticized over lax border policies that led to a historic surge of illegal immigration. Some blame the results of the election on concerns over illegal alien crime.
"Following the executive actions we took to secure our border, unlawful crossings have dropped over 60%. They’re lower than the last several months of the previous administration," read the Biden statement.
"Republicans in Congress wanted to play politics with the border. We fought to fix it," he added.
Many on social media saw the statement as an attempt to rewrite history and gloss over the failed policies of the Biden administration.
"Only the profoundly mentally disabled could possibly believe this horse s***," replied comedian Anthony Cumia.
"Biden waited until an election year before he even paid lip service to securing our border. The Biden era will forever be marked by the worst border crisis in US history. His apathy has ruined lives and left our nation open to attack from our adversaries," responded Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas).
"He waited 3.5 years to implement these policies, and only did so reluctantly because of pressure from the electorate to do something about the border crisis," said Chuck Ross of the Free Beacon.
"I don’t know which blue-haired lesbian intern at the whitehouse has the X login today, but it’s wayyyy too late to improve the legacy of the worst president in American history. Stop the lies," responded Pastor Ryan Visconti.
"There’s no amount of revisionist history that will make anyone believe @POTUS on border security. Truth is since February of 2021, well over 9 million people illegally crossed the southern border," replied Kent Strang of Americans for Prosperity.
Trump has promised to institute mass deportations to alleviate the crisis of illegal immigration.
FR thread: Biden’s “legacy” is complex — and it’s in Donald Trump’s hands now
FTA——By the standard President Biden set himself, “the core purpose” he proclaimed when he ran in 2020, it is impossible to assess his one-term presidency as anything but a complete and total failure.
“We are in a battle for the soul of this nation,” Biden said as he began his campaign in 2019. “If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. And I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”
Now Trump has a chance to do precisely what Biden wanted to prevent — to complete eight years in the White House and put his stamp on American politics for decades to come.
And there will be little Biden can do beyond stand by and watch.
Kinda sad, really. We had several years where a certain Steven brought us nearly out of our funk, and then the idiots in Ontario decide to give the son of the man who started our country’s degradation “a chance” to run the place.
Now look at us.
Oh Canada, how CAN I stand on guard for thee?
Seems like he did a good job. I never heard about him. He was kind of invisible.
He was sending planes down into South America and flying them back.
Sorry, didn’t realize you spelled Babylon Bee “BLAZE”.
Democrats under fire for not sounding alarm earlier on Biden’s mental state
Schumer nixed such talk as “right-wing propaganda,” now feeling the heat
by Alexander Bolton 01/07/25, the hill.com
Democratic leaders and lawmakers are coming under growing scrutiny for not blowing the whistle sooner on what is widely perceived to be President Biden’s decline during the final two years of his presidency. Some Democrats fear there is going to be a lot more talk as members of their party wrestle over what went wrong in the 2024 election and how to chart a course going forward.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), who in February dismissed talk about a decline in Biden’s mental and physical fitness as “right-wing propaganda,” was challenged over the weekend by NBC’s Kristen Welker. Welker put the question bluntly to Schumer by asking whether he “and other top Democrats misled” Americans about Biden’s “mental acuity.” “Look, we didn’t,” Schumer answered tersely, before defending Biden’s record and character.
“The legislation we passed, one of the most significant groups of legislation since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society,” Schumer said, referring to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which included a host of energy and climate provisions. “Putting in 235 judges [on the federal bench], a record. And he’s a patriot, he’s a great guy,” Schumer added.
A handful of Democratic senators are now warning there will be more calls for answers and accountability given that Biden’s condition became a glaring problem after he muddled through the first presidential debate against Donald Trump in June. “I think it’s coming, big time,” said one Democratic senator who predicted a wave of recriminations against Democratic lawmakers for not asking tough questions earlier about Biden. The lawmaker argued that many Democrats in Congress were kept in the dark about Biden’s health and stamina.
“The fairest statement about it is that we never saw him. Really. I don’t know how long ago it was the last time Biden came to the caucus,” the senator added. “I think he declined over that period of time.” But the senator said regardless of how much Democratic leaders really knew about Biden’s condition, Republicans successfully tagged Democrats as “corrupt” for not raising alarms sooner about the president’s fitness to serve a second term.
“I do believe a very successful charge of corruption” was tagged onto the Democratic Party as voters wondered, “’What the f‑‑‑ are you talking about?’” the senator said, referring to voters’ reactions to claims that Biden was fully fit to serve another four years in the Oval Office starting at age 82.
Schumer and other Democrats who spent time with Biden at the White House or at special events, such as the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of D-Day in June, repeatedly vouched for his mental sharpness before his debate against Trump. “I talk to President Biden, you know, regularly, sometimes several times in a week, or usually several times in a week. His mental acuity is great. It’s fine. It’s as good as it’s been over the years,” Schumer declared in mid-February.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told The Hill in June that Biden seemed sharp and focused during the celebration of the allied invasion of Normandy that eventually liberated Western Europe from Nazi occupation. Blumenthal said at the time he wasn’t counting on a “plan B” in the election, but he correctly predicted that the debate would be a “really critical point” in the race.
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