Posted on 02/22/2021 10:01:51 AM PST by MtnClimber
ne of the reasons the country should elect Joe Biden president, voters were told over and again last summer and fall, was that America needed to go back to the unexceptional days of B.T. – Before Trump. But if what we’ve seen so far is normal, then please give us the irregular, the unconventional, and the unorthodox.
When Democrats and the media (do we always need to say here, “but we repeat ourselves”?) said Biden would lead us back to the political and social lives pre-Donald Trump, they meant more than just putting the pandemic behind us. They insisted normalcy was getting rid of a president whose tweets upset them; transporting America to the days when we could disagree about politics but not let them divide us; making Washington a functioning machine turning out useful public policy; a staid rather than turbulent White House, and, according to a late November rant by Robert Reich, a labor secretary during the early Clinton years, recovering “a former America that, by contrast, might appear quiet and safe, even boring.”
On Inauguration Day, the San Francisco Chronicle’s senior political writer marked it down that “many Americans” would exhale on that morning because “four years of chaos and lies and the presidential encouragement of America’s most malevolent elements will end when Joe Biden takes the oath of office.”
A few days before Christmas, Cook Political Report national editor Amy Walter said “Biden’s transition has been like his campaign; traditional, predictable and with little to no drama or surprises. His choices for his cabinet and White House personnel reflect a desire for restoration.”
Less than a month into Biden’s term, let’s take a look at America’s return to “normal”:
-Is it our standard-operating procedure to call, without evidence, those we disagree with racists and white supremacists?
-Is being obsessed with, and bowing down before, identity politics who we are?
-Is letting males compete with female athletes playing it straight in the U.S.?
-Is a militarized zone around the U.S. Capitol a long-standing American custom? What about a political witch hunt disguised as an effort to root out domestic terrorists?
-Is it normal for an administration to snub Israel, America’s only natural and traditional ally in the Middle East?
-Is it routine for the president’s family to conduct “corrupt business dealings in foreign countries”?
-Is it normal for public schools to be closed across the country because the teachers unions in a real sense own the party in power in Washington?
-Is it a time-honored American practice for the media to snuggle up to that party in power and treat the president as a celebrity, even a savior, and refuse to sufficiently fact-check him?
-Is pricing the unskilled, less-educated and most vulnerable among us out of the workplace part of our American heritage?
-Has it always been acceptable for Ivy league students and teachers to “demand revocation of all degrees earned by Republican politicians”?
-Is it normal for presidents to violate constitutional liberties, particularly the freedom to bear arms?
A new web site to add to my favorites list.
Biden and Normalcy - two words that do not belong in the same sentence.
Thinkin’ pedo joe has never been normal so there’s no returning to it for him.
I will also and keep an “I” on it. Hopefully it will bring us words of wisdom.
Re the photo. Suprised there aren’t little yellow “Sign Here” tabs on the page.
Is Joe awake today?
Those 3 day workweeks are really wearing him down.
The only “normalcy” the Biden team is interested in is that they are in charge and for sale. They intend to stay that way.
I’m pretty sure it is not normal to have elections rigged with the cooperation of both parties, the intelligence and law enforcement agencies and the courts.
And to pull it off with no one involved seeming to show any signs of shame.
In their minds they were saving the country.
The reality is they were stealing it from the citizens.
Time magazine’s article laid it all out.
We wanted Trump to keep Making America Great and they were not going to allow that.
Biden has returned to kissing the worlds ass and calls it normal.
Biden has returned to the non science supported glo bull warming bull shit and calls this normal.
The feds, and that is china joe, just refused to turn on enough power plants to keep Texas warm in the cold storm.
I guess he calls this political retribution normal as well.
There is nothing normal about china joe, he just hates america and wants to give our prosperity and military superiority away to the rest of the world.
The poorest among us still live a lot better than 75% of the rest of the people on this earth. Sod China Joe just can’t handle that and is dead set to take us down to that much lower level.
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