Posted on 01/07/2025 5:54:07 AM PST by MtnClimber
Joe Biden’s first 46 months in the White House were an exercise in political vandalism, the effects of which the world will be dealing with for years. But it wasn’t enough for him. He’s accelerated his offensive on his way out. Inauguration Day can’t arrive soon enough.
The candidate who ran in 2020 on restoring dignity to the office of the president is a small and petty man. This is not a revelation but a fact known since he “served” in the U.S. Senate and was especially evident when ran for president the first time, nearly four decades ago, dropping out after he could no longer cover his serial lies, blatant plagiarism and the vicious side of his personality.
So it’s not in the least surprising that he would try to burn down the world around him as he moves toward the door. Following is a brief glimpse of Biden’s efforts to handicap the next president and add needless hassles and costs to the lives of everyday Americans.
Energy
An executive order designed to permanently ban new offshore oil and gas development along some yet undetermined coastlines is expected to be issued soon. The decree will be difficult for Donald Trump to reverse, as it “is rooted in a 72-year-old law that gives the White House wide discretion to permanently protect US waters from oil and gas leasing without explicitly empowering presidents to revoke the designations,” Bloomberg reports.
It’s a red-hot poker in the eye of Trump, whose agenda includes U.S. energy dominance, and average Americans, whose wallets will be adversely affected by higher energy prices.
Biden is also “attempting to implement last-minute restrictions on oil and gas drilling,” says Fox News, pursuing a “20-year ban on oil and gas leases in 264,000 acres of Nevada’s Ruby Mountains.”
The day after Christmas, Biden’s Energy Department adopted “conservation standards for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters” effectively outlawing a significant segment of that market in four to five years.
Another “December surprise” intended to undermine Trump’s reasonable and rational energy policy was the administration’s “ambitious new climate target under the Paris Agreement” that mandates slashing “greenhouse gas emissions by 61% to 66% below 2005 levels by 2035.” Charles Rotter at Watts Up With That? called it “a final act of defiance before Trump takes the reins and charts a radically different course.”
Foreign Policy
Matthew Petti of Reason suggests that Biden has considered leaving “a very big mess on President-elect Donald Trump’s desk” by bombing Iran’s nuclear sites before his term is over. Not that doing so would be such a terrible idea. A nuclear-armed Islamist regime poses a grave danger.
But the timing is suspect. Biden could have taken out the mullah’s atomic weapons program at any time during his watch. Instead, he’s thought about dumping a problem on Trump’s shoulders and escaping the responsibility that would come with such an operation. Should Biden follow through, it would not be done in the interest of national security but rather the spiteful act of a wretched man.
An interesting reminder from Petti: Four years ago, the left was accusing Trump, whom Biden called a reckless warmonger, of having plans to attack Iran and saddle Biden with a Middle East war.
Student Loans
Though he has been told by the U.S. Supreme Court to cease making executive decisions that are not within his constitutional purview, Biden granted another round of student loan debt forgiveness just before Christmas. This time, it was $4.28 billion of relief for 54,900 borrowers.
Personal Vendetta
With his last days coming fast, Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton and Liz Cheney, both of whom tried to derail Trump’s presidency with lies and nasty, baseless political attacks.
The most infirm of all lame ducks also gave the same honor to George Soros, a fiendish, destructive, and callous socialist. Not because “the billionaire has funded a movement that puts Americans in danger but because his massive funding network enabled Biden’s allies to implement their radical agenda through the administrative state,” says the Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil. It is the same administrative state that was at war with Trump before, after, and during his first term, the one he’s said he has plans to root out.
Let’s not forget that Clinton and Soros are both enemies of liberty and malign adversaries of Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and free-thinking independents.
Pardons And Commutations
The soon-to-be-former president unleashed child killers and mass murderers on society and still has time to protect those who persecuted and prosecuted Trump through pardons, as he has been encouraged to do.
The Border And DEI Poison
With one hand, Biden has been selling off since 2023 material that was to be used to build a national security border wall. With the other, he’s lacing the federal workforce with as many as 1,200 new “diversity, equity, and inclusion” employees.
The courts told the administration to halt the fire sale, but Biden was able to undercut Trump’s popular immigration policy by disposing of a sizable chunk of material before he was stopped. The DEI hires are clearly an effort to make Trump’s task of draining the swamp more difficult.
Trump will be sworn in two weeks from today. We hope the next 14 days go by so fast that the doddering, addled Biden, and his unprincipled. vindictive, hard-left administration will not be able to sabotage more than they already have.
I would not be surprised if they leave all of the White House toilets unflushed.
Yes we will make it.
The real events don’t start until 48 hours afterwards.
I am waiting for the final rug-pull by these progressives. They are being way, way too nice.
Nukes haven’t yet been dropped, so whatever situations exist will not end us yet.
Le Pétomane.............
Well that’s all that many do here is worry.
January 6...there was a PLAN to stop it yesterday!! So I heard for weeks :)
“he’s gonna be put in prison!!” Which is patently absurd.
“They’ll start a new virus to keep Trump from taking office!”
Another patent absurdity.
Xanax on the house for everyone for the next 2 weeks :)
I’m thinking of taking the 20th off work, just to keep up with the repairs.
Reminds me of when democrats glued the W keys of computers, damaging many, and trashed Air Force One when Bush took office.
Democrats are just plain disgusting and hateful.
There is such a thing as being way too complacent.
I am hoping all the Jimmy Carter stuff is a distraction to Biden that keeps him from doing more harm.
Biden is likely to be the next former president to die. He probably wants an even bigger send off than Carter.
Any honest person of reasonable intelligence immediately saw this vile lowlife for exactly what he was. History and the world will not forget those who enabled him--Democrats, RINOs, so-called "journalists", "celebrities", "educators", and supporters--who, whether from evil or stupidity, afflicted this lowlife on America and the world.
'So it’s not in the least surprising that he would try to burn down the world around him as he moves toward the door.'
Not surprising at all. His enablers are de facto his accomplices. It is they who are responsible for the destruction he has wreaked. Some of them are still enabling and making up excuses.
Biden is indeed likely the next to go. It’s always been fascinating to me how an atheist thinks. Biden sins like no other and has no regard for eternity.
YEP! - my observation since voting for Ronaldus Magnus in 1980.
“ Biden is conducting a “political scorched earth” policy on the way out”
We all know “Biden” is short for the leftist cabal secretly running the administration. I want them all named and shamed. Every one of them. They need to understand how we the people feel about what they have done.
In the elections over the next ten years if people forget how caustic the last four years under Democratic control then I believe there is no hope for this Republic. One thing for sure, when the Democrats lose like they did in 2024 they invent better ways to steal the next election.
...I think about this a lot and I think that the Feminine element is what makes the Left particularly mean.
We all know “Biden” is short for the leftist cabal secretly running the administration.
They’ve been running it since Obama was in the White House, even Trump couldn’t get rid of them.
They don't CARE how we the people feel about what they have done.
“ They don’t CARE how we the people feel about what they have done.”
I think they could be made to care. Expose them all so we can express ourselves to them. Doxx them fully. They will care.
You know what BIDEN stood for: Barack Is Deciding Everything Now.
You know what sucks? I only just thought of this. Woulda been good 4 years ago.
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