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Top 20 Suicidal Policies of the Last Democrat Administration - And it will be _much_ worse if they ever return to power
Director Blue Substack ^ | 27 Aug, 2026 | Doug Ross

Posted on 08/28/2026 6:40:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

And by “suicidal” I mean that. Had Harris won, the country would be in complete and total freefall. Economic. National security. You name it. As you’ve come to expect, I’ve got all the receipts. Let’s revisit the “Biden” (i.e., Obama and his apparatchiks) Hall of Shame.

1. Halting the border wall and reviving catch-and-release. On Day One, wall construction was stopped, parts of it sold off pennies on the dollar, and billions in Congressionally-appropriated funds rerouted. Simultaenously, the Border Patrol was ordered to let people walk right into the country instead of detaining them. Every smuggler and criminal in the world got the memo that day.

2. Dismantling all deterrents at the border — MPP and Title 42. “Remain in Mexico” was a policy that forced asylum seekers to wait south of the Rio Grande. It was nuked from orbit. Title 42, the COVID-era expulsion tool that at least gave agents a fast turnaround was obliterated a few months later. The practical effect? Anyone who set foot on U.S. ground could stay.

3. The mass humanitarian parole scheme (CHNV and friends). Somewhere around 530,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela — including known felons in their home countries — were flown or waved in under a “parole” authority Congress never authorized. Add the CBP One app appointments and you have a shadow immigration system created with memos, not laws.

4. Gutting interior immigration enforcement. ICE was basically told that if illegal aliens haven’t been convicted of serious crimes yet, they could be ignored. Millions of people got the message: immigration laws had been repealed.

5. Killing Keystone XL and freezing federal energy production. Day One killed the pipeline. The same executive orders froze new oil and gas leasing on public lands and canceled Arctic leases. I’ll be fair — Keystone alone didn’t trigger $5 gas. But the signal to every energy investor in the country was clear: American energy production was not welcome. Democrat officials then flew to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to beg them to pump more. If a foreign adversary had written that policy, we’d call it sabotage. Come to think of it, most Democrat policies seem to fall into that genre.

6. Draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for political cover. 180 million barrels — the largest release in U.S. history — pushed out ahead of the 2022 midterms. The SPR is supposed to be there for a war or a hurricane, not for a bad polling week. Inventories fell to levels not seen since the early 1980s.

7. The January 2024 LNG export pause. With Europe still bleeding from the Russian gas cutoff and allies begging us for cargoes, Washington told them to wait while a “climate study” got done. A federal judge eventually threw the pause out. This wasn’t climate policy — it was picking a fight with the U.S. energy industry and our friends overseas at the same time.

8. Forcing an EV transition the market rejected. EPA and NHTSA wrote emissions rules that would force the manufacture of mostly EVs by the early 2030s. Then Congress layered on $7,500 buyer credits and a $27 billion “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund” handed to specially-selected nonprofits. The result: I paid more taxes on my 2015 F-150 paid taxes so that wealthier households could get a discount on a second car they were buying anyways.

9. The post-election DOE loan fire sale. After voters had already spoken in November 2024, the Loan Programs Office rushed out roughly $93 billion — including nearly $42 billion in the final two working days of January 2025 — over an Inspector General’s warning. That’s not a peaceful transfer of power: it’s theft of taxpayer funds.

10. The Afghanistan debacle — Bagram, Abbey Gate, and the $7 billion arsenal. We handed the Taliban a functioning air base in the middle of the night, then ran the entire evacuation through a civilian airport in a city about to fall. Thirteen American service members were killed at Abbey Gate. Roughly $7 billion in U.S. military equipment — night-vision, rifles, Humvees, helicopters — was left for the very enemy we spent 20 years fighting. Some of that gear has since turned up in the hands of other terrorists. You’d be hard-pressed to identify a more disgusting military debacle in U.S. history.

11. The military COVID vaccine mandate and forced separations. Roughly 8,400 service members were involuntarily discharged in the middle of a recruiting crisis, with thousands more refused reenlistment. Trained warfighters were dumped for a virus that posed virtually no risk to a healthy 22-year-old.

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1 posted on 08/28/2026 6:40:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Not so fond memories that we have not recovered from yet.


2 posted on 08/28/2026 6:41:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Not if, when.


3 posted on 08/28/2026 6:41:14 AM PDT by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: brownsfan

If 51% of the voters act on it then it’s not enough.


4 posted on 08/28/2026 6:47:37 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MtnClimber

The dillemma is that roughly half the public would have richly desrved her.


5 posted on 08/28/2026 6:52:18 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: MtnClimber

The Demonrat’s “dear leader” tried his best to turn our country into an OBOMANATION!


6 posted on 08/28/2026 6:59:09 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! )
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To: MtnClimber

JFK
Carter
Clinton
Obama
Biden (his handlers, actually)

That’s a very troublesome trajectory.


7 posted on 08/28/2026 6:59:47 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: MtnClimber

Also inflation was brought under control:

“Consumer prices rose approximately 21.5% over Biden’s full term versus ~7.8% during Trump’s first term.

Under the Biden Administration, annual inflation hit 9 percent and prices rose over 20 percent since the time he entered the White House. Inflation under President Trump dropped all the way to 2.7 percent.”

(Inflation is now at ≈ 3.4% as per the Bureau of Labor Statistics)


8 posted on 08/28/2026 7:00:50 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Leaning Right

Whether dims will pack the Supreme Court is a serious question. That gets rid of the right to self-defense (gun bans).


9 posted on 08/28/2026 7:02:33 AM PDT by TTFX
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To: MtnClimber

I want Obama held to account.


10 posted on 08/28/2026 7:04:08 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

Hundreds of Thousands of Americans.

Yes, IMHO those policies resulted in Hundreds of thousands of Americans dying. The open borders resulted in murders, crimes, drugs, and deaths. More than 100k died from drug overdoses every year, add in murders, suicides, deaths in prison, and your easily approach a million.

Simply put, the Biden Administration or the ‘group that was pulling the strings on the demented Biden puppet’ is responsible for a death toll of Americans exceeding WWII and the Civil war.


11 posted on 08/28/2026 7:09:09 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: MtnClimber
Had Harris won, the country would be in complete and total freefall.

And nuclear war would have already happened. Would it have been limited to Tel Aviv and Tehran? God only knows..

12 posted on 08/28/2026 7:18:58 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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To: MtnClimber

bump


13 posted on 08/28/2026 7:31:54 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: MtnClimber

Traitors, nothing more or less.


14 posted on 08/28/2026 7:37:28 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: MtnClimber

excellent compilation of the kommie “accomplishments” by the biden-handler/obama administrations ...


15 posted on 08/28/2026 7:45:27 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: bk1000

We all do, big time.


16 posted on 08/28/2026 7:55:57 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


17 posted on 08/28/2026 7:59:19 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

The last good Dem president was JFK. He was an anti-communist, a tax cutter and a WWII hero who commanded a PT Boat and saved his crew after his boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese Destroyer in 1943.

No way would he be in today’s Democrat party.


18 posted on 08/28/2026 7:59:53 AM PDT by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel.)
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To: Signalman

JFK was the original immigrant boy ...


19 posted on 08/28/2026 8:04:10 AM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: MtnClimber

BKMK


20 posted on 08/28/2026 8:18:35 AM PDT by lizma2
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