Posted on 10/08/2020 4:02:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s a meaningless platitude in a sea of meaningless platitudes. In fact, most of what Joe Biden says is a bunch of meaningless platitudes. But one sticks out, to me at least, more than the others – that he will be “president of all Americans.”
Maybe that sounds good to some people, but it means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t a committed leftist who’s spent the last four years waking up in a cold sweat screaming, “Donald Trump is NOT my President!” Of course, these are the same people who spent the years between 2001 and 2009 doing the same thing, only replacing Donald Trump with George W. Bush. These people only believe a president is “their president” when that president is from their party.
There are Members of Congress and the media who go to the point of absurdity to avoid saying the words “President Trump,” referring to him as either “the current occupant of the White House” or simply “45,” the number president he is. I recall no such screams or semantical gymnastics from anyone during the administrations of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. Maybe they existed, but not from anyone of note.
So what does Joe Biden mean when he says it? It’s a ham-fisted way of saying he’ll unify the country that he thinks sounds good. In reality, it’s completely meaningless.
A “president of all Americans” wouldn’t seek to impose things on half the country, or any part of the country, they explicitly do not want. Yet, that is the entirety of the Democratic Party’s platform.
It’s not just higher taxes, which you’re going to get when someone is promising trillions in new annual spending, it’s everything.
Want to get the government out of your health care? Sorry, Biden will insert it in there even deeper than it is now (and it’s pretty deep already). Want to send your kid to a charter school? Biden is going to get rid of those. Want to be free to practice your religion? Forget about it, just shut up and bake that cake, bigot.
But it’s more than that, much more. Do you think people who bought more house than they could afford should face the consequences of that bad decision? Tough, you’re going to have to bail them out. Think someone who thought it was a good idea borrow $250,000 to get an undergraduate degree in 1940s bi-sexual polar bear studies, seemingly because no less marketable field of study was available, should have to repay that loan? Not gonna happen, you’re the sucker Joe Biden will make eat that debt.
There isn’t a bad life choice people have made that Democrats don’t seek to have others who didn’t pick up the responsibility for. Is that being the “president for everyone”? When you subsidize stupidity and absolve people of consequences of their bad decisions, you get more bad decisions. Why wouldn’t you?
You also teach people that “good things” come from government, no matter how bad the consequences are. Is there any place in the country where high government dependency has made lives better?
But there’s even more. What about the Americans who simply want their government to leave them alone? Forget about it. The cornerstone of the Democratic Party is collectivism – you’re in it whether you want to be or not.
What would a President Joe Biden tell people who responsibly exercise their Second Amendment rights? He wants to seize some guns, calling it a “voluntary buyback” program in which you either “sell” your guns to the government (at a price they set) or have the government declare you a criminal. He also wants to tax the hell out of all guns and magazines, which is a convenient way of pricing them out of reach of people who need them the most to protect themselves. Sorry, we’re all in this together, and as such you’re just going to have to hope the defunded police show up in time to save your life if a criminal decides to break into your home.
It’s not just higher taxes, which you’re going to get when someone is promising trillions in new annual spending, it’s everything.
Want to get the government out of your health care? Sorry, Biden will insert it in there even deeper than it is now (and it’s pretty deep already). Want to send your kid to a charter school? Biden is going to get rid of those. Want to be free to practice your religion? Forget about it, just shut up and bake that cake, bigot.
But it’s more than that, much more. Do you think people who bought more house than they could afford should face the consequences of that bad decision? Tough, you’re going to have to bail them out. Think someone who thought it was a good idea borrow $250,000 to get an undergraduate degree in 1940s bi-sexual polar bear studies, seemingly because no less marketable field of study was available, should have to repay that loan? Not gonna happen, you’re the sucker Joe Biden will make eat that debt.
There isn’t a bad life choice people have made that Democrats don’t seek to have others who didn’t pick up the responsibility for. Is that being the “president for everyone”? When you subsidize stupidity and absolve people of consequences of their bad decisions, you get more bad decisions. Why wouldn’t you?
You also teach people that “good things” come from government, no matter how bad the consequences are. Is there any place in the country where high government dependency has made lives better?
But there’s even more. What about the Americans who simply want their government to leave them alone? Forget about it. The cornerstone of the Democratic Party is collectivism – you’re in it whether you want to be or not.
What would a President Joe Biden tell people who responsibly exercise their Second Amendment rights? He wants to seize some guns, calling it a “voluntary buyback” program in which you either “sell” your guns to the government (at a price they set) or have the government declare you a criminal. He also wants to tax the hell out of all guns and magazines, which is a convenient way of pricing them out of reach of people who need them the most to protect themselves. Sorry, we’re all in this together, and as such you’re just going to have to hope the defunded police show up in time to save your life if a criminal decides to break into your home.
Especially little girls who smell good.
Of course we are divided. We disagree on a number of issues, like selling out to China economically, militarily, diplomatically, and they think it's just fine for their Presidential nominee to be in the pay of the Chicoms. So they hate us. So we are divided and will remain so until they can show far more allegiance to the country than they do to a toxic creed responsible for the death of hundreds of millions or tolerance for a religion that would subject women and minorities [us in this case] to slavery.
Plagiarizing his lying boss
Well if By den wants to be President of all people you don’t do it by insulting people who don’t support your positions.
Strictly speaking, it is a result of RINOs that promise and never deliver. They have no clue as how to negotiate. They stake out their beginning negotiations in the middle only to be moved to the left. They are afraid to make the argument to America that when they begin negotiations that there starting point is more than what they promised. This is an immediate loss on nearly every issue.
Also included in the phrase, "President of all Americans" is compassion. This is for a bunch of mealy-mouthed soccer moms and their chuckholed metrosexual husbands. Personally, I don't put compassion high on the list of attributes for president. He is the leader of the free world and as such he needs to be thoughtful, analytical, calculating and have nerves of steel. There is little room for touchy-feely (indirect slap to Biden) crap. True compassion is making America great and that requires beating leftists - and these days beating leftists is literal when they riot, loot and raze businesses.
I do not want our President to be the President of bLM, Antifa and every leftist terrorist organization that comes out the woodwork.
I say let’s nominate him for president of Kazakhstan - he can be president of all Kazakhs...
Yea, Nobama said that also . . . he also lied.
...OR by having legions of followers beat them openly in the streets and other public places..
What a great meaningless sound bite for the ages.
He hasn’t got a chance so long as I am alive.
ML/NJ
His dream pills are not working back to lost in space mode.
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