Posted on 01/27/2021 2:55:58 PM PST by Kaslin
Politicians saying one thing and doing another is a story as old as, well… politics. Some examples are a bit more egregious than others, however. Take for example the burgeoning raft of executive orders being signed by President Biden during his first week in office. Did you know that there was a time when Status Quo Joe didn’t really sound like a fan of circumventing the normal legislative process and ruling by the pen and the phone? Yes, yes… I know what you’re thinking. It’s really not fair to dig up some dusty old quote from a politician that was given when they were much younger. People’s opinions and attitudes can change over time, right? So let’s see. When did Joe Biden complain about how wrong it was to take such actions? Oh, here it is. It was way back in… last October. (Trending Politics)
But one Democrat did speak out: Joe Biden, the candidate, in October.
“I have this strange notion, we are a democracy … if you can’t get the votes … you can’t [legislate] by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus,” he told George Stephanopoulos.
.@JoeBiden in October: “I have this strange notion, we are a democracy … if you can’t get the votes … you can’t [legislate] by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus." pic.twitter.com/7UotJCXSm3
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 26, 2021
So much for consensus in a democracy, I suppose. But the story actually gets even worse from there. Breitbart has been tracking not only the executive orders of President Biden during his first week in office, but those of his predecessors. By the end of his first full week, Biden had signed 32 executive orders, and that’s not even counting all of the proclamations and memoranda. (NBC News has the full list here as of last night.) And he’s promising many more in various “themes” in the days to come.
So how does that stack up against the previous “dictatorial” president he complained so bitterly about and those who came before him? During their first week in office:
So Joe Biden signed three times as many executive orders during his first week in office as his four most recent predecessors combined. The linked report goes on to note that the American Presidency Project at the University of California Santa Barbara confirms that no American president has ever signed this many executive orders during their first week in the history of the country. Biden is even ahead of FDR, who was unusually “active” during his first week.
So if Joe Biden felt that Donald Trump’s use of executive orders made him a “dictator,” what do these numbers say about him? Should we be calling him “the new Pol Pot?”
Joe is just an empty vessel today...numbed up on dementia drugs and just doing what he is told.
Hard working, law abiding citizens are in this regime’s cross-hairs. Sad and infuriating.
In my best Oliver Hardy voice, “Well, he certainly ought to know!”
Try to imagine Joe having a press conference and being asked to discuss any one of the executive orders he signed and their ramifications. Worse yet try to imagine him sitting down with any foreign leader and negotiating.
President Pedobear.
Being a Democrat means never having to tell the truth.
If hypocrisy contained calories, they would all be as big around as Stacey Abrams.
Do not expect any degree of consistency from Joe Biden - he could not keep his stories straight even back in the ways before the obvious dementia set in.
I believe the term is “cognitive dissonance”, which he always projected.
What is cognitive dissonance?
When someone tells a lie and feels uncomfortable about it because he fundamentally sees himself as an honest person, he may be experiencing cognitive dissonance. That is, there is mental discord related to a contradiction between one thought (in this case, knowing he did something wrong) and another (thinking that he is honest).
And yet, some minds are untroubled at this apparent doublethink.
That’s me trying to decide between the $5 box or some $1 burritos at Taco Bell.
That’s me trying to decide between the $5 box or some $1 burritos at Taco Bell.
The Cabal wrote them, Joe put his X on them.
Bring suit against every single one of them!
Bump
Oh come on now. Don’t be mean to a senile old man. Elder Abuse I call it.
Doesn’t Congress have authority to overturn executive orders?
Comrade Joe.
Biden signing an EO: “I don’t know what I’m signing”
Someone in the room (Pelosi?): “Sign it anyway”.
https://commonsenseevaluation.com/2021/01/23/biden-i-dont-know-what-im-signing/
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