Posted on 09/21/2021 5:28:58 AM PDT by billorites
Eight months in and I am perilously close to employing one of the worst political clichés in existence — Joe Biden’s honeymoon is over. You’re not imagining things — the Biden presidency is in a state of free-fall.
This is not a joke. It’s not an overreaction. It’s not about Biden’s opponents pouncing or seizing. Biden’s presidency has a very real chance of completely foundering within its first year. After a promising start where he inherited a vaccination process that was already in progress, albeit briefly, under Trump, his vaccine strategy has stalled to the point of him now demanding mandates on private businesses, a step he assured the electorate he would not take. Last Friday, an FDA panel bucked Biden’s booster rollout program, which was slated to begin this week.
That was one of many self-inflicted wounds that Biden suffered at the end of last week as he took off for the Delaware coast for a long weekend of bike-riding and ignoring reporters. In the span of that single afternoon, the Pentagon also revealed that a retaliatory drone strike for the deaths of 13 US service-members at Kabul airport did not kill any Isis-K terrorists, as Biden and his State Department had claimed, but instead killed an innocent US-linked aid worker, as well as seven children. Neither Biden nor his press secretary Jen Psaki have answered questions on this matter. Their strategic silence is all we need to evaluate how they think this looks – and they are correct.
Along with the self-imposed Afghanistan debacle, which has created an enormous refugee crisis in a foreign region, Biden has caused another one on our southern border. Drone footage and photos splashed all over social media this weekend showed thousands of migrants, some believed to be Haitian, crossing the Rio Grande river into Del Rio, Texas, unabated. They had to be corralled under the Del Rio Bridge, with several even crafting makeshift tents and shelters.
Biden promised that America would be back. Instead we’re getting his back, as he turns his away from the microphone every time one is placed in front of him. His ‘strategy’ has also not helped with allies, as France recalled their ambassador over a secret deal between the US and Australia that saw Washington renege (according to the French) on an agreement to sell nuclear submarine technology to them and not the Aussies (crikey!). I’m not going to pretend I understand all the particulars of why the French are upset with us this time, but recalling an ambassador sure sounds serious for an administration that prided itself on being the adult on the world stage.
And finally, Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, which he placed in Nancy Pelosi’s carbon-dated hands, has all but stalled, thanks to her stubborn refusal to advance Biden’s infrastructure package without budget reconciliation, something members of his own party have told him is a non-starter.
I survey all of this and I ask: what is Joe Biden getting right at the moment? Where is his presidency succeeding? What is he delivering? According to (another) Jill Biden New York Times puff profile, uniting the country has now fallen to her. It appears that America, which was willing to give Grandpa a shot so we could all get some reprieve from the loud angry orange man, is now sending a message to Biden loud and clear: simply not being Trump is not going to cut it. He still has to do the job.
People seem to be waking up to the fact that Joe Biden is who Joe Biden has always been — only now it’s not just funny gaffes and infamously bad theorizing on the state of the world. Biden gaffes are now policy. No wonder the show is flopping.
It’s only September of year one…
You’ll never know it if you listen to the Media Myrmidons
He doesn’t care. He’s going to be very well rewarded for his actions in favoring china, giving towelheads 85 million worth of munitions and giving special privileges to an America-hating separatist group (BLM).
He may get the money in a “book deal” like bammy, or he may just magically appear in a mansion in Delaware, with a net worth of a billion or so. He won’t be able to enjoy it, but Jill will.
Thanks to the fraud and never Trumpers.
As Jen Psaki said on CBS Mornings today, The Presidency is all about handling one crisis after another. What Gayle King et al failed to remind her is that all the crisis that they are navigating were all caused by their own failed policies.
America did not decide to “give Grandpa a shot.”
Both parties cheated Senile Joe in to get the borders back open, everything else is just gravy.
“People seem to be waking up to the fact that Joe Biden is who Joe Biden has always been ... “
Who are these people that are waking up? I don’t see them. In fact, in the blue part of Ohio you don’t dare mention the Biden mess because you will be met with the reply “it’s better than Trump!”.
The American masses are indoctrinated, and stupid. I’ll have to see real evidence to change my mind. Heck, the leader of DHS says the border is closed, American Pravda backs him, and the public remains clueless in spite of the documentation on alternate outlets that the border is wide open.
Ironically, “woke” people cannot be awakened.
I thought it was $85 billion.
None of that matters
All that matters is the $3.5 trillion that will forever change America for the worse.
It must be stopped. At all costs
> It’s only September of year one… <
That was my first thought as well. We’re still in the first quarter of a game where both the referees and the announcers are extremely biased. So unfortunately, as of now I won’t be betting against Slow Joe.
>> completely foundering within its first year
from floundering to foundering...
It was.
**** *** *****.
“giving towelheads 85 million worth of munitions”
It was actually 85 BILLION $$ worth of munitions..
That was NOT Him !
The man riding that bike is either younger or a lot better shape. We have seen Biden in public walking aimlessly not knowing where he is! The guy on that is not the same man.
I watch local Miami Florida media (actually, I *see* it...) while at the gym.
Haven’t seen a single local English speaking station do any negative coverage on Biden. They all ignore his problems.
Biden’s presidency is in free fall because he can’t get everyone vaccinated?
These are the people who enabled this.
They knew it was a Trojan horse and voted for it anyway.
Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Mike Crapo (R-ID) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC) Deb Fischer (R-NE) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Rob Portman (R-OH) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Jim Risch (R-ID) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) John Hoeven (R-ND) Susan Collins (R-ME) Mitt Romney (R-UT)
They knew when they were voting for the $1.2 trillion they were enabling the bigger, worse one.
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