HOW IS PRESIDENT BIDEN GOVERNING?

Posted on December 9, 2023 by Mike Russo

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INTRODUCTION

Joe Biden has been president for over three years so it’s far past the time to assess how he’s doing. America is doing very poorly in almost every metric and it appears to be almost entirely the Biden Administration’s fault. Biden’s approval polls reflect this, though you would never know it if you only watch Main Stream Media. How did the President destroy the economy, raise inflation, make illegal immigration out of control, mess up our departure from Iraq, weaken the military, etc., in three years?

While Joe Biden campaigned as a moderate, he governed as a far-left radical. In addition, President Biden appears to have diminished mental capacity with other Biden far-left officials and friends actually formulating the policies Biden is implementing. These are my speculations as to why the Biden Administration has failed at every single endeavor it has engaged in. If there are any Biden policies or actions you believe have been successful, then your sources of news have been corrupted (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, etc.). Let’s examine some of President Biden’s policies.

BODY

I believe the following issues are the most important to the public: 1) The Economy, 2) Energy Independence, 3) Illegal Immigration/Border Security, 4) Crime, 5) Covid, 6) The Military, 7) Ukraine-Russia, 8) Afghanistan.

1.THE ECONOMY: To adequately examine the economy, let’s look at a) inflation, b) employment, and c) GDP (gross domestic product). Trillions of dollars of unnecessary spending that was requested by the Biden Administration, and approved by the Democrat Congress caused this unprecedented inflation.

a) Inflation hits the poor hardest. In April ’22, it was 8.3%, though it’s lower now (in 2020, under Trump, 1.4% inflation). The cause began with the $1.9 Trillion “2021 American Rescue Plan”.

b) Employment appears to currently be doing well with unemployment at under 4%. This was expected because of the “V-shaped Recovery” that President Trump enabled with his “across-the-board” tax rate cuts for everyone.

c) Gross Domestic Product (or GDP) measures the total cost of all goods and services produced by the United States. It actually decreased in the first two quarters of 2022 which traditionally meant the U.S. was/is in a recession (in 2020, under Trump, GDP growth was 6.5%).

2. ENERGY INDEPENDENCE: On the day he was inaugurated as President, Joe Biden began his war on fossil fuels that he promised during his presidential campaign. He immediately shut down the Keystone and Dakota pipelines and the permitting of oil and gas exploration and drilling on Federal lands. He discouraged financial institutions from loaning money to oil and gas companies and significantly raised fees for existing oil and gas leases on Federal lands. He’s now stopped very large oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

The consequences of all of the aforementioned is the price of gas significantly increasing in price as well as the 6,000 products made from oil significantly increasing in price. Most consumer products are trucked to their destination so their prices have also necessarily vastly increased because of the cost of fuel that transports them.

3. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION-BORDER SECURITY: 2020 Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, promised “open borders” if elected President, as did all of the other primary election Democrat candidates. Since being elected, illegal immigration has vastly increased to over 200,000/month and was expected to triple if Title 42 is ever lifted (it didn’t) Most of the illegals are young single men, some of whom (the “got-aways”) carry backpacks containing Fentanyl and other illegal drugs in order to pay the cartels their $4,000-$8,000 fee to cross the U.S. southern border. Moreover, there are a number of criminals intermingled with non-criminals…human trafficking is also rampant.

4. CRIME: The Democrat-supported “Defund the Police” movement that coincided with the 574 riots that took place in the summer of 2020, destroyed countless small businesses, including many black-owned businesses. Even V.P. Kamala Harris got involved by raising money to bail out rioters. The January 6 protest in the U.S. now appears to have been directed by a FBI-collaborator (Ray Epps) and arranged by the Democratic Party. Democrat District Attorneys in Democrat-run cities are not prosecuting many classes of misdemeanors resulting in crime increasing exponentially in those cities. Moreover, the-illegal the protests around Supreme Court justices over the then-draft Roe vs. Wade Alito opinion, were not investigated by the US Department of Justice nor condemned by the Biden Administration. All of the aforementioned leads me to ask the obvious question, “why is the Democrat Party soft on crime,” and why isn’t the Department of Justice doing its job?

5. COVID: Response to Covid by the Federal and most State governments were a combination of incompetence, anti-science, and political malfeasance The victims of this chaos was the American public, many of whom lost their lives, their livelihoods, or their health and well-being. Unnecessary lockdowns of the economy hurt many State and localities, and mandatory vaccinations resulted in many people being unnecessarily fired, including from some critical jobs and the military. Moreover, CDC (centers for Disease Control) officials were not transparent in their decisions, nor did they recognize the obvious, like the superiority of the natural immunity acquired when one caught the virus. Consequently, a one-year pandemic has lasted years! Why did States and the Federal government do what they did?

6. THE MILITARY: China is in the process of surpassing the U.S. military. Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is very close in size to the United States and therefore China has the money to spend on its military for China to become a superpower like the U.S. Fortunately it’s still behind in nuclear weapons. Russia does have a large nuclear arsenal to match the U.S. It also has, unlike the U.S., many small tactical battlefield nuclear weapons, which Ukraine may eventually see. Recently, it has demonstrated its hypersonic missiles which are so fast and travel so close to the ground that they can’t be shot down.

While our adversaries are getting stronger, the U.S. military’s budget was increased only enough to keep up with inflation. Also, U.S. military leadership is emphasizing teaching CRT (critical race theory) to all of our troops. Our military has also fired soldiers that refused to be vaccinated. Why?

7. UKRAINE-RUSSIA: Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022 with the expectation of defeating Ukraine in a few days. That was years ago and Ukraine is still fighting and holding its own against Russia, using mostly American weapons. To date the U.S. has given many billions to Ukraine, all of the money being given is borrowed and will add to U.S. inflation. Meanwhile, the Ukraine-Russia war probably could have been avoided had President Biden started arming Ukraine when Russia started moving troops to its border with Ukraine, and if he refused Ukraine membership into NATO (instead of signing an agreement to support Ukraine). Why?

8. AFGHANISTAN: Unilaterally (with no consultation with other world leaders), President Biden changed the U.S. departure date from Afghanistan to August 31, 2021. as well as not adhering to the Trump policy of making the departure “conditions-based.” He also made the departure site the Kabul airport and asked the Taliban to oversee the departure of all civilians. Consequently, 13 American soldiers were killed, over 100 Americans and tens of thousands of Afghans that helped us were left stranded in Afghanistan, many of whom were eventually assassinated. Moreover, $85 billion in U.S. military equipment was abandoned in Afghanistan. Ultimately, this fiasco led to Russia and China to be emboldened and to become more aggressive with Ukraine and Taiwan. Was this simply incompetence?

9. Israel-Hamas-Iran: President Biden and his Administration is getting the U.S. closer and closer to war with Iran though this, of course, is not his intention. His and Obama’s attempts to bribe/coerce Iran into behave peacefully has not worked. President Trump’s policies toward Iran did work: enforcing strong sanctions, keeping oil prices very low by producing as much oil as the U.S. was capable of, etc.

Israel’s response to the October 7, 2023 attack is exactly what’s needed…don’t play with terrorists, destroy them or defang them. However, the U.S. might prevent Israel from finishing the job of destroying Hamas.

As long as Joe Biden is president, the U.S. is extreme danger of being attacked from within or from without.

CLOSING

President Biden is on course to become our very worst president, by far. The nine areas I looked at above are simply a small part of his actions that are destroying the U.S. It’s understandable given his reliance on the far-left in the Democrat Party for guidance. He will probably remain President for another year, so it’s anyone’s guess how bad the U.S. will be by then. I blame Mainstream Media for this debacle because none of this would have been possible had it done its job covering the news rather than covering up any news that made the Biden presidential campaign and then its Administration look bad.

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WHAT’S BEHIND THE LEFT’S POLICIES?

Posted on August 5, 2023 by Mike Russo

Many believe that the policies championed and supported by the political Left are crazy because they make all Americans worse off. I also find Leftist policies difficult to understand in terms of making people’s lives better, so I thought it useful to attempt to discover why the Left adopts them, especially since the Biden Administration is adhering to them and they are (predictably) adversely affecting most Americans.

1.IMMIGRATION: As promised during his Presidential campaign, Joe Biden has pursued open borders, especially along the U.S.’ southern border. Most Americans, though very compassionate, do not approve because drugs and many criminals are sneaking across with the help of Mexican cartels. Biden and the Democrat Party have facilitated this with the pretext of compassion, but the real reason I believe is because they know that at least 3/4 of them will eventually vote Democrat and that the children of illegal immigrants will automatically be U.S. citizens who, of course, can vote (and will probably vote Democrat).

2. ECONOMY: Inflation became as high as 9.1% in June of 2022. Many necessary products (like baby formula) are still not readily available in parts of the U.S. The economy was technically in a recession. These phenomena are all the fault of the President and Democrat Party policies, mostly from multi-Trillion-dollar legislative bills that were voted into law or, in the case of baby formula shortages, from incompetence (like shutting down the largest producer [Abbott] on flimsy suspicion without devising a plan to replace it). Biden’s pretext(s) are numerous, like the Ukraine War, stopping Russian oil purchases, climate change, compassion, President Trump, etc. The real reasons are: 1) the political Far-Left wants it, and 2) incompetence.

3.CLIMATE CHANGE: The Left is anti-fossil fuels (gas, oil, coal). It has shut down pipelines and oil and gas leases, raised prices for permits, and discouraged institutions to loan money for oil and gas exploration and drilling. All of these policies have resulted in decreased oil and gas production which in turn resulted in much higher prices for oil, gas and the 6,000 products made from them. A significant percentage of the current very high inflation is largely due to Biden and the Democrat Party, using the pretext for their policies as concern about climate change; the most significant threats to the U.S. are actually China, Russia, Iran and North Korea and the concern about climate change is absurd, given these real threats, because America will likely be bombed into the Stone Age with three EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) nuclear bombs exploded far above the atmosphere in the U.S. long before climate change has any effects, which appear to be minor. The real reason for the Left’s climate change policy is that it serves as a pretext for trying to destroy capitalism in the U.S. (by banning fossil fuels which are currently necessary to a healthy American economy).

4.GUN CONTROL: The Left’s solution for preventing mass shootings is to ban guns from mentally-healthy law-abiding citizens, despite the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing this right. The fact that there’s are currently about 400 million handguns owned by Americans make’s this rationale ridiculous. Also, criminals do not follow the law and have no problem getting guns no matter what the law says. The real reason I believe is that if and when the Left is ready, it will take control of the U.S. and citizens would not have the weapons to fight back. Sounds crazy? This “craziness” is the reason the Founding Fathers had for including the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights (to help keep government from becoming a dictatorship…[see the Federalist Papers]).

5. ELECTION FRAUD: There has been some cheating at elections ever since elections have been held. The fraudsters have continually improved their tactics to the point now that, with China’s help, they can win any election they want to win. Recently, the massive onslaught of mail-in ballots, using the pretext of fear of Covid, has enabled Joe Biden to become President of the United States. The movie, “2,000 Mules” and the book, “Rigged” provides sufficient evidence, though there’s a lot more available, which I have seen and written about in another post on my blog.

6.ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Vehemently supported by the Left, their pretext for pushing expensive electric vehicles is to get off of fossil fuels because they increase carbon emissions in the atmosphere. However, the electricity to charge the batteries in electric vehicles is also generated by the burning of coal and natural gas. Also, electric vehicles are more vulnerable to EMPs (Electro-Magnetic Pulses) compared to gas and diesel-powered vehicles. Finally, electric vehicles require about 19 or so “rare-earth” minerals, which are mostly produced in China. Of course, this means that the U.S. would be dependent on China, our strongest adversary, to get the rare-earth minerals it needs to build cars. The subsidies to new companies and their kick-backs to the Left for electric vehicles and their batteries I believe is the real reason for pushing those vehicles, not climate change.

7.RACE: The Left has used race almost since its inception in 1828. It was pro-slavery, then pro-Ku Klux Klan, then pro-Jim Crow laws, then pro-Eugenics (Margaret Sanger and her “Planned Parenthood”); consequently African-Americans voted Republican from Emancipation in 1863 to about 1960 at which time they voted mostly Democrat with as much as 96% in Presidential elections. The Democrat Party’s very poor performance in helping African-Americans is turning many to vote Republican. The Democrat Party’s constant emphasis and focus on race has seriously hurt race relations. The pretext is “concern for people of color.” The real reason is they have had enormous election success using race and want to continue to use it. I believe that it is behind most of the racial division in the U.S.

8.CRIME: The Left is much more concerned about the rights of criminals rather than the rights of victims, possibly for the prison vote since more States are allowing prisoners to vote. The pretext is that over 50% of prisoners are black, though their percent of the population is only 13%, and this “unfairness” can be corrected by not prosecuting crimes. While President Biden and the Democrat Party initially supported the “Defund the Police” movement, his vice-president, Kamala Harris (while still just a Senator) actually paid to bail-out rioters in some of the 574 riots held by Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA during the summer of 2020. Mega-donor and Far-Left billionaire, George Soros, funded the campaigns of many big-city district attorneys that stopped prosecuting most crimes in their cities, which of course led to the huge increases in crime in those cities. Many states have given prisoners the right to vote, which I believe to be the real reason for the Democrat Party’s being soft on crime.

9.THE MILITARY: President Biden has given small increases to the Defense Department budget which were too small to even keep up with inflation. Most Democrat presidents are either neutral or anti-military, which results in a weaker military. With the military, the Far-Left doesn’t usually hide its disdain except that it doesn’t want a strong America, because it believes we are racist and don’t deserve it. However, the U.S. needs a strong military to counter China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. Democrat-appointed military leaders currently focus on teaching CRT (Critical Race Theory), and other non-military issues that are politically-motivated and consequently weaken our forces.

I only listed nine areas above but there are others, such as education in the public schools which the Left is destroying. The Left used to hide their motives and beliefs, but increasingly they are coming out with their simplistic (and ridiculous) solutions to complex problems. A good way to see what they are really up to is to watch what they do, not say, because they know the right words to say. Moreover, Main Stream Media, as well as CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, etc. are all “in-the-tank” with the Left, so they can’t be trusted to just report the news. Great books that provide evidence on what the Left and most of the Media are up to is Mark Levin’s “American Marxism,” his “Unfreedom of the Press”, and Pete Hegseth’s “Battle for the American Mind.”

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