The Diplomatic Follies of Biden, Blinken, and Nod

A cowed North Korea; a stable southern border; a China who knew that we knew what they are and what they are about; the Abraham Accords sowing promise of peace in the Middle East; and Russia in a box…this is the global environment that Joe Biden inherited from Donald Trump in January of 2021. 

 

We now have no idea what the rocket-hurling maniacs in North Korea are doing; our southern border is pure anarchy; China toys with us and laughs in our face; we are selling out one of our strongest allies on the planet in the United Nations; and Putin openly considers our President his…well, let’s just say he has no respect for Biden.

 

This is Obama’s Abysmal Foreign Policy: The Sequel.  It is the same lineup of naïve, foolish men and women who think that the world should behave in a fashion that they find proper and pleasing.  They are eternally shocked to discover that there are truly evil men in the world who do not operate on the high plains of their morality and ethics.  They have managed to allow our nation to slip into a position of peril on the world stage and every day, week, and month ahead of us that they remain in power is fraught with danger.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/23/breakdown-of-global-security-accelerating-due-to-lack-of-us-presidential-leadership/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/18/lack-of-credibility-places-u-s-deterrence-under-great-strain/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/2866377/biden-foreign-policy-emboldening-adversaries/

 

https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/opinion/joe-biden-is-betraying-america-and-israel-by-demanding-a-ceasefire-in-gaza/

 

https://justthenews.com/government/security/tueresurgent-al-qaida-training-camps-latest-black-eye-biden-afghanistan

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/24/the-domino-theory-2-0-ukraine-then-taiwan/

 

https://reason.com/2024/02/21/green-card-process-utterly-failing-to-help-immigrants-pursue-the-american-dream-in-lawful-and-orderly-ways/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/02/blunt-force-border-policy.php

 

It is entirely tragic that the cluelessness of Joe Biden’s State Department extends faithfully to his Administration’s approach in fiscal matters.  Upon leaving office, Donald Trump left a national economy to Biden that had weathered the worst that the pandemic could throw at it and stood on the cusp of a robust and organic economic recovery.  Needless to say, Biden and his bunch of monopoly-money economists have scuttled that possibility.

 

https://reason.com/2024/02/04/the-bankruptcy-of-bidenomics/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/youre-not-imagining-food-inflation/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/solving-the-puzzle-of-negative-consumer-sentiment-in-one-chart/

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/business/mortgage-rates-rise-for-third-week/index.html

 

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/interest-nations-debt-set-exceed-defense-budget-house-weighs-spending-95b

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/bidens-terrible-student-loan-gamble/

 

The Biden Administration’s enormous talent of combining rank incompetence with bald-faced corruption and then blending in a healthy dose of idiotic policy is a recipe for national demise and catastrophe.

 

https://www.commentary.org/articles/adam-white/ftc-lina-khan-regulatory-uncertainty-power/

 

https://victorhanson.com/delusions-alternate-realities-and-the-biden-consortium/

 

https://nypost.com/2024/02/21/opinion/despite-media-spin-theres-still-overwhelming-evidence-joe-biden-knew-of-familys-business-dealings/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2861808/justice-department-cant-ignore-bobulinski/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/22/bidenbucks-stink-emanates-from-leftist-groups-voter-drive-in-milwaukee-schools/

 

If the Republican Party does not manage to remove its organizational head from its nether regions, it is going to experience an unholy whipping at the polls this year similar to what we have seen in the last two elections.  The Democrat Party, through the Biden Administration and the media, will do everything within its power to ensure its grip on the Executive Branch of government and relentlessly pursue all conceivable efforts to retain Senate control and regain House control.  They, in combination with their allies in the progressive movement, have sufficient power, influence, and resources to accomplish this task and make no mistake about it…they are dead set on getting it done.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/22/blue-laws-for-red-citizens/

 

https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/opinion/democrats-weaponized-justice-system-to-punish-trump-in-business-case/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/02/19/blind-justice-or-blind-rage-new-yorks-legal-system-faces-ultimate-test-with-obscene-trump-award/

 

https://reason.com/2024/02/19/how-a-judge-arrived-at-a-staggering-disgorgement-order-against-trump/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/21/dark-money-group-peddles-viral-disinformation-to-frame-gop-senate-candidate-as-clueless-elite/

 

The cold, harsh reality is that these people have no ethics and they are untroubled by any semblance of hypocrisy.  If any person believes that they will be somehow shamed or shackled by previous political actions, stances, or episodes…then that person is living in a fairy tale land.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/bidens-desperate-student-loan-relief-giveaway/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-2024-election/2024/02/23/id/1154783/

 

If you are convinced that the obvious ineptitude of Joe Biden will somehow ensure that he will not be re-elected as our nation’s president, you might want to reconsider your position.  Like it or not, Donald Trump is an extremely poor excuse for a good man, is vehemently disliked by a large percentage of the voting public, and simply does not enjoy the full support of his own party.  The Republican Party is on the verge of taking a huge gamble with the well-being of our country by choosing this man as their party’s presidential nominee.  If they continue to bring knives to gunfights…if they continue to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory...if they continue to select poor candidates at the expense of proven leaders…then this is their (and your) worst nightmare:

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/24/the-25th-amendment-rip/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/02/todays-biden-bumble-watch.php

 

 

Shameless Demagoguery, Quick Hits All Around, and a Hard Look at Dollars

Lord knows there have been some travesties over the last decade that showcased the gross hypocrisy of our civic leaders.  Certainly one of them has been the January 6 debacle of creating an “insurrection” out of a “mildly violent protest”.  That sad episode is continuing to play out and we shall wait to see the final chapter.

 

The other tragedy that has been commandeered by the progressive movement is the death of George Floyd.  I submit for your review a short documentary film and a two-part literary article on this piece of Minneapolis, Minnesota history. 

 

In both of these events, we see what can happen when the mainstream media chooses to follow its baser instincts rather than its professional ethics.  It will be years and years before we can truly appreciate the damage done to our nation by the dishonest, biased, and self-serving reporting that was part and parcel of these sad chapters in American life.  The cost in human lives, real property, and lost opportunities is beyond estimate.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFPi3EigjFA

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-scapegoating-of-derek-chauvin-pt-i/

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-scapegoating-of-derek-chauvin-pt-ii/

 

Now…a few quick hits…..

 

Our Executive Branch of government has been over-valued, over-filled, and overly-impressed with itself for some time now…spanning years of power enjoyed by both national political parties.  It is corrupt, ineffective, and inefficient.  It needs to be shrunken, emptied of its filth, and carefully considered as to its future.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/15/did-our-intelligence-agencies-suggest-the-russia-hoax-to-hillary-clintons-campaign/

 

DEI continues to run amok and it has now thoroughly infected the branch of our government that literally guarantees our safety and freedom.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/opinion-restoring-america/2856320/bidens-defense-department-is-trying-to-hide-its-dei-agenda/

 

“THIS” is the federal department that our Congress and our President decided needed an additional $80 billion budget increase and 20,000 new employees.

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/half-irs-agents-work-and-access-taxpayers-sensitive-personal-info-home

 

When you are spending more for administrators than you are for teachers, you know it will eventually lead up to this.

 

https://reason.com/2024/02/02/university-budget-cuts-were-overdue/

 

Are the upcoming elections in November going to be a replay of the 2020 clusterfluk or have we learned how to correct and monitor our voting problems?  Doing the same things over and over and expecting different results remains the definition of insanity.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/10/the-coming-2024-leftist-election-grift/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/09/arizona-secretary-of-state-shrugs-off-election-problems-as-lawsuit-highlights-2022-failures/

 

How about we take a good hard look at our economy?  Are times as bad as they seem sometimes?  Is the gap between the “haves” and the “have nots” widening as quickly and dramatically as it appears to be?  Is the American dream disappearing with the struggles of families to build their futures?  Are there really that many people living from paycheck to paycheck with no provision for rainy days or emergencies?  How do we reconcile the contradictions that we can all see in the economic statistics being bandied about?  Perhaps we should turn down the noise and simply look at the numbers.  Ball don’t lie.

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/bidenomics-after-36-months-six-charts-media-dont-want-you-see

 

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/cbo-26-trillion-deficit-2034-national-debt-116-gdp

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/16/economy/us-producer-price-index-january/index.html

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/americans-credit-card-debt-hits-record-113-trillion/story?id=106990807

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/16/economy/home-building-january-mortgage-rates/index.html

https://reason.com/2024/02/15/shrinkflation-is-real-and-its-largely-bidens-fault/

 

One of the problems with our form of government is that when the Supreme Court of the United States must decide whether a specific action by the Legislative Branch or the Executive Branch is constitutionally legal….its determinations simply take too long and are oftentimes too narrow.  And even then, when the Executive Branch is called out for overstepping its bounds and authorities due to inappropriate Executive Action, it simply finds another side street to travel until that particular misadventure works its way through the court system to correction.  Unfortunately… by that time, a whole lot of damage is done.

 

https://reason.com/2024/02/16/biden-announces-new-plan-to-forgive-student-debt-in-cases-of-financial-hardship/

 

Maximum Cluelessness and Justice Perverted

It is painfully clear that our government is as much a reflection of the people who inhabit it as it is the substance of the legislative efforts flowing from its Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches.  Under the Biden Administration, this reality has become much more painful.  It has become cringe-worthy.

 

Joe Biden has inserted political appointees into prominent government positions on the basis of their race, their gender, their bank account, their partisan proclivities, their social status, their liberal tendencies, because Obama told him to, and for just about any other reason you can imagine with one exception…their qualifications to perform the job.  I feel very secure in stating that no presidential administration in history has realized a persona of incompetence that can rival this Biden clown car of idiots.

 

And as a realization of those people selected to run this government, it has become a model of inefficiency and ineffectiveness.  It sports a scatterbrained approach to administration that focuses essentially all resources on issues that are not the primary functions of the departments or agencies it represents.  Not content with whistling past the graveyard and fiddling while “America” burns, this three-ring circus of fools blindly thrashes about like the proverbial bull in the china shop…breaking dishes, destroying property, defecating on the premises, and then leaving the scene of the crime with no consideration, or regret, for the damage wrought.

 

Let us consider some fundamental aspects of the progressive, liberal thought and policy that rules the Democrat Party today.   Consider the caliber of the people the Biden Administration and the Democrat Party in general has placed in power and how they use that power.  Then let’s take a quick look at how they are spending your tax dollars.  Never forget: These are the people who RUN our government.  They are enthralled with a fairy tale form of naiveté which makes them absolutely confident that more government is the answer to all problems and that THEY know more about how you should live your lives than YOU do.   As long as they maintain their positions of power, wealth, and influence…they are oblivious to the collateral damage that their moronic policies and decisions leave in the wake.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/government-overreach-during-covid-contributed-to-pandemic-chaos-scathing-report-finds/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/janet-yellen-maga-donald-trump/2024/02/08/id/1152886/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/biden-nominates-head-of-anti-police-group-to-d-c-district-court/

 

https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/biden-officials-reverse-middle-east-rhetoric-signaling-collapse-admin-policy

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/02/06/why-burn-books-when-you-can-bury-them-the-biden-administration-pressured-amazon-on-suppressing-sales-on-dissenting-books/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/hhs-says-it-has-only-two-pages-of-scientific-evidence-backing-its-support-for-gender-affirming-care

 

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/wkd-va-office-inspector-general-audit-finds-high-noncompliance-rates

 

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/monirs-blistered-anew-internal-watchdog-lax-protections-taxpayer-data

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/evan-poellinger/idaho-public-universities-spent-6-million-taxpayer-money-dei-2023

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/01/the-daily-chart-public-school-bloat-3.php

 

https://reason.com/2024/01/31/bidens-natural-gas-export-ban-is-based-on-bad-math/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/01/bidens-destructive-decision-to-stymie-natural-gas/

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-cost-of-biden-s-climate-tax-credits-is-soaring/ar-BB1i4TWp?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=453dff3804f74ff6853aadde462e020c&ei=16

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/02/steal-from-the-poor-give-to-the-rich.php

 

https://reason.com/2024/02/04/the-bankruptcy-of-bidenomics/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/02/no-way-to-treat-a-friend.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/08/hamas-on-view-41-minutes-of-horror-from-oct-7th/

 

Every American alive today will be somewhat affected…some more than others…by a federal department or agency tied to one of the preceding stories.  This malfeasance runs the gamut from your living room to our national security.   Exasperating that damage is the fact that over recent decades, our government (especially the Executive branch) has been expanding its influence and authority in ways the framers of our Constitution never envisioned.  Perhaps that movement is beginning to be addressed.  There are signs here and there of our courts, selected leaders, and other courageous people reaching the limits of tolerance for this nonsense and pushing back in various ways.

 

https://lawliberty.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-chevron/?mc_cid=d5b652c60c&mc_eid=9181a0e4cc

 

https://reason.com/2024/01/31/controversial-surveillance-law-up-for-renewal-again-in-april/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/01/31/school-choice-keeps-spreading/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/the-sat-was-never-a-racist-plot/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/02/08/dartmouth-restores-use-of-sat-scores-despite-claims-of-racism/

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-world-s-top-carmaker-got-mocked-for-rejecting-ev-hype-not-anymore-i-want-to-congratulate-toyota/ar-BB1i0oLi?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=7743e0c858554d70a3489a4b4b36ac51&ei=36

 

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/nuclear-support-worldwide-growing-development-costs-us-may-leave-america

 

Considering all the madness associated with the Biden Administration, perhaps no area is more frightening or disconcerting than what we have witnessed in the political weaponization of our government.  This perversion began in the Democrat-controlled House with Speaker Pelosi, spread into the media with their unholy promotion of the progressive agenda, and then began to take root in the Department of Justice reflected in a multi-tiered form of law enforcement.  Donald Trump was and is no saint; but the use of our government to attack him in the obsessive ways we have witnessed is an abuse of power beyond recent compare.  This rot must be addressed and soon.  If we become a nation without equal, transparent, and accountable justice…then what will we be?

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/08/did-abc-showrunners-from-the-j6-committee-produce-the-pbs-frontline-propaganda-too/

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/dem-j6-cmte-deleted-117-files-gop-forensics-recovers-needs-passwords-access

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/12/charlottesville-and-trump-will-the-big-lie-finally-die/

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/biden-routinely-used-private-email-official-business-copied-family

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/selective-persecution-trump-says-he-should-not-be-charged-after-biden-cleared-by-special-counsel

 

Simple question: Does it make any sense whatsoever to state that a person is incompetent (due to their age and mental faculties) to be tried for a crime that they willfully committed but, at the same time, they are fully capable of serving as the Chief Executive of our government?  In what universe does this type of logic…or justice…make sense?

 

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/here-are-the-biggest-revelations-in-the-special-counsels-report-on-biden/

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/special-counsels-report-gives-impeachment-inquiry-new-leads-biden

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/11/joe-bidens-presidency-is-over/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/america-is-in-deep-trouble/

 

How do we begin to fix these problems?  How do we set right again the things that have gone so crooked?  How can we begin to choose people of character to serve in our government and lead our nation?  The Democrats have sold their soul to their progressive devils and the Republicans are enthralled with their MAGA devil; which way will we turn?  Perhaps a good place to begin is in our homes…in our families.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/06/blaming-the-victims-of-a-broken-system/

 

Our Southern Border and the Iran Problem

It is extremely difficult to get a fair and accurate assessment of immigration across our southern border.  There are many different classifications of individuals who cross the border.  There are many different terms that are used to describe the process encountered by these individuals when they enter our country.  Like all statistics, it is very relevant to compare different numbers from different time periods in the context of peripheral issues that impact immigration significantly.  The media is full of those who will cherry-pick data to support their personal agendas regarding immigration.  There are, however, some indisputable facts.

 

Although it was far from an ideal situation, President Trump and his Administration in his final year of 2020 had a fairly firm control on the number of illegal entrants into America across the southern border.  National immigration policy needed at that time, as it does now, a serious overhaul and examination; but for that to occur, the illegal immigration into the USA must be under control and somewhat static so that future options can be considered.  You have to stanch the bleeding before you can address the real injury.  President Trump had brought the border situation to the point where those future options could be discussed.

 

Joe Biden openly ran for president on a platform promoting an open southern border.  One can play word games with his rhetoric all day long, but to anyone who paid attention it was abundantly clear that he disapproved of President Trump’s approach to border security and openly encouraged increased immigration both controlled and uncontrolled.  Among his very first actions as president was a cessation of many Trump policies relating to immigration; many of them clearly successful and effective.  He has done nothing over the past three-plus years in office to indicate in real terms that his attitude has changed one bit as far as immigration is concerned.  He has allowed/enabled the bleeding to run out of control: https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/timeline-how-biden-created-border-crisis-and-encouraged-illegal-immigration

 

But now that a presidential election is upon us and campaigns are gearing up to full speed, the rhetoric coming from Biden and his appointees has changed in tone.  Through carefully worded messaging, strategic selection of statistical data, and simple obfuscation…Biden is attempting to redefine the absolute and undeniable catastrophe that he and his Administration have created at our southern border.  In any sane world, his denial of culpability for this disaster would be laughable.  In any rational sense, his bald-faced revisions of actual history reflecting his ill-fated policies would be classified as misleading at best…simple lies at worst.  And the cherry on top of this whole escapade has to be his most recent protest of having insufficient presidential authority to address the immigration disaster he himself has created; this from a president who has abused his executive authority perhaps more than any other president before him.

 

It is a very dangerous thing to underestimate the power of the mainstream media to reshape public opinion in ways that support their personal agendas.  The Republican Party has never grasped this reality and I see no indication that any type of epiphany has occurred to improve their understanding of this fact.  Will Joe Biden and his progressive allies be able to paper over their immigration fiasco by the time people cast votes this November?  Only time will tell.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/delusional-biden-says-southern-border-is-not-in-crisis-as-illegal-crossings-surge

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-america-needs-a-secure-border/

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/bidens-border-catastrophe

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/01/29/americas-immigration-system-is-cruel-to-americans/

 

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/wed-blue-states-allow-illegal-aliens-get-health-insurance-without-showing-immigration

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-dean-phillips-blasts-bidens-handling-of-border-an-unmitigated-embarrassing-unforgivable-disaster

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/13/democrats-talk-about-illegal-immigrants-the-same-way-they-used-to-talk-about-slaves/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-alejandro-mayorkas-homeland-security/2024/01/23/id/1150675/

 

https://justthenews.com/government/security/fbi-luminaries-starkly-warn-congress-us-being-invaded-border-alarming-and

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/01/constitutional-crisis-at-the-border.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-mccarthy-report/texas-vs-the-feds/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/01/the-biden-administration-is-treading-on-texas-sovereignty-not-the-other-way-around/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/2827440/biden-finally-admits-theres-a-crisis-at-the-border/

 

https://amac.us/newsline/society/biden-is-losing-will-the-gop-have-the-courage-to-win/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/29/house-republicans-reveal-mayorkas-impeachment-articles-amid-worst-border-numbers-in-history/

 

Just as Biden took his immigration policy training from his pitiful boss Obama (aka the “One”), the single digit also schooled him on how to deal with foreign policy threats to America…Iran in particular.  Not content with sending pallet loads of cash to Iran and giving them a green light to pursue a nuclear weapon, the Obama/Biden policies have quite simply emboldened and enabled Iran and its militant leaders to bankroll terrorism not only in the Middle East, but all across the globe. 

 

Just as he did in the area of immigration status, Joe Biden inherited a fairly stable situation in the Middle East when he assumed the presidency (read the words of Democrat Joe Lieberman below).  The historic Abraham Accords were beginning to foster a new and pragmatic alignment among Middle Eastern nations and prospects for achieving a lasting peace in the region were beginning to look promising.  But following his poor instincts and petty jealousies, Biden felt the need to demonstrably dispose of anything associated with President Trump…no matter how successful and effective it might have been.

 

In addition to carelessly tossing away any progress towards peace and reconciliation in the region, Biden proceeded to load up his State Department with the same fools that attended the Obama school of stupid foreign policy.  An era of pandering, appeasement, and apologizing  was resumed and Iran has taken full advantage of it: https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/biden-officials-reverse-middle-east-rhetoric-signaling-collapse-admin-policy  I have said it many times, as have many others…these are very dangerous times we living in and we have no leadership in our government.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bidens-iran-crisis-overlaps-with-his-border-crisis/

 

https://nypost.com/2024/01/28/opinion/president-joe-bidens-got-blood-on-hands-after-appeasing-iran-for-years/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/lieberman-biden-trump/2024/02/04/id/1152218/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/01/what-we-have-here-contd.php

 

https://reason.com/2024/01/29/the-killing-of-3-american-troops-was-an-avoidable-tragedy/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/01/iran-must-pay/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/terror-groups-evacuate-their-positions-after-biden-admin-tips-them-off-to-their-plans

 

And the song remains the same….. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-nominates-official-who-abandoned-afghan-allies-for-iraqi-ambassadorship/