If you read or watch the mainstream media, you would think the first quarter of the Biden Administration has been nirvana. Do I hear a halleluiah? But as has been pointed out numerous times, the mainstream media is the source only for woke indoctrination, not reliable information.
Biden’s actions suggest he is trying to position himself for a Nobel Peace Prize like his former boss. As Roger Kimball has advanced, “In our story, the star [Biden] is no less grasping than Melmotte, but he’s been crossed with Chauncey Gardiner from the movie “Being There,” the confused puppet who, serving the interests of the dominant party’s power brokers, finds himself president of the United States.”
Biden’s many penury actions after being inaugurated was to dismantle this 1776 Commission, enabling the 1619 Project’s woke values to reign supreme. Come on man! Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), sponsor of the 1776 commission bill said, “[The 1619 movement] was putting slavery at the center of our national narrative. That’s part of our narrative, but it’s not the whole narrative. So we launched the 1776 Commission to talk about our founding principles, and what led to a nation of laws, and not have a nation of power by men.”
The Pew Research Center did a study showing that “The news coverage of President Joe Biden’s early days in office was modestly more negative than positive, and most of the stories were centered around his ideology and policy agenda rather than his character and leadership.” Despite the MSM being all in for Mr. Biden, Pew found that about a third of the stories had a negative assessment. You can only imagine what the coverage would be if these news organizations weren’t covering for him. Not surprisingly, Pew found only slightly more than a third of the news stories accurately dealt with his character and leadership!
Could it be because there is very little positive character or leadership of Biden’s to write about unless you want to focus on his dementia and inability to be coherent? Hence the reason there are so few pressers with him. Or could it be that you have to focus attention on the cadre of marionettes that are propping up President 46? In the same study, Pew also said than unlike Biden’s lackluster leadership numbers, three-quarters of early Trump coverage was framed around leadership skills. When they broke the results down by right-leaning versus left-leaning audiences, 69% of lefties felt the news was accurate and 76% felt it was fair. It could only have been more accurate had Nancy Pelosi’s crew written the stories—No wait, they actually did!
So how bad are things right now? Let me count the ways.
In May, we have outsized unemployment. According to a Bloomberg report, never one to denigrate Democrats, “The numbers are out, and on the top line they are way worse than expected.” Something seems very off with only 266,000 jobs created in April, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1%.” The number of jobs created is down sharply from previous months. March added 770,000 jobs, while February 536,000, according to revised numbers. The $64,000 question is who, particularly young people, would want to go back to work when Uncle Joe pays them not to?
Take another example, America’s energy independence from Russia. Biden’s benign neglect of the Norn Stream 2 LNG pipeline in Europe, indicating he only wants to target the Russian ships working on the pipeline’s completion, not the company running the project, Russian state energy firm Gazprom and its CEO, who won’t face similar sanctions. Meanwhile, our new president has shut down our Keystone XL pipeline.
Biden’s infrastructure boondoggle was for Big Labor, but instead, as Kim Strassel argues, “Mr. Biden’s top agenda item is boosting organized labor—a payoff to the unions that spent big to propel him to victory. So far, though, it’s going nowhere, and it’s a big reason Democrats may kill an infrastructure deal. Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act—a sweeping bill that would empower unions to force Americans into their ranks…nullify all 27 state right-to work laws, strip companies of basic rights to make the case to employees against unionization campaigns, give the NLRB power to impose sweeping fines on supposed corporate labor violations, outlaw most independent contractors, and let unions bully workers into agreeing to unions via public “card check” not secret ballots.”
Progressively, Biden deserves an A+ for turning back the clock to the Obama years before the Trump administration’s myriad accomplishments. We know that approximately 2.5 million illegal immigrants came to the United States during the Obama administration including the murderous and brutal MS13 that can be found in almost every major city in America. There has also been an influx of Russian, Syrian and Iraqi immigrants traveling to Mexico to cross the US border. Judicial Watch has released a story about, “Planeloads of Illegal Immigrant Minors Relocated Around U.S. in Middle of the Night” documenting that Biden DOD and HHS executives have put in place a clandestine program to move unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), seen boarding large buses owned by Coast-to-Coast Tours to Chattanooga as part of a contract with the DOD. Some get reunited with family members but most go to taxpayer-funded group homes...on the taxpayers’ dime. The source in the news story says the operation began in Dallas but was recently moved to small airports to avoid media attention.
Bruce Thornton characterizes Biden 100 days, “The result has been a return to the Obama era’s spectacle of children and teens packed into squalid holding pens, increased infestations of cartel traffickers in people and drugs, and two consecutive months of about 175,000 apprehensions of border-crossers each month––the highest in two decades.” Mr. Biden, the Alfred E. Newman of U.S. Presidents says, “What me worry… We’ll be able to handle any (crisis), God willing.” But asked whether the surge constituted a crisis, his definitively response was: “No”, not that he actually would know.
There is a national crisis for small and medium-sized businesses who report they can’t find enough employees to meet their labor needs despite offering larger starting salaries. With Covid-19 lessening, A.E.I.’s Michael Strain argues that Biden is doing progressive bidding with a $15 minimum wage that will wreck US economic recovery. By historical standards, unemployment remains a catastrophe for America’s small and medium-sized businesses with most companies falling far short of the employees they need to resume full operations. Yet Mr. Biden seeks another trillion-dollar handout to the labor force that will definitely keep most from returning to work.
The Biden administration is also bowing to the dictates of House Speaker Pelosi and her desire to establish a commission to investigate the U.S. Capitol’s January 6th breach, despite the fact that the only Capitol police death was due to natural causes after having two strokes. The only “deadly” incident was by a Capitol policeman who shot an innocent woman for no apparent reason.
A final umm,,,accomplishment of Mr. Biden has been his plan for the government to add $225 billion for child-care (subsidized institutional babysitting) in a cockamamie effort to deal with the “baby bust” befalling us now. He can’t get young people off their butts back to work, so let’s indoctrinate more children to join the woke legions. While a number of people have criticized the plan due to its prohibitive costs, the non-woke among us should point out that past data show similar efforts have had ruinous effects on children.