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President Joe Biden seems powerless to do anything about . . . well, anything at the moment. He promised to change election laws to “save democracy” (read: give his party permanent political power), and he can’t do it. He vowed to fix immigration, but the problem only grows worse. He pledged to make America’s geopolitical opponents respect us, but they are doing the opposite. He said he would end COVID, but everyone is still in masks and hysteria continues to reign.
His presidency now sits in stagnation. Biden appeared eager to be an authoritarian President in the mold of FDR. He issued sweeping executive orders and even ignored court precedent to press for his agenda. But now he looks like an impotent President slipping off into senility. There’s no one in charge at the top.
Let’s go over the big issues one by one. First, COVID.
Biden won the presidency in large part due to hysteria surrounding Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic. It was believed that a “competent” liberal could tackle the virus and return life to normal. In Biden’s first few months, he appeared ready to declare victory over COVID. People were getting vaccinated, so there would be no more need for masks and lockdowns. But then the vaccine turned out not prevent infection, so masks and lockdowns are back. Thus, COVID hysteria is as strong as ever and there’s no sign of an end to it. Seeing tens of thousands of schoolkids forced to wear masks — vaccinated or not — is a sure sign normality hasn’t returned.
Biden is now trying to combine downplaying COVID with further punishments for the unvaccinated. Yet, his vax mandate — which was the crown of his COVID strategy — was struck down by the Supreme Court. Now all he can do is hope he can persuade his own political allies to live their lives and stop being afraid of the virus. That’s a tall order, considering his own side remains firmly double-masked and unwilling to leave their homes.
Biden can no longer declare victory over COVID thanks to the conservative makeup of the Supreme Court, and nature itself. There’s nothing he can do about this situation.
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On immigration, Biden wants to seem like he’s got the matter under control. But there’s no sign the migrant surge will cease. Over 180,000 illegals were apprehended at the border in December. It’s estimated that over three million illegals came through the border last year. Biden is doing nothing about this — besides having his deputies insist they will not deport illegals unless they commit a very serious crime. Illegals get a free pass to come and go as they please.
Biden cannot get anything on immigration through Congress. His Democratic allies have tried repeatedly to pass some form of amnesty, to no avail, as the Republicans refuse to back their legalization efforts. Even the plan to skirt around Republican roadblocks fell through in the failure of the Build Back Better bill.
Biden also can’t please his progressive allies, in spite of his no-enforcement policy. His administration has reluctantly retained basic enforcement measures that accelerated some deportations. The current government was also forced by the courts to keep phony asylum-seekers in Mexico while their applications are processed. The Biden administration also no longer wants to compensate illegal immigrants who were separated from their families while detained under Trump. Biden promised to do so in public statements, but the public backlash must have convinced him this was a bad idea. Two-thirds of America said they strongly disapproved of payouts to illegals. Biden decided it was wiser to listen to his constituents instead of Left-wing activists.
This situation doesn’t satisfy either side, but Biden can’t do anything but allow the migrant hordes to keep pouring through and hope they go away.
Knowing his party is in trouble in the midterms, the President has tried to push Congress to pass “voting rights” legislation that would give his party a permanent political majority. The various bills they’ve tried to pass would ban voter IDs, expand ballot harvesting, give felons the right to vote, empower liberal bureaucrats to control election laws, and numerous other terrible ideas. These bills have all failed in the Senate. Biden hoped he could pressure enough Republicans to vote for it by calling them racists if they didn’t support it. That didn’t work, so he then hoped Democrats would vote to remove the filibuster so they could pass these bills with a simple majority; no Republican votes needed. Moderate Democrats voted against this idea.
Biden claimed American democracy depended on passing his election rigging bill. Apparently democracy died thanks to his failure.
The President is not only failing on the domestic front. He also can’t resolve the crisis in Ukraine. Russian troops are massed on Ukraine’s borders. It appears this is being done as a negotiating tactic to pressure the West into concessions, but the West won’t give any. That may motivate Russia to actually invade Ukraine. The Biden administration is vowing severe economic retaliation if Russian troops step foot into the breadbasket of Europe, but key European allies don’t want to follow along. Germany, which is dependent on Russia for its energy supply, isn’t eager to sanction Russia. The greatest European power wants to play nice with Russia and make concessions. America and Ukraine don’t.
Biden has no power over the situation. He knows he can’t start an unpopular war over a country Americans don’t care about, but he also can’t give anything to Russia without seeming weak and alienating Ukraine. But he really can’t do anything if Russia invades except impose more economic sanctions. And if Germany doesn’t agree to them, they may prove useless, anyway.
Biden promised to increase respect for America on the world stage, but nobody looks at us with any respect; certainly not Russia or China. America can no longer project the kind of power it could just a few years ago, and Senile Joe isn’t capable of reviving it.
A lot of these failures are due to Biden himself. He’s an old man who doesn’t know where he is, cusses out reporters over minor annoyances, and seems ignorant of basic policy. Moreover, he can’t sell his agenda to the American public anymore. At the start of his term, he had that power thanks to the Dear Leader-esque media coverage he received during his first months in office. But the honeymoon is over. Ordinary Americans are fed up with inflation, rising crime, open borders, and never-ending COVID hysteria. They don’t want a war over Ukraine; they just want their kids to go to school in peace.
Biden still has the power to wage a war on “white terror” and make life miserable for any white American who dares question the system. He can’t achieve the wide-ranging changes he offered on the campaign trail, however. He’s just a lame-duck President, and this will only grow more apparent if Republicans take over Congress in November.
America is primed for a liberal authoritarian to take charge and turn the nation into an even worse dystopia, but Biden simply isn’t that person.
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17 comments
Good article overall, but it’s too bad you’re reiterating MSM and Washington talking points on Ukraine. The only people who believe there’s any possibility that Putin is on the verge of mounting a full-scale invasion of Ukraine are Washington, their lackeys in London, and the mainstream media in the West. In Europe, nobody believes war is imminent, and even in Ukraine itself, where I spoke to a friend of mine there earlier this week, nobody thinks there is a crisis underway. Apparently even the Jewish comedian President of Ukraine, Zelensky, doesn’t believe there’s going to be an invasion, since he argued with Biden on the phone about it yesterday. It’s an invention of the Western media to distract from other issues — such as some of the very same ones you talk about in this article.
If Putin wanted to conquer Ukraine, he wouldn’t have to invade. All he’d have to do is turn off the electricity, gasoline, and natural gas supplies that Russia sends to Ukraine — and which accounts for about 80% of what they have. In the middle of winter, that would get the job done pretty quickly. And he could have done this any time in the last 8 years, since the conflict started. But he doesn’t want to invade because he doesn’t want to deal with the resulting backlash, nor does he want to deal with all the problems that would ensue from a costly invasion followed by having to rule an impoverished country. The Ukrainian government will most likely collapse on its own before long, so Putin’s hope is likelier to maneuver things to put a more Russia-friendly government back in power there, not to seize the entire country.
Biden may indeed be impotent on the world stage, but not because he is failing to resolve a crisis that only exists in his own and other neocons’ imaginations. If anything, he’s probably pushing this idea because then when nothing happens he can take credit for having “stood up to Putin.”
It‘s „lickspittle lackeys“, John.
Very insightful and accurate assessment, with more wisdom than countless pages of the NYT and even the WSJ. This is a classic bait-and-switch. I was thinking this, too – why would Putin invade Ukraine when he controls so much of their energy? There were definite geostrategic (naval) goals behind the Crimea (re-)capture. But actually invading and occupying Ukraine would only end up dividing the country, and putting a large new NATO nation (Western Ukraine with few indigenous Russians) on Russia’s new border, in addition to the development issues you mention.
Biden is using this as an excuse to deflect from all his other (for us, in part, fortunate) governing failures, especially as a way to recover a bit of political ground wrt foreign policy after the Afghan drawdown debacle.
There were definite geostrategic (naval) goals behind the Crimea (re-)capture.
The goals were simple, the Crimea is a springboard to Istanbul and Black Sea/Marmar Sea straits. This is long dream of Russian Czars, orthodox priests and admirals.
Yes but I wonder why no one in the media actually mentions this as a possible scenario? All one hears is “how Biden must stand up to that tyrant”. Since the President’s standing up to Purina, his popularity has risen.
And of course in the News; the usual updates on the various investigations into Trump finances.
And of course, President Biden’s new White House cat. At least it shouldn’t bite any more FBI agents.
Putin not Purina (phone auto-correct).
Since the President’s standing up to Purina, his popularity has risen.
In the same way, Putin’s popularity in Russia is growing as he is seen by the Russians as the protector and savior of the Motherland from the treacherous West. This suggests that we are in fact dealing with a specially conceived spectacle in which both sides participate. Both sides benefit from the imitation of an impending conflict, as it brings popularity to politicians . They look like “patriots”. It also brings new orders and money to the enterprises of the military-industrial complex and their owners. And it helps to control own population. All is very similar to the so-called “Cold War”, which, at least after the Cuban Missile Crisis, turned into a simulation in which the opposing sides saber-rattled. But the USSR received loans, industrial technologies and even grain from the West. And the USA and the West at the same time bought raw materials in the USSR.”The Cold War” is for fools, so called “peoples”, it makes them easier to obey.
One can say many bad things about Putin, but everything is relative. The bad Putin is surely better than “oppositionary” Navalnyi, who is Bidenist, Sorosist, Globalist and Left Imperialist.
The author is correct. Biden won because he falsely told the American people that Trump had botched the response to Covid and that if elected Biden would “shut down” the virus by the summer of 2021- while opposing lockdowns.
One of the tools who fell for this hustle was Richard Spencer. He announced last summer he was voting for Biden because “liberals are more competent”.
On R. Spencer, I think CC had an article about him recently and his megalomania. Apparently, it was all about him and he thought he was almost a god? I believe he’s currently so discredited that few in the w.i. field will take him seriously and those on the Progressive side still see him as a white supremacist and Nazi.
I think Trump did lose credibility over the Covid thing and people expected Biden and the Democrats to act better. I wouldn’t put it past China, picking this time to release the covid virus, in order to discredit Trump and cause him not to be re-elected. He was doing too much to build back American capability and China wanted for us to return to dismembering our scientific and manufacturing capabilities.
I think that had more to do with it than anything Spencer might’ve done.
You don’t know that. It seems clear now that the virus originated with that Wuhan Virology Institute. But a deliberate release? The Chicoms are that evil, but not nearly so reckless. I’m sure their fear of Trump (lol) was not so great that they’d risk all the unknowns associated with starting a pandemic on their own soil simply to prevent his reelection.
You’re correct: I don’t know that China had a deliberate release and I’m not recent of any special knowledge that would indicate such. That has been supposed and I recall Trump as saying that China’s role and responses during the release have not been fully investigated.
“China Has Rejected A WHO Plan For Further Investigation Into The Origins Of COVID-19”
— NPR, July 22, 20219:44 AM ET
However, their refusal to provide information on the virus certainly looks suspicious. I recall a news article stating that they refused to share genetic data on the viral chromosomes after the outbreak which is a normally done thing by other countries in events of this nature. I can Google more for this item I suppose.
Also what repercussions are there for them if they had? Certainly after our showing in Afghanistan; Biden can’t be counted on going to war with China simultaneously with going to war with Russia?
I don’t think China was ever scared of Trump. However, they may have seen Trump as trying to stem the decay and disintegration in the USA that is playing into their hands. Thus why not a little event to discredit his administration? Also Trump, due to all the impeachment complications, + his own bullish nature, was not in a position to be supremely adaptable and flexible towards novel events.
typo correction:
“I’m not recent of”, should be “I’m not the recipient of”.
Maybe CC could implement the editing of comments for typos?
I think Biden’s stolen ‘win’ could prove to be a huge silver lining. If GOP massively wins in Nov (I don’t think it will due to general polarization, but it seriously could recapture both houses, and by decent margins), it will shut down most Biden evil. It is then very unlikely that Biden or any other Democrat will win in ’24, except via cheating that the GOP this time will be better prepared to counter. That could usher in a two term Republican President (as the next Republican Prez will take the popular parts of Trumpism but discard Trump’s toxic unprofessionalism, which will prove popular with voters), maybe even a fairly good one, like DeSantis or Cotton. This will buy the country (and ethnostatists) needed time for redpilling, especially if we can reduce immigration, and finally secure the border. We must slow the rate of decline, or we’ll never have our nationalist separatist chance.
I see two very big, major problems with both Cotton (especially) and probably DeSantis, as well. Unlike Trump’s refreshing resistance to allowing the war mongering neocons to manipulate or false flag America into yet another major war against whoever the terrorist State of Israel hates most and wants the US military to attack and destroy for them, after listening to the belligerent rhetoric that has come out of the mouth of Tom Cotton, it is clear to me that he is owned, lock, stock and barrel by the Israel First America Never Lobby and if Cotton were to ever get installed into the White House, as soon as Israel snapped their fingers and gave a tug on the dog collar they have around his neck, bingo, we would be dragged into another bloody war while Israel sits back and laughs their butts off over how they can get the stupid White goyims to fight their wars for them.
With Ron DeSantis, he’s been over to Its-a-lie and licked jew boogers off of that filthy Wall that the jews love to use to show the world how subservient their White gentile stooges are, and since South Florida has a serious infestation of jews – he might also cave in and let Israel drag us into another war. I pay fairly close attention to DeSantis and so far, I haven’t heard him spewing the kind of war mongering belligerence that Tom Cotton has a record of spewing. DeSantis seems to be more focused on his own State and on domestic issues, such as Pedo Joe and his 70% jewish administration’s dramatic acceleration of importing non-whites into the USA and then sprinkling them around in Red States.
Like most people in our pro-White movement, I have grown very sick and tired of the narcissistic, chest beating Orange Blowhard – but, would vote for him again if he runs in 2024. I am hoping DeSantis can find a way to be picked as his VP, but the two guys both reside in Florida and there is a rule that says the President and VP can’t be residents of the same state. They would have to find a way to get around that problem, and with DeSantis being the governor of Florida – I can’t see him moving out of the state. And, as for the Orange Blowhard – he has that big mansion at Mira Lago that seems to be his primary residence.
I also remember how the turncoat Pat Buchanan helped to destroy the Reform Party by picking some unqualified black female high school teacher to be his VP. If Trump or DeSantis pull pander stunt like Glen Youngkin did in Virginia and pick a black or other non-white as their VP, then, I will look for the best third party candidate and vote for them.
Alas, proud whites don’t have any champions on the national (or perhaps even local) stage. We are a dispossessed and conquered people (such will be the fate of all whites, in America certainly, and perhaps the whole planet, within my own lifetime – and I’m 60 (and more than likely will be dead before 80)! God help my younger race brethren). But what can we do except vote for the lesser of evils? Power matters. The idea, variously floated by … Christianists, white separatists, libertarians, paleoconservatives (I recall all these instances in my life, with most continuing in some measure today) … that we can somehow retreat from political engagement is simply naive, mere procrastination as everything continuously worsens. The Left always fights (look at ugly Bernie; evil as sin, but he still keeps at it at 80; same for the demonic Soros, at 90). They’re in it for a very long slog. We need to be, too.
Re Cotton, he does seem to have some backbone on race. He has denounced BLM; that counts for a lot to me. Better, he is the only sitting member of Congress I can recall who has actually expressed being open to reducing legal immigration (the best the other cucks will discuss is “securing the border”). That is the linchpin issue. So what if he’s a tool for Israel? He knows the GOP base, not to mention the country, has little desire for more wars for Israel. What he might say to get elected is not necessarily an indication of what he will do as President. I would suck up rhetorically to Israel, too, if that were to be the price to get elected so as to slow or halt immigration.
Re: DeSantis, he has repeatedly shown real law & order backbone. He did not cave to the BLM-Left at all during the BLM riots in 2020. In fact, he passed laws overriding certain local pro-looterist legislation, and making it easier to arrest antifa types. Of course he has to suck up to the old Jews in FL. He could secretly be one of us, but what else could he do? And who cares if he visits the Wailing Wall? That’s expected. Remember: you are a displaced refugee, and a conquered person. To re-empower our community at a time when our people have been so utterly brainwashed, we need to be as sophisticated as our enemies have been in stealing our nation without warfare in the first place. We were conquered by dispossession, not force of arms.
The conservative-o-sphere is increasingly inundated by memes trumpeting the senescence of Joe “Brandon” Biden. We’ve seen them all: Biden tripping up the gangway of Air Force One. Biden mangling a teleprompter speech. Biden being unable to figure out on which planet he lives.
OK, we get it. Biden is over the hill. But Biden is not the power. It’s the people pulling the string on Biden. This is why the 2022/24 election cycle may not settle very much. True enough, Brandon might be replaced in the Oval Office. The GOP may gain a working majority in Congress. But the string pullers remain.
A deeper game may be playing out here. The Regime may be trying to discredit the Office of the Presidency by putting into the Oval Office someone who has “lost it.” Even if Biden is replaced in 2024 by someone in full possession of his faculties, the Presidency becomes an object of mockery. And this clears the way for Regime-Deep State-Oligarch actors to run the show as they please.
How about some memes exposing those pulling the strings on Biden? Like on Wall Street. Like around the Beltway. Like in Silicon Valley. Bring those sting pullers to the light of day. And like, maybe, figure out some way to neutralize their power?
As always: look for the Man Behind the Curtain.
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