President Biden …
… says goodbye, although he’s not done yet. There are still a few days left in which he can cause trouble.
I didn’t listen to the speech. However:
He opened his remarks by taking full credit for the hostage deal between Israel and Hamas announced earlier in the day. Notably absent from his account was any acknowledgment of the crucial role played by President-elect Donald Trump’s negotiators or the fact that Trump’s victory itself made Hamas significantly more willing to strike a deal. …
Despite calling MAGA supporters “garbage,” he emphasized that he has been a president for all Americans. …
Similarly, forgetting that many first responders lost their jobs as a result of his administration’s ill-conceived vaccine mandate, Biden praised them as the “heroes” on the frontlines who guided us through the pandemic.
He spoke of the Declaration of Independence, our system of separation of powers, checks and balances, and the significance of the words “we the people” in our Constitution, as if he actually reveres any of these ideals.
Next came the lies. Biden disingenuously claimed that his administration “brought violent crime to a 50-year low. … We have created nearly 17 million new jobs, more than any other single administration in a single term. More people have health care than ever before. And overseas, we have strengthened NATO. Ukraine is still free. And we’ve pulled ahead in our competition with China. And so much more.” …
Biden said he worries about “the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultrawealthy people, and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. We see the consequences all across America.”
He blamed “the existential threat of climate change” for the California wildfires and the hurricane that devastated western North Carolina.
Citing former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex in his 1960 farewell address, Biden said he was “equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country as well.”
He attacked misinformation, disinformation, and lamented the decision of Big tech leaders to end fact-checking on social media sites.
Blahbity blah blah.
I can’t wait to start “missing” FJB.
Can’t miss him if he won’t leave.
If I were him, I’d resign 30 minutes before the inauguration so we’d have “President Harris” for a half-hour, just to be difficult.
Ben Shapiro ranks Woodrow Wilson as the worst president of all time.
Perhaps Shapiro didn’t want to include Biden until his term was over.
Wilson did huge damage. The Biden administration has been the most overtly racist one since Wilson.
The Biden years have been very bad, and in many ways. Inflation, an illegal alien invasion, rising crime, lawfare against MAGA people, a botched Afghanistan withdrawal, war in Ukraine and the Middle East, insane climate change policies, approval of perverse activities (trans surgeries for children, men in women’s sports, unlimited abortion, tampons in men’s rooms, etc.), trampling on free speech, Covid-19 policies that didn’t work, and so much more were the lowlights of his administration.
He’s been a terrible POTUS. He will not be missed. I want to be charitable, but in Joe’s case, he’s earned our scorn.
Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. Sloe Joe
Just a mind boggling level of hypocrisy and duplicity. Joe should know a lot about the oligarchy threatening our democracy because he and his minions were the ones orchestrating that effort. Of course, that assumes that he knew what his minions were doing, or his whole administration for that matter.
I will be glad when the malignant Tin Man finally shuffles off the stage (if he can figure out which way to go).
Joe may not be our worst president, but I’ll argue he is the smallest and pettiest in the 20th and 21st centuries.