Biden’s reign of error goes on and on

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If Joe Biden intends to humiliate every last one of his supporters before he leaves office, he is well on his way to achieving that goal.

Mostly out of sight while President-elect Trump dominates the spotlight, Biden has decided to resurface inconveniently to destroy Democrats’ claims of moral superiority by pardoning his dissolute son along with a raft of fraudsters and corrupt public officials.

Biden’s mass clemency, combined with the ridiculously broad get-out-of-jail-no-matter-what card for son Hunter, is an outrage in and of itself. But the fallout from his irresponsible behavior will forever taint the Biden-Harris Cabinet. Hatred for Trump didn’t just unite the fractious Democratic Party, it created a toxic blind loyalty to Biden. Now, after four years of defending anything and everything Biden (which absurdly continues), that loyalty is going to bite.

What makes Biden’s mass clemency especially outrageous is that many of the beneficiaries are fraudsters who likely will never make restitution to their victims or to taxpayers. Among Biden’s greatest (or sleaziest) hits are commutation for Rita Crundwell, perpetrator of the largest municipal embezzlement scheme in American history; Meera Sachdeva, who bilked Medicare for millions by shorting her patients’ chemotherapy drugs; and Gregory Podlucky, who defrauded investors of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Worst of all, Biden commuted the sentence of disgraced Pennsylvania judge Michael Conahan, who, along with a co-conspirator, accepted millions in bribes to sentence more than 2,000 children to a for-profit juvenile detention facility. The damage he did to those young people and their families was (and is) extraordinary, including drug addiction and even suicide.

Biden has managed to wreck any credibility he ever had with respect to the rule of law and an independent judiciary. One of the strongest arguments the Democrats had against Trump was the incoming president’s cavalier attitude toward the legal system. All that is in tatters.

This whole sordid affair brings up further questions as to who was vetting these clemencies. Did anyone get paid off? It’s not like the stench of potentially paying for pardons is unknown to Democrats.

Perhaps Biden is far too mentally checked out to be held responsible for what his aides cooked up and put in front of him. But that leads to a further question — if Biden doesn’t know who he is letting off the hook legally, how can he be expected to discharge his other duties?

Democrats may think the best thing to do is lay low and deflect to Trump as much as possible. So far, that is not working. The public is turning against Biden and the collateral damage is mounting.

Biden’s approval rating is cratering. Last week’s YouGov benchmark poll showed him with a mere 38 percent approval rating against 57 percent disapproval. Just before the election, Biden was at 43 percent approve and 53 percent disapprove, so that’s a nine-point swing against him. In both polls, only unthinking, reflexive Democratic loyalty is propping him up. His approval rating with independents is more than 30 points underwater. The RealClearPolitics approval averages show Biden behind both Harris and Trump.

The lack of courage to break with Biden is metastasizing to other Democrats. Harris, for example, has fallen from even approve-disapprove ratings in the YouGov poll to a 9-point deficit. That is not good for someone who hopes she still has a political future. Pete Buttigieg, a putative candidate for Michigan governor, is not likely to benefit from Biden’s perfidy.

What’s worse about Biden’s numbers is that he should actually be improving in the polls. Post-election, the departing president usually gets a polling bump. The focus moves toward the incoming president and the barrage of election criticism normally falls away. That Biden is sinking so badly is remarkable.

The biggest casualty in the end may be the left-progressive media ecosystem. Whether the traditional newspaper establishment like The Washington Post, the cable news networks MSNBC and CNN or even the new media and social influencers like Harry Sisson, their fervent cheerleading for Biden will not age well. In their role as quasi-state media, pushing over-the-top party talking points, Biden could do no wrong and was a paragon of virtue, particularly in comparison to the odious Trump. But today, Biden looks like just another old, corrupt politician who won’t get out of the way.

As the Democrats seek to rebuild from the political mess Biden is leaving, all the main actors are tainted by their support of the departing president. At some point, they will have to break with the past. Biden’s legacy is that he is making that task more difficult by the day.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-biden-reign-error-goes-140000625.html


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If Joe Biden intends to humiliate every last one of his supporters before he leaves office, he is well on his way to achieving that goal.

Mostly out of sight while President-elect Trump dominates the spotlight, Biden has decided to resurface inconveniently to destroy Democrats’ claims of moral superiority by pardoning his dissolute son along with a raft of fraudsters and corrupt public officials.

Biden’s mass clemency, combined with the ridiculously broad get-out-of-jail-no-matter-what card for son Hunter, is an outrage in and of itself. But the fallout from his irresponsible behavior will forever taint the Biden-Harris Cabinet. Hatred for Trump didn’t just unite the fractious Democratic Party, it created a toxic blind loyalty to Biden. Now, after four years of defending anything and everything Biden (which absurdly continues), that loyalty is going to bite.

What makes Biden’s mass clemency especially outrageous is that many of the beneficiaries are fraudsters who likely will never make restitution to their victims or to taxpayers. Among Biden’s greatest (or sleaziest) hits are commutation for Rita Crundwell, perpetrator of the largest municipal embezzlement scheme in American history; Meera Sachdeva, who bilked Medicare for millions by shorting her patients’ chemotherapy drugs; and Gregory Podlucky, who defrauded investors of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Worst of all, Biden commuted the sentence of disgraced Pennsylvania judge Michael Conahan, who, along with a co-conspirator, accepted millions in bribes to sentence more than 2,000 children to a for-profit juvenile detention facility. The damage he did to those young people and their families was (and is) extraordinary, including drug addiction and even suicide.

Biden has managed to wreck any credibility he ever had with respect to the rule of law and an independent judiciary. One of the strongest arguments the Democrats had against Trump was the incoming president’s cavalier attitude toward the legal system. All that is in tatters.

This whole sordid affair brings up further questions as to who was vetting these clemencies. Did anyone get paid off? It’s not like the stench of potentially paying for pardons is unknown to Democrats.

Perhaps Biden is far too mentally checked out to be held responsible for what his aides cooked up and put in front of him. But that leads to a further question — if Biden doesn’t know who he is letting off the hook legally, how can he be expected to discharge his other duties?

Democrats may think the best thing to do is lay low and deflect to Trump as much as possible. So far, that is not working. The public is turning against Biden and the collateral damage is mounting.

Biden’s approval rating is cratering. Last week’s YouGov benchmark poll showed him with a mere 38 percent approval rating against 57 percent disapproval. Just before the election, Biden was at 43 percent approve and 53 percent disapprove, so that’s a nine-point swing against him. In both polls, only unthinking, reflexive Democratic loyalty is propping him up. His approval rating with independents is more than 30 points underwater. The RealClearPolitics approval averages show Biden behind both Harris and Trump.

The lack of courage to break with Biden is metastasizing to other Democrats. Harris, for example, has fallen from even approve-disapprove ratings in the YouGov poll to a 9-point deficit. That is not good for someone who hopes she still has a political future. Pete Buttigieg, a putative candidate for Michigan governor, is not likely to benefit from Biden’s perfidy.

What’s worse about Biden’s numbers is that he should actually be improving in the polls. Post-election, the departing president usually gets a polling bump. The focus moves toward the incoming president and the barrage of election criticism normally falls away. That Biden is sinking so badly is remarkable.

The biggest casualty in the end may be the left-progressive media ecosystem. Whether the traditional newspaper establishment like The Washington Post, the cable news networks MSNBC and CNN or even the new media and social influencers like Harry Sisson, their fervent cheerleading for Biden will not age well. In their role as quasi-state media, pushing over-the-top party talking points, Biden could do no wrong and was a paragon of virtue, particularly in comparison to the odious Trump. But today, Biden looks like just another old, corrupt politician who won’t get out of the way.

As the Democrats seek to rebuild from the political mess Biden is leaving, all the main actors are tainted by their support of the departing president. At some point, they will have to break with the past. Biden’s legacy is that he is making that task more difficult by the day.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-biden-reign-error-goes-140000625.html


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Fuck you asshole. You supported the assassination of your President elect so, fuck you!
 
If Joe Biden intends to humiliate every last one of his supporters before he leaves office, he is well on his way to achieving that goal.

Mostly out of sight while President-elect Trump dominates the spotlight, Biden has decided to resurface inconveniently to destroy Democrats’ claims of moral superiority by pardoning his dissolute son along with a raft of fraudsters and corrupt public officials.

Biden’s mass clemency, combined with the ridiculously broad get-out-of-jail-no-matter-what card for son Hunter, is an outrage in and of itself. But the fallout from his irresponsible behavior will forever taint the Biden-Harris Cabinet. Hatred for Trump didn’t just unite the fractious Democratic Party, it created a toxic blind loyalty to Biden. Now, after four years of defending anything and everything Biden (which absurdly continues), that loyalty is going to bite.

What makes Biden’s mass clemency especially outrageous is that many of the beneficiaries are fraudsters who likely will never make restitution to their victims or to taxpayers. Among Biden’s greatest (or sleaziest) hits are commutation for Rita Crundwell, perpetrator of the largest municipal embezzlement scheme in American history; Meera Sachdeva, who bilked Medicare for millions by shorting her patients’ chemotherapy drugs; and Gregory Podlucky, who defrauded investors of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Worst of all, Biden commuted the sentence of disgraced Pennsylvania judge Michael Conahan, who, along with a co-conspirator, accepted millions in bribes to sentence more than 2,000 children to a for-profit juvenile detention facility. The damage he did to those young people and their families was (and is) extraordinary, including drug addiction and even suicide.

Biden has managed to wreck any credibility he ever had with respect to the rule of law and an independent judiciary. One of the strongest arguments the Democrats had against Trump was the incoming president’s cavalier attitude toward the legal system. All that is in tatters.

This whole sordid affair brings up further questions as to who was vetting these clemencies. Did anyone get paid off? It’s not like the stench of potentially paying for pardons is unknown to Democrats.

Perhaps Biden is far too mentally checked out to be held responsible for what his aides cooked up and put in front of him. But that leads to a further question — if Biden doesn’t know who he is letting off the hook legally, how can he be expected to discharge his other duties?

Democrats may think the best thing to do is lay low and deflect to Trump as much as possible. So far, that is not working. The public is turning against Biden and the collateral damage is mounting.

Biden’s approval rating is cratering. Last week’s YouGov benchmark poll showed him with a mere 38 percent approval rating against 57 percent disapproval. Just before the election, Biden was at 43 percent approve and 53 percent disapprove, so that’s a nine-point swing against him. In both polls, only unthinking, reflexive Democratic loyalty is propping him up. His approval rating with independents is more than 30 points underwater. The RealClearPolitics approval averages show Biden behind both Harris and Trump.

The lack of courage to break with Biden is metastasizing to other Democrats. Harris, for example, has fallen from even approve-disapprove ratings in the YouGov poll to a 9-point deficit. That is not good for someone who hopes she still has a political future. Pete Buttigieg, a putative candidate for Michigan governor, is not likely to benefit from Biden’s perfidy.

What’s worse about Biden’s numbers is that he should actually be improving in the polls. Post-election, the departing president usually gets a polling bump. The focus moves toward the incoming president and the barrage of election criticism normally falls away. That Biden is sinking so badly is remarkable.

The biggest casualty in the end may be the left-progressive media ecosystem. Whether the traditional newspaper establishment like The Washington Post, the cable news networks MSNBC and CNN or even the new media and social influencers like Harry Sisson, their fervent cheerleading for Biden will not age well. In their role as quasi-state media, pushing over-the-top party talking points, Biden could do no wrong and was a paragon of virtue, particularly in comparison to the odious Trump. But today, Biden looks like just another old, corrupt politician who won’t get out of the way.

As the Democrats seek to rebuild from the political mess Biden is leaving, all the main actors are tainted by their support of the departing president. At some point, they will have to break with the past. Biden’s legacy is that he is making that task more difficult by the day.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-biden-reign-error-goes-140000625.html


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That is what you get for electing the demented narcissist in the first place. Now Joe is coming back to bite you. :rofl2:
 
Wow. Cartoon Ken is even a traitor to the president he backed for four long years.
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Democrats bashing Biden. Why Trump is the next President.
Biden had no business running for re-election in the first place! Biden deciding to run again, is why we have Trump as president again?!!

Damning Report Describes How Aides Shielded ‘Declining’ Biden From Scrutiny​

President Joe Biden’s inner circle kept his interactions short and tightly scripted, allowing his declining energy levels to remain under wraps.:whoa:

He also held other top lawmakers and even his own pollsters at arms-length, according to a damning new report in the Wall Street Journal.

The former senator and vice president has long surrounded himself with a small group of loyal advisers who, thanks to their deep knowledge of both the president and of Washington, serve as particularly effective proxies.

When Biden was elected president in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, aides limited in-person meetings to minimize his risk of exposure to the virus. They also wanted to prevent the types of gaffes and other rhetorical missteps that have characterized his long political career.

But after the pandemic, the barriers that had been erected between the president, high-ranking officials and the public hardened instead of softening, sources told the Journal.

Many of the sources chalked up the restricted access to an especially powerful inner circle, rather than a deliberate attempt to hide any age-related decline.

But regardless of their motives, the result was that the public was largely blindsided when the president struggled to string together a coherent argument in his first and only debate against his Republican challenger Donald Trump in late June.

Over the past two years, Biden’s meetings with Cabinet officials have been “relatively infrequent and often tightly scripted,” according to the Journal‘s report. Cabinet members often met with senior advisers, who then brought the issue to the president before reporting back.

When the president did show up, aides seemed to do an excessive amount of hand-holding, sources said. As the president’s energy seemed to wane, his “eager beaver” staff were quick to jump in and handle things for him, Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) told the Journal.

White House spokesman Andrew Yates told the Journal that Biden meets regularly with key Cabinet members, and that in every administration it’s normal for people to want to spend more time with the president than what’s available.

He added that any close handling was related to concerns about Biden’s propensity to over-share, not his age or mental acuity, and that senior staff executed Biden’s agenda under his direction.

But top lawmakers in Biden’s own party said they found him surprisingly hard to reach. Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, who chaired the House Armed Services Committee, couldn’t even get Biden on the phone before the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

The president later apologized for the snub.

And as Biden’s poll numbers tanked following his disastrous debate performance, the president eschewed the long, detailed conversations he’d had with his pollster John Anzalone during the 2020 campaign.

Instead, his polling team was told to submit memos to top campaign staff. An aide with a background in polling then sifted through the information and presented it to Biden, making the pollsters wonder if the president was actually getting the data they had prepared.

Those suspicions were apparently well founded, as Biden continued to describe the race as a “tossup” even after polls showed Trump leading him nationally. Bates said Biden stayed abreast of polling data, but he didn’t specify where the information came from.

Eventually, of course, Democratic lawmakers forced Biden to see the light. The president suspended his re-election bid, and Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris following an abbreviated campaign. Leaving Democrats to wonder how they missed their original candidate’s now-obvious liabilities.

The Daily Beast has reached out to Biden for comment but had not heard back at the time of publication.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/damning-report-describes-aides-shielded-145442042.html
 
Biden had no business running for re-election in the first place! Biden deciding to run again, is why we have Trump as president again?!!

Damning Report Describes How Aides Shielded ‘Declining’ Biden From Scrutiny​

President Joe Biden’s inner circle kept his interactions short and tightly scripted, allowing his declining energy levels to remain under wraps.:whoa:

He also held other top lawmakers and even his own pollsters at arms-length, according to a damning new report in the Wall Street Journal.

The former senator and vice president has long surrounded himself with a small group of loyal advisers who, thanks to their deep knowledge of both the president and of Washington, serve as particularly effective proxies.

When Biden was elected president in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, aides limited in-person meetings to minimize his risk of exposure to the virus. They also wanted to prevent the types of gaffes and other rhetorical missteps that have characterized his long political career.

But after the pandemic, the barriers that had been erected between the president, high-ranking officials and the public hardened instead of softening, sources told the Journal.

Many of the sources chalked up the restricted access to an especially powerful inner circle, rather than a deliberate attempt to hide any age-related decline.

But regardless of their motives, the result was that the public was largely blindsided when the president struggled to string together a coherent argument in his first and only debate against his Republican challenger Donald Trump in late June.

Over the past two years, Biden’s meetings with Cabinet officials have been “relatively infrequent and often tightly scripted,” according to the Journal‘s report. Cabinet members often met with senior advisers, who then brought the issue to the president before reporting back.

When the president did show up, aides seemed to do an excessive amount of hand-holding, sources said. As the president’s energy seemed to wane, his “eager beaver” staff were quick to jump in and handle things for him, Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) told the Journal.

White House spokesman Andrew Yates told the Journal that Biden meets regularly with key Cabinet members, and that in every administration it’s normal for people to want to spend more time with the president than what’s available.

He added that any close handling was related to concerns about Biden’s propensity to over-share, not his age or mental acuity, and that senior staff executed Biden’s agenda under his direction.

But top lawmakers in Biden’s own party said they found him surprisingly hard to reach. Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, who chaired the House Armed Services Committee, couldn’t even get Biden on the phone before the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

The president later apologized for the snub.

And as Biden’s poll numbers tanked following his disastrous debate performance, the president eschewed the long, detailed conversations he’d had with his pollster John Anzalone during the 2020 campaign.

Instead, his polling team was told to submit memos to top campaign staff. An aide with a background in polling then sifted through the information and presented it to Biden, making the pollsters wonder if the president was actually getting the data they had prepared.

Those suspicions were apparently well founded, as Biden continued to describe the race as a “tossup” even after polls showed Trump leading him nationally. Bates said Biden stayed abreast of polling data, but he didn’t specify where the information came from.

Eventually, of course, Democratic lawmakers forced Biden to see the light. The president suspended his re-election bid, and Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris following an abbreviated campaign. Leaving Democrats to wonder how they missed their original candidate’s now-obvious liabilities.

The Daily Beast has reached out to Biden for comment but had not heard back at the time of publication.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/damning-report-describes-aides-shielded-145442042.html


@Hume seems to think you're a traitor, Cartoon Ken.

I KNOW you're one.
 
BITD, most people seemed to know him as Cartoon Ken.

In fact, the first time he ever posted anything but cartoons was when Legion started a Sunday Funnies thread, IIRC.

Billy @/MSG/ probably remembers.
Signalman is a Navy rating, so semen (Seaman) is a play on words off of that. Sure, he does his Sunday funnies which are really just a collection of lame, Leftist political cartoons and often just mean while not funny at all.
 
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