With Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s impending retirement, President Joe Biden (D) has an opportunity. Unfortunately, he’s about to abuse it badly, to the detriment of our nation and to his legacy.
Biden has a chance to follow through on a campaign promise to appoint a Black woman to the court.
Biden has a chance to keep a racist and sexist campaign promise. What a legacy to leave behind.
Right up there with the blatantly racist Woodrow Wilson.
Or openly lying?
Small businesses are booming, according to the Biden-Harris administration.
President Biden’s efforts have not only helped millions of Main Street businesses keep their lights on and employees on payroll, they have enabled a remarkable rebound in small business activity, with small business demand for labor and inventories near record highs.
And
According to a leading survey of small business owners, the share of small businesses planning to create new jobs in the next three months is higher than it ever was at any point during the previous Administration. Another recent survey of small business owners found that 71 percent are optimistic about their own performance in 2022, up from 63 percent one year ago.
Carefully unidentified surveys. An openly identified survey, a Goldman Sachs survey, says otherwise.
86% of small business owners say that broader economic trends, such as supply chain issues, inflation, and workforce challenges, are having a negative impact on their small businesses
And
66% of impacted businesses say it is a problem for their business that suppliers are favoring large businesses over small businesses….
And
84% of small business owners say inflationary pressures have increased since September of 2021
And
Two-thirds of small business owners do not think the Federal government has done enough to address the economic trends
And
29% [of small business owners] think things in the US are moving in the right direction, reflecting a 38% decline since June of 2021.
That should be an embarrassing disconnect for the Biden-Harris administration, which makes me repeat my question: are the personages in this administration, from Biden-Harris on down, that far out of touch, or are they openly lying to us?
Either way, this is an incompetent administration, and it’s going to be a dangerous three years, domestically as well as globally.
President Joe Biden (D) keeps threatening sanctions if Russian President Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine. Putin keeps being unimpressed.
American President Joe Biden continues to threaten economic sanctions and trade restrictions on Russia if it further invades Ukraine, while Russian President Vladimir Putin appears undeterred by the warnings.
On the one hand, a porch dog is yapping.
On the other hand, with some apologies to Merle Haggard, Putin is continuing.
Big wheel’s rollin’; Big wheel’s rollin’, movin’ on
Or, with apologies to Tina Turner:
So we’re going to take the beginning of this song
And do it easy
Then we’re going to do the finish…rough
Because no one, least of all Putin (or PRC President Xi Jinping, who’s enjoying the performances), takes Biden-Harris seriously. Ex-President Barack Obama made our nation a laughingstock. Biden-Harris is just, plain dangerous.
Aaron Kliegman, in his Saturday piece for Just the News, expressed considerable dismay over President Joe Biden’s (D) foreign policy vis-à-vis northern Korea: much of that policy is still unknown, he wrote.
I think the situation is much worse, and much broader than that.
Biden-Harris’ foreign policy as a whole is still unknown. It’s unknown because Biden-Harris has none; he’s operating with a James Joyce-ian stream of conscious, but without Joyce’s level of awareness.
This lack of policy, this streaming reaction muddle, is demonstrated by the mess Biden-Harris made of our withdrawal from Afghanistan; the mess he’s making of our relationship with the Republic of China; the mess he’s making of our relationship—political and economic—with the People’s Republic of China; the mess he’s making of our relationship with Russia, including our growing oil and gas dependency on it; the mess he’s making of the present Ukraine crisis.
Stream of reaction—it just doesn’t work in the real world, except for the nation initiating the action.
Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D, NY) has finally arrived. He’s made the big time.
New York Democratic Jamaal Bowman was arrested Thursday alongside more than two-dozen other protesters at the U.S. Capitol as they demanded the Senate alter its 60-vote legislative filibuster pass key tenets of the lawmaker’s political party.
A Bowman spokesperson said the first-term congressman took part in a “voting rights non-violent direct action at the North Barricade of the US Capitol Building and was arrested by the US Capitol Police.”
Got his arrest record, now. He can put a star on his calendar and his arrest Certificate of Achievement on his hero wall in his office.
Woo hoo.