Joe Biden isn’t a leader, he’s the Commentator-in-Chief
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Our new Biden appointee is "radiant." If all goes well his next job could be CEO of DISNEY.
Putin cannot run it and we will continue to do business with the butcher. That is Biden's foreign policy.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Regime Change Biden Goes Nuts
Beltway Republicans also deranged and hysterical
By Christian Whiton
Some imperial dreams die hard.
Just when you thought that Washington couldn’t possibly concoct a worse foreign policy, President Joe Biden rose to the challenge—abetted by the Beltway uniparty. Democrats and Republicans alike seem to share the goal of putting America last.
On Saturday, in a speech in Poland, Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” For the first time since Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 and George W. Bush invaded Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein five years later, regime change is once again apparently U.S. policy.
This step is only the latest act of self-indulgent, imperious, stupidity by Biden and the Harvard Kennedy School glee club running our foreign policy. A year ago, Biden blithely called Putin a “killer.” This month his administration accused Putin of being a war criminal. And now Biden is purporting to direct who can govern Russia.
Never since the Ottomans issued grandiose and ignored proclamations from the Sublime Porte in the last days of Constantinople has imperium been so pretentious and pathetic.
Even if Putin is a killer and Russia has committed war crimes, Biden’s pronouncements make no sense. Notwithstanding media fantasizing about Kiev somehow winning the de facto civil war it is fighting with Moscow, Russian military forces are making gradual progress in Ukraine. This unfortunate reality is still developing despite much tougher resistance by Ukrainians than Moscow expected.
Russia is close to consolidating its land bridge to Crimea, where it stations its Black Sea fleet. It now controls the entire Sea of Azov. Russia also is expanding its Donbass beachhead in eastern Ukraine and still has the Ukrainian capital mostly surrounded. Since neither side seems capable of total victory, the only way to end a war is through a negotiated settlement with Russia.
Why then does Biden think it makes sense to call in effect for Putin’s removal from power, trial, and lifelong detention or execution for war crimes? None of these things is remotely likely to happen and they make negotiation much more difficult.
Most Americans can grasp this concept even if the highly credentialed bobos running our foreign policy cannot. If you want to buy a used car, does it make sense to call up the salesman in advance and call him a scumbag, even if he is?
Kid having trouble at school? Does it make sense to start a campaign to fire the principal before asking him for favorable consideration?
Want the neighbor to keep his dog off your lawn? Do you start off by telling him he should move?
Biden goaded Putin into war, saying “he has to do something,” and is now goading him into more aggressive action.
Biden and his enablers in both parties are being driven by the discredited fantasy that they can install neoliberalism and wokeness abroad, and that American power and money are limitless. Catastrophic failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria apparently haven’t given pause to the woke crusaders
In fact, Ukraine has developed into something of their last stand. Quintessential globalist Anne Applebaum put it plainly in an article in The Atlantic: “Ukraine Must Win.” No amount of killing and destruction around the world will deter her quest: “That goal [in Ukraine] should not be a truce, or a muddle, or a decision to maintain some kind of Ukrainian resistance over the next decade…” Only elusive victory will do, damn the cost of people, money, or risk to America. Prolonging the war and subjecting Americans to the risk of a nuclear exchange with Russia for someone else’s dispute is worth not having to admit one’s world view is wrong.
If the globalists can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in their outpost of empire in Ukraine, which they tried to tilt westward through a successful coup in 2014, then the hundreds of thousands of corpses from their failed interventions and nation-building experiments won’t look so bad, or so they reason.
Given this impetuousness and self-indulgence, it is no wonder much of the world has declined to join the Biden-led crusade. Not only China, but India, Brazil, South Africa, the Arabian Gulf states, and Southeast Asia have all declined to join the sanctions regime against Russia. In fact, they are increasingly convinced that if anyone “cannot remain in power” it is Biden.
Unlike our own politicians of both parties, they realize their national and economic security depend on inexpensive and secure energy. They also do not feel the need Washington seems to feel to let rich Europe off the hook again for skimping on its own defense. Why bail out the European Union, a grouping of wealthy nations with 400 million people and a $21 trillion economy that disdains Americans and the idea of America? Reinforcing such a moral hazard only makes sense if one is desperate to cover up a failure and try to preserve a discredited idea that is sinking beneath the waves—the fate of the postmodern, globalist dream.
For sad Biden, there is only failure and discredit. The mystery is why Republicans are supporting him and failing to put America first. Washington’s sloppy sanctions on Russia, not the invasion of a country with no oil, are why Americans are paying an average of $4.24 for gas and truckers are paying $5.10 for diesel. Already high food prices will soon follow in the inflationary spiral. And for what? Another futile attempt to drain the bottomless well of European animosity at little cost to the rich European Union?
Let’s see how this plays out politically. Maybe voters just blame the party in power, led by Biden, for a foreign policy that is every bit as incompetent and ineffective as the party’s economic and social policies. That’s the safe bet for midterm elections this fall.
But what will they think of the minority party that cheered the globalists and wanted them to go farther? Will the swing voters who propelled Donald Trump to victory in 2016 suddenly get excited about globalism and letting other people make their problems into our problems? Or will they want a president who puts America first? If so, they will clearly need someone outside of the Beltway ranks of either party.
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She will become the next Justice but she may not know she is a woman because she is not a biologist:.
If Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Were Judge Candace Owens - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
By Jeffrey Lord
The liberal plantation would be enraged.
By now Americans have long learned the game liberals play with race.
This time around the game revolves around President Joe Biden appointing, as he insisted he would, a “black woman” to the Supreme Court. Republicans start putting her record to scrutiny and the Left goes berserk, shrieking, “Racism, racism!”
All one has to do to understand the very old game at play here — and just who the real racists are — is to imagine this.
Imagine the president were yet again Donald Trump. The Breyer resignation occurs. And Trump nominates a federal judge named — Candace Owens. Now, Ms. Owens is neither a lawyer or a judge in real life. But let’s imagine that she were — and, as she is in real life, were a serious conservative.
What exactly do you think the response to the nomination of a Judge Owens would be from all these leftists busily accusing GOP critics of Judge Jackson’s judicial philosophy as, but of course, racists?
They would, of course, freak out. The assault on a Judge Owens would be a blizzard of racist attacks. Why? Because Judge Owens would be — oh, the horror — a conservative.
In real lie, Candace Owens has said this about the reality behind Democrats and liberals, according to the U.S. Sun:
During her appearance on “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Owens raged: “I feel that the Democrat Party represents Black America like plantation owners represented slaves.
“The irony here being is that the Democrats were the slave owners [in the 1800s].”
Her comments come after Biden lambasted a new Georgia state election law as “Jim Crow in the 21st Century” and publicly condemned the state’s controversial changes to local election policies.
It radically changed polling laws, including tougher identification requirements to vote, restricting polling station access and it’s now illegal to serve food and drinks to people queuing up to cast their votes at venues.
“They’re using language, referring to things like Jim Crow. Who was the party that implemented Jim Crow in this country? It was the Democrats,” Owens continued.
“That’s the deep, sinister evil of the Democrat Party, that they’re really just rewriting what they authored in the beginning.
“These were the slave-masters, and they understand the system better than anybody else because they wrote it. It is the fabric of the Democrat Party.
“They understand that an educated mind can not be enslaved,” she said. “They need to make sure there are no educated minds.”
“What better way to ensure that than to pretend that you’re educating Black Americans, but instead you’re filling our minds with absolute filth, making us see the world in Black and White?
“And it makes me so angry that they are still doing this and that they’re now broadening their reach and saying, you know what, not just Black America.
“[This is because] the growth rate population-wise, is not significant enough. So now they’re bringing in a new class of voters.”
Precisely because she has walked off the liberal plantation with thoughts like that a supposed Judge Owens nomination would enrage the Left, instantly bringing out what Owens correctly identifies as the racism that built the Democratic Party from the get-go.
In fact, as has been noted the last few days, Americans don’t have to imagine how Democrats would treat a fictional Judge Owens. This situation has already happened, and the very real judge in question was, yes, Joe Biden’s self-proclaimed ideal — a black woman.
But what happened when President George W. Bush nominated the African-American Judge Janice Rogers Brown for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals?
Over there in the Washington Post in February, former Bush speechwriter-turned-columnist Marc A. Thiessen headlined this reminder:
Biden blocked the first Black woman from the Supreme Court
Thiessen wrote:
President Biden wants credit for nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. But here is the shameful irony: As a senator, Biden warned President George W. Bush that if he nominated the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, he would filibuster and kill her nomination.
The story begins in 2003, when Bush nominated Judge Janice Rogers Brown to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The D.C. Circuit is considered the country’s second-most important court, and has produced more Supreme Court justices than any other federal court. Brown was immediately hailed as a potential Supreme Court nominee.
She was highly qualified, having served for seven years as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court — the first Black woman to do so. She was the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers, and grew up in rural Alabama during the dark days of segregation, when her family refused to enter restaurants or theaters with separate entrances for Black customers. She rose from poverty and put herself through college and UCLA law school as a working single mother. She was a self-made African American legal star. But she was an outspoken conservative — so Biden set out to destroy her.
In ther words, Judge Rogers Brown had, like Candace Owens, walked off the liberal plantation. And Biden, in his role as one of the slave masters of the plantation, went out of his way to destroy her.
Sound familiar? Of course. This is the routine treatment dished by liberals who demand that black Americans think like white liberals — or else.
Recall, again, the tale of the retirement of Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice on the Supreme Court. At the news of his retirement in 1991 the New York Times reported that President George H. W. Bush was “under pressure to appoint a black justice” to replace Marshall.
This was accurate. The call went up immediately from Democrats that this was the “black seat” on the Supreme Court, and any Court nominee from President George H. W. Bush must be black.
And … Bush obliged. He nominated the black and seriously qualified Federal Judge Clarence Thomas. What happened?
All hell broke loose. Why? In the world of liberals, all blacks must think alike — which is to say, they were supposed to be liberals. And Judge Thomas was, in fact, one of the most thoughtful conservatives on the bench. As Justice Thomas remarked in a recent documentary, he was “the wrong black guy.”
So the Democrats’ move — decidedly racist in many respects — was on not just to defeat Judge Thomas but to destroy him. As Thomas himself put it in his dramatic face-off in front of the Biden-chaired Senate Judiciary Committee with his liberal opponents who had smeared him with false allegations of sexual harassment:
I think that this today is a travesty. I think that it is disgusting. I think that this hearing should never occur in America. This is a case in which this sleaze, this dirt, was searched for by staffers of members of this committee, was then leaked to the media, and this committee and this body validated it and displayed it at prime time over our entire nation….
And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I’m concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. — U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree.
The committee was stunned — and duly shamed. Judge Thomas was confirmed.
But the entire episode was utterly typical of how the American Left views African-Americans. They must — must! — be political liberals — and if not, and they have any prominent role in American life or law, the Left and its allies will seek to destroy them because, yes indeed, they have had the nerve to walk off the liberal plantation.
Pick a name of a black conservative — Clarence Thomas, Janice Rogers Brown, Dr. Ben Carson, Candace Owens, Deneen Borelli, to name but a handful — and you’ll find that they have repeatedly been targeted with the most racist attacks imaginable.
All of which is to say that Republican critics of Judge Brown Jackson are critics not because of her race but because of her legal opinions and expressed political opinions. She is treated not as a “black woman” but rather as a thinking American with her personal views, legal education, and more making her the federal judge she has become.
The very fact that her leftist supporters view her nomination through the prism of race says everything you need to know — about them.
A Judge Candace Owens is not reality. But a Judge Janice Rogers Brown was indeed reality in the day — and then-Sen. Joe Biden went out of his way to defeat Judge Rogers because she was the wrong kind of black woman — someone who didn’t agree with white liberals like him.
Not to be forgotten either is that this is exactly the way liberals view other American minorities — notably Hispanics. Recall that President George W. Bush also nominated Miguel Estrada, a prominent D.C. attorney who was a Honduran immigrant, for the same D.C. Circuit Court for which he had nominated Rogers.
The Estrada nomination was blocked by Biden and the current chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Illinois Democrat Sen. Richard Durbin. A memo from the Durbin staff was mistakenly in the wrong hands and was quickly leaked to the media — explaining exactly the racism behind the opposition to Estrada. Estrada, said the memo from a liberal staffer to the liberal senator, was “especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment.”
In other words, Miguel Estrada had walked away from the liberal plantation, and the liberal slave masters were not about to let him eventually rise to become what would have been the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court. So they made sure he was filibustered until he finally withdrew.
To sum it all up?
Just as the real Candace Owens has said of the Left and Democrats:
The deep, sinister evil of the Democrat Party, that they’re really just rewriting what they authored in the beginning.
These were the slave-masters, and they understand the system better than anybody else because they wrote it. It is the fabric of the Democrat Party.
Exactly. Which is why Democrats take such offense at the treatment of Judge Brown Jackson by Republicans. She is being treated by Republicans as the smart, capable — and liberal — judge that she is.
She is more than capable of discussing her record.
To suggest she is not, which is in essence what Democrats are suggesting, says everything you need to know about liberal Democrats and their mindset about race.
Shocking.
Not.
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Biden's deal with his Iranian nuclear friends (Ayatollahs.)
Biden Administration's Nuclear Deal: "This Isn't Obama's Iran Deal. It's Much, Much Worse."
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