Talk about getting off to a running start, Joe Biden hadn’t even been sworn in as President Wednesday when his staff made public plans for 17 executive orders.
When outgoing President Trump displayed a proclivity to use executive orders to institute policies, he was roundly panned by Biden’s Democratic Party. Now that Joe’s wielding the pen, nothing but the sound of crickets and zero screeching outrage from Pelosi and Schumer as well as the left-wing Lamestream media.
Here is some perspective on executive orders as compiled on the UC-Santa Barbara web site.
With 17 on one day, Biden has exceeded the total executive orders of this nation’s first five presidents combined – George Washington (8), John Adams (1), Thomas Jefferson (4), James Madison and James Monroe (1 each).
Trump issued 204 executive orders in four years. At this rate, Biden should hit 204 in 12 DAYS. Joe will slow down of course, but I’m betting on him surpassing Trump if Biden lasts four years, particularly if things get tough and his slim majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate are hamstrung by some party defectors refusing to go down the socialism route.
If some of these elected representatives aren’t willing to step up, the next president will be sworn in not with his hand on a Bible, but on a copy of “Das Kapital,” the Karl Marx tome talking down capitalism and promoting socialism.
Predictably, left-wing media outlets have been fawning over Biden, including one CNN hack. I don’t watch CNN, preferring to keep my dinner from forcibly exiting my throat, but I do read when others note their ridiculous extremes.
This CNN sycophant, “reporting” Tuesday, likened lights on the reflecting pool to Biden’s welcoming arms around the nation. It was an unintentional metaphor for what has been described as creepy physical behavior by Biden.
Even on face value, some critics were moved to note it’s starting to sound like “reporting” from state-run media in places such as North Korea.
And why shouldn’t it be?
Already Biden and his surrogates are ducking questions about Chinese funding of a pair of academic operations bearing his name at universities in Delaware and Pennsylvania. Never fear, those questions will not be asked by anyone but the fringe media that speaks for the common folk of this country.
As with Hunter Biden’s job history and various other Joe Biden shortcomings (plagiarism, allegations of sexual assault, and generally creepy behavior around women), nothing to see here. Keep moving.
Meanwhile, breathless and hysterical reporting about threats of violence, first at state capitals and then during the inauguration, were found to be more narrative overreach designed to further denigrate without proof all the morons foolish enough to have support Trump’s re-election.
But Joe wants unity! That’s unity as in it’s my way or the highway. Sign on with socialism, lack of freedom and privacy, excessive governmental control of everyday life and you’re with the gang.
Insist on freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution and you are a far-right insurrectionist trying to subvert the will of the people.
Monolithic thought enforced by governments in concert with big tech is many things, but unity it is not.
Investment influencers of public opinion did their best to get Biden off on the right foot, with Bank of America pronouncing this moment is “the beginning of the end of the COVID crisis.”
Already incoming Treasury Secretary and former Federal Reserve chairman Janet Yellen called for “big” stimulus action at her Senate confirmation hearing.
Big action means big spending, dollars being handed out that the government needs to borrow first.
Even as Biden was taking his oath today, inflation was being anticipated in various investment fields with the stock market, gold, silver, and stocks, all running up. Bitcoin, which is coming into the governmental crackdown crosshairs, declined.
Previously, many formerly draconian Democratic politicians, be they governors of blue states or mayors of blue major cities, had preached the gospel of lockdowns and shutdowns. Now they’re looking to open things up immediately if not sooner, presumably because Biden’s 100-day mask mandate order is magic, so much better than the vaccines that the Trump Operation Warp Speed delivered months before the skeptics thought was possible.
If you’re confused by it all, you need to understand that we now reside in a world in which conventional wisdom has been stood on its ear, and kicked in the groin for good measure.
Just remember, we’ve got at least two more years of this – presuming hopefully that if Democrats screw the pooch so badly until the next mid-term elections that the populace strikes back.
This further presumes accurate vote counting, but one dream at a time.
At this pace there will be dizzying change, most of it for the worse. Schumer could be taken literally when he pronounced in the wake of the Georgia runoff election sweep by Democrats, “buckle up.”
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