I’ve had an epiphany, a solution to many problems both foreign and domestic – let’s trade Joe Biden.
Forget offering the Russians an international arms dealer in exchange for the freedom of Brittney Griner and the other guy.
Instead, offer Putin Clueless Joe and maybe Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
That’s a win, win, win, win for all involved.
As an editorial aside, we know the other Russian prisoner is Paul Whelan and meant no disrespect to him by calling him the other guy. We were just following the lead of the Biden regime, which turned Secretary of State Antony Blinken into Monty Hall of Let’s Make A Deal fame to free Griner.
Whelan is a white male and so not worthy of any effort, no matter that he’s a former U.S. Marine who insisted he was being wrongfully detained and eventually convicted on trumped up spying charges. While Whelan has been held in Russia for years, only now that Griner is in custody is the Biden regime interested.
Griner is a lesbian woman of color who will not salute the flag and retreats to isolation to avoid hearing our national anthem, so she demands action. Never mind that she admitted guilt to possessing drugs illegal in Russia.
Make no mistake, Griner is the prime motive for this proposed deal and Whelan is merely the player to be named later, to borrow a sports reference.
So far, Russians might be balking, which some opine is why Blinken went public with the offer.
Again, the U.S. ought to take a page from the dealmakers in sports. Do not limit yourself to one trading partner.
Why not offer Biden and Yellen to the Chinese in exchange for no more virus releasing, or spying in our country?
In a case of dueling phone call news releases, the Biden team spoke of being candid with Chinese Xi Jinping about Taiwan and other issues during a two-hour exchange.
The Chinese report on the phone call has Xi warning Biden over Taiwan, saying “Play with fire and you will get burned.”
It should not surprise us that a Biden version of events has just a passing acquaintance with reality. Biden has fudged his academic credentials, has plagiarized the work of others, has told and retold a questionable story about facing down a gang leader and, more recently, has given reports of interactions with Putin that differ greatly from Putin’s versions.
Currently the Biden regime is trying to redefine what constitutes an economic recession after the U.S. has suffered two consecutive quarters of economic contraction, which heretofore had been the classic definition of a recession.
An ally in the spin has been Yellen, whose credibility on things economic should be viewed in the context of her time as head of the Federal Reserve, during which she repeatedly asserted inflation was not a concern despite rapid expansion of the money supply.
Yellen has since been forced to admit she got it totally wrong on inflation, a major concession when that was a prime focus in her prior job.
It’s a natural progression that Yellen would build on that legacy of error by trying to insist the U.S. is not in an economic recession.
Trading Biden and Yellen to someone, anyone, can’t hurt and could help.
Let us borrow from the reasoning of former Pirates general manager Branch Rickey, who ended up trading away Ralph Kiner, the National League’s top home run hitter in 1952, during the 1953 season.
Rickey told Kiner during bitter contract negotiations “We finished in last place with you. We can finish in last place without you.”
The United States can struggle terribly with or without Biden and Yellen, but just maybe replacements might do better.
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