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2024-12-15 Home Front: Politix
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Joe Biden is going out as a 'Hollow Man' in his final days in the Oval Office
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[NYPOST] '''This is the way the world ends,'' T.S. Eliot famously wrote.
''Not with a bang but a whimper.''
He might have been talking about Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
's presidency.
As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden's final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure.
He pardoned his convicted-criminal son after vowing not to and his mass commutations included one for a judge convicted of taking kickbacks to send juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.
The judge was in Scranton, Pa., meaning Biden even betrayed distraught parents in his hometown.
Joe Biden's predictable pardon of Hunter didn't threaten his reputation — it cemented an already corrupt legacy
How's that for a legacy?
His most recent dereliction fits another pattern.
Just as he paid no attention to raging inflation, the open border and the decline of America's global standing, Biden has gone missing as swarms of drones spark fears among millions of Americans on the East Coast.
Biden has said nothing, Vice President Kamala Harris
launched her campaign on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
has disappeared since losing the election and the White House offers only bland assurances that there's nothing to worry about.
But asked who is behind the noisy, bright and large drone presence expanding night after night, the administration says it doesn't know.
In other words, we don't know and we don't really care, but trust us anyway.
Sorry, it's too late in the game for that, especially when drones forced the White Plains airport to close runways Friday night.
Even the usually somnolent Gov. Hochul stirred to demand answers.
CONTRAST OF LEADERSHIP
Only a fool would deny that something unprecedented is happening, and it's doubly worrisome when the blanket assurances come from Alejandro Mayorkas, head of Homeland Security.
Recall it was Mayorkas who insisted repeatedly, under oath, that ''the border is secure'' even as more than 10 million unvetted migrants colonists poured across.
So when he says ''don't worry,'' we should worry.
The incident also illustrates why there is so much excitement about Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
's return.
Politics is ultimately about contrasts, and there is an extraordinarily stark contrast between the current and next president.
It goes far beyond the usual changing of the guard.
Although Biden is just four years older than Trump, it feels as if the torch is being passed to a new generation.
And that joy has switched sides.
ACTION AT 'MAGA LARGO'
That's certainly the vibe at Mar-a-Lago, or, as reader John Peter Zavez calls it, MAGA Largo.
With a steady stream of well-wishers, tech moguls, captains of industry, donors and media arriving daily, the historic estate is living up to its designation as the Winter White House.
The impression of a president ready to hit the ground running is underscored by Trump's business-like approach to shaping his administration.
His lightning-speed rollout of his Cabinet and other top picks is supplanting the usual thumb-sucking post-mortems about the campaign.
There's little point in dwelling on the past when the future is taking shape so quickly.
The announcement by FBI chief Christopher Wray that he will resign reflects the momentum.
He could have fought to finish his 10-year term, but it would have been futile.
And for what purpose?
Wray was a deeply flawed leader of the troubled FBI, but he at least got the point — there's a new sheriff in Washington.
Trump, with a landslide win in the Electoral College and victory in the popular vote, expressed the futility of looking backwards.
In an interview with Time magazine for its issue naming him Person of the Year, he was asked what he thought were Harris' worst mistakes.
Without hesitation, he answered: ''Taking the assignment. Number one, because you have to know what you're good at.''
Next question!
His answer could be applied to the entire Democratic Party.
It proved to be terrible at governing, with the so-called moderates signing on to the most radical agenda in US history.
The tail wagged the dog right out of power.
HERE THEY GO AGAIN
And here they go again.
Many congressional Dems are saying they will boycott Trump's inauguration.
That's a repeat of 2017, when more than 50 of them failed to show up for the transfer of power.
Some even made threats to impeach him, a promise they kept when they won the House majority two years later.
Axios reports that 13 Dems have pledged to stay away this time, and 20 others are undecided.
My hope is that sanity will prevail and the movement will fizzle.
Again, what's the argument for staying away?
The public spoke with a clear voice, so those who boycott are proving they haven't learned their lesson and are giving voters another reason to consign the party to a long sentence on the sidelines.
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