[YouTube] Victor Davis Hanson delivers a searing critique of Joe Biden's presidency, unpacking what he calls one of the most deceptive and disastrous administrations in modern history. Hanson explores Biden’s failure to uphold integrity, citing the scandal surrounding Hunter Biden’s sweetheart DOJ deal and the unprecedented pardon spree that included over 1,500 individuals, many of whom Biden likely couldn’t name.
Hanson delves into Biden’s failure to unite the country, painting him as a leader who thrived only when angry and divisive, even targeting not just political opponents but their supporters. The economic toll on the middle class under Biden is laid bare, with stagnant wages and soaring costs for essentials like food, gas, and rent. Hanson ties these failures to polling data that consistently showed Americans' lack of confidence in Biden's handling of the economy, the border, and national security.
The discussion shifts to the broader Democratic strategy, with Hanson arguing that Biden was installed as a facade by the party’s elite, including the Obamas, to push through a radical agenda. Once he could no longer maintain even the semblance of leadership, the party hastily replaced him with Kamala Harris, leading to a new set of challenges.
Hanson doesn’t hold back, describing Biden’s tenure as the greatest presidential fraud since Woodrow Wilson’s incapacitation was hidden from the public. With scathing insight, he examines the long-term implications of this era, from the erosion of trust in political institutions to the deep divide within the Democratic Party itself.
Will the Biden presidency go down as a historic low point? Hanson’s sharp analysis suggests the shame and consequences of these decisions will resonate for decades.
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Democratic States Are Wards of Washington Democratic states and their economies depend much more on Washington largesse than Republican states do. This year, New York received roughly $4,900 per capita from the feds and California $4,300—two to three times as much as Florida ($1,700) and Texas ($1,500). That’s because Democratic states provide more generous social welfare, which is increasingly funded by Washington thanks to regulatory changes by the Biden administration.
Betcha it was D-voters who received the bulk of Fed $$$ in Florida & Texas.
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Given the US DOJ officially determined Biden could not stand trial due to his serious mental deficiencies on or about 12/2023 and was publicly announced in Feb. 2024.
So, how long before we see a SCOTUS court case filed to VOID all Executive Acts and Pardons after either of those dates?
[AmericanThinker] In his second week of his second term in office, President Trump has asserted the right of the Chief Executive to effectively manage the Executive Branch. He has blindsided -- even gelded -- his detractors in the media and Congress, and issued an astonishing array of executive orders which reveal how tax funds have been flowing out of the Treasury to the benefit of the Deep State and its friends without regard (and often even being inimical) to the national interest. So much has happened that I cannot cover it all, but I will try to hit briefly and in no particular order some of the most significant developments this week.
GAZA
Trump has proposed that Gazans be relocated to Jordan and Egypt so that Gaza can be rebuilt and Hamas’ presence removed. Jordan and Egypt have balked at that notion but the President, who notes how financially dependent on us they are, insists it will happen. Amjad Taha of the United Arab Emirates details how this project makes sense. It would allow Gaza to be rebuilt more quickly, it would allow Gazans exposure to “different educational systems, ones that don’t glorify death and antisemitism.”
*Boggle*
He details the cost of providing for them and the history of Palestinians fomenting wars in the area. Taha concludes:
The solution must be approached logically, not emotionally. It has nothing to do with Israel itself. If you examine the situation, Israel wouldn't take Gaza even for free under any condition; it just wants Gaza free of hostages and rocket launches targeting its schools and hospitals. The real question is whether all the corrupt Palestinian leaders genuinely want a state, or if they merely use the idea of statehood as a rhetorical tool to create obstacles, resist peace or normalization, and fill their pockets and bank accounts.
And per Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia are closer than ever to normalizing relations.
Bulldozers and heavy bombs which Israel had ordered and paid for and on which Biden held up delivery have been delivered at last.
Also rifles. The Biden administration’s knife in Israel’s back was serrated.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[John Kass] 
