I am not at all sure it is all ineptitude. I think some of it is, but I also believe they are trying to destroy our current republic (what is left of it). They are very World Government/Marxist in their thinking, and they have to rip this country down to make it happen.
This was a very good analysis of what is going in the Biden government. It is ineptitude or maybe just plain ignorance. Thank you for the many excellent articles you write and I especially was blest by your ones concerning Easter.
At some point, you have to question whether this ineptitude or intentional. Obama campaigned on a promise to "transform America." If Joe is Obama's 3rd term, is here merely trying to finish the job his former boss started?
I think Erick had it right today when he said they've stopped their incremental approach and are going for big swaths of progressive transformation now. Good. That's easier to stop. The "compassionate conservative", "bipartisanship", and "reaching across the aisle" is how we got here when spineless members of the Republican party gave in to the death by a thousand cuts that was the Olde Guard of the Democrat party. The "New Gods" have great disdain for the old ways, which actually works to our advantage here.
Joe Biden the most dangerous man in the world and may be our voters are just as dangerous. May be that no one was paying attention while Biden (Mr. Magoo) bumbled his way through almost 50 years in office. I love this country but we now seem to be uncaring about who is at the helm.
Biden is a direct result of OUR desire to have anyone other than Hillary in 2016. Trump became that anyone for a variety of reasons. There were far, far better candidates in that crowded field (one reason he won was the crowded field) but Trump understood the game and played it well. He played it so well that he got elected when no one thought he could. Now, fast forward to 2020 and people are tired of the tenor of his tweets. Doesn't matter that he selected outstanding judges that secured the supreme court for a decade. Doesn't matter that he did most of what he said he would do. What have you done to me lately? The Left latched onto his "mean-tweets" and won. America deselected Donald Trump because they didn't like his bull-in-a-china-shop approach. Biden is better than a second term of Hillary Clinton (but not by much). He is our fault for not selecting one of the many better candidates in 2016. Let us hope we don't make that mistake again.
A consequence of darkened minds who disdain biblical understanding of human nature and natural laws. This is what happens when neo-Marxist activists direct policy-making.
Erick, I have tremendous respect for you as a man of God and a richly experienced commentator, but if you believe what is happening to our country is the result of "ineptitude," I am forced to wonder if all that experience of looking at the political trees has blinded you to the dark, malevolent forest that is threatening to engulf our country . . . and perhaps already has. If these people were merely "inept," they would get SOMETHING right once in a while, like the proverbial stopped clock that gives the correct time twice a day. Virtually everything that Biden has done since he took office has ranged from bad to disastrous. This can be nothing more than the deliberate, planned destruction of the United States of America. I don't pretend to understand how these globalists believe they will benefit from the collapse of America, but it's obvious that they do, because they are all working together to bring it about. Are you paying any attention to what is going on at the World Economic Forum? Folks, this isn't "conspiracy theory," these folks are talking about a "Great Reset" right out in the open! Go to their website and see for yourselves. Erick, do you REALLY believe that Joe Biden is anything more than a sock puppet? The poor man can't even find his way from a podium! To call this "ineptitude" is to be way too kind or willfully, blissfully unaware. Erick, people are paying money for your website because we are counting on you to tell us the truth. Again, I respect you, and you are my brother in Christ, but this article was tremendously disappointing and discouraging. Cicero said, "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within." THAT is what is happening to our country, Erick, and people need to stand up and shout "STOP!" while there is, Lord willing, still time.
Daniel, I don't mean this as a pejorative attack but did you listen to Erick yesterday? He did a wonderful explanation on why it is most likely ineptitude. I'm with you. I'm VERY worried they have some "3D chess" game plan that is going to bite us. But does that plan actually include inciting a tsunami of GOP candidates and turning America's perception of Job Biden into Jimmy Carter 2.0? There is almost, not I do say almost because I'm still worried they have a nefarious plan, there is almost NO WAY the Progressive Democrats would allow that. They think their poop doesn't stink, they hung the moon, and they have all the answers. When we look at The Squad do we see an evil mastermind capable of that level of Machiavellian machinations? No. Are we going to ascribe this to the ephemeral THEY? If you do, I submit that Erick is likely right, again. I hate that Conservatives are right so many times and yet they continuously fail to get any credit for being correct. While I still worry they have a plan I am optimistic this is just sheer, unadulterated stupidity on their part. Time will tell.
It’s not ineptitude, it’s humanitarian. You may call them illegal aliens, but, be honest, aren’t they really just poor people looking for a better life?
“when you give a banquet, invite the poor”, Jesus Christ
Yeah, well...I can't apply that definition to the drug cartel members and human traffickers that make up a such a large part of the "illegal alien" invasion.
Let them apply legally. We can not absorb all this hemisphere's poor. How many million's should we take in? Do you have a limit in mind? Or just never put a cap on it?
:::checking Luke 14::: Nope, Jesus didn't give a limit.
Here's an idea, why don't we investigate why they are leaving their homelands and maybe do something about the conditions there? Of course, we don't control the weather but at least we can intervene into their governments and make sure they are taking care of business in a humanitarian way. This isn't ending any other way.
This will do absolutely nothing for their situation. They have to change their homeland on their own. Seek the welfare in the city in which you dwell applies to them as much as us. And Scotiaman below is correct, you are misquoting and bending the scripture to suit your desire rather then letting the scripture shape your character to be more like Christ. However, you do you and I'll do me and we'll let God decide. He's the better judge anyway.
First of all--Jesus was referring to personal charity--not national immigration. And yes--the other Nations south of our border need to fix their own problems first--like get rid of corruption and promote free markets.
It's an old version of the Bible actually called the King James Version and personal study not taking scripture out of context. We can dig into that passage and the Greek language behind it for greater meaning if you'd like.
Funny, I actually took it from the NIV which is my usual version in Bible Gateway. The content is "reception" in the NASB. You go ahead and lie to yourself all you want Mark.
Given Biden’s past ineptitude’s, this should come as a surprise to nobody. If the corrupt corporate media did its job in the summer and fall of 2020, we wouldn’t be here. Trump, for all his faults, should have and would have won in a landslide. Other than the hysterical news media that distorted everything Trump said snd did during the height of the pandemic, history will prove he actually handled the pandemic quite well while balancing the economic needs of the country. Biden and his entire administration is just horrible.
To be objectively honest, Trump could not shoot holes in his feet fast enough.
His March 12, 2020 COVID addresse was Presidential and stood in stark contrast to his previous 3 years, as did his Jan 13, 2021 address regarding Jan 6.
2020 was too little too late and 2021 was after the election a d came off as ass cover.
I am convinced every day my vote for Trump was the right vote. Yes, our own media actually did what they accused Russia of doing in 2016; he American media colluded with Democrats through willful ignorance and bias.
A better man, with widely popular policies, could have overcome that.
The bigger question may be, “How are voters so inept?” Everyone knew he was too old, too confused, and too disconnected to lead anything. Trump may have had good policies and good people around him, but his temperament, ego, and words rendered him toxic to many people. Between the MSM and left leanings of corporatism, there just aren’t many people willing to take on the job for the right reasons. It seems that only the corrupt and corruptible run for high office and so the downward spiral continues, faster with every turn.
Trump was the architect of his defeat. Conservative's demonstrated they have principles, they rejected a deeply flawed man with good and popular policies while voting Republican down ballot.
The Republicans and Democrats alike were responsible for Trump. Trump himself is responsible for Biden.
We are in an age when candidates don't win, their opponent loses, we select the lesser of to evils rather than choose the best candidate. Trump is '24 would be bad for Republicans and Conservatives in the long term.
This. All of this. Trump was deselected for Biden like Hillary was deselected for Trump. The solace we can take from this is that Biden is NOT Hillary Clinton's second term. I'm okay with it when you say it like that.
I had someone try to tell me inflation today is because of the 2008 financial crisis. It's not Biden's fault.
It is amazing that Democrats are victims of circumstances, outside forces they have no control over including the actions of the previous Republican President, be it 1 year ago or 8. If not for all these outside forces we would have the greatest economy ever with peace in our time.
Oh, but Republican Presidents are fully capable of controlling the world and causing damage, and Democrats, when Republicans control the White House or the Senate or the House, can do better... except when they win they are haples victims, nothing bad is their doing.
I remember Barbara Corcoran on Shark Tank bowling out telling a contestant the difference between success and failure is how long you feel sorry for yourself after something goes wrong.
Liberalism is a mental illness. Projecting failures of your own design on to others. Talking about what happens to you and not talking about your own behavior.
Money quote...
"They are... clowns in bumper cars colliding with crises of their own creation."
I would say progressivism is a mental illness. Classical liberalism is a philosophy, but it is a very unpopular and misunderstood philosophy nowadays because people are indoctrinated rather than educated in the halls of "higher learning" now.
I will quote, paraphrase Rush Limbaugh on this... no one understands "Classical liberalism", you can't explain it, it is confusing, anyone trying sound like an idiot, it only distracts, stop talking about it.
Fair, and I agree both with Rush and you. I'll acquiesce the point and run with your last three sentence, "Liberalism is a mental illness. Projecting failures of your own design on to others. Talking about what happens to you and not talking about your own behavior."
When they appear to be this dumb, perhaps their actions deserve to be scrutinized a little harder? What I mean is there may be a subtlety or nuance to their actions we are missing. I have thought for some time that Biden wouldn't make it out of the first 18 months of his term due to "health issues" of unspecified origin. I fully expected articles calling his cognitive abilities to first begin from the right, then hints from a few sources on the left, and then finally full-on attacks on his mental state. What I didn't forsee was DiFi's situation being used as a trial balloon to vet all the pitfalls before they go this route with Biden. I also forgot about the two year limitation on the VP serving a term. Now, I expect to see DiFi fully gone after, the articles about Biden's mental state to either pick up or tail off depending on how DiFi goes, and then he's out at the 24 month mark. Kamala Harris then gets to try and have ten years to push progressivism down our throats.
Hanlon's razor... "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Never let a crisis go to waste does not necessarily mean architecting the crisis. People are perfectly happy to be victims, never examining their own behavior.
All I am saying is that while it is very likely their actions are due to ineptitude let's not assume that. Doing stuff so monumentally stupid might be cover for something we haven't figured out yet. As Erick pointed out today, it is highly unlikely due to a lot of other factors, but I don't want to get caught in some grandiose trap we could have sussed out if we'd just scratched the surface a little deeper.
Great points, particularly about DiFi being the trial balloon (hadn't even crossed my mind, but I knew you were right the moment I read it). IMO, nobody becomes POTUS by being ignorant or inept, so that leaves intent. Obama intentionally depressed our economy and our global status, and I sincerely believe Biden is following an enhanced version of the same game plan as ALL his policies destroy the fabric of our nation.
I think you can become POTUS and be inept. Biden is proof. You are a figurehead. In Biden's case he was talked into it and surrounded by a team that was able to get him across the finish line coupled with America's desire to de-select Trump (which I hate saying but it's true). Now, I think they're going to try and install Kamala at the two year mark and try to really jam progressivism down our throat. Our insurance against that is a MASSIVE red wave in November, which I think we'll have.
I too thought Biden's Presidency was about Democrats claiming the first woman (I'm not a biologist), POC President.
But Eric Erickson pointed out Biden has wanted this for 50 years, he is not going to give it up.
Kamala was a means to an end, a check in the box, her qualifications begin and end with her gender and race. She got the votes. Democrats do not want her. Biden has a better chance of getting reelected than Kamala has at ever getting elected. She can't do anything right, not the Southern border, not Europe, she is inept and hapless. She took management lessons from Trump and cackling lessons from Hillary.
You are correct with one exception. The democrats love to claim first. If they remove Biden at the 24 month mark and Kamala becomes president, they can claim the first woman president. Not elected mind you but they'll conveniently leave that part out. Especially if they know they're going to get pasted in 2024, which is likely. Let Kamala finish out Biden's last two years, then she runs for POTUS in 2024, gets HAMMERED and quietly goes away never to be heard from again politically. That, I think is how they make the best of this situation. I agree she was and is just a check box, but that's what she becomes in a big way for them that they can use for a long time if the remove Biden and she becomes POTUS. That's their endgame I think.
I will keep Biden, who has an excuse. I expect him to do what he is doing because of who he is, there is no expectation/reality gap.
Kamala has no excuse. The only rational reason I can think of to want Biden to bow out is thinking Kamala would be better, albeit still bad enough to not actually get ele.
I reject that premise. Kamala is abjectly incompetent and dangerous. Regardless of who the POTUS is the staff will largely be the same, people are policy. It is still, however, the President's decision on what is done and not done.
Biden is conditioned to listen to his advisors. Kamala feels she is the smartest person in the room. She would actually reject advice and supplant it with her truth, which of course out weighs any other truth including THE truth.
I'll take the trained monkey over the village idiot.
I agree with everything you said above. I still think The Powers That Be are going to try and bounce Biden at 24 months to replace him with Harris. Yes, she is despised by all, but they only have to deal with her for 24 months in what is an already disastrous administration. If she's worse, they can always blame everyone still there because they are Biden's fault and they have an out. They want the first. It is the one and only saving grace of the situation for them other than it is not Donald Trump. The alternative is to let Biden continue, which is why DiFi is happening, to see if that is a better road than continuing on as is. Time will tell. We are screwed either way.
From this distance the ongoing party disputes and electoral battles are, strictly speaking, something to be viewed objectively, since we have our own version of party politics with which to deal in the UK. And it has always been difficult for Englishmen to gain some perspective on American domestic politics, though not necessarily impossible. And this would be why, if somebody like the President in charge now did manage to reach approximately the right conclusion about an issue in Europe eventually, we would have to be thankful that he did, and let his voters decide later whether he could have done a better job of it!! The southern border of the US clearly has been a problem since the new president made dismantling controls his policy to distinguish from his main opponent in the election. Events may force his hand in this.
Mark, you're funny. Do I really need to cite everything in the Bible about helping the poor for you?
I am not at all sure it is all ineptitude. I think some of it is, but I also believe they are trying to destroy our current republic (what is left of it). They are very World Government/Marxist in their thinking, and they have to rip this country down to make it happen.
This was a very good analysis of what is going in the Biden government. It is ineptitude or maybe just plain ignorance. Thank you for the many excellent articles you write and I especially was blest by your ones concerning Easter.
At some point, you have to question whether this ineptitude or intentional. Obama campaigned on a promise to "transform America." If Joe is Obama's 3rd term, is here merely trying to finish the job his former boss started?
I think Erick had it right today when he said they've stopped their incremental approach and are going for big swaths of progressive transformation now. Good. That's easier to stop. The "compassionate conservative", "bipartisanship", and "reaching across the aisle" is how we got here when spineless members of the Republican party gave in to the death by a thousand cuts that was the Olde Guard of the Democrat party. The "New Gods" have great disdain for the old ways, which actually works to our advantage here.
Joe Biden the most dangerous man in the world and may be our voters are just as dangerous. May be that no one was paying attention while Biden (Mr. Magoo) bumbled his way through almost 50 years in office. I love this country but we now seem to be uncaring about who is at the helm.
Biden is a direct result of OUR desire to have anyone other than Hillary in 2016. Trump became that anyone for a variety of reasons. There were far, far better candidates in that crowded field (one reason he won was the crowded field) but Trump understood the game and played it well. He played it so well that he got elected when no one thought he could. Now, fast forward to 2020 and people are tired of the tenor of his tweets. Doesn't matter that he selected outstanding judges that secured the supreme court for a decade. Doesn't matter that he did most of what he said he would do. What have you done to me lately? The Left latched onto his "mean-tweets" and won. America deselected Donald Trump because they didn't like his bull-in-a-china-shop approach. Biden is better than a second term of Hillary Clinton (but not by much). He is our fault for not selecting one of the many better candidates in 2016. Let us hope we don't make that mistake again.
A consequence of darkened minds who disdain biblical understanding of human nature and natural laws. This is what happens when neo-Marxist activists direct policy-making.
Erick, I have tremendous respect for you as a man of God and a richly experienced commentator, but if you believe what is happening to our country is the result of "ineptitude," I am forced to wonder if all that experience of looking at the political trees has blinded you to the dark, malevolent forest that is threatening to engulf our country . . . and perhaps already has. If these people were merely "inept," they would get SOMETHING right once in a while, like the proverbial stopped clock that gives the correct time twice a day. Virtually everything that Biden has done since he took office has ranged from bad to disastrous. This can be nothing more than the deliberate, planned destruction of the United States of America. I don't pretend to understand how these globalists believe they will benefit from the collapse of America, but it's obvious that they do, because they are all working together to bring it about. Are you paying any attention to what is going on at the World Economic Forum? Folks, this isn't "conspiracy theory," these folks are talking about a "Great Reset" right out in the open! Go to their website and see for yourselves. Erick, do you REALLY believe that Joe Biden is anything more than a sock puppet? The poor man can't even find his way from a podium! To call this "ineptitude" is to be way too kind or willfully, blissfully unaware. Erick, people are paying money for your website because we are counting on you to tell us the truth. Again, I respect you, and you are my brother in Christ, but this article was tremendously disappointing and discouraging. Cicero said, "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within." THAT is what is happening to our country, Erick, and people need to stand up and shout "STOP!" while there is, Lord willing, still time.
Daniel, I don't mean this as a pejorative attack but did you listen to Erick yesterday? He did a wonderful explanation on why it is most likely ineptitude. I'm with you. I'm VERY worried they have some "3D chess" game plan that is going to bite us. But does that plan actually include inciting a tsunami of GOP candidates and turning America's perception of Job Biden into Jimmy Carter 2.0? There is almost, not I do say almost because I'm still worried they have a nefarious plan, there is almost NO WAY the Progressive Democrats would allow that. They think their poop doesn't stink, they hung the moon, and they have all the answers. When we look at The Squad do we see an evil mastermind capable of that level of Machiavellian machinations? No. Are we going to ascribe this to the ephemeral THEY? If you do, I submit that Erick is likely right, again. I hate that Conservatives are right so many times and yet they continuously fail to get any credit for being correct. While I still worry they have a plan I am optimistic this is just sheer, unadulterated stupidity on their part. Time will tell.
It’s not ineptitude, it’s humanitarian. You may call them illegal aliens, but, be honest, aren’t they really just poor people looking for a better life?
“when you give a banquet, invite the poor”, Jesus Christ
Yeah, well...I can't apply that definition to the drug cartel members and human traffickers that make up a such a large part of the "illegal alien" invasion.
Jesus didn't command us to invite the bad guys. So you're off the hook there. :-)
Let them apply legally. We can not absorb all this hemisphere's poor. How many million's should we take in? Do you have a limit in mind? Or just never put a cap on it?
:::checking Luke 14::: Nope, Jesus didn't give a limit.
Here's an idea, why don't we investigate why they are leaving their homelands and maybe do something about the conditions there? Of course, we don't control the weather but at least we can intervene into their governments and make sure they are taking care of business in a humanitarian way. This isn't ending any other way.
This will do absolutely nothing for their situation. They have to change their homeland on their own. Seek the welfare in the city in which you dwell applies to them as much as us. And Scotiaman below is correct, you are misquoting and bending the scripture to suit your desire rather then letting the scripture shape your character to be more like Christ. However, you do you and I'll do me and we'll let God decide. He's the better judge anyway.
First of all--Jesus was referring to personal charity--not national immigration. And yes--the other Nations south of our border need to fix their own problems first--like get rid of corruption and promote free markets.
Is there a new version of the Bible where Jesus clarifies all that? Please share.
It's an old version of the Bible actually called the King James Version and personal study not taking scripture out of context. We can dig into that passage and the Greek language behind it for greater meaning if you'd like.
Funny, I actually took it from the NIV which is my usual version in Bible Gateway. The content is "reception" in the NASB. You go ahead and lie to yourself all you want Mark.
Ummm... Poe's Law
Are you suggesting Jesus was only joking?
It's because they are as stupid as their voters.
Given Biden’s past ineptitude’s, this should come as a surprise to nobody. If the corrupt corporate media did its job in the summer and fall of 2020, we wouldn’t be here. Trump, for all his faults, should have and would have won in a landslide. Other than the hysterical news media that distorted everything Trump said snd did during the height of the pandemic, history will prove he actually handled the pandemic quite well while balancing the economic needs of the country. Biden and his entire administration is just horrible.
To be objectively honest, Trump could not shoot holes in his feet fast enough.
His March 12, 2020 COVID addresse was Presidential and stood in stark contrast to his previous 3 years, as did his Jan 13, 2021 address regarding Jan 6.
2020 was too little too late and 2021 was after the election a d came off as ass cover.
I am convinced every day my vote for Trump was the right vote. Yes, our own media actually did what they accused Russia of doing in 2016; he American media colluded with Democrats through willful ignorance and bias.
A better man, with widely popular policies, could have overcome that.
The bigger question may be, “How are voters so inept?” Everyone knew he was too old, too confused, and too disconnected to lead anything. Trump may have had good policies and good people around him, but his temperament, ego, and words rendered him toxic to many people. Between the MSM and left leanings of corporatism, there just aren’t many people willing to take on the job for the right reasons. It seems that only the corrupt and corruptible run for high office and so the downward spiral continues, faster with every turn.
Trump was the architect of his defeat. Conservative's demonstrated they have principles, they rejected a deeply flawed man with good and popular policies while voting Republican down ballot.
The Republicans and Democrats alike were responsible for Trump. Trump himself is responsible for Biden.
We are in an age when candidates don't win, their opponent loses, we select the lesser of to evils rather than choose the best candidate. Trump is '24 would be bad for Republicans and Conservatives in the long term.
I 100% agree. Neither party can find electable people willing to endure the nonsense. Trump 24 is definitely a bad idea. Who will step up?
This. All of this. Trump was deselected for Biden like Hillary was deselected for Trump. The solace we can take from this is that Biden is NOT Hillary Clinton's second term. I'm okay with it when you say it like that.
This is a great piece. They just are that inept. Tom Greene
I had someone try to tell me inflation today is because of the 2008 financial crisis. It's not Biden's fault.
It is amazing that Democrats are victims of circumstances, outside forces they have no control over including the actions of the previous Republican President, be it 1 year ago or 8. If not for all these outside forces we would have the greatest economy ever with peace in our time.
Oh, but Republican Presidents are fully capable of controlling the world and causing damage, and Democrats, when Republicans control the White House or the Senate or the House, can do better... except when they win they are haples victims, nothing bad is their doing.
I remember Barbara Corcoran on Shark Tank bowling out telling a contestant the difference between success and failure is how long you feel sorry for yourself after something goes wrong.
Liberalism is a mental illness. Projecting failures of your own design on to others. Talking about what happens to you and not talking about your own behavior.
Money quote...
"They are... clowns in bumper cars colliding with crises of their own creation."
I would say progressivism is a mental illness. Classical liberalism is a philosophy, but it is a very unpopular and misunderstood philosophy nowadays because people are indoctrinated rather than educated in the halls of "higher learning" now.
I will quote, paraphrase Rush Limbaugh on this... no one understands "Classical liberalism", you can't explain it, it is confusing, anyone trying sound like an idiot, it only distracts, stop talking about it.
That is pretty much the gist.
Fair, and I agree both with Rush and you. I'll acquiesce the point and run with your last three sentence, "Liberalism is a mental illness. Projecting failures of your own design on to others. Talking about what happens to you and not talking about your own behavior."
When they appear to be this dumb, perhaps their actions deserve to be scrutinized a little harder? What I mean is there may be a subtlety or nuance to their actions we are missing. I have thought for some time that Biden wouldn't make it out of the first 18 months of his term due to "health issues" of unspecified origin. I fully expected articles calling his cognitive abilities to first begin from the right, then hints from a few sources on the left, and then finally full-on attacks on his mental state. What I didn't forsee was DiFi's situation being used as a trial balloon to vet all the pitfalls before they go this route with Biden. I also forgot about the two year limitation on the VP serving a term. Now, I expect to see DiFi fully gone after, the articles about Biden's mental state to either pick up or tail off depending on how DiFi goes, and then he's out at the 24 month mark. Kamala Harris then gets to try and have ten years to push progressivism down our throats.
Look deeper?
Hanlon's razor... "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Never let a crisis go to waste does not necessarily mean architecting the crisis. People are perfectly happy to be victims, never examining their own behavior.
All I am saying is that while it is very likely their actions are due to ineptitude let's not assume that. Doing stuff so monumentally stupid might be cover for something we haven't figured out yet. As Erick pointed out today, it is highly unlikely due to a lot of other factors, but I don't want to get caught in some grandiose trap we could have sussed out if we'd just scratched the surface a little deeper.
Great points, particularly about DiFi being the trial balloon (hadn't even crossed my mind, but I knew you were right the moment I read it). IMO, nobody becomes POTUS by being ignorant or inept, so that leaves intent. Obama intentionally depressed our economy and our global status, and I sincerely believe Biden is following an enhanced version of the same game plan as ALL his policies destroy the fabric of our nation.
I think you can become POTUS and be inept. Biden is proof. You are a figurehead. In Biden's case he was talked into it and surrounded by a team that was able to get him across the finish line coupled with America's desire to de-select Trump (which I hate saying but it's true). Now, I think they're going to try and install Kamala at the two year mark and try to really jam progressivism down our throat. Our insurance against that is a MASSIVE red wave in November, which I think we'll have.
I too thought Biden's Presidency was about Democrats claiming the first woman (I'm not a biologist), POC President.
But Eric Erickson pointed out Biden has wanted this for 50 years, he is not going to give it up.
Kamala was a means to an end, a check in the box, her qualifications begin and end with her gender and race. She got the votes. Democrats do not want her. Biden has a better chance of getting reelected than Kamala has at ever getting elected. She can't do anything right, not the Southern border, not Europe, she is inept and hapless. She took management lessons from Trump and cackling lessons from Hillary.
You are correct with one exception. The democrats love to claim first. If they remove Biden at the 24 month mark and Kamala becomes president, they can claim the first woman president. Not elected mind you but they'll conveniently leave that part out. Especially if they know they're going to get pasted in 2024, which is likely. Let Kamala finish out Biden's last two years, then she runs for POTUS in 2024, gets HAMMERED and quietly goes away never to be heard from again politically. That, I think is how they make the best of this situation. I agree she was and is just a check box, but that's what she becomes in a big way for them that they can use for a long time if the remove Biden and she becomes POTUS. That's their endgame I think.
I will keep Biden, who has an excuse. I expect him to do what he is doing because of who he is, there is no expectation/reality gap.
Kamala has no excuse. The only rational reason I can think of to want Biden to bow out is thinking Kamala would be better, albeit still bad enough to not actually get ele.
I reject that premise. Kamala is abjectly incompetent and dangerous. Regardless of who the POTUS is the staff will largely be the same, people are policy. It is still, however, the President's decision on what is done and not done.
Biden is conditioned to listen to his advisors. Kamala feels she is the smartest person in the room. She would actually reject advice and supplant it with her truth, which of course out weighs any other truth including THE truth.
I'll take the trained monkey over the village idiot.
I agree with everything you said above. I still think The Powers That Be are going to try and bounce Biden at 24 months to replace him with Harris. Yes, she is despised by all, but they only have to deal with her for 24 months in what is an already disastrous administration. If she's worse, they can always blame everyone still there because they are Biden's fault and they have an out. They want the first. It is the one and only saving grace of the situation for them other than it is not Donald Trump. The alternative is to let Biden continue, which is why DiFi is happening, to see if that is a better road than continuing on as is. Time will tell. We are screwed either way.
From this distance the ongoing party disputes and electoral battles are, strictly speaking, something to be viewed objectively, since we have our own version of party politics with which to deal in the UK. And it has always been difficult for Englishmen to gain some perspective on American domestic politics, though not necessarily impossible. And this would be why, if somebody like the President in charge now did manage to reach approximately the right conclusion about an issue in Europe eventually, we would have to be thankful that he did, and let his voters decide later whether he could have done a better job of it!! The southern border of the US clearly has been a problem since the new president made dismantling controls his policy to distinguish from his main opponent in the election. Events may force his hand in this.