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   shitbag jones  wrote:   
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   > Democrat niggers are stupid criminals.   
      
   That nigger Obama is running the country by proxy using Joe   
   Biden.  That is the only way something could be fucked up this   
   bad.   
      
   Especially when it was running so well under President Trump.   
      
   "Which way am I going?" asked President Biden when he ended   
   Thursday's press conference at the NATO summit in Madrid. He   
   began to exit stage right, before someone redirected him toward   
   stage left. This combination of ignorance and indecision was not   
   new. Throughout his 18 months as president, Biden has been   
   confused, uncertain, sluggish. He behaves as if he is guided by   
   unseen forces. He moves on a course set by hidden captains.   
      
   People notice. Every time I speak to a conservative audience, I   
   am asked who is really in charge in the White House. My answer   
   has been that the president is in command. After all,   
   institutions take on the character of their leaders. If all the   
   White House has to offer is excuses, if decisions are made   
   either slowly or randomly, if the communications team and the   
   president and vice president seem to live on different planets,   
   if incompetence and mismanagement appear throughout the   
   government, it is because the chief executive allows it. No   
   conspiracy is required to explain the ineptitude. This is Joe   
   Biden we are talking about.   
      
   Lately, though, I have been having second thoughts. Not that   
   Barack Obama or Ron Klain or Dr. Jill are running the show in   
   secret. What I have been wondering, instead, is whether anyone   
   is leading the government at all. There is no power, either   
   overt or covert, in or behind the throne. The throne is empty.   
      
   Think of the economy, the border, and Ukraine. From time to   
   time, Biden addresses these issues. He may even answer questions   
   about them. The White House sends out press releases describing   
   its latest initiatives. Vice President Harris or the second   
   gentleman pops up somewhere to talk about all the good she and   
   he are doing.   
      
   Yet each of these elements—the president, his staff, his   
   spokesperson, his vice president, his policy—comes across as   
   disconnected, discombobulated, as if each inhabits a separate   
   sphere of activity. Whether because of Biden's age, or his   
   weekend trips to Delaware, or years of remote work, or lower-   
   level staff turnover, or a painstakingly slow decision-making   
   process, or ideological stubbornness, or a lack of a strategic   
   plan, this administration drifts from crisis to crisis, and from   
   one bad headline to the next. And nothing improves.   
      
   The June 29 Reuters/Ipsos poll has Biden's job approval rating   
   at 38 percent. By far, Americans say the economy, unemployment,   
   and jobs are the most important problems facing the country.   
   What is Biden's plan? He blames Vladimir Putin and the energy   
   industry for high gas prices. He says it's the Federal Reserve's   
   job to reduce inflation. He asks Middle East autocrats to pump   
   more oil rather than easing the burden on domestic fossil fuel   
   production. He wants more spending, more tax hikes, more   
   regulation. Will Congress give him what he wants? Okay, you can   
   stop laughing.   
      
   The result: America slouches toward stagflation because the   
   alternative—reducing (non-China) tariffs, suspending "Buy   
   American" provisions, reversing his entire energy policy,   
   dropping his tax plans, committing to spending cuts—is   
   unacceptable to the president.   
      
   Earlier this week, authorities found at least 50 dead people in   
   a tractor-trailer on the side of a road in El Paso, Texas. The   
   victims were illegal immigrants who had paid human traffickers   
   to bring them to the United States. This ghastly discovery was a   
   reminder of illegal immigration's human toll, and of the   
   inadequacy of Biden's migration policies. One reporter asked   
   White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for her response   
   to Republican critics. "The fact of the matter is the border is   
   closed," Jean-Pierre said, "which is in part why you see people   
      
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