The Biden administration is less than two months from its end, which cannot come soon enough. As a final insult to his staunchest defenders, those who long insisted he was a paragon of decency, President Joe Biden pardoned his convicted felon and all-around wastrel son Hunter. A more appropriate final chapter to his tenure, one cannot imagine. The "official" rankings of professional historians will likely be kinder to Biden than he deserves. But that merely reflects the prejudices of the academic guild " it is partial to presidents who expand executive authority and grow the federal government, both of which Biden did. And look for post-presidential encomia to Biden from the usual midwits in the press and opinion magazines, who will dutifully explain that the man did his level best and that it was the country that let him down.
Wow. This is not a brief clip. It's 1:21 of Biden napping during a summit.
Beneath the folds of each of our two political parties, a hidden party struggles to emerge. It's not the woke Democratic Party of open borders and Saint Jussie Smollett, and it's not the Make America Great Again GOP of the January 6 rioters and Matt Gaetz. It's the Make America Normal Again party. MANA
... The transformation of the FBI back into a J. Edgar Hoover-style domestic spy service with sweeping political ambition has been a long-developing story, obscured by a political anomaly. In the first phase of this nightmare, between 2001 and 2016, the post-9/11 Bureau used the pretext of an enhanced counterintelligence mandate to throw off some mild restraints that had been placed on it the last time it had to be slapped down, i.e. after the Church Committee hearings in the 1970s. The second phase of its transformation took place after the election of Donald Trump, when the Bureau remade itself on the fly as a kind of government-in-exile, empowered by an outpouring of public and media support to view itself as a counterweight to the Trump government.
Progressives have suddenly found themselves lost in the political wilderness, caught in a self-inflicted trap of anger and fear. From the sound of their fury, they could be there for a long while. (Thoughts and prayers.) With Democrats now irrelevant, the second Trump administration has four years to take a wrecking ball to the Washington establishment, including deep cuts to federal spending and an overhaul of the bloated bureaucracy. To understand why the wrecking ball is needed, look at the annual budget deficit ' $1.8 trillion in fiscal year 2024. In a time of relative peace and prosperity, the deficit grew 8% in one year, even though federal revenue increased by 11%. In other words, the Biden-Harris administration collected significantly more money from taxpayers in the last fiscal year but still managed to blow up the deficit by an additional $138 billion. That's simply unsustainable.
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Give me your PO Box address and I'll send you a box of tissue.