It’s hilarious that Joe Biden is embarking on a “Unity Agenda” tour.
After he spent the previous 12 months stigmatizing the unvaccinated, demonizing Trump voters as home terrorists and siccing the FBI on mother and father at college board conferences, now he desires unity?
Even his personal celebration isn’t unified. No fewer than three celebration factions, together with The Squad, have supplied up contradictory rebuttals of his State of the Union address.
Not that his personal speech wasn’t chock filled with contradictions and delusions.
Listed here are 10:
FEIGNING to face up for Ukraine when he publicly instructed Vladimir Putin final month {that a} “minor incursion” was tolerable, and when his son Hunter handled Ukraine like a non-public piggybank throughout Biden’s vice-presidency. There may be wealthy irony in Biden’s menace to go after the “ill-begotten beneficial properties” of Russian oligarchs, “your yachts, your luxurious residences, your non-public jets,” when Hunter partied in Monte Carlo, Lake Como, Acapulco and Shanghai with international oligarchs, visited their ill-gotten mansions in Moscow, and partied on their yachts. For example, Hunter flew to Moscow on Feb. 16, 2012, to have breakfast on the $80 million mansion of Russian oligarch Ara Abramyan, a detailed Putin ally, who can be his hyperlink two years later to a profitable board seat on the corrupt Ukrainian power firm Burisma.
CALLING for unity to a room filled with Republicans whereas falsely claiming that the Trump administration’s 2017 tax minimize solely helped “the highest 1%.” Even the Washington Submit has declared this a “3 Pinocchio” lie, stating that the share of federal revenue taxes by the highest 1% elevated whereas the share paid by individuals within the center quintile of the revenue spectrum fell.
POSING amusingly as an America First nationalist — full with Trumpian “USA! USA!” chants from his colleagues on the ground. All energy to Biden if he follows via on his promised “revitalization of American manufacturing,” however he shall be going in opposition to his personal document. Imports from China rose virtually 20 p.c in his first 12 months of workplace and, when he was the highly effective chair of the Senate Overseas Relations Committee in 2001, he pushed reluctant Senate colleagues to convey China into the World Commerce Group, a landmark determination that may deal a physique blow to America’s working class as thousands and thousands of producing jobs have been misplaced to low cost Chinese language labor.
Securing our border: This takes some chutzpah when Biden intentionally dismantled Trump’s hard-won border protections and remains to be in courtroom combating the remain-in-Mexico coverage. Three million individuals from all over the world making an attempt to illegally break into the nation is an invasion he’s ignoring. He handed management of the border to the ruthless cartels, and even demonized horseback border patrol brokers falsely accused of whipping unlawful migrants. He boasted about “joint patrols with Mexico and Guatemala to catch extra human traffickers,” however his administration is offering an important hyperlink within the trafficking chain when it flies unlawful migrants secretly across the nation at midnight.
BEATING the opioid epidemic: The “opioid crisis” he anointed as a bipartisan trigger was turbocharged when he flung open the southern border to document portions of fentanyl, a drug which is now the main explanation for demise for Individuals aged 18 to 45.
GASLIGHTING us on the pandemic: “Let’s cease taking a look at COVID as a partisan dividing line,” stated the president who has carried out nothing however manipulate COVID worry for political functions, and altered tune solely after opinion polls on his dealing with of the pandemic headed south.
BLUNTING fuel costs: He’s pulling our leg. Biden boasted about tapping into 30 million barrels of our emergency oil reserves — lower than two days’ provide — whereas not mentioning a phrase about unleashing our plentiful untapped oil and gas supplies. He even pretended that his insurance policies would minimize “power prices for households a mean of $500 a 12 months by combating local weather change,” citing a doubtful research which projected theoretical financial savings in 2030. However your entire objective of his climate-alarm agenda is to cut back our consumption of oil and fuel by elevating the worth. As an alternative of restoring America’s power independence, Biden blathered about one thing referred to as “environmental justice” and electric-car charging stations. Speak about fiddling whereas Rome burns.
CHAMPIONING police “The reply is to not defund the police. The reply is to FUND the police,” Biden thundered. Properly, yeah. However the celebration that defunded and demonized the police for the previous two years can’t anticipate us to overlook that they’re the reason for the crime wave engulfing American cities. Biden himself performed footsies with the defunders throughout his election marketing campaign. Requested in July 2020 if he supported redirecting funding from police to social staff, he stated, “Sure, completely.” In the identical breath as he talked about fallen NYPD heroes Wilbert Mora and Jason Rivera on Tuesday evening, Biden raised police reform, a euphemism for disempowering cops or changing them with social staff.
VALORIZING the army Biden paid tribute to troopers stated to have contracted most cancers from “burn pits” — an as-yet unproven declare on which he dwells in hope of a combat-related explanation for his personal son’s demise from mind most cancers. Bettering well being take care of veterans is a worthy trigger, however he stated not one phrase concerning the 13 service members killed in Afghanistan throughout his botched withdrawal, some extent made by Republican Rep. Lauren Bohbert when she heckled the president: “You set them in [coffins], 13 of them!”
MYSTIFYING the world Biden went off script after saying “God bless our troops” on the finish of his speech. “Go get him!” he ad-libbed. It doesn’t do to guess what he meant. Nevertheless it was a vainglorious self-indulgence, very similar to his presidency.
