Apparently, when it comes to the Dem establishment’s practice of “democracy” first they stab them, then they valorize them with encomiums believable only by low-information readers of the New York Times. Thus, Hillary Clinton saw fit to lay it on thick with respect to the achievements of the nursing home patient who remains bivouacked at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
President Biden has capped his extraordinary career of service with a Presidency that has lifted America out of an unprecedented pandemic, created millions of new jobs, rebuilt a battered economy, strengthened our democracy, and restored our standing in the world. By any measure, he has advanced our founders’ charge to build a more perfect union and his own stated goal of restoring the soul of our nation.”
Well, yes, as far as we can tell “Joe Biden” spent the last 57 years on the public teat, one way or another; and we’d not define his doings there as a “career of extraordinary service” in any way shape or form.
To the contrary, Biden was a modern day Democrat, who championed a form of ersatz statism predicated upon the amelioration of an endless confection of prosaic problems and crises that were none of Washington’s business in the first place. The result was a whole lot more Nanny State meddling, regulatory oppression, heavier taxes on the few, swelling free stuff for the many and public debt that has shot the moon and will be a financial albatross on generations to come.
Thus, we don’t credit Hillary’s praise for lifting “America out of an unprecedented pandemic” in the slightest. For crying out loud, there was no existential emergency in the first place or justification for the unconstitutional Federal lockdowns that caused 20 million layoffs in their initial stages, the destruction of millions of small businesses and livelihoods in a matter of months and adverse school closure impacts on a whole generation of students that had no basis in “the science” whatsoever. And that’s to say nothing of the tens of millions of vaccine injuries and thousands of deaths that were foisted upon the American public by the Biden Administration’s vaxx mandates and proselytizing for the jab.
Now, exactly how Joe Biden lifted America out of that risible mess is beyond us. The fact is, his administration resisted with hammer and tongs the further dismantlement of the remnants of the pandemic despotism that he inherited in January 2021.
Likewise, the “millions of new jobs” canard is especially rich. Based on the BLS’s flaky monthly job numbers, Biden fanboys claim that he has created 16 million new jobs since December 2020. But nearly 10 million of those “new jobs” were actually” born again” jobs lost during the 2020 lockdowns and then recovered slowly over subsequent years.
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