by Clarice Feldman, American Thinker:
The French king Louis XV is credited with saying “après moi le deluge,” meaning he didn’t care what happens after he was gone. Biden has not said the same, but his actions make clear that he’s perfectly happy to see the country weak and bankrupt and the Constitution torched when he leaves office and Donald Trump takes over for a remarkable second term. The press, which has covered for Biden most of his term, is now trying to hide their obvious airbrushing of the worst president in modern history and stay afloat. While much of the civil service seems ready to sabotage Trump once again, the very thought of Biden’s departure already has brought some welcome changes.
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If you paid the slightest bit of attention, it has been obvious for years that Biden, always a mendacious back-bencher hack, was suffering from mental and physical disabilities and was merely a puppet for those pulling the strings. Speaker Mike Johnson related his experience in an interview on Free Press. When he was finally able to push back Biden’s protective phalanx for a one-on-one discussion, he asked Biden why three days before he had halted LNG exports to Europe, a move which made no political or economic sense. Biden denied having done that. (Did the twerps on his staff simply set the automatic signature device on and shove executive orders into it?)
The New York Times wants us to believe their togas remain pristine — that they had no idea the Oval Office was occupied by a marionette whose strings were pulled by unnamed puppet masters. They admit what we saw and what the legacy press so long denied: how his staff arranged meetings around his moods, delayed sharing information with him (like negative polling data), surrounded him as he walked to his helicopter to hide the fact he couldn’t walk normally, had him use a teleprompter for even small gatherings, and replaced the steps to his plane with a shorter set. Mark Halperin is not giving them a pass: ”They print the claims of Biden aides and Biden friends as if they’re true, And there are so many examples of public loss of mental acuity they don’t even mention…. This should never happen again, We should never have an ‘emperor’s new clothes’ conspiracy between an administration of either party and the press corps.”
The loss of credibility has been a significant factor in the loss of readers and viewers, but the media are now facing additional setbacks. Courts no longer give them the presumption of good faith when they engage in defamation. Trump sued ABC for defamation and received $15 million and an apology from George Stephanopoulos; this week CNN was ordered to pay $5 million for defaming a man who helped people out of Afghanistan during our disastrous withdrawal and apparently will pay out additional sums in punitive damages in a settlement the terms of which are not yet public; and the WSJ indicated CBS may settle Trump’s $10 billion suit against it for election interference based on a doctored tape of an interview with Kamala Harris, apparently to make her seem more coherent than she was. Fingers to the wind, the owners of the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post are making efforts at fair coverage in a belated attempt to rise from the depths to the waterline.
Misusing his pardon powers, besides pardoning his son Hunter for a multitude of crimes, he commuted the death sentences of 37 men who had been convicted of child rape, serial murders, and cop killing. He just issued 2500 new commutations, ostensibly for those with drug convictions, many of whom were drug dealers of the worst sort. He and his administration have been shoveling money out the door as fast as they can, among others to people with student loans (despite repeated court setbacks), to Ukraine and to favored companies — this week it was a $6.7 billion low-cost loan to Rivian, a company that manufactures luxury electric vehicles. Since 2020, the national debt under Biden has ballooned to $36 trillion.
On her way out of office Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellin indicated the U.S. debt limit will be reached on Tuesday, a day after the inauguration. This means that the federal government after Tuesday will not be able to borrow to pay already-authorized spending, and that Treasury will have to adopt “extraordinary measures” to temporarily finance government expenditures and obligations. In other words, the profligate spending will leave the incoming Trump with a fiscal crisis. If the debt ceiling is not increased and rapid expenditure cuts prove impossible, we may be in default or recession.
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