Biden’s disastrous 100 days: boredom and cynicism, Sleepy Joe’s secret weapons to redesign America
Who better than overly enthusiastic admirers or mere flatterers can highlight the reasons why the object of veneration, far from deserving the praise that is too generously bestowed on it, is instead highly toxic? Probably none. The most recent example of this truth is given to us by the solemn eulogy written for the first hundred days of Joe Biden as president by Jonathan Chait for his column (" The National Interest ") in New York, the competing magazine of the New Yorker – and equally liberal . “During the first hundred days of Joe Biden's presidency – writes Chait – the Republicans realized that the man their standard-bearer mocked as Sleepy Joe is a formidable opponent. And the quality that has made it so effective up to this point is – yes – its sleepiness ”.
In his public communication, Biden has achieved the maximum result with the minimum effort: his interviews are rare and mostly lacking in news. His rhetoric not only lacks galvanizing qualities, it's downright sedative. And if the Republicans have no chance of stopping Biden, it's because he's boring the hell out of them. Do you remember his inaugural address? He exhorted his country to unity, to "stop screaming" and "lower the temperature", but immediately afterwards he pursued drastic policies, he made dramatic choices, according to him to repair ancient evils. “Politics – he said – must not be a violent fire that destroys everything in its path. Any disagreement must not be the reason for a total war ”. But the action went in exactly the opposite direction. A cynic, Chait suggests, may suspect that the president's idealistic and "relaxed" view, in which everyone settles down as he signs a series of laws involving 13-figure expenses, contains more than a pinch of what we call in Italy. "Paraculaggine". Well, ours confesses, “this is a terribly tired hypothesis to make about Saintly Joe Biden [as Donald Trump recently defined him, ed ]. But that suspicion wouldn't be completely wrong. In a certain sense, this is precisely the point ”.
In other words, the message – and the gist of all the reasoning – is as follows: dear conservatives and libertarians, Joe the Sleepy, aka Saintly Joe Biden , with the air of one who is utterly incapable of any cynicism and malevolence, he practically fucked all of you (forgive the French) and especially your idea of America.
And in fact, as soon as the gunshot about unity is over, more than 60 executive actions are churned out, including 40 executive orders – a modern record. On his first day in office, Biden basically overturned Trump's policy on Mexico ( "Remain in Mexico") , which required asylum seekers to apply before entering the United States. This single shift has essentially created the worst border crisis in the past two decades.
Then Biden has seen fit to target the life of the unborn, religious freedom and traditional families, without neglecting issues related to gender identity and the military service of transgenders . Furthermore , ça va sans dire, his administration was quick to re-enter the Paris Agreement, which as it is known remains legally non-binding for the world's major polluters, such as China and India. Not to mention the attack on the Second Amendment, downgrading the right to possess weapons to a public health emergency, basically a gun violence public health epidemic . "Promising unity," writes Ted Harvey , chairman of an anti-Biden committee, in American Thinker, "Biden has instead decided to undermine the US Constitution, our nation's most formative document." "Biden's first 100 days were disastrous," writes Harvey, and what is worse his presidency "was anti-American, with the Democrats once again failing to protect our borders." The Americans, concludes Harvey, deserve much, much more: "A red wave in 2022 and a drastic change in leadership in 2024".
Needless to say, whatever he does, Biden never misses the unconditional acclaim of the mainstream media. News outlets like CNN praise him for turning America into a "global leader" in the war on Covid-19 , but the truth is that it was Operation Warp Speed, launched by Trump, that ensured the vaccination of mass which Americans benefit from today. "The Biden administration – Harvey denounces – has inherited the development of vaccines and a recovering economy, but those of CNN credit only their democratic allies with these opportunities".
Of course, that's exactly how things are. To connect with Jonathan Chait's eulogy, today it emerged that nearly 75 percent fewer Americans followed President Joe Biden's speech at a joint session of Congress last Wednesday, compared to his predecessor's first speech in 2017. To be exact, 11.6 million viewers. The confrontation with Trump is merciless: during his presidency, Trump received these numbers: 2017: 48 million; 2018: 46 million; 2019: 46.8 million; 2020: 37.2 million. Despite the boredom, in short, or rather thanks to it, the first hundred days of the Biden presidency, as the title of Chait's piece states, redesigned America.
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