I & I Editorial BoardYesterday, we pointed out how the press and Democratic Party politicians and operatives have started calling President Joe Biden a “good man,” despite all evidence to the contrary. Now the media are trying to convince the public that Biden has been a great president who racked up big accomplishments, which is another insult to our intelligence.
“Objectively speaking, President Joe Biden has presided over some significant, even historic, accomplishments,” is how the Atlantic put it.
Part II of “The Real Joe Biden” Series
Part I: “Joe Biden Is A Good Man? Please Don’t Insult Our Intelligence”
The Atlantic writer could name only three. Massive spending programs (all with borrowed money), mandating COVID vaccines (that were developed in record time thanks to Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed), and “the lowest unemployment rate in over 50 years” – a rate that has been steadily increasing all year.
This is the short list Biden sycophants usually trot out. But it’s the list of Biden’s failures that is truly impressive. Here’s just a sampling:
Inflation. Prices have climbed 20% in the three-and-a-half years Biden has been in office. That compares with 8% during Trump’s entire term, and just 15% during Barack Obama’s eight. The massive increase in prices under Biden was exactly what many economists predicted would happen when he and his fellow Democrats poured trillions of borrowed dollars onto a fast-growing economy.
Wages. Thanks to Bidenflation, real wages are 2.5% below where they were when Biden took office, even though he sworn in when wages were below their previous peak. In contrast, real wages climbed 7% during Trump’s first term. (They had been up 10% before COVID knocked them down.)
National debt. Since he’s been in the White House, Biden has added $7 trillion to the national debt – an increase of 25%. And monthly interest payments on that debt are now 200% higher than they were when Biden took office.
Crime. Democrats and their handmaidens in the press keep insisting that crime rates are down. But the National Crime Victimization Survey, which includes both crimes that were reported to the police and those that weren’t, showed a 75% increase in 2022 (the latest year for which data are available). That includes a doubling of aggravated assaults.
Illegal immigration. In Trump’s four years in office, roughly 2 million illegals were encountered at the border. Most of them were turned back after Trump ended “catch and release” for asylum seekers and used public health concerns as a reason to turn others around. So far under Biden, more than 7 million have crossed the border illegally – that we know of. He simply waved most of them into the country.
Unity. One big Biden promise was that he’d unify the country after Trump allegedly tore it apart. The TIPP poll, of which we are a partner, launched a “Unity Index” in August 2021 to track Biden’s success on this score. That month, 63% of Americans said the country was either very (34%) or somewhat (29%) divided. By January of this year, those numbers had climbed to 73%, 42%, and 31%, respectively.
Restoring America. Shortly after Biden’s inauguration, 54% said the country was on the wrong track. Today 67% feel that way. The latest University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index is 71.5, which is down from 78.9 when Biden took office and well below the peak under Trump when it hit 100.
Foreign policy. Name one accomplishment of Biden’s on the international stage. The pullout from Afghanistan, which resulted in 13 dead American soldiers and encouraged our enemies? The Middle East, where Biden enriched Iran only to see it finance attacks on U.S. soldiers in Iraq and an invasion of Israel? China, which grows more belligerent by the day? Europe, where Russia felt emboldened by Biden’s weakness to declare war on Ukraine, a war with no end in sight that has cost taxpayers $173 billion, and counting?
Popularity. Biden has been such a disaster as president that, despite four years of fawning media coverage and coverups, his approval rating was just 39.7% before his epically awful debate performance, according to the RealClearPolitics average (it’s now down to 38.6%). Trump’s approval rating at this point in his first term was 41.5% – and that was after being under constant attack by the press, an impeachment, the Russia hoax, and in the middle of the COVID pandemic.
Let’s see if we can sum all this up in plain English.
Joe Biden is the worst president in American history and a man whose lifetime of accomplishments wouldn’t fill up a Post-it note.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
I think I’d amend your final (post-it note) comment: Joe’s lifetime record could be written on the inside cover of a matchbook with a grease pencil and have room left over. He has never been the brightest bulb in the chandelier and has accomplished absolutely nothing positive in his 50 year career. He’s an embarrassment to this party, his country and himself. Past time for him to go.
What do you expect from totalitarians/statists/socialists/etc. They are so close to attaining their ultimate goal of total power and control that they aren’t even worried about being obvious in their actions. That is how many “useful idiots” THEY KNOW they have in the bag!
His biggest accomplishment is that he ruined the USA
We owe the trans gender movement a debt of gratitude. Without them, we wouldn’t have this new word which perfectly describes the many false narratives the Democrats and the media try to sell:
“Bull Cheese”.
This is the cheese you get from milking a bull.
Is that man a woman?
Bull cheese.
Is Global warming going to destroy the world by 1999?
Bull cheese
Is the President sharp as a tack?
Bull cheese
Is Trump a Russian spy?
Bull cheese
Is Hunter’s laptop a Russian hoax?
Bull cheese
Did Alex Jones cause billions of dollars worth of damage by being stupid?
Bull cheese
Et cetera
Et alia
Et tu, Brute?
Joe has few accomplishments and many disastrous decisions, agree, and is a very disagreeable, dislikable and dishonorable man, but why do so many voters vote for him?
Should we require:
1. Raising the voting age to at least 21 where is had been before Vietnam; better to yet raise it 25 or 30 so we have more mature, less gullible and less naive voters?
2. Require all first time voters to take the same test aspiring citizens take?
3. Go back to “tried and true,” of everyone voting on election day at ones polling place?
4. Require all official voting materials to be in English, only. Since only citizens can vote, and everyone is required to speak English to become a citizen, why print any election materials in any other language?
Why do voters often vote for the least qualified and least respected person to be in any leadership office? That is a mystery.
Even deceased Senator Ted Kennedy admitted to Donald Trump several years ago that Joe Biden was, in his opinion the least intelligent Politician in the Senate.
The main street press has certainly tried to pigeonhole Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. K. McCarthy had a very interesting memory recently of how Putin had taken the measure of Biden, and McCarthy is convinced that directly lead to Putin invading Ukraine. He didn’t specify Biden’s demeanor. But it is ghastly if true that indirectly the incompetent Biden is responsible for the untold horrors of the current European Theater of War. With what we currently know about Biden’s situation. That assertion is not all that farfetched. With the recent children hospitals strikes in Ukraine with precision missiles. If there were any doubts before, it is very clear Putin is one brutal SOB.
You forgot his successful Chinese spy balloon. It crossed the entire nation and completed its mission.