I & I Editorial BoardJoe Biden’s first 46 months in the White House were an exercise in political vandalism, the effects of which the world will be dealing with for years. But it wasn’t enough for him. He’s accelerated his offensive on his way out. Inauguration Day can’t arrive soon enough.
The candidate who ran in 2020 on restoring dignity to the office of the president is a small and petty man. This is not a revelation but a fact known since he “served” in the U.S. Senate and was especially evident when ran for president the first time, nearly four decades ago, dropping out after he could no longer cover his serial lies, blatant plagiarism and the vicious side of his personality.
So it’s not in the least surprising that he would try to burn down the world around him as he moves toward the door. Following is a brief glimpse of Biden’s efforts to handicap the next president and add needless hassles and costs to the lives of everyday Americans.
Energy
An executive order designed to permanently ban new offshore oil and gas development along some yet undetermined coastlines is expected to be issued soon. The decree will be difficult for Donald Trump to reverse, as it “is rooted in a 72-year-old law that gives the White House wide discretion to permanently protect US waters from oil and gas leasing without explicitly empowering presidents to revoke the designations,” Bloomberg reports.
It’s a red-hot poker in the eye of Trump, whose agenda includes U.S. energy dominance, and average Americans, whose wallets will be adversely affected by higher energy prices.
Biden is also “attempting to implement last-minute restrictions on oil and gas drilling,” says Fox News, pursuing a “20-year ban on oil and gas leases in 264,000 acres of Nevada’s Ruby Mountains.”
The day after Christmas, Biden’s Energy Department adopted “conservation standards for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters” effectively outlawing a significant segment of that market in four to five years.
Another “December surprise” intended to undermine Trump’s reasonable and rational energy policy was the administration’s “ambitious new climate target under the Paris Agreement” that mandates slashing “greenhouse gas emissions by 61% to 66% below 2005 levels by 2035.” Charles Rotter at Watts Up With That? called it “a final act of defiance before Trump takes the reins and charts a radically different course.”
Foreign Policy
Matthew Petti of Reason suggests that Biden has considered leaving “a very big mess on President-elect Donald Trump’s desk” by bombing Iran’s nuclear sites before his term is over. Not that doing so would be such a terrible idea. A nuclear-armed Islamist regime poses a grave danger.
But the timing is suspect. Biden could have taken out the mullah’s atomic weapons program at any time during his watch. Instead, he’s thought about dumping a problem on Trump’s shoulders and escaping the responsibility that would come with such an operation. Should Biden follow through, it would not be done in the interest of national security but rather the spiteful act of a wretched man.
An interesting reminder from Petti: Four years ago, the left was accusing Trump, whom Biden called a reckless warmonger, of having plans to attack Iran and saddle Biden with a Middle East war.
Student Loans
Though he has been told by the U.S. Supreme Court to cease making executive decisions that are not within his constitutional purview, Biden granted another round of student loan debt forgiveness just before Christmas. This time, it was $4.28 billion of relief for 54,900 borrowers.
Personal Vendetta
With his last days coming fast, Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton and Liz Cheney, both of whom tried to derail Trump’s presidency with lies and nasty, baseless political attacks.
The most infirm of all lame ducks also gave the same honor to George Soros, a fiendish, destructive, and callous socialist. Not because “the billionaire has funded a movement that puts Americans in danger but because his massive funding network enabled Biden’s allies to implement their radical agenda through the administrative state,” says the Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil. It is the same administrative state that was at war with Trump before, after, and during his first term, the one he’s said he has plans to root out.
Let’s not forget that Clinton and Soros are both enemies of liberty and malign adversaries of Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and free-thinking independents.
Pardons And Commutations
The soon-to-be-former president unleashed child killers and mass murderers on society and still has time to protect those who persecuted and prosecuted Trump through pardons, as he has been encouraged to do.
The Border And DEI Poison
With one hand, Biden has been selling off since 2023 material that was to be used to build a national security border wall. With the other, he’s lacing the federal workforce with as many as 1,200 new “diversity, equity, and inclusion” employees.
The courts told the administration to halt the fire sale, but Biden was able to undercut Trump’s popular immigration policy by disposing of a sizable chunk of material before he was stopped. The DEI hires are clearly an effort to make Trump’s task of draining the swamp more difficult.
Trump will be sworn in two weeks from today. We hope the next 14 days go by so fast that the doddering, addled Biden, and his unprincipled. vindictive, hard-left administration will not be able to sabotage more than they already have.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
One wonders who the people in the Biden administration are who are pulling the strings on these “executive” actions. Perhaps this is the shadow of Mr. Obama continuing his policies.
“Four years ago, the left was accusing Trump, whom Biden called a reckless warmonger, of having plans to attack Iran and saddle Biden with a Middle East war.” communists, leftists, totalitarians, etc always accuse others of doing what they are, IN FACT, guilty of. one of saul alinski’s rules for radicals.
“cease making executive decisions that are not within his constitutional purview” communists also don’t like the constitution, for reference see barrack obama. Seems to me that would be illegal, something which the “republicans” could actually jail him for, isn’t it called treason?
He ain’t done yet folks. The petty statists that actually run him and pull the strings in washington will FUBAR things as much as possible before they leave office.
Excellent question. America First! ULTRAMAGA!
This is just more of the classic “Cloward – Piven” marxism and a display of the authoritarian mindset so prevalent in establishment swamp circles. Biden along with all the public actors of similar characteristics (on both sides of the fake “parties”) are chronic liars. Unfortunately for us, the enemy has indoctrinated enough of the “youth” over the last 50 years to permeate every aspect and position associated with the government. It’s why everywhere you look, they always spout off the giant lie that the U.S. is somehow a “democracy”. Joseph Goebbels (cut from the same cloth) famously said something to the effect of: If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
I disagree with one point. “… bombing Iran’s nuclear sites before his term is over …”
If you look at Biden throughout his career, he has not been a leader, but a weathervane. While working tirelessly to enrich himself, in spite of his stupidity, he has refrained from extending his neck. Fundamentally, he is a chicken.
He was the only Obama advisor to fear going in to take out bin Laden. He tucked his tail nd scampered out of Afghanistan. His constant refrain as we have been showered with missiles and attacks in the Middle East and the Gulf has been an aversion to ‘escalate’ an already escalated situation.
No, I doubt he would take the bold step to attack Iran. Nor do I think Blinken or Sullivan has the balls to suggest such an action. Remember, Blinken has been supporting him since the Obama years.
Biden has always been a small, petty and provincial man, even as a senator.
How were so many voters deceived to think that he had the intelligence, wisdom and integrity to ever be a president?
Will the names of the insiders who deceived so many to vote for him be published, please, so we know who has been hoodwinking half of the USA for so long now? May they be forced to walk the plank!
Then let us turn legal attention to the crimes and misdeeds of Pelosi who abused the Speakers office and abused our Constitution for the last eight years as one who must be “held accountable,” as Democrats love to pontificate.
in a way it is a good thing that the Dems are showing their ultra progressive hand. future candidates can point to these declarations and warn voters this would have become permanent law if they were allowed to continue in office
Biden’s first 46 months in the White House were an exercise in political vandalism
Fake elections stolen in broad daylight
At the level that both poo-litcal bandits who SOLD Their SOULS
TO CHINA
It is called
Treason
45-47 HAS THE FACTS
FJB is just the face of the mob
They used a very simple word to show the are in the MOB
It is a word that has been well articled that is PROOF
DEMOCRACY
THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES
Gee golly all you Wallys
TREASON is OBVIOUS
WTFU
Evils of a king
Donkey/rino hang them for their TREASON
Who voted with MASKS ON
Who sent money to RED CHINA
WHO FUNDED GERM WARFARE
WHO MADE LAWS against any
GOD GIVING RIGHTS
IN
OUR CONSTITUTION At all levels
City State FEDERAL
Who signed their NAMES TO
TYRANY
MAGA
Again
Trump 2025-2029
Executive orders are now laws? Can’t be overturned? Get outta here!