This Is Bidenomics!

Joe Biden isn’t using the term “Bidenomics” on the campaign trail any longer. That’s because first of all, it was designed by the Washington Post, based on an article in the Financial Times. Neither of those publications used it as a good thing. It was basically a slam on the terrible economic decisions Joe Biden had made. But the White House thought it could be transformed into something useful, and went with it.

It didn’t have the desired effect. In fact, the country laughed at it.

But even now, as Biden continues to hawk his economic policies every time some sort of economic numbers come out, he’s not telling you the whole story. Yes, jobs have been up. Not nearly as much as Biden wants to tell you. He wants to take credit for all of the businesses re-opening after Covid, which is stupid. And he’s taking credit for overall jobs numbers when in fact, most of the numbers have been part-time jobs, and jobs in government. Neither of which are what economists would term to be hearty growth.

But the other day, when Biden was still screaming about how his economic decisions were working, the new Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers came out for the first quarter of 2024. Now, economists had predicted that the growth would be about 2.5% for the quarter, down from 3.6% in Q-4, 2023. But they were wrong. The economy slowed to just a 1.6% growth. This means if the economy continues on the same path over the next two quarters, by October 1st (the new federal fiscal year start date), we will be in negative numbers.

All of this shows what Americans feel. Biden keeps saying that the changes show growth and positivity, but we just “aren’t feeling it yet”. However, the numbers continue to show a skewed difference. If you really look at the numbers, they show something quite different. Since Biden took office, he claims that he’s added 15.2 million jobs (“the most ever”). But 9.2 million of those jobs were pandemic related. So, the economy has only added about 6 million jobs, and a solid 11% (660,000) were part-time, burger flipping jobs. The federal government has expanded by 5% in the last year, and 9% since Biden took office. Most of the jobs were temporary jobs in the post office.

I checked with an economist buddy of mine at a rather prestigious university who says he’s worried about the next 6 months. He said if this continues we are heading for a recession by the end of the year. And just so you don’t think he’s a nay-sayer, he never called for a recession like the other 60% that thought we would have one in 2023. The consistent drop over two quarters of over 1% GDP is alarming at best, but Biden knows he can’t do anything about it, and he can’t hit the panic button. 65% of Americans, according to a March CBS poll, say that the economy was better under Trump compared to 35% who said it was better under Biden. And Biden is underwater by 15% when respondents at a Fox News poll were asked who they feel would do better with the economy.

There weren’t many things that Biden can cheer about when it comes to his economy, which is one of the reasons why he’s spending so much time trying to tear down Donald Trump. He knows he can’t run on his record. And Trump’s record up until Covid shut everything down, was many times better than what Biden has been able to accomplish since the end of Covid.

Sorry Joe, the truth hurts, I know…but it IS the truth!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Do YOU Have a Non-Compete?

If you do, you may be interested to know that you may be just about four scant months away from having it dissolved. The Federal Trade Commission has just decided, on a 3-2 vote to make non-competes illegal. Well, at least at this point in time.

Non-competes stop workers from taking their knowledge of a business, including trade secrets and leaving to work at a competing firm for a period of time. It’s been commonplace in a lot of different industries, including the one I came from, media. Typically, had I chose to leave my radio station and cross the street to a competitor’s station, I would have had to sit out for anywhere from six months to a year in order to go on the air over there (or in some cases even sell for them).

I didn’t work under a non-compete in my radio world job, but I did when I went to an advertising agency for a time. What was interesting was that that particular agency didn’t say I couldn’t go to work for another ad agency in the market. What they had me sign was a non-compete saying I wouldn’t contact any of my clients for a period of a year. And when I left, what I found interesting was that most of my clients either called me to figure out a way around the non-compete, or called the agency and cancelled their business with them.

Its understandable that a company wants to maintain a competitive advantage over a rival in the marketplace. And to do that, they employ non-competes. However, it does seem to hamstring the employees, or keep them tied to a job they no longer want to work at because in order to stay in the same industry, they’d basically have to move (at the very least), or be unemployed for a period of time.

And the reason that the vote was 3-2 and not unanimous was because the two members of the FTC that dissented said that they felt there were changes needed to the non-compete agreements alright, but that Congress never gave the FTC the right to issue such a rule in the first place. Congress has basically agreed with the two that dissented.

The Senate has bills that have been trying to work their way through their body. The Workforce Mobility Act, which is wending it’s way through the Senate is a bi-partisan bill. There is also the Freedom To Compete Act, which is again, bi-partisan.

Business leaders have sworn a court fight to the FTC’s ruling which takes place 120 days after being published in the Federal Register, and stops all companies from issuing non-competes as a condition of hiring someone, and gets rid of most of the non-competes that are in force. The only ones that can stay in force are for senior executives. Some 30,000,000 workers are currently under non-competes, about 18% of the workplace.

So, regardless how you feel about them, it seems like this is going to be a long, uphill battle for the FTC. It will be interesting to see how it shakes out, and whether or not the Senate can pass it’s bills in time to negate the lawsuits.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

How To Handle The “Student” Demonstrators

I’m sure by now you’ve seen the video of the protests against Israel on the college campuses. Oh, there have been quite a few. I’ve seen Columbia, New York University, Yale, University of Michigan, and several others on the news. Students at these universities (along with their paid agitators), have taken over parts of the campus and some have held protests and blocked traffic. Others, like at Columbia, took to the green area and pitched over 100 tents. Police were called by the University president once or twice and have removed the tents and arrested the offending students. Those at Columbia were also suspended. We don’t know for how long.

It hasn’t halted the anti-Israel crowd from continuing their protests. In fact, it’s technically gotten worse. What started out as a call for a cease-fire, has now escalated to them calling themselves “Hamas”, a terrorist group.

In my world, it’s time these “kids” learn a lesson ;probably not taught at their college or university.

First of all, at least ten countries (the E.U. is included in the ten) have declared Hamas a terrorist organization. That means that these kids and their agitators have now admitted in their slogans that they are terrorists. So, they can be treated like terrorists, not students. And while I support a right to protest peacefully, which this isn’t when Jewish students at these campuses are being threatened, and assaulted, in my humble world, they’ve crossed over to the riots we saw in 2020. Burning buildings, destroying property, shooting people aren’t actions I would personally consider “peaceful”.

That said, it means that yes, they can be arrested for trespassing, which most are, and then released. Or they can be arrested because they’ve now admitted that they are part of Hamas, a terrorist organization, under The Patriot Act. That means they can be held indefinitely, without being charged for a crime. They can have all materials in their possession confiscated. Hell, they can still be shipped off to Guantanamo Bay and never heard from again.

So, if I were to rule the world (or this part of it), and they showed up again as they have at Columbia, or they’ve stuck an Hamas flag in the eye of a Jewish student as they were alleged to have done at Yale, or they refused to leave when ordered to do so by the President of NYU, forget trespassing. Arrest them under The Patriot Act.

I would hold them for a week without charging them. Then I’d charge them with being a home-grown terrorist. Hold them until their trial on a $10 million bond as a flight risk (and the fact that whomever is funding these things can afford it). I would expel them from whatever university they are attending, not just suspend them. And I would probably also throw in a charge of a hate-crime violation, since liberals are always happy to include that one.

Now, you couldn’t do this will all of the protesters. But at a place like Columbia, you could confiscate the tents and sell them for cents on the dollar (those tents aren’t cheap!) to help recoup some of the costs of policing the protests.

And I would make sure that no deal that was granted to any of them allowed them to escape with less than a year in a prison somewhere. I think for the most part, that would teach the “kids” a lesson. And I doubt, that you’d see them coming back so quickly to protest again, especially if they want to call themselves home-grown terrorists.

Just a thought. I do have a tendency on these things to overthink the punishment, but if you want it to stop, the answer is simple. Get as serious with the group that is funding these riots and protests as they are about holding them and disrupting traffic.

And yeah, I’d probably take the same action with the people blocking access to airports, or bridges and roadways.

Carry on world….you’re dismissed!

Schumer Just Doesn’t Learn From The Past

Democrat Majority Leader, Chuckles Schumer (D-NY) made one big mistake that is going to cost his party big time in the future. And it’s for the very simple reason that he was in the Senate when another Democrat Majority Leader made a stupid, bonehead move that ended up costing Democrats the majority on the Supreme Court.

I’m talking about what I refer to as the Harry Reid Rule. You’ll remember back when Reid was the Majority Leader, and Bobo Obama was having a hard time getting his liberal federal judge appointments passed because the Senate required 60 votes to approve the nomination. Reid saw the answer to that problem to lower the number of votes need to approve “non-Supreme Court Justice appointments” to 51. And it worked. Obama was able to get a slew of liberal federal justices approved.

But there was a problem that Reid nor Obama realized. By doing that, they forgot that at some point, the Republicans would probably be in charge of the Senate. And the 51 vote rule would be in place. So, while under the old rule, the GOP couldn’t pass judicial appointments, under the new rule they could. And it made it much easier for Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to toss in the Supreme Court Justice nominations in the new rule. And so, now you have a 6-3 Conservative Supreme Court.

Well, the same thing is going to happen to Chuckles Schumer and the Democrats. Only this time, it’s over impeachment. When Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas was impeached by the Republican House of Representatives for failing to do his job, Schumer went to work to protect his buddy. Instead of going through a drawn out trial that would have exposed Mayorkas’ lies to the world even more-so than had already been exposed, and forcing Democrats to basically say that lying isn’t a “high crime or misdemeanor”, Schumer decided to call for a Point of Order.

Now, Point of Order is a Roberts’ Rules thing. Basically, it interrupts whatever else is going on at the moment because you’re not following the rules correctly. Schumer’s gambit was that the whole impeachment, where you are supposed to be judged on whether or not you were guilty of said high crime or misdemeanor, was unconstitutional because the charges never were elevated to that point. And, using a simple majority in the vote, his Point of Order was accepted by the Democrat controlled Senate, and the whole process came to an end.

What that caused was yet another problem up the road for the Dems. The next time there is a Democrat controlled House and a Republican controlled Senate, and let’s say Trump beats Biden in November…and the House impeaches Trump for a third time, the Republicans in the Senate, using the precedent set by Schumer, can call the impeachment unconstitutional, use a Point of Order, and a 51 vote majority to toss out the impeachment. In effect, using an impeachment when you have a Senate in control by the party being impeached just ceased to be an outcome, regardless how serious the charge. If 51 Senators go along with the Point of Order motion, it doesn’t matter what the charge is, or how serious it is, an impeachment won’t happen.

And once again, at some point in the future, because you know it will happen, Democrats will once again, have egg all over their face and not be able to do anything about it except cry. They were the ones that screwed themselves.

Had they actually gone through with the trial in the Senate with Mayorkas, there were never the votes to convict him, and as Trump did twice, and Clinton and Andrew Johnson did once, they all skated, not able to get to the two-thirds majority necessary to convict. Instead, you just destroyed the impeachment process and weakened the House of Representatives. It will end up biting Democrats more than the GOP. Because if you look at who has controlled the House in the last, say 50 years or so, Democrats have controlled it for 30 years, Republicans for 20.

It’s just one more example of the Democrats not wanting to play ball under the existing rules, but making up their own rules to gain an advantage. And in most cases, it’s an advantage that turns against them up the road. Such stupidity!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Johnson’s Big Gamble

Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson (R-LA) took a big gamble on Saturday. He put three bills up for a vote to deal with the aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. All three passed by a wide margin, despite the House Freedom Caucus complaint that nothing was in any of the bills that dealt with the southern border. That’s the reason Marjorie Taylor Greene was so upset.

Aid to Israel passed with a vote of 360-58; Taiwan’s aid passed 385-34, and the Ukraine aid package passed 311-112. All three were sent to the Senate late Saturday to be voted on this next week.

But the bills weren’t without controversy. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tried to add an amendment to the Ukraine bill that said anyone that voted for it, would volunteer for duty in Ukraine. It failed 351-71. MTG is still waffling on whether or not to make good on her promise to try and oust Mike Johnson from the Speaker’s chair. She filed the motion last week, but Donald Trump has tried to tamp down the rhetoric by saying he supports Johnson.

What wasn’t in the bills is what caused the House Freedom Caucus to rebel, the elimination of any extra funds for the southern border and to slow the stream of illegals pouring into the country. The HFC decided a long time ago that any money that dealt with aid to Israel, Ukraine, or Taiwan needed to also include money for more border security. But that’s a rather nebulous term, and what the Biden administration defines as “border security” is hiring more judges and paper pushers to fill out asylum claims. The Republicans in the HFC are wanting actual border security that stops the flow of illegals into the country.

So what happened to the fourth bill in the package…the Tik Tok bill? Well, it wasn’t sent through as a separate bill, but was added on to the aid packaged. Tik Tok has now nine months to find a buyer for it’s company that doesn’t include any Chinese investment (instead of the six months that was in the last bill the House passed). Joe Biden can extend that period by 90 days if he feels there is movement being made toward a sale. If no sale is reached within that time frame, Tik Tok will not be allowed to be downloaded on any US based app store, or hosted on any US based servers, basically shutting it down in this country.

If that were to happen, the popular app would most likely go to court citing a First Amendment violation. But I’m thinking that in this day and age, when it gets to the Supreme Court, and if the government attorneys use the logic that national security needs to trump freedom of speech in this arena, they probably are going to get the ban. After all, 34 of 50 states have banned Tik Tok on state-owned devices, so it’s impact has been lessened a little already. This ban, however would extend past governmentally owned devices and would outright ban the app altogether.

Biden has promised to sign all of the aid packages as soon as he gets it. The odds of the Senate trying to strip out the Tik Tok ban from the aid packages are nil.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Trump’s Trials (and Tribulations?)

We’ve sat through week one of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York. This one is the weakest of the four he faces, according to legal experts, but it does give us a very good look at what the former president is up against as he campaigns part-time to return to his former job.

The judge in the case, one Juan Merchan is a dyed in the wool socialist, is handling the trial like a tired and abusive parent would smack around a crying two year old in the back seat during a road trip. Merchan has handed down an almost unheard of gag order on Trump. Now, normally, a judge would hand down a gag order on ALL participants in the trial. Not so in this case. Apparently, it’s OK for Alvin Bragg’s team to go out and say whatever they want about Trump. It’s OK for the witnesses for the prosecution to address the media and tell this whatever they want about whomever they want. But it’s not OK for Trump to do the same. He’s facing a bevy of contempt of court violations for speaking to the press about Merchan, and some of the others involved in the trial.

Merchan also has come out with a rather ridiculous ruling that told me that this whole “lawfare” thing was set up and planned. Merchan told Trump that he couldn’t attend the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in a case he is bringing before the high court, which occurred on the second day of jury selection. Merchan also told Trump he couldn’t attend his son Baron’s high school graduation, though he may have indicated that he’d rethink that one.

If anyone out there thinks for a minute that this is going to be anything but a kangaroo court, they need to reread the definition of “kangaroo court”. Alvin Bragg’s charges are illegal simply because the statute of limitations have expired on them. Bragg has taken charges that were considered federally, and rejected by the Department of Justice as not having merit. They were misdemeanors that Bragg has upgraded to felonies. Any number of these instances are cause for appeal and for the charges to be thrown out, and they most likely will when this trial ends.

Can Trump receive a fair trial? Nope. Not in Manhattan, where he lost to Biden by a 90-10% in 2020. And why wasn’t the trial moved to a more unbiased area of the state of New York? Because Merchan didn’t want to do that. And that’s another reason why this will get thrown out on appeal.

There is some good news with all of this however, believe it or not. It’s not having the desired effect the Democrats wanted. People all over the country are starting to make their decision for November, and the Dems have once again, over-played their hand on this. Every trial Trump has been and possibly will be involved in, points to a political witch hunt. Had the Dems just stayed with one trial rather than four or five, they could have fought that argument but it’s become obvious to even the most jaded observers that this has nothing to do with the law and all to do with keeping Trump tied up in a courtroom. The good news? The trial at the worst will be over in June. That means it’ll be over a month before the convention.

What Dems seem to miss is we are still in primary season, even though the candidates are set at this point. In a typical election year, there would still be at least two candidates running for the nomination. So, Trump not on the trail now isn’t a killer. It would be much worse if this were after Labor Day and people were paying attention to what was going on more-so than they are now. And by September, Trump should have his path cleared a lot more than he does now!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Biden’s Jobs Numbers Lie

Joe Biden wants to tell the world, especially now since he’s running a terrible campaign for reelection, and can’t run on his record, that he HAS done more than take vacations for 40% of his time in office. One of his latest ploys is to tell you how he has created more jobs than any other president in a four year period. But is it true or is it another lie?

That depends on what the mean of “is” is.

Biden claims he’s created 14.8 million jobs since taking office. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published that as of June, 2020, there were 17.75 million Americans that did not have jobs. Most of that was the cause of the country shutdown for covid. So, is Joe the “great employer” he claims to be?

The answer is no. Joe is adding the people that lost their jobs to covid, and then went back to work beginning in 2021 as part of his 14.8 million jobs created. And even that number is too small to compensate for the entire number of Americans out of work at the height of the pandemic. There would still be some three million people looking for work.

But it goes farther than that. Let’s just take a look at another little statistic. Below is a list of tech companies that have laid off a percentage of their workforce. Take a look at it, a good hard look at it. Remember, Democrats have said that hey, if you’re a coal miner, or work in the fossil fuel industry, you can learn to code (meaning write computer code). Apparently, that hasn’t worked out so well:

So, there have been 200,000 job layoffs during the first three months of this year. In the first three months, 6,000 full-time jobs were gone. And Biden’s great 14.8 million? Well, so far this year, he’s added 691,000 part-time jobs that he’s counting in that mix.

And who are taking those jobs? There are basically two groups. Some of them are being taken by illegals, who are being given part-time jobs (illegally, since they are here illegally and don’t have the right to work in this country under US law), and regular everyday people like you and me, who are finding that their normal vocation isn’t paying enough to keep up with inflation, so they must find a second (or third) job to help feed their families.

And just because you’re thinking that it’s because we aren’t paying these folks a “living wage”, it’s not that either. California is losing hundreds of thousands of jobs ever since the beginning of April when the $20 an hour minimum wage for companies who have more than 60 locations nationwide went into effect. Up to 50% of the fast-food workers in that state are on the chopping block as franchisees are looking at replacing them with order-taking kiosks and robots to do the cooking.

No, this downturn in the number of jobs is actually Joe Biden’s fault. It’s all tied to the inflation rate, which, regardless what he is telling you, it wasn’t Putin’s inflation rate, or a world-wide inflation rate. It was caused by the printing of too much money. And while you can put a small part of the blame on Donald Trump, who initiated the first two rounds of stimulus checks, Joe Biden’s additional round, as well as his over-bloated spending on the “inflation reduction act”, which didn’t do anything it was supposed to do, and the “infrastructure bill” which touted mostly green energy start ups, were the major culprits. Biden touts both as reasons the economy has “turned around”.

So, the next time jobs numbers come out in early May, take a deeper dive into the numbers you’re being fed. See how many full-time jobs were created, versus how many were lost, and look at the number of part-time jobs that were a relatively large part of the overall number. You’ll be amazed!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Did Biden Know About Iran Attack?

If you think back to the end of last week, Joe Biden was addressing the American people about the presumed attack that Iran was planning on Israel. Now, there was a lot of chatter about it. It wasn’t a big surprise that an Iranian response was coming, after Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, Gen Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi, Hussein Youssef, along with five other Iran Revolutionary Guard Officers were killed.

What I thought was interesting was that as Biden addressed that press (and subsequently, the nation), he mentioned that he felt the attack “was coming in the next 24-48 hours”. That meant he felt it was going to happen either this past Saturday or Sunday. There are two things that bother me about that statement.

First is, if he KNEW that there was going to be an Iranian attack on Israel, which could certainly be considered an act of war, why did he then leave after the comments, and go to Rehoboth Beach? It would seem to me an active president would want to stay in the Situation Room and monitor the happenings, so he could be on top of things as they happened. Instead, Joe went to his beach house. Another vacation.

But equally as troubling is, HOW did he know that the attack would happen in 24-48 hours? Well, to answer that one, we need to go no further than X (or Twitter).

So Biden basically greenlit Iran’s attack on Israel… https://t.co/znfPmsXSCd

— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) April 14, 2024

Now, I’m not naive enough to believe that the United States’ intelligence community is blind to things happening around the world. No, I don’t think we’re as good as Mossad, necessarily, as they are considered to have the world’s best intelligence gathering network. But we’re pretty darn good. What IS troubling is that the US apparently (according to the Turkish diplomatic source) conveyed to Iran through Turkey that the operation of “responding” to Israel must be “within certain limits”. That’s troubling. Apparently, as Brent Scher stated in his post, Biden not only knew about the attack ahead of time, but he okayed it so long as it was within certain limitations.

As we now know, those “certain limitations” were aimed not at killing civilians, or even the military in Israel, since no one was injured, but were there as basically a propaganda tool that Iran can use to show it’s people that they had responded in kind for the killing of their Revolutionary Guard officers at a consulate. If I were Bibi Netanyahu and found out that Biden had okayed the attack ahead of time, I think I would be rather upset at the United States, and certainly Joe Biden. And as others have pointed out, wouldn’t this be an impeachable offense because Biden appears to be giving aid and comfort to the enemy? Just asking the question here!

The point that should be interesting moving forward isn’t if Biden will face repercussions for his actions, but how the Republicans will respond to this development. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me to see some sort of investigation going on in the Capitol. But I doubt anything of consequence will happen. The Congress is just too divided for that.

And that is a shame.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

The Mayorkas Fiasco

Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas could very well go down in history as the worst cabinet secretary in this nation’s history. Certainly he would qualify as one of the most corrupt. He has lied to Congress repeatedly over the past four years, telling them over and over again that the situation at the southern border is “a challenge”, but it wasn’t until April 10th that he actually admitted that it was “a crisis”. Now, how does something go from just a challenge to a full-blown crisis? There are basically two ways.

The first way is that whatever is causing the situation as a challenge grows and grows and keeps getting worse and worse. The second way is that you do nothing about it being a challenge, and it blossoms into a crisis because you’ve done nothing. Mayorkas and the Biden administration have fallen into the second category.

As Mayorkas faced an impeachment trial, Senate Majority Leader, Chuckles Schumer got a “point of order” passed that basically said that the articles of impeachment were unconstitutional. It passed along party lines.

First and foremost, let’s make very clear what we are dealing with here. Alejandro Mayorkas is a sorry excuse for a cabinet member. I don’t know the man, so I can’t say he’s a sorry excuse for a person, but I can say he is a pathological liar that doesn’t care about anything other than himself. That he has demonstrated in his numerous testimonies before Congress. So, we’re not dealing with a “Trump-style impeachment” here where the guy didn’t do anything wrong, and will get exonerated in the Senate. We’re dealing with a guy that has indeed lied to Congress, which according to 18 U.S.C. § 1001, is a federal crime which carries a penalty of five years in prison.

So, just to be clear, we are dealing with a situation where we have a cabinet member of the federal government who has lied to Congress, and that can easily be proven in a court of law. But is it right to impeach the guy and send him to the Senate for trial?

In my opinion, the answer is no. And the reason is simple. You’ve gone through the investigation phase in the House of Representatives. You’ve interviewed witnesses and taken testimony from dozens of people. And you’ve had a vote in committee, and on the House floor, which all passed and all took up valuable time and resources. Now you’re going to send it to the Senate who slapped it down without actually hearing anything more than a reading of the charges. The whole impeachment scenario led to the same thing that happened the last three times it’s been tried…nothing happens, and it’s been a waste of time and money.

Instead what the House should have done is arrest Mayorkas on the charge of lying to Congress, hold him in the Congressional jail (yes, there is one), and file charges that he’s lied and Congress tells the Department of Justice to either pursue the charges vigorously, or they get no further funding until they do. That means that Mayorkas would have to stand trial, and if found guilty would be sent to jail for up to five years.

Now, I realize that’s easy for me to say, and very difficult for anyone in DC to actually pull the trigger on. See, I would have no problem arresting a Congressman or Senator, and certainly not a member of the cabinet if they indeed committed a violation of federal law. In fact, it probably should be done a lot more than it is. And yes, it’s a serious offense that needs to be dealt with, but impeachment is not the way to go about it, especially if you don’t have the votes to convict the person in the Senate.

Let’s stop all the crap about impeaching people from the other side of the aisle. If they’ve broken the law, arrest them and force the DOJ to bring them to trial. Congress has the purse strings, and can certainly make that threat. It’s time we stop this mindless crap and do the business of the country.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Biden To Undo His Border Fiasco?

If you’re going to look at what’s happening at the southern border, you have to compare it to what Donald Trump did with the illegal border crossings, and compare it to what Joe Biden has done. Trump allowed less than a million illegals a year to get into this country. Joe Biden meanwhile has upped that count to over 2.2 million. He did it by basically erasing all of Trump’s policies and inviting illegals to come to America during the 2020 campaign.

Now, if you look at this situation honestly, and try and leave the emotional side out of it, yes, there are indeed two sides to blame. You can blame Biden for increasing the number of illegals coming into the country when compared to Trump. That’s a foregone conclusion. What he did when he first took office was erase everything that was working to slow the illegal border crossings. But you can also blame Congress for not changing the immigration laws that are so outdated, everyone on both sides of the aisle agrees they need to be changed. The only problem with that is, with Congress so evenly split, there is no agreement that would make it through both the Republican held House and the Democrat controlled Senate. Even if you went back to 2021, Democrats couldn’t have passed anything in the Senate with the body split 50-50.

So, Joe Biden finds himself in yet another bind. He can of course, take away those executive orders that caused the jump in the first place. Or he can continue to blame Republicans for not passing “the bi-partisan immigration bill”. Unfortunately, that’s a weak argument, since it never passed the Democrat controlled Senate either. And though Biden claims it would have solved the problem, it would have allowed up to 5,000 illegals to cross at border crossing points each and every day. Nothing would have changed if the crossings were kept to under 5,000 per day (that’s 1.825 million illegals coming here per year). You never hear the Democrats talking about that particular point of the bill.

Still, Biden can erase the executive orders, bring back Stay In Mexico, and make the immigrants wanting asylum to apply at legal border crossings, then wait in Mexico for their hearing. And as we’ve heard from the illegals themselves, most aren’t here claiming asylum for legitimate reasons. Most say they are here to make money so they can ship it back to their home country. That’s not a case for asylum. Their petition for asylum needs to be revoked and they need to be removed from the country.

But what is stopping Biden from getting rid of the executive orders is, he’d have to admit those orders were a mistake and shouldn’t have been done in the first place. With immigration so high on everyone’s list of issues this election cycle, that would be another nail in the Biden coffin. And once again, it would make Biden look like he was waffling, much like he’s done in Israel/Hamas. He wants to position himself as a strong leader, but he’s going to come across as weak regardless which way he goes. And he does this a lot in a number of different issues, Israel/Hamas is just one of them.

Biden needs to do something positive to stem the flow of illegals, or it will defeat him at the ballot box come November. Better to undo the damage now, get rid of the illegals that are here already, and tell those still coming to go back home. Over 76% of Americans want nothing to do with allowing illegals into this country. If only Biden had been told that by his handlers!

Carry on world… you’re dismissed!