The devil went down to Georgia and came back a lame duck.
Joe Biden’s angry speech in the Peach State on Tuesday about so-called “voting rights” was stupid, divisive and full of lies, and it also exposed his impotence.
Inflation has hit a 40-year high, store shelves are empty, COVID numbers are at record levels with tests in scarce supply, violent crime is surging in blue cities and millions of illegal immigrants are still pouring over the southern border.
Distract the peasants
But all this flailing president can do in the face of cascading, mainly self-inflicted, crises is to gin up a fake political controversy to distract the peasants he imagines are out there hanging on his every word.
The man elected to unite the country coughed, shouted, lied, said “y’all,” and railed obsessively against Donald Trump.
“I’m tired of being quiet!” he yelled.
All he has left is to demonize as “domestic enemies” millions of Americans who oppose the Democrats’ cynical plan to federalize elections, ban voter ID, legalize ballot harvesting and ensure they never lose another election.
On the Senate floor Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell crisply summed up Biden’s “rant.”
“He shouted that if you disagree with him, you’re George Wallace … If you don’t pass the laws he wants, you’re Bull Connor, and if you oppose giving Democrats untrammeled, one-party control of the country, well, you’re Jefferson Davis.”
No matter how much fury Biden was prepared to unleash at a tiny audience of black college students in Atlanta, it didn’t impress Stacey Abrams, Democratic royalty in Georgia, or any of her fellow voting rights activists who saw right through the ruse and boycotted his speech.
Abrams didn’t even bother to come up with a face-saving excuse for the president. Instead, she humiliated him with a flippant “scheduling conflict,” which just put his dwindling power in neon lights.
Too busy for the POTUS? Was she washing her hair? Rearranging her sock drawer?
“He understands scheduling conflicts and how they appear in your life,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.
No one believes this malarkey, but Biden served it up anyway, with a side serving of nasty to the reporter who asked about the insult of Abrams’ no-show.
“I’m insulted that you asked the question,” he growled. “We have a great relationship. We got our scheduling mixed up … We’re all on the same page and everything’s fine.”
In other words, as with most Biden pronouncements, the opposite is the case.
Ballot-box poison
Everything’s not fine. The first black female gubernatorial candidate in Georgia’s history chose to publicly snub a president who has become ballot-box poison in record time. Just one week before the first anniversary of his inauguration, Biden’s poll numbers are worse than any of his most recent predecessors, even the perpetually besieged Trump.
A Quinnipiac poll Wednesday showed Biden’s approval rating has plunged to 33 percent, and to just 25 percent with independents.
He’s down to 28 percent with Hispanics, 32 percent with whites and, in his last bastion of waning appeal, 57 percent with blacks. He is a special turnoff for men, who give him a 25 percent approval rating, and for young people, who are at 24 percent. He’s down in the 30s on his handling of the economy, foreign policy and even his panic-porn election-winning issue, COVID.
In the comparable Quinnipiac poll from January 2018, Trump polled five points higher than Biden, who has sunk to such irrecoverable depths despite a docile media and an absence of the sort of deep-state sabotage that crippled Trump’s presidency.
A Rasmussen poll paints an equally bleak picture for the president, with an all-time low earlier this month of just 19 percent of voters who “strongly approve” of the job Biden is doing. Trump’s lowest was 23 percent.
Trump spent eight days of his entire four-year term at or below 40 percent approval, according to Rasmussen.
In less than a year, Biden has bested that record by one day.
Lord knows what the focus groups and internal polls are telling the White House, but it can’t be fun.
Hence Biden’s desperate, rage-flecked effort to reboot the agenda in Georgia this week. You get the feeling the focus of his anger is the ingrates who fail to appreciate his “consequential” genius, unlike those sycophantic historians who flock around the White House whispering sweet nothings in his ear (“You’re better than FDR, m’lord!”) and helping write his tin-eared speeches.
The problem is that everyone is awake to the lies. And there were plenty of lies in Georgia.
At one point, he even launched into his oft-debunked tall tale about being arrested in South Africa while trying to see Nelson Mandela — but abruptly stopped himself. “Seems like just yesterday the first time I got arrested,” he began, with that dreamy look in his eyes. “Anyway,” he said and went back to the teleprompter.
31 lies
In an excoriating article on Substack, black activist Shaun King last year laid out 31 blatant lies Biden has told about his “work” in the civil rights movement since the early 1970s.
“It’s the equivalent of stolen valor,” writes King, exposing Biden’s fraudulent claims of being at protests and sit-ins in Delaware and even pretending he “was raised in the black church.”
In Georgia, Biden recited the usual egregious deceptions from liberal activists about the state’s election laws, which are far more relaxed than those in, say, Delaware. He also claimed that Trump voted by mail from the Oval Office in 2020, when he actually voted in person in West Palm Beach.
“Let the majority prevail” thundered Biden, who then said he would get “rid of the filibuster” if a majority in the Senate did not vote for the Dems’ voting rights bill.
The legislation is doomed. Like the president.
Wrist-slap for crooks is truly criminal justice
A police commissioner’s memo went out to all commands of the NYPD last week titled: “ENACTMENT OF STATE LAW CRIMINALIZING THE FALSIFICATION OF COVID-19 VACCINATION CARD.”
The “training directive” instructs all police about a new state law that will have you locked up on a Class D felony for having a counterfeit vax card.
But, as we have seen over the past week, if you are a recidivist thief who threatens store employees with a knife or a pair of cutting shears, you will at worst be slapped on the wrist with a petit-larceny charge.
These days, that’s justice, New York-style.
