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Five Minus One

The other day I happened catch a portion of ‘The Five’ on Fox (5pm eastern, 2pm pacific) as Geraldo was bemoaning the fact that Joe Biden has been a victim of circumstance with all of the nation’s present day problems. (FYI: Geraldo is the token liberal yo-yo on The Five.) I did not stay tuned to hear what the rational conservative other Four (Five minus One) had to say, but rather later I pondered on what Geraldo had said. Was Joe Biden merely an unfortunate victim of circumstance? You know … wrong place, wrong time by serendipity alone? Could the ‘One’ be right?

Let’s start with gas prices and inflation. Although these are closely related, they are not the same. Gas prices started to rise after J.B. closed down pipelines on his first afternoon in office. Serendipity? Err, no. Cause and effect! 

Inflation took off following Joe’s entrance onto the scene. As most of us are aware, inflation is basically a supply-demand thing, and J.B’s profligate spending with Build Back Better is one of the major reasons for out inflation. (As Sen, Kennedy, R,LA, has said, “nothing has been built, nothing is back, and certainly, nothing is better!”)

Certainly, ‘One’ could argue that J.B. was dealt an unfortunate post Covid hand with the pandemic, lockdowns, school closures, etc., however remember, that while campaigning, J.B. told the American people that he would be the one to get Covid under control. Also remember, Geraldo, that J.B. sided with those who promoted lockdowns and school closures. Any bad hand that J.B. was dealt as a consequence of the ramifications of Covid, were mostly because he cut the deck and was dealing.

The war in Ukraine is an example of not of ‘wrong place, wrong time,’ but rather the ‘wrong person,’ ‘wrong time.’ As former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote back in 2014: “Biden has been wrong about “nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Well at least J.B has been consistent with his Ukraine approach, as he fiddled while Putin amassed 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s border. After Biden’s infamous Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, Putin knew that J.B. did not have the cajones to stand up to him. Biden’s threats were paper tigers, and consequently we are in middle of a very expensive mish-mosh in Ukraine with no end in sight.

The border debacle … totally Joe’s own doing. Apparently, the administration is now running adds on Central American TV stations telling the people not to come! Oops! Again too little, too late. Perhaps if these adds were run a year ago and Trump’s wall had been finished, our southern border would not now be the sieve for drugs and banditos that it is today. I would think that even ‘The One’ would have to agree that here serendipity played no role.

In conclusion the postulate of ‘The One’ that Joe Biden is merely an unfortunate victim of circumstance is … for a PG audience … total poppycock, total mumbo-jumbo, total malarkey, total hogwash, etc!

5/16/22

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