Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
As President Joe Biden’s poll numbers sank this fall, and the presidentially ambitious in his party began to stir, the White House put out the word.
Forget all that 2020 campaign chatter about Biden being a “transitional president.” He intends to run and win a second term.
Well, perhaps. Yet, skepticism abounds.
First, if Biden ran in 2024 and won, his second term would extend to January 2029, when he would be 86 years old. He is already, at 79, the oldest president in history. Does Biden look like a signal-calling quarterback with seven years of playing days ahead of him?
When one views his diminished mental capacities and the issues menu before him, it seems a certainty that we are not looking at a two-term president.
First, there is the pandemic.
With the death toll now exceeding 800,000, and the number of COVID-19 cases reaching 50 million, more Americans have died of the coronavirus under Biden than under former President Donald Trump. Over 1,000 Americans are being daily added to the death toll.
In a New York Post poll, approval of Biden’s handling of the pandemic has already fallen from 69% on Inauguration Day to 53% today.
Another menu item is the economic crisis induced by the pandemic.
Inflation under Biden has soared to 6.8%, and at the Federal Reserve, there is talk of three interest rate hikes in 2022.
What does this mean? Not only are the prices of gasoline and groceries rising beyond the capacity of millions of families to pay, but for every $100,000 in cash savings of every Middle American family, nearly $7,000 will have been wiped out in Biden’s first year.
And the Biden inflation is no longer spoken of as “transitory.”
For his handling of inflation, Biden has an approval rating of 28%, with two-thirds of all Americans, 69%, disapproving of the job he is doing.
On the crime front, our major cities are now setting new records for shootings, stabbings, homicides and murders. Cable and TV news carry regular videos of “flash mobs” invading and looting downtown stores and fleeing before the police arrive.
In Biden’s America, civilization itself seems to be breaking down.
How do the American people think Biden is handling crime?
As a Delaware senator in the 1990s, Biden was seen as a law-and-order Democrat who helped enact some of the toughest anti-crime and pro-cop legislation of the decade.
Yet, today, when even San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi is decrying the “smash-and-grab” mob attacks on her city’s retail stores as reflecting an “attitude of lawlessness,” 3 in 5 Americans, 61%, disapprove of how Biden is handling the crime issue.
On taking office, Biden discarded the Trump immigration policies that had held back the flood of illegal migrants into the country.
Now the southern border is bleeding as never before.
In Biden’s first year, migrants have been crossing at a rate of close to 2 million a year. Scores of thousands of “got-aways” — unknown homeland invaders who evade any contact with U.S. authorities — have vanished into our population since Biden took office.
And they are coming now not only from Mexico and the Northern Triangle — Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador. They are coming from every continent and every country on earth. We are becoming what President Teddy Roosevelt warned America would become if it failed to manage its immigration well — “a polyglot boarding house for the world.”
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war,” said Ernest Hemingway. “Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin.”
Biden is going to have to negotiate a modus vivendi with Russia on Ukraine and China on Taiwan, after a Beijing-Moscow summit where Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that the two countries have established a relationship that “in its closeness and effectiveness … even exceeds an alliance.”
Eleven months from now, Biden faces congressional elections. Almost surely, they will cost him his majority in the House and leave him at year’s end an 80-year-old lame-duck president whose legislative agenda will have to meet with the approval of the new speaker, Kevin McCarthy.
So where will we and Biden be at New Year’s Eve 2023?
We will have an octogenarian president, in even more visible cognitive decline, faced with intractable issues of crime, a bleeding border, a pandemic and an inflation with which he has been unable to cope.
And, like William Howard Taft in 1912, Harry Truman in 1952, Lyndon Johnson in 1968, Gerald Ford in 1976, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H. W. Bush in 1992, Biden will, if he decides to run again, face a challenge in the Democratic primaries. Biden won’t get a pass.
And should he survive those primaries, as some of those presidents did, Biden would be the favorite to lose in 2024. For none of those presidents won reelection.
It may be time to consider a retirement announcement.
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In the 2020 election year, when the left were talking about a “transitional president” they meant the transition between a democratic republic and a socialist state so they weren’t incorrect.
“81 million votes”
Biden crushed it; most votes ever; a historical campaign and victory; don’t believe your lying eyes! If he gets a crowd in 2024, they will be chanting: “Someone’s in the crowd yelling hurrah for Brandon, 1,2,3,4, FJB hurrah”. I don’t want Trump the NWO Zionist Traitor but if he runs I think he’ll win; and of course, Hillary and all the other Traitors have nothing to fear…
President is s puppet, same as trump same as the rest. They’re handled and surrounded by a cabinet of Zionists. They are just figureheads that act as scapegoats for people to love or hate. It is absolutely amazing that the vast majority of people still believe in elections and the power of the presidency. Its embarrassing actually.
Oh here we go, “it’s the jews”.
He said Zionist fool.
We know what he said and what he meant.
Same difference. It really is the joos. Ivan is either ignorant or a joo. Jesus had to be sent to us to battle against those demonic bastards. He gave us the key to see through their Matrix. Nothing has changed.
Anti-semitism is a mental illness. Thanks for proving it once again.
My, how well programmed you are.
Yea. Rebelling against people who think you are less than cattle is a total mental illness, goyim.
You should totally accept the loving friendship of the people who claim to have murdered the Messenger of your God. The ones who tell you that your Savior is boiling in a pit of excrement are your friends.
“It may be time to consider a retirement announcement.”
No president at this stage of his term will make a retirement announcement unless that resignation/retirement was to be immediate, a la Richard Nixon 1974. To do so this early would be to forfeit whatever remaining political capital that president has. As much as his political opponents would welcome a retirement announcement, my money says that announcement won’t be made until after the next session of Congress convenes on January 2, 2023.
Nobody over 60 should run for or be elected to any office. A dementia patient in House or Senate doesn’t care about the consequences of what they do or what they spend because they’ll soon be dead.
At their inaugurations as president, Reagan was 69; Eisenhower was 62; Andrew Jackson was 61; and, John Adams was 61.
We need men like Franco, Patton, Lee, Forrest, Stonewall, Franklin, Payne, Jefferson, Joe McCarthy, Wallace, Ron Paul, Churchill, Dr Charles Murry (Bell Curve), Ward Connerly (Calf Prop 12), no matter their age…if FJB was 35 again, he’d still be a liberal POS.
>>>Nobody over 60 should run for or be elected to any office.
No one who is childless should be elected to any political office; long term, they have zero skin in the game.
A few years back, virtually all the heads of government in the larger European nations had no offspring… which pattern fits well with the lack of a biological future for most European peoples.
Its a stupid argument. This system IS the problem. Not age. If it wasn’t a corrupt system, that wouldn’t need to be considered. It is a system that puts too much power into too few hands.
It is a system with negative accountability.
You hit the nail on the head. I am 63 and feel as good as I ever did. I met 30-year old’s that were physical wrecks, and some 80 year olds that were just in excellent health physically and mentally.
Biden and the Democrats looking strong in the mid terms. With fake PCR tests and vaccinated people with the spike protein that the test upped to 40 cycles will pick up, mail in ballots are assured.
Right, dropping dead or not being a citizen won’t matter…
What about the saying … “be careful what you wish for”?
Because I internally shudder, cringe, and panic at the mere thought of … “President Kamala Harris”.
She’s as ruthless, drunk on power, and without morals as any evil bitch in the entire Swamp. She will make the Borg who rule Australia and New Zealand look like cherubs.
Sotero will have kama-lama-ding-dong appoint hm vp, because he is running the show anyhow.
You mean appoint Michelle/Mike VP, don’t you?
Sounds like true love. LOL
My best joke ever, and I can’t even get a thumbs up.
She is entirely incompetent and everybody hates. I think we should vote for her. Lets turn the heat up to 11.
Only 7 seconds but this isn’t cackling Kamala …. this is angry evil Kamala. You can see it in her eyes, Satan glaring at you. That boney cock-rubbing finger pointed at you, ready to send you to your death for daring to question her awesome-ness.
“Biden Holds a Losing Hand”
He is a loser, most losers hold a losing hand.
C’mon Pat, “the pandemic” was intended to cause an economic crisis.
But these Democrat losers hold a hand full of corrupt money.
He may be a loser, but he’s the President of the United States.
Pretty decent loss, what?
Kevin McCarthy will surely rein in the progs. /s
I have hated that weasel since before anyone knew who he is. I used to waste my time following politics like some people follow sportsball.
I hope the dems run Buttgeek in 2024. There’s no way a gay is winning the presidency. It would be beyond their ability to “fortify”.
I’m afraid you have to much faith in the American people.
“Black & brown” people – especially men, but women, too – wouldn’t vote for a white guy whose wife is a dude named Chasten. They may not vote for the Republican, but they’ll stay home.
You have to admire the astonishing way the politicians lie to us. Damn, they have balls.
More than that, they have REALLY GOOD security.
Makes all the difference.
800k haven’t died of China flu. The number has been reduced by 96%.
Pat makes a few good points. But if he thinks Biden is calling the shots, he is delusional. Obama and the New World Order Globalists are the puppet master. End of story.
King Magic Negro Puppet is a puppet master?
Not a master, but a shot caller.
“With the death toll now exceeding 800,000, and the number of COVID-19 cases reaching 50 million, more Americans have died of the coronavirus under Biden than under former President Donald Trump. Over 1,000 Americans are being daily added to the death toll.”
Get a clue Pat. You are a smart guy, but if you are calling it anything but a fraud and a false allocation of causes of death, you are part of the problem.
It’s not a false dichotomy or trump/biden, it is a false flag attack on the human race.
I hear Janet Yellen is “their” favorite…
Biden won with 10% of the vote. The rest of the article is pointless. Buchanan doesn’t write articles anymore, but his yid handlers do.
Ken – Buchy has been a joke since I don’t know when. Another day of commenting on the stooge actors for a crime syndicate…Oy.
Well said. LOL
Jerky Joe looks decidedly Chinese in this picture. I think that the Chinese must have replaced him with a duplicate when he was VEEP.
Da Ho has a meltdown. Den she be sayin’ she gonna reduce black chilren poverty by FIFY PERCENT! Garn’teed.