Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, the pundit class was predicting that he would deliver a message of unity and calm, if only to attract undecided voters to his side.
He did the opposite. The speech revealed a loud, cranky, angry, bitter side of the man that people don’t usually see. It seemed like the real Joe Biden I remember from the old days, full of venom, sarcasm, disdain, threats, and extreme partisanship.
The base might have loved it except that he made reference to an “illegal” alien, which is apparently a trigger word for the left. He failed their purity test.
The speech was stunning in its bile and bitterness. It’s beyond belief that he began with a pitch for more funds for the Ukraine war, which has killed 10,000 civilians and some 200,000 troops on both sides. It’s a bloody mess that could have been resolved early on but for U.S. tax funding of the conflict.
Despite the push from the higher ends of conservative commentary, average Republicans have turned hard against this war. The United States is in a fiscal crisis and every manner of domestic crisis, and the U.S. president opens his speech with a pitch to protect the border in Ukraine? It was completely bizarre, and lent some weight to the darkest conspiracies about why the Biden administration cares so much about this issue.
From there, he pivoted to wildly overblown rhetoric about the most hysterically exaggerated event of our times: the legendary Jan. 6 protests on Capitol Hill. Arrests for daring to protest the government on that day are growing.
The media and the Biden administration continue to describe it as the worst crisis since the War of the Roses, or something. It’s all a wild stretch, but it set the tone of the whole speech, complete with unrelenting attacks on former President Donald Trump. He would use the speech not to unite or make a pitch that he is president of the entire country but rather intensify his fundamental attack on everything America is supposed to be.
Hard to isolate the most alarming part, but one aspect really stood out to me. He glared directly at the Supreme Court Justices sitting there and threatened them with political power. He said that they were awful for getting rid of nationwide abortion rights and returning the issue to the states where it belongs, very obviously. But President Biden whipped up his base to exact some kind of retribution against the court.
Looking this up, we have a few historical examples of presidents criticizing the court but none to their faces in a State of the Union address. This comes two weeks after President Biden directly bragged about defying the Supreme Court over the issue of student loan forgiveness. The court said he could not do this on his own, but President Biden did it anyway.
Here we have an issue of civic decorum that you cannot legislate or legally codify. Essentially, under the U.S. system, the president has to agree to defer to the highest court in its rulings even if he doesn’t like them. President Biden is now aggressively defying the court and adding direct threats on top of that. In other words, this president is plunging us straight into lawlessness and dictatorship.
In the background here, you must understand, is the most important free speech case in U.S. history. The Supreme Court on March 18 will hear arguments over an injunction against President Biden’s administrative agencies as issued by the Fifth Circuit. The injunction would forbid government agencies from imposing themselves on media and social media companies to curate content and censor contrary opinions, either directly or indirectly through so-called “switchboarding.”
A ruling for the plaintiffs in the case would force the dismantling of a growing and massive industry that has come to be called the censorship-industrial complex. It involves dozens or even more than 100 government agencies, including quasi-intelligence agencies such as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which was set up only in 2018 but managed information flow, labor force designations, and absentee voting during the COVID-19 response.
A good ruling here will protect free speech or at least intend to. But, of course, the Biden administration could directly defy it. That seems to be where this administration is headed. It’s extremely dangerous.
A ruling for the defense and against the injunction would be a catastrophe. It would invite every government agency to exercise direct control over all media and social media in the country, effectively abolishing the First Amendment.
Close watchers of the court have no clear idea of how this will turn out. But watching President Biden glare at court members at the address, one does wonder. Did they sense the threats he was making against them? Will they stand up for the independence of the judicial branch?
Maybe his intimidation tactics will end up backfiring. After all, does the Supreme Court really think it is wise to license this administration with the power to control all information flows in the United States?
The deeper issue here is a pressing battle that is roiling American life today. It concerns the future and power of the administrative state versus the elected one. The Constitution contains no reference to a fourth branch of government, but that is what has been allowed to form and entrench itself, in complete violation of the Founders’ intentions. Only the Supreme Court can stop it, if they are brave enough to take it on.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, and surely you have, President Biden is nothing but a marionette of deep-state interests. He is there to pretend to be the people’s representative, but everything that he does is about entrenching the fourth branch of government, the permanent bureaucracy that goes on its merry way without any real civilian oversight.
We know this for a fact by virtue of one of his first acts as president, to repeal an executive order by President Trump that would have reclassified some (or many) federal employees as directly under the control of the elected president rather than have independent power. The elites in Washington absolutely panicked about President Trump’s executive order. They plotted to make sure that he didn’t get a second term, and quickly scratched that brilliant act by President Trump from the historical record.
This epic battle is the subtext behind nearly everything taking place in Washington today.
Aside from the vicious moment of directly attacking the Supreme Court, President Biden set himself up as some kind of economic central planner, promising to abolish hidden fees and bags of chips that weren’t full enough, as if he has the power to do this, which he does not. He was up there just muttering gibberish. If he is serious, he believes that the U.S. president has the power to dictate the prices of every candy bar and hotel room in the United States—an absolutely terrifying exercise of power that compares only to Stalin and Mao. And yet there he was promising to do just that.
Aside from demonizing the opposition, wildly exaggerating about Jan. 6, whipping up war frenzy, swearing to end climate change, which will make the “green energy” industry rich, threatening more taxes on business enterprise, promising to cure cancer (again!), and parading as the master of candy bar prices, what else did he do? Well, he took credit for the supposedly growing economy even as a vast number of Americans are deeply suffering from his awful policies.
It’s hard to imagine that this speech could be considered a success. The optics alone made him look like the Grinch who stole freedom, except the Grinch was far more articulate and clever. He’s a mean one, Mr. Biden.
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All the Chinese are giving him a thumbs up and saying Chou BaiDan. Stinky white egg.
Excellent piece by Tucker. Re brainwashing funds (student debt forgiveness):
“The court said he could not do this on his own, but President Biden did it anyway.”
Defying USC. And illegal J6 imprisonments involving cruel and unusual punishment. Hmmm. That our so called Representives allowed this to happen without impeachment should scare the H out of us. We are living in the world of the illegal coup takeover on Nov 3/2020. For now, not all out Stalin but the purge is on it’s way -unless a countercoup.
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Joe “Quixote” Buttons
Jousting at wind turbines.
Jousting at wind turbines.
Odd. Months ago, I was hearing double that for deaths of Ukies only.
Where are you getting that quote? Biden?
Here’s a recent estimate from Radio Free Europe https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-war-deaths-ukraine-45000/32828776.html that references MediaZona’s research. MediaZona is run by Russian dissidents. The Russian Defense Ministry has listed around 40,000 men by name. So we’re in the ballpark of 45,000 Russian dead as of 3-4 weeks ago. By all accounts, Russia has been firing at least three times as many artillery shells since mid-2022. They also have air superiority. For 6 months starting June 6th of last year, Ukraine was trying its ill-fated “counteroffensive” where they sent men with rifles across mine fields and never ever got to the first of 3 well-fortified lines of defense.
The death toll of Ukrainians is hard to know. It could be 200k or a lot higher. Ukraine doesn’t denote most of the dead as killed – because then they would have to pay survivor’s benefits to the family. So they’re just MIA forever.
So they’re just MIA forever.
As my Dad liked to say, “I’d rather owe you forever than to ever try to beat you out of it.”
The 200k number is utter balderdash.
By not declaring troops dead, local commanders can continue to receive pay for the individual soldier. The checks often go to the lowest unit rather than banks. The commanders pocket the money. There is compound incentive not to report deaths.
1. Graft/theft.
2. And larger payouts for the dead are not made.
3. And official numbers of reported dead remain low.
It’s from the 4th paragraph of the article.
You’re correct. You can base the number of Ukrainian dead on the number of new graves, expanded cemeteries, or the obituaries in the Ukrainian press, which puts the Ukrainian dead in excess of 500,000 at this point. Or you can count the dead based on Ukrainian Rada officials saying Ukraine needes to replace 20,000 Ukrainians a month (said before Avdiivka got really hot), or you can take the Ukrainian Head of Intelligence himself three months ago who said Ukraine needed to recruite another 500,000 troops to fill the gap caused by irreplaceable attrition. Or you can take the recent numbers given by the Ukrainian executive branch where they say they lost track of 800,000 troops. Or you can take the Poltava region military commissariat, who said combat losses for Ukraine were around 80 to 90% per unit (“of 100 mobilized only 10 to 20 remain”) and given the roughly million men Zelensky and Budanov stated Ukraine had, permanent casualties and dead would number around 800,000 or more, which in rough orders of magnitude squares with Budanov’s request for at least 500,000 new troops, along with what Zelensky tried to raise before he hit resistance. There are a few other ways to come to numbers greater than 200,000. Most require speaking Ukrainian though.
And let’s not forget the parts about killing unborn babies up to the last moments of pregnancy, and beyond; or the sexual mutilation of children.
I don’t care if he’s just a brain dead sock puppet saying and doing what he’s supposed to say and do. I despise him and hope he rots in hell for eternity.
That was so nicely put, Warren. Thank you and FJB.
” It’s beyond belief that he began with a pitch for more funds for the Ukraine war, which has killed 10,000 civilians and some 200,000 troops on both sides.”
That’s all bullshit. Way back many months ago, if one really dug hard, you could surmise that the Ukie death toll was already around 700,000. Right now they’re losing almost 8,000 a week. I dare say that they’re pushing at least a million dead soldiers so far.
And it’s not over yet. The final months before the final collapse will be the bloodiest. So far they’re at over 30,000 per month, and the average lifespan of one of their soldiers upon arrival at the front is 4 hours.
POSIWID
Pretty good article, though I would disagree about the 3 branches of government, legitimately there are 4. An armed people being the 4th, as well other varying duties reserved by the people, such as freedom of the press.
Not to mention “Lincoln” Riley. Next time someone should call his late son “Belle” Biden and add the insult to injury by saying they meant Bill. Ooops.
I do not understand the fascination of running these write ups talking about Biden as if he is calling any shots. Its unreal. Why not write ups on his cabinet members? Or the lobbyists controlling our sell out congressional actors. ?
He isn’t. Do you plan on calling it out?
Jeez, I’m tired of seeing this clown literally barking at the moon.
Freedom hasn’t been stolen, it has been eroded away for decades. This is just the final erosion.
Bullshit. Obama did it.
Look it up. I remember Rush Limbaugh droning on and on about it for weeks.