Deception, Hypocrisy and Failure
(This article first appeared in Broad+Liberty.)
Biden lied about his health. Harris defended his lies, told her own lies, and attacked anyone who challenged the lies.
When they could no longer effectively lie to us — Americans had seen and heard too much — when Democrat donors and left-wing activists realized that Biden was no longer useful to them because he couldn’t win, and when the oligarchy feared he would cause them to lose the Senate and the House, they worked feverishly through leaks, pressure and tweets to get rid of him.
Finally, he was left alone with his family and a handful of loyalists. Like the final hours of a banana republic dictator awaiting word that it’s time to leave the palace ahead of the coup.
But even then neither Biden, nor his loyalists, nor his former allies (users) could bring themselves to be honest with us. They still won’t admit why he’s not running. Biden must explain to us how he can be too weak, ill, or confused to be a candidate, yet somehow rest assured that he’s able to be an effective president for six more months.
And, Kamala Harris is as blameworthy as him and his team — even more so.
Biden’s statement is filled with deception after deception — including hiding the reason he’s not running for re-election. Biden tragically built his career and ran his campaigns misleading us — with a false biography, misleading economic data, and a “mistaken” family history, including anecdotes he stole from British candidates. He couldn’t even be honest as he steps aside from running.
Kamala Harris not only told the same lies and created the same failed record, but she defended his deception. Moreover, she attacked anyone who challenged their false narrative.
Biden’s statement to Americans boasts of “historic investments.” What that means is that no administration ever wasted more taxpayer dollars or drove our nation deeper in debt than Biden. His spending not only helped create “historic” inflation, but Biden and Harris’s national debt will burden our children and grandchildren and beyond.
And Harris lobbied for and defended their record wasteful, inflation-causing spending.
Biden crows about “affordable health care to a record number of Americans,” yet less than 24 hours earlier even CBS reported that Americans are spending more than ever — and almost half can’t afford health care. Either he doesn’t know the facts or still thinks he can deceive us.
And, Harris was his chief cheerleader.
Biden points to “the most historic climate legislation in the history of the world!” Wait: you don’t remember the “green new deal” becoming law? You’d be right. However, remember when they passed the “Inflation Reduction Act?” Before he even signed it, members of Congress started calling it a “climate” bill?
What did we actually get from that “historic” legislation? Historic inflation — the highest since Jimmy Carter — that is still hurting us today? And the Biden-Harris “climate” legislation also brought us gasoline prices 75 percent higher than when he took office. And we’re importing more oil from our enemies than before they took office. And as a bonus, to try to “fix” their mess, they released so much oil from our Strategic Oil Reserve, the reserve is at an historic low. Better hope that “climate crisis” doesn’t cause hurricanes near oil rigs in the Gulf.
Biden, Harris, members of Congress, their donors, their left-wing activists, and their allies in the legacy media lied to us for months — maybe years — about Biden’s mental and physical health. And, they worked together to cover it up. And, to attack anyone who asked questions. Heck, they did it just days ago, Harris and MSNBC, even after the debate.
Biden is not running for re-election for one of two reasons. If he’s too tired, too weak, too ill (“covid”) or doesn’t have the stamina, then he can’t be an effective President. Or they pushed aside the “big guy” because he can’t win. After the primaries. Only 106 days til the election — 60 days before early voting begins in some states. “Democracy!”
Biden must resign. Or Kamala Harris could finally do something that showed responsibility and leadership — invoke the 25th amendment and remove him. Are they afraid she’s not ready to be President?
The insider Democrat oligarchy — the DC swamp, the legacy media and their billionaire donors in California or New York — lied to us about inflation, mislead us on masking, kept our kids locked out of school, supported “defund the police” and the “mostly peaceful protests” that burned Portland, New York, DC, Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, and told us that Biden was healthy, engaged and vigorous. Now think they can push aside a President and not tell us why.
And, Kamala Harris has been part of it — or is being used by them.
Let’s put aside her mindless word-salads. Let’s put aside her bizarre, awkward laugh at the strangest moments. Let’s put aside the silly TED-talk slogans — “being unburdened by what has been.” Let’s put aside that her one and only accomplishment in life was being California’s “tough on crime” Attorney General — only to spend from 2019 until now apologizing for fighting crime and putting people in jail.
Let’s remember that she has been by Joe Biden’s side since the summer of 2020. She has been part of — and chief defender of — every decision that brought us: historic inflation, violent crime in our cities, illegally “canceling student loans,” rising, unchecked anti-Semitism on campuses and major cities, and international crises around the globe.
Most of all: she was Joe Biden’s hand-picked “border czar.” She had one job. And she failed. She waited almost six months to even go to the border, finally going after NBC embarrassed her into it. Under “czar” Kamala, a population equal to that of New Jersey and Delaware have illegally crossed into America.
The party that yells, virtue-signals, and tweets about “defending democracy” just staged a bloodless coup against “the big guy” either because he’s incapable of campaigning to win, or they decided he just can’t win.
What “they” mean by “democracy” is that insiders decide — or their mobs decide — and we must all accept it as true and good. It’s a useful term that only has value when it helps their cause: winning and power.
Biden and Harris created historic inflation, presided over world-wide instability and left our border so open that — as Senator Fetterman says — the population of Pittsburgh crosses into America each month.
Joe gave her one job: protect the border. She failed.
Americans gave her one job: look out for us, not the insiders. She failed.
Kamala Harris now wants us to make her President. Trust HER?
Guy Ciarrocchi writes for Broad + Liberty and RealClear Pennsylvania. He is a Senior Fellow with the Commonwealth Foundation. Follow Guy at @PaSuburbsGuy.
