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FACT-CHECKING JOE BIDEN

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 4, 2021

"Opinion: Our Joe Biden, What a Piece of Work"


Special Opinion by Paul Plante

I was thinking of calling this thread “fact-checking” Joe Biden based on his Full transcript from President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress on 28 April 2021, but as I read through that document, it came to me that based on some of the bizarre statements in there, Joe Biden is in fact a real piece of work, and we are stuck with him in the White House now, God help the nation, which raises the question of who in their right mind would want as the nation’s chief executive somebody who is clearly not all there?

Case in point is this following from that Transcript, to wit:

Talk to most responsible gun owners, most hunters – they’ll tell you there’s no possible justification for having 100 rounds – 100 bullets – in a weapon.

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Yes, people, Joe Biden actually said those very words, and all the responsible gun owners and hunters I know would come back to goofy old Joe and ask him how he is sticking 100 bullets into a magazine that only holds 20, or maybe 30 rounds?

Or 6 if you are talking about a Model 94 Winchester.

So let’s chalk that up as a stupid, ridiculous statement.

And since we are now two months further along since Joe made that speech to the Democrats in Congress, let’s start at the beginning, where we have Joe saying to the candid world as follows:

And today, that’s what we’re doing: America is rising anew.

Choosing hope over fear.

Truth over lies.

Light over darkness.

After 100 Days of rescue and renewal, America is ready for takeoff.

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Truth over lies?

Light over darkness?

America is ready for “takeoff?”

To where?

The moon?

Jupiter?

Uranus?

And are we going on one of Richard Brasnson’s rockets?

Or one from Elon Musk?

And while we are on that subject, let’s go back to the Transcript, where we have Joe saying as follows:

We’re making one of the largest one-time investments ever in improving health care for veterans.

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Which has me laughing right out loud in mocking tones because on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, our goofy old Joe closed down the VA Clinic where I was to get my healthcare, leaving me out in the cold, because he wanted to save the rent so he can pay for his beloved illegals he has swarming the southern border.

So much for truth over lies, and light over darkness.

Going back to the Transcript, we have Joe talking about his infrastructure plan, as follows:

I’ve made clear that we can do it without increasing deficits.

Let’s start with what I will not do.

I will not impose any tax increases on people making less than $400,000 a year.

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Said as our Joe jacks the nation’s massive deficit even higher, and imposes a tax on people making less than $400,000 through price inflation, which is indeed a tax on those making less than $400,000, along with his tariff on lumber, which is yet another tax that impacts directly on those making less than $400,000, as we see by going to an article from The (Raleigh) News & Observer entitled “Lumber prices still sky-high amid COVID-19 shortage. What’s being done to get costs down?” by Bailey Aldridge on June 6, 2021, where we have as follows, to wit:

RALEIGH — Lumber prices have continued surging in response to supply shortages spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The lumber scarcity matched with increased demand during the pandemic drove costs sky-high, which in turn has increased construction and housing costs and left government officials and those within the industry grappling with how to rebound supply and bring costs down.

Between April 2020 and April 2021, the National Association of Home Builders said the “price per thousand board feet” increased by nearly 250% — from $350 to $1,200.

Prices then soared past $1,400 in early May and have continued increasing since.

The high lumber costs have increased the price of a single-family home by about $36,000, the NAHB says.

That’s priced “millions of middle-class households out of the market at a level they previously could afford.”

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Which takes us back to the Transcript, where we have Joe making the following statement, to wit:

It’s time to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle-out.

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Bottom up and middle out?

Is that the same as saying that high lumber costs have increased the price of a single-family home by about $36,000, pricing “millions of middle-class households out of the market at a level they previously could afford?”

As in middle class being forced out of the housing market?

Is that what “middle out,” really means, as in “middle class” forced out of the game?

Going back to that story, we have:

It’s also added nearly $13,000 to the cost of an “average new multifamily” home — meaning rent for a new apartment has gone up by about $119 each month.

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How does that square with no tax increases on people making less than $400,000 a year?

Going back to the story, we have:

What’s being done to bring lumber prices down?

The NAHB said it has called for “prompt action” from President Joe Biden’s administration and other officials and in late May discussed the soaring lumber prices with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.

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For those who don’t know her, which is likely just about all of is, Gina Marie Raimondo, (born May 17, 1971), is an American politician and venture capitalist serving since 2021 as the 40th and current United States Secretary of Commerce.

A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 75th and first female Governor of Rhode Island from 2015 to 2021.

Raimondo graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in economics from Harvard College in 1993, where she served on the staff of The Harvard Crimson, and then she attended New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where she received a Master of Arts (MA) degree and Doctor of Philosophy in 2002 in sociology, with her thesis being on single motherhood, and Raimondo received her Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1998.

Following her graduation from Yale Law School, Raimondo acted as senior vice president for fund development at the Manhattan offices of Village Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and backed by Bain Capital and Highland Capital Groups, and she returned to Rhode Island in 2000 to co-found the state’s first venture capital firm, Point Judith Capital, with Point Judith subsequently relocating its offices to Boston, Massachusetts.

At Point Judith, Raimondo served as a general partner covering health care investments; she retains some executive duties with the firm.

Between assuming office and the end of 2019, Raimondo consistently ranked towards the bottom of approval ratings for all governors in the United States, which is quite likely why goofy old old Joe picked her, as she would be no political threat to him by being too popular.

As to her competence, we have thusly:

A widely-criticized rollout of a new computer network system for the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services dubbed the “Unified Health Infrastructure Project” (UHIP) in September 2016 saw scores of people without access to government programs such as food stamps and child care due to glitches in the software, designed by Deloitte.

This computer crash created a backlog of more than 20,000 cases.

In March 2017, Rhode Island Monthly reported that the U.S. Department of Justice opened an investigation into UHIP, specifically false claims and statements made about the Health and Human Services computer network rollout.

The investigation was still underway as of summer 2017.

In an interview, House Oversight Chair Rep. Patricia Serpa (D-West Warwick) said, “There’s plenty of blame to go around.”

“The auditor’s report found that [the contract with Deloitte] was poorly written, poorly overseen and poorly executed.”

“They were warned against the implementation because the system was not ready.”

“Not only did they implement it, they displaced all of the most senior workers with the wealth of experience.”

“We pulled all the plugs to make sure this was a failure.”

According to documents submitted to the federal government, the cost estimate for UHIP through 2021 is $656 million.

State taxpayers will pay $154 million of this amount while the federal government will pay the remainder.

In January 2020, State Senator Sam Bell said a Rhode Island Senate Fiscal Report on Raimondo’s budget proved that “a single UHIP update kicked 5,500 Rhode Islanders off their Medicaid” in November 2019 without due process and the decisions were based on a computer update.

Bell went on: “Medicaid terminations need to be done with some due process.”

“They should not come from a notoriously glitchy computer system.”

“You should have a chance to fight the decision to rip away your health insurance.”

“When you lose your Medicaid with no warning and no effort to transition you onto the exchange, the consequences can be deadly.”

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Obviously, Joe Biden found a way to avoid looking at any of that incompetence when he selected her to be his commerce secretary, which raises the question of why?

Which takes us back to the (Raleigh) News & Observer story, to wit:

NAHB Chairman Chuck Fowke said in a news release that Raimondo acknowledged she and Biden are concerned about the effect of high lumber prices on the country’s economy.

“We take these issues seriously, and my staff and I are committed to continuing to work with all stakeholders, including reviewing relevant data and conducting analysis to identify targeted actions the government or industry can take to address supply chain constraints,” Raimondo said, according to the NAHB.

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What rubbish!

Just a bunch of hobble-gobble and political BULL****.

And there for the moment I will rest.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 6, 2021 AT 9:27 PM

Paul Plante says:

And while we wait for word of other things happening with Joe Biden who seems to think that like Joe Stalin, Joe Biden is responsible for making decisions about every single thing in our lives, I notice today that despite any efforts Joe Biden’s Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo might have made, and I frankly haven’t heard of any, that a 4′ x 8′ sheet of 3/4 inch plywood sheathing is $85.08, against a normal price of $35.97, and with respect to lumber, according to a recent CNBC article entitled “Lumber prices dive more than 40% in June, biggest monthly drop on record” by Yun on June 30, 2021, a bubble has burst, to wit:

The great lumber bubble of 2021 has popped.

After a jaw-dropping rally this spring, lumber prices have come back down to earth as supply increased, speculative trading action cooled and homebuilding demand eased.

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Note well those words “speculative trading action cooled,” and ask yourself, why all the speculation, i.e. gambling, in the lumber markets, and where did all that money to speculate with come from?

Getting back to the story:

Lumber futures tanked more than 40% in June alone, suffering their worst month on record dating back to 1978.

The building commodity is down more than 18% in 2021, headed for the first negative first half since 2015.

At their peak on May 7, lumber prices hit an all-time high of $1,670.50 per thousand board feet on a closing basis, which was more than six times higher than their pandemic low in April 2020.

Goldman Sachs analysts said Tuesday that their channel checks suggested increasing consumer hesitancy around some home improvement projects given sticker shock from the rapid rise in certain commodity prices this year, notably lumber.

At one point, the lumber shortage led to the average price of a new single-family home increasing by nearly $36,000, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

Recently, there have been signs of the housing boom fizzling.

Weekly mortgage demand fell 6.9% last week to the lowest level in almost a year and a half.

Now, lumber futures prices are on track for their sixth consecutive weekly loss, wiping out all of their 2021 rally.

The price fell another 6% on Wednesday to around $710 per thousand board feet.

“It was a bubble but it is still double where it was pre Covid,” said Peter Boockvar, CIO at Bleakley Advisory Group.

Still, Boockvar believes just because the lumber bubble might have burst, it doesn’t mean the threat of inflation isn’t real.

The investor pointed to the CRB raw industrials index, which is at a 10-year high right now.

The index tracks materials that don’t trade on a futures exchange and thus better reflect actual supply and demand and not the behavior of speculators.

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Moral of that story is that yes, inflation can indeed kill an economy by bringing it to a screeching halt when prices for things become ridiculous, and a sheet of plywood, not even the best grade, has become a luxury item.

So how did we end up with Gina Raimondo as Joe Biden’s Commerce Secretary?

According to history as written, in early February of 2020, Gina Raimondo appeared alongside former Republican New York City Mayor and Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg at the Wexford Innovation Center in Providence to endorse his candidacy, a move she described as “an easy call,” and Gina was named a national co-chair for the Bloomberg campaign.

According to history as written, her press secretary, Jennifer Bogdan Jones of the Governor’s Office, told The Providence Journal that Raimondo was “prepared to do whatever it takes to support Mike and defeat President Trump.”

As Mike Bloomberg’s campaign co-chair, Gina would have “provided advice and attended events,” which must have been beyond her level of competence because less than a month later, Bloomberg dropped out of the race and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden, who we are stuck with as president, and big surprise, on the same day, Gina also endorsed Biden.

According to Gina, who was Mike Bloomberg’s national co-chair for the Bloomberg campaign, Bloomberg, her chosen candidate, “obviously” performed poorly on the debate stage but for her, supporting his candidacy “was an easy decision” for her at the beginning, but supporting Biden "was an easy decision, too,” with Raimondo concluding that it was now time “to unify behind Joe Biden,” and out of that somehow, we now have Gina Raimondo as Joe Biden’s Commerce Secretary, and her solution to the high price of building materials is for her and her staff remaining committed to continuing to work with all stakeholders, including reviewing relevant data and conducting analysis to identify targeted actions the government or industry can take to address supply chain constraints.

How many years that might take remains unsaid.

As to her record of incompetence prior to Joe Biden picking her from out of the crowd to be his Commerce Secretary, on November 2, 2010, Raimondo was elected as general treasurer of Rhode Island by a margin of 62% to 38%, and during her first year as general treasurer, she prioritized reforming Rhode Island’s public employee pension system, advocating for benefit cuts as the solution to Rhode Island’s pension problems, and under Raimondo’s tenure, the pension fund was criticized for underperforming when compared with its peers, with Raimondo’s critics attributing the underperformance to a sharp increase in fees paid to hedge fund managers, and hey, they are people, too, and like everybody else, they need to eat, so of course, it is only natural to pay them more, even if it adversely impacts the common folks the pension fund is allegedly there for.

But that alone is not enough stacked-up incompetence for Joe Biden to notice her.

So how about the subject of RI DCYF fatalities and near-fatalities?

Under Gina as governor of Rhode island, the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families has come under fire for the rate of deaths and near-deaths of children in its care.

In a period between January 2016 and December 2017, there were 31 fatalities or near fatalities of children in its care, with eight being confirmed fatal.

Raimondo appointed Trista Piccola as her new DCYF director in January 2017.

Piccola’s term was marked by the death and near-deaths of children, high staff turnover, votes of no confidence, and high budget deficits, and there, people, we are getting into the kind of incompetence that Joe Biden regards highly and rewards with cabinet positions in his administration!

Getting back to that part of the story, Rep. Patricia Serpa and Rep. Charlene Lima called for Piccola’s resignation, which finally occurred in July 2019.

In October 2018, the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families ordered the Raimondo Administration DCYF to improve in 33 of 36 areas assessed.

The federal report noted that DCYF services were “inadequate, not developed when needed, or lacked consistent monitoring.”

Harvard Kennedy School professor and former Obama Administration official Jeffrey Liebman agreed with the recommendations and analysis of the report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and claimed that the DCYF is “the most messed-up agency ever.”

And as a result, Joe Biden, Hussein Obama’s successor in office to continue the Obama LEGACY, hired Gina Raimondo to be his Commerce Secretary, and the rest is now history – OUR history, and people, we are stuck with it!

So will Gina be able to make the Commerce Department the most messed-up federal agency ever?

Stay tuned!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 8, 2021 AT 10:44 AM

Paul Plante says:

And here is a question for us this morning which was raised by Joe Biden yesterday when he visited Illinois to talk about what his administration has accomplished to help families so far:

“Does anybody think in the 21st century with the changes taking place in technology across the board that 12 years of education is enough?”

And the answer to that question is Joe Biden does, or, well, he did, anyway, back on 28 April 2021 in his Full transcript from President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, where we had this from Joe, to wit:

The American Jobs Plan will create millions of good paying jobs – jobs Americans can raise their families on.

And all the investments in the American Jobs Plan will be guided by one principle: “Buy American.”

American tax dollars are going to be used to buy American products made in America that create American jobs.

The way it should be.

Now – I know some of you at home are wondering whether these jobs are for you.

You feel left behind and forgotten in an economy that’s rapidly changing.

Let me speak directly to you.

Independent experts estimate the American Jobs Plan will add millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in economic growth for years to come.

These are good-paying jobs that can’t be outsourced.

Nearly 90% of the infrastructure jobs created in the American Jobs Plan do not require a college degree.

75% do not require an associate’s degree.

The American Jobs Plan is a blue-collar blueprint to build America.

And, it recognizes something I’ve always said.

Wall Street didn’t build this country.

The middle class built this country.

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So, okay, Joe, we’re all right there with you – nearly 90% of the infrastructure jobs created in the American Jobs Plan do not require a college degree, and 75% do not require an associate’s degree, which makes it sound very much like you think that in the 21st century with the changes taking place in technology across the board that 12 years of education is enough, and my goodness, Joe, since you are now our leader, our GREAT WHITE FATHER, because we so clearly need one, we all believe that despite the changes taking place in technology across the board that 12 years of education is enough, because you believe it, or did, anyway, before you went to Illinois on 7 July 2021, where you told not only the American people, but the candid world which hangs on your every word, as follows:

The build back better plan agenda starts with education.

One of the reasons why we are a leading country in the world for so long and still on the edges is because we’re the first industrial nation in the world to allow 12 years of free education back at the turn of the 20th century, but everybody’s caught up.

At the time they were debating what should be education in America?

The argument was there should be 12 years of free education.

And that’s what got us ahead.

That’s what had us leap ahead of the rest of the world.

But today everybody’s caught up.

Does anybody think in the 21st century with changes taking place in technology and across the board that 12 years of education is enough to be able to live a middle-class life?

I don’t think so.

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So what has happened here, people?

Was Joe pulling our legs and joshing with us on 28 April 2021 when he told us that we feel left behind and forgotten in an economy that’s rapidly changing, but never fear, because nearly 90% of the infrastructure jobs created by Joe’s American Jobs Plan do not require a college degree and 75% do not require an associate’s degree, and these are good-paying jobs that can’t be outsourced, because Joe’s American Jobs Plan is a blue-collar blueprint to build America which recognizes something Joe has always said, which is that Wall Street didn’t build this country, the middle class built this country?

And if Joe wasn’t joshing us back on 28 April 2021 when he told us that nearly 90% of the infrastructure jobs created by Joe’s American Jobs Plan do not require a college degree and 75% do not require an associate’s degree, and these are good-paying jobs that can’t be outsourced, then why now is he pushing for two more years of free education above high school?

And check out Joe’s math if you can:

First of all, Joe tells us that 90% of the infrastructure jobs created by Joe’s American Jobs Plan do not require a college degree, which would seem to imply that 90% of the infrastructure jobs created by Joe’s American Jobs Plan only require a high school education, which would argue against his plan to add two more years free of charge, except to the taxpayers who have to foot that bill.

And that would seem to imply that only ten percent of the infrastructure jobs created by Joe’s American Jobs Plan do require a college degree.

But then, Joe comes back and tells us that 75% of the infrastructure jobs created by Joe’s American Jobs Plan do not require an associate’s degree, which happens to be a college degree, whether Joe is aware of that or not, and let us face facts here, people, he might not be aware of that, at all!

So, if 75% of the infrastructure jobs created by Joe’s American Jobs Plan do not require an associate’s degree, that would imply that 25% of the infrastructure jobs created by Joe’s American Jobs Plan do require an associate’s degree.

So how does that square with Joe telling us that 90% of the infrastructure jobs created by Joe’s American Jobs Plan do not require a college degree, which would include an associate’s degree?

If 90% of the infrastructure jobs created by Joe’s American Jobs Plan do not require a college degree, only high school, then how at the same time can 25% of the infrastructure jobs created by Joe’s American Jobs Plan require an associate’s degree?

Are there some flaws in Joe’s thinking here, perhaps?

Or is Joe just being a typical politician and is feeding us pure horse****, because he has no idea whatsoever as to what it is he might be saying on any given day of the week?

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 9, 2021 AT 6:50 PM

Paul Plante says:

Never in my experience of American presidents, which would go back to Democrat Harry S. Truman, who at p.91 of David Halberstam’s excellent history of the Korean Conflict, The Coldest Winter, confessed to liking Joe Stalin of the Soviet Union, as did Democrat Frank Roosevelt before him, have I ever seen a HUBRISTIC (excessively proud or self-confident, as in “a hubristic belief in his own self-proclaimed genius”) self-promoting president like Joe Biden who has been spending his first days in office touring the nation to tell people just how great he really is, and how bad Trump was before him, this as he tries to sell the nation on his plan to reward him with $SIX TRILLION for his plans for the economy he intends to impose on us, with the bill for that borrowed money going to us, as our reward, which takes us to a story in the New York Post entitled “Biden sidesteps Chicago shootings for ‘boring’ speech in swing suburb” by David Marcus on July 7, 2021, where we have reference to that $6 TRILLION, as follows:

Biden also outlined details of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal he struck with congressional Republicans last month, which is part of the total $6 trillion he wants to spend on reviving the economy as the nation rebounds from COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions.

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Talk about the hugest money grab and the most massive looting of OUR treasury ever by an American president, there we have it right before us, people!

While yesterday, 8 July 2021, we had this from the CNBC article CNBC “U.S. weekly jobless claims unexpectedly rise to 373,000, as job growth slows” by Thomas Franck on July 8, 2021, as follows:

Initial filings for unemployment insurance unexpectedly rose last week, a possible hint that the rapid job growth seen in the first half of 2021 could face hurdles in the months ahead, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

The previous week’s level was revised up by 7,000 from 364,000 to 371,000.

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That’s what we appear to be getting for all the $TRILLIONS Joe has spent (squandered?) “reviving the economy,” which takes us to a Reuters story entitled “Wall Street ends lower as recovery momentum concerns spark sell-off” by Stephen Culp on July 8, 2021, as follows:

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street lost ground on Thursday, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq pulling back from record closing highs in a broad sell-off driven by uncertainties surrounding the pace of the U.S. economic recovery.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 259.86 points, or 0.75%, to 34,421.93, the S&P 500 lost 37.31 points, or 0.86%, to 4,320.82 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 105.28 points, or 0.72%, to 14,559.79.

Sensing cracks in the U.S. economic recovery, traders covered short positions in the bond market.

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Which takes us to another Reuters story entitled “U.S. Treasury yields fall as economic worries percolate” by Chuck Mikolajczak on July 8, 2021, to wit:

NEW YORK, July 8 (Reuters) – U.S. government bonds yields continued their recent decline on Thursday, with 10-year Treasury yields touching their lowest levels in nearly five months as investors’ worries persist that the best part of the economic recovery may be over.

Recent data on the labor market and services sector has given investors pause that the economy may not be strengthening as initially anticipated and some underlying weakness may be emerging.

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Which takes us again to Reuters in the story “U.S. mortgage application volumes at lowest since early 2020 -MBA” by Evan Sully on July 7, 2021, where we have as follows:

(Reuters) – The number of applications for home mortgages decreased last week to the lowest level since early 2020, dampened by declines in refinancing activity and purchase applications.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said on Wednesday its seasonally adjusted market index fell 1.8% in the week ending on July 2 from a week earlier, leaving it at to the lowest level since January 2020.

This reflected a 2.3% decrease in applications to refinance existing loans and a 1.1% drop in applications to purchase a home.

Rising home prices combined with insufficient supply has continued to weigh on the housing market.

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And to another Reuters story entitled “Treasury yields continue fall on economic jitters” by Chuck Mikolajczak on July 7, 2021, to wit:

NEW YORK, July 7 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury yields continued on their downward trajectory on Wednesday, with 10-year yields on track for a seventh straight session of declines on worries the economic recovery may be softening while investors assessed the minutes from the Federal Reserve’s June meeting for clues to its policy path.

Recent data on the labor market and services sector has given investors pause that the economy may not be strengthening as initially anticipated and some underlying weakness may be emerging.

On Wednesday, the Labor Department said job openings edged up in May while hiring dipped, indicating the economy continues to struggle with labor shortages.

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And that takes us back to the New York Post, where we have as follows:

President Biden largely ignored the 100-plus people shot in Chicago this past weekend during a Tuesday speech outside the Windy City that he admitted was “boring” — before stumbling on the stairs while leaving the stage.

An unidentified man sprang into action and put his hand on Biden’s back to steady the 78-year-old commander in chief following his appearance at at McHenry County College in the battleground suburb of Crystal Lake, Ill.

Biden barely spoke above a whisper during a 30-minute address in which he promoted his costly “Build Back Better” plan and said that any infrastructure improvements needed to be paired with spending on education, child care and health care.

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Costly, indeed, and from the look of things, Joe’s “Build Back Better” plan, which is based on pure hooey, should be renamed “Build Backwards Better,” because that is the direction it appears to be going in.

In the meantime, as the New York Post reported, on July 7, Joe was at McHenry College in Crystal Lake, Illinois outlining details of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal he struck with congressional Republicans last month, which is part of the total $6 trillion he wants to spend on reviving the economy as the nation rebounds from COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, where we had Joe telling the candid world, as follows:

Last week, I was up in Wisconsin to talk about a bipartisan agreement to modernize American infrastructure and in the process, create millions of good paying jobs.

That’s not my estimate, that’s Wall Street estimates, that’s everybody’s estimate.

Millions of good paying jobs.

Not $7, not $8, not $10, not even $15 an hour, good prevailing wage jobs.

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Except, where are they, Joe?

Still up your sleeve?

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 11, 2021 AT 11:39 AM

Paul Plante says:

And while we were all going about our lives on Friday, 9 July 2021, in an action straight out of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Joe Biden effectively “nationalized” the U.S. economy and brought it under “state control” with central planning by his administration, which includes the incompetent Gina Raimondo as his commerce secretary, with an Executive Order signed by Joe on that same date.

I first heard about it at 5:00 PM on Friday, when I heard the unmistakable sounds of Joe on the radio news puffing and blowing about how there is not enough competition in the United States, which then brought me to this article from Reuters entitled “Biden signs order to tackle corporate abuses across U.S. economy” by Nandita Bose, Jarrett Renshaw, and Diane Bartz on July 9, 2021, where we have the following background to consider, to wit:

WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order on Friday to promote more competition in the U.S. economy, urging agencies to crack down on anti-competitive practices in sectors from agriculture to drugs and labor.

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And “sweeping” is really a mild term for what Joe is doing – an all-inclusive assault would be as proper a term, and this so much reminds me of the “ANTI-DOG EAT DOG RULE” from “Atlas Shrugged” it isn’t funny.

Getting back to Reuters, we have:

If fully implemented, the effort will help lower Americans’ internet costs, allow for airline baggage fee refunds for delayed luggage, among other steps.

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Now, here, let me say that after hearing Joe on the radio news, and after reading this article, I went and found the actual language of the EO from Joe’s white house site, and I read it word for word for word, and there are a lot of them in the EO, which covers everything under the sun, and that sentence should really read as follows:

If fully implemented, IN THE UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION OF JOE BIDEN, the effort will help lower Americans’ internet costs, allow for airline baggage fee refunds for delayed luggage, among other steps.

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Getting back to the Reuters article, we have:

The order instructs antitrust agencies to focus on labor, healthcare, technology and agriculture as they address a laundry list of issues that have irritated consumers, and in the case of drug prices, has bankrupted some.

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Now, maybe they were rushed when they wrote this story, or maybe they were pulling their punches so as to not get hollered at by Joe’s press diva, Jen Psaki with her sharp tongue, but that is not what the order really instructs, unless you want to consider the Commerce Department and the Transportation Department and the Department of Defense as “antitrust agencies,” a unique designation, for the EO states thusly:

Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

JULY 09, 2021

PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to promote the interests of American workers, businesses, and consumers, it is hereby ordered as follows:

The problem of economic consolidation now spans these sectors and many others, endangering our ability to rebuild and emerge from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with a vibrant, innovative, and growing economy.

Meanwhile, the United States faces new challenges to its economic standing in the world, including unfair competitive pressures from foreign monopolies and firms that are state-owned or state-sponsored, or whose market power is directly supported by foreign governments.

We must act now to reverse these dangerous trends, which constrain the growth and dynamism of our economy, impair the creation of high-quality jobs, and threaten America’s economic standing in the world.

This order affirms that it is the policy of my Administration to enforce the antitrust laws to combat the excessive concentration of industry, the abuses of market power, and the harmful effects of monopoly and monopsony — especially as these issues arise in labor markets, agricultural markets, Internet platform industries, healthcare markets (including insurance, hospital, and prescription drug markets), repair markets, and United States markets directly affected by foreign cartel activity.

Sec. 2. The Statutory Basis of a Whole-of-Government Competition Policy.

(d) These statutes independently charge a number of executive departments and agencies (agencies) to protect conditions of fair competition in one or more ways, including by:

(i) policing unfair, deceptive, and abusive business practices;

(ii) resisting consolidation and promoting competition within industries through the independent oversight of mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures;

(iii) promulgating rules that promote competition, including the market entry of new competitors; and

(iv) promoting market transparency through compelled disclosure of information.

(e) The agencies that administer such or similar authorities include the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Maritime Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Surface Transportation Board.

(f) Agencies can influence the conditions of competition through their exercise of regulatory authority or through the procurement process. See 41 U.S.C. 1705.

(g) This order recognizes that a whole-of-government approach is necessary to address overconcentration, monopolization, and unfair competition in the American economy.

Such an approach is supported by existing statutory mandates.

Agencies can and should further the polices set forth in section 1 of this order by, among other things, adopting pro‑competitive regulations and approaches to procurement and spending, and by rescinding regulations that create unnecessary barriers to entry that stifle competition.

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Getting back to the Reuters article, we have Joe himself ranting on Friday, 9 July 2021, as follows:

“No more tolerance of abusive actions by monopolies.”

“No more bad mergers that lead to massive layoffs, higher prices and fewer options for workers and consumers alike,” Biden said at a White House signing ceremony.

The president noted areas where advocates feel that prices are too high, wages are tamped down or new businesses excluded from competition.

“Let me be very clear, capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism, it’s exploitation,” he said.

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And if we go and look up the meaning of “capitalism,” this is what we find: an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

So what Joe is doing by bringing the entire economy under “state control” is very much against the notion of “capitalism,” which we have not had in this country for some time now, but goofy old Joe, who has never worked in the real world, having spent his life as a hack politician feeding off those who do work in the real world, would be the last to know that.

Getting back to Reuters, we have more as follows:

The White House says the rate of new business formation has fallen by almost 50% since the 1970s as large businesses make it harder for Americans with good ideas to break into markets.

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And that is pure bull****, if we really go back and study the history of innovation in this country from the 1970’s onward, and how many people start small businesses in the hopes of being bought out and made rich by a large corporation with the cash on hand to buy them out and make them rich, which has been part of the “American Way” now going back before John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.

Getting back to Reuters:

Biden’s action goes after corporate monopolies across a broad swath of industries, and includes 72 initiatives he wants more than a dozen federal agencies to act on.

Lower wages caused by lack of competition are estimated to cost the median American household $5,000 per year, according to a White House fact sheet that cites research from the American Economic Liberties Project – an influential Washington-based anti-monopoly group.

The initiatives will no doubt kick off a series of fights with the affected industries.

The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a statement saying the move “smacks of a ‘government knows best’ approach to managing the economy” and pledged to “vigorously oppose calls for government-set prices, onerous and legally questionable rulemakings, efforts to treat innovative industries as public utilities, and the politicization of antitrust enforcement.”

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And since they said it as good as I could, if not better, there I will for the moment rest.

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Paul Plante says:

And here, we really need to go back in time to the Steel Strike of 1952, when another Democrat, Harry S. Truman, nationalized the steel industry in the United States, ordering his Secretary of Commerce, in EXECUTIVE ORDER 10340, DIRECTING THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE TO TAKE POSSESSION OF AND OPERATE THE PLANTS AND FACILITIES OF CERTAIN STEEL COMPANIES, as follows:

WHEREAS in order to assure the continued availability of steel and steel products during the existing emergency, it is necessary that the United States take possession of and operate the plants, facilities, and other property of the said companies as hereinafter provided:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

1. The Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized and directed to take possession of all or such of the plants, facilities, and other property of the companies named in the list attached hereto, or any part thereof, as he may deem necessary in the interests of national defense; and to operate or to arrange for the operation thereof and to do all things necessary for, or incidental to, such operation.

2. In carrying out this order the Secretary of Commerce may act through or with the aid of such public or private instrumentalities or persons as he may designate; and all Federal agencies shall cooperate with the Secretary of Commerce to the fullest extent possible in carrying out the purposes of this order.

3. The Secretary of Commerce shall determine and prescribe terms and conditions of employment under which the plants, facilities, and other properties possession of which is taken pursuant to this order shall be operated.

The Secretary of Commerce shall recognize the rights of workers to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing and to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining, adjustment of grievances, or other mutual aid or protection, provided that such activities do not interfere with the operation of such plants, facilities, and other properties.

4. Except so far as the Secretary of Commerce shall otherwise provide from time to time, the managements of the plants, facilities, and other properties possession of which is taken pursuant to this order shall continue their functions, including the collection and disbursement of funds in the usual and ordinary course of business in the names of their respective companies and by means of any instrumentalities used by such companies.

5. Except so far as the Secretary of Commerce may otherwise direct, existing rights and obligations of such companies shall remain in full force and effect, and there may be made, in due course, payments of dividends on stock, and of principal, interest, sinking funds, and all other distributions upon bonds, debentures, and other obligations, and expenditures may be made for other ordinary corporate or business purposes.

6. Whenever in the judgment of the Secretary of Commerce further possession and operation by him of any plant, facility, or other property is no longer necessary or expedient in the interest of national defense, and the Secretary has reason to believe that effective future operation is assured, he shall return the possession and operation of such plant, facility or other property to the company in possession and control thereof at the time possession was taken under this order.

7. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to prescribe and issue such regulations and orders not inconsistent herewith as he may deem necessary or desirable for carrying out the purposes of this order; and he may delegate and authorize subdelegation of such of his functions under this order as he may deem desirable.

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And that action by Harry S. ended up in the United States Supreme Court in the famous YOUNGSTOWN CO. v. SAWYER (1952), No. 744, Argued: Decided: June 2, 1952, where we have as follows from the Supreme Court decision in that case, to wit:

To avert a nation-wide strike of steel workers in April 1952, which he believed would jeopardize national defense, the President issued an Executive Order directing the Secretary of Commerce to seize and operate most of the steel mills.

The Order was not based upon any specific statutory authority but was based generally upon all powers vested in the President by the Constitution and laws of the United States and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

The Secretary issued an order seizing the steel mills and directing their presidents to operate them as operating managers for the United States in accordance with his regulations and directions.

The president promptly reported these events to Congress; but Congress took no action.

It had provided other methods of dealing with such situations and had refused to authorize governmental seizures of property to settle labor disputes.

The steel companies sued the Secretary in Federal District Court, praying for a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief.

The District Court issued a preliminary injunction, which the Court of Appeals stayed.

Held:

1. Although this case has proceeded no further than the preliminary injunction stage, it is ripe for determination of the constitutional validity of the Executive Order on the record presented. Pp. 584-585.

(a) Under prior decisions of this Court, there is doubt as to the right to recover in the Court of Claims on account of properties unlawfully taken by government officials for public use. P. 585.

(b) Seizure and governmental operation of these going businesses were bound to result in many present and future damages of such nature as to be difficult, if not incapable, of measurement. P. 585. [343 U.S. 579, 580]

2. The Executive Order was not authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States; and it cannot stand. Pp. 585-589.

(a) There is no statute which expressly or impliedly authorizes the President to take possession of this property as he did here. Pp. 585-586.

(b) In its consideration of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947, Congress refused to authorize governmental seizures of property as a method of preventing work stoppages and settling labor disputes. P. 586.

(c) Authority of the President to issue such an order in the circumstances of this case cannot be implied from the aggregate of his powers under Article II of the Constitution. Pp. 587-589.

(d) The Order cannot properly be sustained as an exercise of the President’s military power as commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. P. 587.

(e) Nor can the Order be sustained because of the several provisions of Article II which grant executive power to the President. Pp. 587-589.

(f) The power here sought to be exercised is the lawmaking power, which the Constitution vests in the Congress alone, in both good and bad times. Pp. 587-589.

(g) Even if it be true that other Presidents have taken possession of private business enterprises without congressional authority in order to settle labor disputes, Congress has not thereby lost its exclusive constitutional authority to make the laws necessary and proper to carry out all powers vested by the Constitution “in the Government of the United States, or any Department or Officer thereof.” Pp. 588-589.

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Which takes us back to Joe’s EO where we have as follows as Joe’s excuse for grabbing power out of nowhere to effectively “nationalize” our economy across the board and bring it under “state control,” as Harry Truman tried to do with the steel industry, before getting slapped down by the Supreme Court for over-reaching his authority, to wit:

Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

JULY 09, 2021

PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to promote the interests of American workers, businesses, and consumers, it is hereby ordered as follows:

The problem of economic consolidation now spans these sectors and many others, endangering our ability to rebuild and emerge from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with a vibrant, innovative, and growing economy.

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And stop right there, because it would seem to me from that above that Joe is treating COVID as if it had been a “war” that he alone now has to rebuild America from, which is where he would have us believe gives him presidential authority to order this sweeping action, which puts our entire economy under the control of the executive office, through “rulemaking” by Joe’s various cabinet members, including the incompetent Gina Raimondo, which takes us back to the EO, as follows:

Meanwhile, the United States faces new challenges to its economic standing in the world, including unfair competitive pressures from foreign monopolies and firms that are state-owned or state-sponsored, or whose market power is directly supported by foreign governments.

We must act now to reverse these dangerous trends, which constrain the growth and dynamism of our economy, impair the creation of high-quality jobs, and threaten America’s economic standing in the world.

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So when Joe says, “(W)e must act now to reverse these dangerous trends,” who is the “we” that he is talking about?

Stay tuned!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 17, 2021 AT 8:34 PM

Paul Plante says:

Is our Joe Biden goofy?

Or is the dude simply out of touch with the reality in which the rest of us who are not Joe Biden occupy, and here I am referring to a CNN article entitled “Biden says Cuba is a ‘failed state’ and calls communism ‘a universally failed system'” by Maegan Vazquez on July 16, 2021, where we have goofy old Joe saying as follows, to wit:

When asked about his views on communism, the President added: “Communism is a failed system — a universally failed system.”

“And I don’t see socialism as a very useful substitute.”

“But that’s another story.”

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But that’s another story, people?

Not hardly!

That is the story as Joe imposes on us the MOTHER of all socialist systems that is turning us into the world’s largest socialist welfare state where you now make money off the government based on how many children you have, and the more children you have, the more free money the government hands you.

Who is Joe trying to kid here?

If in fact Joe in his wisdom doesn’t see socialism as a useful alternative to communism, where proponents of socialism believe that it leads to a more equal distribution of goods and services and a more equitable society, which is exactly what Joe Biden is pushing on us here in America as our AUTOCRAT, the “more equitable society,” then why is Joe Biden pushing a socialist agenda?

Is it a case where he doesn’t know that he is?

Consider free college, for example.

Where have we heard that before?

How about “Resistance Rising: Socialist Strategy in the Age of Political Revolution – A summary of Democratic Socialists of America’s Strategy Document – June 2016” on June 25, 2016, as follows:

2016 was a game changing year for leftists and progressives.

We are finally reemerging as a vital and powerful force after an extended period of stagnation and demoralization, and we face a political landscape more favorable than perhaps at any time since the 1960s.

Despite these challenges, once in a generation opportunities currently exist for taking the offensive and launching an assertive anti-capitalist politics in the United States.

The most difficult — and most important — question that remains, is how, specifically, to make democratic socialist politics a force to be reckoned with in rural communities, towns, cities and states across the country in the coming years.

History has shown time and again that societies fall short of their full potential for human emancipation without radical trailblazers working ceaselessly to pull mainstream political discourse to the Left and thereby expand the “politics of the possible.”

Democratic Socialism as Radical Democracy

DSA believes that the fight for democratic socialism is one and the same as the fight for radical democracy, which we understand as the freedom of all people to determine all aspects of their lives to the greatest extent possible.

Our vision entails nothing less than the radical democratization of all areas of life, not least of which is the economy.

Under capitalism we are supposed to take for granted that a small, largely unaccountable group of corporate executives should make all fundamental decisions about the management of a company comprised of thousands of people.

This group has the power to determine how most of us spend the lion’s share of our waking hours, as well as the right to fire anyone for basically any reason, no matter how arbitrary.

Under democratic socialism, this authoritarian system would be replaced with economic democracy.

This simply means that democracy would be expanded beyond the election of political officials to include the democratic management of all businesses by the workers who comprise them and by the communities in which they operate.

Very large, strategically important sectors of the economy — such as housing, utilities and heavy industry — would be subject to democratic planning outside the market, while a market sector consisting of worker-owned and -operated firms would be developed for the production and distribution of many consumer goods.

In this society, large-scale investments in new technologies and enterprises would be made on the basis of maximizing the public good, rather than shareholder value.

A democratic socialist society would also guarantee a wide range of social rights in order to ensure equality of citizenship for all.

Vital services such as health care, child care, education (from pre-K through higher education), shelter and transportation would be publicly provided to everyone on demand, free of charge.

Further, in order to ensure that the enjoyment of full citizenship was not tied to ups and downs in the labor market, everyone would also receive a universal basic income — that is, a base salary for every member of society, regardless of the person’s employment status.

Solidarity among all working people who are ensnared in the capitalist system may be a prerequisite for a strong socialist movement, but socialism as radical democracy is much more than the emancipation of a single economic class.

The democratic socialist project also entails addressing a wide range of oppressions in law, culture and society that limit people’s capacity for self-determination.

To give a few examples, the work of caregiving, which under capitalism falls disproportionately on women — particularly women of color and migrant women — would be publicly supported through universal daycare, eldercare and paid family leave.

Democratic socialism, that is, will not be the utopia that many socialists of old imagined.

Yet the achievement of a democratic socialist society would nevertheless mark one of the greatest advances in human history.

Instead of war, there would be peace; instead of competition, cooperation; instead of exploitation, equality; instead of pollution, sustainability and instead of domination, freedom.

With this vision in place, we turn finally to an overview of DSA’s strategy for moving the needle of emancipation closer to democratic socialism over the coming years and decades.

We believe democratic socialism is the only humane and democratic alternative to capitalism, but considering our limited resources at present we must think carefully about how to translate our socialist ideals and values into a viable political strategy.

Given the magnitude and scope of the challenges we face, as well as the democratic and decentralized nature of our organization, there is no strategic silver bullet, or single, all-encompassing campaign to which we can devote all of our organizational resources.

Rather, our strategy — based on the preceding analysis of current political and economic conditions — consists of fighting on a number of interconnected fronts in the short-term, leveraging gains made in these struggles into more structural, offensively-oriented changes in the medium-term and ultimately employing the strength of a mass socialist party or coalition of leftist and progressive parties to win political power and begin the process of socialist transformation.

Below is a summary of the most important struggles in which DSA will participate over the coming years (this list is by no means exhaustive of all the activities undertaken by DSA chapters; details of additional lines of work can be found in DSA’s strategy document).

Organizing in Higher Education

Free public higher education is a key example of what we might call a “transformative” reform that helps to popularize the idea of socialism and to make further, more dramatic reforms possible in the future.

Free public higher education would mean taking what should be a universal public good out of the marketplace, putting it under democratic control and guaranteeing it as a right to all citizens — and funding it by a truly progressive tax system that makes the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share of government revenue.

Beyond its inherent benefits, such a campaign would also show people that socialist policies are both desirable and achievable.

Gaining free public higher education could serve as a crucial step in making democratic socialist politics more attractive to a wider cross-section of the U.S. public.

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So, people, if according to Joe Biden, socialism is a poor substitute for communism, why is Joe Biden cleaving to the agenda of the Democratic Socialists who are definitely pushing a socialist agenda, and who have gained considerable political clout in this last presidential election?

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 19, 2021 AT 11:01 AM

Paul Plante says:

“People thought he was going to be a transitional president,” says Bob Shrum, a veteran Democratic campaign operative who now teaches political science at the University of Southern California.

Instead, “he’s headed to being a transformational president,” Shrum says.

Those words are taken from a U.S. News & World Reports article entitled “Biden Goes From Transitional to Transformational in First 100 Days” by Susan Milligan on April 30, 2021, and the word “transformational” is an interesting political term that shows up fairly frequently in the news, but only with respect to radical Democrats and Progressives and Socialists like Lizzie Warren and “Barmy Bernie” Sanders, and now, not surprisingly Joe Biden, himself.

And then there is the word “transformative,” which is also a charged political term as we see in the political document that forms the core of Joe Biden’s “transformational” policies titled “Resistance Rising: Socialist Strategy in the Age of Political Revolution – A summary of Democratic Socialists of America’s Strategy Document – June 2016” on June 25, 2016, to wit:

Free public higher education is a key example of what we might call a “transformative” reform that helps to popularize the idea of socialism and to make further, more dramatic reforms possible in the future.

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“Transformative” in that sense could also apply to me putting putting good peanut butter on mouse traps to popularize socialism by getting the mice to accept that I am supplying them at my expense with free food that they don’t have to work for.

And before we go into more specific examples of the use of these two similar sounding words in the news as applied to Progressive Democrat policies, are “transformative” as used by BLACK LIVES MATTER and the Democratic Socialists whose political agenda Joe Biden is pushing, and “transformational” as applied to Joe Biden in the above article words with the same meaning?

Or do they mean different things?

Doing some research, the Thesaurus at Your Dictionary tells us that they are synonyms, which is to say, words with the same meaning, so in the political sense, which is how those words are used, again only with respect to Democrats or Socialists or Progressives or radical groups like BLACK LIVES MATTER, “transformative” and “transformational” are in essence the same word, which then takes us back to a New York Times story entitled “Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020?” by Astead W. Herndon and Matt Flegenheimer on 20 April 2019, where we find the word “transformational” used in a political sense with respect to the Democrats as follows:

As former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. prepares to enter the 2020 race this coming week, Democrats have seen the strong diversity in their field — with candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris reflecting the multiracial and largely female base of the party — become somewhat overshadowed by white male candidates.

Bernie Sanders has a wide fund-raising lead, he and Mr. Biden lead in polls, and Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg have enjoyed outsize attention from voters in early primary states, extensive media coverage and viral success with online donors.

Interviews with several dozen Democratic voters around the country show how the party, which enjoyed victories in 2018 that were powered by female and nonwhite candidates, is now grappling with two complicated questions about race, gender and politics in the Trump era.

Is a white man the best face for an increasingly diverse Democratic Party in 2020?

And what’s the bigger gamble: to nominate a white man and risk disappointing some of the party’s base, or nominate a minority candidate or a woman who might struggle to carry predominantly white swing states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania that both Barack Obama and President Trump won?

Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders are starting off with other advantages as well: They are the best-known candidates at this stage, both with experience running for president, and they are well positioned to have the money and resources to compete through the 2020 primaries.

But as older white men, they are out of step with ascendant forces in the party today.

Supporters of Mr. Sanders say his calls for wide-scale change in the country’s economic order make him a transformational candidate, regardless of skin color.

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And let me stop here for a moment to let that sink in – when Joe Biden is referred to as a “transformational” president, does that mean he is a Bernie Sanders clone?

Stay tuned.

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Paul Plante says:

Staying for the moment with this subject of goofy old Joe Biden being a “transformational” president, I am first reminded of these words by Cato in his Cato V political essay on November 22, 1787, to wit:

Is it because you do not believe that an American can be a tyrant?

If this be the case you rest on a weak basis; Americans are like other men in similar situations, when the manners and opinions of the community are changed by the causes I mentioned before, and your political compact inexplicit, your posterity will find that great power connected with ambition, luxury, and flattery, will as readily produce a Caesar, Caligula, Nero, and Domitian in America, as the same causes did in the Roman empire.

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Is Joe Biden another Caesar, Caligula, Nero, and Domitian in America?

Or another Joe Stalin?

Something to think about as we consider this “transformative” president business, which takes us back to a Bloomberg article entitled “Harris Rips Trump as Warren Jabs Biden at California Summit” by Jeffrey Taylor, Sahil Kapur and Emma Kinery on 2 June 2019, where we had another political usage of the word “transformative” in connection with a RADICAL PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT, as follows:

(Bloomberg) — Senator Kamala Harris used her home state’s Democratic convention to deliver one of her sharpest critiques to date of President Donald Trump’s policies and performance in office.

“We need to begin impeachment proceedings and we need a new commander-in-chief,” Harris said Saturday to thunderous applause.

“We’ve seen how this president has lied to divide.”

“It’s a pathological failure of leadership.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts drew roars and stole some of Harris’s thunder as she outlined her transformative platform and vowed not to settle for incremental change.

‘Moral Clarity’

“When I lead the Democratic Party, we will be a party of moral clarity, a party of courage, and a party with a backbone,” she said, touting her plans for a wealth tax on ultra-millionaires, universal child care, and to cancel student debt.

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And today, in the person of Joe Biden, we are seeing her transformative agenda being acted out, and who can be surprised at that?

Which thought takes us to 28 April 2021 and the full transcript from President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress on that date, where we had from Joe, as follows:

The autocrats will not win the future.

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But that is not true, people!

Not only will the autocrats win the future, they have won the present, and their names are NANCY PELOSI and JOE “CORN POP” BIDEN.

And if one looks for synonyms to the word “autocrat” to find the company Joe and Nancy are keeping as autocrats here in America, one finds despot, fascist, tyrant, Hitler, authoritarian, caesar, overlord, and totalitarian, all of which fit the occasion.

If you ask Google what is an example of an autocracy, the answer you get back is as follow:

Nazi Germany ruled by Adolf Hitler.

Nazi Germany is an example of an autocracy run primarily by a single leader and his party.

Spanish State, ruled by Francisco Franco.

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That should make everybody in America feel all warm and squishy inside, alright, knowing that we too are going to have a STRONGMAN LEADER who is able to stand up to any other autocrat in the world and stare them down and make them cower and cringe.

If we ask Google who is an example of an autocratic leader, we get back the following:

What do Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Queen Elizabeth I, and Vladimir Putin have in common?

They are all examples of autocratic leadership — when one leader exercises complete, authoritarian control over a group or organization — or in the case of these famous autocrats, vast empires.

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So, is Joe Biden really transformative then?

And of course he is – he is transforming our former Republic into a one-party dictatorship, which reminds me of the definition of fascism in the Reader’s Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, where one would find “fascism” defined as a one party system of government in which each class has its distinct place, function, and representation in the government, but the individual is subordinated to the state and control is maintained by military forces, secret police, rigid censorship, and governmental regimentation of industry and finance.

Is the future now?

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God help America, people!

It’s bad enough we have Democrats who make a complete mockery of Constitutional government and RULE OF LAW in the United States of America, in control of the two houses of our legislative branch at the national level, along with the office of the executive, a deadly combination with respect to our liberty as American citizens who are not Democrats, but beyond that and this is the real serious part of that equation, we are saddled with a dangerous dolt in the white house for three-and-a-half more years, dangerous because he really is a dolt, but in his mind, like a modern-day Walter Mitty (“an ordinary often ineffectual person who indulges in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs”) our goofy old Joe Biden sees himself as a great leader, the greatest this country has ever known, the man who is going to build back better to make America great again (BBBMAGA), the protector and savior of American democracy as well as the Keeper of the Soul of America as its GUARDIAN, when the reality is that not only he is dangerously ignorant of the reality that exists outside of the Washington, D.C. beltway where we common folks live our lives, but he is even further dangerously ignorant of how our national government functions, which thought takes us to a Reuters story entitled “Biden says he trusts Fed to take action on inflation if needed” by Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt on August 11, 2021, where we had old Joe portraying himself as a GREAT LEADER of the American people, those who aren’t DREGS OF SOCIETY, anyway, who belong in a BASKET OF DEPLORABLES, and the man who is firmly in charge, as follows:

WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that his administration is working to relieve bottlenecks threatening the economic recovery and trusts the Federal Reserve to take any steps that may be needed to rein in prices.

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To which I and the rest of the people in the world who are not dolts, or fools, or morons, or mental midgets, or out-and-out pinheads can only say HUH?

Joe Biden trusts the Federal Reserve to take any steps that may be needed to rein in prices?

But why, people?

Why does Joe Biden trust the Federal Reserve to take any steps that may be needed to rein in prices, when there are no steps the Federal Reserve can take to rein in prices, or to control prices in any way, and right now, the Federal Reserve wants inflation “running hot,” which means it wants prices rising, which isn’t any kind of secret?

Is Joe that ignorant of reality?

Or is he just plain stupid?

Getting back to that Reuters story, we have:

Higher prices of everything from homes to gasoline and shortages in supplies that were affected by COVID-19 social-distancing protocols threaten a recovery that has been Biden’s focus since taking office in January, along with ending the public health crisis.

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Yes, people, the GOD EMPEROR Joe Biden has made all sorts of outlandish claims about the economic miracles he is going to wrought here in America, except there aren’t going to be any miracles, only chaos, which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:

“Right now, our experts believe that – the major independent forecasters agree as well – that these bottlenecks and price spikes will reduce as our economy continues to heal,” Biden said.

“While today’s consumer price report points in that direction, we will keep a careful eye on inflation each month, and trust the Fed to take appropriate action if and when it’s needed.”

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Old Joe has to be joshing us here and pulling our legs, because the last people we can trust to take action on inflation is the Federal Reserve, which takes us to another Reuters story entitled “Fed’s Barkin: U.S. “closing in” on taper, but could still take a few months” by Howard Schneider on August 11, 2021, where we have the following on what the Federal Reserve is doing or not doing with respect to inflation, to wit:

Barkin’s comments represent a middle ground that could help shape whatever consensus emerges about the Fed’s next steps.

They also show the divergent views emerging among Fed officials about what data deserves emphasis as they plan their exit from emergency monetary policies set at the start of the pandemic.

Some officials in recent days, for example, have said they feel the current year’s high rate of inflation, at around 3.5% by one of the Fed’s preferred measures, is arguably enough to meet the Fed’s current pledge to keep average inflation consistently at 2%, and perhaps slightly above it for a time.

Barkin said he was not ready to commit to that sort of stricter view of inflation averaging, but neither does he dismiss the risk that higher prices may persist.

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Said the way it has to be said, the Federal Reserve is clueless about inflation, so why does goofy old Joe Biden ask us to trust them to do the right thing for us, when we are not really a part of their equation?

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