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Joe Biden's Presidency Is Burning to the Ground

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The past several months have not been kind to the Biden administration, and the hole they’ve dug for themselves has now turned into a sinkhole they can’t get control of. Economic woes, including the supply chain crisis and inflation, are driving negative attitudes about the president as foreign policy concerns also take their toll.

Evidence of that arrived today as Joe Biden reached a new low, not just in any individual poll, but in the polling averages. FiveThirtyEight, a left-leaning polling aggregator that weights surveys for “house effect,” often in the direction of Democrats, finds the president at an average of 43.3% approval, his worst since taking office. Further, Biden sits above 50% disapproval for the first time in their aggregation.

Those numbers were driven down further by another new poll that looked almost identical to the one Quinnipiac put out yesterday. An A+ rated pollster (per FiveThirtyEight) found Biden’s approval at 37%, but the internals are even worse.

Only 27% of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of immigration, and I’d love to meet the 27% because I’m pretty sure they’d approve of Biden shooting someone in the middle of 5th Avenue. Even more stunning for Biden and Democrats as a whole is that only 36% of Americans feel the economy will get better over the next 12 months. Do you know what is 12 months away? The 2022 election.

Other findings include Joe Biden being tied at 40% with Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 rematch, though getting only 40% against a senile old man who has run the country into the ground is hardly something to brag about. Republican voters need to be cut-throat when it comes to the next presidential nominee, ensuring they ditch the emotional attachments and pick whoever is in the best position to win. If that turns out to be Trump, then so be it.

Regardless, the most relevant story today is that Biden’s presidency is burning down in its own rite. Does he have a floor? I don’t think he does, and there’s nothing in the pipeline that suggests he’s going to turn things around. Besides, the White House clearly has no interest in turning things around. They’ve shown no ability to adapt in the face of their failures, instead truly believing that their problems are purely a result of bad messaging. Good messaging doesn’t fix high gas prices and the border, though.

I think Biden could rebound somewhat given how fickle the electorate is, but that’s certainly not going to happen while Jen Psaki mocks Americans and Biden insists the economy is bad because he’s doing such a great job.

I Have Reason to Suspect Jen Psaki Is Not Good at Her Job

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I’ll say it: Jen Psaki is probably the least effective spin doctor I’ve seen in my (thankfully) handful of years paying attention to the God-forsaken trainwreck that is White House press briefings.

Her style is like a subdued Kayleigh McEnany. Psaki wants to clap back at journalists she believes are hostile (read: doing their jobs) but with none of the “PWNED” intensity McEnany gave off and one thousand percent more smugness. I get that her job is to spin things for the Biden administration, but when your responses reek of little more than smug dismissiveness of any real problems, you’re not actually spinning. You’re just mocking Americans who are undergoing real problems right now.

This clip, which went viral yesterday, is just one of many where Psaki has not really answered a serious question with a serious response. And this wasn’t a conservative news reporter. This was a reporter from the New York Times, an outlet that has always had the Democrats’ back.

She committed an ethics violation (which Jake Tapper at CNN grilled her on) when she said “Again, we’re going to do everything we can to help former governor McAuliffe, and we believe in the agenda he’s representing.” She said Joe Biden understands the tragedy that was innocent children getting hit by his own drone strike because he has lost family, too.

In fairness, being Biden’s press secretary is probably the worst job on the planet. At least with Trump, all his thoughts were out there on Twitter so it wasn’t very difficult to interpret what he would say. With Obama, everything was so scripted that, even during a crisis, the team had talking points ready to go that were actually reassuring Americans a bit.

But the Biden administration has a silent president and does not appear to be workshopping many of its talking points. Psaki is stumbling a bit and just swiping at reporters without really appealing to anyone.

Now, I say all this as someone who believes the White House press briefing needs to die a quick and painless death. It serves no purpose whatsoever. We definitely don’t need them daily, but really we don’t need them at all because they give us nothing we can’t find on social media. And, if we’re being brutally honest, they get way more exposure on social media than they do on any of the news networks.

That would actually work in the Biden team’s favor, too. The people who would see these talking points online are the people who spend a lot of time online, and they are the ones most likely to get really riled up (in support of or totally against) those statements. There aren’t many people who watch these clips on the national news networks, but some of these clips do trickle down into local newscasts, and that audience is much more moderate and much more upset about the rising prices than the Democrats would like.

And that’s why Jen Psaki’s absolute smugness is such an issue going forward. As things get progressively worse for the Biden administration, she will do one of two things: Respond to tough questions with more of that insulting smugness and turn off all those moderates who want inflation to start falling again or stop holding briefings entirely.

Given how poorly her comments are being received, even by friendly media, we may not be all that far off from those briefings stopping for a while. Or, we could see her decide to take another, much longer vacation.

White House Mocks Suffering Americans as Joe Biden's Ratings Reach New Lows

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Is there a more well-known saying than “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging?” Yet, apparently, that nugget of wisdom has not reached the hallowed halls of the White House. Today, even as the supply chain crisis grows, Jen Psaki decided it’d be a great idea to mock suffering Americans. You know, because this entire thing is about not being able to get a treadmill or something.

Remember President Ron Klain’s recent endorsement of the idea that inflation and supply chain issues are a “high-class” problem? This is the double down by an administration that just can’t get out of its own way.

I know the hardships of normal life are completely foreign to an overpaid Washington apparatchik like Jen Psaki, but a quick look at the data shows that the current situation goes far beyond exercise devices. People need things like washing machines, beef products, and household cleaners, all of which are facing delays right now. Taking the reporter’s question and using it as an opportunity to mock those with concerns is an incredibly tone-deaf response, but it’s also one that absconds from the true scale of the problem.

Supply-chain issues also affect the labor market. If producers can’t get materials to produce their products, people lose their jobs as a result. If restaurants can’t get the food items they need, business suffers and pay suffers. Meanwhile, you might as well be searching for gold if you are currently trying to buy an affordable used car, something most people require to get to work and back.

I think this goes further than that, though. On some level, Psaki is right in that we will survive what the country (and world) is currently going through. Most supply chain issues come down to convenience, even if it means you’ve got to eat crackers and potted meat for dinner. But Joe Biden didn’t run on low expectations and food rationing. He ran on shutting down COVID-19 and restoring the economy. And while the White House might like to do so, they don’t get to move the goalposts and claim that anything short of a total economic collapse is a success. Americans are not going to buy that narrative.

That reality is illustrated by Quinnipiac’s latest poll, which has Biden at an all-time low of 37% approval.

That is a picture of a presidency in total collapse. Biden has no floor and is hemorrhaging support from key constituencies. Of course, white women with college degrees are still on board because there’s literally nothing Biden can do to tick off that group, but when he’s down to 30% with men and 28% with independents, that’s red wave territory going into 2022.

What gets me about it, though, is that Biden could recover some if he’d just do some common sense things. Yet, he and his handlers are so ideologically attached to the failures they continue to perpetrate that no end appears to be in sight. Psaki would do better to admit we have a problem and not try to gaslight Americans into believing it’s because Biden has actually done such a great job. Honesty would go a long way, and there’s none of that coming from this White House.

White House Gives Troubling but Predictable Answer to Biden Violating DC Mask Mandate

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Over the weekend, Joe Biden was busted for not wearing a mask in an expensive D.C. seafood restaurant, while he was there walking around the restaurant with his wife, who was also unmasked, and when he came out of the restaurant.

D.C. has had a mask mandate in effect since July 31 for any indoor businesses open to the public. Biden is constantly pushing masking to people and chastising the unvaccinated. He also signed an executive order  requiring masks be worn on federal property which he immediately broke.

So you knew it would be coming up as a question to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki to explain Biden’s failure to follow his own rules and the D.C. mandate. I was curious as to how she was going to try to spin this. Fox’s Peter Doocy asked her why Biden and his wife were not wearing masks in the restaurant, given the mandate.

From Fox News:

“Well, I think what we are referring to is a photo of them walking out of a restaurant after they had eaten, masks in hand, where they had not had put them back on yet,” Psaki said.

“So I would say, of course, there are moments when we all don’t put masks back on as quickly as we should,” she continued. “But I don’t think we should lose the forest through the trees here in that our objective here is to get more people vaccinated, make sure that that schools and companies around the country can put in place requirements to save more lives and keep people safer and not overly focus on moments in time that don’t reflect overarching policy.”

She continued the spin when Doocy pressed her. “There is a carve out for people under two or people who are actively eating or drinking,” Doocy said. “So I’m just curious why the president was doing this.” “I think I just addressed it, Peter,” Psaki claimed.

This of course is typical spin. There was video of Biden and Jill in the restaurant without masks, a picture of them standing and talking maskless, and then video of him coming out without it, although holding a mask in his hands.

Then the rest of her remarks are something else. It’s actually more offensive than her telling us to disregard the evidence of our own eyes as to what Biden did. Don’t look at what Biden actually does, she says, ignore the obvious hypocrisy, just pay attention to the policy and do what we tell you to do, you peasants! Indeed, she’s effectively saying “Rule for thee, not for me.” She managed to give an even worse answer than I might have imagined. Why would anyone listen to anything these people have to say when they act this way and give such responses?

Now, I don’t think there should be a mandate. But he does and he’s always pushing it on other people. So he should stop being a hypocrite and own that he’s not acting in accord with his own words.

Biden White House Gets Absolutely Nailed on Hypocrisy Regarding Politicization of the DOJ

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Last Friday, the current occupant of the Oval Office was specifically asked if he believed Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Dept. of Justice should proceed with prosecuting anyone who defied House subpoenas related to testimony regarding the Capitol riot investigation. He was asked directly in response to reports that Steve Bannon, a senior White House advisor to former President Trump in the early months of his presidency, said through his lawyer that he would not comply with the subpoena served to him by the Democrat-run House panel who are purportedly investigating the events of January 6th.

Here’s what Biden said, according to CNN:

Asked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins what his message is to those who refuse subpoenas from the panel, Biden said, “I hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable.”

Pressed on whether he thinks those people should be prosecuted by the department, the President said, “I do, yes.”

Even as White House press secretary Jen Psaki tried to smooth things over with a tweet proclaiming Biden “supports the work of the committee and the independent role of the Department of Justice to make any decisions about prosecutions,” the DOJ was not amused, issuing a short statement late Friday evening pushing back on Biden’s meddling.

“The Department of Justice will make its own independent decisions in all prosecutions based solely on the facts and the law. Period. Full stop,” DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley stated.

Fast forward to today, and during the daily White House briefing, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy repeatedly pressed Psaki on this issue, asking numerous times why this didn’t represent a clear breaking of Biden’s campaign promise not to politicize the DOJ. Watch as she laughably claims he did no such thing, and proceeds to default to a (paraphrasing) “at least he didn’t use his office to incite an insurrection” dodge as though that made Biden’s answer any less troubling:

Just pathetic, and so typical coming from this administration, which gets exposed just about every day not practicing what they preach and then trying to make lame excuses for it like it was no big deal that the President of the United States got caught saying or doing something he’s demanded others not do.

This is reminiscent of him and other members of the administration including Psaki rushing to weigh in on the alleged “whipping” of Haitian migrants by border patrol agents on horseback several weeks ago, even as facts were still coming in that completely undercut the sensational claims made by the El Paso Times and a flack for failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro.

“To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? It’s outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay,” he promised, all but assuring that the agents – if charged with anything – were not likely to get a fair hearing or trial, should it come to that.

But as is always the case with Democrats, it’s “different” when they do it (even though on the flip side when they accuse Republicans of it it is rarely true). Outside of Fox News and maybe the New York Post, there will be no hyperventilating cable news network panels panicking about Biden’s politicization of the DOJ, something that is especially dangerous considering that the Capitol riot revolved in part around the belief that he wasn’t legitimately elected President.

In fact, we’re already in “Move Along, Nothing to See” territory on this one as far as the media is concerned, but just because that’s how it’s shaping up, it’s still a serious issue that should not be ignored by voters, especially going into the 2022 midterms.

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