President Asterisk has been in office now for about 68 days and he has been busy!
Beyond the items I mentioned in my blog post, “How Much Wonderful Can We Take?” there are even more accomplishments to report. He ordered the bombing of Syria, much to the objection of Congressmen from both sides of the aisle who decried an escalation of our involvement in the Middle East without Congressional approval.
When asked in an interview if he believed that Vladimir Putin of Russia is a killer, he responded diplomatically, “Mmm hmm, I do.” Russia immediately recalled its Ambassador to the United States. When Putin later suggested the two men meet and discuss the “issue,” the White House declined.
His Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and Jake Sullivan, the president’s national security adviser met in Anchorage, Alaska for two days of talks with Chinese State Councilor Wang Yi and Chinese Communist Party foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi. President Asterisk’s two men immediately verbally attacked the Chinese over their treatment of the Uyghurs, a righteous argument, but one not approached with skill here. The Chinese were incensed and returned by parroting the Democrat mantra of racism in America among other things in a scolding rant that took 17 minutes to translate. (Can I say hoist on the Democrat’s own petard here?) Needless to say, this was not diplomacy at its best. Where, or where was Mike Pompeo when we needed him?
Kim Jong Un, who met in person with President Trump, has been called a “thug” by President Asterisk and hasn’t taken any more kindly to that than Putin did to being called a killer. Thus, North Korea has fired off some missiles and threatened to increase their nuclear arsenal if the new administration continues to be “aggressive.” Way to go, diplomatic Joe!
Vice President Asterisk is taking calls with important foreign leaders such as Bibi Netanyahu of Israel in President Asterisk’s stead. One wonders why, when President Asterisk has such a marvelous diplomatic style and his cabinet members have such a finger on the pulse of the world? Such calls were rarely taken by anybody but President Trump himself during the previous administration.
President Asterisk managed to fall not once, not twice, but three times tying to climb the steps into Air Force One the other day. Don’t they have a chairlift?
Then, just this past week he gave his very first press briefing. It was announced 10 days in advance, so no doubt reporters were required to submit their questions ahead of time. He was also provided with cheat sheets that had the names and pictures of the reporters he was supposed to call on, numbered in the order in which he should call on them (to correspond to the prepared answers, one can only suppose). Even then he wandered away from the podium looking lost for a few seconds before beginning to answer one question. With another, he gave the following response: “I have never been particularly poor at calculating how to get things done in the United States Senate. So, the best way to get something done if you…if you hold near and dear to you…that you like to be able to…anyway, I—we’re going to get a lot done.” Thus speaks the leader of the free world!
Many of the individuals that he has appointed to his cabinet have flaws of character or horrible ideas that made them unsuitable. A few of them have been stopped, but most have been confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate. The new transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg plans to tax motorists for the miles that they drive each year. Such a tax doesn’t bother the east and west coast elites in the least since most of them drive short distances in the cities in which they live or use mass transit. But in states like Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming — most of the so-called fly-over country where real Americans live, people have to drive miles to a decent hospital, restaurant, or movie theater. Here in Illinois, we drive about 30 miles one way to Terre Haute Indiana to buy shoes, clothes, food that is not available at our Walmart or to go to doctors’ appointments. This is going to disproportionately disadvantage anyone who doesn’t live in a big city or on the coasts—mainly conservatives, and many of them low income.
His Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Bercerra’s sued the Trump administration 110 times including over their stand to protect the Little Sisters of the Poor from having to pay for abortion for their employees when it is against their religious beliefs. I guess abortion is in, religious freedom is out.
His Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, said eliminating the Hyde Amendment which protects taxpayer money from paying for abortions “is a matter of economic and racial justice.”
And his Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Rachel Levin, is a transgender person who is pro-abortion, but more importantly supports children undergoing sex changes instead of getting counseling for gender dysphoria (feeling uncomfortable with your gender). This despite the fact that doctors have no idea what harm the sex change hormones do to children and despite the fact that children are too young to make a decision that will impact the rest of their lives and their abilities to have children. These appointments are troubling, to say the least.
But perhaps the biggest blunder dear old, Joe has made was to tell all those wonderful human traffickers, drug smugglers, and MS-13 gang members, oh and other folks as well, especially kids without their parents, to come on up! Everyone welcome! That, of course, was after he stopped construction on the almost completed wall, so there are those nice gaps for people to walk through. When ABC News asked one illegal if he would have made the trip to the U.S. had President Trump still been in office, he said “no.” He came because of President Asterisk.
Belatedly realizing what he had done, President Asterisk told people, “You can come, just don’t come now.” But no one is listening to that. They have now attempted to close the border after letting in thousands and busing them into cities all over the southwest up into states like Illinois, and considering even flying them to states like Montana. Many of them have COVID but are not being quarantined. At the border, children’s bodies are piled tight against each other in caged areas as they sleep, covered with silver space blankets and only mats between them and the floor. The nice dorms with super-hero themed bedspreads and flat screen televisions of the Trump era cannot hold the thousands who are there. The U.S. government currently has 18,000 unaccompanied minors in its custody as of Friday morning, many of whom have COVID.
President Asterisk’s accomplishments are many and somewhat varied, but all with the same general theme: They are bad for Americans. Last week he also announced he will run for reelection in 2024 when he is in his 80s. But will he know when 2024 gets here?