Biden is Blundering Us Into an Abyss

Some politicians would rather reign in Hell, then serve in Heaven.

When Joe Biden was vice president, Defense Secretary Robert Gates observed that Biden had been remarkably, consistently wrong about everything for going on 40 years. Time to add at least another 5-10 years on that insight.

During that same timeframe, Biden’s boss, President Barack Obama, observed that Biden possesses an extraordinary ability to mess things up. Obama’s description of Biden’s bizarro superpower was more colorful than that. 

Keeping those two keen observations in mind, take a look at where Joe Biden has led America and the world in the short time of his presidency. 

Vladimir Putin is about to invade Ukraine. The nuclear-armed KGB-trained mafia boss keeps blaming the unrest on his neighbor but his ambition to rebuild the lost Soviet empire is clear. Biden could have shown savvy and strength and kept Putin at bay, as his predecessor did for four years, but what did Biden do? First, he gave up Afghanistan to terrorists, getting Americans killed and stranded because he abandoned the only viable American base of operations near Kabul. Then he decided not to fire anyone who came up with that debacle. Then in one of his few press conferences, he more or less greenlit Putin to invade Ukraine with his “If it’s just a minor incursion” remark. That “minor” quip is causing major problems, and a nervous Europe from the Balkans to Britain is wondering not if Putin will invade Ukraine, but will he stop there?

Spoiler: He’s sitting across the table from Joe Biden, a man who keeps telling the world that someone is telling him to stop answering press questions. Putin must surely like his odds.

In ordinary times, the prospect of military action can unite and galvanize Americans. But most Americans now believe we have little interest in who owns what in Eastern Europe, and we have much more pressing concerns closer to home. Thanks to Biden’s irresponsible spending sprees, and the trillions more he keeps threatening to spend, the dollars we work so hard for are basically worthless. Biden compounded that problem by kicking American energy producers in the teeth, increasing dependence on foreign oil, and putting money in Putin’s pockets. 

Yes, that would be the same Putin who is waving guns at his NATO and non-NATO neighbors. Biden’s decisions are directly making Putin more of a threat. And Biden shows no evidence that he’s aware or even cares.

Something else Biden doesn’t appear to care about is military readiness and capability. His big idea when he swept into the White House was to make the military woke, which has divided it and eroded Americans’ trust in the one institution most of us had faith in just over a year ago. 

Something else Biden doesn’t appear to care about is his decision to erase the US-Mexico border. He keeps getting caught shipping illegal immigrants all over the country, having tested none of them for COVID, so no one knows where because his lawless government is hiding the whole scheme from the American people. Biden doesn’t care about the human trafficking he is enabling, or the toxic fentanyl that is flooding across the border. He also doesn’t care that his actions are destroying morale in the Border Patrol. 

Biden claims to care about the economy and he keeps touting all the jobs “created” since he was installed in the Oval Office. But to date his policies have not created a single new job. Democrats shut down businesses at the height of COVID, which killed jobs by the millions. Now those Democrats are reluctantly opening their states and cities back up, and some of those jobs they killed have come back. That’s not creating jobs. But Biden doesn’t care. 

Biden also doesn’t care about the war that criminals and criminal-loving Democrat district attorneys and mayors are waging across the country. If he truly cared he would call out – or even kick out – the Democrat DAs like Gascon in LA, Garza in Austin, and Bragg in New York, who just keep installing revolving doors on their local jails. But he’s silent even as the criminals these DAs free go out and rob, rape, and kill more Americans. 

The man who has the famous American bully pulpit is easily bullied, it turns out. He got bullied into proclaiming that he would choose only a Black woman for the next Supreme Court opening, which might have some credibility if Biden had not voted against the second Black man – Clarence Thomas – to ascend to the high court. Biden doesn’t really care about diversity he just cares about politics and expediency.

Thanks to Biden and his woke handlers, Americans are divided on everything from what should be taught in our schools to the very definition of citizen. We’re divided on the economy, we’re divided on vaccines – which, remember, Biden was among the first to undermine for the sake of politics – and we’re divided on everything else. 

Well, not everything. Most Americans despise Joe Biden now. That’s something. 

But when Putin, and China’s dictator Xi, and likely Iran and North Korea, all act in concert to sweep up their respective regions, Joe Biden will hardly be in a position to rally America or the world. The legacy of division he has created through his ability to epically fail, because he is so consistently and powerfully wrong about everything, will just fracture the free world further at the worst time imaginable. 

A.J. Rice is author of the book, The Woking Dead: How Society’s Vogue Virus Destroys Our Culture. He serves as CEO of Publius PR, a premier communications firm in Washington D.C.