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From the Founder…
As we continue through this week, it would be good to take a look at last week to see where “We the People” are coming from, and hopefully where we are going to. For those who skipped past it last week, the POTUS gave the SOTU and it raised a bunch of responses, some diversions from some responses and rejections of the “state” Americans may find themselves in regardless of whether they acknowledge reality or not.
The essential takeaway from the SOTU is that the Joe Biden Administration is in charge and will continue to do as much as it can get away with. It occurs to me that “good ole’ Uncle Joe” wields a great deal of power from his position in the White House (which seems to be fading into dingy gray due to the overwhelming corruption oozing out from behind the walls. I discern this not as an overly emotional reaction to all the evil being orchestrated from this location, but because if Biden, or his puppet masters did not wield much power, he’d already be in prison for colluding with the enemy. And, I ascertain this not because of an overly emotional reaction to all the evil being orchestrated from the Biden Administration, but because of my grasp of the history of how evil metastasizes and multiplies and people behind the evil continue to do as much as they can get away with until a force of good will end such regression.
Biden, has been re-imaged in the image of Obama, and for those with a short memory, or grasp of history, Obama used his presidential pulpit on the occasion of the SOTU to spew out a bunch of political rhetoric as opposed to genuinely sharing the true state of the “Union.” The fact that it occurred and We the People let it pass when Obama did this is why it will continue. Precedent was set by a president who refused to serve the people and instead served his own interests or the interests of his Party. It was clear with Obama as it is with Biden that it is “Party before the people.” On the other side of the equation, some Americans are awakening to the reality that it is not about Democrats vs. Republicans. Many now realize that it is “We the People” vs. those who care little or nothing for the people. That bunch will sell out their own mothers for wealth. power (as in control over others), or fame, or a combination of any they can grab and hold.
Additionally, as mentioned in a previous edition of Founder’s Focus, referencing our time in history today: “Great leaders do not often make it to the pinnacles of power since they are not trusted by the power brokers or uber wealthy donor class.” Often, the people elected to office today also depend upon pre-packaged propaganda projected out to the public again and again as if in a brainwashing effort. The simple logic: “If all MSM outlets are saying the same thing, it cannot be wrong, or at least partially true.” So many Americans still believe that the MSM represent “news agencies.” They are not. Some of what is reported is partially true – but the partial is blended with a narrative, a spin, or some type of logical explanation that is believable. And often the MSM put forth what is believable, not what is true. Thus, we have to settle for believable leaders, not honest ones. The prime example occupies the White House currently.
This edition of the Founder’s Focus is dedicated to revisiting Biden’s “State of the Union,” which should be retitled to the “State of DisUnion.” We are not one people at this point - so “E. Pluribus Unum,” the meaning from Latin: “Out of many, one or from many, one body.” It is the surviving concept or theme commonly agreed upon by great leaders from long ago as the unofficial motto of the United States. Those leaders, Ben Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, jointly served on a committee to determine what the national motto should be for the fledgling nation. It became the foundation for the emblem for the Great Seal of the United States and served as an unofficial motto of the nation up until the time of the Civil War.
“E. Pluribus Unum” simply represents a fond memory of an ideal that is disintegrating. We are not one as a people. Biden in his SOTU demonstrates it by his words. The divisiveness oozes from the sentences. It is highly likely that the spirits of the Founding Fathers are truly saddened by what has become of the Great Experiment in self governance today. And Benjamin Franklin’s words ring down from the ages:
Sir, I agree to this constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better constitution.
Much of the strength & efficiency of any government in procuring and securing happiness to the people, depends on opinion; on the general opinion of the goodness of the Government, as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its governors.
George Washington also made his own prophecy in his farewell address that it was probable that the political parties could destroy America. And look at us now. From this edition of the Founder’s Focus we attempt to get a snapshot of the kind of leader we have in Biden from his own words in his “State of the Union,” which truly should be retitled to the “State of DisUnion.”
He “sees a future?” We see no future if he remains in office. America will be relegated to fables written up in dusty, old history books, and its people gone with the wind
More from Biden’s SOTU aka ‘Rant against Americans’
By A. Dru Kristenev ——Bio and Archives--March 11, 2024
Photo: ABC News Video
So many fibs and obvious lies riddled Biden’s 2024 State of the Union that it’s questionable whether the space is worth taking to delineate the ones that others may not have addressed. Full disclosure… unable to sit through the speech, more like a bilious harangue, I watched a complete video the next day in order to be able to stop and take notes of each falsehood as it was uttered the night before. Two pages filled with tight, crammed notations were the result, of which the following is just a portion. As Biden jumped around from subject to subject, so will this little ditty, meaning that the content or context will not follow sensible order.
One other thing, since I watched the AP recording it should be brought up how the camera almost exclusively showed the democrat side of Congress constantly popping to their feet with applause and raucous approbation.
The first thing jotted down was the made-up quote from Trump that he told Putin, “Do whatever you want.” To imply that he, Biden, had stood up to Putin is complete malarkey. It was first Bush, then Obama and Biden that gave Russia the green light to saunter into contiguous (and not so) regions and take them over beginning with Georgia, Crimea (2014), and Ukraine in 2022. Biden was the one who virtually invited Putin to invade its southern neighbor.
“History is watching,” he said. Yes, it is. It’s watching as Biden sets the world on fire from continent to continent.
A favorite quote: “You can’t love your country only when you win.” Interesting how that’s exactly how democrats operate with one exception… when they’re in power they seek to destroy the nation from within. Where’s your love of country, Joe Biden?
Onto abortion, which the left euphemistically refers to as “women’s healthcare.” After making a shining example of a woman (with her permission) who removed her child from the womb, Biden shamelessly rebuked the Constitution in his criticism of the Supreme Court justices seated before him for following law, sending the issue of abortion to the states. For a supposed lawyer, Biden is sadly ignorant of the only Law of the Land, the U.S. Constitution.
Next Biden went to Covid and lied about Trump, again. “Let’s the tell the story… here and now” in which he changed the facts about the state of the nation going into the “pandemic,” taking credit for economic recovery that was engineered by the man he referred to as “my predecessor.” Was Biden afraid he’d be slapped with a defamation suit for maligning Trump by name as he stole his “predecessor’s” success?
Biden hasn’t created jobs after Covid. He was in office while old jobs were reinstated, part-time jobs created to bolster those already working multiple jobs to make ends meet, and finding new employment almost exclusively for foreign workers. Opening thousands of government positions, Biden has done one thing, and it’s of no benefit to Americans in general. He has expanded government to be the largest employer by nearly three million workers. Add another 12 million contractors and you know exactly where citizens’ tax dollars are going – to reinforce the administrative state that’s pulverizing average Americans’ lives.
Again, Biden tries to take credit for building manufacturing back home when he has been cashing in on Chinese manufacturing undermining every aspect of American business, from computer chips and auto parts to breaking down the supply chain, crippling access to prescription drugs and daily use items.
Then he launched into a diatribe about investing in family farms when he has been systematically destroying them via overbearing, crushing EPA regulations on water usage, methane emissions, so-called endangered species, and fertilizer production, to name a few issues.
Biden is the champion of the middle class? Except for the continuous subsidies of pointless government programs promoting unwanted, unreliable “renewable” energy, EVs, “smart” homes and cities (open-air prisons), all with debt-ridden dollars Treasury is printing by the trillions – essentially a trillion more every 100 days. His inflationary policies are destroying the middle and hard-working labor classes.
Other ways Biden has burdened the middle and working classes is his admitted expansion of the Affordable Care Act, which is anything but affordable, adding thousands of dollars onto family health insurance plans and overall medical expenses. He and Congress need not worry, they receive all their superior care without spending a penny out of their pockets. The ACA has been nothing but an albatross around regular citizens’ necks.
He said “check the numbers” when talking about the financial health of families and the nation. That is, in fact, a good idea because then it can be seen how his administration has cooked the books, having to adjust downward monthly labor and income statistics, while miscalculating inflation numbers to make it look like inflation is a thing of the past. All the while real costs of gas, food, shelter and, yes, taxes have increased up to 100% (check the first items listed here).
Biden flatly blames republicans in Congress for any problems on the border when he has always had the executive power to shut it down. It’s no secret that he wiped out all of Trump’s policies that worked to diminish illegal entry into the United States.
Now, the cat’s out of the bag that Biden has surreptitiously flown 320,000 illegal aliens into American airports over the last year and will not divulge to which cities. And that’s just the beginning of his abetting the invasion on the southern, and now the northern, border. Follow his instructions and check the numbers there as well.
All this and there’s no more room to delve into Biden’s preference of buttressing Ukraine over defending our border or coming to the aid of Hamas, even to the extent of building a port in Gaza that will inevitably be used to resupply their arms (disguised as humanitarian aid, no doubt). Biden is no friend of Israel and would be just as happy to see it be swept into the sea like the terrorists promise to do in their constitutions.
It’s clear that the state of the Union is buckling under the thumb of an autocratic, dictatorial Biden administration. It’s neither “strong” nor “getting stronger.”
Three things Biden claimed he reveres. “Honesty, decency” and “respecting everyone.” Yet he epitomizes the complete opposite – dishonest liar, improper and indecent in his words and actions, and thoroughly disrespectful of any person who honors the Constitution and America’s true heritage. In fact, he jails them for speaking their mind, which is their protected constitutional right.
He “sees a future?” We see no future if he remains in office. America will be relegated to fables written up in dusty, old history books, and its people gone with the wind. (Apologies to Margaret Mitchell).
A Bit of History
From HISTORY.com (w/ video): The State of the Union Address | Definition, Purpose & History
From HISTORY.com (w/ video): President George Washington delivers first State of the Union | January 8, 1790
From HISTORY.com (w/ video): How US Presidents Have Communicated with the Public—From the Telegraph to Twitter
From The National Archives: George Washington’s Farewell Address, 19 September 1796
From HISTORY.com (w/ video): How Washington's Farewell Address Inspired Future Presidents
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Onward and Upward!
From NBC News: Watch President Biden's full 2024 State of the Union address – 3/7/24
From GoodFellows: Victor Davis Hanson On The State of the Union . . . and a Biden-Trump Rematch – 3/7/24
From FOX News: RFK, Jr. reacts to Biden's State of the Union address: 'Hyper-partisan' – 3/8/24
From FOX News - w/ Laura Ingraham: Newt Gingrich: Biden gave the most 'hateful, divisive' SOTU address ever – 3/9/24
From the War Room w/ Steve Bannon: Dave Walsh Breaks Down The Problems With The State Of The Union Address – 3/9/24
From Tucker Carlson Network: Tucker Carlson Responds to Joe Biden's State of the Union Address – 3/7/24
From the War Room w/ Steve Bannon: Episode 3447: Rebuttal To The Disarray Of The Union – 3/8/24
From The First TV: Biden’s Post Address Gaffes Come Out Swinging | BILL O’REILLY – 3/12/24
From Ben Shapiro: Ep. 1921 - STATE OF THE UNION: Old Man Screams At Moon – 3/8/24
From PBS News Hour: WATCH: Alabama Sen. Katie Britt delivers GOP response to the 2024 State of the Union – 3/7/24
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From Breitbart: Poll: Joe Biden's State of the Union Address Fails to Improve His Popularity on Key Issues – 3/11/24
From Newsweek: Biden Did Himself No Favors With Angry, Partisan State of the Union | Opinion – 3/11/24
From Canada Free Press: Ghosts of the Dead Lament at Biden’s State of the Union – 3/9/24
From NBC News: Sen. Katie Britt attempts to clean up her misleading State of the Union response – 3/10/24
From Just The News: Read: Full text of Biden's 2024 State of the Union address – 3/8/24
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