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Joe Biden was always one of the worst Democrats during my lifetime. He was reliably one of the most mean-spirited and Red Team-friendly creeps on the Blue Team. "Reach across the isle" Joe (with his lunchbox stuffed with corporate cash). From my perspective his age is the least problematic aspect of his candidacy (and his age at this point is a huge problem). I can't imagine the Blue Team finding anyone other than Hillary that is as God-awful creepy as Joe Biden.

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Yes

He should not run for a second term. I second that!

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Jun 3, 2023Liked by Bill Astore

I have been actively on Biden fall-watch recently, especially after he almost took what could have been a scary spill in Japan going down some stone steps.

He lives an entitled life surrounded by people who make problems go away – White House staff, the media, Secret Service, Justice Dept., FBI. So he acts heedlessly, unafraid of the consequences.

As he gets frailer, a normal person would go more carefully, but Biden is doing the opposite: this latest fall happened as he was breaking into one of those sad little jogs he affects to show how vigorous he is.

But gravity doesn’t care that he’s been declared legally and politically invulnerable by the powers that be, and the Secret Service can’t wrestle the ground to the ground if he hits it hard.

Unless there’s an intervention of some sort, I think the probability of him falling again and possibly injuring himself is rising. If it’s bad enough, then there will be decisions to be made.

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Bill, there are reasons an airline pilot is forced to retire at 65.

Not all for physical reasons.

That the DNC is insisting he will run again is more than disgusting.

What I don't understand is why his wife goes along with seeing him humiliated.

Very sad.

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That Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the two front runners to be the next President of the United States should tell every American old enough to think for themselves that this nation is in serious, serious trouble. And that assumes that there will be an election in 2024.

If those two are the best that America can come up with to be its next Supreme Leader, there is a very real possibility that it will not survive to celebrate its 250th birthday on July 4, 2026, 1,128 days from today. Or that, if it does survive, that it will be in no mood or condition to celebrate anything.

Another closely linked indicator as to just exactly how screwed up and screwed America is, is the fact that the new Debt Ceiling "Deal" worked out by the politicians ~ as scripted and choreographed by their owners and operators in America's Ruling Political Class ~ does not set a new Debt Ceiling.

Which means that those politicians can ~ and will ~ spend just as much money as they want to between now and January 1, 2025 on just about anything that they want to as long as that RPC gives them a "Go For It."

Stay tuned for "AMERICA: The Reality-TV Extravaganza."

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THE NATIONAL DEBT IS A NATIONAL CURSE by Michael Boldin / Tenth Amendment Center 060223

The national debt is a national curse.

That’s not just our view, it’s how James Madison described it.

“I go on the principle that a Public Debt is a Public curse and in a Rep. Govt. a greater than in any other.”

That’s because, as Madison put it, debts are one of a trio of tools that people with power use to establish tyranny.

“Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.”

Madison was far from alone.

Thomas Jefferson said he considered “public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”

In his Farewell Address, George Washington urged us to use debt sparingly – and, get this, actually pay it off as quickly as possible!

“As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it.”

In other words, running a perpetually growing debt is not just a bad economic choice, it’s also a threat to national security.

Benjamin Franklin warned that running into debt gives “to another Power over your Liberty.”

Thomas Jefferson put it this way:

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which, if acted on, would save one half the wars of the world”

For Washington, paying off the debt was “urgent.” That’s how he put it in his Fifth Annual Message to Congress:

“No pecuniary consideration is more urgent than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt. On none can delay be more injurious or an economy of time more valuable.”

The Antifederalist writer Brutus agreed, and during the ratification debates, forcefully expressing his concern about the ability to borrow:

“I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befal this country, than to be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction.”

For many in the founding generation, leaving massive debt to future generations was also morally unacceptable, and something that should be rejected. Washington referred to it as “ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.”

Thomas Jefferson emphatically agreed, writing to John Taylor that “the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

THERE’S A BASIC, BUT EXTREMELY ESSENTIAL, LESSON HERE.

IF YOU WANT MORE LIBERTY, IF YOU WANT A STRONG NATIONAL DEFENSE, IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE AND PROSPERITY – YOU HAVE TO REDUCE DEBT. THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE GOVERNMENT SMALLER.

With the amount of debt we’re facing these days, that might be the understatement of the century.

And an even bigger understatement is that relying on people in government to limit government spending is a totally failed strategy.

Lysander Spooner may have summed it up best. Writing in NO TREASON VI, he put it this way:

“The lesson taught by all these facts is this: As long as mankind continue to pay ‘National Debts,’ so-called,—that is, so long as they are such dupes and cowards as to pay for being cheated, plundered, enslaved, and murdered,—so long there will be enough to lend the money for those purposes; and with that money a plenty of tools, called soldiers, can be hired to keep them in subjection.

“But when they refuse any longer to pay for being thus cheated, plundered, enslaved, and murdered, they will cease to have cheats, and usurpers, and robbers, and murderers and blood-money loan-mongers for masters.”

Source: https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2023/06/02/the-national-debt-is-a-national-curse/ ; EMPHASIS added.

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Let's face it physically & cognitively speaking "65" should be the Age cut-off for POTUS. On my Fire Dept. where I Served mind you a Working Class City of over 105, 643-- back before State Civil Service mandatory guidelines "Pre-War", and new Rules & Regulations of the City Dept. were set there was a Chief Dickinson who during World War 2 Served before Age Limits were amended Post War well he Served till Age 70. I believe I heard he needed help boarding (by his Chauffeur) his Chief's Buggy/ Car. Believe me these Guy's would stay on to the bitter end if they could. Chauffeured Blk. Caddy's, and all the other bennies/ goodies aside. Since you have to be 35 minimum now and a U.S. Citizen to boot plus Term Limits. Why not amend our Laws to say 70 maximum age limit. I'm almost a couple yrs. now from Septuagenarian Status myself, and man do I feel the Age at times. Where I used to go to the Bar after Games, Workouts, Biking, etc. now I go to Bed & McDonalds! :o)

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Don't the Democrats have any other politicians other than Biden and Clinton? Are there no governors or senators who are doing a reasonably good job?

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President Biden is in danger of losing early New Hampshire primary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJE3SEkAslM

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deletedJun 2, 2023Liked by Bill Astore
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