Inflation is at a 40-year high, absolutely crushing middle class American families. Gas prices are at record highs, which is leading to higher and higher inflation, and which is burning deep holes in the pockets of those same Americans. We are now fighting a proxy war against a nuclear-armed Russia in Ukraine, and have just spent another $40 billion to fund that effort. Nearly two million illegal immigrants poured across our non-existent southern border last year, and at least one million more are expected to do the same this year.
There is a meat shortage. There is a grain shortage. There is a fertilizer shortage. There is now a baby formula shortage. That last shortage is causing young mothers to scramble, in a desperate panic, to feed their starving babies. Those who can afford it are paying upwards of $100 or more online for formula that would normally cost a small fraction of that amount.
Mortgage rates are rapidly climbing while house prices remain far too high for the average family to afford. Rent prices are soaring as well throughout the entire country. Our nation’s children are suffering through an unprecedented mental health crisis. We are faced with a highly-deadly fentanyl crisis the likes of which no country has ever seen. Our nation’s once-great cities are experiencing a wave of crime and theft unlike any in the past forty years. Drug stores, grocery stores, and department stores are closing every week because they can’t afford to absorb the daily losses from theft that are now allowed by law. Those few that remain open lock their products behind glass protectors, requiring an employee to open it when customers request an item, just as you would see in any third-world country.
Violent crime and murder rates are also near historic highs. The city of Chicago, alone, is experiencing its highest murder rate in 80 years. The stock market has completely collapsed in recent weeks, wiping out an entire year – or more – of gains. Retirement accounts, held by more than half of all Americans, have dwindled to nothing as retirees head back to work and those soon-to-be-retired put their dreams on hold indefinitely. A whopping $20 trillion in household net worth has been completely wiped out in 2022.
Our most hallowed and sacrosanct American institutions are under attack: the Supreme Court, the First Amendment, our once-world-class universities, our Constitution, our law enforcement officers, our healthcare system, our criminal justice system, our agricultural industry, and our small businesses.
Question: is all of this being done on purpose?
It has been my stated opinion on this page that “President” Joe Biden is not technically responsible for all of these massive problems that mysteriously and coincidentally appeared during his brief time in office. I believe this because I cannot swallow the notion that this mentally-incapacitated fool is actually making these decisions. It doesn’t seem plausible. Someone (or, more likely, someones) behind the scene are pulling his strings and is truly responsible for one catastrophic decision after another.
One explanation is that these people are stunningly incompetent – at a level we have never before witnessed in American history. But another possible explanation is that they are actually incredibly effective agents of chaos, who intentionally brought these problems to our doorstep.
Let’s explore that latter explanation.
THE ECONOMY
When the Biden administration ignored the warnings of Larry Summers, Steven Rattner, and other formerly-trusted economic advisors and passed the $1.9 trillion spending bill that forced the U.S. mint to add to an already-bloated monetary supply, and which artificially inflated the demand side of our economy, causing prices for everything to skyrocket, was that because Team Biden and the congressional Democrats were incredibly stupid and incompetent?
Likewise, when the Biden administration decided, on day one, to kill the U.S. energy industry by denying drilling permits, forbidding new drilling on federal land, and shutting down planned pipelines, was that because they didn’t know what would happen as a result? If so, you would think they would have learned that lesson by now. Instead, the Biden administration, just today, canceled oil lease sales on millions of acres of federal land, including offshore.
If all of this were done purposefully, then what would be the motivation? What would be the end goal? What is there to gain from crippling inflation? What benefit is there to outrageous fuel prices?
We don’t need to ask these questions, because the Biden administration has been very forthcoming in telling us the answers. For example, USAID Chief Samantha Powers, speaking to George Stephanopoulos this past weekend, said this:
Fertilizer shortages are real now because Russia is a big exporter of fertilizer…As a result, we’re working with countries to think about natural solutions like manure and compost and this may hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers to make eventually anyway. Never let a crisis go to waste.
“Hasten transitions” is a very telling turn of phrase. If you can’t persuade people to adopt your foolish and destructive policies, then force them. Likewise, the phrase “never let a crisis go to waste” has a long and infamous history. Winston Churchill is generally credited with coining this phrase in the wake of World War II. In more recent years, this phrase has been employed by Marxist icon Saul Alinsky and former Clinton consigliere Rahm Emanuel.
“What I mean by that,” explained Emanuel, “is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
The reason they could not do these things, of course, is because they are incredibly damaging, counterproductive, and unpopular. Like I said, however, when you can’t convince someone to adopt your policies through appeals to reason and application of logic, then the only other option is brute force.
It is no secret that one of the left’s primary goals for our country, for decades, has been to move away from fossil fuels and move toward “green energy.” These ideas have not taken hold because they are incredibly impractical, expensive, and counterproductive. Electric vehicles, for example, are not only far more expensive than gas-powered vehicles, but they require coal-burning electric generators in order to operate. Their batteries require raw materials that are environmentally-harmful to extract. Disposing them in an environmentally-friendly way is also a major challenge. The same is true of solar panels and windmills.
The “Putin invasion,” which coincidentally did not happen until Joe took office, has presented another such “opportunity.” Back in March, Biden’s Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, pushed for congress to pass Joe’s “Build Back Better” agenda, which included trillion-dollar giveaways to green energy companies, so that the country could “wean off” fossil fuels.
“This crisis in Europe,” she said, “and the crisis our allies are facing and the reduction of supply of natural gas and oil from Russia, creates a moment [on which] we should be acting.”
That same month, Biden himself warned the American people that there were going to be “real” food shortages caused as a result of “Putin’s invasion.” That food shortage, coincidentally enough, makes it more difficult for most Americans to afford to eat red meat – yet another long-desired goal of the left. Fewer farting cows contributing to global warming, more leafy plants on American plates. This is their ultimate dream scenario.
Put it all together, and it seems quite obvious that inflation, soaring gas prices, and the coming food shortage are no accidents. They are not a result of incompetence. These are deliberate actions resulting from the left’s stated desire to use these self-inflicted “opportunities” to force their green energy agenda down the throats of the American people whether we want it or not.
THE SOUTHERN BORDER CRISIS
Joe Biden campaigned on the idea of ending President Trump’s “racist” and “inhumane” immigration policies. He promised that, unlike his racist opponent, he would not punish sanctuary cities that allowed illegal aliens to break the law with impunity. He promised that he would not break up families at the border, and certainly wouldn’t put “kids in cages.” He promised to break every deal that Trump had made with Mexico, which kept “migrants” detained outside of the U.S. until their claims were heard.
Immediately after taking office, he followed through on his promises. He ordered construction of the border wall to cease immediately, even though it had already been fully-funded, the materials had already been purchased, and the workers were still required to be paid. He tore apart most of the deals the Trump administration had made with Border Patrol, ICE, and Mexico. He immediately halted the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which kept “asylum-seekers” in Mexico while they awaited their hearings.
He is now expected to allow Title 42 to expire at the end of this month, which will remove the U.S. government’s primary tool for deportation. Under Biden’s watch, we began providing every illegal immigrant with a smart phone, which the Biden administration claims is used to track these “migrants.” These phones replace the ankle bracelets that have been used for years. Immigration advocates complained that these bracelets were “humiliating,” so away they went.
Biden’s spending budget proposal for this fiscal year includes a reduction in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and reducing the number of beds and facilities for illegal immigrants at the border. With no infrastructure to detain these criminals, what other choice will there be but to let them go? Coincidentally enough, he has proposed a 700% increase for processing illegal aliens, which will speed up their claims and transport them wherever they want to go.
Democrats in New York are now extending Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants. The United Nations, ever helpful, is handing out $400 debit cards to illegal immigrants snatched at the border. The Biden administration has pre-booked hundreds of hotel rooms for the entire summer in order to house the expected overflow of “migrants.” Taxpayers throughout the country foot the bill for the welfare, housing, medical care, and educations of every “migrant” who illegally breaks our immigration laws as their first introduction to their new (and very generous) countrymen.
Oh, and remember that baby formula shortage that is causing so many American mothers so much grief and pain? Pallets of baby formula have been sent to the holding facilities at our southern border, so that the infants who were illegally smuggled into this country will be well-nourished. The message from the Biden administration is crystal clear: illegals before citizens. “America First” in reverse.
All of the above sends a clear signal to citizens of every country in the world – and not only those south of the border. That message is emblazed in giant neon letters at our border: COME TO AMERICA! Is it plausible to believe that no one in the Biden administration could have predicted what has happened as a result of their policies? Of course not. They knew exactly what they were doing. Again, they have signaled quite clearly their long-term goal with regard to illegal immigration.
On his very first day in office, Biden proposed a sweeping amnesty bill. Weeks later, the Democrat-majority congress followed through on Biden’s proposal to put every illegal alien on a path to citizenship. Senator Bob Menendez and Rep. Linda Sanchez introduced the “U.S. Citizenship Act,” which was the largest amnesty bill ever proposed in our history. Passing that bill would have given 14.5 million illegal aliens instant U.S. citizenship, with all of its accompanying privileges and rights – including, of course, the right to vote.
Fortunately, the Democrats need sixty votes in the Senate to pass this bill, which leaves them (at least) ten votes shy. Rather than push this bill through the reconciliation loophole, the Democrats used that once-per-session loophole to shove their $1.9 trillion spending bill down our throats instead.
That isn’t to say, however, that amnesty is dead in the water. On the contrary, when one million more illegal aliens flood across the border this summer, pressure will mount for congress to “do something” to “fix” the problem. The proposed solutions from Democrats always, inevitably, include complete and total amnesty for each and every lawbreaker. That way, they can add millions of Democrat voters overnight and retain their power. Democrats do not care a whiff about immigrants; they care only about power.
One method for getting what you want is to break something and then offer to “fix” it in the way you wanted all along. That is exactly what the Democrats are doing with our southern border. The humanitarian crisis that has led to so much tragedy for so many people – both American citizens and illegal immigrants – is entirely intentional.
VERDICT
Once you understand that everything happening in this country is being done intentionally, then it all begins to make sense. For example, why would Democrats push to defund the police, allow criminals to steal indiscriminately, and repeatedly free violent criminals into the streets? Why are they now blatantly encouraging leftist protesters to harass and threaten Supreme Court Justices at their homes?
Anyone who has studied history knows the answer to those questions. Simply look to Nazi Germany, the Russian revolution, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, and other such upheavals. They are all preceded by an era of chaotic violence and lawlessness in the streets, which required a strong federal authority to tamp down. If you wanted to insert your own army into the streets of America to ensure “law and order” (practiced precisely in the way you desire), this is the proven way to accomplish just that.
Why is the Biden administration so slow to act on the baby formula shortage? If Trump were still president, you would think that by now he would have converted factories and mobilized the U.S. military to distribute formula to all corners of the country until the supply could be restored. As it stands, the Biden administration’s FDA has sat on its hands since February, forcing the nation’s largest baby formula plant to shutter its doors. When/if the FDA wakes up and allows the factory to reopen, it will take two weeks for the plant to get back online, and then another four weeks to begin shipping its product.
What could Biden possibly gain from a baby formula shortage? Well, remember that he has stated on many occasions that he views himself as a modern-day FDR. Time Magazine even published a column in October of 2020, one month before the election, titled “How Joe Biden Is Positioning Himself as a Modern FDR.” Several other media outlets, including CNN (of course), have made this comparison.
In his first year in office, at the onset of the Great Depression, FDR established a federal agency called the National Recovery Administration (NRA.) This agency was tasked with setting “fair prices” for all items and services sold in the United States, and “fair compensation” for all U.S. employees. Businesses that fell in line with the NRA placed stickers in their windows, depicting a blue eagle on a red background. This signaled to government agents and local labor unions that they were in compliance. Businesses that opted out of the NRA regulations faced endless harassment from various government agencies as well as protests and boycotts by organized groups, led by those unions.
The purpose of the NRA, according to FDR himself, was to get inflation under control, and to get the American economy back on its feet. If the government had total control of all prices and wages, after all, there could be no inflation. In a further effort to tame inflation, FDR ordered American farmers to burn their crops and slaughter their livestock in order to control the supply of food.
Needless to say, these efforts failed miserably. FDR’s economic policies set the country spinning even further into the economic abyss, turning a typical temporary recession into a decade-long Great Depression. Democrats, like Communists of all stripes and degrees, consistently fail to learn from the mistakes of history. They keep repeating those same mistakes over and over again, expecting a different outcome.
It is my theory (and it is only a working theory) that the Biden administration is deliberately causing massive inflation and shortages because their ultimate goal is to justify federal interference into every American industry. Like FDR, Biden would like nothing better than to dictate to companies how much they are allowed to charge for their goods and services. His repeated insistence that oil companies, for example, are conspiring together to practice “price gouging” is completely insane…until you understand why he is saying such insane things. Like his hero, FDR, Joe Biden believes that he can repeat FDR’s failed policies and make them work this time.
Like I said, it’s only a theory. I’ve yet to hear a better one, however.
I agree wholeheartedly, though I did hear a corollary theory today, ala Dan Bongino, who thinks Biden has turned into a crazed leftist because he is so jealous of Obama's reputation as a change agent he's trying to outdo him. Either way, whether Biden is a crazed radical or a crazed dictator, it all spells epic disaster for our country.