Two Tiers, Once Again

 

 https://nypost.com/2025/01/17/us-news/bidens-official-x-account-draws-mockery-with-reference-to-constitutional-amendment-that-doesnt-exist/

 https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/17/biden-attempts-to-change-the-constitution-via-press-release-on-his-way-out/

The above links refer to the situation where Biden, on his way shuffling out the door, sought to impose a 28th Amendment to the US Constitution,,,the tragically moronic "Equal Rights Amendment".  Old Joe didn't write the statement released by the White House declaring this "amendment" to be "the law of the land".  I fully doubt he's even aware this statement went out with his name on it.  For the duration of his failed four years, I don't recall him ever bringing it up.  This was just another attempt by his handlers to push something out there to further confound those who would have to clean up the mess of it.  

Both articles describe well why old Joe is full of crap.  To pretend it was in any way ratified would have made the statement unnecessary, because we'd all be aware of it by now.  My pocket Constitution would have included it.  

This issue was suggested by Bubba, though I can't recall specifically why he did so.  He's free to go ahead and comment on it specifically, but since the time it came up, and after he supplied me with the NYP article and I had found the Federalist version of events, my interest in this has changed.  So I'm going to use it to address something else:  Qualifications and competence...and maybe a few others things related.  

As the Senate confirmation hearings for Trump's appointees had been moving on, and as for some continue to move along, we constantly heard about those two criteria, most particularly for specific people like Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Kash Patel.  But in most all cases where a selection is up for a position in which that selection had not already served in that capacity in a previous administration, "experience" is a none factor.  So what we see on the national stage to further rationalize disqualifying a Trump selection is a behavior all too common with our resident progressive fake Christian from Jeff St:  the tactic of finding fault, isolating it, inflating it without any regard to any relevance to the fitness of the selection, nor any recognition of positive attributes which would or might mitigate any faults.  Fitness isn't the issue.  Qualification isn't the issue.  Ability isn't the issue.  Partisan politics is the issue.

Pete Hegseth is said be unqualified because he wasn't a big general like Lloyd Austin?  Austin didn't at all distinguish himself and if we want to talk faults, among his many was going AWOL.  RFK Jr has involved himself deeply in health concerns for most of his political career and somehow he's less qualified than Richard Levine?  (Does Bobby have to don a dress to get any respect?) 

The Dems/marxists/perverts bring up every foible they can scrape up and even in cases where a behavior is wholly unseemly, it has no bearing on their selections.  Hegseth drank too much after serving in the military and Kennedy had issues with smack, but the lying left pretends Obama's crack indulgence either didn't happen or wasn't anything over which to fret.  It's the Dan-Double Standard writ large.

And this is unquestionably obvious with regard to the lying left's treatment of Biden and Trump.  While Trump has his many marks against him, Biden's are never put under the same microscope at the same magnification.   They want to pretend Trump has lied over thirty thousand times during his first term (or whatever number they claim after padding the list as much as they could), while Biden's been lying his ass off throughout almost fifty years in politics prior to his having illegitimately installed the puppet president in 2020.  While they questioned Trump's mental acuity, determining the line across which Biden went to senile from just plainly and obviously stupid is difficult and really more concerning.  

But the real proof is in the pudding for which the left has no taste.  Each had a single four year term to judge and the difference in competence and effectiveness...as well as honesty and a lack of corrupt behavior...couldn't be more stark.  Trump improved on what the left falsely claims was a booming economy.  Biden took a crippled but recovering economy and drove it into the ground.  Trump well proved his fitness, while Biden proved he wasn't fit to dress himself.  Pumping up Kamala Harris as a legitimate, suitable replacement was more of the same. 

I can understand partisanship.  But while my own (to the extent I'm actually a GOP partisan rather than just a conservative dude) is justifiable (easily so), I will not support ineffective politicians, or those who have proved themselves truly corrupt, as many are at the start while others become so later.  No.  I look at merit and find the left's entire lineup wanting, and they give me reason after reason for believing they are the true danger to our republic.  I don't disregard negatives.  I put them in context and in their proper priority.  I don't disregard positive actions by Dems.  I just weigh them in the same way against all the far more dumbshit things they do and try to do. 

The attacks on Trump and his appointees are crap and unworthy of government officials, but dumbasses elected them and we have to deal.  But we may have reached a point where Dem assholery has finally run its course, or is very near.  Their failures resulted in a good enough portion of their voters coming to the light, and now, with Trump on a roll they cannot stop, they're pulling out any stop they have left to overturn the positive response to his many positive moves.  I hope he keeps it coming at the rate it is now, and barring any unforeseen unforced errors on his part, it's hard to believe the midterms won't result in great GOP majorities in both Houses. 

So when the left accuses Trump of anything, it's likely one will not only find the story is wrong, but also that a Dem has already done it without rebuke by the same assholes accusing Trump.  Trump's often accused of "shredding" the Constitution.  Not only has Biden (and Obama, too, for that matter) actually acted in conflict with it, the story at the top of the post is one which goes farther...Biden rewriting the Constitution. 

It never ends.