I was going to post this as a comment under one of Craig' blog posts, but as it's so long, decided to post it here. It stands as an argument against Biden and as long as it is, it's woefully incomplete. It's from the brilliant Robert Gagnon's FB posting:
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A godly Christian FB friend whom I respect (has a theological Ph.D., and holds the biblical position regarding homosexual practice and transgenderism) posted affirmingly this ridiculous meme: "I'll take the guy who speaks the truth with difficulty over the guy who clearly enunciates his lies, any day of the week." My response:
Dear friend, Biden speaks the truth? You have got to be kidding me. Trump had many exaggerations and lies, certainly. But Biden is far from clean on this.
In the debate with Trump Biden lied about:
● the Border Patrol endorsing him (they immediately issued a categorical denial that they would ever endorse him for President).
● saying that there were now lower numbers of illegal aliens coming into the country than Trump ever had (what a whopper from the person who is responsible for an unprecedented wave of illegal immigration involving 8-18 million unvetted persons coming into the country).
● saying that Roe (in combination with Doe v. Bolton) restricts abortion to a child’s pre-viability (it allows it till birth, for the mother’s “health,” loosely defined as including the mother’s “emotional” and “psychological” health).
● not supporting abortion past fetal viability (he supports the so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act” which guarantees precisely that).
● Trump calling Nazis and Ku Klux Klan "good people" (even left-leaning Snopes admits this).
● Trump saying “Hitler has done some good things” (even Snopes said there is “no proof” that Trump ever said this, and Trump denies it).
● Trump calling dead soldiers "suckers" and "martyrs" (even Snopes admits there is insufficient evidence for this, and Trump vehemently denies he ever said it, with witnesses).
● saying he (Biden) was the first president not to have any US military killed during his administration.
● saying he brought insulin shots down to $15 from an average of $400 (it was capped at $35 and the prior average was $440/year, not per shot).
● intimating that his son Beau was killed in action in Iraq when in fact he died from brain cancer.
● claiming the unemployment rate was at 15 percent when he came into office (it was 6.4 percent).
● claiming inflation was at 9 percent when he came into office (it was 1.4 percent).
● claiming that he “didn’t” raise taxes for “anybody making less than $400,000 a year” (he raised the tax burden for those making as little as $20,000/year).
Biden also grossly exaggerated when he claimed that Trump told people they would be cured from COVID if they injected bleach into their arm. And he exaggerated when he claimed that Trump wanted out of NATO; Trump was merely pressing Europe for a fair financial contribution to their own defense.
Beyond the debate, consider Biden's extreme failings as President:
Biden has been the biggest promoter of "LGBTQ" causes of any President and has done the greatest amount of harm. Biden issued an executive order that changed “sex discrimination” in Title IX to include “transgender discrimination,” mandating “trans girls” (biological boys) in girls’ restrooms, locker rooms, and sports. He has high-profile “gay” and “trans” persons in his administration, and has regularly welcomed to the White House the most garish possible “trans” persons, including men with beards identifying as women and “drag queens.” His administration is challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. His “Department of Justice” is seeking to prosecute a Texas doctor who blew the whistle on “trans” surgery for minors. He supports state-sponsored child abuse through his "trans" policy (chemical castration and surgical mutilation of minors), puts males in female private spaces and sports, promotes the forced indoctrination of children in "LGBTQ" immorality, wants to put parents at risk of losing a child that identifies as "gay" or "trans" if they don't approve of the identity, and threatens both free speech (compelling "trans" pronouns) and free exercise of religion in a way that nothing else does, especially by promoting the so-called “Equality Act.”
The foisting of “LGBTQ” laws and ideology is one of his two main idols. The other is to overturn Dobbs and reinstate Roe and Doe, promoting the gruesome slaughter of innocent life (supporting, as I mentioned, the so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act” which makes an abortion a right for all 9 months of pregnancy). He has promoted the use of taxpayer money to fund abortions. His Department of “Justice” has made a special point of prosecuting and sending to jail peaceful pro-life protestors.
He has promoted on social media sites government censorship of views at odds with the ideology of the Democratic Party, and attempted to establish a permanent “Disinformation Governance Board” that would have further restricted free speech.
His court appointments will solidify this extreme radical sexual agenda and abridgment of civil liberties for Christians for decades to come. His female nominee to SCOTUS can't even define what a woman is, so wedded is she to "trans" ideology.
He has created a border situation that has allowed an unprecedented 8-18 million illegal aliens into the country without proper vetting, all in an effort to turn Texas blue and to cheat future national elections. In this Biden did not enforce the immigration laws of Congress, shirking his responsibility as chief executive.
Biden is the head of the Democratic Party, which has gone after Trump, prosecuting Trump in the manner of a Banana Republic with ridiculous lawsuits, posing a far greater threat to democracy than anything Trump had a hand in. He made a point in the debate to emphasize that Trump was the only convicted felon to run for the Presidency. Yet even some key Democrats (like New York’s former governor Cuomo; also, a couple of CNN commentators, a Yale law professor) view the New York felony conviction as an unfair politicization of the justice system. Trump rightly noted that a key member of Biden’s Justice Department suspiciously transferred to District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office in New York. The Biden Justice Department’s special prosecutor has indicted Trump for possession of classified documents (something that Biden also did, and that when he was only Vice President) and for an alleged conspiracy to steal the 2020 election. In public statements Biden has supported the prosecution of his chief political opponent at the state and local level.
Biden attempted to illegally wipe out billions of dollars in student debt, a prerogative of Congress (not the President), which the Supreme Court struck down. It was a transparent attempt by Biden to buy votes from the young college-educated, even though it transferred the gigantic debt to the country as a whole, including people who never had the opportunity to go to college.
There is no way that he could not have known that Hunter was receiving millions for influence peddling with his father, both from the Ukraine and China, and he threatened the Ukraine with loss of aid if the prosecutor did not stop investigating his son. Biden’s “Justice” Department let the statute of limitations run out on the most serious charges against Hunter.
He has a history of making false statements to pad his own bio, for example, claiming that he graduated at the top of his law school class when he was at the bottom. He also falsely claimed that he was a fierce civil rights activist in his youth (including the false claim that he had been arrested during a desegregation protest in Delaware during the Civil Rights era), that he had an uncle who fell prey to cannibals, and that he used to drive an 18-wheeler. In an early campaign for President he had to drop out because it was discovered that he had plagiarized whole speeches.
As regards foreign affairs, his handling of the Afghanistan affair was an unmitigated disaster that probably encouraged Putin to view the US as weak and ineffectual, and so to risk an invasion of the Ukraine. He also rescinded Trump’s restoration of United Nations sanctions on Iran, making it possible for money to flow back into Iran, which in turn funded the brutal Hamas attacks on Israel.
Inflation has risen 20% since Biden took office (food prices 25%), though this can be partly blamed on the end of COVID and the Ukraine war (but partly too on Biden’s excessive spending). When Trump left office, inflation was at a very low 1.4% (due in part to COVID slowdown). Still, in the first 3 years prior to COVID, the Trump administration presided over a consumer price index of 2-2.5% while under Biden it hit a peak of 9.1% in 2022 (since the end of 2023 it has come down to about 3%).
As regards unemployment rates, Trump had achieved a 49-year low just prior to COVID (2019), including for Blacks, though the unemployment rate for Blacks has been slightly lower under Biden for the last two years. Biden has brought the national employment rate down to a level close to what it was in the pre-COVID years of the Trump administration.
The deficit is more complex. Yes, Trump had the worst deficit-spending year (contrary to what he claimed), the year that COVID struck (2020, $3.13 trillion), but his 3 prior years as president averaged much less (0.8 trillion, though a little worse than Obama’s prior 4 years but better than Obama’s 4 years before that). Biden’s big COVID year, 2021 had the second highest deficit ($2.77 trillion) but he has less of an excuse for averaging in the two years following nearly twice ($1.54 trillion) that of what Trump averaged before COVID.
On top of Biden’s disastrous policies and court appointments, Biden clearly doesn't have the mental wherewithal to continue in office for another 4 years, meaning that he would be replaced by someone even worse: Kamala Harris.
I strongly urge you to reconsider your political position.
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As anyone who supports Biden or any other Democrat should.
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As anyone who supports Biden or any other Democrat should.
Dan will not find fault in much of this because Dan's as morally corrupt as any Dem, and likely more given his insistence he's a devoted Christian...which makes his support for these positions all the more immoral.
But the differences between one Dem and the next are insignificant, particularly as they are loath to go against party policy. Dan likes to pretend Trump supporters are conned, but those like Dan have conned themselves in believing all the crap they support and promote. Should America fall, it will be the result of Dem/leftist/marxist Americans.
Thus, I support Trump.
Thus, I support Trump.
