After years of “defund the police” movements within the Democratic Party, President Biden finally decided that maybe it really was political suicide to continue advocating for a complete defunding and elimination of law enforcement nationwide.
The “defund” movement was over before it started in 2020 in the minds of sane people, but has lived on along the fringes and mainstream of the Democratic Party.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has fought against it because she shrewdly knows her party will get decimated over it come November. So-called moderate House Democrats like Rep. Abigail Spanberger, of Virginia’s 7th district, famously screamed at her colleagues on a House leadership conference call in 2020.
From Biden’s tepid and sloppy State of the Union address on Tuesday night, we’ve now learned the Democratic Party, overnight, is the party of “fund the police,” “secure the border,” and “take off the mask.”
Not everyone agrees, of course, some left-wing progressive tools in “the squad” were displeased at the notion of “funding” police in any way:
Rep. Cori Bush, a member of the House’s left-wing “Squad,” tweeted her outrage at Biden’s comments.
“With all due respect, Mr. President. You didn’t mention saving Black lives once in this speech,” the Missouri Democrat wrote. “All our country has done is given more funding to police. The result? 2021 set a record for fatal police shootings. Defund the police. Invest in our communities.”
Black Lives Matter’s Twitter account responded with a photo of a disgruntled-looking Rep. Maxine Waters.
Amid record crime rates nationwide, which put everyone at risk, leftists like Cori Bush would prefer to keep gutting police departments and demonizing law enforcement.
What Biden did was cowardly anyway, having waited years to actually speak in favor of funding police departments and supporting law enforcement. Where was Biden as a candidate speaking this forcefully? Nowhere, since he didn’t want to rile the absolute loons in his party wishing to dismantle civilized society.
Newsflash for Bush, however, Biden was speaking in all caps when he said “FUND” the police:
In December, White House press secretary Jen Psaki even claimed Biden was funding police more than former President Donald Trump did.
In the transcript of the State of the Union, the word “FUND” is listed in all caps. The strength of Biden’s statement and repetitions lead Florida Rep. Byron Donalds to muse that he was stealing Republican talking points.
It all shows that Biden has been paying attention to public polls on the problem of crime and policing, argued Amy Koch.
Does anyone trust Biden? There’s no reason to other than political expediency forcing his hand. Watching the 2021 off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey were enough, and watching ballot questions about defunding police departments go down in flame even in the most progressive of cities was a clear rebuke of the “defund” movement.
Democrats are cowards on this issue. They erect barriers and call in the national guard when citizens threaten a protest. Then in the next breath, people like Rep. Cori Bush sit behind that barrier of law enforcement calling for such enforcement to be disbanded.
As for the Covid-19 face mask debate, which is entirely political theater and rooted in little actual science, again the voters spoke. Biden was pushed, dragged by his party’s governors, to enter the House chamber maskless, and force Nancy Pelosi to ease her restrictions of limiting attendance to five triple-masked and quadruple-vaccinated people.
To see Biden mingling with everyone after the speech was also a signal that Democrats have decided enforcing Covid-19 rules on a weary public is no longer politically advantageous:
While all attendees were required to show proof of a negative test before the Tuesday event, the almost entirely maskless crowd represented a stark visual departure from the president’s speech to Congress last year, where attendance was restricted to 200 fully masked people.
After his speech, a maskless Biden spent more than 15 minutes mingling with attendees, in some cases pressing his forehead to theirs and speaking in close proximity. While the president went without a mask in crowded situations as Covid was easing last year, the State of the Union is the largest maskless indoor event the 79-year-old president has attended since the Omicron surge hit.
Once again, the voters dictated in 2021 among the issues in Virginia and New Jersey that Covid rules needed to go away, and the country needed to move on. Also, once again, Biden wasn’t leading on the issue as he could have, he was nudged into it by governors and other officials realizing they could no longer keep up the charade. After spending last fall threatening people to take a Covid vaccine or get fired, that’s all out the window now and everything’s fine. That is unless you were someone fired from your job over a refusal to get a Covid vaccine, that’s not Biden’s problem.
Perhaps nothing was more egregious than Biden claiming he wants to “secure the border” while he’s left it wide open since his inauguration. The men and women on the ground within Customs and Border Protection who know the situation know Biden is “full of sh–“:
“Very few people within CBP believe this administration will actually secure the border, they just do not believe in it,” one agent told Fox News Digital. “All of their actions, comments and practices are solely about pushing in as many illegal aliens as possible, not just those from the Americas but from around the world.”
Other agents were more blunt in their assessment of the president’s remarks.
“F—ing pandering 101, full of sh–,” one agent told Fox News.
No doubt, the amount of sh– being shoveled to America on Tuesday night would’ve overflowed the Grand Canyon. Once Biden pivoted to domestic issues, the hypocrisy and distortions were glaring.
Not to mention at the end when Biden mounted a call for “unity” after he recently got done calling anyone who opposes his voting rights legislation racist:
Joe Biden today: "I ran for president to unite the country."
Joe Biden three days ago: "The opponents of my elections power grab bill are on the side of Bull Connor, George Wallace, and Jefferson Davis" pic.twitter.com/27gD3QLpnY
— X Strategies LLC (@XStrategiesLLC) January 14, 2022
Spare us the unserious call for unity from a man who has done his best to sow division and hatred among the country since he took the Oath of Office.
One last thing. If Biden wants to “buy American” maybe he should start with buying American oil instead of Russian oil?
