‘State of the Scream’ and Red China on the War Path

Or will  XI wait until the November elections in the US, hoping to get the compromised Biden administration back in power?

Last week was chock full of awful news, but two items stand out.  

Thursday night, the very tardy and befuddled Joe Biden stumbled into the well of the US House to deliver his third State of the Scream. The appointed President – who is to a lie as a pill bug is to dirt – thinks his lifelong pattern of lies and hypocrisy will be more believable if he screams at you.

If the man had any cognition to speak of, he’d be humiliated. But he has none too little, so we must be humiliated for the nation on his behalf.

Anyone who has been in Washington DC and the political mix for a long time can attest to the fact that when a young Joe Biden hit the US Senate, he was quickly dubbed – by Democrats and Republicans alike – as one of the dumbest members in Congress. (Former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Robert Gates famously recalled that Biden had been on the wrong side of every significant foreign policy debate for forty years.)

Joe has gone out of his way to prove them right.

Almost immediately after arriving, he started running for President, and in 1998, during his first presidential run, he was found to have plagiarized a speech that ended his campaign. It turned out that he plagiarized much, if not most, of his material, not just political speeches.   

In 1965, he was caught plagiarizing in his law class and was initially flunked out, only to be saved from expulsion by a dean’s kindness. Joe Biden has repeatedly claimed he had walked and participated in the civil rights marches. He didn’t. Frequently, he claimed he was arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela. It never happened. He’s often told audiences that his late son Beau Biden, a veteran and the Attorney General of Delaware from 2007 until 2015, “was a major in the US Army. We lost him in Iraq.” Tragically, Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015 at Walter Reed in Bethesda, Maryland.

Biden’s lifelong legacy of lie after lie is too vast to list. But perhaps the worst was the lie concerning the 1972 death of his first wife and daughter in a terrible auto accident with an eighteen-wheeler – she ran a stop sign – in 1972. The Senator would tell audiences as recently as 2021, “A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons.” It’s a particularly disgusting lie because shortly after the accident, a Superior Court judge who oversaw the accident investigation personally told Biden that there was no evidence of alcohol or fault on the truck driver’s part. Yet Biden continued to smear the man’s reputation long past his death.

Biden is a pathological liar driven by some need to be who he obviously isn’t.  

Thursday night was a screaming hot mess. The budget deficit, the border, China, Russia, Ukraine, inflation, and spending are all in code blue, and cobbling up facts – bald-faced lies – to hide a catastrophe won’t cut it with folks who have to live with the consequences. As President, he doesn’t need one new law to stop the massive invasion at the Southern border. The current law gives the President all the power required. Most voters already understand this, which is why it’s among their most pressing concerns and why they’re hopping mad.

Not satisfied with 10 million illegal aliens invading the country in the last couple of years, the Biden cabal is merely trying to run out the clock until November.  

Inflation has ebbed for the year – so far – down from 9%+ to 3 to 4%. However, the 17% food cost increase in his first two years, as one example, hasn’t receded at all. It’s baked into the cake now. The current inflation spread is on top of increased food costs, driving even middle-income households to scramble to make ends meet. Energy, rents, home prices, interest rates, cars, car repair, and insurance – all increased dramatically, and every sign is that they’ll continue to do so.

Political rhetoric does not fool anyone when buying groceries or paying the electric bill. 

Putting a varnish of lies on the State of the Scream doesn’t make it true. It just reminds hard-working citizens of how completely out of touch Washington is – and how unaccountable it is. And screaming about potato chip bag shrinkage only reminds voters that this is how unserious these people are. We are led by fools.

But most startling was the screaming at Donald Trump and, by extension, anyone who disagrees with the dogmas of the ultra-radical left-wing revolutionaries and their in-your-face, burn-it-down politics. Biden called out his political rival in the screed thirteen times. And startled Supreme Court members were excoriated by Biden as well.

So much for national unity.

He hates half or more of the American Public. Christians, traditionalists, conservatives, capitalists, blue-collar workers, small business owners – ordinary, normal Americans  – are the enemies in Joe Biden’s America. He has used this imagery and language at least four times already in national addresses. It would be laughable if the DOJ, FBI, and the legal instruments of the state weren’t in full battle mode to shut down the opposition – and they don’t even try to hide it now.   

Biden is a dark man with a dark soul surrounded by really bad people.

Little noted in the mainstream corporate propaganda machine was last week’s foreboding news out of communist China. What passes as China’s highest legislative body, the National People’s Conference, met in Beijing concurrent with the meeting of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. It’s all high theater, of course. Nothing is done that has not already been decided upon by China’s replacement for the monstrous Mao, Chairman Xi Jinping, who long ago began dispatching his competition and now rules without pesky oversight. Very much like his butcher in arms, Vladimir Putin in Russia.

In Xi’s more than a decade in power, the defense budget has more than doubled, and the new budget “approved” during the commie love-fest in Beijing was 7.2%. His military buildup has been fueled by stealing Western technology and bribery – buying – Western politicians. It dramatically reduces the timeline for the design and engineering of weapons if you have the blueprints!  

More worrisome is the new hardline policy on Taiwan, the democratic island-state 110 miles across the Taiwan Strait from China. The new communist policy shift has removed the “peaceful reunification” phraseology with Taiwan. Its absence was no mistake.

China has never had anything other than a tenuous claim on Taiwan.

Its strongest claim goes back to the Ming Dynasty briefly in the first part of the 1600s and later, the Ching Dynasty from the late 1660s to 1895. The Ming Dynasty had a minimal presence, and the Ching (Quin) Dynasty never controlled more than half the country. The Spanish, Dutch, and Japanese also made colonies out of the islands with limited success. Taiwan’s indigenous or Aboriginal people groups – who have been present on Tawain for thousands of years- are Austronesian people and share more with Southeaster Asians and Pacific Islanders than Chinese, resisting every attempt to control the island.

Xi has made it clear that he intends to take Taiwan for China, and now seems to be preparing the way to do it – by force. Removing the wording of peaceful reunification is merely one more step in rationalizing using Chinese muscle. At the same time, China is buying friends in high places throughout the Pacific nations – not to mention the EU and the US political class –  to mute the reaction to the forceful unification of the island – hoping to rebuff the reaction Russia received by invading Ukraine.

As a warmup, China stepped up its jabs at Taiwan last week. Chinese warships surrounded Taiwanese Coast Guard ships near Taiwanese islands off the coast and used water cannons to play bump-and-run maneuvers. Is a Chinese invasion far off now? Or will  XI wait until the November elections in the US, hoping to get the compromised Biden administration back in power?

Xi is in the box that comes with communism. The hybrid public-private schemes with the People’s Liberation Parry (PLA) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in ultimate control means that everything is corrupted by hardcore dogma and the power lust of the most violent, godless people imaginable.

China’s building spree of empty office buildings, apartments, and shopping centers in the last ten years was not driven by market forces – the only equation that matters – but rather by graft and arrogance. The market has collapsed in the last two years, and the largest real estate investment firm in China has collapsed. The country’s economy is slowing down, and no short-term end is in sight. Xi must divert attention with theatrics that capture the public’s fancy.

It seems clear Taiwan is that diversion.