If we are to believe the results of the 2020 presidential election, north of 80 million people voted for Biden. Bag would argue the lion’s share of those 80 million did not vote FOR Biden; they voted AGAINST Trump. Hate has a way of getting people to the polls. The Democrats, or more specifically those on the political left, are fueled by hatred, and always have been. As the saying goes: you live by the sword hate, you die by the sword hate. For the first time in decades, Bag feels a palpable hate for the Democrats emanating from the right. The only other time in recent memory that hate like this was directed at the left was when the Republicans swept away Dan Rostenkowski and his check-kiting minions in the 1990s.
We are less than two weeks away from a vast swath of the electorate marching to the polls to cast votes in various elections, including the entire US House of Representatives, 1/3 of the US Senate, and a handful of gubernatorial races. The “mid-term” elections tend to favor the party out of control, primarily due to the fact the electorate has spent the preceding two years looking on in abject horror at what the party in control has been doing. Bag suspects this election will be no different - the Democrats are about to get waxed.
If the past 100 years of history are any indication, about 1/3 of the country will vote left, another 1/3 will vote right, and the 1/3 in the middle will swing the election. There are only a handful of subjects important enough to sway the 1/3 in the middle one way or the other. For today’s blog, Bag has chosen what he believes to be the five most important subjects to voters in the upcoming election: The Economy, Crime, Immigration, Markets, and Foreign relations. Seeing how the mid-term election is upon us, Bag thought, why not hand out mid-term grades for our current crop of rulers on those very subjects?
Soaring inflation, crippled supply lines, high prices at the pump, sweeping increases in public spending, higher tax burdens, sharply rising interest rates, record low (and still falling) standard of living, and the continuing war on small businesses are all excellent examples of just how poorly Biden and the Dems have steered the US Economy. All of these things were far better under Trump. No intellectually honest person could argue otherwise. Meanwhile, Bag struggles to find anything Biden and the Dems have gotten right the last two years about the economy. Not to worry though, Bag is sarcastically certain the 83,000 newly minted IRS agents are here to help.….
GRADE: F
There has been a stark rise in violent crime on Biden’s watch. Perhaps it’s something to do with the Left wing's message that the police are the problem, not the criminals. The idea of defunding police and minimizing incarceration, all because the system is “Racist,” will cost the left in spades. Rather than denounce/punish the looters, arsonists, and rioters for their behavior in 2020 following the George Floyd debacle, Biden’s hand-picked VP repeatedly urged her Twitter followers to donate money towards Bail for the violent protesters. Despicable. If you look at this nation’s most violent cities (Chicago, Philly, Seattle, Detroit, Baltimore, etc.….), they are all run by Democrats and have been for years. Their decades-long refusal to make public safety a priority in these communities is not going unnoticed in the next election….
GRADE: F
Very closely tied to the rise in violent Crime is the Immigration issue and Biden’s open-door policy with regard to our southern border. Somehow, and this is mind-boggling to Bagholder, Biden cannot see a connection between our porous southern border and the massive spike in the last two years of Drug Overdose deaths. The Mexican Cartels are raking in Billions, bringing in Illegal drugs by the truckload, and poisoning our youth in the process. Biden allows this because the 2.5 million Illegals that have crossed the border in the last year alone, are very likely to vote Democrat. Those votes are more important to the Left than the lives of our nation's youth currently being snuffed out by the Fentynal wave. Again despicable.
GRADE: F
It does not matter what market you look at; they are all a nightmare. The Bond market is suffering its biggest rout in years. The Stock markets (including the S&P, Dow, and Nasdaq)- which are supposed to be forward-looking based on current policies - are all down double digits for the year. The Crypto market has been savaged as well, with most currencies off more than 50%. The real estate market, from an activity standpoint, is currently plumbing lows not seen since the banking crises of 2008. When it comes to national elections, people vote their pocketbooks. With home-Equity shrinking and 401k’s collapsing in value (the exact opposite of the Trump years), the Electorate will be more motivated than ever to throw the bums out.
GRADE: F
If it were possible For Bag to give a grade below an F, foreign relations would be the subject. There has not been a worse president in my lifetime with regard to foreign policy. Biden is the first president since Carter to be snubbed by OPEC. He traveled to Saudi Arabia to get OPEC to increase oil production to help bring down gas prices. They met with him and then promptly responded by CUTTING production. Simply put, he commands zero respect on the world stage. Afghanistan is another disaster. So is Yemen. And yet another, is his handling of Ukraine. Instead of doing what leaders do, and working towards a peaceful resolution, which would save lives, bring down oil and commodity prices, and grow the economy - he won’t even sit down at the negotiation table. Even Kennedy, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, had an open dialogue with the enemy. That’s what leaders do. But not Biden, he continues to drag us toward Nuclear war. What a small pitiful Man.
GRADE: F-
Looking at these grades, Bag can’t help but think of Dean Wormer from “Animal House’s” Faber College reciting the mid-term grades of the various Delta House members. It’s very easy to envision sleepy Joe with pencils dangling from his nose mumbling something about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor, and Wormer sternly announcing Biden’s grade point average …….
“Zero. Point. Zero.”
In Bag’s world, Biden and the Democrats have been on double secret probation for two years now. Come November 8th, the rest of the world will be made aware.
Very entertaining a pleasurable read. I bet they’ve assigned someone to follow Biden to make sure he doesn’t pee on plants at the White House. What a shameful display he is.
what he did in saudi is even worse than what you report, all he did was ask for a delay in cutting oil till after the mid terms, he doesnt care about peoples economic struggles