During Xi’s Visit, Biden Offers Weak 2024 Reelection Promises Unmatched by Republicans
Arrival of a Chinese dictator helped San Francisco finally clean the filth off the streets — at least temporarily. Cages were erected around the sidewalks to keep them clear until President Xi Jinping leaves California.
It’s all theater, of course. The Chinese and other Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders know that after the facelift, San Francisco will revert to a feces-encrusted slum.
Everyone has seen the videos of addicts bent double in suspended animation or zonked out on the ground among the used needles and human excrement. TikTok algorithms make sure those videos are seen. Chinese media outlets had great sport trashing San Francisco as “garbage city,” “ruined city,” “fallen city” and a “total failure.”
America’s deadly drug crisis makes us an international laughingstock. Ahead of Xi’s visit, Chinese media outlets had great sport trashing San Francisco as “garbage city,” “ruined city,” “fallen city” and a “total failure.”
Biden’s undeclared shadow rival for the presidential nomination, Gov. Gavin Newsom, was there, too, equally unashamed about the ease with which the city had been cleaned up for foreign VIPs.
Duping the electorate
Biden’s remarks foreshadowed his campaign pitch for 2024. He began by boasting about the “incredible night” Democrats had at the polls last week, and spoke of abortion as if it were a magic talisman. He then boasted about Bidenomics, falsely claiming that CPI stats out that day showed “inflation continues to go down in the country.”
But most of Biden’s speech was devoted to demonizing Donald Trump, something he attacks with relish. Republicans need to be realistic about what Democrats are doing, and how it is succeeding. Their formula is simple: scare voters on abortion, Trump and “MAGA extremists,” then reassure them with fairy tales about Joe’s great stewardship of the economy, and his sure-footed foreign policy achievements. Democrats own the narrative-shaping mechanisms now, via traditional media and Big Tech censorship, so truth doesn’t matter.
Villifying Trump
It should not be hard to beat an unpopular, addled old crook who is running this great country into the ground with his economic redistribution and open border policies, and who has destabilized the world in just three years.
This week Ronna McDaniel did the media rounds trying to justify last week’s disappointments. Her solution is that candidates need to go on TV and talk more about abortion. If they can’t beat Joe Biden in a landslide, Republicans deserve Vivek Ramaswamy’s insult of a “party of losers.”
