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[Order a copy of Robert Spencer’s forthcoming book, Muhammad: A Critical Biography, by clicking here.]
Give Nancy Pelosi credit for chutzpah. It has been just over two weeks since the infamous former House speaker and octogenarian Democrat power broker played a widely publicized role in forcing Old Joe Biden to end his bid to remain in the White House until he no longer even remembered how to press play on his old “Matlock” DVDs. Now, however, the deed is done, and Pelosi can afford to be gracious in victory: she is recommending, apparently with a straight face, that the Sioux Nation be further outraged by the addition of Old Joe’s cheesy mug to Mount Rushmore.
Pelosi (D-Smirnoff) made the ludicrous recommendation Sunday, asserting that the corrupt and dementia-ridden old kleptocrat has been “such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of president.” Well, sure. If a new section of Mount Rushmore were opened to feature a rogue’s gallery of catastrophically wrongheaded and America-Last presidents, then yeah, Old Joe should be front and center, in the George Washington position, cheek by jowl with Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter.
Of course, that was not what Pelosi had in mind. She was actually claiming that Biden deserved a place among America’s presidential heroes: “You have Teddy Roosevelt up there. And he’s wonderful. I don’t say take him down. But you can add Biden.” It’s unclear why Pelosi would even bring up the possibility of replacing the Rough Rider, who (for all of his virtues) was one of the “progressive” pioneers who began enacting big-government policies that have done so much damage to the nation.
It’s even more unclear why Pelosi would believe or at the very least want us to believe that Old Joe has been a great president. He hasn’t even been president at all, as someone else has been pulling his strings, but while he has ostensibly been president, inflation has skyrocketed; the Southern border has become little more than a line on a map; billions of dollars of American weaponry were given to the Taliban and American tax dollars have continued to flow to them; Russia was emboldened to attack Ukraine and Hamas to attack Israel; and the U.S. became a chief financier of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s wars against its own people and against Israel by sending $10 billion to Tehran.
Does Pelosi not know all that? As a chief Washington insider for decades, she knows all about it, and she almost certainly knows much more about Old Joe’s disastrous record, information that you and I don’t know. So there are two possibilities. The most obvious one is that Pelosi, like other Democrat top dogs, is trying to fool the American people into trusting her rather than the evidence of their daily lives. She is trying to make us think that despite all appearances to the contrary, Biden has been a great president, indeed, one of the best ever, and that Kamala Harris will continue his record of success until we reach the stage of pure communism — whoops, scratch that last part; they’re not saying that out loud yet.
It’s true: many Americans are distracted with other matters, busy with their own lives, and not consumed with what’s going on in Washington. Pelosi thus clearly thinks that if she and her fellow Democrat apparatchiks repeat this Big Lie often enough, they’ll persuade a good chunk of the electorate to vote for Kamala Harris in order to continue the spotless Biden-Harris record of excellence, even as our once-great nation falls to pieces around their ears.
There is, however, another possibility. It could be that Nancy Pelosi really does believe that Old Joe has been a great president. Irrational factionalism and vodka fog aside, Pelosi could think that galloping inflation, open borders, the betrayal of an ally, and the financing and emboldening of our enemies are all great things. This would require Pelosi to think that a weakened, declining America was a positive good. Is that even conceivable? Of course, it is.
Back during Barack Obama’s first campaign for the presidency in 2008, a wire service photo captured him crossing an airplane tarmac holding CNN’s Fareed Zakaria’s book, “The Post-American World.” Obama was holding his place in the book with his finger as if he didn’t dare put it down and lose his place.
Zakaria described his book this way: “This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” In it, he detailed a scenario that Leftists are doing their best to bring upon America or to which they are endeavoring to draw us back. Zakaria’s ideal world is one in which the United States would “no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures.” Zakaria’s book, in other words, is a manual for America’s decline.
Throughout his interminable eight years in office, Obama seemed determined to make Zakaria’s “post-American world” a self-fulfilling prophesy. Obama went to work from his first day in office to make Zakaria’s wishful thinking about America’s decline become a reality. If Biden has done anything as president, he has continued America’s decline. Could Nancy Pelosi hold the same vision? Could she think the Biden regime is great precisely because it has harmed America? In pondering those questions, ask yourself: what recent policy that Pelosi has championed actually redounded to the genuine benefit of American citizens?
There are No Democrats on Mt. Rushmore two Republicans(Lincoln and Roosevelt)but No Democrats
Aside from the ludicrous notion that Biden’s visage belongs on Mount Rushmore with those of some our greatest leaders, one does not mess with an existing work of art in order to “update” or “improve it.” Hey, why not retouch the Mona Lisa to give her a bigger smile?
>> “such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore kind of president.” <<
Wait, I recall when Trump spoke at Mount Rushmore that tribal leaders called for the removal of Mount Rushmore because it was on stolen Indigenous land, Hmm…
Pelosi knows that no-one will take this seriously, least of all herself.
She does it to flatter that old Walter Mitty idiot in his final days.
What IS galling is that she is so GLIB about using a stunning symbol our national identity to make a throwaway point.
I do hope that someday OBAMA AND BIDEN be carved into stone at Mt. Rushmore: STONE URINALS. Michelle and Dr. Jill can be stone Toilets. If that ever happens, I’ll drink a case of beer, for the first time in forty years, to pay my respects to the two. I’ll then go trans, yes with a beard, what… to pay my respects to the Man and Dr..
When Obama’s library is finished, I’ll open up a Rent ‘A Dog business across the street so clients can pay their respect to Obama.
How does this woman, and so many more, keep getting elected? (Squad member defeated last night. We’ll see in November if the replacement is worse than her.) Must be that the Cal. GOP is about as corrupt as the one here in NM. We’re pure blue here and yet they have two, four, and six years to find viable candidates. It seems like they cruise our main drag looking for the worst one…. aka massive PAYOFFS or doing their (D)UTY!
If you can answer the question, how do these reprobates keep getting re-elected or elected at all and who are the reprobates voting for these reprobates then you can be a Nobel Prize candidate – change demoncRat party to reprobate party and we will be on target
If I may, I’d like to offer a more apropos spelling of demoncRat. It should be spelled, in my humble opinion, demoncRap!
Every time the dems conjure up some ridiculous legislation or pass some mind numbingly stupid law, they intentionally sh*t on all of us and then arrogantly pretend as if that their shi*t doesn’t stink! Bastards!!
with Nutzy nazzi Nasty PeeLousy working to keep her dentures in slurring and spitting “let me talk shit — pedo corrupt treasonous money laundering pathological lying dementia commie Joe TaliBriben needs to be on Mt Rushmore heeesssshhhh heeeeeshhhhh heeeeshhhh”
“Nutzy nazzi Nasty PeeLousy.” That is funny as hell!!!! May I steal that from you?”
Pelosi should stop giving interviews when she’s tipsy. One more bout with the Vodka bottle and she’ll want Hillary added alongside the Statue of Liberty.
Seriously, Nancy must make Joe look good to justify all her dirty little deeds and efforts to demonize Trump. Indeed, she needs to convince the American public that they weren’t better off 4 years ago and that Biden (and she) outperformed Trump. As you said Robert, those little wars don’t mean anything and those wasted trillions of dollars are just a drop in the bucket that will be gained back from all the 1% billionaires in no time at all. Well, maybe just the GOP billionaires. Gotta protect those Dem doners, don’t ya know!
And as far as Obama and Pelosi are concerned, the decline of America was fine with them as long as their personal worth increased my multiples.
Theodore Roosevelt, he hated the stupid media nickname”Teddy,” created the Great White Fleet which steamed around the world and our National Parks system. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for keeping Japan from crushing Russia. He finished a speech in Milwaukee after he was shot in the chest. SHOT! In the chest! He just kept speaking. He willed himself to be a tough guy. He was born asthmatic, you know.
He was a real man and a hero, in my opinion. And don’t make me mention San Juan Hill.
CHAAAARRRGE!!!
(Had to add this line because my comment was “too short”)
nasty piglosi looks and sounds like a spastic, undead cadaver with tourette’s!
I know where I’d like to put both biden and pelosi, along with every other democratic.
Don’t be too sure that Pelosi isn’t giving Harris an idea she could run with if elected president. After all the things “they” have done in the last 3+ years, nothing should be taken for granted.
Well, it’s not like they need to ADD a new face, if THAT’s what disturbs the Sioux, they can just “carve over” Washington’s mug, he owned SLAVES!!! so we don’t need HIM up there, it offends our SLAVES of today, whose owner, the Democrat Party doesn’t care about anything except their votes, and… NO! WAIT! The FIRST “Sculptor” who touches his chisel to that monument should be SHOT by “Patriots” with a sniper rifle!!!! PERIOD! FULL STOP!!
CHAAAARRRGE!!!
(Had to add this line because my comment was “too short”)
this was mis-posted – it was to reply to Jeff Bargholz above.
Whew, thanks for explaining. I was about to charge you with the crime of being a politician, because you were CHARGING double….
to parephrase a goofy old song:
instead of Biden landing on Mount Rushmore, I wish that Mount Rushmore would fall upon HIM……
VOTE EARLY! VOTE EARLY! VOTE EARLY! –Dan the Man Bongino
Mr. Spencer,
I misunderstood your subtitle and was fantasizing that Pelosi wanted Biden to be an usher at the Capitol or some such. My laughter at her Mt. Rushmore idea faded as the second part of your article told the grim tale of the disastrous Obama-Biden-Pelosi communist-lite regime.
I pray that Pelosi will face human justice for her crimes, before she meets her Maker and His judgement!