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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Biden paid a visit to Arizona to claim that everyone who opposes him is a threat to democracy, to brag about encouraging former Senator McCain to cheat on his disabled first wife, and to announce $83 million in taxpayer money for the John McCain National Library.
The 80,000-square-foot library built on 22.5 acres at Arizona State Universe will archive McCain’s papers and claims, implausibly, that it will have over 100,000 visitors a year.
Politicians stealing taxpayer money to build useless monuments to each other’s vanity is nothing new, but what is unusual is the source of the money for the McCain library.
The Biden administration put out a press release announcing that the $83 million in federal funds for the McCain Library were being drawn from the American Rescue Plan’s Capital Projects Fund. The full name of the fund is actually the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund.
The Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund consisted of $10 billion that was supposed to “directly support recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency” in response “to the public health emergency”. Now nearly 1% of that original $10 billion is being used to build a non-presidential library that will somehow help us “recover” from the pandemic.
The McCain Library is getting nearly as much CCF cash as the total given to tribal governments. It appears to be one of the largest single beneficiaries of the coronavirus emergency fund.
There is something appropriate in one career politician honoring another through a massive misappropriation of funds that were only allocated due to a national emergency. A politician’s library is not a response to a public health emergency. The Biden administration’s justification for the massive misappropriation of funds is the claim that the McCain Library will provide a space for health screenings and job fairs. There were far cheaper ways to provide a space for job fairs than an $83 million senatorial library. Arizona could host ten thousand job fairs for that kind of money and provide actual health resources to the people who really need them.
The $83 million in misappropriated coronavirus emergency money had nothing to do with a public health emergency and everything to do with an urgent political emergency.
Biden is underwater in the polls and the McCain family have become crucial allies against Republicans. The 2024 presidential candidate didn’t travel to Arizona to promote an $83 million space where someone might occasionally hold a job fair, but to use McCain to attack Republicans. In a speech with McCain family members and former Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who supervised the gubernatorial election that she claimed to have won, in attendance, Biden warned that Republicans represented an urgent threat to democracy.
In his ‘democracy’ speech, Biden claimed that, “democracy means rule of the people, not rule of monarchs, not rule of the monied, not rule of the mighty.” If that’s what democracy means, what does it mean when a career politician takes $83 million in public health emergency funding to build an institution honoring another career politician that is backing his unpopular campaign?
Does the McCain Library represent the rule of the people or occasionally elected monarchs?
In what sort of ‘democracy’ do politicians lie and then misappropriate taxpayer money in this way? And what sort of democracy fails to hold them accountable for their corruption?
These questions answer themselves.
Biden’s speech made it clear that he values the McCain Library primarily as a political institution. The McCain Institute’s donor list is already packed with leftist foundations, organizations and individuals like the Ford Foundation, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, and George Soros.
Not to mention dubious foreign donors like Saudi Arabia and Imaad Zuberi: a Pakistani Clinton Foundation donor sentenced to 12 years in prison for foreign lobbying.
Between the leftist donors and corporate donors like Amazon, BlackRock, Microsoft, SpaceX, and Verizon, the McCain Institute ought to have enough money to build its facilities, but the whole point of political influence is being able to leverage access to public money.
Politics is the business of trading public money for political support. The $83 million in coronavirus public health emergency response funding is politics in this most traditional form. Practicing this kind of politics requires subverting “democracy”, “free and fair elections”, and the other virtues that Biden hailed in his valediction to McCain and attack on Republicans.
The public generally doesn’t like it when politicians steal their money, especially when it’s been allocated for an emergency, to trade to other political interests to shore up their candidacies. That is why the first business of politics is to suppress democracy and the public will.
Biden is widely unpopular and his poll numbers keep dropping. He’s unlikely to win a free and fair election, which is why he keeps claiming that his opponents are a threat to democracy. Such rhetoric has already been used by his government to censor political opponents. It’s now being used by his campaign to argue that voting for him is the only ‘democratic’ alternative. But if voting for one party is the only democratic alternative, then where’s the democracy?
Would the public approve of $83 million in public health emergency funding being used to build a library for a former senator? No more than they approve of most of his administration.
Biden wasn’t handing out that $83 million and delivering a speech about the importance of democracy to uphold it, but to undermine it. Faced with an unwinnable election, Biden is turning to Arizona as a model for his 2024 election strategy. The plan, there and everywhere, is to stigmatize his political opponents as dangerous extremists, to divide the GOP, break off influential party interests, and encourage public officials to violate the law in managing the election and counting the votes by insisting that democracy will be destroyed if he loses.
This isn’t democracy: it’s an end-run around democracy. The majority of Democrats and Americans don’t want Biden back in office. The polls have been crystal clear about that. But Biden isn’t interested in what the majority of his party and his country think. He’s not betting on democracy, but on a political establishment that bridges party differences.
What do McCain and Biden really have in common? McCain spent 31 years in the Senate while Biden spent 36 years there. What they have in common isn’t democracy. Behind the lofty rhetoric ripped from hundreds of presidential speeches and reassembled by ChatGPT, Biden and McCain were career politicians who remained in office despite the public tiring of them.
In the year he died, only 20% of Republicans had a positive view of McCain while 68% had a negative one. Among voters in general, he was underwater 44% to 39%. Biden is even more comprehensively underwater than that. His rhetoric about democracy isn’t intended for ordinary people, it’s a call for the solidarity of elites under the guise of protecting democracy.
The $83 million in coronavirus recovery funding allocated to the McCain Library shows why Biden, like McCain, feared democracy and chose oligarchy over listening to the people.
The real threat to democracy comes from established political interests subverting elections and the multi-trillion budgets they pass and then distribute shows how they subvert America.
Give them money and they will find a way to divert to whatever it is they want to use it for. Like California voted some years ago for 5 bazillion to build new dams and reservoirs. Instead the Dems diverted it to tearing down existing dams, and no new dams have been built.
Perfect metaphor for the party of destruction
I find it very telling that this woman is wearing RED–I remember the hanoi Hilton’s SONG BIRD (no name) John McStain betrayed fellow prisoners who gave ONLY: Name, Rank and Serial Number—-No secrets—and was rewarded by R.I.N.O..s.
McStain will always be remembered as the traitor to America that he was. He stupidly got himself shot out of the sky over North Vietnam and then spent the next years singing like a canary about US military matters. He then proceeded to shaft US citizens at every opportunity through insider-trading, Silverado bank scam, AZ property scandals, and finally voting to support Obamacare. May he rot in hell!
And the SOB voted for Jug-eared Barrycare purely out of spite.
B. Husseincare is so great that all (but a few) opted to exempt themselves from it.
What’s amusing is that the idiots that voted for “free” health care where turned away from hospitals upon it’s release.
The dumbshits were informed of certain nuance – it wasn’t free. It wasn’t as advertised. It wasn’t being fully dumped on us until after the election (because the pricks dumping Barrycare on us KNEW it was worthless bullshit).
What riles me about McCain is how in the world could he possibly fire off a missile from his jet aircraft while he was sitting in the jet as it was parked motionless on the deck of an aircraft carrier – he almost sank his own ship. That, and then later as Senator, he sealed all Viet Nam POW records from reporters after POW sightings were being made in the late ’80’s and early ’90’s. For example, pilot Albro Lundy (shot down in 1965) was spotted in Southeast Asia around the early ’90’s. Before the POW records were sealed off, reporters checked Albro’s military files – Albro’s fingerprint card was missing – someone wanted to make sure Albro couldn’t be identified. Thus McCain’s sealing of the records – to help make sure that the government doesn’t have any more POW issues.
Had never heard about that. Thanks.
Actually, the missile was accidentally fired from another plane that was spotted on the deck, which then hit his plane. McCain’s cowardly act was to dump all of the gas from his fuel tanks onto the deck so that he wouldn’t die in the fire. That just added fuel to the fire as they say. He got away from the plane and then the bomb cooked off, killing the most experienced damage control personnel and fueled the conflagration.
Many were killed as a result of his farting around. Should have been demoted and expelled.
There are a few pictures taken in the 90’s of possible POWs.
What I have never understood is why he was so adamite about not having the information made public. Families were / are not allowed to access the information.
Bill Hendon’s book ENMOROUS CRIME documents all the actions JM did to keep the information secret.
WHY— what was so detrimental to him for them to come home. To leave the approximate 2,500 POWs behind, if they did not have contact with McCain how could they have harmed him.
F..k McCain. He’s not worth a bucket of warm spit. Ask the MIA families.
The mafia looks like saints compared to this crowd.
When do they start the Consruction on Obamas Presidential Lie-Brary? a Outhouse or Portapotty can hold a Pen & Phone
They’ve spent a fortune, predictably, with zero benefit to the public.
“ claims, implausibly, that it will have over 100,000 visitors a year.”
British libraries measure the number of visitors claiming thousands too. The problem is, anyone who clicks on their website is considered a “visitor”
What gets measured gets manipulated.
Oh, there will be “visitors”! The line to urinate on the floors will be long – “hey, I’m old and can’t aim anymore”!
lol … hazards of old age 🙂
These politicians definitely embrace the “i” in America.
Honestly, doesn’t it seem that politics is really the oldest profession?
I can’t stand politicians saying,
“I will fight for you.”
Just be honest, take out the “for” and say, “I will fight you. I will put my hand in your pocket and scheme, lie, steal and misappropriate your money, which may be illegal for the rest of America, which I love, God bless, but law, fortunately doesn’t apply to me. I make the laws; so I can break the laws, that’s all. That’s all I do, literally, because I don’t have any skills to make money any other way, hard earned money for food, shelter and clothing. That’s not for me . I really don’t want to exert myself with any real work effort. All I have to do is talk, I mean lie. Because this is America, home of me, not you. “Me” as in A“me”rica. And I’ll tell you, even though it’s none of your business to know why and to who[m] I’m beholden – that the people with their own money who told me I’m going into politics are in charge and want to suck America dry; and by the way, Covid was planned, it’s no “accident“; and they’re going to make sure you vote for me.”
I only hope that someone at the RNC is compiling a list of all the anti-democratic things Biden and his administration have done – from leaning on social media to censor its opponents to ruling by “executive orders,” to ignoring Supreme Court decisions, to deamonizing political opponents as “semi-fascists,” to weaponizing federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies against political opponents, to refusing to enforce federal immigration laws, his is objectively the most anti-democratic administration in my lifetime. Yet he gets away with saying this crap without response from our garbage “news media” or the RNC.
Sorry Kasandra—the RNC is headed by Ronda McDaniels–who is Mitt Romney’s niece. He is as useless a Senator as McStain. She will NOT be making note of all the anti-democratic things Biden and his admin have done/said, because he AGREES with them!!!
The Biden Lie-Brary should have a room for all his Pinocchio’s make is the size of a Gym or Stadium
Will his daughter’s diary be on display?
It’ll have a robotic Biden groping and sniffing all visitors
Again, sorry Daniel, the robotic Biden will only grope and sniff actual females, mostly under the age of 10!!!
isn’t it interesting that wherever joe biden goes, so does BLACKROCK and GEORGE SOROS.
joe now has larry fink of blackrock set up to ‘rebuild’ ukraine using american tax dollars.
For a definition of just how cynical obamacare was/is, see Obama’s True Legacy, edited by an FPM stalwart.
McCain’s-once a grifter, always a grifter.
John McCain, Maverick….No…..Rino…..Yes. Too many Rinos sacrificed America’s sovereignty, security, and prosperity, and ran up the debt, for personal greed to be part of the Uni-party.
The Left thinks they have an open wallet and checkbook to spend frivilously and foolishly, and dangerously, and the tax payers are footing the bill and future generations.
The Left will wreck everything and when debt becomes unpayable, they’ll have a mandate to move to socialism or communism
Democratic Party rewards for McCain hand-delivering the Steel dossier to the FBI? (Hard to believe, but it is admitted by McCain). No wonder Trump dumped on McCain after that.
Well, the Democrats had to reward McCain, again, for being a traitor to his party and the nation. This should convince all but the terminally gullible that McCain tried to lose to Obama.
I wonder when Romney will get his payoff.
I’m sure they’ll name him ambassador to something or give him the presidential medial
When I die, don’t let me vote Democrat like McCain will.
Well, it’s obvious McCain wasn’t willing to do what was necessary to beat Obama. I’ll never forget McCain’s Service Day remarks during the campaign, when he commended Obama’s work as a community organizer, calling it “outstanding”.
“My friends”
enough said.
Desperately waiting for Meghan McCain to defend her daddy. . .
mc cain would sell his mother if it meant he could live the life he could become accustomed to. just like he dumped his first wife because she was a cripple due to a nasty accident . he married money 20 yrs younger than himself . he was nothing but an opportunist shyster with no principals more akin to democrats than conservative . not that there aren’t conservatives tarred with the same brush . anyone that lives in the pockets of democrats should be seen as committing treason . including the current batch of gravy train riders . the money would have been better spent on returned veterans that are living on the street in dire need of rescue . anyone wanting to know all about wasted libraries to political hacks needs to read ” art from the swamp ” by bruce cole . tells you all you need to know about the likes of mc cain and his ilk and how millions is wasted on these wastrels just so politicians can have a monument dedicated to themselves to make them look patriotic .