“Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.”
P. J. O'Rourke, American Journalist
December 11, 2024, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
(Check out Lest We Forget and FYI.)
Obama isn’t right about much, but he was spot on when he said “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.”
To emphasize the fact, Obama became a millionaire by not building it. Joe did, too.
What I just said doesn’t make any sense, I know, but what does make sense is that it is clear that both these men think people who build a business. and who work, are show offs who need to be taken to task.
Entrepreneurs like Trump and Elon Musk make people like Barack and Joe look bad. By working. By being successful at doing something.
Politicians like Obama and Joe get rich witihout working, and we don’t really know why.
What we do know is that they both do have “a business,” which they didn’t create the old-fashioned way, by working. They did it the way guys like Al Capone did.
But who can stay mad at these two lovable rascals, especially Joe?
Joe can sniff out money like a beagle.
That’s why it’s unfair when Americans grumble, “Who’s running the show, Joe?” It is clear he isn’t. But Friends! That doesn’t mean he isn’t working.
He’s busy doing what he’s good at, feathering his nest.
Take North Carolina. Joe didn’t raise a finger when his FEMA was a no-show after Hurricane Helene hit there. Why? Joe smells money.
In the mountains. Fixing up the houses of residents there doesn’t do much for Joe. But, the quartz mines in the mountains of North Carolina will.
It’s said these mines produce some of the purest quartz in the world. And quartz, it seems, is essential for the manufacture of semiconductors, used in many products, including cell phones, medical devices and solar panels.
That spells money.
So, as residents in the hard-hit area around those mountains lived in tents in 20-degree weather, Joe left them to figure things out and jetted off to Angola.
While there he met with leaders of Angola, Zambia, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and pledged another $600 million dollars to the $4 billion dollar investment the U.S. already committed to the Lobito Corridor rail system.
“Africa has been left behind for much too long,” Joe said, “but not anymore. Africa is the future.”
That’s so nice. Except we know Joe, and Joe isn’t all that nice.
The railway will carry valuable minerals, copper and cobalt. And we know somehow or other, Joe will get a cut.
It’s happened before.
In the meanwhile, huge, scary. drones have been appearing in the skies over New Jersey and Staten Island, near military bases, the Verrazano Bridge and Trump’s Bedminster Golf Club, and Joe’s FBI is bewildered. They have no explanation.
The agency hasn’t been able to pin down details about the Butler, Pa. attempted assassination, either. Not yet. Not since July 13.
According to the Congressional Task Force investigating the Butler attack, both the FBI and DOJ refused to share results of their investigation as to the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crook’s motive.
In addition the Task Force report, issued yesterday, stated that the FBI would only provide access to 81 out of the more than 1,000 witness interviews they conducted.
It’s not surprising. It never is.
When appearing before Congress, after Trump was shot, FBI Director Christopher Wray questioned whether Trump was shot at all.
So, you can take it from there.
Joe and his agencies aren’t keen at solving pressing problems, but are cracker jacks at keeping their secrets. Well. Except sometimes.
Like when Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) admitted she leaked details of the House Ethics Committee investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz to the press, details which successfully ended Gaetz’ nomination for attorney general.
It’s not surprising. It never is.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.