Saturday, August 31, 2024

D.L. Gardner: And Democracy Died in Darkness

And just like that Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee for President of the United States of America, Leader of the Democratic Party, former California senator, former attorney general of California, former district attorney of Alameda County, and former district attorney of San Francisco. As a senator, Harris supported stricter gun control laws, the DREAM Act, federal legalization of cannabis, tax reform, and universal healthcare including abortions on demand.

Two months after President Biden was sworn into office he assigned Harris to address the “root causes” of illegal immigration on our southern border. The numbers of illegal migrants pouring over the border skyrocketed to record heights without abatement over the next three years.

Eight months into their first year in office, the Biden/Harris administration had opened our southern border to record numbers of illegal immigrants. The Pew Research Center said, “The U.S. Border Patrol reported more than 1.6 million encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2021 fiscal year, more than quadruple the number of the prior fiscal year and the highest annual total on record.”

President Biden insisted that Harris “be in every core decision-making meeting” according to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Three months after their inauguration Harris was the last person in the room when Biden decided to remove all troops from Afghanistan in what became one of the most colossal foreign policy debacles in our history.

According to Reuters, “WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The United States on Monday completed its military withdrawal from Afghanistan after a huge but chaotic airlift that cost the lives of 13 U.S. troops and left behind thousands of Afghans and hundreds of Americans still seeking an escape from Taliban rule.”

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released inflation data of 1.4% in January 2021. The Wall Street Journal reported in August 2021, “Consumer prices rose 5.4% in July from a year earlier, the same pace as in June, the highest 12-month rate since 2008 according to the Labor Department.” The inflation rate in the US has remained high during the Biden/Harris administration.

On June 27, two months ago, President Joe Biden debated former president Donald Trump on CNN. Rumors of Biden’s mental acuity had circulated since the 2020 campaign. Questions continued to linger after he entered the White House, but everyone in his administration insisted the president could run circles around those he saw every day. More than three years into his first term Biden was still regaled as one of the smartest presidents in history by Democrats and the vast majority of media in the U.S.

Somewhere around the 13:00 minute mark into the debate President Biden began showing signs of severe confusion. His performance went down from there. Three weeks later Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate for the presidency. And, one month later without receiving a single vote in a primary Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination as candidate for President of the United States of America. “Democracy dies in darkness.” - Slogan of the Washington Post

President Biden’s campaign was centered around defending “democracy” from another Trump presidency. Harris has taken that mantra and substituted “freedom” for “democracy.” What are Kamala Harris’ policies on inflation, the border crisis, and foreign wars?

Daniel L. Gardner is a columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nothing about 'mean tweets'?

Anonymous said...

Economic impacts aren't instantaneous DL.

Oddly, you seem to give no praise or criticism to Pense for Trump's decisions while in office. Please read the "job description" for a vice president. Being in the room doesn't mean you can implement anything. Indeed, even Presidents need a cooperative Congress. The reality is that no vice President has authority to do anything but to support the President's policies and chair the Senate according to the Senate's rules.

You ignore the impacts of both Covid and Trump's tariffs on inflation. You also ignore that our economy is the best in the world today. We didn't suffer Covid's effect on production and supply alone.

You totally ignore that Trump agreed to release Taliban prisoners held in Afghanistan 6 weeks before deadline Trump committed the US to honor in the negotiations. So, there were Taliban loose inside the borders with lots of time to build bombs and get intel on our withdrawal.

The least you could do is read Trump's peace agreement with the Taliban. And, read textbooks on economics and the U.S. government before you opine on those subjects.

You are simply a puppet for Trump extremist party propaganda. You need to spend more time reading the opinion of actual conservatives...not propagandists and talking heads.

Harris is at least a centrist who doesn't go along with the crazy wing of the Democrats. Her main political weakness is that is that some men would never vote for a woman...including Margaret Thatcher's clone or Catherine the Great that Trump's buddy, Putin is channeling.

Anonymous said...

"Harris is a centrist"? Whoa Boy! Can't wait to hear you 'splain how she's been awarded the title as most liberal member of the senate (during her mostly absent at roll-call tenure).

Anonymous said...

Don't forget that she was the mistress of the then Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown. Willie, whom I have met, was a very powerful Dem, and his casting couch stimulated Ms. Harris's career, so to speak.

Anonymous said...

@7:59 AM Identifying Harris as a centrist completely disqualifies your comments. I guess you’d also assume Chockie Lamumbalips to be a centrist too, huh?

Anonymous said...


Oddly, you seem to

Please read

doesn't mean you can

You ignore

You also ignore

You totally ignore

The least you could do is read

And, read textbooks

before you opine

You are simply a puppet

You need to spend more time reading

Anonymous said...

7:59 just took the lead as the most ridiculous post of 2024 on JJ.

Anonymous said...

No foul, I ve promoted more than one after a roll in the hay. Sometimes you gotta pay to play. Just ask.

Anonymous said...

I can't wait to read your synopsis on Joseph Stalin's life. You probably have Stalin to the right of Reagan.

Anonymous said...

@12:47 - seemed like a level headed post to me. Some will a different take on how center Kamala is, but otherwise spot on. MAGAs aren’t living in reality.

Anonymous said...

Whether Harris is a centrist is beside the point. Republicans have bought into the whole cult of Trump's personality. They are a party of sychophants and boot lickers who have given in to the notion that winning -- as opposed to governing -- is all that matters. Character (or lack thereof) seems to make no difference to the GOP. Shame on us if we elect the most narcissistic, mean-spirited candidate who has EVER been or run for president -- again.

Anonymous said...

You can write all the lengthy post you want to, there's noway to defend Biden's fiasco withdrawal from Afghanistan. Neither can you separate that fiasco from the vice cackler, also known as the word-salad-queen.

Anonymous said...

Kamala Harris is a cackling nitwit.

Anonymous said...

Compared to the "crazy wings" of each of their purported parties, Trump and Harris could both be termed "centrists." Neither are fit to be POTUS. But the unfitness of one does not convey fitness upon the other, no matter which one you might support or vote.

Anonymous said...

7:59 You confuse being a "centrist" with "opportunist". They are definitely not the same although they do sometimes intermingle.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like it was written by a fourth grader about some incident on a playground.

Anonymous said...

9:10 said it best. Amen.


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