Saturday, September 28, 2024

D.L. Gardner: Four More Years

“Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive with them. Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand all things.” Proverbs 28: 4-5

Donald Trump left office in January 2021. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris began their administration January 20, 2021. Politicians are proud to tout what they will do on their first day in office, and President Biden kept his promises beginning on his first day by changing or cancelling many of former president Trump’s accomplishments. Vice President Kamala Harris stood right there with President Biden in full support of every change he made.

The 2020 race for president was a real slugfest much like the race for president has been this year. The difference this year are the two records of two candidates: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. How do they compare?

In spite of the Democrats in the House voting to impeach President Trump twice, many hoped all the bitterness and anger in Washington would abate. So much for that hope.

It turns out that during President Biden’s and VP Harris’ term, former president Trump was responsible for any negative news coming out of Washington. Even though Trump left office with an inflation rate of 1.4%, he was still to blame for the meteoric rise to 9.1% a year later during the Biden-Harris adminisration.

The pattern is the same for any negative news coming out of Washington. Remember illegal immigration numbers soaring at our southern border? The first reports coming out of Washington declared there was no problem. In fact, according to the Biden-Harris administration, the border was secure. It was closed. There simply was no problem at the border.

As the problem at the border became too obvious to ignore, the White House acknowledged that former president Trump and the Republicans in Congress were the real culprits. Of course! Millions of migrants crossing the border illegally coincidentally at the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration proves it! And, the fact that millions of migrants from nearly every nation on earth have continued coming into America with all the blessings of the Biden-Harris administration reinforces the White House’s message.

Fortunately, VP Harris has promised to end the cumulative rise of the cost of everything on her very first day in the White House. Former president Trump has cynically asked why she doesn’t do something now if she knows what to do. The audacity! At least with the border crisis, VP Harris has pledged to build a wall … on her first day in office.

During President Trump’s first term America was energy independent. Under Biden-Harris America has to purchase oil from Venezuela and other countries. Before COVID unemployment rates fell to historic lows for all races, and wages surged particularly for middle and lower income workers. You know, all those billionaires.

Still, the Democrats and media hated Trump and blamed him for all the chaos he had created. President Trump was on the verge of peace in the Middle East with the Abraham Accords. Contrast that with wars in the Middle East today.

In fact, contrast America and the world today with America and the world under President Trump’s leadership. Do we want four more years of what Biden-Harris has done for America and the world?

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

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

I noticed how staged everything was at Harris’s visit to the border yesterday. A very brief visit with no immigrants near or trash on the ground. The sound turned off so we couldn’t hear what was being said. No interview given and the photographers every move controlled by the Harris team. The appearance given was that everything was operating smoothly. She never visited Eagle Pass,TX and saw the chaos there or San Diego’s crisis.
Where was Mayorkas? This is madness and I feel like I’ve been living a nightmare for 4 years. A hoax with the help of the media in their pocket. Please Americans, don’t let it continue another 4 years.

She hates Israel and will continue to isolate them.

Unknown said...

D.L. spouting the the obvious again or as I could say "no shit!"

Anonymous said...

If y'all don't know what a socialist Marxist state looks like, this is it. Harris was raised a Marxist by her Marxist Stanford professor father. As AG of California Harris defunded their Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, the oldest drug enforcement agency in the U.S. at the time. 500 special agents are let go. 500! She used the savings to form a Bureau of Firearms Enforcement which is tasked to take away firearms, but not hers.

Anonymous said...

Either of the two running for our highest office will be a seeping puss filled boil as a leader for our country. It is an embarrassment that these are the best we have to offer as leadership. As for me, I see none in Washington any better. Our nation is sliding down a crap smeared chute into hell.

Anonymous said...

DL, we are STILL energy independent. Indeed, our economy is stronger that when Trump left office. But, God knows you won't read actual facts from reliable economic sources who aren't biased.
You totally ignore that it was Trump's tariffs ( which he promises again) that caused inflation to rise. The effects of that stupidity weren't immediately felt.
And, you are so ignorant of voting laws and how voting actually works to not understand how very dangerous and awful it is to have challenged the outcome in the way Trump encouraged on Jan 6th.
The ONLY party that has been found guilty of tampering with the election is the GOP and they are still at it by erasing people off the voting rolls this close to an election. And, as usual, they will screw up and erase some of their own supporters in the process...remember the result here when votes were challenged in the Senate race. Your party idiot thought anyone not in the 39211 zip code must be not be a real GOP voter.
Trump has turned the GOP into a party of crazies and incompetents!
Trumps ignorance of the JOB is appalling and he even threatens and demeans Barr and Bolton who know more about good government and the law than The Donald.
You claim to be a Christian and support a man who never attends church regularly. He goes to campaign not to worship. And, worse he has broken and continues break the Lord's Commandments! He has born false witness and is a repeated adulterer. He can't even name his favorite passage in the Bible. He autographs the Bible and our flag! He sees Arlington National Cemetery as a campaign opportunity with cameras rolling and his entourage in tow?
I have worked to get Republicans elected by I won't wipe my feet on a Trumpster! They hope for a one man, one party system and that's why he love Putin so and wants to give him a naval advantage by giving him part of Ukraine!
Try reading non fiction DL and history books and stop with the propaganda!

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU 11:58

Anonymous said...

What have Joe and Kamala done in 4 years? I can’t think of anything beneficial and neither can you. Don’t mumble any garbage about transgender rights and build back better. Didn’t go to the border until yesterday. How pathetic!

Anonymous said...

During the Biden-Harris rule we had over 425,000 convicted criminals invade our country. Also had over 220,000 illegals pending charges. We had over 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide enter our country.
If Harris gets elected we will soon see all of these invaders voting soon. Do you think that many criminal illegals could influence and election?

Anonymous said...

"Still, the Democrats and media hated Trump and blamed him for all the chaos he had created."

Trump should be blamed for all the chaos he created and continues to create. It's called being held responsible for one's own behavior.

Anonymous said...

I agree with almost everything 11:58 says about Donald Trump's character. I also agree that the Marxist/opportunist experiment we would become under Harris would be an absolute disaster. They are both the best indication that our nation has a leadership crisis which we cannot long endure. We have never been perfect but at least we were trying. No more.

Anonymous said...

To the Bible thumper at 11:58; you're good, but you can't lie as good as vice president cackles. By the way, we are choosing a president, not a pastor. All have sinned, and come short of the glory of GOD.

You show your ignorance in economics when you blame inflation on tariffs. The main driver of inflation is the printing of money, it always has been, with the shortage of supplies number two.

I'm not going to address every falsehood in your post, even though it can be done easily.

I'm going to address one of the most important differences in the two candidates running for president. There's only one talking about making peace in the world. It's not cackles, she doesn't mention peace, in the word salad, platitude heavy speeches she blandly spouts.

She doesn't mention peace, because she doesn't care about the citizens of this country. A real leader wants their fellow citizens to prosper. A real leader knows that peace brings prosperity. A war monger knows war only profits a few. Donald Trump doesn't belong to the military industrial complex.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy was here in the U.S. campaigning for the chosen one of the military industrial complex, Kamala Harris. He was campaigning for Harris, while attacking Trump. He's depending on the Democrats to keep pouring money into the newest forever war. Trump will end it.

Anonymous said...

Hey 11:28 ... I see you have your "medical marijuana" card.

Anonymous said...

One day, when all you Fox News consuming MAGA boomers have (soon) left this world, the rest of us will finally be able to start dragging this uneducated backwater shithole state up from the depths of 50th in every bad metric to something better. Because whatever yall have been doing for the past 30-40 years sure as shit hasn’t done anything besides let the state get further and further behind everyone else. Just go ahead and retire to the nursing homes and continue to watch Fox News until the Alzheimer’s sets in.

Anonymous said...

@12:54 PM What did Trump do in 4 years? And don’t mumble about how much aid he gave Israel. We already know he (and Jared Kuschner) focused more on Making Israel Great Again.

Anonymous said...

You're one of the idiots that think this country got to where it is without boomers, as you call them. You need to thank a boomer for everything your ungratefully ass use.

Anonymous said...

11:58 said, "You totally ignore that it was Trump's tariffs ( which he promises again) that caused inflation to rise."

This may be the dumbest post in the history of JJ. The 40%+ increase in spending in M1 caused inflation. 11:58 has been so blinded by his hatred of Trump so he cannot Trump's excellent handling of the economy.
In 2016, CNN surveyed the Federal Reserve Governors who agreed Trump was "crazy" for saying the US economy could grow at 4%. Crazy like a fox as Trump reached that goal. I voted against Trump in 2016, but intellectual honesty demands that we admit that Trump knew how to guide the US economy.

Anonymous said...

I sure hope 11:58 don't live in a glass House...

Anonymous said...

Harris will win in a landslide. Mississippi "conservatives" will be first in line trying to get their hands on some of that "deficit" money.

Anonymous said...

Talk about what Biden/Harris did the last four years. All you have to do is look around for Republicans at the ground breaking and ribbon cutting events. They voted in lock step against the Biden/Harris infrastructure plan but, show up for projects funded by it across the country, even though they voted against them.

Anonymous said...

Apparently most of you don't know what a Vice President's duties are. They are to break a tie in the Senate and preside over the counting of Electoral votes. They can try to influence Senators and the President but that doesn't mean they succeed in doing so. They can gather information as eyes and ears or deliver a specific message for the President if asked. That's it.

And, Trump , after being President should know that. Apparently, he never learned what his powers and responsibilities were either. He assumed he was King.

Did none of you have a civics class in your high schools? I knew this stuff by the 7th grade.

When you make stupid or uninformed claims, people who aren't stupid or uninformed know it. That includes your employers and your relatives and friends who don't bother to tell you because they see that as an "exercise in futility".
If you aren't well liked or as successful as you think you deserve to be, this is likely the reason.

Anonymous said...

To suggest that Trump almost achieved peace in the Middle East is laughable. As long as there are those who do not want Israel to exist, there will be war.

Anonymous said...

@10:50 is half right, let's give credit. The part he left out, though, is that as long as Israel exists then there will be war.

Anonymous said...

10:50 did not leave anything else. You both made the same point.

Anonymous said...

Have no fear there’s plenty of non boomer conservatives out there. The younger generation isn’t falling for the bs, but you still be smooth brain lefty creeper watching The View crying about it.

Anonymous said...

“ During President Trump’s first term America was energy independent. Under Biden-Harris America has to purchase oil from Venezuela and other countries”

This is simply not true. Like harder Daniel.

Anonymous said...

Can anyone find a single true statement in this garbage? Trump killed facts, and Daniel has bought in hook, line, and sinker. Is time to purge the MAGA cult lies.

Anonymous said...

Why believe Trump, he’s a proven lying loser. Some people are just too dumb to take seriously. Maybe he was born dumb and lazy, or maybe it was how he was raised, but that man child is broken beyond repair.

Anonymous said...

Sigh...11:58 here and please look up what a tariffs is. I didn't say or certainly didn't intend for you all to assume that the tariffs were the only cause of inflation. Certainly , the Covid crisis didn't help our supply chains. But, the imposition of a tariff ends up with the consumer who depends on equipment, parts, and goods from China . Sadly, some of you seem to forget how many of our corporations sought cheap labor and moved to China when we didn't see them as a threat.
Frankly, I'm embarrassed to say I voted for Trump in 2016 as I thought he actually was educated at Wharton. I realize now he was just another one of the Ivy League ( yes that includes Penn) kids who get a passing grade because their parents gave the university a ton of cash. Indeed, I doubt y'all know he transferred to Penn and at no school he attended did he get involved in student activities or get listed for " achievements" like Phi Beta Kappa. There are yearbooks. I'm surprised the media hasn't bothered to look at those.
Ivy League schools have a pass/fail system. They don't give alphabetical grades. The trick is to get accepted. They claim you have to be brilliant to start but they don't say that money will buy you entry. That is true for Harvard and Yale law schools as well. It's still true for MIT. And, I know this was true for my "boomer" friends because I have friends that went to all of those schools and a grandchild at one of them now.
No where does it say that JD Vance was such a stellar student in law school that he made Law Review either. And, you are about to vote for a judge candidate here who unlike our current judges didn't even succeed as a lawyer so as to be in or maintain a law firm or have the fine credentials our current judges have.
Please look at the resumes of candidates. If someone running doesn't have anything to commend them for the job, you should worry. And, there are a ton of books that rate lawyers...a few you have to pay to be in but not in the best one. Who's Who in America and Who's Who Legal have issues every year. Being a politician doesn't mean you know the law. More than a few just let their party tell them how to vote. We'd do better to vote on their experience for the job and vote for people who actually can contribute.

Anonymous said...

Please y'all look up what a tariff is. It is a tax on imported or exported goods and services. It can protect our goods and services IF we have a sufficient production to meet our needs. w Since so much of our business was moved overseas for cheap labor , goods and services from those countries inflate our costs. Like it or not, many of our corporations sought out the cheap labor in China. And all of you might ought to look at what exports we get that come from China and what we export to China.

Anonymous said...

Can you link to some of those ribbon cuttings, I'm having problems finding them?

Anonymous said...

Is it true that Biden has sold nearly all of our strategic oil reserves to keep gas, and fuel prices artificially low? Is it true he has made no moves to restock them?

Anonymous said...

Trump isn't in the same league with word salad Harris.

Anonymous said...

You’re right, Trump is a mental midget compared to Kamala. Does anyone really think Donald Trump could pass the Bar without cheating? I’ve never heard of anyone except Trump who threatened to sue all his former schools if his grades were made public. Mind you, they never considered releasing them, he just had to threaten them in case they considered it. What a historically dumb man boy.


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