Who Was the U.S. President in 2020?
Here’s a chilling story about our leaders’ inability to understand even our most recent history as a nation:
For much of Joe Biden’s presidency, a variety of Republicans have pointed to fentanyl seizures at the U.S./Mexico border as proof of lax security measures. That’s never made any sense — the claims are inherently self-defeating — but an amazing number of GOP officials have spent the last couple of years pushing the line.
This came up again yesterday during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, when Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed to the Biden administration successfully seizing fentanyl before it reaches American soil as evidence of the Biden administration failing to stop fentanyl before it reaches American soil.
That was, to be sure, quite weird, but it wasn’t the Georgia congresswoman’s only misstep. Greene also published this missive to Twitter:
“Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son’s (sic) murders because of the Biden administrations [sic] refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel’s [sic] from murdering Americans everyday [sic] by Chinese fentanyl.”
The tweet came with a video of Rebecca Kiessling, a Michigan woman who told lawmakers about losing two sons to accidental fentanyl overdoses.
But while Greene saw Kiessling’s tragic story as proof of the Biden administration’s policies, there was a fairly obvious problem with this attempt at blame: Kiessling’s sons died in 2020, when Biden was a private citizen.
And while I don’t imagine anyone was especially surprised to see that the right-wing Georgian hadn’t done her homework, it was part of a curious recent pattern in GOP politics: Republicans keep forgetting who was president in 2020.
Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas, for example, recently blamed Biden for “paying people to stay home” in 2020, referring to a law that Donald Trump signed the year before Biden took office.
The same week, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado blamed the Democratic president for Covid-related school closures in 2020 — which, again, was a year that Biden spent on the campaign trail, not in the Oval Office.
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Let’s be fair and honest. Most Republicans, though they may be on the wrong side of the key moral issues of the day, are not idiots. They’re intelligent people who excelled in school and earned degrees from some of our nation’s top educational institutions.
Some, however, have a 5th or 6th grade command of the English language and arithmetic, and are incapable of understanding the most basic elements of recent U.S. history. They could no more be lawmakers in France or England or Germany, or any other part of the developed world than they could be brain surgeons.
Maybe it’s time to get the United States out of the disgrace business and back to where it had some legitimate intellectual standing on the world stage.
Are you kidding about not being idiots?
OK — let’s be honest and fair.
Having “made it through” getting an education — does not automatically mean you have any understanding of what is actually real, what is moral, or what is right.
I had a college graduate, from a “college?” in Salmon Lake Idaho; tell me straight faced; that she had been taught, and that she sincerely believed — that the Earth was made in 6 days and was only 6,000 years old.
Educated — NO
Time “spent” getting an “education” — YES
Any “education” is controlled by who “taught” you, what you were “taught”, and how it was “taught”.
Show me one current Republican politician, or Republican voter for that matter — except for Liz Cheney and the other Republicans that had the cohones to speak the truth, and that Republican voters threw out of office: that will tell you to your face, in public so that everyone can hear them (and stand behind it) — that Donald Trump is a liar, a cheat, and has commited criminal acts against this country.
Show me one present Republican politician or voter that doesn’t go along with the Big Lie about the 2020 election, and all of the other male bovine pasture pastry that they are wallowing in.
An “education” is not worth spit unless it is put to good use, and you can not say that the present batch of Republican politicians, both State and Federal; or Republican voters, are doing anything constructive to help grow this country.
The only thing they are interested in is:
1.) growing their political position;
2.) fattening their wallets, and / or
3.) crying the blues about how they are being “left beind” and / or “being portrayed as being your idiots”.
If and when they stop acting like idiots — they will not be treated as being idiots.
It’s on them — and their education(s).
And as for MTG — she is a real piece of work.
Take a look at the Republican voters that put her into office — there is where you’ll find your 5th and 6th grade education showing up.
They got what they wanted….
The rest of us want better.