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Promised Unity, Americans Receive a 3rd Obama Term
Townhall.com ^ | February 3, 2021 | Ted Harvey

Posted on 02/03/2021 8:58:11 AM PST by Kaslin

Unity. Unity. Unity!

Since Inauguration Day, President Biden has promised to bring Americans together. In his words: “History, faith, and reason show the way, the way of unity. We can see each other not as adversaries, but as neighbors.” The left-leaning mainstream media is selling the same bag of goods to the general public, echoing Biden’s aspirational talking points.

Yet Biden’s reality has been anything but aspirational. His reality is anything but unifying. After one week in the White House, Biden took 40 executive actions, including 33 executive ordersand counting. That is more than triple the number of executive orders signed by Presidents Trump, Obama, and Bush combined in their first weeks of office (33 to 10). President George W. Bush’s first executive order did not come until nine days after his inauguration.

How times change. President Obama, for one, praised Biden’s unprecedented exercise of executive authority. According to Obama, “This is a time for boldness and President Biden is already delivering.” But Americans weren’t promised boldness on Inauguration Day; they were promised unity.

It is no surprise that President Obama would celebrate government by fiat. After all, rather than finding bipartisan compromise on Capitol Hill, the Obama administration often relied on executive power to score points with his liberal base. Moreover, many of Biden’s executive orders are essentially Obama-era throwbacks that were reversed by President Trump from 2017 on. For example, Biden was quick to rejoin the Paris Agreement, which remains legally non-binding for the world’s leading polluters. Countries like China and India essentially have the choice to set and adhere to new carbon-emission standards, or not.

Nevertheless, Biden marches to the beat of the radical Left’s drum, regardless of whether or not an executive order may be divisive. There’s the reversed ban on transgender troops serving in the military. Then there’s the executive order on gender identity, which opens the door to biological men using female bathrooms or playing on women’s sports teams. Then there’s the slew of executive actions on climate change and so-called “environmental justice.”

Despite promising otherwise on the campaign trail, Biden has ordered a job-killing end to the Keystone Pipeline and halted fracking on federal land, which will cripple the oil and gas industry while undermining economic growth. He even tried to set a 100-day ban on deportations of illegal immigrants, including criminal aliens, until he was met by a court challenge in Texas.

Where is the broad-based unity on the “science” of gender identity, oil and gas antagonism, or unchecked illegal immigration? Does that sound like a president trying to unify a country, or a Democratic puppet simply pandering to his left-wing radical base?

Rhetoric is empty without the action to back it up. While Biden often speaks the right words, those words have only proven to be a smokescreen for the Left’s radical agenda. Meanwhile, the liberal media—eager to be rid of President Trump—shamelessly celebrates Biden’s executive orders, giving a new meaning to mainstreamed propaganda. 

Let’s call a spade a spade: Biden is a left-wing Democrat who is surrounded by left-wing radicals, and they are governing like the leftists that they are. From chiefs of staff to legislative directors, the Biden administration is filled with countless retreads from the Obama years. Newly confirmed Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is perhaps the most notable example, given his involvement in the disastrous Iran deal (which Biden, unsurprisingly, hopes to resurrect).

For those Americans yearning for unity, pin your hopes elsewhere. Based on his actions thus far, President Biden is hell-bent on dividing America.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; executiveaction; radicalleft

1 posted on 02/03/2021 8:58:11 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Their tv will tell them this IS unity, and the deplorables are screwing it all up.

Americans will believe it.


2 posted on 02/03/2021 9:00:23 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Kaslin

Obama is not a natural born citizen and was never eligible to be President under our Constitution.


3 posted on 02/03/2021 9:03:40 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

Thank you very much, Chief Justice John “Bargain Basement” Roberts and the rest of the bought and paid for District Judges.


4 posted on 02/03/2021 9:06:10 AM PST by Howie66 (God Bless TEXAS!)
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To: Kaslin
Promised Unity, Americans Receive a 3rd Obama Deep State Term

I fixed it.

5 posted on 02/03/2021 9:08:54 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Kaslin

And as soon as Biden vapor locks, we’ll officially be in a whore-ocracy.


6 posted on 02/03/2021 9:11:37 AM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( this is not the America that true Americans deserve ))))
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To: Kaslin

We are promised unity at the beginning of every administration, Republican or Democrat. It’s something they all do and nobody in their right mind expects it to happen.


7 posted on 02/03/2021 9:14:32 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Kaslin

While we all know the Election was stolen, it might be even scarier that half our fellow Americans actually Voted for Joementia.

It appears that more people are on the wrong side of the Bell Curve than we could have ever imagined.

Remember, these same people would not hesitate to turn every one of us into the Authorities for any number of things including perceived Hate Speech or Firearms ownership.

Don’t trust any Leftist Joementia lover, whether they are Family, Friend or even a Neighbor that you have lived next door to for 20 Years. Traeat them like the Fascist loving Morons they are.


8 posted on 02/03/2021 9:16:52 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: Kaslin

Yes, Obummer has been planning the JoeBama insurrection for 5 years and this regime occupying the WhiteHut is CRIMINAL, TREASONOUS and UNCONSTITUTIONAL.


9 posted on 02/03/2021 9:18:13 AM PST by doc maverick
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To: Kaslin

Anybody who doesn’t realize it is in fact obama 3rd term needs to wake up


10 posted on 02/03/2021 9:21:30 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: Kaslin
Obama and Valerie Jarrett are still running this Marxist show. Biden is a doddering puppet doing their bidding - that's what he meant when he said "bring this (EO) to the president", he was referring to Obama, not Trump like some of the Cue crowd believes.
11 posted on 02/03/2021 9:42:34 AM PST by Major Matt Mason
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To: Kaslin

“Unity” is always possible.

Concentration camps, gulags, current Chinese labor camps for dissidents and Muslims in China....all have closely packed people in unity, agreeing that they must submit to the rulers without dissent or face death.


12 posted on 02/03/2021 9:45:10 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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