Joe Biden had a nearly 2-hour press conference on Wednesday, and his handlers had a nearly 2-hour heart attack.  He was mostly on script at the beginning, and then he went out on his own where the magic happened.

Biden said he has “probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen.”  This was after being asked a question that listed the many bad things that happened during his first year of office.  Unfortunately, Biden’s statement in this case was probably true for many.

He has outperformed my expectations in how much chaos and disaster he has caused.  I figured Biden would be a bumbling fool in the White House, but I underestimated how much damage he could do.  Even though most of it probably originated from his handlers, he is still responsible for his actions.

I agreed with withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, but even that was done in a clumsy (to give the benefit of the doubt) way.

High price inflation is not entirely Biden’s fault, but his mega-spending policies are only making the situation first.

Biden said on Wednesday that we need to increase production as a way to resolve the inflation.  That is true to an extent, but he is causing major chaos with his vaccine mandates, which only serves to hurt productivity.

There are a couple of good things that came out Biden’s press conference.  First, he didn’t propose any significant new executive orders or legislation.  He said he is a capitalist and that he signed an executive order to tackle unfair competition in our economy.  I’m not sure how imposing executive orders is the act of a capitalist, but he didn’t talk about anything specific planned for the future.

The last year has been a disaster, and I feel the need to pay attention when Biden gives a speech.  He says things that could directly impact me, unlike most other things with past presidents.  Every time he issues a disastrous decree, he just seems to double-down the next time around.

On Wednesday, Biden didn’t double-down.  He didn’t propose anything specific that I noticed.  If he is becoming a lame duck president in only his second year, I am fine with that.

I just hope that he follows what England just announced and withdraws the vaccine mandates.  I think this would be a great victory for the American people.

A second good thing that came out of Biden’s press conference is the fact that he was a total train wreck.  He is deeply unpopular, and nobody takes him seriously.  This is positive for liberty.  I would rather the public not like and not respect the president, especially when most of what that president does is bad.

There is one problem though.  The establishment media and his own party are starting to throw in the towel.  They are actually criticizing Biden, which means Biden won’t be running for president again in 2024.

I think the problem is that they are attacking his personal characteristics in a subtle way.  Biden is highly flawed, morally and mentally.  There is no question that he has suffered cognitive decline.  But that enables the establishment to criticize Biden the man without criticizing the Biden policies.

The worst thing about Biden isn’t that he loses his words and appears to have dementia at times.  It also isn’t that he is a criminal.  The worst aspect of Biden is the disastrous policies he has pushed.

Is the media going to blame the failure of vaccines and the non-ending of COVID on Biden the man?  You bet they will, if that is what they have to do.  They will ignore the fact that they cheered on his inhumane policies the whole time until it was no longer convenient to do so.

The establishment all of a sudden has changed its narrative.  They say that the kids need to be in school.  They say that lockdowns may cause more harm than good.  In other words, they are starting to say what some of us were saying in March 2020.

Sometimes it is better to just let things be.  If we are going back to normal (prior to March 2020), then maybe we shouldn’t rub it in people’s faces who are trying to backtrack.  They won’t apologize, but they will change their tune.

In this case though, I feel like we do need to rub it in their faces.  These people promoted policies that have destroyed many millions of lives and essentially shut down the world for 2 years (not 2 weeks).  I do think we need to say, “I told you so.”

Finally, I want to address foreign policy.  The one thing really dangerous right now with Biden’s unpopularity is that it may tempt him to start a war.

Biden was all over the place with Russia and Ukraine.  He said things that invited criticism from both the war hawks and the pro peace side.

Biden is taking hits for saying, “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion…”  The war hawks are really going after him on this one.

But there is something else he slipped in that surprised me.  He was talking about the consequences for Russia if Russia invades Ukraine.  Biden then said, “The cost of going into Ukraine, in terms of physical loss of life, for the Russians, they’ll – they’ll be able to prevail over time, but it’s going to be heavy, it’s going to be real, and it’s going to be consequential.”

In other words, Biden is willing to go to war, and maybe even risk nuclear war, but he admitted that Russia will prevail over time.  Does this sound utterly foolish to anybody else, no matter where you stand on the issue?

If you know that Russia will prevail over time, why would you say that, and why would you risk going to war over it?

It appears that Biden’s foreign policy is just as chaotic as his domestic policies.  It is scary that this man has the ability to launch nuclear weapons.

It’s ironic that people in the government under Trump said that they had to maintain control outside of his authority to protect the United States.  Wouldn’t that apply to Biden?  And maybe it does, but we don’t really hear about that.  Even for the Trump haters, I hope they would admit that Trump was a bit more stable in office than Biden is.

In conclusion, anything goes right now.  The president and the establishment have lost a lot of legitimacy, which is good for liberty.  But it is also dangerous like a wild animal that is injured and flailing about.

Let’s hope that the vaccine mandates get repealed and that Biden doesn’t do much in 2022.  I expect the Republicans to sweep in November.  It’s not that the Republicans will do anything great, but it will provide for some gridlock.