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Mr.President, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul

David Strom’s point man on this one

It has been less than a month since Donald Trump was inaugurated. Yet so much has happened that it seems the Biden administration is a distant memory. 

Sure, we are still dealing with all the problems Biden left behind. As government statistics get revised from pre-election numbers, employment numbers have been revised downward, and inflation upward. Trump appointees are having to scramble to recover billions of dollars that the Biden administration tossed out the door to fund all the leftist grifts and the Justice Department is bogged down with fighting leftist lawfare. 

But despite all the potholes and roadblocks, Trump is making huge progress. 

Because he didn't hire morons like Jared Bernstein:

For some reason, I was reminded of this clip, so I dug it up. Here is Biden's Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors--the most influential "economist" in the administration. This man, as much as anyone, created Bidenomics. And he is an ignorant fool. He doesn't understand the most basic of economic concepts, and he was in charge of economic policy. 

You almost never saw an interview with Bernstein because even Pravda Media couldn't pass him off as anything but a fool. Rather than reporting that the most economically ignorant man in America was designing Biden's economic policies, they buried the lede and told us that the numbers showed that Biden had the Best Economy Ever™. 

Even Chuck Todd would know that Bernstein looks like a fool here. Rachel Maddow would probably wince watching this. Jake Tapper wouldn't be able to hold back his trademark confused scowl at an answer like that. Chances are that even Katilin Collins would hear that answer and conclude that Bernstein was a fool. 

The solution? Hide Bernstein and repeat propaganda endlessly. Government statistics say everything is great! Ignore the man behind the curtain!

There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.