My latest in PJ Media:
We all know that travel bans are racist; Old Joe Biden told us so himself. He tweeted on February 1, 2020: “Trump further diminished the U.S. in the eyes of the world by expanding his travel ban. This new ‘African Ban,’ is designed to make it harder for black and brown people to immigrate to the United States. It’s a disgrace, and we cannot let him succeed.” Now that Biden’s handlers, possibly even including the wonk who actually composed that tweet, are in charge, all that systemic racism is being swept away, and for that we can all be grateful. Or at least we could be until Friday, when Biden’s handlers announced a plan to follow in Trump’s footsteps and ban travel from eight countries in Africa in order to fight what is being presented as a dangerous new variant of the coronavirus.
Politico reported Friday that the ban was announced “just hours after a new coronavirus variant was deemed a highly transmissible virus of concern,” and would go into effect Monday, banning travelers from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi from entering the United States.” Politico noted that Biden’s handlers made this move on advice from none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Left’s untarnished guru of Covid prevention.
And that makes it all right. We can learn from this that the problem with Trump’s travel bans was not that he imposed them, but why he imposed them. In February 2020, Biden lambasted Trump’s racism over the extension of the travel bans to Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania, as well as Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar. This was after Trump had previously imposed travel bans upon Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf explained at the time that “the countries hit by the new measures failed to meet US security and information-sharing standards.” The countries from which Trump banned travel could not or would not provide adequate information to American officials about the people who wanted to enter the country. Trump reasoned that in light of that, the risk of admitting anyone from those countries was too great. His travel bans were motivated by concern for the safety of the American people.
Biden and the Democrats, however, knew better. They knew that Trump’s expressed concern for safety was just a ploy, a fig leaf to cover his racism. They knew, or claimed to know, that Trump’s travel bans were actually motivated by “Islamophobia,” and derided it as a “Muslim Ban,” even though Tanzania, Myanmar, North Korea and Venezuela aren’t exactly Islamic Republics. Biden promised during his campaign: “On day one, I’ll end Trump’s unconstitutional Muslim ban. My administration will look like America with Muslim Americans serving at every level.” As soon as he entered the Oval Office, Biden followed through on this promise, ending Trump’s travel bans in a flurry of executive orders on January 20, 2021.
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Wellington says
Biden is not contemptible. Obama was. Biden is so awful, so underwhelming, so much a nothing, that he is beneath contempt.
From Washington to Biden—precipitous descent and one knows this or should know it just as one knows or should know that America is drifting terribly, and as America goes so goes the world.
In any case, eff Biden. He is a loathsome, selfish, creepy, incompetent, corrupt and mendacious man. If truth prevails, a big “if” indeed, this should read as Biden’s epitaph.
mortimer says
Agree. Epitabph: “Here lies the most incompetent, corrupt and mendacious of all presidents.”
Meanwhile, the handlers prop him up every day like El Cid and show him to the troops all the while trying to shake VP Harris out of office so she will not take revenge on them if anything happens to the doddering old half-wit.
Kepha says
Agreed. Obama was a malevolent, subversive character whose only redeeming feature was that he was a fundamentally lazy man. But I fear that Biden’s weakness and incompetence could easily bring about wars in the Taiwan Strait and in Ukraine–possibly the Baltics as well.
We’ve had a precipitous descent from Trump to Biden. I admit I held my nose while voting for Trump (no, we Evangelicals do not see him as God’s Anointed–that title goes only to Jesus Christ). I frankly saw Shrillary Shrooooooo as an evil woman who’d put all of America’s influence into making the world safe for abortion and sodomy, while killing First AMendment rights (while a supporter of Second Amendment rights, I believe the bigger battle shaping up is the one over First Amendment rights).
bill says
To be fair this is comparing apples to oranges.
Trump’s ban was to counter terrorists entering USA, quite sensible in my view.
Biden’s ban is to prevent new Covid variant entering USA, though actually there is as much chance of illegals at the Mexican border carrying it. So, also sensible but not the same as Trump’s ban.
Wellington says
bill: Don’t forget that Trump was called a racist for issuing the travel ban from China on January 31st, 2020 to prevent the spread of Covid-19, even though the ever incompetent Anthony Fauci almost three weeks later on February 17th, 2020 called the Covid-19 virus a “miniscule matter.” So, it was not just for the so-called and fallaciously named “Muslim ban” that Trump was characterized as a racist.
gravenimage says
+1
VICTOR COWEN says
Sir,
I have been trying a long time to write my thoughts down about this loathsome creature Biden (et famille of equally loathsome creatures.)
You have put it so well Wellington…thank you.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
100% agree.
If Biden did absolutely nothing as fraudulent occupier of the Oval Office (no executive orders, signed bills into law, etc.,) the country could survive him.
But now, many of his actions have become irreversible (Afghanistan, illegals, etc.,) – even for a strong MAGA-type leader.
mortimer says
So, Old Beijing Biden is a RACIST … friend of Grand Wizards of KKK ?? Well, didn’t anyone remember that Kamala Harris called him an ‘old racist’ during the candidate debates?
Old Joe denounced busing as the creation of RACIAL JUNGLES … was that slightly racist?
Joe can’t keep his stories straight … did he or did he not have a FULL SCHOLARSHIP in law school didn’t he graduate at the top of his class? Or is that another piece of malarkey?
His nickname should be ‘BS BIden’.
mortimer says
Jihadism is more deadly than coronavirus. Jihadism has called more than 270 million.
PMK says
270 million sounds low. Over fourteen centuries, they have probably killed billions, if not trillions.
Wellington says
PMK: Millions yes, billions no, and trillions beyond the absurd.
May I illustrate: a million seconds ago was 12 days ago; a billion seconds ago was 32 years ago; a trillion seconds ago was 32,000 years ago.
It took mankind to around the middle of the 19th century to reach a billion people, to around 1930 to reach 2 billion, 3 billion by 1960—-and now perhaps 7 billion.
I trust you see where I am going here. I despise Islam as much as you do, perhaps even more so, but facts are facts and must be adhered to, especially when combatting iniquity.
PMK says
Wellington,
Point taken. However, I don’t find it difficult to believe that more than 300 million have been murdered by the Venture of Islam. Mankind’s population reached a billion in the 19th century but how many were born and killed in the twelve centuries before then? How many were killed over 1000 years in India alone? Over 700 years in Spain?
PMK says
Wellington,
Point taken. However, I don’t find it difficult not to believe that more than 300 million have been murdered by the Venture of Islam. Mankind’s population reached a billion in the 19th century but how many were born and killed in the twelve centuries before then? How many were killed over 1000 years in India alone? Over 700 years in Spain?
PMK says
Sorry for the confusion. I thought I had misstated my argument. However I still think 270 million sounds low.
Wellington says
PMK: I think 270 million is the conservative figure. I would not be surprised if it were in the 300-400 million range. And this does not include all the destroyed psyches of huge numbers of people even though Islam’s existence didn’t literally kill them.
I have longed described Islam as the longest-lived and best disguised malevolent ideology in man’s history. I think I am correct in this assessment.
PMK says
The end of the BIden presidency cannot come soon enough. Only one question: will the US survive it?
VICTOR COWEN says
NO he has made sure it is already a second-class nation.
James Lincoln says
PMK,
I think it depends upon what you mean by “survive”.
If fraudulent Biden completes his fraudulent four-year term, there will still be a “surviving” country called the United States of America, but it will never be the same.
It will become much more like “woke” Western Europe.
In short, it will survive geographically but not culturally.
Kepha says
Sooner or later, regardless of rhetoric, any administration will sooner or later have to put some kind of entry ban in place during a time of emergency. But it is utterly ridiculous that the Biden administration has allowed a whole host of undocumented people in from Mexico and Central America. Who knows what strains of various diseases they might be bringing in?
Infidel says
Precisely! If their diseases are AOK, what’s wrong w/ the Omicron variant coming from southern Africa?
Also, Trump’s ban included white people, but Biden’s ban solely targets Africans
gravenimage says
WHO seems to agree:
“WHO criticizes travel bans on southern African countries”
“Travel restrictions may play a role in slightly reducing the spread of COVID-19 but place a heavy burden on lives and livelihoods…”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/travel-bans-omicron-world-health-organization-response/
I guess “political correctness” trumps science in this case…
Infidel says
The Left has long ceased to be about science in the first place. While mocking organized religion for being ‘unscientific’ (not including islam here), they’re the specimens who insist that
‣ There are 63 genders
‣ People can voluntarily change genders on the fly just like they change clothes
‣ There should be a one-size-fits-all for the entire population on the need to be vaccinated, as opposed to an individual check-up by a respiratory specialist or a pathologist on a case by case basis
‣ FDA, CDC and other government bureaucracies should have pharmacies intercept doctor prescribed medicines like Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectine if prescribed for the chinavirus
‣ Off-the-shelf masks help reduce the spread of the chinavirus
‣ Natural immunity from having gotten the virus earlier should not be factored in while calculating herd immunity
‣ Vaccinated people need to be protected from the un-vaccinated
‣ Kids should be masked and/or vaccinated
‣ Vaccine booster shots should be encouraged even if it’s demonstrated that this virus is now endemic i.e. will recur every year
I don’t want to hear the argument that the Left is the party of science, EVER again!
James Lincoln says
Kepha says,
“Who knows what strains of various diseases they might be bringing in?”
100% true, but also violent criminals, illegal drugs, an occasional jihadist, etc.
gravenimage says
Biden Imposes Travel Bans He Called Trump Racist for Imposing
………………
No one should be surprised by this. Biden and other lefitsts are not even consistent…
Walter Sieruk says
It isn’t actually a true statement to say that “There are some things terribly wrong with Joe Biden.”
The reason why this is so is because there are so many terribly wrong things with and about Biden that the word “some” would put a limit on the number of awful things that are wrong with and about subversive, traitorous , treacherous perverted creepy old Joe.
Rufolino says
He certainly is creepy, and cunning no doubt.
Feel deeply sorry for Americans that they have got themselves lumbered with a leader like this, a sinister and incompetent shadow. America deserves better !
He will go down in history.
Walter Sieruk says
In the history of the United States there are a line of 45 US Presidents. Now for time in the history of America this nation has no real,US President . This is because with cheating vote stealing Joe Biden this country actually has no genuine American President. Instead , we the American people, only have a criminally installed figurehead.
In addition it may be truly said the if Biden is a President than he’s a puppet or stooge “President.”
Michael Copeland says
Biden is the Resident.
James Lincoln says
Walter,
You are correct, Biden resides in the Oval Office due to a fraudulent election.
All of the destruction to the United States since January 20, 2021 should never have happened.
Walter Sieruk says
To, James Lincoln, yes indeed Joe Biden should never had been allowed to enter the Office of the Presidency n the first place,.
The inauguration of Biden on January 20, 2021 may even ,righly ,be viewed as an oman as the coming future ruin of America.
OLD GUY says
Biden is a self centered numb nut, banning travel from Africa while promoting open borders for anyone who can get to the southern border. No Vetting or health check required just walk right in go Brandon.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is so very corrupt and despicable that to give only one example out of many is the Biden has a history of accepting bribes, from China as well as from other sources.
For it has been written “The wicked accept bribes in secretto pervert the course of justice.”
The Bible, Proverbs 17:23. [N.I.V.]