It was prudent of Old Joe Biden, or whoever tells him what to do, to get the old fellow as far out of town as possible after he pardoned his son and bag man Hunter. Old Joe is a dab hand at ignoring uncomfortable questions, but getting far, far out of range for them even to be asked was a canny move, and shields the senescent corruptocrat from unwelcome pressure in the final weeks of his Potemkin presidency. So how about a taxpayer-funded junket to sunny Angola? That appears to be just what the puppet-master ordered.
Old Joe on Tuesday became the first U.S. president to visit the nation that was a Cold War flashpoint in the 1970s, and his visit was filled with the usual features of a Biden public appearance anywhere around the globe. Biden concluded his remarks at the presidential palace in Luanda by saying, bizarrely, “Welcome to America.” He referred to Angola as a “city,” and said that Donald Trump had previously been president for eight years.
All that, however, is unlikely to raise any eyebrows at this point. The cat is way out of the bag on Biden’s dementia. The sinister old kleptocrat is on his way out anyway, and if some major crisis is ginned up or breaks out on its own between now and Jan. 20, Kamala Harris can always step in for a brief DEI presidency. No, one of the real stories out of Angola was that Old Joe took the opportunity, after the pattern of his old and possibly current boss Barack Obama, to bash both the United States and Christians.
Biden expatiated at length about “slavery in the United States,” speaking about this near-universal human phenomenon as if the U.S. were uniquely responsible for it. “Cruel,” he said. “Brutal. Dehumanizing. Our nation’s original sin — original sin — one that haunted America and casts a long shadow ever since.” He made sure to mention “the still unfinished reckoning with racial injustice in my country today,” without, of course, making any reference to his party’s craven efforts to stir up racial resentments in order to be able to present themselves as the remedy to that racial injustice.
The ostentatious Catholic also referred to slaves taken from Angola to the U.S. as being “baptized into a foreign faith against their will.” Now, there is no doubt that this was true in many cases, just as it was true that slavery was cruel, brutal and dehumanizing. What is less clear is why Biden or his handlers thought it necessary to go out of their way to point it out during this Angola trip.
The gambit here was apparently to contrast the bad old days with the marvelous present, in which instead of bringing Africans to America to work, an American went to Africa bringing unearned largesse. Biden declared: “The United States continues to be the world’s largest provider of humanitarian aid and development assistance. And that’s going to increase. You know, that’s the right thing for the wealthiest nation in the world to do.” He then added happily: “And today, I’m announcing over $1 billion in new humanitarian support for Africans displaced from homes by historic droughts and food insecurity.”
That was great, and riding the wave of the gratitude of his hosts, Old Joe said: “We’re looking for partners who understand that the right question in the year 2024 is not ‘What can the United States do for the people of Africa?’ It’s ‘What can we do together for the people of Africa?’”
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All that was swell, and sure, it’s great to shower the people of Africa with money, but Old Joe has a good many people right here in the United States who are still suffering from the effects of the flooding that Hurricane Helene caused in September. Imagine if Biden had taken that billion that he just gave to Angola and distributed it to the people of North Carolina and others areas that were devastated. The Biden-Harris regime gave those victims $750, but they have a billion to give to Angola?
Donald Trump’s America-First appeal is very simple: the president of the United States, he contends, should be primarily concerned with the people of his own nation, just as every other head of government should be primarily concerned with the well-being of his or her own people. Biden, in the final days of his disgraceful figurehead presidency, is just adding insult to injury by distributing American tax dollars in other nations while his own countrymen are suffering. Jan. 20, as many have observed, can’t come fast enough.
