Biden Accuses Himself of Dictatorship

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[Click Here To Learn More]( Annapolis, Maryland January 29, 2021 [Brian Maher] Dear Reader, We have it on reliable authority — his own — that President Joe Biden is a menace to American democracy... By his own admission... he has exercised dictatorial powers contrary to the prerogatives of his office. Candidate Joe Biden, October 2020: I have this strange notion. We are a democracy. Some of my Republican friends, and some of my Democratic friends occasionally say‘ well if you can’t get the votes, by executive order you’re going to do something.’ You can’t do it by executive order, unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy, we need consensus. Just so. What actions did President Biden undertake, January 20, 2021, his first day in office? He authored 19 executive orders. By day seven… he authored 37. How many executive orders did Dictator Trump author in his initial week? Four. How many did Mr. Obama author in his first week? Five. Bill Clinton authored one… while fascist George W. Bush authored none. Yet this Thomas Jefferson issued 37 — nearly four times the executive edicts the prior four presidents issued… combined. A Blow for Liberty? What precisely did the chief executive order? Did he issue a dictate reauthorizing gold and silver as legal tender — as Article I, Section I, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution specifies? Did he issue a dictate to shutter the Department of Education or some other bureaucratic atrocity? Did he issue a dictate to balance the budget? To dismantle the Federal Reserve? That is, did he strike a blow for the American people? He did none of it — we have looked through his orders. Perhaps then he ordered a federal holiday in honor of Donald J. Trump? Again, the answer is no. He did not. “I Decree” What then did the president mandate? Here is a partial list: Require masks, physical distancing and other health measures while on federal property… Direct the acting education secretary to pause federal student loan payments and collections and keep the interest rate at 0%... Expand protections for federal workers, including putting federal agencies on a path to require a $15 minimum wage for contractors… Increase the amount of federal spending that goes to American companies and orders an increase in domestic content… Sets climate change as a key consideration for U.S. national security and foreign policy, establish a National Climate Task Force, pause new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters "to the extent consistent with applicable law," sets the goal of achieving a carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035… Recommended Link [America’s Death Spiral Begins April 14th?]( [Read more here...]( If you’re like most folks, you’re probably wondering how we got here... America’s institutions are rotten to the core. Common sense and human decency are relics of the past. And Americans at each other’s throats. Well, it wasn’t by accident. The prophetic analyst who predicted the subprime mortgage meltdown… the financial crisis of 2008… and Brexit… Says a grand experiment has been conducted on the American people without our consent. And the horrifying endgame is set to arrive on [April 14th, 2021]( Will you be ready? [Click Here For Full Details]( Require that all residents of a state be counted in the census, regardless of immigration status… Halt construction and funding of the border wall… Revokes the Pentagon's ban on transgender people serving in the military… Directs Health and Human Services secretary to mitigate "racially discriminatory language in describing the COVID-19 pandemic," among other measures. We do not here judge the substance of the president’s directives. Perhaps he is doing the devil’s work. Or the angels’ work. But is he doing Mr. Madison’s work? Does the United States Constitution grant the president power to issue these edicts? Article II of the Constitution We lift our pocket Constitution from our breast pocket, where it is permanently stationed — near our heart. Thus we are informed Article II limits presidential powers to: Signing or vetoing legislation. Bossing the military and naval forces. Requesting the written opinion of his Cabinet. Convening or adjourning Congress. Granting reprieves and pardons. Receiving ambassadors. Where does the Constitution authorize the president to mandate wages of federal contractors… suspend oil production on federal lands or offshore waters… to halt construction and funding of a border wall? Is this not the work of the legislature? We concede it — we are incapable of the abstruse and nuanced insights of the legal scholar. The “penumbras and emanations” glowing from the constitutional text are visible to him. They are invisible to us. That is, we are incapable of distinguishing Article I from Article II. We are incapable of distinguishing “shall” from “shall not.” Thus we are disqualified from service upon the Supreme Court of the United States. Yet, we expect fully the president to issue an executive order impeaching himself for usurping the rightful powers of Congress. For in the president’s words, “We are a democracy. We require consensus.” He indicts himself of dictatorship. You say impeachment is the prerogative of Congress — not the executive. Well, is setting wages the prerogative of the executive? Article, section and clause, please. A Bipartisan Enterprise Please understand, we do not mean to isolate President Biden for razzing. Republican and Democratic presidents alike have issued executive orders through United States history. Old Abe Lincoln issued the first official executive order in 1862. Presidents before him mandated hundreds of similar (unnumbered) orders — Washington among them. Some presidents issued them in such staggering numbers… cries of caesarship came thundering from below. Roosevelt I — Theodore, that is, a Republican — put out no fewer than 1.081. Cousin Franklin Delano dictated 3,728. Of course, Franklin’s arose in response to a national emergency, the Great Depression. President Biden likewise invokes emergency — climate emergency: "We have already waited too long," Mr. Biden moaned this week. "And we can't wait any longer." Act “we” have. And act we will. There is always an emergency in crying need of remedy. Recommended Link [Where America Goes From Here (It’s a Nightmare)]( [Read more here...]( Our country is falling apart. And it’s about to get much worse. The siege of the Capitol… the riots and protests… the political division… that’s all nothing compared to what’s coming next—as soon as hours from now. The most important thing you must do, right away, is this… Protect your wealth while you still can. [Click Here To Learn How]( Congress Cedes Its Powers But we do not claim Mr. Biden is usurping Congressional powers. Congress has handed them away. Our legal men inform us Congress has delegated 136 statutory powers to the executive branch. Of these, only 13 require additional Congressional say-so. 123 do not. Why should the latest president refuse the offer? Elections — after all — yield consequences. We might hold Congress responsible and the courts that blessed it. Yet we hold no one responsible — and everyone responsible. It was nearly inevitable… Republic to Empire The young, vital commercial republic went “not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” By the late 19th century, it took up the hunt. It has remained on the hunt to this day. At home the federal leviathan has come to regulate every last detail of life. No sparrow falls without its knowledge. Nor does any tree. As befitting an empire, power has concentrated increasingly in the executive authority. The ancients warned of it; the Founders warned of it. The constitutional Republic’s skeletal structure is intact. It has its three branches of government. It has its separation of powers. It has its decorums and its procedures. Yet look closer. Peer within. The words are the same... but the definitions are not. It is as if Webster has altered their meaning. But the process is so gradual few notice it, as the frog in its pot of gradually warming water fails to notice the heat. “The Executive Has All the Power He Needs to Do Practically Anything” Our co-founders Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin, from “Empire of Debt”: Institutions have a way of evolving over time — after a few years, they no longer resemble the originals. Early in the twenty-first century, the United States is no more like the America of 1776 than the Vatican under the Borgia popes was like Christianity at the time of the Last Supper, or Microsoft in [2021] is like the company Bill Gates started in his garage. Still, while the institutions evolve, the ideas and theories about them tend to remain fixed; it is as if people hadn’t noticed. In America, all the restraints, inhibitions, and modesty of the Old Republic have been blown away by the prevailing winds of the new empire. In their place has emerged a vainglorious system of conceit, deceit, debt, and delusion. The United States Constitution is almost exactly the same document with exactly the same words it had when it was written, but the words that used to bind and chaff have been turned into soft elastic. The government that couldn’t tax, couldn’t spend, and couldn’t regulate, can now do anything it wants. The executive has all the power he needs to do practically anything. Congress goes along, like a simple minded stooge, insisting only that the spoils be spread around. The whole process works so well that a member of Congress has to be found in bed “with a live boy or a dead girl” before he risks losing public office. The “parchment barrier” of the Constitution could never restrain men determined not to be restrained. As 19th century individualist Lysander Spooner lamented: Whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain — that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it... Sign away, Mr. President… Regards, [Brian Maher] Brian Maher Managing Editor, The Daily Reckoning Editor’s note: Joe Biden is already fulfilling some of his promises he said he’d start on "Day One" of his presidency… [Click here for more...]( He promised to undo many of Trump's tax cuts... boost workers' rights to unionize... ban natural gas leasing on federal lands... pass new anti-discrimination protections... rescind Trump's travel bans... and much, much more. 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