From the Politics Desk

You've heard the noise by now: "Blah, blah, blah, Biden doesn't care about white Americans! Bwah, bwah, bwah, why won't he visit the Ohio train catastrophe?"

Pathetic attempt at spinning the news.  Here's what the FNC and the Republicans don't want people talking about: President Biden made a bold and courageous visit to Kyiv this week, the first U.S. President to visit a war zone beyond the protection of the American military.  He emphasized American support for Ukraine to the people there, both by his words and by trusting the Ukraine forces for his safety, and then went to Poland to meet NATO leaders and shore up international support for the war effort.  It was an audacious and forward-thinking effort, and Republicans don't want people to talk about it.

So they've come up with an alternate narrative that he somehow failed the American people by not doing a photo-op in East Palestine, Ohio. He had already offered Federal assistance to Rep. Gov. Mike Dewine, who refused any help saying "I don't see any problems."  He mobilized FEMA and the EPA to the disaster.  Should aid have been quicker? Sure, it should have, but the delay wasn't because of any lack of concern or compassion on the part of the President.  

A certain ex-President, now running way too soon for a second, non-consecutive term, did make a campaign stop there, and gave out bottles of his branded water, ate at a McDonald's, handed out some cheap, red hats made in China, and told people to "have fun, everybody." This from the man who rolled back the Obama-era rail-safety regulations that could have prevented the disaster and who never once visited any of the many train derailments that occurred during his four years in office.

Republicans are stupid.  Once you accept that, it explains a lot.

Georgia Representative Marjorie Tayler-Green complained that Biden cares more about the Ukraine border with Russia than the American border with Mexico, and claimed that "6 billion people illegally crossed our border since Biden took office."  There are "only" 8 billion people living on planet Earth.  If every single person on Earth not already in the United States, that is, everyone in Cental and South America, all of Europe, all of Africa, and all of Asia except for residents of China, Indonesia, and Pakistan, crossed the border, it still wouldn't equal 6 billion people.

Green also proposed that residents of so-called blue states who move to so-called red states shouldn't be allowed to bring their blue-state, liberal values with them and shouldn't be allowed to vote for five years in their new home.  Georgia went for Biden in the 2020 election and put two Democratic candidates into the Senate. By her own logic, should Green be allowed to bring her twisted, dumbed-down "logic" into Georgia? Should she be barred from voting here?