The Ultimate Biden Scandal

One of the excerpts from the story that I read was this, if the president was having an off day, meetings could be scrapped altogether. On one such occasion, in the spring of twenty twenty one, a national security official explained to another AID why a meeting needed to be rescheduled. Quote, he has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day. So we're going to address this tomorrow. The former AID recalled the official, saying, spring of twenty

twenty one. He was only sworn in in January of twenty twenty one, so within a month or two we were at the well, you know, old Grandpa, he has good days and he has bad days. We kind of need to understand fully the enormity of what we're talking about here, and to do that, we have to kind of understand sort of the theoretical structure of the executive branch of government. Theoretical but also very practical. So what is the structure of the executive branch. It's sort of

the unitary theory of the executive branch. Some people talk about it as the whole structure of the executive branch is premised around the fact that the law enforcement power, the executive power of the federal government of the United States of America is only vested in one man, one single human being. Read Article two of the Constitution. The executive power is vested in the president. That's it. He's the only one. Everyone else in the executive branch is

exercising his delegated power. Now, Congress can create the executive agencies that the president runs through his appointees. Congress through the Senate, has a vetting process for the president's appointees, but once they're there, the president runs the show. He has to run the show, obviously within the parameters of the law as set by Congress, but he runs it.

If you look at the org chart of every single executive branch, department, every the whole alphabet soup of federal agencies, the EPA, the FDA, the SBA, the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, the Partament of the Defense, Department of the Secretary of State, every single branch and division of the federal government. The org chart for all of them has at the very tippy top

ultimately the President. The FBI. This FBI official is under the authority of this FBI officials is under the authority this person is under the authority of this deputy director of the FBI, is under the authority of the Director of the FBI, who's under the authority of the Secretary excuse me, of the Attorney General, who is under the President.

This FDA flunky is under the direction of this person at the FDA, who's under the direction of the director of the FDA, who's under the director of the Secretary of Health Human Services, who is under the President. The thousands and thousands and thousands of federal employees all ultimately answer to him. They are all all ultimately supposed to enact his will within the parameters of the laws that have been set and written by Congress. But he executes

the law. The various US attorneys who prosecute federal crimes, who civilly enforce federal law, they can all be fired or replaced with a snap of the fingers by the President of the United States. So the president controls the entire executive branch. His will controls. So you're telling me that this essential lynchpin for the whole system was under the control of someone who was senile. It's got to be one of the greatest scandals in the history of

the United States of America. And we've known about it. I mean, look, I would do a see I told you so, except the whole country saw it. The whole country saw it last June, this past June during the debate. This was not a well man But we Republicans were pointing it out as early as the twenty twenty campaign. We were pointing it out after the Afghanistan withdrawal where Biden had this press conference where he seemed completely disconnected from reality, and we were told that we were lunatics,

we were radicals. We were doing deep you know, cheap fakes, you know, selectively editing stuff to make him look older than he was. And it wasn't until George Clooney, of all people, said the President's not there, that anyone was willing to admit it, And even after that, astonishingly and clearly because some kind of deal had been hatched, even when we pitched Biden out as the Democrat nominee for the twenty twenty four election, they didn't insist that Biden

resigned the office. At the time, that was why I thought it was that. That was at the time why I thought Biden wouldn't jump out of the race. I thought, well, I don't think Biden's going to jump out of the race because I don't think he's willingly going to resign

the presidency. And it would be insane, I said at the time, it would be insane for him to jump out of the race because he's not mentally fit enough to continue but stay on as president, because allegedly he's allegedly he could thread the needle of being mentally fit enough to be president but not run for president, mentally and physically fit enough to be president but not run

for president. As if being president isn't a harder task than campaigning, an infinitely harder, more serious, more difficult task than campaigning. But the Democrats somehow, Well, maybe they didn't get away with it because Kamala Harris lost that the Democrats sort of thought they could get away with and the press never castigated them for Hey, why are we letting this man continue to be president if we don't think he's mentally fit enough to run for president? Because

that raises all kinds of questions. In addition to running all as part of running all the different branches of the federal government, he's also the commander in chief of the military. If our commander in chief, the guy who makes the ultimate decisions, is senile. What happens if a foreign enemy attacks us? What's gonna happen. Who's gonna be calling the shots? Actually? Who is calling the shots for anything?

Right now? Actually? If this is a man who has good days and has bad days, who you can't schedule meetings because you're not sure, if he's waking up on the totally forgetful side of bed, how can we function? It is upending the entire constitutional order. The entire constitutional order is premised around this man directing the operations of the executive branch of government of enforcing the law. He was clearly unfit to do that. He may have been un fit to do it from day one, he was

certainly unfit to do it by year four. I think this reflects disastrously badly on several people. First, the press. Okay, so now the media is going to open up their notebooks and tell us about how senile Joe Biden was the whole time, now that there's no political repercussions for it whatsoever. They let us in on a few things in June of twenty twenty four when they were saying, Okay, we got to get Biden out of here, we gotta get Biden out so we could switch out Kamala Harris.

But now that there's absolutely no political ramifications, Biden's gone, Harris lost, Trump's in, we might as well just, you know, get a story that generates a lot of clicks. Now, all of a sudden, the media, these supporting guardians of democracy that you know, democracy dies in darkness. As the Washington Post tells us, these guardians of democracy didn't tell us that the executive branch of government was being headed by a senile person, which leads us to ask, well,

who is actually running the country. The people elected Joe Biden, who is actually running the country people whom they didn't elect. I think it reflects terribly on the media. I think it also reflects terribly on Kamala Harris and Biden's cabinet. It's not like the constitution doesn't foresee this problem. We

have the twenty fifth Amendment. Twenty fifth Amendment came about in part after the example of President Woodrow Wilson, where by the end Woodrow Wilson's wife was basically running the country. It was as a completely horrible situation where Wilson was completely incapacitated and his wife was the one issuing order. One wonders if Jill Biden wasn't doing possibly something similar for certain things. Anyway, who's issuing this pardon of Hunter Biden.

By the way, we have the provision of the twenty fifth Amendment if the vice president and a majority of the president's cabinet concludes so the president can be removed from office. Harris never did that, and presumably she didn't even do that in June of twenty twenty four, when it was inescapably obvious to the entire nation what was going on, clearly because of some kind of deal that was hatched, some kind of political deal I think, and made it clear to them I'll drop out of the race,

but I want my presidential library. I want that fully funded. I'm not gonna step down as president, and if you cross me, I will sink you in this election. I'm sure some kind of threat, some kind of something happened like that, so clearly, I mean, there's no other explanation.

There's no other explanation why I am politically ambitious person like Kamala Harris didn't do that other than the raw political calculus that I'd be politically disadvantaged if I pulled a twenty fifth amendment and removed Biden from office, even though that's clearly what she should have done, at least in June of twenty twenty four. But really she should have done it as soon as she realized the man was senile and not fit for his job, because it's

like an imminent threat to the whole constitutional order. When we return, we'll dig more into this, which I think has to be the story of the entire Biden presidency. Next on the John Growardy Show, the revelations that Joe Biden was likely senile all along, I think could put the cap on the Biden legacy history is written by liberals largely, which is why JFK gets lionized so much.

I don't know that he was that great of a president, JFK, but he's certainly, you know, he captured the imagination of a lot of the baby boomer and older historians who are writing about it, you know, Doris Kern's Good Wins of the world, who you know, will always you know, put down Camelot as this magical time, the Kennedys as this magical beloved American family, when they're seemingly the worst family,

the most dysfunctional family anyone's ever seen. So to a certain extent, will historians be a little kinder to Joe Biden than he deserves? Probably, but I don't know by how much. This Wall Street journal piece again, this huge

thirty five hundred word thing about people. Now the journalists are now opening up their notebooks now that there's no chance, now that you know, the political risk of Trump winning has already happened, they figured there's no political repercussions anymore, so they might as well just tell the truth about Joe Biden. Of course, this would have been valuable information to have had at any point over the four years

of the Biden administration. But now they're letting us know, Oh yeah, we knew he was senile the whole time. We totally knew. And I think this is going to be maybe the first line of his legacy. I mean, he had to step out of his reelection bid because of this. Consistently this was an issue. I mean, the fact is, it's kind of shameful. It's shameful that Biden didn't recognize at some point that he didn't have what

it took to keep being president. He should have realized he didn't have the stuff to try to run for president again. He was only forced out of running for president. I think his family should be completely ashamed of him of this, and I think this is going to dominate Biden's legacy as an ineffective president who was unfit for office. When we return, I want to talk about some new Catholic saints that are being canonized by Pope Francis in

a little bit about Christmas. Next on the John Girardi Show, I'm going to go a little off the beaten path today for those of us who are Catholics and a lot of other Christian traditions Lutherans and Episcopalians, etc. Are going through Advent right now, so it's kind of the season of time prior to Christmas where it's a bit more of a penitential season before the sort of joyful season of Christmas. And one of the recurring themes in Catholic prayer life during Advent is the idea of light

shining in darkness. This can be seen in the first

chapter of the Gospel of John, the Beautiful. The beautiful opening chapter of the Gospel of John, which is this incredible almost philosophical reflection upon the person of Jesus Christ and the second person of the Trinity, God assuming human nature without losing his divinity, This divine person assuming human nature, and the concept of the second person of the Trinity as the Word of God, Jesus Christ as the expression the expression of the Father in a sense, and it

also views this is viewed as light. The opening chapter of the Gospel of John here is I'm pulling it up talking about first First, it's talking about John the Baptist and says of him, he was not the light. John the Baptist was not the light, but came to bear witness to the light who is Jesus, the true light that enlightens every man, was coming into the world. And it's not a coincidence also that, you know, the liturgical celebration of Christmas happens very close to the longest

night of the year. The winter solstice is December twenty first. It's the shortest day and the longest night of the year. And so after that point and Jesus, you know, we commemorate Jesus' birthday on the twenty fifth of December. From that point onward, light grows. So from the absolute darkest point of the year, light begins to grow. And there are all kinds of beautiful traditions within the Catholic Church about in Advent, especially about being in the dark but

commemorating the light. On Saturdays in Advent, it was traditional to have Mass very early in the morning by candle light. The mass sort of commemorating the role of the blessed Virgin Mary. It was called the Roraate Mass, is the name of from one of the Latin prayers of it. And so the Mass would be held very early in the morning in the dark, only illumined by candles. The Feast of Saint Lucy Saint Lucy was an early Roman martyr,

a virgin martyr whose death. Her name Lucy comes from the Latin word light, and her feast day is on December thirteenth, which was I think before the Gregorian before the Gregorian calendar was adopted, December thirteenth was actually the longest night of the year. So her feast day was this little light of hope and the witness, particularly of the saints and of the martyrs, who gave their lives in testimony to the light, in testimony to the Word,

in testimony to the truth. Like Saint Lucy, are these little shining lights in the midst of darkness that have always inspired Christians throughout the two millennia of our history. Pope Benedict talked about this a lot that may be

one of the greatest proofs of Christianity. Not a deductive proof, but perhaps an inductive proof, comes from the example of the lives of the saints, the way that holy men and women throughout the course of the two thousand year history of Christianity led lives of such extraordinary power and virtue, from people who were very great to people who were very small. To see the incredible transformation in their life

lives that the Gospel affected. Pope Francis on the eighteenth announced the canonization of a group of women who will become who will be honored as saints within the Catholic Church,

the Martyrs of Compaigny. This was a group of women who were martyred on July seventeenth, seventeen ninety four, at the height the zenith of the insanity of the French Revolution, and Pope Francis announcing that they're going to be canonized makes me want to talk about them because the story their story is kind of amazing, profoundly inspiring, and I think very fitting to talk about an advent when we're

talking about a light shining in the darkness. So the French Revolution got kicks started by terrible economic conditions in France. France was the most populous in some ways sort of the dominant country in Europe at the time in the late eighteenth century, but France was heavily in debt, the terrible financial situation, had a couple of terrible harvests, and basically the financial situation was such that people were running short on bread, not a good thing, and the French

sort of system of how taxation would work. The sort of system of privilege where being part of the nobility meant you weren't taxed specifically, was becoming more and more onerous and more and more unsustainable within the economy. And so you had basically anyone with an old traditional title, an old traditional landholdings was not really subject to taxation, and if they became barely subject to taxation, they pitched

a fit. The so called ancient regime, the old regime, the old Guard came to be the subject of deep hatred and bitter resentment, in some cases quite legitimately on the part of the French people, or at least some

of the French people. Combined with that was also a lot of Enlightenment thinkers who were rejecting Christianity wholesale and started to view Catholicism as part and parcel of the on sen regime, the part and parcel of this older political taxation system that they thought oppressed the common people at the expense of the elites and the wealthy. Louis the sixteenth, who was actually the king who was deposed and executed by the French Revolution, was actually far not

nearly as bad as prior French kings had been. Louis the fifteenth was actually far worse and far more kind of dissolute and dissolute and sort of totally separated from

the people and morally corrupt, et cetera. Louis the sixteenth than Marie Antoinette actually had a fairly a fairly vanilla marriage, where you know, Louis the fifteenth had like an official place in court for his official court mistress, like she was designated as the official mistress, and he rotated through a couple and when lou the sixteenth married Marie Antoinette,

Marie Antoinette was actually a pretty good Catholic. She was, you know, a princess from Austria, and she basically said, nope, we're not going to have an official office for an official king's mistress. Nope, that's not happening. And most of the evidence indicates that actually she and Louis the sixteenth were pretty faithful to each other, but actually genuinely faithful

to each other. A lot of the literature about Marie Antoinette being sort of a loose living gal was sort of propaganda by people who despised her position in court for various kinds of political reasons. She was always under suspicion because she was Austrian and there's kind of a lot of geopolitical rivalries between France and Austria, which her marriage to Louis was supposed to bridge that gap, but

was not really successful at doing that anyway. The revolt over taxation, over the lack of taxation by the nobility, led to various kinds of political instability. It led to the lawyers and journalists sort of making themselves sort of the self appointed representatives of the people, developing the estates general.

And then at a certain point, the rejection of the nobility brought along with it a rejection of Catholicism, and anyone who stood in the way of this revolution who clung in any way, shape or form to the authority, the authority figures of the old regime was deemed to be an enemy of the state, and the French Revolution was The French Revolution was completely different from the American Revolution.

The American Revolution was basically, we want to retain the traditional privileges that we think normal Englishmen are supposed to have. We feel like we've been denied this as colonists. We're not changing our whole culture. We're not changing our whole religion, We're not changing our whole way of thinking. We just you're taxing us unfairly, and we don't want to be

taxed unfairly. We want to, you know, if you're not going to treat us fairly, we want to be self governing and re establish more or less the same kinds of systems that we had before the revolution. You know, colonial legislatures turned into state legislatures. That was not the

French Revolution. The French Revolution was a complete upheaval and overturning of all of the norms of society within France, a complete rejection of Catholicism, going to the cathedral of Notre Dame and putting up an eye a statue to the Goddess Liberty, changing the calendar to eliminate Sunday, basically changing the seven day week, eliminating it so that Sunday was eliminated, having the state seize control of all churchholdings.

The revolution got to such a point that anyone who supported the old way was subject to death, and the guillotine became the symbol of the revolution, where thousands and thousands of people were executed for their attachment to the old regime, including many many people for their attachment to Catholicism. This brings us to the nuns of Compagni, which was

a convent of Carmelite nuns. The Carmelite orders a community of Catholic monks, priests and nuns who they're named after Mount Carmel, which is mentioned in the Old Testament quite a bit, which is in the Holy Land, sort of taking their inspiration from the prophet Elijah, and they live lives of penance and prayer. Very often Carmelite nuns were they were a contemplative order that they weren't really doing much as far as like nursing or things like that.

Their lives were focused almost exclusively on prayer. This community of nuns from Compagny, the sixteen sisters, ranging in age from nineteen to seventy nine, were arrested by the French revolutionary authorities because they refused to give up trying to live their way of life even after their monastery. After their convent seized, they were charged with religious fanaticism. That was the charge for being fanatics and they were sentenced

to death. So on July seventeenth, seventeen ninety four, these nuns were led to the guillotine in Paris, and each one of these nuns, they were chanting together the Latin hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, Come, Holy Spirit, Come, Holy Spirit, Fill the hearts of thy faithful, and all of the nuns kept singing. There was a play that I was made into an opera by Georges Bernanos, called The Dialogues

of the Carmelites, which recounts their story. In that story, the mother superior, the sort of senior nun who's in charge, commanded that the youngest nun be the first in line so that she wouldn't lose heart, so that she would have all of her sisters with her when she died. And one by one, the singing of this chant nikreoto

horse spirits. This chant got quieter and quieter as one by one, another sister's head was chopped off, until finally the last nun was executed, refusing to bend before the authorities. Bernanos's play, The Dialogue of the Caramelites, it puts these words into the mouth of the mother. They're superior in her argument, her sort of shouting match with the French authorities. When She was trying to ensure that the youngest nun wouldn't lose heart. She said, she is first under my protection.

Do you think I shall permit you to take any further advantage of the terror of a child? I shall take great care to avoid a language that you cannot understand. You know nothing of that which holds us here and keeps us united unto death, Or if once you knew it, it is now certainly forgotten. But there are still perhaps words which are common to us and which can touch your conscience. Well, sir, you must know that to the poorest daughter of Carmel, honor speaks louder than fear. That

is light shining in the darkness. So Pope Francis declared that these amazing, heroic nuns will be honored as Catholic saints every year on the day of their death, July seventeenth. So I just wanted to share that with you this advent, these lights burning bright in the midst of darkness, giving testimony to the light that shines in the world when we return. A quick little reminder about what Christmas is

really all about. Next on The John Girardi Show, the Christmas Story from the First chapter of the Holy Gospel. According to Saint John, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without him was not anything made. That was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness,

and the darkness has not overcome it. A reading from the second Chapter of the Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke. Reading from the second Chapter of the Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke. In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment when Coirinius was governor of Syria, and all went to be enrolled, each to his own city.

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth to Judea to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered, and she gave birth to her first born son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a major because there

was no place for them in the inning. And in that region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the Angel said to them, be not afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people. For to you is born this day in the City of David, a savior, whose Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign

for you. You will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heaven post praising God and saying glory to God in the Highest and on earth peace among men with whom He is clust When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the

Lord has made known to us. And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in a mange, And when they saw it, they made known the same which had been told them concerning the child, and all who heard it wonder at what the shepherds told them. But Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart. Merry Christmas from the John direcon Shepherd, See you next time.