One Nice Guy Not so Nice

Mundiyath Venugopalan, Johanna Venugopalan, Murali Venugopalan

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A family of three authors examines the first two years of the Biden presidency in their book "One Nice Guy Not so Nice."
This book surveys President Biden's first two years in the White House. It examines first why he hasn't been able to keep his promise to stop the pandemic and to follow always his mantra "Follow the Science." Then there is discussion of the importance of critical thinking and examines how race was incorporated into it to generate the critical race theory the teaching of which in schools and colleges has come under sharp attack from parents whom his administration has termed domestic terrorists. His contention that white supremacy is the greatest danger to the country follows, with the added topics of the increase in crime since summer of 2020, associated looting, shooting and shop lifting and Democrats demand for better gun control and defunding of police. Open border and immigration is treated in the context of building back better border-less with the huge crowds there. After that we review the domestic policy, foreign policy, and climate policy, all of which has resulted in bankrolling trillions of dollars in the inflation nation with nothing to show the taxpayer who is suffering from increasing food and fuel prices daily. Three following chapters discuss the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, assisting Ukraine as hired hands with weapons and money to defend the Russian invasion, and China's actions to take control of Taiwan, respectively. The last chapter is about midterm elections in which control of the House of Representatives was taken over by Republicans and the prospects for completing two terms as president.

Sujets

• Political Science
• Economy
• Governance
• Politics
• Government
• Joe Biden

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 26 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798823007832
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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One Nice Guy Not So Nice


Joe Biden’s Ineptitude




Murali Venugopalan
Johanna Venugopalan
Mundiyath Venugopalan







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Published by AuthorHouse 05/26/2023

ISBN: 979-8-8230-0784-9 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-8230-0782-5 (hc)
ISBN: 979-8-8230-0783-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023908424




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Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface

Chapter 1 The Biden Presidency
Chapter 2 Biden Can’t ‘Shut It Down’
Chapter 3 Biden’s Mantra: “Follow the Science or Not”
Chapter 4 Critical What? Race, Crime, Guns, etc.
Chapter 5 White Supremacy and Domestic Terrorism
Chapter 6 Building Back Better Borderless
Chapter 7 Domestic Policy: Gateway to Bidenflation?
Chapter 8 Foreign Policy: America Back Last
Chapter 9 Climate Change
Chapter 10 Taliban back in Afghanistan
Chapter 11 Ukraine, Russia, and America’s New War
Chapter 12 Two Chinas and the Indo-Pacific
Chapter 13 An Ending of Sorts

Bibliography
About the Authors



Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., elected repeatedly as Senator, Vice President and now President for the story of this book that begins with his presidency of the United States on January 20, 2021, and finishes with the commencement of 118 th Congress in January 2023. It was interesting to us since he used the mantra, “follow the science,” during the campaign and presidency. According to Nobel physicist Albert Einstein and science philosopher Karl Popper, science proceeds through a series of mistakes. With our experience in scientific work, we feel the same way. When Biden’s government claims to be ‘following the science’ in response to a problem, like the recent pandemic, we ask ourselves, “Was their changing advice on the same problem a series of mistakes?”
We started making notes as campaign and presidential events unfolded beginning in April 2019. Numerous internet media sources published news of the events the same day, and we collated them for our story. We thank the following media outlets: Google, Wikipedia.org , Web. MD, ABC, BBC, CBS, csmonitor, CNN, The Economist, Fox News, NBC, PBS, Politico, Reuters, Stat, and VOA . News. We acknowledge their courtesy at source in the book, and apologize if some sources were omitted by mistake. We recognize that media reports are diverse, partisan, opinionated, and may contain misinformation and even disinformation.
A traditional folk tale from India about six blind persons and an elephant tells how different people can have dissimilar perceptions on the same object ( https://williepietersen.com/the-lessons-of-the-blind-men-and-the-elephant-2/ ). For example, a person touching an elephant may interpret the tusk as a spear; the trunk as a snake; the ear as a fan; the foot as a tree trunk; the side as a wall; and the tail as a rope. These observations are correct because different parts of the elephant were touched, and the elephant consists of all those characteristics.
Similarly, there might be some truth in what politicians and pundits proclaim. We may not agree with their viewpoints for reasons explained. For example, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently declared, “the border is not open” in a press briefing because she saw the very tall Trump Wall on TV; however, Republicans viewed the long lines of asylum seekers on the same network and deemed her statement as a “bold-faced lie” ( https://www. foxnews.com/media/karine-jean-pierre-faces-backlash-claiming- border-open-bold-faced-lie).
We included the elephant folk tale to encourage readers and the media to consider assessment awareness -awareness that each of us creates a unique view of the world based on personal experience, language, and culture, to understand why it took more than two years for the New York Times and the Washington Post to print what the New York Post had reported on the authenticity of the “Laptop from Hell.” Also former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and former Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who revealed to podcaster Joe Rogan in August 2022 that the FBI approached Facebook to warn about “Russian propaganda”) both censored the Post report from their social media platforms, for it interfered in the presidential election of 2020 and thereby altered the course of America’s history. New Twitter CEO Elon Musk dropped a bombshell of information on December 2, 2022, admitting that Twitter had suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop scandal on its platform ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
We thank the staff at AuthorHouse for its attention to detail and its professionalism. They answered all our inquiries thoroughly and offered useful suggestions. Their evaluators and designers ensured this book was valuable and appealing to a broad range of readers. We are grateful to the AuthorHouse staff for the successful publication and marketing of the book.
Murali Venugopalan
May 1, 2023
Johanna Venugopalan
Nacogdoches, TX
Mundiyath Venugopalan













Joe and the Chinese moon (Photomontage by Mundiyath)













President Biden calling MAGA a threat to democracy in front of Independence Hall
(Public domain, photo courtesy of voanews.com)



Preface
One nice guy was born on November 20, 1942. He was named Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., and his friends and family called him Joe. He was first raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania , and later in New Castle County, Delaware . He attended the Archmere Academy in Claymont and graduated in 1961. While at the Academy, he experienced an “epiphany” of two well-dressed men in suits kissing each other and his father saying “Joey, it’s simple. They love each other.” He also faced a “bad dude” by the name of CornPop at a swimming pool where he was working as a security guard. Then he enrolled at the University of Delaware and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 with a double major in history and political science , and a minor in English . A year later, he married Neilia Hunter , a student at Syracuse University . They had three children: Beau, Hunter, and Naomi. In 1968, Biden earned a Juris Doctor from the Syracuse University College of Law and was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1969. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970, and became the sixth-youngest senator ever when elected to the US Senate from Delaware in 1972 at age 29. A few weeks after this, a very sad event took place: wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident. In June 1977, he married his second wife Jill Tracy Jacobs. They have one daughter, Ashley, who is a social worker. Beau became Delaware Attorney General and died of brain cancer at the young age of 46. His brother Hunter remained close to his Dad.
As senator and vice president
Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and eventually became its chairman. He also chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, dealing with drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties issues; led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act ; and oversaw six US Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas that introduced the new word “borked” in the English Dictionary. The 1994 Biden Crime Bill is the largest crime bill signed into law by President Clinton in the history of the US, and provided for 100,000 new police officers, $9.7 billion in funding for prisons, and $6.1 billion in funding for prevention programs, which were designed with significant input from experienced police officers and berated by the progressives. [As President, Biden now has to answer this to his progressives who want to abolish prisons and defund police. Not so nice!]
Biden was reelected to the Senate six times and was the fourth-most senior senator when he became the 47 th vice president after Obama won the 2008 presidential election . During those 36 years he rode Amtrak from Delaware to Washington DC and back daily, earning the nickname Amtrak Joe. As vice president, Biden leaned on his senatorial experience and frequently represented the administration in negotiations with congressional Republicans , including the Budget Control Act of 2011 , which resolve