{"id":1509544,"date":"2022-06-09T14:34:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509544"},"modified":"2022-06-09T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:35:37","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-asks-joe-biden-why-hes-not-acting-more-like-a-dictator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-kimmel-asks-joe-biden-why-hes-not-acting-more-like-a-dictator\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Asks Joe Biden Why He\u2019s Not Acting More Like A Dictator"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjimmy-kimmel-asks-joe-biden-why-hes-not-acting-more-like-a-dictator%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509544&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-09-at-1.01.52-PM-1-1024x614-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Joe Biden is incapable of giving interviews to his allies in establishment media without looking like a centenarian overdosing on Xanax. So, the administration recruited a sycophantic late-night talk show host for the job. And, as expected, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZEtPV-qvLe8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the interview<\/a> with Jimmy Kimmel, who set up tee-balls for our dotard leader, was as cringe-inducing as you\u2019d expect. Biden struggled to remember his canned talking points, promised a \u201cmini revolution\u201d if <em>Roe <\/em>was overturned (the same day someone tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/08\/democrats-wanted-to-intimidate-justices-now-its-getting-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murder<\/a> a SCOTUS justice), and rambled into the ether. Biden is an unserious person doing very serious damage.<\/p>\n<p>Dunking on Republicans and hating Trump might have been good enough to win in 2020, and it might get you frivolous applause from the automatons in Kimmel\u2019s audience, but it isn\u2019t political philosophy. That fact was evident last night as the host who once warned his audience about \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/jimmy-kimmel-taunts-trump-biting-071213925.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fascists<\/a>\u201d asked the president why he isn\u2019t unilaterally dismantling a constitutional right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t you issue an executive order? Trump passed those out like Halloween candy,\u201d Kimmel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayCaruso\/status\/1534832628884439040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1534832628884439040%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizpacreview.com%2F2022%2F06%2F09%2Fshapiro-theres-something-wrong-with-a-white-house-that-puts-biden-on-kimmel-and-mcconaughey-in-the-press-room-1247986%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a> Biden, when referencing gun control. \u201cI don\u2019t want to emulate Trump\u2019s abuse of the Constitution and constitutional authority,\u201d responded the president \u2026 <em>the same week<\/em> he <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/07\/bidens-latest-abuse-of-power-will-make-energy-more-expensive\/\">unconstitutionally<\/a> invoked the Defense Production Act, a cronyist gift to favored solar panels that is ostensibly meant to bring down the price of gas and oil.<\/p>\n<p>This president signed <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/2003207\/bidens-first-100-days-had-more-executive-orders-than-trump-obama-or-bush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more<\/a> executive orders in the first 100 days (this isn\u2019t even counting the numerous other ways he\u2019s governed through edicts) than any president in the 21st century, and it isn\u2019t particularly close. Biden signed 32 executive orders in the first month \u2014 many of the limiting oil and gas production and undoing border security measures. Biden averages 67 executive orders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/statistics\/data\/executive-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a year<\/a>, 12 more than Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it isn\u2019t necessarily the number of executive orders a president issues that matters \u2014 Calvin Coolidge signed 1,203 without abusing his power \u2014 it\u2019s the intent.\u00a0Postwar presidents rarely made domestic policy via executive order. Barack Obama, unable to build consensus on virtually any policy proposal, put the practice of governing by fiat into hyperdrive. And Biden\u2019s use of executive power to make domestic policy was so unprecedented in the early going that even The New York Times editorial board felt compelled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/27\/opinion\/biden-executive-orders.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to scold him<\/a>. This \u201cis no way to make law,\u201d the Times noted. \u201cA polarized, narrowly divided Congress may offer Mr. Biden little choice but to employ executive actions or see his entire agenda held hostage. These directives, however, are a flawed substitute for legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One imagines the Times editors also understood that Biden, as Obama before him, would not only have his entire agenda nuked by a Republican successor, but that it would also give that successor an excuse to rule in the same authoritarian manner.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, though, doesn\u2019t seem to care. He is expected to use his executive power to \u201cforgive\u201d student debt by saddling taxpayers with the bill. With <em>Dobbs<\/em> potentially overturning the fictitious right to an abortion, Biden also told Kimmel that he\u2019s looking into signing executive orders on abortion rights, an issue over which the president has zero authority. As is the case with any orders he would sign undermining Second Amendment, which would almost surely be overturned.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same president who <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/08\/bidens-unprecedented-attack-on-the-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bragged<\/a> about <\/em>circumventing the Constitution, issuing slightly modified versions of an illegal \u201ceviction moratorium\u201d (which had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/trumps-eviction-moratorium-is-state-sanctioned-theft\/\">begun<\/a> under Trump) so he could offer \u201crental assistance\u201d before the court shut it down again. Obama was the first modern president to openly argue that he had power to ignore the legislative branch because they didn\u2019t adhere to his political demands. Biden might be the first modern president to openly argue that he could defy the courts for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I realize CNN and other networks have retired their Trump-era \u201clie trackers,\u201d but there is simply no way Biden, when coherent, is any less mendacious than Donald Trump. There were, maybe, two or three incidental remarks in the Kimmel interview that the president let pass that were in the vicinity of reality. We\u2019ve all grown up accepting that politicians will lie to us, but the ease and frequency \u2014 and audacity \u2014 in which they do so these days borders on sociopathic.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden is incapable of giving interviews to his allies in establishment media without looking like a centenarian overdosing on Xanax. 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