Sleepy Joe Draws Us Closer to an Orwellian World Ruled By Woke Scorecards

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·         While the good Deplorable folks in Palestine, Ohio choke on toxic chemicals, Biden drops a massive cost-burdensome regulatory beast on an economy already choking on stagflation.  Danger: Slow growth and falling wages ahead!

·         Besides its burdensome scale, the Executive Order is an open recipe for steering Federal dollars to blue state communities for political purposes. 

·         Biden’s EO  further advances the woke and dreaded social credit score concept pioneered by the Chinese Communist Party to exert both social and political control over private citizens and

·         You can easily imagine Biden’s government scorecard being extended to the business community and used in similarly ways as a cudgel to control corporate behavior in the same way that the ESG scorecard – environmental, social, and governance – is already being used to turn America’s corporations into lapdogs of the left.

·         Even as the Democrats expand the Leviathan state, the Democrat’s deadly assault on the second amendment continues.  This madness must end peacefully in 2024 with the election of Donald John Trump and a return to Republican control of Congress. 

Hi.  Peter Navarro here and in this episode, we’re going to take a look at the most recent presidential executive order signed into law by Hunter Biden’s daddy.  Dubbed “Revitalize Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All,” Joe Biden’s new EO is a whopping dollop of massive regulation deceptively packaged as, yes,     “environmental justice.”

When I was in the White House, I was involved in the drafting and/or implementing of over thirty executive orders so I’m no stranger to the ins and outs of these powerful presidential policy making tools – or in the case of Joe Biden, woke, misguided weaponized missiles.

The first thing that struck me about Biden’s new executive order besides its unusual length is its inherent irony; as the Biden regime continues to ignore the plight and pleas of the good Deplorable folks in Palestine, Ohio choking on toxic chemicals after a massive train derailment, Biden saw fit to drop this cost-burdensome beast on an economy already choking on various other Biden misfires.

Here, I will be the first to admit that black and brown folks in America, along with Indian tribes and the rural white poor, are much more likely to bear the burden of the pollution of American businesses and multinational corporations than suburban, white-collar neighborhoods.  To put this quaintly, there are a heck of a lot more toxic waste dumps in low-income neighborhoods than, say, Palm Beach and the Hamptons.

But my first beef with this order as with most of what the Biden storm troopers do is that the proposed “solutions” in the order, which erects a massive new Rube Goldberg bureaucratic edifice, won’t really address the underlying problem even as Biden tries to use a sledgehammer to drive a nail into the wrong target. 

Of utmost concern with this over-regulation approach in the short run should be the economic ramifications of a massive addition to the regulatory state even as we enter what is likely to be a period of lengthy stagflation – recession plus inflation.

When I was in the Trump administration, the Boss knew how to grow an economy, namely, through the four engines of GDP growth.  These included a lower tax burden for small businesses and the middle class, strategic energy dominance, fair trade and a strong American manufacturing base, and, most pertinent to this discussion, a lower regulatory burden.

In fact, President Trump was able to engineer the greatest reduction in America’s regulatory burden since the days of Ronald Reagan and not coincidentally, the nation experienced unprecedented growth and prosperity – at least until the Chinese Communists attacked America with a bioweapon.  But that’s another story. 

At any rate, during the Boss’ tenure, President Trump rolled back hundreds of unnecessary regulations – with a big assist from Russ Vought at OMB -- and thereby helped pave the way, no pun intended, for an era of faster growth and higher wages than achieved previously under Obama-Biden.  In contrast, with this executive order, Biden quite proudly boasts the advancement of an “ambitious regulatory agenda.”

Besides its sheer scale – it implicates every agency of government along with an existing unit within the White House AND a new entity to be created -- a second problem with the order is its command and control, income redistribution targets.  For example, as Biden boasts, “40 percent of the overall benefits of certain federal investments [will] flow to disadvantaged communities.  While in the abstract, this may sound benign, it’s an open recipe for steering Federal dollars to blue state communities for political purposes.  How do you spell pork barrel politics?

Unquestionably, the scariest part of the Executive Order is its further advancement of the woke and dreaded social credit score concept that has been pioneered quite ruthlessly  by the Chinese Communist Party to exert both social and political control over private citizens and businesses. 

The CCP is now using this scorecard concept to ensure private citizens do not criticize the state government and businesses toe the CCP line.  In Communist China, if people criticize the CCP, their social credit scores go down, and as scores fall, so, too, does the job prospects of China’s laobaixing, the working class deplorables of China that tirelessly toil in the biggest sweat shops of Asia.

At its core, the CCP-Biden scorecard concept is nothing but Orwell in digital space, and, along with vaccine passports, social, environmental, and other types of government scorecards augur a very disturbing wave of a socialist, Marxist future that the Democrat’s are already embracing.

With this particular Executive Order, the Biden regime will establish an “Environmental Justice Scorecard designed to assess “federal agencies’ efforts to advance environmental justice.”  The tell in this con game is Biden’s reference to the scorecard being part of a “Phase One” in the overall effort. 

Here, you can easily imagine this scorecard being extended to the business community and used in similarly ways as a cudgel to control corporate behavior in the same way that the ESG scorecard – environmental, social, and governance – is already being used to turn America’s corporations into lapdogs of the left.

My final thought here is that even as the Democrats continue their many and varied methods to expand the Leviathan state in woke ways designed to silence, jail, punish, and otherwise deter dissent and free expression – remember, yours truly has already been put in leg irons by these woke bastards  – the Democrat’s deadly assault on the second amendment continues. 

At the end of the day, we remain a country in which the political center is a conservative one devoted to God, Country and Family.  Yet, politically, with the Radical Democrats in charge, we look more like a 50-50 proposition hurdling towards civil war.  This madness must end peacefully in 2024 with the election of Donald John Trump and a return to Republican control of Congress.  As Al Davis used to say: “Just Win Baby.”

Peter Navarro.  Out.