Paul Entrikin

Paul Entrikin

I know the reference will go right over the heads of many folk who are too young to have experienced the days of three-channel, black-and-white TV, but that phrase was part of Superman’s tagline. The rest of it goes, “Faster than a speeding bullet!” and “Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!”. I’ll get to those attributes in a minute, but for now, back to that speeding locomotive and Superman.

Yes, as the Commander in Chief and the chief executive officer of the USA, President Joe Biden is truly a superman in his own right and more powerful than a speeding locomotive. If only his mind were on any sort of a reality track.

Biden recently shared a message about the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Well and good. But as we have come to expect, there was a train wreck. Not a train wreck on the bridge; it has never had train tracks. The train wreck was once again in Biden’s mind as exclaimed that the Key bridge is one, “...which I've been over many times commuting from the state of Delaware either by train or by car.”

If only there were ever train tracks on the Key Bridge. Call me skeptical, but even bringing up his personal bridge crossings felt like an effort to steal valor from those who actually died in the tragedy. Just more of the Democratic Party’s mantra of, “Never let a tragedy go to waste.”

And of course, after his Key Bridge remarks Biden then turned his back on the press and slowly (so as not to trip) shuffled off declining to answer any questions about our deteriorating relationship with Israel. What a superman we have for a president.

Moving on to, “Faster than a speeding bullet”. Here we have the Commander in Chief who oversaw our humiliating rout from Afghanistan lecturing Israel on how to deal with a terrorist organization that’s publicly committed to the destruction of their country, kidnaps civilian hostages, and revels in the rape and slaughter of Jews.

A commander-in-chief who consistently loses and who can’t even tell you what an assault weapon is should just hold his ice cream and let a violated, attacked country like Israel put an end to their beastly enemies as professionally and as humanly as possible.

The rout as we retreated from Afghanistan is not the only example of Biden’s military failures. In spite of billions of dollars for speeding bullets for our proxy war in Ukraine our Biden superman will inevitability oversee another defeat there. Ukraine may not run out of our billions for speeding bullets, but they will run out of soldiers. At least this time Biden has the excuse of losing to a first-world military force.

And about leaping over all those tall buildings… The only building Superman Biden is even trying to leap over is the 58-story Trump Tower, 721-725 Fifth Avenue Manhattan. Biden tries so hard, but it’s difficult to jump over Trump’s towering lead on the issues of the border, the economy, crime, and wokeness while you are carrying boxes and boxes of your own illegally held classified documents. Light as they are, even the Biden family’s money-laundering shell companies and all those receipts are just more dead weight holding Biden back.

Make no mistake about it, Superman Biden is no mild-mannered Clark Kent. His true identity is being revealed day by day as his impeachment investigation peels off the layers of camouflage that’s been hiding the “Big Guy.” Bank records don’t lie, but Hunter Biden seems to do so when he chooses to show up and testify.

The days of black and white TV are long gone along with the dominance of just three networks for news and information. However, the choice between allowing America to become weaker and Making America Great Again is absolutely black and white. Try as I might I can’t think of anything that was not better under President Trump than it is today.

More powerful than a speeding locomotive or not, at least President Trump was on the right track and not careening off the rails with a low head of steam as President Biden.

Paul Entrikin is a resident of Pocatello. He grew up in Baton Rouge and has two degrees from Louisiana State University. Following a tour in Vietnam as an Army officer, he began his career in information technology. The last 35 years of his career were with ExxonMobil at a variety of foreign and domestic locations.

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tuckett

I can see swamp gas causes brain damage

red in blue

I wonder if the 91 times indicted, twice impeached adjudicated rapist tax evading adulterous con man has considered the untapped resource of selling gold painted autographed Book of Mormon to the rabid cultists like "Mr. Paul"?

tuckett

This rightwing magarat brags about his mail boy days in nam, his heart problems. The worst is he is substitute teaching area kids, standing up and saying the Pledge Of Alliegiance while bashing our President, calling him addled, and controlled by his handlers, DUMP HIM send him back to the stinking bayou from where he crawled out of

wildbill789

The most powerful thing in the universe is not Superman or any other superhero. Both powerful, destructive and encouraged by many, gossip and the spreading of lies are the bane of civilization. The scourge of the human race are people, such as this columnist, believe in their self-righteous blathering.