Did you know that putting trash bags in trash bins instead of leaving them on the street is more sanitary, more civilized, and keeps rats out?

Did it cost you $4 million to reach that conclusion? Because if it did, you may be New York City.

Two years ago, New York City shelled out nearly $4 million to a consulting firm to figure out a system where residents could put their waste in containers for the city to pick up. Now, New York City has finally moved into the modern age, with Mayor Eric Adams wheeling out a garbage bin at a press conference with a level of enthusiasm that would have you believe the city discovered fire or the fountain of youth.

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And all it took to figure out that piling garbage bags on the sidewalk was a bad idea was $4 million in taxpayer dollars and 21 months of an outside consulting firm throwing ideas at the wall before coming up with the same trash disposal system cities and suburbs have been using across the country. It is that kind of ingenuity and efficiency that justifies New York City’s arrogant reputation of looking down on the rest of the country from the top of piles of trash bags being picked apart by rats.

With trash now off of the list, the question becomes about what innovation New York City will discover next. Perhaps the city will discover that keeping violent criminals behind bars prevents them from committing more violent crimes, though who knows how many more millions must be paid to a consulting firm to reach that stunning conclusion so soon after discovering that trash bins exist.

The Summer Olympics are when the United States flexes its superiority over every other country in the world, including our European friends. This year, the festivities are starting before the Games even begin.

The U.S. Olympic team will be bringing air conditioning units to the Olympic Village for the Games in Paris, which “undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions,” according to the Associated Press. After all, you do not get to be the best Olympic country on the planet by letting your athletes stew in non-air-conditioned venues in the summer. Greatness doesn’t sleep at 79 degrees Fahrenheit.

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That is especially true when the outrage is unfounded. The U.S. is not the only country providing its athletes with AC for the Games (Britain, Germany, and Canada are among those doing the same). And 74% of France’s energy production comes from nuclear energy, which, of course, does not produce carbon emissions. Maybe California Democrats will force ineffective sacrifices on its residents to pretend they are saving the planet, but that is why they are leading a failing state into the ground and not the greatest Olympic program of all time.

American athletes will be well rested and well cooled and hopefully on their way to yet another dominant performance over world-worst polluter China in the process, because that is what America is all about. You can keep your pretentious climate slacktivism, and we will keep our gold medals and crisp, cool air conditioning.

The private and public calls by Democratic politicians and liberal media pundits for President Joe Biden to drop out of the race lead to an obvious question: If Biden should drop out of the race, why should he not also resign from the presidency?

Along with the private panicking by Democratic politicians and operatives who want Biden to step aside, several in the media are publicly calling for the same. That includes the New York Times editorial board, which said Biden is clearly “not the man he was four years ago” and he struggled to do everything during the debate, including “more than once, he struggled to make it to the end of a sentence.”

The editorial boards for the Chicago Tribune and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, two more liberal outlets, also called on Biden to drop out. Several writers at the New York Times and the Atlantic also joined in, as did MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, one of the biggest Biden shills in the media and the host of Biden’s favorite political show. Their reasonings are all fairly similar: Biden is too old, looks too old, and was unable to effectively debate former President Donald Trump and show voters that he has a full grasp of his mental faculties.

Again, the obvious follow-up question is why Biden should even remain in office for the next seven months if he stumbles to make it to the end of sentences and is too old to win a debate against someone such as Trump. Shortly after the debate, it was reported that, according to former and current aides, Biden is engaged from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., but he becomes fatigued outside of that time frame. This is the same man who already spends 40% of his presidency on vacation, and now we are told that he can only function for six hours on the few days he decides to focus on his job.

The presidency is not a 9-5 (or, in Biden’s case, a 10-4) job. Threats to America do not care about what time frame the feeble president is at his best. As John Hasson pointed out in a social media thread, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Hamas’s assault on Israel both occurred outside of Biden’s competency time window. So did the killings of 13 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan during Biden’s botched withdrawal and the killings of three U.S. soldiers in Jordan.

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You know, the same soldiers Biden pretended never existed during the debate when he claimed no U.S. soldiers had died under his presidency?

If Biden isn’t competent enough to make it through a 90-minute debate or to function at 5 p.m., he isn’t competent enough to continue to serve as president for the next seven months. For the sake of the country, Biden should resign because, no matter how awful Vice President Kamala Harris is, she is actually lucid during normal working hours.

The Gaza aid pier that President Joe Biden schemed up was always a ridiculous idea. It appears to now be reaching its predictable, pathetic conclusion.

U.S. officials are considering not reinstalling the pier after removing it to protect it from the weather. After at least $320 million in taxpayer dollars being lit on fire, the pier is going to have been in use for a shorter period of time than it took to build it, having been taken down by the weather and the natural movement of water, which is normally not a great sign for a pier.

Did the pier at least help get aid to Palestinian civilians? Probably not. The Pentagon admitted last month that it wasn’t likely any of the aid being funneled into Gaza through the pier had reached civilians at all. That aid most likely went right into the stockpiles of Hamas terrorists, meaning Biden wasted $320 million in taxpayer dollars to help feed terrorists responsible for Gaza’s woes in the first place.

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From the terrible idea to the atrocious execution down to the fact that it no doubt helped terrorists more than anyone else, this is the perfect Biden pet project to represent his terrible presidency. Biden wasted taxpayer dollars, embarrassed the U.S. military (who he used to build the pier), and strengthened terrorists, all to pander to the rabid activist minority of his base that is going to hate him unless he accuses Israel of genocide.

This is yet another failure to add to Biden’s long list of failures in just three and a half years in office. It perfectly showcases his shortsightedness, financial recklessness, and the overall impotence of his administration, proving once again that he simply is not up for this job.