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20 hours ago, swordfish said:

"No Comment"  - US President Joe Biden, when asked about the Hawaiian wildfires where the death toll has risen to 100. (6 days after the tragedy)..... 

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-response-maui-wildfires-death-toll-backlash-1819452

Yet he gave a lengthy manifesto after the death of George Floyd, lol.

Keep signing those checks to Ukraine Joey.

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Keep signing those checks to Ukraine Joey.

Yep:  https://mises.org/power-market/maui-burns-biden-demands-another-24-billionfor-ukraine

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I am not a big fan of Federal Government disaster relief. Too much of the time the money never gets to those who need it most, and too often Washington’s armies of disaster “experts” are more interested in pushing people around than helping them.

Nevertheless, it’s hard to look at recent footage of the devastation in Maui and then hear President Biden tell Congress that he needs another $24 billion for Ukraine. How can this Administration continue to justify tens of billions of dollars for this losing war that is not in our interest while the rest of the United States disintegrates?

Biden’s new $24 billion request comes on top of well over $120 billion already spent to fight the US proxy war on Russia in Ukraine. Heritage Foundation budget expert Richard Stern has done the math and determined that Biden’s spending on the Ukraine war thus far will cost each and every American household $900. How many Americans would rather have those $900 dollars back in their pocket rather than in the pockets of Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon, and Ukraine’s oligarchs?

Recent surveys have shown that a majority of Americans could not afford to cover a sudden $1,000 emergency. Will Americans connect the dots and realize that the reason they can’t find that $1,000 for an emergency is because the neocons have already sent it to Ukraine?

Ukraine has long been known as among the most corrupt countries on earth and not long ago investigative journalist Seymore Hersh wrote that Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky has embezzled at least $400 million in aid from the American people. Corruption scandals continue to break in Ukraine. Just last week Zelensky fired the heads of all local draft boards for corruption. Some press reports suggest that sales of luxury cars in Ukraine have broken all previous records. I wonder why.

No wonder the tide of US public opinion is turning against further involvement in the war. Recently CNN found that among all Americans, more than 55 percent are opposed to continued aid to Ukraine. Among Republicans the number opposing more aid to Ukraine rises to three-out-of-four. That is why we are finally starting to see more Republican Members raising concerns. I’d like to think they have seen the light that an aggressive and interventionist foreign policy is not in America’s interest, but most likely they are worried about losing elections. Whatever their motivation, this turning tide should be welcomed.

Yet the Biden Administration persists in backing Ukraine even as the US mainstream media is increasingly pointing out the obvious: Ukraine is not winning and cannot win, and continuing to pour money into a losing cause will just result in bankruptcy at home and more dead Ukrainians overseas.

Last week Newsweek published an article asking, “Does Ukraine Have Kompromat on Joe Biden?” In the article, Northeastern University Professor Max Abrahms wonders out loud whether Biden’s continued support for Ukraine might be related to compromising information held in Kiev about the many Biden family shady business ventures in Ukraine and the region. It is certainly worth considering.

Meanwhile, the residents of Maui that survived the recent horrific fire will take little comfort knowing that the Biden Administration is more interested in sending their money to Ukraine than in helping them recover.

 

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Last week Newsweek published an article asking, “Does Ukraine Have Kompromat on Joe Biden?” In the article, Northeastern University Professor Max Abrahms wonders out loud whether Biden’s continued support for Ukraine might be related to compromising information held in Kiev about the many Biden family shady business ventures in Ukraine and the region. It is certainly worth considering.

In the words of Joe Biden in Ukraine from 2016 - "Well, Son of a B****".

WTF?  It took 7 years for Newsweek/Professor Abrahms to notice this?  SMH.......

 

 

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2 big variables in the upcoming election......Will Trump be able to run?  Will Biden be able to run?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-joe-biden-electable-democrats-election-2024-president-campaign-candidate-gop-indictment-trump-31e02e62?mod=WTRN_pos2&cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_171&cx_artPos=1

This week—like last week, last month and much of last year—featured a full news cycle devoted to Donald Trump. There’s a method to the critics’ obsession, yet it could backfire. They ignore Joe Biden’s weaknesses at their own peril.

The Georgia indictments of Mr. Trump and associates brought yet more focus on Mr. Trump’s mounting hurdles to re-election. A total of 91 felony counts, many to be heard by a hostile jury. Trials set to commence during the GOP primary. A polarizing candidate who is a nonstarter with key general-election voting blocs. There’s a near gleefulness in media stories describing the Republicans’ pickle: They’re barreling toward a nominee with too much freight to win the White House.

Yet doesn’t that also describe the other party?

The left is banking it doesn’t—at least not in comparison with Mr. Trump. But an our-guy-isn’t-quite-as-detestable-as-your-guy strategy is the definition of risky. Look at Mr. Biden in isolation. Democrats are by every measure putting forward their weakest presidential nominee in decades, one who makes even the hapless Jimmy Carter of 1980 look competent.

No, Mr. Biden isn’t facing four score and 11 criminal charges. But he is more than four score years old, and it’s increasingly difficult to tiptoe around the president’s disturbing decline. The long vacations, the early nights, the confusion, the mumbling, the bizarre statements. A June poll found that 71% of likely voters, including nearly half of Democrats, think Mr. Biden is too old to be president. The pace at which he’s getting worse has also been striking, raising the question of a Nominee Biden’s performance a year from now. God save the queen, man.

Even in 2020, the electorate understood that a vote for Mr. Biden meant a higher than usual chance that his running mate would become president. The need for a reassuring successor is even more important now, but he’s instead dragging the anchor known as Kamala Harris. A June NBC News poll reported she had a 32% approval rating and a net rating of minus-17, “the lowest for any vice president in the poll’s history.” Mr. Trump is averaging above 40%.

Then there’s Hunter. The plea deal collapse is its own sordid story, though the smell will only grow. Republicans will continue to produce evidence of Joe’s efforts to aid his son’s global influence peddling, hammering home the former vice president’s unsavory use of that position. The media will do its best to ignore any revelations, though that will prove tougher if and when Republicans turn their probe into an impeachment inquiry, with prime-time hearings.

Don’t forget the economy, or crime, or foreign-policy messes. The White House’s “Bidenomics” pitch boils down to one statistic: low unemployment. Biden policies also produced inflation, unmanageable energy prices, and the heightened threat of a recession. A Fox poll from late May found 83% of voters say the economy is only in fair or poor shape. That’s 14 points higher than in April 2021, a year into the pandemic.

Democrats and their media cheerleaders are blinding themselves to these liabilities—playing a game of See No Biden, Hear No Biden. They are working instead to keep Mr. Trump in the legal and media spotlight—the better to get him nominated. This is a repeat of the 2022 strategy, in which they labored to boost eccentric far-right candidates in GOP primaries, with the anticipation they’d later lose to Democrats.

That panned out for them in the midterms, but in a 50/50 country, and against an extremely weak incumbent, even Mr. Trump has playable odds. That Mr. Trump—with all his history, all his indictments, all the unrelenting media beratement—is still leading Mr. Biden in some head-to-head matchups ought to have Democrats working on plan B, C and D through Z.

That’s assuming Mr. Trump is the nominee—another uncertain wager. On the surface, the GOP primary looks like a repeat of 2016, with a crowd of opponents splitting the field and crowning Mr. Trump victor. But there are already big differences. The number of candidates at next week’s first debate will be half what it was eight years ago. GOP leaders and donors will press far more heavily on noncontenders to get out early. Mr. Trump, whose underlying numbers still show some real weakness, could find himself in hand-to-hand combat. In this political environment, the unlikely scenarios are entirely possible.

Mr. Biden versus a Republican opponent who is young, steady, and with a new plan? The race might be over. Democrats have a field of viable replacements but continue to bet all on their lamest horse. If next year finds the country electing a GOP president, the liberal establishment will have itself to blame.

 

 

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The Biden Crime family at it's best, led by the witless wonder himself.......

https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/joe-bidens-ukraine-defense-falls-apart/

President Barack Obama famously warned fellow Democrats in 2020, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.”

The warning was ignored by many as an almost brotherly reference to Biden’s habit of making false claims (like being arrested when seeking to see Nelson Mandela) or his continual verbal gaffes.

Biden has always had a certain penchant for bragging, whether it’s claiming a dead man told him he reached a million miles on Amtrak, being a cross-country trucker or fighting off some “bad dude” named Corn Pop.

But one of those bravado moments may have revealed more than vanity.

Ironically, it’s the one controversial story that appears entirely true.

In a 2018 interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, Biden bragged that he unilaterally withheld a billion dollars in US aid from the Ukrainians to force them to fire Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin.

The Ukrainians balked, but Biden gave them an ultimatum: “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.”I

The response from the Washington elite was rapturous, though the story was not only impolitic but embarrassing for an ally.

The Ukrainians were Joe’s new Corn Pop, and he recounted how he stared them down in a “High Noon” diplomatic moment.

A State Department memo is shedding disturbing light on that account and shredding aspects of Biden’s justification for the action.

Indeed, the ultimatum may have been the quid in a quid pro quo agreement as part of the Biden influence-peddling scandal.

The premise of the story is that Biden took this extraordinary stand because there was little hope for the anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine if Shokin remained prosecutor.

That is now questionable.

The Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizes the recommendation of the Interagency Policy Committee that was handling the anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine: “Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third guarantee.”

One senior official even complimented Shokin on his progress in fighting corruption.

So Biden was told to deliver on the federal aid but elected to unilaterally demand that Shokin be fired.

When the firing occurred, Shokin’s office was investigating Burisma Holdings, an energy firm that paid Hunter Biden a huge amount of money.

The State Department had identified it as a corrupt company engaged in bribery.

Recent testimony from Devon Archer, a business associate of Hunter Biden, revealed that Burisma executives made the removal of Shokin a top priority and raised it with Hunter.

He described how the need to neutralize Shokin was raised with Hunter and how “a call to Washington” was made in response.

President Biden has insisted, “I did nothing wrong. I carried out the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine. And that’s what we should be focusing on.”

Indeed, that will now be the focus, including the close correlation of the money and demands going to Hunter and the actions of his father.

There is evidence the State Department was alarmed by Hunter’s work and its impact on anti-corruption efforts.

While Joe was portraying his work as fighting corruption, some officials were warning that the Bidens could be part of the problem, not the solution, in Ukraine.

Leading diplomat George Kent wrote then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, “The real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter’s presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine [because] Ukrainians heard one message from us and then saw another set of behavior with the family association with a known corrupt figure whose company was known for not playing by the rules.”

As part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump, Democrats largely dismissed earlier accounts of these misgivings and portrayed Shokin as a thoroughly corrupt prosecutor perpetuating corruption.

Biden’s Ukrainian Corn Pop story was celebrated as a gutsy moment of leadership.

During the impeachment, Kent said Biden’s demand was consistent with US policy.

Yet we now know the State Department had found progress was being made on corruption and Shokin was praised in private correspondence.

The demand for the replacement of the equivalent of the attorney general in another country is an extraordinary move.

We give massive amounts of money to countries with rampant corruption and authoritarian records.

But Biden decided Shokin had to go and used public money to make that happen.

The memo also highlights the flaws in the Trump impeachment.

When I testified before the House Judiciary Committee at the only impeachment hearing, I told the committee it should not depart from history and proceed to an impeachment without fact witnesses on the grounds for impeachment.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and others refused.

It now seems there was material evidence that would have been used at the impeachment trial.

Trump was alleging there was a conflict of interest with the Bidens, and the evidence could have challenged Biden’s account and established his son’s interest in the Shokin firing.

I still do not believe Trump should have raised the matter in that call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

This evidence may not have made a difference to some senators, but it demonstrates why impeachments should proceed after fact hearings.

Instead, in the second impeachment, the Democrats went one better.

They used what I called a “snap impeachment” without even a hearing on the impeachment standards and articles.

The House could now have little choice but to hold the very hearings the Democrats blocked during the earlier impeachment — with a different president under constitutional scrutiny.

 

 

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Man, this Biden administration is not trying to gain any new fans......

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-alcohol-czar-says-us-may-follow-canada-limit-beers-two-week?fbclid=IwAR2gOsPAyAXie8xqRlTpuvcNPm9knEZew4ePw4ZQ7I_fxA_1p4fHNLSSQps

President Biden's alcohol czar says Americans may be told by officials to have no more than two beers a week.

Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) George Koob told the Daily Mail on Thursday that the U.S. may follow Canada's footsteps on alcohol guidelines.

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Yeah, the former VP had nothing to do with Hunter's business........Yeppurs....Influence peddling?  Nawwww.......

https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/1000-emails-exchanged-between-hunter-bidens-firm-and-vp-office/

Hunter Biden’s firm, Joe’s VP office exchanged more than 1,000 emails: records

Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm traded more than 1,000 emails with Joe Biden’s office during his time as vice president — and hundreds remain hidden because of executive privilege asserted by the White House, documents released by the National Archives show. 

The 861 emails that reference Rosemont Seneca were sent or received by the Office of the Vice President between January 2011 and December 2013, according to America First Legal, which obtained the messages from the National Archives and Records Administration and released them on Wednesday. 

The White House refused to allow the release of 200 emails referencing Hunter Biden’s firm, citing executive privilege.  

“Release would disclose confidential advice between the President and his advisors, or between such advisors,” NARA informed America First Legal in response to its records request. 

Hunter Biden and his business associates frequently used their direct line of communications with the Office of the Vice President to leverage access to the Obama White House, the trove of emails show. 

White House guest lists, seating assignments, and biographies of guests for various official events, including the 2012 United Kingdom State Dinner, the 2013 Turkey State Luncheon and the 2014 France State Dinner, were shared with Rosemont Seneca employees. 

One email contains an invitation forwarded to the White House for then-Vice President Joe Biden to attend an event at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and another invites then-second lady Jill Biden to participate in a World Food Program campaign. 

Invitations from the White House for several events that Hunter Biden presumably attended or had requested tickets for guests for are also shown in NARA’s document dump. 

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The President pretty much stated in the first year of his term his plan was to slow the economy down.  Mission accomplished.  (6 - 8 months ago)

A reliable historic bellweather to the economy is the RV industry.  Historically - What happens in the RV industry leads the greater economy by about 9 months to a year.  The RV industry began it's retreat in May of 2022.  Today it is shipping less than 1/2 of 2022 product with deep layoffs that hit last year and deeper ones this year.  Companies still producing are running 1 week on and 2 weeks off with limited staff.  Elkhart County unemployment is over 5% leaning on 6%.  Get ready - SF believes this is where the rest of the economy is heading.

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36 minutes ago, swordfish said:

The President pretty much stated in the first year of his term his plan was to slow the economy down.  Mission accomplished.  (6 - 8 months ago)

A reliable historic bellweather to the economy is the RV industry.  Historically - What happens in the RV industry leads the greater economy by about 9 months to a year.  The RV industry began it's retreat in May of 2022.  Today it is shipping less than 1/2 of 2022 product with deep layoffs that hit last year and deeper ones this year.  Companies still producing are running 1 week on and 2 weeks off with limited staff.  Elkhart County unemployment is over 5% leaning on 6%.  Get ready - SF believes this is where the rest of the economy is heading.

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I have long monitored the RV industry for economic trends. I’ll be honest it was somewhat confusing over the last three years. 
I haven’t watched cable news since April of 20, but I did catch most of Biden’s speech in Vietnam…..wow. I was hoping his handlers would shut it down before they did. I think when you look at McConnell, Biden, Fetterman, Feinstein, it’s pretty sickening to me that their handlers are so obsessed with power and greed they would allow their loved ones to be subjected to all this. 
I don’t know about you… but I’m going to bed….

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4 hours ago, Impartial_Observer said:

I have long monitored the RV industry for economic trends. I’ll be honest it was somewhat confusing over the last three years. 
I haven’t watched cable news since April of 20, but I did catch most of Biden’s speech in Vietnam…..wow. I was hoping his handlers would shut it down before they did. I think when you look at McConnell, Biden, Fetterman, Feinstein, it’s pretty sickening to me that their handlers are so obsessed with power and greed they would allow their loved ones to be subjected to all this. 
I don’t know about you… but I’m going to bed….

I have long monitored the RV industry for economic trends. I’ll be honest it was somewhat confusing over the last three years. 

Since the pandemic started the industry has been "balls to the walls" building, consolidating, restructuring to the point of the highest shipping year ever in 2022.  SF's opinion was that in 2021, there was nothing else for people to do with the shut-downs in place.  People weren't spending their disposable income on airfare, hotels, restaurants, etc. but they still wanted the ability to travel.  It didn't hurt that Holcomb designated the RV industry as "essential" either.

I haven’t watched cable news since April of 20, but I did catch most of Biden’s speech in Vietnam…..wow. I was hoping his handlers would shut it down before they did. I think when you look at McConnell, Biden, Fetterman, Feinstein, it’s pretty sickening to me that their handlers are so obsessed with power and greed they would allow their loved ones to be subjected to all this. 
I don’t know about you… but I’m going to bed….

SF is truly surprised that Biden is still around.  I predicted originally that he was a placeholder since the previous Democrat President (Obama) didn't even endorse him due to the obvious corruption the former VP had as baggage and expected him to be gone shortly after the 2 year mark.  Now it's just sad.  The likes of having the President as geriatric as he is is appalling and he is truly getting worse.  The fact that they cut him off mid-sentence was very telling to me - He was really ready for bed.

I would (kinda - given the current congressional roster age) be in favor of an upper age limitation.

SF isn't ready to make a solid prediction but I am leaning heavily towards Biden getting replaced before the end of the year if the Democrats really want a viable candidate for 2024.

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Yeah - DJT was indicted because of a questionable (at best) statement during a phone call.......Yet even with a video where Joe says "S.O.B." in a very overt quid-pro-quo bragging moment the MSM says there's no evidence.......Almost like they got their marching orders directly from the White House......

Oh - wait.....https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4201590-read-biden-administration-memos-media-impeachment/

https://nypost.com/2023/09/13/medias-covert-protection-of-scandal-plagued-bidens-comes-to-light-while-still-protecting-president-and-hunter/

Forget the bank records, shell companies, SEC complaints, sworn testimony, IRS whistleblower statements, FBI informant files, emails, texts, WhatsApp messages, photos, speakerphone calls, voicemails, White House visitor logs, Air Force 2 travel logs, Joe’s pseudonym email addresses and a parade of Hunter’s shady foreign benefactors lining up for handshakes with Joe in Beijing, breakfasts at the VP’s residence and dinners at Café Milano, not to mention millions of dollars in filthy foreign lucre for no discernible product or service other than access to Joe. 

 

 

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Bidenomics......Anyone else thinking Biden could potentially go down in history behind Carter on the economy?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/census-data-income-inflation-joe-biden-economy-social-welfare-spending-3897dbed?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s

You almost have to admire the brass of the Biden White House. The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that Americans are poorer under Bidenomics, and the President quickly changed the subject to blame Republicans for rising child poverty on his watch. As usual, too many in the press corps bought the spin.

Mr. Biden is trying to avoid the real story, which is that the Census Bureau says median household income adjusted for inflation fell last year by $1,750 to $74,580. It is down $3,670 from 2019. Households in the fourth income quintile—those making $94,000 to $153,000—lost $4,600 in 2022 and $6,700 since 2019. Middle-class Americans who think they’re losing ground are right.

The reason is that inflation has outpaced the earnings growth from work. Real median earnings for full-time workers last year fell $3,620 for men and $2,880 for women despite a tight labor market that had companies paying more to attract and keep workers. The female-to-male earnings gap declined to 16% from 18% in 2019, but mainly because inflation has eroded men’s wages more than women’s. Wages in industries with more female workers such as healthcare and hospitality rose faster than those with more male workers such as manufacturing. But neither men nor women kept pace with the cost of living.

By most statistical measures, income inequality also declined last year. Even when excluding capital gains, higher earners saw a bigger drop in real incomes than Americans at the lower end. One reason is the latter group includes many seniors whose Social Security checks are adjusted for inflation.

Real incomes at every decile were lower and income inequality was greater than in 2019. Americans in the bottom 10% of earners were 6.3% poorer last year than in 2019 while those in the top 5% saw their incomes decline 4.1%. Inflation invariably punishes lower-income Americans more than the affluent.

These numbers don’t take into account most transfer payments that Congress enacted or expanded as part of its $6 trillion in Covid relief. These include $3,200 a year in stimulus payments per adult and $2,500 per child; a $3,600 per child tax credit whether or not you paid any taxes; larger health insurance, earned income and child-care tax credits; and more generous food stamps.

These provided temporary income boosts in 2020 and 2021, but at the cost of fueling the historic inflation surge that gutted real incomes. Thus after-tax median real income last year fell $6,220 as some, but not all, Covid transfer payments lapsed. Americans with college degrees last year saw the biggest after-tax real income decline ($9,860), perhaps because they benefited most from the expanded tax credits.

Democrats passed their $1.9 trillion Covid bill in March 2021 with the goal of hooking the middle class on bigger government. But the big political surprise is that Americans weren’t thrilled with the handouts. A Hill-HarrisX poll in July 2021 found that 60% of voters, including nearly half of Democrats, thought the child tax credit expansion was too expensive and no longer needed.

Yet there Mr. Biden was on Tuesday lashing Republicans in Congress for not extending the expanded the child tax credit.

“We cut child poverty by nearly half to record lows for all children in this nation largely by expanding the Child Tax Credit,” he declared. “The rise reported today in child poverty is no accident—it is the result of a deliberate policy choice congressional Republicans made to block help for families with children while advancing massive tax cuts for the wealthiest and largest corporations.”

The child poverty rate did jump to 12.4% from 5.2% in 2021, but that is roughly the same as before the pandemic. The expiration of the expanded child credit accounted for about a quarter of the increase in the child poverty rate, though its impact was offset by an increase last year in food stamps, free school lunches and housing subsidies. Most of the increase in child poverty owed to the end of stimulus payments, inflation and higher taxes.

Mr. Biden has apparently forgotten that Republicans didn’t control either branch of Congress in 2021 or 2022. West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin blocked an extension of the expanded child tax credit because it was estimated to cost $1.2 trillion over a decade.

And which tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations is he talking about? Maybe he’s confused and is referring to the Inflation Reduction Act’s green-energy corporate welfare and subsidies for electric vehicles and solar panels that largely benefit the affluent.

The annual census data tell the real story of Bidenomics: A gusher of unprecedented and unnecessary social-welfare spending helped to produce the highest inflation in 40 years that has made Americans poorer. The last thing Congress should do is heed Mr. Biden’s demand to do it all again.

 

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"His pretend life sounds pretty interesting"

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-berated-claiming-taught-political-theory-university-pennsylvania-pretend-life

Biden said, "Democracy is at stake, folks. Our democracy is under attack. And we gotta fight for it. I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years. And I used to teach political theory. And folks, you always hear every generation has to fight for democracy. And I found myself – it's automatic, we didn't have to believe it – but we do. We do."

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1 hour ago, swordfish said:

"His pretend life sounds pretty interesting"

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-berated-claiming-taught-political-theory-university-pennsylvania-pretend-life

Biden said, "Democracy is at stake, folks. Our democracy is under attack. And we gotta fight for it. I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years. And I used to teach political theory. And folks, you always hear every generation has to fight for democracy. And I found myself – it's automatic, we didn't have to believe it – but we do. We do."

Joe Biden IS the threat to democracy at this point.

Are we really setting up ourselves for the possibility of "Weekend at Bernie's 2" next fall?

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Good Ol' Uncle Joe......The Brazilian President clearly did not appreciate the snub.......

https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/biden-walks-into-flag-appears-to-snub-brazils-president/

President Biden looked confused again Wednesday as he walked into a giant flag at the United Nations — then appeared to anger Brazil’s president by walking off stage without shaking his hand.

The gaffe-prone oldest US president in history walked into the 7-foot-tall Brazilian flag as he took the stage, taking a moment to get his bearings as the flag wobbled.

He then struggled with the headset of his translation device, soon noted by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was with him for a joint speech agreeing to partner on workers’ rights.

“Can you hear me, President Biden? This is a historic moment for Brazil and for the US,” the Brazilian leader asked.

When he did not immediately respond, Lula again asked: “President Biden, can you hear me?”

 

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Good Ol' Uncle Joe......The Brazilian President clearly did not appreciate the snub.......

https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/biden-walks-into-flag-appears-to-snub-brazils-president/

President Biden looked confused again Wednesday as he walked into a giant flag at the United Nations — then appeared to anger Brazil’s president by walking off stage without shaking his hand.

The gaffe-prone oldest US president in history walked into the 7-foot-tall Brazilian flag as he took the stage, taking a moment to get his bearings as the flag wobbled.

He then struggled with the headset of his translation device, soon noted by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was with him for a joint speech agreeing to partner on workers’ rights.

“Can you hear me, President Biden? This is a historic moment for Brazil and for the US,” the Brazilian leader asked.

When he did not immediately respond, Lula again asked: “President Biden, can you hear me?”

 

Biden/Fetterman 2024

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The President has been having some issues with the Hispanic Caucus as of late, and his latest gaffe probably didn't help after he just, seemingly, called the Hispanics black.....Ol Uncle Joe......

https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/biden-praises-congressional-black-caucus-during-address-to-congressional-hispanic-caucus/

Biden praises ‘Congressional Black Caucus’ during address to Congressional Hispanic Caucus in president’s latest gaffe

 

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So apparently building a border wall is no longer racist?  Maybe DJT had the right idea?  No, can't be, the border crisis is still Trump's fault......somehow.....and Biden is going to fix it......

https://apnews.com/article/border-wall-biden-immigration-texas-rio-grande-147d7ab497e6991e9ea929242f21ceb2

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration announced it waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday, marking the administration’s first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency.

The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S. Federal Registry with few details outlining the construction in Starr County, Texas, which is part of a busy Border Patrol sector seeing “high illegal entry.” According to government data, about 245,000 illegal entries have been recorded so far this fiscal year in the Rio Grande Valley Sector which contains 21 counties.

“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas,” Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary, stated in the notice.

The Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act and Endangered Species Act were some of the federal laws waived by DHS to make way for construction that will use funds from a congressional appropriation in 2019 for border wall construction. The waivers avoid time-consuming reviews and lawsuits challenging violation of environmental laws.

Although no maps were provided in the announcement, CBP announced the project in June and began gathering public comments in August when it shared a map of the additional construction that can add up to 20 miles (32 kilometers) to the existing border barrier system in the area. Starr County Judge Eloy Vera said it will start south of the Falcon Dam and go past Salineño, Texas.

“The other concern that we have is that area is highly erosive. There’s a lot of arroyos,” Eloy Vera, the county judge said, pointing out the creeks cutting through the ranchland and leading into the river.

Concern is shared with environmental advocates who say structures will run through public lands, habitats of endangered plants and species like the Ocelot, a spotted wild cat.

“A plan to build a wall through will bulldoze an impermeable barrier straight through the heart of that habitat. It will stop wildlife migrations dead in their tracks. It will destroy a huge amount of wildlife refuge land. And it’s a horrific step backwards for the borderlands,” Laiken Jordahl, a southwest conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity, said Wednesday afternoon.

During the Trump administration, about 450 miles (724 kilometers) of barriers were built along the southwest border between 2017 and January 2021. Texas Governor Greg Abbott renewed those efforts after the Biden administration halted them at the start of his presidency.

The DHS decision on Wednesday contrasts the Biden administration’s posturing when a proclamation to end the construction on Jan. 20, 2021, stated, “building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution.”

In a statement Wednesday, CBP said the project is consistent with that 2021 proclamation. “Congress appropriated fiscal year 2019 funds for the construction of border barrier in the Rio Grande Valley, and DHS is required to use those funds for their appropriated purpose,” the statement said. “CBP remains committed to protecting the nation’s cultural and natural resources and will implement sound environmental practices as part of the project covered by this waiver.”

The announcement prompted political debate by the Democratic administration facing an increase of migrants entering through the southern border in recent months, including thousands who entered the U.S. through Eagle Pass at the end of September.

“A border wall is a 14th century solution to a 21st century problem. It will not bolster border security in Starr County,” U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar said in a statement. “I continue to stand against the wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars on an ineffective border wall.”

Political proponents of the border wall said the waivers should be used as a launching pad for a shift in policy.

“After years of denying that a border wall and other physical barriers are effective, the DHS announcement represents a sea change in the administration’s thinking: A secure wall is an effective tool for maintaining control of our borders,” Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said in a statement. “Having made that concession, the administration needs to immediately begin construction of wall across the border to prevent the illegal traffic from simply moving to other areas of the border.”

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Maybe this is the reason for the Biden administration's "about face".

Turns out being a "Shelter State" isn't all it's cracked up to be?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12597193/Its-NOT-sustainable-Eric-Adams-tells-migrants-Mexico-NYC-capacity-receiving-120-000-year-latest-bid-stem-flow-putting-citys-resources-pressure.html

NYC Mayor Eric Adams goes to Mexico to tell migrants that the Big Apple is 'at capacity' after 122,000 arrived in the last year

  • Eric Adams arrived in Mexico City in a bid to dissuade migrants from making their way to the Big Apple
  • New York City is bucking under the strain of the influx -  with the cost of accomodating them set to tip $4.7 billion 
  • Adams' tour to discourage migrants is in stark contract to August 2022 when he traveled to Port Authority to welcome them and said he was 'proud to be a shelter state' 
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This just gets sillier.....

Joe Biden - 2020 Election - “there will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration” 

2023 - President Biden said Thursday that he “can’t stop” construction of new sections of the US-Mexico border wall because Congress wouldn’t rescind spending on it — despite his Homeland Security secretary waiving 26 federal laws to restart former President Donald Trump’s pet project amid record-breaking illegal immigration.

So, if he really believes the wall is not effective, he is in direct contradiction with his DHS Chief.......and his Deptartment of Homeland Security......

Kinda reminiscent of George HW Bush & his "read my lips, no new taxes" pledge.....IDK

https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/biden-says-he-cant-stop-border-wall-construction-blames-congress/

WASHINGTON — President Biden said Thursday that he “can’t stop” construction of new sections of the US-Mexico border wall because Congress wouldn’t rescind spending on it — despite his Homeland Security secretary waiving 26 federal laws to restart former President Donald Trump’s pet project amid record-breaking illegal immigration.

“The money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money. They didn’t. They wouldn’t,” Biden told reporters in the Oval Office.

“In the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated for. I can’t stop that,” he insisted.

Asked if he thought the border wall was effective, the president replied, “No.”

Biden’s answer contradicted DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas, who wrote Wednesday in a document justifying the wall expansion that “there is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries.”

“The United States Border Patrol’s (Border Patrol) Rio Grande Valley Sector is an area of ‘high illegal entry,'” explained Mayorkas, who added: “Therefore, I must use my authority … to install additional physical barriers and roads in the Rio Grande Valley Sector.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday evaded numerous reporter questions about the inconsistency of Mayorkas saying the wall was needed to halt illegal immigration and Biden saying it was not necessary.

Biden said as a candidate in 2020 that “there will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration” and halted barrier construction shortly after taking office in January 2021.

However, the Biden administration previously authorized some wall construction, including last year to close four gaps in the border wall near Yuma, Ariz., which had seen large flows of migrants.

The administration said Wednesday it was bypassing the measures — including the Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and Endangered Species Act  — to fast-track construction of new sections of border wall along Texas’ border with Mexico, with Mayorkas saying in his memo he had “sole discretion” to do so.

The waivers streamline a process of reviews and potential litigation to speed along the project, which will consist of about 20 miles of additional wall in Starr County along the Rio Grande in South Texas.

The funding for the new construction was approved by Congress in 2019.

Biden restarted Trump’s wall after about 233,000 migrants were detained for illegally entering the US in August — more than had crossed in already elevated waves in August 2021 and August 2022.

An ABC News poll last month found that Biden has just 23% approval from the public on his handling of immigration and the border, making it a major political liability going into his expected rematch against Trump next year.

Fiscal year 2023, which ended Sept. 30, is on track to break all annual records of illegal immigration, with more than 2.2 million apprehensions already recorded.

Statistics for September have yet to be released.

Fiscal 2022 had 2.38 million Southwest border detentions, up dramatically from 1.73 million the year prior, the first of the border surge under Biden, according to Customs and Border Protection data.

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