Muda69 Posted July 25, 2024 Posted July 25, 2024 Biden Brags That 'the United States Is Not at War' As He Bombs Yemen: https://reason.com/2024/07/25/biden-brags-that-the-united-states-is-not-at-war-as-he-bombs-yemen/ Quote President Joe Biden called himself "the first president this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world" in a speech on Wednesday night. Less than an hour before Biden spoke those words, the U.S. military had announced that it was bombing Yemen again. "In the past 24 hours, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) forces successfully destroyed two Iranian-backed Houthi missiles on launchers in a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen," the U.S. military command responsible for the Middle East and Central Asia declared shortly before Biden's speech began. "It was determined these weapons presented an imminent threat to U.S., coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region." After completing the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, Biden took credit for ending "the longest war in American history," what he called a "forever war." Yet the Biden administration has extended other U.S. forever wars—and introduced U.S. forces into new ones. When Biden first ordered airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi movement in January, it was the first direct U.S. attack on the Houthis ever, and the first airstrike on Yemen by any force in two years. The U.S. had previously brokered a truce between the Houthi government in Sanaa and the rival Saudi-backed government in Aden. But as war broke out in Gaza last year, the Houthis announced that they would attack Israeli-linked shipping in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Foreign ships began avoiding the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, a key international waterway, and Biden tried to reopen it by bombing the Houthis. Asked by reporters whether the airstrikes were working, Biden gave a formula for endless war. "Well, when you say 'working,' are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes," he said. U.S. forces have also taken fire elsewhere in the Middle East due to the war in Gaza. Two weeks after U.S. airstrikes on Yemen began, Iraqi guerrillas killed three U.S. soldiers on the Jordanian-Syrian border with a drone strike. (It was part of a wave of dozens of attacks motivated by U.S. military support for Israel.) Biden bombed Iraqi militia sites in retaliation. And older U.S. wars in the region continue to rage. Although both Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump have done victory laps, the Islamic State group is still around. In June 2024, the U.S. military assassinated a senior Islamic State group leader in Syria. The month before, it did the same in Somalia. The Islamic State group isn't the only force that the U.S. is bombing in Somalia, a place where most Americans don't even know their country is at war. U.S. forces are fighting to prop up the Somali government against al-Shabab, another Islamist rebel group. U.S. Africa Command announced 15 airstrikes against al-Shabab in 2023 and six airstrikes this year. That's not even counting U.S. proxy wars. Washington is providing a steady flow of weapons and intelligence to Ukraine and Israel, most of it at the American taxpayer's expense. While American fingers are not on the triggers and American personnel are not taking fire in Ukraine and Gaza—at least not yet—the Biden administration also owns those wars. At the NATO summit in Washington earlier this month, U.S. officials co-signed a statement that Ukraine was on an "irreversible" path to joining the alliance. In other words, American troops may be pledged to defend Ukraine in a future war. "We'll keep rallying a coalition of proud nations to stop [Russian President Vladimir] Putin from taking over Ukraine and doing more damage. We'll keep NATO strong," Biden said in his Wednesday night address. "I'll make it more powerful and more united than any time in all our history. Keep doing the same for allies in the Pacific." Biden, like Trump, wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to take advantage of anti-war sentiment in the American public without being seen as compromising with rival powers or retreating from foreign conflicts. Biden's pitch is pretty similar to Trump's: "peace through strength." And when he can't deliver on that promise, he confuses and deceives the public. Endless war. Endless destruction. Endless death. It is what the military-industrial complex wants as it ensures good profits. And who here wants their children or grandchildren to have go to Ukraine to fight a war against Russia? Not this American.
Muda69 Posted July 29, 2024 Posted July 29, 2024 https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-reform-biden-harris-trump-ffd48f3a2023aeca841bb53c2147ef03 Quote President Joe Biden has unveiled a long-awaited proposal for changes at the U.S. Supreme Court, calling on Congress to establish term limits and an enforceable ethics code for the court’s nine justices. He’s also pressing lawmakers to ratify a constitutional amendment limiting presidential immunity. The White House on Monday detailed the contours of Biden’s court proposal, one that appears to have little chance of being approved by a closely divided Congress with just 99 days to go before Election Day. Still, Democrats hope it’ll help focus voters as they consider their choices in a tight election. The likely Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has sought to frame her race against Republican ex-President Donald Trump as “a choice between freedom and chaos,” quickly endorsed the Biden proposal. She added that the changes are needed because “there is a clear crisis of confidence facing the Supreme Court.” The White House is looking to tap into the growing outrage among Democrats about the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, issuing opinions that overturned landmark decisions on abortion rights and federal regulatory powers that stood for decades. Liberals also have expressed dismay over revelations about what they say are questionable relationships and decisions by some members of the conservative wing of the court that suggest their impartiality is compromised. “I have great respect for our institutions and separation of powers,” Biden argues in a Washington Post op-ed published Monday. “What is happening now is not normal, and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms. We now stand in a breach.” Harris in a statement said the reforms being proposed “will help to restore confidence in the Court, strengthen our democracy, and ensure no one is above the law.” The president planned to speak about his proposal later Monday during an address at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Biden is calling for doing away with lifetime appointments to the court. He says Congress should pass legislation to establish a system in which the sitting president would appoint a justice every two years to spend 18 years in service on the court. He argues term limits would help ensure that court membership changes with some regularity and adds a measure of predictability to the nomination process. He also wants Congress to pass legislation establishing a court code of ethics that would require justices to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest. Biden also is calling on Congress to pass a constitutional amendment reversing the Supreme Court’s recent landmark immunity ruling that determined former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution. That decision extended the delay in the Washington criminal case against Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss and all but ended prospects the former president could be tried before the November election. ... The first three justices who would potentially be affected by term limits are on the right. Justice Clarence Thomas has been on the court for nearly 33 years. Chief Justice John Roberts has served for 19 years, and Justice Samuel Alito has served for 18. Supreme Court justices served an average of about 17 years from the founding until 1970, said Gabe Roth, executive director of the group Fix the Court. Since 1970, the average has been about 28 years. Both conservative and liberal politicians alike have espoused term limits. .... Good luck with this.
swordfish Posted July 30, 2024 Author Posted July 30, 2024 An attempt to hi-jack the narrative of this election.
swordfish Posted October 1, 2024 Author Posted October 1, 2024 As Israel starts raids into Lebanon to root out TERRORISTS (not a country's army) funded by Iran (a country that actually has a countdown clock tracking the time to the predicted destruction of Israel) and actually kills a TERRORIST LEADER, Iran fires hundreds of missiles and sets loose a couple of terror attacks on the civilians - something that our President vowed "severe consequences" to Iran. We'll see..... Everyone is aware Iran is a few screws from having a nuke and they know if Harris wins the Presidency they know Iran can continue the current administration's passive negotiation strategy with Israel, but if Trump wins, the fear is Iran will feel the need to finish it fast and that will prompt a more direct response aimed at totally destroying Iran's capability to get it done. Let's not forget who the real enemy is in the Middle East - Iran.....
Muda69 Posted October 31, 2024 Posted October 31, 2024 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lame-yuck-nothing-lose-biden-goes-baby-mouthing-spree-white-house-halloween-party 1
swordfish Posted November 1, 2024 Author Posted November 1, 2024 The winner of the Halloween costume contest this year! 1
swordfish Posted November 5, 2024 Author Posted November 5, 2024 (edited) As SF reflects on casting my ballot this morning, I was re-living the events of 4 years ago where we were told to believe that Joe Biden had received more (legal) votes than any other President in the history of the United States. The most votes of any previous President. Today - The most popular President in the history of our country, according to the numbers of the last election, is kicked off the ballot by his party and replaced with his Vice President. SF is left wondering how it even happened that the "Most popular President in history of our country EVER" was suddenly so unpopular that his own party kicked him out....... Looking at the record number of people waiting in line to vote this morning at my polling place (church) by the house where it normally takes about 15 minutes in and out (over 45 minutes this morning - in the rain) and knowing most of the people in my community, SF thinks the silent majority has been awakened.......Maybe this election will be too big to rig. Edited November 5, 2024 by swordfish 1
swordfish Posted November 18, 2024 Author Posted November 18, 2024 Is the idiot controlling the White House really trying to start WW3 by allowing Ukraine to launch long range missiles into Russia with outside help before Trump takes over? Will Putin bite on this?
swordfish Posted November 19, 2024 Author Posted November 19, 2024 https://nypost.com/2024/11/19/world-news/putin-issues-warning-to-united-states-with-new-nuclear-doctrine/ Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a warning to the United States on Tuesday, lowering the threshold for a nuclear strike just days after the administration of Joe Biden reportedly allowed Ukraine to fire American missiles deep into Russia. The updated doctrine, formally known as “The basics of state policy in the field of nuclear deterrence,” outlines the threats that would make Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, contemplate using such weapons. Russia would consider a nuclear strike if it, or its ally Belarus, faced aggression “with the use of conventional weapons that created a critical threat to their sovereignty and (or) their territorial integrity,” the new doctrine said. The previous doctrine, set out in a 2020 decree, said Russia may use nuclear weapons in case of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that threatened the existence of the state. Other innovations included considering any conventional assault on Russia by a non-nuclear power supported by a nuclear power to be a joint attack. Any mass aerospace attack with aircraft, cruise missiles and unmanned aircraft that crossed Russia’s borders could also trigger a nuclear response.“Aggression against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies on the part of any non-nuclear state with the participation or support of a nuclear state is considered as their joint attack,” the doctrine said. “Aggression of any state from a military coalition (bloc, union) against the Russian Federation and (or) its allies is considered as aggression by the coalition (bloc, union) as a whole.” The Kremlin said Russia considered nuclear weapons as a means of deterrence and that the aim of the updated text was to make absolutely clear to potential enemies that the inevitability of retaliation should they attack Russia.
swordfish Posted December 2, 2024 Author Posted December 2, 2024 Absolutely NO SURPRISE here. FYI - This move has very little to do with the younger Biden as much as it had to do with protecting "The Big Guy" from the incoming DOJ. SF finds the irony in President Biden claiming the incoming President Trump will "weaponize" the DOJ against him.....Like that hasn't been what we witnessed the past 3 1/2 years.....Laughable.... https://apnews.com/article/biden-son-hunter-charges-pardon-pledge-24f3007c2d2f467fa48e21bbc7262525 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family. The Democratic president had previously said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence after convictions in the two cases in Delaware and California. The move on Sunday night comes weeks before Hunter Biden was set to receive his punishment after his trial conviction in the gun case and guilty plea on tax charges, and less than two months before President-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House. It caps a long-running legal saga for the younger Biden, who publicly disclosed he was under federal investigation in December 2020 — a month after his father’s 2020 victory — and casts a pall over the elder Biden’s legacy.
swordfish Posted December 9, 2024 Author Posted December 9, 2024 After pardoning his son for everything he did or may have done, President Biden is considering "preemptive pardons" for a host of others of his circle of friends because they are all scared of Trump since he didn't go away like he was supposed to do..... In the (made up) words of Jeff Foxworthy - If you need a "preemptive" Presidential Pardon, you might be a criminal.... https://apnews.com/article/biden-pardons-trump-f36ead0eb92ea30e47cbfddfaf326f20 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is weighing whether to issue sweeping pardons for officials and allies who the White House fears could be unjustly targeted by President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, a preemptive move that would be a novel and risky use of the president’s extraordinary constitutional power. The deliberations so far are largely at the level of White House lawyers. But Biden himself has discussed the topic with some senior aides, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday to discuss the sensitive subject. No decisions have been made, the people said, and it is possible Biden opts to do nothing at all. Pardons are historically afforded to those accused of specific crimes – and usually those who have already been convicted of an offense — but Biden’s team is considering issuing them for those who have not even been investigated, let alone charged. They fear that Trump and his allies, who have boasted of enemies lists and exacting “retribution,” could launch investigations that would be reputationally and financially costly for their targets even if they don’t result in prosecutions. While the president’s pardon power is absolute, Biden’s use in this fashion would mark a significant expansion of how they are deployed, and some Biden aides fear it could lay the groundwork for an even more drastic usage by Trump. They also worry that issuing pardons would feed into claims by Trump and his allies that the individuals committed acts that necessitated immunity. Recipients could include infectious-disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was instrumental in combating the coronavirus pandemic and who has become a pariah to conservatives angry about mask mandates and vaccines. Others include witnesses in Trump’s criminal or civil trials and Biden administration officials who have drawn the ire of the incoming president and his allies. Some fearful former officials have reached out to the Biden White House preemptively seeking some sort of protection from the future Trump administration, one of the people said. It follows Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter — not just for his convictions on federal gun and tax violations, but for any potential federal offense committed over an 11-year period, as the president feared that Trump allies would seek to prosecute his son for other offenses. That could serve as a model for other pardons Biden might issue to those who could find themselves in legal jeopardy under Trump. Biden is not the first to consider such pardons — Trump aides considered them for him and his supporters involved in his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election that culminated in a violent riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But he could be the first to issue them since Trump’s pardons never materialized before he left office nearly four years ago. Gerald Ford granted a “full, free, and absolute pardon” in 1974 to his predecessor, Richard Nixon, over the Watergate scandal. He believed a potential trial would “cause prolonged and divisive debate over the propriety of exposing to further punishment and degradation a man who has already paid the unprecedented penalty of relinquishing the highest elective office of the United States,” as written in the pardon proclamation. Politico was first to report that Biden was studying the use of preemptive pardons. On the campaign trail, Trump made no secret of his desire to seek revenge on those who prosecuted him or crossed him. Trump has talked about “enemies from within” and circulated social media posts that call for the jailing of Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former Vice President Mike Pence and Sens. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer. He also zeroed in on former Rep. Liz Cheney, a conservative Republican who campaigned for Harris and helped investigate Jan. 6, and he promoted a social media post that suggested he wanted military tribunals for supposed treason. Kash Patel, whom Trump has announced as his nominee to be director of the FBI, has listed dozens of former government officials he wanted to “come after.” Richard Painter, a Trump critic who served as the top White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, said he was reluctantly in support of having Biden issue sweeping pardons to people who could be targeted by Trump’s administration. He said he hoped that would “clean the slate” for the incoming president and encourage him to focus on governing, not on punishing his political allies. “It’s not an ideal situation at all,” Painter said. “We have a whole lot of bad options confronting us at this point.” While the Supreme Court this year ruled that the president enjoys broad immunity from prosecution for what could be considered official acts, his aides and allies enjoy no such shield. Some fear that Trump could use the promise of a blanket pardon to encourage his allies to take actions they might otherwise resist for fear of running afoul of the law. “There could be blatant illegal conduct over the next four years, and he can go out and pardon his people before he leaves office,” Painter said. “But if he’s going to do that, he’s going to do that anyway regardless of what Biden does.” More conventional pardons from Biden, such as those for sentencing disparities for people convicted of federal crimes, are expected before the end of the year, the White House said.
swordfish Posted December 19, 2024 Author Posted December 19, 2024 On 1/14/2021 at 11:02 AM, swordfish said: Serious question - how long do the talking heads here on the GID expect a President Biden to be in office? I have have made no question of my belief that he may not even last 6 months, but have not come up with how (or when) the left will dislodge him to place Kamala Harris as the first female President. AND - who will she pick to be her VP? SF's original expectation based on some insider DC knowledge of this theory was never fulfilled, but the Wall Street Journal is shedding some light on the decline of President Biden from day 1. Even revealing how the White House hired a voice coach to help cover up his advanced aging. Wait go Joe - hanging in there long enough to really screw the Democrat establishment....... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14210053/white-house-conceal-joe-biden-decline-hired-voice-coach.html https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/joe-biden-age-election-2024-8ee15246 https://www.wsj.com/politics/biden-white-house-age-function-diminished-3906a839?mod=WTRN_pos1&cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_168&cx_artPos=0
swordfish Posted January 20 Author Posted January 20 And with this final middle finger gesture to the country by President Biden, Former President Carter can RIP knowing he passed THE worst President in history moniker on to this guy. https://nypost.com/2025/01/20/us-news/biden-pardons-fauci-milley-and-jan-6-committee-staffers-in-final-hours-of-presidency/ Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and Jan. 6 committee staffers in final hours of presidency 1
swordfish Posted January 21 Author Posted January 21 President Elect Biden warning to Former President Trump in 2000 - "Don't issue "preemptive pardons" to your family or others" because he's concerned about "blah-Blah-blah" - precedence, stuff like that ...... President Biden in 2025 - Never mind what I said in 2020.......This guy is gonna come after all of us for what we did to him and his family...... https://nypost.com/2025/01/21/us-news/biden-warned-against-trump-preemptively-pardoning-family-after-2020-election/ Former President Joe Biden said he was “concerned” about Donald Trump giving preemptive pardons to family members, according to a resurfaced interview from 2020 — before he went on to pardon his own son and siblings while doling out the highest number of presidential pardons and commutations in US history. In a December 2020 interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Biden warned against then-outgoing President Trump issuing preemptive pardons to his adult children, his attorney Rudy Giuliani and possibly even one for himself before the Democrat’s Department of Justice took over. “It concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks (at) us as a nation of laws and justice,” Biden told Tapper during the joint interview with then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. That concern, however, was short-lived, with the ex-commander-in-chief on Monday announcing the unprecedented decision to grant blanket, preemptive pardons to his siblings and their spouses, claiming his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.” “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” he said.
Coach Nowlin Posted January 22 Posted January 22 Swordfish, serious question, did you get booted from other social media and this is your outlet?? I only ask because my father found himself in Facebook jail too 😂
swordfish Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 Fair question. No - not booted from anything - my facebook account is populated with many of my business associates and I keep it very neutral there for the reason that lefties get offended pretty easily. It's kinda discouraging that it seems only Muda and myself usually post here when I remember just a few years ago this site was well populated. I stumbled on to the OOB many years ago, and I just haven't left. Yet..... Muda on the other hand.......? 1
Sparty Posted April 28 Posted April 28 Carter had to pass a happy man. He is no longer referenced as the worst POTUS of all time. That’s Biden/autopen.
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