The following Op-Ed is written and submitted by Paul Plante.
Recently, I received an e-mail from the Cape Charles Mirror, checking in to see if I was still walking the planet after an absence of posting, which gesture on the part of the CCM to check in with me, an elderly disabled veteran who lives alone out in the countryside, was very much appreciated.
My response as to not posting was that there is so much bull**** being literally heaved at us from all directions at once by the Biden regime to cover over Joe’s cratering poll numbers, and the fact that Joe is actually trailing Trump in the polls, with Americans rating the economy under Trump as being far better than it is under Biden and his signature, eponymous Marxist economics scheme labeled “BIDE-O-NOMICS” ( see, CCM, August 13, 2023, “Op-Ed: On BIDE-O-NOMICS” http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/op-ed- … s/#respond ) that it has been impossible to sort it all out before the next barrage came raining down on our heads, so that I have been living in a continued state of disbelief and WTF as to what passes for “government” at the federal or national level in this country under BIDE-O-NISM, which is Joe’s Americanized version of Stalinism in the Soviet Union under Joe Stalin.
Consider, for example, a recent 1945 article 1945 by Tyler O’Neil, the managing editor of The Daily Signal, titled “The Insidious Way the Joe Biden Forces Staff to Preach DEI” on 30 October 2023, where we were informed as follows about how Joe is imposing BIDE-O-NISM on the American people through the agency of the federal government which Joe has dictatorial and autocratic control over through his executive orders, to wit:
Promoting the gospel of diversity, equity, and inclusion isn’t an extracurricular activity at the Department of Commerce — it’s an essential part of every employee’s job, according to a new memo obtained by The Daily Signal.
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Now, if that is not a serious case of WTF, then what is?
And it is actually so bizarre that it is way beyond WTF over into the area of the extreme absurd, and to see how that is, let us go back to the article, as follows:
If the hard-nosed economists at Commerce don’t preach about institutional racism or display their preferred personal pronouns in their bios, they will face adverse action from their superiors.
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Display their preferred personal pronouns in their bios?
HUH?
Can this **** be for real?
But of course it is, as we see by going back for more, to wit:
The department is institutionalizing the Left’s ideology through its employee performance reviews.
According to the memorandum dated Oct. 16, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility activities are an essential part of every employee’s work at President Joe Biden’s Commerce Department, which is run by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
“The inclusion of DEIA activities in a performance plan and critical element signifies that these duties are of such importance that acceptable performance in these activities are required for acceptable performance in the position,” the memo, available on the Commerce Department website, states.
https://www.commerce.gov/cr/programs-an … pport-deia
https://www.commerce.gov/hr/practitione … -inclusion
“The attached implementation guidance explains where and how the standardized DEIA language must be incorporated into performance plans.”
The document lists eight options for an employee’s “Supervisory Support Activity,” directing staff to “Select at least one support activity to be inserted as a credible measure and performed in correlation to the DEIA performance requirement.”
Half of the options for Commerce Department employees read like a list of requirements for a DEI convert to prove his devotion to a pseudo-religious cause.
Each of these requirements advances the Left’s intersectionality narrative: American history is a story about the oppressed and the oppressors, and therefore it is the government’s job to even out the scales.
Blacks, Hispanics, women, LGBTQ individuals, and others are “oppressed,” “marginalized,” or “underserved,” and therefore the government must prioritize them according to their skin color, sex, sexual orientation, or claimed gender identity.
This DEI agenda amounts to a pseudo-religious ideology, complete with a cast of heroes and villains, an original sin of oppression, and its own mantras, such as “Black Lives Matter!” and “Trans Women Are Women!”
When Commerce requires its employees to “lead or support an initiative to raise awareness and emphasize the value of” DEI, that often translates to “become an apologist for the narrative that America is institutionally racist, sexist, transphobic, and oppressive.”
Although diversity, equity, and inclusion sound like laudable goals, DEI training for employees forces the Left’s narrative time and time again.
Commerce’s requirements amount to a loyalty oath for employment, enforced by performance reviews.
Further down, the document presents “Performance Language Implementing Guidance” that appears to require all employees to accept the basic idea of gender ideology — that a person’s gender identity overrides his or her biological sex.
According to this document, employees must “participate in available DEIA training,” take part in employee resource groups, and “include preferred name and pronouns in your Microsoft Outlook employee email signatures and Microsoft Teams settings.”
Supervisors must ensure “subordinate employees’ use of correct names and pronouns, both written and verbally, to help foster a workplace free of discrimination and harassment.”
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So, yes, people, to say that I have been left speechless by this incredible bull**** is the height of understatement, indeed.
And once again, thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror for being here in its capacity as a GRAND PALLADIUM of our liberty by providing us a forum in which to discuss this absolute weirdness that is infecting our government at its highest level.
Thanks for the update, Mr. Plante! I had started to worry about your absence until you started posting last week. Don’t go away again!
In all truth, Mr. Green, I am finding myself more and more incredulous (unwilling or unable to believe something) and disbelieving as the days go by, as to what passes for “government” in this country today at all levels, which sense of disbelief has rendered me nearly speechless these days, as how can someone, anyone, for that matter, rationally analyze the irrationality that assails us on all fronts today here in this sorry excuse for America.
In his Fabius IV political essay 235 years ago on May 19, 1788, John Dickinson, a man trained by scholars who used his knowledge to think for himself, something we no longer have in this country, and who was known as “The Penman of the Revolution” because he was able to put on paper the thoughts and ideals which formed the foundation for our brand new country, stated that as American citizens, which I no longer think we are, for many reasons, it is OUR collective DUTY to watch, with the eyes of a hawk as I was taught when young, and OUR RIGHT to take care that OUR Constitution be preserved, or in the Roman phrase on perilous occasions — to provide that the Republic receive no damage.
Except we no longer have a Republic.
The Republic as I once knew it is dead and gone, not to return in our lifetimes, such as what are left of them.
Consider Nancy Pelosi on that very subject in an article in The Messenger titled “Pelosi Blasts No Labels: ‘I Can No Longer Remain Silent’” by Kayla Gallagher on 4 November 2023, to wit:
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says she “can no longer remain silent” about her concerns with the group No Labels making a potential presidential bid.
“No Labels is perilous to our democracy,” Pelosi told reporters at a breakfast event with Third Way, a Democratic-centrist group.
“When they jeopardize the reelection of Joe Biden as president of the United States, I can no longer remain silent on that,” she said.
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Think about what she is saying there about how she can no longer remain silent on the fact that she considers No Labels to be perilous to our “democracy,” not our Republic, because they, in her words and her view, jeopardize the reelection of Joe Biden as president of the United States, keeping in mind that she is one of the most powerful politicians in this country, while I am among the most powerless, and were it not for the beneficence (the quality or state of doing or producing good) of the Cape Charles Mirror, I would be absolutely powerless, period.
In her opinion, and consider that her statement about No Labels being in her words perilous to our “democracy” because they jeopardize the reelection of Joe Biden as president of the United States, was NEVER challenged by anyone, even in that very article, ONLY Joe Biden can be the president.
As an American citizen, at least in my mind, I find that to be an extremely dangerous statement and position for her to take, but in this version of America which exists today, HO HUM, BIG DEAL, WHO CARES, because that is the natural order of things and the way things should be, that we should be ruled by an autocratic dictator, because that is really what “democracy” means – ONE MAN RULE.
I started my blogging career as an American citizen on the former John Kerry forum in 2004, which I thought at the time, however naively, revolutionized communications between ordinary citizens in America in ways unseen or likely unheard of since the Forum of Rome in the Republic of Rome.
What I observed during my stint with that forum was the fact that even then, at least in that forum, intellectual liberty, which is to say our right to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction, which liberty provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored, did not exist because of those who were the “moderators” did not allow any criticism whatsoever, however valid, of John Kerry as a presidential candidate.
Any contrary comments were quickly removed by the “mods,” with the offending party who posted them being banned from further participation in the discussion.
From there, I went to a forum called CommonGroundCommonSense, where there was no common sense present that I could see, while so-called common ground was determined by the same “mods” who came over from the John Kerry forum.
That was during the time that Hussein Obama was first running for president, and as was the case with John Kerry, that forum became a Hussein Obama site where no criticism of Hussein was allowed, contrary to a 1919 opinion of United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wherein was stated that suppression of ideas worked a great hardship on society, which happens to be all of us in America, regardless of race, color, creed or national origin.
Another well-respected Supreme Court Justice at that time named Oliver Wendell Holmes rested his First Amendment views on what he called the “marketplace of ideas,” reasoning that because we cannot know immediately which ideas are good and true and useful and which are not, we must let them vie against one another in the faith that after full exposure and discussion, the truth will win out, which has the motive behind my blogging efforts and posting in here over the years I have been associated with this publication, which is unlike any other in America that I am aware of.
Supreme Court Justice Brandeis saw free speech as an essential aspect of citizenship in America, and according to his view, men and women in America both had the duty to be good citizens, which means being informed on the issues confronting us.
Mused the Justice, how can individuals make intelligent decisions about those issues without having basic information about them?
How can citizens, which means all of us, judge which side has the better argument unless we can hear both sides of an argument and then join in the debate with facts?
Justice Brandeis thus provided a positive justification for protection of speech, that being the necessity for the citizenry, which happens to be all of us here in the United States of America, to be fully informed about issues and to be aware of all viewpoints.
But as Nancy Pelosi was making incandescently clear in that Messenger article on 4 November 2023, in her America today, and it is far more hers than ours, that is no longer the case, and no one seems to care!
So at that point, and there is where I see us, what is the sense of speaking out anymore?
People hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest.
In a recent TWEET on mindless TWITTER by Joe Biden, he stated as follows:
“There is truth and there are lies.”
“Lies told for power and for profit.”
“And each of us has a duty and responsibility, as citizens, as Americans, and especially as leaders – leaders who have pledged to honor our Constitution and protect our nation — to defend the truth and to defeat the lies.”
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When it is Joe Biden himself who is telling us all those lies, and they have been coming fast and furiously these last so many weeks, it has become nearly impossible, if not totally impossible, to do that – defend the truth and to defeat the lies.
Hence my silence in here these last so many weeks!
THANKS FOR CARING!
There once was a chap from New Haven,
Who had an affair with a Raven,
As he said with a grin,
While scratching his chin,
NEVERMORE..
Good grief, does this person really want another Nazi state under the mumbling trump and his coterie of idiots?
Mr. Plant should move closer to a psychiatric facility. Or just keep his incorrect ideas to himself.
Where oh where are the politicians and people with ethics, brains, and empathy? Biden is all the USA has, if trump and his lady of the night are back in the White House Heaven help all of us.
Hi, Joyce.
How are you today?
And do people tell you that you seem nice?
They should, you, because anything else wouldn’t be fair or equitable to you.
And you are very articulate, as well, able to use words as you are to make sentences and paragraphs out of.
In fact, the only things lacking are logic and rationality and well, common sense, to0 be truthful, because you see, Joyce Hall, and if you had actually ever read anything I have written over the years in here, and in fact, if you had bothered to read Paul Plante @ JANUARY 5, 2024 AT 10:20 PM, this is what you would have seen on the subject of GOOD GERMANS in response to your irrational and hysterical claim that I want yet another Nazi state beyond this one we have under the mumbling Joe Biden and his coterie of morons and idiots, that one under the mumbling trump and his coterie of idiots, to wit:
Paul Plante says:
It is said that people who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it, but personally, I think people in America who don’t know history are either stupid, like Karine Jean-Pierre, and wish to remain ignorant, or they have been deprived of a proper education to keep them ignorant, so they can’t question what is going on in the world around them – the ideal GOOD AMERICANS, like the GOOD GERMANS in Germany during WWII.
Wikipedia, incidentally, defines GOOD GERMANS as follows: Good Germans is an ironic term — usually placed between single quotes such as ‘Good Germans’ — referring to German citizens during and after World War II who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime, but remained silent and did not resist in a meaningful way.
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I’m not a GOOD AMERICAN, Joyce Hall, so good grief, no, I do NOT really want yet another Nazi state under the mumbling trump and his coterie of idiots?
As to your statement that Mr. Plant(e) (NOTE TO JOYCE: you forgot the “e”) should move closer to a psychiatric facility, how much closer would you advise, and for what possible reason?
And how about this gem from yourself: Or just keep his incorrect ideas to himself.
“Incorrect ideas,” Joyce?
MY “incorrect ideas?”
That sounds exactly what a Nazi would say, Joyce!
Are you then a Nazi?
If not, then why do you talk like one?
And from there we go to this lament of yours, to wit:
Where oh where are the politicians and people with ethics, brains, and empathy?
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Obviously, I’m here, and I may well be one the last of the breed left in America, to be truthful.
As to the rest, instead of liberty, all they want is a kind master who will give them the free ride through life they so desire.
And then we come to this sad reality about America that you have expressed so well and so plaintively that your anguish of your tormented soul is on display for all the candid world to see and feel, to wit: Biden is all the USA has.
To which I respond, and when we are sunk so far down into the muck at the bottom of the political barrel as that, there is no longer any hope whatsoever for this sorry nation in a decline down to third-world ****hole status.
And Joyce, thanks for taking some of your valuable time to come in here and make it crystal clear to the candid world that such is really the case now – that one we have sunk to the level of having Joe Biden as a “leader,” there is no way back from there, and forward is only further down.
It quite frankly amazes me how many people there are in America like Joyce Hall above here who either never were taught a single thing about CITIZENSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES in a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC like ours, and so go through life completely ignorant of them, thinking, as is the case here, that if one like myself is against having this future of this nation in the hands of a senile idiot like Joe Biden, that I therefore have to be for his rival, which is something only an idiot would think, or they rejected those responsibilities out of hand as too much work, preferring a kind master to liberty.
For the record. although I am not at all sure it makes a difference any more, when the willfully ignorant like Joyce Hall now form the voting majority in this sick and sorry corrupt nation, which is how nations become sick and sorry in the first place, a free republic like ours once was, can only endure because citizens appreciate both the rights and the responsibilities necessary to its survival, recognizing liberties and duties.
Thus, acts such as voting, paying taxes, casting educated votes, serving on juries, defending the country in the armed forces, and participating in civic organizations are all important to the continuation of the American constitutional republic.
Casting educated votes does not mean MINDLESSLY voting for either a DEMOCRAT or REPUBLICAN, as poor uninformed Joyce Hall, and so many others like her in this country today seem to believe, and it would be very interesting and informative if people like Joyce would come in here and explain that to the rest of us, why they think and believe in that way, that there are only ever two choices for president in this country from one of the two WORTHLESS political parties which differ in name, only, and we will all be wiser and better for it, as a result.
So where are we, people?
Oh, right!
The MIGRANT CRISIS.
But seriously people, is it really?
Or is it something that is happening BY INTENT on the part of the Democrats for political purposes, and because the Democrats see it as a way to make some coin by following the admonition of Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff for Hussein Obama when Joe Biden was vice-president that “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before?”
First of all, the political exploitation of immigrants by the Democrats is a very well known tactic that goes back in time to the Democrat’s Tammany Hall days in New York City under the corrupt “BOSS” Tweed, a subject that used to be taught in high school history classes.
Consider the Britannica article on the subject titled “Tammany Hall
American political history” last Updated on September 15, 2023 where we learn as follows, to wit:
Tammany Hall, also called Tammany, the executive committee of the Democratic Party in New York City historically exercising political control through the typical “boss-ist” blend of charity and patronage.
In 1805 the Society of St. Tammany obtained from the state legislature a charter of incorporation as a benevolent and charitable body to give relief to members and others.
Politically, the Democratic Party was organized as an apparently distinct body, but the society’s sachems controlled the political mechanism and prevented hostile factions from meeting in the society’s building, Tammany Hall.
In the 1830s the pressures exerted by the Workingmen’s Party and its successor, the Equal Rights Party, forced the general committee of the Democratic Party to oust the banking and merchant leaders.
The election of a grand sachem, Martin Van Buren, as president of the United States in 1836 added to Tammany’s prestige.
Within a few years, however, the immigrant groups, organized into gangs, came under the control of the astute, unscrupulous, and engaging Fernando Wood, several times mayor of New York, who used them to break with and later control Tammany.
Grand Sachem “Boss” William M. Tweed initiated complete boss domination of the Hall in 1868.
Corruption reached a climax under Tweed, when New York City was plundered of more than $200 million.
Tweed died in jail, but most of his confederates retained their wealth.
Throughout the world, Tammany became synonymous with corruption and was the subject of some of Thomas Nast’s most effective cartoons.
And as Wikipedia informs us with respect to exploiting immigrants for political gain, Tammany Hall served as a social integrator for immigrants by familiarizing them with American society and its political institutions and by helping them become naturalized citizens with one example being the naturalization process organized by William M. Tweed, where under Tweed’s regime, “naturalization committees” were established.
These committees were made up primarily of Tammany politicians and employees, and their duties consisted of filling out paperwork, providing witnesses, and lending immigrants money for the fees required to become citizens.
In true Democrat fashion, judges and other city officials were bribed and otherwise compelled to go along with the workings of these committees, and in exchange for all these benefits, immigrants assured Tammany Hall they would vote for their candidates, so that by 1854, the support Tammany Hall received from immigrants would firmly establish the organization as the leader of New York City’s political scene.
So there we have the political template being followed by the Democrats today, albeit it on a national scale.
But these immigrants are also seen as a money maker for the Democrats, as well.
Think I’m kidding, people?
Not a joke!
And for some proof of that assertion, let us simply go to an Albany Times Union article by Joshua Solomon on October 30, 2023 titled “DocGo faces class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of jilted investors” where we learn as follows on that subject, to wit:
ALBANY — Investors have filed a class-action lawsuit against DocGo after the mobile health care company’s stock tumbled following reports of government investigations into its handling of a $432 million migrant services contract and the resignation of its CEO, which was prompted by an admission he lied about his professional biography.
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Yes, people, INVESTORS, which means rent seekers seeking to make some money off this MIGRANT CRISIS they themselves created to exploit.
And what a truly murky and sordid story this is, as can be expected of the Democrats, which takes us back for more, to wit:
The lawsuit alleges DocGo’s top officials engaged in a fraudulent scheme and a “reckless disregard for the truth,” which artificially inflated the publicly traded company’s value.
A spokesman for DocGo did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs, investors in the company from November 2022 to September, are seeking to recoup their financial losses on DocGo’s stock.
The lawsuit details news reports that coincided with the company’s declining value, with its most substantial loss following a Times Union story revealing that the company’s CEO, Anthony Capone, falsified his professional biography and repeatedly lied about details on his resume.
Following the newspaper’s report, Capone resigned.
The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York on Friday.
Capone took over as CEO on Nov. 8, 2022 and resigned on Sept. 15.
He stepped down after New York City Comptroller Brad Lander announced his office would conduct an atypical “real-time audit” of the company’s $432 million contract.
As the controversies mounted, DocGo’s stock fell by more than a third of its value, or more than $3 per share.
The contract with New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development has led to DocGo overseeing the care of thousands of migrants, about half of whom are scattered throughout hotels upstate.
DocGo is required to provide housing, casework, food, access to medical care, security and other services typically offered at a homeless shelter.
New York City is required by a 1981 consent decree to provide shelter to anyone in the city in need of those services.
The lawsuit was filed by the law firms Pomertantz LLP, of Manhattan, and Portnoy Law Firm, of California.
Both firms previously issued news releases announcing they were investigating filing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of what they said were investors wronged by DocGo.
The lead plaintiff is Joe Naclerio, who possessed 500 shares of DocGo that were purchased between November 2022 and March.
The lawsuit alleges there may be hundreds of thousands of other investors who have been financially harmed and would qualify to have their interests represented in the class-action case.
The lawsuit alleges DocGo senior leadership had “knowledge of the details of DocGo’s internal affairs.”
The defendants had “both the motive and opportunity to commit fraud,” according to the complaint.
“They also had actual knowledge of the misleading nature of the statements they made, or acted in reckless disregard of the true information known to them at the time,” the lawsuit alleges.
Last month, the Times Union reported that the company’s CEO had not attended the graduate university he stated he went to or earned a master’s degree, as he told investors.
The institution where he previously said he earned his undergraduate degree also could not confirm he graduated from there, although Capone said he does have a degree from an accredited university.
Capone told investors at an August conference about his alleged graduate degree in artificial intelligence when discussing his prior role as the company’s chief technology officer.
He had touted how DocGo’s artificial intelligence technology set it apart from its peers.
“I’ve been with the company since pretty much the beginning,” Capone said at the Aug. 9 conference.
“But the most important thing to understand is why all of that works — why we can scale so rapidly, 30, 40 percent growth year-over-year, why we can deliver care to some of the most difficult, challenged populations, why we can do so with a high degrees of efficiency and generating good returns for the investors that have taken risks on DocGo is because of our technology.”
“And that’s where I really came in originally,” Capone continued.
“We started the company” I was our chief technology officer.”
“My graduate degree is in computational learning theory, which is a subset of artificial intelligence.”
Capone’s comments at the conference included other misrepresentations, which the newspaper previously reported.
Despite his assertion the company was bidding for a $4 billion contract for medical services at the southern border, multiple sources familiar with the contract, including a spokeswoman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the contract was for about half of that value.
A spokesman for the company contended the contract was worth $4 billion but refused to provide evidence to support that claim.
“These are facts,” spokesman Michael Padovano had said, but added he was not “at liberty” to share further information.
Capone also described a health insurance plan in which “we have already signed up over 3,000 asylum seekers onto New York state Medicaid through UnitedHealthcare.”
Padovano said the company does not enroll anyone onto health insurance.
After the newspaper reported his falsified professional biography — misrepresenations that were on the company’s website, a resume Capone attached to a COVID-19 services procurement document with New Jersey and in a filing with the U.S. Security Exchange Commission — DocGo announced that he had stepped down and would be replaced as CEO.
Capone has since been brought back to work at the company through March as a consultant for about $225,000, according to a public filing by the company earlier this month.
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Yes, people, America – the land of never-ending investor scams, but this story of making money off of immigrants continues, so please, stay tuned for more is yet to come!
So, as we consider this Docgo fiasco, or perhaps more appropriately, investment scam, here is a question with respect to these illegal immigrants being allowed into our country by Joe Biden as an investment opportunity, to wit:
WHAT IS AN INVESTOR?
And that answer is a person or organization that puts money into financial plans, property, etc. with the expectation of achieving a profit.
And a profit, of course, is defined as obtaining a financial advantage or benefit, especially from an investment.
So we have people investing in Docgo with the expectation of making money off the deal.
But what is the “deal” they are going to make money off of?
And here is where it gets really murky.
To understand what is going on here, we have to understand that these people here in our country illegally are entitled to free housing and free food, and of course, somebody has to provide that free shelter and free food, and that is where the profits are going to come from.
Now, finding out all the details is difficult here, because last spring, NYC officials raised eyebrows when they declared a state of emergency and awarded DocGo a $432 million no-bid contract to house migrants and provide them with services including case management, medical care, food, transportation, lodging and round-the-clock security.
And two years ago, on November 8, 2021, DocGo’s common stock and warrants began trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbols “DCGO” and “DCGOW”, respectively, which means that Docgo is a for-profit company.
And who caused the “emergency” that required NYC to award a for-profit company a $432 million no-bid contract to house migrants and provide them with services including case management, medical care, food, transportation, lodging and round-the-clock security?
Why, that would be Joe Biden, of course.
Stay tuned.
Think I’m kidding, people, about there being HUGE COIN to be made thanks to this MIGRANT CRISIS created by Joe Biden and the Democrats?
Not a joke!
And for some proof of that assertion, let us go to an Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on September 1, 2023 titled “DocGo in the running for $4 billion contract for migrant services – DocGo CEO says NYC migrant work helps the company’s multi-billion dollar bid for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol contract,” where we have more on that story, as follows, keeping in mind that Docgo’s migrant work in NY was as the result of a no-bid contract worked out in typical Democrat fashion in a smoke-filled backroom somewhere in the bowels of NYC, to wit:
ALBANY — DocGo CEO Anthony Capone is seeking to turn a $432 million migrant shelter contract with New York City into a $4 billion contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide health care for those crossing the border.
And as part of the work, Capone said his publicly traded company is signing up migrants in its care for Medicaid plans.
Becoming their primary care provider, he said, can yield monthly member reimbursement for the company.
Capone detailed how his for-profit company stands to benefit financially from the shelter contract during a one-on-one interview last month at the Canaccord Genuity 43rd annual growth conference, which is held by an investment banking and financial services company.
“We did this, in large part, because it gave us all of the credibility to win the Border Patrol” contract, Capone said.
“Now that we are one of the largest care providers for asylum seekers in the country, it gives us enormous credibility.”
“And we have references from the city who handles the largest amount.”
Capone expects the federal contract to be awarded this month.
The five-year contract is for providing medical services at the southern border.
DocGo recently submitted its application, Capone said, after working on it for about eight months.
The federal government previously awarded the contract, but a company formally protested the award, restarting the bid process and, as a byproduct, giving DocGo a second chance with the New York City migrant work to cite at the top of its resume.
“We have all this expectation now,” Capone said.
“Our application is a lot stronger.”
The comments from Capone came as DocGo has faced intense public scrutiny over its New York City migrant shelter contract.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has been skeptical of the company’s handling of the migrant services, which has included busing thousands of migrants upstate and putting them in hotels.
The office of Attorney General Letitia James launched an investigation related to the DocGo contract, which includes an order to the company to cease any limits on the free movement or speech of the migrants in its care.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, after initial reports that called into question DocGo’s work, said while the city will “scrutinize them,” he has confidence in the company that has done a “herculean job.”
“City officials are well-aware of this program’s success as exemplified last week when Mayor Adams reiterated his confidence in our partnership during a press conference where he praised our work, describing it as a herculean effort to help the city with this humanitarian crisis,” Capone said during an investor call on Aug. 7, in which the company reported record earnings over the last financial quarter.
Two days later, Capone sat down for a 25-minute interview at the Canaccord Genuity conference, where he explained the company’s business plan with the migrant crisis.
Asked whether the company expects a dip in revenue after its $432 million contract with New York City expires, Capone said he had a “high degree of confidence” it will stay strong.
“Just look the macro factors here,” he said, pointing to the political gridlock around the southern border.
“There’s almost no chance that there’s going to be federal legislation which solves this problem,” Capone said.
“Almost none.”
“All you have to do is understand the dilemmas with each one of the solutions and know that it will not happen.”
“It’s certainly not happening before the next election cycle.”
“But I doubt it will happen ever.”
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Which means the cash flow generated by Joe Biden’s intentional MIGRANT CRISIS is guaranteed to go on forever, and meanwhile, with respect to who is really putting the money in the pockets of these investors, we learn from an article in The Hill titled “White House says assistance to New York for migrant influx depends on Congress” by Nick Robertson on 08/26/23 that as of that date, Joe Biden, the creator of this MIGRANT CRISIS politically-connected Docgo is cashing in on, the we, the American people have already sent $140 million in federal funds to New York City assist migrants, the largest amount for any city not on the U.S.-Mexico border, to make sure that these illegals have better treatment than an American citizens, with respect to free housing, free food and free medical care.
And such is considered “EQUITY” today in the America of Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior!
But please stay tuned, because there is more, much more, yet to come.
I don’t know about anybody else either in here, or out there, but as an older American with knowledge of this country’s history from its earliest days to the present, as well as the history of other civilizations back through history, including of course, the Romans, and the Greeks, and the Chinese, I can’t believe how far down this nation has come in terms of intelligence and knowledge in my lifetime of a little over three quarters of a century, to the point of where nothing anymore transpiring in this sick and sorry nation with all of it many crises and national security issues, and this present incumbent reminds me of that point in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” itself a story of a society in the same state of decline as is now going on in America when the incompetent Mr. Thompson was the chief executive of that fictional version of America which so resembles this actual version of America today.
And since we are dealing with Joe Biden’s self-created MIGRANT CRISIS, let’s consider these following words in a TWEET on mindless TWITTER by Democrat big dog Charley “Chuck” Schumer @SenSchumer, to wit:
The Acting Head of the Border Patrol @CBP just confirmed to me that the vast majority of migrants coming to the United States are NOT criminals.
These are human beings fleeing danger.
They deserve to be treated humanely and with respect.
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Human beings, people?
My goodness, but aren’t we all?
And that TWEET by Charley “Chuck” in turn brings us to an article in the Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on October 4, 2023 titled “Colonie police arrest numerous migrants at shelter hotel – Charges range from assault to robbery as a series of incidents, including knife fight and alleged rape, unfold at migrant hotel,” where we learn about these migrants that the Acting Head of the Border Patrol @CBP had confirmed to Charley “Chuck” were NOT criminals, but ordinary human beings instead, as if human beings could not be criminals of any kind, which is ridiculous thought, because every criminal is in fact a human being, to wit:
COLONIE — Colonie police have made a series of arrests in the past week at a Wolf Road hotel where more than 100 migrants have been staying since May.
The charges have ranged from misdemeanor assault to felony assault and rape allegedly committed by a non-citizen who was working at the hotel but not staying there under the migrant sheltering program.
Another arrest was made off-site when a Venezuelan migrant staying at the hotel was charged with assault and robbery after allegedly attacking employees at a nearby mobile wireless service store where he was accused of smashing items and forcibly taking money from the cash register.
That person also had been arrested twice in New York City over the summer for charges of assault and forgery, before being transported to the Colonie hotel as part of New York City’s migrant relocation program, police said.
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This, people, is so DEMOCRAT, so Joe Biden, and so Charley “CHUCK” Schumer – just some ordinary human beings here, people nothing to be concerned about, because these are not criminals, they are human beings fleeing danger and so they deserve to be treated humanely and with respect, even if we who are their victims are not in return treated with respect by them.
Going back to that story of Joe Biden’s beloved migrants, we have more as follows, to wit:
Deputy Police Chief Robert H. Winn said another incident over the weekend resulted in the arrest of two migrants on assault and weapons possession charges when they allegedly brandished knives during a fight that broke out during a party.
On Thursday, another Venezuelan migrant was charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly striking his girlfriend with a set of keys, according to police.
In the rape case, the suspect is accused of entering the room of a hotel patron and sexually assaulting her.
About 2,000 migrants are staying at hotels across upstate New York under the oversight of DocGo, a publicly traded health care company that was awarded a $432 million no-bid contract by New York City for the services.
The company has faced intense public scrutiny for its taxpayer-funded care of migrants, criticism which officials there reject.
Migrants were bused to the Albany area after initially going through an intake process in New York City, which has had a right-to-shelter consent decree with the Legal Aid Society since 1981.
Migrants are housed by the city while they are effectively homeless, as they are unable to work lawful jobs while they await to potentially seek asylum.
New York City officials did not initially respond to a request for comment about whether it was notified of any incidents involving police this past week.
DocGo is contractually required to immediately notify the city of any incidents involving law enforcement, including providing a detailed description of the incident and a follow-up plan.
“The spate of crimes reported in the Times Union are troubling and shine a light on how unfeasible it is to drop migrants who can’t legally work or drive at suburban hotels far from needed support services,” state Sen. Jake Ashby, R-Castleton, said in a statement.
Ashby, whose district includes the SureStay hotel, renewed his push for a special legislative session that his fellow Republicans want.
The town had previously filed code violations against the Wolf Road hotel where busloads of migrants from New York City had been dropped off since late May, prompting an unrelated legal battle in state Supreme Court between Colonie officials and Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.
Court records indicate two code violations were served over the summer on Amandeep Dhillon, whose family owns the SureStay Plus Hotel by Best Western at 200 Wolf Road, where dozens of migrants have been living since Memorial Day weekend.
Additional busloads of migrants from New York City arrived there on Thursday and late Sunday; there are now more than 100 migrants staying at the hotel, including at least 50 children, according to town officials.
The SureStay’s operators are accused of violating a town ordinance that prohibits guests from staying in a hotel for more than 28 consecutive days.
A second violation filed in Town Court accuses hotel officials of refusing to allow Deputy Police Chief Robert H. Winn to review the guest registry when he went there June 30.
The 28-day lodging limit and the ability of town police or building department officials to review hotel registries were both enacted in town ordinances adopted about seven years ago.
Dhillon previously declined to comment and referred comment to his attorney, Todd E. Soloway, who did not respond to a request for comment.
The court records in the code violations’ case, which has a return date of September, indicate Winn was assured several months ago by Anthony Capone, the former chief executive officer of DocGo, a company hired by New York City to help facilitate the transportation and lodging of thousands of migrants, that the first group at the SureStay hotel would not remain there for more than 27 days.
An affidavit attributed to Winn in Town Court says his conversation with Capone took place May 27, the same day that Winn told the general manager of the hotel about the town’s 28-day lodging limit.
In June, Winn said he had visited the hotel periodically and “personally observed security guards associated with DocGo and other individuals residing at SureStay, indicating the ongoing presence of (the) same individuals at the SureStay for more than 28 consecutive days.”
Capone resigned from DocGo last month following a Times Union story that reported he had lied about his professional biography.
The newspaper also reported that Capone misrepresented information about the company’s business plan to investors.
On June 19, according to Winn’s affidavit, he said the hotel manager told him it’s “in the hands of counsel for the hotel” when the deputy chief called him and reminded him of the town’s occupancy rules.
Winn said that on June 30 the hotel declined to provide him with a copy of its guest registry.
In an interview, he said that attorneys for the hotel’s operators told him they would not provide that list unless he had a search warrant.
The standoff between the town and the Wolf Road hotel is unfolding as Colonie is also involved in litigation in which multiple counties have filed lawsuits or issued executive orders seeking to block New York City from relocating migrants in their communities without ample notification and coordination.
The crisis in New York City has continued and multiple cities across the U.S. are seeing a similar influx as record levels of migrants continue to cross the southern border.
New York City’s attorneys have also accused the local communities of citing a false narrative that they are being burdened by the presence of the migrants.
The city, and the state of New York with the assistance of federal aid, have been assuming the fiscal responsibility for the migrants’ lodging, transportation and food.
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Yes, people, we, the AMERICAN PEOPLE who are federal taxpayers, or taxpayers in New York state, and who have to provide for ourselves with respect to food and lodging, are the ones paying the freight for this FIASCO created by Joe Biden and his pack of Democrats.
But people, sleep sound tonight knowing that that is how EQYUITY works in Jor Biden’s America today – from those who have to those who want what the others have and have Joe Biden there to get it for them.
And talk about outright contempt for law and order and the public’s safety by Joe Biden and his pack of Demo0crats who are spitting in our eyes with this MIGRANT CRISIS they created so as to have yet another CRISIS they can now milk for all it is worth as they ship these migrants they let in to the country around like cattle, let us go back for the moment to the article in the Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on October 4, 2023 titled “Colonie police arrest numerous migrants at shelter hotel – Charges range from assault to robbery as a series of incidents, including knife fight and alleged rape, unfold at migrant hotel,” where we have as follows concerning these migrants that the Acting Head of the Border Patrol @CBP had confirmed to Charley “Chuck” were NOT criminals, but ordinary human beings instead, to wit:
Another arrest was made off-site when a Venezuelan migrant staying at the hotel was charged with assault and robbery after allegedly attacking employees at a nearby mobile wireless service store where he was accused of smashing items and forcibly taking money from the cash register.
That person also had been arrested twice in New York City over the summer for charges of assault and forgery, before being transported to the Colonie hotel as part of New York City’s migrant relocation program, police said.
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That, people, is frankly incredible and totally irresponsible, which two wo9rds serve to describe the totality of the federal government today under Joe Biden and the Democrats – NOT WORTH A DAMN!
SO YES, PEOPLE, LET’S SHIP THESE CRIMINALS AROUND IN OUR COUNTRY AND STICK THEM IN OUR COMMUNITIES SO THEY CAN COMMIT THEIR CRIMES AND DO HARM TO US WHO HAVE THE ADDED INDIGNITY OF HAVING TO PAY FOR THESE CRIMINAL’S FOOD AND SHELTER WHILE JOE BIDEN LETS THEM RUN FREE TO COMMIT THEIR CRIMES INSTEAD OF INCARCERATING THEM BECAUSE TO JOE BIDEN, CHARLEY “CHUCK” SCHUMER AND THE DEMOCRATS, THEY ARE SPECIAL, AND DESERVING OF ALL OUR LOVE AND AFFECTION BECAUSE UNLIKE US AMERICAN CITIZENS, THESE CRIMINALS ARE HONEST-TO-GOSH HUMAN BEINGS!
And thanks to the United States Supreme Court, it has now been proven conclusively that feeding off the taxpayers is not a federal offense, while at the same time, we, the American people, have no right to expect honest services from our public servants, which means there is no bar to public servants at the federal or state level giving us dishonest services instead, given that bribes are really the grease that keeps the machinery of government running smoothly, which takes us to an article in the Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on October 7, 2023 titled “DocGo often billing twice what it’s paid for staff in NYC migrant contract –
Publicly traded health care company stands to profit off crisis under $432M contract,” where we learn about how this DocGo really makes it money off these migrants while if feeds off the federal taxpayers thanks to Joe Biden, to wit:
ALBANY — A security company posted an ad with Craigslist in search of a “dedicated and vigilant” credentialed security officer, who will “play a crucial role in maintaining a safe and secure environment for our clients and their properties.”
The top benefit?
A “competitive salary” of $22.20 per hour working for the Bronx-based A&H Security Services.
Anyone who secured an interview could potentially land a job patrolling hotels where migrants have been sheltering for months under the oversight of DocGo — the publicly traded company that secured a no-bid $432 million contract with New York City in May.
The catch?
DocGo can bill New York City $50 an hour for security guards, according to a copy of the contract obtained by the Times Union through a Freedom of Information Law request.
The low wages and high billing rate is part of a pattern for DocGo under its contract with New York City to oversee thousands of migrants upstate and in the New York City area.
DocGo often bills the city twice what it pays employees, according to a review of job postings as well as interviews with both current and former employees and immigration advocates familiar with the company’s work.
The discrepancies raise additional questions about whether the city, and by extension the state, are getting a good value for taxpayers at a time when budget officials have called for either cuts or freezes in future spending — as a result of extraordinary public expenditures resulting from the immigration crisis.
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HUH?
The discrepancies raise additional questions about whether the city, and by extension the state, are getting a good value for taxpayers at a time when budget officials have called for either cuts or freezes in future spending as a result of extraordinary public expenditures resulting from the immigration crisis?
Are these people crazy?
Are they insane?
NO, THEY ARE NOT GETTING A GOOD DEAL FOR TAXPAYERS, NOR DO THE Y GIVE A DAMN, FOR THE TAXPAYERS ARE THERE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GETTING FLEECED IN ORDER TO PUT PROFITS INTO THE POCKETS OF THE INVESTORS INTO DOCGO, SO THE SKY IS THE LIMIT!
Going back to the story, it continues as follows, and again, keep in mind that we are talking about a no-bid, sweetheart political deal here, to wit:
Government contracts with nonprofits do not typically involve a 100 percent markup for services, even when accounting for insurance and other additional costs.
But DocGo is a not a nonprofit, even though it’s doing the type of work normally handled by that sector.
If the contract was competitively bid, and not awarded on an emergency basis, the markup for services would be heavily scrutinized by a comptroller, said John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, a good government group.
Kaehny, who previously specialized in contract procurement, lamented about the dynamic in place instead, which has proliferated since the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Both the governor and the mayor still have extensive powers to enter into contracts without basically any review,” Kaehny said.
“And DocGo is a classic example of why that’s a bad thing.”
Mike Garcia, with A&H Security Services, declined to comment on Friday.
Typically, companies contracted to work with DocGo agree not to speak negatively about the company as a condition of being their subcontractor.
A DocGo spokesman, Michael Padovano, described the analysis as “overly simplistic” and said it “does not accurately reflect the services being provided throughout New York.”
“It does not address the myriad of complexities associated with an effort of this size and scale — from overhead costs, technology systems and rapid deployment expenses to the nuances of regional market rates and the assumption of risk for future uncertainties,” said Padovano, who is contracted by DocGo and works for the public relations firm 5WPR.
Padovano said that the rates “reflect reflect both the operational demands and unique challenges of this ongoing humanitarian crisis, including the urgency, scale, and continuous 24/7/365 service delivery.”
The DocGo spokesman did not dispute the pay rates for employees.
DocGo is hiring a field supervisor in Schenectady for $25 to $28 an hour, which is far less than the $83 an hour it can bill under its contract for supervisors.
DocGo’s subsidiary, Rapid Reliable Testing, was hiring a licensed practical nurse for $37 an hour in Albany, when it can bill for $90 an hour.
Caseworkers working for a subcontractor, Platinum Community Care, are making between $24 and $28 an hour, according to a person familiar with the matter; DocGo can bill $75 an hour for caseworkers.
Officials with New York City did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
City officials previously defended the rate being paid to DocGo for hotel rooms — $170 per night.
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Yes, people, that’s the way you do it here in Joe Biden’s brave new world where we have homeless veterans Joe Biden doesn’t give a damn about living on the street, you feed off the taxpayers, because, hey, that’s the reason they exist, as sheep to be sheared!
So how are these migrants Charley “CHUCK” Schumer calls human beings, as if we born here American citizens are something else other than human beings who the Biden administration is shipping around the country at taxpayer expense like cattle really being treated for the exorbitant money being paid to investors that we are being charged to treat them?
For a glimpse at that answer, let’s go to an Albany, New York Times Union article by Maria M. Silva and Steve Hughes on October 24, 2023 titled “Migrants decry poor conditions at Rotterdam Super 8 motel” where we learn as follows from the perspective of the migrants the Biden administration treats like cattle, to wit:
ROTTERDAM — A group of at least 20 asylum-seekers staying at a Super 8 motel in Rotterdam protested outside the building Monday evening over their mounting frustrations with their treatment.
The migrants said they are frustrated with delays in processing their immigration paperwork and described poor conditions at the motel, including allegations of bed bugs, a lack of heating, water or medical assistance.
The group spoke to two Times Union reporters in Spanish as they stood along Carman Road holding signs written in English laying out some of their complaints.
“There are people inside the hotel who are afraid because the woman in charge, the director of the hotel is threatening us that if we go out, they’re kicking us out of the program,” one of the migrants said.
All of the migrants at the protest who spoke with the Times Union asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from employees of DocGo, the company that New York City contracted with to oversee the massive influx of arrivals in the city.
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Yes, people, this is the humane treatment for these people we are paying for, at top dollar that the Biden administration is providing for them, but let’s go back for more, to wit:
Among the migrants are Venezuelans and Colombian nationals.
Some of the migrants who spoke on Monday said they are frustrated with the lack of information about their cases and the workers at the hotel who are supposed to be helping them.
“Honestly, what we want is to work so we can be independent and give our children a good future,” one woman said.
“We really need an ID, paperwork, something that identifies us.”
“We are in a lot of need.”
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Aren’t there a bunch of actual Americans in a lot of need, as well?
Going back for more, we have, to wit:
Some of the complaints mirror those voiced by migrants at other area hotels overseen by DocGo.
Last month, New York City officials said DocGo was “refining” its operations.
The state attorney general’s office previously told DocGo to cease any limitations on the freedom of movement or speech of migrants under its care.
DocGo has severed ties with two security companies it had employed but were found by the state Department of State to not be properly licensed.
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What a slipshod operation this is, which is the HALLMARK of anything and everything Joe Biden gets his hands on or gets involved with, which again takes us back to that story, to wit:
Early this month, the Times Union reported that a longtime immigration attorney, who is representing at least eight migrants in the Ramada Plaza by Wyndham Albany, said staff at the DocGo-run shelter sought to deny the ability of his clients to be represented by outside counsel for their work authorization application.
DocGo did not respond Tuesday to requests for comment on concerns at the Rotterdam Super 8.
The migrants arrived at the Rotterdam motel in July, two months after New York City began sending hundreds of migrants upstate.
It is one of the motels in the Capital Region hosting migrant children, with more than five dozen enrolling in the Mohonasen school district.
The other migrants are housed in motels in Colonie and Albany.
The protesters said many of their complaints are about the lack of care the children are receiving.
Many of them are sick and their parents are frustrated that they can’t work to earn money to buy basic medical care.
About a half dozen children without coats rode bicycles in the motel parking lot.
Area nonprofits have been collecting and distributing donations to get the migrants basic supplies.
“I haven’t been to the doctor,” one woman said.
“I requested an appointment last month because my kid has a toothache and you know when they gave it to me?”
“For Nov. 30.”
“Tell me what I should do.”
“We asked everybody: the director, the supervisor, nobody does anything.”
Another concern is the quality of food the migrants are served.
They described being supplied with frozen meals that they compared to dog food.
They use an outdoor fountain for drinking water and are often asked to switch rooms because the hotel is dealing with a bedbug infestation, they said.
“It’s like a chess game.”
“One day, we’re in one room and the next day, we’re in another (room) because bed bugs are everywhere,” one woman said.
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Yes, people, thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror, we are getting a real education here as to how the Biden administration is using these migrants as nothing more than pawns in a political game that is looting our treasury to enrichen investors in Joe’s money-making scheme called the MIGRANT CRSIS in America, a CRISIS created by Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS to be milked for all it is worth.
And while we are on the subject of feeding off the taxpayers being no crime in Joe Biden’s America today, coupled with us having absolutely no right whatsoever to an expectation of honest services from public servants and officials in the Biden regime, to see how this MIGRANT CRISIS SCAM cooked up by Joe Biden and the Democrats to enrichen some POLITICALLY-CONNECTED INVESTORS in this country at taxpayer expense as Joe and the Democrats run these non-citizen MIGRANTS around the country as if they were cattle, which is what they are to Joe Biden and the Democrats who see them as the CASH COWS they really are, allows this politically-connected DocGo outfit to feed off the American taxpayers while helping Joe and the Democrats to loot our treasury to their benefit and our detriment, let us go back for a moment to an Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on September 1, 2023 titled “DocGo in the running for $4 billion contract for migrant services – DocGo CEO says NYC migrant work helps the company’s multi-billion dollar bid for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol contract,” where we this following to consider, to wit:
ALBANY — DocGo CEO Anthony Capone is seeking to turn a $432 million migrant shelter contract with New York City into a $4 billion contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide health care for those crossing the border.
And as part of the work, Capone said his publicly traded company is signing up migrants in its care for Medicaid plans.
Becoming their primary care provider, he said, can yield monthly member reimbursement for the company.
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Signing up these illegals in its care for Medicaid plans and thereby becoming their primary care provider, can yield monthly member reimbursement for the for-profit POLITICALLY-CONNECTED DocGo company with its NO-BID CONTRACT so that DocGo can make a profit for its INVESTORS?
How about that, people – these migrants who are here in our country illegally because Joe Biden and the Democrats simply opened our border and allowed them to flood across, no questi0ns asked, are entitled to Medicare paid for by the American taxpayers, and meanwhile, we read in a US News &World Report article titled “Paperwork Causing Many Americans to Lose Medicaid Coverage, White House Warns” by Cara Murez, HealthDay Reporter, on July 31, 2023, as follows:
MONDAY, July 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Large numbers of Americans who were dropped from Medicaid this spring lost their coverage because of paperwork problems, and not because they weren’t still eligible for the public health insurance program.
“I am deeply concerned about high rates of procedural terminations due to ‘red tape’ and other paperwork issues,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra wrote in a letter sent Friday to all governors, the Associated Press reported.
The changes are happening now because a prohibition on removing Medicaid coverage during the pandemic has now been lifted.
States have now begun doing annual eligibility redeterminations.
Among 18 states that began this review in April, about 1 million people continued to receive their health coverage, the AP reported.
Another 715,000 lost that coverage, but in 4 of 5 cases that was for procedural reasons, according to data from the federal U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Becerra encouraged governors to make efforts to keep people on Medicaid, including by using electronic information from federal programs, such as food stamps, to confirm eligibility.
Many may be “caught in a bureaucratic nightmare of confusing forms, notices sent to wrong addresses and other errors,” said Michelle Levander, founding director of the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California.
The AP and health care advocacy group gathered data showing that about 3.7 million people already have lost Medicaid coverage, including about 500,000 in Texas, 400,000 in Florida and 225,000 in California.
In California, 89% of those cuts were for procedural reasons.
That was true also for 81% in Texas and 59% in Florida, according to the AP.
Even though people who were incorrectly dropped can regain their coverage if they prove eligibility within 90 days, there are still issues, according to advocates.
“State government is not necessarily nimble,” Keesa Smith, executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, told the AP.
“When individuals are being dis-enrolled, the biggest concern … is that there is not a fast track to get those individuals back on the rolls.”
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And the moral of that story is that if you want good benefits provided for you, it is really better to be in this country as an illegal alien than it is to be here as a citizen.
And thanks once again to the Cape Charles Mirror for affording us this rare opportunity to examine in detail this MIGRANT CRISIS that has been intentionally created by Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS as a money-making operation in perpetuity, which to Joe and the DEMOCRATS, means forever, as they treat these migrants like cattle, shipping them here and there, while denying them humane treatment, including making them, in the words of the migrants, have to eat dog food as their means of sustenance.
Think I’m kidding, people, when I say this is a SCAM?
Not a joke!
And for proof of that assertion, let’s go back to an Albany, New York Times Union by Joshua Solomon on September 1, 2023 titled “DocGo in the running for $4 billion contract for migrant services – DocGo CEO says NYC migrant work helps the company’s multi-billion dollar bid for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol contract,” where we have the CON MAN Anthony Capone bragging to investors about how successful his operation was, and why it was a good investment to get in on the ground floor of, to wit:
ALBANY — DocGo CEO Anthony Capone is seeking to turn a $432 million migrant shelter contract with New York City into a $4 billion contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide health care for those crossing the border.
Capone detailed how his for-profit company stands to benefit financially from the shelter contract during a one-on-one interview last month at the Canaccord Genuity 43rd annual growth conference, which is held by an investment banking and financial services company.
“We did this, in large part, because it gave us all of the credibility to win the Border Patrol” contract, Capone said.
“Now that we are one of the largest care providers for asylum seekers in the country, it gives us enormous credibility.”
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One of the largest care providers for asylum seekers in the country?
Do tell, dude, except from what we have been reading in here, these migrants you are feeding off of courtesy of the American taxpayers are virtual prisoners of yours who are getting substandard care for the exorbitant fees you are charging for their care, including having then eat dog food.
“And it gives us enormous credibility?”
With the Joe Biden regime, it does, but not with the rest of us in this country footing the bill for this SCAM, which takes us back for more, to wit:
“City officials are well-aware of this program’s success as exemplified last week when Mayor Adams reiterated his confidence in our partnership during a press conference where he praised our work, describing it as a herculean effort to help the city with this humanitarian crisis,” Capone said during an investor call on Aug. 7, in which the company reported record earnings over the last financial quarter.
Two days later, Capone sat down for a 25-minute interview at the Canaccord Genuity conference, where he explained the company’s business plan with the migrant crisis.
Asked whether the company expects a dip in revenue after its $432 million contract with New York City expires, Capone said he had a “high degree of confidence” it will stay strong.
“Just look the macro factors here,” he said, pointing to the political gridlock around the southern border.
“There’s almost no chance that there’s going to be federal legislation which solves this problem,” Capone said.
“Almost none.”
“All you have to do is understand the dilemmas with each one of the solutions and know that it will not happen.”
“It’s certainly not happening before the next election cycle.”
“But I doubt it will happen ever.”
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And it won’t happen, people, because Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS DO NOT want it to happen, because right now, this MIGRANT CRISIS is a real solid moneymaker for too many people to bring it to an end, which takes us to a New York Post article titled “Migrant crisis has US taxpayers on the hook for up to $451B, House GOP report says” by Josh Christenson on November 13, 2023, where we have some essential truth about the costs to us as a people and as a nation as a result of Joe Biden’s self-created MIGRANT CRISIS revealed, to wit:
Americans could pay up to $451 billion to care for migrants who entered the US illegally, but have been released into the country or escaped from custody, according to a new report due out Monday from House Republicans and obtained exclusively by The Post.
“Every day, millions of American taxpayer dollars are spent on costs directly associated with illegal immigration and the unprecedented crisis at the Southwest border sparked by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ policies,” the House Homeland Security Committee interim staff report states.
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And let’s be crystal clear here, people – these are Joe Biden’s policies, or they wouldn’t be happening, given Joe Biden’s autocratic nature which has him a virtual control freak with respect to every single detail of his regime, which takes us back for more, to wit:
“Only a small fraction is ever recouped from the taxes paid by illegal aliens, with the rest falling on the shoulders of American citizens and lawful residents,” it adds.
Compiled from federal and state records, media reports and other public information, the 50-page document outlines the taxpayer costs incurred in medical care, housing, education and other welfare benefits for tens of millions of migrants — to say nothing of the additional costs for law enforcement.
“This report reveals in painstaking detail the dollar costs facing the American people every day that this chaos continues, both in small towns on the border and in big cities like New York,” Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) told The Post.
The bill for government care and housing could total as much as $451 billion per year nationwide for apprehended migrants and known “gotaways” who have entered the US since 2021, according to figures the House panel cites from the Center for Immigration Studies.
Between 16.8 million and 29 million illegal immigrants currently reside in the US, according to estimates the committee cites from the conservative Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and Yale University, 3.8 million of which have entered since President Biden took office in January 2021.
Mayorkas revealed during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing last month that more than 600,000 migrants have come into the country in fiscal year 2023 without being apprehended by border agents.
That’s in addition to another 900,000 who entered the US legally and applied for asylum before being released, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.
Biden, 80, asked Congress last month to pass $14 billion in additional border security funding to aid the processing of migrants, reimburse state and local governments and non-governmental organizations and provide other services.
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Yes, people, the SELF-CREATED BIDEN MIGRANT CRISIS that will never end as Joe blows though taxpayer dollars like a drunken sailor on a spree in a whorehouse town for which we are getting the bill!
Think I’m kidding, people, when I say that Joe Biden is blowing through our taxpayer dollars like a drunken sailor on a spree in a whorehouse town with all of his many CRISES for which we are getting stuck with the bill?
Not a joke, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US budget gap narrows in October due to delayed tax payments” on November 13, 2023, where we learn about the real harm Joe Biden is doing to our future as a people and as a nation with his profligate BORROW-AND-SPEND BIDE-O-NISM, to wit:
The report was released on the heels of ratings agency Moody’s announcement on Friday that it had lowered its outlook on the U.S. credit rating to “negative” from “stable,” citing large fiscal deficits and a decline in debt affordability.
It also followed data last month showing the deficit in fiscal 2023, which ended Sept. 30, was the largest outside the COVID-19 era at nearly $1.7 trillion.
Outlays, meanwhile, rose 16% to $470 billion, with a $41 billion year-over-year increase in interest payments on the U.S. government’s debt accounting for about two-thirds of the net increase of $64 billion.
Interest costs have surged since March 2022 when the Federal Reserve kicked off an aggressive campaign to rein in inflation, resulting in the U.S. central bank’s benchmark overnight interest rate shooting up by 5.25 percentage points.
With the average interest rate on the $26 trillion of outstanding Treasury securities up to 3.05% from 2.19% in October of last year, that trajectory is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, Treasury officials said.
Interest on the debt, at $89 billion, was the second largest outlay in October after monthly Social Security payments of $118 billion.
A year ago, interest on the debt was exceeded by Social Security, national defense spending and the combined total of the government-run Medicaid and Medicare health insurance programs.
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And anyone who thinks any of that is good for our future as a nation and as a people has to be a dyed-in-the-wool mindless Democrat and Biden supporter who is an idiotic moron incapable to rational or logical thought.
And here, given that I am an ardent student of history, to see the harm Joe Biden’s self-created MIGRANT CRISIS has in turn created for our nation, what I would like to do is to go to an article published in The Conversation titled “Immigration: How ancient Rome dealt with the Barbarians at the gate” published on February 13, 2019 by Cavan W. Concannon, Associate Professor of Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, as follows:
A caravan of Goths – the Thervingi and the Greuthungi – were massing along the Danube river, at the border of the Roman Empire.
This was not an invading army, but men, women, and children fleeing the enemy at their backs: a seemingly invincible army of Huns.
The Goths, a coalition of Germanic tribes that were long foes of the Romans, begged to be admitted to Roman territory.
Afraid for their lives, they hoped to find safety on the other side of the river.
The year was 376.
What the Romans did in response to the arrival of the Goths would have profound effects on the history of the vast and powerful Roman Empire.
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And what Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS are doing in response to this flood of migrants from South America who have literally been invited here by Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS is going to have profound effects on the history of the United States, and let there be absolutely no doubts about that, whatsoever, which takes us back to that article for more, as follows:
As the United States grapples with a polarizing debate over how to manage and police its southern border, a debate that led to the longest government shutdown in history, American policy makers would do well to understand what happened during this tragic moment in Roman history.
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And yes, people, they would do well on our behalf to understand what happened during that tragic moment in Roman history, but you know what?
They won’t bother trying to learn because they do not believe history as happened applies to their actions or to the United States, it being special, and all, which again takes us back to that article, to wit:
Roman border security was historically effective, not because of massive barriers, but because they knew how to manage the flow of migration.
This flow didn’t lead to the collapse of the empire by marauding Germans.
Rather, the flow of migration transformed the Roman Empire into what became medieval society.
Yet the arrival of the Goths in 376 shows what happens when good border policy is ignored.
Ancient Roman border security
To understand how the arrival of these Gothic tribes created a crisis for the late Roman Empire, we have to first start with how the Romans traditionally handled the migration of new tribes into their territory.
The borders of the Roman Empire were constantly in flux and always flexibly managed, owing to the difficulties of policing a huge border without modern technology.
Roman border control rarely made use of massive walls, but depended on natural barriers in the landscape.
This was particularly true on the northern border, which heavily relied on the Rhine and Danube rivers.
Rome’s borders were gradual transitions more than hard and fast lines.
When migrating tribes asked to be admitted to the empire, the Romans tended to follow a fairly standard policy.
Tribes were broken up into smaller groups and sent to underpopulated regions.
They were forced to surrender their weapons, renounce their loyalty to their tribal leaders, and commit a certain number of fighting men to the Roman legions.
These policies had served the empire well for centuries.
By diluting tribal loyalty and disarming the newcomers, the Romans strengthened their economy, increased tax revenue, and swelled the ranks of the army.
Goths at the border
Let’s return to the Goths waiting on the north side of the Danube.
One of our main historical sources about this event is the fourth-century Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, whose account is used in this description.
According to Ammianus, one of the Gothic tribes (the Thervingi) sent envoys to the eastern Roman Emperor Valens to ask for admission to the empire.
They wanted their people to settle in nearby Thrace, adding the promise that they would contribute soldiers to the Roman army.
This offer pleased the emperor and the local population.
The Thervingi would offer a strong buffer against other potentially unfriendly tribal groups and would provide soldiers and new tax revenue.
Valens welcomed them to cross over.
That fall, huge numbers of Thervingi crossed the river, which was swollen from recent rains.
They made the journey in whatever boats could be found.
At this point, things went badly for the Thervingi.
Many died during the dangerous crossing.
The Romans allowed more Thervingi to cross than they could supply with food.
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Which is exactly what Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS are doing today, so let us take a break for station identification, and when we return we will see what happened to the Romans as a result of their Biden-esque stupidity in that matter, so, please, stay tuned.
This tale of the Germans crossing the Danube onto Roman territory at one time was required knowledge of young Americans like myself in an admittedly different time in America before computers and cell phones, when cautionary tales like this were how knowledge of the past was conveyed (“He who uses a mirror of brass can see to set his cap; he who uses the mirror of antiquity can predict the rise and fall of nations”) to young Americans like myself, so that we would realize what was then deemed an essential lesson that actions by what are too often mistakenly called “governments” can have grave consequences for all of us, this as we watch a YouTube video from our own times thanks to the policies of Joe Biden and the Democrats that has intentionally turned our southern border into a sieve, which video is entitled “Border patrol overwhelmed by influx of migrants” from ABC News, to wit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RuQNGCb5ys
When we last left that story, like Joe Biden and the Democrats are doing today with their MIGRANT CRSIS they are now capitalizing on financially and politically, the Romans had allowed more Thervingi from Germany to cross their border, which was the Danube river at that time, than they could supply with food.
Picking up that story where we left off, it then continues as follows, to wit:
The local Roman military commanders, Lupicinus and Maximus, withheld supplies the emperor had earmarked for the Thervingi and sold them at massively inflated prices.
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Yes, people, the same human nature that persists today, the greed and avarice, existed back in Roman times, as well, this as we watch the for-profit, politically-connected DocGo and its investors reaping a financial windfall at taxpayer expense from Joe Biden’s self-created MIGRANT CRISIS, which again takes us back to the story, keeping well in mind that to date, according to an NBC News story titled “Influx of migrants at border gains renewed attention as ‘crisis’ rhetoric spreads” by Erik Ortiz on October 4, 2023, more than 200,000 migrants unlawfully crossed our southern border in September of this year — a record high for 2023, up from more than 182,700 people who border agents encountered in September 2022 and 142,710 people in September 2021, according to Customs and Border Protection data, to wit:
Ammianus says the situation became so desperate that even the families of Thervingi chieftains sold their sons into slavery for dog meat.
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That as we read in the Albany, New York Times Union article by Maria M. Silva and Steve Hughes on October 24, 2023 titled “Migrants decry poor conditions at Rotterdam Super 8 motel” that a concern of these migrants who have essentially been made property or chattel of this for-profit, politically connected DocGo crowd is the quality of food they are served, which they have compared to dog food.
Going back to the story, it continues as follows:
The Romans saw these migrants from the north as uncivilized and irrational.
It is likely that the Roman commanders felt justified in their bad behavior toward the Goths because of Roman prejudice against “barbarians.”
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And now, we get to the part where things began to go bad for the mighty Romans, because they were very stupid, just like the people in the Biden regime today managing Joe’s MIGRANT CRISIS, to wit:
Bad treatment, bad outcome
The Romans ignored all their usual protocols for admitting new tribes into the empire.
For some reason, the newly arrived Thervingi were not forced to hand over their weapons, nor was the tribe broken up into smaller units to be dispersed to different regions.
This may have been because the Romans allowed too many Thervingi to cross, leaving Roman military forces vastly outnumbered.
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This as we read in a CNN story titled “More military personnel head to the US-Mexico border as officials describe an increase in migrant crossings” by Priscilla Alvarez, Ed Lavandera and Ashley Killough on September 22, 2023 that some 800 new active-duty personnel are being sent to the southern border, where 2,500 National Guard members already are serving, according to Department of Homeland Security officials who are failing miserably, as can be expected of everything and anything associated with this Biden Regime to keep our so-called “homeland” secure, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
The other Gothic tribe massed at the Danube, the Greuthungi, were in a different position.
Valens had rejected their envoys’ request for admission to the empire.
They were as desperate to cross into Roman territory as the Thervingi.
Seeing that the Romans were overwhelmed, the Greuthungi crossed the Danube on their own, further to the east.
As conditions among the Thervingi continued to deteriorate, Lupicinus made a desperate play to keep them in line: He invited their leaders, Alavivus and Fritigern, to a dinner party and promptly took them hostage.
When the Thervingi began to riot in response, Fritigern was able to convince Lupicinus to let him go to calm the situation down.
But having gained his freedom, Fritigern reneged on his promise to Lupicinus and mobilized the Thervingi, who then allied themselves with the Greuthungi.
The result was a unified and massive Gothic army that was now loose and armed in Roman territory.
Thus began six years of war that would devastate the region and leave countless dead, including the Emperor Valens, who died fighting the Goths at the Battle of Adrianople in 378.
The eventual peace brokered with the Goths in 382 by Theodosius I allowed them to settle in Roman territory as a self-governed federation between the Danube and Balkan mountains.
But as an independent state within Roman territory, the Goths never integrated into Roman society and remained a source of political instability.
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And where today is the Roman Empire?
A bunch of historical ruins, is it not, that today are tourist attractions and curiosities.
Stay tuned!
I live outside the territorial limits of balmy Cape Charles, Virginia, where never is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day, and so since it is not balmy here (global warming hasn’t got here yet), and since it is November, with temperatures at night down in the 20’s, I have to burn wood to keep my house warm (NO, I don’t have a government-mandated heat pump nor do I intend to get one, as they are energy hogs) and to get the fire going, I wad up pages of the Albany, New York Times Union to get the kindling going, and as I was doing that recently, I came across an article by Katherine Kiessling on November 12, 2023, titled “Journalist Margaret Sullivan: Democracy needs strong local news,” which title immediately brought to mind the Cape Charles Mirror, and the role it plays not only in society down here, but across the US, as well, as a source of alternative points of view uncensored by the fascists of FACEBOOK, or TWITTER in conjunction with the DOJ, the FBI, and the Biden white house.
Reading that headline caused me to then do some background research into that topic, given the role of what today is called “the media,” in this country’s political affairs since the days when it was still so many British colonies.
To begin my research, I went to the Technical Publication Series of the Center for Democracy and Governance, whose slogan is “…promoting the transition to and consolidation of democratic regimes throughout the world,” which is a unit of the Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research, of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C. 20523-3100, and the publication from that series titled “The Role of Media in Democracy: A Strategic Approach” dated June 1999 and Chapter II. DEFINING GOALS: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN DEMOCRACY, where people in other countries who don’t have democracies are told, to wit:
Access to information is essential to the health of democracy for at least two reasons.
First, it ensures that citizens make responsible, informed choices rather than acting out of ignorance or misinformation.
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And let us stop there for the moment, people, to explore what has been said there about access to information ensuring that citizens make responsible, informed choices rather than acting out of ignorance or misinformation.
Access to information, especially the plethora we are daily barraged with in this county DOES NOT in and of itself ensure anything, starting with the misguided premise that it will ensure that citizens make responsible, informed choices rather than acting out of ignorance or misinformation.
People who are ignorant will make choices acting out of ignorance, and if they are ignorant, they won’t know misinformation from the truth, which is why there is a concerted effort on this country to keep people grossly ignorant, so they won’t know how to question anything, starting with Joe Biden’s self-created MIGRANT CRISIS, which crisis is worth BILLIONS to Joe Biden, and Joe’s GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS, which crisis is worth TRILLIONS.
And that takes us back to that publication, as follows:
Second, information serves a “checking function” by ensuring that elected representatives uphold their oaths of office and carry out the wishes of those who elected them.
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To this day, and I have been around for over a quarter of a century, I have yet to see an elected official at any level of government uphold his or her oath of office because of “information,” because in truth, an elected official can violate their oath of office all day long, each and every day, because there is no way for a citizen to be able to enforce an oath of office against an oath breaker.
Going back to that publication, keeping in mind that it is the work product of a federal government that does not itself practice what it preaches to other countries, it states as follows, again with respect to other countries, not here, to wit:
Support for media is a critical prong of U.S. democracy and governance assistance.
USAID Strategic Objective 2.3, “Increased development of a politically active civil society,” provides a rationale for media-related programming.
Intermediate Result 2.3.4, “Enhanced free flow of information,” broadly states the Agency’s goal for media activities.
While media is considered by USAID to be a part of the civil society arena, it is well known that media overlaps other functional areas of democracy and governance.
For example, support for media may yield results in governance activities, particularly those related to decentralization, anti-corruption, and citizen participation in the policy process.
The rule of law may be further institutionalized by support for an independent media that keeps a check on the judiciary, reports on the courts, and promotes a legal enabling environment suitable for press freedom.
Free and fair elections conducted through transparent processes require a media sector which gives candidates equal access, and reports the relevant issues in a timely, objective manner.
International conventions buttress USAID’s media activities.
Most notably, Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
Within the context of supporting democratic transitions, the goal of media development generally should be to move the media from one that is directed or even overtly controlled by government or private interests to one that is more open and has a degree of editorial independence that serves the public interest.
If the media is to have any meaningful role in democracy, then the ultimate goal of media assistance should be to develop a range of diverse mediums and voices that are credible, and to create and strengthen a sector that promotes such outlets.
Credible outlets enable citizens to have access to information that they need to make informed decisions and to participate in society.
A media sector supportive of democracy would be one that has a degree of editorial independence, is financially viable, has diverse and plural voices, and serves the public interest.
The public interest is defined as representing a plurality of voices both through a greater number of outlets and through the diversity of views and voices reflected within.
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And with that stated, for the monent, I will rest.
Staying with this theme of the role the Cape Charles Mirror plays in our REPUBLIC, the REPUBLIC so-called “democracy” in this country, which is really autocracy, or more properly, ochlocracy, which is the rule of government, in this case, our national government under DEMOCRAT Joe Biden, by a mob or mass of people known as DEMOCRATS and IMMIGRANTS and the intimidation of legitimate authorities, in terms of not only keeping us informed, but further, allows for a plurality of voices to be heard, and through the diversity of views and voices reflected within.
And think I’m kidding, people, about a mob or mass of people known as DEMOCRATS and IMMIGRANTS ruling our national government while intimidating legitimate authorities?
Not a joke, as we see from an article in the GOTHAMIST by Raphael Pope-Sussman on Feb. 1, 2017, where we have DEMOCRAT MOB RULE and INTIMIDATION in action right before our eyes, to wit:
Hundreds of New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures Tuesday night on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza at a rally calling upon U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to take a firm stand against the Trump administration.
The rally was the latest in a series of weekly gatherings poetically dubbed “What the F*ck, Chuck?” outside the senator’s Brooklyn home on Prospect Park West and his offices in Midtown.
As a series of speakers stood on a platform and shouted over a mobile PA system, protesters cheered and jeered as they held signs with slogans like “Buck Up Chuck”; “Resisting Trump Is Your Primary Duty”; and “Filibuster Filibuster Filibuster.”
Hae-Lin Choi, of the Democratic Socialists of America and Resist Trump NY, took the stage first, announcing herself as an immigrant and telling the crowd why organizers had called for the protest.
“We planned this rally to Schumer’s home to help him find the spine and maybe some of the other body parts he needs to grow,” she said, citing Schumer’s early “yea” votes on Trump’s nominees to lead Defense, Homeland Security, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Choi said organizers were encouraged by Schumer’s announcement in recent days that he would vote no on eight more nominees, but that they see this as a bare minimum, and they intend to keep up the pressure.
“Senator Schumer must be bold and stand with the working class,” she cried over the loudspeaker.
“He has to champion the resistance or get out of the way and we’ll find someone that will.”
As Choi spoke, the crowd chanted, “Stand up, or get out of the way.”.
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Yes, people, that is what the DEMOCRAT MOB calls “democracy” in this country, and that takes us to an america,gov site called ShareAmerica and an article titled “The importance of an independent press,” which outside of the Cape Charles Mirror, largely does not exist in this country, on March 9, 2023, where we learn as follows, although we really should have known this by the fifth grade, if not earlier, to wit:
Free, independent media allow the public to make informed decisions, hold leaders accountable and hear a diversity of opinions — all free of government influence.
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Yes, people, in an ideal world, which this most certainly is not, that would be the case, but as FACEBOOK and TWITTER proved during the COVID CRISIS, worth $1.9 TRILLION to Joe Biden as a SLUSH FUND, there is no such thing as freedom from government influence, something that was also proven with the now famous BLINKEN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR’S LETTER claiming falsely the Hunter Biden’s laptop was really
Russian DISINFORMATION, when it was anything but, which NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORS’ DISINFORMATION served to put Joe Biden into the white house by making Trump out to be a liar.
Going back to the article, it continues:
“Information and knowledge are powerful tools,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said May 2, 2021.
“A free and independent press is the core institution connecting publics to the information they need to advocate for themselves, make informed decisions, and hold governmental officials accountable.”
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And what a joke that all is, which takes us to a Mediaite story titled “Jim Jordan Says New Testimony Shows Blinken, Biden Camp Behind ‘Infamous’ Letter Smearing Hunter Biden Laptop Story as Disinfo” by Isaac Schorr on 21 April 2023, where we have Tony Blinken caught talking out of the other side of his mouth, to wit:
New testimony released by House GOP leaders sheds light on the role that Joe Biden’s presidential campaign played in smearing the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation.
In an interview with the committee, Michael Morell, the former deputy director of the CIA, testified that he signed onto a letter panning the story — which was published by the New York Post on October 14, 2020 — as likely part of a disinformation operation only after being reached out to by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was then serving as an advisor to the Biden campaign.
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Now, first of all, despite any blather or codswallop Tony Blinken might spew about a free and independent press being the core institution connecting publics to the information they need to advocate for themselves while holding governmental officials like Tony Blinken and all the national security advisors accountable, the fact is that we don’t have a free and independent press outside of the Cape Charles Mirror to actually do any of that, while Tony was using the gelded and neutered mainstream and legacy media to DENY us information we need to advocate for ourselves, while at the same time, he had the tame media not holding Joe Biden accountable, at all!
Ah, the HYPOCRISY (the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform; pretense), people, but that is exactly the quality that makes Tony Blinken such a good lackey and toady and sycophant for Joe Biden!
Going back to the original post in here, by way of review, I reiterated receiving an e-mail from the Cape Charles Mirror checking in to see if I was still walking the planet after an absence of posting, which gesture on the part of the CCM to check in with me, an elderly disabled veteran who lives alone out in the countryside, was very much appreciated.
And as I stated above, my response as to not posting was that there is so much bull**** these days being literally heaved at us from all directions at once, this CRISIS and that CRISIS, and our national security is in jeopardy, that it has been nigh on impossible to sort it all out before the next barrage came raining down on our heads, so that I have been living in a continued state of disbelief and WTF as to what passes for “government” at the federal or national level in this country under BIDE-O-NISM, which is Joe Biden’s Americanized version of Stalinism in the Soviet Union under Joe Stalin.
But in truth, it really is more basic than that, why I wasn’t posting, and it boils down to a dangerous sense of futility I am experiencing, which occurs when one can no longer see the point in even trying.
Futility is the sense that no matter how much one works at it, in this case posting editorials or comments, nothing will change for the better, so one might as well give up.
And there, quite truthfully, is where I find myself these days, living in a past that is now long gone and largely unremembered, or it has been canceled altogether, which leaves me possessed of a cultural context that no longer exists along with a vocabulary of words that no longer have meaning, so that communication itself has become nigh on impossible.
People hear what they want to hear, from those from whom they want to hear it, and they disregard all the rest.
People also comprehend only that which they have the intellectual capacity to comprehend, and absent that intellectual capacity, there is no comprehension, at all.
And here, with my reference to Joe Stalin above here, and STALINISM, a term no longer known and no longer taught today, is where to me this whole system of communication in this country breaks down today, because we have no single cultural context in this country today, nor do we operate from a common base in terms of citizenship, which is a very empty word today.
And in support of that statement, as well as what underlies my sense of futility, consider that GOTHAMIST article above here by Raphael Pope-Sussman on Feb. 1, 2017, where we had REAL STUPID AND IGNORANT DEMOCRAT MOB RULE in action right before our eyes, to wit:
Hundreds of New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures Tuesday night on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza at a rally calling upon U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to take a firm stand against the Trump administration.
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Now, those of you who like me have been educated in detail as to the structure of what our national government was supposed to be, think about all of what is stated in that one sentence there for a moment, and what it means to us and our future as a nation, keeping in mind that according to Lord Tytler, a Scottish Historian, the average age of the world’s democracies is around 200 years, and after two hundred years, the nations collapse due to various economic policies to be followed by a dictatorship, which is where I have us right now in this country with AUTOCRAT Joe Biden and all of his EXCEUTIVE ORDERS that govern literally every aspect of our lives, including what you can or cannot cook your supper on tonight, and what kind of car you have to drive, and on and on and on, seemingly without end.
According to that article, in February of 2017, which is six (6) years ago now, for an idea of how deeply VERY STUPID has become entrenched in our so-called citizen body, hundreds of very ignorant and real stupid New Yorkers came out in freezing temperatures on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza to screech their little hearts out at a rally calling upon then-U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to take a firm stand against the Trump administration, as if US senators were in fact nothing more than gobs of PUTTY for screeching and howling mobs of DEMOCRATS to mold and shape as they desire, which Charley “CHUCK” Schumer, now the TOP DOG in the senate, to our detriment as a people and as a nation, clearly was and is.
And in what system of government do US senators take firm stands against a presidential administration because a screeching, howling mob of DEMOCRATS demand that they do so?
And how ignorant and uninformed do hundreds of people have to be, to believe that US senators like Charley “CHUCK” Schumer, who obviously lacked the spine to stand up to the howling mob, come to heel for them at their beck and call?
Or more properly, when spineless, gutless and caitiff US senators like Charley “CHUCK” Schumer do come to heel like a trained pet dog for a screeching, howling mob of real stupid people, what does that really say for what used to be our REPUBLIC, and our future?
As to why we have, or had a senate, according to the United States Senate itself on its website, and truthfully, with Charley “CHUCK” Schumer in charge of that body, who can believe a single word any of them say, in a series of political essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, signed as “Publius,” and published in 1788 as The Federalist, the writers explained how the new Constitution — dividing the government into three equal branches — would preserve the Union, reconcile differences among states and political factions, and promote a common welfare, while carefully controlling power through a system of checks and balances.
All of which has subsequently been sadly proven to be nothing more than PIE-IN-THE-SKY dreaming on their part.
As the senate website says, of the 85 essays the trio authored, seven dealt specifically with the Senate (Nos. 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 75, and 76), while others (such as 51) discussed the Senate as part of the broader definition of a federal government that included a bicameral legislature.
Writing in the Federalist Papers, James Madison explained the unique nature of the Senate and the cautious, deliberative role it was supposed to play in American government.
In Number 62, James Madison eloquently stated, as follows, to wit:
The qualifications proposed for senators, as distinguished from those of representatives, consist in a more advanced age and a longer period of citizenship. . . .
The propriety of these distinctions, is explained by the nature of the senatorial trust; which, requiring greater extent of information and stability of character, requires, at the same time, that the senator should have reached a period of life most likely to supply these advantages. . . .
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Stability of character, people?
Senatorial trust?
Charley “CHUCK” Schumer?
Not happening, people!
Going back to Jemmy Madison, he continues on as follows, and this is relevant to these times today we are now in, with a totally worthless, unresponsive, unaccountable national government in this country, to wit:
. . . The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions. . . .
All that need be remarked is, that a body which is to correct this infirmity, ought itself to be free from it, and consequently ought to be less numerous.
It ought moreover to possess great firmness, and consequently ought to hold its authority by a tenure of considerable duration. . . .
. . . The mutability in the public councils, arising from a rapid succession of new members, however qualified they may be, points out, in the strongest manner, the necessity of some stable institution in the government. . . .1
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Today, regardless of some infantile pipe dream Jemmy Madison had back in 1788, we DO NOT have what can be considered any stable institions in what is laughingly called our national government, when it is nothing more than a national clown show, which takes us back to the senate website, as follows:
Madison clearly recognized the need for a smaller, more deliberative body in the legislative branch to cool the passions and control the urges of democratic masses.
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Control the urges of democratic masses?
Oh, really!
Then what was all of this, if not the urges of democratic masses:
The rally was the latest in a series of weekly gatherings poetically dubbed “What the F*ck, Chuck?” outside the senator’s Brooklyn home on Prospect Park West and his offices in Midtown.
As a series of speakers stood on a platform and shouted over a mobile PA system, protesters cheered and jeered as they held signs with slogans like “Buck Up Chuck”; “Resisting Trump Is Your Primary Duty”; and “Filibuster Filibuster Filibuster.”
Hae-Lin Choi, of the Democratic Socialists of America and Resist Trump NY, took the stage first, announcing herself as an immigrant and telling the crowd why organizers had called for the protest.
“We planned this rally to Schumer’s home to help him find the spine and maybe some of the other body parts he needs to grow,” she said, citing Schumer’s early “yea” votes on Trump’s nominees to lead Defense, Homeland Security, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Choi said organizers were encouraged by Schumer’s announcement in recent days that he would vote no on eight more nominees, but that they see this as a bare minimum, and they intend to keep up the pressure.
“Senator Schumer must be bold and stand with the working class,” she cried over the loudspeaker.
“He has to champion the resistance or get out of the way and we’ll find someone that will.”
As Choi spoke, the crowd chanted, “Stand up, or get out of the way.”.
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Seriously, people, how can anyone use rational methods to deal with that gross ignorance?
Stay tuned.
For the record, not that it any longer makes much difference in this benighted (in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance) sorry nation, where today, people “communicate” by spouting short bursts of largely unintelligible gibberish known as TWEETS, as if people were really some species of bird, or they make videos of themselves spouting ignorant drivel on something called TikTok, I have read each and every Federalist Paper several times now, and as I look at where we are today in this country, versus where the authors of the Federalist papers said we would be, all I can think is how very naive the authors were, mainly Jemmy Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, as Jay was a minor contributor, and if they weren’t naive, but calculating, instead, then they played the people back then like a Stradivarius in order to get a flawed constitution passed in order to give themselves political power they otherwise would not have had, and here we are today, stuck with it.
For his efforts to create this new form of government, which clearly has square wheels on it today, so that instead of rolling along smoothly, it moves it fits and starts, bumping its way along like something you would expect to find in some third-world ****hole, instead of a modern nation, Alexander Hamilton was made this country’s first secretary of the treasury, as we learn from the US treasury website, to wit:
At the inauguration of the constitutional government in 1789 Alexander Hamilton (1757- 1804), George Washington’s former military aide and a renowned financier, was appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury and thus he became the architect of the structure of the Department.
Desirous of a strong, centrally controlled Treasury, Hamilton did constant battle with Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, and Albert Gallatin, then a Congressman, over the amount of power the Department of the Treasury should be allowed to wield.
He designed a Treasury Department for the collection and disbursing of public revenue, but also for the promotion of the economic development of the country.
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And today, under the leadership of Obama-ite former fed chief Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, a Biden sycophant and toady who serves as a cheerleader for Joe Biden, in addition to talking down to us as if we were all stupid and moronic and ignorant, the treasury is simply there to borrow massive amounts of money at high interest rates to finance the INSANE GREEN DREAMS of AUTOCRAT Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, to our detriment as a people and as a nation, with us having no say in the matter, whatsoever.
As to “TOODLES” talking down to us while cheerleading for the Biden regime, consider the article in The Messenger titled “Consumers Still Struggle With Higher Prices, Despite Progress on Taming Inflation, Treasury Secretary Says” by Al Lewis on 20 November 2023, where we had “TOODLES” uncaged on center stage, as follows:
Yellen noted that inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, came in at 3.2% in October, down from its peak of 9.1% in June 2022.
“We’re making considerable progress in bringing inflation down,” she said.
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Now, first of all, people, as to us being considered too stupid by “TOODLES” on behalf of the Biden regime to be able to reason things out on our own without input from Ph.D.’s like her (Note, they only give out Ph.D.’s in this country to the very best and brightest among us, people like “TOODLES” and the bearded buffoon Ben Bernanke, who was fed chief before Hussein Obama made “TOODLES” fed chief instead, because she was pliable, like soft putty which made her a perfect tool for Hussein and now Joe Biden who has selected here for the same reason), to the common person, who really gives a damn that inflation is coming down, as “TOODLES” claims?
As long as there is inflation, already high prices caused by yesterday’s inflation simply get higher and higher, which we see by going back to that article, to wit:
“Although prices in general are rising much less quickly, Americans still see increases in some important prices, including food from where we were prior to the pandemic,” Yellen said in an interview on CNBC.
“But Americans do notice higher prices from what they used to be accustomed to.”
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Damn right there you are, “TOODLES,” to the point of where the elderly on fixed incomes like myself are simply getting squeezed out of what “TOODLES” calls the MIRACLE BIDEN ECONOMY because we cannot afford to pay the exorbitant prices for what used to be consumer goods, but now are more like luxury items.
Going back to the cheerleading, we have more from “TOODLES” as follows:
President Joe Biden has signed three key piece of legislation – the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act – that are investing trillions in the U.S. economy, Yellen said.
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And there, people, her phrase “investing trillions in the U.S. economy” is pure bull****, because Joe Biden isn’t “investing.”
What Joe has done and is doing with “TOODLES” as his enabler is creating the illusion of an economy that is based on MASSIVE BORROW AND SPEND, and as a result of BIDE-O-NOMICS, in the last fiscal year which ended in September, “TOODLES” and Joe gave us a federal deficit of $1.7 trillion, a $320 billion, or 23%, increase from the prior fiscal year, and the entire federal debt, an eye-watering $33 trillion currently closer to the $34 trillion mark has us, a nation in a serious state of decline, now spending more in gross interest on Treasury debt securities than it does on national defense, according to the Treasury’s latest monthly statement.
Our fiscal year starts Oct. 1, and in the first month the Treasury shelled out $88.9 billion in interest on its debt securities, while the Department of Defense spend $83.4 billion on military programs, and nearly $2 billion is spent every day just in interest on the national debt, according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
And that money is not “invested.”
That money is wasted because those interest payments are not productive, and to maintain her massive debt issuance, “TOODLES” is pulling out of the economy money that would otherwise be invested in productive causes, as opposed to keeping the out-of-control Biden regime afloat, with what is essentially a PONZI scheme (a form of fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors).
Going back to “TOODLES” and her cheerleading, the article continues as follows:
“We’ve had responsible investments in the U.S. economy that will have a payoff,” she said.
And as those investments generate jobs and economic activity, inflation appears to be headed lower.
“I think as inflation comes down, prices stop rising, and the labor market remains strong Americans will begin to see that we have made meaningful progress,” she said.
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See what I mean, people, about “TOODLES” Yellen treating us as if we were really very, very stupid – the majority of the American people are fed up with Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS, and that even includes Democrats.
And let us pause here for station identification and fifteen solid hours of the very best commercial advertisements modern American marketing can produce to inform us of all the stuff out there waiting for us to purchase it, if we only had the money to do so, and then we will be right back with more, so please, stay tuned.
On this day of Thanksgiving in what used to be our REPUBLIC, before the COUP and OVERTHROW of Constitutional rule by the Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats on 6 January 2021, let me say that I am very thankful that we have Wayne Creed and the Cape Charles Mirror in our lives to give a voice to those of us out here who would otherwise be voiceless in our own country!
And barely are the words out of my mouth in here about being barraged and sensorily overwhelmed by such a BLIZZARD of PURE UNADULTERATED BULL**** from SENILE DEMOCRAT AUTOCRAT Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the Biden REGIME to include Janet “TOODLES” Yellen and BIDEN PROPAGANDA MINISTER “BINDER” (aka Karine Jean-Pierre), and the Biden Campaign that has me now living in a continued state of disbelief and WTF as to what passes for “government” at the federal or national level in this country under BIDE-O-NISM, which is Joe Biden’s Americanized version of Stalinism in the Soviet Union under Joe Stalin, as well as experiencing a dangerous sense of futility, which occurs when one can no longer see the point in even trying, futility being the sense that no matter how much one works at it, in this case posting editorials or comments, nothing will change for the better, so one might as well give up, when like a BOMB CYCLONE hitting on Thanksgiving, the intensity of the BLIZZARD greatly increased in magnitude with the airing of a TV ad on Thanksgiving Day during the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game, which takes us to a Newsweek article titled “Joe Biden Airs Thanksgiving Ad To Try To Boost Floundering Campaign” by Giulia Carbonaro on 24 November 2023, where we have the latest BIDEN BULL**** flowing quite freely, to wit:
Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign will air a television ad during the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game on Thursday as the president tries to boost support in his bid for re-election, which appears to be dwindling.
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Dwindling, indeed, people, as we clearly see from a State Of The Union article titled “Biden’s Job Approval Is Lowest Ever Measured In NBC Poll” by Jordan Andrews on 24 November 2023, to wit:
The latest NBC News poll shows President Joe Biden’s lowest approval rating ever at 40%, with an astounding 57% disapproving.
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According to the article, and nobody who has been following Joe Biden’s pitiful tenure as president and the dog’s dinner (a situation or piece of work that is chaotic, badly organized, or very untidy) Joe Biden makes out of everything he puts his hands on, the significance of that is that is the lowest Joe Biden has ever measured in our poll in terms of job approval, and independents like myself more than two to one disapprove of the miserable and incompetent job Joe is doing, while three times as many Democrats, 21%, more than one in five, say they disapprove.
Going back to Newsweek, that article continues as follows:
Recent polls by The New York Times and Siena College have shown that Biden is losing ground to Donald Trump in five critical states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
That means that the embattled former president — currently the frontrunner in the Republican primary by a huge margin — is ahead in five out of six key battleground states, where voters said they trusted Trump over Biden on tackling issues surrounding the U.S. economy, immigration and foreign policy.
Biden was leading only in Washington, where he had an advantage of two percentage points.
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So what is Joe’s solution to his falling numbers?
You got it, people, TELL US MORE LIES as if we are stupid enough to believe a word Joe Biden, a notorious serial liar, says about anything, starting out with just how great a person Joe Biden really is, which takes us back to Newsweek, to wit:
The president and Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that the one-minute commercial will air during the Lions-Green Bay Packers game on Thursday, in one of those swing states where Biden is trailing Trump, Michigan.
According to the New York Times/Siena poll, Trump would win the state by five percentage points.
The ad, titled “Never Left,” focuses on Biden’s Scranton roots and underlines the Democratic president’s understanding of the struggles of middle class Americans, as reported by The Detroit News.
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Joe Biden’s Scranton roots?
What rot!
According to Joe’s own bio, Joe was born Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 20, 1942, and then Biden moved with his family to Delaware in 1953, when Biden was ten, where the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield, which takes us back to Newsweek for this burst of pure BIDEN BULL****, to wit:
“He grew up a middle-class kid in a middle-class town,” the ad says, adding that the middle-class town “has never left him.”
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And this is Theater of the Absurd coupled with Opera Bouffe (French comic opera, with characters drawn from everyday life), people, because the so-called “middle-class” town left Joe Biden a long, long time ago, and Joe has never looked back from his multi-million dollar beach house in Rehobeth Beach, nor does he want to, which takes us back to Joe’s bio for this, to wit:
Biden’s father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton.
So if Joe moved to Scranton when he was seven years old, and left when he was ten, by my math, he was only there for THREE years as a child, after having spent the first seven years of his life in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City, which hardly gives Joe any kind of “middle-class” roots!
And the only reason Joe moved to Scranton was because his father was a failure at business.
Going back to Joe’s bio:
At Archmere Academy in Claymont, Biden played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team.
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Ah. yes, Archmere Academy – tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year is $32,400.
Good old “middle class” Joe, which takes us back to Newsweek as follows:
It adds: “He knows what life is like for working people and knows middle class life is too expensive right now.”
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See what I mean about a BLIZZARD OF BULL****?
Joe Biden, a professional hack politician who has never worked a real job in is entire spoiled, privileged and entitled life, don’t know doodly-squat about what life is like for real people who do have actual jobs, which again takes us back to Newsweek:
“For Joe Biden it’s about restoring the sense of security working people deserve — that simple promise, that peace of mind.”
“He’s determined to get it back, because of where he’s from and who he is,” the narrator says in the ad that will show at the Thursday game.
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I’m throwing up in my mouth at this point, so let’s take a commercial break, and after station identification, we will be right back, so stay tuned!
I’ve been alive long enough now, going all the way back to Harry S. “The Buck Should Have Stopped Here But Didn’t” Truman, then Eisenhauer, and JFK, and the Texas Horse’s Ass Lyndon Baines Johnson, etc., so I can remember a time in America when we never heard from American presidents, especially this endless, disgusting and frankly sickening BIDEN BOBANCE (ostentatious or boastful behavior, boasting; a boast; vain display, worldly vanity) we are being constantly barraged with today, which takes us to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star and an article titled “Biden campaign launches new ad focused on the president’s Scranton roots – ‘Never Left’ mentions his connection to middle-class voters and touts some of the administration’s cost-saving initiatives” by Kim Lyons on October 3, 2023 where the Biden HORSE**** does flow forth freely and copiously, to wit:
A new ad from the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign points to President Joe Biden’s upbringing in Scranton as giving him a unique perspective on — and empathy for— the struggles of middle class Americans.
“He grew up a middle-class kid in a middle-class town,” the ad’s voiceover begins, “and while Joe Biden’s traveled far and wide, Scranton, Pennsylvania has never left him.”
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Joe’s upbringing in Scranton gave him a unique perspective on and empathy for the struggles of middle class Americans?
Get real, people!
According to Joe’s own bio, which very well could be all bull**** like everything Joe says, he was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 20, 1942.
Then, because Joe’s father was wealthy, the Biden family blew that ****-hole and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, which means Joe LEFT Scranton when he was FOUR years old.
Then, because Joe’s father was a lousy businessman, he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, which would have been 1949, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton.
So Joe was in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City from age FOUR until age SEVEN, which makes THREE years away from the ****-hole of Scranton.
And then Joe moved with his family to Delaware in 1953, which makes THREE more years in Scranton, when Biden was ten, where the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield.
So doing some basic math here, Joe spent a whopping SEVEN years in Scranton when Joe was a mere child, so unless Joe was exceptionally precocious (old beyond one’s years) when he was a child, which is highly doubtful because in school, he was an ignorant dullard cruising at the bottom of his classes, when exactly was it that Joe learned any kind of values in Scranton, other than how to be a poor liar?
See what I am talking about here, people?
We are being treated like ignorant fools here with this Biden “NEVER LEFT” ad, because in reality, Joe was ever really there in the first place, and after the age of ten, Joe never went back.
Going back to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star article, it continues thusly, to wit:
Viewed by the Capital-Star ahead of a wider rollout Tuesday, the one-minute spot is titled “Never Left” and will air in Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton markets.
It’s part of a larger $25 million media campaign that Biden-Harris announced in August and has been rolling out in battleground areas.
“While MAGA Republicans pretend they’re fighting for America’s middle class, President Biden and Vice President Harris are actually delivering,” Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Biden-Harris 2024 campaign manager, said in a statement.
“Whether it’s taking on Big Pharma to cut prescription drug costs, lowering health care premiums for millions of Americans, or reducing energy bills for American families, fighting for the middle class isn’t an empty campaign promise for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris – it’s their political DNA.”
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The ONLY thing in the political DNA of both Joe Biden and Karmela Harris is spewing ignorance and lies.
For example, a State Of The Union article titled “Belief in the American Dream Has Collapsed Under Biden” by Joseph Ellis on 27 November 2023 informed us as follows as to what Joe’s blundering and bungli8ng anhd ham-handed, short-sighted and inept and incompetent handling of the US economy has produced for the beleaguered people of America, to wit:
A new poll by The Wall Street Journal and NORC reveals that only 36 percent of U.S. voters believe the “American dream” is attainable, a stark contrast to a previous survey where 68 percent agreed with the notion of hard work leading to success.
The poll also found that roughly two-thirds of voters perceive the economy as poor, with concerns about inflation outpacing wages and rising prices.
The “American dream” appeared more unattainable to women and younger respondents, and only 35 percent felt the economy was in good condition.
Despite the administration’s claims, only 14 percent of voters believe the economy has improved under Biden, while 70 percent say it has suffered under his policies.
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Thanks to Joe Biden, I, who am an elderly disabled combat veteran on a fixed pension, have been forced OUT of the US economy because I can no longer afford to be a part of it.
Going back to this spew of pig **** from Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Biden-Harris 2024 campaign manager, where she tells us the blatant lie that Joe is reducing energy bills for American families, that takes us to a Washington Examiner article titled “Poll: Inflation dominates the list of concerns of registered voters” by Tom Gantert on 27 November 2023, where we reality as seen through the eyes of REAL AMERICANS, meaning those outside the Washington Beltway, to wit:
(The Center Square) – Inflation and price increases are by far the most important issue facing the country.
That’s according to The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll conducted from Oct. 20-26, 2023, in conjunction with Noble Predictive Insights.
The poll data showed that 48% of registered voters said inflation was the most important issue in the U.S.
The poll reported that 95% of registered voters said they have seen prices increase over the last few years with 5% saying they have seen no change.
Among those who reported seeing price increases, 96% said the cost of groceries had increased and 82% said the cost of gasoline had increased.
Another 74% said their utility bills had increased.
One measure of inflation is the Consumer Price Index, which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics describes as “a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.”
The BLS bases CPI on the cost of food, clothing, shelter, fuels, transportation, doctors’ and dentists’ services, drugs and other products and services that people purchase on a daily basis.
From 2013 through 2020 in the mid-Atlantic region, the monthly percent increase in CPI ranged from as low as negative 0.2% in April 2015 to as high as 2.9% in June and July 2018.
But in 2021, monthly increases in CPI started occurring.
CPI increased by 4.2% in April 2021 and then rose as high as 7% in December 2021.
In 2022, the CPI monthly increases ranged from 6.5% to as high as 9.1%.
In 2023, the monthly increases in CPI have hovered at 3.7% in August and September.
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GOOD OLD “MIDDLE CLASS” JOE!
But stay tuned because in the next installment, we shall explore the question of what the term “middle class” values means in America, so don’t change that dial and we shall be right back after a commercial break and a pause for station identification!
This morning, I went on google looking for how to contact the Pennsylvania Capital-Star concerning that Biden article I quoted from above, and real big surprise, there is no way to contact them.
So they can print that BIDEN horsecrap with apparent impunity, and unlike the Cape Charles Mirror, there is no way anyone can challenge what they print, as we can do in here, or comment on what they have printed, as again, we can do in here, which is why the Cape Charles Mirror is a GRAND PALLADIUM of our liberty while the Pennsylvania Capital-Star appears to be nothing more than a worthless BIDEN TOADY or mouthpiece.
And speaking of the rank BIDEN horsecrap that we are going to find ourselves barraged with on a daily basis now that the SILLY SEASON is starting in earnest, the October 3, 2023 edition of the Arizona Mirror carried an article which was essentially a regurgitation of the Pennsylvania Capital-Star article I cited above titled “Biden campaign launches new ad focused on the president’s Scranton roots.” except this one was titled “Biden touts blue-collar roots in latest AZ ad” by Jim Small, which article by the same author was reprinted in the Tucson Sentinel, which raises the question of what blue-collar roots does the privileged Joe Biden have, which takes us back to Sep 17, 2020 and an Axios article titled “Joe Biden: ‘I’ve benefitted’ from white privilege” by Orion Rummler, where we had Joe, as follows:
Joe Biden said at a CNN town hall on Thursday that he has benefitted from white privilege “just because I don’t have to go through what my Black brothers and sisters have had to go through.”
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So before we get to the definition of “middle class,” and the question of what are “middle class values,” what does the term “blue-collar” mean here in America?
And the answer from Investopedia is that the term blue-collar worker refers to individuals who engage in hard manual labor, typically in the agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining, or maintenance sectors.
So what “blue-collar” roots does Joe Biden have, besides none at all?
“Little Joey,” as Biden refers to himself back in his limited Scranton days, as we saw above, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 20, 1942, and then because “Little Joey’s” father was wealthy, NOT blue-collar, the Biden family blew that ****-hole of Scranton and purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, when “Little Joey” was FOUR years old, and then, because “Little Joey’s” father was a lousy businessman, NOT a blue-collar worker, he suffered business setbacks around the time “Little Joey” was seven years old, in 1949, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton, and then “Little Joey” moved with his family to Delaware in 1953, when “Little Joey” was ten, where the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield, and Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle.
So where, besides in yet another of Joe Biden’s fantasylands, where he invents personal history for himself out of fairy dust and moonbeams and cobwebs, were Joe Biden’s blue-collar roots, then?
And the true answer is that he does not have any, unless we want to believe a Biden fantasy that has “Little Joey” working in the Scranton coal fields when he was just a toddler, the youngest blue-collar union member there ever was, as we see “Little Joey,” still in a diaper, toddling off to work with his hardhat on his head and his lunchpail under his arm for yet another day of hard labor, which is what real blue-collar workers do in real life.
And I’m speaking as someone who has real blue-collar roots, unlike Joe Biden.
Never in my life have I seen such bull**** from an American president, and it is obvious these rags make absolutely no effort whatsoever to do any fact-checking, although a three-year old with computer skills, let alone a supposed “professional journalist” like Jim Small, could have easily debunked this specious claim by Joe Biden and his white privilege to have “blue-collar” roots.
And that takes us to what defines someone as “middle-class,” and according to the Pew Research Center, “middle class, a contrived term,” simply refers to someone who as an income that ranges between two-thirds and double the median income and the exact boundaries of a middle-class income vary by family size and location, due to the geographical differences in cost of living.
And that’s it – it refers to a segment of 0ur population – so that it is obvious from Joe’s claims of “fighting for the middle-class,” that as president, Joe is clearly discriminating against disabled veterans like myself who are definitely not in the middle class here in America.
So what are “middle-class values” then?
According to Wikipedia, the term middle-class values as used by various writers and politicians include such qualities as hard work, self-discipline, thrift, honesty, aspiration and ambition, and from that, we can clearly see that Joe Biden himself, a notorious serial liar who has never worked a real job, especially a blue-collar job, in his life, DOES NOT have what a traditional middle-class values.
To avoid the hard work real American like myself engaged in growing up, Joe has spent his entire adult life feeding off the taxpayers as a career hack politician.
As to honesty, forget it, because Joe, as a serial liar, does not have a shred of it in his body, which is evidenced in the very campaign ad, where Joe concocts a false narrative as to his early years in order to gull those in America to ignorant to fact-check Joe’s false claims.
So much for Joe Biden’s middle-class values!
Like his supposed “blue-collar” roots, they don’t exist and never have!
For a good example of the disgusting BIDEN LIES, the stupid BIDEN GASLIGHTING and the FASCIST CENSORING of BIDEN BAD NEWS by the autocratic Biden Regime that we here in America are going to be subjected to on a daily basis from here on out til Election Daty 2024, let’s go to a Washington Examiner article titled “Democrats: The economy is either great or Republicans’ fault” by Madeline Fry Schultz on 29 November 2023, where we have as follows:
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data compiled by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, in the first 30 months of Biden’s presidency, gas prices went up 35%, bread was up 24%, and housekeeping supplies were up 17%.
Basics such as motor vehicle repair, public transportation, meats, and day care had also risen significantly.
But inflation is not that bad.
Or is it?
The article (the Washington Post) then describes squabbles within the Biden administration.
Some want to take a cue from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who recently said, “I think it’s our job to explain to Americans what President Biden has done to improve the economy.”
Others see that as too much of a “let them eat cake” approach and prefer to blame a poor economy on “large corporations and Republicans,” though neither of them are running the country.
As an example, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) constant scapegoating of “corporate greed” comes to mind.
What Biden’s advisers all seem to be able to agree on, however, is that these $16 burger posts must be stopped.
“The White House official said the administration is working with TikTok creators to tell positive stories of Biden’s economic stewardship, while also working with social media platforms to counter misinformation,” the report says.
We know the White House has been collaborating with TikTokers to spread its propaganda, and chillingly, we also know that it has abused its power to pressure social media companies into countering what it sees as “misinformation.”
So, while Biden and his team squabble over how best to gaslight people regarding the economy, the unifying solution is easy: Flood TikTok and Instagram with Generation Z propagandists and pressure such companies to throttle, “fact-check,” or otherwise discredit and disappear negative posts about the economy.
If censorship is the solution, it sounds like those arguments about the Biden economy aren’t so strong after all.
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Yes, people, propaganda, and censorship, which are true signs of an autocratic regime, as if this were Ukraine under the fascist pig Zelenski, who Joe Biden is emulating in this country, which is why we should be thankful we have the Cape Charles Mirror, before the autocratic Biden regime cancels it as a source of misinformation about Joe Biden, because in Joe Biden’s version of America, modeled on the Soviet Union under the thug Joe Stalin, only “good news” about Joe Biden and his failed policies can be printed, which then takes us to another Washington Examiner article titled “Yellen claims ‘it’s our job’ to explain what Biden’s done to improve the economy” by Asher Notheis on 21 November 2023, where we have Biden treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen (cue Bob Seger – Her Strut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C51c0vuLEng ) on center stage (cue “Lies, Lies, Lies” by JJ Cale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiJKYNKr3so ), as follows:
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday that she believes “it’s our job” to explain to voters what President Joe Biden has done to address the economy, which many voters believe is not doing well.
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Se, it’s like this, people, according, to “TOODLES,” and the Biden administration, and their media enablers such as THE FIVE ******* IDIOTS (see, Fox News, November 27, 2023, ‘The Five’: Media complains voters are too stupid to feel a good economy” https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341863508112 ), we are all of us far too stupid to realize just how good we really have it under Joe Biden, thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, which is why we so desperately need “TOODLES” to lead us forth from benighted ignorance into the shining light of the brand new day in America Joe has provided us with, because he loves us and is a really food person, to boot, which takes us back to that article, to wit:
Yellen was asked about recent polling data that found 59% of voters under the age of 30 would rate the current state of the economy as “poor.”
The United States economy, and Biden’s approach to addressing it, is one of several topics many voters have expressed frustration on heading into 2024, when Biden seeks reelection.
“I think it’s our job to explain to Americans what President Biden has done to improve the economy,” Yellen said on CNBC.
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Yes, people, stay tuned, because enlightenment from “TOODLES” to cure us of our ignorance is at hand, sing HALLELUJAH, say AMEN, to wit:
“I think as inflation comes down, prices stop rising, and the labor market remains strong, Americans will begin to see that we have made meaningful progress.”
“And importantly, the administration is making investments in America that will show up in improved conditions and more availability of good jobs in many parts of the country that have not seen a lot of progress.”
The secretary went on to state that the Biden administration has announced over $500 billion in manufacturing investing, some of which is starting to “come to fruition.”
She added that more voters will feel “more hopeful about our prospects” over time.
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Yeah, right, “TOODLES,” keep piling the Biden horse**** higher and deeper, and when the stinking pile is above the tops of our heads, which it will be soon, we will all see the light of day!
Going back to the article, we have:
The state of the economy, and voters’ view on it, could potentially be a bump in the road for Biden’s path to reelection in 2024 as some Democrats are questioning if the president has the ability to win the election next year.
Democratic strategist David Axelrod claimed over the weekend that Biden has “a 50-50 shot” at winning reelection, but his chances are “no better than that, maybe a little worse.”
Other Democrats have brushed off these concerns, including Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), who pointed to the election results from 2022 and 2023 as good news for Democrats next year.
Coons argued that the Democratic Party’s performance in recent elections, which have been better than anticipated, is “rooted” in Biden’s accomplishments as president.
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Which brings us to this classic quote from a State Of The Union article titled “Scrambling: Biden White House in ‘Full-Blown Crisis’” by Jordan Andrews on
28 November 2023, to wit:
A Biden voter in 2020, Spencer Weiss said, “The world is falling apart under Biden.”
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And people, that says it all!
FAILURE UPON FAILURE UPON FAILURE!
LIES UPON LIES UPON LIES!
BIDEN/HARRIS 2024!
And there is my campaign ad for Joe Biden, which is a lot more realistic and to the point than is Joe’s NEVER LEFT campaign video!
And that mention of lies takes us back to an article in The Messenger titled “Consumers Still Struggle With Higher Prices, Despite Progress on Taming Inflation, Treasury Secretary Says” by Al Lewis on 20 November 2023, where we had Biden treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen (cue Fleetwood Mac, Little Lies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGD9dT12C0 ) on center stage attempting to mislead WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE as if we were really as stupid as the Biden administration and its corp0rate media enablers believe us to be, as follows:
Yellen noted that inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, came in at 3.2% in October, down from its peak of 9.1% in June 2022.
“We’re making considerable progress in bringing inflation down,” she said.
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And that is so NOT TRUE, because Joe Biden is the cause of the inflation, and it is the federal reserve, not Joe Biden, that is trying to bring down the inflation caused by Joe Biden, as we see by going to a Reuters article titled “Biden says he trusts Fed to take action on inflation if needed” by Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt on August 11, 2021, where we had as follows:
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that his administration is working to relieve bottlenecks threatening the economic recovery and trusts the Federal Reserve to take any steps that may be needed to rein in prices.
“While today’s consumer price report points in that direction, we will keep a careful eye on inflation each month, and trust the Fed to take appropriate action if and when it’s needed.”
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has repeatedly said the current burst in inflation is likely temporary.
Biden faces a choice in the next few months over whether to appoint Powell to another four-year term when his current term ends in February.
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And of course, as we today know quite well, Powell, who Joe did reappoint, because he is stupid and incompetent, qualities Joe requires of those who serve him so he looks “smart” by comparison, was dead wrong about inflation being “likely temporary.”
But the point is that Biden publicly acknowledged that it was the fed’s responsibility to fight inflation, not his, and the first person who should have known that was “TOODLES,” who Democrat William Jeffers announced on April 22, 1994 his intention to nominate “TOODLES” as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an office she held until February 1997.
So why then was she lying to us about the Biden regime “making considerable progress in bringing inflation down,” on 20 November 2023?
Clearly, as we see from the minutes of the July 3, 1996 federal reserve meeting, “TOODLES” was well aware of the role of the fed in combating inflation in the guise of “price stability,” something we clearly do not have today, to wit:
MS. YELLEN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I will try to be brief because, like President Broaddus, I would like to take a little extra time in our next go-around concerning price objectives for monetary policy.
Will aggregate demand really moderate in the second half of the year, and are we about to see an uptick in core inflation due to increasing wage pressures in already tight labor markets and the feedback of higher food prices into wage demands?
With respect to the slowdown in aggregate demand, I confess both ignorance and concern.
With respect to inflation, though, as a number of you have emphasized, the news has been favorable.
Core inflation in the CPI and PPI remains well contained and, as the Roberts memo and the Chairman highlighted, consumer inflation as measured by the chain-weighted PCE is running just over 2 percent.
I would emphasize that our most recent readings on long-term inflationary expectations also are quite positive, suggesting the absence of any deterioration there.
Food prices do seem poised to rise, with pass-through to wages and core inflation a possibility.
But eventually, even if it is beyond our forecast horizon, it seems to me that these weather-related price hikes will unwind, bringing core inflation back down, too.
In my opinion, temporary supply shocks should be essentially irrelevant to monetary policy.
Core inflation still exceeds the pace consistent with the apparent trend in unit labor costs, and profit margins have widened.
We may be living on borrowed time, and there may end up being a price to pay for having allowed the economy, to use Governor Lindsey’s phrase, “to push the envelope.”
In my estimation, though, with each passing quarter–and I now count seven–in which unemployment remains near 5-1/2 percent and core inflation declines or remains stable, the Committee’s degree of confidence that the natural rate has fallen should rise a little.
Mine certainly has.
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And the answer as to why she was lying to us on 20 November 2023 is because she works for Joe Biden, period, who himself is a serial liar.
And then we had Joe in another Reuters article titled “Biden vows to give Fed Chair Powell ‘space’ to fight inflation” by Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw on May 31, 2022, to wit:
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to discuss historic inflation that’s draining American wallets, even as he assured the central bank chief he would have freedom from political interference.
“The president underscored to Chair Powell in the meeting what he has underscored consistently including today — that he respects the independence of the Federal Reserve,” White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said after the meeting, calling it “very constructive.”
The Fed hopes inflation will moderate on its own, as companies sort out supply chain issues complicated by the pandemic, for example, and consumers shift spending toward services.
But Powell has also made clear that the Fed is no longer counting on that, and will ratchet interest rates as high as needed.
He sees high inflation as the chief economic risk facing the country, and controlling it as the Fed’s top priority during his second term, even if the process proves painful to households and firms, and pushes the unemployment rate a bit higher.
For Biden and the Democratic party that could mean a difficult midterm election season, where they are trying to maintain control of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Biden in June plans a media blitz to make the case to Americans that the economy is strong.
U.S. consumer price growth slowed in April as gasoline prices eased off record highs, suggesting that inflation has probably peaked, though it is likely to stay hot for a while and keep the Federal Reserve’s foot on the brakes to cool demand.
Powell earlier this month said that despite some encouraging signs that price pressures may be peaking, the current environment is “not a time for tremendously nuanced readings of inflation,” and U.S. central bank officials will keep tightening policy until inflation comes down in “a convincing way.”
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Could “TOODLES” have been unaware on 20 November 2023 that that discussion between Biden and Powell happened on May 31, 2022?
Only if she is truly an ignorant fool, which is a distinct possibility, or a moronic idiot, another strong possibility!
So fast forward to today with regard to inflation and a CNBC article titled “Fed’s Barkin says rate hikes are still on the table if inflation doesn’t continue to ease” by Jeff Cox on November 29, 2023, where we have REALITY as it confronts us common Americans, especially us older Americans on fixed incomes who have been forced out of the BIDEN economy with its inflated prices that have turned ordinary consumer goods into luxury items, to wit:
Bostic said his staff expects the inflation rate to decline to 2.5% by the end of 2024 and then get back to the Fed’s 2% target by the end of 2025.
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Yes, people, you are reading that correctly if like me, you read that as inflation lasting for years to come, and let’s get over that horsecrap that inflation coming down means anything positive to us, because what it really means is that for at least the next year, if not more, PRICES WILL STILL BE GOING UP, which takes us to another Reuters article titled “Current policy rate lets Fed be ‘nimble’ with incoming data, Mester says” by Michael S. Derby on November 29, 2023, to wit:
It will likely take time to hit the Fed’s inflation target, Mester said, but in the meantime, “monetary policy is in a good place for policymakers to assess incoming information on the economy and financial conditions.”
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And let’s pause here for station identification so this all has a chance to sink in, but stay tuned, because the SILLY SEASON is just getting going and the TORRENT OF LIES from the Biden regime is just getting up a good head of steam as Biden tries to bulldoze us with a BARRAGE OF PURE BULL****!
As the late Lloyd Joseph Kellam, a native of Cape Charles, VA, who was the son of the late Lloyd Branson Joseph Kellam and the late Florence Manley Kellam, and who passed away on October 2, 2023, is doing elsewhere in here with respect to life in Cape Charles in years gone by, so too am I talking in here not only about the present, but what life was like here in America when I was young (I’m past the 3/4 century mark) as compared to now, and what comes to mind before I come back to America today under Joe Biden, who I believe has an administration even more corrupt than that of US Grant (March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877), I would like to go back to 1958, and an incident I remember well, that being the VICUNA COAT SCANDAL that forced Sherman Adams to resign under fire as President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief White House aide, and the reason that SCANDAL, which today in Joe Biden’s America wouldn’t be a scandal, but bidness as usual, came to mind was a State Of The Union article titled “Biden Admin Caught Red-Handed Skipping Taxpayer Safeguard To Push Through Green Energy Project” by Jordan Andrews on 1 December 2023, where we have what I, an older America, consider corruption in the Biden adminstration, to wit:
The Biden administration granted a waiver to an energy firm developing an offshore wind project off the coast of Massachusetts, exempting them from paying development fees intended to protect taxpayers.
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And let us call that out for what it is, people, dictatorial gall (bold and impudent behavior, as in Joe Biden had the gall to strip the taxpayers of America of the protection of law!”) on the part of this lawless autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, whose administration makes that of US Grant look clean by comparison, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
The decision has raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest, as the former Deputy Interior Secretary had previously provided legal services to the energy firm.
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And that is a qualification to serve in this CORRUPT Biden regime – having an actual conflict of interest and being compromised, as a result, which takes us back to the story of Biden Regime CORRUPTION, to wit:
“At the same time the Department of the Interior was looking at forcing greater and more expensive bonding requirements on holders of long-standing oil and gas leases, they were relaxing these requirements on the nation’s first utility-scale offshore wind energy producer, one that just coincidentally happened to be a client of their incoming #2,” PPT Director Michael Chamberlain said.
“If you want to talk about bad optics, I don’t see how they could be any worse than right here,” he added.
“For an administration touting itself as the most ethical in history, this represents yet another incident in which Secretary Haaland’s Interior appears to have a tough time living up to that standard.”
The waiver was approved despite the Trump administration’s prior rejection of the request.
The project, Vineyard Wind 1, has been fast-tracked, receiving federal approval and support from the Biden administration.
“Vineyard Wind 1 represents a historic milestone for advancing our nation’s clean energy production.”
“This project and others across the country will create robust and sustainable economies that lift up communities and support good-paying jobs, while also ensuring future generations have a livable planet,” Haaland said in 2021.
“The Interior Department is committed to responsibly accelerating our nation’s transition to a clean energy future, and doing so in coordination with our partners, stakeholders, Tribes and ocean users to avoid and reduce potential impacts as much as we can,” she added.
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Going back in time for context here, the Grant administration was routinely labeled one of the most corrupt in U.S. history, that being before being supplanted by the Biden administration, but despite the scandals that arose during his tenure, unlike Joe Biden today, Grant was never personally involved with any of them, and his honesty and personal integrity were never questioned, while today, Joe Biden’s honesty and personal integrity are most certainly questioned, and I would say that Joe Biden possesses neither.
Going back to US Grant, his inability to clean up his own administration was a blight on his presidential record, whereas today, as we see from this article above, Joe Biden makes no effort whatsoever to clean up his administration, because he doesn’t care to do so, after years in the US Senate where “palm greasing” has been raised to an art form.
Which brings us to 1958 and the VICUNA COAT SCANDAL from the UPI Archives for October 28, 1986, by Arnold Sawislak, UPI Senior Editor, as follows:
WASHINGTON — The Republicans regained the White House in 1952 with a general at the helm, and determined to fashion an image based on morality, honesty, thriftiness, and character.
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In our times, the DEMOCRATS regained (stole?) the White House in 2021 with a caitiff draft dodger at the helm, and they determined to fashion an image based on a lack morality, zero honesty, profligacy instead of thriftiness, and a lack of character from the chief executive on down.
Going back to that story, we have more as follows:
Sherman Adams filled the bill — and more.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was, of course, a war hero — the kind that inspires statues, but GOP campaigners also made much of the fact that he was unsullied by the ‘you-scratch-my-back-and-I’ll-scratch-yours’ political morality that embarrassed the Truman administration so often immediately after World War II.
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Today, Joe Biden has brought us back in time to the corrupt administration of Harry S. Truman, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Eisenhower brought Adams, the former governor of New Hampshire, to Washington, and the austere, almost grim Yankee symbolized a new no-nonsense atmosphere in the White House — where not long before, Truman’s cronies, including military aide Gen. Harry Vaughn, had dealt in influence-peddling and cheerfully trafficked in gifts of mink coats and food freezers.
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Being a DEMOCRAT, of course, Joe Biden not surprisingly is copying what went on during the Truman years, especially the influence-peddling, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
As White House chief of staff, Adams ran the show with the kind of military precision that a five-star general who commanded a gigantic war effort would expect from his chief aide.
He also was the very picture of the frugal public servant, eating ham and cheese sandwiches at his desk, rather than accepting pricey meals in what came to be known as the Washington ‘power lunch’ restaurants.
Adams appeared so powerful in setting the White House agenda and deflecting favor-seekers and other pests from the Oval Office that Democrats and some Republicans wondered aloud who really was in charge down there at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
He could have given Donald Regan lessons in unsympathetic listening and cold dismissal.
That ended with the arrival in Washington in 1958 of Bernard Goldfine, a New England businessman intent on getting some under-the-counter assistance with problems he was having with the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities & Exchange Commission.
To lubricate the process, Goldfine sent some of the people he thought could help him some nice presents, such as coats made of vicuna (most Americans never had heard of the valuable fabric woven from the fur of the rare South American beast) and oriental rugs.
Congress, which by that time had been recaptured by the Democrats, investigated the Goldfine affair with zest, and with the Washington press in full cry (one reporter was discovered trying to wiretap the Boston magnate’s hotel suite), it was soon disclosed that Sherman Adams, of all people, had accepted gifts from his old friend Bernie.
Adams indignantly denied wrongdoing, contending he had once given Goldfine a gold watch and the goodies he got from the Boston magnate were no more than reciprocal tokens of esteem.
A lot of people believed him, including the president, who told a news conference that gifts ‘are not necesarily a bribe’ and that he trusted and would keep Adams ‘because I need him.’
But under pressure from frightened GOP candidates in the 1958 elections, Ike finally let Adams resign with a letter glowing with high praise for his devotion to duty.
So Eisenhower said goodbye to Sherman Adams, his administration said goodbye to its aura of moral superiority and Washington marked up another victim of the axiom that ‘power corrupts.’
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And BIG SURPRISE, here we are today, with Washington and Joe Biden proving all over again that “power corrupts,” and in Jo0e Biden’s case, absolute power corrupts absolutely!
But stay tuned, more is yet to come!
Recapping here, we have been comparing the corruption of the Biden administration today with the corruption of the Grant administration (1869-1877), and making note of the fact that whereas in his time, which is long ago in American history now, when values were quite different than what they are today, the inability of US Grant to clean up his own administration was a blight on his presidential record, in our times today, the fact that Joe Biden makes no effort whatsoever to clean up his administration, because he doesn’t care to do so, after years in the US Senate where “palm greasing” has been raised to an art form, serves as no blight whatsoever on his presidential record, because people are so much more tolerant of corruption today than they were back in Grant’s time, or even 1958, when the VICUNA COAT SCANDAL forced Sherman Adams to have to resign as Eisenhauer’s chief of staff while tainting the Eisenhauer administration with the stench of corruption, and so, Joe gets to slide and the corruption and rot in his administration proceeds undiminished.
Think I’m kidding?
Not a joke, people, as we see by going to an article in the Brit publication The Daily Mail titled “Karine Jean-Pierre and top Biden spokesman inappropriately used their roles to influence elections with attacks on ‘MAGA’ Republicans, government watchdog rules” by Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter, on 2 December 2023, where we have this grossly insulting behavior from “BINDER” (KJP), Joe Biden’s PROPAGANDA MINISTER who wouldn’t know the truth if it reared up and bit her on her ass, and her lackey and Biden sycophant Andrew Bates, to wit:
White House spokespeople Karine Jean-Pierre and Andrew Bates violated the Hatch Act when they had been warned against using the word ‘MAGA’ to describe certain Republicans, a government watchdog agency said on Friday.
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Note the words “HAD BEEN WARNED,” which warning meant absolutely nothing to either of them because they know that under Joe Biden, the law is toothless, and thus, for willfully violating it in the name of DIVISIVE BIDEN PARTISAN POLITICS, they will suffer no consequences whatsoever, which takes us back to that insulting and unlawful behavior that is so characteristi9c of the corrupt Biden administration, to wit:
The independent Office of Special Counsel said the two took actions ‘contrary’ to official guidance on the law when they slammed ‘MAGA’ Republicans’ budget plan this year.
In their letter, first reported by NBC News, the office notes the violations came days after Jean-Pierre was warned she had violated the law intended to prevent federal employees from using their offices to influence elections.
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And “BINDER” simply blew off that warning because she knows it means nothing when she has the protection of the corrupt Joe Biden, which protection allows her to violate the law, OUR LAW that is supposed to protect us from unscrupulous political actors feeding off the taxpayers as is Karine Jean-Pierre, with impunity, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
This summer, the Office of Special Counsel notified government officials that ‘MAGA’ and similar terms were effectively off-limits for use as they were seen as campaign-related slogans.
The ruling came after OCS’s June finding that Jean-Pierre was in violation of the Hatch Act when she repeatedly referred to ‘MAGA Republicans’ in the run-up to the 2022 midterm election.
No action was taken against Jean-Pierre.
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Yes, people, NO ACTION was taken against “BINDER,” despite it being clear as day that she violated the law, which serves as proof of my assertion that this Biden administration is corrupt by intent, because Joe Biden believes that HE is the law, as if he were a reincarnation of Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, an absolute monarch who was not subject to any constitutional limitations, leading him to declare “l’etat, c’est moi” (“I am the state”).
Like Joe Biden today in our time, Louis ruled by divine right, receiving his authority directly from God, which is the same place Joe believes he gets his, and as the concept of divine right allowed Louis to quash emerging rebellions while establishing legitimacy, so too does the concept of divine right in our times today gives Joe Biden allow Joe Biden to quash what he believes are emerging rebellions (TRUE DEMOCRACY) against his rule, which takes us back to the story of KJP violating the law, to wit:
‘We take the law seriously and uphold the Hatch Act,’ a White House official told DailyMail.com.
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C’mon, man, that’s horsecrap and this white house “official” peddling that BULL**** to the Brits is nothing more than a lying, dog-faced pony soldier, as is KJP and Joe Biden, which again takes us back to the Brits for more, to wit:
Jean-Pierre, Bates and other officials repeatedly cite the Hatch Act in press briefings when declining to answer reporters’ questions about President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign or about Trump’s candidacy.
But Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, and Bates, who is deputy White House press secretary, have used the word ‘MAGA’ repeatedly when talking about ‘extreme MAGA Republicans’ and their agenda.
The complaint against the duo was filed by a conservative watchdog group called Protect the Public’s Trust, which is run by former Trump administration official Michael Chamberlain.
‘Apparently, nobody takes the Hatch Act very seriously, at least nobody that matters.’
‘Ms. Jean-Pierre cites it frequently to avoid tough questions, but when she and her deputy received the initial warning from OSC, they doubled down,’ Chamberlain told NBC News.
‘They probably guessed there would be no consequences, and the OSC appears to have proven them correct.’
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And my goodness, people, let’s get real here, as we’re all adults in here, not mindless children who don’t know better – of course the OSC proved them correct that KJP and Bates KNEW they wouldn’t be held to account by Joe Biden, and thus, there would be no consequences, because the law is a ******* JOKE, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Jean-Pierre, in particular, is a frequent invoker of the Hatch Act.
In December 2023, she used it to avoid answering questions about whether Biden would return campaign donations from disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
‘I am covered by the Hatch Act, which I’m happy to say over and over again, because we believe in the rule of law here,’ Jean-Pierre said in response.
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WHAT A JOKE, Karine, THAT ANY OF YOU IN THIS CORRUPT, INEPT, INCOMPETENT, BUMBLING, BUNGLING ADMINISTRATION BELIEVE IN RULE OF LAW!
All you believe in is RULE OF JOE, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
In April, she cited the Hatch Act when she declined to comment on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announcing that he is challenging President Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.
And, in January, she cited the Hatch Act when refusing to answer if Biden would serve a full four-year second term.
‘So, let me just say this – I’m not going to comment on the 2024 — he is a candidate,’ Jean-Pierre said, adding she wanted to be careful.
‘And we do follow the Hatch Act, so I want to be really, really mindful here.’
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And that takes us to a Forbes article titled “White House Attacks On ‘MAGA’ Policies Violated Federal Law, Government Watchdog Says” by William Skipworth, Forbes Staff, on 2 December 2023, for this discussion on the Hatch Act, to wit:
The Hatch Act was passed in 1939 and meant to prevent candidates, particularly incumbent candidates, from using employees with federal salaries, as well as federal resources to further their own political ambitions.
In addition to limiting what federal employees can do, it also prevents elected officials from using government buildings for campaign events, it forbids anyone from bribing citizens for their vote and it outlaws federal funds from being used for campaign activities.
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Yes, people, the Hatch Act was passed in 1939 to PROTECT us from corrupt hack, greedy, grasping, professional politicians like Joe Biden, and in January of 2021, the Hatch Act was simply discarded by the Biden administration to protect corruption, instead of we, the American people, and such is like in America today in this time of Joe Biden, more corrupt than US Grant and the worst president this country has ever had the misfortune to be saddled with, and that is a fact!
So, yes, people – LIES and FAILURES!
And a HUGE national deficit that is BLEEDING our economy to pay the interest, some $2 BILLION per day that might as well have been consigned to a garbage incinerator because interest on the MASSIVE DEBT OUT-OF-CONTROL Joe Biden has wracked up to pay for his INSANE GREEN DREAM is UNPRODUCTIVE MONEY that buys WE, THE PEOPLE nothing at all, which is FISCAL IRRESPONIBILITY on the part of AUTOCRAT Joe Biden.
That is all we have to show so far from this sorry administration as to its so-called “accomplishments,” which takes us back to Biden lickspitttle Deb Haaland above here referring to Joe Biden’s WINDMILL FARMS, to wit:
“This project and others across the country will create robust and sustainable economies that lift up communities and support good-paying jobs, while also ensuring future generations have a livable planet,” Haaland said in 2021.
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Yes, people, that was in 2021, and it was nothing more than empty political BULL**** rhetoric then, just as it is today, and for proof of that assertion, let us simply go to a Bloomberg article titled “A $30 Billion Meltdown in Clean Energy Puts Biden’s Climate Goals at Risk” by David R Baker, Saijel Kishan and Jennifer A Dlouhy on 30 November 2023, where we have this analysis of the MASSIVE FISCAL FIASCO unleashed upon us by the Biden regime to our nation’s detriment as a result of Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM, to wit:
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — No one expected the transition from fossil fuels to be easy.
But a year after President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law promised billions of dollars for America’s switch to clean energy, some of the nation’s most ambitious renewable power projects have been shelved, electric car sales are missing targets and investors are fleeing the sector in droves.
The result is a $30 billion collapse in US clean energy stocks in the last six months — a market many investors expected to flourish in the aftermath of the law’s passage.
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Which conclusively proves two things beyond a shadow of a doubt. to wit: in Joe Biden’s version of America, there are indeed suckers being born every minute all over America and in Joe Biden’s America, fools are very easily parted from their money by Joe Biden’s empty promises to them of easy money to come if only they would get in on the ground floor, which takes us back to Bloomberg, to wit:
Few industries have been unscathed by soaring interest rates, but perhaps none has been harder hit than renewable energy.
For a sector that builds big, expensive facilities such as solar plants and wind farms, high rates cut profit margins enough to sink projects and bankrupt companies.
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And who is ultimately responsible for those high interest rates killing these projects?
And what am I saying, people?
That’s a no-brainer!
Of course it is Joe Biden and BIDEN-FLATION as a result of BIDE-O-NOMICS, Joe’s ill-thought-out and frankly stupid MARXIST economic programs, which takes us back to Bloomberg for more of this BIDEN FISCAL FIASCO, to wit:
The giddy enthusiasm that followed the Inflation Reduction Act’s passage evaporated, wiping out a quarter of the market value of US companies in the S&P Global Clean Energy Index in the six months ended Nov. 27.
It’s a meltdown that underscores the obstacles standing in the way of Biden’s ambitious climate goals.
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And these BLIND PROFLIGATE FOOLS spending our tax dollars indiscriminately like drunken sailors in a whore-house town never saw any of this coming, because they are stupid and fiscally irresponsible with our tax dollars, which is a clear sign as to how inept and incompetent they are with our tax dollars, which again takes us back to Bloomberg, to wit:
Along with sky-high financing costs, clean energy companies face the problems of winning over potential neighbors for their projects, securing government permits and plugging into a creaky power grid unable to handle all the renewable power that’s planned.
The warnings are clear: America’s road to achieving a zero-carbon electricity grid by 2035 is getting rockier by the day.
“We’re in the moment of realization now where some of the euphoria has worn off and we’re starting to realize it’s still not going to be easy,” says Eric Scheriff, senior managing director at Capstone, a Washington, DC-based consulting firm.
The specter of bankruptcies now haunts the sector.
Electric bus maker Proterra Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection earlier this year, with solar financing firm Sunlight Financial Holdings Inc. following soon after.
Deals are falling apart: Private equity-backed Ares Acquisition Corp. abandoned its planned merger with nuclear power technology company X-Energy Reactor Co. in October.
And projects have been canceled: Utility owner Avangrid Inc. shelved wind projects in Connecticut and Massachusetts this year, while NuScale Power Corp. abruptly terminated its plans for the first small modular reactor in the US — a technology seen as key to the sector’s potential revival.
For anyone who remembers the last cleantech bust more than a decade ago, it’s easy to fear a repeat.
“In the final analysis, green investing has to be based on economic realities,” says Jerome Dodson, the now-retired founder of Parnassus Investments, one of the world’s largest sustainable investment firms, with $42 billion in assets.
He sold his stake in the business in 2021 — at the “top of the market,” as he puts it — and predicts that wind and solar stocks could fall an additional 15% to 20% in the next six to eight months.
It was only two years ago that Wall Street investors and bankers headed to Scotland for a global climate meeting, waxing lyrical about net-zero emissions goals and the profits to be made from the shift to cleaner energy.
That’s a stark contrast to the current mood as the world convenes again for climate talks at the COP28 summit this week in Dubai.
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And with that in the record to digest, let us take a pause for station identification and twenty-two hours of very interesting and informative infomercials telling you pretty much everything there is to know about what the Biden regime wants you to know about, and then we will be back with more.
So, once again recapping here, people, this thread, as it turns out, is a combination of “we told you so,” in reference to the Cape Charles Mirror’s coverage over the last several years of this ON-GOING FIASCO known as the Joe Biden administration with all its LIES, FALSEHOODS, MISINFORMATION and DISINFORMATION, as well as DEJA VU all over again with respect to Joe’s FISCAL MISMANAGEMENT and just plain DAMN BAD JUDGMENT and STUPIDITY coupled with EXTREME ARROGANCE and CORRUPTION when it comes to “investing” taxpayer dollars, OUR DOLLARS, in his INSANE GREEN DREAM, which takes us back in time to when Joe was Hussein Obama’s assistant president and a YouTube video titled “Biden on Fisker – Money Will Return to Taxpayers in Billions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g_6TYULxMg which was one of Joe’s famous FISCAL FIASCOS that ended up hosing WE. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, who are here merely for Joe and his political cronies to feed off of, in which video we have Joe himself in his own words feeding us a raft of PURE BULL**** about how his investment of taxpayer dollars in Fisker was going to return a profit of BILLION$ to us taxpayers while creating scads of high-paying jobs, which claims Joe is again making today, even as his INSANE GREEN DREAM is once again failing before our eyes due to STUPIDITY on the part of Joe and all the fools ignorant enough to invest in Joe’s pipe dream, to wit:
“This is seed money which will return back to the American consumer in BILLION$ and BILLION$ and BILLION$ of dollars in good new jobs.”
“The president (Hussein Obama) and I (goofball Biden) have never doubted that we could write a new chapter in the automotive history of this country.”
“Because we knew for real we not only had the best workers, we had the best innovators, the best designers and that’s what this is about today.”
“It’s about … it’s about what we’re about, this administration, rewriting a new chapter for our economy.”
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Now, since that is a videotape of Joe himself saying those words, there is no way that Joe can claim misinformation or disinformation on either my part, or by the Cape Charles Mirror, and that in turn takes us back in time to an investigative article by the Investigative Research Center titled “Hunter Biden Listed as Fisker Creditor, Raising Questions About Green Energy Boondoggle” by IRC Staff on June 2, 2020, where we have some necessary background history concerning Joe Biden’s fiscal irresponsibility with OUR tax dollars, to wit:
In 2009, the Obama-Biden administration agreed to pump $500 million of taxpayer stimulus cash into a foreign automotive company, Fisker, to make cars in the vice president’s home state of Delaware.
When their green-energy boondoggle went belly up, zero cars had been manufactured in the United States — despite the hefty cost footed by America.
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That was then, and now that Joe is back in power again, the same thing is happening now, all over again, which takes us back to that story, as follows:
The intricacies of the deal are tangled.
Bankruptcy documents related to the Fisker failure curiously listed Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, as a creditor to the automaker.
Fisker was later purchased at auction by Wanxiang, a Chinese conglomerate, after being “enticed” by Fisker creditors.
Wanxiang also has ties to Hunter Biden: The foreign company had invested $1.25 billion into a different company that was a client of Seneca Advisors, Hunter’s consulting firm.
Fisker was awarded $528 million in federal loans to build luxurious looking, environmentally friendly automobiles in America — despite having never sold a car.
The grant was given by the Department of Energy and celebrated by Secretary Steven Chu who declared that thousands of jobs would be created.
It has been written that Fisker’s overall marketing strategy “call[ed] out to an untapped market: moneyed Hollywood vegans, of which there plenty.”
Fiscal watchdogs were alarmed by the Obama-Biden administration’s expenditure.
One warned at the time: “This is not for average Americans.”
“This is for people to put something in their driveway that is a conversation piece.”
“It’s status symbol thing.”
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And think on those words, people, as we consider the “INSANE GREEN DREAM” PIE-IN-THE-SKY blather of Joe Biden today with respect to what his “CHIPS ACT” and his misnamed “INFLATION REDUCTION ACT” are supposed to accomplish today, and notice the name Hunter Biden as a player in that Fisker story, which is about recklessness with taxpayer dollars by Joe Biden, plain and simple, and now he is back in power to do it all over again, which takes us back to Fisker and Hunter and Joe, to wit:
The Fisker strategy also relied on large-scale government investment, which was made easier by having strong political connections.
Fisker was backed by former Vice President Al Gore and venture capitalist John Doerr, a “big-ticket” Obama donor and now a major contributor to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign.
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And how about that, now will you, people – look where Joe is getting his money from!
Getting back to that story, it goes on as follows, and provides us with a template and game plan for what Joe intends to do with our taxpayer dollars today, to wit:
In February 2009, Doerr had been appointed by the Obama-Biden administration to sit on an economic recovery board.
His firm, Kleiner Perkins, managed a $100 million tech fund.
CNET reported of his appointment: “Not-so-coincidentally, Doerr has lobbied for laws at the state level – and, more recently, as part of the ‘stimulus’ proposal – that would benefit his portfolio by moving toward smart grid, solar, and other technology.”
Fisker had private clout, and soon would secure taxpayer cash.
A Biden staffer told the Wall Street Journal that he made “no direct appeals” to the agency prior to the loan’s approval.
That claim from December 2009 seems suspect based on the paper’s chronicling of events.
Delaware’s Chief of Economic Development dubbed Biden a “secret weapon” in securing federal support.
Before ruling on the loan, Department of Energy leadership was “peppered” by elected officials in the state and had “repeated discussions with Vice President Biden and his staff.”
When Secretary Chu ran into Biden at an event, he reportedly told him, “I know, I know – Fisker.”
The loan was approved five days after that conversation.
Fisker chose a shuttered factory in Delaware located 3,000 miles away from the company’s headquarters.
High Gear Media notes other disadvantages besides geography: “(It) needed expensive retooling, was far too large for the task at hand, and was ostensibly more expensive to retrofit than some other ‘old GM’ properties, such as Doraville.”
However, the selected destination had some political advantages: It was just a few miles from Biden’s house and “across the tracks from Biden Park.”
The vice president was so excited that he “inadvertently divulged” Fisker’s product plan during a speech to union members.
A press release heralded a “new chapter” for the American auto industry which he believed would help our country “reclaim its top position in the global market.”
Given that the taxpayers were funding this venture backed by his political allies, Biden sought to assure the nation that his investment was wise: “This is seed money that will return back to the American consumer in billions and billions and billions of dollars in good, new jobs.”
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And let’s leave off there for a moment as we pause for station identification so you can get to the fridge for some necessary munchies, and when we return, it will be to hear the following from the authors of that investigative report, so stay tuned:
“But not everything went according to Biden’s ‘roadmap.’”
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And of course it didn’t, because Joe’s roadmap led straight to a large cliff above a huge swamp, and here we are, right there all over again, with far more taxpayer dollars in jeopardy.
In a post above here, I wrote that I can remember a time in America when we never heard this endless, disgusting and frankly sickening BIDEN BOBANCE (ostentatious or boastful behavior, boasting; a boast; vain display, worldly vanity) we are being constantly barraged with today from any American president before Joe Biden came down the pike, to our detriment and that of our REPUBLIC, as well, and when I refer to BOBANCE, I can think of no better example than the YouTube video titled “Biden on Fisker – Money Will Return to Taxpayers in Billions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g_6TYULxMg where we had Joe himself in his own words feeding us a raft of PURE BULL**** about how his investment of taxpayer dollars in Fisker was going to return a profit of BILLION$ to us taxpayers while creating scads of high-paying jobs, which claims Joe is again making today, even as his INSANE GREEN DREAM is once again failing before our eyes due to STUPIDITY on the part of Joe and all the fools ignorant enough to invest in Joe’s pipe dream.
As I watch that video and listen to Joe going on and on about how Joe and Hussein Obama never doubted that they could write a new chapter in the automotive history of this country, and how it was about … it’s about what Joe and Hussein were about, their administration, rewriting a new chapter for our economy, I can’t help but think what a great salesman Joe would be on late-night Infomercials peddling SHAM-WOWS, or THIGH MASTERS, or some such as is the subject of late-night infomercials.
And I also believe that to understand the present, it is necessary to have some knowledge of what has come before, and there, that video of Joe in his own words is worth a thousand words of mine in here, where in our time today, as we shall soon see, Joe still believes that HORSE**** he was peddling to the people of America back then about he was going to write a new chapter in the automotive history of this country, which he certainly is doing today, to the detriment of the automotive industry, because Joe totally ***** up anything and everything he puts his hands on, and how Joe was “rewriting a new chapter for our economy,” which thoughts take us to an article in The Hill titled “As demand for EVs plummets, Biden’s green fantasy is pummeling US auto dealers” by Mandy Gunasekara, the former chief of staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on 4 December 2023, where we see in real time exactly what Joe is really doing to our natio9n and our economy with his “writing of a new chapter for our economy” with his BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
From inflation to gas-stove bans, it’s clear President Biden and his top officials are living in an alternate reality.
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And yes, people, he and they most certainly are – and its called LA-LA- LAND, which takes us back to Joe writing a new chapter in the automotive history of this country, to wit:
Perhaps no issue proves this point more than their unrealistic mandate for electric-vehicles, a multibillion-dollar effort to force Americans into cars they simply don’t want and can’t afford.
In a recent speech President Biden bragged that billions of taxpayer dollars were being spent to convert auto-manufacturing factories to produce electric vehicles and “build a network of 500,000 electric-vehicle charging stations all across America.”
These actions, he claimed, will help “working families” and “create good-paying union jobs.”
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And as you watch that video, you readily see that Joe is spinning the same CRAP today as he was spouting back then, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
But facts are stubborn things, and now more than 3,000 auto dealers are finally speaking up.
Although not widely covered, Ford, GM, Chrysler, Volkswagen, and others have collectively laid off thousands of workers this year, due in large part to cratering demand for electric vehicles.
Ford admitted this summer that its electric vehicle business will lose $4.5 billion this year.
So much for “creating” jobs.
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So much, indeed, and that takes us back to the story of FAILURE all over again due to a lack of sound judgment on the part of Joe Biden, to wit:
Low market demand for electric vehicles should not be surprising.
Technical experts have been sounding the alarm for years that actual adoption rates and fleet turnover — the rate at which old cars are replaced with newer cars — is significantly lower than the green agenda’s inflated political projections would have it.
The EPA’s 2018 Mid-term Evaluation of Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Model Years 2022-2025 found that assumptions surrounding electric vehicle adoption, in particular, were grossly overstated and “didn’t comport with reality.”
In 2016, electric vehicle sales accounted for just 2.44 percent.
Realistic projections from our nation’s top auto engineers were less than rosy.
As candidly laid out in the official notice, “customers are not buying electrified vehicles at a rate sufficient for compliance.”
Biden has tried to manipulate this reality in many ways.
Team Biden and Capitol Hill Democrats have shifted billions of taxpayer dollars toward a charging infrastructure that has failed to materialize, while also seeking to buy off the auto-manufactures.
Ford, for example, has received a $9.2 billion loan to build more batteries.
For context, a Wall Street Journal analysis revealed that this is “$3.3 billion larger than what the company borrowed during the Detroit meltdown of 2008-09.”
Ford is not alone; GM and LG have received $2.5 billion for similar commitments.
Perhaps this is why their layoffs and production cuts have gotten so little attention.
While the manufactures roll in the billions of taxpayer dollars aimed at sweetening the otherwise unrealistic transition, American auto-dealers, and by extension their customers, are left holding the proverbial bag.
Most Americans cannot afford or simply don’t want EVs.
Given the inflationary effects of Bidenomics, not even generous taxpayer subsidies can make the idea of buying a $56,000 electric car (on average) palatable for most consumers.
Despite these inconvenient facts, Team Biden is full steam ahead.
The EPA’s latest regulatory mandate would require 50 percent of new car sales to be totally electric by 2030.
Not only is this unrealistic, but any serious attempt to achieve it will waste money while severely damaging both the economy and the planet.
Auto-dealers with electric vehicles stacking up on their lots are pleading with the administration to at least pause the madness.
It’s past time Biden started to listen.
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But the sad reality, people, is that Joe Biden is so wrapped up in his perfection that he is totally incapable of listening, which was the case back when Joe was pumping Fisker, which takes us back to the investigative article by the Investigative Research Center titled “Hunter Biden Listed as Fisker Creditor, Raising Questions About Green Energy Boondoggle” by IRC Staff on June 2, 2020, where we have some necessary background history concerning Joe Biden’s fiscal irresponsibility with OUR tax dollars, to wit:
When Biden predicted a “new chapter,” he wasn’t banking on his story taking a climactic turn at Chapter 11 — via a bankruptcy filing.
Two years after getting loan approval, Biden’s pet project was speeding towards disaster.
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And when we return from a pause from station identification and a slew of commercials on the best EV’s out there for you to buy, we will pick that story up again, so stay tuned!
SPIN, CRASH, BURN!
So goes BIDE-O-NOMICS, people, and who on earth should be surprised by that.
Consider the State Of The Union article titled “Biden Shifting Away From ‘Bidenomics’ Talk as Public Remains Skeptical on Economy” by Joseph Ellis on 3 December 2023, to wit:
The term “Bidenomics” has become less prominent in President Biden’s speeches, with his re-election campaign using it in subtler ways.
Mainstream media outlets have noticed this shift, with prominent Democrats and allies warning that the branding could backfire.
Polls show that a majority of U.S. voters do not like “Bidenomics.”
“Whatever stories Americans are told about the strength of the economy under President Joe Biden, they are not going to be persuaded to look past the issue of their own living standards,” wrote economist James Galbraith.
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Or the the Washington Examiner story “Not even Democrats are buying Bidenomics” by Zachary Faria on 5 December 2023, to wit:
President Joe Biden boldly tried to sell people on his economic plan as the core of his reelection campaign even though people hate the state of the economy under Biden.
As you might have expected, that has backfired to the point that Democrats, including Biden, are sprinting away from the term.
House Democrats have abandoned the term in favor of “People Over Politics,” a clear sign that “Bidenomics” isn’t selling well to voters.
That is not a surprise, given that Biden’s approval rating on the economy is sitting at 32% with 67% disapproving.
Among independents, Biden’s approval on the economy is at 25%.
The White House’s attempt to gaslight people into thinking they are doing better financially than they are and then tying it to a wildly unpopular president, surprisingly, is not very popular.
In fact, it is so unpopular that Biden himself hasn’t mentioned Bidenomics over the last four weeks after using the term 101 times in June.
Biden no doubt bought into his own hype in the summer, but branding a failing economy with his name as people continued to struggle to keep up with inflation turned out to be a misstep that even he wants people to forget.
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Or the Washington Examiner story titled “‘Bidenomics’ goes bust: House Democrats have ditched Joe’s signature slogan” by Jack Birle on 5 December 2023, to wit:
House Democrats are not fans of “Bidenomics,” the term used to describe President Joe Biden’s economic policy, despite a major push by the White House this year.
Both behind the scenes and in public, congressional Democrats are looking to drop the term in favor of a different way of pitching the president’s economic agenda, according to Axios.
The campaign fundraising wings for House Democrats, including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the House Majority PAC, have largely avoided using the term in their messaging.
The DCCC has not used “Bidenomics” in its public releases, while the House Majority PAC has only used it once in the past several months.
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And then there is the Fox News story titled “Democrats drop ‘Bidenomics’ as some voters complain it’s ‘tone-deaf’: Report” by Jeffrey Clark on 5 December 2023, where we have as follows, to wit:
Democratic Party leaders are refusing to use the term “Bidenomics” in speeches and online as the 2024 presidential election closes in, according to an Axios article from Sunday.
“House Democrats have rejected the White House’s months-long campaign to sell the term ‘Bidenomics,'” the outlet reported, with many in House Democratic leadership stopping use of the term months ago.
“Bidenomics,” a term that President Biden has repeatedly used to tout his economic achievements during his presidency, has become unpopular within a Democratic Party struggling to convince voters that life is better under Biden.
Axios reported that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and House Majority PAC “are also avoiding” using the term Bidenomics “on social media and press releases, as polling indicates the tagline is ineffective.”
Voters, not just Democratic Party leadership, also feel negatively about Bidenomics, with Democratic sources telling Axios that the term was “seen as tone-deaf to voters still struggling economically and also invoked a president with lackluster polling numbers.”
A Fox News poll from mid-November found 78% of voters rate the economy negatively, and the majority feel the worst isn’t over.
Inflation was the top concern with the majority of those surveyed, and only 29% of voters approved of Biden’s handling of the issue, while 69% said they disapproved.
A number of historians and liberal columnists have advised Biden to stop using “Bidenomics,” with liberal presidential historian Douglas Brinkley telling NBC News the messaging “fell flat” with the public.
“It’s a little bit like Gerald Ford’s ‘Whip Inflation Now’ buttons.”
“Nobody wants to be waving banners that say, ‘I love Bidenomics,’” Brinkley said.
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And hey, people, JOBS, JOBS, JOBS – GAZILLIONS of HIGH-PAYING jobs in America thanks to Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS, as we clearly see in this CNBC story titled “Job openings slide to 8.7 million in October, well below estimate, to lowest level since March 2021” by Jeff Cox on December 5, 2023, to wit:
Job openings tumbled in October to their lowest in 2½ years, a sign the historically tight labor market could be loosening.
Employment openings totaled a seasonally adjusted 8.73 million for the month, a decline of 617,000, or 6.6%, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.
The number was well below the 9.4 million estimate from Dow Jones and the lowest since March 2021.
The quits rate had peaked around 3% of total employment in late 2021 into early 2022, during what briefly was known as the Great Resignation as workers left their old jobs in search of positions that paid more and offered better working conditions; it since has declined to 2.3%.
Declines in job openings were widespread by industry.
The biggest sector decline was education and health services (-238,000), followed by financial activities (-217,000), leisure and hospitality (-136,000), and retail (-102,000).
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Or the Reuters story titled “US private payrolls miss expectations in November” on December 6, 2023, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) – U.S. private payrolls increased less than expected in November as the labor market gradually cools.
Private payrolls rose by 103,000 jobs last month, the ADP National Employment Report showed on Wednesday.
Data for October was revised lower to show 106,000 jobs added instead of 113,000 as previously reported.
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And to put some icing on the cake, we had a Reuters story titled “US manufacturing mired in weakness, economy heading for slowdown” by Lucia Mutikani on December 1, 2023, where we had this news about what a “success story” BIDE-O-NOMICS really is, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing remained subdued in November, with factory employment declining further as hiring slowed and layoffs increased, more evidence that the economy was losing momentum after robust growth last quarter.
Economic activity is cooling as higher interest rates crimp demand.
The ISM said that its manufacturing PMI was unchanged at 46.7 last month.
It was the 13th consecutive month that the PMI stayed below 50, which indicates contraction in manufacturing.
That is the longest such stretch since the period from August 2000 to January 2002.
A rebound anytime soon is unlikely as manufacturers in the ISM survey mostly described inventories as bloated.
The 14 industries reporting contraction included paper products, electrical equipment, appliances and components, computer and electronic products, machinery and miscellaneous manufacturing.
Comments from manufacturers were mostly downbeat and cited the need to reduce inventory levels.
Makers of computer and electronic products said the “economy appears to be slowing dramatically.”
Miscellaneous manufacturing firms said “customer orders have pushed into the first quarter of 2024, resulting in inflated end-of-year inventory.”
Producers of food, beverage and tobacco reported that “our executives have requested that we bring down inventory levels considerably, and it has started causing customer shortages.”
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And why, people, are interest rates higher?
BECAUSE OF BIDE-O-NOMICS AND JOE BIDEN’S INSNAE GREEN DREAM IS WHY!
And that takes us back to the which takes us back to the investigative article by the Investigative Research Center titled “Hunter Biden Listed as Fisker Creditor, Raising Questions About Green Energy Boondoggle” by IRC Staff on June 2, 2020, where we had more of Joe Biden’s “fiscal acumen” on display, to wit:
So much for Biden’s pledge that the taxpayer seed money would give America “billions and billions and billions of dollars in good, new jobs.”
By November 2013 Fisker had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The move was described by The Verge to be “all but inevitable since its Karma electric sports car failed both in tests and on the market.”
Biden’s gambit had gone bust, with taxpayers losing $139,000,000 of the $192,000,000 granted.
Creditors owed money by Fisker quickly lined up.
Documents show they include notable names such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, BMW, Andre Agassi, and Robert “Hunter” Biden – the vice president’s son.
In 2014 Fisker was sold to a Chinese conglomerate, Wanxiang, after the automaker’s creditors “enticed” the corporation to make an offer that “sparked competition.”
The auction “drove up Fisker’s price by about $90 million, compared to the offers that started off the bidding.”
Hunter Biden, who was listed as a Fisker creditor, has connections to Wanxiang.
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And when we return from a pause from station identification and a slew of Biden campaign political commercials telling us just how good off we are today thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, we will pick that Fisker story up again, so stay tuned!
And here we come to an existential question of exactly what is the purpose of the elderly like myself in modern society, or rephrased, what duty do the elderly like myself have to modern society, especially when modern society relegates the elderly like myself to the trashbin of society, expecting and in some cases demanding that we crawl off to someplace where the elderly crawl off to, to die, like Florida, leaving our property for the young folks to take over, since they are more deserving of it than we are.
And that brings me to the subject of “institutional memory,” which is a role I try to play in here, courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, and “institutional memory” as I use the term means information held in one’s personal recollections and experiences that provides an understanding of the history and culture of an organization, especially the stories that explain the reasons behind certain decisions or procedures.
And that raises the question of is HISTORY relevant to the present, or like was said by some dimwit pedagogue politically connected to a previous presidential administration that they didn’t need to know history, because they were writing the history everybody else would need to know, and thus we had war in Iraq which hasn’t ended and is still going on to this day.
And here I am thinking specifically of the Hatch Act, which was passed in 1939, a real long time ago, now, and was meant to prevent incumbent candidates like Joe Biden from using employees with federal salaries, which as we shall see includes presidential CABINET members, like Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, as well as federal resources, to further their own political ambitions, and specifically, it forbids anyone from bribing citizens for their vote, like with using federal funds to bribe young people for their votes by canceling their student loans for them, which takes us to a CNBC article titled “Biden administration to forgive $4.8 billion in student loan debt for 80,300 borrowers” by Annie Nova on 7 December 2023, as follows:
The Biden administration has now cancelled nearly $132 billion in student debt for more than 3.6 million Americans.
Forgiveness may set Biden apart in election
The actions are likely to help President Joe Biden as he runs for reelection, said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.
“Biden has forgiven more student loan debt than any previous president,” Kantrowitz said.
“It distinguishes him from other candidates.”
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Yes, people, indeed it does distinguish Joe Biden, a career politician who has been feeding off the taxpayers all his adult life like a boll weevil in a cotton patch or a rat in a farmer’s corncrib while using GOVERNMENT RESOURCES, our tax dollars, to further his political ambitions and to enrichen himself and his family at our expense, because as Hussein Obama would say, it’s the right thing to do,” and that thought takes us back to the investigative article by the Investigative Research Center titled “Hunter Biden Listed as Fisker Creditor, Raising Questions About Green Energy Boondoggle” by IRC Staff on June 2, 2020, where we have American history as it happened, to our detriment, and son Hunter’s benefit, thanks to Joe Biden, to wit:
By 2012, ABC News reported Fisker “continues to signal it could ditch plans to build its next generation hybrid electric vehicle in the United States, despite the nearly $200 million in Obama administration loan money it has already received.”
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Like the money Joe Biden is using today to bribe young voters by forgiving their student debt to further his political ambitions, that nearly $200 million in “Obama administration loan money” given to Fisker was OUR tax dollars, and let us not forget that fact as we go back to that article, to wit:
As “hardball negotiating tactics” ensued The Philadelphia Inquirer ran with this headline: “Biden-backed Fisker Delaware auto plant, 2500 jobs, in doubt.”
In March 2013, Fisker announced that it would lay off most of its workforce.
The Los Angeles Times said that the company had been “stymied by unsuccessful efforts to craft a deal with Chinese investors” and the layoffs “likely signaled the death” of the company.
During a hearing in the U.S. Capitol that spring, Congressman Mark Meadows asked a Fisker representative: “How many of these vehicles were ever produced in the United States?”
As the automaker executive was speaking, Meadows interrupted him to seek clarity: “So, zero?”
The Fisker agent confirmed that zero was “correct” – despite having received nearly $200 million in taxpayer funding.
So much for Biden’s pledge that the taxpayer seed money would give America “billions and billions and billions of dollars in good, new jobs.”
By November 2013 Fisker had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The move was described by The Verge to be “all but inevitable since its Karma electric sports car failed both in tests and on the market.”
Biden’s gambit had gone bust, with taxpayers losing $139,000,000 of the $192,000,000 granted.
Creditors owed money by Fisker quickly lined up.
Documents show they include notable names such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, BMW, Andre Agassi, and Robert “Hunter” Biden – the vice president’s son.
In 2014 Fisker was sold to a Chinese conglomerate, Wanxiang, after the automaker’s creditors “enticed” the corporation to make an offer that “sparked competition.”
The auction “drove up Fisker’s price by about $90 million, compared to the offers that started off the bidding.”
Hunter Biden, who was listed as a Fisker creditor, has connections to Wanxiang.
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And here we come to the important part of this timeline which continues right on up to our times today, as the Hunter Biden saga continues, to wit:
After Senator Obama selected his father as a running mate Hunter set up a consulting firm called Seneca Global Advisors.
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Make note of that, anyone out there trying to connect the dots in the Joe Biden/Hunter Biden enrichment scheme using Joe’s political positions to make money for CLAN BIDEN.
Going back to the story, it continues, as follows:
One of Seneca’s clients was GreatPoint Energy.
In an article focusing on Hunter’s “web of interests”, The Financial Times reported that GreatPoint Energy received a $1.25 billion investment from Wanxiang.
They note, “it was the largest venture capital investment into the US that year.”
“It is unclear if Hunter Biden was directly involved in securing this investment.”
The Nation wrote that when Biden investments have “turned sour, Chinese investors have been ready to help.”
The magazine also observed that Joe’s political friends tend to do well at the “expense of the middle class.”
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What a great line, and people, that remains true to this day, as Joe Biden’s campaign team tries to tell us how much good Joe is doing for the “middle class” today, which takes us back for more, to wit:
GigaOM assessed that Hunter’s appearance in bankruptcy documents means that he was likely an “early investor or just a potential customer that is owed deposit money.”
If being owed cash for Fisker’s failure to deliver a pre-ordered car is the simple explanation, it’s curious that an “assistant at his Washington law firm said he was “declining to comment” when asked by the News Journal in 2013 about his role.
So, did the progeny of Vice President Biden have a financial interest in the acquisition of Fisker by Wanxiang?
The Biden campaign refused to answer our inquiry.
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And with that, here I will take a break, but stay tuned, because with Joe Biden, that is de rigueur (“a fashion or custom that is commonplace within a context”), because that is what government money is for – to enrich those who have control of it, since there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it.
So, since the subject has been raised, thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror, is there a down-side to being an elderly American today in this present version of society, with a working memory, or “institutional memory?”
And that answer from my perspective of three-quarters of a century here in the now crumbling facade known as the “united (they are not) states of America” is yes, there is, because I can not only see, but document just how far down we have come as a nation and as a people in that time, so that today what passes for “government” at the national level is nothing more than a sick joke being played on us who can remember when it was different, and far better, which, of course, is a subjective opinion that many today would dispute, but so be it, that is their privilege, and it changes absolutely nothing I am writing about in here, courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, and here, I am referring specifically to using federal funds to blatantly BRIBE voters, which is exactly what Joseph Robinette “FISKER JOE” Biden, Junior, an incumbent candidate for the office of chief executive of America, whose economic program for America is reminiscent of Mao Tse Tung’s GREAT LEAP FORWARD in Communist China, begun in 1958 and abandoned in 1961, or the “Potemkin Villages” of Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, intended to impress the Russian empress Catherine the Great, is doing with his infrastructure law, the Chips and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.
And there, with my reference to Chairman Mao and Potemkin, is where I find myself these days, living in a past that is now long gone and largely unremembered, which leaves me possessed of a cultural context that no longer exists along with a vocabulary of words that no longer have meaning, so that communication itself has become nigh on impossible.
Earlier today, in fact, I was in conversation with a couple of people of fifty years of age who are far from ignorant, and when I threw out the names of Potemkin and Mao, they had no idea as to what I was talking about, not because they are stupid, they are far from it, k but because it was stuff they never were taught about, and when they asked me how I know about this stuff, my answer was that there was a time in America when we as young citizens were supposed to be aware of these things, so that they would not happen here.
And talking about STUPIDITY at very high levels in American government today, take for instance a State Of The Union article titled “Top DOJ Official Admits To Jim Jordan That She’s Clueless: ‘I Don’t Know What We Say’” by Jordan Andrews on 8 December 2023, where we have the stupidity in high government officials deemed acceptable in this day and age of the MEDIOCRITY known as “FISKER JOE” Biden, to wit:
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan expressed astonishment at Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke’s lack of familiarity with a significant free-speech case before the U.S. Supreme Court, suggesting it reflects the Justice Department’s political motives.
The case, Missouri v. Biden, involves allegations of government censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Um, congressman, I’m not familiar with this litigation, but happy to bring your question back,” Clarke said to Republican Rep. Dan Bishop regarding Missouri vs. Biden.
Bishop then sought further confirmation that Clarke was indeed “not aware” of the case.
“Unfortunately, I’m not, Congressman,” she said.
Bishop questioned how it was even possible.
“If – if – if you could share more of the facts, that could be helpful, Congressman,” Clarke said shakly.
“Otherwise, you’re just — you just don’t know.”
“Is that correct?” Bishop asked.
“That’s correct.”
“Unfortunately, this does not appear to be a case that I’m familiar with,” the assistant attorney general said.
“I don’t know what we say,” Rep. Jordan later said.
“I would think every member and anyone watching is just astounded.”
Clarke’s admission of ignorance, when questioned by Rep. Dan Bishop, raises questions regarding her competence and truthfulness.
The situation has left many with uncertainty surrounding her credibility.
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And given she works for Joe Biden, she doesn’t have any credibility, because Jo9e himself doesn’t, so he does not demand it of his underlings, but so much for that, because what I want to do is to go back to the so-called Hatch Act, which today is a joke, and BRIBING the citizenry with federal funds to get elected, which takes us to a New York Post story titled “Biden heads to California for big Hollywood money haul, days after Department of Justice file charges against Hunter Biden” by Reuters on 8 December 2023, where we have “FISKER JOE” using federal funds to buy votes with, as follows:
President Joe Biden kicks off a three-day, star-studded fundraising trip in California on Friday that a top campaign official boasted will rake in a record amount of cash for the Democratic president’s 2024 re-election effort.
The California swing is part of a blitz of at least nine fundraisers Biden will hold before the end of the month.
The fundraisers in California and an earlier round in Boston are expected to raise at least $15 million, according to a source familiar with the events.
Biden will briefly stop in Las Vegas on Friday to announce $8.2 billion in funding for 10 new passenger rail projects, a senior administration official said.
The projects, funded by the $1 trillion infrastructure law, include $3 billion for the nation’s first high-speed rail line, which will run through California, according to a senior administration official.
Biden will also announce a $3 billion investment to help create another high-speed rail corridor between Las Vegas and South Carolina, along with money for projects in North Carolina, Virginia and Washington D.C, the official said.
Biden has spent the last year crisscrossing the country announcing new funding tethered to his signature pieces of legislation, the infrastructure law, the Chips and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.
It is part of a bid to boost his poll ratings and convince voters he is the right person to lead the U.S. economy, but recent public opinion polls show the effort has had little success.
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As an older American who remembers when things were quite different, I personally find myself quite disgusted with this conduct by Biden, given this money comes from our of our pockets, not his, and more on failed high-speed train projects later, but right now, the subject is the Hatch Act and government corruption, which takes us to Wikipedia for essential background, to wit:
The Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law.
The law was named for Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico.
Background
Widespread allegations that local Democratic Party politicians used employees of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the congressional elections of 1938 provided the immediate impetus for the passage of the Hatch Act.
Criticism centered on swing states such as Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
In Pennsylvania, Republicans and dissident Democrats publicized evidence that Democratic politicians were consulted on the appointment of WPA administrators and case workers and that they used WPA jobs to gain unfair political advantage.
In 1938, a series of newspaper articles exposed WPA patronage, and political contributions in return for employment, prompting an investigation by the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, headed by Sen. Morris Sheppard, a Texas Democrat.
Despite that investigation’s inconclusive findings, many in both parties determined to take action against the growing power of the WPA and its chief administrator, Harry Hopkins, an intimate of President Franklin Roosevelt.
The Act was sponsored by Senator Carl Hatch, a Democrat from New Mexico.
At the time, Roosevelt was struggling to purge the Democratic party of its more conservative members, who were increasingly aligned with the administration’s Republican opponents.
The president considered vetoing the legislation or allowing it to become law without his signature, but instead signed it on the last day he could do so.
Provisions
The 1939 Act forbids the intimidation or bribery of voters and restricts political campaign activities by federal employees.
It prohibits using any public funds designated for relief or public works for electoral purposes.
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Except as we are clearly seeing above here, the supposed law, which is gutless, DOES NOT prohibit “FISKER JOE” Biden from using public funds designated for public works for electoral purposes, because the law DOES NOT apply to Joe, who is exempt from its provisions, and thus, is free as a bird to spend our tax dollars as he pleases in order to buy himself the next presidential election.
It reminds me, quite frankly, of Marcus Didius Severus Julianus (born 133—died June 2, 193), a wealthy Roman senator who became emperor (March 28–June 1, 193) by being the highest bidder in an auction for the support of the Praetorian Guard.
A member of one of the most prominent families of Mediolanum (now Milan), Didius Severus Julianus had a long and distinguished public career.
After commanding the legion at Mogontiacum (now Mainz), about 167, he governed northeastern Gaul, Dalmatia, the lower Rhine, Bithynia, and Africa.
He was consul in 175.
During the political disturbances of Commodus’ reign he was banished to Mediolanum.
Commodus was murdered on the eve of Jan. 1, 193, however, and his successor, Pertinax, was assassinated by the imperial guard late in March.
Backed by a group of senators who had Milanese connections, Julianus competed with the late emperor’s father-in-law, Titus Flavius Sulpicianus, in offering the guards a substantial donative (accession bounty).
Julianus won the bidding and was escorted by the guards to the Senate, where he encountered angry demonstrators denouncing the auction and calling for the intervention of the army.
Shortly thereafter the Danube legions invaded Italy, killed Julianus, and proclaimed their principal commander, Lucius Septimius Severus, emperor.
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STUPID Joe Biden, to me, is playing with fire here, being so blatant and open about using federal funds to bribe voters and to buy votes.
Will he get burned, and our nation with him?
Stay tuned!
Meanwhile, let’s stop back at an article in The Hill titled “As demand for EVs plummets, Biden’s green fantasy is pummeling US auto dealers” by Mandy Gunasekara, the former chief of staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on 4 December 2023, for more relevant BIDEN BULL****, to wit:
The promised build-out of charging stations has been equally disastrous.
At Biden’s request, Congress set aside $7.5 billion in 2021 to build tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country.
A recent analysis found that, despite the influx of funding, the program has yet to install a single charger.
A $7.5 billion taxpayer “investment” with no return two years in is a tough economic pill to swallow.
Team Biden and Capitol Hill Democrats have shifted billions of taxpayer dollars toward a charging infrastructure that has failed to materialize, while also seeking to buy off the auto-manufactures.
Ford, for example, has received a $9.2 billion loan to build more batteries.
Ford is not alone; GM and LG have received $2.5 billion for similar commitments.
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FISKER all over again, people, except with a HUGE price tag this time?
With respect to my comment above here about the now crumbling facade known as the “united (they are not) states of America” and how far down we have come as a nation and as a people in my lifetime, so that today what passes for “government” at the national level is nothing more than a sick joke being played on those us with working memories who can remember when it was different, and far better, I can do no better to document what I am referring to by pointing to that State Of The Union article above here titled “Top DOJ Official Admits To Jim Jordan That She’s Clueless: ‘I Don’t Know What We Say’” by Jordan Andrews on 8 December 2023, where we have the stupidity in high government officials deemed acceptable in this day and age of the MEDIOCRITY known as “FISKER JOE” Biden in the person of Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who to become a lawyer supposedly first went to four years of college, and then three years of law school, and emerged from all of that supposed “education” as a ******* idiot totally unaware of current events in America, and one must wonder if she had her Binky (a trademarked brand name for pacifiers manufactured by the Binky Baby Products) in her mouthy when she was testifying as to how stupid she is before a panel of the House of Representatives recently.
It was in the second grade of elementary school back in the last century of the last millennium that it was impressed on me that as an American citizen (yes, people, in America, at least back then, children were considered young citizens and were taught they had duties to society, just as adults do, if society is not to break down, as it has since, despite that) I had a duty to know current events in the world around me, because American society had no need for a stupid and ignorant population as had been the case in Nazi Germany with the bovine-like GOOD GERMANS who allowed Hitler to have his way in that country until beaten by the Allies in the just-concluded WWII (does anyone today remember WWII), and so I was stunned, but not at all surprised, to see just how ignorant this Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke really is, and what a statement about American government today that really is.
But enough about that idiot, because my subject today is high-speed rail and Joe Biden’s announcement in Las Vegas on Friday to announce $8.2 billion in funding for 10 new passenger rail projects funded by the $1 trillion infrastructure law, which includes $3 billion for the nation’s first high-speed rail line, which will run through California, according to a senior administration official, with “FISKER JOE” Biden also announcing a $3 billion investment to help create another high-speed rail corridor between Las Vegas and South Carolina, along with money for projects in North Carolina, Virginia and Washington D.C, the official said.
Now, pause here, people, to consider what are in actuality paltry (small or meager) amounts of money for what Joe is proposing, and that brings me back in time in New York state history, where we have been before on this subject of high-speed light rail, and an article in the Buffalo News titled “Lundine Unveils High-Speed Train Plan” on November 10, 1993 where we were informed that the plan, backed by Gov. Mario Cuomo, a notorious braggert and DEMOCRAT and his lackey, assistant governor Stanley Lundine, would see nearly $1 billion pumped into rail line improvements throughout the Empire Rail Corridor, which high-speed rail, as much a pipe-dream then as is Joe’s plan today, never came to fruition, as we shall see, just as Joe’s plan, like his EV charging stations which don’t exist, will never come to fruition, and that takes us back in time to an Albany, New York Times Union article titled “Cuomo proposes study of high-speed rail options” by Eric Anderson, updated December 26, 2019, where we had as follows, to wit:
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants to bring together a blue-ribbon panel to “reexamine and rethink strategies to bring high-speed rail to New York,” according to the latest preview of his upcoming State of the State address.
Thursday’s announcement said the governor would “task a panel of engineers to reexamine past high-speed rail plans, question and rethink every assumption and method, and recommend a new plan for how to build faster, greener, more reliable high-speed rail in New York.”
“High speed rail is transforming economies around the world,” Cuomo said in a statement.
“We’ve been told that bringing this technology to our state is too expensive, too difficult and would take too long — that’s not an acceptable attitude for New York.”
Passenger rail advocates welcomed the governor’s announcement.
“We certainly encourage the governor’s plans to increase high speed rail and allow more passengers to use rail to travel from one part of the state to the other,” said Gary Prophet, president of the Empire State Passengers Association.
The current “Empire Corridor” rail line connecting New York City, Albany and Buffalo has been criticized as sorely in need of infrastructure upgrades.
The Executive Chamber’s release notes that those lines average 51 miles per hour, “meaning it is often the slowest method available for New Yorkers.”
An effort to bring high-speed rail to the corridor, launched in 2009, has faced delays.
A final version of the environmental impact statement, which was to have been completed last April, now isn’t expected until next May.
Numerous high-speed rail proposals have run aground due primarily to cost and the presumptive years they would take to construct.
CSX, which owns the tracks west of Schenectady and operates dozens of freight trains daily, has balked at mixing passenger trains traveling more than 70 mph with freight trains that move at much lower speeds.
Amtrak has leased the tracks between Poughkeepsie and Schenectady from CSX, which uses other tracks on the west side of the Hudson River for its freight service.
That allows Amtrak trains to travel as fast as 110 mph on some sections of the leased tracks.
Cuomo’s proposed expert panel “will review these past studies, and strategies that countries all over the world have used to build thousands of miles of high-speed rail, to ask every question and find the best way to build high-speed rail in New York.”
Amtrak’s new generation of Acela high-speed trains is being built at a factory in Hornell, but those trains, traveling between Boston and Washington, will make just one New York stop, at Penn Station.
Using them upstate would require construction of overhead catenary lines to provide electric power.
Despite Cuomo’s passion for large infrastructure projects — which have included the construction of the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and major improvements at LaGuardia Airport — a study of high-speed rail seems far more likely to find favor than an actual construction plan in the next legislative session, when the governor and lawmakers will confront an estimated $6 billion budget gap primarily resulting from state health care spending.
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That, of course, was Young Andy Cuomo’s proposal, Young Andy being the son of Mario, but Young Andy was forced out of office, because he couldn’t keep his groping hands and grasping fingers off the women around him, and so we never heard any more about any of that from him, which takes us to a City Magazine article from January 7, 2020, titled “New York’s high-speed rail fail” by David Andreatt, where we have some economic reality staring us in the face, except of course, the goofy “FISKER JOE” Biden, who is totally clueless here, being disconnected from the reality the rest of us reside in, to wit:
Just 70 percent of Empire Corridor trains are on time, according to Amtrak’s own report card.
That’s mostly because the trains run on tracks owned by the freight carrier CSX Corp., which prioritizes its own traffic over that of Amtrak.
So, naturally, a faster ride would be welcome.
But how many of those Empire Corridor travelers really need faster service?
Are they willing to pay for it?
Would the benefits outweigh the cost?
What is the cost?
That depends how fast we want the “high-speed” rail service to go.
The last study of the matter was a 2014 joint state and federal report that found increasing the average speed to 77 mph, while topping out at 125 mph, would cost $15 billion.
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Consider that sum, people, keeping in mind that we are talking before BIDENFLATION thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS jacked up the prices of everything – $15 BILLION for what in essence is a short distance compared to what Joe is proposing – $3 billion investment to help create another high-speed rail corridor between Las Vegas and South Carolina, which is roughly 2,166.9 miles, while the so-called Empire Corridor contains 463 miles of track from Niagara Falls to New York City.
Going back to reality, we have more, as follows:
Getting from Niagara Falls to New York City would take 6 hours on an express train and 8 hours, 40 minutes on a regional train.
Two slower “high-speed” alternatives that would average speeds of 61 and 63 mph, respectively, and reach top speeds of 90 and 110 mph, respectively, were projected to cost $5.6 and $6.3 billion.
The report rejected as too expensive the fastest high-speed rail options — those bullet trains that zip around Europe at 190 mph and the magnetic levitation, or “maglev,” trains in China and Japan that top out at 225 mph.
The report put their price tag at nearly $45 billion.
In 2009, a national infrastructure planning group identified Rochester and New York City as among the best city pairs for a high-speed rail route.
But the route was 50th out of 50 on the list. Buffalo and New York was 43rd.
The best pairing was, unsurprisingly, New York City and Washington.
Also near the top was Los Angeles and San Francisco, where work on a 438-mile high-speed rail line linking those cities by trains traveling 164 mph was modified last year after the completion date of 2020 was extended to 2033 and the estimated cost of $33 billion swelled to $77 billion.
The project is now reportedly confined to a truncated stretch of track in the Central Valley.
Before New York sinks billions of dollars it doesn’t have into a route of similar length, Cuomo’s panel of experts must consider whether there’s a market to support it.
Amtrak would not divulge the number of intercity passengers on the Empire Corridor.
A spokesperson would only say that 132,434 people either boarded or disembarked a train in Rochester last year.
That translates to 363 passengers entering or leaving the station each day.
Apparently not enough to support a coffee shop or a deli or a convenience store at about $300 a month.
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And let’s stop here to let this all sink in as we face yet another BIDEN FISCAL BOONDOGGLE of massive proportions!
So, people, and we see this at all levels of government, including down here on the East Shore of Virginia, you’re a “public official” with scads of taxpayer funds to dispense (spend on enriching your political cronies, greasing palms and stuffing pockets to buy votes with), and you want the taxpayers to think you are really doing something for them, while in fact, you are doing something for your family (i.e. the Bidens) and friends and political cronies, which you don’t want the people to know about, even though they do, what is it that you do to mislead them and impress them?
And that answer stares us right in the face above here in the Albany, New York Times Union article titled “Cuomo proposes study of high-speed rail options” by Eric Anderson, updated December 26, 2019, where we had as follows, to wit:
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants to bring together a blue-ribbon panel to “reexamine and rethink strategies to bring high-speed rail to New York,” according to the latest preview of his upcoming State of the State address.
Thursday’s announcement said the governor would “task a panel of engineers to reexamine past high-speed rail plans, question and rethink every assumption and method, and recommend a new plan for how to build faster, greener, more reliable high-speed rail in New York.”
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That’s right, people, you call in a bunch of “experts,” like say, the Berkely Group in Northampton County, and you call them by the impressive-sounding title of “planning consultants,” because nobody really knows that a planning consultant is, and being afraid to demonstrate their ignorance, they won’t ask or even utter a peep about it, or to make it sound even more impressive, you do like DEMOCRAT Young Andy Cuomo did in New York and you call them a “BLUE RIBBON PANEL,” and it is MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
And later that day, people will have moved on to something new, and will have completely forgotten about it, so you and they, the beneficiaries of the politician’s largesse with our tax dollars are home free and rolling in taxpayer dough, with nobody the wiser, or if they are, there is nothing they can do about it, like Young Andy did in New York before he got turfed out of office for failing to keep his hands to himself and off the women’s bodies around him, as if he were a Sultan and they his harem!
In New York, Young Andy Cuomo told us that he would “task a panel of engineers to reexamine past high-speed rail plans, question and rethink every assumption and method, and recommend a new plan for how to build faster, greener, more reliable high-speed rail in New York,” and people, that is the last we ever heard about it, which brings us forward in time to today and this money “FISKER JOE” Biden is doling out to build these high-speed rail lines which like his nationwide charging stations, will never get built and that money will disappear without a trace because there is absolutely no oversight whatsoever as to how the money from Joe’s infrastructure law, the Chips and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act is being spent, and who it is being doled out to, which brings us to a Daily Mail article titled “Want to beat the stock market? Just copy Congress! Politicians’ trades perform twice as well as market average and Nancy Pelosi’s portfolio has grown by 50 PERCENT in 2023” by Lewis Pennock on 10 December 2023, where we have as follows, as we try to9 follow the money here, as Joe Biden uses our tax dollars to create winners and losers, to wit:
* A tool which mimics the trading activity of Congress members has gained 21 percent in the past year, performing twice as well as the stock market average
* A separate tracker which follows trades by Nancy Pelosi reveals her investments have increased by 50 percent in the past 12 months
* In some instances, members of congress have bought into companies just days before their prices have boomed, earning them tens of thousands of dollars
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But that is not insider trading, people, because they are politicians, just as Joe Biden using our tax dollars to buy votes is not in violation of any laws whatsoever.
And that brings us to a Washington Examiner story titled “Biden bungles major spending announcement for green plan” by Cami Mondeaux on 9 December 2023, where we have as follows:
President Joe Biden traveled to Las Vegas on Friday to unveil his administration’s latest investment in high-speed railways and train corridors, but the announcement was largely overshadowed by the president tripping over his words to articulate the exact cost.
During his speech, Biden hit out against his predecessor, former President Donald Trump for not doing enough while in office to address the country’s infrastructure needs.
The president especially criticized Trump for the former president’s plans for an “Infrastructure Week,” which meant to feature a series of infrastructure projects to rebuild the country’s highways and bridges — plans that were not completed.
“On my watch, instead of Infrastructure Week America’s having an Infrastructure Decade,” Biden said, touting his own infrastructure investments — but stumbling over the specifics.
“Over a billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!”
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Yes, people, Joe Biden really did say that and the Australians who are following every word the LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD utters, while sounding like an idiot as he did in Las Vegas, are having a field day with it, as we see in this Sky News Australia clip with Rita’s Reality Check, to wit:
Joe Biden stumbles over train line cost in ‘worrying’ new gaffe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2tDYVUlMBg
Going back to the Washington Examiner article, it continues as follows, to wit:
The speech comes as Biden was announcing his latest $8.2 billion project that would bolster railway construction and invest in building what would be the country’s first true high-speed rail line.
The project would focus on creating a high-speed system between California and Nevada as well as a rail line that would connect California’s Central Valley to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The project would also fund upgrades to frequently used rail corridors in Virginia, North Carolina, Illinois, and Washington, D.C.
The projects will be funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a key part of Biden’s agenda that he signed into law in November 2021.
The investment is a foreshadowing of what Biden will focus much of his reelection campaign on next year, with his infrastructure investments likely becoming a focal point.
If Biden’s speech on Friday is any indication, it’s also likely the president will use his infrastructure accomplishments to criticize Trump on the trail next year, especially if the two face off in a rematch for the Oval Office.
“Trump just talks the talk.”
“We walk the walk,” Biden said, criticizing the former president for claiming the United States is becoming a “failed nation.”
“Frankly he doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.”
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When in fact it is “FISKER JOE” Biden who doesn’t know what he is talking about, which takes us back to the City Magazine article from January 7, 2020, titled “New York’s high-speed rail fail” by David Andreatt, where we have some economic reality to consider, with respect to the $8.2 billion Joe is proposing to spend, to wit:
Also near the top was Los Angeles and San Francisco, where work on a 438-mile high-speed rail line linking those cities by trains traveling 164 mph was modified last year after the completion date of 2020 was extended to 2033 and the estimated cost of $33 billion swelled to $77 billion.
The project is now reportedly confined to a truncated stretch of track in the Central Valley.
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So ask yourselves, people, what Joe is going to get for the paltry sum of $8.2 billion, when the cost of a 438-mile high-speed rail line in DEMOCRAT-controlled California which won’t be completed until 2033, if ever, has swelled from $33 billion to $77 billion, that before BIDENFLATION thanks to Joe’s BIDE-O-NOMICS, and then ask yourself this question: WHERE IS THAT $8.2 BILLION IN TAXPAYER DOLLARS REALLY GOING?
Whose pocket is Joe going to stuff?
And we have some HUGE, breaking news today, people, from TEAM BIDEN, and its Infrastructure Decade, with “BOBANCE JOE” Biden touting his own infrastructure investments, as follows:
“Over a billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!”
Yessirree, people, that is one huge chunk of coin old Joe is spending on all of his WOKE infrastructure projects, which takes us to a State Of The Union article titled “Biden Spending Billions On ‘Woke’ Priorities” by Claire O’Hare on 25 November 2023, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
Senate Commerce Committee Republicans are concerned about the Biden administration’s allocation of taxpayer funds to what they term “woke initiatives” in infrastructure projects.
They argue that these initiatives prioritize “equity” and “climate change” over essential infrastructure development.
“Billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars meant for infrastructure projects are tied to woke initiatives that are more focused on dismantling America’s infrastructure in the name of ‘equity’ and ‘climate change’ than building roads, bridges, and highways to connect the country,” the memo reads.
“Congress must not allow the Department of Transportation to push the absurd concept of ‘racist roads’ to prevent Americans from getting much-needed improvements to their highways,” it added.
“The funding notices issued by DOT should focus on the law as written, not woke priorities.”
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s programs require grant recipients to address equity and climate concerns, which has raised objections from Republicans.
“Projects that have not sufficiently considered equity and barriers to opportunity in their planning, as determined by the Department, will be required to do so before receiving funds for construction,” the DOT’s NOFO states.
“Projects that have not sufficiently considered climate change and environmental justice in their planning, as determined by the Department, will be required to do so before receiving funds for construction.”
“Taken together, these additions, which severely deviate from the criteria in law, will favor states seeking to expand mass transit and bike paths over states wanting to build roads.”
“The added requirements on grant agreements, which are necessary for money to be paid after awards are announced, are particularly pernicious,” the memo adds.
“The DOT funding notice guarantees that applicants will not get construction funds unless they embrace the administration’s extreme views on climate and equity.”
“There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that’s why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars,” Buttigieg argued.
“Transportation can connect us to jobs, services and loved ones, but we‘ve also seen countless cases around the country where a piece of infrastructure cuts off a neighborhood or a community because of how it was built.”
“But we can’t ignore the basic truth that some of the planners and politicians behind those projects built them directly through the heart of vibrant, populated, communities — sometimes in an effort to reinforce segregation,” he said.
“Sometimes because the people there had less power to resist.”
“And sometimes as part of a direct effort to replace or eliminate Black neighborhoods.”
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Yes, people, in America, we actually have racism physically built into some of our highways, apparently mixed into the concrete or blacktop along with the aggregate, or maybe it is the aggregate that is racist, along with the Portland cement, this according to Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, who as Joe Biden’s transportation secretary, is a premier expert bar none on racist highways and racist infrastructure.
But that is not the HUGE news I am talking about, people, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “First EV charging station funded by Biden’s infrastructure law goes online” by David Shepardson on December 11, 2023, where we have GREAT NEWS from TEAM BIDEN as follows:
WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) – The first electric vehicle charging station funded by a $7.5 billion U.S. government program has begun operating in Ohio, the White House said Monday as the government ramps up charging to address a key concern of potential buyers.
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Yes, people, after spending years and BILLION$ on the effort, TEAM BIDEN has finally managed to build ONE charging station!
Sing hallelujah, say amen, will miracles never cease!
Getting back to that article, we have more as follows, to wit:
The White House goal is to grow the nationwide network of chargers to 500,000, including high-speed chargers – no more than 50 miles (80 km) apart – on the nation’s busiest highways and interstates.
The funding comes from the $1 trillion 2021 infrastructure law.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the first station opening is a major step to “create a convenient, affordable, and reliable electrified transportation system.”
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Ah, yes, people, good old Jennifer, and for anyone not familiar with her, Biden “energy secretary” Jennifer Granholm is a Canadian-American lawyer, educator, author, political commentator, and politician with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1987 who knows absolutely nothing whatsoever about energy or much else for that matter, except looking pretty for Joe, which he likes, who became Joe’s “energy secretary” because she was a proven party loyalist who was a member of the presidential transition team for Hussein Obama before he assumed office in 2009 and then she became host of “The War Room” with Jennifer Granholm, and in 2017, she was hired as a CNN political contributor, and more importantly, at least as far as Joe is concerned, because Joe made a campaign promise to select a team that “looks like America” and modernizes the predominantly male, white institution, she won the Miss San Carlos beauty pageant, and then as a young adult, she attempted to launch a Hollywood acting career but abandoned her efforts at age 21, and after that, in 1978, she appeared on The Dating Game, another top qualification to be a member of TEAM BIDEN (cue Bob Seger – Her Strut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C51c0vuLEng ) and of great importance to Joe, and her main qualification to build this one charging station, she held jobs as a tour guide at Universal Studios and in customer service at the Los Angeles Times and was the first female tour guide at Marine World Africa USA in Redwood City, piloting boats with 25 tourists aboard.
BIDEN BOONDOGGLES, people, like we have never had before in the history of this country, which takes us back to the MAIN HUGE NEWS just out yesterday, in a Fox News article titled “Biden admin sends billions to California’s over-budget, behind-schedule ‘train to nowhere'” by Thomas Catenacci on 11 December 2023, where we learn as follows about Joe, who has scads of taxpayer funds to spend on enriching his political cronies, while greasing palms and stuffing pockets to buy votes with, to wit:
The Biden administration is sending California more than $3 billion in federal taxpayer funds for the state’s high-speed rail project which was first approved 15 years ago and has since faced unprecedented delays and been dramatically downsized.
The White House announced $3.07 billion in additional federal funding for the California Inaugural High-Speed Rail Service Project as part of a broader announcement Friday unveiling a total of $8.2 billion in new passenger rail corridors nationwide.
The project — which has ballooned $80 billion over budget since it was first approved by California voters in 2008 — has been championed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“California is delivering on the first 220-mph, electric high-speed rail project in the nation,” Newsom said after the funding was announced.
“This show of support from the Biden-Harris Administration is a vote of confidence in today’s vision and comes at a critical turning point, providing the project new momentum.”
“California takes great pride in our ambitious status as the leading edge of high-speed rail in America.”
“With this new $3.07 billion in federal funding, we take an important leap closer to making high-speed rail a reality in California,” added Pelosi.
“An electrified high-speed rail network will dramatically improve the quality of life in the Central Valley and up and down California.”
In its announcement, the White House failed to disclose the project has been under development for more than a decade and has faced significant delays, instead boasting of its climate benefits.
An accompanying announcement from the Department of Transportation described it as a project to “help deliver high-speed rail service in California’s Central Valley.”
The Obama-Biden administration secured more than $2 billion to support the project’s development in 2010 using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the 2009 post-recession stimulus package.
The project was originally planned as a $33 billion project consisting of 1,955 miles of railway connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles.
Since then, the cost has swelled to $113 billion and the project’s scope has been dramatically scaled down to a 171-mile railway connecting Bakersfield, Fresno and Merced that isn’t expected to be operational until 2030.
Overall, if the project is completed in 2030, it will have taken a decade longer than expected, while costing $80 billion more and being 91% smaller than originally planned.
Because of its repeated shortfalls, the project has been dubbed by critics as the “train to nowhere.”
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This is pure POLITICAL BULL****, people, as well as GROSS FISCAL MISMANAGEMENT unrivaled in this nation’s sorry history of political corruption at the highest levels of government, making past scandals look like nothing in comparison, which takes us back to that story as follows:
“This commuter train isn’t even ‘high speed,’ is at least 13 years behind schedule, and will now cost four times the original price tag promised to voters,” Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., who has opposed the project for years, told Fox News Digital.
“Far too much taxpayer dollars have been wasted on this boondoggle.”
“It’s in everyone’s best interest to cut the losses and rescind every cent dedicated to this foolish project.”
“Any fool can see this project isn’t going to be completed,” LaMalfa continued.
“The state is $68 billion in debt, hasn’t laid a single inch of track and is over $120 billion short.”
“Biden and Newsom sure know how to waste your money.”
And fellow California Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte also blasted the project, noting that even when it is operational, its ridership will fall short of covering the expected operating costs.
“I believe it is inappropriate for the federal government to subsidize the California High-Speed Rail Authority,” Obernolte told Fox News Digital.
“This rail system is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, and even if it is ever completed, its projected ridership won’t come close to covering its operating costs — meaning that taxpayers will be asked to continue subsidizing it forever.”
“This is not a wise or appropriate use of taxpayer money.”
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NOTHING Joe Biden is doing to date has been a wise or appropriate use of taxpayer money, but notwithstanding, Joe is doing it anyway, because in less than a year, he has another election to buy while he and the DEMOCRATS loot our treasury, which takes us back for more, to wit:
Shortly after taking office in 2019, Newsom acknowledged in his first State of the State address that he would scale the project down from its original ambitious plan, saying it would cost too much and take too long to stay the course.
He noted during his remarks that “there’s been too little oversight and not enough transparency.”
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HALLMARKS, people, of the DEMOCRATS and Joe Biden today, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
“Let’s be real.”
“The project, as currently planned, would cost too much and take too long.”
“There’s been too little oversight and not enough transparency,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said during his first State of the State address in February 2019.
“Right now, there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to LA.”
“I wish there were.”
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As an engineer, and as an American citizen, I find this all incredible, and here we come to more BIDEN POLITICAL BULL****, which is all we have had from Joe Biden right from the get-go. to wit:
Months later, the Trump administration penned a scathing letter to California, informing the state that it was rescinding the multi-billion-dollar grant awarded for the project under the Obama administration.
Former Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Ronald Batory wrote that California “has no foreseeable plans, nor the capability, to pursue that statewide [High-Speed Rail] System as originally proposed.”
In June 2021, the Biden administration said it would reverse that decision and restore the funding.
“This investment has already created over 11,000 good-paying union jobs, and California high speed rail is going to save people time, make it easy to travel across the state for the first time in history, and reduce carbon emissions by as much as 2 million metric tons — comparable to taking 432,000 passenger vehicles off the road every year,” White House spokesperson Robyn Patterson told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Patterson characterized criticism aimed at the project as “hot air.”
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And here, before my blood pressure blows off the top of my head and makes a mess all over the computer keyboard, I am going to pause for station identification and a long series of political commercials touting ALL the benefits delivered to us by the Joe Biden administration to date, and then we will be back with more FAMOUS BIDEN BOONDOGGLES and just plain STUPIDITY!
UNREALITY, people, and Life in the Land of WTF!
It’s like we are living trapped in a spoof concocted by the writers of National Lampoon in conjunction with the writers of the Firesign Theater, and here I am referring to a bizarre State Of The Union article titled “Hunter Biden Accuses Republicans Of Attempting To Send Him Into Relapse” by Andrew Sanders on 14 December 2023, where we have Hunter, supposedly a high-dollar SUPER LAWYER, and supposedly a rational adult, acting like a idiotic crybaby and moron, which doesn’t preclude him from being a lawyer, just as it didn’t preclude his dullard father from being one, either, in what was either an obvious sympathy grab, or the ravings of somebody truly insane, to wit:
In a recent podcast interview, Hunter Biden expressed a belief that Republicans are attempting to provoke a substance abuse relapse to harm his father’s presidency.
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OH BOO HOO HOO HOO HOO!
The mean Republicans are going to force Joe Biden’s degenerate druggie son to go back on drugs?
This stuff is just incredible, people, but Hunter is on a roll here, so let’s go back for more, and one has to wonder if this was scripted by Hunter’s top criminal lawyer Abbe Lowell in partnership with DEMOCRAT IMPRESSARIO Lanny Davis, to wit:
He suggested that such actions were not about him but rather an attempt to destroy the presidency.
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Ah, yes, people, that’s what it has to be all about, which is why Hunter is going to have a relapse and become a druggie again, and maybe start spending real big bucks on SWEET COCAINE and HIGH-PRICED HOOKERS like he was doing on his own before the Republicans tried to destroy the presidency, but there is still more to come, so let’s get back to it as follows:
“I recognize that none of this is necessarily about me,” Hunter Biden said.
“They are trying to in their most illegitimate way, but rational way, they’re trying to destroy a presidency.”
“And so it’s not about me and their most base way, what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to kill me knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle and so therefore destroying the presidency in that way.”
“And so I realized that, that it’s not about me,” he added.
“And then the second thing that I realize is that these people are just sad, very, very sick people that have most likely just faced traumas in their lives, that they’ve decided that they are going to turn into an evil that they decide that they’re going to inflict on the rest of the world.”
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And with that said, what more can be said other than time to take another station break so I can stop shedding tears I am laughing so hard here!
And here, not having posted since 14 December, 2023, I frankly find myself back at my original post where I stated that my response to Wayne Creed as to why I had not been posting was that there is so much bull**** being literally heaved at us from all directions at once by the Biden regime to cover over Joe’s cratering poll numbers, and the fact that Joe is actually trailing Trump in the polls, with Americans rating the economy under Trump as being far better than it is under Biden and his signature, eponymous Marxist economics scheme labeled “BIDE-O-NOMICS” ( see, CCM, August 13, 2023, “Op-Ed: On BIDE-O-NOMICS” http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/op-ed- … s/#respond ) that it had been impossible to sort it all out before the next barrage came raining down on our heads, so that I had been living in a continued state of disbelief and WTF as to what passes for “government” at the federal or national level in this country under BIDE-O-NISM, which is Joe’s Americanized version of Stalinism in the Soviet Union under Joe Stalin, and right above here, I made the statement that it’s like we are living trapped in a spoof concocted by the writers of National Lampoon in conjunction with the writers of the Firesign Theater, which takes us to a Fox News story titled “New York Times issues correction after misquoting Hunter Biden’s comments about business dealings” by Nikolas Lanum on 16 December 2023, where we had as follows, to wit:
The New York Times has issued a correction after the paper misquoted Hunter Biden when he denied his father, Joe Biden, was financially involved in his business dealings.
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YAWN!
And this is all getting patently ABSURD, because by now, it is a matter of record that Hunter was giving Joe half of Hunter’s “salary,” which was derived from Hunter’s business dealings, so Joe was obviously financially involved.
That’s patently a NO-BRAINER!
Which takes us back for more, to wit:
Hunter made the statement during a Wednesday press conference on Capitol Hill, the same day he was scheduled to be deposed behind closed doors.
His comments were not accurately reported by the Gray Lady paper, which made note of the article change.
“An earlier version of this article misquoted Hunter Biden.”
“He said, ‘My father was not financially involved in my business,’ not, ‘My father was not involved in my business.’
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And this quibbling about two obviously untrue statements by the New York Times, which in that same story, was accused in an essay in The Economist by former Times opinion editor James Bennet of having “lost its way,” stating therein that “The Times’s problem has metastasized from liberal bias to illiberal bias, from an inclination to favor one side of the national debate to an impulse to shut debate down altogether,” adding that the Times is now becoming a publication in which the American progressive elite “talks to itself” about a United States that “does not really exist,” is really quite tiresome, and that that takes us to where I want to go in that story, which is as follows:
White House Spokesperson for Oversight and Investigations Ian Sams recently accused CNN anchor Phil Mattingly of pushing GOP talking points when he asked whether Hunter had intentionally used the “financially involved” language.
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Which raises the question of just who in the Hell is Ian Sams, besides an idiot, and why should we believe anything he says, despite his fancy title, which means exactly nothing, given the Biden white house, which is NOT Congress, has nothing whatsoever to do with either oversight or investigations, and given that he works for Joe Biden, a serial liar who himself has no credibility about anything anymore?
Going back to that story, we have more, as follows:
The line of questioning led to a tense exchange, with Sams disputing the premise of Mattingly’s conclusion.
“It’s one of Jim Jordan’s favorite little shiny objects, is to try to take a semantic thing and make an argument that is somehow far afield from what they’re focused on,” he said, referencing Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
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Favorite little shiny objects?
HUH?
What on earth kind of moronic statement is that?
And what about this bit of imbecility: is to try to take a semantic thing and make an argument that is somehow far afield from what they’re focused on?
“Is to try?”
What kind of sentence structure might that be?
And people, there is absolutely NOTHING semantic here, period.
Cut the cake any way you want, but Joe Biden was getting money from Hunter, end of story!
Ah, but we are supposed to believe this DRIVEL that Joe really didn’t know what his son Hunter was up to, which can only be true if Joe Biden is completely brain-dead, an explanation I would certainly accept as true, which again takes us back for more “semantics” and “favorite little shiny objects” from Joe Biden’s worthless and discredited white house, to wit:
Sams also suggested that Republicans have been using “semantic games” to distract from “the actual truth,” claiming the allegations against Biden have been “debunked.”
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No, Ian, the only one who has been debunked here is YOU, which again takes us back for this load of horsecrap from Joe Biden, to wit:
The White House and Biden have maintained that the president was “never in business” with his son.
Biden has also said he never spoke to his son about his business dealings, but evidence – like email records and testimony from Hunter Biden’s former business partners – presented by House Republicans in their investigations seem to contradict those statements.
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And that takes us back in time to a New York Post story titled “White House spending $265K on staff to deflect Hunter Biden probe” by Jon Levine on October 8, 2022, where we have more about Ian Sams, to wit:
The White House is gearing up for a growing army of staff to fend off potential Republican-led probes on everything from Hunter Biden to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — and taxpayers are footing the bill.
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Yes, we are, people – Joe Biden is stealing tax payer dollars from us to hire idiots like Ian Sams to insult us by telling us infantile, transparent lies, and this all reminds me of “TRICKY DICK” Nixxon telling us “I’M NOT A CROOK” as he tried to deny he had anything to do with the Watergate break-in, for which lies he was eventually facing impeachment, with his complicity in the cover-up being made public upon release of incriminating tapes, which eroded his political support so that his impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate became a certainty, so he resigned from office under Section 1 of the 25th Amendment on August 9, 1974.
Going back to the Post article we have this to consider as Joe steals money from us to try and protect himself and son Hunter, to wit:
Battening down the hatches should the GOP regain control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, the White House is shelling out $265,000 a year in salary for staff whose primary portfolio will be to run comms and defense for the administration from an approaching blizzard of subpoenas.
In May, the White House poached Richard A. Sauber, the top attorney for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to serve as a “deputy counsel to the president” tasked with handling House oversight probes.
Ian Sams, a veteran of Vice President Harris’ failed 2020 presidential campaign, was hired to run official comms for the team.
White House records show the two men will take home $155,000 and $110,000 respectively.
And the team is only expected to grow, the Washington Post reported — indicating that its staffing and operational expenditures will balloon further.
“Americans deserve transparency from President Biden about his family’s suspicious business dealings.”
“But instead of providing transparency, the White House is hiring staff at the American taxpayers’ expense to stonewall congressional oversight and accountability.” said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is on track to chair the House Oversight Committee next year if Republicans retake the House.
“Let’s be clear: no amount of Biden White House staff or stonewalling will stop Republicans’ quest for transparency and accountability on behalf of the American people,” he added.
The party’s marquee probe will focus on Hunter Biden and what connections his father, President Biden, had to his shady overseas business dealings.
President Biden has consistently denied any such connections, even as a growing body of evidence has accumulated to indicate that is not the case.
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So, yes, people, for telling us lies about Joe Biden and his son Hunter that only a mindless fool could believe, this Ian Sams, whose net worth is listed as from $500k to $1 million, is getting $110,000 of our tax dollars!
WHY?
WHY DO WE ACCEPT THIS ABUSE?
WHY DO WE TOLERATE JOE BIDEN TREATING US AS MINDLESS IDIOTS?
BIZARRE BEYOND BELIEF, people, and MURKY (not fully explained or understood, especially with concealed dishonesty, as in “the murky world of the Biden family”) as all get out!
How else can this Biden administration, which is a product of the intentional DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA to produce a nation full of ignorant people
incapable to rational thought, as it was never demanded of them in their
formative years, be explained?
And knowing something of American presidential history, I seriously believe it has to be the most corrupt presidential administration to come down the pike in the entire history of this nation since its inception as a nation subsequent to the War of Revolution, and for Joe Biden, that is quite an accomplishment.
BUT, people, we are to believe otherwise.
What we are to believe is that Joe Biden, a law school graduate, albeit near the bottom of his class, ranking 76th in his class of 85 students in 1968, when the dullard Biden earned a Juris Doctor degree, and a United States senator beginning on January 3, 1973, and ending on January 15, 2009, was totally clueless as to what his brother “Jimmy the Chin” and his son Hunter were up to, to earn their living, even though Hunter was giving Joe half of his “salary?”
(cue Sgt. Schultz, “I know nothing,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmzsWxPLIOo )
Uh, okay, sure, hokey dokey, dude, whatever you say, Joe! (cue “Lies” by Linda Ronstadt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywY_ppvyj-Y )
Which takes us to a National Review article titled “Americore Gave James Biden $600k Loan on Promise He’d Deliver Funding from Middle East, Trustee Says” by Brittany Bernstein on 19 December 2023, where we have some insight on that question of what Joe’s family was doing while Joe knew absolutely nothing about what they were doing, because Joe had a firewall between he and they, so he wouldn’t know what they were doing when they handed Joe money he didn’t work for derived from what they were doing that he knew nothing about, to wit:
Carol Fox, an Americore Chapter 11 trustee, told the House Oversight Committee on Monday that the now-bankrupt healthcare company previously provided a $600,000 loan to James Biden on the promise that he could bring in funding from the Middle East that never materialized.
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And it is important to note that she is NOT a Republican, nor is she a member of congress, in case this Ian Sams dude, who bills himself on his Linkedin site as a communications professional and strategist, with experience conveying both political and policy objectives on the record, who is a veteran of Vice President Harris’ failed 2020 presidential campaign, which speaks volumes itself about his own communication skills, and who is now Joe Biden’s White House Spokesperson for Oversight and Investigations, a pretentious title for someone Joe has LYING for him, comes along and tries to accuse her of pushing GOP talking points, which takes us back to the story for more, to wit:
On March 1, 2018, after Americore wired a $200,000 loan to James and Sara Biden’s personal bank account, James Biden sent a payment of the same amount to Joe Biden for an alleged loan repayment.
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See, this is all really legit, people, just one brother paying back another brother, which raises the unanswered question of where “BLUE COLLAR JOE,” the poorest member of the U.S. senate, got the $200 GRAND from to loan to Jimmy, but since Jo himself knows nothing about any of this because of that firewall, we will never know, so moving right along, back to the story we go to this (OMG):
Fox previously filed a lawsuit against James Biden claiming he made “representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”
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Jimmy’s political connections?
I wonder who that could be, but it can’t be Joe, because, uh, well, it just can’t be, because Joe was never in business with either Jimmy or Hunter, which takes us back again, to wit:
The suit alleged that Americore sent $600,000 to James and Sara Biden’s personal bank accounts in total and demanded James Biden repay Americore the full amount.
James Biden ultimately agreed to a settlement payment of $350,000.
Fox told the committee in a transcribed interview on Monday that she saw no records or documentation of the loan from Americore to James Biden and that the company instead chose to provide a loan with no documentation based on the promise that James Biden could bring in funding from the Middle East, a person familiar with the committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings told National Review.
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And he we come to the MURKY part, people, as follows:
Fox said the money James Biden ultimately paid to his brother could have come from two possible sources: predatory loans or senior citizens’ money fraudulently invested by James Biden’s business partner, Michael Lewitt.
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Don’t you just love this stuff?
Going back for yet more of everything Joe Biden knew absolutely nothing about, because he never talked with his family members about this kind of stuff, we have:
In September, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against Lewitt and his investment advisory firm, Third Friday Management.
The complaint claims misrepresentations and omissions regarding a change in the investment strategy of the Third Friday Total Return Fund, L.P. to suddenly change course “without disclosing to investors, many of whom were elderly, that it had begun making loans to a distressed (now bankrupt) company that acquired and operated struggling rural hospitals.”
In the lawsuit, Fox previously alleged James Biden had helped procure “an ill-advised bridge loan from a hedge fund that had a deleterious impact on the financial affairs of the Debtor and ultimately forced Debtors into bankruptcy, as [James Biden] never delivered the promised large investment from the Middle East.”
Fox said she had not seen the $200,000 check from James Biden to Joe Biden until her transcribed interview on Monday.
She said in her experience, she would try to claw back amounts from a subsequent transferee depending on the dollar amount.
She said she considers $200,000 to be a significant sum of money.
James Biden’s attorney previously dismissed Republican lawmakers’ interest in the payment.
“The Oversight Committee’s description of the $200,000 check is highly selective and misleading,” attorney Paul Fishman said.
“The Committee has the bank documents that show both the loan Jim received from his brother in January 2018 and the repayment by check six weeks later.”
“At no time did Jim involve his brother in any of his business relationships.”
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What the committee DOES NOT have is the source of the $200 GRAND Joe gave to Jimmy – how did Joe come up with that kind of ready cash when he was so poor?
And here, let’s pause for station identification, but stay tuned and don’t touch that dial, because if the creek don’t rise, and the dam don’t break, we will be right back with more!
Yes, people, the DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA is a real phenomenon and it is described by Wikipedia as the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, cinema, news, video games, and culture.
Originated in 1933, the term “dumbing down” was movie-business slang, used by screenplay writers, meaning: “[to] revise so as to appeal to those of little education or intelligence”.
Dumbing-down varies according to subject matter, and usually involves the diminishment of critical thought by undermining standard language and learning standards, thus trivializing academic standards, culture, and meaningful information.
In his work “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,” Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996), an American astronomer and science communicator, whose famous quotes included “the cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas,” something the Biden administration and its main-stream and legacy media including the NY Times, which rag was accused in an essay in The Economist by former Times opinion editor James Bennet of having “lost its way,” stating therein that “The Times’s problem has metastasized from liberal bias to illiberal bias, from an inclination to favor one side of the national debate to an impulse to shut debate down altogether,” adding that the Times is now becoming a publication in which the American progressive elite “talks to itself” about a United States that “does not really exist,” are all guilty of, BY INTENT, stated thusly:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…”
“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
Yes, people, the CELEBRATION of IGNORANCE, which brings me to the front page of the December 20. 2023 edition of the Hearst publication, the Albany, New York Times Union, itself a veritable FONT OF GROSS IGNORANCE and STUPIDITY, and this headline, to wit:
“HOCHUL, WE NEED TO DISCUSS SLAVERY!”
To which I can only reply, HUH?
Slavery?
With ALL the problems besetting this nation in decline, the flood of migrants across the border thanks to Joe Biden’s plan to REPOPULATE America, the massive budget deficits that threaten education and police protection, Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM, etc., we need to talk about SLAVERY?
WHY?
In New York state, where “DITZY KATHY,” a progressive liberal DEMOCRAT is governor, slavery was abolished almost TWO HUNDRED years ago in 1827, so why today, almost TWO HUNDRED years later, do we need to discuss it?
Talk about misdirectio0n and misplaced priorities and SHEER STUPIDITY, here we have it staring us in the face in bold print on the front of the Albany Times Union, so talk about living in the LAND OF WTF, here we are, people!
The future is now and the enemy is the DOWNRIGHT DUMB AND STUPID DEMOCRATS like Joe Biden and “DITZY HATHY” Hochul!
Time for a station identification break before I puke all over my keyboard in disgust!
I agree with a lot of points made by Mr. Plante, however I can not understand a disabled veteran supporting a man who says injured soldiers are “suckers and loosers.”
Hi, Melody, you sound nice, and I appreciate you commenting, but can you help us out here by clarifying your enigmatic comment about however you can not understand a disabled veteran supporting a man who says injured soldiers are “suckers and losers” by telling us exactly who that disabled veteran might be, and who it was that made that statement?
I can’t either, Melody, and I don’t even bother to try to.
It’s America and people are free to think what they want to think without needing my permission to do so.
You must have more leisure time than I do if you are wasting your time wondering why somebody thinks the way they do.
Have you tried the simple expedient of asking them why?
On while we are on the subject of the PROPAGATION OF PURE STUPID by the Democrats and the Biden regime in America, there is no better example that I can put forth than an ABC News article titled “Reparations to be considered under new New York policy” on 22 December 2023, where we have as follows, to wit:
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Tuesday to create a new commission to study reparations and racial justice.
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And for the record, it should be noted here that Hochul, known as “DITZTY KATHY,” along with William J. Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Andrew M. Cuomo and Letitia A. James, was an “Elector” pledged to former Vice President Joe Biden (D) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D).
Going back to the article, it continues, as follows, to wit:
The state commission will be tasked with examining the legacy of slavery, “subsequent discrimination against people of African descent, and the impact these forces continue to have in the present day,” according to Hochul’s office.
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And what BULL**** that is, given that “Tish” James, famous for wasting state fiscal resources prosecuting Trump in every possible way she can, is BLACK, as is Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, and Carl E. Heastie, the head of the New York assembly, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, leader of the NY senate, and Antonio Delgado, a.k.a. AD The Voice, who is president of the NY senate as well as “DITZY KATHY’s” lt, governor.
Going back to the article, we have more, as follows:
The commission will be composed of nine members: three appointed by the governor, three appointed by the speaker of the state Assembly (Heastie) and three appointed by the president of the state Senate (Delgado).
The New York task force will analyze the history and lasting impacts of slavery in both the state and New York City, including the capture and transport of Africans to the region, the sale and acquisition of slaves, the benefits New York received from such transactions, the treatment of slaves and more, the legislation creating the commission stated.
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As to that history, and the treatment of slaves in New York, and one would think the governor of the state would be well aware of this, given it is HIGH SCHOOL or even GRADE SCHOOL history, courses the airhead Hochul apparently skipped, an 1881 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine contained an article entitled “A Glimpse of an Old Dutch Town,” which article mentioned the principal Albany holidays of Christmas, New Year’s Day, Easter and Pinksterfeest (now known as Pinksterfest).
About Pinksterfeest, Harper’s explained:
“The Pinkster festivities commenced on the Monday after Whitesunday, and now began the fun for the Negroes, for Pinkster was the carnival of the African race.”
The venerable “King of the Blacks” was “Charley of Pinkster Hill,” so called because he was the principal actor in the festivities.
“Charles originally came from Africa, having in his infancy been brought from Angolo, in the Guinea Gulf; and when but a boy, he became the purchased slave of one of the most ancient and respectable merchant princes of the olden times, Volkert P. Douw of Wolvenhoeck.”
“Charles’ costume as king was that of a British brigadier general – ample broadcloth scarlet coat with wide flaps, almost reaching to his heels and gaily ornamented everywhere with broad tracings of bright gold lace.”
“His small clothes were of yellow buckskin, fresh and new with stockings blue and burnished silver buckles to his well-blacked shoes.”
“And when we add the three cornered cocked hat, trimmed also with gold lace and which so gracefully sat upon his noble globular pate, we complete this rude sketch of the Pinkster king.”
Both he and his followers were covered with Pinkster Blummies – the wild azalea or swamp apple.
The procession started from 82 State Street and went up State Street to Bleecker Hill, on the crown of what was the Bleecker Burying Ground.
In front of the king always marched Dick Simpson and Pete Halenbeck (both former slaves), the latter the “Beau Brummel” of his time.
During Pinkster Day, the Negroes made merry with games and feasting, all paying homage to the king, who was held in awe and reverence as an African King.
In the evening there was a grand dance, led by Charles and some beauty, to the music of Pete Halenbeck’s fiddle.
Albany’s Black population had celebrated a spring carnival in their homeland.
Over the years so many African traditions were incorporated into Pinkster that it became an African-Dutch holiday.
It was the most important African holiday in New Netherland.
On Pinkster, Albany swelled with black residents as those who lived in rural areas migrated to the city for the festivities.
Booths were set up around the city square (today’s Academy Park) where many black vendors sold refreshments such as berries, herbs and beverages.
Drinking, game playing, dancing and music from different cultures dominated the festivities.
King Charles ruled over the day awarding prizes and issuing proclamations.
Around 1880, John J. “Uncle John” Williams said that he had been born in 1809 and belonged to Colonel Philip P. Staats, father of Barent and Peter Staats, both physicians in Albany.
Williams said that Pinkster Day was a religious day, partly pagan and partly Christian, in Africa.
He said that he remembered as a child that Albanians native to Africa would annually dance their wild dances and sing in their native language on Pinkster Day.
He said that in Albany, Pinkster would last an entire week.
Williams remembered King Charles and said that Charles had come from royal blood.
He confirmed that King Charles had been purchased in Angola in the Guinea Gulf when he was an infant.
Williams remembered that Adam Blake was the Master of Ceremonies for the event.
He said that the Blake family had been the servants of the Patroon Van Rensselaer and Blake was a grand Master of Ceremonies.
Jackie Quackenboss, another former slave, was also one of the main attractions, beating on a kettledrum he made by stretching a sheepskin over an eel pot.
Quackenboss set the rhythm for all of the dancing.
An article written around 1850 said:
Pinkster Hill!
What pleasant memories of my boyhood does that name bring up!
That hill was famous as the gathering place of all the Colored People of the city and of the county for miles around, during the Pinkster festival in May.
Then they received their freedom for a week.
They erected booths, where gingerbread, cider and apple toddy were dispensed.
On the hill they spent the days and evenings in sports, in dancing and drinking to their heart’s content.
I remember those gatherings with delight, when old King Charley … dressed in his gold-laced scarlet coat and yellow breeches used to amuse all the people with his antics.
On one occasion Charlie took me on his shoulders and leaped a bar more than five feet in height.
He was so generously treated because of his feat that he became gloriously drunk an hour afterward and I led him home just at sunset.
King Charles’ uniform of red coat and yellow breeches were most likely a British General’s uniform, probably Volkert Douw’s uniform from the French & Indian War.
King Charles was always ready for a good time and was also famous as the jockey for Heer (Mr.) Douw’s racehorses.
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In “Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as they Existed Previous to the Revolution” by Anne MacVicar Grant, another work Hochul should be aware of, but obviously isn’t, hence her name “DITZTY KATHY,” the author, in her 1808 memoir of her stay in the Albany area during the 1760s, she states as follows with respect to slavery in New York, to wit:
In the society I am describing, even the dark aspect of slavery was softened into a smile.
And I must, in justice to the best possible masters, say, that a great deal of that tranquility and comfort, to call it by no higher name, which distinguished this society from all others, was owing to the relation between master and servant being better understood here than in any other place.
Let me not be detested as an advocate for slavery when I say that I think I have never seen people so happy in servitude as the domestics of the Albanians.
One reason was, (for I do not speak of the virtues of their masters) that each family had few of them, and that there were no field negroes.
They would remind one of Abraham’s servants, who were all born in the house, which was exactly their case.
They were baptized too, and shared the same religious instruction with the children of the family; and, for the first years, there was little of no difference with regard to food or clothing between their children and those of their masters.
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And here I am going to pause for station identification to let my blood pressure come back down, for I must say as an older American that this stupidity and gross ignorance on the part of this state’s DEMOCRATIC leadership, Hochul, Heastie, Delgado, Stewart-Cousins, which is symptomatic of the DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA to produce this crowd of MORONS who claim to be our “leaders” really gripes me, as to how far down we have come as a nation in my lifetime to the point of where we are now a clown-show third-world country, especially here in sorry New York state, which is why people are fleeing this ignorant, debt-ridden ****HOLE for a better life elsewhere.
And while we are waiting on Melody to come back in to edify us on exactly what she is on about above here, which certainly is a mystery to me, as are so many things today in a world that no longer makes sense to me as I watch the PROPAGATION OF PURE IGNORANNCE by the Biden PROPAGANHDA MACHINE and its main-stream and legacy media enablers, and mindless idiots like liberal progressive DEMOCRAT “DITZY KIATHY” Hochul of New York who feels that of all the serious subjects today we should be talking about, the preeminent one in her misguided and warped opinion is SLAVERY,
with regard to disabled veterans being suckers and losers, an opinion “DITZY KATHY” and SKULKER DEMOCRATS like Joe Biden and Charley “CHUCK” Schumer would share with her, and why Melody, who sounds nice, would think I, as a disabled veteran would support any of that pack of losers again mystifies me, but each to his or her own, it being America, afterall, or it was the last time I looked, in another thread in here, where the CCM posted that “Americans are such suckers, they’ve fallen for every single BS war in my lifetime,” and “They don’t even bother to look into the actual cause or facts of any of them,” I posted in response that as a VEET NAM veteran, which shrapnel in my neck near my spine forces me to have to admit to, that yes, as a PATRIOTIC American citizen who bought into the BULL**** “DOMINOS ARE FALLING” political theory underlying our involvement in VEET NAM, a war H.R. McMaster, in his Preface to “Dereliction of Duty – Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, AND THE LIES THAT LED TO VIET NAM,” copyright 1997. told us who listened that the war took the lives of fifty-eight thousand Americans and well over one million Vietnamese, and it left Vietnam in ruins and consumed billions of American dollars, nearly wrecking the American economy, and IT LED AMERICANS TO QUESTION THE INTEGRITY OF THEIR GOVERNMENT AS NEVER BEFORE, I enlisted in the Army as result, I was indeed one of those SUCKERS, although back then, for someone like me living out in the country, there was no way for someone like me to fact-check or debunk the BULL****, and as McMaster also said at p.37 of “Dereliction of Duty,” although U.S. advisors were fighting with South Vietnamese units and U.S. pilots were flying combat missions in South Vietnam, Kennedy denied that Americans were involved in combat, and Vietnam attracted little public or congressional attention, as Vietnam was far from front-page news and Americans still believed that their government told them the truth, me being one of them.
Such it was and such it is!
Bite the bullet, suck it up, chalk it up to experience and move on, which brings us to this moment in time right now, where above in the National Review article titled “Americore Gave James Biden $600k Loan on Promise He’d Deliver Funding from Middle East, Trustee Says” by Brittany Bernstein on 19 December 2023, we have “Jimmy the Chin” Biden’s attorney Paul Fishman telling as follows:
“At no time did Jim involve his brother in any of his business relationships.”
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Which means in plain language that “Jimmy the Chin,” Joe’s brother who wasn’t in business with Joe, because of Joe’s “firewall” between Jimmy and Joe’s son Hunter, so that Joe did not have a clue as to what Jimmy and Hunter were up to, to get the money they were paying Joe for work he did not do and services he did not provide, because the “firewall,” was SCAMMING Americore, the now-bankrupt healthcare company that previously provided a $600,000 loan to Jimmy on the promise that he could bring in funding from the Middle East that never materialized, which means Jimmy was running a con on them, which Joe knew nothing about, because Joe wasn’t involved in that business deal, where Jimmy claimed that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections, which was not a reference to Joe, because Joe wasn’t involved in that scam.
And with that all cleared up, including the fact that yes, I was indeed a BIG SUCKER to have enlisted to fi9ght in DEMOCRAT Lyndon Baines Johnson’s FIASCO in VEET NAM, let’s cut to a commercial break and station identification, and after thirty-two hours of political commercials from the Biden campaign and the DNC telling us how better off we all are because of BIDE-O-NOMICS, we will be back with more on the PROPAGATION OF PURE STUPID in America by the Biden regime and the Democrats, so stay tuned!
DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS, people!
That is the only way “DITZY KATHY” Hochul, herself a lawyer like Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, who Burisma owner Zlochevsky described as being dumber than his dog, “TISH” James and Antonio Delgado, can be described, and let’s be frank here, people, and not kid each other, once a nation or state sinks to this level of gross stupidity and ignorance in its so-called “leaders” and their media enablers and apologists such as ABC News, which prints it as the politicians feed it to them verbatim with making an effort to do any fact-checking as they are themselves too ignorant and lazy to do, as is displayed by Hochul and company in the ABC News article titled “Reparations to be considered under new New York policy” on 22 December 2023, as those of us who actually do study history know well, there is no coming back, and it is a downhill run into benighted ignorance from here, which takes us back to that story for more, to wit:
The commission will also examine the lingering negative effects of slavery and discrimination on the living descendants of slaves and other people of African descent, according to the legislation.
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Lingering negative effects of slavery and discrimination on the living descendants of slaves and other people of African descent, like Antonio Delgado, with a net worth of $429,004 in 2018, and Carl Heastie, one of the richest politicians in the United States according to Forbes & Business Insider with a net worth $5 Million, last updated December 11, 2023. and Andrea Stewart-Cousins, also one of the richest politicians in the United States according to Forbes & Business Insider with a worth $5 Million, last updated December 11, 2023, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James, with a net worth of $15 million?
Uh, okay, people, and what a crock of crap that all is, but we are talking DEMOCRATS here, so what else can we expect, and let us be clear here, this reparations thing is nothing but a SCAM on the people of New York – a blatant money grab, and nothing more.
And if Kathy Hochul and company really are serious about studying true discrimination, they should read the Albany, New York Times Union article titled “Commisso says Cuomo’s exit was followed by retaliation under Hochul –
Woman who accused Cuomo of groping alleges she was shuffled around Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration before being told to ‘hit the pavement’” by Brendan J. Lyons on December 21, 2023, where we have some real discrimination, by Hochul’s office itself, to wit:
ALBANY — The woman who accused Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of groping her during a workplace encounter alleges she was demoted and shuffled through various jobs in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration before being told last year by a high-ranking staffer that she should “hit the pavement” and seek employment outside the Executive Chamber.
The Times Union obtained new details of the Hochul administration’s handling of 35-year-old Brittany Commisso’s job assignments — and her interaction with top officials in that office — through court and payroll records, interviews with current and former staff members, a review of contemporaneus text messages, and a timeline provided by Commisso and her attorney, Brian D. Premo.
The information reveals that the unusual treatment of Commisso by some of Hochul’s top staff members began the day after Cuomo announced his resignation on Aug. 10, 2021.
His departure followed the release of a state attorney general’s report that concluded he had sexually harassed or acted inappropriately with multiple women while cultivating a toxic work environment.
Cuomo has denied the allegations.
Cuomo’s decision to exit midway through his third term came five months after the Times Union first reported Commisso’s allegation that he had groped her breast three years ago at the Executive Mansion — an account that remains the most serious sexual misconduct accusation he has faced.
That incident, which Cuomo has said never happened, was also detailed in the attorney general’s report.
Premo said that retaliation included his client no longer being given overtime and also being assigned far fewer duties in her job as an executive assistant to the governor.
Under Hochul’s administration, they allege, the situation worsened.
Premo filed a summons in state Supreme Court in Albany on behalf of Commisso contending “(then-)lieutenant governor (Hochul) demoted her from the position of executive assistant to the governor, removed her from the front office, and assigned her to the demeaning task of answering telephones in the lieutenant governor’s office until moved to other offices, including loss of overtime, ostracism, given little or no work, demotion, and loss of career opportunities and advancement.”
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Now, there is some real discrimination, but since Commisso, is white, not BLACK, why that makes it alright, doesn’t it, and once again, I am going to pause for station identification before this ignorant crap from Hochul and company makes me puke and ruin my keyboard, but stay tuned, because there is much more on this story of the DEMOCRATS trying to LOOT money from the New York state treasury and the pockets of white taxpayers in the state, so don’t change that dial!
And going back to New York’s liberal progressive DEMOCRAT governor “DITZY KATHY” Hochul, who puts the capital “D” in the expression “DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS” as she demonstrates to the candid world just how stupid and ignorant a human being can be in America today and still hold high elected office, which is a real statement about the benighted ignorance of the people who put her there, going back to the ABC News article titled “Reparations to be considered under new New York policy” on 22 December 2023, we have “DITZY KATHY” spouting more ignorance as follows:
According to the New York Historical Society, as many as 20% of colonial New Yorkers were enslaved Africans — one-fifth of the population at the time, Hochul said Tuesday during a press conference in New York City announcing the commission.
“It’s not talked about a lot.”
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Well, DUH, Kathy!
How about it’s not talked about, at all, because this is no longer colonial New York, in case you hadn’t, the British are no longer in charge, ALL those people are long since dead and forgotten, and we have moved on, and now, we are confronted with a whole host of problems in OUR times today, the massive state debt under your administration, people leaving this ****-hole in droves because of you with the resultant loss of congressional representation, discrimination against white women and disabled veterans by your administration, no environmental protection by your department of environmental conservation which protects polluters not people, no public health protection by your worthless health department, no equal protection of law, the so-called “migrant crisis” courtesy of Democrat Joe Biden, so why on earth should we be living in a past well over two hundred years ago and talking about slavery in colonial America, when our problems are today and tomarrow?
Going back to ABC, we have this stupid statement from “DITZY KATHY,” to wit:
“That’s a problem,” Hochul said.
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NO, Kathy. that’s NOT a problem – you are the problem, so we talk about YOU today, not some distant yesterday over and gone, which takes us back for more, to wit, because when it comes to spouting ignorance, “DITZY KATHY” has it in great quantity, to wit:
“Here in New York, there was a slave market where people bought and sold other human beings with callous disregard.”
“It happened right on Wall Street for more than a century.”
“And even though it officially closed when slavery was abolished in New York in 1827, our state still remained a dominant player in the illegal slave trade.”
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And SO WHAT?
What relevance does that have to anything today, when the leadership of the state assembly and senate and your lt. governor look pretty BLACK to me!
Going back to reality, we have this:
Three in 10 U.S. adults say descendants of people who were enslaved in the United States should be repaid in some way, while seven in 10 people say these descendants should not be repaid, according to a Pew Research Center survey published in November 2022.
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And that is DEMOCRACY, so let’s move into the troubled future, instead of dwelling in the past, as “DITZY KATHY” is doing here, to wit:
“Former slaves and their children, and their children, and their children across our nation have been haunted for generations by racism and disenfranchisement,” Hochul said Tuesday.
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Like Barack Obama, Michael S. Regan, David Patterson, “TISH” James, Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Antonio Delgado, and Lloyd Austin and General Michael X. Garrett, and Colin Powell and Tiger Woods?
Going back to the article:
“Millions of people, even though free on a piece of paper, were still trapped by Jim Crow [laws], stripped of their rights, even including the right to participate in our democracy, the right to vote.”
“And others were stalked by death, by men in white robes, the [Ku Klux] Klan and the lynch mob.”
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YES, Kathy, DOWN SOUTH and that was by the DEMOCRATS, YOUR people and Joe Biden’s people!
And going back once again, we have this:
“The truth is, we are all held back when millions of our neighbors struggle to lift their families up generation after generation, struggle to give their kids a good education, quality health care that they deserve, struggle while fighting the indignities of racism,” Hochul said.
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Yup, French Canadians, the Irish, the Italians, Catholics, Jews.
In fact, in the year 1700 the Legislature of New York enacted a law to hang every Popish priest “who should come voluntarily into the province.”
So how about REPARATIONS for all of them?
It is about justice, afterall.
And as we talk about the DEMOCRATS’ efforts to “PROTECT DEMOCRACY” as they work to impose their DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIOT (Joe Biden’s flood of illegal immigrants) on us by restricting ballot access (see, for example, ABC News, “Biden’s Democratic challengers hit ballot access roadblocks” 24 December 2023) to just one man for president, that being the senile Joe Biden, as they work to remove Trump from the ballot, I would like to go back to the ABC News article titled “Reparations to be considered under new New York policy” on 22 December 2023, and this statement in that article by liberal progressive DEMOCRAT governor of New York, “DITZY KATHY” Hochul, a Biden elector who helped put Joe Biden in power over us, to wit:
“Millions of people, even though free on a piece of paper, were still trapped by Jim Crow [laws], stripped of their rights, even including the right to participate in our democracy, the right to vote.”
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And from there, I would like to go to these two following statements of FACT, to wit:
* DEMOCRACY IS SYNONYMOUS WITH DISCRIMINATION; and
* DEMOCRACY IS SYNONYMOUS WITH SLAVERY.
Think I’m kidding?
NOT A JOKE. people, which takes us to the grade school history term the “CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY,: which is defined thusly:
The first known democracy in the world was in Athens.
Athenian democracy developed around the fifth century B.C.E.
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And then let us look at the subject, SLAVERY IN ATHENS, where we have as follows, and this is high school history, to wit:
Slaves in Athens were acquired in three primary ways: war, piracy, and trade.
Enslaving war captives was a common practice in ancient Greece.
Most slaves acquired from war were probably non-Greek, although it is probable that Athens also enslaved some Greeks as a result of wars.
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As I say, people, it is COMMON KNOWLEDGE that DEMOCRACY IS SYNONYMOUS WITH SLAVERY, which takes us back for more high school history on that subject, to wit:
Who is the Greek god of slavery?
Ananke is the powerful deity that rules compulsion, constraint, restraint, or coercion, and presides over all forms of slavery.
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And this:
Servitude was widespread in Greek antiquity.
Athens alone was home to an estimated 60,000–80,000 slaves during the fifth and fourth centuries BC, with each household having an average of three or four enslaved people attached to it.
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And what about DEMOCRACY IS SYNONYMOUS WITH DISCRIMINATION?
Let’s look, to wit:
Greek women had virtually no political rights of any kind and were controlled by men at nearly every stage of their lives.
The most important duties for a city-dwelling woman were to bear children–preferably male–and to run the household.
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There, people, is a capsule summary of what DEMOCRAT DEMOCRACY has in store for us who are white and non-DEMOCRATS, and a rosy future for them it will be, in their minds anyway.
So where is “DITZY KATHY” Hochul getting this REPARATIONS BULL**** from?
For that answer, let’s go to a FOX News article titled “New York governor’s reparations commission slammed as divisive: ‘Slap in the face'” by Kyle Morris on 23 December 2023, where we have as follows, to wit:
Hochul’s speech on Tuesday was followed by a brief address from Rev. Al Sharpton, who thanked the governor for signing the bill despite warnings from her political allies.
“And I know her political advisers told her it is too risky.”
“But she did it because it’s right,” he said.
“I met with her last Thursday on several issues that we’re dealing with nationally, and she told me she had decided to sign this bill and she said that it’s going to be unpopular to some, but I’m going to do what’s right.”
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And of course it would be Alvin “PEANUTS” Sharpton, who is a hate-filled, whithered husk who hates white people because of his implicit biases in his DNA going back probably millennia, something we all need to be honest about with regard to Al Sharpton.
So why is Hochul submitting then?
That answer is found in a Newsweek article entitled “BLM Leader: We’ll ‘Burn’ the System Down If U.S. Won’t Give Us What We Want” by Meghan Roos on 6/25/20, where we had a real bad-ass BLACK LIVES MATTER dude named Hawk Newsome discussing the use of TERRORISM to achieve Al Sharpton’s political goals in our times today, to wit:
A leader of Black Lives Matter’s New York chapter on Wednesday said the movement was prepared to “burn down this system” if the U.S. does not work with participants to enact real change.
“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it,” said Hawk Newsome, chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, during an interview with Fox News.
“This country is built upon violence,” Newsome said, pointing to the American Revolution and modern American diplomacy as examples.
“The moment people start destroying property, now cops can be fired automatically.”
“What is this country rewarding?”
“What behavior is it listening to?”
“Obviously not marching,” Newsome said.
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Yes, people, “DITZY KATHY” Hochul is negotiating with TERRORISTS to make white people into debt-slaves to BLACK people, because she knows that TERRORISTS like this Hawk Newsome dude aren’t kidding when he says BLACK people like him will indeed “burn down this system” if they don’t get what they want, which is money from WHITEY, which of course is EXTORTION, and that is exactly what Hochul, a craven, is submitting to here.
And stay tuned, for when we return, it will be to a New York Post story titled “Biden challenger Dean Phillips backs reparations for slavery, universal basic income” by Diana Glebova on 26 December 2023, so don’t change that dial!
And before we get to that New York Post story titled “Biden challenger Dean Phillips backs reparations for slavery, universal basic income” by Diana Glebova on 26 December 2023, for a look at what is INCREDIBLE DEMOCRAT INJUSTICE brewing, where liberal progressive DEMOCRAT governor of New York Kathy Hochul is submitting to EXTORTION demands from BLACK terrorists threatening to “BURN DOWN THE SYSTEM” if Hochul doesn’t give them what they want, which is political power over the white people they hate, by taking upon herself the power to set aside RULE OF LAW and CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS by holding accountable white people who did not commit crimes for the crimes against BLACK people committed by the DEMOCRAT PARTY after the Civil War, let’s for a moment go back to the FOX News article titled “New York governor’s reparations commission slammed as divisive: ‘Slap in the face’” by Kyle Morris on 23 December 2023, where we have as follows from “DITZY KATHY” Hochul as to who she intends to hold accountable and responsible for slavery in colonial New York, and the terror tactics of the DEMOCRATS after the Civil War against BLACK people and Republicans in the South to keep them from voting, just as they are trying to do again today, in the case of the Republicans, anyway, to wit:
“I know the word ‘reparations’ brings up a lot of conflicting ideas for people.”
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And NO, Kathy, there are no “conflicting ideas” at all, except perhaps in
your devious warped and twisted mind, because the word REPARATION in America has a very simple meaning for all of us, despite your attempts at semantic games here, to wit:
REPARATION: the making of amends FOR A WRONG ONE HAS DONE, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged, as in “the courts required a convicted offender to make financial reparation to his victim.”
In other words, a convicted criminal pays for his or her crimes, which means AFTER DUE PROCESS has been afforded the accused, and GUILT has been ESTABLISHED, or the second meaning is the compensation for war damage paid by a defeated state, as in “the Treaty of Versailles imposed heavy reparations and restrictions on Germany,” which takes us back to more Hochul drivel, to wit:
“A lot of people instinctively dig in when they hear it without really thinking about what it means or why we need to talk about it,” Hochul said in announcing the commission’s creation.
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And WRONG again, Kathy – I am “digging in” because I am NOT a mindless stupid DEMOCRAT, and I am capable of rational thought and critical thinking, and I know exactly what it means, and thus, why we DO NOT need to talk about it, or conversely why people like myself DO need to STAND UP to talk about what exactly it is that you are about here, which is an attempt by yourself to grant yourself literal dictatorial power over us and our lives just as Hitler did in Germany.
And talk about “failure theater” on the part of Hochul that is intended to be a shiny object to distract people from how Hochul is totally incapable of doing the basics of governing, it’s no coincidence that she has rushed out this new distraction to take our minds off the whole host of problems in OUR times today caused by her, Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS, like unaccountable government, the massive state debt under Hochul’s administration at the state level, and the massive debt at the federal level under Biden, along with crippling BIDENFLATION thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, and people leaving this third-world ****-hole state in droves because of Hochul’s liberal progressive policies with the resultant loss of congressional representation for this sorry state, along with discrimination against white women and disabled veterans by Hochul’s administration, and no environmental protection by her worthless department of environmental conservation which protects polluters not people, along with no public health protection by her worthless health department, no equal protection of law, the so-called “migrant crisis” courtesy of Democrat Joe Biden, so why on earth should we be spending time talking about a past well over two hundred years ago and talking about slavery in colonial America, when our problems are today and tomarrow?
And from her language, it is crystal clear that this is really a done deal, and this so-called reparations commission is yet another of her favorite little shiny objects, to take a semantic thing and make an argument that is somehow far afield from what she is really focused on, which is granting herself DICTATORIAL POWER, which takes us back to that article about who she is declaring GUILTY for the crimes of others, and thereby holding the INNOCENT accountable for those crimes, to wit:
Hochul also noted at the time that Americans whose families arrived in the U.S. after the end of slavery were still responsible for addressing its impact on Black communities.
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LIKE HELL, Kathy!
When were those people put on trial?
When exactly was it that those people were afforded CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS OF LAW?
Where is the EVIDENCE against them?
Getting back to Hochul, she continues heaping guilt on people with no DUE PROCESS, as follows:
“I think of the immigrants and the children of immigrants who’ve come here since the end of slavery,” she said.
“They will say, ‘We had no involvement in slavery […]'”
“‘None of our relatives were slave owners.'”
“And there’s part of me that worries about leaping into this conversation because of the racial divisions, strife it could sow.'”
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DAMN RIGHT, Kathy, and now, that train has left the station and is rolling down the tracks, and the STRIFE you are sowing has been sown, which again takes us back for more Hochul, to wit:
Hochul continued, “These huddles and tired masses came here to seek a better life […]”
“Slaves, people who were enslaved, didn’t come here willingly to pursue a dream, but they came in bondage to live a nightmare.”
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So now, it is only right that INNOCENT white people should have to live a nightmare in bondage to BLACK HATERS like Al Sharpton and BLACK TERRORISTS like this Hawk Newsome?
Going back for more of this incredible crap spew, we have as follows:
“And we have to ask, do those of us whose family came here to pursue a dream not have a role to play in ending a nightmare?”
“Yes, yes we do.”
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YES, WE DO, BY VOTING OUT OF POWER EVERY DEMOCRAT OFFICE HOLDER AT EVERY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT STARTING WITH JOE BIDEN AND MOVING ON FROM THERE!
And while we are on this subject of REPARATIONS for BLACK people based on a misguided premise that people with white skin today are responsible for slavery in British-controlled Colonial New York, where slavery has been outlawed now for almost TWO HUNDRED years, and for crimes committed by such DEMOCRAT TERROR GROUPS as the Red Shirts, the White League, the Knights of the White Camelia, and the Ku Klux Klan in the Southy after the Civil War, and thus, should be forced to have to pay REPARATIONS to aggrieved BLACK PEOPLE like Al Sharpton, Hawk Newsome, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Janaya Khan, Barack Obama, Karmela Harris, Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, Michael S. Regan, David Patterson, “TISH” James, Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Antonio Delgado, Lloyd Austin, General Michael X. Garrett, Colin Powell and Tiger Woods for INJUSTICES suffered by them at the hands of white people in British-controlled Colonial New York, and the South after the Civil War, before we go to a Washington Examiner story titled “Reparations splitting Democrats and putting obstacles in Biden’s path to reelection” by Jack Birle on 27 December 2023, let’s go to the New York Post story titled “Biden challenger Dean Phillips backs reparations for slavery, universal basic income” by Diana Glebova on 26 December 2023, where we have as follows on that same subject from liberal progressive DEMOCRAT Dean Phillips, a Democrat who has consistently voted in support of President Joe Biden’s positions who has a net worth of $77 million in 2018, making him one of the wealthiest members of Congress, and who in 2023, announced his intent to challenge Biden for the Democratic nomination in the 2024 presidential election, to wit:
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire – Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips broke with President Biden’s views on reparations and universal basic income in an exclusive interview with The Post, revealing new details about his campaign platform.
Phillips (D-Minn.) has gradually been rolling out his policy proposals since launching his campaign in late October, with his website promising more will be coming “as he listens to people across America.”
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And if he was truly listening to REAL AMERICANS, as opposed to the LEFT-WING liberal progressive DEMOCRATS, known as “PINKOS,” who are his political supporters, what he would have heard and realized was that according to a Pew Research poll conducted in 2022, 68% of adults oppose reparations for descendants of slaves, compared to only 30% who are in favor of such action, but being himself a liberal progressive DEMOCRAT, he is going with the minority, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
But in a half-hour conversation with The Post at his New Hampshire campaign headquarters, Phillips confirmed he would embrace paying reparations to African-Americans for slavery and experiment with universal basic income — both proposals associated with the left wing of the Democratic Party.
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To which I reply, good for him, of he intends to pay those REPARATIONS out of his pocket, which he can clearly afford to do, but don’t come looking for me to pay, because I AM NOT the one guilty of any of those crimes, which is enough of him for one day, which takes us back to the Washington Examiner article titled “Reparations splitting Democrats and putting obstacles in Biden’s path to reelection” by Jack Birle on 27 December 2023, to wit:
Reparations for descendants of slaves gained steam in various cities and states in 2023, leaving Democrats divided on how to move forward and possibly hurting President Joe Biden’s reelection chances in 2024.
New York became the latest state to authorize a task force to examine whether descendants of slaves should receive reparations for past racism and injustices when Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed the bill creating the task force into law last week.
Hochul called on all residents in her state to “be the patriots and rebuke, and not excuse, our role in benefiting from the institution of slavery.”
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HUH?
Be patriots?
Is she kidding us here?
Kathy Hochul can’t stand real patriots like me, and this is the same Kathy Hochul featured in a New York Post story titled “Kathy Hochul’s call for 5.4M Republicans to leave New York is dangerous and disgusting” by Tim Hoefer on August 25, 2022, where we have the real Kathy Hochul standing up, to wit:
Gov. Kathy Hochul, who hasn’t proven shy about issuing orders, had one for the state’s Republicans this week — all 5.4 million of them: “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” she said.
“You are not New Yorkers.”
If you can move beyond the frankly disgusting political partisanship and intolerance, her message is fiscally irresponsible, even dangerous.
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And yes, indeed, it is a very dangerous message, as well as a disgusting message, as this same Hochul is now asking us white people to be PATRIOTS and accept guilt for crimes against BLACK people we did not commit, which takes us to the definition of a PATRIOT, as follows:
PATRIOT: One who loves his/her country and zealously guards its welfare; especially, a defender of popular liberty.
As to what a REAL PATRIOT looks like in real life, I offer up this YouTube video of the June 8, 2023 Poestenkill Town Board Meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cXdWg5pAgY where I can be seen and heard in the video doing exactly that – zealously guarding my country’s welfare, starting with the corrupt town I reside in, and as to my country, it is a REPUBLIC with liberty and justice FOR ALL, regardless of skin color, and so a spirit of PATRIOTISM demands that I stand up in here, the only forum in America available to me as a poor elderly disabled veteran to be able to do so, to rebuke Kathy Hochul for her efforts to sow strife and cause racial divisions for political gains for herself and her DEMOCRAT party, by blaming alleged crimes against BLACK PEOPLE like Al Sharpton, Hawk Newsome, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Janaya Khan, Barack Obama, Karmela Harris, Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, Michael S. Regan, David Patterson, “TISH” James, Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Antonio Delgado, Lloyd Austin, General Michael X. Garrett, Colin Powell and Tiger Woods on white people like myself who did not commit those crimes, which takes us back for more, to wit:
“Today, this is our opportunity, New Yorkers,” she said at a press conference last week.
“All of us can be the heroes and do the hard work of acknowledging the ugly truths of the past, and do our part to keep [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s] dream alive and help bend the whole universe a little closer to justice by our actions here today.”
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JUSTICE?
Holding white people who didn’t commit any crimes of being guilty of committing crimes against BLACK PEOPLE like Al Sharpton, Hawk Newsome, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Janaya Khan, Barack Obama, Karmela Harris, Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, Michael S. Regan, David Patterson, “TISH” James, Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Antonio Delgado, Lloyd Austin, General Michael X. Garrett, Colin Powell and Tiger Woods is JUSTICE?
Like hell it is!
It is a PERVERSION of JUSTICE, plain and simple, and that is an indisputable fact!
Were I to be asked as an older American to summarize EVERYTHING that I think is wrong at EVERY LEVEL of what purports to be “government” in America from the bottom to the top, and from the top back to the bottom, and every level in between; be it town, village, city, county, state and federal, I would simply point to and offer up what I am saying in this YouTube video of the June 8, 2023 Poestenkill Town Board Meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cXdWg5pAgY where I can be seen and heard in the video zealously guarding my country’s welfare, starting at the town level in the corrupt town I reside in, and the YouTube video of the September 14, 2023 Poestenkill Town Board Meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTSiQs53aw where I come in at 7:02, doing the same, and when put into more detailed words it comes out as “failure theater” with totally unaccountable government at ALL LEVELS, massive state debt, massive debt at the federal level under Biden, crippling BIDENFLATION thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, no environmental protection, no public health protection, no equal protection of law, and the so-called “migrant crisis” courtesy of Democrat Joe Biden, to menti0n just a few things.
In the video of the September 14, 2023 Poestenkill Town Board Meeting @ 10:12, I can be heard saying, “but facts in Poestenkill don’t make a difference, they don’t, we just make stuff up here,” and that is true not only in that corrupt, anti-veteran ****hole of a town, but all the way up the chain of command to Joe Biden himself, who makes it up as he goes, with no thought whatsoever as to what the ramifications of his actions will be, because Joe lacks imagination and thus is totally incapable of engaging in critical thinking, which starts with a thorough examination of what one’s actions or lack of actions will cause to happen before such actions are actually taken or withheld.
As can be clearly seen in both videos, public officials, despite any empty oaths they swear to uphold the law or a Constitution, because those oaths themselves can’t be enforced against a public official who is foresworn, can therefore lie with impunity and can whitewash and cover-up corrupt practices and environmental crimes, right out in plain sight, because there is NO WAY to hold them to account, just as there is no way to hold Joe Biden, or Kathy Hochul, for that matter, to account, which takes us back to the Washington Examiner article titled “Reparations splitting Democrats and putting obstacles in Biden’s path to reelection” by Jack Birle on 27 December 2023, where we have New York’s liberal progressive DEMOCRAT governor and Biden ELECTOR Kathy Hochul stating as follows, to wit:
“All of us can be the heroes and do the hard work of acknowledging the ugly truths of the past, and do our part to keep [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s] dream alive and help bend the whole universe a little closer to justice by our actions here today.”.
BE HEROES”
DO OUR PART TO KEEP DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING’S DREAM ALIVE?
BEND THE WHOLE UINIVERSE A LITTLE CLOSER TO JUSTICE BY OUR ACTIONS HERE TODAY?
DO TELL, Kathy, but that is all BULL****, because Dr. Martin Luther King DID NOT have any kind of dream regarding “justice” for white people, because Dr. Martin Luther King DID NOT believe in justice for white people, as Joe Feagin, the Ella C. McFadden Professor in Sociology and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University makes incandescently clear in the Texas A&M Today article titled “What Martin Luther King Jr. Said About Systemic Racism” by Lesley Henton, Texas A&M University Division of Marketing & Communications on January 15, 2022, to wit:
“We whites created slavery, Jim Crow segregation and contemporary racial discrimination over 400-plus years now,” Feagin said.
“Whites are the main racial villains in this story and have most of the political and social power to change that racial discrimination and inequality now.”
“We cannot have a truly free and democratic society, with ‘liberty and justice for all’ until we do that.”
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Which is yet more whiney liberal progressive BULL**** of the kind that one would expect to be spewing forth from an ignorant liberal progressive college teacher, and I for one am not admitting to myself, or anyone else for that matter, including Dr. King, Kathy Hochul and Al Sharpton that “We whites created slavery,” which is pure ignorant liberal progressive BULL**** given that Athens, the CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY, alone was home to an estimated 60,000–80,000 slaves during the fifth and fourth centuries BC, with each household having an average of three or four enslaved people attached to it, the Native Americans had slaves, including the white Jesuit Isaac Jogues, a slave of the Mohawks, while the Cherokee in 1809 held nearly 600 enslaved Africans, a number that increased to almost 1,600 in 1835, and to around 4,000 by 1860, after they had removed to Indian Territory, and the BLACK AFRICANS in AFRICA, known as the “White Man’s Grave” in reference to the perils that European explorers encountered in the interior of Africa due to illness, wild animals, and hostile tribes, leaving a large portion of Africa was unexplored for a long time, HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY all, had BLACK SLAVES, which is where the white man got them from, including Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib (1832 – June 14, 1905), real name Hamad bin Muhammad bin Juma bin Rajab el Murjebi, an Afro-Arab slave trader who by 1895 had acquired “seven ‘shambas’ [plantations] and 10,000 slaves.”
Nor am I guilty of having anything to do with JIM CROW segregation, which referred in U.S. history to any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the DEMOCRAT-controlled South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
From the late 1870s, DEMOCRAT-controlled Southern state legislatures, no longer controlled by so-called carpetbaggers and freedmen, passed laws requiring the separation of whites from “persons of colour” in public transportation and schools.
The segregation principle was extended by the DEMOCRATS to parks, cemeteries, theatres, and restaurants in an effort to prevent any contact between Blacks and whites as equals.
As to racial discrimination, Al Sharpton is a walking, talking POSTER CHILD.
Which takes us to an essay published in 1969 by Dr. Martin Luther King titled “A Testament of Hope,” where Dr. King, the hero of Hussein Obama and Kathy Hochul, who wants to IMPOSE Dr. King’s version of “JUSTICE FOR WHITEY” on us, stated as follows on the subject:
“Justice for black people will not flow into this society merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory…”
“White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society.”
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RADICAL CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF OUR SOCIETY?
Like making white people SUBSERVIENT to BLACK people like Al Sharpton and Hawk Newsome, who wants to “BURN DOWN OUR SYSTEM” if he doesn’t get his way, words which if spoken by a white person, as opposed to a BLACK person like Hawk Newsome, would have that white person immediately branded by the DOJ and the FBI as a RIGHT-WING DOMESTIC TERRORIST, as Kathy Hochul wants to do with these REPARATIONS for BLACK people like Al Sharpton, Hawk Newsome, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Janaya Khan, Barack Obama, Karmela Harris, Eric Himpton Holder, Junior, Michael S. Regan, David Patterson, “TISH” James, Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Antonio Delgado, Lloyd Austin, General Michael X. Garrett, Colin Powell and Tiger Woods?
Going back to Dr. King, in his 1958 book “Stride Toward Freedom,” he wrote, “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
As to “JUSTICE,” it is defined as the “quality of being just,” and “conformity with the law,” while the word “JUST” means “fair, evenhanded and impartial in acting or judging” and “adhering to high moral standard; upright; honest,” and “legally valid; legitimate.”
Thus, in New York, JUSTICE, i.e. “conformity with the law,” is found in Section 1 of Article I, the Bill of Rights of the same New York State Constitution Hochul is sworn to support, which states that “no member of this state,” which would white people, shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof,” while §11 of Article I, the Bill of Rights, states that no person, which again would include white people, shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivision thereof, and by singling out white people, as Hochul is doing, and accusing them, WITHOUT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE, of being guilty of crimes against BLACK people before they were even born, Hochul is in fact DENYING white people of the equal protection of the law, WHICH IS NOT JUSTICE!
NO JUSTICE FOR WHITE PEOPLE. NO PEACE, and it is just as simple as that!
And enough about that DEMOCRAT REPARATIONS bull****, which along with ABORTION is supposed to capture the hearts and minds of the people of America to take them off the failing and flailing presidency of DEMOCRAT Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, whose approval rating is heading into9 the toilet, because outside of those two things, the DEMOCRATS have absolutely nothing else to offer the people of America.
And that takes us back to BIDE-O-NOMICS, Joe’s signature, eponymous Marxist economics scheme, and how ******* stupid we all are because we don’t know how much better we all are thanks to Joe and BIDE-O-NOMICS, which has caused a true economic miracle in America according to Joe and his various mouthpieces in the main-stream and legacy media, which in turn takes us to a Daily Express US article titled “Our most dangerous and costly challenges are primarily Joe Biden’s causing, says GRANDE” by Peggy Grande on 31 December 2023, where we have as follows:
Many of us remember the children’s book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Poor Alexander starts the day with gum in his hair after falling asleep with it in his mouth and ends the day having to wear his railroad train pajamas, which he hates.
The hours in between are filled with one disappointment and disaster after the next, leading him to conclude that some days just can’t be salvaged – hence labeling it a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Many Americans are similarly concluding that we have had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.
Unlike the fictional character Alexander though, whose problems are typical of a young child, the disappointments and disasters that have infused the nation in 2023 are monumental and consequential.
And sadly, many were avoidable.
Several of our most dangerous and costly challenges are primarily Joe Biden’s causing, or his actions have made bad situations worse.
Yet the President continues to roll from one merry vacation to the next, seemingly without a care in the world.
Even with plummeting poll numbers, he remains remarkably tone-deaf to the economic suffering of the American people.
Is he in denial?
Does he not know how bad things are?
Is he not being told?
Does he not care?
Is he lying to try and cover up his messes?
None of these options increase public trust – or give hope that things will improve in 2024.
In fact, this week, as President Biden was leaving the White House en route yet another holiday, he shifted blame onto the media for their reporting.
When asked about his outlook for the economy in 2024 Biden replied, “All good.”
“Take a look.”
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And actually what he said after that was as follows:
“Start reporting it the right way.”
Ah, yes, people!
Classic DICTATORIAL Biden in action – Joe knows how good the economy really is, even if we, the “GREAT UNWASHED,” as Joe and his media enablers and apologists call us – people too stupid to0 know when we have it so great – and that is all that counts, to Joe, anyway!
And that takes us to a Fox News article titled “Media spent 2023 trying to convince financially strapped Americans that economy is ‘booming’ under Biden” by Gabriel Hays on 30 December 2023, for this insight, to wit:
A major trend among mainstream media outlets and pundits in 2023 was them attempting to convince Americans the economy has been doing well under President Biden.
A majority of Americans consistently tell pollsters that they believe the economy is doing poorly, however, leading to a disconnect of sorts as conditions on the ground don’t appear to match with positive economic data like low unemployment and a booming stock market.
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And here, as somebody down at the bottom of the economic ladder with no hopes of moving up a rung or two in this lifetime, I have to say when people can’t pay their bills and have trouble putting food on the table, who gives a damn about what the unemployment level might be and what the stock market is doing, as if either plays a part in our lives?
As to the stock market, according to a Reuters article titled “S&P, Nasdaq begin 2024 with lower close as Apple, big tech weighs” by David French on January 2, 2024, we have this, to wit:
Jan 2 (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closed the first trading session of 2024 lower, weighed by a fall in Apple shares after a broker downgrade and declines among other big-tech names triggered by a move higher by Treasury yields.
The S&P 500 lost 27 points, or 0.57%, to end at 4,742.83 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 245.41 points, or 1.63%, to 14,765.94.
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So, HOORAY and WHOOP-DE-DOO for the stock market!
As was proven in 1929, what goes up also can come do9wn, and rapidly so.
And that takes us to another Reuters article titled “US construction on solid ground; manufacturing under pressure” by Lucia Mutikani on January 2, 2024, where we have this:
While construction spending is holding its own despite the higher borrowing costs, manufacturing continues to struggle.
S&P Global said on Tuesday that its manufacturing PMI fell to a reading of 47.9 in December amid a steep decline in new orders.
That was revised down from the preliminary reading of 48.2 and lower than 49.4 in November.
A reading below 50 indicates contraction in manufacturing, which accounts for 10.3% of the economy.
The decline in factory activity was mirrored across the globe, with manufacturing in the euro area contracting for an 18th straight month and Asia’s manufacturing powerhouses taking a hit due to China’s patchy economic recovery.
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So, really, people, how is the economy doing?
Think about it and we will be back right after a break for station identification, so don’t change that dial!
As to BIDE-O-NOMICS and the US economy as seen through the blind eyes of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first of his name to be a dictator in fact in America, according to a Washington Examiner article titled “Economy is ‘heading in the right direction’ in 2024: White House” by Christian Datoc on 3 January 2024, we have as follows:
The White House began the new year Tuesday by touting President Joe Biden’s economic record despite a majority of people voicing displeasure with the president’s economic stewardship in a slew of recent polls.
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But see, people, we are the “GREAT UNWASHED,” so it only figures that we would not know when we were well off, which is why we need a DICTATOR over us, pursuant to the premise in Hobbes’ Leviathan that an absolute monarchy is the best form of government.
Going back to that article, it continues, as follows:
“We’re headed in the right direction as it relates to the economy,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of those positive trends during a Tuesday interview on MSNBC.
“We pay attention to the data that showed consumer confidence was up, right, that showed that 14 million — more than 14 million jobs were created.”
“We saw unemployment at under 4% for 22 months.”
“Those things matter.”
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Those things matter?
To whom?
Who out there pays attention to the consumer confidence readings, which mean essentially nothing?
And speaking of consumer confidence, in August of 1929, it was at an all time high as people were feeling very exuberant about the economy, and Yale economist Irving Fisher was jubilant.
“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau,” he rejoiced in the pages of the New York Times.
On Sept. 3, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had swelled to a record high of 381.17, reaching the end of an eight-year growth period during which its value ballooned by a factor of six.
That, of course, was before the bubble began to burst in a series of “black days”: Black Thursday, October 24, when the market dropped by 11 percent, followed four days later by Black Monday, when it fell another 13 percent; and the next day, Black Tuesday, when it lost 12 percent more.
After witnessing nearly a decade of growth, most economists, investors, and captains of industry believed that the market’s natural direction was up.
The beginning of the crash struck them not as a sign of financial doom, but as an opportunity for bargains.
Following the first of the black days, the New York Times was full of positive predictions: “I have no fear of another comparable decline,” said the president of the Equitable Trust Company.
Many of those optimists, including Fisher, went broke by mid-November, when the Dow had lost nearly half its pre-crash value.
Fisher’s reputation likewise plummeted.
And such is the version of American history that I learned in grade school, back when we were supposed to actually know something about the America that preceded our entry into the world as young Americans after WWII had just been concluded, and the rug-chewing madman Hitler was in his grave.
As to the economy and how it is really doing, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “Wall Street tumbles to sharply lower close as abrupt sell-off snaps rally” by Stephen Culp on December 20, 2023, where we have this little burst of REALITY, to wit:
FedEx shares tumbled 12.1% after the package delivery company missed quarterly profit estimates and cut its full-year revenue forecast as it battles United Parcel Service in what is shaping up to be a weak holiday season.
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A weak holiday season?
But that couldn’t be, because, ah, well, you see, consumer confidence is up!
So it must be that FedEx simply does not know what it is talking about!
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US holiday retail sales grow 3.1%, down from prior year, Mastercard says” on December 26, 2023, for this economic news, to wit:
Dec 26 (Reuters) – U.S. retail sales rose 3.1% between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24, as shoppers looked for last-minute Christmas deals amid big promotions, a Mastercard report showed on Tuesday.
The increase is lower than the 3.7% growth Mastercard forecast in September and last year’s 7.6% rise as higher interest rates and inflation pressured consumer spending.
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INFLATION CAUSED BY BIDE-O-NOMICS PRESSURED CONSUMER SPENDING WHILE HIGHER INTEREST RATES WERE AS A RESULT OF JOE BIDEN’S FEDERAL RESERVE TRYING TO FIGHT THE INFLATION CAUSED BY JOE BIDEN’S BIDE-O-NOMICS.
But hey, people, nothing to fear, because, ah, well hey, you know, consumer confidence is up, which takes us back to that article, to wit:
Arun Sundaram, an analyst at CRFA Research, said many shoppers waited for Black Friday and Cyber Monday to make holiday purchases and finished the final sprint during Super Saturday.
“Consumers are still spending, but they’re still price conscious and want to stretch their budgets,” Sundaram said.
He said the weeks between Cyber Monday and Super Saturday were a “soft period” for spending, but shoppers used the final weekend before Christmas to look for “big deals.”
Ecommerce sales grew at the slower pace of 6.3% compared to last year’s 10.6% as the popularity of online shopping came off pandemic highs, the report showed.
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So much for high consumer confidence, which means exactly nothing in the grand scheme of things, as we see by going to a Reuters article titled “US manufacturing mired in weakness, economy heading for slowdown” by Lucia Mutikani on December 1, 2023, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing remained subdued in November, with factory employment declining further as hiring slowed and layoffs increased, more evidence that the economy was losing momentum after robust growth last quarter.
Economic activity is cooling as higher interest rates crimp demand.
The ISM said that its manufacturing PMI was unchanged at 46.7 last month.
It was the 13th consecutive month that the PMI stayed below 50, which indicates contraction in manufacturing.
That is the longest such stretch since the period from August 2000 to January 2002.
Comments from manufacturers were mostly downbeat and cited the need to reduce inventory levels.
Makers of computer and electronic products said the “economy appears to be slowing dramatically.”
Miscellaneous manufacturing firms said “customer orders have pushed into the first quarter of 2024, resulting in inflated end-of-year inventory.”
Producers of food, beverage and tobacco reported that “our executives have requested that we bring down inventory levels considerably, and it has started causing customer shortages.”
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And then we had a Reuters article titled “US factory orders fall 3.6% in October” on December 4, 2023, where we had this economic news, to wit:
Dec 4 (Reuters) – New orders for U.S.-made goods fell more than expected in October, marking the biggest monthly drop in roughly three and a half years, constrained by weakening demand for durable goods and transportation equipment and bolstering the view that high interest rates are beginning to bite into spending.
Factory orders fell 3.6% after a downwardly revised 2.3% in September, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on Monday, the biggest monthly drop since April 2020.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast orders would decline 2.8%.
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But take heart, people, because all is well!
How do I know?
Karine Jean-Pierre, who knows these things, told me so!
And she wouldn’t lie to us, would she?
YEAH, RIGHT, of course she would because that is what Joe Biden pays her to do!
I honestly believe that this Karine Jean-Pierre has to be one of the STUPIDEST people on the face of the planet, and because she is the PROPAGANDA MINISTER for American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first of his name to be a dictator in fact in America, she seems to think that she too can be a little dictator, dictating to us what it is we have to think about matters of importance to us, which flies right in the face of what is known here in America, where I am a CITIZEN, not a mindless, cud-chewing CONSUMER (a person or thing that eats or uses something), where intellectual liberty gives people, that being us, the taxpayers of this nation who pay an exorbitant amount of money for the poor excuse of a federal government that we get in return from this Biden regime, the RIGHT to think for ourselves and it respects individual dignity and self-rule, which freedom allows people like me to form their own ideas and opinions by questioning the world around them, something I fought and bled for in Viet Nam to protect, and so, I for one do not appreciate it being denied to me here in America, where I have been a CITIZEN for over seventy-five years, by an ignorant crap=spewing idiot like Karine Jean-Pierre, who quite obviously DOES NOT even make an attempt to check what is actually going on in the world before she starts to spew her BULL**** version of what is going on in the world to us, as if it is we who are the stupid ones, and not she, and she obviously is to0tally ignorant of AMERICAN HISTORY, believing that she does not need to know it, on an assumption that none of us are aware of anything other than what she tells us to believe.
And here I am talking about what is known as DEBT-FUELED CONSUMERISM, one of the root causes of the GREAT DEPRESSION that began in 1929, when the stock market did the unthinkable and CRASHED!
For example, in her spew of ignorant rubbish in the Washington Examiner article titled “Economy is ‘heading in the right direction’ in 2024: White House” by Christian Datoc on 3 January 2024, she said as follows:
“We’re headed in the right direction as it relates to the economy,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of those positive trends during a Tuesday interview on MSNBC.
“We pay attention to the data that showed consumer confidence was up, right, that showed that 14 million — more than 14 million jobs were created.”
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Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US job openings, quits near three-year low as labor market eases” by Lucia Mutikani on January 3, 2024, where we have some economic reality that the idiot KJP is blissfully unaware of, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (Reuters) – U.S. job openings fell to nearly a three-year low in November as the labor market gradually cools, which could pave the way for the Federal Reserve to start cutting interest rates this year.
Americans are also feeling the shift in the labor market, with the report from the Labor Department on Wednesday showing the number of people quitting their jobs, most likely for higher paying positions, dropping to the lowest level since February 2021.
Job openings, a measure of labor demand, were down 62,000 to 8.790 million by the last day of November, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report.
That was the lowest level since March 2021.
There were 128,000 fewer open positions in the transportation, warehousing and utilities industry.
Medium-sized and large companies accounted for the total decline in open jobs in the private sector.
Hiring continued to lag, falling 363,000 to 5.465 million, the lowest level since April 2020.
The professional and business services sector reported a decline of 163,000.
The hires rate dropped to 3.5%, also the lowest in nearly four years, from 3.7% in October.
Resignations decreased 157,000 to 3.471 million, the lowest level since February 2021.
The drop was led by the professional and business services sector, where quits decreased 77,000.
The quits rate, viewed as a measure of labor market confidence, fell to 2.2%.
That was the lowest level since September 2020.
News on manufacturing, which has been bruised by the higher borrowing costs, remains downbeat.
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported on Wednesday that its manufacturing PMI increased to 47.4 in December after being unchanged at 46.7 for two straight months.
It was the 14th consecutive month that the PMI stayed below 50, which indicates contraction in manufacturing, the longest such stretch since the August 2000-January 2002 period.
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Which takes us back to 1933, and economist Irving Fisher, who himself went bust in 1929 because he had borrowed heavily to invest in a stock market he thought would keep going up, explaining as a CAUSE of the GREAT DEPRESSION that to keep up with their house, auto, and other debt payments, people cut back on their spending, which, he said, was the major reason consumer demand dropped, which caused more price and wage deflation, less investment, falling output by companies, and layoffs.
STAY TUNED!
It is said that people who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it, but personally, I think people in America who don’t know history are either stupid, like Karine Jean-Pierre, and wish to remain ignorant, or they have been deprived of a proper education to keep them ignorant, so they can’t question what is going on in the world around them – the ideal GOOD AMERICANS, like the GOOD GERMANS in Germany during WWII.
Wikipedia, incidentally, defines GOOD GERMANS as follows: Good Germans is an ironic term — usually placed between single quotes such as ‘Good Germans’ — referring to German citizens during and after World War II who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime, but remained silent and did not resist in a meaningful way.
Going back to the crap spew of Karine Jean-Pierre, aka KJP or “BINDER” in the Washington Examiner article titled “Economy is ‘heading in the right direction’ in 2024: White House” by Christian Datoc on 3 January 2024, she said as follows:
“We pay attention to the data, right, that showed that 14 million — more than 14 million jobs were created.”
And guess what, BINDER, so do I, and you have no different data than I do to peruse, and as we hear about all these HIGH PAYING GOOD UNION JOBS Joe Biden tells us that he personally is creating, this is what I have on that very subject from the CNBC article titled “Private payrolls added 164,000 in December, beating expectations, ADP says” by Jeff Cox on January 4, 2024, to wit:
A rebound in leisure and hospitality led the way, as the sector added 59,000 positions, ADP reported.
Hotels, restaurants, bars and similar establishments were leaders in job creation after getting eviscerated in the early days of the Covid pandemic, but that trend tailed off in recent months.
The sector also led in wage gains, with annual growth of 6.4%.
Construction contributed 24,000 to the total, while the other services category, which includes dry cleaning and other support businesses, added 22,000.
Financial activities increased 18,000.
There were only a few categories down on the month, with manufacturing off 13,000 and information services and natural resources and mining both seeing a decline of 2,000.
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So, high-paying good union jobs?
Uh, sure, BINDER!
And while we are on the subject of the same DEBT–FUELED CONSUMERISM that resulted in the GREAT DEPRESSION, which used to be a mandatory subject of study in HIGH SCHOOL, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US bankruptcies surged 18% in 2023 and seen rising again in 2024 -report” on January 3, 2024, where we have as follows:
Jan 3 (Reuters) – U.S. bankruptcy filings surged by 18% in 2023 on the back of higher interest rates, tougher lending standards and the continued runoff of pandemic-era backstops, data published Wednesday showed, although insolvency case volumes remain well below the level seen before the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Now, focus on the phrase “the continued runoff of pandemic-era backstops,” because that is an important element here in what is coming next.
Consumers have been spending because Joe Biden used borrowed government money to load up their pockets with cash, to give them the ILLUSION, not the reality, of “wealth.”
An example is the fact that because I have good credit, at one point, I had four different offers of $250,000 lines of credit, which means I am really a MILLIONAIRE, right?
But that is pure BULL**** and I would be as stupid as Karine Jean-Pierre if I were foolish enough to think otherwise.
So people are running out of stimulus money and they are finding out that they are not really “wealthy,” at all and now, as they always do, the chickens are coming home to roost, and the bills are coming due, with no more money coming from Joe to pay them, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Total bankruptcy filings – encompassing commercial and personal insolvencies – rose to 445,186 last year from 378,390 in 2022, according to data from bankruptcy data provider Epiq AACER.
Commercial Chapter 11 business reorganization filings shot up by 72% to 6,569 from 3,819 the year before, the report said.
Consumer filings rose 18% to 419,55 from 356,911 in 2022.
“As anticipated, we saw new filings in 2023 increase momentum over 2022 with a significant number of commercial filers leading the expected increase and normalization back to pre-pandemic bankruptcy volumes,” said Michael Hunter, vice president of Epiq AACER.
“We expect the increase in number of consumer and commercial filers seeking bankruptcy protection to continue in 2024 given the runoff of pandemic stimulus, increased cost of funds, higher interest rates, rising delinquency rates, and near historic levels of household debt.”
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And ALL of that is a direct result of BIDE-O-NOMICS – the runoff of pandemic stimulus which helped to cause BIDENFLATION, the increased cost of funds as a result of the federal reserve fighting the BIDEFLATION caused by Joe’s stimulation money, higher interest rates caused by a rise in ten-year treasury note interest rates, rising delinquency rates as people are getting squeezed by BIDEFLATION at the same time their Biden stimulation money is running out, and near historic levels of household debt.
Hello, 1929!
Going back to the story, we have more, as follows:
Household debt did, in fact, stand at a record high $17.3 trillion at the end of the third quarter, according to data from the New York Federal Reserve.
Financial conditions for businesses and households have tightened significantly over the last two years thanks to the Fed’s aggressive interest rate hikes to contain inflation.
Rates on mortgage loans, for instance, in the second half of last year shot to their highest since the start of the century.
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Reality is a real bitch, isn’t it!
And going back to the Washington Examiner article titled “Economy is ‘heading in the right direction’ in 2024: White House” by Christian Datoc on 3 January 2024, we have BINDER telling us as follows:
Jean-Pierre noted how Biden continues to reiterate that “the job is not done” and that the White House knows it needs “to do more” to continue lowering costs for families across the United States.
She said that further implementation of Biden’s past legislative victories, including the bipartisan infrastructure law and the ean-Pierre noted how Biden continues to reiterate that “the job is not done” and that the White House knows it needs “to do more” to continue lowering costs for families across the United States.
She said that further implementation of Biden’s past legislative victories, including the bipartisan infrastructure law and the CHIPS and Science Act, will result in additional savings for households.
“As we move forward into 2024, the president’s priority, as well as lowering costs for the American people, is going to make sure that we implement, we implement those pieces of legislation,” she continued.
“I think that’s how we deal with whatever may come our way, is making sure that we’re moving forward in implementing those key pieces of legislation.”
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And that takes us to another Reuters article titled “US chip stocks tumble after strongest year since 2009” by Noel Randewich on January 3, 2024, where we have more reality related to Joe Biden’s so-called CHIPS and Science Act, which Joe and BINDER tell us will result in additional savings for households, to wit:
Jan 3 (Reuters) – U.S. chip stocks added to a string of losses on Wednesday, with Wall Street’s main semiconductor benchmark tumbling from record highs following its strongest year since 2009, when the sector bounced back after the financial crisis.
Drops of over 2% in Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm and Broadcom weighed most on the PHLX semiconductor index, which was down 2.1%.
The chip index has now declined almost 7% since reaching a record high close on Dec. 27.
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And hey, how about that stock market, now will you:
Reuters
“S&P, Nasdaq begin 2024 with lower close as Apple, big tech weighs”
By David French
January 2, 2024
Jan 2 (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closed the first trading session of 2024 lower, weighed by a fall in Apple shares after a broker downgrade and declines among other big-tech names triggered by a move higher by Treasury yields.
The S&P 500 lost 27 points, or 0.57%, to end at 4,742.83 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 245.41 points, or 1.63%, to 14,765.94.
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Reuters
“Wall St notches second lower finish as 2024 starts with profit-taking”
By David French
January 3, 2024
Jan 3 (Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes ended the second session of the year down again in extended profit-taking on Wednesday after a strong finish to 2023, with minutes from the Federal Reserve’s December meeting failing to shake off the funk hanging over markets.
It was the first time the benchmark S&P 500 index has started the year with two straight declines since it kicked off 2015 with a three-session skid.
It is also its worst two-day result, on a percentage basis, since late-October.
The S&P 500) lost 38.02 points, or 0.8%, to end at 4,704.81 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 173.73 points, or 1.18%, to 14,592.21.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 284.85 points, or 0.76%, to 37,430.19.
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Reuters
“S&P, Nasdaq extend year-start skid to three; Dow higher on financials”
By David French
January 4, 2024
Jan 4 (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closed lower on Thursday, extending their losing streak that kicked off 2024, although the Dow Jones Industrial eked out a win on the back of financial stocks and strong jobs data.
For the S&P 500, this is the worst start to a year since it began 2015 with a three-session skid, as tech-focused investors continued to take profits after a blistering rally in the final weeks of last year.
The S&P 500 lost 16.13 points, or 0.34%, to end at 4,688.68 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 81.91 points, or 0.56%, at 14,510.3.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 10.15 points, or 0.03%, to 37,440.34.
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But hey, people, just because it is going down doesn’t mean that it really isn’t going up, so nothing to see here, people, and now as George W. Bush famously said – GET OUT THERE AND DO WHAT YOU DO BEST, WHICH IS SPEND. SPEND, SPEND!
And when you run out of money, don’t worry, because Joe Biden will be there to bail you out!
There actually was a time in my life, this being many, many years ago, when I was young, when I truly thought our national government was the pinnacle of truth, honor and justice.
Now, I rate the whole pitiful lash-up, including the DANGEROUS and TOTALLY WORTHLESS DEMOCRATS and the sorry Republicans, the DICTATORIAL presidency and the congress, as NOT WORTH A DAMN, period, and the last place I would expect to find truth, honor and justice would be in Washington, DC, and especially in the Biden white house, which is packed chock-a-block with LIARS, idiots and fools, all of whom are arrogant in the extreme, especially this BIDEN PROPAGANDA MINISTER Karine Jean-Pierre, aka KJP and BINDER, which takes us back to her claim in the Washington Examiner article titled “Economy is ‘heading in the right direction’ in 2024: White House” by Christian Datoc on 3 January 2024, that “We pay attention to the data, right, that showed that 14 million — more than 14 million jobs were created,” as if she and Joe Biden and his pack of idiots and fools had access to some kind of “data,” a very pretentious (attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed) sounding term when it comes from out of the mouth of KJP, that we, the so-called “GREAT UNWASHED” in America outside the Washington Beltway, do not have access to which is just plain old-fashioned HOG****, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US economy cranks out jobs at brisk clip in December; wages increase” by Lucia Mutikani on January 5, 2024, where we have some data of our own to consider, as follows:
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) – U.S. employers hired more workers than expected in December while raising wages at a solid clip, casting some doubt on financial market expectations that the Federal Reserve would start cutting interest rates in March.
There were, however, some cracks in the closely watched employment report from the Labor Department on Friday.
The economy added 71,000 fewer jobs in October and November than previously reported.
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And there is the BULL**** game this DICTATORIAL Biden administration has been playing with us, which is to INFLATE the job numbers to impress the easily impressable, while at the same time giving Joe and BINDER something to brag about, and then, five minutes later, when nobody is looking any more, having moved on to the next TWEET on TWITTER, now X for some unexplained reason, put out the true numbers which are lower.
But moving along here as we fact-check BINDER, something the BIDEN APOLOGISTS and ENABLERS in the main-stream and legacy media are clearly afraid to do, as it would be both homophobic and racist, which gives BINDER double immunity to spew her MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION and plain old-fashioned outright lies, we have more “data,” as follows:
Household employment fell sharply and the workweek was on average slightly shorter than in November.
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But that of course cannot be true, because it flies right in the face of the PROPAGANDA NARRATIVE being fed to us by BINDER on behalf of the DICTATORIAL BIDEN REGIME, which takes us to this, to wit:
The economy added 2.7 million jobs in 2023, a sharp step-down from the 4.8 million positions created in 2022.
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And WHOA, people, STOP THE PRESSES here!
Can that be true, that in 2023, the economy ONLY added 2.7 million jobs, which is a sharp step-down from the 4.8 million positions created in 2022?
I mean, well, hey, BINDER told us EIGHTEEN MILLION, and she would never lie to us, would she, paragon of virtue that she is, so it must be Reuters who are wrong here!
And with that said, since these are Joe’s own figures we are being given here by Reuters, let’s see where all these HIGH-PAYING UNION JOBS really are, to wit:
Government hiring as state and local authorities try to bring education staffing back to pre-pandemic levels led the rise in employment last month, with 52,000 jobs added.
Government payrolls growth averaged 56,000 jobs per month in 2023, more than double the average monthly gain of 23,000 in 2022.
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Government jobs?
Uh, okay, but since the government doesn’t produce anything, other than a lot of hot air, we certainly can’t count those as manufacturing related, unless we are counting manufacturing BULL**** as manufacturing jobs, which takes us back to Joe’s own numbers, which aren’t adding up to EIGHTEEN MILLION, to wit:
Employment in the healthcare sector increased 38,000, spread across ambulatory healthcare services and hospitals.
Unseasonably mild weather boosted hiring at construction sites, with payrolls in the industry rising 17,000.
Leisure and hospitality employment gained 40,000.
Retail employment rose 17,400.
Professional and business services payrolls rose 13,000, but temporary help services shed another 33,300 positions.
Employment in the sector, seen as a harbinger for future hiring, has declined for 11 straight months.
Manufacturing jobs increased 6,000.
But employment in the transportation and warehousing industry fell 22,600.
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Manufacturing jobs increased by 6,000?
I thought it was EIGHTEEN MILLION!
I must not have heard right, I guess.
And hey, how about that stock market now will you!
Let’s take a look and see by going to the Reuters article titled “Wall Street posts small Friday win, but first weekly decline in ten” by David French on January 5, 2024, where we have this HUGE GOOD NEWS which proves that just because it is going down doesn’t mean it’s not really going up, just like it did in 1929, to wit:
Jan 5 (Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes endured a topsy-turvy session on Friday but ultimately closed marginally higher, although the small gains did not stop the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite from starting 2024 with their worst weekly showing in months.
All three benchmarks recorded their first weekly declines for ten weeks: the S&P 500 dropped 1.54%, while the Nasdaq Composite slumped 3.26%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.59%.
For the S&P 500, it was its worst weekly performance since late October, while the Nasdaq posted its worst week since late September.
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Spurious data, people, so disregard it, which takes us back for more, to wit:
Friday’s session saw markets gyrate throughout the day, as investors absorbed the latest macroeconomic data which offered contrasting views on when interest rate cuts may begin.
Initially, robust jobs data in a report from the Labor Department, which showed U.S. employers hired more workers than expected in December, doused expectations of rapid easing of interest rates, pushing futures lower.
However, a survey from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) then showed activity in the services sector fell in December, pointing to a weaker economy.
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Activity in the services sector fell in December, pointing to a weaker economy?
No way, Jose!
That can’t be right, because it flies in the face of what Karine Jean-Pierre is telling us, and since she is always right, that has got to be wrong as there is no other politically-correct way to look at it!
So what did the stock market do?
Let’s look, to wit:
On Friday, the S&P 500 gained 8.56 points, or 0.18%, to end at 4,697.24 points, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 13.77 points, or 0.09%, to 14,524.07.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 25.77 points, or 0.07%, to 37,466.11.
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Sing HALLLUJAH, people, and say AMEN, because like it did in 1929, the stock market came roaring back up on Friday, so happy days are here again!
And after a break for station identification, we will be right back with news on the service sector, and MAGA-nomics, a new term KJP has invented for us, so don’t change that dial!
I don’t know about anyone else in here, especially young people in America with no basis for comparison, but I cannot believe that I am sitting here in what used to be the United States of America, now the DISUNITED ****HOLE of America, listening to the absolutely stupid and ignorant spew of pure political garbage that pours forth from Washington, DC on a daily basis, through DEMOCRAT apologists in the main-stream and legacy media that are the organs of the propagation of IGNORANT political bull**** for the Biden white house.
For a vivid example of ignorant political BULL**** being spewed forth to the American people by the Biden white house, we have this Fox News story titled “Biden admin shifts blame as national debt reaches historic high of $34 trillion” by Brandon Gillespie on 4 Januay 2024, as follows:
The Biden administration spared no time in attempting to shift blame toward Republicans over America’s national debt reaching a historic high of $34 trillion this week despite President Biden having been in office for nearly three full years.
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And what a surprise, because the Biden regime SHIFTS BLAME for everything Joe Biden has ****** up, which takes us back to the AIRHEAD IDIOT BIDEN PROPAGANDA MINISTER Karine Jean-Pierre, as follows:
“If you look at that data, there’s a trickle down debt.”
“If you think about it, Republican tax cuts are responsible for about 90% of it — of the increase in the debt as a share of the economy over the last two decades, excluding emergency spending,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed during Wednesday’s press briefing.
Despite the new record high, Jean-Pierre argued Biden had taken action to lower the debt, including signing the Inflation Reduction Act, which some experts predicted would actually cost the U.S. more than originally projected, and “cracking down on wealthy tax cheats” through actions like growing the IRS.
“His agenda would cut the deficit another $2.5 trillion by making the wealthy pay their fair share.”
“So that is what the president has done.”
“What we’ve seen on the other side is the complete opposite.”
“What they’ve tried to do is continue to give a tax break to the millionaires and billionaires, and what they have actually put forward would add more than $3 trillion to the debt,” she added.
Fox Business reporter Edward Lawrence pressed Jean-Pierre on her claims, noting the length of time Biden had already been in office, as well as that the U.S. had added $10 billion per day to the national debt without a reduction.
But she doubled down.
“Republican tax cuts are responsible for 90%, 90% of the increase in the debt.”
“90%.”
“That is something that Republicans are responsible for,” she responded.
“[The president] put forth legislation like lowering the deficit by $1 trillion, and that’s part of lowering prescription drug costs and cracking down on the wealthy tax cheats.”
“That’s what he’s done,” she said.
“And meanwhile, yeah, you know what?”
“The GOP, congressional Republicans, what they want to do is they want to continue with their MAGAnomics.”
“What they’ve proposed will add $3 trillion to the debt,” she added.
Last year, Biden was scrutinized by several liberal fact-checkers for claiming his administration had reduced the budget deficit by $1.7 billion dollars, a critical step in lowering the national debt.”
“Some called the claim “misleading,” and “lacking context.”
In May, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office revealed that the federal government under Biden had run a near-$1 trillion federal deficit in the “first seven months of fiscal year 2023.”
It found that in those months alone, the federal government had racked up $928,000,000,000.
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So now, as the SILLY SEASON begins its acceleration towards the November presidential elections, we can expect to be barraged continuously with this new term KJP and the white house PROPAGANDA TEAM have invented, that being MAGANOMICS, which is BAD, in contrast to BIDE-O-NOMICS, which is good.
And of course, “TOODLES” Yellen, a die-hard idiot and Biden cheerleader is back on the scene in a Forbes article titled “‘Soft Landing’ Achieved: Janet Yellen Says Goal Reached After Recession Fears—But Some Still Skeptical” by Molly Bohannon on 6 January 2024, as follows:
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an interview on CNN on Friday that the U.S. has achieved a “soft landing” after years of concerns about the U.S. economy following the Covid-19 pandemic and high inflation rates — a scenario many economists once thought unlikely.
“What we’re seeing now I think we can describe as a soft landing and my hope is that it will continue,” Yellen said on CNN on Friday.
Yellen gave credit for the soft landing to the American people and President Joe Biden, saying: “The American people go to work every day, participate in the labor market, form new businesses, but President Biden has tried to create incentives that give Americans the tools they need to help this economy grow.”
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EXCEPT THERE HASN’T BEEN A SOFT LANDING, and “TOODLES” is doing what she does best, which is lying to us on behalf of Joe Biden, as if we were too stupid and uninformed to know the difference, while the mindless, thumb-sucking PEABRAINS at CNN, who fact-check NOTHING spewed forth by the Biden regime, let he get away with i9t, which makes them DISSEMINATORS of MISINFORMATIO(NH, DI(SINFORMATION and OUTRIGHT LIES, as we clearly see from a CNBC article titled “Fed’s Barkin sees likely soft landing ahead but notes rate hikes still a possibility” by Jeff Cox on January 3, 2024 where we have the other side of that story, to wit:
Richmond Federal Reserve President Thomas Barkin on Wednesday expressed confidence that the economy is on its way to a soft landing, but obstacles remain that will require caution from him and his fellow policymakers.
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And WHOA, Tom, you have to be wrong, because “TOODLES” Yellen, who far outranks you as a former fed chair for Hussein Obama and treasury secretary for Joe Biden says we are already there, and since she would NEVER lie to us, being as pure and holy as HILLARY Clinton and the driven snow, so it must be you, Tom, but then, let’s not be all that hasty here to come to a quick judgment here based on what “TOODLES” Yellen, a known prevaricator and Biden cheerleader is saying, so let’s go back for more of what Tom is telling us, to wit:
“We’re making real progress,” Barkin, a voting member this year on the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee, said in prepared remarks for a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina.
“Now, everyone is talking about the potential for a soft landing, where inflation completes its journey back to normal levels while the economy stays healthy.”
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POTENTIAL FOR A SOFT LANDING?
WTF?
I thought we were here, wheels down and all good to go, so back to Tom for further explanation we go:
He compared the Fed’s job to a pilot bringing an airplane in for a landing, and noted four risks ahead: The economy could “run out of fuel” and growth could reverse; “unexpected turbulence” such as geopolitical events or the banking shock that hit in March 2023; the possibility of “approaching the wrong airport,” where inflation holds above the Fed’s 2% target; and a “delayed landing,” where demand holds unexpectedly high, boosting inflation.
“The airport is on the horizon.”
“But landing a plane isn’t easy, especially when the outlook is foggy, and headwinds and tailwinds can affect your course,” Barkin said.
“It’s easy to oversteer and do too much or understeer and do too little.”
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So, okay, Tom, I’ll buy into that – we have a long way yet to go before wheels down SAFELY back on earth.
And as to “TOODLES” Yellen and Joe Biden, their SO(FT LANDING will look just like the plane in this picture, to wit:
https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/video/downed-united-states-airplane-on-fire-news-footage/mr_00003906
What is a shallow thinker?
According to Collins English Dictionary, it is an adjective applied to someone lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; someone who is superficial, a shallow-minded Pollyanna.
A shallow thinker just looks at first-order consequences.
A deep thinker, on the other hand, looks at the whole chain of effects, impacts, and outcomes.
Shallow thinkers are incapable, and sometimes too lazy, to look at all sides of an issue or to explore the issues deeply before making judgment or decision.
Merriam-Webster answers the question “what is the meaning of shallow thinking” by telling us it means lacking in depth of knowledge, thought, or feeling, as in a “shallow demagogue,” and if anyone thinks I am talking about American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior here, along with his commerce secretary Gina Marie Raimondo, born May 17, 1971, who is an American businesswoman, lawyer, politician, and venture capitalist, and his treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, and the rest of the people Joe has selected to surround him and advise him, like Tony Blinken and his witless sidekick Jake Sullivan, they are dead on the money, especially with respect to Joe, who is the ALPHA, the leader of that pack (cue The Shangri-Las – Leader of the Pack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5vFOpVGjVc ).
As to the question “what is short-sighted thinking,” Cambridge Dictionary tells us that it means “not thinking enough about how an action will affect the future”
A related term, “psychological myopia,” which Joe Biden is quite clearly afflicted with, to our detriment as a nation and as a people, refers to the tendency in decision makers like Joe Biden to focus on information immediately related to their judgment and to ignore other, less prominent, pieces of information, so9 that because Joe Biden often ignores pieces of information in his decision-making processes, it makes him think short-sightedly, and it is we, the American people who are paying and will continue to pay the price for that that, and if anyone thinks otherwi8se, they are as short-sighted as is Joe Biden and his pack of self-serving idiots that he has surrounded himself with, which takes us to a Fox News article titled “Giant offshore wind project axed in blow to Biden’s green goals” by Thomas Catenacci on 4 January 2024, where we have this clear example of the toxic mix of short-sightedness and shallow thinking that permeates the Biden administration from bottom to the very top, to wit:
The cancelation of Empire Wind 2 comes weeks after the Biden administration formally approved it and its counterpart, Empire Wind 1, in November.
The Department of the Interior (DOI) and Energy Department have both endorsed the project, while the White House has referred to it as a success story of “Bidenomics.”
“Under President Biden’s leadership, the American offshore wind industry is continuing to expand rapidly — creating good-paying union jobs across the manufacturing, shipbuilding and construction sectors,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on Nov. 21 after green-lighting Empire Wind 2.
“Today’s approval of the sixth offshore wind project adds to the significant progress towards our Administration’s clean energy goals.”
DOI added that “Bidenomics and the President’s Investing in America agenda are growing the American economy from the middle out and bottom up.”
The agency also said the Empire Wind projects would support President Biden’s lofty green energy goals.
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Except Joe Biden’s “lofty green energy goals,” which I refer to as Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM is and always was a PIPE DREAM (an unattainable or fanciful hope or plan), which takes us back to that article, to wit:
Global energy developers Equinor and BP announced Wednesday they are canceling the contract for a massive wind project slated for construction off the coast of New York.
The two companies said they had reached an agreement with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to terminate the offshore wind renewable energy certificate for their Empire Wind 2 project.
Equinor and BP explained that commercial conditions, namely inflation, interest rates and supply chain disruptions, prevented its contract for the project from remaining viable.
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Yes, people, BIDENFLATION caused by BIDE-O-NOMICS coupled with HIGH INTEREST RATES as the federal reserve tries to fight the BIDENFLATION caused by BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us to this, to wit:
“Commercial viability is fundamental for ambitious projects of this size and scale.”
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And my goodness, people who’d a thought it?
Certainly not Joe Biden, Jennifer Granholm and Deb Haaland, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
It also comes shortly after energy developer Orsted canceled its Ocean Wind 1 and Ocean Wind 2 twin projects which were also approved and hailed by the Biden administration.
Orsted also blamed negative economic conditions.
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And with that said, let’s head to a commercial break and a pause for station identification, but don’t change that dial, because if the dam don’t break, and the creek don’t rise, we will be right back with more about this FIASCO that is the administration of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first of his name to be a DICTATOR anywhere in the world, so stay tuned!
And while we are on the subject of this DICTATORIAL Biden regime continually lying to us through its teeth while its enablers and apologists in the main-stream and legacy media like CNN, which serves as a PROPAGANDA ORGAN for the failing and flailing Biden regime, spew forth MISINFOMATION and DISINFORMATION and more outright lies on behalf of Joe Biden himself, let’s go to an article in the Western Journal titled “Biden Campaign Holding Coaching Sessions with Establishment Media, Invoking Special ‘Spreadsheet'” by Allison Anton on 9 January 2024, where we have this latest news to come out about how the Biden campaign is trying to RIG this upcoming presidential election in its favor, to wit:
Most of us are aware by now that the establishment media is in the pocket of the Democrats.
But this new revelation from the Biden campaign takes it to a whole other level.
In a move that would make most citizens wonder if they’re living in North Korea rather than the United States, word has leaked out that the Biden administration is holding coaching sessions with the press, where the Biden campaign can tell political reporters and commentators “what they’re getting wrong.”
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And seriously, people, as the lies spew forth constantly and continually from Joe Biden and his lackeys like Deb Haaland and Gina Raimondo, and Jennifer Granholm and Ian Sams and REAR ADMIRAL John “JACK” Kirby and Karine Jean-Pierre, can we be at all surprised to find ourselves now being compared to North Korea, another DICTATORSHIP the BIDEN DICTATORSHIP seems to be modeling itself on?
Not hardly, is my thought, and that brings us to this definition of “free press” from Wikipedia, to wit:
What is the free press theory?
A free and independent press has been theorized to be a key mechanism of a functioning, healthy democracy. In the absence of censorship, journalism exists as a watchdog of private and government action, providing information to maintain an informed citizenry of voters.
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Thankfully, we still have the Cape Charles Mirror to provide that function for us, which function the DICTATORIAL Biden regime wants to suppress, which takes us to this definition that applies to the Biden regime policies, to wit:
Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of democracy and political plurality. It involves the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic voting.
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Which accurate description of the Biden regime takes us back to the Western Journal article, to wit:
According to news site Semafor, two insiders revealed that “during meetings with reporters from outlets like The New York Times, the Washington Post, and others, campaign officials have invoked a coverage spreadsheet laying out areas where the team believes their reporting has fallen short.”
“They’re also using it as an opportunity to tell them what they’re getting wrong,” per the outlet.
Further, Biden campaign staffers “[are] scheduled to meet in the coming days with political reporting teams from ABC, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, Fox, NPR, Reuters, Bloomberg, and others in Wilmington.”
According to Semafor, these meetings between the press and the major figures of the Biden campaign, such as his “campaign manager, deputies, and other high-ranking advisors,” were “off-the-record,” suggesting that we plebeians were never supposed to know about them.
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And my goodness, people, of course we are not supposed to know about the authoritarian Biden regime using its political muscle to RIG this upcoming presidential election by SUPPRESSING TRUTH, while feeding us a barrage of lies about Joe Biden, instead, which takes us back for more, to wit:
Apparently, though, the meeting with The New York times didn’t go so well.
(Perhaps the journalists working for one of the most prestigious newspapers in the country didn’t appreciate being told how to do their job.)
Once this news leaked on X, users there did not hold back, mocking the administration for implementing such a ridiculous strategy.
According to Fox News, President Joe Biden’s frustrations seem to stem from the coverage he receives in contrast to former President Donald Trump.
As originally reported in Semafor, “campaign officials have chafed at some of the coverage of former President Donald Trump, feeling that outlets are too focused on his legal troubles and haven’t paid enough attention to some of his incendiary recent statements on the campaign trail.”
As reported in Fox News, the White House also expressed frustration this past December regarding coverage of the economy and was further frustrated by the reporting of Biden’s negative over his more positive poll results.
As ridiculous as the scenario of career politicians and campaign staffers dictating to the press on how they should cover the president’s campaign is, it is indicative of something more sinister at work in the intersection of the media and the government.
The whole point of the press is that it’s supposed to be independent from the government.
It’s the free press after all; the press should not just be a propaganda tool for a political party, and it absolutely should not be receiving private coaching sessions from the sitting president’s campaign staff as to how report on the president correctly.
There are two major issues on display here.
Number one, the fact that the Biden campaign had no issue with stepping over the line that is supposed to separate the press and the government speaks volumes as to how the Biden administration views the power it has been granted by the American people.
Number two, that so many major news organizations so readily agreed to meet with the Biden campaign off the record (or at least seemed to) is nothing short of shocking.
The press should never have even entertained the idea, let alone conducted what seem to have been multiple meetings on the subject.
Instead of trying to improve the Biden campaign, at least by perhaps walking back some of Biden’s more controversial moves, the campaign staff instead secretly meet with the press with the intent of, essentially, instructing the media on how to report on Biden’s campaign.
The Biden campaign’s move to dictate to the press how it should report on Trump and Biden should be deeply concerning to every American.
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Indeed, it is!
Hence this series of articles about the PROPAGANDA spewed forth by the Biden regime, courtesy of this GRAND PALLADIUM of our LIBERTY, the venerable Cape Charles Mirror!
So, this morning we have DEMOCRAT VOTER SUPPRESSION in New Hampshire, as well as Hatch Act violations by the staff of Joe Biden including his PROPAGANDA MINISTER Karine Jean-Pierre, Ian Sams, and Joe’s cabinet secretaries to whom the Hatch Act applies , who is quite obviously, openly and blatantly running his re-election campaign from out of the oval office in the corruption-tarnished white house in Washington, D.C. using GOVERNMENT RESOURCES, which include government time, government titles, and the authority of an employee’s official position, as if they were his personal property, as opposed the property of the CITIZENS of America to whom the AUTOCRAT Biden is responsible to for his conduct in office, which takes us to Chapter 36 of the “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States” written by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Joseph Story and published in 1833, where we have as follows regarding this sorry and pitiful administration of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the most openly corrupt president in this nation’s history as well as the most incompetent and inept, to wit:
No man, who has ever deeply read the human history, and especially the history of republics, but has been struck with the consciousness, how little has been hitherto done to establish a safe depositary of power in any hands; and how often in the hands of one, or a few, or many, of an hereditary monarch, or an elective chief, the executive power has brought ruin upon the state, or sunk under the oppressive burden of its own imbecility.
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THE EXECUTIVE POWER HAS BROUGHT RUIN UPON THE STATE DUE TO THE OPPRESSIVE BURDEN OF ITS OWN IMBECILITY!
Story obviously had prescient vision and saw Joe Biden coming from a long way back when he wrote those words in 1833, which takes us to VOTER SUPPRESSION in New Hampshire by Joe Biden, himself,
By way of background, the Democratic primary in the New Hampshire has been mired in controversy ever since national Democrats, at the specific request of the DICTATOR Biden, decided to boot New Hampshire from its historic spot as the country’s first primary, relying on Joe Biden’s argument that the state isn’t representative of his voters or the country.
So much for DEMOCRACY in the weird world of Joe Biden.
DICTATOR Biden last year backed an effort by national Democrats to push New Hampshire’s contest later in the 2024 cycle, despite a state law mandating that it hold the first primary, and because of the dispute, the national party threatened any candidates who appeared on the Granite State ballot with penalties, and when New Hampshire didn’t move the primary as Joe Biden required it to, the party stripped the delegates it would have awarded — making the Jan. 23 contest purely symbolic, and the DICTATOR Biden said he won’t officially be on the ballot.
Which brings us to a Fox News story titled “New Hampshire’s attorney general fires off cease and desist letter to DNC over ‘deceptive’ comments on primary” by Paul Steinhauser on 9 January 2024, where we learn as follows, to wit:
New Hampshire’s Republican attorney general is taking aim at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for what he argues are “false, deceptive, and misleading” comments about the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
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Of course, the category “false, deceptive, and misleading” comments covers EVERYTHING that comes out of the corrupt Biden white house, which takes us back to the story, as follows:
Formella cited a Jan. 5 letter sent to (state Democratic Party chair Ray) Buckley by the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee — which oversees the party’s nominating calendar — telling the state party chair to inform local Democrats that New Hampshire’s upcoming presidential primary — which is in violation of the national party’s 2024 nominating calendar — is “meaningless.”
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In other words, Joe Biden through his DNC is STRIPPING the voters of New Hampshire of their votes, because Joe Biden doesn’t like how they use them, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The state attorney general said calling the primary meaningless violates New Hampshire voter suppression laws.
The development is the latest in a more than yearlong family feud between DNC and Democrats in the state that for a century has held the first primary in the race for the White House.
Democrats for years have knocked both Iowa — whose caucuses kicked off both major parties’ nominating calendars for five decades — and New Hampshire as unrepresentative of the party as a whole because the state has a largely White population with few major urban areas.
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And DEMOCRACY in Biden World therefore should not include those voters, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
While Republicans aren’t making major changes to their schedule, the DNC last year overwhelmingly approved a calendar proposed by President Biden to move South Carolina to the lead position on Feb. 3.
The president and supporters of the new calendar argued that it would empower minority voters, upon whom Democrats have long relied but have at times taken for granted.
But New Hampshire has a nearly half-century-old law that mandates that it hold the first presidential primary, a week ahead of any similar contest.
To comply with the DNC, New Hampshire would have needed to scrap its state law protecting its first-in-the-nation primary status and expand access to early voting.
In November, New Hampshire Secretary of State announced that the state’s 2024 presidential primary would be held on Jan. 23, eight days after Iowa’s Republican caucuses.
The state faces sanctions from the DNC, which could result in the loss of half of New Hampshire’s delegates to next summer’s national convention.
And the holding of an unsanctioned primary has led the president to keep his name off the New Hampshire ballot.
The DNC letter last week to Buckley stated that “the NHDP must take steps to educate the public that January 23rd is a non-binding presidential preference event and is meaningless and the NHDP and presidential candidates should take all steps possible not to participate.”
“No delegates or alternates shall be apportioned based on the results of the January 23, 2024 event,” the DNC added.
The state attorney general’s office, in their letter, noted that “regardless of whether the DNC refuses to award delegates to the party’s national convention based on the results of the January 23, 2024, New Hampshire democratic Presidential Primary Election, this New Hampshire election is not ‘meaningless.'”
The letter goes on to state that the “RBC’s statements to the contrary are false, deceptive, and misleading” and constitute “an attempt to prevent or deter New Hampshire voters from participating in the January 23, 2024, New Hampshire democratic Presidential Primary Election.”
There are plenty of Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire who see the upending of their lead-off positions as sour grapes from Biden, who finished a disappointing fourth in the 2020 Iowa caucuses and fifth in the New Hampshire primary — before a second-place finish in Nevada and a landslide victory in South Carolina propelled him toward the nomination and eventually the White House.
Anyone who has ever bothered to read and study human history, and the history of republics, including ours, has been struck with the consciousness, especially today with this corrupt dictatorial Biden administration, of how very little was done in our Constitution, today, a worthless rag not even fit to be used for toilet paper, to establish a safe depositary of power in the hands of our elective chief, so that today, the executive power in the hands of the corrupt, inept and incompetent Joe Biden is bringing ruin upon OUR nation, as it sinks under the oppressive burden of Joe Biden’s imbecility.
To talk about ethics violations and Hatch Act violations by the members of the corrupt, inept and incompetent Biden administration is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500 or a NASCAR race at Darlington or Talladega, which is to say, it is a complete waste of time, because absolutely nothing will be done to rein it in, as all those people, starting with Joe Biden himself, are completely unaccountable to the American people, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US budget deficit for December up 52% to $129 billion” on January 11, 2024, where we have as follows on the harm Joe Biden is doing to our nation with his fiscal profligacy and his fiscal irresponsibility, to wit,
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. federal government posted a December deficit of $129 billion, up $44 billion or 52% from a year earlier as outlays rose while receipts fell from December 2022 levels that were swelled by pandemic-deferred tax payments, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday.
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Outlays, of course, are all this money Joe Biden is handing 0ut to MILLIONAIRES and BILLIONAIRES in CORPORATE AMERICA, as we see in the Reuters article titled “US plans $162 million award to Microchip Technology to boost production” by David Shepardson on January 4, 2024, to wit:
Last month, Raimondo told Reuters she expected to make about a dozen semiconductor chips funding awards in 2024, including some running into billions of dollars that could drastically reshape U.S. chip production.
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For the record, Gina Raimondo, according to her own bio, is what is called a VENTURE CAPITALIST.
Going back to the Reuters article on the PUBLIC DEBT Joe Biden and Gina Raimondo and Jennifer Granholm are racking up as they freely spend OUR tax dollars on PIE-IN-THE-SKY and Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM, we have this, to wit:
The Treasury said that outlays for December rose 3% to $559 billion, a December record, partly as a result of higher Social Security outlays and interest on the public debt.
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INTEREST ON THE PUBLIC DEBT, people!
Did somebody out there actually believe all this money Joe Biden is blowing through came for free?
And how is Joe paying for that interest on the PUBLIC DEBT he is racking up?
By borrowing yet more money at interest, which takes us to a Reuters story titled “Wall Street little changed after inflation, labor market data” by Chuck Mikolajczak on January 11, 2024, where we have this from Scott Ladner, chief investment officer at Horizon Investments in Charlotte, North Carolina, to wit:
“People are still worried about supply in the Treasury market.”
“Is there going to be sufficient demand to soak that all up?”
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The somewhat misleading term “supply” in the Treasury market means MORE DEBT being sold to the MILLIONAIRES and BILLIONAIRES in the world who can afford to buy it, and to whom we pay interest, as well as countries like China, to whom we also pay interest, which brings us back to Reuters for more reality, to wit:
Receipts for the month fell 6% to $429 billion.
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And how about that!
Could it be from all these TAX EXEMPTIONS Joe Biden is handing out to CORPORATE America?
Going back to Reuters, the story continues, as follows:
For the first three months of the 2024 fiscal year that started Oct. 1, the federal deficit reached $510 billion, up $89 billion, or 21% from the year ago period.
Public debt interest costs for December rose to $119 billion, up 11% or $12 billion from December 2022, due to higher debt levels and a higher weighted average interest rate of 3.11%.
This rate was three quarters of a point higher than a year earlier.
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And meanwhile, just yesterday, we had this from Reuters, to wit:
“Rising shelter, healthcare costs lift US consumer inflation in December” by Lucia Mutikani on January 11, 2024
So much for Joe Biden’s INFLATION REDUCTION ACT, people!
IT’S A LOAD OF CRAP!
My only question in response to this article, and the numerous essays written in response in the comments; is why did you come back?
A good question!
A sense of societal duty and because, quite frankly, I like it here.
As to societal duty, an outdated concept I relaize, I don’t want to be another GOOD AMERICAN who says nothing, blinds himself to reality, and hides in his basement cowering in fear like the GOOD GERMANS did during the reign of the rug-chewing madman Hitler.
SILENCE GIVES CONSENT!
Those who stand for nothing fall for everything!
I’m not one of them!
And why am I here, HumanPuddin?
Because there is NO PLACE else in America where a CITIZEN who knows what citizenship in a REPUBLIC requires of CITIZENS can say what I can say here.
Outside of the Cape Charles Mirror, we have been very effectively silenced.
Try commenting on a news story in the mainstream and legacy media, and it is impossible!
Try commenting to the writer of a news story in the mainstream and legacy media, and it is impossible!
It is like they are in sealed bunkers.
And TWEETING gibberish on TWITTER is not communicating on issues of importance!
It is spouting gibberish, period!
As to voting and democracy which we hear so much about today, how very fragile our democracy is that it has to be protected by putting it into the hands of a DICTATOR to keep it away from and safe from people who might abuse it by voting for someone other than the DICTATOR who is protecting democracy from those people, the original colonists believed that only freeholders, i.e. free persons who owned land, should vote because only they had a permanent stake in the stability of society.
Frankly, I think we need to go back to that, myself.
Take the right to vote away from DEMOCRATS who are intent on destroying America, because they don’t deserve it, especially anyone who voted for Joe Biden’s INSANE WOKE BULL**** and his INSANE DEI which takes us to Boeing and the door that blew off that plane at 16,000 feet, to wit:
In a X post on Wednesday, billionaire Musk asked if customers wanted to fly in an airplane made by a company that prioritizes DEI hiring over safety management.
“Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?,” Musk wrote.
“That is actually happening.”
Musk’s post is a reply to James Lindsay’s post exposing a 2022 SEC filing from Boeing.
In the filing, Lindsay underlined Boeing’s INCENTIVE PLAN change which CHANGED FROM REWARDING LEADERSHIP FOR increasing profit and PRIORITIZING SAFETY to REWARDING THEM IF THEY HIT DEI TARGETS.
“While our 2021 design incorporated operational performance in the areas of product safety, employee safety and quality, for 2022 we will add two other focus areas critical to our long-range business plan: climate and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&l),” the filing said.
The filing showed Boeing’s DEI initiative also impacting their supply chain.
“In addition, Boeing co-led industry efforts via IAEG to align on a voluntary industry-wide approach to supplier [Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance] ESG assessment and education,” the 2022 SEC filing said.
“We further recognize that a diverse and inclusive supply chain helps promote economic growth across diverse communities,” the filing said.
At the end of 2022, Boeing proudly shared their success with their DEI incentive program.
“Also in 2022, for the first time in our company’s history, we tied incentive compensation to inclusion.”
“Our goal was to achieve diverse interview slates for at least 90% of manager and executive openings,” the 2023 Boeing DEI/GEDI report said.
“We exceeded that target with 92% of interview slates being diverse, resulting in 47% diverse hires at the management and executive levels,” the end of the letter said.
“For 2023, we’ve raised the bar and expect at least 92.5% of those interview slates will be diverse.”
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This is ******* insane, HumanPuddin, if you don’t mind me saying so, prioritizing Joe Biden’s BULL**** INSANE WOKE DEI over safety, and this is the WOKE BULL**** Joe Biden and those who voted for him are forcing on America, to its detriment, which is why they all should be stripped of their right to vote, pending psychiatric analysis, and where else but the Cape Charles Mirror can a citizen like me get to say that?
NOWHERE is that answer.
As for me, I would rather walk than fly BOEING!
And if ANYONE in America, or the world, or the universe in the case of all the space aliens looking in, needed any more proof that DEMOCRAT Joe Biden is not only totally incompetent and clueless, but knows absolutely nothing whatsoever about OUR nation he is the supposed head of, its history, which he rejects as being racist because it includes stories of white people, and our Constitution, which he similarly rejects because it was written by white people, they need go no further than these very ignorant and patently stupid words uttered by the dim-witted, senile Joe the other day, Friday, at the Nowhere Coffee Co. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, to wit:
“My name is Joe Biden and I work for the governor (Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro) and the senator (DEMOCRAT Bob Casey).”
And what an absolutely and totally moronic statement that is, which is classic Joe Biden at his idiotic best, because Joe Biden, as president, does not work for any state governor, nor does Joe work for any senators, regardless of what state or political party they might be from or associated with.
And it is exactly this kind of incredible ignorance that makes Joe Biden such a clear and present danger to OUR Republic and OUR future as a people and as a nation.
Governors happen to be the heads of the fifty states that comprise what were once the united states of America, and U.S. senators, who are supposed to represent the interests of the state they have been elected from, not the interests of the DEMOCRAT party, are members of a SEPARATE branch of OUR national government and their specific purpose in OUR national government are defined in Article I of OUR Constitution, where in Section 1 is stated that “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
As to the dim-witted Biden’s relationship with the Senate, Section 2 of Article II states as follows:
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for.
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NOWHERE does OUR Constitution state or imply that as president, Joe Biden “works” for state governors, or US senators, and to their credit, some people in that town called Joe out for exactly what he is – a LOSER!
Why Joe was even there, babbling like an idiot was to pitch his BIDE-O-NOMICS as being successful in small-town America, an absurd statement that, as follows:
“If you notice, they’re (we American people) feeling much better about how the economy is doing.”
“What we haven’t done is letting them know exactly who got it changed.”
“Everybody’s doing better and they believe it.”
“They know it.”
“And it’s just beginning to sink in.”
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What really is sinking in is the indisputable fact that BIDENFLATION is still going up, which means prices are still going up, especially car insurance, the nation’s spiraling DEBT is still going up, the amount of UNPRODUCTIVE money we pay in interest to MILLIONAIRES, BILLIONAIRES and foreign countries is still going up, the federal reserve is deep in the hole in debt and will continue to be there for years to come, consumer debt is at record highs, and defaults on debt are on the rise.
Hardly a rosy picture, people, unless you are blind and insane.
SAFETY LAST, people!
DEI first!
So says Joe Biden as we see in an article in The Western Journal titled “DEI in Action: FAA Pushes to Hire People with ‘Severe Intellectual’ and ‘Psychiatric’ Disabilities” by Jack Davis on 15 January 2024, where we have BIDE-O-NISM in action as follows:
The federal agency tasked with protecting America’s air travel is looking for a few good people with “severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism” in order to get the job done.
The Federal Aviation Administration is part of the sprawling federal Department of Transportation led by Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
In the “Diversity and Inclusion” section of its website, the FAA said it “actively recruits, hires, promotes, retains, develops and advances people with disabilities.”
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring.”
“They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism,” the agency said, noting that managers can hire people with disabilities on the spot through a noncompetitive process.
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It is so Joe Biden that he wants to staff OUR federal government, and especially the FAA with people with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability, putting them at the head of the list of people he wants hired as government employees, which is some real sick ****.
Going back to the article, it continues as follows:
The question of who is watching America’s skies was raised after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 in midflight on Jan. 5.
X CEO Elon Musk offered his thoughts on Boeing’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies Wednesday in a post on X that read, “Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?”
“That is actually happening.”
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In another article on that specific case of the door panel blowing off Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 while it was at 16,000 feet and climbing to cruising altitude after departing Portland, Oregon, for Ontario, California, causing the depressurization of the cabin, with the plane having to make an emergency landing, Musk’s post cited a 2022 SEC filing from Boeing about Boeing’s incentive plan change which CHANGED FROM rewarding leadership for increasing profit and PRIORITIZING SAFETY to rewarding them if they hit DEI targets.
“While our 2021 design incorporated operational performance in the areas of product safety, employee safety and quality, for 2022 we will add two other focus areas critical to our long-range business plan: climate and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&l),” the filing said.
The filing showed Boeing’s DEI initiative also impacting their supply chain.
“In addition, Boeing co-led industry efforts via IAEG to align on a voluntary industry-wide approach to supplier [Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance] ESG assessment and education,” the 2022 SEC filing said.
“We further recognize that a diverse and inclusive supply chain helps promote economic growth across diverse communities,” the filing said.
At the end of 2022, Boeing proudly shared their success with their DEI incentive program.
“Also in 2022, for the first time in our company’s history, we tied incentive compensation to inclusion.”
“Our goal was to achieve diverse interview slates for at least 90% of manager and executive openings,” the 2023 Boeing DEI/GEDI report said.
“We exceeded that target with 92% of interview slates being diverse, resulting in 47% diverse hires at the management and executive levels,” the end of the letter said.
“For 2023, we’ve raised the bar and expect at least 92.5% of those interview slates will be diverse.”
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And of course, the WOKE crowd out there attacked Musk, saying that people with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability are as qualified as anyone else in this country to hold those high level management jobs at Boeing, as we see in a story in The Hill titled “Civil rights organizations slam Musk over diversity tweets” by Nick Robertson on January 10, 2024, as follows:
Two of the country’s leading civil rights organizations went after Elon Musk on Wednesday after the tech billionaire linked a safety scandal that has grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 jets to diversity hiring efforts.
Dozens of 737 Max 9 aircraft have been grounded since Friday after a window panel blew out of an aircraft midair due to loose bolts.
Inspections have found similar loose bolts in other aircraft, causing major safety concerns.
In the wake of the news, X owner Elon Musk claimed, without evidence, that diverse hiring initiatives at Boeing and United Airlines have made air travel less safe.
“People will die due to [diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)],” one Musk post read.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson denounced the comments, attacking Musk and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, for harboring hate speech.
“Reminder to Elon Musk: providing a home for the proliferation of hate speech and white supremacist conspiracy theories kills people,” he wrote.
“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion cultivates a more inclusive society.”
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Which takes us back to The Western Journal article, as follows:
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, who chairs Do No Harm — a group dedicated to protecting health care from “radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology” — found a similar challenge facing the aviation industry’s watchdog agency, he told Fox News.
“The aviation industry has a responsibility for traveler safety just as the health care industry has a responsibility for patient safety,” said Goldfarb, a retired professor and the former associate dean for curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
“These responsibilities outweigh other factors when considering applicants to work in those fields.”
“People with disabilities who can successfully complete the task should never face discrimination,” he said.
Goldfarb said current policies are “creating opportunities for so-called oppressed groups by lowering standards for entry into those fields and thereby endangering the safety of those which it’s designed to serve.”
“Some endeavors simply do not lend themselves to identity politics.”
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Words which will be totally lost on Joe Biden. Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg and the FAA!
As for me, I would rather walk than fly Boeing!
I happen to be a certified disabled veteran, which means exactly nothing to ANTI-VETERAN Joe Biden, and when I read that Joe Biden has made it a priority to load up OUR federal government, and especially the FAA with people with disabilities targeted by Joe himself to include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, this as we read about poor Tony Blinken, a member of Joe’s misnamed NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL along with Jennifer Granholm and John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, being “stranded” in Davos, Switzerland after the his personal modified Boeing 737 jet experienced a “critical malfunction” so that Tony had to take a smaller jet back to the US, with his “team” having to fly commercial, which marks yet another high-profile safety incident for Boeing, which stresses Joe’s DEI mover safety, and had several of its 737 Max 9 jets grounded by the FAA after a viral incident earlier this month after an Alaska Airlines flight On January 5 experienced a sudden blowout of a door plug while 16,000 feet in the air above Oregon, prompting several passengers to sue both Boeing and the airline, with the Washington state-based aircraft manufacturing company being in the spotlight in recent years for its jets’ questionable safety, as a total of 346 people have been killed over the course of two Boeing jet crashes in 2018 and 2019, and another 2018 incident in which a woman was killed after being sucked out of the plane when an engine explosion shattered a window in mid-flight, this after Boeing and its top supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, have lobbied Washington for years to loosen safety regulations in order to cut costs and boost profits, I truly have to wonder if I am trapped somehow in a spoof of reality in National Lampoon magazine, or as I wondered in the CCM many years ago, whether I am really down a rabbit hole somewhere in some strange land where reality as I once thought I knew it has been stood on its head to make it totally unrecognizable.
And speaking of a disconnect from reality as we outside the Washington beltway, where Joe Biden lives in his own strange little world known commonly as LA-LA LAND, one of his pack of WITLESS DEMOCRATS named Maxwell Alejandro Frost, born January 17, 1997, an American politician and activist serving as the U.S. representative for Florida’s 10th congressional district since 2023 who attended Valencia College but dropped out before his senior year, and who has been “organizing” since around 2012, when he was active with Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign, has introduced legislation in congress to tear down the Statue of Liberty, which he says is “our largest symbol that tells people to come here.”
EXCEPT IT DOESN’T!
And that statement goes to show just how stupid and ignorant someone can be, and still be elected as a DEMOCRAT to congress.
No wonder the dude dropped out of college.
According to history as I learned it, and as the National Park Service itself tells it, in 1865, a French political intellectual and anti-slavery activist named Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a statue representing liberty be built for the United States.
This monument would honor the United States’ centennial of independence and the friendship with France.
French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi supported de Laboulaye’s idea and in 1870 began designing the statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World.”
The Statue of Liberty never was intended to tell anyone in the world what to do or where to go, and it certainly didn’t tell people to come here, as this moron progressive “cancel culture” DEMOCRAT who wants to tear down the Statue of Liberty believes in his obviously warped and twisted mind.
According to Wikipedia, the poem this DEMOCRAT is mistaking for the reason the Statue of Liberty was built, titled “The New Colossus,” is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) who wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World).
In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal’s lower level.
The poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works conducted by the “Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty” to raise money for the pedestal’s construction.
Lazarus’s contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts.
Initially, she refused but writer Constance Cary Harrison convinced her that the statue would be of great significance to immigrants sailing into the harbor.
“The New Colossus” was the first entry read at the exhibit’s opening on November 2, 1883.
It remained associated with the exhibit through a published catalog until the exhibit closed after the pedestal was fully funded in August 1885, but was forgotten and played no role at the opening of the statue in 1886.
In 1901, Lazarus’s friend Georgina Schuyler began an effort to memorialize Lazarus and her poem, which succeeded in 1903 when a plaque bearing the text of the poem was put on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
As to the text of the poem, it reads as folows:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
The title of the poem and the first two lines reference the Greek Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a famously gigantic sculpture that stood beside or straddled the entrance to the harbor of the island of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC.
Paul Auster wrote that “Bartholdi’s gigantic effigy was originally intended as a monument to the principles of international republicanism, but ‘The New Colossus’ reinvented the statue’s purpose, turning Liberty into a welcoming mother, a symbol of hope to the outcasts and downtrodden of the world.”
John T. Cunningham wrote that “The Statue of Liberty was not conceived and sculpted as a symbol of immigration, but it quickly became so as immigrant ships passed under the torch and the shining face, heading toward Ellis Island.”
And now a CANCEL CULTURE PROGRESSIVE OBAMA DEMOCRAT wants to tear all of that down, as the PROGRESSIVES are doing with so much of America’s history, which “The View” co-host Sara Haines recently told us should make us feel bad, because it’s important that it makes us feel bad.
THIS IS AN INSANE ASYLUM WE ARE STUCK IN!
DEMOCRACY is on the ballot in America this coming November, people!
So says American autocrat and dictator Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first of his name to be a dictator anywhere in the world, who has taken Soviet dictator Joe Stalin as his role model, so that to Joe, and the DEMOCRATS, protecting democracy, which, thanks to Joe and the DEMOCRATS, is very weak and fragile in the USA, means taking away the vote from those who might use it the wrong way, by voting for someone other than Joe or the DEMOCRATS.
To protect democracy in America, Joe and the DEMOCRATS even found it necessary to SUPPRESS the vote in New Hampshire because Joe and the DEMOCRATS do not like the demographics there.
Too many white people they say, and white people shouldn’t get to vote, because they are white.
That’s how Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS are protecting democracy in America, that as Joe was featured in an article in The Hill titled “Biden tells Sharpton he’s running because of Trump’s anti-democratic statements” by Julia Mueller on 16 January 2024, where in response to a question to Joe from the Reverend in an interview on Sharpton’s radio show “Keepin’ It Real,” “What made you decide to run for reelection, what was the thing that really closed in your head saying, ‘I can’t go now. I have to do this four more years,’” Joe replied that Trump is “the most anti-democratic … president in American history.”
And then, in an article in the Independent titled “Biden warns Americans ‘it’s you and me vs extreme Maga Republicans’ after Trump’s Iowa victory” by Joe Sommerlad on 17 January 2024, where we had this blather from Joe to consider, to wit:
President Joe Biden has responded to Donald Trump’s landslide win in the Iowa caucuses by warning American voters it’s “going to be you and me vs extreme Maga Republicans”.
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And Joe’s continued use of that term MAGA, which stands for MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, to denigrate Trumjp0 makes Joe sound so stupid and uninformed, and afraid of somebody of wants to make America great again while Joe is concentrating on running it into the ground.
Going back to that story, we then have this:
Soon after, the Biden campaign issued its first round of fundraising emails in response to the Iowa caucuses outcome, appealing for donations from concerned Democrats.
“If Donald Trump is our opponent, we can expect vile attacks, endless lies, and massive spending,” the campaign warned in its message to supporters.
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While with Joe Biden as our president, not only can we expect vile attacks, endless lies, and massive spending, but we in fact are getting them, to our detriment, which takes us to a story in the Western Journal, while we are on the subject of democracy in action in the age of Joe Biden, titled “US Journalist Gonzalo Lira Dies in Ukrainian Prison After Criticizing Biden and Zelenskyy Regimes” by Michael Schwarz on 16 Janaury 2024, where we see exactly how DEMOCRACY BIDEN STYLE really does work, to wit:
Democratic regimes must suppress free speech and imprison those who dissent.
After all, democracy depends on it.
Tucker Carlson reported Friday on social media that American journalist Gonzalo Lira had died in a Ukrainian prison.
Lira had languished in prison since July “for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments,” Carlson wrote on X.
“Gonzalo Lira was an American citizen, but the Biden administration clearly supported his imprisonment and torture.”
“Several weeks ago we spoke to his father, who predicted his son would be killed,” Carlson wrote.
Gonzalo Lira, Sr. says his son has died at 55 in a Ukrainian prison, where he was being held for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments.
At the time of his arrest, Lira resided in Ukraine.
On social media, he regularly posted reports and opinions regarding the state of the country’s war with Russia and the nature of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government in Kyiv, the nation’s capital.
As part of a 5-minute introduction to his interview with Lira’s father, Carlson showed clips of the detained journalist’s reports.
“In the West, all of the propaganda has said that, you know, Zelenskyy’s a hero, a Winston Churchill figure, and the Kyiv regime are just angels and stuff like that.”
“No, they’re bloodthirsty murderers, the Kyiv regime. I’m telling you right now,” Lira said in one of them.
Carlson noted that the journalist was arrested for posting such reports inside a “supposed democracy.”
After his release from prison, Lira tried to flee the country.
According to his last posted video, the journalist nearly reached the Hungarian border before being arrested again.
In that video, Lira predicted his fate.
“I will definitely be sent to a prison labor camp, where I will most certainly die,” he said of what would happen to him should Ukrainian security forces catch up to him near the border.
They did.
And according to his father, the journalist’s prediction came true.
While Lira lived, Carlson called him “a political prisoner in a country that we were told was free.”
Meanwhile, the U.S. government showed indifference to the journalist’s welfare.
“The Biden State Department is uninterested in the fate of this American citizen.”
“In fact, of course, they support his imprisonment,” Carlson said.
Predictably, the establishment media followed the Biden administration’s lead.
For instance, last month, Business Insider described Lira as a “Russian propagandist.”
The same article noted with disapproval that both Carlson and X owner Elon Musk had raised awareness of his plight.
“Carlson himself has generated controversy for promoting Kremlin propaganda and being highly critical of US support for Ukraine,” the outlet said.
Musk, meanwhile, “has increasingly championed right-wing causes and rhetoric.”
Thus did Business Insider assure its readers that they need not concern themselves with the journalist’s fate.
After all, if Carlson and Musk supported him, then he must have deserved imprisonment.
In May, when asked about Lira’s initial arrest, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller gave an evasive and disingenuous answer.
“We obviously support the exercise of freedom of speech anywhere in the world, and I’ll leave it at that,” Miller said in response to a reporter’s question.
The Biden administration, of course, does not support free speech but in fact has tried to suppress it.
Even Lira’s death barely elicited a reaction from administration officials.
In fact, according to journalist Breanna Morello, the State Department resorted to something resembling a form letter.
“EXCLUSIVE: The State Department just responded to my request for comment regarding Gonzalo Lira’s death.”
“You’ll notice the State Department doesn’t say Gonzalo Lira’s name.”
“This appears to be a generic statement,” Morello said in an X post on Saturday.
Nor did the State Department answer Morello’s inquiries.
“They also won’t address my questions which were: During Lira’s detainment, did the State Department ever reach out to the Ukrainian government on Gonzalo Lira’s behalf?”
“If so, how many times and when?”
“Is the State Department in touch with Gonzalo Lira‘s family?” she added.
Of course the State Department had nothing to say.
In the minds of Biden administration officials, every dissenter’s imprisonment or death strikes a blow for democracy.
Some time ago now, in or about May of last year, Joe Biden, the dictator of America and self-proclaimed LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD responded as follows in an interview with MSNBC broadcast, when asked why in his opinion he is the right person for the job of CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of the United States of America and COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of its military at his advanced age, to wit:
“Because I have acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom and know more than the vast majority of people.”
“And I’m more experienced than anybody that’s ever run for the office.”
“And I think I’ve proven myself to be honorable as well as also effective.”
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WISDOM?
Joe Biden?
Not hardly, people.
KNOWS MORE THAN THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE?
Maybe with respect to using his political connections to enrichen his family, or running an international crime syndicate, while getting his palm greased and his pocket stuffed.
But outside of that, Joe don’t know doodly-squat about anything, starting with national defense.
MORE EXPERIENCED THAN ANYBODY THAT’S EVER RUN FOR THE OFFICE?
Yeah, right, Joe, you’re way more experienced than anyone in America at being stupid and making bad judgments while being short-sighted and not considering the consequences of your actions which make messes others have to then clean up.
That’s what you’re experienced at – being a creepy loser.
PROVEN HIMSELF TO BE HONORABLE (deserving of respect or high regard)?
The dude who has stripped the people of New Hampshire of their right to participate in a free and fair presidential primary because he thinks they are too white?
Honorable?
Worthy of respect?
NOT HARDLY!
PROVEN HIMSELF TO BE EFFECTIVE?
He’s effective, alright – effective as running up our national debt on his INSANE GREEN DREAM, and making our lives more difficult and expensive with his BIDENFLATION as a result of his BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us to an article in The Telegraph titled “Energy bills must rise to pay for net zero, says Siemens Energy boss” by Matt Oliver, Szu Ping Chan on 22 January 2024 for a touch of some of the reality that is yet to come in our lives, thanks to Joe Biden’s PIE-IN-THE-SKY INSANE GREEN DREAM, to wit:
The German boss of Britain’s biggest wind turbine maker has warned energy bills will have to keep rising to pay for the green transition as he attacked “fairytale” thinking about net zero.
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Yes, people, “fairytale” thinking about net zero by Joe Biden and his people, and of course energy bills will have to keep rising to pay for Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM.
Who in this country was stupid enough to think or believe otherwise?
Getting back to reality, that story continues as follows:
Joe Kaeser, chairman of Siemens Energy, suggested higher energy bills were inevitable as turbine makers grapple with huge losses, forcing them to pass on costs to their customers.
Mr Kaeser said manufacturers had become locked in a harmful “rat race” to build ever-bigger turbines and claimed developers and governments were in denial about the costs this entailed.
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Governments were in denial about the costs?
THAT IS JOE BIDEN HE IS REFERRING TO THERE, people!
Yes, he is, which takes us back for more, to wit:
He also warned that inflation is battering industry balance sheets and warned of separate growing problems with faults and breakdowns in the sector.
Mr Kaeser told The Telegraph: “Every transformation comes at a cost and every transformation is painful.”
“And that’s something which the energy industry and the public sector – governments – don’t really want to hear.”
“I believe that for a while [customers] need to accept higher pricing.”
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There is reality, people.
When Joe Biden told us his GREEN ENERGY was going to make our energy bills cheaper, the dude was lying to us through his teeth, which is what Joe has much more experience doing throughout his lifetime as a career politician than any other presidential candidate in the history of this nation.
And while those lies might be effective in gulling the 25% in America who cleave to Joe Biden’s standard, lying to the rest of the American people is hardly honorable, and in fact is quite craven.
Isn’t it something how all these disasters, like the flooding of San Diego, are occurring during the reign of Joe Biden.
And you know things in crime-ridden America under Joe Biden and the criminal-friendly DEMOCRATS are really going to hell on Joe Biden’s watch when you read in NBC News, a pro-Biden outlet, a story titled “For the first time ever, In-N-out closes one of its stores” by Mirna Alsharif on 24 January 2024 that In-N-out is closing its only Oakland location because of “ongoing issues with crime,” the company said Tuesday, making this the first time the company has ever closed a location in its 75-year history.
“We feel the frequency and severity of the crimes being encountered by our customers and associates leave us no alternative,” Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick said in a statement Tuesday.
“Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our customers and associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft and armed robberies,” Warnick said.
The restaurant “remains a busy and profitable” location, but In-N-Out’s top priority is its employees and customers, Warnick said.
“We cannot ask them to visit or work in an unsafe environment,” Warnick said.
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An unsafe environment thanks to the crime-friendly policies of Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS who only have to offer us BIG ON ABORTION, SOFT ON CRIME, CHAOS, MASSIVE DEBT, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FLOODING ACROSS OUR OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, WEAK ON NATIONAL SECURITY, and UNSAFE SKIES as GO WOKE AND GO BROKE comes home like the chickens to roost at Boeing, which corporation stresses Joe’s DEI over safety, and had several of its 737 Max 9 jets grounded by the FAA after a viral incident earlier this month after an Alaska Airlines flight on January 5 experienced a sudden blowout of a door plug while 16,000 feet in the air above Oregon, prompting several passengers to sue both Boeing and the airline, with the Washington state-based aircraft manufacturing company being in the spotlight in recent years for its jets’ questionable safety, this after Boeing and its top supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, have lobbied Washington for years to loosen safety regulations in order to cut costs and boost profits.
By way of review with respect to Joe’s DEI and UNSAFE SKIES in America, we had an article on the subject in The Western Journal titled “DEI in Action: FAA Pushes to Hire People with ‘Severe Intellectual’ and ‘Psychiatric’ Disabilities” by Jack Davis on 15 January 2024, where we had this to consider, to wit:
The federal agency tasked with protecting America’s air travel is looking for a few good people with “severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism” in order to get the job done.
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Yes, people, you are reading that correctly, as bizarre a policy as it might seem if you are not yourself WOKE, as we see in the “Diversity and Inclusion” section of the FAA website, where Joe Biden’s FAA under failed DEMOCRAT presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, said it actively recruits, hires, promotes, retains, develops and advances people with targeted disabilities which are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring including hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, noting that managers can hire people with disabilities on the spot through a noncompetitive process.
And not only is Joe pushing this insane policy on our national government, putting people with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability in high management positions, but on corporate America, as well, especially if they want government grants or loans, which takes us to 2022 SEC filing from Boeing about Boeing’s incentive plan change which CHANGED FROM rewarding leadership for increasing profit and PRIORITIZING SAFETY to rewarding them if they hit DEI targets, to wit:
“While our 2021 design incorporated operational performance in the areas of product safety, employee safety and quality, for 2022 we will add two other focus areas critical to our long-range business plan: climate and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&l),” the filing said.
The filing showed Boeing’s DEI initiative also impacting their supply chain.
“In addition, Boeing co-led industry efforts via IAEG to align on a voluntary industry-wide approach to supplier [Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance] ESG assessment and education,” the 2022 SEC filing said.
“We further recognize that a diverse and inclusive supply chain helps promote economic growth across diverse communities,” the filing said.
At the end of 2022, Boeing proudly shared their success with their DEI incentive program.
“Also in 2022, for the first time in our company’s history, we tied incentive compensation to inclusion.”
“Our goal was to achieve diverse interview slates for at least 90% of manager and executive openings,” the 2023 Boeing DEI/GEDI report said.
“We exceeded that target with 92% of interview slates being diverse, resulting in 47% diverse hires at the management and executive levels,” the end of the letter said.
“For 2023, we’ve raised the bar and expect at least 92.5% of those interview slates will be diverse.”
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Which brings us to a Reuters article titled “Boeing faces new pressure as United questions MAX 10 order” by Shivansh Tiwary, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Tim Hepher on January 23, 2024, where we had this, to wit:
Jan 23 (Reuters) – United Airlines raised questions over the fate of billions of dollars of 737 MAX 10 jets on order from Boeing, piling pressure on the planemaker as it struggles to prevent the grounding of a smaller model further upsetting confidence.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby on Tuesday said the airline, which says it has ordered 277 of the MAX 10 jets with options for another 200, would build a new fleet plan that does not include a model already mired in regulatory and delivery delays.
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ALREADY MIRED IN REGULATORY AND DELIVERY DELAYS!
This is like a scene straight out of “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand.
Going back to that article about what happens to a corporation that forgets what it in business to do, and instead embarks on a social engineering program to curry favor with Joe Biden, to wit:
U.S. regulators have grounded most of Boeing’s MAX 9 jets for checks after a plug replacing an unused exit door tore off an Alaska Airlines jet on Jan. 5, forcing an emergency landing.
“I think the MAX 9 grounding is probably the straw that broke the camel’s back for us,” Kirby said in an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday.
Boeing shares fell almost 1%.
In a statement after Kirby’s comments, Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal said: “We have let down our airline customers and are deeply sorry for the significant disruption to them, their employees and their passengers.”
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Except when we are talking SAFE SKIES, dude, SORRY DON’T CUT IT!
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Boeing to pause 737 production for quality stand down on Thursday” on January 23, 2024, where we have this, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Boeing will hold a quality stand down Thursday at the Seattle-area location where it makes 737 aircraft, pausing production and delivery operations for a day, the company announced on Tuesday.
During the stand down, employees will attend quality workshops and “pause, evaluate what we’re doing, how we’re doing it and make recommendations for improvement,” said Boeing Commercial Airplanes President Stan Deal.
Boeing announced it would hold sessions with workers on Jan. 16 as part of a larger list of actions it is taking after the grounding of a portion of the 737 MAX 9 fleet earlier this month following a mid-air cabin panel blowout on an Alaska Airlines jet.
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Boeing has to stop actually working on the planes it isn’t building correctly or properly to remind its workers what it is they are actually there to be doing, as opposed to focusing on each other’s preferred personal pronouns and how to tell someone who is queer from someone who is gay, so you don’t misgender them, as well as how to walk on eggshells around a co-worker with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability so you don’t set them off, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Exclusive: Boeing presses suppliers on tightening bolts after loose parts found in 737 MAX 9 checks” by Valerie Insinna and David Shepardson on January 23, 2024, where we had Joe Biden’s DEI at Boeing in the spotlight, as follows:
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Boeing issued a bulletin to its suppliers late last week that laid out practices to ensure bolts are properly torqued after multiple airlines reported loose hardware during inspections of the grounded 737 MAX 9, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
The U.S. planemaker said that it is “imperative” that suppliers meet quality requirements, according to a Jan. 17 memo seen by Reuters, issued weeks after an accident when a panel ripped off of a 737 MAX 9 jet while in mid-air.
“Ensure that work instructions are mistake-proof and quality is continuously monitored – particularly torquing requirements,” it states.
The bulletin suggests suppliers document torque requirements on work instructions, require mechanics to record how much torque is applied when fastening components, and ensure tools are properly calibrated to ensure bolts are properly tightened.
Boeing declined to comment.
The updated guidance follows the Jan. 5 accident when an Alaska Airlines flight had to conduct an emergency landing after the panel, called a door plug, was blown off.
The Federal Aviation Administration grounded 171 MAX 9 planes with the door panel configuration.
The National Transportation Safety Board has not yet determined whether the four bolts that attach the door plug to the fuselage were ever installed on the Alaska Airlines plane, but it is also too early to say missing or loose bolts were the root cause of the accident, NTSB head Jennifer Homendy told reporters Thursday.
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And what an incredible statement that is from Jennifer Homendy, Joe Biden’s NTSB head, probably herself a DEI hire from the sounds of it, that it is too early to say missing or loose bolts on the door that blew off the Alaska Airlines were the root cause of the door blowing off the plane.
Getting back to that story of GO WOKE AND GO BROKE, we have more as follows, to wit:
Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said in an NBC News interview that aired Tuesday that the airline found “some loose bolts on many” MAX 9s during inspections.
“My demand on Boeing is, what are they going to do to improve their quality programs in house?” Minicucci said.
United Airlines, which has also found loose parts on MAX 9s, on Monday reported a wider-than-expected loss in the quarter through March due to the grounding of the MAX 9.
Boeing continues to work with the FAA to unground the aircraft and is “taking immediate actions to strengthen quality across the 737 production system.”
FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker told Reuters on Jan. 12 it was “pretty clear” the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 cabin blowout was a manufacturing issue, not a design problem.
Whitaker noted MAX 9 issues that the MAX 9 has about 500,000 parts – and it is critical to ensure all bolts are properly tightened.
“We’re certainly not looking at every part, but so you have to have a quality control system that does that … and (is) robust enough to see if something is not properly assembled.”
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Quality control under Joe Biden?
Not going to happen, people, because Joe doesn’t have a clue as to what quality is in the first place.
There was a time in my life, many years ago it now was, when I believed that our national government was composed of the best and brightest among us, and their mission in our national government was to keep the wheels of government turning smoothly to keep us safe from harm so we could live productive lives in peace, and who knows, but that it might actually have been true, once upon a time.
There was a time when I thought our national government told us the truth, and would not lie to us.
Viet Nam disabused me of that silly notion.
And now, as I hear about Joe Biden staffing up our national government with people Joe has personally identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring including hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, noting that managers can hire people with disabilities on the spot through a noncompetitive process that puts people with complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism at the head of the hiring process with respect to those not afflicted with complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism, I truly have to wonder at what could possibly be going through Joe Biden’s head or going on in his head that would have him thinking and believing that staffing our national government with people with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability in decision-making positions is somehow good for our nation and its national security.
And the only answer I can come up with is that Joe Biden is insane.
Past the point of no return and not coming back around that bend in this lifetime, anyway.
And as a result, I have absolutely no confidence whatsoever that this national government under Joe Biden can keep us safe, as opposed to be the clearest danger to our American way of life and our well-being as a people that there is on the horizon in any direction, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Boeing installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet – Seattle Times” on January 24, 2024, where we have more on the door plug story, and how many bolts hold the door plug in place, after being told by Joe’s NTSB head Jennifer Homendy, who may well be one of those who suffer from severe intellectual disability, and thus was put at the head of Joe’s hiring list for the position of NTSB head, that it was too early to say missing or loose bolts were the root cause of the door plug accident, to wit:
Jan 24 (Reuters) – The door plug that blew off an Alaska Airlines MAX 9 jet this month was removed for repair and reinstalled by Boeing’s mechanics at its Renton assembly line, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Boeing declined to comment on details that are under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The report follows an earlier one from Reuters that said Boeing has a key role in installing and checking the part, made by fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which was spun off from Boeing in 2005.
Sources told Reuters that Boeing typically removes the panel and replaces it, while a source familiar with Boeing’s standard industrial processes insisted Boeing only adjusts or removes the panel if there are signs it was installed incorrectly.
The panel is a plug in place on some 737 MAX 9s instead of an additional emergency exit.
A diagram of the 737 MAX 9 door plug posted by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board shows the plug held down by four bolts.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/how-is-panel-that-blew-off-plane-made-how-did-it-break-2024-01-09/
The NTSB has not yet determined whether the plug was properly attached, or whether the bolts were installed.
The Seattle Times’ report was partly derived from an anonymous commenter on an article that appeared on the aviation website Leeham News.
The question of who carried out the final fitting is increasingly being seen as likely to be at the centre of a tug- of-war over responsibility between Boeing and its former unit.
Boeing shares were down 0.9% on Wednesday.
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There was a time when I was young, when the saying was: “IF IT AIN’T BOEING, I’M NOT GOING!”
Now, in this day and age of Joe Biden, where nothing the national government has its hands on can be trusted to work right, it has become: “IF IT’S BOEING, I’D RATHER WALK!”
“IF YOU CAN’T BUILD THEM RIGHT. THEN WE’RE NOT GOING TO LET YOU BUILD THEM!”
That, people, is a very stern message being sent to Boeing from that sector of the Federal Aviation Administration of OUR National government that has not yet taken over by an army of epileptic dwarves afflicted with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability along with hearing and vision problems coupled with and compounded by missing extremities and partial or complete paralysis, sent there by Joe Biden to fill high-ranking decision-making positions, which stern message to Boeing from the FAA puts Joe’s INSANE DEI policy in place at Boeing directly in the national and world spotlight as it should be in a sane and rational world, which takes us to a Reuters story titled “FAA bars Boeing from increasing MAX output but ends partial grounding” by David Shepardson, Valerie Insinna and Tim Hepher on January 24, 2024, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration late on Wednesday tightened pressure on Boeing by barring the troubled planemaker from expanding production of its best-selling 737 MAX narrowbody planes, following “unacceptable” quality issues.
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Yes, people, “unacceptable” quality issues as a result of stressing Joe Biden’s INSANE DEI policy as opposed to safety, and thankfully, somebody at FAA in a position of authority recognized the problem for what it was and had the courage to step in here and say, STOP THE NONSENSE, THIS DEI INSANITY HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH, which takes us back to Reuters for more, as follows:
The unprecedented decision looked set to deepen turmoil at Boeing even as the FAA also agreed to allow the 737 MAX 9, which was grounded after a mid-air blowout on an Alaska Airlines jet on Jan. 5, to resume flying once inspections were completed.
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Yes, people, an unprecedented decision because never in our nation’s history have we had an American president pushing such an INSANE policy as this on OUR national g0vernment and the aerospace industry, and putting human lives and public safety in grave jeopardy as a result, which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The ability to resume flying was a relief to U.S. operators Alaska Airlines and United Airlines, which had been forced to cancel thousands of flights and aim to begin returning the planes to service on Friday and Sunday, respectively.
But the FAA decision to keep Boeing from expanding production will have wide-ranging effects across the industry.
Boeing is seeking to increase production of its single-aisle 737 MAX family to keep pace with demand and close a gap in the jet market with European planemaker Airbus.
Analysts have expressed concerns that extra scrutiny of Boeing factories following the MAX 9 door plug blowout would temper production increases for the smaller and more widely sold MAX 8, a key source of cash for Boeing and many suppliers.
“We will not agree to any request from Boeing for an expansion in production or approve additional production lines for the 737 MAX until we are satisfied that the quality control issues uncovered during this process are resolved,” FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said.
“The quality assurance issues we have seen are unacceptable.”
Clarifying the order, the FAA subsequently told Reuters: “That means Boeing can continue producing at the current monthly rate, but they cannot increase that rate.”
Boeing said it would continue to cooperate “fully and transparently” with the FAA and follow the agency’s direction as it took action to strengthen safety and quality.
The FAA offered no estimate of how long the limitation would last and did not specify the number of planes Boeing can produce each month.
The FAA’s decision could impact plans to stand up a new 737 MAX line in Everett, Washington, by mid-year 2024, following the end of production of Boeing’s iconic 747 in the massive plant.
The line, set to be the fourth 737 line overall and the first outside Renton, is needed to meet strong demand.
Boeing declined to comment on any potential impact on the Everett line.
Once accused of being too soft on Boeing, the FAA has toughened oversight since earlier MAX crashes led to a worldwide grounding, but Wednesday’s intervention opens new territory, experts said.
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And Wednesday’s intervention opened new territory precisely because Joe Biden’s INSANE DEI policy was the cause of that new territory having to be opened and thank goodness for us that there was somebody at the FAA with the courage to stand up to Joe Biden’s INSANITY and open that new territory before another air disaster could occur thanks to Joe Biden.
And recapping recent events in here as we explore what Joyce Hall@ JANUARY 30, 2024 AT 12:41 PM called my “incorrect ideas,” which I am, in her words, supposed to keep to myself, as opposed to making them public in the Cape Charles Mirror, lest my “incorrect ideas” somehow pollute the minds of those who would vote for Joe Biden, the first Biden to be a WORLD-CLASS LAUGHING STOCK in the long history of this planet, and give them “incorrect ideas,” as well, which would be good for this nation and healthy for our warped and twisted politics which have poor Joyce Hall thinking and actually believing, as unbelievable as that can be, that in the United States of America, you can only vote for either a DEMOCRAT or a REPUBLICAN for president, and what an outlandish and patently ridiculous an idea that is, according to a Reuters article titled “Biden faces pressure to strike Iran after US troops killed” by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali on January 29, 2024, the killing of three U.S. troops and wounding of dozens more on January 28 2024 by Iran-backed militants is piling political pressure on President Joe Biden to deal a blow directly against Iran, a move he’s been reluctant to do out of fear of igniting a broader war.
According to Reuters, Biden’s response options could range anywhere from targeting Iranian forces outside to even inside Iran, or opting for a more cautious retaliatory attack solely against the Iran-backed militants responsible, experts say.
So what then are Joe Biden and his NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL consisting of Joe, Karmela Harris, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta doing about it?
How about fundraising and talking gibberish, as we see in a Western Journal article titled “‘Cognitively Impaired’ Biden Tries to Attack Trump, But Garbled Mess Is All That Comes Out of His Mouth” by C. Douglas Golden on 25 January 2024, where we had some classic Joe Biden gibberish, as follows:
“We’ll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson: Don’t mess with uhhiminauhwemerica unless you want to get the benefit,” Biden said.
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Now, I’m not a trained linguist, so I don’t know what language Joe lapsed into there, although some who are linguists believe it is a form of Martian from during their Classic Imperial Period, which with Joe well could be, given he’s the president, and they know that kind of stuff, even if we commoners don’t, which takes us to a FOX News article titled “Biden blasted for his ‘best gibberish yet’ in Wisconsin brewery speech: ‘Different language’” by Gabriel Hays on 26 January 2024, where we had this burst of pure Biden gibberish, to wit:
Social media users tore into President Biden on Thursday after he made a series of verbal stumbles during an address at a Wisconsin brewery.
Biden gave his speech at Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, Wisconsin, where he touted his economic record – aka “Bidenomics” – and the success of his bipartisan infrastructure legislation in a bid to shore up support for his 2024 re-election bid.
However, online onlookers were distracted from the economic talking points by an extended gaffe Biden made about the brewery and its beer.
Partway through his remarks, he appeared to mumble, “The beer brewed here, it is used to make the brew beered here.”
While most of the sentence was unintelligible, he seemed to add, “Ooh, Earth Rider, thanks for the Great Lakes.”
“I wonder why…”
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And quite truthfully, I wonder why, myself, when Joe is confronted with war in the Middle East of his own making as he broadcasts incompetence, weakness, senility and no grasp of reality to all the candid world – why he is out there touting BIDE-O-NOMICS and fundraising, when because of him, American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, where Joe is held in contempt as a weakling and a fool.
As to fundraising by the members of Joe’s NSC, which is also held in contempt, as it should be, composed as it is of fools who know nothing at all about national security, according to a Reuters article titled “Yellen says Biden’s policies help US middle class more than Trump’s” by David Lawder on January 25, 2024, we have this about “TOODLES,” to wit:
CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday drew a stark contrast between President Joe Biden’s economic policies and those of former President Donald Trump, arguing that Biden’s approach has produced the “fairest recovery on record” and will reap more benefits for the middle class.
Two days after Trump tightened his grip on the Republican 2024 presidential nomination with a comfortable victory in the New Hampshire nominating contest, Yellen sought to turn the tide in Chicago on low voter approval ratings for Biden’s handling of the economy, declaring that incomes were now outpacing subsiding inflation.
She told the Economic Club of Chicago that improving signals from the economy, including stronger-than-expected GDP data on Thursday, showed that recession fears were over, inflation was subsiding and middle class job opportunities were rising, thanks to Biden’s infrastructure and clean energy investments.
“I think Americans do believe inflation is under control,” Yellen said.
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And no, “TOODLES,” we don’t believe inflation is under control, because it isn’t, as we see by going to a Reuters article titled “US manufacturing sector on cusp of recovery in January – ISM” on February 1, 2024, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing stabilized in January amid a rebound in new orders, but inflation at the factory gate picked up.
With orders picking up, goods inflation is stirring after months of deflation.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers increased to 52.9 from 45.2 in December.
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Going back to “TOODLES,” we have more of her nonsense, as follows:
Yellen plans to step up her positive talk on the economy, visiting a job training center in Milwaukee on Friday, a day after Biden visited Superior, Wisconsin, to talk up $5 billion worth of infrastructure spending in the state, considered a major battleground in the Nov. 5 election.
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While American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, good old Joe is out there BUYING VOTES on borrowed money we are on the hook for, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
In prepared remarks, she said the major components of “Bidenomics” – a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law – were aimed at enabling the middle class to drive the economy again.
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Drive the economy?
How about off the track, over a berm and into the weeds?
Which takes us to a FOX News story titled “Karine Jean-Pierre does victory lap, touts Biden putting ‘equity’ at the center of economic approach” by Gabriel Hays on 26 January 2024, for this warped view of reality from Joe’s PROPAGANDA MINISTER Karine Jean-Pierre, to wit:
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Thursday that American consumers are feeling better about the economy because President Biden has “put equity at the center” of his economic policies, added jobs and is getting critical infrastructure done.
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Americans are feeling better about the economy because President Biden has “put equity at the center” of his economic policies?
She’s lost in space somewhere, maybe on Mars, or Jupiter, or the Dog Star area of outer space, out near the TWILIGHT ZONE, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
The government official told CNN that Americans are feeling better about the economy thanks to Biden’s policies, which he and his team have dubbed “Bidenomics.”
Host Phil Mattingly prompted Jean-Pierre’s points by bringing up recent consumer sentiment numbers that appear to show that Americans are starting to feel better about their finances.
“My question for you, as he goes into this big moment…”
“Do you feel like the corner is being turned right now, people are getting it, that it’s landing and that, not only will this not be a drag heading into a campaign season, this is actually going to be a benefit for the president?”
Jean-Pierre agreed, saying, “You just said it!”
“Consumer sentiment.”
“People are feeling what the economy is doing.”
She then said this budding good feeling and better economy is all because of the president’s work.
“And we have to remember, this didn’t happen by accident.”
“What we’re seeing with the trends – with the economic trends – it’s because of what this president has done,” she said.
Providing points on what Biden has done specifically, she continued, “He has put equity at the center of everything that he’s talked about when it comes to the economy.”
“14 million jobs created.”
“Last year, 2.7 million jobs created.”
“Unemployment under 4%.”
“Wages are up.”
“That matters.”
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Well, KJP, what about those American soldiers killed in the Middle East?
Don’t they matter, too?
Which means it’s time to take a station break for station identification and a host of political commercials from TEAM BIDEN and the DNC telling you how much better off you are today under Joe Biden than you would have been under Trump, but don’t change that dial because if the creek don’t rise and the dam don’t break, we will be back with more about Joe Biden holding political fundraisers while American soldiers are getting killed in the Middle East, so don’t touch that dial.
can forces in the Middle East have been attacked more than 150 times by Iran-backed forces in Iraq, Syria, Jordan and off the coast of Yemen since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October.
But until Sunday’s attack on a remote outpost known as Tower 22 near Jordan’s northeastern border with Syria, the strikes had not killed U.S. troops nor wounded so many.
That allowed Biden the political space to mete out U.S. retaliation, inflicting costs on Iran-backed forces without risking a direct war with Tehran.
Biden said the United States would respond, without giving any more details.
Republicans accused Biden of letting American forces become sitting ducks, waiting for the day when a drone or missile would evade base defenses.
They say that day came on Sunday, when a single one-way attack drone struck near base barracks early in the morning.
In response, they say Biden must strike Iran.
“He left our troops as sitting ducks,” said Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton.
“The only answer to these attacks must be devastating military retaliation against Iran’s terrorist forces, both in Iran and across the Middle East.”
The Republican who leads the U.S. military oversight committee in the House of Representatives, Representative Mike Rogers, also called for action against Tehran.
“It’s long past time for President Biden to finally hold the terrorist Iranian regime and their extremist proxies accountable for the attacks they’ve carried out,” Rogers said.
Former President Donald Trump, who hopes to face off against Biden in this year’s presidential election, portrayed the attack as a “consequence of Joe Biden’s weakness and surrender.”
The Biden administration has said that it goes to great lengths to protect U.S. troops around the world.
One Democrat openly voiced concern that Biden’s strategy of containing the Israel-Hamas conflict to Gaza was failing.
“As we see now, it is spiraling out of control.”
“It’s beginning to emerge as a regional war, and unfortunately the United States and our troops are in harms way,” Democratic Representative Barbara Lee said, renewing calls for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestinian war.
NOT SO SIMPLE
Democratic Representative Seth Moulton, who served four tours in Iraq as a Marine, urged against Republican calls for war, saying “deterrence is hard; war is worse.”
“To the chicken hawks calling for war with Iran, you’re playing into the enemy’s hands — and I’d like to see you send your sons and daughters to fight,” Moulton said.
“We must have an effective, strategic response on our terms and our timeline.”
Experts caution that any strikes against Iranian forces inside Iran could force Tehran to respond forcefully, escalating the situation in a way that could drag the United States into a major Middle East war.
Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East security program at the Center for a New American Security, said striking directly inside Iran would raise questions for Tehran about regime survival.
“When you do things overtly you represent a major escalation for the Iranians,” Lord said.
Charles Lister of the Washington-based Middle East Institute said a likely response would be to go after a significant target or high-value militant from Iran-backed groups in Iraq or Syria.
“What happened this morning, was on a totally different level than anything these proxies have done in the past two to three months… (but) despite all of the calls to do something in Iran, I don’t see this administration taking that bait,” Lister said.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it was unclear what the second and third order effects would be in going after Iran.
“Unless the U.S. prepared for an all out war, what does attacking Iran get us,” the official said.
Still, Lord and other experts acknowledge that Israel had hit Iranian targets in Syria for years, without dissuading Iran, including four Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officials in Damascus on Jan. 20.
The United States has also struck Iranian-linked targets outside of Iran in recent months.
In November, the U.S. military said it struck a facility used not only by Iran-backed group but also by the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.
But Lister said the U.S. had gone after Iranians outside of Iran in the past, like the 2020 strike against top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, and only yielded a response during a limited period of time.
“So to an extent, if you go hard enough and high enough, we have a track record of showing that Iran can blink first,” Lister said.
Reporting by Phil Stewart and Idrees; additional reporting by Simon Lewis; editing by Paul Thomasch and Diane Craft
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In her diatribe above here @ JANUARY 30, 2024 AT 12:41 PM, Joyce Hall, who appears to believe that all we have between us and total chaos leading not only to the end of the world, but the end of time, itself is the senile idiot Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, hardly a comforting thought, poses this following thought that it behooves each and every one of us over the age of say, twelve, to give some real serious consideration, to wit:
Where oh where are the politicians and people with ethics, brains, and empathy?
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And the answer to her question as to where of where are the politicians with ethics and brains is NOWHERE in the Biden administration, nor on Joe’s so-called NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL consisting of Joe himself, along with Karmela Harris, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta, and if anybody out there is willing to put their security in the hands of that pack of incompetent idiots, they truly deserve their fate.
And ethics and brains are especially missing in Joe’s PROPAGANDA SHOP, starring Karine Jean-Pierre, aka “KJP,” aka “BINDER,” and REAR ADMIRAL John “JACK” Kirby.
As to KJP, the first black person and the first openly LGBT person to serve as a POLITICAL PROPAGANDIST for Joe Biden, who is about equity, afterall, making it a priority of his administration to give top government jobs, especially in the FAA, to epileptic dwarves afflicted with severe intellectual disability and psychiatric disability along with hearing and vision problems coupled with and compounded by missing extremities and partial or complete paralysis, in a recent interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, stated quite truthfully as follows, to wit:
“I can’t listen to that nutjob.”
“I can’t believe anything she says,” Nehls said.
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So in answer to Joyce Hall’s question above, there is one politician with ethics, brains, and empathy in Washington. D.C., anyway.
As to KJP, who earned a bachelor’s degree from the New York Institute of Technology in 1997, and a Master of Public Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, in 2003, in the course of doing so, she obviously learned NOTHING about American government or basic governmental economics, which is what qualifies her to be Joe Biden’s PROPAGANDA MINISTER.
And she obviously doesn’t read the daily news, nor does she keep up with current events, like what the yield on the ten-year government note is doing, like yesterday, for example, when a RED HOT JOBS NUMBER Joe and KJP are raving about as supposed “proof” of how well BIDE-O-NOMICS is doing, when the ten-year yield shot up by 16 basis points to 4.02%.
And according to a CNBC article titled “10-year Treasury yield tops 4% after surprisingly strong jobs report” by Sophie Kiderlin on February 2, 2024, we had this bit of news, to wit:
Wage growth data in the report pointed to continued inflationary pressures.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.6%, which was double what economists expected.
On a yearly basis, wages spiked 4.5%, more than the 4.1% consensus estimate.
A stronger-than-expected jobs report adds to the likelihood that interest rate cuts will not come as soon as investors had hoped, especially after Fed Chair Jerome Powell this week noted that a March rate cut is unlikely.
“The Fed threw some cold water on the idea of a March rate cut less than 48 hours ago, and today’s surprisingly strong jobs report won’t dry things off,” wrote Chris Larkin, managing director at E-Trade from Morgan Stanley.
“It’s definitely not the type of data the Fed had in mind when they said they wanted to see more evidence that inflationary pressures were under control.”
“If similarly hot numbers continue to roll in over the next couple of months, investors may become less confident about how soon the Fed will cut rates, and by how much,” Larkin added.
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There, people, is reality staring us commoners who are being forced out of Joe Biden’s MIRACLE ECONOMY right in the face because the longer the fed has to keep interest rates high, the longer we are going to keep- getting royally screwed on the economic front.
So Joe is borrowing BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS of dollars at a high interest rate that he is handing out like candy to buy votes with, and it is those jobs Joe is creating with borrowed money that are causing the inflation the fed is trying to fight with high interest rates.
As to Joe and “TOODLES” borrowing more and more money, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US Treasury to borrow $760 billion in Q1, lower than forecast” by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss on January 29, 2024, where we have more reality we are not going to get from Joe Biden’s PROPAGANDA SHOP, or his ignorant media apologists and enablers like CNN Host Phil Mattingly, to consider, as follows:
NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury on Monday said it expects to borrow $760 billion in the first quarter, $55 billion below the October estimate primarily due to forecasts for increased net fiscal flows and higher cash balance.
The Treasury also announced it expects to borrow $202 billion in the second quarter, as it projects a cash balance of $750 billion at the end of June.
It also said in the fourth quarter of 2023, the Treasury borrowed $776 billion in net marketable debt, in line with estimates released in October.
The Treasury will announce its refunding news, which will outline the upcoming auction sizes for bill, notes and bonds, on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. ET (1330 GMT).
It will likely announce a final quarter of nominal coupon auction size increases as the government’s financing needs remain high.
TD projects funding requirements to rise gradually to $1.85 trillion this year and $1.9 trillion next year, as it anticipates fiscal deficits increasing in the coming years.
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Yes, people, INCREASING FISCAL DEFICITS, thanks to the major components of “BIDE-O-NOMICS” – a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law, which according to “TOODLES” Yellen, a key member of Joe’s NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, are aimed at enabling the middle class to drive the economy again.
WHAT CRAP!
And to keep my blood pressure from blowing off the top of my head, time for another break for station identification, but don’t go away, because with this Biden administration in power in America, to our detriment as a nation and as a people, it is guaranteed that there is much more idiocy and stupidity yet to come, so stay tuned.
As to Joe’s BLOW-OUT jobs report, which Joe welcomed saying “America’s economy is the strongest in the world,” something he and KJP and “TOODLES” Yellen attribute to the major components of “BIDE-O-NOMICS,” those being a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a $52 billion investment in semiconductors and research, and a $430 billion clean energy and healthcare law, these are the figures which I find hard to attribute to BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
* Professional and business services (74,000)
* Health care (70,000)
* Retail trade (45,000)
* Government, driven by federal government hiring as well as local government, excluding education (36,000)
* Social assistance (30,000)
* Manufacturing (23,000)
* There were also job gains in construction, transportation and warehousing, utilities, leisure and hospitality sectors
* The mining and logging industry shed 6,000 jobs.
In any event, those figures mean higher interest rates for longer, which means economic pain for us common citizens who are not EXUBERANT BINGE CONSUMERS for longer, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Fed’s Bowman sees inflation falling, calls for caution on rate cuts” on February 2, 2024, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
Feb 2 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman on Friday said she expects U.S. inflation to decline further, but flagged worries about upward price pressure from rising wages and warned against cutting interest rates too soon.
But stronger-than-expected job market data published Friday suggests a pickup in wage growth and a stalling out of last year’s progress toward labor market rebalancing, she said, adding that labor market tightness could keep underlying inflation elevated.
Bowman voted with her Fed colleagues on Wednesday to keep the Fed’s policy rate on hold in the 5.25%-5.5% range, where it has been since last July.
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Which takes us to another Reuters article titled “US factory orders rise moderately in December” on February 2, 2024, where we have this economic reality to consider, to wit:
Manufacturing, which accounts for 10.3% of the economy, is being constrained by high interest rates.
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And the high interest rates constraining manufacturing are as a direct result of the fed fighting BIDENFLATION, so, yes, people, BIDE-O-NOMICS is what is responsible for OUR ECONOMIC PAIN here in America as a result of BIDENFLATION, and don’t let Joe Biden lie to you and tell you it has to be something else causing it, with Joe BLAME-SHIFTING last week, saying “there are still too many corporations in America ripping people off: price gouging, junk fees, greedflation, shrinkflation,” as Joe’s administration takes aim at grocery chains, sending an election-year suggestion that the companies lower prices on goods from milk to eggs and bread, with Jared Bernstein, the chair of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, in a virtual meeting with reporters, telling them, “Our message is a very clear one that the president has and will continue to lean into, which is, if you’re a company whose input prices have come down and you’re not passing those savings along to the consumer, he will call you out.”
OK, Joe, you da man, alright, with that tough talk of yours as you hit up these same people for the more than $97 million in campaign contributions in the final three months of last year, which makes you quite the HYPOCRITE, Joe, which in turn takes us to a Reuters article titled “Biden visits Michigan autoworkers as Gaza protests threatened” by Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal on February 1, 2024, where we have this bit of truly uninformed idiocy from Joe, to wit:
Before heading to Michigan, Biden attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
He said he was working to resolve the Israel-Hamas conflict, including a two-state solution for Palestinians and bringing home the hostages still held following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.
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That so-called “two-state solution,” which we have been hearing about since back when Hillary’s husband Bill was president, if not before, is BULL**** and has been BULL**** since the 1930’s, which goes to show just how ignorant not only Joe, but everyone, including those at that prayer breakfast, and the media and everyone who listens to Joe and believes a single word he says, about anything, are about HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY, as we clearly see by going to “World Wars And Revolutions” copyrighted 1943, by Walter Phelps Hall, PhD, of Princeton, where we have that HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY, as follows:
The history of Palestine during the twenty years armistice between two European wars was confused, hectic, contradictory.
In 1917 it was the happy thought of the British government that this ancient foyer of Jewry might become again a Jewish national home, and to make it such, the British government publicly pledged itself.
In doing so, it forgot two important facts: first, that the Arabs in Palestine outnumbered the Jews eight or nine to one; and second, that those Arabs who had enlisted to help the British drive the Turks and Germans back through Palestine and Syria into Asia Minor during the last half of the war considered, rightly or wrongly, that Britain had promised an independent Arab state which would include Palestine.
Britain, however, stuck by her word to the Jews.
There had been no such formal pledge (not exactly true, as Lawrence of Arabia had made such a pledge to the Arabs during the war to entice them to fight the Turks, but he was blown off by the Brit government when the war concluded, thus selling out the Arabs, who have long memories) to the Arabs as there had been to the Jews; and furthermore, such assurances (i.e. Lawrence) as had been given the former were not to be interpreted, so said the British, as including Palestine.
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And still the Jews flocked into Palestine.
The advent of Hitler in Germany stimulated their advent greatly, so much so that in 1935 no less than sixty thousand reached the land of promise, and the Jews by that date had increased to almost one-third of the entire population.
Thereupon, the next year the Arabs declared a general strike in which a thousand lives were lost.
This resulted in the British sending a Royal Commission to Palestine in 1937 to investigate and recommend.
It produced a voluminous report which angered both Jew and Arab.
The Commission proposed that Palestine be divided into two separate countries, one Jewish, one Arab.
The mandate of the League of Nations, which Britain held, was to be ended, but the cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, sacred to both Jew and Arab as well as to Christian, were to continue under British protection and were to belong to neither of the two new countries.
The Report was a counsel of despair.
The two new states would be too small to be self-sufficient units, for the total area of even the undivided Palestine was only approximately that of Wales or Vermont.
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And here we have this MORON Biden today thinking we are all as stupid as he and his administration are with respect to HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY!
Sorry, Joe, but it just is not so – we are not all as stupid and ignorant as are you and your supporters and enablers and apologists, so stop trying to treat us as if we are, because it is quite insulting for us to be compared to you and yours that way.
And going back to this statement, “President Joe Biden welcomed the report saying ‘America’s economy is the strongest in the world'” from the Reuters article titled “US labor market sizzles with blowout job growth, solid wage gains” by Lucia Mutikani on February 2, 2024, is that at all a true statement by Joe that America’s economy is the strongest in the world?
Afterall, we just had an article from The Hill titled “Powell: ‘The US is on an unsustainable fiscal path’” by Taylor Giorno on 5 February 2024, where we had fed chief Jerome Powell stating as follows, to wit:
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said “the U.S. is on an unsustainable fiscal path” in a “60 Minutes” interview with Scott Pelley released Sunday.
“The U.S. federal government’s on an unsustainable fiscal path.”
“And that just means that the debt is growing faster than the economy.”
“So, it is unsustainable.”
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So, if in fact the U.S. federal government under Joe Biden is on an unsustainable fiscal path, which means that the debt is growing faster than the economy, can it at the same time be true that America’s economy is the strongest in the world?
And before we address that pertinent question, let’s go back to that article in The Hill for this statement, to wit:
The U.S. national debt topped $34 trillion for the first time ever in early January, just over three months after surpassing the $33 trillion mark, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury.
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Yes, people, in just three months, Joe Biden BLEW THROUGH a TRILLION DOLLARS OF BORROWED MONEY AT INTEREST that we are on the hook for, to create this ILLUSION of an economy, which in turn takes us to the definition of exactly what is an economy in the first place, which takes us to an Investopedia article titled “Economy: What It Is, Types of Economies, Economic Indicators” by Will Kenton on December 17, 2023, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
What Is an Economy?
An economy is a complex system of interrelated production, consumption, and exchange activities that ultimately determines how resources are allocated among all the participants.
The production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services combine to fulfill the needs of those living and operating within the economy.
Understanding Economies
An economy encompasses all of the activities related to the production, consumption, and trade of goods and services in an entity, whether the entity is a nation or a small town.
No two economies are identical.
Each is formed according to its own resources, culture, laws, history, and geography.
Each evolves according to the choices and actions of the participants.
These decisions are made through some combination of market transactions and collective or hierarchical decision-making.
Capitalism requires a market-based economy.
Communism requires a command-based economy.
Types of Economies
In the modern world, few nations are purely market-based or purely command-based.
But most lean toward one or the other of these models.
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Now, historically, i.e., before Joe Biden and “TOODLES” Yellen came along to TRANSFORM our economy, the United States was mostly a market-based or “free market” economy which allowed people and businesses to freely exchange goods and services according to supply and demand.
In that prior system, producers determined what was sold and produced, and what prices to charge, and if they expected to succeed, they had to produce what consumers wanted and charge what consumers were willing to pay.
Through these decisions, the laws of supply and demand determined prices and total production, so that if consumer demand for a specific product increased, production would tend to increase to satisfy the demand, while the increased demand caused prices to rise until consumers balked and cut back on their purchases, which would cause demand for the product to decline and prices would have to decline as a result.
According to theory, anyway, this constant tug of supply and demand would allow a market economy a tendency to naturally balance itself, for as the prices in one sector rise with demand, the money and labor needed to fill that demand would shift to those places where they’re needed.
That was all before Joe Biden and “TOODLES” Yellen, who are TRANSFORMING our economy, through BIDE-O-NISM, into a command- based economy which depends on Joe’s central government controlling the production levels, pricing, and distribution of goods, as is also the case in Cuba and North Korea, as Joe’s command-based economy attempts to supersede the workings of supply and demand, with Joe determining what can be produced, i.e. electric cars, and can’t be produced, i.e. ICE cars, while also determining who those products cannot be sold to, thus putting control of the world marketplace firmly in Joe Biden’s grip.
And that takes us to the question of what is a debt-fueled economy, which is what we have under Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us to the Positive Money website and an article titled “Debt-Driven Growth” by Mira Tekelova, where have as follows on the ramifications of BORROW HEAVILY AND SPEND LAVISHLY BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
The more one explores the broad impact of debt, the more apparent it becomes that bank-credit constitutes a dysfunctional form of money.
An economy based almost entirely upon bank-credit and debt experiences an intense drive for growth, regardless of need or demand.
Bank credit engenders financial dependence, injects instability and fosters growth-distortions, both within an economy and throughout the international arena.
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As to the term debt-fueled growth, which is what we now have under BIDE-O-NISM, it refers to an economic situation in which growth is financed by ever increasing levels of debt, so that today in America with a population of 331.9 million in 2021, American households were carrying a total of $17.29 trillion in debt as of the third quarter of 2023, with average household debt of $103,358 as of the second quarter of 2023.
Rising debt, of course, reduces business investment and slows economic growth, not the opposite, as was one of the lessons that should have been learned from the GREAT DEPRESSION, but obviously wasn’t, while it also increases expectations of higher rates of inflation and erosion of confidence in the U.S. dollar, which takes us to a Bloomberg article from October 3, 2017 titled “The benefits of debt-fueled growth don’t last forever: IMF” by Matt Padanyi, to wit:
Economic growth propped up by debt-fueled consumer spending increases the risk of a major financial collapse, according to a new report by the International Monetary Fund.
The latest edition of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability Report examined the relationship between household debt and consumer spending, and showed that near-term economic growth bolstered by borrowing often leads to medium-term costs associated with higher debt levels, especially in advanced economies.
“In the short term, an increase in the household debt-to-GDP ratio is typically associated with higher economic growth and lower unemployment, but the effects are reversed in three to five years,” according to the report.
“Moreover, higher growth in household debt is associated with a greater probability of banking crises.”
“These adverse effects are stronger when household debt is higher and are therefore more pronounced for advanced than for emerging market economies, where household debt and credit market participation are lower.”
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Which brings us back to Joe Biden telling us that “America’s economy is the strongest in the world” while fed chief Jerome Powell is telling us that the US is on an unsustainable fiscal path.
So who is right, people, Joe or Jerome?
Think about it while we take another break for station identification, and then we will be right back with more chaos from Joe Biden yet to come, so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial.
And speaking of chaos, which is all Joe Biden has to offer us and the world, according to Rigzone, oil jumped up to $76.22 a barrel in New York today as Joe continues to conduct his air strikes in Iraqinam, making the Middle East even more volatile, prompting major owners of shipping in all sectors to avoid the region, which of course is going to drive up shipping prices, contributing to more BIDENFLATION yet to come as the cost of a gallo9n of gas where I am jumped up $.10 gallon.
But where I want to go right now isn’t there, but to comments attributed to Joe, a famous SKULKER (someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity. especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) during the Viet Nam war in The Independent story titled “Biden says he has to ‘hold my Irish temper’ as he rages at ‘Donald Hoover Trump’ in fiery campaign speech” by Andrew Feinberg on 6 February 2024, as follows:
President Joe Biden told a group of donors to his re-election bid on Sunday that the mere thought of his predecessor’s callous attitude towards the nation’s military veterans and honoured war dead forces him to expend extra energy to keep his anger in check.
Speaking to guests who’d assembled to hear him speak at a Henderson, Nevada fundraiser, Mr Biden was working through what has become a standard recitation of his record since taking office in 2021 when he turned to the matter of former president Donald Trump’s attitude towards men and women who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice in service of the United States.
He told attendees: “I have to hold my Irish temper” when it comes to that subject.
The matter that so evokes Mr Biden’s anger is a series of comments first reported by The Atlantic regarding Mr Trump’s attitude towards American war dead.
In an October 2020 article, the magazine revealed that the then-president had infamously told his staff that he did not want to make a visit to an American military cemetery outside Paris in 2018 because rain would have caused damage to the byzantine combover he uses to hide his baldness.
He reportedly asked senior staff members: “Why should I go to that cemetery?” and remarked that it was “full of losers”.
He also later disparaged US Marines who lost their lives during the battle that stopped Imperial Germany’s movement towards Paris in the First World War as “losers”.
Mr Biden, whose late son and namesake, Joseph Robinette Biden III – better known as Beau Biden – served overseas during the Iraq war and later died from a brain tumour thought to have come from exposure to toxic burn pits there, told the crowd that he was “glad” he wasn’t with Mr Trump during that 2018 trip because he was not sure what he’d have done had he heard those comments, effectively implying that he might have turned violent.
“I’m glad I wasn’t with him.”
“I’m not sure what I would’ve done.”
“He said they’re all suckers and losers,” he said.
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EXCEPT, according to Snopes, which is no friend to Trump, there is NO PROOF that Trump actually said those words, nor is there any record that he did, which makes Joe out as the serial liar that he is, and has been, but let'[s go to Snopes and see what we see, to wit:
Did Trump Call Fallen Soldiers ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’?
Nur Ibrahim
Published Oct 4, 2023
In early October 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden and a former member of Donald Trump’s presidential administration resurrected a years-old accusation against Trump that allegedly revealed his true opinion of U.S. military troops.
According to the claim, Trump once called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers” while talking to people in his inner circle.
Trump and his allies have denied the accusation since it first emerged in 2020, shortly before the election between Trump and Biden.
Whether performative or authentic, Trump’s apparent support for soldiers in the U.S. military, both active and veteran members, has been part of his presidential campaigns.
Following a story by The Atlantic, a number of reputable news outlets reported on the alleged comments in 2020, relying entirely on anonymous sources from his administration.
However, there appeared to be no evidence of an audio or video recording of the remarks in question, nor was there any documentation, such as transcripts or presidential notes, to independently confirm or deny the alleged quotes’ authenticity.
Moreover, since Snopes did not witness the in-question comments firsthand, we can’t say for certain whether Trump called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers.”
How the Accusations Emerged
Citing anonymous officials from the administration, the 2020 article by The Atlantic, titled, “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’,” unpacked Trump’s trip to Paris in 2018 when he allegedly did not want to visit a cemetery of American war dead.
The visit was cancelled.
Trump Allies Deny the Claims
The White House blamed the canceled cemetery visit on poor weather.
Responding to The Atlantic’s reporting, Trump said the accusation was “a disgraceful situation” by a “terrible magazine.”
Trump strongly denied calling fallen soldiers “losers” and “suckers.”
Speaking to reporters on Sept. 3, 2020, upon returning from a campaign rally to Washington, D.C., just after the report came out, Trump said: “I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes.”
“There is nobody that respects them more.”
“No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?”
Just days later, Zach Fuentes, a former White House aide who left the administration in early 2019 and was with the president on the Paris trip and presumably near him during the in-question conversations about the cemetery visit, stood up for Trump in an interview with Breitbart.
Referring to Gen. John Kelly, who was with Trump during the trip as his chief of staff, he said, “I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather.”
“Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?”
Reporting on Fuentes’ interview with Breitbart, The Washington Post noted that the phrase “I did not hear…” is not the same as “it didn’t happen.”
Furthermore, there was no evidence of Kelly being around Trump to hear the alleged comments.
Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who said he was on the trip, also issued a denial to Fox News, days after the article came out, saying it was “simply false.”
Then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also denied the claims in an interview with Fox News in September 2020.
He said, “I was with him for a good part of that trip, if I’m thinking about this visit and the timing right, and I never heard him use the words that are described in that article.”
“Just, I never saw it.”
How the Claims Resurfaced in 2023
On Oct. 2, 2023, Biden’s official account on X resurfaced the accusation, saying Trump once allegedly “referred to American service members as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.'”
In sum, the claim stemmed from a story by The Atlantic, which relied on anonymous, second-hand reports of Trump’s alleged words; there was no independent footage or documented proof to substantiate the in-question comments; and Trump vehemently denies that he once called service members “losers” and “suckers.”
While it was certainly possible that he said those things, Snopes was unable to independently verify the claim.
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And let me make it clear that I am no fan of Trump’s.
I didn’t support him then, don’t support him now, didn’t vote for him then, and won’t vote for him now BUT I also am not a fan of Joe Biden, and I don’t like getting lied to him, and I don’t like a liar serving as our Commander-in-Chief, especially a SKULKER like Joe Biden.
How very low we have become as a nation when the very best we can do for our “leader” is a liar like Joe Biden.
And now, definitely time to break for station identification!
And before we can go to Joe’s recent comments to workers from the Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas, where he told them, “We’re coming back, we really are. we have the best economy in the world,” we have to consider some recent news, including a report from U.S. DOJ special counsel Robert Hur, that really call into question the state of Joe’s mental acuity (a person’s ability to reason, focus, and recall information at optimum speeds) as we have him talking about talking with people who are dead, which because Joe is president, he actually might be able to do, as well as his memory of when he was Hussein Obama’s vice president, which first takes us to a Fox News story titled “Biden tells crowd he recently met with Mitterrand, former French president who died in 1996” by Bradford Betz on February 6, 2024, where we have as follows:
President Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas on Sunday that he recently met with Francois Mitterrand, the French president who has been dead for nearly 30 years.
The comments came while Biden was warning of the dangers of a potential second Trump presidency, as he aimed to shore up enthusiasm ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Nevada.
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And how about the dangers of a second Biden presidency, people, because they are quite high as we see by going to a GB News story titled “Joe Biden in new toe-curling gaffe as President stumbles through speech and appears to forget Hamas” by George Bunn on February 7, 2024, for thi9s bit of embarrassment involving Joe, to wit:
Joe Biden appeared to stumble through a key speech about the Middle East conflict in the latest in a series of gaffes.
The 81-year-old President was giving an update to the conflict in the Middle East at the White House.
However, he appeared to stumble through his speech, including briefly forgetting the name of Hamas.
It comes as there have been concerns over the President’s age from both the left and right wing.
The US President said: “There is some movement…and I don’t wanna…I don’t wanna.”
“[After a pause] Choose my words…there’s some movement.”
“There’s been a response…from the uh…there’s been a response from the opposition.”
“But – yes I’m sorry – from Hamas but it seems to be a little over the top.”
“We’re not sure where it is…there’s continuing negotiation right now.”
Leader of Reform UK Richard Tice said: “This is sad to see, but President Biden is visibly & clearly no longer fit to be leader of the free world.”
Martin Daubney said: “For the sake of global security, Joe Biden needs to be retired from public office.”
“Enough is enough.”
“He can no longer be trusted to run a bath – let alone the free world.”
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And from there we go to an NBC News story titled “In his second mixup this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders” by Zoë Richards and Tara Prindiville on February 8, 2024, where we have more on Joe’s declining mental state, as follows:
President Joe Biden on Wednesday twice referred to the late German chancellor Helmut Kohl instead of former Chancellor Angela Merkel while detailing a 2021 conversation at campaign events.
It was the second time this week that Biden recalled speaking with a European leader who had died years earlier.
Biden’s gaffes on Wednesday came at a series of fundraisers in New York as he described conversations he said he had with European leaders at a meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in the U.K. in 2021, months after the Jan. 6 riot.
Biden said at both events that “Helmut Kohl,” who died in 2017, had asked him how he would respond if he read about people storming the British Parliament and killing officers “to stop the election of a prime minister.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The president’s remarks weren’t his first mixup of European leaders this week.
While speaking at an event in North Las Vegas on Sunday, Biden confused Francois Mitterrand, the former French president who died in 1996, for French President Emmanuel Macron in his retelling of an encounter with the French leader at a summit during his first year in office.
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Which takes us to the most damning information about just how serious Joe’s declining mental state really is in a CNBC story titled “Biden ‘willfully’ kept classified materials, had ‘poor memory’: Special counsel” by Kevin Breuninger and Dan Mangan on February 8, 2024, as follows:
President Joe Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency,” Department of Justice special counsel said in a report released Thursday.
The FBI found classified documents, which by law should have been given back to the U.S. government when Biden ended his second term as vice president in January 2017, in the garage, office, and basement den of his Wilmington, Delaware, home, Hur’s report said.
The documents included classified material about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and notebooks containing Biden’s entries about national security.
“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” Hur wrote in his nearly 400-page report.
“He knew he kept classified information in notebooks stored in his house and he knew he was not allowed to do so,” the special counsel said.
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the special counsel said.
‘Hazy’ Memory
Hur’s bluntly detailed lapses in Biden’s memory when he was questioned for the probe.
“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse,” Hur wrote.
“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report said.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” the special counsel said.
“And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”
“Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.”
Hur said that he expected that Biden’s lawyers would use these memory gaps as a defense if he were prosecuted.
“In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall,” the special counsel wrote.
A ‘historic figure’
Hur’s report said that the materials recovered from Biden’s home spanned his career in national office from 1973 when he became a U.S. senator from Delaware, and through his two terms as vice president under former President Barack Obama, from 2009 through early 2017.
Biden during his career “has long seen himself as a historic figure,” and during that time collected papers and artifacts that were connected to “significant issues and events in his career,” the report said.
“He used these materials to write memoirs published in 2007 and 2017, to document his legacy, and to cite as evidence that he was a man of presidential timber,” Hur wrote.
“As vice president, Mr. Biden received and stored classified materials at the White House, his official residence at the Naval Observatory, his private home in Delaware, and — very briefly — his rental home in Virginia,” the report said.
“He relied on staff to help deliver, store, and retrieve these classified materials.”
“Mr. Biden was known to remove and keep classified material from his briefing books for future use, and his staff struggled — and sometimes failed — to retrieve these materials,” Hur wrote.
“These gaps in the tracking and retrieval of Mr. Biden’s classified materials made it more difficult to determine when, how, and why many of the classified documents later found in Mr. Biden’s home and think tank ended up where they did not belong.”
“The Afghanistan documents were ultimately found in Mr. Biden’s Delaware home: in a badly damaged box in the garage, near a collapsed dog crate, a dog bed, a Zappos box, an empty bucket, a broken lamp wrapped with duct tape, potting soil, and synthetic firewood,” the report said.
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So make of that what you will, people, but as for me, I am with the dude who said quite truthfully that for the sake of global security, Joe Biden needs to be retired from public office because he can no longer be trusted to run a bath – let alone the free world.
And stay tuned, for when we return from a break for station identification, we will be right back with more from the whacky world of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, so don’t touch that dial!
Allow me to correct you because you always seem to throw in half-truths
Shipping is avoiding the area, the area being the Red Sea because of the Israel – Palestine conflict
. But yeah, you keep going on….
J Wheaton, what a surprise and what a pleasure to see you coming in here to give us all some much needed amusement in our lives in these very troubled times we find ourselves in thanks to the BELLICOSITY and BELLIGERENCE and JINGOISM (extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy) of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the very first Biden in the history of the world to become such a historical figure in the mold of an Alexander the Great, a Caesar Augustus, a Joe Stalin, or an Idi Amin, and let me say once again, as you keep proving over and over not only to the world, but to the solar system, where you are held in very high esteem by the Martians, the Venusians, and the Uranians, and the galaxy and the universe, as well, that you are an honest-to-gosh, real deal make no mistake about it HOOT, and America and the world are better places because of it, which is why you are so loved the world over, even more so than Taylor Swift, which is really saying something.
And to the chaos DICTATOR Biden is causing in the Middle East, where the Red Sea happens to be located, and to help you out with understanding current events, something you still are obviously having cognitive issues with as a result of your conditioning and indoctrination which has robbed you of your ability to be able to reason things through, shipping is avoiding the area, the area being the Red Sea, because the ham-handed, short-sighted, shallow-thinking Joe Biden, who now talks to dead people, and has forgotten who Hamas is, is escalating tensions over there, as we see by going to a Rigzone article titled “Oil Rallies Amid Cease Fire Uncertainty” by Bloomberg and Julia Fanzeres on February 8, 2024, where we have some reality you are so obviously not cognizant of on the situation over there, to wit:
Strikes in Iraq are increasing the chances of a broadening conflict in the Middle East — boosting energy-supply risks — and providing tailwinds for crude markets, said Daniel Ghali, a commodity strategist at TD Securities.
At the beginning of the session, Ghali expected commodity trading advisers to increase their total buying by 30% of their maximum position.
Signs of crude’s momentum also showed further along the futures curve, with Brent’s prompt spread — the difference between its two nearest contracts — strengthening to 63 cents in backwardation, the highest in three months, excluding volatile contract expiration dates.
Adding to concerns of supply disruptions, major shipping companies are warning that the security situation in the Red Sea is continuing to deteriorate.
Swaths of the merchant fleet have been avoiding the waterway since attacks by the Houthis began in mid-November.
The area grew even more volatile after the US and UK launched airstrikes in the middle of last month, prompting major owners in all sectors to avoid the region.
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“Volatile,” J Wheaton, means liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.
And to help cure you of your ignorance, a major task that, let’s drop back to a Reuters article titled “Biden faces pressure to strike Iran after US troops killed” by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali on January 29, 2024, where we have some relevant background you are obviously unaware of, as follows:
American forces in the Middle East have been attacked more than 150 times by Iran-backed forces in Iraq, Syria, Jordan and off the coast of Yemen since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October.
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Off the coast of Yeman, J Wheaton, means the Red Sea, where Joe Biden is making things more volatile, so that major shippers are now taking the long way around as opposed to transiting through the Red Sea and Suez Canal, which is robbing Egypt of transit fees.
Going back to that same article, we have as follows:
One Democrat openly voiced concern that Biden’s strategy of containing the Israel-Hamas conflict to Gaza was failing.
“As we see now, it is spiraling out of control.”
“It’s beginning to emerge as a regional war, and unfortunately the United States and our troops are in harms way,” Democratic Representative Barbara Lee said, renewing calls for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestinian war.
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As I said above, J Wheaton, and as you are helping me to prove, CHAOS is all Joe Biden has to offer us and the world, and that is according to Democratic Representative Barbara Lee, which of course is going to drive up shipping prices, contributing to more BIDENFLATION yet to come as the cost of a gallon of gas where I am jumped up $.10 gallon.
And then we go to a Business Insider article titled “A Houthi missile got so close to a US destroyer the warship turned to a last-resort gun system to shoot it down: report” by Ella Sherman and Jake Epstein on 1 February 2024, for more on the volatile situation Joe Biden has created in the Red Sea, to wit:
A Houthi anti-ship cruise missile fired into the Red Sea came within a mile of a US Navy destroyer on Tuesday, a report said, close enough that the American warship turned to its close-in weapons system — a last line of defense.
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And from there we go to an AFP article titled “US strikes 10 Huthi drones, downs unmanned Iranian aircraft” on 1 February 2024, to see how Joe Biden is escalating tensions in the area, as follows:
The Huthis began targeting Red Sea shipping in November, saying they were hitting Israeli-linked vessels in support of Palestinians in Gaza, which has been ravaged by the Israel-Hamas war.
US and UK forces have responded with strikes on the Huthis, who have since declared American and British interests to be legitimate targets as well.
In addition to military action, Washington has sought to put diplomatic and financial pressure on the Huthis, redesignating them as a terrorist organization earlier in January after previously having dropped that label soon after President Joe Biden took office.
But the Huthis’ attacks have persisted, with the rebels saying Wednesday that they targeted an American merchant ship bound for Israel with “several appropriate naval missiles that directly hit the vessel.”
Maritime security firm Ambrey said a commercial vessel was reportedly targeted with a missile southwest of Aden, and that the ship reported an explosion on its starboard side, but did not mention its nationality.
Earlier, the Huthis said they fired multiple missiles at American destroyer the USS Gravely — a claim that came after CENTCOM said the warship downed an anti-ship cruise missile launched “from Huthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward the Red Sea.”
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In closing, J Wheaton, it makes me feel good about myself and all warm and squishy inside when you give me these opportunities to conduct interventions to help you cure your benighted ignorance, for which opportunities I am very thankful as the compassionate person that I am.
And as American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, who just posted a photo of himself on X, formerly TWITTER, with laser beams shooting out of his head, which picture ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000 ) alone should serve to scare the living crap right out of the Iranians and the Huthis and all those militias in Iraqinam and Syria who are among Joe’s many enemies and have them trembling in fear while groveling at Joe’s feet and begging for mercy, it is indeed that scary looking, takes us closer and closer to war in the Middle East in a bid to make Joe a WAR PRESIDENT so it would be imperative that Joe should be re-elected, since we should not change WAR LEADERS in the middle of a war they created, as was the case with small Bush during the second Iraqinam war, Time had an interesting and insightful article on the subject of Joe’s WAR OF CHOICE in the Middle East, where he hopes he has finally found some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen he stands a chance of actually beating, titled “The U.S. Navy Is Sinking in Middle East Sand” by Gil Barndollar on 13 February 2024, where we have as follows on that serious subject, given how short-sighted and shallow-thinking the senile Joe Biden, who lashes out right and left like a blind rattlesnake with his so-called “military might, really is, to wit:
The U.S. has a range of options for dealing with Yemen’s Houthis, none of them good.
But a long campaign of naval strikes and interception against them, as is now being floated by the Biden Administration and outside experts, is certainly the worst response of all.
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Which of course is why we can expect Joe Biden, who has never fought in a war, being a SKULKER during the Viet Nam war, or won a war (think Afghanistnam) in his entire life, to go that route, because it is stupid, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
That’s because it means the U.S. Navy continuing to sink into Middle East sand for an unachievable goal all while losing ground in the far-more important Pacific.
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Except Joe and his WORTHLESS National Security Council consisting of him, Karmela Harris with her meaningless word salads and Venn diagrams and yellow school buses, Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta don’t know the goal is unachievable, and so will believe the opposite, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping have summoned Tomahawk cruise missiles and Top Gun pilots from the deck of the USS Eisenhower.
The newly-renamed Operation Poseidon Archer is just two weeks old, and the Biden Administration is already drawing up plans for a longer effort, despite admitting that defeating the Houthis is not viable.
There is a risk of escalation in the Middle East, especially with the death of three U.S. soldiers after a drone strike in Jordan.
But the effects on the U.S. Navy will be predictable, because they have all happened before: overworked ships and sailors, expenditure of precious precision munitions, and a continued punt on the pivot to the Pacific.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is the crown jewel of American military might.
Its 5,000 sailors and 90 jet-strike aircraft can guarantee sustained ship-to-shore pummeling of adversaries and the purported deterrence this provides — in effect modern gunboat diplomacy.
In any geopolitical crisis, it’s said the U.S. President will demand to know where the carriers are.
For the past two decades, throughout the “Global War on Terror” (GWOT), the answer has usually been the Middle East.
From 2001 to 2015, United States Central Command (CENTCOM), which includes North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, had at least one carrier assigned at all times.
As late as 2020, the Middle East drew almost as much carrier presence as the entire Pacific.
Because of this relentless demand, carriers often have their deployments extended or are “double-pumped,” conducting back-to-back deployments without a major maintenance period in between.
The last three carriers deployed in the Mediterranean were all extended: the USS Gerald R. Ford was at sea for 239 days, the USS Harry S. Truman for 285, and the USS George H. W. Bush for 257.
This overwork has consequences.
After the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower did two sets of double pumps, its subsequent 14-month maintenance period ballooned to 23 months because of wear and tear.
The utility and survivability of carriers in a major war are also in question.
In 1982, the legendary Admiral Hyman Rickover stunned Congress by testifying that in a war with the Soviet Union, U.S. aircraft carriers would survive for “48 hours.”
In the four decades since, the carrier’s vulnerability has dramatically increased.
Anti-ship missiles have become far more accurate and long-ranged since Rickover’s testimony, as the unrefueled range of an aircraft carrier’s air wing has shrunk from well over 1,000 nautical miles to barely 600 now.
This leaves carrier commanders with two unpalatable options: stay out of enemy range but become operationally irrelevant or sail close enough but put a $13 billion vessel and its 5,000 sailors at risk.
The narrow waters of the Persian Gulf and chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz and Yemen’s Bab-el Mandeb only magnify this dilemma.
Yet the overworked carrier fleet and questions about its utility in a major war are only part of the larger problem of U.S. naval overstretch.
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the U.S. Navy has become addicted to global “presence” as a demonstration of its value to the nation.
Over the past two decades, the Army and Marine Corps could point to their efforts, successful or not, on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
To maintain its status and budget, the Navy also needed to contribute, at sea and ashore.
With the all-volunteer military stretched to the breaking point, the Pentagon started looking to the Navy to step in.
Some 120,000 sailors would go on to serve on land during the GWOT.
Many of these sailors, especially the reservists who are critical in any major war, have become “sailors in name only,” their naval proficiencies and mindset atrophying due to prolonged service ashore.
All of this significantly strained U.S. naval manpower, causing ships to deploy undermanned and for longer durations.
The Navy’s overstretch may have also contributed to a pair of tragic accidents.
In 2017, a pair of Navy destroyers, the USS McCain and the USS Fitzgerald, collided with civilian ships in the Pacific in separate incidents, killing 17 sailors.
A report on the collisions found that rest and training were sacrificed for naval presence.
One of the Navy’s most senior retired enlisted sailors, Fleet Master Chief Petty Officer Paul Kingsbury, explicitly blamed the Navy’s GWOT augmentation program for the degraded safety culture that led to the McCain and Fitzgerald disasters.
The future looks grim for the overworked fleet.
Like the rest of the U.S. military, the Navy is facing an unprecedented recruiting crisis, fueled in part by fatigue from time away from home during extended deployments.
In an all-volunteer force, sailors will vote with their feet.
A shrinking fleet is the likely outcome, regardless of how many warships America has.
The most immediate danger of overstretch, though, is munitions not manpower.
The opening Jan. 12 strike on the Houthis expended 80 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles, more than half the missile’s annual production.
In the near term, expending hundreds of these missiles in a tertiary operation like Prosperity Guardian could have major impacts in a far more important theater in the Pacific.
Precision strike missiles like the Tomahawk are vital to the U.S. military’s ability to deter, and if necessary, defeat a Chinese attack in the Pacific — a contingency where the Navy will be carrying most of the fight, unlike in America’s Middle East wars.
The U.S. may already lack sufficient precision munitions for a shooting war with China.
The Navy’s newest Middle East operation adds further risk to the service’s most essential mission.
On September 10, 2001, the U.S. was the unchallenged global superpower, with naval preeminence as the bedrock of American military dominance.
The U.S. Navy outgunned China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) by more than 100 warships.
China had no aircraft carriers and just 21 diesel submarines.
Some 20 years later, America’s sailors look out at a different world.
PLAN is now the world’s largest navy (though the U.S. Navy still boasts more tonnage).
China’s third aircraft carrier, Fujian, is nearing its sea trials.
In the time since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, PLAN has commissioned 313 ships.
Recent wargames suggest the U.S. Navy would struggle mightily to defeat a Chinese fleet that was an afterthought just two decades ago.
The future trajectory is even worse: Chinese shipbuilding capacity now exceeds that of the U.S. by a factor of 200, according to unclassified data from the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Rebuilding the U.S. Navy is a long-term project that has barely begun, despite lip service from both political parties for years.
Ships, to say nothing of shipyards, are not built overnight.
Lost time and lost opportunities cannot be recovered.
But the U.S. can stop digging its navy into a deeper hole through Middle East-driven overwork of ships and sailors.
Fixing the fleet requires snapping the CENTCOM noose as quickly as possible.
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And that, people, is not going to happen!
ANOTHER BIDEN QUAGMIRE WILL BE THE RESULT INSTEAD!
And while American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior is posting photos of himself on X, formerly TWITTER, with laser beams shooting out of his head ( https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000 ) in what I consider to be a vain effort to scare the living crap right out of the Iranians and the Huthis and all those militias in Iraqinam and Syria who are among Joe’s many enemies and have them trembling in fear while groveling at Joe’s feet and begging for mercy, as he tries to stoke a new war in the Middle East where he hopes he has finally found some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen he stands a chance of actually beating in a bid to make Joe a WAR PRESIDENT so that it would be imperative that Joe should be re-elected, since we should not change WAR LEADERS in the middle of a war they created, as was the case with small Bush during the second Iraqinam war, let’s take a look at the CHAOS Joe is creating here with our economy, thanks to Joe’s war efforts which are escalting tensions in the Middle East, coupled BIDENFLATION in this country as a result of BIDE-O-NOMICS by going to Rigzone on February 13, 2024, where we see that West Texas Intermediate rose 1.2% to settle near $78 a barrel, pushing past its 200-day moving average of about $77.40, which raises the possibility of additional upward momentum, which of course will impact the price of gasoline as we head further and further into the SILLY SEASON leading up to November and the presidential elections.
And according to a CNBC article titled “10-year Treasury yield shoots higher as January CPI is hotter than expected” by Lisa Kailai Han, Alex Harring and Karen Gilchrist on February 13, 2024, thanks to BIDENFLATION, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note added 15 basis points to 4.32%, while the yield on the 2-year Treasury climbed 19 basis points to 4.664%, while Tuesday’s data on BIDENFLATION added to doubts that the federal reserve would be able to lower the cost of borrowing several times this year, which has been a centerpiece of equity market bullishness in recent months, with Skyler Weinand, chief investment officer at Regan Capital telling us, “Bond yields have not peaked and we believe that a 10-year Treasury yield with a 5-handle is more likely than a 3-handle in 2024,” because “Persistent inflation, full employment and strong growth may delay the Fed’s rate cuts.”
With respect to BIDENFLATION, food prices moved higher, while real weekly earnings fell 0.3%, and electricity costs rose 1.2%, despite Joe Biden and his team of morons telling us that Joe’s GREEN ENERGY using windmills and solar panels was going to make electricity cheaper, not more expensive as is the case.
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Wall St ends sharply lower as hot inflation sparks sell-off” by Johann M Cherian, Ankika Biswas and Carolina Mandl on February 13, 2024, where we see that thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, Wall Street’s main indexes tumbled after a higher-than-expected consumer inflation reading pushed back market expectations of imminent interest rate cuts, driving U.S. Treasury yields higher with the result that the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its biggest one-day percentage drop in nearly 11 months, with the S&P 500 losing 68.14 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 282.64 points, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 522.05 points.
Another Reuters article titled “Rising rents push US inflation higher; rate cuts still expected in 2024” by Lucia Mutikani on February 13, 2024 informed us that grocery food inflation increased 0.4%, the largest gain since January 2023, boosted by more expensive sugar and sweets as well as fats and oils, fruits and vegetables, with prices for hotel and motel rooms rebounding as did those for airline fares in January while motor vehicle insurance prices increased further, and medical care services increased 0.7%, with the cost of hospital services surging 1.6%, the most since October 2015, and the cost of health insurance also rose solidly.
So much for OBAMACARE making health insurance less expensive, which was always a BULL**** empty political claim.
And then we drop back a day to February 12, 2024 and another Reuters article where we learn that for the first four months of the fiscal year, the deficit rose $72 billion, or 16%, to $532 billion as costs to service the national debt rose, as did outlays for Social Security, Medicare and military programs related to Joe’s war mongering in the Middle East, with the Treasury’s interest cost on the public debt growing $18 billion, or 35%, in January compared to a year earlier due to a higher weighted average interest rate now at 3.15%, as well as higher debt levels, so that for the fiscal year to date, debt interest costs were up $96 billion, or 37%, to $357 billion, outpacing outlays for Medicare, as the Treasury also reported higher costs for military programs due to expenditures for military personnel operations and maintenance, so that for the first four months of fiscal 2024, those were up $32 billion, or 13%, to $283 billion.
So besides posting photos of himself with laser beams shooting out of his head as if he were some kind of space alien with superhuman powers, what is Joe doing about all that ECONOMIC CHAOS his misguided policies have created?
According to an article by AS USA titled “President Biden calls for an end to ‘shrinkflation’” by Jeffrey May on February 12, 2024, in a pre-Super Bowl video release by the White House’s social media team, Joe is calling on companies to put an end to “shrinkflation,” as if this mess Joe has created were their fault and not his, which message from Joe to the people of America about SHRINKFLATION, the cause of all our misery and woes can be viewed here:
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1756713597864988940
And off to a break for station identification we go, and when we return, it will be to discuss SHOCK AND AWE as Joe’s VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN in the Middle East gets underway. so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial!
So, yes, p0eple, SHOCK AND AWE as Joe’s VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN in the Middle East gets underway, with Joe even conducting strikes using B-1 bombers, originally designed for low-level penetration during the Cold War, on Iran proxy militia targets in Syria and Iraq, as Joe, the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of our entire military, from top to bottom and from the middle out, as well as the HEAD or TOP DOG as that leader is called of the NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, which consists of Joe, who according to the Daily Mail on February 14, 2024, after defending his memory against claims that he couldn’t even remember when his beloved son died, he lost the news cycle by referring to the Egyptian president as the “president of Mexico,” and Karmela Harris with her meaningless word salads and Venn diagrams and yellow school buses along with the hapless and clueless Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta, plans a multi-layered campaign against these militias, relying on airpower for containment and punishment, which in the end is pure political BULL****, because it has never worked before and won’t work now.
Consider how many tons of bombs were dropped during Operation Rolling Thunder on March 2, 1965, when the USAF began a systematic bombing campaign against North Vietnam named ROLLING THUNDER which idiot planners in Washington, D.C. HOPED would provide a morale boost to South Vietnamese forces and interdict the flow of supplies going south, and discourage North Vietnamese aggression, a PIPE DREAM, since the aggression was caused by, as is the case now in the Middle East by an unwanted foreign military presence, where 864,000 tons of bombs and missiles were dropped, 152,399 attack sorties from Navy and Marine Corps aircraft were flown, while 153,784 attack sorties from Air Force aircraft were flown, along with a dramatic increase in electronic warfare, intelligence operations, and air-air-missile technology, and still Operation Rolling Thunder was a failure because the Air Force simply could not effectively interdict North Vietnam’s supply routes to the South, and in Clausewitzian terms, rolling thunder failed because it was not an effective political instrument because it did not achieve its stated goal of compelling to North Vietnamese to do our will.
Joe, who has never fought in a war and knows absolutely nothing about war and has never won a war, running as he did like a scared rabbit out of Afghanistnam, where despite his technological superiority, Joe was unable to defeat some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen in that country, and his NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, which is incompetent, want us to believe, and we would be fools and idiots if we did, that overall, these recent strikes are supposed to serve as a reminder of the U.S.’s ability to initiate sustained air campaigns and maintain pressure on various insurgent and militia groups, except that too is BULL**** precisely because Joe cannot do that without flying his planes and pilots and maintenance crews into the ground, as if Joe can fly those planes on a non-stop basis without them needing maintenance, and as if Joe has infinite amounts of ammunition, rockets and bombs, which he doesn’t.
And while this is all going on, what, pray tell, is NSC member Janet “TOODLES” Yellen doing about protecting and safeguarding OUR NATIONAL SECURITY?
How about her being out there in BATTLEGROUND states politicking for Joe Biden?
Think I’m kidding?
Not a joke, people, as we see from a Reuters article titled “Yellen says inflation moving down, market reaction a ‘tremendous mistake'” by Andrea Shalal on February 14, 2024, where we have as follows, keeping in mind that this is the same “TOODLES” Yellen who told admitted to being dead wrong about inflation being transitory in this CNBC video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-gmBHCVKgA , to wit:
DETROIT, Feb 14 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday that recent consumer price inflation data was “a tad higher” than expectations, but Americans should focus on longer-term declines in inflation trends and a strong economy and rising wages.
“I think it is a tremendous mistake to focus on minor fluctuations and to have failed to see the longer-term and bigger trends.”
“And the trend here is that inflation is moving decisively down,” Yellen told the Detroit Economic Club, where she appeared with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
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And she is so far out of touch with the reality I reside in, it isn’t funny, because in my reality, where I have essentially been forced out of the economy, PRICES ARE STILL GOING UP, despite her claim that the RATE of PRICE INCREASES is coming down, as if that mattered, which it doesn’t.
What matters is the bottom line on the grocery receipt, or the line with “this amount owed” on the insurance bill, and on and on and on, things “TOODLES” Yellen, who according to Forbes is worth an estimated $20 million, doesn’t know about and certainly doesn’t have to worry about with her government salary of $235,600, which takes us back to Reuters for more from “TOODLES” of Joe’s NSC, to wit:
Yellen told reporters that Americans had been through a hard time with COVID and prices of some significant things – rental housing and food – were higher than before the pandemic, but wages were also increasing more than prices were.
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Which is not true according to a CNBC article titled “Prices rose more than expected in January as inflation won’t go away” by Jeff Cox on February 13, 2024, where we learned that adjusted for the decline in the average workweek, real weekly earnings fell 0.3%, which takes us back for more NSC member “TOODLES” Yellen politicking for Joe Biden, while Joe is setting the Middle East on fire, to wit:
Yellen was visiting Detroit on a swing through the election battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania to tout U.S. President Joe Biden’s economic policies, including infrastructure, health care and clean energy investments, and try to persuade skeptical voters the economy is performing well, with falling inflation and historically low unemployment.
Yellen’s remarks this week build on earlier stops in Illinois, Wisconsin, Nevada and North Carolina.
Pennsylvania and Michigan are among the seven states Biden’s reelection campaign considers election battlegrounds because their voters’ preferences could swing to either party and determine the outcome of November’s race.
But the administration’s repeated efforts to showcase its economic successes have thus far failed to convince the American public, according to recent polls.
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Biden is running six percentage points behind Republican frontrunner former President Donald Trump, with voters focused on immigration challenges, Biden’s age and still unhappy about the economy despite big improvements since he took office in 2021.
Asked which person dead or alive she would like to have lunch with, Yellen chose influential 20th century British economist John Maynard Keynes.
“He changed the way all of us understand business cycles, public policy and financial markets.”
“And a long time ago, Richard Nixon said, ‘we’re all Keynesians now,'” Yellen said, adding: “He really had deep insights into how economies work.”
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And if Keynes were to have lunch with “TOODLES,” what he likely would say to her is “Janet, you are a ******* idiot who doesn’t understand anything about economics, driving the United States deeper and deeper into debt as you are doing, and you don’t understand a single word I said either, so you aren’t a ‘Keynesian,’ you’re an A-HOLE,” which takes us back to a Forbes article titled “‘Soft Landing’ Achieved: Janet Yellen Says Goal Reached After Recession Fears—But Some Still Skeptical” by Molly Bohannon on 6 January 2024, as follows:
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an interview on CNN on Friday that the U.S. has achieved a “soft landing” after years of concerns about the U.S. economy following the Covid-19 pandemic and high inflation rates — a scenario many economists once thought unlikely.
“What we’re seeing now I think we can describe as a soft landing and my hope is that it will continue,” Yellen said on CNN on Friday.
Yellen gave credit for the soft landing to the American people and President Joe Biden, saying: “The American people go to work every day, participate in the labor market, form new businesses, but President Biden has tried to create incentives that give Americans the tools they need to help this economy grow.”
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EXCEPT THERE HASN’T BEEN A SOFT LANDING, and “TOODLES” is doing what she does best, which is lying to us on behalf of Joe Biden, as if we were too stupid and uninformed to know the difference, as we see in a Reuters article titled “Fed’s Barr: ‘Bumpy’ path to 2% inflation means soft landing jury still out” by Howard Schneider on February 14, 2024, where we have “TOODLES” being refuted on that subject, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Hotter-than-expected inflation in January shows that the United States’ path back to 2% inflation “may be a bumpy one,” Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr said on Wednesday, adding it was too early to be assured price stability will be restored without a significant blow to jobs or economic growth.
“It’s very early to say whether we end up with a soft landing or not,” Barr said, referring to the Fed’s hoped-for outcome where inflation returns to the Fed’s target without a large rise in the unemployment rate.
“I’d be very careful about where we are in that process,” with the Fed facing a “difficult” decision on how long to maintain the target rate of interest at the current 5.25% to 5.5% range, Barr said at a National Association for Business Economics conference.
The Fed is “confident we are on a path to 2% inflation,” Barr said in a prepared speech at the event.
But a recent report showing prices rose faster than anticipated in January, “is a reminder that the path back to 2% inflation may be a bumpy one.”
“We need to see continued good data before we can begin the process of reducing the federal funds rate,” Barr said, adding he backed the “careful approach” to cutting rates advocated by Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed policymakers.
“It is a difficult set of judgments to make in the current context because there are no clear historical parallels,” given the current situation’s roots in the coronavirus pandemic, he said.
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And that takes us back to Reuters and “TOODLES” Yellen politicking for Joe Biden with DEMOCRAT Gretchen Widmer, to wit:
When asked the same question, Whitmer, a Democrat, said she would choose Yellen, whom she had introduced as an inspiring role model – “She is a badass.”
“She eats, breathes and sleeps economics” – and because she had only been able to spend 10 minutes with her before the event on Wednesday.
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No, Gretchen, “TOODLES” Yellen is not a badass.
She is an idiot for thinking the American people are uniformed fools who can’t see through her outright lies, distortions of reality, misinformation and disinformation, and you are an idiot for believing a single word she says.
Is it truly necessary to be a loser and a fool to work in high levels of government in Washington, D.C.?
Seems so to me, anyway, and here, I am now referring to a Fox News article titled “US downs more Houthi drones; American public ‘lulled into complacency’ by Navy’s power, defense official says” by Louis Casiano, Jennifer Griffin on February 17, 2024, where we have the latest on Joe Biden’s WAR OF CHOICE in the Middle East where our Joe, who thinks of himself in a grandiose manner as a “historical” figure, which he is certainly turning out to be as a laughing stock on the world stage, the first American to9 be such in our entire history as a nation, hopes he has finally found some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen he stands a chance of actually beating in a bid to make Joe a WAR PRESIDENT so that it would be imperative that Joe must be re-elected, since we should not change WAR LEADERS in the middle of a war they created, as was the case with small Bush during the second Iraqinam war, where we have an ignorant, out-of-touch with reality, so-called “senior defense official” in the Biden administration whining and mewling and puling like a whiney baby, as follows, to wit:
U.S. forces shot down four Iran-backed Houthi drones Friday after the terror group fired four anti-ship ballistic missiles earlier, a senior defense official told Fox News.
The senior defense official told Fox News that the American public has gotten lulled into complacency, thinking it is easy for the Navy to keep shooting these missiles and drones down.
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DEAD WRONG, dude!
First of all, who has been lulled gotten lulled into complacency, thinking it is easy for the Navy to keep shooting these missiles and drones down, is “FIGHTING JOE” Biden and his NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, which consists of Joe, who according to the Daily Mail on February 14, 2024, after defending his memory against claims that he couldn’t even remember when his beloved son died, lost the news cycle by referring to the Egyptian president as the “president of Mexico,” and Karmela Harris with her meaningless word salads and Venn diagrams and yellow school buses along with the hapless and clueless Tony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Jennifer Granholm, Merrick “THE GUTLESS” Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry, and John Podesta, none of whom have even the slightest clue as to what the Navy is involved in over there, focused as they all are on getting Joe re-elected.
As to the American public, they have not gotten lulled into complacency, thinking it is easy for the Navy to keep shooting these missiles and drones down, precisely because they really aren’t paying any attention to what is going on over there, being quite bored with the whole business, and if they somehow were, they wouldn’t have a clue as to how hard or easy it is for the Navy to do something.
Said another way, the American people have gotten quite bored with all of Joe’s many conflicts and to protect their emotional energy, they have simply tuned them out, as I largely have, because with Joe Biden, we have seen this movie before, and like the last several times, with the senile Joe Biden in charge, this is not going to end good for America.
And if the American people were in fact aware of how hard it is for the Navy to keep shooting these missiles and drones down, what the hell are they supposed to do about it?
Which thought takes us back for more, to wit:
Should a Houthi missile strike a U.S. warship, “the escalation that will follow is very serious and should give people pause,” the official said.
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YAWN!
Yeah, right, dude.
And what is Joe Biden going to do about it, keeping in mind a Time article titled “The U.S. Navy Is Sinking in Middle East Sand” by Gil Barndollar on February 13, 2024, where we were informed that senile old Joe, in his opening SHOCK AND AWE Jan. 12 strike on the Houthis expended 80 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles, more than half the missile’s annual production, which didn’t do ****-all with respect to deterring the Houthis from doing anything other than continuing their attacks on Joe’s navy, as we see in another Fox News article titled “After months fighting Houthis on the USS Eisenhower, sailors face a new kind of sea threat” on February 15, 2024, as follows:
Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying warships have spent four months straight at sea defending against ballistic missiles and flying attack drones fired by Iranian-backed Houthis, and are now more regularly also defending against a new threat — fast unmanned vessels that are fired at them through the water.
While the Houthis have launched unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, in the past against Saudi coalition forces that have intervened in Yemen’s civil war, they were used for the first time against U.S. military and commercial vessels in the Red Sea on Jan. 4.
In the weeks since, the Navy has had to intercept and destroy multiple USVs.
It’s “more of an unknown threat that we don’t have a lot of intel on, that could be extremely lethal — an unmanned surface vessel,” said Rear Adm. Marc Miguez, commander of Carrier Strike Group Two, of which the Eisenhower is the flagship.
The Houthis “have ways of obviously controlling them just like they do the (unmanned aerial vehicles), and we have very little fidelity as to all the stockpiles of what they have USV-wise,” Miguez said.
The Houthis began firing on U.S. military and commercial vessels after a deadly blast at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza on Oct. 17, a few days after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
The Eisenhower has been on patrol here since Nov. 4, and some of its accompanying ships have been on location for even longer, since October.
In those months the Eisenhower’s fleet of fighter and surveillance aircraft have worked non-stop to detect and intercept the missiles and drones fired by the Houthis at ships in the Red Sea, Bab-al-Mandeb strait and Gulf of Aden.
But the USV threat, which is still evolving, is worrisome, Miguez said.
“That’s one of the most scary scenarios, to have a bomb-laden, unmanned surface vessel that can go in pretty fast speeds.”
“And if you’re not immediately on scene, it can get ugly extremely quick,” Miguez said.
That pace has meant the ships have spent four months at a constant combat pace with no days off with a port call.
That takes a toll on sailors, the commander of the Eisenhower, Capt. Christopher “Chowdah” Hill said in an interview with The Associated Press aboard the Eisenhower.
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Which takes us back to the Time article, where we have this reality confronting us, to wit:
The U.S. has a range of options for dealing with Yemen’s Houthis, none of them good.
But a long campaign of naval strikes and interception against them, as is now being floated by the Biden Administration and outside experts, is certainly the worst response of all.
Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping have summoned Tomahawk cruise missiles and Top Gun pilots from the deck of the USS Eisenhower.
The newly-renamed Operation Poseidon Archer is just two weeks old, and the Biden Administration is already drawing up plans for a longer effort, despite admitting that defeating the Houthis is not viable.
But the effects on the U.S. Navy will be predictable, because they have all happened before: overworked ships and sailors, expenditure of precious precision munitions, and a continued punt on the pivot to the Pacific.
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Which of course, Joe Biden and his so-called “defense officials,” incompetent Democrat political hacks given government jobs by Joe because they can’t make it in the real world, are totally unaware of, which takes us back to the Fox News article titled “US downs more Houthi drones; American public ‘lulled into complacency’ by Navy’s power, defense official says” by Louis Casiano, Jennifer Griffin on February 17, 2024, as follows:
“People have gotten too used to us being really good at shooting these incoming missiles down,” the official added.
“They don’t realize how hard it is to do and the strain on the sailors manning the radar.”
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No, dude, don’t blame shift any of that to the American people.
Who doesn’t realize how hard it is to do and the strain it puts on the sailors manning the radar is COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the most incompetent and clueless CIC we have had in the history of this nation, and probably the most incompetent CIC in the history of the world, as well.
This is Joe Biden’s WAR OF CHOICE, not ours.
He started it without asking our permission, and it is he that owns it, not the American people who are powerless to stop the madman from acting against our best interests.
And with that, let’s cut to a break for station identification, but don’t touch that dial, because we will be right back with more mindless CHAOS from the Joe Biden administration, so stay tuned.
And talk about a “whole of government” approach to getting Joe Biden re-elected, notwithstanding that the Hatch Act, which Joe totally ignores, as if it, like every other law, does not apply to him, prohibits public officials from using their official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the results of an election or nomination, Joe has a “full court press” going, and here I am now talking about Lael Brainard, who Joe announced on February 14, 2023 as a key member of his economic team, with her serving as Director of Joe’s National Economic Council, with Joe telling us at that time that Lael was one of the country’s leading macroeconomists who was bringing Joe, who himself knows absolutely nothing about the subject, an extraordinary depth of domestic and international economic expertise, with her having previously served at CEA, NEC, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve, so that she is a trusted veteran across our economic institutions, which means she is politically reliable and can be trusted to say what needs to be said when i9t needs to be said, like now to get Joe re-elected, and according to Joe, who himself is totally clueless as to how everyday Americans live, unlike him, supposedly, Lael understands how the economy affects everyday people, which is horse****, plain and simple, because Lael is as clueless as is Joe Biden about how the economy affects everyday people, because like Joe, Lael Brainard, a Washington insider who began her political career in 1997, serving as deputy national economic advisor and deputy assistant to the president during the Clinton administration, where she helped build a new White House organization to address global economic challenges such as the Asian financial crisis and China’s accession to the World Trade Organization.
Thereafter, having proved her political reliability, on March 23, 2009, Lael was nominated by Hussein Obama to serve as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs and after that, Hussein nominated her to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in January 2014, being confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 61–31 on June 12, 2014, and beginning her term on June 16, 2014.
Then, on November 22, 2021, Joe Biden nominated Brainard to be the vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, with her initial nomination being returned to Joe on January 3, 2022, due to it expiring at the end of the year.
Undaunted, Joe simply renominated her the following day, so that on April 26, 2022, her nomination was confirmed by the Senate by a 52–43 vote, with all Democrats present and seven Republicans voting in favor of her confirmation.
And then, as was stated above, Lael was selected by Joe as Director of the National Economic Council, which was established in 1993 to advise the President on U.S. and global economic policy, it being part of the Executive Office of the President, and by Executive Order, the NEC has four key functions, those being to coordinate policy-making for domestic and international economic issues; to give economic policy advice to the President; to ensure that policy decisions and programs are consistent with the President’s economic goals; and to monitor implementation of the President’s economic policy agenda.
As to Lael’s lack of credibility, she was quoted in a Financial Times article titled “Fed governor plays down inflation risks as ‘transitory surge’ – Lael Brainard says central bank should be ‘patient’ in pursuing loose monetary policy” by James Politi in Washington and Colby Smith in New York on May 11, 2021, as follows:
A senior Federal Reserve official has called on the US central bank to be “patient” in pursuing its ultra-loose monetary policy, dismissing inflation worries and highlighting “uneven” improvements in the labour market.
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In the above article where I pondered whether it is truly necessary to be a loser and a fool to work in high levels of government in Washington, D.C., I was actually thinking of Lael Brainard at the time, based on those wrong-footed comments from her above, on inflation being transitory, who is now out there touting BIDE-O-NOMICS for Joe, as if we would believe a word she says after her telling us on May 11, 2021, six months before Joe nominated her to be the vice-chair of the Federal Reserve on November 22, 2021, that inflation was transito9ry when it was anything but.
And thereafter, in a July 19, 2021, speech, old Joe marked the first six months of his administration by celebrating the nation’s economy, which he hailed as experiencing “the fastest growth, I’m told, at this point in any administration’s history.”
Getting himself all puffed up with how great he and his administration are, Joe then got on a roll as follows:
“We also know that as our economy has come roaring back, we’ve seen some price increases,” Biden said.
“Some folks have raised worries that this could be a sign of persistent inflation.”
“But that is not our view.”
In a reference to Lael at that time, who is now out there on the campaign trail for Joe as his Director of the National Economic Council touting BIDE-O-NOMICS, Joe continued by saying, “Our experts believe, and the data shows, that most of the price increases we’ve seen are expected to be temporary.”
And two months later, in a Marketwatch article titled “Fed’s Brainard says spike in inflation this year is ‘transitory’” by Greg Robb on September 27, 2021, Lael was back reinforcing Joe Biden’s political message on inflation of July 19, 2021, as follows:
Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard on Monday laid out a strong case for the central bank to maintain low interest rates, saying that the spike seen in inflation this year was transitory and the labor market was far from healed.
“High inflation readings from the spring and early summer were disproportionately driven by a few sectors experiencing specific supply bottlenecks,” Brainard said.
“As those COVID related disruptions subside, most forecasters expect inflation to move back down towards our 2% long-run objective on its own.”
“That’s the sense in which currently high inflation is likely to be transitory,” Brainard said.
“I expect inflation to decelerate, and pre-COVID inflation dynamics to return when COVID disruptions dissipate,” Brainard said.
She said it is uncertain how fast inflation will slow down over the remainder of this year and next year.
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And how wrong she was!
Which got her promoted!
Welcome to the whacky world of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and boy, is it ever a doozy!
Not being accountable to the American people, who in the grand Washingtonian scheme of things count for nothing in the BIG PICTURE, and not being held to account by Joe Biden himself, as he wants them out there telling us lies about Joe, while feeding us MISINFORMATION and DISINFORMATION about the economy, these public officials like Lael Brainard who are out there on the campaign trail for Joe, touting him and his
BIDE-O-NOMICS while blaming BIDENFLATION on corporate greed, this as that same alleged corporate greed helps fuel the Wall Street rally that the Biden campaign attributes to Joe’s BIDE-O-NOMICS, can feed us any bull**** they choose to feed us with impunity.
As to the Wall Street rally, which TEAM BIDEN is taking the credit for, as if BIDE-O-NOMICS is the cause of it, and Joe Biden the architect of it, we see that happening in a Fox News article titled “Lincoln Project adviser demands Democrats start calling Biden a ‘great president'” by Hanna Panreck on February 18, 2024, as follows:
Stuart Stevens, an adviser for the Lincoln Project, recently claimed Democrats need to start calling President Biden a “great president,” and not just a “better choice” than former President Trump.”
“A plea to my Democratic friends: It’s time to start calling Joe Biden a great president.”
“Not a good one.”
“Not a better choice than Donald Trump.”
“Joe Biden is a historically great president.”
“Say it with passion backed by the conviction that it’s true,” he wrote in an op-ed for the New Republic.
The president’s message has largely focused on Trump and making the election a choice between Biden and the former president, who they deem is a threat to democracy.
“Stop the nonsense that only a weak opponent gives Joe Biden a chance to win.”
“It’s more than wrong — it’s dangerous, completely misjudging Donald Trump’s strength,” Stevens wrote.
He cited strong unemployment numbers and the stock market hitting record highs, as well as student loan forgiveness for three million borrowers.
Stevens argued Biden “met the moment,” and told Democrats to “wake up and show some gratitude.”
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Show gratitude to Joe Biden?
NOT HARDLY!
In America, dude, we don’t do that groveling kind of bull****.
Joe Biden is beholden to we, the American people, not the other way around, as if this were the old Soviet Union and Joe Biden were instead the butcher Joe Stalin.
And why, pray tell, is the stock market up?
In an article titled “Wall Street ends higher, lifted by Uber, Lyft and Nvidia” by Noel Randewich and Johann M Cherian on February 14, 2024, this is what Reuters tells us:
Expectations the Fed will cut interest this year have fueled a rally on Wall Street in recent months that has sent the S&P 500 to record highs.
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While in another Reuters article titled “Wall Street slides as hot producer price data crimps rate cut bets” by Carolina Mandl, Amruta Khandekar and Ankika Biswas on February 16, 2024, we are told as follows as to why there is a rally on Wall Street, to wit:
The S&P 500 closed above 5,000 for the fourth time this year thanks to robust corporate earnings and surging enthusiasm around artificial intelligence.
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Robust corporate earnings?
How about OBSCENE PROFITS, people which takes us back to March 28, 2022, and a PRESS RELEASE by Bernie Sanders titled “NEWS: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sanders Statement on President Biden’s Budget Proposal” where we have as follows on that same subject that is fueling Joe Biden’s stock market rally today, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 28 – Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Monday issued the following statement after President Joe Biden released his fiscal year 2023 federal budget proposal:
I thank the President for submitting his budget proposal to Congress and I look forward to reviewing it closely.
At a time when corporations are making obscene profits by charging outrageously high prices for gas, food and rent, we need a budget that takes on the unprecedented corporate greed that is taking place in America today by enacting a windfall profits tax and preventing corporations from ripping off working families.
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HUH?
Preventing corporations from ripping off working families?
When is that supposed to happen, dude?
Which then takes us to Lael Brainard and her parroting Joe Biden’s claims of corporate greed fueling BIDENFLATION, as opposed to BIDE-O-NOMICS being the cause of BIDENFLATION, and here I am referring to a CNBC article titled “Lael Brainard slams food companies for ‘shrinkflation’ as White House attacks price gouging” by Rebecca Picciotto on February 13, 2024 to wit:
“If you look at some of the staples, like eggs or milk, they have come down.”
“But consumer brands, instead of actually lowering prices, they’ve shrunk packaging,” Brainard said on CNBC’s “Money Movers.”
“That’s the shrinkflation that the president is really calling attention to.”
Brainard’s comments came hours after the consumer price index showed inflation trending above expectations, coming in 0.3% higher in January.
In particular, food prices slid up 0.4% during the month.
Consumer brands like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and more have raised prices over the past year to keep profits afloat.
Shrinkflation, the practice of reducing product sizes while keeping prices the same, is Biden’s latest line of attack against corporations, which he debuted on Super Bowl Sunday.
Both the White House and Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign have touted inflation recovery as a key accomplishment of his economic agenda, dubbed Bidenomics.
But consumers have yet to feel the relief on their wallets and they blame Biden for it, according to recent polls.
Instead, Biden has pointed the finger at corporate price-gouging tactics, which he says are the real driver of sticky high prices.
“The president is going to continue emphasizing that input costs have come down, supply chains have healed,” Brainard said.
“He’s going to keep calling on corporations to pass those savings on to the American consumer.”
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Joe Biden is going to keep calling on corporations to pass those savings on to the American consumer?
At the expense of Joe’s Wall Street rally?
Don’t hold your breath, because it is not going to happen?
And now it is time to break for station identification. but don’t touch that dial, because we will be right back!
And while we are on the subject of corporate profits fueling the Wall Street rally Joe Biden is attributing to BIDE-O-NOMICS as he takes credit for making it happen, it seems like only yesterday that we were reading a Reuters story titled “GlobalFoundries forecasts hit as chip customers seek advanced processes, clear inventory” on February 13, 2024, where we learned as follows:
Feb 13 (Reuters) – GlobalFoundries forecast its first quarter below market estimates on Tuesday, as some customers continue to clear excess chip inventory while others opt for more advanced manufacturing processes which are not provided by the contract chipmaker.
Customers in end markets such as communications infrastructure and data center have been working down existing chip inventory, weighing on demand for GlobalFoundries.
Shares of the company were down 4%.
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And see, people, that simply is not good, not good at all, that shares in GlobalFoundries should be down, at all, let alone 4%, because that calls into question just how effective BIDE-O-NOMICS really has been, which takes us back to that story for more detail, as follows:
GlobalFoundries expects its first-quarter revenue to be in the range of $1.50 billion to $1.54 billion, compared with analysts’ average estimate of $1.76 billion, according to LSEG data.
“We remain cautious on the outlook for 2024, and are closely monitoring for signs of improved demand in the macroeconomic indicators while our customers actively manage down their inventory levels,” Caulfield said.
GlobalFoundries expects adjusted profit per share to be in the range of 18 cents to 28 cents in the first quarter, versus analysts’ estimate of 46 cents.
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And here, with all that in mind, to see BIDE-O-NOMICS in action in a bid to boost the stock price of GlobalFoundries as a way of showcasing just how effective BIDE-O-NOMICS really is with respect to causing Wall Street rallys, just six short days later, we are reading a story in the Albany, New York Times Union titled “GlobalFoundries wins $3 billion from feds for massive expansion – Chipmaker to sign largest CHIPS Act funding deal to date, paving way for $12.5 billion expansion that includes long-anticipated second fab in Malta” by Larry Rulison on February 19, 2024, where we learn how Joe Biden is going to step in and save GlobalFoundries and create a lot of real high-paying jobs to boost Joe’s chances in the polls come November, as Joe pours out federal dollars in a bid to buy this upcoming election, to wit:
The White House will announce Monday a $3.1 billion federal aid package it has negotiated with GlobalFoundries to help the semiconductor company undertake a historic $12.5 billion expansion in Saratoga County and Vermont, work that would include the construction of a second computer chip factory at its Fab 8 headquarters in Malta.
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Yes, people, under Joe Biden, it is considered sound economic policy to use borrowed federal funds at interest to build a second factory to make the product the first factory is making, but doesn’t have customers for.
That is how Joe is going to build back better to build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out to make America an industrial behemoth that would be the wonder of the modern world to showcase the greatness of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, who is following the economic blueprint used by Soviet dictator Joe Stalin to make the old Soviet Union the industrial powerhouse and envy of the world that it was under Stalin, who Joe Biden hopes to emulate here as he does the same for America, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Officials said the money would help add more than 1,000 jobs at the new factory at the company’s Saratoga County headquarters and GlobalFoundries’ operation in Essex Junction, Vt.
The federal funding will come from the U.S. Commerce Department through the $52 billion CHIPS and Science Act authored by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer of New York and signed by President Joe Biden in 2022.
The CHIPS law provides an unprecedented amount of money and support for computer chip companies to expand manufacturing and supply chains in the United States.
It was enacted as a rising China increasingly is seen as a geopolitical adversary to the U.S. and Taiwan, where the majority of high-end chips are made.
“This is such a big day,” U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo said during a conference call with reporters on Sunday.
“A big day for our country, and a big day for New York and Vermont.”
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HUH?
A big day for our country?
How so, Gina?
I recall reading a Fox News story titled “Whatever happened to the global chip shortage?” by Bret Baier and Amy Munneke on 28 March 2023, where we were informed as follows:
President Biden has been traveling across the country to meet with state leaders in an effort to ramp up semiconductor production across the United States.
“America is coming back.”
“We’re determined to lead the world in the manufacturing of semiconductors,” President Biden said Tuesday.
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And that is what this is all about people – THE GREATNESS AND MAJESTY OF AMERICAN DICTATOR JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN, JUNIOR!
Joe is determined to lead the world in the manufacturing of semiconductors, and by God, that is going to happen, even if Joe doesn’t have a market for them, because Joe doesn’t know about needing markets, never having worked a day in his life as anything but a hack politician getting his palm greased and his pocket stuffed while feeding off the taxpayers, which agai takes us back to that story, to wit:
Nearly three years ago, the coronavirus pandemic exposed the first signs of U.S. vulnerability when it came to semiconductor manufacturing.
“The reality is we had a whole world clambering for electronics to work at home and to study at home, and those electronics are chock full of chips.”
“So, no surprise, demand for chips just went off the charts,” Semiconductor Industry Association President John Neuffer said.
Neuffer said most U.S. fabs were operating at full capacity but they couldn’t keep up with the demand needed.
Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law last year following a bipartisan push from lawmakers.
It’s incentivized companies to build and manufacture on U.S. soil.
“We eventually were able to catch up.”
“That’s the short term.”
“The CHIPS Act is really for the long term,” Neuffer said.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spoke about the CHIPS for America Program on “Special Report” this past February.
Semiconductor companies have been able to apply for those incentives through the initiative.
“Congress has sent $52 billion to us here at the Commerce Department and it’s our job to invest that, working with companies to make chips in America,” Raimondo said.
“Every governor out there thinks the next chip factory will be in their state.”
“They will compete.”
“I’m sure they’ll put incentives on the table and that’s what they should do.”
Many companies began breaking ground on new facilities and expansions before the CHIPS Act was officially signed, including New York-based GlobalFoundries.
“We need the right economics to continue to add capacity in the U.S.,” GlobalFoundries CEO Thomas Caulfield said.
“We have a facility that needs to grow to full scale in upstate New York in what we call Fab 8.”
“The chips will be an integral part of the economics to close the funding gap, to create that capacity that can compete globally against all the players in manufacturing.”
Since the end of 2022, at least 23 new chip fabs have been announced and nine will increase production, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
Companies including Intel and TSMC have announced plans to build new fabs in Arizona.
“Nationwide, we have suppliers that all over the country that’ll be providing the tooling and the materials needed to build the best semiconductor chips in the world,” Kelly said.
“These are also jobs that you don’t need a four-year degree to get and you can actually get a salary you can raise a family on.”
U.S. domestic production is expected to increase in the near future, but competing abroad with Taiwan could take some time.
“I would say it’s going to take us years.”
“The CHIPS funding gives us the tools we need to start manufacturing these semiconductor chips here,” Kelly said.
“What it means for our country: that we don’t have to go across the Pacific Ocean to get something so critical that’s in everything that has an on/off switch.”
Caulfield pointed out it took around three decades to create the imbalance in semiconductor production around the world.
“This didn’t happen overnight for our industry,” Caulfield said.
“It’s going to take decades to correct that issue.”
“So this is a good start and the sooner we get going on this as an industry, the better we’ll be.”
“Probably the biggest issue we still need to contend with is to make sure the demand for all this capacity we want in the U.S. materializes,” Caulfield said.
“The last thing we want to do is in industry, create capacity in the U.S. and have it go underutilized.”
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THE LAST THING WE WANT TO DO IN INDUSTRY IN AMERICA, people, IS TO CREATE, AS JOE BIDEN AND GINHA RAIMONDO ARE DOING, THOUGHTLESSLY, CAPACITY IN THE U.S. AND HAVE IT GO UNDERUTILIZED, SO WHY THEN ARE THEY DOING IT, OTHER THAN TO BUY AN ELECTION?
And while we are on the subject of Joe Biden blatantly using taxpayer dollars to goose the stock market in a bid to create the illusion of a vibrant and flourishing economy in order to make his BIDE-O-NOMICS look like an American success story so that Janet “TOODLES” Yellen and Lael Brainard have something to tout out there on the campaign trail as they stump for Joe, let’s take a look at Plug Power, whose stock price is another beneficiary of Joe’s largesse with taxpayer dollars.
According to its website, Plug Power helps businesses achieve greater productivity and sustainability in an electrified world through hydrogen and fuel cells.
Going back to November 5, 2023, we find Plug Power making national news related to Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM in an article by Larry Rulison in the Albany, New York Times Union titled “Could new hydrogen discovery provide cheaper form of ‘green’ hydrogen? – French scientists found that underground hydrogen is more plentiful than previously expected, although extracting it could be a different story,” where we are informed as follows, to wit:
COLONIE — Both the Biden and Hochul administrations are making huge investments into the production of “green” hydrogen — a manmade form of hydrogen that is made from water using renewable energy.
And Plug Power, the Latham fuel cell maker, has also made huge bets on seeking to become one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of green hydrogen — considered by some to be a nearly perfect emissions-free energy source to replace fossil fuels in transportation, power plants, houses and businesses.
When using renewable, non-emissions electricity sources like wind or solar power, electrolysis produces what’s known as green hydrogen.
That’s the business that Plug Power is in.
The company has been building green hydrogen plants all across the United States and also internationally as governments across the globe seek to reduce and eventually eliminate the use of fossil fuels.
The company’s efforts, which have been supported by both the state and federal government with tax breaks and other financial assistance, have led it to become the world’s largest producer of green hydrogen, although the market is very small compared to the overall hydrogen market.
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TAX BREAKS, people, and OTHER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, which is called CORPORATE WELFARE!
Joe Biden and his pack of DEMOCRATS go on and on and on, blaming Trump and the Republicans for the huge deficit as a result to them handing out tax breaks to rich Americans, but Joe and the DEMOCRATS are doing the same exact thing, as we clearly see right above here, which takes us forward in time to November 11, 2023, and a story in TheStreet titled “Plug Power collapses after ‘going concern’ warning from hydrogen developer” by Martin Baccardax, where we have as follows, which will require a GOVERNMENT BAIL-OUT by Joe Biden to fix to keep Joe’s Wall Street Rally going, to wit:
Plug Power shares plunged lower Friday after the hydrogen-fuel-cell developer warned that it may not be able to continue operations amid supply chain disruptions and a severe cash burn rate.
Plug Power, which provides fuel cells for electrified industrial vehicles used by Amazon and Walmart, also posted weaker-than-expected third quarter sales of $199 million last night, thanks in part to what it described as “unprecedented hydrogen supply challenges” in the north American hydrogen market.
In a later filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, however, Plug Power also added that given its current cash position and expected capital spending, there is “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”
The group is seeking a $1.5 billion loan from the Department of Energy, as part of its green hydrogen network financing, but funds are unlikely to being flowing into the Latham, New York-based group until early next year.
“To alleviate the conditions and events that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, management is currently evaluating several different options to enhance the Company’s liquidity position, including the sale of securities, incurrence of debt or other financing alternative,” Plug Power said.
“The Company’s plan includes various financing solutions from third parties with a particular focus on corporate level debt solutions, investment tax credit related project financings and loan guarantee programs, and/or large scale hydrogen generation infrastructure project financing,” Plug Power added in the 10-Q filing.
Plug Power shares were marked 28.8% lower in pre-market trading to indicate an opening bell price of $4.22 each.
KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Sangita Jain, who carries a ‘sector weight’ rating on Plug Power stock, said the lack of a detailed financial plan amid the ‘going concern’ warning is troubling.
“Management reiterated the myriad options being considered including project finance, ABLs, advances against restricted cash and inventory draw down,” she said.
“But nothing has been decided despite elevated cash burn and the unrestricted cash & available for sale securities balance declining from $2 billion at the end of last year to around $500 million at the end of the third quarter.”
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So, without MASSIVE LIFE SUPPORT from Joe Biden using taxpayer dollars which we peons and serfs are on the hook for, Plug Power was not a viable business, which takes us to a Bloomberg article on Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM titled “A $30 Billion Meltdown in Clean Energy Puts Biden’s Climate Goals at Risk” by David R Baker, Saijel Kishan and Jennifer A Dlouhy on November 30, 2023, where we have this hard look at the reality Joe Biden and Gina Raimondo and Jennifer Granholm all think we are too stupid to grasp, because they all are, to wit:
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — No one expected the transition from fossil fuels to be easy.
But a year after President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law promised billions of dollars for America’s switch to clean energy, some of the nation’s most ambitious renewable power projects have been shelved, electric car sales are missing targets and investors are fleeing the sector in droves.
The result is a $30 billion collapse in US clean energy stocks in the last six months — a market many investors expected to flourish in the aftermath of the law’s passage.
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NOTE: TO BE AN “INVESTOR,” ALL YOU NEED IS MONEY, NO BRAINS OR INTELLIGENCE IS REQUIRED!
Scanning down that story, we then come to this:
The giddy enthusiasm that followed the Inflation Reduction Act’s passage evaporated, wiping out a quarter of the market value of US companies in the S&P Global Clean Energy Index in the six months ended Nov. 27.
It’s a meltdown that underscores the obstacles standing in the way of Biden’s ambitious climate goals.
Along with sky-high financing costs, clean energy companies face the problems of winning over potential neighbors for their projects, securing government permits and plugging into a creaky power grid unable to handle all the renewable power that’s planned.
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The sky-high financing costs these projects are facing, of course, are as a direct result of BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us back to Bloomberg for more of the reality that escapes Joe Biden and Gina Raimondo and Jennifer Granholm, to wit:
The warnings are clear: America’s road to achieving a zero-carbon electricity grid by 2035 is getting rockier by the day.
The specter of bankruptcies now haunts the sector.
It was only two years ago that Wall Street investors and bankers headed to Scotland for a global climate meeting, waxing lyrical about net-zero emissions goals and the profits to be made from the shift to cleaner energy.
That’s a stark contrast to the current mood as the world convenes again for climate talks at the COP28 summit this week in Dubai.
Biden’s sweeping climate law offers at least $374 billion in tax credits and other incentives to spur the energy transition.
Many saw it as a grand experiment to test whether subsidies, rather than top-down government mandates, would be enough to accelerate a change the planet desperately needs.
Instead, the US remains far off track for reaching Biden’s goal of a net-zero economy by 2050.
Companies such as Plug Power Inc. are building hydrogen production plants, but potential users have been slow to sign supply deals, since switching from natural gas to hydrogen usually means installing expensive new equipment.
In mid-November, Plug Power issued a going-concern warning, an accounting term that means the business may be illiquid within 12 months.
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But have no fear, people, because as we will, “BAIL-OUT JOE” Biden is coming to the rescue with gobs of federal money to pull Plug Power’s fat back out of the fire, and when we return from our break for station identification, that story will continue, so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial!
The derogatory term “pipe laying” in American politics, which is exactly what we are seeing going on here with respect to Joe Biden drawing on every single slimy DEMOCRAT political trick in their book to rig elections, in this case of BIDEN PIPE LAYING, using taxpayer dollars to provide “good paying union jobs” building factories and infrastructure for corporate America, goes back to the late 1830s, and was used to denounce corruption, as was the case with one antebellum editorial denouncing “internal improvements” and “canal enlargement” as ways to buy working-class votes, which is exactly what Joe Biden is doing here with his BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us back to the saga of Plug Power, which Joe Biden is going to transform from an UGLY DU&CKLING into a WALL $TREET DARLING, and a relevant Reuters article titled “Wall St ends lower as investors weigh fresh employment data” by Noel Randewich and Amruta Khandekar on December 6, 2023, where we have as follows on where Plug Power has been, before Joe Biden, like a WHITE KNIGHT on his steed, came forth to rescue it like a damsel in distress, to wit:
Plug Power fell 5.9% after Morgan Stanley downgraded the hydrogen fuel cell firm to “underweight” from “equal weight.”
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As was stated above, without MASSIVE LIFE SUPPORT from Joe Biden using taxpayer dollars which we peons and serfs are on the hook for, Plug Power was not a viable business, which reality was reflected in that Morgan Stanley downgrade, which downgrade, of course, impacted on the efficacy of BIDE-O-NOMICS, which is supposed to keep Wall Street humming along through the campaign season, reaching new records every day thanks to Joe Biden and his BIDE-O-NOMICS, the likes of which hasn’t been seen in the world since Joe Stalin and his five-year plans built back the Soviet Union better with an economy that worked from the bottom up and middle out, and from there, to see how this story progresses with more CORPORATE WELFARE on the way, we next go to a Fox News article titled “White House unveils strict hydrogen regulations in victory for environmentalists” by Thomas Catenacci on December 23, 2023, where we have this development to consider, to wit:
The White House unveiled highly anticipated guidance placing significant restrictions on the type of hydrogen power development eligible for generous federal tax credits.
The proposed guidance, released Friday morning in a joint announcement by the White House, Treasury Department and Department of Energy, tethers the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) highest production credit of $3 per kilogram of hydrogen produced to tight green energy standards.
“The Inflation Reduction Act’s hydrogen tax credit will help build a clean hydrogen industry that will be critical in reducing emissions from harder-to-decarbonize sectors like heavy industry and heavy transportation,” John Podesta, President Biden’s clean energy czar, said in a statement.
“Today’s announcement will further unprecedented investments in a new, American-led industry as we aim to lead and propel the global clean energy transition,” added Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
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Ah, yes, people, “PIPE LAYING” in an election year on a massive scale fueled by FEDERAL DEBT we are on the hook for, which takes us back for more, to wit:
“Hydrogen has the potential to clean up America’s manufacturing industry, power the transportation sector and shore up our energy security all while delivering good-paying jobs and new economic opportunity to communities in every pocket of America.”
Overall, the hydrogen production tax credits are some of the most generous clean energy incentives earmarked under the IRA, Democrats’ massive climate and tax bill President Biden signed in August 2022, and are worth up to $100 billion.
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TAX CREDITS, people!
And what, pray tell, is a tax credit?
Quite simply, a tax credit is a dollar amount that you can subtract from your income tax to reduce your overall tax liability, so that, while a tax refund simply represents the difference between the taxes you paid versus the taxes you actually owe, a tax credit is a benefit that directly reduces your tax burden, and that takes us to June 9, 2023, and a “Statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on House Republicans’ Tax Scam 2.0,” where we see BIDEN-ESQUE HYPOCRISY and BULL**** SLINGING on a grand scale, to wit:
The GOP Tax Scam 2.0 once again makes clear the House Republicans’ values: their priority isn’t reducing the deficit or out-competing the world, their priority is giving handouts to rich special interests and corporations at the expense of everyone else.
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HUH?
Does this little BIDEN NINNY (a foolish or stupid person or simpleton) think we are all stupid and uninformed just because she, Joe Biden, everyone in his administration, and by extension, every DEMOCRAT in America and the world who support Joe Biden are all stupid and uninformed and don’t know up from down?
How about rewording that so that it correctly states that it is the BIDEN TAX SCAM once again making incandescently clear the BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S values: Joe’s priority isn’t reducing the deficit!
Joe’s priority is giving handouts to rich special interests and corporations at the expense of everyone else, so that when Joe goes to his HIGH DOLLAR FUNDRAISER$, those rich special interests and corporations have some spare coin to stuff Joe’s pockets with!
Going back to June 9, 2023, and a “Statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on House Republicans’ Tax Scam 2.0,” we have more BIDEN-ESQUE HYPOCRISY and BULL**** SLINGING on a grand scale, to wit:
Just days ago, House Republicans were demanding devastating cuts to programs hard-working Americans count on — from health care to public safety to Meals on Wheels — in the name of “deficit reduction.”
Today, they are proposing to spend hundreds of billions on tax breaks for big corporations.
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The republicans are proposing to spend hundreds of billions on tax breaks for big corporations?
How about Joe Biden is right now spending hundreds of billions on tax breaks for big corporations is more like it, which means that it is Joe Biden who is prioritizing tax breaks for big corporations, delivering those tax giveaways to large profitable corporations, while raising energy costs on American families by thousands of dollars a year, which takes us back to the Fox News article titled “White House unveils strict hydrogen regulations in victory for environmentalists” by Thomas Catenacci on December 23, 2023, to wit:
The legislation marked the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to spur the growth of hydrogen generation, which remains a nascent technology requiring billions of dollars in investment to achieve large-scale production.
However, the formulation of the tax credits has sparked an intense debate in recent months, leading to delays in issuing Friday’s guidance, as a result of the potential carbon emissions produced in the production of hydrogen.
The credits will be available for 10 years, starting on the date a hydrogen production facility is placed into service for projects that begin construction before 2033.
The IRA includes four tiers of credits, ranging from $0.60 per kilogram to $3 per tier, which are determined based on the carbon intensity of that production.
In addition, the guidance requires that, beginning in 2028, hydrogen developers’ electricity generation is sourced from a clean source on an hourly basis, the most stringent timescale.
In other words, the electricity generated for electrolysis must be produced within an hour of hydrogen production from that electricity.
And the final key provision for hydrogen produced using electricity mandates clean energy is sourced from a project in the same region.
Groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA) and the Clean Hydrogen Future Coalition, in addition to hydropower and nuclear groups, have argued strict regulations like those unveiled Friday will deter investment, increase the cost of hydrogen, lead to fewer projects in the coming years and discriminate against existing low-carbon power sources.
“The guidance announced today by the Biden-Harris administration will place unnecessary burdens on the still nascent clean hydrogen industry,” FCHEA President and CEO Frank Wolak said Friday.
“The nation needs commonsense solutions for this tax credit that are aligned with the congressional intent to spur robust economic development and create jobs while reducing carbon emissions.
“Congress intended the tax credit to spur domestic clean hydrogen production and allow the United States to maintain an international competitive advantage, not to be an inadvertent backdoor to regulate use of the electric utility grid,” he added.
“The United States cannot achieve its climate goals without clean hydrogen, and these proposed regulations and requirements will unnecessarily hold back our domestic industry, driving investment, manufacturing and technology leadership overseas.”
Marty Durbin, the president of the U.S. Chamber’s Global Energy Institute, said the guidance will “stunt the growth of a critical industry before it has even begun.”
Andy Marsh, the CEO of hydrogen fuel cell systems developer Plug Power, added the framework will “fall woefully short in achieving the administration’s decarbonization objectives.”
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And since there is more yet to come, here is a good time to take a break for station identification, but don’t change that dial, because we will be right back with more!
“BLUNDERING JOE” Biden is a big bag of hot wind with respect to his specious claims and BIDEN BOBANCE that BIDE-O-NOMICS creates good, high-paying union jobs while building an economy that works for everybody from the bottom up and middle out, as we will clearly see by going back to the Plug Power saga starting with a Reuters article titled “Plug Power jumps on govt loan, liquid green hydrogen production start” by Mrinalika Roy and Tanay Dhumal on January 23, 2024, where we have BIDEN CORPORATE WELFARE for failing businesses that can’t make it on their own goosing Plug Power’s stock, which in turn gooses the stock market, and by doing so, makes BIDE-O-NOMICS look good to the rich investor class who profit off of BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
Jan 23 (Reuters) – Plug Power said on Tuesday that it has secured over $1 billion in government funding and started producing liquid green hydrogen at its Georgia plant, sending the company’s shares up about 20% in morning trade.
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And there is BIDE-O-NOMICS in action, people,land make no mistake about it, which takes us back for more, to wit:
The hydrogen fuel cell firm said it has finalized a term sheet negotiation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) for a $1.6 billion loan facility.
The company has been facing liquidity issues amid supply challenges in the liquid hydrogen market in North America, and had raised going concern doubts in November.
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The company has been facing liquidity issues and had raised going concern doubts in November precisely because the business is not really viable as we can readily by referring to an excellent engineering analysis on the subject titled “Energy and the Hydrogen Economy” by Ulf Bossel, who studied Mechanical Engineering in Darmstadt (Germany) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he received his Diploma Degree (fluid mechanics, thermodynamics) in 1961, and after a short work period at BBC, he continued his graduate education at the University of California at Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1968 for experimental research in the area of space aerodynamics, and after two years as Assistant Professor at Syracuse University he returned to Germany to lead the free molecular flow research group at the DLR in Göttingen, leaving that field for solar energy in 1976, where he was founder and first president of the German Solar Energy Society, and started his own R&D consulting firm for renewable energy technologies, and in 1986, BBC asked him to join their new technology group in Switzerland where he became involved in fuel cells in 1987 and later director of ABB’s fuel cell development efforts worldwide; and Baldur Eliasson, who studied Electrical Engineering and Astronomy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he received his doctorate in 1966 on a theoretical study of microwave propagation, and then he worked for three years as radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena before joining the newly founded Brown Boveri (later ABB) Research Center in Switzerland in 1969, where he is in charge of ABB’s Energy and Global Change Program worldwide and reports directly to ABB’s Chief Technology Officer, while representing ABB in a number of international programs, where, for example, he is Vice Chairman of the “R&D Program on Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Technologies” of the International Energy Agency and has received many international awards for his contributions to environmental sustainability, where we find in Section 8.1 The Limits of a Pure Hydrogen Economy, as follows:
The results of this analysis indicate the weakness of a “Pure-Hydrogen-Only Economy” as depicted in Figure 14.
All difficulties with the pure Hydrogen Economy appear to be directly related to the nature of hydrogen.
Most of the problems cannot be solved by additional research and development.
We have to accept that hydrogen is the lightest of all gases and, as a consequence, that its physical properties do not fully match the requirements of the energy market.
Production, packaging, storage, transfer and delivery of the gas, in essence all key component of an economy, are so energy consuming that alternatives should and will be considered.
Mankind cannot afford to waste energy for idealistic goals, but economy will look for practical solutions and select the most energy-saving procedures.
The “Pure-Hydrogen-Only Solution” may never become reality.
The degree of energy waste certainly depends on the chosen path.
Hydrogen generated from rooftop solar electricity and stored at low pressure in stationary tanks may be a viable solution for private buildings.
On the other hand, hydrogen generated in the Sahara desert, pumped to the Mediterranean Sea through pipelines, then liquefied for sea transport, docked in London and locally distributed by trucks may not provide an acceptable energy solution at all.
Too much energy is lost in the process to justify the scheme.
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PLUG POWER IS PIE-N-THE-SKY regardless of how many taxpayer dollars Joe Biden wastes on it, precisely because hydrogen is the lightest of all gases and, as a consequence, its physical properties do not fully match the requirements of the energy market, so that production, packaging, storage, transfer and delivery of the gas, in essence all key component of an economy, are so energy consuming that alternatives should be considered, which isn’t going to happen with Joe Biden and his INSANE GREEN DREAM in control of things, which takes us back for more, to wit:
It also planned a $1 billion equity raise earlier this month.
“This funding, when received, will support the development construction and ownership of up to six hydrogen production facilities, significantly advancing green hydrogen deployment in the United States,” CEO Andrew Marsh said during an investor call.
“With our Georgia plant operational, and the Tennessee plant coming online, we expect a significant reduction in costs,” he added.
Talking about the Georgia plant, Marsh said while “the construction took slightly longer than expected”, the facility will bolster Plug’s supply of liquid hydrogen being delivered to its customers for material handling operations, fuel cell electric vehicle fleets, and stationary power applications.
The plant, which the company said is the largest liquid green hydrogen plant in the U.S. market, is designed to produce 15 tons per day (TPD) of liquid electrolytic hydrogen.
“The DoE loan facility seems well baked, but we have to wait until the second half of 2024.”
“Seems they are getting the finance options they need and wiggling out of a very tight spot,” said Craig Irwin, an analyst at Roth Capital Partners.
As companies are moving towards their net-zero emission targets, hydrogen, a zero-emission gas at point-of-use, serves as both a fuel and as energy storage, helping them reduce their carbon footprint.
The company said the production is expected to positively impact its bottom line and provide an additional step change in fuel margin expansion.
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Which takes us back to Joe Biden’s BOBANCE about creating good high-paying jobs, which we see isn’t happening here, anyway, in this Albany, New York Times Union article titled “Plug Power starts hiring freeze as the company’s finances tighten – Company is also expecting to receive a $1.6 billion loan from the Energy Department” by Larry Rulison on January 23, 2024, to wit:
COLONIE — Latham fuel cell maker Plug Power has instituted a hiring freeze and is planning to increase prices on its products a week after it raised concerns over its financial stability.
Plug Power CEO Andy Marsh also revealed that the company is in the final stages of obtaining a $1.6 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy that could be drawn down on starting in the second half of 2024 to help with the cost of building six new clean hydrogen manufacturing plants.
Hydrogen is used to power Plug Power’s fuel cells, and the company recently completed its first industrial-sized facility to produce hydrogen from water using electrolysis.
“We’re grateful for our partnership with the Department of Energy and look forward to our continued collaboration, which will play a pivotal role in scheduling our forthcoming plants in Texas and New York,” Marsh said Tuesday during the company’s 2024 business outlook conference call with stock analysts.
Shares of the company surged 32 percent to $3.75 during mid-day trading, although that number is significantly lower than its stock price from a year ago, when shares were trading north of $17.
The news comes a week after Plug Power announced it had activated a sale of up to $1 billion in stock as it started to run low on cash and issued a “going concern” warning that cast doubts on Plug Power’s ability to keep operating.
Plug Power had only $110 million in unrestricted cash at the end of the third quarter of 2023, compared to $690 million at the end of 2022.
The company says it will have $150 million in capital expenses in 2024 to complete clean hydrogen plants in New York, Texas and Tennessee.
Most hydrogen produced in the world today is made from methane, meaning it releases carbon into the atmosphere when produced.
Plug Power is seeking to create a new market for so-called green hydrogen made from water that can be used to power its fuel cells and used by other companies seeking to reduce carbon emissions.
Plug Power lost $283 million during the third quarter of 2023 and has yet to turn an actual profit as it expands into capital-intensive ventures on clean hydrogen production in the U.S. and abroad.
Hydrogen-powered fuel cells only largely emit water vapor as a byproduct, making it a good fuel to use to combat climate change caused by carbon emissions from fossil fuels like natural gas and petroleum.
Plug Power makes fuel cells for vehicles and stationary applications like data centers.
Marsh said that during the hiring freeze, positions will be eliminated through attrition.
The company has several thousand employees, with its headquarters in Latham and a fuel cell factory in Bethlehem.
“While adopting a more conservative outlook, we remain dedicated to leading the industry and building the company prudently,” Marsh said.
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And so much then for all those good high-paying jobs Joe says he is creating because it sure does look like they are frozen here.
A farce is defined as something that was supposed to be serious, like Constitutional government in America, but has instead turned ridiculous, as in the Joe Biden administration in the United States of America, which takes us back to the Fox News article titled “White House unveils strict hydrogen regulations in victory for environmentalists” by Thomas Catenacci on December 23, 2023, where we have this stupid talk from Biden’s idiot Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to consider, to wit:
“Today’s announcement will further unprecedented investments in a new, American-led industry as we aim to lead and propel the global clean energy transition,” added Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
“Hydrogen has the potential to clean up America’s manufacturing industry, power the transportation sector and shore up our energy security all while delivering good-paying jobs and new economic opportunity to communities in every pocket of America.”
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And so does FAIRY DUST, people, have the potential to clean up America’s manufacturing industry, power the transportation sector and shore up our energy security all while delivering good-paying jobs and new economic opportunity to communities in every pocket of America, and it might actually do a much better job of it than hydrogen.
And let’s be frank here, people – this is all high school chemistry, and it has all been well known now for years and years and years, and in fact, hydrogen’s potential as an electrical energy source was first discovered and demonstrated in 1839 by the Welsh physicist Sir William Robert Grove.
And going back to “Energy and the Hydrogen Economy” by Ulf Bossel and Baldur Eliasson, which was published in 1997, fully 27 years ago now, if one googles the title, one finds it listed on the website of Jennifer Granholm’s own Department of Energy, which has to have one wondering why it is that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who has zero qualifications to be an energy secretary, knowing nothing herself about the subject, has never tried to educate herself on the subject so she wouldn’t sound like such a dumbass ignoramus as she does in that Fox News article above here, which takes us to that publication, as follows, for what Jennifer Granholm should know cold, but obviously doesn’t, to wit:
With this study we present an analysis of the energy required to operate a pure hydrogen economy.
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Yes, people, making so-called “GREEN” hydrogen, itself a stupid term, since all hydrogen is hydrogen which is a colorless gas, by electrolysis is very energy intensive process, and here we have Jennifer’s own Department of Energy quoting from “Energy and the Hydrogen Economy” on that very subject, to wit:
Unfortunately, the process of hydrogen production is always associated with energy losses.
Making hydrogen from water by electrolysis is one of the worst energy-intensive ways to produce the fuel.
It is a clean process as long as the electricity comes from a clean source.
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Said colloquially, for every dollar you put in, you maybe get back fifty cents.
As to how clean the water must be, we have a recently published technical paper on that subject from the British Royal Society of Chemistry Jennifer Granholm should be familiar with as Energy Secretary titled “Impact of impurities on water electrolysis: a review” by Hans Becker, James Murawski, Dipak V. Shinde, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Gareth Hinds and Graham Smith published a year ago on 14th March 2023, where we have as follows on that subject:
It’s well known that the water supplied to the electrolyser must be of high purity.
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And to produce that high quality water before the electrolysis process to producc “GREEN” hydrogen can even begin requires an expenditure in infrastructure, given it takes approximately 99.208 pounds, or 11.88 gallons of water to produce 11.0231 pounds or 1.06 gallons of hydrogen, which is only enough to fill the storage tank in a typical passenger fuel cell electric vehicle, and while kilogram of hydrogen (2.2 pounds) holds 39.4 kWh of energy, it typically costs around 52.5 kWh of energy to create via current commercial electrolyzers, which takes us back to “Energy and the Hydrogen Economy” where we have more as follows:
High-grade electricity from renewable or nuclear sources is needed not only to generate hydrogen, but also for all other essential steps of a hydrogen economy.
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In other words, merely producing the hydrogen is but one step in a very energy intensive process to get that hydrogen, which must be packaged by compression or liquefaction and transported by surface vehicles or pipelines and stored and transferred to the end user, and all those costs are what make up the “hydrogen economy,” and here is one major glitch in this Biden INSANE GREEN HYDROGEN DREAM, because all they are looking at is production, which takes us back again to “Energy and the Hydrogen Economy,” to wit:
In this study, the energy consumed by each stage is related to the energy content (higher heating value HHV) of the delivered hydrogen itself.
The analysis reveals that much more energy is needed to operate a hydrogen economy than is consumed in today’s energy economy.
In fact, depending on the chosen route the input of electrical energy to make, package, transport, store and transfer hydrogen may easily double the hydrogen energy delivered to the
end user.
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So for every dollar you put in, you get back a whopping fifty cents, which takes us to another technical paper done for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of Jennifer Granholm’s U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in 2009, titlled “State-of-the-Art Hydrogen Production Cost Estimate Using Water Electrolysis” published for the U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen Program in September 2009, where we have in the Conclusions as follows:
• The current (2009) state-of-the-art cost for delivered hydrogen from electrolysis for a forecourt refueling station ranges from $4.90/kg-H2 to $5.70/kg-H2 dispensed at the pump, with a base-case estimate of $5.20/kg-H2. This base-case estimate of $5.20/kg-H2 includes an electrolysis production cost of $3.32/kg-H2 and compression, storage and dispensing costs of $1.88/kg-H2.
• The current (2009) state-of-the-art plant gate cost for hydrogen from a central electrolysis operation ranges from $2.70/kg-H2 to $3.50/kg-H2 with a base-case estimate of $3.00/kg-H2. These costs are evaluated at an assumed renewable-based electricity cost of $0.045/kWh, which was supplied to the Panel by DOE and based on wind-generated electricity.
Which takes us to a HyrdrogenInsight article titled Shell scraps plan to build 48 new hydrogen filling stations in California, for which it had been awarded $40.6m grant” on 18 September 2023 by Leigh Collins, where we see this federally-funded HYDROGEN BOONDOGGLE happening, as follows:
Shell has quietly scrapped previously announced plans to build 48 new light-duty hydrogen filling stations in California, despite having been awarded $40.6m of government grants back in 2020 for the initiative.
And last month, the oil giant closed five of its existing hydrogen refuelling stations in the state, leaving it with only three in operation.
“We can confirm that Shell has discontinued its plan to build and operate additional light-duty vehicle fueling stations in California,” a company spokesperson tells Hydrogen Insight.
ANALYSIS | It is now almost 14 times more expensive to drive a Toyota hydrogen car in California than a comparable Tesla EV
“We will continue to invest in hydrogen in a disciplined manner, with a focus on hard-to-abate sectors such as industry and heavy duty transport and emphasis on key regions where we have competitive advantage and strong adjacencies with our existing business.
“Shell remains active in hydrogen in California where we operate three heavy-duty stations as part of project ZANZEFF: Zero and Near Zero-Emission Freight Facilities Shore to Store Project.”
In other words, the company has now closed all its car-focused hydrogen filling stations in California and has formally scrapped plans to build more.
On 9 August, Shell announced that it “will temporarily close hydrogen operations at five light duty stations [in California] due to operational issues”, adding: “It is unknown at this time when each site will reopen”.
However, the statement to Hydrogen Insight suggests that these closures — in San Francisco (two), Sacramento, Berkeley and Citrus Heights — are permanent.
Formal rejection of funding
Shell had been awarded $7.3m from the California Energy Commission (CEC) in December 2020 for the first eight of the 48 new filling stations, from a total allocated pot of $40.58m (subject to future appropriations and funding allocations).
However, the funding appears to never have been actually been sent to Shell.
In July, the company formally rejected the funding, telling the CEC that “political and economic uncertainty in the initial stages of market deployment present a significant risk in further investment”, according to a letter obtained by local news website CalMatters through a public records request.
“These barriers need to be overcome in order to enable future investment from Shell in this segment of the market,” said the note, written by Abhishek Banerjee, Shell’s hydrogen commercial manager in the US.
He also wrote that the project had encountered difficulties getting permits and sourcing green hydrogen, and faced high construction costs.
The California-based trade body Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership states on its website that H2 filling stations cost an “estimated” $2m to build, a sum that might be difficult to ever recoup, given that only 17,284 fuel-cell cars have ever been sold or leased in the state.
California’s largest H2 fuel retailer, True Zero, which operates 37 of the 53 hydrogen filling stations in the state, recently hiked the price of H2 at all its pumps to $36/kg, up from around $30/kg.
As recently as April 2021, it was charging just $13.14 per kilo.
According to Hydrogen Insight calculations, this now means a Tesla EV is now roughly 14 times cheaper to run than a Toyota hydrogen car in the state.
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And with that said, let’s pause for station identification to let sink in the serious economic ramifications to all of us as a result this INSANE GREEN HYDROGEN ENERGY push by Joe Biden and Jennifer Granholm that we are going to be on the hook for, and after ten hours of some good Infomercials as to why you should buy yourself a hydrogen-powered car to combat the CLIMATE CRISIS, we will be right back.
Before we go back to that incipient BIDEN GREEN HYDROGEN BOONDOGGLE, for a real good look at just how stupid and short-sighted and frankly idiotic this Biden crowd including Gina Raimondo really are as they push Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM on us, let’s go to an article in the Albany, New York Times Union titled “Semiconductor manufacturing expected to strain NY electrical grid – The recently announced expansion of GlobalFoundries will bring another large load project to New York as the electric grid’s reliability margins narrow” by Molly Burke York Times Union on February 26, 2024, where we have BIDEN STUPID ON THE HOOF, as follows:
ALBANY — As some of New York’s most influential politicians celebrate the infusion of federal money to expand the GlobalFoundries Fab 8 campus in Malta, questions remain about the ability of the state’s electrical grid to meet the needs of another high-demand project.
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Those “influential” politicians start with Democrat Charley “CHUCK” Schumer, and never in my life have I seen such a bunch of thumb-sucking losers in charge of things as is this crowd, throwing around BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars without a clue as to the true ramifications of their actions on the stability of America, which is not theirs to destroy.
How long now has it been known that these CHIP FABS are energy hogs?
That answer is years!
How long has it been known that New York is heading towards an energy deficit?
Years again, but notwithstanding, plow ahead with an energy-consuming project because as part of his Stalinesque FIVE-YEAR PLAN to build back America better to create an economy that works for everybody from the bottom up and middle out, it is what Joe Biden, who has never worked a real job in his life and knows nothing about anything other than getting his pocket stuffed and his palm greased as a hack politician, wants, and what Joe wants, he gets, which takes us back for more of this short-sighted idiocy, to wit:
The project will expand the current semiconductor manufacturing plant while adding a second facility, estimated to be 358,000 square feet, that GlobalFoundries said will triple their capacity.
But the process of manufacturing semiconductors requires significant energy to power operations, with estimates that the Micron plant near Syracuse will use up to 928 megawatts by 2035.
One megawatt powers roughly 750 to 1,000 households.
In 2023, prior to the major expansion’s announcement, GlobalFoundries had plans on file with local municipalities noting that its structures would run on 195 megawatts when completed.
The new multi-billion dollar expansion will bring a significant jump in that required energy.
The Times Union reported in January 2023 that the growing semiconductor industry would place a strain on the electrical grid’s reliability margins.
The growth comes as the state is transitioning energy sources toward renewables and away from fossil fuels to meet requirements in New York’s ambitious Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, signed into law in 2019.
The climate law requires that 70 percent of statewide electricity come from renewable energy by 2030, and that New York’s electricity system is completely emission-free by 2040.
The New York Independent System Operator — a not-for-profit that manages the state’s electrical grid and marketplace — estimated in its Jan. 12 quarterly report on reliability that approximately 260 megawatts of large loads were installed across the state in recent years.
That amount is projected to increase to 764 megawatts in 2025, reducing the reliability margin during normal operations and weather to less than 100 megawatts.
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People, frankly, this is insane, and yet, it is also reality, which takes us back for more, to wit:
The Independent System Operator’s comprehensive reliability plan estimated that the reliability margin could be eliminated within the decade.
“When considering the impact of proposed large load projects, the available statewide reliability margin decreases and approaches a deficiency in 2030 for higher demand scenarios,” the plan says.
The estimates face more dire predictions if New York experiences extreme weather — like a sustained heat wave of 95 degrees or higher — which is becoming more common due to the effects of climate change.
Low reliability margins, which measure the electrical grid’s “insurance policy” of extra power to be used for high demand of electricity or unforeseen circumstances, could lead to brownouts and increased reliance on emergency energy purchases from neighboring states or regions.
The increase in “large load projects” — which use significant amounts of energy to operate — is projected to be a risk to the reliability of the state’s power grid if new renewable energy resources are not introduced at a similar rate.
“This has been a concern for quite some time and now it is a red light concern,” said Gavin Donohue, president of the Independent Power Producers of New York.
“We’ve gone from yellow to red.”
A study by David Brooks, an electrical engineer at Harvard University, that was co-authored with Udit Gupta and others, shows that by 2030 the computing sector will use 20 percent of electricity globally, and that chip manufacturing “accounts for most of the carbon output attributable to hardware systems,” both due to its energy consumption and its release of greenhouse gases during the process.
The Fab 8 plant annually manufactures 400,000 wafers — which are later divided into computer chips — that are in demand by 60 percent of the market.
The expansion is receiving $1.5 billion in federal funding from the CHIPS and Science Act to upgrade and expand its manufacturing plants in New York and Vermont.
The grant comes from the $52 billion federal commitment to aid the U.S. computer chip industry to expand manufacturing capacity and the supply chain amid growing economic and technological threats from China.
GlobalFoundries was the first chip manufacturer to be awarded a CHIPS grant under the program, which is overseen through the Commerce Department.
GlobalFoundries is also getting a loan of federal money along with state and potentially local government subsidies to help pay for a $12.5 billion investment at Fab 8 and at its chip factory in Essex Junction, Vt., outside of Burlington.
New York’s Green CHIPS program, which was signed into law by Hochul in 2022, will provide $575 million in tax credits to GlobalFoundries for the expansion.
Empire State Development, which runs the Green CHIPS program, will also commit $15 million in workforce development funding to the GlobalFoundries project.
The Green CHIPS program also requires that GlobalFoundries enter into a “sustainability plan” with Empire State Development to use fully renewable energy for the site’s electricity with “potential onsite solar energy infrastructure and onsite battery storage systems.”
GlobalFoundries already receives a discounted 15 megawatt allotment from ReCharge NY, a program run by the New York Power Authority.
That allotment is expected to increase after consideration at NYPA’s board of directors meeting in March.
The project is also getting $30 million from the state for infrastructure investment in the expansion.
ReCharge NY incentivizes businesses and nonprofits to stay in New York with 7-year contracts providing access to discounted hydro and market energy sources.
In 2023, high-load businesses like GlobalFoundries saved an average of $250,000 per megawatt compared with market rate.
The program sources 455 megawatts of power from hydro-electric sources in Western and Northern New York, while procuring 455 megawatts from market sources.
ReCharge NY currently has 66 megawatts of unallocated power, Paul DeMichele, a spokesperson for NYPA, said.
The Independent System Operators most recent annual report showed that two years ago, 22 percent of the market was from hydro-electric power, 21 percent was from nuclear power, 4 percent from wind and less than 1 percent from solar, while more than 51 percent came from oil and gas.
The strain of the “large load project” is expected to narrow the reliability margin as a project is brought onto the grid through an interconnection process.
Kevin Lanahan, a spokesman for the Independent System Operators, said that the pace of new renewable energy sources is not matching the pace of retiring fossil fuel-based energy leaving the grid, leading to an overall decline in the total megawatts available on New York’s grid.
Donohue, who is also a member of the New York Climate Council, which was tasked with developing a scoping plan to meet the goals of the climate act, said that New York needs “honest assessments” about how energy-demanding projects can be brought to the state while prioritizing the reliability of the electrical grid.
“The pace of promises in New York does not keep up with the pace of play,” Donohue said.
“New York is a very difficult state to build anything and even more complicated when it’s an energy infrastructure project, regardless of the fuel source.”
“… At the end of the day, reliability is paramount.”
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And reliability with Joe Biden in charge is going right out the window!
And while we are on the subject of MASSIVE CORPORATE WELFARE funded by borrowed money at interest, known as FEDERAL DEBT, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “Chips firms seek double $28 bln US subsidies available, Commerce Dept says” by David Shepardson on
February 26, 2024, where we have as follows on the subject, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Monday most chips companies seeking government subsidies will get significantly less than they have sought, since the government received requests for more than double the $28 billion it plans to award.
Raimondo said companies in leading edge chips manufacturing have requested more than $70 billion.
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That is by way of background.
Where I wanted to go in that article is to here, to wit:
The $52.7 billion Chips and Science program approved by Congress in August 2022 includes a $39 billion program to subsidize chip production and related supply chain investments, and the awards will help build factories and increase production.
Earlier this month, Raimondo said Commerce would award a $1.5 billion grant to GlobalFoundries, the first major award.
“These are highly complex, first-of-their-kind facilities.”
“The kind of facilities that TSMC, Samsung, Intel are proposing to do in the United States – these are new-generation investments – size, scale complexity that’s never been done before in this country,” Raimondo told Reuters this month.
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Yes, people, they have never been done here in this country, and the consequence is that non-technical political hacks like Gina Raimondo who is pushing Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM on us like a good little political soldier haven’t a clue as to what really is needed besides a building to make these projects viable, like large amounts of water, and large amounts of electricity.
Where are these coming from, especially in Arizona, which gets less than 13 inches (33 centimeters) of average annual rainfall as America’s second driest state behind Nevada, which meteorologist say averages less than 10 inches (25.4 centimeters) of rain per year compared to the national average of about 30 inches (76 centimeters)?
The answer is that people like Gina Raimondo don’t have a clue.
Stay tuned!
More to come.
So that we can understand what is going on here with the Commerce Department handing out all this taxpayer money to these large corporations, some of which are foreign-owned and foreign-based, like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, which has its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, by way of some essential background as to exactly what role Democrat Gina Marie Raimondo, born May 17, 1971, a year after I returned to this country from service as a combat infantryman in America’s war of choice in Viet Nam, who is an American businesswoman, lawyer, politician, and venture capitalist who has served Joe Biden since 2021 as the 40th United States secretary of commerce, and her commerce department are supposed to be playing in our lives as American citizens, now more or less bystanders in what used to be our nation, let’s go to an excerpted chapter from the 1988 book “From Lighthouses to Laserbeams: A History of the US Department of Commerce,” where we have the following American history on that subject to consider, to wit:
On March 4, 1913, nearly 125 years after the Constitution established promotion of the general welfare as one of the great goals of government, President William Taft signed legislation creating the Department of Commerce.
It was the desire to promote the general welfare through expansion of commerce and industry that had brought the delegates to the fateful meeting in Philadelphia and made the Union possible.
The period between the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitutional Convention in 1787 had been tumultuous, marked by discord among the newly independent states.
Trade had become particularly troublesome.
At the time, much of the commerce between states was conducted along the Atlantic seaboard and via the waterways flowing into the Atlantic or the inland rivers.
The Articles of Confederation allowed each state the freedom to create regulations, tariffs, and currency and to tax neighboring states using their ports and throughways for interstate or foreign commerce.
In 1785, legislators from Virginia and Maryland recognized the need to work together to ensure mutually profitable commerce on the shared waterways of the Potomac River and agreed to meet.
George Washington, interested in plans to finance navigational improvements that would push the Potomac route westward to the Shenandoah and Ohio Valleys, offered the hospitality of Mount Vernon for the conference.
A 13-point agreement, covering tidewater navigational rights, toll duties, commerce regulations, fishing rights and debt collections, was drawn.
Mt. Vernon Conference
The success of the Mount Vernon Conference led James Madison to write Washington about a proposal for a meeting with commissioners from other states to discuss matters of interstate commerce.
A resolution appointing commissioners was introduced in the Virginia House of Delegates.
The Virginia commissioners were to meet with other state delegates “to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony.”
In 1786, representatives from five states convened in Annapolis “to take into consideration the trade and commerce of the United States.”
At this meeting, Alexander Hamilton, in a proposal cosigned by James Madison and Edmund Randolph, recommended a general meeting of all the states at a future convention.
The mandate was to be broader than that of the Annapolis meeting, because, as Hamilton said, the delegates had been “induced to think that the power to regulate trade is of such comprehensive extent and will enter so far into the general system of the federal government, that to give it efficacy, and to obviate questions and doubts concerning its precise nature and limits, may require a correspondent adjustment of other parts of the federal system.”
U.S. Constitution
This third meeting, which was held in Philadelphia in May, 1787, and presided over by George Washington, resulted in the replacement of the Articles of Confederation with a new United States Constitution, which was adopted on September 17, 1787.
As Hamilton had foreseen, an “adjustment” was made, a profound adjustment that fundamentally restructured the government.
A national executive was authorized and new powers were given to the Congress.
These included the power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states.”
Among the proposals which were considered at the Constitutional Convention was one by Gouverneur Morris on August 20, 1787, to create a council of state “to assist the President in conducting the public affairs.”
Morris recommended that the third member be a “Secretary of Commerce and Finance, whose responsibilities would include recommending such things as may in his judgment promote the commercial interests of the United States.”
The Constitution, however, made no provision for a council of state, although soon after Washington took office, the Department of Foreign Affairs (July 27, 1789), renamed the Department of State (September 15, 1789), the War Department (August 7, 1789) and the Treasury Department (September 2, 1789) were created to help administer the new government.
Treasury was given responsibility for business and commerce.
The Secretaries of these departments and the Attorney General, who had been appointed under the act of September 24, 1789, became members of the first Cabinet.
Two States
With the new government in place, North Carolina and Rhode Island, the only two states yet to ratify the Constitution, found that their commerce and manufactures were to be treated in the same manner as those of any foreign country if they were not part of the United States.
North Carolina joined on November 21, 1789; Rhode Island on May 29, 1790.
Commercial and industrial interests thus provided the vital key needed to open the door to the drafting of the Constitution and to its final acceptance by the 13 existing states.
George Washington, in his first address as President, said: “The advance of agriculture, commerce and manufactures by all proper means will not, I trust, need recommendation.”
In December 1795, the House of Representatives created a Committee of Commerce and Manufactures as a third standing committee.
(The Senate established a Commerce Committee in 1816.)
Navy Department
Before the turn of the 19th century, another executive department was added.
The Navy Department was created on April 30, 1798, because of the impending war with France.
In 1829, the Postmaster General was officially invited by President Andrew Jackson to join the Cabinet.
The Department of the Interior came into being in 1849, and although broader duties had been proposed its focus became land and Indian affairs.
In 1870, the Department of Justice was created.
In 1884, Congress established a Bureau of Labor in response to the urgings of labor.
It was constituted as a separate department in 1888, but without Cabinet status.
Agriculture was the first industry of the country to be accorded an executive department by the Congress.
The Department of Agriculture was authorized by the act of February 9, 1889.
Panic of 1893
By the mid-1890s, depression conditions which followed the “Panic of 1893” had caused the newly formed National Association of Manufacturers to set as a principal goal the formation of a Department of Commerce and Industry, which would include the independent Department of Labor and other agencies.
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As an aside, the Panic of 1893 was a depression set off by the failure of two of the largest employers in the country: The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and the National Cordage Company with the result that the stock market plummeted as businesses that had borrowed heavily to invest in railroads went bankrupt.
Going back to the history, it continues as follows:
Instead, in 1898, Congress created a U.S. Industrial Commission to investigate a number of economic and social problems, including the growing impact of corporate trusts on the national welfare.
Even when the Twelfth Census in 1900 showed that the aggregate value of manufacturing products of the United States exceeded $13 billion, approximately four times the value of all the products of agriculture, Congress did not respond to the pleas of business for a Cabinet agency for commerce and industry.
By this time, the enormous growth of business, industry, commerce and banking between 1850 and 1900 had resulted in an increase of the national wealth from under $5 billion to $88 billion, 20 percent of which was in the hands of fewer than 4,000 men.
Great Wealth
Some of these were among Theodore Roosevelt’s “malefactors of great wealth,” who had benefited from the nation’s rapid change from an agrarian society to an industrial one powered by steam engines, gasoline automobiles, electricity, telegraphs, and other inventions ranging from crude washing machines to zippers.
Problems with transportation of increased volumes of materials and goods had already led to the establishment of an Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887 to regulate railroad rates and access.
At the end of the 1890s, with the assistance of President William McKinley’s “Open Door” policy of actively promoting exports, the value of American manufactured goods sold abroad had almost tripled, and total foreign commerce had passed the $1 billion mark as exports exceeded imports for the first time.
What was to be called the great commercial invasion of Europe had begun.
Still, Congress did not act on proposals for a Cabinet department for commerce until Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency and recommended creation of a combined Department of Commerce and Labor in his first State of the Union message in 1901.
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Teddy Roosevelt was known as a “trust buster” who took the view that the President as a “steward of the people” should take whatever action necessary for the public good unless expressly forbidden by law or the Constitution,” and as President, Roosevelt held the ideal that the Government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the Nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none.
Going back to the history, we have more as follows, to wit:
Roosevelt wanted the new department to have the power to investigate corporate earnings and to guard the rights of the workingman.
Spurred by the President, once again Congress considered a proposal for a Department of Commerce.
When the debate in Congress concluded, the advocates of a Department of Commerce agreed to a compromise with those seeking a Cabinet voice for labor.
For the first time in the Nation’s history, a vote was scheduled on the creation of a new executive department with a dual title, the Department of Commerce and Labor.
Years: 1903-1913
On February 14, 1903, Congress approved legislation (S.359) creating a Department of Commerce and Labor and President Theodore Roosevelt signed the bill (32 Statute 825) that same day.
Two days later, Roosevelt nominated his personal secretary, George B. Cortelyou, to be the first Secretary.
He was sworn in on February 18, 1903.
The new Department of Commerce and Labor was one of the largest and most complicated in Government.
It included a Bureau of Corporations, Bureau of Immigration, Bureau of Navigation, Light House Board, Steamboat Inspection Service, Bureau of Statistics, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Bureau of Standards, Bureau of Census, Bureau of Fisheries, and the still to be organized Bureau of Manufactures.
The Department of Labor became once more a Bureau of Labor and accounted for only one percent of all personnel.
Promoting Commerce
Charged with fostering, promoting and developing foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping and fishery industries, the labor interests, and the transportation facilities of the United States, the Department’s work was to include:
* investigating management of corporations (except railroads) engaged in interstate commerce;
* administering the Lighthouse Service, including the establishment and maintenance of aids to navigation;
* taking the census;
* making coast and geodetic surveys;
* collecting and publishing statistics on foreign and domestic commerce;
* investigating markets for American products;
* inspecting steamboats and enforcing laws pertaining thereto for the protection of life and property;
* supervising Alaskan fur-seal and salmon fisheries;
* monitoring merchant vessels, including their registry, measurement, licensing, entry, and clearance;
* applying immigration law; and
* collecting information on hours of labor, earnings, and means of promoting material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity.
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Today, do we see Gina Raimondo making any attempt whatsoever to promote social, intellectual and moral prosperity in this country?
Going back to the history we have more as follows:
The Secretary also was required to make special investigations as requested and to report annually to the President on Department activities.
The youngest department had responsibility for some of the oldest programs in government: The maintenance of lighthouses was authorized by Congress in 1789.
The first census was conducted in 1790.
Thomas Jefferson signed legislation creating a “Survey of the Coast” in 1807.
The Treasury Department started keeping statistics on waterborne foreign commerce in 1820 and organized an Office of Weights and Measures in 1836.
Within five months, when all transfers were complete, the Department of Commerce and Labor grew from one official, the Secretary, to a total of 10,125 people in Washington and the country at large.
Cortelyou served only a year before being called to manage Roosevelt’s presidential campaign in June, 1904.
But his successor, California congressman Victor H. Metcalf, found that the work of organizing the Department had been “as thorough and complete” as was possible.
During Metcalf’s tenure, the Bureau of Manufactures, which would be most directly related to the primary function of the Department — the promotion of industry and commerce — was established in 1905 with an $11,020 appropriation and provision for seven employees, including a bureau chief and assistant messenger.
Secretaries
There were two more Secretaries of Commerce and Labor over the combined Department’s limited lifespan, Oscar S. Straus, an entrepreneur and former U.S. Minister to Turkey (1906-1909), and Charles Nagel, a politician and Missouri supreme court justice (1909-1913).
The Department became the increasing focus of requests for information of every kind — scientific, sociological, statistical, and commercial.
By 1912, manufactures accounted for 47 percent of exports, up from 32 percent in 1902 and 18 percent in 1892, with a total value exceeding $1 billion for the first time.
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In our times today, in a Reuters article titled “US economy on firmer footing heading into first quarter” by Lucia Mutikani on February 28, 2024, we have as follows on exports:
The goods trade deficit increased 2.6% to $90.2 last month, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said in a separate report on Wednesday.
Exports rose 0.2% to $170.4 billion, but were outpaced by a 1.1% jump in imports to $260.6 billion.
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And again, some more history:
In a report to Roosevelt, Straus summarized the climate in these words: “Our age has been very properly called an era of commercial development and expansion, and the United States, by reason of its many exceptional advantages, its boundless natural resources, and possessing a growing, intelligent, energetic, enterprising, and self-reliant population, is reaping a greater share of industrial and commercial prosperity than any of the other nations of the world.”
As the need for ever-expanding markets for manufactures intensified and workers moved from farm to factory in greater numbers, labor brought increasing pressure for separation of the Department’s functions and independent Cabinet status.
President William Taft signed legislation on March 4, 1913, his last day in office, splitting the combined department.
Labor was given Cabinet status and the designation of the Department of Commerce and Labor was changed to the Department of Commerce.
It had taken more than a century for the Congress to establish an executive department exclusively devoted to the commercial and manufacturing interests of the Nation.
What we are seeing here, people, quite simply, is the continued transformation of our national economy we were warned about by Biden Treasury Secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen in her “Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen on the State of the U.S. Economy in Chicago, Illinois” on January 25, 2024, where “TOODLES” said to all o9f us here in America, and in the world, as well, if not the whole of the galaxy, “I’m honored to be here at the Economic Club of Chicago to talk about the middle class in America: from when the pandemic hit, to the recovery, to what’s ahead.”
And “what’s ahead” from then is where we are now, with Biden Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo implementing Stalin-Era Central Planning in America using the Commerce Department as her vehicle for doing so, which in turn is making her a literal CZAR OF BUSINESS here in America, where Gina gets to choose who is going to be a winner, and who she is going to have be the losers, with federal government money being the determining factor with regard to who gets to be the one, versus who is made the other by Gina, which takes us back to “TOODLES” on January 25, 2024, where we had more on BIDE-O-NOMICS and BIDE-O-NISM, as follows:
Overall, the Biden Administration has put in place the most extensive set of policies and investments to benefit the middle class and grow the economy that our country has seen in my lifetime.
Our economic plan is improving lives and laying the foundation for a new future for middle-class families and communities across the country.
The President and I understand that many Americans have long felt a deeper pessimism about the economy, going back far before the pandemic.
Due to the longer-term trends that I described, life is still harder than it should be for the middle class in this country.
To change this, our modern supply-side strategy is designed to build off of our historic recovery and continue charting a new course.
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Yes, people, Joe and “TOODLES” are indeed charting a new course, and they are using Joe Stalin’s first FIVE-YEAR PLAN as their model, because the Soviet Union’s achievements were tremendous during the first five-year plan, which yielded a fifty-percent increase in industrial output, and if it worked for DEMOCRAT ICON Joe Stalin in the Soviet Union, it should work for Joe Biden and the MIDDLE CLASS of America, as well, even if it leaves behind those of us on the bottom, which takes us back to January 25, 2024 and more “TOODLES,” as follows:
We’re focused on boosting our economic capacity in order to deliver robust and shared economic growth.
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And that is what we are seeing Gina Raimondo about here, with her grants of money to the likes of Plug Power, essentially a ZOMBIE BUSINESS, without an influx if government money to keep it functioning, and GlobalFoundries, which again takes us back to “TOODLES” out there on the campaign trail politicking her little heart out for Joe while trying her best to sell us on the BIDEN BRAND, for more, as follows:
Our aim is to make middle-class lives better: for the short haul and for the long haul.
Infrastructure
We started with infrastructure.
Our country’s infrastructure has been deteriorating for decades.
In the Trump Administration, the idea of doing anything to fix it was a punch line.
But this Administration has delivered.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a $1.2 trillion investment in our nation’s infrastructure.
It is bringing new opportunities within reach for middle-class families.
It’s creating new construction jobs that do not require a college degree.
It’s providing access to clean water and to better internet.
It’s helping goods get to consumers faster and at lower cost.
These changes are happening everywhere in America, not just on the coasts or in wealthier communities.
Treasury analysis shows that funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is especially going to states with the lowest-rated public infrastructure and lower median household incomes.
Through infrastructure investment, we’re helping build a new future for people and places that have historically been left behind.
Manufacturing and Energy
Infrastructure is just the beginning.
The CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act are reinvigorating American manufacturing, including through incentivizing private sector investments.
Companies have announced over $600 billion in manufacturing and clean energy investments since the start of the Administration.
These investments will fuel our economic growth and increase our economic security.
But I want to emphasize today how they’ll change middle-class lives.
The reinvigoration of manufacturing means new jobs for middle-class Americans, especially in places where potential exists, but opportunity has failed.
The IRA provides incentives to locate projects in low-income communities and in energy communities where the local economy has historically been dependent on fossil fuels.
These incentives are working.
Investments are growing faster in energy communities and in greater amounts.
Since the IRA was passed, 70 percent of IRA-related investments have been in counties where the employment rate is below the national average and 86 percent have been in counties with college graduation rates below average.
We’re also working to make sure these jobs are good ones.
The IRA’s prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements help ensure fair wages and pathways into new industries.
The President and I are also strong supporters of unions.
Union members typically have higher wages, by around 10 to 15 percent.
They have greater access to critical fringe benefits, such as retirement benefits, medical benefits, and life insurance.
Union members also benefit from more scheduling predictability and better workplace safety.
My own academic work has found that these non-monetary factors are a key driver of job satisfaction.
And we know it’s not just good jobs that matter to people.
What follows them also matters, so we’re working to support Americans in planning for retirement.
The American Rescue Plan provided support to multiemployer pensions, protecting millions of pensions, including restoring benefits for thousands of workers and retirees who had had their benefits cut.
In October, we proposed a new rule that cracks down on additional barriers to retirement security, such as junk fees.
None of these policies are aiming to recreate an earlier era.
This country and the world have changed and we cannot go back.
What we need is a new future rooted in upgraded infrastructure and a modern tax system, fueled by twenty-first century industries, and with the middle class at its center.
The Administration is building the foundations of that future.
Our economic agenda is far from finished.
There’s much more the President and I would like to do to support the middle class.
When the expanded Child Tax Credit expired, millions of children were pushed back into poverty.
It is still too hard to be a working parent.
We need to get American families access to affordable childcare and other support for their children.
As these children get older, they should be able to get a good education, including through free community college, and receive training that prepares them for good jobs.
As they work, they should be able to afford quality housing near economic opportunities.
And as they get older, they should be able to retire with dignity.
We need to do more here too.
The obstacles the middle class has faced for decades will not disappear overnight.
But this Administration is fighting the right fight: for economic policy that makes a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
It’s what motivated me to become an economist and has been the central mission throughout my career.
And it has shaped this Administration’s actions as we have responded to the pandemic, as we have driven a strong and fair recovery, and as we are putting in place the building blocks for continued growth.
If we keep at it, America will continue its progress in overcoming the challenges facing the middle class.
The middle class has always driven the success of our country.
It will continue to lead our future.
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And with all of that to consider, it is time to take a break for station identification, but don’t change that dial because we will be back with more on BIDE-O-NISM, which in simple terms, is defined as a one party system of government with the Joe Bidene in charge of everything, and in which each class, including the semi-fascists, the MAGAtards, the BASKET OF DEPLORABLES, and the DREGS OF SOCIETY have their distinct place, function, and representation in the government, with some being very much more equal than those below them in the social hierarchy that separates Biden Democrats from everybody else in America, while the individual, that being us, is subordinated to the state and control is maintained by military forces, secret police, rigid censorship, and governmental regimentation of industry and finance, so stay tuned!
And seriously, people, anymore, as this story of BIDE-O-NISM in America continues to be told, courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, a GRAND PALLADIUM of OUR LIBERTY, where do we even begin, anymore to try and make sense out of what makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, at all.
First of all, consider that despite Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution containing two clauses, those being the Appropriations Clause and the Statement and Accounts Clause, wherein is clearly stated that “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time,” which Kate Stith from the Yale Law School states is part of the “job description” of Congress, “Like the appropriations requirement, this [Statement and Accounts] requirement states not a power but a legislative duty that has been interpreted to require an annual budget,” we in fact have no budget, period.
To the contrary, according to a Reuters article titled “Biden signs stopgap spending bill to avert government shutdown, White House says” on March 1, 2024, Joe Biden has signed into law a short-term stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown, the White House said on Friday, which is a recipe for fiscal disaster, as it quite literally gives Joe Biden a BLANK CHECK to spend as recklessly as he chooses, with we, the people getting handed the bill.
Think I’m kidding, people?
Not a joke as we see by going to a CNBC article titled “The U.S. national debt is rising by $1 trillion about every 100 days” by Michelle Fox on March 1, 2024 for this dose of reality we are all facing as a result of Joe Biden’s incredible FISCAL PROFLIGACY, with no one having a clue as to where all this money is disappearing to, to wit:
The debt load of the U.S. is growing at a quicker clip in recent months, increasing about $1 trillion nearly every 100 days.
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Yes, people, you are indeed reading that right: Joe Biden is blowing through a TRILLION DOLLARS in three months with no accountability or oversight whatsoever as to where that money has went, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
The nation’s debt permanently crossed over to $34 trillion on Jan. 4, after briefly crossing the mark on Dec. 29, according to data from the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
It reached $33 trillion on Sept. 15, 2023, and $32 trillion on June 15, 2023, hitting this accelerated pace.
Before that, the $1 trillion move higher from $31 trillion took about eight months.
U.S. debt, which is the amount of money the federal government borrows to cover operating expenses, now stands at nearly $34.4 trillion, as of Wednesday.
Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett believes the 100-day pattern will remain intact with the move from $34 trillion to $35 trillion.
Moody’s Investors Service lowered its ratings outlook on the U.S. government to negative from stable in November due to the rising risks of the country’s fiscal strength.
“In the context of higher interest rates, without effective fiscal policy measures to reduce government spending or increase revenues,” the agency said.
“Moody’s expects that the US’ fiscal deficits will remain very large, significantly weakening debt affordability.”
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And as Joe Biden just proved there on March 1, 2024 by signing that BLANK CHECK short-term stopgap spending bill, there are no effective fiscal policy measures in place to reduce government spending or increase revenues, nor will there be, so long as the worthless congress and the American peo9ple give Joe Biden carte blanche to spend as much as he wants on whatever he wants with no accountability, which takes us back in time to Justice Joseph Story and how he defined the relationship between the two clauses in his Commentaries on the Constitution, to wit:
“The power to control and direct the appropriations constitutes a most useful and salutary check upon profusion and extravagance, as well as upon corrupt influence and public speculation.”
“And to make their (Congress) responsibility complete and perfect, a regular account of the receipts and expenditures is required to be published, that the people may know, what money is expended, for what purposes, and by what authority.”
And all of that is now gone, people, long gone, and we are fools for letting it happen right before our eyes, which takes us back to circa 1936, and H.L. Mencken in “On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe,” wherein is stated as follows, which in turn describes exactly where we are today in America with the FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE AND PROFLIGATE Joe Biden in power, to wit:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
That great and glorious day in America when the plain folks of the land reached their heart’s desire at last and adorned the White House with a downright moron named Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior occurred in November of 2020, to our detriment as a nation and as a people, which takes us back to H.L. Mencken in “Prejudices: Third Series,” where I swear he seems to be talking about me:
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.”
“Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable…”
For the record, a “snollygoster” is a shrewd, unprincipled person, while a “throttlebottom” is an innocuously inept and futile person in public office, which terms seem to describe Biden Treasury Secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen quite well, while her “Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen on the State of the U.S. Economy in Chicago, Illinois” on January 25, 2024, is nothing more than a farrago of hopes, wishes, and just plain nonsense, which has “TOODLES” coming across as bumfuzzled, which is to say “in a state of bewilderment; confused or perplexed,” which in turn makes her out as an “ultracrepidarian,” which is to say “one who is presumptuous and offers advice or opinions beyond one’s sphere of knowledge,” and a “fopdoodle,” to boot, which means “TOODLES” is seen as insignificant, and here, since we just had a raft of economic news with which we can fact-check “TOODLES.” let’s go back to “TOODLES” on January 25, 2024, where we had this from “TOODLES” on BIDE-O-NOMICS, as follows:
Overall, the Biden Administration has put in place the most extensive set of policies and investments to benefit the middle class and grow the economy that our country has seen in my lifetime.
Our economic plan is improving lives and laying the foundation for a new future for middle-class families and communities across the country.
The President and I understand that many Americans have long felt a deeper pessimism about the economy, going back far before the pandemic.
Due to the longer-term trends that I described, life is still harder than it should be for the middle class in this country.
To change this, our modern supply-side strategy is designed to build off of our historic recovery and continue charting a new course.
The reinvigoration of manufacturing means new jobs for middle-class Americans, especially in places where potential exists, but opportunity has failed.
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So, people, how about her statement that the reinvigoration of manufacturing means new jobs for middle-class Americans, especially in places where potential exists, but opportunity has failed?
Have Joe Biden and “TOODLES” Yellen actually managed to do that – reinvigorate manufacturing in America?
If so, then why just the other day did Reuters have an article titled “US manufacturing contracts further” by Lucia Mutikani on March 1, 2024, where we learned as follo9ws, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing slumped further in February, with a measure of factory employment falling to a seven-month low amid layoffs, but there were signs activity was on the cusp of rebounding.
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If it is slumping, it counters the claim by “TOODLES” that she and Joe Biden have reinvigorated it, but let’s not make a hasty judgment here, so back for more we go:
The ISM said its manufacturing PMI fell to 47.8 last month from 49.1 in January.
It was the 16th straight month the PMI remained below 50, which indicates contraction in manufacturing.
That is the longest such stretch since the period from August 2000 to January 2002.
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How “TOODLES” gets “reinvigorated” out of that is a mystery to me, where the common meaning of the word “reinvigorate” is to give new energy or strength to something, which isn’t happening to manufacturing, which takes us back to Reuters for more, to wit:
So-called hard data from the government and Federal Reserve show manufacturing mostly treading water.
The ISM survey’s forward-looking new orders sub-index dropped to 49.2 last month after rebounding to 52.5 in January.
Production at factories was subdued, with the sub-index declining to 48.4 from 50.4 in January.
Customer inventories were considered too low for a third straight month, with shortages of some goods reported.
While that augurs well for future orders and production, there was a slight hint of supply chain constraints.
The survey’s measure of supplier deliveries rose to 50.1 from 49.1 in the prior month.
A reading above 50 indicates slower deliveries.
“For the second month, supplier responsiveness appears to be ‘stiffer,’ meaning some suppliers are struggling to keep up,” said Timothy Fiore, chair of the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee.
Factory employment continued to shrink, with layoffs accounting for half of efforts by companies to reduce headcount.
Manufacturers also reported hiring freezes.
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So much for Joe and “TOODLES” reinvigorating manufacturing in America, then, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US mortgage rates rise for a fourth-straight week, Freddie Mac says” by Amina Niasse on February 29, 2024, where we see what Joe Biden and his BIDE-O-NOMJICS are doing to the middle class in America, to wit:
NEW YORK, Feb 29 (Reuters) – U.S. mortgage rates rose for a fourth-straight week, Freddie Mac reported on Thursday, reaching a two-month high and again becoming a factor impeding traffic among rate-sensitive prospective home buyers.
“The recent boomerang in rates has dampened already tentative homebuyer momentum as we approach the spring, a historically busy season for homebuying.”
“While sales of newly built homes are trending in a positive direction, higher rates and elevated prices continue to pose affordability challenges that may leave potential homebuyers on the sidelines,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist.
High mortgage rates eroded buyer traffic last year as tight inventory and home price gains limited affordability.
Home sales remain under pressure, with pending home sales retreating by 4.9% in January, according to National Association of Realtors data.
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The higher rates are caused by BIDENFLATION as a result of BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us to another Reuters article titled “US pending home sales fall in January as high mortgage rates deter buyers” by Amina Niasse on February 29, 2024, for more of what BIDE-O-NOMICS is doing to the middle-class in America, to wit:
NEW YORK, Feb 29 (Reuters) – Pending U.S. home sales retreated in January, a report on Thursday showed, as buyers continue to struggle with still-high mortgage rates.
The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales index fell 4.9% to 74.3.
The increase in pending sales in December was revised sharply lower to 5.7% from 8.3%, even as the index value for that month was revised higher, reflecting NAR revisions for 2023.
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And from there, we go to a CNBC article titled “Key Fed inflation measure rose 0.4% in January as expected, up 2.8% from a year ago” by Jeff Cox on February 29, 2024 for more on BIDE-O-NOMICS< to wit:
Inflation rose in line with expectations in January, according to an important gauge the Federal Reserve uses as it deliberates cutting interest rates.
The personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy costs increased 0.4% for the month and 2.8% from a year ago, as expected according to the Dow Jones consensus estimates.
Headline PCE, including the volatile food and energy categories, increased 0.3% monthly and 2.4% on a 12-month basis, also as forecast, according to the numbers released Thursday by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Services prices increased 0.6% on the month while goods fell 0.2%; on a 12-month basis, services rose 3.9% and goods were down 0.5%.
Within those categories, food prices accelerated 0.5%, offset by a 1.4% slide in energy.
On a year-over-year basis, food was up 1.4% while energy fell 4.9%.
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And from there we go back to a Reuters article titled "Services drive US prices higher in January; inflation gradually cooling" by Lucia Mutikani on February 29, 2024, for this look at the Biden economy, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Feb 29 (Reuters) – U.S. prices accelerated in January amid a surge in the costs of services like housing and finance, but the annual increase in inflation was the smallest in three years, keeping a mid-year interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve on the table.
The report from the Commerce Department on Thursday also showed consumer spending slowing last month, restrained by decreases in outlays on goods, including motor vehicles, furniture and other long-lasting household equipment.
Services, which also include healthcare, restaurants, hotels and motels as well as recreation, are at the heart of the U.S. central bank's fight against inflation.
Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the PCE price index increased 0.4% last month.
Services prices jumped 0.6%, the most since last January, after climbing 0.3% in December.
They were boosted by a 0.6% rise in the cost of housing and utilities.
The cost of financial services and insurance surged 1.3%, likely reflecting higher share prices.
Prices for services at restaurants, bars, hotels and motels rose, as did those for recreation and healthcare.
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Healthcare, of course, under BIDE-O-MOMICS, was supposed to be coming down, not going up like it is, which takes us back to Reuters again, to wit:
PCE services inflation excluding energy and housing shot up 0.6% last month, the most since March 2022, after rising 0.3% in December.
The so-called super core inflation increased 3.5% on a year-on-year basis in January after rising 3.3% in December.
The super core inflation has risen at a 4.1% annualized rate in the past three months.
Policymakers are watching the super core measure to assess progress in their battle against inflation.
With inflation picking up, price-sensitive consumers slowed their spending last month.
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, rose 0.2% after increasing 0.7% in December.
When adjusted for inflation, spending fell 0.1% after rising 0.6% in December.
A Conference Board survey on Tuesday showed consumers less upbeat about the jobs market in February.
Income was boosted by a 3.2% cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security recipients and a special dividend paid by Costco Wholesale Corp.
But a sharp increase in taxes combined with inflation left income at the disposal of households unchanged after a 0.3% rise in December.
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So there we have some actual data to consider, people.
Does it really mean anything, however, when we have "TOODLES" Yellen telling us how good we all are doing thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS in America?
Stay tuned.
And while we are on the subject of Joe Biden, and his secretary of the treasury Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, who told us on January 25, 2024 that Joe Biden’s economic plan is improving lives and laying the foundation for a new future for middle-class families and communities across the country, and that life is still harder than it should be for the middle class in this country, so that to change that, their modern supply-side strategy is designed to build off of our historic recovery and continue charting a new course, one focused on boosting our economic capacity in order to deliver robust and shared economic growth, with their aim being to make middle-class lives better for the short haul and for the long haul, because this country and the world have changed and we cannot go back, and the obstacles the middle class has faced for decades will not disappear overnight, but she and Joe and Gina Raimondo and Jennifer Granholm and Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg are fighting the right fight for economic policy that makes a meaningful difference in people’s lives, which is what motivated “TOODLES” to become an economist and has been the central mission throughout her career as she and Joe are putting in place the building blocks for continued growth, and if they keep at it, America will continue its progress in overcoming the challenges facing the middle class, which class has always driven the success of our country, and will continue to lead our future, imposing a Soviet-Union style centrally planned economy, also known as a command economy, on the United States of America, which is an economic system where a government body, in this case, Joe’s commerce department, makes economic decisions regarding the production and distribution of goods, for proof of that statement, let us go to an asiafinancial article titled “US Starts Funding Awards to Ramp up Chip Production at Home” on December 12, 2023, where we are informed as follows on that subject of Joe’s Soviet-era “command economy,” which is the economic system of Cuba, North Korea, Belarus, China, Iran, and Russia, as follows:
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has begun announcing major funding awards that aim to fire up US production of computer chips.
Raimondo said she expects to make around a dozen funding awards within the next year, including multi-billion-dollar announcements that could drastically reshape US manufacturing of semiconductors.
Meanwhile, California chip giant Nvidia was being encouraged to sell semiconductors to China – but not their top-of-the-range AI products.
Raimondo announced the first award on Monday – $35 million to a BAE Systems facility in Hampshire to produce chips for fighter planes from the “Chips for America” semiconductor manufacturing and research subsidy programme approved by Congress in August 2022.
“Next year we’ll get into some of the bigger ones with leading-edge fabs,” Raimondo told reporters.
“A year from now I think we will have made 10 or 12 similar announcements, some of them multi-billion dollar announcements.”
US wants 20% of chips made at home
In an interview, Raimondo said that the number of awards could go higher than 12.
She said she wants the percentage of semiconductors produced in the United States to rise from about 12% to closer to 20% – though that is still down from 40% in 1990 – and to have at least two “leading-edge” US manufacturing clusters.
In addition, she wants the US to have cutting-edge memory and packaging production and to “meet the military’s needs for current and mature” chips.
Raimondo noted that the US currently does not have any cutting-edge manufacturing production and wants to get that to about 10%.
Raimondo said the programme has received more than 550 statements of interest and nearly 150 pre-applications, full applications, and concept plans.
And given the extensive interest, there would be many disappointed companies.
“We have national security goals and we need to make our investments to hit those goals and we’re going to do that,” she added.
Raimondo said US officials were talking with Nvidia Corp about permissible sales of artificial intelligence chips to China but emphasized that it cannot sell its most advanced semiconductors to Chinese firms.
The Commerce secretary said Nvidia “can, will and should sell AI chips to China because most AI chips will be for commercial applications.”
She added: “What we cannot allow them to ship is the most sophisticated, highest processing power AI chips, which would enable China to train their frontier models.”
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The lure of a centrally-planned economy for Joe Biden and his administration, of course, as we can glean from the speech of “TOODLES” Yellen on the subject on January 25, 2024, is that some of the advantages of the system are the equal distribution of wealth, reduced inequality, low level of unemployment, and maximized social welfare, which in America is known as BIDE-O-NISM.
As we young Americans learned back in the 1950s in social studies, centrally planned economies such as Joe Biden has imposed on America are different from market economies, where these decisions are the result of thousands of choices by producers and consumers.
In a centrally-planned economy such as is BIDE-O-NOMICS, the production of goods and services is often done by state-owned enterprises, although as we are seeing here from Ginja Raimondo, independent companies may also be incorporated into economic planning, but prices, wages, and production schedules are to be set by a centralized bureaucracy located in Washington, D.C.
According to Investopedia under “Theory of Central Planning,” advocates of central planning like Joe Biden, “TOODLES” Yellen and Gina Raimondo believe that the government can direct economic investment more efficiently than private actors, especially towards social goals with lower potential for profits and since the planning authority, in this case the Biden administration, has more resources, think TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars, than any single company or business, government projects can also benefit from economies of scale that supposedly make government projects more productive in the long run.
But in order to coordinate among different producers and resources, central planning typically requires a highly educated technical bureaucracy, which creates something of a paradox for socialist countries like America under Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NISM, since the bureaucrats may take the role of a de facto ruling class, as we are seeing here in the case of Gina Raimondo, and Janet “TOODLES” Yellen.
And with that before us for our consideration, let’s cut to a commercial break with twenty hours of high-quality infomercials informing us all of the good life that beckons us if only we will give Joe Biden four more years to get BIDE-O-NISM firmly in place here in America to make it a socialist worker’s paradise, and then we will be right back with more, so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial!
In all truth, I have to say that the very last thing I thought I would be talking about here in America in my later years would be an American president imposing on America the economic system of Cuba, North Korea, Belarus, Iran, and Russia, but such is the case today under DEMOCRAT Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and when you consider that those other governments all have “strongman” rulers as Joe wishes to be here in America, an autocratic dictator subject to no one and nothing but himself, it is easy then to see the appeal for Joe of what is known as a command economy which puts all power over our lives in the hands of Joe Biden, negating the role the worthless congress is supposed to play in what was supposed to be a democratic society of, by, and for the American people where RULE OF LAW, not will of Joe Biden, was supposed to prevail.
As an example of Joe Biden taking over control of the American economy, let’s go back to a Fox News article titled “Biden’s bizarre plan to nationalize American innovation – Innovation rule would give Biden power to dictate prices on any product derived from government research” by Andrei Iancu, an undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from 2018 to 2021, and co-founder and co-chairman of the Council for Innovation Promotion, on March 1, 2024, where we see another aspect 0f BIDE-O-NISM, which in simple terms, is defined as a one party system of government with the Joe Biden in charge of everything, and in which each class, including the semi-fascists, the MAGAtards, the BASKET OF DEPLORABLES, and the DREGS OF SOCIETY have their distinct place, function, and representation in the government, with some being very much more equal than those below them in the social hierarchy that separates Biden Democrats from everybody else in America, while the individual, that being us, is subordinated to the state, which is to say, Joe Biden, and control is maintained by military forces, secret police, rigid censorship, and governmental regimentation of industry and finance, in action, to wit:
The Biden administration has unveiled a radical proposal to reshape the underpinnings of America’s innovation economy.
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And yes, people, “radical” is Joe Biden’s other middle name, which takes us back to this story of the implementation of BIDE-O-NISM in America, to wit:
Through the lure of federal research dollars and a sweeping reinterpretation of a 44-year-old bipartisan law, the forces of the ideological left within the administration seek to impose price controls throughout the American economy, effectively holding private industry hostage to its demands.
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Which happens to be governmental regimentation of industry and finance, in action, whichy takes us back to Fox for more, to wit:
At the center of this power grab is a provision of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, pioneering legislation widely credited with launching the modern American innovation economy.
Bayh-Dole ingeniously aligned the private-sector profit motive with the public good by allowing universities and small businesses to own and license patents emerging from federally funded research.
The act’s design trusted decentralized markets — not central planners — to transform patented discoveries into beneficial products.
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And it is exactly those decentralized markets that the autocratic dictator Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, wants to replace with central planners, the main one of whom is Joe, himself, which again takes us back to Fox for more, to wit:
This incentive-based structure catalyzed America’s scientific leadership and directly sparked bold innovations in fields as disparate as computing and agriculture to medicine and transportation.
The provision of Bayh-Dole that progressive activists have long sought to wield as a cudgel against private industry is known as “march-in” authority, which allows the government to take over a patented product if one of four narrow triggers is met.
Legislators included it as a stopgap to deter anyone from acting on the hypothetical impulse of acquiring a patent in order to prevent it from being developed into a product.
This hypothetical has never materialized, so the government has never once marched in.
This is not surprising.
Companies will commercialize patented products or license other companies to do so if there is money to be made.
This fundamental principle of capitalism is somehow lost on the Biden administration, which now wants to seize patents if the price of a product is “unreasonable,” whatever that means.
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That fundamental principle of capitalism, however, is not so much lost on the Biden regime as it is disbelieved by the Biden administration which takes us back to a Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University, on April 1, 2021, where we have Joe’s treasury secretary, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, an architect and true believer in BIDE-O-NISM, quoted as follows:
As Yellen once remarked: “Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention?”
“Certainly not.”
And so, BIDE-O-NISM provides the federal government with that “right” of routine intervention in the affairs of corporate America, which again takes us back to Fox for these further details, to wit:
But Bayh-Dole has no trigger that is even remotely related to a product’s price.
Nor has any administration, Democrat or Republican, since the statute passed 44 years ago ever interpreted it to include a bureaucrat’s judgment that a product costs too much.
Until now.
In a bizarre and lawless document that seems to reflect the far-left’s capture of the Biden administration, the White House unveiled in December a proposal to use the threat of march-in to dictate prices on any product derived from federally funded research.
The door would be open for bureaucrats to seize patents and ruin entire businesses if they disagree with the market price of anything, from microchips and surgical devices to implantable biomaterial and agricultural technologies.
By proposing something so radical, the Biden White House has gone public with a road map allowing de facto nationalization of all discoveries arising from federally funded research institutions, many of which emerge from the nation’s leading universities.
The administration envisions scrutinizing licensing agreements through a political lens, micromanaging the economy under the guise of assessing the “fairness” of prices.
No field escapes unscathed.
In one scenario within the guidance, administrators suggest that insufficient market availability of vehicle safety communication devices warrants seizing patents and taking over the business.
The guidance has no limiting principle and would apply even if the government invested a dollar while private industry invested millions on an invention.
In defending the draft guidance, Biden’s Federal Trade Commission egregiously mischaracterizes the Bayh-Dole Act as a “statute designed to safeguard public health needs against patent holders’ private interests.”
This distortion wrongly implies that private interests are inherently contrary to public ones.
Government takeover of private industry, in the name of protecting public need, is un-American and strains far from our founding principles: the Federalist Papers recognized that for both patents and copyrights, “The public good fully coincides in both cases with the claims of individuals.”
Americans have always known that private incentive aligns with public good.
The administration would upend this fundamental principle.
The true scope of the administration’s gambit goes beyond even economics.
Property rights become a pawn the progressive left is happy to sacrifice to advance its sweeping agenda.
One group writing in support of the proposal urges that in assessing a march-in petition, bureaucrats analyze a company’s commitment to collective bargaining and diversity quotas.
Make no mistake: Weakening or eliminating patent rights to advance political agendas will chill private sector risk-taking, technological progress and access to cutting-edge inventions.
The only good that can come of this outrageous proposal is to reveal the wild-eyed ambition within the ranks of the administration.
The next question is whether President Joe Biden himself embraces this vision.
Entrepreneurs, investors and university researchers want to know.
If not, he must wholly disavow this destructive proposal before it does more harm.
And while we are on the subject of BIDEN BOBAUNCE (boastful behavior, boasting; a boast) by Joe Biden going into the SILLY SEASON leading up to the November 2024 presidential elections, along with being barraged by PURE POLITICAL BULL**** you have to be an idiot or moron to believe, and OUTRIGHT OUTRAGEOUS LIES from TEAM BIDEN and Joe, himself, let’s drop back in time to February 2, 2024, and the “Statement from President Joe Biden on the January Jobs Report” where we have this excellent example of PURE BIDEN BOBAUNCE right in the first sentence, to wit:
America’s economy is the strongest in the world.
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Which statement is pure horse****.
We are a beggar nation on the world stage that can’t defend its own borders so deeply mired in ever-increasing debt that we need to depend on money coming in from China as they pick up our debt at interest in order to keep the doors of our worthless government open.
But let’s get back to Joe on February 2, 2024, because we have a GREAT BIG LIE based on a FRAUD ON THE PUBLIC coming from Joe in the very next sentence, to wit:
Today, we saw more proof, with another month of strong wage gains and employment gains of over 350,000 in January, continuing the strong growth from last year.
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And that, people, simply is not true, which to say, it is a falsehood!
Think I’m kidding?
Not a joke, people, as we clearly see from a CNBC article titled “U.S. job growth totaled 275,000 in February but unemployment rate rose to 3.9%” by Jeff Cox on March 8, 2024, where we have Joe’s BIG WHOPPER exposed for all the world to see, to wit:
Job creation topped expectations in February, but the unemployment rate moved higher and employment growth from the previous two months wasn’t nearly as hot as initially reported.
February was a step higher in growth from January, which saw a steep downward revision to 229,000, from the initially reported 353,000.
Job growth in December also was revised down to 290,000 from 333,000, bringing the two-month total to 167,000 fewer jobs than initially reported.
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A STEEP DOWNWARD REVISION, people, means that on February 2, 2024, Joe was using a GROSSLY EXAGGERATED FIGURE in that self-serving press release, which is a FRAUD on the public by Joe Biden, who we will NOT HEAR apologizing to us in March for outright lying to us in February about the January jobs figure, which takes us back to Joe’s February 2, 2024 press release for more BIDEN BULL**** as follows:
Our economy has created 14.8 million jobs since I took office, unemployment has been under 4% for two full years now, and inflation has been at the pre-pandemic level of 2% over the last half year.
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And Joe’s statement that the economy has created 14.8 million jobs since Joe took office is obvious BULL**** based on INFLATED JOB NUMBERS as we can see from these revisions alone, which revisions always come after the fact, when nobody is looking.
And that statement by Joe that inflation has been at the pre-pandemic level of 2% over the last half year, is similarly misleading, and in fact, is a contrived number intended to be misleading, as we see in a Reuters article titled “Fed’s Powell still expects rate cuts, but inflation progress ‘not assured'” by Howard Schneider on March 6, 2024, to wit:
Reports bolstering the “soft-landing” narrative, such as encouraging figures on services prices on Tuesday or signs of slowing consumer spending, have been counterbalanced by others showing inflation stuck in significant ways, such as from still-rising shelter costs, or evidence of unexpected economic strength, such as January’s outsized gain of more than 350,000 jobs.
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Going Back to Joe running his mouth on February 2, 2024, telling us how great he is, and how we are lucky to have him in the white house instead of somebody truthful and competent, we have more as follows:
It’s great news for working families that wages, wealth, and jobs are higher now than before the pandemic, and I won’t stop fighting to lower costs and build an economy from the middle out and bottom up.
I’ll continue to stand in the way of efforts by Congressional Republicans to enact massive tax giveaways for the wealthy and big corporations; cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security; and raise costs for American families.
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Joe Biden is going to stand in the way of efforts by Congressional Republicans to enact massive tax giveaways for the wealthy and big corporations?
BULL****, when it is Joe himself who is handing out tax giveaways right and left to big corporations like TSMC in Taiwan, as we see in a Reuters story titled “TSMC to win more than $5 billion in grants for a US chip plant, Bloomberg reports” on March 8, 2024, as follows:
March 8 (Reuters) – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, is set to win more than $5 billion in federal grants from the U.S. government for setting up a chipmaking plant in Arizona, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.
TSMC and the U.S. Commerce Department did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
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And with that said, let’s cut to station identification and a commercial break for twelve full uninterrupted hours of high-class infomercials from TEAM BIDEN touting all the Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS have done for the American people to make their lives better than any other American president have ever made them, and then, we will be right back.
And we are right back with a story from Fox News titled “Top red state official demands answers on Biden executive order ‘attempting to register’ illegals to vote” by Andrew Miller on March 11, 2024, where we see how just how Joe Biden is using his executive orders in his WHOLE OF GOVERNMENT approach to getting more criminals and illegals to be able to vote DEMOCRAT in the upcoming November presidential election to throw the contest Joe’s way in a rigged election rigged by Joe himself, to wit:
Mississippi’s Secretary of State has sent a letter to President Biden’s Department of Justice asking it to stop enforcing a Biden executive order that he warns is being used to attempt to register ineligible convicts and illegal immigrants to vote.
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Actually, those ineligible convicts and illegal immigrants are Joe’s political base, so of course he is going to do anything and everything he can to secure for them the right to vote for Joe come November, which takes us back to Fox, to wit:
“As you are aware, on March 7, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order No. 14019 which sought to turn the Department of Justice agencies from their historical missions of law enforcement to voter registration and get out the vote operations,” Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland this week.
“These efforts are an intrusion into state matters and are a misuse of federal revenue and resources.”
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And of course Joe is intruding into state matters, misusing of federal revenue and resources, to do so, because Joe doesn’t believe in state matters, and federal revenue and resources are Joe’s to misuse, because nobody can stop him from doing so, which again takes us back to Fox, to wit:
“In addition, it appears that these efforts have led to agencies under your charge attempting to register people to vote, including potentially ineligible felons and to co-opt state and local officials into accomplishing this goal.”
The executive order in question was signed by Biden in 2021 and was billed as an attempt to combat racial discrimination and “protect the right to vote” and instructed government agencies “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.”
In his letter, Watson outlines concerns that the executive order “forces the U.S. Marshals Service” to “modify agreements with jails” that require them “to provide voter registration materials and facilitate voting by mail.”
“According to the Marshals Service, they are modifying 936 contracts or intergovernmental agreements to require state and local government complicity in the potential registration of ineligible prisoners to vote,” the letter states.
“It further requires the Department of Justice to facilitate voter registration and mail voting for individuals in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons.”
“This program creates numerous opportunities for ineligible prisoners to be registered to vote in Mississippi.”
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And my goodness, people, of course it does, because Joe wants every vote he can get, and that is how he is getting them, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Watson told Fox News Digital that he is not confident the Biden administration is paying close attention to the voting status of the individuals involved.
“Forgive me for not necessarily trusting the Biden administration but in Mississippi we’ve got rules and regulations dealing with who can vote when it comes to felons, there are disenfranchising crimes in our state and I don’t specifically think that the Biden administration cares crossing those T’s and dotting those I’s when it comes to making sure these folks can or can’t vote, they’re going to register them, including illegal aliens in custody so we’ve got major issues and that’s what led to writing this letter to Attorney General Garland,” Watson told Fox News Digital.
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Dude, you need no forgiveness since you are among the majority, not the minority, who don’t trust the untrustworthy Biden administration to do anything right, or follow the laws as written, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Watson’s letter explains that the program “provides prisoners with misleading information concerning their right to both register and vote in Mississippi – a right which they may not have.”
“For example, many of the people in the custody of the Marshals are convicted felons whom Mississippi law deems ineligible to vote.”
“Additionally, many of those in custody only have fleeting ties to Mississippi and do not meet the residency requirements necessary to be a Mississippi voter,” the letter says.
Watson wrote that Mississippi jails are being prompted to “work with other reliable sources of voter information to assist federal prisoners with voter registration, voting by mail, and notification of upcoming elections.”
“We are unaware of any contact with our Office, which begs the question, which organizations are the Marshals using to accomplish this demand?” The letter asks.
“Many outside groups performing voter registration and vote harvesting services are partisan entities with a history of being unreliable.”
“There have been documented instances of these groups providing incorrect directions to voters.”
“It is not proper for the Federal government to push partisan groups into the voting process in Mississippi or any other state.”
The letter specifically addresses concerns that illegal immigrants in the Mississippi prison system could potentially be registered to vote through this executive order if the program is not closely monitored.
“Our understanding is that everyone in the Marshals’ custody is given a form advising them of their right to register and vote,” the letter says.
“Providing ineligible non-citizens with information on how to register to vote undoubtedly encourages them to illegally register to vote, exposing them to legal jeopardy beyond their immigration status.”
Watson’s letter says that it is “quite shocking” that the Biden administration would “expend tax dollars and vital law enforcement resources” on a program “that risks bloating state voter rolls with ineligible and non-citizen voters” during a time when millions of illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border.
Watson told Fox News Digital that this is an “urgent” matter with a presidential election just 8 months away.
“If you look at what’s going on at the border when you’ve got so many illegal aliens pouring into our country, imagine the efforts used to get them to register to vote and that’s what this is all about,” Watson told Fox News Digital.
“It’s about control, it’s about continuing their power, and unfortunately that puts our country in a terrible position, so it’s immediate and it’s something where we hope they will respect our request to stop the program.”
“The information we want to see is which prisons they’re working in in Mississippi, we’ve asked them to prove to us the documentation, what exactly are you doing in our prisons?”
“We want to make sure we understand which prisoners you’ve been talking to, so we can understand whether or not they’re eligible to vote and I think it’s incumbent upon all of the states to take this notice up and to push back as hard as we can because with this election coming up in November it is incredibly important to the future of our country.”
“What we have left of it.”
Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead told Fox News Digital he applauds Watson’s letter warning about a program that “puts election integrity and voter confidence at risk” for “political gain.”
“The Biden Administration is aggressively pursuing a partisan get-out-the-vote scheme using taxpayer dollars,” Snead said.
“Nothing is off the table, from using law enforcement resources to potentially register ineligible voters and even non-citizens, to the recent announcement that the administration will use taxpayer dollars to pay students to coordinate with left-wing organizations and mobilize youth voters.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and Department of Justice for comment but did not receive a response.
As I have stated elsewhere, I wasted several hours over the weekend going through, word for word for word, the transcript of what was called Joe Biden’s supposed state of the union address, which transcript in reality was nothing more than the script for a cheap, ignorant, poorly-written melodramatic production like a religious revivalist meeting, with singers in the background singing out an angry Joe Biden’s praises as Joe spouted out his vitriol, which production in reality was pure cornpone political tripe and theater that cast Joe not in the role of an American president but more like a carnival barker trying to whip up enthusiasm for Little Egypt’s last show of the evening, or a patent medicine grifter peddling snake oil to the unwitting and unwary, with his shills in the crowd, just as Joe had his shills there during his performance the other night, with Joe’s shills in the audience, according to the AP version of the transcript, yelling BOOO on cue at various moments in the speech, or “four more years,” reminiscent of a Trump political rally, which analysis takes us to another analysis in the Newsweek article titled “Biden Did Himself No Favors With Angry, Partisan State of the Union | Opinion” by Paul du Quenoy, President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute, on March 12, 2024, where we had as follows on Joe’s so-called state of the union address, to wit:
State of the Union addresses have long been dull, pro forma affairs.
Loud cheers resound, offering the pretense of unity over division.
Policy disagreements are buried under unifying values.
The leader soberly rattles off platitudes about achievements and aspirations, often illusory.
The union’s “state” is always “strong,” and the nation’s “best days” invariably “lie ahead.”
No longer.
President Joe Biden’s third and very possibly last State of the Union address descended from this act of staid but dignified statesmanship to what Democrats think they need to shore up his increasingly doubtful reelection bid.
In his 67-minute address, reportedly the result of months of intense preparation, Biden was bitter and angry, delivering many of his lines in the loud and cranky tone of a frustrated family patriarch who commands no respect, marshals no enthusiasm, and fears his legacy will spill down a drain of derision.
It was not “presidential” by any stretch.
It was hysterical and vulgar, desperate and cheap.
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And consider that all along, Newsweek has been very PRO-JOE BIDEN, so this story is indeed interesting to see come forth, which takes us back for more, to wit:
Long gone was the “unifier” of those few halcyon days in early 2021, when the newly inaugurated Biden peered out from the armed camp that Washington, D.C., had become to promise he would pursue a moderate course to settle divisions and curb the vitriolic partisanship of former president Donald J. Trump’s term.
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In actuality, however, Joe Biden has NEVER been a “unifier,” nor has he ever tried to be, which takes us back to September 17, 2018 and a story in The Daily Wire titled “Joe Biden Calls Trump Supporters ‘Virulent People,’ The ‘Dregs Of Society'” by Joseph Curl, where we had the DIVIDER Joe Biden in action, doing what he does best, which is dividing people, not unifying them, to wit:
Joe Biden just had his “deplorables” moment.
Biden, who says he’ll decided in January whether to run for president in 2020 but who is making all the moves of a presidential candidate, used a pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign annual dinner on Saturday to rip President Trump.
And in so doing, Biden had a moment reminiscent of Hillary Clinton, when she called Trump supporters “deplorables.”
Biden did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about.
“Despite losing in the courts, and in the court of opinion, these forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you all have made,” he said.
“This time they — not you — have an ally in the White House.”
“This time they have an ally.”
“They’re a small percentage of the American people — virulent people, some of them the dregs of society.”
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Yes, people, if you are not for Joe Biden, then you are a DREG OF SOCIETY, which takes us back to Newsweek for more, to wit:
Now Biden is a hyperpartisan, blaming the Republicans — who control neither the presidency nor the Senate nor the Washington bureaucracy — for all of his many problems, from Ukraine to border control to tax policy.
He broke firm and laudable precedent to take a swipe at the Supreme Court, the Justices of which attended the speech but by tradition registered no reaction to it, for overturning Roe v. Wade, even though the result has been a pro-choice surge in state abortion referendums and the election of Democrats in several important races.
Biden claimed Republicans would cut entitlements to fund a tax cut for the rich despite the Republican House majority’s failure to act on entitlements at any time during his presidency.
He countered with his own plan to introduce yet more punitive taxation on “wealthy” Americans.
We heard surprisingly little about Biden’s supposed “achievements,” which his loyalists — and those who benefit from his increasingly obvious cognitive decline — tout with nauseating regularity despite all evidence to the contrary and in the face of massive popular disappointment.
Instead, the president lashed out, once again broad brushing half the country as authoritarian fascist enemies of democracy on par with the Nazis, the Confederacy, and Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Biden has largely avoided mentioning Trump throughout his presidency — perhaps a wise move.
Trump currently outclasses him in opinion polls on virtually every issue, as well as in general competence, physical and mental ability, and, according to almost all recent surveys, the popular vote in the all-but-certain rematch that awaits us in November.
But as Biden gets cagier and undoubtedly more worried about his dubious reelection prospects, he simply cannot ignore Trump.
Although Biden never said his name (unlike Laken — or, as Biden mispronounced it, “Lincoln” — Riley, a nursing student murdered by an illegal immigrant on Biden’s watch) in the speech, he referred to his “predecessor,” “the former Republican president,” 13 times.
There can be no doubt that as November approaches, the race will become increasingly brutal, personal, and negative — characteristics that, Democratic strategists may wish to note, heavily favored Trump in 2016.
Comparing himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt, a trope to which his flatterers never tire of resorting, struck another point about Biden.
With a coterie of Washington politicos and a congressional Democratic Party either convinced of, or willing to play along with, the illusion of the incumbent’s soundness and importance, there is now less chance than ever that he will be replaced as the Democratic candidate, as some have speculated.
Given his grumpy demeanor, that is probably good news for the Trump camp.
Either way, Thursday’s State of the Union did nothing to convince the 82 percent of Americans who believe Biden is simply too old for the presidency to change their minds.
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And yes, color me on of them!
Old Joe is way past his “sell by” date!
Time for Joe to go!
And yesterday brought us two interesting pieces of news, one being a March 12, 2024
Statement from President Joe Biden on the February Consumer Price Index where Joe, a notorious serial liar and purveyor of myths and tall tales says his top economic priority is lowering costs, with the second being a Reuters article titled “US February budget deficit climbs on interest costs, tax refunds” on March 12, 2024, where we are informed by Joe’s own treasury department under BIDE-O-NOMICS architect Janet “TOODLES” Yellen of the harm BIDE-O-NOMICS and BIDE-O-NISM are doing to our nation, and our national security, as well as to the lives of common American citizens, while a third is a Reuters article titled “Gasoline, shelter costs boost US prices; inflation still slowing” by Lucia Mutikani on March 12, 2024, where we learned as follows about where Joe Biden’s BIDE-O-NOMICS has taken us as a nation and as a people, with this being the report Joe Biden is commenting on above as favoring BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices increased solidly in February amid higher costs for gasoline and shelter, suggesting some stickiness in inflation that further diminishes the chances of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut before June.
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What Joe then said in his Statement from President Joe Biden on the February Consumer Price Index, was as follows:
My top economic priority is lowering costs and today’s report shows we continue to make progress on that front.
Inflation is down two-thirds from its peak and annual core inflation is the lowest since May 2021.
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Except inflation is hardly down and in fact is continuing to rise, bringing prices up with it, which takes us back to Reuters on inflation, to wit:
The consumer price index rose 0.4% last month after climbing 0.3% in January, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said.
Gasoline prices rebounded 3.8% after declining 3.3% in January.
Shelter, which includes rents, rose 0.4% after advancing 0.6% in the prior month.
But prices for cereals and bakery products rose while meat, fish and eggs were slightly more expensive.
In the 12 months through February, the CPI increased 3.2%, after advancing 3.1% in January.
The annual increase in consumer prices has slowed from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022, but progress has stalled in recent months.
President Joe Biden used the report to drum up support for a $7.3 trillion budget unveiled on Monday.
“We have more to do to lower costs and give the middle class a fair shot,” Biden said in a statement.
“The budget I put forward yesterday would take on Big Pharma to lower prescription drug costs.”
Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the CPI increased 0.4% in February after rising by the same margin in January.
Shelter was also the main driver of the so-called core CPI.
Rents increased 0.5% after gaining 0.4% in January.
The cost of healthcare was unchanged after rising 0.5% in the prior month.
Airline fares accelerated 3.6% while motor vehicle insurance cost 0.9% more.
Services excluding energy increased 0.5% after shooting up 0.7% in January.
The rise in the so-called super core services excluding shelter slowed to 0.5% from 0.8% in the prior month.
Goods prices rebounded by 0.4% after falling 0.3% in January.
They were boosted by increases in the prices of apparel.
Used cars and trucks prices jumped 0.5%.
Core goods prices rose 0.1%, the first increase since last May, after falling 0.3% in January.
A separate report from the Atlanta Fed showed its sticky-price CPI, a weighted basket of items that change price relatively slowly, increased 4.0% on an annualized basis in February after rising 6.7% in January.
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Which takes us to March 12, 2024 and the Statement from President Joe Biden on the February Consumer Price Index, where we have this empty political blather from Joe, as follows:
Congressional Republicans have no plan to lower costs — their only plan is more tax giveaways for big corporations and the wealthy while cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
I won’t let them.
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Which takes us to the Reuters article titled “US February budget deficit climbs on interest costs, tax refunds” on March 12, 2024, where the reality of what continuing harm BIDE-O-NOMICS is doing to America thanks to Joe Biden’s OUT-OF-CONTROL PROFLIGATE SPENDING OF BORROWED MONEY, including Joe’s tax give-aways for big corporations, is made incandescently clear, to wit:
March 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. federal budget deficit grew in February with outlays surging as annual tax-filing season kicked into gear and interest costs on the national debt kept rising, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Tuesday.
The deficit last month was $296 billion, 13% larger than the $262 billion shortfall in February 2023.
Outlays for the month grew 8% to $567 billion – a record for the month – while receipts rose 3% to $271 billion.
For the first five months of the fiscal year, the deficit rose by $106 billion, or 15%, to $828 billion as interest costs on the national debt rose.
The Treasury said both receipts and outlays were records on a year-to-date basis, with receipts up 7% to $1.856 trillion, and outlays up 9% to $2.684 trillion.
Individual tax refunds, which are deducted from receipts, were $58 billion, up 11% from 12 months earlier.
Interest expenses on the $26 trillion national debt continue to grow rapidly, with debt-servicing costs up 67% from February 2023 to $76 billion, a record for the month.
On a year-to-date basis, interest on the public debt rose 41% to $433 billion and for the first five months of the fiscal year was exceeded only by Social Security in individual line item expenses.
The weighted-average interest rate on Treasury securities rose to 3.2% in February from 2.52% a year ago and 3.15% in January.
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And the rise in the weighted-average interest rate on Treasury securities which is taking debt servicing costs ever higher is directly related to the adverse impacts of BORROW-AND-SPEND BIDE-O-NOMICS.
Which brings us to time for a break for station identification, but don’t go away and don’t touch that dial, because we shall we right back with more of the story of ho0w one man named Jospeh Robinette Biden, Junior is doing the seemingly impossible by single-handedly destroying America in just one presidential term.
Never in my life have I seen such a carnival of buncombe as is this Biden administration, which is a toxic mixture of stunned confusion and bewildered confusion blended with a dollop of dumbfounded confusion thrown in for flavor to create the disjointed tangle that is the administration of American dictator Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the very first Biden ever to achieve world-class ****-up status as has our Joe.
Consider that just the other night, on 7 March 2024, an angry and vitriolic Joe Biden used his State of the Union (SOTU) address to a joint session of the 118th US Congress to start his re- election campaign in earnest, telling us as follows about how truly great a person Joe Biden really is compared to anyone else you might mention, and how great his BIDE-O-NOMICS is for America and the American people, as follows:
Folks, I inherited an economy that was on the brink.
Now, our economy is literally the envy of the world.
Fifteen million new jobs in just three years.
A record.
A record.
Unemployment at 50-year lows.
A record 16 million Americans are starting small businesses, and each one is a literal act of hope, with historic job growth and small-business growth for Black and Hispanics and Asian Americans.
Eight hundred thousand new manufacturing jobs in America and counting.
Where is it written we can’t be the manufacturing capital of the world?
We are and we will.
Wages keep going up.
Inflation keeps coming down.
Inflation has dropped from 9 percent to 3 percent — the lowest in the world and [trending] lower.
The landing is and will be soft.
And now, instead of — importing foreign products and exporting American jobs, we’re exporting American products and creating American jobs — right here in America, where they belong.
And it takes time, but the American people are beginning to feel it.
Consumer studies show consumer confidence is soaring.
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But is any of that true?
For example, Joe tells us that now, our economy is literally the envy of the world, but if that were truly the case, how then can Joe reconcile that claim of his with a Reuters story titled “Fed report says small businesses faced financial, inflation challenges in 2023” by Michael S. Derby on March 7, 2024, where we have as follows with respect to the problems BIDE-O-NOMICS is causing small business owners in America, to wit:
March 7 (Reuters) – Small business continued to recover last year from the hit they took for the pandemic while facing financial challenges tied to higher interest rates and still hard-to-find workers, according to a report released Thursday by the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks.
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Higher interest rates are as a direct result of BIDENFLATION caused by PROFLIGATE BORROW-BIG-AND-SPEND_MASSIVELY BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us back for more, to wit:
“A majority of firms said that higher interest rates were affecting their business in some way, most often in the form of increased debt payments,” according to the latest Small Business Credit Survey, with it adding “firms experienced challenges with rising costs and paying operating expenses in the year leading up to the survey.”
The report, released by the Cleveland Fed, was based on a survey of just over 6,000 firms with fewer than 500 employees, conducted between September and November last year.
The survey horizon captured firms’ sentiments in the wake of what had been a very aggressive campaign of central bank rate rises aimed at cooling inflation.
Those actions lifted the central bank’s target rate range from near zero levels in the spring of 2022 to the current setting of between 5.25% and 5.5% with the July hike.
The report found that almost all responding firms faced financial challenges last year, with the most common issue being tied to rising costs for goods and services as well as higher wages.
That said, some 77% of firms flagged rising costs as a problem, which was down from 81% who said the same thing in 2022.
In terms of debt, the report found that last year the share of small businesses with outstanding debt held steady, but those who borrowed had more debt to manage.
The report said 39% of firms had more than $100,000 in outstanding debt, up from 31% who were in the same position in 2019.
The report also said 34% of respondents said making debt payments was a challenge and 54% of firms tied higher rates to increased debt costs.
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On March 7, 2024, we had an angry Joe Biden, who might have been exhibiting what is known as “‘ROID RAGE,” telling us that the “landing is and will be soft.”
Meanwhile, in a Fox Business News article titled “Janet Yellen warns inflation decline might not be ‘smooth'” by Megan Henney and Edward Lawrence on March 13, 2024, we had Biden treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen seemingly singing a different song, to wit:
EXCLUSIVE: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday that inflation could face a bumpy return to normal after back-to-back reports showed that price pressures within the U.S. economy rebounded at the start of the year.
In a sit-down interview with FOX Business’ Edward Lawrence, Yellen pushed back against stagflation concerns and maintained that progress on inflation has not stalled.
“I wouldn’t expect this to be a smooth path month to month, but the trend is clearly favorable,” she said.
“That said, President Biden’s top priority is addressing the issue of high costs that concerns so many Americans.”
Prices for everything including groceries, new cars and health insurance surged in 2021 and 2022 as the result of rampant inflation, which was caused by pandemic-induced disruptions in the global supply chain, an extremely tight labor market and increased consumer demand fueled in part by stimulus cash.
While inflation has fallen considerably from a peak of 9.1% notched during June 2022, it remains above the Federal Reserve’s 2% goal.
And when compared with January 2021, shortly before the inflation crisis began, prices are up a stunning 18.49%.
High inflation has created severe financial pressures for most U.S. households, which are forced to pay more for everyday necessities like food and rent.
The burden is disproportionately borne by low-income Americans, whose already-stretched paychecks are heavily affected by price fluctuations.
Progress on inflation has largely flatlined since June, with the consumer price index hovering at or above 3% for the past nine months, stoking concerns on Wall Street over the possibility of “stagflation.”
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And in an article in The Hill titled “Yellen says she regrets saying inflation was ‘transitory’” by Taylor Giorno on March 13, 2024, we had this same “TOODLES: Yellen crying the blues about being wrong as wrong could be about inflation back in 2021, as follows:
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she regrets describing inflation in 2021 as “transitory,” the term several Federal Reserve and Biden administration officials used to describe the pandemic-induced price surges they initially thought would be temporary.
“I regret saying it was transitory.”
“It has come down.”
“But I think transitory means a few weeks or months to most people,” Yellen said during an interview with FOX Business Network’s Edward Lawrence on Monday.
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As to Joe Biden’s “soft landing, that article tells us as follows:
The runway for the soft landing may be a bit bumpy as inflation is proving to be stickier than usual, but Yellen, a former Fed chair, was optimistic about the overall downward trend in price pressures.
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So, is the landing soft as Joe tells us it is?
Should we believe him because he is the president?
And then Joe told us on March 7, 2024 that now, instead of importing foreign products and exporting American jobs, we’re exporting American products and creating American jobs right here in America, where they belong.
So, okay, Joe, but then, dude, what about a Reuters story titled “US trade deficit widens in January on imports” on March 7, 2024, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. trade deficit widened sharply in January amid a jump in goods imports, a trend that if it persists could see trade subtracting from economic growth this quarter.
The trade deficit increased 5.1% to $67.4 billion, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis said on Thursday.
Data for November was revised to show the trade gap rising to $64.2 billion instead of $62.2 billion as previously reported.
Imports increased 1.1% to $324.6 billion in January.
Goods imports shot up 1.2% to $263.4 billion.
Imports of capital goods as well as those of motor vehicles parts and engines were the highest on record, which bodes well for business investment on equipment.
Services imports rose $0.5 billion to an all-time high of $61.3 billion.
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So, what is up with that, people?
Is Joe, at his best nothing more than a bumfuzzled fopdoodle and throttlebottom, getting his signals crossed here, or something?
Is he confusing imports for exports?
Does he even know the difference between the two?
And then Joe told us that he personally and singlehandedly created fifteen million new jobs in just three years, which he says is a record, a record, just to make his point clear, which takes us to a CNBC article titled “U.S. job growth totaled 275,000 in February but unemployment rate rose to 3.9%” by Jeff Cox on March 8, 2024, where we have this look at where those jobs Joe says he created really are, to wit:
Job creation skewed toward part-time positions.
Full-time jobs decreased by 187,000 while part-time employment rose by 51,000, according to the household survey.
From a sector standpoint, health care led with 67,000 new jobs.
Government again was a big contributor, with 52,000, while restaurants and bars added 42,000 and social assistance increased by 24,000.
Other gainers included construction (23,000), transportation and warehousing (20,000) and retail (19,000).
Most recently, companies such as Cisco, Microsoft and SAP have announced substantial reductions in their workforces.
Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said this was the worst February for layoff announcements since 2009, in the late days of the global financial crisis.
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So where, oh where, are all these high-paying manufacturing jobs Joe is talking about creating?
And what about Joe saying that consumer studies show consumer confidence is soaring?
If that is so, and it must be, because Joe Biden said it, and Joe afterall is the president, and the president is never wrong, because he is always right, then what about this Reuters article titled “NY Fed: Consumer outlook on longer-term inflation hit snag in February” by Michael S. Derby on March 11, 2024, to wit:
NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) – The public’s expectations around the longer-run trajectory of inflation deteriorated in February, a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday.
The deterioration in longer-run inflation expectations is likely to unsettle Federal Reserve officials, who are now in the preparation phase for their March 19-20 Federal Open Market Committee meeting.
Fed officials believe that where the public expects inflation to go strongly influences where it stands today.
They’ve repeatedly flagged the relative stability of longer-term expectations as a reason they are confident inflation will return to the target.
Officials have also warned the road to lower inflation will likely be uneven and bumpy.
Some recent inflation data has proven stronger-than-expected, which may have influenced the recent round of expectations data.
Respondents were a little more downbeat on job market prospects and said last month that their views on credit access had also sagged.
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So, is consumer confidence really soaring, people?
Or is this simply more empty BIDEN BOBAUNCE intended to gull the weak-witted in America and the easily fooled?
Think about it, because November is on its way!
And yes, people, disjointed, and indeed, demented, as in the demented Biden administration policies are not well connected or well ordered, and therefore are often confusing as we see in a Reuters article titled “Yellen says US moving to ensure domestic EV maker success despite China’s exports” by David Lawder on March 13, 2024, where we have this drivel from Biden treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen to consider, to wit:
ELIZABETHTOWN, Kentucky, March 13 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday said President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to ensure the success of its domestic electric vehicle (EV) industry in the face of China’s growing exports in the sector and heavy government subsidies.
Asked whether the United States needs new tariffs on Chinese EVs, Yellen told reporters at a new battery materials plant in Kentucky: “I don’t want to get ahead of where we are, but it is a commitment that President Biden has made … that we’re going to want our domestic industry to be successful.”
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And with those statements from “TOODLES,” here we are, back to BIDE-O-NISM, Joe’s COMMAND ECONOMY, out of which comes BIDE-O-NOMICS, and its related BIDENFLATION, and by way of review, a “Command economy” or “Communist economy,” also known as a “Central Planned Economy” is an economy where decisions on what to produce, how to produce and for whom are taken by the government in a centrally managed bureaucracy.
For those of us with memories that extend farther back in time than just a few minutes ago, we recall that the Soviet Union often announced ‘5-year plans’ where targets for steel production would be created, and as we learned in 7th grade social studies, in the period 1928-40 and after the Second World War, these Five-year plans were very successful in terms of expanding the Soviet Union’s industrial production, so that for a period, the Soviet Union achieved very rapid rates of economic growth.
However, by the 1960s, the system was struggling with corruption, inefficiency and a lack of incentives, and the rapid economic growth of the Stalin years also occurred against a backdrop of political repression.
As to the problems we can expect from BIDE-O-NISM, Joe Biden’s Americanized version of STALINISM in the Soviet Union, they are as follows:
* Governments are poor at predicting future trends.
* Inflexible. Difficult to respond to shortages and surpluses
* Greater scope for corruption
* Planned economies often associated with greater political repression
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As to Joe taking steps to ensure the success of his government-subsidized domestic electric vehicle (EV) industry, consider the Reuters article titled “EV start-up Fisker prepares for possible bankruptcy filing, WSJ reports” on March 13, 2024, where we have a hurdle for Joe to overcome if he wants his government-subsidized domestic electric vehicle (EV) industry to be successful, to wit:
March 13 (Reuters) – Electric-vehicle start-up Fisker has hired restructuring advisers to assist with a possible bankruptcy filing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Earlier this month, Fisker flagged going-concern risks, job cuts and a pause in investments into future projects until it secures a partnership with a manufacturer.
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As those with memories will recall, this is the second time Fisker is going bankrupt, with Joe Biden having been its chief cheerleader the last time around.
But Joe’s problems don’t stop there, and as proof that Joe’s government is as poor at predicting future trends as any other fourth-rate banana republic, all we need do is go to a Reuters article titled “Lucid forecasts annual vehicle production below estimates” on February 21, 2024, where we have as follows:
Feb 21 (Reuters) – Lucid Group forecast annual vehicle production far below analysts’ estimates on Wednesday, on signs that demand for its luxury electric vehicles will slow down as high interest rates pinch consumer budgets.
Shares of the company fell around 5% in extended trading.
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And those high interest rates killing Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM are caused by BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
The company expects to make 9,000 units for the full-year 2024 compared with estimates of 22,594 according to five analysts polled by Visible Alpha.
The company made 8,428 vehicles in 2023.
The Saudi Arabia-backed company took to slashing prices once more for its Air sedans last week to counter sagging demand at a time when the EV industry is seeing a slowdown.
The company also missed estimates for fourth-quarter revenue hit by a slowdown in deliveries as consumers grapple with high costs.
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And they are not the only getting hurt by BIDE-O-NOMICS, as we see from another Reuters article titled “Rivian cuts jobs, sees annual production below estimates” on February 21, 2024, to wit:
Feb 21 (Reuters) – Rivian said on Wednesday it would cut its workforce by 10% and forecast EV production this year that widely missed estimates, hurt by downtime for factory upgrades and slowing demand for electric vehicles due to high interest rates.
Shares of the company tumbled about 17% in extended trading after Rivian said it expects to produce 57,000 vehicles in 2024, well below estimates of 81,700 units, according to eight analysts polled by Visible Alpha.
It produced 57,232 vehicles last year.
“We firmly believe in the full electrification of the automotive industry, but recognize in the short-term, the challenging macro-economic conditions,” CEO RJ Scaringe said in a statement on Wednesday.
Amazon.com-backed Rivian has been burning through cash to ramp up production of its R1S SUV and R1T pickup trucks as it spends on building a new factory in Georgia and loses thousands of dollars on every vehicle it builds.
The company’s cash burn comes at a time when demand for EVs has slowed, with Tesla CEO Elon Musk warning that high interest rates are making cars unaffordable.
After shying away from reducing the price of its vehicles last year despite a price war sparked by Tesla, Rivian this month cut the price of its R1T pickup trucks and R1S SUVs by $3,100.
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And then Bloomberg puts the icing on the cake in a story titled “Investors Flee Tumbling EV Upstarts Once Hailed as ‘Next Tesla’” by Esha Dey on February 25, 2024, where we have as follows with respect to Joe Biden’s COMMAND ECONOMY, to wit:
(Bloomberg) — There was a time when the backing of some of the world’s deepest pockets and the mere ambition to sell electric cars was enough to inspire confidence in the stocks of upstarts Rivian Automotive Inc. and Lucid Group Inc.
Now investors have all but thrown in the towel on the shares.
All it took was a fresh dose of reality from the two companies this week around cooling demand for EVs.
Rivian, which makes electric pickups, SUVs and delivery vans and counts Amazon.com Inc. as its top shareholder, said its production will stay flat at last year’s levels.
It also announced plans to shrink its workforce again.
Lucid, majority-owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, projected only a slight increase in output over 2023.
Both forecasts fell far short of analysts’ expectations.
For investors, the sense of gloom has been building since October, when Tesla Inc. warned of sagging interest in EVs.
Though shares of the EV giant have fared poorly since then, losing around 20% and massively underperforming the broader market, the impact on smaller rivals like Rivian and Lucid has been nothing short of disastrous.
Shares of Irvine, California-based Rivian are down by about 44% since Tesla’s October warning — the first in a series of grim outlooks from global EV-makers and suppliers — and closed Friday at a record low.
Newark, California-based Lucid has dropped some 33% in the same period, and isn’t far above its own nadir.
Still, had it not been for their wealthy backers — Amazon has a 17% stake in Rivian, and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund holds roughly 60% of Lucid, data compiled by Bloomberg show — the stocks could be looking far uglier.
“The presence of these names is a comfort to investors and a cushion to the price,” Mazza said.
“If these stocks were just relying on the EV hype, then they will be down much worse.”
Overall, the biggest concern is that these cash-burning, unprofitable companies will struggle to sell cars at a time when even industry-leader Tesla — by far the biggest seller in the US market — is cutting prices to boost demand.
And while Tesla’s profits and large-scale production allow it to compete by lowering prices, Rivian and Lucid have neither of those advantages.
“For these car manufacturers, investors want to see demand,” said David Wagner, portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors.
Rivian’s latest results suggest it will take several quarters to emerge from its production stoppage with a leaner cost structure and a redesigned platform, he said.
“In the meantime, I think skeptics will be scrutinizing the cash balance and ringing alarm bells,” Wagner said.
“So if there is no multiple expansion and no growth — what else is the stock supposed to do?”
Both Rivian and Lucid are now worth a fraction of the prices they fetched at their public-market debuts in 2021.
Rivian’s market value is around $9.6 billion, and Lucid’s is about $6.9 billion.
That’s a long way down from their $153 billion and $91 billion valuation peaks, respectively, in 2021.
Wall Street analysts are losing confidence as well.
Analysts’ average 12-month price targets for Rivian and Lucid fell nearly 20% just this week.
Meanwhile, the outlook for EVs broadly just keeps getting worse.
Global sales of EVs are estimated to grow 20% this year, to about 16.7 million units, according to BloombergNEF’s most recent analysis.
That’s a marked cooling from the 33% jump seen in 2023.
“Trying to be the ‘next Tesla’ is turning out to be an expensive strategy,” Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas wrote in a note Friday.
“As EV startups turn into restructuring stories, whoever finds a sponsor has the best chance.”
To put where we are today in America with respect to what passes for national politics in some kind of rational and logical perspective, notwithstanding these are hardly logical and/or rational times we find ourselves immersed in, with an angry and ranting Joe Biden in the white house, an autocrat cut from the same cloth as Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, Joe Stalin of the old Soviet Union, or Idi Amin of Uganda, who reportedly boasted that he kept the decapitated heads of political enemies in his freezer, although he said that human flesh was generally “too salty” for his taste, I would like to cut to an on-line publication called Reason and Meaning and an article titled “H. L. Mencken: On Politics (Bayard vs. Lionheart),” a political essay written on July 26, 1920 by Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), who was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English who commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements in his time, in that case, nine years before the Wall Street Crash that led to the GREAT DEPRESSION, where we start with the famous quote of his one hundred four years ago which describes to a TEE where we are with Joe Biden adorning the white house today, to wit:
“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”
“We move toward a lofty ideal.”
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
~ H. L. Mencken
And that takes us to the article, which begins as follows:
Henry Louis Mencken (1880 – 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.
Known as the “Sage of Baltimore,” he was one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century.
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I have to confess here that Mencken is high up on my list of political commentators, and I am unaware of any today who have his insight into politics, politicians themselves, and how the game of politics is played, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
On July 26, 1920, Mencken published an op-ed in the Baltimore Evening Sun titled “Bayard vs. Lionheart,” which was later included in a volume of his essays: On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe.
Mencken’s essay ponders how it is that political candidates are so often the worst of people—without honor or conviction.
As Mencken puts it:
“It is not often, in these later days of the democratic enlightenment, that positive merit lands a man in elective office in the United States; much more often it is a negative merit that gets him there.”
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And keep in mind that he was writing those words in 1920, and one hundred four years later, with Joe Biden in the white house, they are as true now as they were back then, which again takes us back to the article for more, to wit:
One of the main reasons that the voters often choose the worst people to lead them is that the masses fear thoughtful people, people with deep and sophisticated ideas:
“In the face of this singular passion for conformity, this dread of novelty and originality, it is obvious that the man of vigorous mind and stout convictions is gradually shouldered out of public life.”
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Today, one hundred four years later, we don’t find that the man of vigorous mind and stout convictions is gradually shouldered out of public life.
To the contrary, we find that they don’t even get in, which again takes us back to the article, to wit:
And the voters have themselves to blame for the incompetent and immoral people they choose for public office.
Voters are:
“… unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob emotions.”
“… when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. …”
“The larger the mob, the harder the test.”
“In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by the force of his personality.”
“But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.”
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Today, in our times, that man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum is named Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and because of that, not only have we been stuck with him and his fiscal profligacy in the white house, but we are seriously threatened with four more years, which takes us to the rest of the Mencken quote above, to wit:
“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men.”
“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”
“We move toward a lofty ideal.”
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Which takes us back to the author’s conclusion on November 29, 2016, to wit:
To be honest, I think that it is every bit as much moral vice as intellectual vice that will doom the American empire in our present moment.
I truly fear that we are moving to an even more more fascist, plutocratic state than the one we are already in.
I hope I’m wrong.
But it is hard just so hard to see how the situation will change without radical intellectual and moral enhancement of human beings.
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Keeping in mind that that was written eight years ago in 2026, with our gift of hindsight, we can truthfully say that the even more fascist, plutocratic state than the one we were in then came to Washington, D.C. in January of 2021 when Joe Biden was installed as president, and lo and behold, here we are today!
And now that the momentous occasion of what hopefully will be Joe Biden’s final State of the Union address has come and gone, and I have had ample time to go through the transcript word for word for word, let’s go back to February 20, 2024, and a Fox News article titled “Biden campaign aims to use State of the Union address as reset after damning Special Counsel claims: Report” by Nikolas Lanum, where we have this insight into Joe’s political thinking going into the BIG EVENT, much like having been able to interview Travis Kelce before the Superbowl to find out if having Taylor Swift in the audience would make him a nervous fumblefingers, or like Joe, could he “man up” and deal with it, or a chat with Muhammad Ali before the “RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE” on October 30, 1974 when boxer Muhammad Ali, nicknamed “The Greatest,” reclaimed the word heavyweight title by winning the “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:.
Officials close to President Biden believe the upcoming State of the Union address could be an opportunity to reset or “neutralize” public perceptions about his age and memory before the November election.
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And good luck with that, say I, because in an article in the Intelligencer titled “Trump vs. Biden Polls: No State of the Union Bounce for Joe” by Ed Kilgore on 16 March 2024, all that prep work to try and make Joe Biden out as something he isn’t with a blustery and windy speech devoid of any actual intellectual content failed to move the needle, on bit, to wit:
It is hard to exaggerate the psychological boost Democrats derived from Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address.
Fears that Biden would show his advanced age on the reelection campaign trail — or worse yet, hide from voters — were dissipated by his fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness.
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And believe me, people are wondering where SLEEPY JOE Biden who is rumored to fall asleep face first in his mashed potatoes and peas after six o’clock at night, got that fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness from!
Is Old Joe doing like Sweet Jane, living On Reds, Vitamin C And Cocaine, and some steroids thrown in to induce some “ROID RAGE” in Joe, long with massive hits of Viagra to make Joe look virile and studly?
Going back to that POST-GAME ANALYSIS, it goes on as follows:
His team’s strategy for winning in November was on full display as the president chipped away at public skepticism about his record and identified Republicans with deeply unpopular policy positions and their deeply unpopular nominee.
But while the State of the Union did wonders for Democratic optimism, there’s simply not much evidence that it changed many minds about Joe Biden’s job performance or flipped many votes from Republican to Democrat.
The president’s job-approval ratings remain subpar.
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And with that POST-GAME analysis before us, and the reality it represents, let’s go back to the locker room pre-game for more on what TEAM BIDEN was thinking before having Joe, their CHAMPION, go into the arena, to wit:
According to a Monday report from Axios, Biden’s allies plan to spend hours on the text of his speech as well as the president’s physical preparation to turn the prime-time address into a campaign victory.
“Everyone around him is well aware — well aware — of the need to jack this campaign up,” a source close to Biden said.
“The only way to deal with the negative aftershocks of the special counsel’s report [criticizing Biden’s memory] is for the president to be out there, to be visible — to be strong of presence and strong of voice.”
Biden officials are hoping that the public response to the address will be similar to last year, when the president claimed that Republicans aimed to cut Social Security and Medicare programs.
Plans to re-energize Biden’s 2024 campaign follow the recent Hur report, which investigated the president’s handling of classified documents, after the prosecutor, in his final report, noted that Biden struggled to remember details such as when his son died.
While Hur’s report decided not to prosecute Biden for criminal wrongdoing, it characterized the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and led to a flurry of questions from reporters and commentary from left-leaning pundits.
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Which takes us to an analysis of the Hur Report in the Wall Street Journal titled “Opinion | ‘My Memory Is Fine’: Another Unforgettable Denial of Reality” by Gerard Baker on February 13, 2024, to wit:
“I am not a crook.”
“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.”
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
A president denying reality is nothing new.
Sometimes it’s a self-protective lie.
Sometimes it’s a mangled emanation from the brain of a tired leader.
Sometimes it’s a contorted verbal formula to convince the rest of us that our perception of obvious truths is somehow false.
It rarely works.
On each of these occasions, the incumbent president failed to convince anyone, and in each case the political plight that prompted the denial in the first place helped ensure that his party lost the next presidential election.
“My memory is fine” looks set to join these presidential protestations as verbal monuments to futility.
The intensity of the denials by the White House and its allies of last week’s devastatingly succinct description of the president as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory “ by special counsel Robert Hur is proof that they know it’s true.
The surest testimony to the accuracy of Mr. Hur’s assessment is that they reserved their greatest ire not for the description itself, but for his temerity in writing it.
Bob Bauer, the president’s personal lawyer, told CBS on Sunday that the special counsel’s 388-page report was a “really shabby work product and completely out of bounds for a prosecutor.”
But for political purposes, whether Mr. Hur took liberties with his brief by waxing about Mr. Biden’s mental faculties is immaterial.
The president’s handlers make clear by their behavior that they know it to be true as well as the public does.
Mr. Biden has held fewer press conferences and given fewer interviews than any president since Reagan.
For the second year in a row he skipped the traditional Super Bowl interview, usually a soft pass tossed this way so he can spike the ball in the end zone in front of more than 100 million Americans.
The leader of the free world is a fragile ornament, wrapped in cotton wool, protected by aides from falls and gaffes, sheltered by staff (and in Mr. Biden’s case by much of the media) from accountability, gently cocooned from the risk of doing or saying anything he can’t control.
This amounts to a fraud on the American public.
But it’s an inescapable feature of reality denial that once you’ve started, you can’t stop.
Mr. Biden may not be able to remember names of foreign leaders dead or alive or place important countries on the right continent, but, like everyone who has ever run for the office, he still thinks he’s the right man for the job.
It would be a high-wire act to drop a presidential nominee on the voting public 11 weeks before Election Day.
Democrats would be asking many Americans to choose someone nominated two months before they vote.
No, the reality denial will have to continue for another nine months.
And then, four more years.
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Which brings us up to where we are today, which is on a downhill run with Joe Biden in power, but stay tuned, because the saga of Joe Biden is far from over, so don’t touch that dial!
Having studied the supposed political reasoning behind it, and having actually read through the transcript of Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, in actuality, a poorly written political stump speech that had nothing to do with the actual state of the union, on March 7, 2024, I was reminded of a political essay by H.L. Mencken titled “Gamalielese” from the Baltimore Sun on March 7, 1921, where the “Sage of Baltimore” laid down the “rules” that govern the preparation and content of political speeches not only in his time, but in our times today, since those rules for what should be or should not be included in a political speech are inflexible and unchanging, as we shall see by examining the evidence, starting with the Mencken essay, to wit:
On the question of the logical content of Dr. Harding’s harangue of last Friday I do not presume to have views.
The matter has been debated at great length by the editorial writers of the Republic, all of them experts in logic; moreover, I confess to being prejudiced.
But when it comes to the style of a great man’s discourse, I can speak with a great deal less prejudice, and maybe with somewhat more competence, for I have earned most of my livelihood for twenty years past by translating the bad English of a multitude of authors into measurably better English.
Thus qualified professionally, I rise to pay my small tribute to Dr. Harding.
Setting aside a college professor or two and half a dozen dipsomaniacal newspaper reporters, he takes the first place in my Valhalla of literati.
That is to say, he writes the worst English I have even encountered.
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean-soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
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And it is the same today with Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU which indeed reminded me not only of stale bean-soup, but especially, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
As Mencken said on March 7, 1921, it is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it, and these words written then, in 1921, about a speech by Warren Gamaliel Harding, the Ohio Republican who was the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923) and whose term in office was fraught with scandal, including Teapot Dome, apply equally well today about Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU. and well they should, since Joe’s SOTU followed this same formula laid down some one hundred years or more ago, to wit:
It drags itself out of the dark abysm (I was about to write abscess!) of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh.
It is rumble and bumble.
It is flap and doodle.
It is balder and dash.
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And yes, people, those are the main ingredients needed for a successful political speech by an American president today in our times. as we all witnessed on March 7, 2024 when a visibly angry (“ROID RAGE”?) and clearly agitated Joe Biden delivered his bombastic SOTU, only omitting mention of E PLURIBUS UNUM, and ENDEAVOR TO PERSEVERE, whi8chy takes us back to a short history of Warren Gamaliel Harding, who has traditionally been ranked as one of the worst American presidents, a ranking now contested mightily by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior in our times today.
With resp0ect to Harding, in a 1948 poll conducted by Harvard University, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. conducted a survey of scholars’ opinions of the presidents, ranking Harding last among the 29 presidents considered.
As to Harding’s windy speeches, the style of which Joe Biden has adopted as his own today, before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality….”
A Democratic leader, William Gibbs McAdoo, called Harding’s speeches “an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea.”
So too today with Joe Biden’s speeches and especially his SOTU, which was full of empty platitudes but totally devoid of actual intellectual content, to wit:
“Folks, America cannot go back.”
“I am here to- — tonight to show what I believe is the way forward, because I know how far we’ve come.”
Uh, okay, sure, Joe, whatever you say!
“Turning setback into comeback.”
“That’s what America does.”
“That’s what America does.”
Ah, the inspiration pours forth!
“I say to the American people: When America gets knocked down, we get back up.”
“We keep going.”
“That’s America.”
“That’s you, the American people.”
“It’s because of you America is coming back.”
“It’s because of you our future is brighter.”
“It’s because of you that tonight we can proudly say the state of our Union is strong and getting stronger.”
That, people is a pure example of political rhetoric dragging itself out of the dark abysm of pish, as it crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh.
That is rumble and bumble combined with flap and doodle with the right amount of balder and dash mixed in to make it all absolute political hogwash.
Going back to Harding, he born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865, and became the publisher of a newspaper.
Harding’s undeviating Republicanism and vibrant speaking voice, plus his willingness to let the machine bosses set policies, led him far in Ohio politics.
He served in the state Senate and as Lieutenant Governor, and unsuccessfully ran for Governor.
He delivered the nominating address for President Taft at the 1912 Republican Convention.
In 1914 he was elected to the Senate, which he found “a very pleasant place.”
An Ohio admirer, Harry Daugherty, began to promote Harding for the 1920 Republican nomination because, he later explained, “He looked like a President.”
Thus a group of Senators, taking control of the 1920 Republican Convention when the principal candidates deadlocked, turned to Harding.
He won the Presidential election by an unprecedented landslide of 60 percent of the popular vote.
Republicans in Congress easily got the President’s signature on their bills.
By 1923 the postwar depression seemed to be giving way to a new surge of prosperity, and newspapers hailed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise – “Less government in business and more business in government.”
Behind the facade, not all of Harding’s Administration was so impressive.
Word began to reach the President that some of his friends were using their official positions for their own enrichment.
Alarmed, he complained, “My…friends…they’re the ones that keep me walking the floors nights!”
Looking wan and depressed, Harding journeyed westward in the summer of 1923, taking with him his upright Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover.
“If you knew of a great scandal in our administration,” he asked Hoover, “would you for the good of the country and the party expose it publicly or would you bury it?”
Hoover urged publishing it, but Harding feared the political repercussions.
He did not live to find out how the public would react to the scandals of his administration.
In August of 1923, he died in San Francisco of a heart attack.
And with that history stated, let’s cut to a break for station identification and an INFOMERCIAL starring Hillary Clinton pitching THIGH MASTERS and SHAMWOWS, but don’t touch that dial, because when the INFOMERCIAL is over, we will be back with more, so stay tuned!
It is well known in our times today that reading, as I do on a daily basis, consistently improves concentration and critical thinking skills while strengthening brain network connectivity, so that when I am reading the transcript of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU, and come across bombastic (forceful and confident in a way that is intended to be very powerful and impressive, but may not have much real meaning or effect) drivel from Joe such as “Above all, I see a future for all Americans; I see a country for all Americans; And I will always be President for all Americans because I believe in America,” it is those critical thinking skills that have me saying, WTF, this man is an idiotic lunatic!
Above all, Joe Biden sees a future for all Americans?
Oh, really!
I wonder what he has in store for me?
And Joe sees a country for all Americans?
I mean, seriously, people, how can you take this **** seriously and consider it to be even remotely “presidential” in nature, or related in any way to the actual state of the union, which was what Joe was supposed to be there to talk about, but mended up- way wide of the mark.
And then there is this Biden-esque verbal gem, to wit:
“And I will always be President for all Americans because I believe in America.”
Now, seriously, people, doesn’t that make you feel very good about yourselves and all warm and squishy inside hearing Joe crooning those words in your ear in dulcet, mellifluous and euphonious tones?
And of course it does.
But who is Joe trying to kid there?
Joe Biden is not President for all Americans; he has never been President for all Americans; and he never will be President for all Americans, and that is an indisputable fact.
Think I’m kidding?
Not a joke, people, as we clearly see from a Daily Wire article titled “Joe Biden Calls Trump Supporters ‘Virulent People,’ The ‘Dregs Of Society'” by Joseph Curl on September 17, 2018, where we have the real Joe Biden standing up and being heard as he bellowed and blustered about Trump supporters, to wit:
Joe Biden just had his “deplorables” moment.
Biden, who says he’ll decided in January whether to run for president in 2020 but who is making all the moves of a presidential candidate, used a pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign annual dinner on Saturday to rip President Trump.
And in so doing, Biden had a moment reminiscent of Hillary Clinton, when she called Trump supporters “deplorables.”
Biden did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about.
“Despite losing in the courts, and in the court of opinion, these forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you all have made,” he said.
“This time they — not you — have an ally in the White House.”
“This time they have an ally.”
“They’re a small percentage of the American people — virulent people, some of them the dregs of society.”
“And instead of using the full might of the executive branch to secure justice, dignity, safety for all, the president uses the White House as the literal — literal — bully pulpit, callously — callously — exerting his power over those who have little or none.”
Biden got himself lathered up into a full froth as he waxed poetic about his and “Barack’s” thoughts on Trump.
“Barack and I agreed to remain silent for a while to give this administration the chance to get up and running in the first year,” Biden said.
“God forgive me,” he added, making the sign of the cross as the audience applauded.
“Those who try to excuse this kind of prejudice in the name of culture, I say, ‘Prejudice is prejudice and humanity is humanity — it is a crime,'” Biden said, urging those in the room to continue to oppose Trump.
“Our work is not yet done by any stretch of the imagination.”
“The stakes are much too high.”
And then he went even further.
“This is deadly earnest, we are in a fight for America’s soul,” Biden said.
Biden’s wife, Jill, also got in on the act before introducing her husband.
“There is nothing that makes either of us more angry than a bully.”
“There’s nothing that’s more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn’t belong,” she said.
“There is nothing that makes us want to pick a fight more than that,” she said.
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And with those words from “CREEPY JILL” Biden before us, it is again time to cut to a break for station identification and when we will get back we will have H. L. Mencken telling us about the inner secrets, the Zen, if you will, or Tao, of good political speech writing, to wit:
But I grow lyrical.
More scientifically, what is the matter with it?
Why does it seem so flabby, so banal, so confused and childish, so stupidly at war with sense?
If you first read the inaugural address and then heard it intoned, as I did (at least in part), then you will perhaps arrive at an answer.
That answer is very simple.
When Dr. Harding (president Warren G. Harding) prepares a speech he does not think of it in terms of an educated reader locked up in jail, but in terms of a great horde of stoneheads gathered around a stand.
That is to say, the thing is always a stump speech; it is conceived as a stump speech and written as a stump speech.
More, it is a stump speech addressed to the sort of audience that the speaker has been used to all of his life, to wit, an audience of small town yokels, of low political serfs, or morons scarcely able to understand a word of more than two syllables, and wholly able to pursue a logical idea for more than two centimeters.
Such imbeciles do not want ideas — that is, new ideas, ideas that are unfamiliar, ideas that challenge their attention.
What they want is simply a gaudy series of platitudes, of sonorous nonsense driven home with gestures.
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And gestures Joe Biden has by the bushel basket full as he gets himself lathered up into a full froth, booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about, so stay tuned.
So, going back to the article in the Intelligencer titled “Trump vs. Biden Polls: No State of the Union Bounce for Joe” by Ed Kilgore on 16 March 2024, where we were told that Democrat fears that Joe Biden would show his advanced age on the reelection campaign trail were dissipated by his fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness on March 7, 2024 when Joe delivered his political stump speech misnamed as a State of the Union address, which it clearly was not, not having anything whatsoever to actually do with the actual state of the union, which is hardly strong with Joe Biden in power, we see Joe and his handlers following the successful political formula laid down a little over a hundred years ago by Warren Gamaliel Harding, who has traditionally been ranked as one of the worst American presidents, a ranking now contested mightily by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior in our times today, so that like president Harding, when Joe and his handlers prepare a speech, they too think of it in terms of a great horde of stoneheads gathered around a stand upon which Joe Biden rises high above the assembled crowd and gets himself lathered up into a full froth, booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about, so that in Joe’s style, like that of Gamaliel before him, there is pressure, ardency, effortcy, gasping, a high grunting, Cheyne-Stokes breathing.
Like that of Warren G. Harding, Joe Biden has a style that rolls and groans, struggles and complains, the style of a rhinoceros liberating himself by main strength from a lake of boiling molasses, as Mencken said of Harding in the political essay “A Short View of Gamalielese” in The Nation on April 27, 1921.
As with Harding, a speech by Joe Biden on anything, about anything, or about a lot of nothing, as far as that goes, is always a stump speech conceived as a stump speech and written as a stump speech addressed to the sort of audience that Joe Biden has been used to all of his life, to wit, an audience of small town yokels, of low political serfs, or morons scarcely able to understand a word of more than two syllables, and wholly able to pursue a logical idea for more than two centimeters.
As was the case with Harding and remains the case today with Joe Biden, twin sons of different mothers at least as far as political speeches are concerned, such imbeciles as can sit or stand through a speech delivered by Joe Biden do not want ideas — that is, new ideas, ideas that are unfamiliar, ideas that challenge their attention.
What they want is simply a gaudy series of platitudes, of sonorous nonsense driven home with gestures, such as the following concluding words from Joe Biden’s fake SOTU on March 7,k 2024, to wit:
I believe in you, the American people.
You’re the reason we’ve never been more optimistic about our future than I am now.
So, let’s build the future together.
Let’s remember who we are.
We are the United States of America.
And there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together.
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And doesn’t that just warm the cockles of your hearts, people, to know that an American president, with all his cares and worries, still has time to believe in YOU, and he wants you to know that you’re the reason Joe and “CREEPY JILL,” who husband Joe is, have never been more optimistic about our future than Joe and “CREEPY JILL” are now?
And going back to Joe and his handlers following the successful political formula for political speeches laid down a little over a hundred years ago by Warren Gamaliel Harding, Joe and his handlers know that Joe’s followers can’t understand many words of more than two syllables, but that is not saying that they do not esteem such words.
On the contrary, as was the case when Harding was president, they like them and demand them, because the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, such as “to lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a vision for the future and what can and should be done,” enchants them, and they like phrases which thunder like salvos of artillery, such as “overseas, Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond.”
Yes, people, let that thunder sound, and Joe’s acolytes and followers will take all the rest on trust.
Quoting Mencken, because he got it right, if a sentence of Joe’s begins furiously and then peters out into fatuity, such as “my message to President Putin, who I’ve known for a long time, is simple: We will not walk away; We will not bow down; I will not bow down,” Joe’s listeners are still satisfied, because if a phrase has a punch in it like that one does, they do not ask that it also have a meaning.
If a word slips off the tongue like a ship going down the ways, such as “in a literal sense, history is watching,” they are content and applaud it and wait for the next.
As H.L. Mencken said in his essay “Gamalielese” from the Baltimore Sun on March 7, 1921, and it applies to a career hack politician like Joe Biden today, brought up amid such hinds, trained by long practice to engage and delight them, Dr. Harding carries his stump manner into everything he writes, as does Joe Biden today, and as was the case then, the stump speech, put into cold type such as the transcript of Joe’s SOTU that I read, maketh the judicious to grieve, but roared from an actual stump, or a metapho9rical stump in the case of Joe’s SOTU on March 7, 2034, with arms flying and eyes flashing and the old flag overhead, it is certainly and brilliantly effective.
Read Joe’s SOTU and it will gag you, as it did me.
But hear it recited with grand gestures to ram home its periods, and you will begin to understand it, keeping well in mind that a tight fabric of ideas would weary and exasperate Joe’s audience because what it wants, and what Joe delivered with his SOTU on March 7, 2024, is a simple loud burble of words, a procession of phrases that roar, a series of whoops.
And here once again, we will take a break for station identification while we cut to a Youtube video of Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea giving us a preview of what to expect from an upcoming video of Hillary Clinton and Lauren Boebert performing “Booty” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtIRArhVD4 , so stay tuned and we will be back with more.
Now, here is a relevant existential question for our exciting times today – is it possible that the text or script of Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on March 7, 2024 was not written by actual humans, but was instead concocted by an ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE engine out of various bits and pieces of other political speeches in the long history of political speeches, not only in America, but everywhere in the world since the beginning of time, given that AI would “know” all that stuff, even if a mere human wouldn’t, plus AI would also have the added advantage of knowing the demographics of all the voters out there and especially their IQs, so that AI could then tailer the SOTU to the widest possible audience that could be depended on to waste its time watching and listening to a speech, any speech, by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior?
Having read the speech, I would have to say that it is a distinct possibility, anyway, not that it would change anything, of course, whether AI prepared the speech, or some humans, or a roomful of monkeys with typewriters, for that matter, because as far as SOTU’s go, it is indeed a lousy one which whether prepared by AI or humans presumes we are all of us too stupid to know the difference about anything, because Joe Biden and his followers all are.
For example, look at this hysterical and delusional horse**** from the beginning of Biden’s SOTU where he intoned in a sonorous voicc as follows:
“In January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation.”
“And he said, ‘I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.’”
“Hitler was on the march.”
“War was raging in Europe.”
“President Roosevelt’s purpose was to wake up Congress and alert the American people that this was no ordinary time.”
“Freedom and democracy were under assault in the world.”
“Tonight, I come to the same chamber to address the nation.”
“Now it’s we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union.”
“And, yes, my purpose tonight is to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either.”
“Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today.”
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What hype, what blather, what cheap theatrics, because there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING at all “unprecedented” in this particular moment in the history of the Union, other than we are now stuck with Joe Biden in the white house, a serial liar who makes Lyndon Baines Johnson seem truthful by comparison.
And “SLEEPY JOE” Biden is going to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment?
Well, as for me, I’m already awake, and I have been awake for some long time now, and the last person I would listen to or believe about any moment in time would be Joe Biden.
And not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today?
Oh, really, Joe?
Do tell!
How about freedom and democracy are under assault at home because YOU are trying to make sure that you are the only name on the ballot for president come November!
And what makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack at — both at home and overseas at the very same time?
BULL****, Joe!
Ukraine, which Joe is the supporter and enabler of, is a FASCIST DICTATORSHIP, where there is NO FREEDOM OR DEMOCRACY, period!
Overseas, Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond?
Putin is not “on the march” as senile and hysterical and delusional Joe says.
To the contrary, Putin of Russia isn’t marching anywhere because Putin of Russia is BOGGED DOWN in a quagmire called Ukraine.
And Putin of Russia is sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond?
YEAH, RIGHT, Joe!
Which brings us to this absoluteIy ridiculous statement from Joe, to wit: If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you: He will not.
Uh, okey dokey, Joe, you da man!
If you are saying it, it has to be true!
So, see what I am saying here about Biden thinking we are all stupid?
A person has to be totally brain-dead to believe a word of that Biden horse****, and that is a fact!
And that takes us back in time to April 27, 1921 and a political essay by H.L. Mencken in The Nation titled “A Short View of Gamalielese,” from which essay, if AI prepared Joe’s SOTU, it got its stylistic inspiration as follows, giving us what can now be called NEO-GAMALIELESE, or BIDENESE, to wit:
What else is there is the style.
It is the style of what the text-books of rhetoric call “elevated” discourse.
Its aim is to lend force to a simple hope or plea or asseveration by giving it the dynamic whoop and hoopla of a revival sermon, an auction sale, or a college yell.
The nuclear thought is not smothered in the process, as Democratic aesthetes argue, nor is it true that there is sometimes no nuclear thought at all.
It is always present, and nine times out of ten it is simple, obvious, and highly respectable.
But it lacks punch; it is devoid of any capacity to startle and scorch.
To give it the vigor and dignity that a great occasion demands it is carefully encased in those swathings of sonorous polysyllables, and then, the charge being rammed home, it is discharged point-blank into the ears and cerebrums of Christendom.
Such is the Gamalian manner, the secret of the Gamalian style.
That style had its origin under circumstances that are surely not unknown to experts in politico-agrarian oratory.
It came to birth on the rustic stump, it developed to full growth among the chautauquas, and it got its final polishing in a small-town newspaper office.
In brief, it reflects admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience at which it was first aimed, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell.
Such an audience has no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas.
Of all ideas, indeed, it is suspicious, but it will at least tolerate those that it knows by long hearing, those that have come to the estate of platitudes, those that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases.
Above all, it distrusts perspicuity, for perspicuity is challenging and forces one to think, and hence lays a burden on the mind.
What it likes most of all is the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables — the more incomprehensible the better.
It wants to be bombarded, bawled at, overwhelmed by mad gusts of the parts of speech.
It wants to be entertained by orators who are manifestly superior — fellows whose discourse is so all-fired learned and unintelligible, so brilliant with hard words and trombone phrases, that it leaves them gasping.
Let the thunder sound, and it takes all else on trust.
If a sentence ends with a roar, it does not stop to inquire how it began.
If a phrase has punch, it does not ask that it also have a meaning.
If a word stings, that is enough.
Trained to the service of such connoisseurs. Dr. Harding carries over the style that they admire into his traffic with the Congress, the effete intelligentsia, and the powers and principalities of Europe.
That style is based upon the simplest of principles.
For every idea there is what may be called a maximum investiture — a garb of words beyond which it is a sheer impossibility to go in gaudiness.
For every plain word there is a word four times as big.
The problem is to think the thing out in terms of harmless banality, to arrange a series of obvious and familiar ideas in a logical sequence, and then to translate them, one by one, into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns of the highest conceivable horse-power — to lift the whole discourse to the plane of artillery practice — to dignify the sense by all the arts of sorcery.
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And so, we have Joe Biden’s SOTU – terms of harmless banality arranged in a series of obvious and familiar ideas in a logical sequence, and then translated one by one into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns of the highest conceivable horse-power to lift the whole discourse to the plane of artillery practice.
Now, with respect to Joe Biden’s misnamed “State of the Union” address on March 7, 2024, which address was nothing more than a poor combination of a predictable and boring political polemic (a speech or piece of writing expressing a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something) mixed up with a contrived jeremiad (a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; as in “the jeremiads of a puritan president like Joe Biden warning of moral decay and the loss of the soul of America if Donald Trump is elected instead of Joe Biden”), if we go to the Congressional Research Service website under “History, Evolution, and Practices of the President’s State of the Union Address: Frequently Asked Questions” updated January 12, 2018, what we find out about what a real, not faux as this one was, State of the Union address should consist of, as follows:
Summary
The State of the Union address is a communication from the President to Congress in which the
chief executive reports on the current condition of the United States and provides policy
proposals for the upcoming legislative year.
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Did Joe Biden actually do that on March 7, 2024, or even attempt to do that, report on the current condition of the United States and provides policy proposals for the upcoming legislative year?
Of course not.
According to the White House transcript, this is how Joe started his show off on March 7, 2024, in what I consider to be a very belligerent (hostile and aggressive; as in “a bull-necked, belligerent old man”), condescending (having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority) and unpresidential manner, to wit:
(The President presents his prepared remarks to Speaker Johnson.)
Your bedtime reading.
Tony!
Thank you.
Looking for Jill.
Good evening.
Good evening.
If I were smart, I’d go home now.
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Your bedtime reading?
What a flippant and frankly childish thing for Joe Biden to say in a fit of pique (a feeling of anger, especially caused by someone damaging Joe Biden’s feeling of being proud of himself: as in Joe Biden stormed into the room in a fit of pique), where flippant behavior by Joe Biden on March 7, 2024 is defined as showing or having a rude attitude of not being serious esp. by trying to be amusing when most people expected Joe to be serious.
Going back to the SOTU itself, a real SOTU, not Joe Biden’s hollow mockery or pretend SOTU, the address originates in the Constitution (Article II, Section 3, clause 1), which requires that the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
That, people, is what OUR Constitution says, but Joe Biden DOES NOT go by OUR Constitution, and so he just makes **** up as he goes, which takes us back to the Congressional Research Service, as follows, and this is quite relevant to the subject at hand, which is that Joe Biden’s SOTU wasn’t written to be read, but was instead the script for a cheap, televised drama show, to wit:
How Have Advances in Technology Affected the Address?
Advances in technology have dramatically affected the format, audience, and impact of the
address.
President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first annual message by radio broadcast, in
1923.
President Truman’s 1947 State of the Union message was the first to be broadcast by
television.
Free air time for the President’s message and the opposition response is currently
provided as a public service by commercial, public broadcast, and cable networks.
President George W. Bush’s 2002 address was the first to be streamed live from the White House website.
In his 2013 address, President Obama’s Administration produced an “enhanced broadcast” that
included infographics that accompanied his remarks.
Commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers, successive Presidents learned to use the occasion as an appeal to the nation; the message evolved from being a report to Congress to a direct address to the American people, a platform from which the President
announced, explained, and promoted his legislative agenda for the coming year.
In 1965, Lyndon Johnson changed the time of his address from the traditional mid-afternoon to 9:00 P.M., to better attract the largest number of television viewers.
The message traditionally draws a large audience:
President Obama averaged 38.7 million over the seven addresses he made.
The largest audience recorded in recent years was 66.9 million, for President Clinton’s 1993 Address to the Joint Sessions of Congress (not officially a State of the Union address), while Clinton’s 2000 address attracted the fewest viewers in recent times, at 31.5 million.
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So, despite what OUR Constitution says in Article II, Section 3, clause 1 about the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient,” in our times today, as the Congressional Research Service makes patently clear, the whole process has become totally bastardized (a version of something lower in quality or value than the original form, typically as a result of the addition of new elements) precisely because by commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers in what is a political message that is free and doesn’t have to be paid for like other campaign messaging, mountebanks like Joe Biden posing as presidents have learned to use the occasion as an appeal directly to the nation to the nation, in this case the 32.2 million people who are said to have watched Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on broadcast or cable television March 7, 2024, so that the message in the age of Joe Biden is no longer about being a report to Congress.
To the contrary, as the nation and world witnessed on March 7,k 2024, what Joe Biden did was to give a direct address to the American people, a platform from which Joe glorified himself while vilifying his political opposition, and that was the sum and substance of the whole affair, which had absolutely nothing to do with the president announcing, explaining, or promoting his legislative agenda for the coming year, because Joe doesn’t really have one.
So, whether AI prepared the text of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 State of the Union address or whether it was written by humans, it was prepared in the style of what the text-books of rhetoric call “elevated” discourse, the aim of the exercise being to lend force to a simple hope or plea or asseveration (the solemn or emphatic declaration or statement of something, as in “I fear that Joe Biden offered only unsupported asseveration”), that being the hope and plea to reelect Joe Buden when he is the very last thing this nation needs four more years of, by giving Joe’s forlorn hope the dynamic whoop and hoopla of a revival sermon, an auction sale, or a college yell, and following the formula laid down about a hundred years ago now by Warren G. Harding, to give Joe’s diatribe and political harangue on March 7, 2024 the vigor and dignity that what Joe Biden thought was a great occasion demanded of it, Joe’s polemic was carefully encased in swathings of sonorous polysyllables, and then discharged point-blank from the roaring and thundering mouth of Joe Biden straight into the ears and cerebrums of so much (32.2 million people) of the candid world as had the stomach to watch the show, a show which reflected admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience Joe Biden has been aiming at for his very long political career, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell “FOUR MORE YEARS,” such an audience having no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas, it only being able to tolerate platitudes that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases, with what it likes most being the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, the more incomprehensible the better, so that as was the case on March 7, 2024, the audience was bombarded, bawled at, overwhelmed by mad gusts of the parts of speech, so that the audience and media ended up being entertained by a fellow whose discourse was so all-fired learned and unintelligible, so brilliant with hard words and trombone phrases, that it left them gasping, as the Biden thunder sounded, and sentences ended with a roar.
So, think about this, people, as we consider the distinct possibility that Joe Biden’s entire SOTU performance, from the moment he came on stage as it were, to the rousing strains of “HAIL TO THE CHIEF,” which is what Joe Biden is in America, anyway, was scripted and directed not by human agency, but by AI, which everybody today who knows anything about anything knows is smarter that any human and knows way far more than a human could know in 20 or 30 lifetimes, how on March 7, 2024, when a visibly angry Joe Biden imperiously walked into the House Chamber of the U.S. Capital. where he is being impeached by his social and political inferiors, belligerent Joe, clearly looking for a fight, striding in as the conquering hero as if he were accoutered in Royal Purple with a golden torc around his bull neck, silver and gold arm rings adorning his massive arms, and a diadem around his brow, in a very surly mood, indeed, which captured the moment instantaneously and made the show all Joe Biden, for not only the people of America to see, but also the people and leaders of every dictatorship out there, and especially Putin of Russia, Xi of China, the dude in North Korea with the wild haircut, and the Houthis, who are using Joe Biden’s navy boats for target practice, that Joe Biden is the MAN THAT AM, somebody not to **** with if they know what’s good for them, a message as well for the Republicans as Joe tossed a copy to the speaker of the house as if tossing table scraps to a dog, telling him, “Your bedtime reading,” how all these many important separate and disparate little details, like Joe Biden’s all-important demeanor, that make or break a theatrical production, as someone with experience in the genre like Wayne Creed could well tell us, how difficult it is the make a theatrical production happen so seamlessly and flawlessly as this one did, that it does indeed smack of the first State of the Union address in America having been prepared by AI, and not human agency.
And what were the results of the experiment?
Let’s check the headlines from that evening and the following day to see:
AP News: Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump …
Spectrum News NY1: Biden lays out agenda in fiery State of the Union speech
U.S. News & World Report: Fiery Biden Takes on Trump in State of the Union Address
Reuters: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery State of the …
France 24: Biden attacks Trump, defends democracy in fiery State of …
The Hill: Biden’s fiery State of the Union shows he’s miles ahead of ‘ …
CNBC: Biden electrifies Democrats, spars with Republicans in fiery …
BBC: Biden draws election battle lines in fiery speech
Washington Post: Biden delivers State of the Union with fiery political tone
ABC News: 7 takeaways from Biden’s fiery State of the Union – ABC News
NBC News: Biden turns the State of the Union into a fiery campaign …
USA Today: Takeaways from Biden’s fiery State of the Union
The New York Times: Biden Takes His Fiery State of the Union Pitch on the Road
Vanity Fair: Joe Biden Didn’t Mince Words for Republicans in Fiery …
CBS News: Biden hits campaign trail after fiery State of the Union address
YouTube · Scripps News: President Biden gives fiery State of the Union address
CBS News: California Republicans respond to Biden’s fiery State of the …
Le Monde.fr: Biden attacks Trump and warns US democracy at risk in …
NBC News: ‘Wake up’: Biden delivers fiery State of the Union
France 24: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery … – France 24
NBC4 Washington: State of the Union 2024: Biden delivers fiery …
KQED: 6 Key Takeaways From Biden’s Fiery State of the Union …
Washington Post: Biden campaigns in Pa. following feisty State of the Union …
FOX 2 Detroit: Biden delivers fiery State of the Union speech – FOX 2 Detroit
The Independent Record: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
The Bismarck Tribune: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
Financial Times: Joe Biden attacks Donald Trump on ‘democracy and …: Mar 7, 2024 — Joe Biden vowed to fight for “democracy and freedom” in the US and around the world in a fiery, unabashedly political speech to Congress in …
Facebook · Scripps News: President Biden gives fiery State of the Union address
Lincoln Journal Star: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
U.S. News & World Report: Biden’s Fiery State of the Union
FOX 11 Los Angeles: Biden delivers fiery SOTU address – FOX 11 Los Angeles
The Bay State Banner: President Biden lights up the chamber in fiery State of …
WFMJ.com: Biden delivers fiery state of the union
Albany Democrat-Herald: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
NJ Spotlight News: Biden takes on his ‘predecessor’ in fiery State of the Union …
So isn’t it interesting how universal, except a few instances where “feisty” was used instead, the use of the word “fiery” (emotional or easily made angry: as in “He’s known for his fiery temper”) was in all those headlines, as if coordinated.
And what else is interesting is the fact that none of those publications bothered to calol out Jow for totally perverting and degrading what OUR Constitution says in Article II, Section 3, clause 1 about the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient,” which serves as clear evidence in our times today, as the Congressional Research Service made patently clear, that the whole concept of the SOTU has become totally bastardized (a version of something lower in quality or value than the original form, typically as a result of the addition of new elements) precisely because by commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers in what is a political message that is free and doesn’t have to be paid for like other campaign messaging, mountebanks like Joe Biden posing as presidents have learned to use the occasion as an appeal directly to the people of the nation, in this case the 32.2 million people who are said to have watched Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on broadcast or cable television March 7, 2024, so that the message in the age of Joe Biden is no longer about being a report to Congress.
To the contrary, as the nation and world witnessed on March 7, 2024, what Joe Biden did was to give a direct address to the American people, a platform from which Joe glorified himself while vilifying his political opposition, and that was the sum and substance of the whole affair, which had absolutely nothing to do with the president announcing, explaining, or promoting his legislative agenda for the coming year, because Joe doesn’t really have one.
And the main-stream and legacy media DID NOT care!
Now, let’s face it, people, as we go further and further into the SILLY SEASON leading up to the
November presidential election, we are confronted with a serious problem as free citizens of the United States of America who care about the QUALITY of our national government, that it is not a corrupt, profligate, scandal-ridden, incompetent, inept, untrustworthy national disgrace, or an international laughing stock on the world stage in this day and age of American DICTATOR and LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first Biden ever to achieve such fame and glory in the entire history of the Bidens, is that as a pathological liar, Joe is going to keep lying, telling the same lies over and over, no matter how many times Joe’s lies get debunked, and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it, nor can we depend on the media, outside of the Cape Charles Mirror, to say boo about it, or to attempt to fact-check Joe, whose pathological lying the main-stream and legacy media simply accept as part of Joe Biden’s character or personal make-up.
Case in point is Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU where Joe came out with the following, to wit:
Tonight — tonight, I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.
And, by the way, I understand corporations.
I come from a state that has more corporations invested than every one of your states in the state — the United States combined.
And I represented it for 36 years.
I’m not anti-corporation.
But I grew up in a home where trickle-down economics didn’t put much on my dad’s kitchen table.
That’s why I’m determined to turn things around so the middle class does well.
When they do well, the poor have a way up and the wealthy still do very well.
We all do well.
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Trickle-down economics didn’t put much on Joe’s dad’s kitchen table?
What whiney bull**** that is!
And it is a patently ridiculous statement, as well, given that Joe was born on November 20, 1942, when DEMOCRAT Frank Roosevelt was president, and there was NO TRICKLE DOWN to affect little Joey’s dad.
Then, Frank Roosevelt died in office so that on April 12, 1945, DEMOCRAT Harry S. “The buck Stops Here” Truman became president, and was president until 1953, and still there was NO TRICKLE DOWN to affect little Joey’s dad.
As to Joe’s statement about growing up in a home where NON-EXISTENT trickle-down economics didn’t put much on my dad’s kitchen table, if we go to Joe’s own published bio on Wikipedia, this is what we find concerning Joe’s father, to wit:
Biden’s father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton.
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Joe'[s father was a lousy businessman or money manager and a poor provider which is why little Joey grew up in a home without much on the table, and when poor, starving little Joey was seven years old, it was 1949 and DEMOCRAT Truman was president, so really, people, who does Joe Biden think he is kidding here with his speech on March 7, 2024 which reflected admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience Joe Biden has been aiming at for his very long political career, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell “FOUR MORE YEARS,” such an audience having no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas, it only being able to tolerate platitudes that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases, with what it likes most being the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, the more incomprehensible the better.
So, people, think about it, with that bull**** spew about trickle-down, does Joe Biden think we all are unable to grasp reality because he and everyone around him are unable to grasp reality, which thought takes us back to a Newsweek article titled “Joe Biden Airs Thanksgiving Ad To Try To Boost Floundering Campaign” by Giulia Carbonaro on 24 November 2023, where we had the same BIDEN BULL**** that we were subjected to on March 7, 2024 flowing quite freely, to wit:
Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign will air a television ad during the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game on Thursday as the president tries to boost support in his bid for re-election, which appears to be dwindling.
Recent polls by The New York Times and Siena College have shown that Biden is losing ground to Donald Trump in five critical states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
That means that the embattled former president — currently the frontrunner in the Republican primary by a huge margin — is ahead in five out of six key battleground states, where voters said they trusted Trump over Biden on tackling issues surrounding the U.S. economy, immigration and foreign policy.
Biden was leading only in Washington, where he had an advantage of two percentage points.
The president and Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that the one-minute commercial will air during the Lions-Green Bay Packers game on Thursday, in one of those swing states where Biden is trailing Trump, Michigan.
According to the New York Times/Siena poll, Trump would win the state by five percentage points.
The ad, titled “Never Left,” focuses on Biden’s Scranton roots and underlines the Democratic president’s understanding of the struggles of middle class Americans, as reported by The Detroit News.
“He grew up a middle-class kid in a middle-class town,” the ad says, adding that the middle-class town “has never left him.”
“He knows what life is like for working people and knows middle class life is too expensive right now.”
“For Joe Biden it’s about restoring the sense of security working people deserve — that simple promise, that peace of mind.”
“He’s determined to get it back, because of where he’s from and who he is,” the narrator says in the ad that will show at the Thursday game.
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“BIDENFLATION JOE” Biden is going to restore the sense of security working people deserve and Joe is determined to get it back, because of where Joe’s from and who Joe is?
Joe Biden a middle-class kid in a middle-class town and the middle-class town has never left him?
Joe Biden’s Scranton roots?
Joe Biden understands the struggles of middle class Americans?
What rot!
And Joe Biden knows what life is like for working people?
How so, people, when there is no evidence that Joe Biden ever worked an honest hour at an honest job in his entire lifetime?
As to Joe’s claims of understanding the middle class, if we go back to Joe’s bio, this is what we are confronted with, to wit:
At Archmere Academy in Claymont, Biden played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team.
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Ah, yes, people, Archmere Academy where tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year is $32,400.
Good old “middle class” Joe, alright!
As to the term “trickle down economics,” according to Wikipedia, it was rarely seen in published works until the 1980s.
However, the concept that economic prosperity in the upper classes flows down into the lower classes is at least 100 years old, the term itself being used mostly by critics of the concept.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary notes that the first known use of “trickle-down” as an adjective meaning “relating to or working on the principle of trickle-down theory” was in 1944, while DEMOCRAT Frank Roosevelt was president, while the first known use of “trickle-down theory” was in 1954.
As to Joe’s “bottom up middle out” theory, it is hardly new and way6 back in time, in 1896, in fact, United States Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan described the concept using the metaphor of a “leak” in his Cross of Gold speech, to wit:
“There are two ideas of government.”
“There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below.”
“The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.”
Which statement humorist and social commentator Will Rogers in a 1932 column criticizing Herbert Hoover’s policies and approach to The Great Depression, wrote about as follows, which describes exactly where Joe Biden has us today, to wit:
“This election was lost four and six years ago, not this year.”
“They [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour.”
“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy.”
“Mr. Hoover was an engineer.”
“He knew that water trickles down.”
“Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot.”
“But he didn’t know that money trickled up.”
“Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow.”
“But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.”
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Stay tuned, more is yet to come!
Before we go further into the stilted and hackneyed political language of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 MOCK SOTU, which was in reality a cheap, poorly-written and disjointed angry political rant and diatribe (cue RODNEY DANGERFIELD – “NO RESPECT” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0toL3C0R14 ) by a shallow, angry old man, let’s go back for a moment to this sentence from above, where Joe came out with the following, to see if we can make a lick of sense out of what Joe is spewing, to wit:
“Tonight — tonight, I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.”
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When you read that, you are left with no other choice but to set it down as idiotic — a series of words without sense – because that is exactly what it is.
But now imagine Joe Biden in a stentorian voice intoning it as it were designed to be intoned.
Imagine the slow tempo of Joe’s carefully cultivated manner of public speaking, said to be adopted from the style of Paul Devrient, real name Walter Stieber, also Paul Stieber-Walter (17 November 1890 – 5 November 1973) who was a German operatic tenor and theatre director who also gained notoriety as Adolf Hitler’s voice coach and speech teacher in 1932 and for a fee, accompanied Hitler on his propaganda trips across Germany from April to November 1932, not only training Hitler’s voice and speaking technique, but also improving his presence as a political speaker in front of large audiences through acting and rhetoric lessons, which method has served Joe Biden quite well over his very lengthy career as a professional politician serving an endless meal of pure BULL**** to the American people over a long length of years.
Then imagine the stately unrolling of the first clause, “Tonight — tonight,” — the delicate pause upon the word “I” — and then the loud discharge of the phrase “want to talk about the future of possibilities,” “that we can build together,” “a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over” and “the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.” each with its attendant glare by Joe and roll of the eyes of Joe, each with a sublime heave, each with its gesture of a blacksmith bringing down his sledge upon an egg — imagine all this, and then ask yourself where you have got.
You have got, in brief, to a point where you don’t know what it is all about, because it is a ridiculous premise, that somehow, in some mysterious way not yet revealed by Joe, there will be a glorious future created by us today, even though it has never been done before, where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks, especially when under Joe Biden today, it is the wealthy and biggest corporations that are getting all the tax breaks.
As was the case with a political speech by Warren G. Harding, you hear and applaud the phrases because they sound nice, but their connection has already escaped you.
And so, when in violation of all sequence and logic, the final phrase, “all the tax breaks” assaults you, you do not notice its disharmony — all you notice is that, if this or that, already forgotten, is done, “all the tax breaks” will no longer go the wealthy and biggest corporations, while who they will go to is left unsaid.
Anyway, as was the case with people actually watching Joe Biden give his rant on March 7, 2024, as opposed to reading the transcript as I did, they being glad of the assurance from Joe that the wealthy and biggest corporations will no longer be getting all the tax breaks as they are under Joe right now, and thrilled by Joe’s vast gestures as Joe did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about that drive it home, they give a cheer and call out “FOUR MORE YEARS” like a bunch of jackasses.
And how about that, people – doesn’t that make you feel very good about yourself and all warm and squishy inside, knowing in your heart of hearts that Joe Biden, the very important man who is not only COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of all the American people by popular acclaim, because he is the very best we have in this country, but LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, as well, wants to wrap his massive. well-muscled, protective arm around YOU, so he can talk to YOU personally like a babe in swaddling clothes in his arms about the future of possibilities that YOU and Joe can build together, because let’s remember who we are, people, we are the United States of America, and there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together, including building a future of possibilities — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks.
And as we are adults in here, people, not no longer naive children as we once might have been, with it so very easy to pull the wool over our eyes as it once perhaps was, we can’t kid or delude ourselves into either thinking or believing that the future is anything other than possibilities, precisely because the future, not being here yet, does not exist.
That is what the future always is, always has been, and always will be – nothing more than endless possibilities, and assign all the probabilities to the p0ssibilities that you want to, you, and Joe Biden and all the king’s men and all the kings horses can no more build the future together, than you can move the moon to a different position in the heavens so it don’t shine in your bedroom window anymore at night to keep you awake.
And you and Joe can remember all you want that you are the United States of America, and think like deluded fools and idiots that there is nothing — nothing beyond your capacity when you act together, something which has never yet happened in this nation’s history, and never will, because it is an impossibility to have 330 million people all working together on something at the same time, because there is no way to coordinate their efforts, or even to give them all proper instructions as to what must be dome next.
So, with that said, it should be obvious that deluded, senile Joe Biden, who has never yet built anything in his life other than a lucrative political career for himself and the Biden family, cannot build a future of possibilities — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks.
He can pretend he can, and there are deluded people out there willing to pretend along with him, but pretending is merely pretending, and anyone who engages in the effort with Joe is a fool.
And speaking as an engineer, there is a veritable host of things the United States cannot do, like invent a perpetual motion machine, so that is simply a very stupid statement from Joe Biden aimed at people even more stupid that he is.
And stupid statements, people DO NOT belong in a State of the Union address, yet Joe Biden’s MOCK SOTU, in actuality a cheap, poorly-written angry political rant by a small, angry old man, was chock-a-block with them as well as cheap shots at his political enemy and opponent, which again do not belong in a State of the Union address, but nonetheless, there they are, to wit:
America is a founding member of NATO, the military alliance of democratic nations created after World War Two prevent — to prevent war and keep the peace.
And today, we’ve made NATO stronger than ever.
We welcomed Finland to the Alliance last year.
And just this morning, Sweden officially joined, and their minister is here tonight.
Stand up.
Welcome.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
And they know how to fight.
Mr. Prime Minister, welcome to NATO, the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen.
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The Swedes now how to fight?
How so, Joe, when Sweden had a policy of neutrality in armed conflicts from the early 19th century, until 2009?
Sweden wanted to remain neutral during World War II and in fact, it successfully avoided entering the war, although depending on the course of the war, the Swedes sometimes tended to act more pro-German, while at other times they supported the policies of the Allies.
According to high school history, which Joe Biden himself knows absolutely nothing about, being the stupidest human being to ever serve as an American president, the last time the Swedes actually fought was a short war against Norway in 1814, which is TWO HUNDRED TEN (210) years ago now, so what then, besides his over-active imagination, makes Joe Biden think the Swedes can fight?
And NATO is the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen?
That’s BIDEN BULL****, plain and simple.
Does Joe Biden think we are all so stupid and uninformed that we cannot possibly remember or recall that NATO’s ill-fated and incompetent engagement in Afghanistan against some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen began in August 2003 and then ended ignominiously (deserving or causing public disgrace or shame) in August 2021 when NATO ran away like a bunch of scared rabbits, including Joe Biden, which resulted in the collapse of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the return to power of the Taliban, who Joe Biden and NATO were unable to beat.
As to Iraqinam, from 2004 to 2011, NATO conducted a relatively small support operation in Iraq that consisted of training, mentoring and assisting the Iraqi security forces.
So, if NATO was run out of Afganistnam like a chicken-killing dog by some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen, which it was, then how can Joe Biden truthfully say that NATO is the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen?
But let’s face it, people, we are dealing here with Joe Biden, whose flights of fancy (an unrealistic idea or fantastic notion, a pipe dream) are legendary, so this is what we have to expect from him, and this is what we are now going to be confronted with between now and November, which is going to be nothing but a continuing litany of lies from Joe Biden and his enablers and apologists in the main-stream and legacy media, as well as his cabinet members and NSC members, who are all out there on the campaign trail for Joe, beating their drums and chanting his name, calling for “FOUR MORE YEATS,” and God help the nation if that should occur, because we are going to need it!
And here, on March 7, 2024, with this following from Joe’s MOCK SOTU, we were plunged by Joe Biden into the depths of mindless gibberish and mere sound and fury signifying exactly nothing, or as H.L. Mencken would have it, the immemorial blather of a candidate for offi8ce under democracy, addressing multitudes unfamiliar with ideas and incapable of thought, the sort of sonorous bilge that delights Kiwanis Clubs, attendants at Methodist revivals, and the editorial writers for party newspapers, to wit:
We must be honest: The threat to democracy must be [defeated].
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And what crap that is, given democracy is nothing but a concept with no concrete meaning, and it certainly isn’t a possession of either Joe Biden, who in my estimation cherishes and worships the word “democracy” the way Gollum called the ring “my precious” (cue Gollum loses his Precious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBgPEdWeKM ).
And if in fact we must be honest, and why wouldn’t we be, given we are not politicians like Joe Biden who lie and dissemble and mislead for a living, what exactly is the threat to democracy that we must defeat?
Does anyone have an inkling, or a clue?
Has anyone ever heard Joe Biden be explicit about this supposed threat to democracy, which itself is an unstable political system, that according to Jemmy Madison, himself as much an American president as is this loser Biden, in Federalist No. 10 where Jemmy stated as follows as to what Joe Biden’s “democracy” has “blessed” us with today, to wit:
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
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The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into OUR national government in our times today by the policies of Joe Biden are now the mortal diseases under which our REPUBLICAN FORM of government may well perish thanks to Joe Biden, and when I think of an ADVERSARY TO LIBERTY in this country, the name which comes readily to mind is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and more to the point, given we have a Constitutional Republic in this country (see, U.S. Constitution article IV, § 4; The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government), what democracy is Joe Biden talking about that is supposedly under threat?
Which takes us back to March 7, 2024 and the MOCK SOTU and more BIDEN BLATHER, to wit:
As I’ve done ever since being elected to office, I ask all of you, without regard to party, to join together and defend democracy.
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Join together and defend democracy?
How, Joe, when it is you and the DEMOCRATS who you are asking us to join with who are the clear and present threats and true danger to free and fair elections in this country with your on-going efforts to make sure that the name Joe Biden is the only choice for president in November?
Going back to the MOCK SOTU, Joe went on as follows:
Remember your oath of office to defend against all threats foreign and domestic.
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And how about you remembering yours, Joe, which again takes us back to the MOCK SOTU, to wit:
Respect — respect free and fair elections, restore trust in our institutions, and make clear political violence has absolutely no place — no place in America.
Zero place.
Again, it’s not — it’s not hyperbole to suggest history is watching.
They’re watching.
Your children and grandchildren will read about this day and what we do.
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Yes, people, that is exactly true, which thought takes us to a New York Post article titled “Biden and the party of ‘democracy’ are terrified of third-party candidates and voter choice” by Jonathan Turley, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School on 25 March 2024, where we have political reality in America stated as follows, to wit:
The last time that the Chicago Democratic Convention was held in Chicago in 1968, the resulting riots led to one of the greatest Freudian slips in American politics.
Mayor Richard Daley declared “the policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
The Democratic National Committee has now added its own gem: the Democratic Party is not here to preserve democracy, it is here to prevent democracy.
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And boy, is he dead on the money there, which is what makes this above blather by Joe Biden about us joining together with Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS to defend democracy in his March 7, 2024 MOCK SOTU so pitiably stupid sounding, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
That’s because the DNC is seeking to block third party candidates from ballots — Robert Kennedy Jr., Cornell West, and Jill Stein.
All three are liberal and are considered a threat to Joe Biden.
This effort will likely include any ticket put forward by the No Labels group, seeking a moderate alternative to the two parties.
According to media reports, former Buttigieg campaign aide Lis Smith will lead the effort with another Buttigieg alumni, Matt Corridoni.
This effort includes not just a public campaign against Kennedy and Stein as spoilers, but “legal action” to solve the problem by denying voters a choice.
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And denying voters a choice is exactly what BIDEN FAUX DEMOCRACY is all about, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The media does not appear at all alarmed or critical of the effort to limit democratic choice.
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With the exception of the Cape Charles Mirror, the media is all but worthless, as well, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The Washington Post stated clinically “Democrats are taking third-party threats seriously this time.”
Taking it seriously appears to mean using legal means to keep them from the ballots.
It is true that the main political parties have challenged qualification signatures and paperwork in the past.
However, the reports indicate a systemic effort geared toward reducing the choices for voters.
What is striking is that this is coming from democratic groups and the DNC, which are raising money on this pledge.
The contradiction is spellbinding.
On the same sites promising to oppose the third party candidates, the DNC and other groups push the narrative that only the Democrats are working to protect the right to vote.
The Post reports that Democrats have studied the Hillary Clinton campaign and vowed not to allow third party candidates to drain away millions of voters as they did in 2016.
Of course, the comparison is particularly telling because in both 2016 and 2024, the DNC had the least popular Democratic candidates.
Polls showed that Clinton was the worst possible candidate for the party, but the Clintons had control over the DNC and state party organizations.
Of particular concern is the fact that Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan by only 67,000 votes.
In just those states, Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Stein received more than half a million votes.
Rather than actually pick a candidate that most citizens want, the DNC wants to replay the 2016 strategy of forcing the choice between two evils in a Biden-Trump choice.
That can only work reliably if there is no other choice for citizens tired of the duopoly and the political (and media) establishment.
So Kennedy, Cornell, and Stein just have to go.
I am one of those misguided voters.
Years ago, I wrote a column saying that I was tired of voting for the lesser of two evils — leaving every election as a moral hazard.
We are played as chumps by a political and media establishment in every election system.
Over two decades ago, I pledged to vote for the best candidate, even if they are with a third party.
The DNC is reportedly to be joined in this effort by a well-financed array of groups including the liberal think tank Third Way (which has filed complaints with secretaries of states); American Bridge (a Democratic opposition operation), and Clear Choice (a super PAC composed of “allies of President Biden”).
While these groups work to limit the choice of voters, the effort continues in Florida, Georgia, Washington, and New York to keep Trump in court until the election, including a possible trial running up to or even through the election.
There is hope that this multi-front effort will be the winning ticket, particularly if the ultimate ticket denies voters any other choice.
The open discussion of these efforts in the media illustrates the contempt for voters, who need to be protected from their bad choices.
I have previously compared the underlying assumptions to a type of electoral Big Gulp law.
Before they were also struck down, these laws sought to take away the dietary choices of citizens because they were making the wrong choice in the view of experts.
Now activists are now big gulping the election.
Voters cannot be trusted with something as important as democracy.
President Biden has said “make no mistake: Democracy is on the ballot for all of us.”
Of course, he could end this effort by denouncing further ballot cleansing (something he refused to do when Trump was removed by the Colorado and Maine ballots).
It appears that the last thing that democracy needs is free democratic choice.
And before we go to an article in the Brit publication The Telegraph titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024 to see where in their estimation Joe Biden has brought America down to, while we’re on this subject of “DEMOCRACY” which is so dear to Joe Biden’s heart, even though he can’t say what his version of a “DEMOCRACY” actually is, given that officially, North Korea is an “independent socialist state” which like America under Joe Biden holds democratic elections, and even Iran’s complex and unusual political system combines elements of a modern Islamic theocracy with democracy which makes it highly questionable exactly which brand of “DEMOCRACY” Joe Biden is actually on about, let’s go back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York where we have as follows concerning “DEMOCRACY,” to wit:
AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.
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And since we right now are witnessing the violence of faction in this country, as Joe Biden and his FACTION try to control our national election going into November 2024, it logically follows that we do not have a well-constructed union in this country, no matter what crap Joe Biden spewed about it on March 7, 2024, which takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice.
He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides a proper cure for it.
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected.
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And as those particular constitutions in this country are now largely dead letters (see University of Richmond Law Review, A Vanishing Virginia Constitution? by the Honorable Stephen R. McCullough on Jan 13, 2012 https://lawreview.richmond.edu/2012/01/13/the-honorable-stephen-r-mccullough-a-vanishing-virginia-constitution/) it would indeed be an unwarrantable partiality on our part today to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
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And yes, people, right there he is indeed talking about Joe Biden and his DEMOCRAT PARTY FACTION when he states that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority, which takes us back f0r more, to wit:
However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true.
It will be found, indeed, on a candid review of our situation, that some of the distresses under which we labor have been erroneously charged on the operation of our governments; but it will be found, at the same time, that other causes will not alone account for many of our heaviest misfortunes; and, particularly, for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other.
These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.
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And it is that FACTIOUS SPIRIT which we will be confronted with by the Brits in The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024 where we will be told that the base of Democratic Party of today under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street, which takes us back to Federalist No. 10, to wit:
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
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And by that definition, the Democrat party of today is very much a faction, and very much a faction united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens in America, which is all of us who are not BIDEN DEMOCRATS, and to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community, which takes us to the heart of the matter as follows, to wit:.
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
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And with that in front of us for our consideration, let’s pause here for station identification, and after several hours of Informercials about just how good and beneficial the Joe Biden administration has been for America and the Democrats, we will be right back with more Federalist No. 10 so stay tuned.
And before we go back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction with the one being to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us; the other to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, to see that iron fist closing here in America, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “White House’s Brainard says corporate profits remain elevated” on March 28, 2024, where we have Joe trying to assume total control over how much profit any given business in America in entitled to, according to Joe, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) – White House National Economic Adviser Lael Brainard said on Thursday corporate profits remain elevated, after U.S. consumer sentiment rose unexpectedly in March to the highest in nearly three years on hopes inflation will keep softening.
Brainard said the Biden administration still has work to do to lower costs – a high priority as President Joe Biden grapples with voter attitudes about stubbornly high prices and mounting housing costs.
“We have more work to do to lower costs for American families … with corporate profits still elevated, President Biden will continue to call on companies to pass their savings on to consumers,” she said.
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As to Joe’s lame efforts to control the economy, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US inflation moderating; consumer spending underpinning economy” by Lucia Mutikani on March 29, 2024, where we have this dose of reality to consider as we head into November and the presidential elections, to wit:
Data for January was revised higher to show the PCE price index climbing 0.4% instead of 0.3% as previously reported.
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, jumped 0.8% last month.
But much of the spending was funded from savings as income rose 0.3% after accelerating 1.0% in January on the back of a Costco Wholesale Corporation special dividend.
Income at the disposal of households after accounting for inflation and taxes fell 0.1%.
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INCOME AT THE DISPOSAL OF HOUSEHOLDS IN AMERICA FELL UNDER BIDE-O-NOMICS!
Don’t believe Joe’s lies to the contrary!
As to BIDENFLATION, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US manufacturing on the mend; rising raw material prices pose obstacle” by Lucia Mutikani on April 1, 2024, where we have this news from that front, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing grew for the first time in 1-1/2 years in March as production rebounded sharply and new orders increased, but employment at factories remained subdued amid “sizable layoff activity” and prices for inputs pushed higher.
While the manufacturing rebound is a boost for the economy’s growth prospects, the rise in raw material prices suggested goods inflation could pick up in the months ahead.
Nonetheless, inflation at the factory gate picked up.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers rose to 55.8 from 52.5 in February, indicating raw materials prices increased last month.
Twenty-four percent of companies reported higher prices compared to 18% in the prior month.
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And how about the price of a gall0n of gas?
On March 22, 2024, I paid $3.87 for a gallon of 89-octane gas, up from $3.72 a gallon the time before.
So why then is gas going up?
Because Joe Biden has his puppet province Ukraine and its tin-pot dictator Vladimer Zelensky bombing Ru7ssian oil infrastructure with drones, as we see in the Reuters article titled “Oil settles up on supply threats, hits 2024 highs during session” by Laura Sanicola on April 2, 2024, where we have as follows on that score, to wit:
April 2 (Reuters) – Oil prices settled higher on Tuesday after a session in which Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy facilities and escalating conflict in the Middle East pushed the Brent benchmark above $89 a barrel for the first time since October.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for May settled up $1.44, or about 1.7%, to $85.15 after touching a peak of $85.46, also the highest since October.
A Ukrainian drone struck one of Russia’s biggest refineries in an attack Russia initially said it repelled.
A Reuters analysis of images showing the impact of the attack suggests it hit the refinery’s primary oil refining unit, which accounts for about half of the plant’s total annual production capacity of 340,000 barrels per day (bpd).
“The likelihood that continued restricted Russian product exports could further tighten US petroleum supplies has suddenly forced re-calculation of U.S. (oil) balances across the rest of this month and possibly beyond,” said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates LLC.
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So, expect to be further behind in your finances thanks to BIDENFLATION caused by BIDE-O-NOMICS as we move through the months ahead to November and the election, which takes us another Reuters article titled “US construction spending falls for second straight month in February” on April 1, 2024, where we learned as follows:
WASHINGTON, April 1(Reuters) – U.S. construction spending unexpectedly fell in February as strength in single-family homebuilding was more than offset by weaknesses in nonresidential and public projects.
The Commerce Department said on Monday that construction spending dropped 0.3% after an unrevised 0.2% decline in January.
Spending on private construction projects was unchanged for a second straight month in February
Outlays on private non-residential structures like factories dropped 0.9%.
Spending on manufacturing construction projects fell 0.6%.
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So where then is this HUGE BOOST to our economy from all these INSANE GREEN DREAM
construction projects that Joe Biden is pouring HUGE FEDERAL DOLLARS into?
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit” by Stephen Nellis on April 2, 2024, where we have this bit of reality to consider, to wit:
April 2 (Reuters) – Semiconductor company Intel disclosed increasing operating losses for its foundry business on Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing.
Intel said the manufacturing unit had $7 billion in operating losses for 2023, a steeper loss than the $5.2 billion in operating losses the year before.
Intel shares were down 4.3% after the documents were filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
During a presentation for investors, Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said that 2024 would be the year of worst operating losses for the company’s chipmaking business and that it expects to break even on an operating basis by about 2027.
Gelsinger said that the foundry business was weighed down by bad decisions, including one years ago against using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines from Dutch firm ASML.
Intel plans to spend $100 billion on building or expanding chip factories in four U.S. states.
Its business turnaround plan depends on persuading outside companies to use its manufacturing services.
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INTEL’S BUSINESS TURNAROUND PLAN DEPENDS ON THEM PERSUADING OUTSIDE COMPANIES TO USE THEIR MANUFACTURING SERVICES!
Think about what is being said there, as we then go to a Reuters article titled “Intel latest to get US funds for chips, more grants and loans planned” on March 20, 2024, to9 wit:
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) – Intel Corp on Wednesday was the latest semiconductor company to be awarded billions of dollars in grants and loans from the U.S. government in President Joe Biden’s effort to supercharge domestic chip output.
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JOE BIDEN’S EFFORT TO SUPERCHARGE DOMESTIC CHIP OUTPUT WHICH JOE KNOWS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT!
Yes, people, good old Stalinistic CENTRAL PLANNING at its finest!
And getting back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction with the one being to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, Jemmy continues as follows, to wit:
The second expedient (force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist) is as impracticable as the first would be unwise.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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However, while on Friday, November 23, 1787, protecting the diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate might have been the first object of interest of government in Jemmy Madison’s mind and times, today, in April of 2024, under Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior and his WOKENESS, protecting those faculties is no longer an object of government under Joe, at all, which takes us back to Jemmy for more of what Joe Biden sees radically wrong with America today, to wit:
From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.
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And it is that which Joe Biden ends to stamp out with his DEI programs, where “equity” under Joe means complete equality in every way enforced by the federal government under Joe, whyi8chy takes us back to Federalist No.; 10, to wit:
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.
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And as we head into November 2024 and the presidential contest of the century, if not millennium, that is exactly where we find ourselves as a nation, with our attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power having divided us into parties inflamed with mutual animosity, and rendered much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for our common good, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
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And there, of course, is where Joe Biden’s equity policy comes into the picture as we shall see, but let’s go back to Federalist No. 10 to see where Jemmy is trying to take us, to wit:
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination.
A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
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And it is those different sentiments and views that Joe Biden seeks to crush to render us all perfectly equal in every way, which again takes us back to Jemmy. to wit:
It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good.
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
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And people, never has that been more true than it is today, which again takes us back for mjore, to wit:
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
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And that gets us to where we need to be to continue on when we return from a break for station identification with the Telegraph article “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we will be told by the Brits, who don’t have to fear political retaliation by Joe, and so, don’t have to suck up to and grovel before Joe like the mainstream and legacy media in this country do, as follows, s0 stay tuned:
The passing this last week of Joe Lieberman, a long-time Connecticut Senator and former vice-presidential candidate, stands as reminder of how far the Democrats have moved from the kind of centrist politics that he so epitomised.
Lieberman was an older type of Democrat, someone who embraced the party’s defense of the working and middle classes, while also rallying to the cause of American patriotism.
The Democratic Party under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is none of these things.
Its base is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street.
In terms of the world, it is largely either isolationist or timid in the face of terrorist threats, and in the case of Hamas even seems ready to embrace them.
Starting in the 60s and 70s, largely due to the Vietnam War, the party adopted an agenda largely congruent with that of the European Left – obsessed with climate, gender, and race issues and deeply hostile to basic notions underpinning American civilisation.
These are positions that centrists like Lieberman nor his closest allies in the Clinton Administration could accept.
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
Think about those words, people, which were stated by Jemmy Madison two hundred thirty-seven (237) years ago now on Friday, November 23, 1787, and what you are in fact reading about there is the Joe Biden administration, which administration is a TRUE BELIEVER that if only it can reduce mankind in America, which happens to be all of us in here today, to a perfect equality in our political rights, we would then, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in our possessions, our opinions, and our passions.
But then ask yourself this question: where and when in the history of mankind has a perfect equality in people’s political rights that would cause people to be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions ever freely existed without coercion by the “state?”
Consider, for example, Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 20 December 1679), who was an English philosopher best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory drawing mostly on his Epicurean political philosophy, whereby the rule of a strong authority, the sovereign, disciplines the wills of subjects in order to properly balance their passions, to the extent that a distinct domain of peace and security is created and maintained, a domain he mostly calls simply ‘society’.
That Hobbesian rule by the strong authority is what coercion (the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do) is all about, and in America today, pursuant to the tenets of BIDE-O-NISM, it is Joe Biden himself who is that strong authority, the sovereign, here in America, who is there to discipline the wills of we, the American people, who are his subjects in order to properly balance our passions.
But let’s go to a Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University on April 1, 2021, where we have as follows when that policy or approach is attempted here in America where we are and know we are, a free people, to wit:
Yellen and her colleagues in the United States have come face to face with structural problems of their own — in the U.S. financial system, the country’s profound social inequalities, its inadequate welfare state, and its deeply polarized politics.
For all their sense of having history on their side, what the modernizing technocrats of the Democratic Party faced, in fact, was a resurgence in conservatism.
It turned out that America’s rapid social, cultural, and economic transformation was splitting the country in half.
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Which takes us forward in time to The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we see where we have gotten to since then, thanks to Joe Biden and Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, who was quoted in an Associated Press article tilted “At Essence Festival, Yellen touts efforts to build ‘fairer economy,’ says much work still to do” on July 2, 2023 as saying “I strongly believe that our racial equity work is not just the morally right thing to do; it’s in the best economic interests of our entire country,” as follows:
The contrast between Lieberman and his old Senate colleague, Joe Biden, could not be greater.
Lieberman stuck to his views on defense and social issues, some of which reflected his embrace of orthodox Judaism.
In contrast Biden, once regarded as a centrist, has morphed into a progressive ideologue.
He has systematically weakened our defense posture, super-charged the debt credit card, and adopted identitarian politics to an almost absurd level.
This abandonment of basic centrist principles was institutionalised under Barack Obama.
The former president, unlike Biden, could express himself with great eloquence and, with great care, shifted the party away from the centrist Clinton model to one more in line with the activist base.
By the time he left office these policies generated enough resentment among the working class to help elect Donald Trump in 2016.
Four years ago, many of these same people, fed up with Trump’s rhetorical ugliness and drama-inducing antics, voted for Biden, thinking of him as a reassuring centrist.
But this turned out to be something of a feint.
Rather than rule from the middle and make Trump irrelevant, he doubled down wokeism.
Instead of working class Joe, we got someone whose agenda reflected more than values of the faculty lounge and the oligarchic elite.
The reaction among voters has been predictably hostile.
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So, thanks to BIDE-O-NISM, are we going from the frying pan into the fire?
The more Joe tries to make us all “equal,” which he can only do through coercion, the more he makes people hostile, instead, which takes us back to The Telegraph, to wit:
Despite all the hype about “Bidenomics”, a term now being abandoned by his handlers, the current economy offers young people little hope of owning a house, as buying a new home costs an estimated 80 per cent more than four years ago.
Party hacks like the New York Times Paul Krugman may castigate the masses for not recognising how great things are, but perhaps it’s because Biden has produced an economy that favours government workers and Wall Street over ordinary voters.
The fact that Dollar Tree, a key retailer in working class areas, is closing 1000 tells us more about the state of modern America than the improvement in sales in high-end retailers.
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So, the more Joe Biden tries to make us all equal, the more he is dividing us, and never in the three-quarters of a century I have been on the globe, have I seen anything like this in our country.
It don’t bode well for the future, people, but too late now, because the BIDEN TRAIN has left the station, and all we can do now is to survive the consequences.
When I was young, some years back now in a different century and millennium than the one I am stuck in today in this trying time of DEMOCRAT autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, himself the descendent of Irish royalty from back in the time of Brian Boru and a long line of Delaware Bay watermen after that, before Joe was a hardhat union coal miner in Scranton, where Joe was dirt poor before he got into politics and became filthy rich, and this is in the fifth grade, there was a series of books on the lives of the presidents from Washington up to Truman, and I sat down and read them all, but I have to say that when I got to Harding and especially Coolidge, it was a real slog to keep turning pages because I found absolutely nothing in the least inspirational in the life stories of either of them, which had my young mind wondering how on earth it is that people like these become the president of this country when there is nothing in their life story that would seem to recommend them for the position.
So when I read the political essays of H.L. Mencken who was covering the political campaigns of both of them, Harding first, and then Coolidge, who became president when Harding decided to drop dead instead of running again, what I am reading in contemporary American political history as seen through his eyes, just as I today write about contemporary American history today as seen through my eyes, since it is quite impossible that I should be able to see clearly through any other, just as Mencken saw life through his own eyes and reported it as he saw it, which takes us back to the Baltimore Evening Sun on October 6, 1924 and “The Coolidge Buncombe” by H.L. Mencken, where we have some of what I will call “comparative politics” between his time and ours, and more importantly, a basis of comparison of Joe Biden with both Harding, who before Joe Biden took the crown from him was deemed the worst American president, and Calvin Coolidge, or “Silent Cal,” as he was known, to wit:
One of the chief arguments made for Dr. Coolidge is that the majority of businessmen are for him.
If this were true, then it would be fair to conclude, not only that businessmen can put their private profits above the public good — which they probably do in fact, precisely like the rest of us — but also that they are singularly lacking in sense and prudence.
For if anything is plain today, it must be that another Coolidge administration, if it is inflicted upon us, will end inevitably in scandal and disaster.
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Knowing history as it happened thereafter, which was the stock market crash, the GREAT DEPRESSION. WWII as a result of the collapse of the Weimar Republic, and on through Korea and Viet Nam up to our times today, when I read those words of Mencken’s from October 6, 1924 about scandal and disaster, my mind flashed forward to today and where it is that Joe Biden, and his crowd are taking the nation as they keep running up the debt like there is no tomarrow, which crowd includes Janet “TOODLES” Yellen who has been in China lecturing the Chinese on how to run their country when it is crystal clear to the Chinese, who are keeping this country functioning by buying up the debt “TOODLES” has to issue to pay for Joe Biden’s fiscal profligacy, that neither Joe nor “TOODLES” have a clue when it comes to running this country, as opposed to running it into the ground, which takes us back to 1924 and Cal Coolidge as seen through the eyes of H.L. Mencken, to wit:
The day good Cal is elected every thieving scoundrel in the Republican party will burst into hosannas, and the day he is inaugurated there will be song and praise services wherever injunctions are tight and profits run to 50 per cent.
Then will follow, for a year or two, a reign of mirth in Washington, wilder and merrier, even, than that of Harding’s time.
And then there will come an explosion.
How all this will benefit legitimate business I can’t make out.
The only businessmen who will gain anything by it will be the one who manages to steal enough while the going is good to last him all the rest of his life.
All the others will get burnt in the explosion, as they always do when political dynamite is set off.
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And five years later, in 1929, that political dynamite did explode, and down came Wall Street in flames, which has me wondering, as I follow the economic news each day, about the explosion that is waiting in the wings as a result of the fiscal profligacy and irresponsibility of the Joe Biden regime and its Stalinistic CENTRAL PLANNING, which according to the Reuters article titled “TSMC wins $6.6 bln US subsidy for Arizona chip production” by David Shepardson and Stephanie Kelly on April 8, 2024, just handed TSMC, a Taiwanese company, a fistfulo of American taxpayer coin, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it would award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s U.S. unit a $6.6 billion subsidy for advanced semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona and up to $5 billion in low-cost government loans.
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In that same article, it was stated as follows:
Commerce expects the projects will create 6,000 direct manufacturing jobs and 20,000 construction jobs.
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Oh, really?
Then where are all these jobs?
I go through the job reports each month, and I fail to see where all that money is going, except into corporate coffers, where it seems to get swallowed up, as we see by going to the Reuters article titled “Strong US labor market underpins economy in first quarter” by Lucia Mutikani on April 5, 2024, where we have the latest job figures from Joe’s own government, to wit:
The healthcare sector led the broad increase in employment, adding 72,000 jobs that were spread across ambulatory services, hospitals as well as nursing and residential care facilities.
Government payrolls increased by 71,000 jobs, boosted by local and federal government hiring.
The construction sector added 39,000 jobs, about double the average monthly gain of 19,000 over the last 12 months.
Leisure and hospitality payrolls rose 49,000, returning employment to its pre-pandemic level.
There were also increases in employment in the social assistance, retail and wholesale trade sectors.
Financial activities reported modest gains in payrolls as did mining and logging, transportation and warehousing.
Professional and business services employment rose slightly, with temporary help – seen a as harbinger for future hiring – posting a small decline.
But manufacturing added no jobs last month as did the information sector.
Utilities shed 400 jobs.
Wages increased 4.1% on a year-on-year basis, the smallest gain since June 2021, after advancing 4.3% in February.
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And that subsidy (a sum of money granted by the government to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive) to TSMC is on top of $8.5 billion in grants and up to $11 billion in loans for Intel to subsidize leading-edge chip production from the same program, while Joe is expected to unveil an award for South Korea’s Samsung Electronics as soon as next week, sources said.
But this is as much about character of presidential candidates in America as it is policy, which takes us back to Mencken in 1924, to wit:
Do they quake today before the menace of La Follette?
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There he is talking about Robert Marion “Fighting Bob” La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) who was an American lawyer and politician that represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the governor of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906, and then ran for president of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election that Mencken is writing about above.
As Wikipedia tells us, with the Republican and Democratic Parties each nominating conservative candidates in the 1924 presidential election, left-wing groups coalesced behind La Follette’s third-party candidacy, and with the support of the Socialist Party, farmer’s groups, labor unions, and others, La Follette briefly appeared to be a serious threat to unseat Republican President Calvin Coolidge.
La Follette won 16.6% of the popular vote, one of the best third party performances in U.S. history, which takes us back to Mencken, to wit:
If so, let them consider how La Follette came to be so formidable.
Three years ago he was apparently as dead as Gog and Magog.
The Farmer Labor party snored beside him in the political morgue; Socialism was already in the dissecting room.
Then came, in quick succession, the oil scandal, the Veterans’ Bureau scandal and the intolerable stench of Dougherty.
In six months La Follettism was on its legs again, and now it is so strong that only a miracle can keep the election out of the House.
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And let’s pause here for station identification before going back to 1924, to see if we can learn anything at all about where we are today with Joe Biden in the white house, but stay tuned and don’t touch that dial, because we will be right back with more.
Cause and effect, people!
Yes, they still exist.
Something that happened yesterday is inextricably linked to something that will happen tomarrow, such as the policies of the Roaring Twenties resulted in the GREAT DEPRESSION, of BIDE-O-NOMICS yesterday has resulted in sticky BIDENFLATION today, but, if people are confused, or scared, or have short memories, or are distracted, or busy doing something else, all of which politicians since time immemorial have counted on as they gull and swindle and hornswoggle the populace for their benefit and that of their cronies, they fail to connect the dots, which of course is the hope and goal of the politicians feeding off the taxpayers, because in America, at least, feeding off the taxpayers is not a crime, and hey, it is what they are there for in the first place, to serve as a food source for the politicians to feed off of, which takes us for the moment back in time to back to the Baltimore Evening Sun on October 6, 1924 and political essay “The Coolidge Buncombe” by H.L. Mencken, where we have a basis of comparison of the character of Joe Biden with that of both Warren Gamaliel Harding, who before Joe Biden took the crown from him, was deemed the worst American president, and Calvin Coolidge, or “Silent Cal,” as he was known, to wit:
What I contend is that the Coolidge Administration, if it is inflicted on us, is bound to be quite as bad as the Harding Administration, and that the chances are that it will be a great deal worse.
In other words, I contend that it is bound to manufacture radicalism in a wholesale manner, and that this radicalism will be far more dangerous to legitimate business than the mild stuff that Dr. La Follette now has on tap.
I believe that the Coolidge Administration will be worse than that of Harding for the plain reason that Coolidge himself is worse than Harding.
Harding was an ignoramus, but there were unquestionably good impulses in him.
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Why don’t we have people in the main-stream and legacy media today who have the guts and courage to label Joe Biden an ignoramus?
Because they think he is a brilliant genius statesman, instead?
Going back to Mencken on Harding, who as bad as he was, was actually a far better president than is Joe Biden, we have more, as follows, as we ponder the question oof just how is it that we end up with these kinds of people as our “leaders,” which makes the term American president into a mockable term, to wit:
He (Harding) had a great desire to be liked and respected; he was susceptible to good as well as to bad suggestions; his very vanity, in the long run, might have saved him from the rogues who exploited him.
Behind Harding the politician there was always Harding the businessman — a man of successful and honorable career, jealous of his good name.
Coolidge is simply a professional politician, and a very petty, sordid and dull one.
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ENTER JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN, JUNIOR!
He (Coolidge) has lived by job-seeking and job-holding all his life; his every thought is that of his miserable trade.
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That description, people, also fits Joe Biden to a tee, which takes us back for more, to wit:
When it comes to a conflict between politicians and reputable folk, his instinctive sympathy always goes to the politicians.
He showed this sympathy plainly in the Denby and Daugherty cases.
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“Denby,” of course, is Edwin Denby (February 18, 1870 – February 8, 1929), who was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of the Navy in the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921 to 1924, and he is famous for playing a notable role in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal which took place during the Harding presidency, where Denby got Harding’s approval to transfer control of the naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California, from the Department of the Navy to the Department of the Interior, headed by Albert B. Fall, who then proceeded to lease these oil fields to friends who were heads of oil companies in exchange for over $400,000 in personal loans.
Despite attempts to keep the deal secret, The Wall Street Journal leaked news of the leasing, and the Senate decided to launch an inquiry into the matter, which investigation began in October 1923 after Harding’s death, and the Senate Committee on Lands and Public Surveys, which carried out the inquiry, concluded in 1924 that the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases to the oil companies had been fraudulent and corrupt, so that both Denby and Fall were forced to resign from office as a result.
“Daugherty” was Harry Micajah Daugherty (January 26, 1860 – October 12, 1941) and he was an American politician best remembered for his service as Attorney General of the United States under presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, as well as for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal during Harding’s presidency.
Daugherty remained an influential figure behind the election of several U.S. representatives and senators and he was Harding’s campaign manager at the 1920 Republican National Convention.
Following Harding’s successful election, Daugherty was named attorney general.
Twice the subject of federal corruption investigations, Daugherty was forced in 1924 to resign his post as attorney general by Coolidge.
which takes us back to Mencken and 1924, to wit:
To say that he (Coolidge) was not strongly in favor of both men is to utter nonsense.
He not only kept them in office as long as he could, despite the massive proofs of their unfitness; he also worked for them behind the door, stealthily and ignominiously.
To this day he has not said a single word against either of them; all his objurgations have been leveled at those who exposed them and drove them out.
He kept the asinine Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., in office until a week or so ago, and then gave him a parting salute of twenty-one guns.
He is even now trying to promote Captain Robison, the man who arranged the Doheny oil grab.
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“Doheny” is Edward Laurence Doheny (August 10, 1856 – September 8, 1935) who was an American oil tycoon who, in 1892, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field.
In the 1920s, Doheny was implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal and accused of offering a $100,000 bribe to United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall.
Doheny was twice acquitted of offering the bribe, but Fall was convicted of accepting it.
In 1922 Albert B. Fall, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, leased the oil field at Elk Hills, California, to the Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company, and around the same time, the Teapot Dome Field in Wyoming was leased to Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation.
Both oilfields were part of the US Navy’s petroleum reserves and neither lease was subject to competitive bidding.
In 1924 rumors about corruption in the deals escalated into the Teapot Dome scandal, and Doheny’s reputation was somewhat tainted by a bribe paid to the Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall in 1921.
He (Doheny) made the “gift” of $100,000 in connection with obtaining a lease of 32,000 acres (13,000 ha) of government-owned land used for the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve near Taft, California, and the resulting scandal broke soon after that, over similar bribes Fall accepted for leasing Teapot Dome in Wyoming.
Doheny was charged with bribing Fall but, in 1930, was acquitted.
His son, Ned, who had delivered the money, and assistant Hugh Plunkett were also charged, but died before they could be tried.
Nevertheless, Fall was convicted of accepting the bribe.
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Which again takes us back to Mencken on Coolidge, to wit:
Who has forgotten that he wanted to appoint Daugherty to “investigate” that colossal steal?
Or that he was in close and constant communication with Ned McLean, Dougherty’s and Fall’s friend, during the whole of the inquiry?
No amount of campaign blather will suffice to wipe out this discreditable record.
Coolidge pulled against the oil investigation from the start; he pulled against the Dougherty investigation from the start; he let Daugherty and Denby go at last only under pressure, and after trying to hit their opponents below the belt.
His sympathy has been with such oppressed patriots all his life, and it is with them today.
If he is elected for four years every professional politician in the Republican party will rejoice, and with sound reason.
There will be good times for the boys — and Fall, Daugherty and company will be safe.
But will the country be safe?
It is not so certain.
Those businessmen who think only of easy profits tomorrow might do well to give a thought or two to the day after.
They have seen a very formidable radical movement roll up under their noses.
If they have any sense, they will not be deceived by the argument that it has been set in motion by “agitators.”
What agitators?
Who and where are they?
I can find no such persons.
La Follette stumped the country for years and got nowhere.
Only his own State heeded him.
But last winter he began to get a response, and soon it was immense and vociferous.
That response came from men and women who had become convinced at last, and with good logic, that government by professional politicians was intolerably and hopelessly rotten — that the only remedy was to turn them out, and then make laws to prevent them coming back.
Personally I doubt that such laws, if made, will work.
In other words, I am not a radical.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
But that is certainly not the common American view; the majority of Americans are far more hopeful.
When they see an evil they try to remedy it — by peaceful means if possible, and if not, then by force.
In the present case millions of them tire of the degrading Coolidge farce, with its puerile evasion of issues, its cloaking of Denby and Daugherty, its exaltation of such political jugglers as Slemp and Butler, its snide conspiracy to rob La Follette of honest votes in California.
They tire of it and want to end it.
What now, if they are forced to stand four years more if it?
What if they must see it grow ever worse and worse?
To timorous businessmen, in this year 1924, La Follette may look dangerous.
But let them ask themselves what sort of radicalism will probably be afoot in 1928, after four more years of Coolidge.
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And let us ask ourselves what sort of radicalism will probably be afoot in 2028, after four more years of Joe Biden?
And here is an existential question for our times today – if back in 1924, men and women in America had become convinced at last, and with good logic, that government by professional politicians like Joe Biden was intolerably and hopelessly rotten and that the only remedy was to turn them out, and then make laws to prevent them coming back, how on earth is it that today, we are stuck with this piece of ignorant dead wood named Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, as president?
Have we become stupid since then?
Have we become brain-dead as a people and as a nation?
Are we moon-struck and dazed which made us believe that somehow, in some strange and mysterious and perhaps mystical or magical way, despite his proven record of nothingness and failure, that electing Joe Biden president would transform him from a loser into a brilliant and dynamic and forceful yet intelligent world leader?
If so, we were seriously deluded, weren’t we. given Joe Biden is anything but.
Or is it more a case that we have become so degenerated as a people in the last hundred years since 1924 that we see a mediocrity like Joe Biden as being the best among us?
Consider that in 2012, Sen. John McCain, who would know the difference, stated that Joe Biden has been consistently wrong on every national security issue that McCain had been involved in in the last 20 years or so, while in 2014, in a memoir by former Obama Defense Secretary Bob Gates, he slammed Joe’s foreign policy, saying therein: “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
And look where Joe has steered the nation since then – into CHAOS and TURMOIL!
Boggles the mind, don’t it?
Stay tuned!
Where I have been these last several days of apparent quietude on my part in here is out there in what these days passes for the “real” world, embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community which is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, which small towns, to get their hands on what they consider “free money,” a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C., have to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply, without those taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because it is all, the process of actually getting that money being political in nature, going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one, as can be seen beginning @6:34 into this video of the April 11, 2024 Poestenkill, New York town board meeting ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0BOo3NIa4 ) where I go ballistic with respect to us being lied to and misled as I vent some incandescent rage at a corrupt town board for selling us into debt slavery to get their hands on some $5,277,567 of grant money of which $670,367 is coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-EC grant, and $1,693,ooo in a congressional community project funding grant from Kirsten Gillibrand, with us in a small community being on the hook for a minimum of $272,433, subject to cost overruns we will also be on the hook for, all based upon an imaginary crisis at local middle school as the need for the grant money.
In other words, to get their hands on this “free government money,” the Poestenkill town board
simply lied, knowing they could and would get away with it, because first of all, given the secrecy, who would even know, and then, once they did find out, which always happens, other than vent some fury about it, as I am seen and heard doing in that video, and make some noise, which goes away real soon, what can they do about it?
Have the federal government, which based the grants on that lie, take the money back?
HAH, as if that is going to happen, as we see in a 31 July 2023 writing from myself to Hon. Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator, Leo W. O’Brien Federal Office Bldg,, 11A Clinton Ave, Rm 821, Albany, NY 12207, RE: Federal funding for Water District No. 2, Poestenkill (T), Rensselaer County; U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law, wherein was stated as follows with respect to the fraudulent nature of this grant application, to wit:
Dear Senator Gillibrand:
As you will recall, on 28 January 2023, I sent a letter to your office concerning this above referenced matter of Water District No. 2 in the town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County, state of New York titled RE: Poestenkill (T), Rensselaer County; Water District No. 2; Requesting federal assistance for Water District No. 2 based on false pretenses, wherein I detailed for you the fact that the PFAS contamination in Poestenkill’s groundwater is as a result of willful gross negligence and neglect of duty by the town of Poestenkill itself, which raises the substantive question of why the federal taxpayers should be put on the hook here to pay for the intentional negligence and neglect of duty by Poestenkill, especially when the request is made based on falsehoods?
Subsequent thereto, on July 28, 2023, Poestenkill Town Councilmember Eric Wohlleber, who since 27 September 2021 has been spearheading a whitewash and cover-up in this matter to protect the polluter, Waste Management of New York, LLC, at the Poestenkill transfer station in a Planned Development District at the intersection of NYS Rts. 66 and 351 in Poestenkill regulated by the town of Poestenkill, sent out a notice to Poestenkill residents titled Subject: Poestenkill PFOA Water Update, wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
Neighbors,
I just received a message this evening from a member of Senator Gillibrand’s office with some great news.
“The appropriations committee moved your Poestenkill Water Supply Project CDS request forward!”
“This means there is a very high likelihood your project will be included in the final appropriations package and funded.”
“I will keep you updated on any movements and please let me know if you have any questions.”
This is an important step to hopefully securing additional funding for a potential Water District #2 here in Poestenkill, which would lower the cost per unit, should the district receive approval.
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So my question to your office, which I will also raise with Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the Appropriations Committee, and Senator Susan Collins, Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee, remains the same: why are the federal government taxpayers, who get no benefit from the expenditure of these federal dollars, being put on the hook here to pay for the intentional negligence and neglect of duty by the town of Poestenkill, coupled with nuisance, negligence and trespass by Waste Management of New York, LLC at the Poestenkill transfer station?
This question is relevant because to date, there has been no demonstration whatsoever that this water district is even needed because in a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Report titled “Community Update – April 2023 – Poestenkill Area PFAS Contamination, it was stated as follows, to wit:
To date, RCDOH has sampled 97 private wells near the school.
PFOA and/or perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) were detected above the State’s public drinking water standards of 10 ppt in 14 private wells.
As a result, DEC provided the 14 homes served by private wells that exceed 10 ppt with point-of-entry treatment systems (POETs) to filter out PFAS and provide clean drinking water.
The remaining 83 private wells did not show PFOA or PFOS detections above the standards.
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The cost of these activated carbon point of entry treatment systems is between $300 – $1,800, and as the NYSDEC Report from April of 2023 makes incandescently clear, the 14 homes affected have already had these systems installed, which the NYSDEC states will provide them with clean drinking water, which is more than this proposed Water District No. 2 can claim, given it is based on a surface water supply which itself is susceptible to PFAS contamination.
As to the remaining 83 private wells, the cost of installing activated carbon filter point of entry systems, which is the most cost-effective solution, assuming a cost of $2000 per home, would be $166,000, which money Poestenkill already has in hand.
So what then, is your office providing federal tax dollars to Poestenkill for?
To establish a slush fund for the local politicians?
We federal taxpayers residing in Poestenkill would like to know!
Thanking you in advance for your prompt reply to this taxpayer inquiry, I remain
Respectfully.
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And I never heard a word back from any of them.
As to the MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LIE that is bringing home the federal bacon to tiny Poestenkill, I have emulated Wayne Creed, who I consider a true unsung American hero for maintaining the Cape Charles Mirror as a bastion of sanity in otherwise totally insane world, by starting my own on-line newspaper, this is what today’s edition had to say on that score. to wit:
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 17th 2024 Edition
“THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM – STEALING FROM THE TAXPAYERS POESTENKILL STYLE”
Yesterday, I was asked by a fellow town resident to justify a statement I made about the town procuring these county, state and federal dollars for water district no. 2, all taxpayer dollars, which means the pockets getting looted here include ours, based on false pretenses (a deliberate misrepresentation of facts, as to obtain title to money or property), which is a form of stealing, although stealing from the taxpayers in Rensselaer County and New York state is not considered a crime, but a benefit of holding public office.
“What false pretenses,” he wanted to know, “where are the false pretenses, because I am unaware of them?”
To which I answered that he was unaware of them precisely because he was supposed to be, because if he knew his pocket was being picked, and his bank account was being looted, then he would have stood up at a town meeting and protested, and that had to be prevented at all costs for this taxpayer scam to succeed, which it has to the tune of MILLION$ in the form of a cash transfer from our pockets into those of the looters.
As to the false pretenses, they are right there staring us all in the face, in the beginning of the Laberge report accepted by the town board in August of 2022:
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Map, Plan and Report was commissioned by the Town of Poestenkill Town Board to evaluate the feasibility of, and to assist with, the creation of a water district in the Town.
The need for expansion of the water system stems from the joint investigation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Department of Health, and Rensselaer County Department of Health.
The presence of multiple contaminants shows the priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School and surrounding area.
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The false pretenses are right there for all to see right there in that last sentence, where it says there is a priority of providing municipal water to the Algonquin Middle School, which is an untrue statement.
There NEVER was a need for Poestenkill at taxpayer expense to provide water to the school.
That was a ruse that Poestenkill and Laberge used to obtain county, state and federal funds.
The Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill is already served by Public Water Supply NY4117257, a Non-transient non-community water system serving 1000 persons at the Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill, which water supply is owned by the taxpayers of the Averill Park School District, of whom we are all one, and that is a separate taxing district the town neither owns nor controls, so that was a patently false statement the town submitted to get those funds, which is a false pretense.
That Poestenkill would have known in August of 2022 that it was a false statement that the town needed to run water to the school, the necessary excuse to get this project going, is made clear by the following:
COMMUNITY UPDATE
NOVEMBER 2021
PROTECTING POESTENKILL’S DRINKING WATER AND INVESTIGATING PFAS CONTAMINATION
Two Public Availability Sessions Scheduled for Dec. 8, 2021
The school is currently installing a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to filter the PFOA and other PFAS and effectively treat the contaminants to provide clean water to the school community.
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So if the town knew in November of 2021 (actually earlier) that the school was getting that filter, it would have known it was telling a falsehood in September of 2022 when it applied for state funds based on a premise that it had to supply the school with water.
And it is news to ALL of us because it was all very well buried so we wouldn’t know, given we had no access to that Laberge Report in August and September of 2022 when the town made those funding requests.
As to the funding requests, recall from the Laberge Report at p.5 in the section titled PROJECT BACKGROUND AND HISTORY, under i) NYS Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), as follows:
The Town, as required to submit for certain grant funds, has completed the required SEQRA review and has made a Determination of Significance under SEQRA (6 NYCRR Part 617). The Town Board issued a Negative Declaration on September 8th, 2022, a copy of which is included in Appendix F.
That the town would have known on September 8th, 2022 that it was a false statement about the need to provide water to the school is further reinforced by the following:
COMMUNITY UPDATE
FEBRUARY 2022
POESTENKILL PFAS INVESTIGATION
Updates: New Investigation Summary Reports
The New York State Departments of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Health (DOH), and the Rensselaer County Department of Health (RCDOH), are working together to protect the public health and environment of the Poestenkill community.
The following is an update from the November 2021 community update.
Beginning in December 2021, the school installed a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community.
System startup and flushing of the school’s distribution system continued throughout January and into February 2022.
The school district is currently working with the RCDOH to test the water and make the system operational.
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If in fact as the DEC said in February of 2022 that the granular activated carbon (GAC) system installed by the taxpayers at the school would provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community, then clearly, in August of 2022, there was no need for the town to do so, but they needed that excuse to get those funds – big emergency, school kids, poisoned water, send money!
That money doesn’t come from heaven, it comes from our pockets. so should the town be telling lies to take it from our pockets?
Call me very old-fashioned, but I don’t think so.
For an example of these “hidden” costs to local taxpayers associated with this STIMULATION money and CORPORATE WELFARE Joe Biden is handing out like candy to the richest corporations in the world as he pumps out enormous amounts of state support to these corporations, let’s go back to Joe’s so-called State of the Union Address on 7 March 2024, where we have the following self-c0ngratulatory BIDEN PUFFERY and BOBAUBCE, to wit:
The great comeback story is Belvidere, Illinois.
Home to an auto plant for nearly 60 years.
Before I came to office, the plant was on its way to shutting down.
Thousands of workers feared for their livelihoods.
Hope was fading.
Then, I was elected to office, and we raised Belvidere repeatedly with auto companies, knowing unions would make all the difference.
The UAW worked like hell to keep the plant open and get these jobs back.
And together, we succeeded.
Instead of auto factories shutting down, auto factories are reopening and a new state-of-the-art battery factory is being built to power those cars there at the same.
To the folks — to the folks of Belvidere, I’d say: Instead of your town being left behind, your community is moving forward again.
Because instead of watching auto ja- — jobs of the future go overseas, 4,000 union jobs with higher wages are building a future in Belvidere right here in America.
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Now, people, seriously doesn’t that that sound just grand and glorious – there is beleaguered Belvidere, Illinois down on its knees, gasping for its last breaths before finally expiring for good when just in the nick of time along comes WHITE KNIGHT Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior on his white destrier standing 20 hands tall with Joe and his couched lance, pennants flying, firmly in the saddle, and the day is saved, and peace and prosperity will reign forever after in Belvidere, Illinois, thanks to Joe.
But is that really true?
For that answer, let’s go to the Jan 18, 2024 edition of the Rockford Register Star and a news item titled “A $32M sewer expansion needed for Belvidere battery plant” where we learn as follows, to wit:
Four Rivers Sanitation Authority Executive Director Tim Hanson said his office is preparing an estimated $32 million plan talked about for three decades to extend sanitary sewer lines to the area from Cherry Valley to service the Stellantis facility and any suppliers that will be needed.
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So, to make Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM come true in Belvidere, Illinois, the people in that area are going to have to pony up an estimated $32 million plus cost overruns to make Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM actually come true, so that when Joe said to the folks of Belvidere on 7 March 2024, that “instead of your town being left behind, your community is moving forward again,” we have to ask ourselves this important question, which applies to corrupt Poestenkill as well:
ARE THEY REALLY?
Or is Joe driving those people in Belvidere, like the people of corrupt Poestenkill, NY, into eternal debt slavery to pay off the cost of that $32 million sewer expansion in their case, and in the case of Poestenkill, about a million in hidden costs to upgrade the piping system from Troy, New York through Brunswick, New York in order to actually be able to get the water Joe’s STIMULATION money appears to be paying for?
And hey, hey hey, people, JOBS JOBS JOBS!
Millions and gazillions of them, all high-paying union manufacturing jobs thanks to BUILD BACK BETTER BIDE-O-NOMICS, Joe Biden’s ultra-new, ultra-chic economic plan that is building a new American economy to replace the other American economy with this one being built from the bottom up and the middle out, so that everybody who isn’t yet in the middle class, the class everybody knows really built America, and the class to be in, can get into the middle class and be just like everybody else in the middle class with the Escalade in the driveway for her, the Corvette and super-loaded fwd pick-up for he, and the McMansion on its own eighth-acre, all thanks to Joe Biden and BIDE-O-NOMICS!
Joe Biden is good!
Joe Biden is great!
Joe Biden is going to give us all chocolate cake!
But if that is the case, where are all these JOBS, JOBS, JOBS?
Consider a Reuters article titled “Smaller US manufacturers warm to Biden’s big industrial plan, survey shows” by Timothy Aeppel on April 16, 2024, where we had as follows:
April 16 (Reuters) – America’s small and mid-sized manufacturers may be warming up to the Biden administration’s push for an aggressive industrial policy.
Biden’s industrial policy, headlined by legislation passed in 2022 that sparked a surge of factory construction, is aimed at boosting semiconductors, electric vehicles and green technologies, as well as other sectors.
The efforts so far have not produced many manufacturing jobs.
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I love that last sentence because it tells the ******* truth about BIDE-O-NOMICS, as opposed to the BULL**** Joe Biden and his crowd keep spewing, which thought takes us back to that story, to wit:
And so, as the presidential campaign shifts into higher gear ahead of November’s election, Biden is touring factories to tout his accomplishments, especially to voters in battleground states.
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And here I am, helping Joe “tout” his accomplishments by pointing out he doesn’t have any to tout which takes us back to that story about BIDEN TRICKLE-DOWN BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
“This is the first time in a long time that we’ve had a deliberate industrial strategy being pushed by the executive branch – that’s unique,” said Randy Altschuler, chief executive of Xometry.
Altschuler said federal investments have yet to filter down to smaller producers, with many of the most high-profile projects favoring giants like Intel and Samsung, which are both planning new semiconductor plants.
“You’re going to see a bigger benefit (for smaller companies) further down the road,” said Altschuler, as those projects create demand for the underlying pipeline of goods and services needed to complete and supply those factories.
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Yes, people, Joe Biden is using taxpayer dollars to reward the richest corporations in the world and the richest people in the US in his own version of TOP-DOWN, TRICKLE-DOWN economics, which takes us back for more on Joe Biden’s CENTRALLY-PLANNED ECONOMY where it is Joe Biden who gets to pick who the winners and losers are going to be, to wit:
Altschuler, who ran for Congress in New York in 2010 and lost and remains a registered Republican, said the political divide over industrial policy – which was once opposed by many Republicans as picking winners and losers – has narrowed sharply in recent years.
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Which brings us to another Reuters article titled “Philly Fed manufacturing gauge charges to 2-year high” on April 18, 2024, where we have more reality about JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, to wit:
Factory employment, meanwhile, continued to fall, dropping to its lowest level overall since May 2020, in keeping with other gauges showing sluggish employment in the sector.
Manufacturing job growth has been next to non-existent over the past year, with the Labor Department’s measure of new factory jobs averaging just 2,000 a month in that span, among the weakest-performing industries in the private sector.
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That’s what Joe’s government is saying, while this is what Joe himself was spinning in Joe’s so-called State of the Union Address on 7 March 2024, to wit:
Folks, I inherited an economy that was on the brink.
Now, our economy is literally the envy of the world.
Fifteen million new jobs in just three years.
A record.
A record.
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Yeah, right, Joe, so other than on paper, where are they actually?
“Indian Chief, “Two Eagles,” was asked by a white government official, “You have observed the white man for 90 years. You’ve seen his wars and his technological advances. You’ve seen his progress, and the damage he’s done.”
The Chief nodded in agreement.
The official continued, “Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?”
The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied. “When white man find land, Indians running it. No taxes, No debt, Plenty buffalo, Plenty beaver, Clean Water; Women did all the work, Medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; All night having sex.”
Then the chief leaned back and smiled. “Only white man dumb enough to think he can improve system like that.”
Do you think all white men are dumb, Donna D?
From your post, one would have to think so.
And you know how long that same long-in-the-tooth story of just how dumb every white man out there really is, which according to you would have to include me, as well, has been circulating on the internet and gaining an impressively long list of BIG YAWNS?
I first came across it back when John “JACKIE BOY” Kerry was running for president, and it was already old, by then.
So when did you find it, or how did you get clued into it?
By reading about it in the Cape Charles Mirror where it pops up every so often looking for gullible and easily-fooled people to buy into the tired theory that all while men are very, very dumb as if it were true?
And to take this a step further here, Donna D, to help you out of your dilemna here, because all in all, you do seem nice and well-meaning, if not more than a bit off-base and misguided, where your story goes off the rails right away, so to speak, where it says that Indian Chief Two Eagles was asked by some white government official, “You have observed the white man for 90 years.”
That, Donna D, is what is known in logic as an implausibility, where “implausible” is taken to mean difficult to believe, or unlikely, as in the whole plot of your story is ridiculously implausible for the simple reason that the chief probably observed a mere fraction of the white male population in his lifetime, because in America, where we have to assume this little drama is taking place, white men are roughly 31 percent of the U.S. population, which is to say, some 10,560,000 souls, and it is frankly preposterous on your part to ask us to believe that in his ninety years, that chief saw all those white men.
You see what I am saying about the plot of your story being ridiculously implausible?
And why on earth, Donna D, is a white government official, likely an ignorant progressive Democrat, asking an Indian chief “where did the white man go wrong?”
I can see the government dude asking the Indian chief where the government dude went wrong, but to then try and project where he went wrong onto every other white man out there, all 10,560,000 souls of them, makes your story fall flat on its face and renders it merely trite (overused and consequently of little import; lacking originality or freshness).
Wayne Creed is heavily involved in artistic endeavors, Donna D.
You should use him as a valuable resource and sounding board as you work on some much-need plot development here and good luck in the future for your journalistic writing career.
And hey, hey, hey, people JOBS, JOBS JOBS and even more jobs on top of all those jobs!
SCADS of them thanks to American president and noted and well-loved world leader Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, into whose strong and loving hands we have entrusted Joe with custodianship of the SOUL OF AMERICA, thanks to his INSANE GREEN DREAM which is going to literally coat the oceans of America, east and west, with so many windmills it won’t be funny, and America is going to get so RICH, RICH, RICH selling electric power to the rest of the world that not only will our federal deficit of $33 TRILLION be wiped out literally overnight, but all our taxes will be canceled and not only that, but the federal government will have so much extra money it won’t know what to do with, so each and every one of us will get a MILLION DOLLAR ROYALTY CHECK each year in time for BLACK FRIDAY sales, and life in America, thanks to Joe Bide and BUILD BACK BETTER BIDENOMICS which has built the NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY from the BOTTOM UP and the MIDDLE OUT s0 sing hallelujah, people, and say AMEN, because as we can see in this Albany, New York Times Union article titled “New York offshore wind projects scrapped, along with promise of local jobs – GE Vernova was to build turbines at Port of Coeymans, but that is canceled for now” by Rick Karlin on April 22, 2024, the GOOD TIMES promised by Joe Biden are finally here at last:
COEYMANS — Just over a year ago, state and corporate executives were heralding what they said could be some 870 high-paying jobs at the Port of Coeymans that would involve assembling offshore wind turbine engines and blades built by GE Vernova and LM Wind Power.
But last week, those jobs vanished — at least for now — before they were ever created.
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And talk about BIDEN BOBAUNCE (ostentatious or boastful behavior, vain display, worldly vanity) and all these HIGH-PAYING GOOD UNION JOBS Joe Biden says he has “created,” there is the true Biden job creation right there in front of us, numbers on pieces of paper that mean nothing in the reality that exists outside of white house press releases – a pocketful of mumbles such are Joe Biden’s promises, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
That’s because two major offshore wind farms that were going to use the port as a fabrication area canceled their plans.
However, executives at the Port of Coeymans say they intend to continue expanding despite the cancellation of the Attentive and Community Offshore wind projects off the coast of Long Island.
The cancellations were just the latest of several similar reversals along the East Coast over the last year that illustrate the variables and cost challenges facing the push by both New York and the Biden administration to develop coastal wind as a major energy source.
Both the 1,314-megawatt Community Offshore project proposed by RWE, as well as the 1,404-megawatt Attentive project from Rise Power and Light and the French energy giant Total were canceled last week.
The news was listed on the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s website, and was first reported by Politico.
“No final awards will be made … and NYSERDA will look to advance a future competitive solicitation,” the agency stated on its website.
The reason cited was GE Vernova’s pivot from a new 18-megawatt turbine to their existing 15.5-megawatt device.
Without the larger turbines, developers would have to build more wind towers, which would add to the cost.
The Port of Coeymans had initially been identified as the facility where GE Vernova was going to build some of their turbines and blades, as well as LM Wind Power blades.
But with the Attentive project also halted, at least in the near term the port won’t be hosting a turbine factory.
Port officials, though, stressed that work is proceeding for two other wind projects that are currently under construction off Long Island: Empire Wind from Equinor and Sunrise from Orsted, two Scandinavian companies that are major global developers of offshore wind farms.
Both the Port of Coeymans and GE Vernova said they haven’t given up on the idea of building turbines and blades in Coeymans.
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For the record, the port of Coeymans, which is on the Hudson River in corrupt, backwards, Democrat-controlled New York state is about ONE HUNDRED FORTY MILES from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean.
Going back to the story of BIDEN INSANE GREEN DREAM FAILURE, it continues as follows:
“The offshore wind industry still presents a tremendous opportunity for New York state,” Carver Companies Chief Operating Officer Nick Laraway said in a statement.
The Carver Companies owns and operates the Port of Coeymans.
“The Port of Coeymans will continue supporting offshore wind projects Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind as announced by the state earlier this year,” Laraway added.
The port is handling some of the steel needed for the Sunrise project, and will supply aggregate stone for Empire Wind.
The number of people working on the steel and aggregate supplies at the Port of Coeymans wasn’t immediately available.
GE Vernova also said it remains committed to the Port of Coeymans as a site for any future construction needs.
The wind developers said their cancellation followed a change in plans by GE Vernova: The power spinoff of General Electric Co. earlier this year said it was focusing on producing more “workhorse” 15.5-megawatt turbines rather than the newer and more complex 18-MW variant.
The company said there is plenty of demand for the 15.5-megawatt models as well as the 3- and 6-megawatt turbines it builds for land-based wind farms.
The Port of Coeymans isn’t the only spot along the Hudson River in the Capital Region to be buffeted by what has become a volatile offshore wind industry.
Three and a half years ago, local politicians and business boosters cheered news that the Port of Albany, about nine miles north of Coeymans, would host a turnkey factory for the construction of the massive steel towers that support the offshore turbines to be used in Equinor’s projects.
But a year later, port officials said the costs of building the factory had grown from early estimates of $350 million to $604 million.
For now, the site is prepared and shovel-ready, but no construction has started due to a lack of funds.
Both Coeymans and Albany, though, remain prime spots for wind development, with lower costs than the New York City area and access to the Hudson River, where barges can haul items like towers and turbines to wind farm locations off the Atlantic Coast.
“The fundamentals of both Coeymans and the Port of Albany are both compelling,” remarked Fred Zalcman, director of the NY Offshore Wind Alliance, a trade group of wind developers.
“Even if this didn’t pan out, I do believe there will be other opportunities down the road,” he said.
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And that is the news, people, stay tuned, more is yet to come!
Following up on a perceptive comment elsewhere in here by Kim @ APRIL 28, 2024 AT 1:23 PM concerning these “government grants” of money coming down to localities from the federal government, where Kim remarks quite correctly that “local governments just view this as ‘free money,’“ and further following up on a comment made by myself above here @ APRIL 17, 2024 AT 5:49 PM, where I remarked that the last several days of my apparent quietude in here, as has again been the case these last so many days, is because I am forced by circumstances way beyond my control, like trying to stop a train wreck, to instead be “out there” in what these days passes for the “real” world, where I am embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community which is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, which small towns, to get their hands on what they consider “free money,” a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C., have to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one, as can be seen beginning @6:34 into this video of the April 11, 2024 Poestenkill, New York town board meeting ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0BOo3NIa4 ) where I go ballistic with respect to us being lied to and misled as I vent some incandescent rage at a corrupt town board for selling us into debt slavery to get their hands on some $5,277,567 of grant money of which $670,367 is coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-EC grant, and $1,693,ooo in a congressional community project funding grant from Kirsten Gillibrand, with us in a small community being on the hook for a minimum of $272,433, subject to cost overruns we will also be on the hook for, all based upon an imaginary crisis at local middle school as the need for the grant money.
In other words, to get their hands on this “free government money,” the Poestenkill town board
simply lied, knowing they could and would get away with it, because first of all, given the secrecy, who would even know, and then, once they did find out, which always happens, other than vent some fury about it, as I am seen and heard doing in that video, and make some noise, which goes away real soon, what can they do about it?
Which takes us to a letter on the subject I just sent out this morning to Democrat New York state governor Kathy Hochul wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
29 APRIL 2024
The Honorable Kathy Hochul
Governor of New York State
NYS State Capitol Building
Albany, NY 12224
RE: Questionable WIIA Grants in Town of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County; Condemnation by Poestenkill Town Board of Algonquin Middle School carbon filtration system paid for in part by WIIA Grant as inadequate to protect children’s health; An incredible waste of taxpayer dollars
Dear Governor Hochul:
I am writing to you as a concerned taxpayer of the Averill Park Central School District, which district serves the needs of elementary, secondary, and special education students residing in the towns of Berlin, Brunswick, East Greenbush, Nassau, North Greenbush, Poestenkill, Sand Lake, Schodack and Stephentown concerning a $90,000 Water Infrastructure Improvement (WIIA) and Intermunicipal Grant awarded by your office in its wisdom on May 11, 2023 to the Averill Park Central School District and its Board of Education through the State Environmental Facilities Corporation for the effective treatment of drinking water at Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill (T), Rensselaer County by installing granular activated carbon vessels for PFAS treatment at the Algonquin Middle School.
At the time your office awarded this WIIA Grant to the Averill Park School District less than a year ago on May 11, 2023, you were quoted as saying “New York is committed to providing communities with the resources needed to upgrade water systems and improve water quality,” and “We are continuing our nation-leading clean water investments with $500 million for clean water infrastructure in this year’s budget helping to protect the health and safety of our residents, preserve our environment, and improve quality of life for all with access to safe, reliable and clean water,” which is why your office awarded that WIIA grant, which act by your office we thought was fully supported by the following language from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in a February 2022 Community Update to the people of Poestenkill, to wit:
Beginning in December 2021, the school installed a granular activated carbon (GAC) system to provide effective long-term treatment of the contaminants to ensure clean water for the school community.
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What happened subsequent thereto is that the Town Board of Poestenkill, acting in its capacity as the Board of Health of the town of Poestenkill where the Algonquin Middle School is physically located, in conjunction with its Public Health Coordinator, a professional position in Poestenkill involving responsibility for supervision of the environmental health program of the Poestenkill Department of Health, and whose work involves the enforcement of state Public Health Laws relating to public water supplies in Poestenkill, appointed a Blue Ribbon Select Commission of Investigation headed up by Poestenkill councilman Eric Wohlleber and comprised of the best scientific and legal minds in Poestenkill including former Obama EPA administrator Judith Enck, which Blue Ribbon Investigatory Commission was charged by the Poestenkill town board in its capacity as Poestenkill board of health with conducting an independent investigation of the charcoal filters paid for in part by the WIIA Grant awarded by your office to the Averill Park School District on May 11, 2023.
As a result of that investigation, the findings of which were released at a public information meeting in Poestenkill on April 25, 2024, it was determined by the Poestenkill town board acting in its capacity as the Town of Poestenkill Board of Health that the carbon filtration system at the Algonquin School paid for in part by the $90,000 WIIA Grant awarded by your office on May 11, 2023 should be condemned and withdrawn from service as it is in essence a piece of junk that fails to protect the health and well-being of the students, faculty and staff of the Algonquin School, that the system is no good, that when your office awarded the Grant, it didn’t know what it was doing, and that in the learned opinion of the Poestenkill town board, its public health coordinator, and its Blue Ribbon Select Commission of Investigation, Tomhannock Reservoir water would better protect the health and safety of the children who are students at the Algonquin Middle School, along with faculty and staff, while preserving the environment in Poestenkill, and improving quality of life for all in the Algonquin Middle School in Poestenkill with access to safe, reliable and clean water from the City of Troy piped through the Town of Brunswick, and then through the Town of Poestenkill, for which purpose the town of Poestenkill is about to obtain another WIIA Grant of $2,314,200 to run a special water main to the school and to dismantle and scrap the carbon filtration system the May 11, 2023 WIIA Grant awarded by your office in part paid for.
Which raises the important question of how on earth this fiscal fiasco could have happened in the first place, where the State Environmental Facilities Corporation approved a $90,000 grant to the Averill Park Central School District for something worthless, and is now forced to have to award a $2,314,200 WIIA Grant to the town board of Poestenkill to undo and correct the harm done by the $90,000 WIIA Grant on May 11, 2023 to the Board of Education of the Averill Park Central School District that paid in part for a system the town board of Poestenkill acting as board of health of Poestenkill has determined is an unsafe piece of junk by dismantling and scrapping the charcoal filters and ordering the Averill Park School Board to hook up to Poestenkill’s municipal water supply, instead.
Thanking you in advance for a prompt response to this taxpayer inquiry, I remain
Respectfully,
Paul R. Plante
To understand what is going on here some 476.2 miles to the north of Cape Charles when I say I am embroiled in a controversy splitting my small community, it must first be understood that this particular controversy is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, in this case allegedly providing municipal water to a school that already has its own water supply, which controversy dividing the community in this case involving what I would say is a CLASSIC TEXTBOOK CASE of blatant TAXPAYER FRAUD with these two WIIA grants, one to put something in, the other to tear that something back out and replace it with something else again, which project is going to reap that class of persons I call GRANT GRIFTERS (con artists: someone who swindles people out of money through fraud; as in “I see these consultants as grifters who prey upon people”) as is the case here, a minimum of $395,000 for “engineering,” plus $140,000 for what they call “construction observation,” with another $100,000 for what they are calling “legal/administrative” costs, plus $60,000 for what they call “geotechnical,” $65,000 for “survey and mapping,” and $7,500 for “environmental,” whatever in fact that might be, so all in all a nice paycheck for the consultants, who have an inside political track as middlemen for these state and federal grants, which is why these small towns use them, or perhaps more properly, why these GRANT GRIFTERS use these small towns as an excuse to tap into more state and federal money, no questions asked and EVERYBODY involved is very happy, while the taxpayers footing the bills are getting royally screwed with no voice whatsoever in the matter, period, as how these grants are obtained is a totally closed process, and to get their hands on what they consider “free money” these GRANT GRIFTERS are promising them, in this case a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C. to the tune of $670,367 from Joe Biden and $1,693,000 from Kirsten Gillibrand to tear out what was paid for by a $90.000 WIIA grant in May of 2023, the town board has to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because, as was said above, the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one.
As to HOW the community is being split, this following article from a local newsletter I started in imitation of the Cape Charles Mirror, given I have no other voice in my small community, where to be an “anti” is to be a pariah and an “outsider,” notwithstanding I have lived there for over 70 years now, gives a good understanding of where this matter has escalated to in the last so many days. to wit:
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
April 29th 2024 Edition
“THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM – AN INCREDIBLE WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY AND HOW ‘SLIPPERY TOM’ SAVED LABERGE’S BACON”
So, as we concerned taxpayers can clearly see here, what Poestenkill and Laberge are pushing for with their bush-league, amateur hour scam on the taxpayers in order to put some huge coin in Laberge’s pockets at taxpayer expense is an incredible, irresponsible and deliberate waste of taxpayer dollars, because there already has been one $90,000 WIIA grant made in May of 2023 to install granular activated carbon vessels for PFAS treatment at the Algonquin Middle School, and what Laberge and Poestenkill are trying to get with this water district no. 2 FLIM-FLAM of theirs is a second $2,314,299 WIIA grant for Poestenkill to take the brand-new carbon filters paid for by the first WIIA grant and toss them in the garbage, scrap them, and instead replace them with Troy water paid for by the second WIIA grant and the people of Poestenkill.
As to the very skillful map scam Democrat Poestenkill supervisor Tom Russell is pulling on us here with his water district no. 2 FLIM-FLAM, as the Democrat plays every dirty, slippery, oily, slimy political trick in his extensive arsenal developed, honed and polished during his time as Keith Hammond’s Poestenkill planning board chairman in his bid to be a hero in the eyes of his masters the Laberge Group, from whom the Democrat takes his marching orders, as was made incandescently clear to all on April 3, 2024 at the so-called “water district no. 2 information hearing” at the Poestenkill fire house, where no record of the proceeding was made, there is a good shot of the bogus map with no title block being called water district no. 2 by Laberge and the Poestenkill town board at 26:37 in the Youtube video of the April 25, 2024 water district no. 2 comic opera farce, which farce one would expect to encounter in the pages of National Lampoon, not in real life, said farce conducted by “Slippery Tom” Russell, an honorific (a title expressing high status and respect) awarded to the Democrat by those in Poestenkill qualified to render such judgments, and that is high praise indeed awarded there for Mr. Russel’s stellar performance of both knowledge of and proficiency at the venerable art and science of SLIMEBALL and GUTTER politics as a Laberge shill that evening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8r1X3GYZE8 , begins at 27.30.
As to that bogus “map” and what caused Poestenkill councilman Burzesi, like myself and Ronald Laberge a licensed professional engineer in New York subject to Section 29 of the Rules of the NY Board of Regents which make it clear as glass to each of us that unprofessional conduct in the practice of professional engineering shall include conduct in the practice of the profession which evidences moral unfitness to practice the profession, and/or being associated in a professional capacity with any project or practice known to the licensee to be fraudulent or dishonest in character, rules I am accused of taking far too seriously in Poestenkill, where “fast and loose” are the order of the day, unless you are the Shuhart’s, to run squealing to the supervisor about the need to stifle and thwart me at the April 25, 2024 FARCE the Democrat called a “public hearing” by not allowing me to question Laberge, which should have happened in a legitimate public hearing, on Tue, April 23, 2024 @ 1:58 PM, I sent the following e-mail to councilman Burzesi, to wit:
I don’t know about you, Frank, because each of us has to set their own moral compass here in a town where feeding off the taxpayers isn’t a crime and dishonesty is not a federal offence, but I have called out this Laberge for being dishonest (at the May 11, 2023 public hearing), and I intend to do so again Thursday night, and I am going to question him about the specific meaning of the language in his engineering certification of 29 August 2022, what exactly was it that he was certifying, did his certification include the map he had taken pains to put in his report?
And I am going to ask the town board to clarify exactly what it was they were listing as an unlisted action in September of 2022 and then gave a neg. dec. to.
And Frank, seriously, and I am speaking as a town resident, both you and Tom Russell have absolutely no claim whatsoever to ignorance here as to what is going on with this MAP SCAM.
Tom Russell was planning board chairman responsible for administering DUE PROCESS and the town code, plus he was the town’s chief SEQRA compliance officer, so he can’t say he has no idea what is going on here.
You were zoning board chairman responsible for INTERPRETING the town code, and you also administered SEQRA.
So how come you think you can slide by me this tall tale or outright lie that the map referred in the hearing notice for the May 11, 2023 hearing as having been accepted by the Poestenkill town board in AUGUST of 2022 is that map of a segment presented at the May 11, 2023 hearing, and again by the town at the April 3, 2024 hearing?
Do you honestly think I am that stupid so as to actually believe that falsehood?
Would be silly on your part, Frank, if you were foolish enough to make that mistake because Keith Hammond told you I was a RETARD and you believed him.
Getting back to lawless BIDE-O-NISM for the moment, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “Yellen to warn that eroding US democracy, Fed, threatens economic growth” by David Lawder on May 1, 2024, where we have Joe Biden’s treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen wadding up the Hatch Act into a crumpled ball and wiping her backside with it, to make sure we all know how both she and Joe hold the concept of RULE OF LAW in contempt, and yet, “TOODLES” has the unmitigated gall to talk about “strong democratic institutions” like a law-abiding executive office, which we DO NOT have with Joe Biden in power, being a key foundation to shared growth and prosperity, which we most certainly DO NOT have under Joe Biden, as we are seeing with this story about GRANT GRIFTERISM above here, to wit:
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will make the argument on Friday that strong democratic institutions — including an independent Federal Reserve — are a key foundation for sustained and shared growth and prosperity, according to excerpts of remarks released by the Treasury.
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And we DO NOT have an independent federal reserve, either, regardless of any BLATHER from “TOODLES” Yellen to the contrary, which takes us back to Reuters for more, to wit:
Yellen, in an address to the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum in Arizona, will say that rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021 put democracy under threat, “spurred by a lie,” according to the excerpts released on Wednesday.
“Undercutting democracy undercuts a foundation of sustainable and inclusive growth,” Yellen will say in the remarks.
The speech, at a Republican-founded institution in the important election battleground state of Arizona, is expected to be among Yellen’s most political addresses as Treasury secretary.
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And as a member of Joe’s cabinet, the Hatch Act most certainly does apply to the conduct of “TOODLES” Yellen, but she doesn’t care because she doesn’t have to care, because under “LAWLESS JOE” Biden, the Hatch Act has been rendered null and void, which takes us back to “TOODLES” playing politics on the Joe Biden campaign trail, as a Biden shill or cheerleader, to wit:
It is significant in that she will stray from promoting President Joe Biden’s economic policies into a key argument that his campaign is making against Republican rival Donald Trump: that Trump put democracy at risk by egging on the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters at the end of his presidential term and is likely to further erode institutions if elected to a second term.
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“PROOF” of something actually existing, such as the future, under Joe Biden, does not have to exist for “TOODLES” Yellen to say something does exist in the future, such as what “TOODLES” is saying about Trump being likely to further erode institutions if elected to a second term, which is SLIMEBALL POLITICS at its finest by “TOODLES” who doesn’t mind violating the Hatch Act by smearing Trump, while in the real world, the world “IVORY TOWER TOODLES” Yellen DOES NOT live in, and is totally unaware of, it is Joe Biden who has been doing exactly that, eroding democratic institutions such as the so-called and misnamed department of justice since he came into office, which takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Trump allies are drafting proposals that would attempt to erode the Federal Reserve’s independence and give Trump more influence over the central bank if he wins in November.
Yellen will make a plug for maintaining Fed independence in her speech.
“As Chair of the Federal Reserve, I insisted on the Fed’s independence and transparency because I believe it matters for financial stability and economic growth,” Yellen will say, according to the excerpts.
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As Chair of the Federal Reserve, “TOODLES” Yellen insisted on the Fed’s independence”
That’s hogwash and bull**** as we clearly see by going to the Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University on April 1, 2021, to wit:
For the last 30 years, both Yellen and Draghi have held positions of high authority, culminating in the period between 2014 and 2018 when they overlapped as the heads of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (ECB), respectively, the two most powerful central banks in the world.
They were chosen to wield power based on their expertise and judgment but also because they aligned with the prevailing brand of centrist politics — Yellen more on the left, Draghi more on the center-right.
They have now been called back to the ramparts, at an age that would normally suggest retirement, to take on roles that are more political than ever.
Yellen, the first woman to lead the U.S. Treasury Department, is set to preside over the most audacious round of stimulus of any democracy in peacetime.
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Take on roles that are more political then ever?
Hmmmmmmm.
So how does that square with being independent?
And the answer is, it doesn’t, which takes us back to Foreign Policy for more, to wit:
Of course, it would be absurd to blame either Draghi or Yellen personally for the sequence of shifts and shocks that has destabilized capitalist democracies since the 1990s or the crisis of confidence these have triggered among centrist liberals.
But as people of huge influence and as representatives of a class of experts who have ruled the roost for the last 30 years, they can hardly plead innocence either.
It was on their watch that growth slowed, inequality between social classes and regions became ever deeper, and the risk of inflation tipped into that of deflation.
It was on their watch that the financial system was allowed to become a flywheel of mass destruction.
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And thanks to the POLITICAL policies of “TOODLES” back then as Hussein Obama’s fed chief, we are reeling under massive debt and BIDENFLATION today, which again takes us back to Foreign Policy, to wit:
In the Clinton administration, the charge on financial sector deregulation was led by Summers at the Treasury Department, but as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Yellen had raised no objections.
From her vantage point at the San Francisco Fed, she did take note early of the signs of a housing crisis; in California, you could hardly miss them.
But as late as July 2007, Yellen opined: “From the standpoint of monetary policy, I do not consider it very likely that developments relating to subprime mortgages will have a big effect on overall U.S. economic performance, although they do add to downside risk.”
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And how wrong that pathetic little fool was to prove to be on that score, just as she was dead wrong about BIDENFLATION being transitory, which again takes us back to Foreign Policy, to wit:
Yellen was chosen as Fed chair as a candidate of the liberal left.
No one could accuse the Biden administration of being nonpolitical.
Despite her track record, precisely on the issue of fiscal responsibility, Yellen was once again the candidate for treasury secretary acceptable to the left wing of the party.
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And she is indep0endent?
What a crock!
And before we go back to these GRANT GRIFTERS who feed off the taxpayers like leeches or some other form of parasite, let’s for the moment go back to Janet “TOODLES” Yellen in the Reuters article titled “Yellen to warn that eroding US democracy, Fed, threatens economic growth” by David Lawder on May 1, 2024, where we had Joe Biden’s treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen telling us that strong democratic institutions, which we clearly do not have under Joe Biden. which strong democratic institutions would of necessity include an independent Federal Reserve, which we do not have under Joe Biden, are a key foundation for sustained and shared growth and prosperity, which we are going to see we also do not have under Joe Biden, while undercutting democracy as the dictatorial Biden regime is doing undercuts a foundation of sustainable and inclusive growth, which takes us first to a Reuters article titled “US Treasury keeps auction sizes unchanged through July, launches buyback” by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss on May 1, 2024, where we have reality we all inhabit as it exists in the real world outside the space/time warp known as the Washington Beltway, where unreality lies on the other side, to wit:
NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) – The Treasury Department said on Wednesday it intends to keep auction sizes steady for U.S. notes and bonds over the next several quarters, in line with expectations, as it announced total refunding of $125 billion for the May to July quarter.
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And there we have “TOODLES” selling us yet deeper into debt as she struggles to keep up with paying for the massive debt Joe Biden is wracking up with his BIDE-O-NOMICS, which takes us back to that story for more, to wit:
It (the treasury) also launched its buyback program, with the first scheduled on May 29.
The Treasury’s last regular buyback program began in the early 2000s and ended in April 2002.
Under the buyback program, the Treasury said it plans to hold weekly “liquidity support” buybacks of up to $2 billion per operation in nominal coupon securities, and up to $500 million per operation in TIPS.
At an International Swaps and Derivatives Association conference in September, Frost (Josh Frost, the Treasury’s assistant secretary for Financial Markets) had said debt buybacks can help improve liquidity in the bond market by providing a regular opportunity for market participants to sell back to Treasury off-the-run securities, which are older and less liquid, across the yield curve.
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And focus on the phrase “can help improve liquidity in the bond market,” which means, in other words, that “TOODLES” is having to buy back low-interest paying bonds and notes issued by the treasury some time back which are now known as “drugs on the market” (a commodity no longer in demand and so is commercially valueless or unsaleable) with yet more borrowed money, so the people or companies holding those notes and bonds can finally get some money for them, because outside of “TOODLES,” who has no choice but to buy them back, they are otherwise worthless in the open marketplace.
So much for U.S. debt being readily marketable.
Going back to Reuters, that story continues as follows:
“The auction sizes were unchanged as expected, but the key here is that this a pause in increases not a reversal,” said Gennadiy Goldberg, head of U.S. rates strategy at TD Securities in New York.
“The Treasury very clearly said they don’t anticipate increasing auction sizes at least for the next several quarters.”
“But they’re still talking about an increase, not a decrease.”
“Our view is that by mid-2025, Treasury may have to start increasing auction sizes again.”
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And they will have to start increasing auction sizes for the simple reason that Joe Biden’s BIDE-O-NOMICS keeps driving our national debt upwards, which takes us to a Reuters article titled
“US construction spending falls in March” on May 1, 2024, where we have more on BIDE-O-NOMICS, to wit:
The Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on Wednesday that construction spending slipped 0.2% after being unchanged in February.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast construction spending gaining 0.3%. Construction spending increased 9.6% year-on-year in March.
Spending on private construction projects decreased 0.5% in March after rising 0.2% in February.
Spending on private non-residential structures like factories fell 0.2%.
Spending on structures contracted in the first quarter for the first time in more than a year as the boost from policies by the Biden administration to bring the production of semiconductor manufacturing back to the United States faded.
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So, hmmmmmm, people, where oh where has all that BORROWED government money Joe Biden has gifted these rich corporations with to build all these mega factories gone to?
Bonuses for senior management?
Stock buybacks?
Which takes us to a Reuters story titled “US manufacturing sector regresses in April; prices paid near two-year high” on May 1, 2024, where we have the fruits of all this borrowed money Joe Biden has gifted these rich corporations with to create JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, scads of good, high-paying union jobs as Joe Biden repurposes America as the manufacturing center of the known world, to wit:
WASHINGTON, May 1(Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing contracted in April amid a decline in orders after briefly expanding in the prior month, while a measure of prices paid by factories for inputs approached a two-year high.
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HUH?
That can’t be right so that has to be wrong because it contradicts Joe Biden who himself is never wrong about anything, because he’s the president, and everybody knows they are always right, so let’s go back for more, to wit:
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said on Wednesday that its manufacturing PMI dropped to 49.2 last month from 50.3 in March, which was the highest and first reading above 50 since September 2022.
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Oh no, Joe, say it ain’t so, dude!
Tell the ISM they got it all wrong and they are just playing partisan politics going into the election season because the ISM is MAGA and hates Joe Biden and would do anything to embarrass him to aid Trump, which takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
Manufacturing is being constrained by higher borrowing costs and spending shifting back to services and away from goods. Spending on goods fell in the first quarter.
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And the higher borrowing costs plaguing manufacturing are a direct result of Joe Biden’s BIDE-O-NOMICS and BIDENFLATION, which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
The ISM survey’s forward-looking new orders sub-index decreased to 49.1 from 51.4 in March.
Output at factories slowed, with the production sub-index slipping to 51.3 after jumping to 54.6 in the prior month.
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And talking about BIDENFLATION:
Despite weakening demand, inflation at the factory gate continued to heat up, suggesting that goods price disinflation could be close to running its course.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers shot up to 60.9, the highest reading since June 2022, from 55.8 in March.
With price pressures picking up in the first quarter, the surge in input costs is unlikely to be welcomed by Federal Reserve officials as they wrap up their two-day policy meeting.
Policy makers are on Wednesday expected to leave the U.S. central bank’s benchmark overnight interest rate unchanged in the current 5.25%-5.50% range, where it has been since July.
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Which means the higher borrowing costs plaguing manufacturing are here to stay for a bit longer!
And that is the news!
Stay tuned, more is yet to come.
And on another note, HOOOOEEEEE, but it’s going to be a real DOOZEY this time around for all you people too young to have been around the last time for the event, that being back in 1968, and I am talking about the up-coming Democrat National Convention with all the protestors slated to be there, which promises to make the 1968 Democrat convention in Mayor Daley’s corrupt city of Chicago seem tame and dull by comparison, and my goodness, but who can forget the festivities at the ’68 Democrat convention, where the thuggish Democrat Mayor Daley, citing intelligence reports of potential violence, put the 12,000 members of the Chicago Police Department on twelve-hour shifts, while the U.S. Army placed 6,000 troops in position to protect the city during the convention and nearly 6,000 members of the National Guard were sent to the city.
Talk about a hot time in the old town tonight, there was the recipe, and who can ever forget Mayor Daley’s cops wading into the protestors, billy clubs swinging as they beat the livi8ng crap out of the protestors, having themselves a real field day on nation television, the play action of which is picked up for us in a Guardian article titled “The whole world is watching – How the 1968 Chicago ‘police riot’ shocked America and divided the nation” by David Taylor and Sam Morris where we have as follows, to wit:
Where the national guard once stood in formation with bayonets fixed, a line of stands for rental bikes now stretches away along South Michigan Avenue.
Where protesters against the Vietnam war once massed, chanting “the whole world is watching”, sun shines on formal flower beds filled with purple hostas and golden lilies.
Across the street, the facade of the Hilton Chicago looms, four towers of brick rising above war-like stone carvings of figures carrying shields and axes.
There are few clues, but 50 years ago, this spot was a crucible of violence, which exposed fault lines in a divided and traumatised nation.
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And as the Cape Charles Mirror reports in Asses and Villains in this week’s episode, those very same fault lines are being exposed once again in college protests around the country, which protests promise to make this year’s Democrat convention where “Lightning Joe” Biden is set to be anointed as the TOP DOG DEMOCRAT the SHOW to watch, and if Chicago ’68 was any indication, it should be a real great show, and knowing Joe Biden, we can expect a real heavy military presence with tanks, maybe, and Bradley fighting vehicles with their chain guns and HELLFIRE missile launchers, and the troops on line with glittering, live bayonets, while heavily armed helicopter gunships hover ominously overhead, which takes us back to the Guardian, to wit:
A tumultuous season of assassinations, riots and war, 1968 was the year that changed America, in ways that still unfold today.
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Having been around for a bit before that, and having been around quite a bit after, I would challenge that statement about 1968 being the year that changed America in ways that still unfold today, because America had begun that process of change long before 1968 rolled around and 1968 reflected that change, in my estimation, anyway, having actually lived through those admittedly tumultuous times, but that an opinion, so let’s go back to the Guardian for more, to wit:
And part of that momentous drama played out on summer nights in Chicago when blood ran in the streets and police orchestrated a riot as anti-war protesters tried to march upon the Democratic national convention calling for an end to the Vietnam war.
After four days and nights of violence, 668 people had been arrested, 425 demonstrators were treated at temporary medical facilities, 200 were treated on the spot, 400 given first aid for tear gas exposure and 110 went to hospital.
A total of 192 police officers were injured.
Images of police firing teargas and beating demonstrators with their nightsticks played on network television news.
It looked like an oppressive fascist state and offered a view of a nation apparently tearing itself apart.
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And NO, it was a case of the DEMOCRATS tearing the nation apart, as they are doing again today, not a case of the nation tearing itself apart, which again takes us back to the Guardian, to wit:
Rick Perlstein, the author of Nixonland, speaking at an event at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism to mark the Chicago ’68 anniversary, cited an NBC news producer who thought the footage he had produced was “a crystalline theatre of moral witness, evil being visited upon innocents”.
But not all saw it like that – a Gallup poll showed 56% of Americans backed the police actions against the demonstrators.
Charles Kaiser, the author of 1968 in America, said: “The biggest impact was on the older generation because they were so completely freaked out by it, this spectacle of anarchy was really terrifying.”
“The combination of the two assassinations [Rev Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F Kennedy], the extremely violent and numerous riots after Martin Luther King was killed, the spectacle of upper-middle-class white college students fighting with policemen in Chicago,”
“I think there is an argument to be made that the images of police riots in Chicago were as useful to Richard Nixon’s campaign as anything else that happened in the whole year.”
“They contribute in a big way to this whole sense that everything is out of control and therefore the man who is preaching law and order becomes very attractive.”
In 1969, President Nixon would hail a “silent majority” and urge them to support him, claiming patriotism for conservatives and condemning the “bitter hatred” of young Americans as he derided a minority who tried to impose their view on the nation “by mounting demonstrations in the street”.
Some of those fault lines, and that language, still echo 50 years later.
Trouble had been anticipated for months as the Democrats prepared to vote at their Chicago convention for a candidate to take on Nixon in the race for the White House, following President Lyndon B Johnson’s announcement that he would not run for a second term.
Bobby Kennedy, who carried the anti-war hopes of young Democratic voters had been shot dead in June, hours after winning the California Democratic primary.
Anti-war protests were geared toward trying to get behind an anti-war candidate like Eugene McCarthy or George McGovern, who would defeat vice-president Hubert Humphrey.
In Vietnam, American casualties were rising in what would prove to be the worst year of the conflict.
At home, college campuses were gripped by protest as students opposed the war and the draft.
The Mobe – the national mobilization committee to end the war in Vietnam – was planning the main demonstration, while the Yippies, a radical revolutionary group, had planned a festival in Lincoln Park.
Mayor Richard J Daley had refused permits to allow anti-war protestors to march on the convention or sleep in the city parks and had put Chicago police on notice with an infamous “shoot to kill arsonists” order after the April riots which ravaged the city after Dr King’s assassination.
Frank Kusch, author of Battleground Chicago, who interviewed 87 veteran police officers for his book, said: “They knew that they were not to let these things happen again and that they were to come down much harder on protests in the future.”
“They felt they had to, and they felt encouraged too, that they had permission to go after demonstrators and be brutal.”
In the days before the August gathering, a military occupying force was sent to the city – 6,000 members of the national guard and 6,000 army troops joined the 12,000-strong Chicago police department to face demonstrators and keep protests away from the convention being held at the International Amphitheater
By the weekend before the convention, about 2,000 demonstrators had set up camp in Lincoln Park, their show of strength apparently weakened by fears of confrontation.
By Wednesday and the worst of the violence, there were 10,000.
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And with that said, let’s pause for station identification!
But don’t go away. because we will be back with more, so stay tuned.
I remember that Convention.
The only good thing that happened was Dan Rather getting beat up by Chicago PD.
Thanks for a good laugh, Elvis, you just boosted up my immune system quite few notches!
That was quite a show, was it not?
I was especially taken with the character and demeanor of that pig the PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS were running that year as their candidate, and I found its foreign policy agenda to be quite sane and rational and good for the country, and its economic policy to be a path to prosperity for all of us!
And then, alas for the nation, Mayor Daley had the progressive candidate not only assassinated, but in emulation of DEMOCRAT ICON Idi Amin of Uganda, Mayor Daley had the candidate cooked and served as the main course at a state dinner in Chicago to honor Joe Biden who was just back from two combat tours in Viet Nam, where Joe was a Marine RECONDO team leader leading his recon team on some real hairy missions across the DMZ in North Viet Nam, where Joe almost got eaten himself not once but twice by a tribe of cannibals in North Viet Nam, where they still had them, and as the guest of honor, Joe got served the pig’s head, and now, look what happened as a result – instead of the pig, we got Joe Biden as president, because when Joe ate the pig’s head, all the pig’s considerable power went over into Joe and made him presidential material, too.
And going back to this GRANT GRIFSTERISM going on here some 476.2 miles to the north of Cape Charles which has resulted in a controversy splitting my small community, which particular controversy is a direct outcome of what happens when BIDEN INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY is mindlessly made available to small towns like mine for alleged “infrastructure” improvements, in this case allegedly providing municipal water to a school that already has its own water supply, which controversy dividing the community in this case involves what I would say is a CLASSIC TEXTBOOK CASE of blatant TAXPAYER FRAUD with these two WIIA grants, one to put something in, the other to tear that something back out and replace it with something else again, which project is going to reap that class of persons I call GRANT GRIFTERS (con artists: someone who swindles people out of money through fraud; as in “I see these consultants as grifters who prey upon people”) a minimum of $395,000 for “engineering,” plus $140,000 for what they call “construction observation,” with another $100,000 for what they are calling “legal/administrative” costs, plus $60,000 for what they call “geotechnical,” $65,000 for “survey and mapping,” and $7,500 for “environmental,” whatever in fact that might be, so all in all a nice paycheck for the consultants, who have an inside political track as middlemen for these state and federal grants, which is why these GRANT GRIFTERS use these small towns like mine as an excuse to tap into more state and federal money, no questions asked and EVERYBODY involved is very happy, while the taxpayers footing the bills are getting royally screwed with no voice whatsoever in the matter, period, as how these grants are obtained is a totally closed process, and to get their hands on what they consider “free money” these GRANT GRIFTERS are promising them, in this case a windfall of riches into their pockets courtesy of the federal government in Washington, D.C. to the tune of $670,367 from Joe Biden and $1,693,000 from Kirsten Gillibrand to tear out what was paid for by a $90,000 NYS WIIA grant in May of 2023, the town board has to promise to put their local taxpayers in hock for a certain percentage of the project cost, whether those taxpayers want or need the project, in this case a public water supply for a school that already has a public water supply, without we who are the taxpayers having any say in the matter, period, largely because, as was said above, the process of actually getting that money, being entirely political in nature, is going on behind closed doors with absolutely no transparency for the affected taxpayers of whom I am one, this following puts the matter of the controversy into its proper perspective, to wit:
POESTENKILL CLARION, CHRONICLE & GAZETTE
Dedicated to the protection and preservation of intellectual liberty in Poestenkill
May 8th 2024 Edition
“THE WATER DISTRICT NO 2 FLIM-FLAM – ON WHY I AM NOT STUPID ENOUGH TO VOTE ‘YES’ ON WATER DISTRICT NO. 2 IN POESTENKILL”
Recently, I was approached by a group of well-meaning citizens in Poestenkill, good people all, who mistaking me for a mindless eejit whose mind got retarded from reading too many engineering books, which everybody knows pollutes the purity of an otherwise empty mind and renders the book reader too stupid to understand what is going on around him in the real world the well-meaning citizens reside in, sought to cure what they thought was my benighted ignorance concerning water district no. 2 and its innumerable benefits to the town, including luring a CHIP FAB here, which needs a lot of water, because to them, I have indicated that I am not likely to vote YES for Poestenkill’s water district no. 2, when everybody else knows that that is the right thing to do, or else Poestenkill wouldn’t be doing it.
And taking very seriously what these people concerned for my health and well-being were telling me about these innumerable advantages that will come to Poestenkill because everybody knows, apparently except for me, that the town was extremely fortunate to receive this level of governmental funding for the project, 95% of the total with $5.2 million in tax dollars being returned to Poestenkill for investment in critical infrastructure that will ensure that a public water source will be consistently tested and treated rather than each individual homeowner having to test to see what contamination is lurking in their pipes, I informed these people who were adamant that Troy does test the public water (along with Brunswick and Poestenkill) daily with more detailed tests at other frequencies and provides annual water quality reports, that I would take the matter under advisement, and having done so, and having actually read through every page of the Laberge Report that forms the basis of these grant requests, along with Troy’s 2022 water report, and a Documentary History of American Water-works article titled “Two Centuries of Public Service – History of Troy Water Works, Troy, New York,” and the Capital Region PRISM AIS Lake Survey Report for the Tomhannock dated August 18th and 26th 2020 and “A STUDY OF LAKES IN RENSSELAER COUNTY, NEW YORK WITH PROPOSALS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – FINAL REPORT” by Donald Scavia, Project Director, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, December, 1972, @p.100, where we were informed that the north end of the reservoir was stratified throughout the summer as long ago as 1972, and in the stratified section the hypolimnetic (below 12 meters) dissolved oxygen was one ppm at the end of June, while it was totally, depleted a month later and remained that way the remainder of the project, which is a sign of contamination and an important factor in determining water quality and treatment process, while Secchi disk readings indicated a fairly extensive algal bloom, and we learned therein that the reservoir was being chemically treated with copper sulphate, a powerful oxidizing agent and depending upon the dose ingested in drinking water, can lead to widespread cellular damage with the systemic effects of poisoning being seen primarily on red blood cells, gastrointestinal system, kidneys and cardiovascular system, and if the conditions in the reservoir’s watershed remained uncontrolled, which they have, it may become necessary to increase the extent of chlorination needed to control the bacteria of the water which will increase costs and decrease. the aesthetic nature of the drinking water, while even then, in 1972, the City of Troy was already having problems in the filtration treatment of the water due to increased algae productivity, and the TOMHANNOCK SPILLWAY DAM I PHASE I INSPECTION REPORT by the NEW YORK DISTRICT CORPS OF ENGINEERS from August of 1981, which report contains an extensive history of the Tomhannock dam and the fact that in 1917, just eleven (11) years after the reservoir was first out into operation in 1906, the dam nearly failed because it being corrupt Troy, it was shoddily built, I would have to say that I would have to be the world’s biggest idiot and very stupid, to boot, to vote YES on water district no.2 and thereby put my life, my future, my health, my well-being, and that of my community into the hands of some politicians in Troy and their crumbling infrastructure, which is as stupid as buying into a shoddily-built, crumbling condominium complex in Florida, and then getting slapped with a million-dollar repair bill for your trouble.
Water district no. 2 is NOT an investment in Poestenkill’s future; to the contrary, it is an investment in stupidity.
Stay tuned, more to come.
And my goodness, people, but JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, gazillions of extremely high-paying, good union jobs that are going to grow the American economy from the bottom up and the middle out, as Joe Biden, through the tenets BIDE-O-NISM and thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, expands the middle class so that there is enough room in it to fit not only everybody in America, but everybody in the world, as well, who also wants to be middle-class like “MIDDLE CLASS JOE” Biden, who is the epitome of what a middle-classer in America should be like as an example to everybody in the world who wants to be middle class but isn’t sure what it really means.
So where on earth are they?
Are they stealth jobs, perhaps, because according to the CNBC article “U.S. job growth totaled 175,000 in April, much less than expected, while unemployment rose to 3.9%” by Jeff Cox on May 3, 2024, they don’t appear to exist, to wit:
Consistent with recent trends, health care led job creation, with a 56,000 increase.
Other sectors showing significant rises included social assistance (31,000), transportation and warehousing (22,000), and retail (20,000).
Construction added 9,000 positions while government, which had shown solid gains in recent months, was up just 8,000 after averaging 55,000 over the previous 12 months.
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And if we go to the Reuters article titled “US job gains fewest in six months as labor market cools” by Lucia Mutikani on May 3, 2024, the story appears to be much the same, to wit:
Job growth last month was diverse.
The healthcare sector added 56,000 positions, spread across ambulatory healthcare services, hospitals, nursing and residential care facilities.
Social assistance payrolls increased by 31,000 jobs.
Employment in the transportation and warehousing industry rose by 22,000 jobs, driven by couriers and messengers as well as hiring at warehousing and storage facilities.
Retailers hired 20,100 more workers.
There were modest increases in construction and government as well as leisure and hospitality payrolls, which had been among the major drivers of employment in the past months.
Moderate job growth was also reported in manufacturing.
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So where on earth are all those jobs Joe Biden keeps telling us he has created?
In Joe’s mind?
And while we are on the subject of BLATANT BIDEN BULL****, of which Joe has a copious supply, let’s go to another Reuters article titled “Biden touts new $3.3 billion Microsoft data center at failed Foxconn site Trump backed” by Andrea Shalal on May 8, 2024, where we have a real good dose of it, to wit:
RACINE, Wisconsin, May 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday unveiled plans by Microsoft Corp to build a $3.3 billion data center in southeastern Wisconsin, drawing a sharp contrast to his Republican predecessor who had backed a previous $10 billion project at the same site that was significantly scaled back.
Biden, on his fourth visit to Wisconsin this year, said Microsoft’s investment would create thousands of jobs in the presidential election battleground state that his campaign sees as critical to his bid for a second term.
The facility will be built where Biden’s rival for the presidency, Donald Trump, announced a $10 billion investment by Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn in 2017 that the company later drastically scaled back.
Trump had called it “the eighth wonder of the world.”
“I’m here to talk about a great comeback story in America,” Biden told about 200 people at Gateway Technical College’s Sturtevant campus in a Midwestern state hit by manufacturing declines.
The president said Microsoft’s investment would “be transformative, not only here, but worldwide.”
“My predecessor made promises, which he broke,” Biden said.
“On my watch, we make promises and we keep promises.”
Foxconn in 2021 said it would invest $672 million at the site instead of the $10 billion initially planned and forecast 1,454 new jobs, down from 13,000 as its plans shifted and tax breaks were reduced amid local skepticism.
Microsoft President Brad Smith said the U.S. company planned to invest $3.3 billion by the end of 2026 and use artificial intelligence to boost manufacturing and help workers.
The White House said that investment would result in 2,300 union construction jobs and around 2,000 permanent jobs over time.
It said nearly 4,000 jobs had been added in the nearby city of Racine since Biden took office, while about 1,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during the Trump administration.
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Joe Biden is so full of **** it’s a wonder he is so pasty white, which takes us back in time to a CNBC article titled “Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump” on September 13, 2022, where we have some actual facts to counter the TOXIC BIDEN BULL****, to wit:
Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn is drastically scaling back a planned $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, confirming its retreat from a project that former U.S. President Donald Trump once called “the eighth wonder of the world.”
Under a deal with the state of Wisconsin announced on Tuesday, Foxconn will reduce its planned investment to $672 million from $10 billion and cut the number of new jobs to 1,454 from 13,000.
The Foxconn-Wisconsin deal was first announced to great fanfare at the White House in July 2017, with Trump boasting of it as an example of how his “America First” agenda could revive U.S. tech manufacturing.
For Foxconn, the investment promise was an opportunity for its charismatic founder and then-chairman, Terry Gou, to build goodwill at a moment when Trump’s trade policies threatened the company’s cash cow: building Apple’s iPhones in China for export to America.
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronic devices, proposed a 20-million-square-foot manufacturing campus in Wisconsin that would have been the largest investment in U.S. history for a new location by a foreign-based company.
It was supposed to build cutting-edge flat-panel display screens for TVs and other devices and instantly establish Wisconsin as a destination for tech firms.
But industry executives, including some at Foxconn, were highly skeptical of the plan from the start, pointing out that none of the crucial suppliers needed for flat-panel display production were located anywhere near Wisconsin.
The plan faced local opposition too, with critics denouncing a taxpayer giveaway to a foreign company and provisions of the deal that granted extensive water rights and allowed for the acquisition and demolition of houses through eminent domain.
As of 2019, the village where the plant is located had paid just over $152 million for 132 properties to make way for Foxconn, plus $7.9 million in relocation costs, according to village records obtained by Wisconsin Public Radio and analyzed by Wisconsin Watch.
Foxconn, formally called Hon Hai Precision, said the new agreement gives it “flexibility to pursue business opportunities in response to changing global market conditions.”
The company said: “Original projections used during negotiations in 2017 have at this time changed due to unanticipated market fluctuations.”
After abandoning its plans for advanced displays, Foxconn later said it would build smaller, earlier-generation displays in Wisconsin, but that plan never came to fruition either.
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So what promises did Trump break?
Or is that a figment of Joe’s senile imagination, as well?
Joe Biden, who was born on November 20, 1942, and I are close enough in age that one can safely say that in terms of national events of significance, floods, droughts, pestilences, wars, stuff of that nature, and international events, the Chinese crossing the Yalu into Korea in October 1950 after the U.S. troops crossed the 38th parallel in Korea heading north towards the Yalu and China, the U.S. Marines extricating themselves in a brilliant retrograde movement out of the kill-sack around the FROZEN CHOSIN (Chosin Reservoir in North Korea) in November–December 1950, the fall of Dien Bien Phu in Viet Nam on March 13, 1954, the Soviets crushing the Hungarian Uprising which lasted 12 days before being crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on 4 November 1956 where thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter of a million Hungarians fled the country, Chairman Mao’s GREAT LEAP FORWARD in China in February 1958, the IRON CURTAIN coming down in Europe, the botched-up Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that caused Alan Dulles to be sacked as CIA chief, the Soviet missile crisis, Jack Kennedy getting his **** blown away in hostile Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, the bloody and violent 1968 Democrat convention in Chicago, the riots, the campus protests, the Tonkin Gulf incident, the civil rights protests Joe Biden was a leader of, young Americans getting slaughtered in the jungles of Viet Nam in an environment they couldn’t understand nor cope with, against an enemy with a real incentive to kill them like vermin, so you can truthfully say we have got a lot in common, so you might even think we would have the same world view.
But not hardly!
In 1968, when I entered the ranks of the enlisted in the United States Army while Joe was earning his Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University’s College of Law, ranking 76th in his class of 85 students, is where Joe Biden and I, two supposedly fellow Americans, although about as far apart on the spectrum of humanity as it is possible to be, part company across the board, because as a human being, as a rational person, as a thinker, as a slow-to-action kind of person, I find Joe Biden’s lack of character to be quite disgusting, and I have memories of American presidents back to Harry S. Truman by virtue of being alive and cognizant of my surroundings, while I have read the lives of each president up to Truman, including the losers Warren Gamaliel Harding and Calvin Coolidge, who I rank Joe Biden in the class of, so I have a good basis of comparison.
Joe Biden was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1969 and practiced as a lawyer before running for political office and becoming the career politician feeding off the taxpayers that he is today.
I was in Viet Nam in 1969.
Joe went one way, I went another, and beyond that, what more can be said other than that he is the president, and I am not, which is something to think about, I suppose.
So before we get to the American history question of who remembers the Smoot-Hawley tariffs and what their significance was to American history, if anything, we first need to ask ourselves just who in the Hell is Katherine Chi Tai, born March 18, 1974, and what significance does she have to American history in our times today, and the answer to that question is that Katherine is a hack American attorney serving as Joe Biden’s United States Trade Representative since March 18, 2021, so we should not be surprised when we learn that she is also a card-carrying, dyed-in-the-wool member of the Democratic Party.
In 1996, Katherine graduated from Yale University (Pierson College) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, and after her undergraduate education, Katherine went on to study at Harvard Law School, where she earned a Juris Doctor in 2001, and after law school, she worked for several law firms, including Powell Goldstein, Sidley Austin, Baker McKenzie, and Miller & Chevalier, and clerked for U.S. District Courts in Washington, D.C., and Maryland.
With respect to her relationship with American dictator Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, hailed by the Bidens and many others in the know as well, as the GREATEST BIDEN of them all in a very long line of illustrious Bidens in both US and world history, from 2007 to 2014, Katherine served in the Trade Representative’s Office of General Counsel, becoming chief counsel for China trade enforcement from 2011 until her departure, and at the Office of General Counsel, Katherine, who appears to have quite a lot of real animus towards the Chinese, and angst because of the Chinese, who seem by her war-like policies towards them to make her pee in her pants in fright every time she hears the word “Chinese” mentioned, worked on trade cases at the World Trade Organization.
Then, in 2014, Katherine, as good a Democrat as any other Democrat out there, became trade counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee and she was named chief trade counsel in 2017.
The Associated Press has described Katherine as a “problem-solving pragmatist on trade policy,” whereas I might characterize her instead as a problem-making moronic idiot on trade policy, for reasons which will seen enough follow and bring us back to Smoot-Hawley, but in the meantime, to set the stage here for what is to come after, because with Joe Biden in the white house, we can guarantee that something indeed will come after, as Joe does yeoman service is tearing down America and building it back better in his image, like Chairman Mao did with his GREAT LEAP FORWARD, to in Joe’s case create an economy based on the tenets of BIDE-O-NISM that works from the bottom up and the middle out to enrich the richest corporations in not only America, but the world, as well, Katherine, who has been described by those blessed and lucky enough in this lifetime to have gotten to know her, as both an “avowed progressive” and as a “consensus builder who can help bridge the Democratic Party’s varying views on trade,” was nominated by Joe when he was still President-elect to serve as his personal Trade Representative in December 2020.
Katherine was sworn into office on March 18, 2021, and in her service as Joe Biden’s personal Trade Representative, Katherine holds the rank and style of “Ambassador,” and is a member of Joe’s cabinet along with such other political luminaries in America such as Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Gina Raimondo and Jennifer Granholm, and in June 2021, Katherine became the first Trade Representative to address the AFL–CIO in what was described as an effort to reset the USTR’s relations with labor unions, and as Joe Biden’s personal Trade Representative, Katherine has been a co-chair of the Joe’s Trade and Technology Council since its creation in 2021.
And having gotten all of that out of the way by way of necessary background, let’s take this opportunity to take a pause for station identification before we get back to Katheine and Smoot-Hawley, but don’t change that dial, because we will soon be back with more!
So, in a city chock full of lawless, incompetent, progressive Democrats all trying to impose their WOKE agenda on the rest of us, along with Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM, what could possibly set Joe’s TRADE CZAR Katherine Tai apart from that crowd that would make her worthy of any mention at all, anywhere, and especially in here. which is a timely and relevant question as we all sit spellbound and breathless on the edges of our seats as we count down the minutes and seconds until the RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE come November of 2024 when champion Joe Biden steps into the ring to take on his bare-knuckles opponent Donald Trump in the battle for the SOUL OF AMERICA, which is presently in safe keeping in Joe Biden’s possession in a cardboard box in his garage in Rehobeth Beach in the passenger’s seat of Joe’s silver 1967 Corvette that almost got burned up along with “CREEPY” Jill and Joe’s cat in that horrendous house fire Joe suffered down there?
Well, for one thing, a small thing really when we are talking about the lawless Biden administration, where the law is what Joe Biden says it is as opposed to the law as it is written, we know from the USA TODAY article titled “How a dustup between Joe Biden and New Hampshire Democrats kept him off the primary ballot” by Francesca Chambers on 19 January 2024, that Joe’s Katherine was one more Biden cabinet official crapping all over the Hatch Act by appearing on Joe’s behalf in New Hampshire in December of 2023 to stump for Joe as a candidate, but let’s face it, people, going after Biden officials for violating the Hatch Act is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500 to the drivers for violating the state speed limit.
So is that all we have on her?
Is that worthy of any kind of hubbub at all, Hatch Act violations?
And besides nothing at all, what do Hatch Act violations by Katherine Tai have to do with the Smoot-Hawley tariffs?
For that answer, we need to come forward in time to a Reuters article titled “US trade chief Tai says taking ‘serious look’ at tools to deal with China” by David Lawder on April 16, 2024, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will tell lawmakers on Tuesday that the Biden administration is “taking a serious look” at U.S. trade defense tools to deal with threats posed by China’s trade and economic policies, including a review of Trump-era tariffs on Chinese imports.
In excerpts of testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee released ahead of a hearing on Tuesday, Tai said that China’s policies were causing “dependencies and vulnerabilities in multiple sectors, harming American workers and businesses and creating real risks for our supply chains.”
“This is why we are taking a serious look at how our existing tools are addressing this problem, including through our four-year review of the China Section 301 tariffs,” Tai said.
Tai’s testimony on the Biden administration’s 2024 trade agenda comes just a week after U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued a warning to Chinese leaders that their overinvestment in production capacity for electric vehicles, solar panels and other clean energy goods was threatening an unacceptable wave of exports that would hurt producers and workers in the United States and elsewhere.
“Our economic relationship with the PRC is complex, and as the President said, we want competition with China, not conflict,” Tai said in her excerpts.
“Reducing dependencies and vulnerabilities and strengthening supply chains is a major priority for USTR this year, which informs our work as part of the President’s Council on Supply Chain Resilience,” Tai said.
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So Katherine says we want competition with China, not conflict, yet what we are getting and all we are getting from her and the Biden regime is conflict, not competition, because Joe and “TOODLES” Yellen can’t actually compete with China, and all Joe really knows as a career politician is conflict, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US trade chief calls for ‘decisive’ action to shield EV sector from China” by David Lawder on April 17, 2024, where we have Katherine waxing hysterical, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. must take “decisive” action to protect electric vehicles (EVs) from subsidized Chinese competition, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Wednesday as she completes a review of Trump-era China tariffs and considers President Joe Biden’s call for higher tariffs on imports of Chinese steel.
Tai told a U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing that the U.S. needed to create a level playing field for U.S. workers and that Biden’s call for higher “Section 301” tariffs on Chinese steel imports means that “we are in very, very advanced stages of our interagency work, and I expect that we will come to conclusion very soon.”
She said that China’s “anti-competitive practices,” including “enormous amounts of state support,” had fostered overproduction of solar panels a decade ago that devastated U.S. producers.
Tai said the U.S. was now facing a similar situation with EVs and the automotive sector, and leaving Chinese competition unchecked would cause the U.S. to lose the ability to produce those products.
“So we have to take early action, decisive action and we have to be really clear about why we’re taking the action,” she said.
“We are looking for a level playing field because the current playing field is not level, for all the talk about free trade.”
Tai added that the current dynamics in the global EV industry is a significant factor in the Biden administration’s examination of its trade tools.
Tai told the panel that the completion of the review and any adjustments would be presented as a “complete package” and that she had a high degree of confidence it would be completed soon.
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FREE TRADE?
What talk about free trade?
Joe Biden doesn’t believe in free trade, he believes in isolati0nism and protectionism and massive amounts of state support for American business, which can’t compete in a free market environment, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US trade chief recommends higher tariffs to address China’s ‘unfair’ practices” on May 14, 2024, to wit:
WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Tuesday recommended raising tariffs on a range of Chinese goods, saying additional actions were needed to address China’s technology transfer policies and practices that harmed U.S. workers and companies.
She said research showed that previous Section 301 tariffs imposed on China had a minimal impact on U.S. economy-wide prices and employment, but had been effective in reducing U.S. imports of Chinese goods, while increasing imports from other countries.
Tai recommended increased funding for enforcement of the tariffs and said increased collaboration between the private sector and government could combat what she called “state-sponsored technology theft.”
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And from there we next go to a Reuters article titled “Biden sharply hikes US tariffs on an array of Chinese imports” by Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland on May 14, 2024, where we have Joe Biden escalating a trade war he and Janet “TOODLES” Yellen and Katherine Tai are waging against China, which is going to take us to the Smoot-Hawley tariffs, to wit:
WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled steep tariff increases on an array of Chinese imports including electric vehicle (EV) batteries, computer chips and medical products, risking an election-year standoff with Beijing in a bid to woo voters who give his economic policies low marks.
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Voters give Joe Biden’s economic policies low marks because Joe Biden’s economic policies are STUPID like Joe Biden and therefore deserving of nothing but low marks,k whi8ch takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
“American workers can outwork and outcompete anyone as long as the competition is fair, but for too long it hasn’t been fair, Biden said.
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And there is another obviously stupid statement from Joe Biden which is all Joe ever has to offer us.
How hasn’t the competition been fair?
Joe don’t know and Joe don’t have a clue because for all his life, Joe has never worked a real job, nor has Joe ever run a business.
How has the competition been unfair?
Again, Joe Biden doesn’t have a clue. because those are empty statements fed to Joe by his political handlers on a teleprompter screen, which brings us back to Reuters, and this statement, to wit:
China immediately vowed retaliation.
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And with that said, before we get to SMOOT-HAWLEY, let’s once again pause for station identification, and so that you have some time to run to the fridge for some refreshment, we will run twenty solid hours of Biden cabinet officials doing infomercials on why we all should re-elect Joe Biden president of the world and its commander-in-chief, with a special clip in there of Joe’s treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen working out with a thigh-master to the tune of J Lo’s BOOTY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtIRArhVD4 , and then we will be back with more, so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial.
And before we go to Smoot-Hawley, let’s for a moment go back to the Reuters article titled “Biden sharply hikes US tariffs on an array of Chinese imports” by Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland on May 14, 2024, where we have Joe Biden clearly escalating a trade war with his tariffs as he and Janet “TOODLES” Yellen and Katherine Tai wage against China, where we have as follows, in order to show just how pitifully stupid and wasteful Joe Biden’s policies really are, to wit:
The tariffs on ship-to-shore cranes will rise to 25% from zero, those on syringes and needles will rise to 50% from nothing now and some personal protective equipment (PPE) used in medical facilities will rise to 25% from as little as 0% now.
Shortages in PPE made largely in China hampered the United States’ COVID-19 response.
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And that bit about Joe imposing tariffs on PPE from China takes us back in time to 3 January 2024 and a State Of The Union article titled “Biden Administration Leaves Company Stranded On Major PPE Manufacturing Project” by Andrew Rodriguez, where we have Joe’s idiocy on full display, to wit:
President Biden’s administration has been criticized for not following through on a project initiated under former President Trump to manufacture personal protective equipment (PPE) in the U.S.
A plant in Virginia, intended to produce medical gloves and the rubber needed for them, was built with federal funding but is now being mothballed due to lack of action from the Biden administration.
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Good old Joe Biden – what a ******* idiot he is, and maybe he didn’t take action and instead tossed federal taxpayer dollars down the toilet because he thought the plant owner was a Trump supporter, not a Biden supporter, so Joe simply cut him off and in turn wasted that federal money, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
The plant was part of efforts to reduce reliance on foreign PPE imports.
Despite completion, the factory has been shut down, and the company responsible for it is facing financial challenges to continue the project.
The Biden administration has not shown interest in production with this company, instead supporting a new plant in Louisiana with a different company.
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And there we go, people – Joe Biden is using federal tax dollars to support his followers, at the expense of America and the American people, as we see by going back to that story, to wit:
The situation has raised concerns about the loss of jobs and the impact on the local community.
“Just wasted money… .”
“This was all built, ready to go.”
“And because we didn’t start, now we have to take it all apart.”
“… We just want to finish what we started,” Blue Star chief executive Scott Maier said.
“It would be a shame not to finish,” Blue Star’s chief financial officer Victor Galati said.
“It’s a vital product that we need, and we’re putting our country at risk, not having something so important.”
“How a company could act in good faith and build this plant and not have follow-through from those that initiated it, it truly makes my brain hurt,” Joint Industrial Development Authority of Wythe County’s David Manley said.
“You can’t leave a car unattended in a garage for a couple years and then expect it to start up right away,” Maier said.
“There’s kind of preventative maintenance you need to do if you want it to run.”
“This is devastating news for both Blue Star and the surrounding communities of Wythe County and the greater Southwest Virginia region,” Virginia Economic Development Partnership president Jason El Koubi said.
“Without the federal funding, Blue Star does not have a path forward.”
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So make of that fiasco what you will people, and 0h, yeah – Smoot-Hawley!
From Investopedia, we learn that the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 raised U.S. import duties with the goal of protecting American farmers and other industries from foreign competition.
SOUND FAMILIAR, anyone?
Going back to Investopedia, we further learn that the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is now widely blamed for worsening the severity of the Great Depression in the U.S. and around the world.
Formally called the United States Tariff Act of 1930, the law is commonly referred to as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff or the Hawley-Smoot Tariff.
It was sponsored by Sen. Reed Owen Smoot (R-Utah) and Rep. Willis Chatman Hawley (R-Ore.).
Just like these Biden tariffs on China, the Smoot-Hawley Act was created to protect U.S. farmers and other industries from foreign competitors, which Act increased tariffs on foreign imports to the U.S. by about 20%, so that at least 25 countries responded by increasing their own tariffs on American goods, with the outcome being that global trade plummeted, contributing to the ill effects of the Great Depression.
Prior to signing the Act, more than 1000 economists urged President Hoover to veto it.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, enacted in June 1930, added about 20% to the United States’ already high import duties on foreign agricultural products and manufactured goods.
The Fordney-McCumber Act of 1922 previously raised the average import tax on foreign goods to about 40%.
The initial focus of the Smoot-Hawley legislation was to increase protection for U.S. farmers, who were struggling to compete with agricultural imports from overseas, particularly from Europe.
Soon, lobbyists for other sectors of American industry began demanding similar protection for their own products.
And the rest is history!
Stay tuned, more is yet to come!
And before we go to a Reuters article titled “China says ‘bullying’ tariff hike shows some in US are ‘losing their minds'” on May 15, 2024, a sentiment I truthfully find hard to argue against, let’s go back for a moment to the Reuters article titled “Biden sharply hikes US tariffs on an array of Chinese imports” by Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland on May 14, 2024 for some signs and symptoms of some in the Biden administration clearly losing their minds, which begs the question of did they ever have minds in the first place to lose, to wit:
“It’s very clear that China has continued to engage in unfair practices, like forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, unfair subsidies,” Biden economic adviser Lael Brainard told Reuters.
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And what whiney, sniveling horse**** that is coming at us from Joe’s economic advisor Lael Brainard, recently of the federal reserve before Joe brought her up to the big leagues to help him with his campaign for four more years in the oval office, because Lael is politically reliable and thus, can be trusted to say what Joe needs her to say, such as that whiney drivel above here about China, when Joe Biden himself is pouring out unfair subsidies, which takes us to Katherine Tai next for some more whiney bull****, to wit:
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said the revised tariffs were justified because China was stealing U.S. intellectual property.
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Uh, okay, Katherine, anything you say because you are too stupid and close-minded to argue with, which brings us to this whopper from Joe Biden’s shop, to wit:
Administration officials said their measures are combined with domestic investment in key industries and unlikely to worsen a bout of inflation that has already angered U.S. voters and imperiled Biden’s reelection bid.
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Unlikely to worsen a bout of inflation?
That’s rich, coming from a man who told us that the inflation we still have today and will have the rest of this year into 2026 according to federal reserve official this week, was transitory back on July 19, 2021:
Biden Says Recent Surge in U.S. Inflation Is ‘Temporary’
Bloomberg Quicktake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mmcp–_hDw
Which takes us to the Reuters article titled “China says ‘bullying’ tariff hike shows some in US are ‘losing their minds'” on May 15, 2024, where we have as follows:
BEIJING, May 15 (Reuters) – A U.S. move to raise tariffs on Chinese goods is a sign of weakness, not of strength, and shows that some in the United States may be “losing their minds”, China’s foreign minister said on Wednesday, in unusually blunt comments.
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And as an American citizen thor0ughly disgusted with how weak and stupid Joe Biden and his whiney crowd including Lael Brainard, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Gina Raimondo and Jenneifer Granholm are making America look with their incessant whining about our national security being threatened by China, when in fact the biggest threat to our nation security is right there in Washington, D.C. in Joe Biden’s white house, I find I have to agree with that statement from the Chinese that Joe’s move to raise tariffs on Chinese goods is a sign of weakness, not of strength, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled steep tariff increases on Chinese imports including electric vehicle (EV) batteries, computer chips and medical products, risking an election-year standoff with Beijing as he woos American voters who give his economic policies low marks.
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Joe’s failed stupid economic policies get low marks from the American voters precisely because that is all they are deserving of, and if Joe thinks his attempt at tough talk here with his tariffs is going to change anything with regard to how Americans view his BIDE-O-NOMICS and resultant BIDENFLATION, he truly is out 0f his mind, as if we haven’t known that for some long time now, which takes us back to Reuters for more, to wit:
China immediately vowed retaliation.
“This is the most typical form of bullying in the world today!”
“It shows that some people in the United States have reached the point of losing their minds in order to maintain their unipolar hegemony,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, according to a statement published by state broadcaster CCTV.
“The U.S.’s suppression of China does not prove that the U.S. is strong, but rather exposes that the U.S. has lost its self-confidence and is out of order,” he said.
The U.S. move, instead of hindering China’s development, will inspire its 1.4 billion citizens to work harder, Wang said.
“At this critical moment of global economic recovery, the international community should warn the United States not to cause new trouble for the world,” he said.
Biden said China would probably raise tariffs in retaliation, possibly on unrelated products, but said the move was unlikely to lead to international conflict.
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What an ignorant fool is Joe Biden, and let us cut off our nose to spite our face by giving this fool Biden four more years so he can take America all the way down to the ground and wreck its economy for years to come!
Joe Biden, who is obsessed with his 0wn greatness as a superior human being compared to the rest of us, which is why Joe is president, because he is a superior human being and it is those kind that we insist on having as our leaders, so we can have a leader we can legitimately feel inferior to while at the same time making us feel good about ourselves and all warm and squishy inside because we have been blessed with such a superior human being as our leader, is totally clueless as to what goes on out here on a day by day where we who are Joe’s inferiors in every way it is possible to be inferior to Joe Biden spend the days of our lives, while Joe spends his days in the unreality of Washington. D.C., and case in point is Joe’s specious claim in the Reuters article titled “Biden sharply hikes US tariffs on an array of Chinese imports” by Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland on May 14, 2024 that his tariffs on Chinese made goods are combined with domestic investment in key industries and therefore are unlikely to worsen a bout of inflation that has already angered U.S. voters and imperiled Biden’s reelection bid.
As to inflation and imported goods, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US import prices increase by the most in two years in April” on May 16, 2024, where we have the reality we are already confronted with before any retaliation for China, to wit:
WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) – U.S. import prices rose by the most in two years in April amid rising costs for energy products and other goods, suggesting that domestic inflation could remain elevated for a while.
Import prices surged 0.9% last month, the largest increase since March 2022, after an upwardly revised 0.6% rise in March, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Thursday.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected import prices, which exclude tariffs, to advance 0.3% following a previously reported 0.4% gain in March.
In the 12 months through April, import prices accelerated 1.1%, the largest gain since December 2022.
Prices rose 0.4% in March, which was the first year-on-year increase since January 2023.
The firmer import price readings cast a shadow on the inflation outlook.
Imported fuel prices increased 2.4% in April after vaulting 5.4% in March.
The cost of imported food increased 1.7% after rising 1.6% in March.
Excluding fuels and food, import prices jumped 0.6%.
These so-called core import prices gained 0.1% in March.
Core import prices rose 0.4% year-on-year in April.
Prices for imported capital goods edged up 0.1% last month.
The cost of motor vehicles, parts and engines rose 0.3%.
Imported consumer goods prices inched up 0.1%.
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That is before Joe escalated his ECONOMIC WARFARE against China, who Joe can’t compete with, and one thing is for certain, nothing Joe Biden and his inept crowd are going to do is going to bring those prices back down again, and where oh where are the fruits of all this supposed domestic investment in key industries Joe is touting above here, because as we see by going to a Reuters article titled “US labor market fairly tight, broader economy losing steam” by Lucia Mutikani on May 16, 2024, we see manufacturing in the US going backwards, not forwards, to wit:
“The economy is losing momentum in the face of restrictive monetary policy,” said Sal Guatieri, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets.
Higher borrowing costs are threatening the housing market recovery and keeping manufacturing on the backfoot.
A fourth report from the Fed showed manufacturing output dropped 0.3% last month following a downwardly revised 0.2% increase in March.
Economists had forecast factory output rising 0.1% after a previously reported 0.5% advance in March.
Production at factories fell 0.5% year-on-year in April.
Manufacturing accounts for 10.4% of the economy.
“High interest rates are weighing on capital-intensive sides of the economy like manufacturing and homebuilding,” said Bill Adams, chief economist at Comerica Bank.
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And the high borrowing costs crippling manufacturing are as a direct outcome of the BIDENFLATION caused by Joe’s BIDE-O-NOMICS, so good old senile Joe Biden and his economics crew who know nothing about economics have us in a dangerous spiral here, because one thing BIDE-O-NOMICS can and does promise is that what you paid for something yesterday is the last time you will see that price, because thanks to BIDENFLATION, tomarrow it will be higher.
And people wonder why Home Derpot’s sales are falling as we read in a Reuters article titled “Home Depot sales drop more than expected as wary customers delay big projects” by Savyata Mishra on May 14, 2024, to wit:
May 14 (Reuters) – Home Depot posted a bigger-than-expected drop in quarterly same-store sales on Tuesday as cautious Americans shelled out less for big-ticket items while focusing on small-scale home repair and maintenance tasks.
Customers have slashed discretionary spending and put pricey renovations on hold as they adjust to higher borrowing costs and elevated inflation, leading to a turbulent 2023 for home improvement retailers like Home Depot and Lowe’s Cos.
“We continue to see softer engagements in larger discretionary projects where customers typically use financing to fund the projects such as kitchen and bathroom models,” CEO Ted Decker said on a post-earnings call.
Big-ticket transactions for products over $1,000 were down 6.5% in the first quarter from a year earlier, company executives said.
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Gee, Joe Biden, I wonder why!
And talk about Joe Biden rewriting American history, and the very major role Joe had in not only shaping American history, but in writing it as well, or rather, having American history written to reflect his magnificence and his greatness, let’s go to a Fox News article titled “Biden suggests he was vice president during COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Barack said to me, go to Detroit'” by Charles Creitz on 21 May 2024, where we have fractured American history as only the zany and bizarre Joseph Robinette Biden can invent it and spin it and treat is as if it were real, to wit:
President Biden appeared to claim he was vice president during the coronavirus pandemic and that former President Barack Obama had dispatched him to Detroit to help with the response.
In comments first reported by the New York Post, Biden addressed an NAACP campaign event in Michigan Sunday night, where he repeatedly railed against his presumptive Republican opponent, former President Trump, while offering an aside about the contagion – which began in 2019 while the latter was in office.
“When I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic,” Biden said near the beginning of his remarks.
“And, what happened was Barack said to me: ‘Go to Detroit – help fix it.’”
The pandemic, numbered COVID-19 due to global health officials having deemed it an outbreak in 2019, transpired in the latter years of Trump’s term, not Obama’s.
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So, people, thanks to Hussein Obama having the wisdom and foresight to dispatch Joe Biden to Detroit to fight the COVID rampaging there, the people of the city of Detroit were saved thanks to Joe’s mighty and herculean efforts in that confrontation between mortal man and deadly disease, and that, people, is now how American history reads thanks to Joe Biden, who was also a leader of civil rights marches in the segregated south, where in a famous confrontation with Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor, known for his use of police dogs and fire hoses to quell the Civil Rights demonstrations in 1962-1963, Joe grabbed one of Bull’s police dogs by the throat, and holding it out at arm’s length, Joe let Bull know that was going to be Bull’s fate if Bull didn’t stand down and call off his dogs, which is exactly what did happen next, with Bull Connor quaking in his boots out of fear of Joe Biden getting Joe’s powerful hand around the neck of Bull Conor to shake him like a rat terrier shakes a rat, and so, thanks to Joe Biden having the courage to stand up to Bull Connor, the Black people in the south are now free.
So, thanks to a CNN article titled “Pentagon says none of the aid unloaded from US pier off coast of Gaza has been delivered to broader Palestinian population” by Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann on 22 May 2024, not only do we now know what we have all along suspected, given the ineptness and incompetence of Joe Biden and his administration composed of losers like Joe, that NONE of the aid that has been unloaded from the temporary pier Joe had constructed off the coast of Gaza has been delivered to the broader Palestinian population as Joe and his team of incompetents, morons and idiots work with the UN and Israel to identify safe delivery routes inside the enclave, but that Joe also wants to destroy Hamas the way he wanted to destroy Gaddafi in Libya, and Basher Assad in Syria, to wit:
When White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Israeli officials as part of his trip to the Middle East over the weekend, the Israelis presented their latest thinking about a potential Rafah incursion during which the US side asked a lot of “hard questions,” according to a senior administration official.
This person noted that the two sides will continue those discussions but that the Israelis have been incorporating US feedback and concerns as they continue to work through those plans.
The official added that both sides share the joint goal of destroying Hamas.
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So that admission buried down in this story of Joe Biden’s incompetence puts a whole new twist on the story of what Joe Biden is really doing in Gaza, and what the ramifications are going to be, given the sheer volume of foreign policy ****-UPS committed by Joe Biden in the time he has been a career hack politician feeding off the American taxpayers as if it were his due, which brings us back to his failed aid deliveries to the starving people of Gaza, to wit:
Several desperate Gazans intercepted trucks delivering aid from the pier over the weekend, leading the UN to suspend the delivery operations until the logistical challenges are resolved.
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And between Joe Biden’s ineptness and incompetence coupled with that of the UN, those logistical challenges, which should have been foreseen if Joe Biden didn’t have his head firmly planted in his ass, will be with us for a while, which takes us back to that sad story, to wit:
The US is working with Israel and the United Nations to establish “alternative routes” for the safe delivery of the 569 tons of aid transported to Gaza since last week, Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said on Tuesday.
Asked whether any of the aid has been delivered to the people of Gaza, Ryder said, “As of today, I do not believe so.”
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So where is it, then?
Rotting in an assembly area on shore?
Getting back to the story:
A US official told CNN that the Defense Department and UN are still working to determine how much aid can be held at the staging area inside Gaza at any given time.
The amount of aid getting to the Gaza shoreline from its initial staging area in Cyprus has also fallen short of initial Pentagon estimates.
Since Friday, more than 569 metric tons of humanitarian assistance have been delivered through the temporary pier, called JLOTS, or Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore, to the shore of Gaza to be distributed by humanitarian partners, Ryder said.
But Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of the US Naval Forces Central Command, said last week that the US hoped to initially transport 500 tons of aid per day via the pier, and scale up as time went on.
Over the weekend, as trucks began moving the aid delivered off the floating pier, CNN reported that a group of men in Gaza intercepted the aid, saying they did not trust that it was actually meant for the Palestinian people.
“I have doubts,” Mounir Ayad, a Gaza resident, told CNN near the pier.
“I don’t understand this floating pier or what it indicates and what its purpose is.”
“They say it’s for aid, but people are apprehensive.”
“Is this aid or something else?”
“We know that the US has never supported the Palestinian cause, so it’s implausible that it’s giving us aid without something in return.”
Ryder acknowledged on Tuesday that some initial aid brought into Gaza was “intercepted by some people who took that aid off those vehicles.”
“Fully appreciating the desperation, but also fully appreciating the fact that it is very important that this aid get to the people who need it most, that’s going to continue to be the focus.”
“So I understand, you know, the focus on why is this not working, or why is that not working, but what we’re focused on is how we can work to ensure that the Palestinian people get the aid.”
The Pentagon said in April that the goal was to deliver roughly 500 tons of aid — amounting to 90 truckloads — per day to the starving population of Gaza, with the intent of working up to 150 trucks daily.
The pier was finally anchored to Gaza last week as the humanitarian situation in the enclave has only worsened.
Sonali Korde, assistant to the administrator of the US Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, said last week that conditions in Gaza “have not improved and in the past two weeks we have seen a vital border crossing close, and at a time when it is critical we see more aid move.”
“Across Gaza, 2.2 million people, the entire population, is facing acute food insecurity.”
The US has faced a number of challenges with the pier, including planning around Israel’s operations in Rafah which could raise security concerns; early issues with establishing who would transport the aid from the pier into Gaza, as the US has repeatedly said no US troops would have boots on the ground; and logistical challenges like sea and weather conditions that could continue to limit the ability to use it.
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JOE BIDEN!
SHORT-SIGHTED!
SHALLOW-THINKING!
AS INCOMPETENT AS THE DAY IS LONG!
BIDEN/HARRIS 2024!
And before we go back to the subject of ELECTORAL BRIBERY, which subject was raised here in the pages of the venerable Cape Charles Mirror on December 9, 2023, where courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, I was referring to the blatant use of federal funds to BRIBE voters, which is exactly what Joseph Robinette “MR. MONEYBAGS” Biden, Junior is doing, which assertion we shall see confirmed in a Wall Street Journal article titled “Opinion | Joe Biden’s 2024 Election Bribes” by Daniel Henninger on 23 May 2024, let’s drop back for a moment to a Bloomberg article titled “Crowds Intercept Almost All Aid Sent Over US-Built Pier in Gaza” by Iain Marlow on 22 May 2024, for more on “KNEE-JERKING JOE” Biden’s fiasco with the Gaza floating pier, to wit
(Bloomberg) — Crowds of desperate people in the Gaza Strip have intercepted almost all of the aid sent over a temporary pier built by the US military, officials said, forcing a temporary halt to deliveries and complicating an already dire humanitarian crisis.
In a briefing on Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said that 569 metric tons of aid has been brought in via the pier, which cost about $320 million to build and operate, for delivery onward.
But asked if any had made it through to aid groups for distribution, he responded, “As of today, I do not believe so.”
“We never said it was going to be easy,” Ryder added.
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And perhaps the Ryder dude never said it was going to be easy, but in his 7 March 2024 SOTU, Joe Biden sure did seem to say it was going to be, to wit:
The United States has been leading international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance into Gaza.
Tonight, I’m directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the coast of Gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters.
No U.S. boots will be on the ground.
A temporary pier will enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day.
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A MASSIVE INCREASE, Joe?
Not hardly, dude, according to your own Pentagon spokesperson, a real honest to goodness major general, so he should have some clue as to what he is talking about one would think, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
The last day trucks were able to cross from the floating dock to the warehouses was on May 18, World Food Program spokeswoman Shaza Moghraby said in an interview.
It takes at least at day to process aid at the pier and there is very limited distribution in Rafah, a city where many displaced civilians have sheltered, and elsewhere, she added.
President Joe Biden ordered the construction of the pier as land crossings into the enclave remained constrained by fighting and pressure grew on his administration to do something about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Much of the territory has been reduced to rubble since Israel began a campaign against Hamas militants over the Oct. 7 assault that killed 1,200 Israelis and led to around 250 being taken as hostages.
Crowds have stopped trucks trying to take aid from the pier to a distribution warehouse, according to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
While 10 trucks were able to take goods from the pier to a storage area on Friday, only five of 16 trucks that departed the dock on Saturday made it to the warehouse, with all the others being halted, he said.
“Crowds had stopped the trucks at various points along the way,” he said.
“There was what I think I would refer to as self-distribution.”
“These trucks were traveling through areas where there’d been no aid.”
“I think people feared that they would never see aid.”
“They grabbed what they could.”
The pier was never meant to fully replace assistance coming into Gaza via land crossings.
But a fresh Israeli assault and clashes at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, one of the main land crossings where international aid was coming into Gaza, has further worsened the flow of humanitarian aid, while the situation remains dire after some eight months of war.
“There is no doubt that the people of Gaza — children, women, men — are experiencing an acute humanitarian crisis,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Congress in a budget hearing on Tuesday, pointing out that the fighting around Rafah and disruptions at the Kerem Shalom crossing risked making the situation in southern Gaza “even more egregious.”
The roughly 1,800-foot dock was forecast to be able to bring in an initial 90 truckloads of humanitarian aid into Gaza each day, the Pentagon has said.
That amount could increase to about 150 truckloads of supplies per day once the pier is fully operational, the department said.
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But right now, its SNABU, situation all Bidened up, which takes us to a U.S. Naval Institute story titled “U.S. Soldier Critically Injured During Gaza Pier Operation, 2 Other Service Members Hurt” by Aaron-Matthew Lariosa on May 23, 2024, where we have SNABU related to Joe’s pier laid out for us, as follows:
A U.S. soldier assigned to the Gaza pier mission was seriously injured on Thursday and medically evacuated to Israel, two defense officials confirmed to USNI News.
The soldier was working on the staging platform two miles off the coast of Gaza, where trucks filled with aid packages are driven from cargo ships onto Army watercraft, the defense officials told USNI News.
At the time of the injury, the roll-on roll-off cargo ship MV Benevides was attached to the platform.
Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters on Thursday that a total of three service members were injured in non-combat-related incidents at sea.
“Three injuries, two were very minor injuries and those individuals returned to duty.”
“One individual is undergoing care at a local Israeli hospital,” Cooper told reporters during a Thursday Pentagon briefing.
Officials did not mention any attacks or incidents directly targeting the pier or the staging area two miles off the coast.
The pier has been in operation since last week, providing aid to Gaza.
The trucks are loaded in Cyprus and sail to the staging area off the coast.
From there, the trucks drive on to U.S. Army watercraft and sail to the pier, which is anchored to the beach in Gaza.
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And that is the latest of what we know about Joe’s pier, and when we return it will be to the Wall Street Journal article “Opinion | Joe Biden’s 2024 Election Bribes” by Daniel Henninger on 23 May 2024, to wit:
Joe Biden is fond of spinning yarns from his early political days in Delaware, so he knows the fine American tradition of doling out “walking-around money” to drive turnout.
Then there’s the related Democratic Party tradition known as spend and elect.
Mr. Biden, a self-avowed traditionalist, surely sees nothing odd in campaigning for the U.S. presidency by handing out money.
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Yes, people, LOTS and LOOTS of money, SCADS and OODLES of it, all taken from the pockets of the taxpayers of the United States of America, which happens to be us, with no voice in the matter, so stay tuned for more yet to come.
So, yes, people, as an old-time pol who has spent his entire adult life as a career hack politician feeding off the taxpayers like a societal parasite, Joe Biden, a self-avowed traditionalist DEMOCRAT politician who sees nothing odd in campaigning for the U.S. presidency by handing out money, indeed knows the fine American tradition of doling out “walking-around money” to drive voter turnout, where walking-around money, also called street money, is an American political tactic resorted to by old-time hack politicians like Joe Biden where local party officials are given legal cash handouts by Joe’s campaign in exchange for the officials’ support in turning out voters on election day, which takes us back to the Wall Street Journal article titled “Opinion | Joe Biden’s 2024 Election Bribes” by Daniel Henninger on 23 May 2024, where we have more on the subject of Joe Biden’s BLATANT ELECTORAL BRIBERY, to wit:
But has election politics ever seen spending on such a massive scale for the sole purpose of producing votes?
Let’s depart from the cuddlier labels for this phenomenon and call it what it is: Biden’s bribes.
Mr. Biden is using the U.S. Treasury the way a 1920s party boss would use the safe behind his desk.
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Keeping in mind that up until recently, the Wall Street Journal could well be said to be very PRO JOE to the point of actively protecting, those are surprising statements coming from the Wall Street Journal, calling Joe’s BRIBES for what they are, which gives us an idea of the sheer magnitude of the powerful KA KA-like stench now emanating from what Joe is so blatantly doing with taxpayer dollars that even the Wall Street Journal can no longer tolerate the smell of corruption lingering about the Biden campaign, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Most polls have indicated for months that the 81-year-old president’s support among younger voters is soft.
Worse, their turnout is relatively poor in most elections.
Voilà, the Biden student-loan debt-forgiveness plan.
Questions of moral hazard aside, one may argue that with more than 40 million Americans owing about $1.7 trillion in federal and private student loans, some measure of forgiveness could be defended by a Democratic president.
But the Biden proposal tripped the what-the-heck-is-going-on alarm.
It totaled $430 billion in write-offs for about 30 million borrowers.
No surprise, the Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Biden overstepped his presidential spending authority.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the administration’s description of the plan as a “modification” was true “only in the same sense that the French Revolution ‘modified’ the status of the French nobility.”
But with the political stakes so high, the administration came up with a bureaucratic workaround to continue the loan relief.
Polls since haven’t shown much gain for Mr. Biden with young voters.
One reason, ironically, may be the administration’s botched handling of Fafsa, the federal application to get a student loan.
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And the INEPT, INCOMPETENT BIDEN REGIME composed of morons, idiots and fools like Joe Bidem botching FAFSA is a story unto itself as we shall see from an Albany, New York Times Union article titled “Chancellor: FAFSA meltdown is SUNY’s ‘biggest roadblock’ to success this year” by Kathleen Moore on May 22, 2024 where we learned that Chancellor John King Jr. of NY said SUNY spent much of this school year emphasizing the importance of filling out the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) only to see the new version implode when it was released this past winter, FAFSA being the federal form that is used to determine federal, state and school-specific financial aid, but the late rollout of the new version, followed by multiple bugs that caused it to not function, was a disaster that King called “our biggest roadblock to success” this year, so typical of the incompetent Biden regime, but we’re talking INTENTIONAL ELECTORAL BRIBERY by Joe Biden, not mere the INCOMPETENCE we are so used to from Joe and his crowd, so let’s go back to the Wall Street Journal as follows:
With the college gambit failing, the Biden team offered younger voters a more potent bribe.
On May 16, the Justice Department proposed reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug.
Effectively, this means national legalization is coming.
The Democrats’ defense of legalization has been that the drug laws got too many young black men arrested for possession or small sales of marijuana.
So much for that pitch: An April Wall Street Journal poll showed support for Donald Trump among black men at 30%, up from 12% in a 2020 Associated Press poll.
What must be more maddening to the White House is the scant political benefit from the multitrillions in spending — sorry, “investments” — it spread across the country through the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the Chips Act and the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act.
The last alone committed nearly $400 billion in subsidies and tax credits for renewable-energy projects and electric vehicles.
In all, the Biden handouts run to about $1.6 trillion.
Much of this is intended to unlock private spending to “create” jobs.
I’d still call it election bribery on a never-seen scale.
Many of the green-energy projects — EV sales, charging stations, offshore wind farms — would be dormant absent federal pulleys.
Lately, Mr. Biden’s days seem to be filled with Air Force One trips to projects, plant openings and jobs conjured out of this spending.
Politico recently estimated that only 17% of these laws’ $1.1 trillion in direct investment has actually been spent.
The White House’s political shop must have expected a better media-announcement effect from what until lately it called Bidenomics.
But there hasn’t been much beyond maybe an endorsement from the United Auto Workers’ leftwing president, Shawn Fain.
Again, there’s nothing unusual about a Democratic spend-and-elect strategy.
But as practiced even a century ago by urban political machines, winning required a theoretically electable candidate.
From the start, when Mr. Biden’s personal liabilities already were apparent, this White House has focused less on touting his leadership than on funneling financial benefits to the re-election base.
That’s a lot of political funding failure.
What happened?
The corrosive effect of inflation is the short answer.
But voters in many polls also cite the economy as their top priority.
The more interesting long-term explanation may be that most of the public, including more minority voters, no longer consider federal handouts an adequate substitute for the real economy, which produces paychecks and a durable personal dignity.
Team Biden seems to have shifted to Plan D: Make the entire election about “Trump” and MAGA extremism’s threat to democracy.
So far, the trillions spent on anti-Trump TV ads haven’t boosted Mr. Biden’s polling.
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And here, let us take a break for station identification, but don’t change that dial, because we will be right back!
Good old “KNEE-JERKING JOE” Biden and his Gaza pier fiasco that is providing entertainment to people over in Israel as they watch a piece of Joe’s pier washed up on shore along with efforts to free one of Joe’s Army boats that also washed up on shore, and not only is it offering entertainment, but proof positive to the candid world as to exactly how short-sighted Joe Biden is and how much of a shallow thinker he is, that he didn’t realize that the Mediterranean Sea is not flat like a sheet of glass, but actually can and does get waves on it capable to dashing Joe’s pier to bits, just like the waters of the Hellespont wrecked the floating bridge of Xerxes, who then had it flogged to teach it to not mess with the mighty king of the Persians, which has people all across the world wondering if Joe Biden with now do the same to the Mediterranean Sea, whip the hell out of it with a bull whip until it cowers and whimpers to let it know NOBODY or NOTHING messes with “FIGHTING JOE” Biden and that’s a fact, which takes us first to the Jerusalem Post article titled “Ashdod gathers to watch US army vessel stuck on beach” by Seth J. Frantzman on 25 May 2024, where we have the hapless Joe Biden providing entertainment to the masses in Israel with his floating pier follies, to wit:
Hundreds of people from Ashdod and neighboring areas gathered on the city’s beach on Saturday to see a US army vessel that had become stuck on the beach next to a piece of the floating pier that the US built recently to bring aid to Gaza.
The vessel, LCM 8558, is a landing craft.
The US Army and the IDF worked together during the late afternoon to try to find a solution for the beached vessel.
A front loader dug out sand from beneath its large propellers.
Then, the front loader was attached to the starboard bow of the vessel to try to pivot the watercraft to free it.
Low tide prevented this from working.
Eventually, the USAV Matamoros, a US naval ship, arrived offshore to try to help.
As the sun set, the IDF attempted to help with a drone to bring a line out to the Matamoros.
This did not work, because the current carried the line too strongly, and the drone was not strong enough.
Later, men attempted to swim the line out to the waiting vessel.
Meanwhile, the landing craft remained marooned on the beach.
It is likely the first time in history that a US army vessel has been grounded on a beach on the coast of Israel.
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That’s because we never had a Joe Biden for president, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
The US Army sent vessels to build a floating pier in March.
It took them until late April to arrive.
The pier was built near Ashdod and then towed off the coast of Gaza, where it became operational in early May, allowing trucks to bring pallets from it to shore.
A piece of the pier floated over 1.5 meters away due to high winds and sweeps on Friday night.
This caused the landing craft to end up on the beach of Ashdod, necessitating this operation.
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YOU GO, Joe!
Which takes us to an Al Jazeera story titled “Vessels supporting US-built Gaza aid pier wash away in heavy seas” on 25 May 2024, where we have more on the story of Joe’s pier, to wit:
Waves have swept away vessels supporting the United States-built pier installed to transfer aid to Gaza, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said.
In a statement on Saturday, CENTCOM noted that during the transportation of humanitarian aid, the US floating dock was disconnected from the small boat tugging it and the vessels broke free from their moorings with two of them now anchored on the beach near the pier.
Part of the dock later drifted towards Israel’s Ashdod shore, while the third and fourth vessels have beached on the coast of Israel near Ashkelon, CENTCOM added.
No injuries have been reported so far and efforts to recover the vessels are under way with assistance from the Israeli and US navies.
The construction of the $320m floating pier was completed in mid-May to provide aid to the Gaza Strip.
The pier has been criticised as a complicated and costly alternative that tries to deflect attention from demanding a much simpler solution – for Israel to fully open all land crossings to Gaza and to secure aid trucks going in.
But in March, US President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union that the pier would “receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelter”, a move largely seen as an attempt to appease his Democratic Party’s base as he runs for re-election in November.
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Yes, indeed, people, Joe came up with this knee-jerk decision of his to construct this pier simply to APPEASE his DEMOCRAT PARTY base as we head towards November, which takes us to a Wall Street Journal article critical of Joe titled “The U.S. Built a $320 Million Pier to Get Aid to Gazans. Little of It Has Reached Them” by Stephen Kalin and Nancy A. Youssef on 26 May 2024, where we have their take on this story, to wit:
An ambitious U.S. effort to get aid into Gaza via a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea has gotten off to a sluggish start, facing many of the same logistical challenges that have throttled broader attempts to ease the humanitarian crisis in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The Pentagon spent $320 million and engaged 1,000 soldiers and sailors to open a major maritime corridor last week, delivering on President Biden’s promise in March that the U.S. military would install a temporary dock off the Gaza coast for cargo ships to unload food, water and other supplies.
Fourteen ships from the U.S. and other countries are involved in a mission supported by humanitarian groups and several nations including Israel.
But in the first week of operations, only 820 tons of aid was delivered through the pier, of which around two-thirds reached distribution points within Gaza, the Pentagon said Thursday.
That is roughly equivalent to 71 truckloads — far below the initial target of 90 truckloads a day, and about 15% of the estimated minimum daily need for a population of more than two million people facing crisis-level acute food insecurity.
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As we will shortly see, however, the Biden regime has plenty of excuses to offer us as to why Joe’s pier is underperforming, which takes us back for more, to wit:
The dock suffered another setback Saturday, when four boats attached to the pier detached during heavy seas, according to the U.S. military.
Two were recovered and anchored nearby, and two floated northward toward the Israeli coastal city of Ashdod, the military said.
The Israeli military is helping the U.S. recover the vessels, according to the U.S. military and an Israeli military official.
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SNABU – situation normal, all Bidened up. which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Around a dozen trucks from the pier never made it to their destinations inside Gaza, according to United Nations officials, who said that desperate Gazans commandeered the aid and that the trucks couldn’t use alternative routes due to Israeli restrictions — familiar problems plaguing aid operations in the strip.
“It is not flowing at the rate that any of us would be happy with, because we always want more,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Wednesday, adding that the U.S. was working to get “necessary security arrangements in place” to prevent looting.
U.S. officials have said that the floating pier, soon after achieving its initial target, would expand capacity to enable 150 trucks a day to enter Gaza, assisting at least 500,000 people a month.
Sullivan denied that the current lower levels indicated poor planning, blaming it instead on “a dynamic environment.”
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Oh, BULL****, Jake!
Who are you especially trying to kid here, telling us it is not due to POOR PLANNING, what with your LONG record of ****-ups going back to when Joe Biden was Hussein Obama’s assistant president!
Of course it is due to poor planning, because that is all ever get for Joe Biden and TEAM BIDEN including this moronic idiot Jake Sullivan who is Joe Biden’s national security advisor because he knows absolutely nothing about national security, and thus, is unable to show up Joe Biden, who knows even less, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Scaling up the operation could prove difficult.
The maritime corridor is a cumbersome system with multiple potential bottlenecks.
Food, medical supplies and other goods from around the world are sent by air or sea to the island nation of Cyprus, where the aid is screened and packaged onto shipping pallets in the small port of Larnaca.
A large military or commercial ship then transports the pallets some 200 miles across the Mediterranean Sea to a floating platform built by the U.S.
There, the pallets are put into trucks, which are driven onto smaller military vessels that carry them about 6 miles to a floating U.S.-built causeway secured to the beach by Israeli army engineers.
The trucks drive a few hundred feet down the causeway and onto the beach.
In a zone protected by Israeli soldiers, aid workers transfer the pallets onto a separate fleet of trucks that are used by aid groups to complete the final leg to warehouses and distribution points inside Gaza.
Weather poses a particular threat.
Choppy waters in the Mediterranean Sea could damage the pier and make it unsafe for people to be on it, military officials have warned.
Storms delayed installation of the pier for several days and could interrupt operations again.
The summer is expected to be mostly calm, but if the pier survives until September it will likely have to stop operations around then and be dismantled.
The pier is an “extraordinary measure” by the U.S. government, said Michelle Strucke, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for global partnerships including humanitarian affairs and disaster response.
But she said it was rendered ineffective by distribution issues on the ground and Israel’s lack of an effective deconfliction system to protect aid operations from military activities.
The complex pier operation also adds a dangerous new dimension to Washington’s involvement in the Gaza war, which includes supplying Israel with billions of dollars of weapons.
While U.S. officials say American forces won’t step foot in Gaza, the pier pushes them to the edge of a chaotic battlefield.
Engineering work on the pier came under mortar fire a month ago by “various terrorist organizations,” according to the Israeli military.
Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, has said it would treat U.S. forces at the pier as an occupying force.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who are hostile to the U.S. and have launched drones and missiles at ships in the Red Sea in response to the war in Gaza, say air-defense systems make the pier a military base.
Both are implicit threats to attack.
Three U.S. troops have been injured at sea already, said Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, deputy head of U.S. Central Command.
Two of them have returned to duty, and one is being treated at an Israeli facility, he said without providing details.
A U.S. defense official described the third troop as seriously wounded.
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And for the moment, that is the news!
But stay tuned, because with Joe Biden in the white house, we are assured of much more yet to come, so don’t touch that dial!
So, people, by way of some necessary background here as we ponder this BIDEN FIASCO with Joe’s very expensive floating pier in Gaza which so far is proving to be a typical BIDEN DUD, something ill-thought-out and poorly planned for due to typical shallow thinking on the part of Joe Biden and his regime starring Jacob Jeremiah “JAKE” Sullivan, born November 28, 1976, the American attorney who now serves as the United States National Security Advisor, reporting directly to President Joe Biden, JAKE previously served as Director of Policy to President Barack Obama, National Security Advisor to then Vice President Biden and Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary Hillary Clinton at the U.S. Department of State, and JAKE also served as senior advisor to the U.S. federal government at the Iran nuclear negotiations and senior policy advisor to Clinton’s FAILED 2016 presidential campaign, and with that record of failure by JAKE firmly established, because Joe likes to surround himself with failures as they don’t pose a threat to him as would people who were successful, on November 23, 2020, Joe Biden announced that Sullivan would be appointed the United States National Security Advisor taking office on January 20, 2021.
In his early life, our JAKE attended Southwest High School in Minneapolis, where he graduated in 1994 and while there, the dude was a Coca-Cola Scholar, debate champion, president of the student council, and voted “most likely to succeed” in his class, and my goodness, did he ever, because look where he is now, with the power to really **** things up but good with his national security advice to Joe, when there is nothing in JAKE’s resume that would suggest he knew anything at all about securing anything, starting with a bicycle in a bike rack at work.
JAKE was educated in the United States and United Kingdom, first attending Yale University, where he majored in international studies and political science and was awarded not only the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize, but further was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa his senior year and graduated summa cum laude with distinction in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts.
JAKE then won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied international relations.
While at Oxford, Sullivan served as a managing editor of the Oxford International Review, and he graduated with a Master of Philosophy, and then he graduated with a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2003.
At Yale, JAKE was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, the Yale Law & Policy Review, and the Yale Daily News and he interned at the Council on Foreign Relations, was a member of the Yale Debate Association and earned a Truman Scholarship in his junior year.
He also worked for Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
As stated above, in 2008, JAKE was an advisor to the failed campaign of Hillary Clinton during the primary cycle and then to Barack Obama during the general election campaign with the job of preparing Clinton and Obama for debates, and when HILLARY became secretary of state, JAKE joined as her deputy chief of staff and Director of Policy Planning, and travelled with her to 112 countries.
JAKE worked in the Hussein Obama administration as deputy assistant to the president and National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, and he became Joe’s top security aide in February 2013 after Clinton stepped down as secretary of state.
In those posts, JAKE played a role in shaping U.S. foreign policy towards Libya, which was destabilized as a result, Syria, which was also destabilized as a result, and Myanmar.
And now, thanks to a CNN article titled “Pentagon says none of the aid unloaded from US pier off coast of Gaza has been delivered to broader Palestinian population” by Haley Britzky, Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann on 22 May 2024, we learn that JAKE and Joe want to destroy Hamas the way JAKE wanted to destroy Gaddafi in Libya, and Basher Assad in Syria, to wit:
When White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Israeli officials as part of his trip to the Middle East over the weekend, the Israelis presented their latest thinking about a potential Rafah incursion during which the US side asked a lot of “hard questions,” according to a senior administration official.
This person noted that the two sides will continue those discussions but that the Israelis have been incorporating US feedback and concerns as they continue to work through those plans.
The official added that both sides share the joint goal of destroying Hamas.
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So how do we reconcile JAKE’s goal of destroying Hamas with these following statements attributed to JAKE in the Wall Street Journal titled “The U.S. Built a $320 Million Pier to Get Aid to Gazans. Little of It Has Reached Them” by Stephen Kalin and Nancy A. Youssef on 26 May 2024, to wit:
“It is not flowing at the rate that any of us would be happy with, because we always want more,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Wednesday, adding that the U.S. was working to get “necessary security arrangements in place” to prevent looting.
U.S. officials have said that the floating pier, soon after achieving its initial target, would expand capacity to enable 150 trucks a day to enter Gaza, assisting at least 500,000 people a month.
Sullivan denied that the current lower levels indicated poor planning, blaming it instead on “a dynamic environment.”
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With his miserable record, it is impossible to come to any other conclusion but that this is indeed poor planning, which brings us to a Washington Post story titled “General says he warned that Afghanistan would get ‘very bad, very fast’” by Dan Lamothe on 20 May 2024, where we have more of JAKE’s poor planning to consider, to wit:
The top U.S. general in Afghanistan during the American military’s 2021 withdrawal repeatedly warned Washington that security would get “very bad, very fast” after troops departed, but the Biden administration still failed to grasp the danger in keeping its embassy open with only nominal protection, he told lawmakers investigating the war’s deadly endgame.
Retired Gen. Austin Scott Miller said in closed-door testimony last month before the Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee that, as his tour was nearing its end in July 2021, he was so troubled by the administration’s “lack of understanding of the risk” that he privately warned a Marine Corps commander charged with planning for a possible evacuation to prepare for “really adverse conditions.”
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And there was no way in hell that the Biden administration’s “lack of understanding of the risk” in Afghanistnam did not directly involved JAKE Sullivan, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
“I did not foresee a good future for Afghanistan as I was departing,” the general said in his testimony, later adding that he wishes he had done more to ensure his perspective from Kabul was consistently represented as plans took shape in Washington.
The transcript of Miller’s interview, obtained by The Washington Post, provides Biden’s critics fresh political ammunition ahead of the November election as they seek to discredit his foreign policy with the scenes of chaos and despair in Kabul when the Taliban stormed back to power.
Miller, who has shunned the spotlight in Washington since relinquishing command in Afghanistan in July 2021, is among about 20 witnesses to meet with the committee to date.
Its chairman, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), is expected to issue a report this summer detailing the investigation’s findings.
McCaul said in a statement that Miller’s testimony reveals how the Biden administration’s “hasty Go-to-Zero order” expedited Afghanistan’s fall and the violent tragedy that marred the Pentagon’s race to evacuate as many people as possible.
An official with the White House National Security Council defended Biden’s decision-making, saying that ending the war was “the right thing to do” and allowed the United States to focus on other challenges, such as the war in Ukraine that erupted six months later.
Biden, the NSC official said, “refused to send another generation of Americans to fight a war that should have ended long ago.”
A U.S. official, addressing Miller’s criticisms, said that as security deteriorated in Kabul, the State Department “pivoted and worked shoulder to shoulder with our military and other government colleagues to conduct the largest airlift in history.”
But while the United States extracted nearly 124,000 people from a single airfield in the Afghan capital, the success of that mission came at enormous cost.
Biden declared an evacuation Aug. 14, one day before the Afghan government collapsed and its leaders fled the country.
The panic drove massive crowds to Kabul’s airport, which was overrun by people desperate to escape the incoming authoritarian regime.
Crucially, the Afghan security forces trained, supported and financed by the United States over 20 years wilted and dissolved.
A U.S.-led crisis-response force was flown in to restore order, but two weeks of misery followed.
A suicide bombing killed 13 American troops and an estimated 170 Afghans.
Days later, a botched U.S. drone strike claimed 10 members of an Afghan family, including seven children.
Tens of thousands of Afghans who had worked for the U.S. and Afghan governments were left behind.
Miller, whose command assignment began in September 2018, told lawmakers he saw Afghanistan “as being on fire” as early as March 2020, shortly after the Trump administration agreed to remove all U.S. troops by May 2021.
As 2021 progressed and the American military presence steadily shrank, he said, he grew “scared” for his personnel positioned far from Kabul in southern Helmand province.
The Biden administration deliberated on its own plan until April, and then said it would have all forces out by September.
Biden has vigorously defended his decision to end the mission in Afghanistan and, in an ABC News interview amid the evacuation, claimed that “no one” among his senior military advisers said to him that the United States should retain a force of 2,500 there.
Senior defense officials later contradicted him, telling Congress after the operation that they had recommended a couple thousand personnel stay.
Miller said he did not hear directly from Secretary of State Antony Blinken, acknowledging that the secretary was not obligated to reach out to the general and that there may have been “sensitivities” within the Defense Department if he had.
Miller said he did consult with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin; Gen. Mark A. Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, who took over as head of U.S. Central Command in 2019.
Other State Department officials also made trips to Kabul and met with him as the administration assessed its options, he said.
Miller, asked about his involvement in the Biden administration’s planning, said he routinely sent McKenzie his assessments and “wasn’t shy” about sharing his opinion.
James Adams, a Pentagon spokesman, said Austin and Milley, as Biden’s top military advisers, attended those planning sessions.
Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, sought out Miller for information separately, said another official familiar with the process.
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So there we have JAKE definitely involved in that process, as well, which was another BIDEN FIASCO.
So should we be surprised then that this Gaza pier is yet another Biden ****-up, what with JAKE Sullivan being involved?
Of course not, and it would be a shocking surprise if it was any other way!
It frankly amazes me that anybody in America, starting with Joe Biden, would want to place responsibility for their security in the incompetent hands of Jacob Jeremiah “JAKE” Sullivan, the hack lawyer who now serves as Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor, which is why Joe Biden’s foreign policy is so ill thought out like this Gaza pier, and Joe’s pronouncement through the lips and mouth of Jake Sullivan that Joe and Jake are now waging TOTAL WAR against Hamas, which party has governed the Gaza Strip in Palestine since its takeover of the region from rival party Fatah in June 2007, with the INTENT according to Jake Sullivan being to destroy Hamas, like Joe had the Baathists in Iraqinam destroyed, which then raises the question of who or what will rule in Gaza once Jake and Joe have succeeded in destroying Hamas, or is it Jake and Joe’s further intent to raze Gaza to the ground and salt its earth like the Romans razed Hannibal’s city of Carthage in 146 BC, so the Carthaginians would never again dare to challenge the might of Rome, or in this case, the people of Gaza will never again think of talking smack about Joe Biden, or screw-facing him, or giving him the stink eye.
As to TOTAL WAR such as Joe Biden and Jake Sullivan are now waging against Hamas, using the IDF as their proxy army, Britannica tells us that the definition of “total war” is a military conflict in which a WAR LEADER or WAR PRESIDENT like Joe Biden is willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory.
As Britannica tells us, throughout history, limitations on the scope of warfare have been more economic and social than political.
Simple territorial aggrandizement has not, for the most part, brought about total commitments to war.
The most deadly conflicts have been fought on ideological grounds in revolutions and civil and religious wars.
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And there is where we are in this existential struggle between Joe Biden and Hamas with this deadly conflict in Gaza being fought on ideological grounds in what is partly a revolution and very much a religious war.
As to the modern concept of total war, it can be traced to the writings of the 19th-century Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz who denied that wars could be fought by laws, a thought that both Joe Biden and Jake Sullivan very much agree with.
In his major work Vom Kriege (On War), he rejected the limited objectives of 18th-century warfare, in which winning local military victories was regarded as the key to advantageous diplomatic bargaining, and described wars as tending constantly to escalate in violence toward a theoretical absolute.
Clausewitz also stressed the importance of crushing the adversary’s forces in battle.
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And that is exactly what Joe Biden and Jake Sullivan intend to do to Hamas, crush its forces in battle, and then wipe all memory of Hamas from the face of the earth, whatever the cost in collateral damage like starving women and children, because as Joe Biden would say, based on what Jake Sullivan would say, nits breed lice, which brings us to a Fox News article titled “Aid deliveries suspended after rough seas damage US-built temporary pier in Gaza, US officials say” by Tara Copp of the Associated Press on May 28, 2024, for the latest on Joe and Jake’s fiasco known as the Gaza pier which Joe ordered built in his 7 March 2024 SOTU, where Joe said “Tonight, I’m directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the coast of Gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters,” which I susp0ect is the very first time the military heard about it, which is why it is way over budget, to wit:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. built temporary pier that had been used to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza was damaged by rough seas and has temporarily suspended operations, three U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Apparently, Jake Sullivan thought that the Mediterranean Sea was flat as a pancake with no waves because that is how it looks on a map, and now, he and Joe are finding out it is anything but, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
The Joint Logistics Over The Shore, or JLOTS, pier only began operations in the past two weeks and had provided an additional way to get critically needed food to Gaza.
The setback is the latest for the $320 million pier, which has already had three U.S. service member injuries and had four if its vessels beached due to heavy seas.
Deliveries also were halted for two days last week after crowds rushed aid trucks coming from the pier and one Palestinian man was shot dead.
The pier was fully functional as late as Saturday when heavy seas unmoored four of the Army boats that were being used to ferry pallets of aid from commercial vessels to the pier, which was anchored into the beach and provided a long causeway for trucks to drive that aid onto the shore.
Two of the vessels were beached on Gaza and two others on the coast of Israel near Ashkelon.
U.S. officials have repeatedly emphasized that the pier cannot provide the amount of aid that starving Gazans need and stressed that more checkpoints for humanitarian trucks need to be opened.
At maximum capacity, the pier would bring in enough food for 500,000 of Gaza’s people.
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And that was wishful thinking on the part of Joe Biden and the moronic idiot Jake Sullivan with
his rose-colored glasses on, which takes us to a Newsweek story titled “Is Joe Biden’s $320 Million Gaza Pier Sinking? What We Know” by Brendan Cole on 28 May 2024, to wit:
A floating pier on the shores of the Gaza Strip, set up to provide a lifeline to the Palestinian territory, has faced a rocky start, with one report claiming that it was “sinking.”
President Joe Biden announced the project in March to help transport supplies to the territory, which has been hit by Israel’s bombardment, as it fights a war against Hamas prompted by the militant group’s surprise October 7 attack on southern Israel.
Amid international calls for the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow more humanitarian assistance into the territory, aid groups have started using the pier to distribute aid, but use of the facility has not gone smoothly.
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And in all truth, what ever has gone smoothly that has been associated with Joe Biden in his long political career, outside of the Biden family business?
Going back to the story:
The construction of the floating pier and its causeway, or Trident section, anchored to the Gaza shore adjacent to the north of the Netzarim corridor, was completed May 10.
Two months earlier, Biden announced the pier with the hope of averting famine in northern Gaza by providing seaborne access for assistance, as calls grew for Israel to ease access for relief supplies into the territory via land routes.
The Pentagon said the project involved about 1,000 U.S. service members, mostly from the Army and Navy.
One U.S. defense official told Reuters the cost had risen to $320 million — double the original estimate from earlier this year.
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Yes, people, COST OVERRUNS thanks to the shallow thinking and the short-sightedness that has been the characteristic hallmarks of the pitiful and inept Biden administration since January of 2021, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
This caused concern among some, such as Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS), the top Republican on the Democratic-led Senate Armed Services Committee, who told the agency the cost had “exploded” and was a “dangerous effort with marginal benefit.”
Video posted on social media by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Monday showed the American pier “sinking in the water,” The Jewish Press reported, although it is unclear how much of the structure, which was bobbing up and down, was under water.
The soldier who shot the video is overheard saying: “This is what happens when you help the enemy,” the outlet said.
Columnist and author Caroline Glick posted on X an image of the pier with the message: “The Biden pier in Gaza is sinking into the sea….($320m sinking along with it…)”
It is unclear whether the images were linked to an incident on Saturday in which four American vessels connected to the floating pier disconnected from the jetty due to stormy seas.
U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM, said the vessels had broken free from their moorings, leading them to get stuck on the coast.
One ship was stuck on a beach at the southern end of Ashdod, while another sent to extract it also got beached.
The two other vessels were washed up on a beach near the pier, according to CENTCOM, which added the Israeli Navy helped with their recovery and that no one had been injured in the incidents.
But other problems have beset the pier, with Sabrina Singh, deputy Pentagon press secretary, saying last month that bad sea and weather conditions had delayed the delivery of the components for the construction.
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Excuses, excuses, excuses!
Time to take a commercial break with a sneak peak at a special clip of Joe’s treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen working with Joe’s commerce secretary Gina Raimondo on perfecting a number for the Democrat National Convention with the pair of them imitating J Lo and Iggy Azalea in J Lo’s BOOTY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtIRArhVD4 , and then we will be back with more, so stay tuned and don’t touch that dial.
So, recapping events here, EIGHTY-TWO (82) days ago, on 7 March 2024, LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior stood up before the candid world as BILLIONS of people across the world tuned in to hear what their leader had to say, and 82 days ago, what they heard Joe Biden say was as follows:
“Tonight, I’m directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the coast of Gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters.”
EIGHTY-TWO (82) days later, on 28 May 2024, we have as follows from CNN in a story titled “US pier constructed off Gaza has broken apart” by Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, where we learn as follows:
The temporary pier constructed by the US military to transport aid into Gaza broke apart and sustained damage in heavy seas on Tuesday in a major blow to the American-led effort to create a maritime corridor for humanitarian supplies into the war-torn enclave, the Pentagon said.
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Now, knowing Joe Biden, I have to believe that the first time the Pentagon found out about this pier was when Joe announced it on 7 March 2024, and when Joe concluded his SOTU, this is what he said, to wit:
Let’s remember who we are.
We are the United States of America.
And there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together.
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And having said that, I can then imagine that he told his military leaders he wanted no excuses as to why it couldn’t be done, because, well, as he said, we are the United States of America and there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together, which was pure BULL**** then, just as it is pure BULL**** today, as if by working together, we somehow have the collective power to literally tame the forces of nature, and by extension, the waves on the Mediterranean sea, which takes is back to the story of Joe’s pier, to wit:
The pier was “damaged and sections of the pier need rebuilding and repairing,” Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said on Tuesday.
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But how can that be?
Afterall, we are the United States of America and there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together, which is one of the stupidest things Joe Biden has said in a lifetime of spewing forth stupidity, which takes us back to CNN, to wit:
The pier will be removed from its location on the Gaza coast over the next 48 hours and taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod, where US Central Command will carry out repairs, Singh said.
The repairs will take more than a week, further delaying the effort to get the maritime corridor fully operating.
Earlier, four US officials told CNN the pier broke apart in heavy seas.
Part of the pier, which consists of a narrow causeway to drive aid into Gaza and a wider parking area to drop off supplies transported by ship, disconnected on Sunday, the officials said.
The parking area will have to be reconnected to the causeway before the pier can be used again.
The damage, first reported by NBC News, occurred three days after heavy seas forced two small US Army vessels to beach in Israel, according to US Central Command, while another two vessels broke free of their moorings and were anchored near the pier.
“I believe most of our soldiers were able to remain on the vessels and still are currently on them,” Singh said during Tuesday’s Pentagon press briefing.
“And … within the next 24 or 48 hours, the Israeli Navy will be helping push those vessels back and hopefully they’ll be fully operational by then.”
The pier, which cost $320 million, had only begun operating on May 17 when heavy seas forced the maritime shipments to stop one week later on May 24, two days before part of the pier disconnected.
It is unclear when shipments will resume.
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And here we come to what I am sure Joe Biden DID NOT want to hear from his military minions, to wit:
The temporary pier, called the Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS), requires very good sea conditions to operate.
CNN reported previously that JLOTS can only be operated safely in a maximum of 3-foot waves and winds less than approximately 15 miles per hour.
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Anyone who tried to tell that to Joe Biden after his March 7, 2024 would find his military career in jeopardy, I am sure, so I would imagine they all kept their mouths safely shut and hoped for the best, as if hoping for the best would make any diference, which again takes us back to CNN, to wit:
Heavier sea conditions delayed the deployment of the pier for several weeks, as the system sat docked in the Israeli port of Ashdod waiting for favorable conditions.
Daniel Dieckhaus, the director of USAID’s Levant Response Management Team, told reporters Thursday that there were “thousands and thousands of tons” of aid waiting in Cyprus to be delivered through the maritime corridor.
But those shipments are now paused with the temporary pier inoperable.
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Bottom line?
It is obvious – Jake Sullivan needs a pay raise, and maybe even a promotion.
This business with Joe Biden’s floating pier is so stupid, so, idiotic, so moronic, as to be bizarre beyond belief.
Anybody in America who is not stupid like Joe Biden and all the people who work for him, including Jacob Jeremiah “JAKE” Sullivan, the idiot hack lawyer who now serves as Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor, and who has ever bothered to study America’s military history where beach landings were required knows that the United States Navy, which spends its time not on land like the Army, but on the oceans of the world, where there is wind and waves and tides and such, has among its ranks EXPERTS on what are known as sea conditions, big surprise that, who would have thought it, and if we go to the Navy’s own website on the subject, this is what we would find, to wit:
Aerographer’s Mate
We can’t control the weather. But our Aerographer’s Mates can predict almost every detail to make sure Navy forces succeed in any physical environment.
As an AG, you are the expert in meteorology and oceanography.
You’ll use skills in science and math to calculate weather patterns, analyze data and distribute forecasts to ships and squadrons around the world, providing accurate measures of air pressure, temperature, wind speed and sea state.
As an Aerographer’s Mate, you’re not just a “weatherman” – you’re an integral member of the Information Warfare Community, aiding us with critical knowledge in any battlespace.
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BUT, obviously, not the sea state in the BATTLESPACE of the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Gaza, so what on earth is up with that?
And the only answer is either the Navy under Joe Biden is as incompetent as Joe Biden, or Joe simply did not want to hear about it, which takes us back to May 1, 2024 and a Fox News article titled “Growing controversy over Biden’s Gaza pier fuels concerns over cost, security – Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says if attacked from Gaza, US troops would ‘have the right to return fire to protect themselves'” by Ruth Marks Eglash for some further background on this BIDEN-esque floating pier fiasco, to wit:
JERUSALEM – The rising costs of a floating pier off the coast of the embattled Gaza Strip – said to be aimed at enabling shipments of humanitarian aid to reach the civilian population trapped in the central and northern parts of the Palestinian enclave – has stoked controversy after it was revealed this week that the project will cost the U.S. upward of $320 million.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Central Command posted photographs on X of the pier under construction by U.S. soldiers in the Mediterranean Sea, saying that the hulking metal platform “will support USAID and other humanitarian partners who will receive and deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.”
However, some have questioned the effectiveness of the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) pier after the Pentagon revealed on Monday that the estimated cost would nearly double the original estimate of $180 million.
It also said the project will only be in use temporarily, for a period of three months.
In a statement on X, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., called the project “ill-conceived,” writing that “the cost has not just risen.”
“It has exploded.”
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And I bet he is freaking right out now, given Joe’s pier only lasted a matter of days before being broken apart by the waves and wind that the Navy would have been able to predict in advance, which takes us back to Fox, to wit:
“During the State of the Union address, President Biden announced that he has directed the U.S. military to undertake an emergency mission to establish a maritime corridor and temporary pier in Gaza, working in partnership with like-minded countries and partners, to allow assistance to flow by sea directly into Gaza, as part of a sustained effort to increase U.S. aid coming into Gaza by land, air, and sea,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“This temporary pier will bring much-needed assistance into Gaza, but I want to be clear: this work is in addition to our other, ongoing efforts to continue sustaining and expanding assistance going in by land,” the spokesperson said.
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These Biden spokespersons talk like empty-headed drones incapable of thought, which again takes us back to that story, to wit:
Slated to process up to 2 million meals a day for the people in Gaza, the Pentagon said, the project has also raised concerns about security, particularly for U.S. troops who will remain off the coast aboard aircraft carriers.
Responding to a question posed by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla, during the House Armed Services FY25 budget hearing on Tuesday, regarding the possibility of threats facing the roughly 1,000 U.S. servicemen and women working to construct the pier, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said they would all be armed and, if attacked from Gaza, they would “have the right to return fire to protect themselves.”
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And that is a comment that you would expect a moron to make, given there is no place to take cover on Joe’s pier, which takes us to another Fox article for more background on this obviously failed effort correctly titled “Biden’s $320M Gaza pier: Over budget and under constant threat, a ‘purely political’ misadventure” by Peter Aitken on 26 May 2024, to wit:
The temporary piers established at President Biden’s order have run way over budget and caused several issues since USAID commenced deliveries, leading some lawmakers to question the value of the operation.
“At the end of the day, it’s unnecessarily putting our people in harm’s way.”
“It’s costing a lot.”
“It’s pulling assets that should be used elsewhere, and I just don’t think it’s going to accomplish anything near what he’s promised,” Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital in an interview.
President Biden, during his State of the Union speech in March, pledged to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Gaza Strip to increase the delivery of humanitarian aid to the territory as millions remain displaced while Israel continues to hunt Hamas.
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And because it was Joe Biden, RULER OF THE FREE WORLD and all its peoples who made that pledge, EVERYBODY in Washington, D.C., including the main-stream media and legacy press were afraid to confront Joe and tell him his cock-a-mamie idea was at best pie-in-the-sky, and here we are today, with the pro9of being the pudding as the remnants of Joe’s floating pier get hauled away for necessary repairs due to wind and waves the US Navy should have been able to predict well in advance, which again takes us back to Fox, to wit:
The Pentagon announced the completion of the piers – one that would remain several miles offshore while the other acted as a causeway onto the Gazan shore – were completed around May 9 but faced difficulty during deployment over the following week.
Waltz said the cost for the project totaled over $300 million, with some reports citing a figure as high as $320 million – which would be double what initial estimates indicated, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., told Reuters, calling the operation a “dangerous effort with marginal benefit.”
Waltz noted that the quoted costs only apply to the first few months of operation: “The longer it’s there, the more those costs are going to skyrocket.”
“We’ve been briefed that two Navy destroyers are assigned to patrol the waters around the pier,” Waltz said as an example.
“Are those being included in their sustained fuel operating costs?”
“The cost of their crew?”
“That’s unclear … and then there’s opportunity cost, right?”
“Those destroyers and other assets, air assets or what have you, are being dedicated to secure this thing from any type of drone or land attack that could be rested and refit in the U.S. and could be used elsewhere.”
The main issue, according to Waltz, is that the delivery outside of Gaza has not been the issue, but rather what happens once the aid is delivered across the border, at which point the aid faces the same issues as land-based delivery.
“It’s going to run into the exact same problems the land routes have faced once it gets across the border,” Waltz argued.
“The trucks get ransacked.”
“They get attacked.”
“When they do make it to the warehouse, it’s Hamas controlling the warehouses.”
“Whether the trucks come from the sea or whether they come from land, they’re going to run into the same buzzsaw of issues once they get inside, and it is the Palestinian, you know, the poor Palestinian people and kids that suffer in the end,” Waltz continued.
“Because of corruption and because they’re being run by a terrorist dictatorship that is going to use aid to, one, feed and arm and resource itself, with more nutrients and medical supplies and fuel and what have you,” he added.
“Then, secondarily, use it as a lever to make sure the Palestinian people don’t rise up against them.”
Deliveries have not hit the desired level since the piers commenced shipments last week: Trucks started entering the Gaza Strip on May 17, with plans to scale up to 150 truckloads a day, but the pier has run into a number of issues, including damage to one of the piers on Saturday as the military tried to move them due to “sea conditions.”
The move, attempted overnight Friday, led to a piece of one pier detaching from the line and floated ashore.
A U.S. army landing craft mechanized (LCM) tried to rescue the piece and got stuck when a cable wrapped around its propeller – another unforeseen cost.
The U.S. Army and Navy worked throughout the day with Israeli counterparts to free the equipment, according to a U.S. defense official.
Waltz listed a number of other issues that have plagued the operation, from logistical issues to weather disruptions and security threats.
“Just getting the amount of material out there in what is often a rough sea state, in a very difficult environment, has been a problem,” Waltz explained.
“Then, I think we just have this false notion of no boots on the ground coming from Biden and the administration.”
“I mean, technically, there’s no boots touching sand, but they’re on a dock that’s touching the sand, and we confirmed at a hearing they’re very close to shore,” he continued.
“They are within small arms range of any militants that want to fire on them from Gaza, much less the types of drones or missiles that we’ve seen in the Red Sea.”
“We do know that the dock and the entire complex has come under mortar fire, already, so, again, this is putting our service members in harm’s way unnecessarily,” he stressed.
Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told reporters on Tuesday that crowds have stopped the trucks at various points along the route after the trucks arrived on land, leading to a sort of “self-distribution” of the deliveries.
“These trucks were traveling through areas where there’d been no aid.”
“I think people feared that they would never see aid.”
“They grabbed what they could,” Dujarric said, according to Newsweek.
Pentagon Spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder also commented earlier in the week that the aid was “not flowing at a rate that any of us are happy with.
Ultimately, Waltz argued that the piers have proven a project initiated for “purely political reasons.”
“When you have over 100,000 Democrats in the state of Michigan … go and vote against him in the Democrat primary – over 100,000 – that is a heck of a scary political moment for this White House,” Waltz said.
“We’ve seen the policy shifts towards Israel ever since, from Schumer calling for regime change on the Senate floor to the kind of bashing of Netanyahu, to the promising a change in policy if the Israelis carry out their offensive in Rafah … that has all been a signal to the youth vote,” Waltz added.
The White House did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment by time of publication.
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And that, people, is the news!
Don’t go away, however, because with the hapless Joe Biden still in power, along with Jake Sullivan, we can be assured that there is yet much more to come so stay tuned!
Are you okay, Joe?
Are you alright, dude?
You’re not hurt are you?
I said are you okay, Joe?
Did you fall on your head or something?
In the light of Joe’s humiliating fiasco with his ill-fated Gaza pier, and other setbacks he is facing as COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and God help the troops who are stuck with that inept, incompetent, short-sighted, shallow-thinking fool as their CIC, that is all I could think of to say after reading through “Remarks by President Biden in Commencement Address to the United States Military Academy at West Point | West Point, NY” on May 25, 2024, where we had Joe’s signature greeting to start off the show, to wit:
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Applause.)
General Gilland, Secretary Wa- — Wormuth, General George, members of Congress.
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That is so Joe Biden, to not really know or be able to properly pronounce the names of people he appointed to office after telling us how good for America they would be, like Christine Elizabeth Wormuth, born April 19, 1969, the career civil servant who now serves as Joe Biden’s Secretary of the Army since 2021
After growing up in College Station, Texas, Christine graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts with a bachelor’s degree in political science before earning her master’s in public policy from the University of Maryland.
Christine entered government service as a presidential management intern in 1995 and she spent the next 6+1⁄2 years as a civil servant in the Defense Department, and later, she worked as a government consultant and then a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and before she was nominated for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Christine served in the National Security Council as the Special Assistant to the President and the Defense Policy and Strategy Senior Director, and from 2009 to 2010, Wormuth was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense.
Christine was then nominated by Hussein Obama to serve as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
As the Under Secretary, Christine contributed to counter-terrorism operations and engaged in defense relations with Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, upon the conclusion of her tenure as the Under Secretary, Wormuth was appointed as the Director of the RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center, and here come the essential POLITICAL CONNECTIONS to Joe Biden and the Democrat party, because political loyalty is an all-important factor in getting those high-level political jobs, to wit: In November 2020, Wormuth was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the United States Department of Defense.
As her reward for faithful and loyal service to Joe Biden, on April 12, 2021, Joe nominated Christine, despite the fact she never served in the military and has no apparent knowledge of what an army is and what it does so she can’t be seen as a threat to Joe, who knows nothing about armies himself, or much else, for that matter, to serve as the 25th Secretary of the Army.
Getting back to senile old Joe Biden at West Point on May 25, 2024, he rambled on as follows, to wit:
And I might add, you’re about to become full-time members of the most honorable and the most consequential fighting force in the history of the world — that’s not hyperbole — of the world.
That’s the truth. (Applause.)
And I might add as a combat veteran of the Viet Nam war, another war by an incompetent Democrat named Lyndon Baines Johnson, which debacle chewed up a lot of West Point graduates as we learned from “The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966” by Rick Atkinson that they’re about to become full-time members of what used to be the most honorable and the most consequential fighting force in the history of the world, until Joe Biden and his sorry crew took over, and, people, that is not hyperbole!
Going back to May 25, 2024, Joe continued as follows:
There’s never been a time in history when we’ve asked our military to do so many different things in so many different places around the world all at the same time.
Right now, American soldiers are supporting brave Ukrainians in their fight for freedom.
Our soldiers are working around the clock to keep munitions and equipment moving by land, sea, and air.
They’re training Ukrainians on how to use advanced weapons systems, like HIMARS, Patriots, and Abrams tanks, and they’re sharing lessons in Tactical Combat Casualty Care with Ukrainian medics and surgeons.
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And let’s stop right here a moment, with Joe’s mention of the Abrams tank, which mention by CIC Joe takes us to an RBC Ukraine article on that very subject titled “Ukrainian crews complain about Abrams tanks and name their shortcomings – CNN” by Daryna Vialko on 30 May 2024, where we have the reality Joe Biden is totally incapable of understanding it, as is his secretary of the army Christine Wormuth, to wit:
The American Abrams tanks received by Ukraine have a number of weak points and shortcomings.
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HUH?
Weak points?
Shortcomings?
They have to be kidding, right, because that just can’t be!
Consider the Biden Defense Department press release titled “Biden Announces Abrams Tanks to be Delivered to Ukraine” by David Vergun, DOD News on January 25, 2023, to mwit:
President Joe Biden announced today that the United States will provide Ukraine with 31 M1 Abrams tanks.
That is the required number to equip an entire Ukraine tank battalion.
These tanks are needed, Biden said, because Ukrainian forces are working to defend the territory they hold and will be better prepared for additional counter-offenses.
“They need to be able to counter Russia’s evolving tactics and strategy on the battlefield in the very near term.”
“They need to improve their ability to maneuver in open terrain.”
“And, they need an enduring capability to deter and defend against Russian aggression over the long term,” the president said.
The Abrams tanks are the most capable tanks in the world.
And, they’re also extremely complex to operate and maintain.
Along with the tanks, the U.S. will be giving Ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to effectively repair and maintain these tanks on the battlefield, he said.
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So that was Joe’s empty blather to the candid world on January 25, 2023, which brings us back to the present moment, and reality as it is experience in Ukraine regarding the Abrams tank, to wit:
This puts into question the effectiveness of the use of such armored vehicles, according to CNN.
Ukrainian defenders told the newspaper that the American tank does not have armor that can withstand modern weapons.
“Its armor is not sufficient for this moment.”
“It doesn’t protect the crew.”
“For real, today this is the war of drones.”
“So now, when the tank rolls out, they (Russians) always try to hit them,” said a soldier with a call sign Joker.
Another soldier with the call sign Dnipro said that Abrams is “number one target” for the Russian army.
Representatives of the 47th Mechanized Brigade told reporters that the 31 Abrams tanks that Ukraine received are deployed near the front line in the eastern regions.
Despite statements by US officials that the tanks have been withdrawn from the front line, Ukrainian defenders claim that some of them are still in service.
Abrams crew members noted that the Abrams’ shortcomings became apparent during the battle for Avdiivka, when the driver lost a leg due to armor penetration.
They also added that during rain or fog, condensation can disrupt the electronics inside the tank.
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Yeah, right, people, during rain or fog, both of which conditions exist and have been known to exist in Ukraine for better than a hundred years or more, condensation can disrupt and literally fry the electronics inside the tank, making it useless, except perhaps as a boat anchor for a large size boat that needs a heavy anchor, which takes us back to further Biden idiocy, to wit:
According to the soldiers, the United States has provided Ukraine with the wrong type of ammunition for the Abrams, which is necessary for combat operations.
“What we have is more for direct tank-to-tank fights, which happens very rarely.”
“Much more often we work as artillery.”
“You need to take apart a tree-line or a building.”
“We had a case when we fired 17 rounds into a house and it was still standing,” Joker said.
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Seriously, people, if one wanted to concoct from whole cloth a world-class absurdist drama about the inept and incompetent leader of some third-world banana republic, using every absurdist element of a ridiculous story there could ever be invented, it would read just like this story, except as hard as it is to believe, this is real, which takes us to an Associated Press story titled “Ukraine pulls US-provided Abrams tanks from the front lines over Russian drone threats” by Tara Copp on April 26, 2024, where we have more on this Abrams tank debacle of Joe’s, to wit:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine has sidelined U.S.-provided Abrams M1A1 battle tanks for now in its fight against Russia, in part because Russian drone warfare has made it too difficult for them to operate without detection or coming under attack, two U.S. military officials told The Associated Press.
The U.S. agreed to send 31 Abrams to Ukraine in January 2023 after an aggressive monthslong campaign by Kyiv arguing that the tanks, which cost about $10 million apiece, were vital to its ability to breach Russian lines.
But the battlefield has changed substantially since then, notably by the ubiquitous use of Russian surveillance drones and hunter-killer drones.
Those weapons have made it more difficult for Ukraine to protect the tanks when they are quickly detected and hunted by Russian drones or rounds.
Five of the 31 tanks have already been lost to Russian attacks.
The proliferation of drones on the Ukrainian battlefield means “there isn’t open ground that you can just drive across without fear of detection,” a senior defense official told reporters Thursday.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide an update on U.S. weapons support for Ukraine before Friday’s Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting.
For now, the tanks have been moved from the front lines, and the U.S. will work with the Ukrainians to reset tactics, said Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman Adm. Christopher Grady and a third defense official who confirmed the move on the condition of anonymity.
“When you think about the way the fight has evolved, massed armor in an environment where unmanned aerial systems are ubiquitous can be at risk,” Grady told the AP in an interview this week, adding that tanks are still important.
News of the sidelined tanks comes as the U.S. marks the two-year anniversary of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a coalition of about 50 countries that meets monthly to assess Ukraine’s battlefield needs and identify where to find needed ammunition, weapons or maintenance to keep Ukraine’s troops equipped.
Recent aid packages, including the $1 billion military assistance package signed by President Joe Biden on Wednesday, also reflect a wider reset for Ukrainian forces in the evolving fight.
The U.S. is expected to announce Friday that it also will provide about $6 billion in long-term military aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said, adding that it will include much sought after munitions for Patriot air defense systems.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details not yet made public.
While drones are a significant threat, the Ukrainians also have not adopted tactics that could have made the tanks more effective, one of the U.S. defense officials said.
After announcing it would provide Ukraine the Abrams tanks in January 2023, the U.S. began training Ukrainians at Grafenwoehr Army base in Germany that spring on how to maintain and operate them.
They also taught the Ukrainians how to use them in combined arms warfare — where the tanks operate as part of a system of advancing armored forces, coordinating movements with overhead offensive fires, infantry troops and air assets.
As the spring progressed and Ukraine’s highly anticipated counteroffensive stalled, shifting from tank training in Germany to getting Abrams on the battlefield was seen as an imperative to breach fortified Russian lines.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on his Telegram channel in September that the Abrams had arrived in Ukraine.
Since then, however, Ukraine has only employed them in a limited fashion and has not made combined arms warfare part of its operations, the defense official said.
During its recent withdrawal from Avdiivka, a city in eastern Ukraine that was the focus of intense fighting for months, several tanks were lost to Russian attacks, the official said.
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And so much for the vaunted Abrams tank, people!
Next it will be the $30 million drone of Joe’s that was shot down in Yemen by some poorly-armed Tenth-century tribesmen in that country, so stay tuned!
Before we go to the poorly-armed Tenth-century tribesmen in Yemen known as the Houthis shooting down one of Joe Biden’s precious drones worth $30 MILLION, some say with a rock, others a crossbow, and still others with a spear powered by a Roman Candle tied to it, the facial contortions of Joe’s lackey John “JACKIE BOY” Kirby in this Washington Post video as he tries to explain what happened to Joe’s pier are hilarious and pathetic at the same time as Joe’s lackey John “JACKIE BOY” Kirby was a REAR ADMIRAL in the Navy, and as such you would expect that he would have to know that unlike the pond in New York’s Central Park, the waters of the ocean and seas of the world are not flat as a pancake and have waves, something an E-4 Navy aerographer would have been able to predict far in advance, which shows just how stupid, ignorant and uninformed Joe’s lackey John “JACKIE BOY” Kirby really is, and by extension, Joe, himself, to wit:
Kirby blames ‘Mother Nature’ for pier problems
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby spoke about the Pentagon’s Gaza pier on March 28, after deliveries over the pier were suspended.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/kirby-blames-mother-nature-for-pier-problems/vi-BB1nkUoe?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=3c16255a779247799e5b39a6a75a5a86&ei=72
As to Joe’s Abrams tank fiasco in Ukraine, this CNN video titled “‘Not sufficient’: Ukrainian soldiers detail how US-supplied tank is faring in war” wherein CNN chief international security correspondent Nick Paton Walsh talks to Ukrainians on the frontlines of the war against Russia, whose use of US-supplied Abrams tanks isn’t going to plan is well worth watching on that subject, to wit:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/no … 9837&ei=25
Going back to COMMANDER IN CHIEF Joe and his “Remarks by President Biden in Commencement Address to the United States Military Academy at West Point | West Point, NY” on May 25, 2024, we next have this, to wit:
In the Middle East, while we conduct urgent diplomacy to secure an immediate ceasefire that brings hostages home, our Army and Navy have deployed a temporary pier in — on the Mediterranean in record time to increase lifesaving aid to the Palestinians.
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And four (4) days later, on 29 May 2024, Newsweek posted and article titled “Joe Biden Faces Backlash Over Broken Gaza Pier: ‘Humiliation'” by Gabe Whisnant, wherein was stated as follows on that sorry subject we see Joe’s lackey REAR ADMIRAL John “JACKIE BOY” Kirby trying to explain away above here, to wit:
President Joe Biden is facing backlash after a U.S.-built temporary pier on the shores of the Gaza Strip, set up to provide a lifeline to the Palestinian territory, will now be removed for repairs after breaking apart rough seas and weather.
The Pentagon said Tuesday that the $320 million pier, which had only been operating for two weeks, will now be pulled from the beach and sent to Ashdod in southern Israel for repairs.
“From when it was operational, it was working, and we just had sort of an unfortunate confluence of weather storms that made it inoperable for a bit,” Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said.
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Uh, okay, Sabrina, whatever you say, which takes us to a TrendyDigests article titled “Sophisticated Assault in Yemen: US MQ-9 Reaper Drone Seized Intact, Raising Security Concerns” by Emma Taylor on 30 May 2024, where COMMANDER IN CHIEF Joe’s military losing streak continues as follows, to wit:
Another MQ-9 Reaper drone, an asset integral to U.S. military operations, has been downed in the central Marib province of Yemen, as confirmed by the U.S. military’s Central Command, which acknowledged seeing “reports” of the incident.
The downing potentially marks the third Reaper lost in May 2024 alone, adding to the growing tally of U.S. unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) falling into Houthi hands since the civil war’s inception in 2014.
The incident’s imagery, distributed online and analyzed by the press, showed the drone largely intact – a concerning development for U.S. military and intelligence circles.
This event comes amid a backdrop of escalating Houthi belligerence, with the rebels intensifying their attacks on shipping lanes in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
The loss of the Reaper drones, which are valued at approximately $30 million each, represents not only a significant financial blow but also a strategic setback for U.S. intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
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As a combat veteran of the Viet Nam debacle, I am a firm believer in the saying “military intelligence is an oxymoron,” especially today with Joe Biden as COMMANDER IN CHIEF, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
It poses an even more significant risk if the technology within these downed drones, specifically the sophisticated sensor suites and communication links, were to be exploited by adversaries such as Iran.
Such a scenario would potentially enable adversaries to glean insights into U.S. drone technology, countermeasures, and operational methods.
The drones’ vulnerability has been highlighted by the Houthi’s increasingly sophisticated attacks and their claimed shoot-down of the MQ-9s using locally made surface-to-air missiles.
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Yes, people, HOME MADE WEAPONS by the Tenth-century Houthis brought down one 0f Joe’s very sophisticated, very modern, very, very high tech THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR drones which takes us back for more of the BIDEN SAGA OF DEBACLES, to wit:
This points to an escalation in the capabilities of the Houthi forces, raising questions about the source and technical sophistication of their anti-air weaponry.
Marib’s strategic location, situated in the desert at the foot of the Sarawat Mountains running along the Red Sea, has become a recurrent theater for such incidents.
The frequency of drone losses in this region underscores the ongoing challenges the U.S. faces in securing its assets amid Yemen’s complex and multifaceted conflict.
The broader implications of such incidents cannot be underestimated.
The intact seizure of the MQ-9 could potentially offer Iran, a known backer of the Houthi rebels, access to critical U.S. technologies.
Iran’s interest in these assets likely stems from their desire to improve their own UAV capabilities and develop effective countermeasures against U.S. and allied ISR operations.
The consequences of such technology falling into Iranian hands could reverberate beyond Yemen’s borders, affecting the broader geopolitical and security dynamics of the region.
Previously, the Houthis had downed at least five other U.S. drones.
These incidents include an MQ-9 Reaper shot down on June 7, 2019, by a surface-to-air missile; another on November 1, 2017, in western Yemen; an MQ-9 reportedly downed in August 2023; another shot down on April 25, 2024, over Saada province; and finally, an MQ-9 in the same northeastern Yemeni province of Marib.
Additionally, a ScanEagle drone was downed in 2023.
The total value of these downed drones, including the latest MQ-9 Reaper, is approximately $183.2 million, with each MQ-9 Reaper valued at $30 million and the ScanEagle drone worth $3.2 million.
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BOTTOM LINE: when it comes to being on a losing streak, COMMANDER IN CHIEF Joe is on a real roll here, but stay tuned, because with Joe in power, there will be much more yet to come, so don’t change that dial!
And before we move on further into the wild and very whacky world of American president and LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the very first of a real long line of distinguished Bidens to achieve the lofty position of being a world leader, CNN just posted an in-depth analysis of the debacle with an all-important time line, plus some very interesting commentary from a former soldier involved in the past with the floating piers, which analysis was titled “High seas and low maintenance: Inside the turbulent US effort to build a pier into Gaza” by Haley Britzky, Priscilla Alvarez, Kylie Atwood and Kayla Tausche on 1 June 2024, where we have as follows on that subject with further details, to wit:
Hours after President Joe Biden touted the success of the temporary pier the military had just constructed into Gaza during his commencement speech at West Point last Saturday, White House staffers learned the pier was at risk of falling apart.
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And somehow, in some cosmic way, that statement really seems to reflect what happens when Joe Biden touches his hands to something in a kind of weird reverse “MIDAS TOUCH” scenario where everything Joe touches turns to ****, not gold, which takes us back to CNN, and the all important timeline, to wit:
CNN spoke to multiple US officials who detailed the months of planning, preparations and trouble shooting that went into building the pier, as well as the effort underway to repair it and keep it operational.
Officials with the US Central Command first brought up the option of building a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza in late October, the senior administration official told CNN.
The risks however were deemed too great at the time, with unpredictable winter weather and heavy fighting in Gaza.
The pier also didn’t have a great track record operating in choppy seas.
During a major military exercise in Australia last year, US soldiers had to wait for a “narrow window” of opportunity to deploy the pier because of heavy seas.
They had similar problems during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia in 2016.
It’s also been more than a decade since the military last used this kind of floating pier, known as a Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore, or JLOTS, in a real operation, when it delivered humanitarian aid to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
“This is something that we haven’t done in a really long time,” a defense official told CNN.
“We assumed a lot of risk in using a military operation for this purpose,” a second senior administration official added.
“We have done these kinds of operations before but not for this specific purpose, this capability is not typically used in these cases which creates a different dynamic”
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But once Joe Biden, under intense political pressure from his Democrat base, stood at the podium on March 7, 2024 to deliver his SOTU, where Joe said “Tonight, I’m directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the coast of Gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters,” all of that went out the window, and it became a matter of regardless of the cost, just get it done, which takes us back for more, to wit:
Questions over maintenance
There are also questions as to how well the Army maintains watercraft involved in JLOTS missions.
Speaking to CNN on condition of anonymity, a retired warrant officer who served as a chief engineer on Army watercraft criticized the capability as a whole, saying that the Army has for years underestimated the difficulty around using the floating pier and does not invest enough resources to it.
“Army boats have not been ready, capable, or in a mindset they’ll have to do something dangerous or in the real world … for decades now,” the retired engineer said.
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And there is an essential part of the inside story of the “most honorable and the most consequential fighting force in the history of the world,” as COMMANDER IN CHIEF Joe calls it, which takes us back to CNN for more, to wit:
Another US official agreed that the watercraft that perform JLOTS missions have not been maintained “to the level they need to be,” primarily because “they lack the funding to get the repair parts in a timely manner.”
Those repair parts are also hard to come by.
The US official said they’re often not parts you can buy off the shelf like you can for some Army vehicles.
“These vessels are old,” the US official said, adding that even just days before the boats left for Gaza, soldiers were working on repairs on at least one of them.
The retired engineer was far more critical, saying rust on the boats is “not removed, parts are not really fixed, the companies that supply the parts are all out of business so it’s a problem to get replacement parts when you need them.”
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So that is how an engineer with REAL experience with those boats sees things, which takes us to some color commentary from Joe’s secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth on the subject, to wit:
Asked by CNN if the Army has resourced its watercraft well enough, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said she believed the Army has invested in it appropriately.
“The JLOTS capability is a great capability and is something I think that can have a lot of utility there, but it was never designed to be able to operate in these high seas,” she said, adding that the state of the sea where JLOTS was anchored is unusual for this time of year but that they are expecting it to calm “in a few days.”
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And there we have it from a real military expert, or Joe Biden never would have picked her to be his Army secretary, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Waiting for the weather
Before committing to building the pier, the Pentagon had briefed the White House that weather could be an impediment.
It did a study going back 10 years to look at weather patterns in that part of the Mediterranean and ultimately determined it was a safe enough bet.
The storm that came through last week wasn’t expected.
“This was kind of anomalous weather incident,” the first administration official said.
“So we knew that it had limitations in terms of the weather but the studies they looked at showed we weren’t likely to encounter them … during the summer period.”
Similar concerns were raised when the pier was first considered last fall.
As the White House began exploring options, officials studied the feasibility of the temporary pier, which was ultimately deemed too risky at the time because of IDF operations and the weather conditions at that time of year.
But that calculus changed in January and February as the need for humanitarian aid grew more dire.
A major reservation was the competition for Pentagon resources: Along with the hundreds of millions of dollars it would cost, officials knew the project would also require thousands of US personnel to pull off.
As officials explored the potential of the pier, the US military started conducting air drops of humanitarian aid, which provided more than 1,200 tons of food and aid, but also proved dangerous.
In early March, at least five people were killed when airdropped packages fell on them.
Weeks later, a dozen Palestinians drowned off the northern Gaza coast when they swam out to reach cargo that landed in the sea.
That month, the White House gave the greenlight for the pier and President Joe Biden announced at this State of the Union address that he was directing the military to lead an emergency mission to build a temporary pier along the coast of Gaza.
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And here we come to the conclusion of this story as follows:
As of Thursday, all of the pier pieces had been towed to Ashdod in Israel where defense officials said they would likely undergo welding and have pins that keep the pier together replaced.
But even repairing the pier through welding would be dependent on weather, and increasingly difficult to complete if the seas don’t settle.
“Imagine welding in ‘Mad Max,’ basically, you’re standing on the back of a semi going down a highway and you’re trying to weld something precisely.”
“It’s just not reasonable unless you have perfect conditions,” the engineer said.
It’s unclear how the military will adjust to potentially rougher seas later in the year.
Another defense official said there are conversations around removing the pier if bad weather is approaching, though that could require removing it from the beach and then re-anchoring it afterwards.
“The main thing now is, whatever happened, don’t let it happen again,” the defense official said.
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And once again, that is the news, stay tuned for more yet to come!
Were we the people of the United States of America to have been governed by the Bill of Rights of the Virginia Constitution, which is Article I of the Virginia Constitution, wherein is stated DECLARATION OF RIGHTS made by the good people of Virginia in the exercise of their sovereign powers, which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government, we would have had Section 3, titled “Government instituted for common benefit,” to rely on for guidance as to what purpose our national government was supposed to be constituted for, to wit:
That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community.
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Which raises the important existential question of do we have in the United States today under Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior a national government instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, the nation, or our communities?
Or do we have instead a government instituted for the benefit, protection, and security of Joe Biden’s political cronies at the expense of those of the people who are not Biden cronies or supporters, along with the nation, and our communities?
Think about it because before we know it, it will be November and election day will be here, and a choice about the future of this nation is going to have to be made, one way or the other, which takes us back to Section 3 of the Virginia Bill of Rights, to wit:
Of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.
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Looking back at the pitiful reign of American dictator Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior and his BIDENFLATION caused by his BIDE-O-NOMICS, can we truthfully say that we are blessed with a form of government that is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration?
That is another important existential question staring us in the face as we head for November and the presidential elections, which takes us back to Section 3 for more, to wit:
And, whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.
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And in this case of American dictator Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, whose government is clearly inadequate to produce the greatest degree of happiness and safety of the people of this nation, and secure against the danger of maladministration, which is a hallmark of the Biden administration. a majority of the community hath the indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal, which is to simply get together as a people and vote Joe Biden out of office!
Send him packing!
Turf him out!
Send him to the showers, which takes us to Section 15 of thye Virginia Bill of Rights, titled “Qualities necessary to preservation of free government,” where we have as follows, to wit:
That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles; and by the recognition by all citizens that they have duties as well as rights, and that such rights cannot be enjoyed save in a society where law is respected and due process is observed.
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Does anyone here in the Commonwealth today believe any of that?
Does anyone here in the Commonwealth today even know those words exist?
More importantly, is there anyone alive in the United State of America today besides me who really believes that no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by the recognition by all citizens that they have duties as well as rights, and that such rights cannot be enjoyed save in a society where law is respected and due process is observed?
If not, we as a people and a nation are in serious trouble!
And going back to Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM for a moment, and his windmills and solar farms, as Joe continues his efforts to build sand castles in the sky, this Youtube video titled “Storm Damages World’s Biggest Floating Solar Plant In Madhya Pradesh” shows how quickly Mother Nature, which turned against Joe’s floating pier in Gaza, can turn a floating solar array into a pile of junk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUgQWoa_Oco
More closer to home, with respect to Joe’s INSANE DREAM of powering America with solar cells, which solar cells have a life of 25 to 30 years before needing replacement and whose efficiency over time degrades between 0.5% to 0.8% per year, causing their available output to drop on a yearly basis, all things Joe Biden and the pack of fools who work for him starting with Jennifer Granholm are totally unaware of, because they are stupid, shallow-thinking dolts playing to Joe’s base of RADICAL THUMB-SUCKING GREENIES, we have an article on the subject of what our energy future will look like as a result of Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM from the Albany, New York Times Union titled “Eclipse caused 80% drop in N.Y. solar power production” by Rick Karlin on June 9, 2024, as follows:
RENSSELAER — The solar eclipse that passed over New York in April led to a sharp temporary drop in power production from solar panels, according to a new report.
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Talk about energy reliability thanks to Joe Biden, alright, there we have it, which takes us back for more, to wit:
“In the hours leading up to the eclipse, solar resources generated just over 3,000 megawatts.”
“As the eclipse crossed New York, solar generation declined to just under 600 MW by 3:30 p.m. ― an 80 percent reduction,” according to a report released this week by the New York Independent System Operator.
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But nothing to see here, folks, no problems, everybody go back home and get back in your basements, which again takes us back for more of Joe’s “reliable” solar energy, to wit:
Because solar at this point makes up a small percentage of the state’s power generation — less than 3 percent — other forms of generation were easily able to make up for the shortfall.
“Hydro-pumped storage, conventional hydro facilities, and fossil-fuel resources were dispatched to make up for the reduced solar generation during that period,” stated the report, which also noted solar generation went back up to almost 1,200 MW at 4 p.m. on April 8 before dropping again as the sun started to set.
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Ah, yes, people, good old reliable fossil-fuel resources were called upon to help save the day after the spectacular failure of Joe’s solar energy due to an act of nature, which raises the important question of what would happen after Joe succeeds in shutting down all the fossil-fuel resources.
Going back to that article, it continues as follows:
The NYISO report said the drop illustrates some of the hurdles that will be faced in future years as the state power system continues to shift from fossil fuels, which emit greenhouse gases, to renewable energy sources such as solar and wind.
“This episode gave us a glimpse of how the system is going to be performing as we get closer to the CLCPA goals,” said Kevin Lanahan, NYISO’s vice president of external affairs.
The CLCPA, or Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, is the 2019 law that calls for 70 percent of the state’s electricity to come from renewable resources by 2030.
That means an increasing number of solar and wind plants will be built as those powered by fossil fuels are retired.
“As solar capacity continues to expand in the coming years, events like these will continue to demonstrate how solar and other weather dependent resources introduce new challenges for our forecasting and operations teams.”
The use of large-scale batteries is one way of dealing with weather disruptions, but that alone probably won’t be sufficient, Lanahan added.
“We’re in the process of identifying what that resource will be,” Lanahan said.
Power plant and grid operators like NYISO had plenty of advance notice that the April 8 eclipse was coming so they could plan for it.
But last summer’s smoky, hazy weather that blanketed the state as wildfires ran out of control in Quebec, Canada, also impacted solar production.
Electricity from solar panels fell by 1,455 megawatts between June 6 and 7 in 2023, according to NYISO.
“That was a curve ball,” Lanahan said.
The report also warns of shrinking reliability margins, or cushions needed to ensure a steady power supply during events such as summer heat waves, which prompt more people to run their air conditioners.
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Which takes us to a Power Grid International article titled “New York grid reliability threatened by electrification, retirements, and transmission delays, grid operator says – NYISO warns of narrowing reliability margins across the grid in New York State, which poses significant challenges for the electric system” by John Engel on June 7, 2024 for more of what Joe Biden and Jennifer Granholm are totally ignorant of to our detriment as a people and as a nation, to wit:
The New York State electric grid is experiencing rapid change, including wide-ranging electrification, resource retirements, and project delays, all of which threaten reliability in the future, according to the state’s grid operator.
The New York Independent System Operator released its annual Power Trends report, which aims to address the key issues and challenges facing the electric grid.
NYISO noted that the state’s interconnection process is evolving to become more efficient, balancing developer flexibility with more stringent timeframes.
However, generator deactivations are outpacing new supply additions, and projects — both generation and transmission — are experiencing construction delays, narrowing reliability margins across New York.
“New York’s public policies are increasingly prioritizing clean energy production and a rapid transition away from fossil fuels,” said Rich Dewey, NYISO’s chief executive.
“It is imperative that during this time of rapid change we maintain adequate supply necessary to meet growing consumer demand for electricity.”
Strong reliability margins contribute to the ability of the power system to meet peak demand or respond to sudden disturbances and avoid outages.
NYISO first identified rapidly declining reliability margins in its 2021 Comprehensive Reliability Plan and restated those concerns in its 2022 Reliability Needs Assessment.
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Now, to put some perspective on this, a RELIABLE large single-cycle gas turbine typically produces 100 to 400 megawatts of electric power and has 35–40% thermodynamic efficiency, with the largest gas turbines today producing over 200 MW, while most commercially available solar panels have an efficiency of less than 23%, with an average range of 15% to 20%, which efficiency will continue to decline on a yearly basis.
So Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM does not at all put us on a path of energy reliability!
Quite the opposite, in fact which takes us to a June 2017 Strata technical report titled “The Footprint of Energy: Land Use of U.S. Electricity Production https://docs.wind-watch.org/US-footprints-Strata-2017.pdf where we have the following information to consider, to wit:
Specifically, this report finds that coal, natural gas, and nuclear power all feature the smallest physical footprint of about 12 acres per megawatt produced.
Solar and wind are much more land intensive technologies using 43.5 and 70.6 acres per megawatt, respectively.
Which takes us to April 30, 2024, and the “FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Delivers on Permitting Progress to Build America’s Infrastructure and Clean Energy Future Faster, Safer, and Cleaner” where we are told that Joe wants to put more than 25 gigawatts of clean energy projects on public lands by 2025, which is 25,000 MW, so that 25 gigawatts of clean energy projects using solar requires 1,087,500 acres of public land, or 1,699.22 square miles, while 25 gigawatts of clean energy projects using windmills requires 1,765,000 acres or 2757.8125 square miles.
Now, consider that in 2020, the Power consumption in United States of America was 3,663,746 gigawatts or 3,663,746,000 MW which would require 159,372,951 acres for solar farms or 249,020.24 square miles, while that same amount of energy in windmills would require 258,660,467.6 acres or 404,156.98 square miles of land, and by comparison, the land area of New York is roughly equivalent to Kansas City (305 square miles) and slightly larger than Augusta, Georgia (302 square miles).
So where is all the GREEN ENERGY production going to be put?
The only answer at present is that Joe, Biden, Jennifer Granholm and Deb Haaland do not have a clue!
Never before in my lifetime of over three-quarter of a century do I recall in this country anyway, being confronted with so many idiots and morons holding high office.
Take Macron in France, for example, in the TrendyDigests article titled “NATO’s Non-Combat Troop Deployment to Ukraine: A Strategic Maneuver Amidst Russian Aggression” by Isaac Jones on 10 June 2024, where we have the following hysterical raving and insane shrieking from the French leader, to wit:
French President Emmanuel Macron has highlighted the urgency of swift action to support Ukraine, notably stating, “Russia will be here tomorrow, (or) the day after tomorrow.”
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Given the indisputable fact that Russia is bogged down in the Karkiv area of Ukraine, which is 1768.67 miles from Paris, France, where Macron is, and given that for Russia to get from Ukraine to France, it would first have to somehow get through Poland and Germany, I’m not seeing Russia anywhere near France at any time in the near future, but still, those facts do not stop Macron from bleating like a sheep about the Russians coming there tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.
And then we have in this country the air-headed Democrat Progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez waxing very hysterical in the Fox News story “AOC frets Donald Trump would throw her in jail if he wins: ‘He’s out of his mind'” by Hanna Panreck on 10 June 2024, where we have this mindless burst of pure insanity from the DEMOCRAT DRAMA QUEEN EXTRAORDINAIRE, to wit:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently revealed she’s worried former President Trump would throw her in jail if he wins the November election.
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And she talks about Trump being out of his mind?
AOC sounds like she is having a severe case of the vapors (a mental, psychological, or physical state, such as hysteria, mania, clinical depression, bipolar disorder, lightheadedness, fainting, flush, withdrawal syndrome, mood swings, or PMS in which a sufferer loses mental focus) there, which takes us back to that story, as follows for more mindless shrieking from mindless AOC as follows:
Ocasio-Cortez spoke with podcast host Kara Swisher for her show, “On with Kara Swisher,” which published the interview Thursday.
“I mean, it sounds nuts, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy threw me in jail,” she said.
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And why would he even bother?
I can see him having her put into psychiatric confinement somewhere for her own good to protect her from herself, and to protect the American people from her, but jail?
Not seeing that happening, and you would think somebody who was actually a member of congress would be well aware of the fact that American presidents cannot simply put people like AOC in jail as if this were some third-world ****hole, which says quite a bit about the delusional state of what passes for AOC’s mind, which again takes us back for more hysterical ravings from AOC, to wit:
“He’s out of his mind.”
“I mean, he did his whole first campaign around ‘lock her up.’”
“This is his motto.”
Ocasio-Cortez said she takes Trump “at his word.”
“I take him at his word when he says that he’s going to round up people.”
“I take him at his word when he threatens journalists.”
“I take him at his word,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“I feel like what we saw in his first presidency was an amuse-bouche to what his intentions are.”
“He has learned from his mistakes of appointing professionals, and he will not make that mistake next time.”
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Can anyone sane, rational, and lucid actually believe any of that **** spewing forth from her?
She deserves a daytime emmy for best soap opera drama is my thought, which is accompanied by another thought of who in their right mind would actually want to have this dingbat representing them in congress.
How on earth did she ever get elected?
As to Trump, the article continues as follows, to wit:
Trump said during a recent interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that critics saying he would seek retribution were wrong.
“Number one, they’re wrong,” Trump said.
“It has to stop, because otherwise, we’re not going to have a country.”
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Except with people screeching like AOC is screeching, I don’t see it stopping, which again takes is back to AOC, to wit:
Swisher asked the New York Democratic lawmaker if she thought Trump really had a chance at winning the election now that he’s a convicted felon.
“Trump does absolutely have a chance to win.”
“That is why I have thrown my support behind Biden early and I support it vociferously,” she said.
“It is unequivocal that if Donald Trump wins, we are looking at the potential dissolution of democracy in the United States of America and the question about what would happen to me or the Democratic Party is a joke compared to the question of what is going to happen to our country.”
Ocasio-Cortez also said she understands why there was a lack of excitement around President Biden.
“I think when it comes to presidential elections, and especially to young people, I understand the lack of support for President Biden.”
“And I think the demoralization around the president has caused folks to sometimes tune out on down-ballot candidates that will actually advance more alignment with their interests.”
“And so the answer here is to get into the game, not to get out of it,” she continued.
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And there we have it, people, or some of it, anyway, and believe me, speaking as an older person in here, i9t is not at all encouraging, but stay tuned, for more is yet to come!
So, going back to January 25, 2022 for the moment, we had some HUGE news from American dictator Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the biggest threat we have to democracy in this country, at that time in his “Statement by President Biden on General Motors Investment in Michigan,” as follows:
Today’s announcement by GM – to make its largest investment ever, $7 billion to create 4,000 new jobs at EV manufacturing sites in Michigan – is the latest sign that my economic strategy is helping power an historic American manufacturing comeback.
From day one, my Administration has been laser focused on making sure that America leads the manufacturing future of electric vehicles.
This announcement is just the latest in over $100 billion of investment this past year in American auto manufacturing to build electric vehicles and batteries.
Over the last year, I hosted the United Auto Workers and automakers at the White House, signed an executive order aimed at getting to 50% electric vehicle sales share in 2030, and set ambitious new standards.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was a major step toward this future by investing in EV charging, and Congress can catalyze more with additional incentives for Made in America electric vehicles, batteries, and semi-conductors built by union hands.
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And yes, people, that was then and that was a great example of what I call BIDEN BOBAUNCE (ostentatious or boastful behavior; vain display; worldly vanity) of which Joe Biden has been supplied with a copious amount of, which of course brings us to today and a Reuters article titled “GM cuts EV production forecast, approves $6 billion share buyback” by Ananta Agarwal, Nathan Gomes and Nora Eckert on June 11, 2024, where we have the rest of that story, as follows:
June 11 (Reuters) – General Motors cut its annual EV production forecast and announced a new $6 billion share buyback plan on Tuesday, as the automaker banks on demand from its gasoline-powered models.
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YOU GO, JOE – YOU DA MAN, IF YOU CAN’T DO IT, NOBODY CAN!
And how much of that $6 BILLION in stock buybacks is being funded with federal grant money you gave to GM to build the EV’s they are cutting back on building, Joe?
Help us out here if you can, dude, which takes us back to reality once again as opposed to Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM, to wit:
GM now projects the higher end of its 2024 EV production to be 250,000 units, down from a prior forecast of 300,000 units, the automaker’s CFO Paul Jacobson said while speaking at the Deutsche Bank Global Auto Industry Conference.
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And there goes Joe’s EV target up in smoke notwithstanding all those federal taxpayer dollars Joe gifted GM with to build those EV’s in fulfillment of Joe’s INSANE GREEN DREAM which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
Last year, GM outlined a $10 billion stock buyback close on the heels of reaching a costly new labor agreement with the United Auto Workers (UAW).
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And how much of that stock buyback was financed by Joe Biden?
Going back to the story, it continues as follows:
GM shares were under pressure for most of 2023 as it dealt with the UAW strike and troubles at its Cruise self-driving vehicle unit.
CEO Mary Barra has acknowledged in prior earnings calls that the company’s shares, which closed at $47.57 on Monday, have been a disappointment since their IPO in 2010.
Shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of nearly $54 billion, were up about 1% in afternoon trading.
They have risen about 50% since GM announced the $10 billion stock buyback in late November.
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And my goodness, how about that!
But as Joe himself says, without massive infusions of federal government money to keep them afloat, we wouldn’t have an auto industry in this country, because left on their own, our American auto industry simply cannot compete with the Chinese auto manufacturers, and so Joe is duty bound to them to keep them running with federal tax dollars, and if they use those federal tax dollars to buy back their stock, which makes their stock worth more, why, that makes the American people themselves richer because as GM’s stock goes up, so does the wealth factor in America, since everybody benefits from a healthy stock market in Joe’s BIDE-O-NOMICS scheme of how things are supposed to be in America, so we should all cheer Joe Biden for making us all wealthier by his giving GM scads of federal tax dollars to keep them afloat and their stock high, even if they are not using it to build the EV’s Joe gave them the money to build in the first place, and for the moment, that is the news, but stay tuned for more yet to come..
So, we’re another day older in the age of the reign of American Dictator Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and who can be surprised that we are deeper in debt as a result, that according to a Reuters article titled “US Treasury posts $347 bln deficit for May” on”US Treasury posts $347 bln deficit for May” on June 12, 2024, where we have as follows on that subject:
WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. government recorded a $347 billion May budget deficit, up sharply from the $240 billion deficit a year earlier due to the pre-payment of some June benefits and higher outlays for interest, Social Security and defense, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.
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Higher outlays for defense?
Whose defense?
Ukraine’s?
And how about that higher expense on all the MASSIVE DEBT Dictat0r Biden has been racking up with his failed BIDE-O-NOMICS which was supposed to provide for oodles and oodles of high-paying manufacturing jobs which so9 far have failed to materialize as the corporations like GM Joe has handed that money to buy back their stock instead, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
For the first eight months of the 2024 fiscal year, the government’s deficit was $1.202 trillion, up 3% from the $1.165 trillion recorded in the year-ago period.
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Good old Joe Biden – as a leader, he is not worth a TINKER’S DAMN, but he sure does know how to blow through taxpayer dollars without much of anything to show in return, which takes us to a Benzinga article titled “Janet Yellen Disagrees With Biden, Says ‘Inflation Is About Supply And Demand,’ Not Corporate Greed” on 13 June 2024, where we have Dictator Joe’s treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen apparently firing a shot across the Dictator’s bow, as follows:
Janet Yellen, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, contradicted President Joe Biden’s stance on inflation, attributing it to supply and demand rather than corporate greed.
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Joe Biden’s stance on inflation, which he initially called “transitory,” has been stupid all along, which takes us back to “TOODLES,” as follows:
Yellen, during a recent interview with CNBC, was asked about the administration’s view on inflation on Thursday.
The host referred to Biden’s previous statements on corporate greed driving inflation and asked for Yellen’s perspective.
Yellen responded, “I think that inflation is about supply and demand and clearly a significant part of the inflation we had to burst after the pandemic, during the pandemic reflected supply constraints and stresses on supply chains.”
The host pressed her on whether she agreed with Biden’s “corporate greed” assessment.
He asked, “Your boss calls it corporate greed.”
“You don’t?”
Yellen then acknowledged a lack of competition in certain sectors, leading to high markups.
However, she emphasized that the administration’s antitrust policy aims to promote competition and keep prices in check.
Yellen’s comments contradict Biden’s recent statements on inflation.
In an interview with CNN in May, Biden refuted claims of a weak economy under his administration and blamed ‘corporate greed’ for persistently high inflation.
He stated, “We’ve already turned it around.”
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Yeah, right, Joe, and that is BULL****, dude, plain and simple, which takes us to another Reuters article titled “Yellen: US growth needs public, private investments, China subsidies excessive” by Michael S. Derby and David Lawder on June 13, 2024, where we have “TOODLES” finally admitting to the failure of Dictator Joe’s SOVIET ERA STYLE CENTRAL PLANNING, to wit:
“We have learned through experience that heavy-handed central planning through government dictates is not a sustainable economic strategy,” Yellen said in prepared remarks.
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And those of us with brains in our heads who paid attention back in the seventh grade when we were talking about the economic policies of the Soviet Union, which policies Joe Biden was emulating with his BIDE-O-NISM have known that for a long time, “TOODLES,” so why has it taken this long for you and Dictator Joe to learn the same lesson as we learned as school-age children?
And that takes us to another Reuters article titled “US weekly jobless claims at 10-month high; inflation cooling” by Lucia Mutikani on June 13, 2024, where we have yet another broken promise by Dictator Joe, to wit:
But healthcare costs increased.
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So much for Joe’s BIG TALK about how he was going to lower healthcare costs in America!
Like just about everything that spews forth from Joe’s mouth, that too was just more BIDEN BULL****, and for now, people, that is just about all the news about Joe Biden I can handle, so let’s cut to a commercial break and a pause for station identification, but stay tuned, and we will be right back with more.
Were I to be asked if I thought the judgment of Biden treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen was shot, my immediate answer based on her “record” going back to the minutes of the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee for the period July 2-3, 1996, when “TOODLES” was a member of the federal reserve, this being before the housing market crash that “TOODLES” said wasn’t going to happen, just as she said inflation after COVID was going to be transitory, with the federal reserve now saying inflation is likely to persist into 2026, would be to question if it was ever sound in the first place, and here, before we go forward, we really need to go back to 2008 and a Forbes article titled “Do Blame The Quants” by Pablo Triana, a derivatives consultant and author, from December 9, 2008 for some necessary background on the housi8ng market crash that “TOODLES” assured us wouldn’t happen, to wit:
First of all, let me say that I have had the honour of meeting Professor Steven Shreve in person, of exchanging several e-mails with him through the years and of learning from his textbooks.
I have untold respect for his achievements and I deeply admire his success in building the world’s leading quantitative finance educational programs.
So it is with an enhanced sense of humility and an acute concern for appropriateness that I dare to reply to his Forbes.com column of Oct. 10, “Don’t Blame The Quants.”
Professor Shreve’s piece does, certainly, contain plenty of valuable insights.
But I strongly believe that it is necessary (no, imperative) to properly highlight the irredeemably critical role that financial models played in the unleashing of the credit crisis.
Unless we forcefully understand how guilty the quant stuff was, we would be condemning ourselves to again bleed (mortally) at the hands of the theoretical sword.
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Yes, indeed, people, the “theoretical sword” which is what “TOODLES” has been yielding ever since she got her “pile it higher and deeper” degree (Ph.D.) in economics which itself was based on a model of labor economics that “TOODLES” concocted out of thin air, cobwebs, moonbeams and pixie dust, which “theoretical sword” she is still wielding today as Joe Biden’s treasury secretary, a political position requiring political loyalty, in a Reuters article titled “Yellen: US growth needs public, private investments, China subsidies excessive” by Michael S. Derby and David Lawder on June 13, 2024, where we had as follows from “TOODLES,” to wit:
The doctrine she calls “modern supply-side economics” requires public interventions to “create a supportive environment for business and fuel private sector investments.”
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And the key word there, people, is “DOCRINE,” which means a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a political party, which takes us back to Forbes, to wit:
This exercise is not a merciless indictment of all the possible contributions by quantitative finance experts, but simply an attempt to understand what has happened to the markets and how analytics let loose can cause monstrous mayhem.
There are two essential ways in which finance theory can earn the opprobrium of those who care for practical matters: one, it can be proven to have been exorbitantly wrong (i.e., real life behaved taxingly opposite to the theoretical dictums); two, it can be accused of having contributed to chaos (i.e., the dogmas directly caused or enabled the bad news).
The credit crisis that was officially born in the summer of 2007 provides a dramatic example of both mishaps gravely at work.
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Focus on that sentence, people, because in 2024, with “TOODLES” and her bad judgment in charge of our treasury, and more importantly, our debt issuance, a reading of the tea leaves makes one think we are heading right back there again, which is why understanding this subject of analytical financial models employed by people in positions of power over us like “TOODLES” is so important, which again takes us back to Forbes, to wit:
And that is why, bluntly put, quantitative finance (as a concept, as an idea) does deserve a prominent place in the suspects’ line-up.
Of course, the accused is far from being a first-time offender, so the verdict should not be lenient.
Theoretical constructs had also been notoriously behind October 1987’s Black Monday and the 1998 LTCM debacle, both of which can be entirely explained by reliance on theories that unveiled themselves as insultingly flawed and mischievous.
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Just as the doctrine of “TOODLES” and Joe Biden that she calls “modern supply-side economics,” which doctrine has no support in reality, requires public interventions to “create a supportive environment for business and fuel private sector investments,” which takes us back to this statement from the Forbes article, to wit:
And just like now, the world’s markets stood, as a result, on the brink of irreparable damage.
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And as we shall see from recent data and the commentary regarding that recent data, especially a Benzinga article titled “Janet Yellen Says US Debt Levels Are ‘Reasonable,’ But Warns About Interest Burden” on 14 June 2024, where we were informed that “TOODLES” is affirming that the current U.S. debt load is manageable, coupled with a Reuters article titled “Bond traders worry liquidity will worsen as US market size grows” by Davide Barbuscia and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss on June 14, 2024, where we learned that U.S. bond market participants are worried market liquidity will keep deteriorating as the U.S. Treasury (“TOODLES” Yellen) continues to issue large amounts of debt to back deficit spending while dealers struggle to keep up with the ballooning size of the market, we are right back there all over again, with the world’s markets once again standing on the brink of irreparable damage as a direct result of the economic policies of Joe Biden and “TOODLES” Yellen, and before we go further, let’s pause here for station identification, and after a commercial break,. we will be back with more, so stay tuned!
Before we go further here, let’s be clear on one important detail here – models of what the model maker, in this case Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, thinks is reality are not themselves reality, and they may not even be close, as was the case with the quantitative models that resulted in the housing market crash “TOODLES” Yellen with her Ph.D said wasn’t going to happen.
As to the idiom “grasping at straws” in America, which is what “TOODLES” is doing with her attempt to rebrand Joe Biden’s failed BIDE-O-NOMICS as “modern supply-side economics,” instead, as if somehow a change 0f name will change the outcome of the failed policy and make it successful instead of a failure, it is used to mean an attempt to succeed, such as in an argument, debate or attempt at a solution, when nothing one chooses is likely to work, in this case because it wasn’t working under its former name of BIDE-O(-NOMICS, a stupid name, actually, and the idiom comes readily to mind here as we track the mindless mutterings and ravings of Biden treasury secretary and partisan political hack Janet “TOODLES” Yellen as she spews forth mindless BULL**** in a vain effort to try and save her boss, American dictator and fool Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and by extension, her own political future, which takes us back for the moment to the Forbes article titled “Do Blame The Quants” by Pablo Triana, a derivatives consultant and author, from December 9, 2008 for some further necessary background on the housing market crash that “TOODLES” assured us wouldn’t happen, to wit:
Which were the quantitatively charged miscreants during this latest episode of nastiness?
Mainly two.
On the one hand, the glorified risk measurement tool, Value at Risk (VaR); and on the other, the models employed by rating agencies and investment banks to probabilistically estimate the creditworthiness of the complex structured finance securities at the heart of the crisis (CDOs and the like), mostly something called Gaussian Copula.
The latter was decisive when it came to assigning the treasured AAA label to securities entirely exposed to subprime loans, since it unrealistically endowed extreme events (like a lot of subprime borrowers defaulting concurrently) with a very low chance of happening.
Keep in mind that the big losses that sank Wall Street came from investments in super-senior CDO tranches and that without the AAA-ing, those punts may never have taken place, at least not as massively.
VaR was decisive in providing a deceiving picture of upcoming turbulence, and by aiding and abetting banks to make insalubriously ultra-leveraged plays.
Prior to the tumultuousness, the markets had been trotting along calmly.
Thus, VaR, as a measure that reflects what has happened in the past, delivered consistently placid risk forecasts (on top of the built-in assumption of Normal markets, which produces loss forecasts very limited in range).
Such low numbers bred complacency and excess risk-taking.
At the same time, a low VaR translated into low capital charges, given that regulators long endowed the theoretical device with the power to indicate how much banks should set aside to support their trading activities.
The failures of VaR during the credit crisis are doubly troubling for one simple reason: VaR had caused tangible turmoil before.
There was plenty of warning.
Too many people chose not to heed it.
And now we burn.
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TOO MANY PEOPLE CHOSE NOT TO HEED IT AND NOW WE BURN!
Famous last words, people – models of reality do not control reality, which takes us back to the Reuters article titled “Yellen: US growth needs public, private investments, China subsidies excessive” by Michael S. Derby and David Lawder on June 13, 2024, as follows, to wit:
“It’s been clear to President Biden and me that our economic strategy cannot be driven by either the public or private sector alone,” she said.
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HUH?
When exactly did that happen?
And more to the point, given Joe’s failed BIDE-O-NOMICS, aren’t we talking about the BLIND LEADING THE BLIND here with that statement, given that just six months ago, we had “TOODLES” still touting BIDE-O-NOMICS in an article from The American Presidency Project titled “Secretary Yellen: ‘Bidenomics Is Working for the Middle Class'” on December 21, 2023, quoting a Wall Street Journal (Opinion): Bidenomics Is Working for the Middle Class by Secretary Janet L. Yellen on 12/20/23, as follows:
The American economy has improved significantly over the past year, especially for the middle class.
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And if that is the case, why is it now called “modern supply-side economics” instead of BIDE-O-NOMICS?
Why the sudden need for the name change?
As to the “middle class,” we have a recent Reuters article titled “US consumer sentiment ebbs in June; inflation worries linger” on June 14, 2024 that tells a different story on that front, to wit:
WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) – U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated in June as households worried about inflation and incomes, a survey showed on Friday.
The University of Michigan’s preliminary reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 65.6 this month, compared to a final reading of 69.1 in May.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a preliminary reading of 72.0.
“Assessments of personal finances dipped, due to modestly rising concerns over high prices as well as weakening incomes,” said Surveys of Consumers Director Joanne Hsu.
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So, if, as “TOODLES” Yellen told us on December 20, 2023, the American economy has improved significantly over the past year, especially for the middle class, then why on June 13, 2024 are we being told that assessments of personal finances dipped, due to modestly rising concerns over high prices as well as weakening incomes?
How on earth does “TOODLES,” with her Ph.D. in economics, do that math, because it looks like two divergent conclusions are being drawn there, one by “TOODLES” Yellen who is trying to protect her boss, Joe Biden, and the other by the American people who are suffering financially as a result of the very Biden policies being touted by “TOODLES?”
And while we ponder that conundrum, let’s go back to the Forbes article, as follows, for this essential conclusion, to wit:
A criticism of finance theory and a yearning for simpler times (no more “CDOs cubed,” please) should not be mistaken for a criticism of the derivatives industry.
Derivatives are not theory or math, and they never needed the quantitative imprimatur before they could exist.
Derivatives are a business, not a science.
And they have, overwhelmingly, proved wildly useful.
As such, they should be protected from those factors that may threaten their reputation and, perhaps, continued existence.
Like, for example, deleteriously unworldly theoretical machinations with a habit of wreaking havoc.
One excruciatingly urgent lesson from this crisis is that we must develop unlimited skepticism and irreverence toward the application of mathematical models in the markets.
We need to stop taking quantitative gadgets so seriously, and start to take the perilousness of quantitative gadgets more seriously.
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AMEN!
Stay tuned!
And leaving off with “TOODLES” Yellen in here for the moment, and the mess she is making of our economy, which affects our futures, and especially her statement that “It’s been clear to President Biden and me that our economic strategy cannot be driven by either the public or private sector alone,” now, according to an article in The Hill titled “White House, Obama team dispute characterization of fundraiser video” by Lauren Irwin on 17 June 2024, we are not supposed to believe what we can see with our own eyes, but instead are to believe what the Joe Biden campaign team and a spokesman for Hussein Obama tell us we are to believe, as if they control the reality we are living in with their words alone, to wit:
The White House and former President Obama’s team disputed the characterization that President Biden froze up on stage at a Los Angeles fundraiser and had to be led off the stage by the former president.
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And as we are going to see from a video of the event from Sky News Australia titled “‘So embarrassing’: Barack Obama awkwardly leads Joe Biden off stage after freezing at fundraiser”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0UURkRIo8M they can dispute all they want, but their empty disputing does nothing to alter or change what the video shows, which takes us back to the story of the unreality TEAM BIDEN and TEAM OBAMA are trying to spin, to wit
The New York Post wrote about the video of Biden under the headline “Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led off stage by Obama at mega-bucks LA fundraiser.”
Biden was in California on Saturday for a fundraiser that reportedly brought in more than $30 million, Mediaite reported.
The event was hosted by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
At the end of the event, both Obama and Biden were leaving the stage, waving goodbye to the crowd.
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AND THAT IS SO NOT TRUE AS THE VIDEO CLEARLY SHOWS!
At the beginning of the video, we see old Joe looking to his right and giving what appears to be a Hitler salute to someone on the sideline, and still looking to his right, old Joe does start clapping his hands, but then at :08, we see him put his hands down in front of him and he turns and faces front while Hussein Obama looks left and waves and then at :16, we clearly see Hussein turn front, and reach over with his right hand to grab old Joe, who is clearly lost in space at the time, by his left wrist and he then leads poor old “lost in space” Joe away to the left of the stage with his arm around old Joe and while patting him and cooing to him to let old Joe know that he is safe in Hussein’s hands as Hussein leads Joe away, and as many times as one watches the video, the events stay exactly the same, which takes us back to The Hill’s version of reality as seen through the eyes of TEAM BIDEN and TEAM OBAMA, to wit:
The Hill has reached out to the Biden-Harris campaign for comment, but senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates denied the New York Post’s characterization of what happened.
“Fresh off being fact checked by at least 6 mainstream news organizations for lying about President Biden with cheap fakes, Rupert Murdoch’s sad little super pac, the New York Post, is back to disrespecting it’s readers and itself once again by pretending the President taking in an applauding crowd for a few seconds is somehow wrong,” Bates’s statement said.
“Their ethical standards could deal with a little unfreezing.”
In a post on the social media platform X, Eric Schultz, Obama’s senior adviser, reposted the New York Post’s article and said “this did not happen.”
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And given it is clear from the video what actually did happen, what can we say about both Biden senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates and Obama senior adviser Eric Schultz other than that they are as lost in space as is old Joe himself and as to their denials of reality, and their attempt to convince us all that we don’t know what we are seeing with our own eyes, they are simply full of ****!
And talk about EXTREME IGNORANCE coupled with EXCESSIVE IDIOTIC ARROGANCE from the clown show that is Joe Biden’s dysfunctional white house going viral, let’s go to a New York Post article titled “White House makes wrong claims while accusing Post of misreporting Biden videos” by Steven Nelson on 18 June 2024, where we have Joe Biden’s LYING WHITE HOUSE trying to tell us that what we are seeing with our own eyes we aren’t really seeing, and we should take their word for it, not what our eyes tell us, even though their word is totally worthless, to wit:
WASHINGTON — The White House went on the offensive against The Post Monday for calling out President Biden’s frailty in a series of recent videos — only to make false statements of their own in the process.
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And let’s start off here by correcting that by saying they did not go on the offensive, rather, their constant lying as they try to spin reality in a vain attempt to convince us Joe Biden isn’t senile and cognitively impaired but rather is at the top of his game, never better, people, is what is offensive, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre accused The Post of spreading “misinformation” about videos of the 81-year-old president at recent events with G7 world leaders and former President Barack Obama.
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NOTE TO KARINE: They are videos, you idiot, they speak for themselves and videos are not misinformation – the only misinformatio0n is this stupid tripe you are trying to peddle about what we are seeing ourselves in the videos being somehow misinformation, as if we were the idiots and not you, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Those events included a Thursday video of Biden being corralled by Italian PM Georgia Meloni after a skydiving demonstration and former President Barack Obama escorting his former VP off the stage at a glitzy Hollywood fundraiser Saturday night.
Jean-Pierre called the clips “cheap fakes”, meaning to claim they were altered by humans through techniques such as zooming in and leaving out context — but also incorrectly called them “deepfakes,” referring to AI-created footage with altered subjects and audio.
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AND WHAT A ******* MORON SHE IS!
The video we are watching in here titled “‘So embarrassing’: Barack Obama awkwardly leads Joe Biden off stage after freezing at fundraiser” is from Sky News Australia, hardly a propaganda organ for the Trump team in this country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0UURkRIo8M and it shows exactly what it shows, which has been described above here, which takes us back to the lunatic ravings of Joe Biden’s PROPAGANDA MINISTER KJP as follows:
“I think you all have called this the ‘cheap fakes’ video and that’s exactly what they are, they are cheap fakes video [sic], and they are done in bad faith,” the press secretary said at her regular briefing.
“And some of your news organization [sic] have been very clear, have stressed that these right-wing — the right-wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because of, the fact-checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation.”
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And let me clarify here that I personally came across the video as part of an article in the The Hill, hardly a Trump propaganda organ itself, titled “White House, Obama team dispute characterization of fundraiser video” by Lauren Irwin on 17 June 2024, wherein was stated as follows:
The White House and former President Obama’s team disputed the characterization that President Biden froze up on stage at a Los Angeles fundraiser and had to be led off the stage by the former president.
The New York Post wrote about the video of Biden under the headline “Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led off stage by Obama at mega-bucks LA fundraiser.”
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Note the words used by the Post in the actual title of the Post piece: “appears to freeze up.”
If Joe isn’t froze up in that video, the video in the article in The Hill being the same video shown on Sky News, then he is standing there like a drooling idiot, instead, or a drugged-up zombie, which is why Obama had to lead him off stage like a child.
Going back to the multitude of lies pouring forth from KJP, she continues her rant as follows, to wit:
Jean-Pierre then applauded the conservative Washington Examiner for ostensibly supporting her claims, although the publication merely quoted British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak trying to explain Biden’s actions.
The article cited by the press secretary included quotes from the UK leader acknowledging the president had not gone where he was supposed to go when he had to be pulled back to the group of his fellow leaders by Meloni.
“He just went over to kind of talk to all of them individually and Georgia was saying, ‘Don’t worry, they’re all coming to [us],’” the PM told reporters Friday.
“We were meant to line up so they could come and then shake all our hands.”
“To their credit, we have the conservative Washington Examiner, did call them out as well, calling out the New York Post,” Jean-Pierre said Monday.
“It tells you everything that we need to know about how desperate Republicans are here.”
“And instead of talking about the president’s performance in office — and what I mean by that, his legislative wins, what he’s been able to do for the American people across the country — we’re seeing these deepfakes, these manipulated videos, and it is, again, done in bad faith.”
Following the briefing, Jean-Pierre admitted to The Post that she didn’t mean to use the term “deepfakes.”
“They are fakes – cheap fakes,” she said in reference to her incorrect use of the term.
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And here comes young Andy Bates to try to save the day for J0e by throwing in his two cents with a silly and childish attempt to gaslight us regarding that Sky News video, to wit:
Deputy press secretary Andrew Bates, who led the White House’s charge against The Post’s coverage of the videos, tweeted praise of Jean-Pierre, writing on X that she “hit a nerve when she quoted the *nonpartisan* reporters who called out the right’s desperate smear videos for what they are: ‘cheapfakes. [sic].’”
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And who in the world is young Andy Bates we must ask ourselves, that we should even consider believing a word he says, let alone actually doing so?
According to his bio, Andy, a graduate from NC State with a degree in poly sci, now Joe Biden’s deputy press secretary, is a political communication veteran, i.e. a professional liar, who has gone from interning for Congressman Brad Miller and working on the presidential campaigns of Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden to joining President Biden’s White House press staff, and in between, our young Andy was the spokesperson for U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and handled media relations for President Biden’s Cabinet nominees.
As a deputy press secretary for the senile and decrepit Joe Biden, Andy believes himself to be at the center of the universe, and being on the job of being a Biden mouthpiece since March 2021, Andy says his work includes serving as a main contact for national reporters, prepping the White House press secretary for press briefings and coordinating public announcements, which takes us back to the Post article, to wit:
The White House had argued last week that fuller context showed that Biden was attempting to give encouragement to the skydivers in Italy and contested the notion that he had wandered off in an unusual manner — despite the unprecedented action by Meloni to return him to his fellow heads of government.
As for the video from the fundraiser, the president’s defenders have argued he was simply greeting the crowd.
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WHAT A HOOT!
He wasn’t greeting the crowd.
The show was over.
He greeted the crowd at the beginning, not the end.
At the end, he was standing there like a ZOMBIE!
And stay tuned, more is yet to come!
This pathetic Biden lash-up we are now stuck with, including the professional liar young Andy Bates and the inept and incompetent liar KJP, who keeps saying over and over, “we have been clear about that,” when she and they have been clear about nothing, other than the undisputed fact that they are continually lying to us as they try to create their own reality about Joe Biden out of moonbeams, pixie dust and cobwebs, and then expect us to be stupid enough to buy into their false reality without question is the most “un-presidential” administration we have been cursed with in this country in my lifetime, and I believe it eclipses the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge in terms of sheer incompetence and outright lying, including from Joe Biden himself, and that is a real statement about the depths America has descended down into since WWII, which takes us to a Daily Caller article titled “‘Tripping, Freezing, Forgetting’: Foreign Media Says ‘Distracted’ Biden Is Getting Worse Ahead Of 2024 Election” by Jake Smith on 18 June 2024, where we have reality as seen through foreign eyes, and it is not pretty or confidence-inspiring , to wit:
Several foreign media outlets have published stories in recent months raising concern about President Joe Biden’s health ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Biden and his administration maintain that his health is in stable condition and that he is capable of defeating former President Donald Trump in November.
But Biden’s recent performance, remarks during press briefings and on-camera appearances have been called into question by a number of major international media outlets, who point to the increasing concern among U.S. voters about his age and mental status.
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ALL of which the serial liar KJP dismisses out of hand as “cheap fakes and “deep fakes,” which is just plain stupid on her part, stupidity being an essential job requirement for her position in the pathetic Biden administration, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
“Biden isn’t the man he used to be,” a June editorial story from The Independent, a U.K. newspaper, reads.
“A failure to take the mounting evidence seriously risks not only a collapse of trust in the White House that will affect future presidents but the specter of real crises during a second Biden term.”
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The Brits can get away with saying that because not being Americans, they don’t have to fear retaliation from the Biden administration, which takes us back for more as follows:
“[Biden has an] inability to function well,” a news story published on Monday by the Hindustan Times, an Indian outlet, reads.
“He has come under the spotlight several times for his gaffes, mixing up names of people, and struggling to recall simple words,” reads a separate piece from March.
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And FAKE NEWS scream young Andy Bates and KJP – there is absolutely nothing wrong with Joe Biden’s mental competence, the dude is as sharp as a tack, and beyond that, he is the smartest man in Washington, D.C. and the known world, as well, along with the galaxy, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
Biden and his campaign team have downplayed age and health concerns, sometimes leaning into his age as a positive given his decades of political experience.
Regardless, Biden’s fitness has remained an issue among swaths of voters; a New York Times/Siena poll conducted in March found that over 70% of voters believed that Biden’s age makes him “ineffective” or incapable of handling the duties of the Oval Office.
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But let’s face it, people, that poll had to be rigged -everybody knows the New York Timkes is pro-Trump and hates Joe Biden’s guts big time, so it conspired with Siena to rig that poll in Trump’s favor, because, well, hey, that is what they do to hurt Joe Biden, which of course is BULL****, because the Grey Lady loves Joe Biden and hates Trump, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
“Biden’s main opposition has come from anxiety over his age and health,” a news story in the Chinese-state media outlet Global Times from March reads.
International media outlets especially covered concerns surrounding Biden after Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Hur released a report in February regarding Biden’s possible mishandling of classified documents.
The report recommended not pursuing charges against Biden because he presented himself as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” and a jury would likely find him not guilty.
Biden held a press conference the same day the report was released and criticized Hur’s report, but made a series of slip-ups during remarks and shouted at reporters, which some media outlets claimed highlighted Hur’s findings.
“The events underscore the unenviable challenge facing Biden’s aides, who know every verbal slip can exacerbate the biggest liability the president faces — voters worrying he’s not up to the task,” a editorial story from The Japan Times in February reads, claiming that the Biden campaign is “attempting to make it to November free of major gaffes.”
“The numerous references in the report to Joe Biden’s failing memory… give unprecedented force to questions about his physical and mental capacity to stand again,” a news story from French outlet Le Monde wrote about the Hur report.
“The worrying episodes are increasing.”
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And here we come to one of KJP’s CHEAP FAKES, or DEEP FAKES, to wit:
Biden’s behavior was called into question by a number of foreign media outlets at the Group of Seven G7 summit on Friday, in which he stood alongside the leaders of the other G7 nations for a photograph before appearing to wander off and be brought back to the group by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
“Joe Biden’s ‘unusual behavior’ at the G7 leaves leaders ‘alarmed’ and ‘bemused,’” a Monday news headline from Sky News Australia reads.
“The video was widely circulated on social media and sparked debate, with some questioning Biden’s ability to serve another term,” a news story from India Today on Friday reads, claiming that Biden has appeared “dazed” in recent public appearances.
A Pew Global Research survey published on June 11 found that international confidence in Biden’s ability to conduct foreign policy is falling; adults surveyed in 14 nations including Israel, Japan, the U.K. and Australia said their confidence in Biden had “dropped significantly” since 2023.
Less than half of respondents in dozens of countries surveyed said that Biden is properly handling the global conflicts of the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars.
The large survey was conducted with thousands of respondents across dozens of countries.
The typical margin of error for each country’s survey was between 0% and 5%.
Biden’s mental and physical fitness has been the subject of constant attacks by Trump and his campaign team ahead of the elections in November.
The two are expected to face off on the debate stage in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27.
“Amid the urgent issues for discussion in the first debate between the candidates in the forthcoming US presidential election, age is being weaponized by both contenders,” a Telegraph editorial story on Sunday reads.
“But Biden, perhaps distracted by Presidential duties… is late to the party when it comes to throwing shade on a person for being old.”
“His apparent lapses – tripping, freezing, forgetting people’s names, and aimless wandering – most recently at last week’s G7 meeting in Italy – have been gleefully exploited by his opponents.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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And how could they?
Are they going to call all the media of every country a bunch of liars putting out misinformation and disinformation about Joe Biden, when all these videos are out there in the public domain and can’t be argued with?
Stay tuned, more is yet to come!
“Catch-22” by Joseph Heller, which I read while in Viet Nam, is rightly considered a work in absurdism, given it is about war, and outside of politics, war is about as absurd as it comes, being directed as it is by politicians, and a masterful one it truly is, but compared to this pathetic Biden administration, which is the very acme (something or someone that represents perfection of the thing expressed) of absurdism, it comes across as mundane (lacking interest or excitement) and merely pedestrian in nature (drab or dull, as if plodding along on foot rather than speeding on horseback or by coach), which takes us back in time a bit to a Fox News article titled “‘The article was BS’: Biden’s Cabinet fires back at scathing report exposing his mental acuity” on 7 June 2024 for a vivid example of what I am talking about, to wit:
A scathing article about President Biden’s mental acuity — which included examples of gaffes and instances of low energy during private meetings — ignited backlash from Democrats in Congress, allies in the media, and the White House, who portrayed the article as nothing more than “false” narratives.
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And that backlash is because the Democrats and the Biden crowd cannot handle the truth, the truth being Joe Biden’s mental acuity is in a serious state of decline, and rather than face the truth the rest of the world is forced to have to face, they want that truth suppressed, instead, and good luck with that say I, because I am not going to be their accomplice in that endeavor, which takes us back to the story, to wit:
Earlier this year, a report from Biden’s own Department of Justice’s special counsel called him an “elderly man with a poor memory” at the end of an investigation into his mishandling of classified documents dating back to his Senate tenure, which ultimately saved him from having charges brought against him by Special Counsel Robert Hur.
At 81, Biden is the oldest sitting president, and his critics say his age has caught up with him cognitively.
If he is re-elected in November, he will be 86 when his second term ends.
Biden has been prone to gaffes going back to when he was vice president, but the frequency and nature of his verbal missteps in recent years appear to be more significant.
In May, Biden seemed to have a break with reality when he confused the timing of the COVID pandemic by a factor of years when he said, “And when I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic, and, what happened was Barack said to me: ‘Go to Detroit — and help fix it.’”
The pandemic happened years after Biden’s time as vice president.
The president has, on several occasions, referenced dead people as being alive.
In 2022, at a White House event, Biden called out former Rep. Jackie Walorski during a speech, “Jackie, are you here?”
“Where’s Jackie?”
Walorski had died in a car crash the previous month.
At a campaign rally in February, Biden told the audience, “Right after I was elected, I went to a G7 meeting in southern England.”
“And I sat down and said, ‘America is back!’ and Mitterand from Germany — I mean France — looked at me and said, ‘How long you back for?'”
Mitterand was president from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996.
In 2021, Biden claimed he had spoken with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had died in 2017, while recalling past conversations during fundraising events.
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But see, people, we, the American people are supposed to accept all of that, plus his uncle Bosie getting eaten by cannibals, as the signs of a man whose mind is as sharp as a tack, when the reality for those of us who aren’t braindead or card-carrying Democrats is that those are the signs of someone who is n0t in touch with the reality around him, but instead, is living in LA-LA LAND where life for Joe is beautiful all the time, which takes us back for more, and this is where the GROUP GASLIGHTING from TEAM BIDEN comes on strong as all of TEAM BIDEN is in a collective state of denial about Joe’s mental, which calls into question the decrepit mental state of TEAM BIDEN, which team happens to be running not only this country right now, but the world, as well, to wit:
Late Tuesday night, the Wall Street Journal published a report detailing instances in which the president has demonstrated a lack of clarity in private meetings with staff and members of Congress.
Many of those who work most closely with the president are coming forward to say the Wall Street Journal got it all wrong.
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And everybody in America and the world is wrong about Joe Biden being in a serious state of decline but TEAM BIDEN, and first at bat for TEAM BIDEN on that score is Joe’s energy secretary Jennifer Granholm (cue Bob Seger – Her Strut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C51c0vuLEng ) who doesn’t know anything about energy at all, which was her chief qualification for the job, to wit:
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was direct, telling Fox News Digital, “The article was BS.”
“The president is utterly on his game,” she added.
“He is the wisest, most knowledgeable person in the room.”
” He asks the toughest questions and has the keenest insights on the complex questions brought to him.”
“He is sharp, thoughtful and wise.”
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That should actually read that compared to Jennifer Granholm, a proven party loyalist who was a member of the presidential transition team for Hussein Obama before he assumed office in 2009 and then became host of “The War Room” with Jennifer Granholm, and in 2017, was hired as a CNN political contributor, and more importantly, at least as far as Joe is concerned, because Joe made a campaign promise to select a team that “looks like America” and modernizes the predominantly male, white institution, she won the Miss San Carlos beauty pageant, and then as a young adult, she attempted to launch a Hollywood acting career but abandoned her efforts at age 21, and after that, in 1978, she appeared on The Dating Game, another top qualification to be a member of TEAM BIDEN and of great importance to Joe, she held jobs as a tour guide at Universal Studios and in customer service at the Los Angeles Times and was the first female tour guide at Marine World Africa USA in Redwood City, piloting boats with 25 tourists aboard, Joe Biden is the wisest, most knowledgeable person in the room, which is a real statement about how stupid Jennifer Granholm really is, which takes us back for more BULL**** from TEAM BIDEN, to wit:
Others at the highest levels of government echoed Granholm’s sentiment, like Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
“I’ve worked for President Biden for 22 years,” Blinken told Fox News Digital.
“Now as then — in strategy discussions and in meetings with foreign leaders — his depth of knowledge, fluency with policy and politics and ability to cut to the chase and argue his case are exceptional.”
“He’s invariably one step ahead of us.”
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He might be one step ahead of you and Jake Sullivan, Tony, but compared to everybody else in America, he is way behind the eight ball, and you are even further behind than he is, which is a testimonial to what a dullard you are, which again takes us back to TEAM BIDEN, to wit:
Attorney General Merrick Garland vouched for the president’s mental acuity on domestic issues.
“I have complete confidence in the president,” Garland said.
“As a member of the president’s Cabinet and the National Security Council, I have consistently seen firsthand his ability to navigate issues of extraordinary complexity that are of the utmost importance to our national security.
“I have also seen him tackle domestic policy issues, clearly and decisively guiding us through complicated questions to reach results that benefit the American people.”
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Can you believe this ****, people?
Going back for more, we next come to “TOODLES” Yellen, and her two cents on the subject, to wit:
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also objected to the assertion that the president is in a state of mental decline, telling Fox News Digital in a statement, “Both in Washington and in meetings with world leaders around the globe — including during strenuous negotiations with President Xi — I’ve always seen President Biden to be extremely well-informed, in command of the facts and very effective in advancing American interests.”
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pushed back on the narrative, too.
“I strongly disagree with the characterization in the story,” Mayorkas said.
“I come fully prepared for my meetings with President Biden, knowing his questions will be detail-oriented, probing and exacting.”
“In our exchanges, the president always draws upon our prior conversations and past events in analyzing the issues and reaching his conclusions.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin concurred with Mayorka’s assessment, saying, “As someone who has watched President Biden make tough national security decisions and seen his commitment to keeping our troops safe, I have nothing but total confidence in our commander-in-chief.”
Gina Raimondo, the former Rhode Island governor and current commerce secretary, came out in full support of her boss, saying, “I’ve spent countless hours with President Biden, discussing everything from our strategic competition with China to the technical aspects of the CHIPS for America program, and in every conversation he’s been sharp, focused and insightful.”
“I could not disagree more with the false portrayal of the president in that article.”
“There is nobody I’d rather have leading our country today.”
VA Secretary Denis McDonough also came to Biden’s defense.
“President Biden is not only as sharp and incisive as ever, he’s holding VA accountable every day — he’s holding me accountable every day — to deliver for veterans,” McDonough said.
“That article is completely inconsistent with the man I’ve been serving for 12 years.”
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement, “I have been in dozens of personal and larger meetings with President Biden, and I always note that his ability to simultaneously handle difficult issues is astounding.
“President Biden has always had a depth of understanding of policies at every level and always remembers to bring the policies back to how they are helping the American people.”
It is not surprising that President Biden’s most senior advisers are countering the narrative that the president’s mental acuity may be waning.
But the talk of his decline started well before The Wall Street Journal article.
According to a Pew Research poll released in late April, just 21% of respondents are extremely or very confident in Biden’s mental fitness to act as president, with 16% somewhat confident and 62% having little or no confidence.
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Chalk me up as one of the 62%!
And stay tuned, because this story of the decline and fall of the wits of Joe Biden is far from over.
And as the cacophonous (having an unpleasant mixture of sounds) weeping and wailing and howling and screeching and moaning and groaning and hollering of the supporters of Joe Biden reaches a fever pitch here, with Joe’s energy secretary Jennifer Granholm, telling Fox News Digital that Joe Biden is utterly on his game, without saying exactly what game that might be, and that compared to every other Democrat in Washington, D.C., including all the political hacks in his cabinet, that of them all, Joe Biden is the wisest, most knowledgeable person in the room, which is a very scary thought indeed, and Joe asks the toughest questions and has the keenest insights on the complex questions brought to him, which is a laugh, as is her statement that Joe Biden is sharp, thoughtful and wise, we as a people are forced to have to consider how it could possibly be that so many of us who think from Joe Biden’s talk and actions that his mental acuity is in a serious state of decline are dead wrong according to people who owe their employment to Joe Biden, while those same people are the only ones in America who can possibly be right, which takes us to News Nation article titled “White House pushes back on ‘cheap fake’ Biden videos” by Rebecca Klar on 20 June 2024 for some further insight into the conundrum facing us all, to wit:
White House officials are aggressively pushing back against a wave of “cheap fake” videos that purportedly show President Biden being confused or meandering, and which question his mental and physical fitness ahead of the election.
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And what a crap statement that is, because I am not getting my information about Joe being confused from some video – to the contrary, I get my information that Joe is at least confused, if not completely gone around the bend, directly from the mouth of Joe Biden himself, as he invents fantastic and false stories like his dear uncle Bosie getting eaten by cannibals, which takes us back for more, to wit:
The rise of the videos, which do not use artificial intelligence (AI) but are cropped or edited in a way that is misleading, marks the latest instance of how technology may be used deceptively during the 2024 campaign.
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And that is yet more horsecrap because there is nothing doctored about the Italian prime minister having to go fetch Joe and lead him back to where he was supposed to be, regardless of why Joe wandered away in the first place, with his doddering and shuffling gait, and there was nothing doctored about Hussein Obama reaching out for Joe who was standing there like a drugged-up zombie wondering what planet he was on at the fundraiser, and there was nothing doctored about Joe trying to sit down like an old decrepit man at the D-Day commencement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfDdfqFfEuk which again takes us back to that story, to wit:
The use of “cheap fakes” burst into the national spotlight in recent days thanks to a trio of clips involving Biden that quickly went viral and painted him as confused or unaware of his surroundings.
One viral clip, which was first shared by a Republican National Committee (RNC) account, depicts Biden struggling to sit down at a D-Day ceremony in a chair that critics claimed didn’t exist.
But the clip cuts off before Biden takes his seat.
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And that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not there was a chair there, which is classic misdirection by the Biden white house.
At :33 of the AP video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfDdfqFfEuk we see a confused or befuddled looking Joe Biden having his hand shaken by Macron of France while his wife looks at old Joe with a look of concern on her face, and while she continues to look on, we see Macron face front while old Joe then turns to his left to say something to “CREEPY JILL,” and while Macron and his wife face front, old Joe starts to hunch over like he is having an attack of intestinal gas, and at :42 while veterans in the audience behind Joe look on, we see old Joe looking like he is on his way down, while Macron and his wife suddenly look to their left at old Joe with a look of shock on their faces while “CREEPY JILL” raises her hand to her mouth in what appears to be an OMG gesture, and then Joe does finally make it into his chair.
Clearly, Joe didn’t have the stamina to continue standing, and he then had trouble sitting, which are hardly signs of a man at the top of his game, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
Another clip came from Biden’s recent trip to Italy for the Group of Seven (G7) meeting, when he and other world leaders watched a skydiving demonstration.
A cropped version of the video seemed to show Biden wandering off before the Italian prime minister nudges him back toward the group.
But the fuller angle makes clear Biden was gesturing toward a parachutist who had just landed.
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Actually, there were several parachutists kneeling there with their parachutes rolled up, and old Joe, again with his doddering, halting gait makes his way towards them and gives them double thumbs up, with people wondering whether old Joe was going to tell them about the time he jumped into Normandy on the real D-Day when Joe was a paratrooper with the 82d Airborne, and it is at that point the Italian prime minister had to fetch Joe Back like he was an errant child, and the point once again is how old and frail Joe looks, regardless of what made him wander off in the first place, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The New York Post made the incident the centerpiece of its front page the next day, with the headline, “Meander in Chief.”
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And so what?
What’s the big deal?
It is still America, afterall, and the Post is as free as Joe Biden’s white house to have their own opinion about something, even if their opinion does not jive with the opini0n Joe’s white house wishes the Post to have in order to be politically correct, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Right-wing media also spread a clip from a Saturday fundraiser, alleging Biden froze up on stage and had to be led away by former President Obama.
Aides for both Biden and Obama disputed that characterization.
The video shows both Obama and Biden waving goodbye to the crowd at the end of the event.
After a few moments, Obama grabs Biden by the hand and pats him on the back before they walk away.
In response to a New York Post headline claiming Biden froze up and had to be led off stage by Obama, an Obama adviser responded, “This did not happen.”
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However, above here, we have been all over that video titled “‘So embarrassing’: Barack Obama awkwardly leads Joe Biden off stage after freezing at fundraiser” from Sky News Australia, hardly a propaganda organ for the Trump team in this country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0UURkRIo8M and the video clearly shows exactly what it does show, and it can be gone through literally frame by frame, and each time one does so, it shows exactly what it showed the time before that, which is at the beginning of the video, we see old Joe looking to his right and giving what appears to be a Hitler salute to someone on the sideline, and still looking to his right, old Joe does start clapping his hands, but then at :08, we see him put his hands down in front of him and he turns and faces front and simply stands there while Hussein Obama looks left and waves and then at :16, we clearly see Hussein turn front, and reach over with his right hand to grab old Joe, who is clearly lost in space at the time, by his left wrist and he then leads poor old “lost in space” Joe away to the left of the stage with his arm around old Joe and while patting him and cooing to him to let old Joe know that he is safe in Hussein’s hands as Hussein leads Joe away, and as many times as one watches the video, the events stay exactly the same, which again takes us back to that story, to wit:.
Although the “cheap fakes” are less convincing than sophisticated AI deepfakes, they still pose a danger — especially by eroding trust among voters, said Paul Barrett, deputy director and senior research scholar at the New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.
“What they do is they further erode the distinction between what’s true and what’s not true, and I think they provide fuel that feeds highly polarized partisan attitudes that are already in place,” Barrett said.
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Oh, horse****, dude – the ONLY thing eroding trust in Joe Biden is Joe Biden, and that is because people in America, and the world, for that matter, no longer see Joe Biden as being worthy of being trusted, and that goes back at least to Joe’s frenzied skedaddle out of Afghanistnam, where Joe ran like a scared rabbit from the Tenth-century tribesmen who are the Taliban, leaving all our high-tech military equipment behind for them to arm themselves with.
Going back to the story, it continues thusly, to wit:
While the videos may not sway many Democrats to change their vote, over time the altered videos can reinforce and provide “artificial fuel” to a false narrative about Biden, he said.
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EXCEPT those videos ARE NOT altered!
Going back once more, we have:
“Advances in digital technology are having the side effects of blurring the line between truth and falsehood and amplifying cynicism on the part of a lot of people, over whether it’s even possible to tell whether things are true or fake,” Barrett said.
Polling has consistently shown voters have concerns about Biden’s age and cognitive abilities as he seeks a second term.
Biden is 81 and would be 86 at the end of a second term.
A CBS News/YouGov poll conducted this month found 50 percent of voters said Trump has the mental and cognitive health to serve as president, compared to 35 percent who said the same about Biden.
The videos, which are often shared by conservative accounts and Biden critics, feed into the narrative that he is a feeble man prone to states of confusion.
White House officials have pushed back aggressively on the latest round of deceptive videos, blasting the New York Post for its role in spreading the clips.
Deputy press secretary Andrew Bates has posted more than two dozen times on the social platform X since Monday about the videos, sharing fact checks and criticizing the Post and other outlets for spreading the videos without context.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the videos “bad faith” efforts by Republicans to discredit the president.
“I think that it tells you everything that we need to know about how desperate Republicans are here,” Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday.
“And instead of talking about the president’s performance in office — and what I mean by that is his legislative wins, what he’s been able to do for the American people across the country — we’re seeing these … manipulated videos.”
“And it is, again, done in bad faith.”
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BAD FAITH?
She must be talking about her daily press briefings on behalf of her boss, Joe Biden.
Stay tuned, more is yet to come and once again, while we pause for station identification, we have a special sneak peek at a clip of Joe’s treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen working out with Joe’s commerce secretary Gina Raimondo on perfecting a number for the Democrat National Convention with the pair of them imitating J Lo and Iggy Azalea in J Lo’s BOOTY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtIRArhVD4 , and then we will be back with more, so don’t touch that dial.
And the big news today comes to us from South Korea in a Reuters story titled “Blaze at South Korea lithium battery plant kills 22 workers” by Daewoung Kim, Hongji Kim and Hyunsu Yim on June 24, 2024, where we have a glimpse of the future Joe Biden is importing into this country with his ill-thought-out “INSANE GREEN DREAM” which is based on the use of massive amounts of highly-flammable lithium, to wit:
HWASEONG, South Korea, June 24 (Reuters) – A lithium battery factory in South Korea was set on fire after multiple batteries exploded on Monday, killing 22 workers, most of them Chinese nationals, fire officials said.
The fire and a series of explosions ripped through the factory run by primary battery manufacturer Aricell in Hwaseong, an industrial cluster southwest of the capital Seoul.
The victims likely succumbed to extremely toxic gas within seconds of the blaze getting out of control, the officials said.
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And pay good attention to what that last sentence just said about the victims succumbing to toxic gas, which takes us back for more on that story, to wit:
It was unclear what caused the explosions and the fire was largely extinguished in about six hours.
Eighteen Chinese workers, two South Koreans and one Laotian were among the dead.
The nationality of the other deceased worker was yet to be confirmed, Kim Jin-young, an official at the Hwaseong fire service, told reporters, citing information from company officials.
The blaze was first reported at 10:31 a.m. (0131 GMT) after a series of battery cells exploded inside a warehouse of 35,000 batteries, Kim said.
A Reuters journalist saw firefighters moving up to six bodies out of the factory.
Due to the intensity of the blaze, rescuers were finding it difficult to identify the dead, Kim said.
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Reminds me of victims incinerated by napalm in Viet Nam who were callously referred to as “KRISPY KRITTERS” by American troops, which again takes us back for more of what our future could well look like in this country thanks to Joe Biden’s “INSANE GREEN DREAM, to wit:
Two people were being treated for major burns, officials at the scene said.
Live TV footage showed firefighters spraying the damaged steel and concrete building.
Parts of the upper level had collapsed, and large chunks of the building looked like they had been blown out into the street by explosions.
Aerial footage showed massive white smoke clouds billowing from the structure and explosions rolling through the building.
Gyeonggi province fire official Cho Sun-ho said most of the foreign workers killed were temporary hires, likely unfamiliar with the structure of the building.
Smoke and the fire blaze spread within 15 seconds and the victims likely succumbed after taking one or two breaths, he said.
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Yes, people, one or two breaths was all it took.
Going back to the story, it continues as follows:
Kim Jae-ho, Fire and Disaster Prevention professor at Daejeon University, said the fire had probably spread too quickly for workers to escape.
“Battery materials such as nickel are easily flammable,” he said.
“So often, there is not enough time to respond, compared to a fire caused by other materials.”
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol visited the scene of the accident later on Monday.
Interior Minister Lee Sang-min called on local authorities to take steps to prevent any hazardous chemicals from contaminating the surrounding area.
Established in 2020, South Korea-based Aricell makes lithium primary batteries for sensors and radio communication devices.
It has 48 employees, according to its latest regulatory filing and its Linkedin profile.
Calls to Aricell offices were unanswered.
The company is not listed on South Korea’s stock market but is majority owned by S-Connect, according to Aricell’s regulatory filing.
S-Connect is registered on the junior Kosdaq index and its shares closed down 22.5%.
Battery production involves the use of highly toxic materials.
“The fact that there were so many casualties when this was on only the second floor is because of the toxic materials and not so much because of burns,” said Park Chul-wan at Seojeong University.
South Korea is home to major producers of lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs) and to one of the world’s biggest automakers, Hyundai Motor, and its affiliate Kia, which are making a push to shift away from internal combustion cars to EVs.
Two years ago South Korea brought in legislation to punish the executives of a company in the event of a fatal accident with possible jail terms after the country saw dozens of workers killed in industrial accidents each year.
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And Joe Biden is using our federal tax dollars to build these same kind of battery plants here in this country.
Where one should be built is right next to Joe’s Rehobeth Beach mansion in Delaware.
And getting back to the BIDEN MIRACLE ECONOMY known as BIDE-O-NOMICS, which MIRACLE ECONOMY is building an economy that works for everyone, and especially the CORPORATE FAT CATS here and abroad Joe and his team are pouring our tax dollars down the pockets of, while delivering them up tax breaks, as well, so they don’t have to pay any taxes, an economy being built back better from the bottom up and the middle out that is designed to feed those at the top of the heap and make them even richer at the expense of those in the middle and at the bottom of the heap, which Joe sees as “equity,” because, let’s face it, people, those are the people who donate heavily to Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS, so theirs are the pockets that need to be fed, let’s first go to a Fox News story titled “Dem staffer blasted for spending habits after going viral for thanking Biden for erasing 8K student debt” by Andrew Miller on 22 June 2024, where we see how well the BIDEN ECONOMY is working for one connected DEMOCRAT, to wit:
A House Democratic staff member who was ripped for praising President Biden after his $8,000 student loan debt was erased is facing even more scrutiny on social media over posts displaying expensive spending habits while earning a salary upwards of $90,000 per year.
Ben Kamens, communications director for longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, sparked a social media firestorm that received almost 20 million views this week when he posted a piece of paper showing his $8,250 in student loans dating back to 2010 had been wiped away following Biden’s latest student loan bailout.
“Just got a call to let me know my student debt has been canceled,” Kamens wrote.
“This is why elections matter.”
“Thanks @JoeBiden.”
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And there is another vote for Joe Biden bought and paid for by Joe Biden using our taxpayer dollars without our consent which doesn’t trouble old Joe in the slightest, which takes us back for more, to wit:
Conservatives on social media blasted Kamens for working in government and seemingly boasting about taxpayers footing the bill for his debt.
Kamens earned $80,000 last year and is on track to make closer to $90,000 this year, according to Legistorm.
The criticism of Kamens intensified when social media users noticed past posts that showed Kamens posting at high-priced restaurants and purchasing high-dollar items.
“Remember this, every time you think those who went to technical and vocational schools should be paying the freight for student loans taken out by Congressional staffers eating and drinking as they mock you,” James Madison Institute Senior Vice President Sal Nuzzo posted on X.
“Because that is what’s happening, and it is absolutely disgusting.”
“Rarely is the Democratic political vision so clearly on display,” Dominic Pino wrote about Kamens in an article for National Review.
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And from there we go to a Washington Post article titled “Soaring U.S. debt poses risks to global economy, IMF warns” by David J. Lynch on 27 June 2024, where we have as follows on Joe’s MIRACLE ECONOMY to consider, to wit:
U.S. government budget deficits and an escalating debt load pose “a growing risk” to the global economy, marring an otherwise stellar economic performance, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.
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And OMG, besides everybody who isn’t a hack politician, who’d a thought it – reckless borrowing and spending by Joe Biden and the resulting escalating debt load posing “a growing risk” to the global economy.
Going back to that story, we have more on that subject as follows:
The United States over the next several years faces “a pressing need” to reduce its debt burden, which could require broad-based income tax increases and cuts in popular entitlement programs, the fund said at the conclusion of its annual review of the U.S. economy.
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Broad-based income tax increases on top of the INFLATION TAX we are all paying as a result of Joe Biden’s BIDE-O-NOMICS?
Cuts in popular entitlement programs?
Thanks, Joe Biden!
Going back for more, we have this, to wit:
The required fiscal adjustment will mean “difficult political decisions over the course of multiple years,” the fund said, warning that an unchecked rise in debt could eventually sap U.S. growth and snowball into global financial distress.
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Yes, people, when it comes to building a MIRACLE ECONOMY, this one built by Joe and his economical team is a real HUMDINGER, alright, putting not only the future of America in jeop0ardy, but that of the world as well, and all of that in less than four short years, which is quite an accomplishment for Joe and his economical team consisting of Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Lael Brainard, Jared Bernstein, Heather Boushey and Kirabo Jackson to all brag on as the SILLY SEASON continues on its way toward the November presidential elections, where we all will have a chance to re-elect Joe Biden so he can finish bringing our ec0nomy and that of the world to its knees, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
In April, as part of a separate review, IMF officials chided the United States for government deficits that stimulated the economy, saying they effectively made it more difficult for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.
On Thursday, citing potential upside risks to inflation, the IMF said the Fed should wait to cut interest rates until “at least late 2024.”
Hours before her news conference at fund headquarters, Georgieva met with Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen to discuss the review.
Thursday’s IMF statement is just the latest warning on the U.S. debt picture.
On Tuesday, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development said that adding debt at a time of higher interest rates will limit the ability of the United States to meet other needs, including defense, an aging population and future economic shocks.
Years of repeated tax cuts have narrowed the government’s revenue base at a time when it faces escalating spending commitments for programs such as Social Security and Medicare, as well as rising interest charges, the OECD said.
As a share of the economy, corporate income tax payments are now less than half what they were in 1967, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Interest expenses on the national debt over the same period have doubled to 2.4 percent of gross domestic product.
The OECD, a group of more than three dozen advanced economies, called for a “sustained but steady multiyear” budget effort to curb debt.
Only Italy, Greece and Japan have higher gross debt-to-GDP ratios, the OECD said in its annual assessment of the U.S. economy.
Many economists say the government’s growing debt burden must be addressed with a mix of spending cuts and tax increases.
Stabilizing the debt relative to the size of the economy is “a really important goal,” Jared Bernstein, the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said at the Brookings Institution this week.
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So,. Jared. dude, how about getting it done then, instead of just flapping your gums about it, while Joe adds to the debt by wiping out the student loan debts of connected DEMOCRATS like Ben Kamens, communications director for longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur!
The candid world watches and waits!
“If you don’t do what I tell you to do when I tell you to do it, then I am going to hurt you!”
That, people, is the gist of a message from American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior to Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly as DICTATOR Joe continues to flex his dictatorial muscles heading into the November presidential elections as the DICTATOR panders for votes from the those in America who choose to be ruled by a DICTATOR like Joe Biden, who sees himself as the SECOND COMING of dictator Joe Stalin, and let’s face it, people, if someone like Joe Biden who wants to be a dictator himself is looking for a role model, what better one can there be but Joe Stalin, as opposed to say, Idi Amin, because Joe Stalin was the most successful dictator in modern times, being admired as he was by DEMOCRAT Frank Roosevelt, himself a DEMOCRAT party icon, which thought takes us to a Reuters article titled “Novo Nordisk, Lilly must cut US prices of weight-loss drugs, Biden says” by Patrick Wingrove and Manas Mishra on July 2, 2024, where we have as follows on that breaking story of yet another dictatorial decree from our very own home-grown Joe Stalin wannabe, Joe Biden, to wit:
July 2 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders called on Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly to reduce the prices of their weight-loss and diabetes drugs, in a jointly authored opinion piece published in USA Today on Tuesday.
Surging demand for Novo and Lilly’s drugs, which have been shown to help patients lose as much as 20% of their weight, has propelled their shares to record highs, and led some analysts to forecast the market for those treatments reaching $150 billion by the early 2030s.
More than 40% of Americans are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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And that statement about more than 40% of Americans being obese today while Joe Biden is president takes us back in time to when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was in the white house and an article on the JFK website titled “THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAKES ON PHYSICAL FITNESS,” wherein was stated as follows:
After World War II, many Americans worried that US citizens, especially the young, were growing overweight and out of shape.
The nation’s economy had changed dramatically, and with it the nature of work and recreation changed.
Mechanization had taken many farmers out of the fields and much of the physical labor out of farm work.
Fewer factory jobs demanded heavy labor.
Television required watching rather than doing.
Americans were beginning to confront a new image of themselves and their country, and they did not always like what they saw.
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Those, of course, are the times that produced me, such as I am, and those are the times that then form the lens through which I view “PUSHER JOE” Biden using the awful power of his dictatorship to push weight-loss pills on the American people, one of which, called Ozempic, may cause serious side effects, including:
* possible thyroid tumors, including cancer;
* inflammation of your pancreas (pancreatitis);
* low blood sugar (hypoglycemia);
* gallbladder problems; and
* the most common side effects of Ozempic® may include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach (abdominal) pain, and constipation.
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Now contrast what Joe Biden wants to impose on the American people with his weight-loss pills and their serious side effects which make people dependent on pills, and less healthy, with JFK’s following message on health and physical fitness which as an older American, I remember quite well, to wit:
JFK Physical Fitness Statement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0WmpszjnN8
Going back to the JFK article, it continues, as follows, to wit:
As a military man, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was probably already sensitive to the issue of physical fitness.
Military officers grumbled about the condition of draftees during World War II and the Korean War.
But concern about fitness peaked in the mid-1950s with publication of an international study that found American children far less fit than children in other countries.
In response, President Eisenhower established the President’s Council on Youth Fitness with Executive Order 10673, issued on July 16, 1956.
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And that brings us forward in time to March 24, 2023, and “President Biden Announces Key Appointments to Boards and Commissions,” where we have as follows”
WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announced his intent to appoint members of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, & Nutrition.
The President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, & Nutrition is a federal advisory committee that aims to promote healthy, accessible eating and physical activity for all Americans, regardless of background or ability.
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So, people, if Joe Biden’s Council on Sports, Fitness, & Nutrition aims to promote healthy, accessible eating for all Americans, regardless of background or ability, why then do we have Joe Biden pushing weight-loss pills instead, as we see by going back to the Reuters article as follows:
Biden and Sanders in their opinion piece said it could cost $411 billion per year if only half of obese adults took Novo and Lilly’s weight-loss drugs, which is $5 billion more than Americans spent on all prescription drugs in 2022.
“If the prices of these drugs are not substantially reduced, they have the potential to bankrupt the American healthcare system,” Biden and Sanders said.
“If Novo Nordisk and other pharmaceutical companies refuse to substantially lower prescription drug prices in our country and end their greed, we will do everything within our power to end it for them.”
“Novo Nordisk must substantially reduce the price of Ozempic and Wegovy,” they said.
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They must?
Joe Biden is going to end their “greed?”
That’s an incredible statement to hear a supposed American president uttering!
So how is DICTATOR Joe Biden going to end the “greed” of Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk?
Are there going to be yet more sanctions coming from DICTATOR Joe?
Is he going to have “TOODLES” Yellen and Gina Raimondo ban them from selling their pills here in America to0 punish them for being “greedy?”
Stay tuned, more is yet to come!
Okay, people, brace yourself for a shock, because the news just out from Joe Biden himself, and if anyone would know the truth and facts of the matter, it would have to be Joe Biden, himself, one would think, anyway, in a logical, rational world where things are supposed to make sense, is that according to Joe during an interview with Philadelphia’s Wurd radio station, Joe is proud to be the first Black woman to serve a Black president as vice president!
Now, I can understand Joe claiming to be a woman, but truthfully, as pasty white as the dude always appears to be, I am having trouble seeing his claim that he is really a black woman as being in anyway valid.
BUT, people, it is America, where what people feel based on intestinal gas is true, so if Joe Biden wants to consider himself a black woman instead of a pasty white senile old dude, who am I to gainsay him?
And reviewing the week that was in this day and age of the reign of the first black woman to be DICTATOR OF AMERICA and the world, that being Josephine Robinette Biden, Junior, in addition to working diligently to destroy the American economy, our Joe is also working to destroy the health of the American people by being the DRUG PUSHER IN CHIEF of America by pushing something called Wegovy, whose side effects may include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, constipation, stomach (abdomen) pain, headache, tiredness (fatigue), upset stomach, dizziness, feeling bloated, belching, low blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes, gas, stomach flu, heartburn, and runny nose or sore throat, along with something called Ozempic, whose side effects include constipation, nausea, dizziness, fatigue,
diarrhea, allergic reaction, burping, tachycardia, thyroid cancer, abdominal pain, blurred vision, gallstones, hypoglycemia, pancreatitis, flatulence, heartburn, bloating, headache, decreased appetite, diabetic retinopathy, dysphagia. and kidney damage.
Given that old Joe himself seems to be quite dizzy all the time, as well as afflicted by flatulence, one has to wonder if old Joe is himself binging on the stuff, which takes us to a Business Insider article titled “Biden’s bad week just got worse after he said he was the ‘first Black woman to serve with a Black president'” by Hannah Abraham on 6 July 2024, where we have more on Joe’s dizzy condition, to wit:
Biden is now facing increasing pressure to drop out of the presidential race.
In a poll by Reuters and Ipsos, one in three Democrats said Biden should quit.
The Biden camp has offered multiple explanations for the president’s slurred words, nonsensical phrases, and vacant stares, including jet lag, a cold, and incompetent aides.
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Excuses, excuses, excuses, all of them empty, which takes us back to that article once again, as follows:
Axios, citing people close to the president, said Biden worked best between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and struggled to function outside that window.
Biden told governors he needed to get more sleep and stop holding events after 8 p.m., CNN and The New York Times reported.
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And that should come as a real comfort to us all, the fact that the president of the United States of America can work at best just six hours a day, when Joe’s best between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. is mediocre, at best, if not downright pitiful, and from there, we go to an Associated Press article titled “Biden dismisses age questions in interview as he tries to salvage reelection effort” by Colleen Long and Seung Min Kim on July 6, 2024, where we get yet another excuse or set of excuses from Joe Biden for his miserably poor debate performance against Trump, to wit:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden, fighting to save his endangered reelection effort, used a highly anticipated TV interview to repeatedly reject taking an independent medical evaluation that would show voters he is up for serving another term in office while blaming his disastrous debate performance on a “bad episode” and saying there were “no indications of any serious condition.”
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So, while we have the Biden camp above here offering multiple explanations for Joe’s slurred words, nonsensical phrases, and vacant stares, with such explanations or excuses including jet lag, a cold, and incompetent aides, as if Joe’s inc0mpetent aides, who Joe himself hired, were the ones responsible for Joe’s slurred words, nonsensical phrases, and vacant stares, instead of old Joe himself.
Going back to the AP article, we next have this from old Joe, to wit:
“Look, I have a cognitive test every single day,” Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, referring to the tasks he faces daily in a rigorous job.
“Every day, I have that test.”
“Everything I do.”
“You know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.”
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Running the world?
Joe Biden?
OMG, we and the world are in serious trouble if that is the case, which again takes us back to the AP article for yet another excuse for Joe’s poor debate performance, to wit:
As for the debate, “I didn’t listen to my instincts in terms of preparing,” Biden said.
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Yes, people, Joe didn’t go with his gut as he calls his instincts, which is why Joe was slurring his words at the debate while uttering nonsensical phrases and standing there like a zombie lost in space with a vacant stare on his face, which takes us back to more on that subject, to wit:
Biden suggested that Trump’s disruptions — from just a few feet away — had flustered him: “I realized that, even when I was answering a question and they turned his mic off, he was still shouting and I let it distract me.”
“I’m not blaming it on that.”
“But I realized that I just wasn’t in control.”
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And there we have it, people, right from the source, himself – Joe Biden is not in control of himself, and yet we are supposed to trust him running the world as he says he is?
Not hardly is my thought, which brings us back to this:
Biden appears to have pulled his family closer while attempting to prove that he’s still the Democrats’ best option.
The ubiquitous presence of Hunter Biden in the West Wing since the debate has become an uncomfortable dynamic for many staffers, according to two Democrats close to the White House who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
For many staffers, the sight of Hunter Biden, just weeks after his conviction on felony gun charges, taking a larger role in advising his father has been unsettling and a questionable choice, they said.
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The man who is running the world has as his chief political advisor a convicted felon named Hunter Biden?
How fitting!
And with that said, let’s pause for station identification and when we return, it will be to hear Biden national economic adviser Lael Brainard saying “While congressional Republicans haven’t offered a single proposal to lower costs, President Biden is fighting every day for hardworking families like the ones he grew up with in Scranton,” which is pure BULL**** because Joe Biden DID NOT grow up with hard-working families in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
According to Joe’s own bio, he was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 20, 1942, and because Joe’s father was wealthy, the Biden family blew that working-class ****-hole and the well-to-do Biden family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, which means Joe LEFT Scranton when he was FOUR years old.
Then, because Joe’s father was a lousy businessman, he suffered business setbacks around the time Joe Biden was seven years old, which would have been 1949, and for several years the family did live with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton.
So Joe was in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City from age FOUR until age SEVEN, which makes THREE years away from the ****-hole of Scranton and the hard-working people there.
And then Joe moved with his family to Delaware in 1953, which makes THREE more years in Scranton, when Biden was ten, where the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield.
So doing some basic math here, Joe spent a whopping SEVEN years in Scranton when Joe was a mere child, so unless Joe was exceptionally precocious (old beyond one’s years) when he was a child, which is highly doubtful because in school, he was an ignorant dullard cruising at the bottom of his classes, when exactly was it that Joe learned any kind of values in Scranton, other than how to be a poor liar?
Back on December 1, 2023, we were talking in here about what life was like here in America when I was young (I’m past the 3/4 century mark) as compared to now, and what came to mind back then, and what comes back to mind again today based on a Politico story titled “First Biden hosts donors at the White House. Then they give massive checks” by Jennifer Haberkorn and Elena Schneider on 7 July 2024 where we learned that shortly before Christmas, four billionaires with a long history of writing checks to Democrats were escorted into the White House, past the candy-themed holiday decorations and down the steps to the ground-floor Map Room where the group heard directly from American DICTATOR Joe Biden about his second-term agenda and were able to ask him questions about his campaign and policy, and one day later, one attendee at the meeting, Mark Pincus, a tech entrepreneur, donated the maximum allowed — $929,600 — to Biden’s joint fundraising committee, Biden Victory Fund, while within three weeks, another person in the meeting, venture capitalist Reid Hoffman, sent $923,000, and a third attendee, former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson, wrote a nearly half million dollar check two days before the meeting, is that Joe Biden has an administration even more corrupt than that of US Grant (March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877).
In that prior post from December 1, 2023, I took us back in time to 1958, and an incident I remember well, that being the VICUNA COAT SCANDAL that forced Sherman Adams to resign under fire as President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief White House aide, which scandal today in Joe Biden’s America wouldn’t be a scandal at all, but bidness as usual, just like selling access to Joe Biden to millionaires today isn’t any kind of scandal, but is, according to Biden mouthpiece young Andy Bates, a partisan political hack and professional Democrat BULL**** ARTIST, a routine practice during every modern presidency regardless of party, which is what makes it not a scandal today, because hey, look, everybody else is doing it, so it would work an unfair advantage on Joe Biden if he wasn’t able to do it too, and according to young Andy, the Bidenistas have been transparent and disclosed these meetings because, get this, people, and it is hilarious, Joe Biden sets the highest ethical standards of any administration in history, while ethics watchdogs question the practice of providing access to people with the financial means of writing nearly million-dollar checks, arguing quite correctly in my estimation that the meetings send a message at odds with Biden’s promise to crack down on big-moneyed interests.
Going back in time for context here, the Grant administration was routinely labeled one of the most corrupt in U.S. history, that being before being supplanted by the Biden administration, but despite the scandals that arose during his tenure, unlike Joe Biden today, Grant was never personally involved with any of them, and his honesty and personal integrity were never questioned, while today, Joe Biden’s honesty and personal integrity are most certainly questioned, and I would say that Joe Biden possesses neither.
Going back to US Grant, his inability to clean up his own administration was a blight on his presidential record, whereas today, as we see from this Politico article above, Joe Biden makes no effort whatsoever to clean up his administration, because he doesn’t care to do so, after years in the US Senate where “palm greasing” has been raised to an art form.
Which brings us back to 1958 and the VICUNA COAT SCANDAL from the UPI Archives for October 28, 1986, by Arnold Sawislak, UPI Senior Editor, as follows:
WASHINGTON — The Republicans regained the White House in 1952 with a general at the helm, and determined to fashion an image based on morality, honesty, thriftiness, and character.
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Whereas in our times today, the DEMOCRATS regained (stole?) the White House in 2021 with a caitiff draft dodger at the helm, and they determined to fashion an image based on a lack morality, zero honesty, profligacy instead of thriftiness, and a lack of character from the chief executive on down.
Going back to that story of American history before Joe Biden came into power and is now, in his own words, “running the world,” we have more as follows:
Sherman Adams filled the bill — and more.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was, of course, a war hero — the kind that inspires statues, but GOP campaigners also made much of the fact that he was unsullied by the ‘you-scratch-my-back-and-I’ll-scratch-yours’ political morality that embarrassed the Truman administration so often immediately after World War II.
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Today, as we see from the Politico article above here, Joe Biden has brought us back in time to the corrupt administration of Harry S. Truman, which takes us back to the story of Sherman Adams and the Vicuna coat, to wit:
Eisenhower brought Adams, the former governor of New Hampshire, to Washington, and the austere, almost grim Yankee symbolized a new no-nonsense atmosphere in the White House — where not long before, Truman’s cronies, including military aide Gen. Harry Vaughn, had dealt in influence-peddling and cheerfully trafficked in gifts of mink coats and food freezers.
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Being a DEMOCRAT, of course, Joe Biden not surprisingly is copying what went on during the Truman years, especially the influence-peddling, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
As White House chief of staff, Adams ran the show with the kind of military precision that a five-star general who commanded a gigantic war effort would expect from his chief aide.
He also was the very picture of the frugal public servant, eating ham and cheese sandwiches at his desk, rather than accepting pricey meals in what came to be known as the Washington ‘power lunch’ restaurants.
Adams appeared so powerful in setting the White House agenda and deflecting favor-seekers and other pests from the Oval Office that Democrats and some Republicans wondered aloud who really was in charge down there at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
He could have given Donald Regan lessons in unsympathetic listening and cold dismissal.
That ended with the arrival in Washington in 1958 of Bernard Goldfine, a New England businessman intent on getting some under-the-counter assistance with problems he was having with the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities & Exchange Commission.
To lubricate the process, Goldfine sent some of the people he thought could help him some nice presents, such as coats made of vicuna (most Americans never had heard of the valuable fabric woven from the fur of the rare South American beast) and oriental rugs.
Congress, which by that time had been recaptured by the Democrats, investigated the Goldfine affair with zest, and with the Washington press in full cry (one reporter was discovered trying to wiretap the Boston magnate’s hotel suite), it was soon disclosed that Sherman Adams, of all people, had accepted gifts from his old friend Bernie.
Adams indignantly denied wrongdoing, contending he had once given Goldfine a gold watch and the goodies he got from the Boston magnate were no more than reciprocal tokens of esteem.
A lot of people believed him, including the president, who told a news conference that gifts ‘are not necesarily a bribe’ and that he trusted and would keep Adams ‘because I need him.’
But under pressure from frightened GOP candidates in the 1958 elections, Ike finally let Adams resign with a letter glowing with high praise for his devotion to duty.
So Eisenhower said goodbye to Sherman Adams, his administration said goodbye to its aura of moral superiority and Washington marked up another victim of the axiom that ‘power corrupts.’
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And BIG SURPRISE, here we are today, with Washington and Joe Biden proving all over again that “power corrupts,” and in Joe Biden’s case, absolute power corrupts absolutely!
But stay tuned, more is yet to come!
What a HYPOCRITE (a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue) is American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first Black woman in America to serve as a vice president to a half Black man.
Back on March 11, 2024, we had his “FACT SHEET: The President’s Budget Cuts Taxes for Working Families and Makes Big Corporations and the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share” where old Joe told us his budget was going to cut taxes for working families and lower deficits by trillions of dollars over a decade by making the wealthy pay their fair share and no one earning less than $400,000 per year will pay a penny in new taxes, and the reality, as we low-income people in America making far less than $400,000 per year continue to get hammered by Joe’s BIDENFLATION TAX see from the Politico story above here titled “First Biden hosts donors at the White House. Then they give massive checks” by Jennifer Haberkorn and Elena Schneider on 7 July 2024, instead of making RICH DEMOCRAT DONORS pay their fair share, old Joe is getting his pockets lined and his palms greased by those billionaires with a long history of writing checks to Democrats such Mark Pincus, a tech entrepreneur, who donated $929,600 to Biden’s joint fundraising committee, Biden Victory Fund, and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman who sent Joe $923,000, and former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson who wrote a nearly half million dollar check to Joe, which private meetings with Joe to grease his palms with campaign donations, according to Politico, come at a time when it became more readily apparent that Joe would need to rely more fully on megadonors rather than the grassroots fundraising spigot that had propelled his 2020 campaign, which private meetings according to Politico began last summer and continued through the fall and winter and often included four to eight donors and Biden campaign co-chair Jeffrey Katzenberg, who has been a powerhouse fundraiser for Democrats prior to taking a role in Biden’s campaign.
The private meetings with Joe were arranged on behalf of the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, led by Emmy Ruiz, according to a White House official, and many of the attendees were in the entertainment or tech industries or donated previously to Democrats.
According to Politico, Joe’s man Katzenberg has “been advertising to donors that he’s spending time at White House, he can bring people in for lunch there, Biden stops by, and then those people max out,” said one Democratic strategist with direct knowledge of the meetings, granted anonymity to discuss private events.
According to the white house visitor logs, the earliest of these intimate meetings with donors at the White House were last summer, as the White House was beginning to gear up for the reelection, and included a number of movie industry moguls.
Producer J.J. Abrams and his wife, fellow producer Kathleen McGrath, as well as Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman, met with Biden in the residence in early June.
Director Steven Spielberg joined a small group at noon with Biden in the White House residence on July 7.
In October, Tullman contributed $904,600.
On Nov. 30, Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, sent the maximum allowed to the Biden Victory Fund.
Abrams and McGrath both contributed $500,000.
So, when exactly is Joe Biden going to make all those people greasing his palm pay their fair share in taxes?
Any guesses, anybody?
How about like never.
Talk about TALES OF THE EXTREME ULTIMATE BIZARRE. alright.
In an article in The Atlantic titled “Joe Biden Doesn’t Understand the Post-Debate Reality” by David A. Graham on 6 July 2024, we were informed as follows, to wit:
No interview could reverse the damage that Joe Biden did to his campaign in the first presidential debate, but his conversation with George Stephanopoulos tonight showed that the president doesn’t even understand how profound the damage is.
Biden insisted to Stephanopoulos that he has the energy to be president.
“Can I run the 100 in 10 flat?”
“No.”
“But I’m still in good shape,” he said, and denied that he was frailer than four years ago: “No.”
“Come keep my schedule.”
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Come keep his schedule?
What BULL**** as we see from a Business Insider article titled “Biden’s bad week just got worse after he said he was the ‘first Black woman to serve with a Black president’” by Hannah Abraham on 6 July 2024, where we had this on Joe’s “schedule,” to wit:
Axios, citing people close to the president, said Biden worked best between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and struggled to function outside that window.
Biden told governors he needed to get more sleep and stop holding events after 8 p.m., CNN and The New York Times reported.
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I’m almo0st as old as senile old Joe, and I’m up at five in the morning, and working a lot harder than Joe Biden does, who these days isn’t working at all, but instead is traveling around the country, collecting money, so that isn’t much of a schedule for Joe to be bragging on, which takes us to an Associated Press article titled “Biden dismisses age questions in interview as he tries to salvage reelection effort” by Colleen Long and Seung Min Kim on July 6, 2024 for this burst of pure BULL**** from old Joe, to wit:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden, fighting to save his endangered reelection effort, used a highly anticipated TV interview to repeatedly reject taking an independent medical evaluation that would show voters he is up for serving another term in office while blaming his disastrous debate performance on a “bad episode” and saying there were “no indications of any serious condition.”
“Look, I have a cognitive test every single day,” Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, referring to the tasks he faces daily in a rigorous job.
“Every day, I have that test.”
“Everything I do.”
“You know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.”
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Joe is delusional there when he says he is running the world, and if he was running the world, it is guaranteed that he would be running it right into the ground, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Biden seeks boost in Pennsylvania as calls for him to step aside mount” by Andrea Shalal on July 8, 2024 where we have as follows about Joe Biden “running the world,” to wit;
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, July 7 (Reuters) – An embattled U.S. President Joe Biden faced escalating pressure from fellow Democrats worried about his candidacy on Sunday, concerns he worked to ease with campaign stops in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
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So if Joe was campaigning in Pennsylvania on Sunday, was he also running the world at the same time, proving to the world that as old and senile as he is, the gaffer can still multitask?
Or is he like God who made the world in six days and rested on the seventh, so Joe takes Sundays off from running the world?
Going back to that article, it continues, as follows:
On Sunday, the Democratic president received a warm welcome at a Black church in Philadelphia and later traveled to the Pennsylvania state capital, Harrisburg, for an event with union members.
Black voters are a critical part of Biden’s base of support and recent public opinion polling has shown their support for him softening.
On a leadership call on Sunday called by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, some House Democrats said that Biden should step aside as presidential candidate, a source familiar with the discussions told Reuters.
Representatives Jerrold Nadler, Adam Smith, Mark Takano and Joe Morelle, senior House Democrats who sit on the Judiciary, Armed Services, Veterans Affairs and House Administration committees, were among those who called on Biden to step aside, according to media reports.
The coming week is crucial, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
He encouraged the president to hold a town hall or news conference to convince voters he is “the old Joe Biden.”
“The president needs to do more,” Murphy said.
“I do think the clock is ticking.”
Democratic U.S. Representative Adam Schiff said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Biden needs to move swiftly to put concerns to rest.
Asked in Harrisburg whether the Democratic Party was behind him, Biden told reporters “yes.”
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Talk about old Joe being delusional and out of touch with reality, alright, there we have it right there before our eyes, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
In Philadelphia, churchgoers at the Mt Airy Church of God in Christ gave Biden a rousing welcome.
Bishop Louis Felton praised him as “a man of vision and integrity.”
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And speaking of delusional, there is another case of it right there, as the bishop uses his pulpit mot to spread the word of God, but to instead praise senile old Joe Biden, telling his flock some real WHOPPERS at the same time, which being a bishop, he can grant himself absolution for, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
“Never count Joseph out,” Felton thundered.
“Go, Joseph, you can make it.”
Biden addressed the congregation for a little more than six minutes, saying, “We must unite America again.”
“That’s what I’m going to do.”
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Talk about BIZARRE statements, alright, there we have a real DOOZY, because Joe Biden the DIVIDER is the last man on the face of the planet who can unite America, especially when so many people in America do not want to see Joe Biden in the white house for four more miserable years, which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
Sunday’s trip – Biden’s 10th to Pennsylvania during the 2024 election campaign – is part of a July voter outreach blitz by the Democratic Party that includes a $50 million media campaign aimed at events, such as the Olympics, and travel by the president, the first lady, Harris and her husband to multiple battleground states.
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And were, pray tell, did the Democrats get that $50 million from, and for what?
And instead of using it to try to buy the election, which is exactly what they are trying to do, why don’t they use it to pay down some of the massive deficit Joe Biden has racked up since he took over the white house, which would be a far better use of that money instead if using it to try and buy this election, which is the only way they can win, which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
Pressure from Congress is expected to ramp up in the coming days as lawmakers return to Washington from a holiday recess and donors mull their willingness to keep funding Biden’s campaign.
Five U.S. lawmakers have publicly called for Biden to end his reelection bid, including Representative Angie Craig of Minnesota, the first Democratic member of the House of Representatives from a battleground district, with others said to be poised to join in.
Two letters are circulating among House Democrats calling for Biden to step aside, House Democratic sources have said.
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Sounds like the Democrats have a problem they can’t solve, which takes us back to July 2, 2024 and a Reuters article titled “Biden warns Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling is ‘dangerous precedent'” by Andrea Shalal, where we have a great big load of pure BULL**** from Joe Biden to consider, to wit:
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity set a “dangerous precedent” that could turn presidents into kings and called on the American people to “dissent” by rejecting Donald Trump in November’s election.
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If anybody thinks he is in actuality a king, it is Joe Biden, who is one in everything but name, which takes us back to what Joe Biden is very much afraid of, to wit:
In clear, measured remarks from the White House, Biden said the court decision meant Trump was highly unlikely to go on trial before the Nov. 5 election for his role in seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and warned it could turn U.S. presidents into kings.
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Yes, people, old Joe thought he had this in the bag with all of his POLITICAL SHOW TRIALS stacked up against Trump, and now that Joe’s HOUSE OF CARDS is collapsing, old Joe is running scared, which again takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
“This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America.”
“Each, each of us is equal before the law.”
“No one, no one is above the law.”
“Not even the president of the United States,” Biden said, reading from a teleprompter.
He said the court’s decision meant there were now virtually no limits on what a president could do.
“It’s a dangerous precedent, because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law,” Biden said.
“The only limits will be self-imposed by the president alone.”
Biden, 81, was making his first set of remarks at the White House since his shaky debate against Trump last week led to calls for him to step aside as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer for the election.
After he stumbled over his words on the Atlanta debate stage, his remarks and comportment are being scrutinized for signs that he is up to the job of running for re-election and of governing the country for four more years.
Biden said he sided with liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote she feared for U.S. democracy in her dissent in the 6-3 decision.
“Now the American people will have to do what the court should have been willing to do, but will not.”
“The American people will render judgment on Donald Trump’s tenure,” Biden said, alluding to the November presidential election.
“I concur with Justice Sotomayor’s dissent today,” he added.
“So should the American people dissent.”
“I dissent.”
“May God bless you all.”
“May God help preserve our democracy,” Biden said in closing.
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And let me conclude by saying the word “democracy” is an empty word that means nothing at all, and guarantees absolutely nothing, especially when used by Joe Biden.
ALL the word means is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.
That’s it!
That’s all it means, which is nothing.
In point of fact, Russia is a democracy and so is North Korea.
All the word “democracy” means in practice is that a population of morons, imbeciles and idiots will get together and go to the polls to elect other morons, imbeciles and idiots to govern them, which is how we ended up with Joe Biden in power in the first place.
And a democracy can even elect a dictator – look at Nazi Germany, which was a democracy, and Ukraine today which is a fascist dictatorship Joe Biden calls a “democracy.”
So the concept of Joe Biden defending democracy against Trump is as laughable as Joe Biden defending son Hunter from being a drug addict and convicted felon.
And that is a fact!
Call me old-fashioned, which is probably true, given I am a product of a different century and a different millennium than this one I find myself trapped in today, like being trapped in an insane asylum with no doors or windows I can find, and call me too c0nservative for these fast and loose times we are now in, where anything and everything goes, especially in politics at all levels where NO ONE is accountable to anyone or anything, which is also true, as I see things as either black, or white, with no shades of grey in between, which I see as a form of moral cop-out, like somebody saying they are partially pregnant, which is impossible because either you are, or you aren’t, and I am one of those dinosaurs in America who actually believes those in government at every level, and especially the federal level, should be setting the highest standards, as opposed to selling out to the highest bidders and turning government into little more than a whore house, so it should come as no surprise that I find it disgusting how the Biden administration is running this country further and further into debt to buy votes for this up-coming presidential election, which takes us back in time to a Wall Street Journal article titled “Opinion | Joe Biden’s 2024 Election Bribes” by Daniel Henninger on 23 May 2024, where we have the following background for what is yet to come in a Reuters article titled “Biden administration to award nearly $1.1 billion to Stellantis, GM for EV production” by David Shepardson on July 11, 2024, to wit:
Joe Biden is fond of spinning yarns from his early political days in Delaware, so he knows the fine American tradition of doling out “walking-around money” to drive turnout.
Then there’s the related Democratic Party tradition known as spend and elect.
Mr. Biden, a self-avowed traditionalist, surely sees nothing odd in campaigning for the U.S. presidency by handing out money.
Nor, as a traditionalist, do I.
But has election politics ever seen spending on such a massive scale for the sole purpose of producing votes?
Let’s depart from the cuddlier labels for this phenomenon and call it what it is: Biden’s bribes.
Mr. Biden is using the U.S. Treasury the way a 1920s party boss would use the safe behind his desk.
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That should read that Biden is SHAMELESSLY and BLATANTLY using the U.S. Treasury the way a 1920s party boss would use the safe behind his desk while NO ONE in the worthless congress says a word about it, which takes us to the Reuters article where we have more on Joe Biden’s BLATANT ELECTORAL BRIBERY ON STEROIDS, which has now set a very dangerous precedent, because if Joe can do it, then any president can do it, and more, while we get stuck with the bill, like being forced to pay for an expensive meal of surf and turf with nothing but a grease-smeared plate as our portion of the meal, to wit:
WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) – The Biden administration plans to award General Motors and Chrysler-parent Stellantis nearly $1.1 billion in grants to convert existing plants to build electric vehicles and components, it said on Thursday.
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Note that those are grants, which means that money goes into the treasuries of those companies for them to in the end do what they want with it, while it gooses their stock prices, which takes us back for more, to wit:
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced $1.7 billion in planned grants to help fund the conversion of 11 “at risk” plants in eight states to enable the production of 1 million EVs annually, help retain 15,000 existing jobs, and create 3,000 new positions.
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And there we have fodder for Joe Biden to brag about how many jobs his administration HAS CREATED, which supposedly created jobs never seem to show up in the Biden governments job statistics as we see from a CNBC article titled “U.S. economy added 206,000 jobs in June, unemployment rate rises to 4.1%” by Jeff Cox on July 5, 2024 where we were informed that though June job creation topped expectations, it was due in large part to a 70,000 surge in government jobs, while health care, a consistent leader by sector, added 49,000 with social assistance contributed 34,000 and construction up 27,000, as several sectors saw declines, including professional and business services (-17.000) and retail (-9,000).
Going back to the Reuters article, it continues as follows, to wit:
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters the awards were a “hallmark of the Biden administration’s industrial strategy” and would “modernize historical auto manufacturing facilities.”
She said it had become clear more than a decade ago that automakers, to embrace the future, “needed a federal partner especially to compete with other countries who were subsidizing their auto industries and that’s what this massive investment is all about.”
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BULL****, Jennifer – this massive DOLING out of federal tax dollars is about rewarding the FAT CATS who pump money back into the Biden re-election campaign coffers and those of the DNC, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Rough road ahead for US EV makers despite upbeat quarterly sales” by Akash Sriram and Abhirup Roy on July 3, 2024, where we had as follows on that subject of a government-mandated product being forced on us by the Biden regime, to wit:
Demand for EVs has grown more slowly than expected due to high borrowing costs, economic uncertainty and consumer preference for gasoline-electric hybrids.
That led Tesla and other EV brands to slash prices or offer greater incentives to lure consumers to showrooms.
Analysts said the pressure to continue cutting costs in manufacturing and batteries will not go away.
Analysts caution, however, that Tuesday’s sales figures are insufficient to forecast a reacceleration of EV sales growth.
“We’re expecting this period of time to have bumps along the way for the next few years as the transition goes from early adopters to mainstream buyers and we’re going to see this happen for a long time,” said Sam Fiorani, vice president at research firm AutoForecast Solutions.
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Going back to the Reuters article about Joe Biden’s electoral bribery we are focused on, it continues as follows:
The awards are for plants in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, and Virginia — several of which are crucial in the November presidential election.
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And there we have the give-away that makes it clear that Joe Biden is trying to buy votes for himself and the worthless Democrats, not do anything good for the nation and the American people, which takes us back for more once again, to wit:
President Joe Biden has prodded U.S. automakers to assemble a rising number of EVs, introduced new tax incentives and funded EV charging stations.
Regulators have also issued stricter emissions rules that will boost EV sales.
The White House is courting union workers in key battleground states and seeking to reassure autoworkers that EVs will not cost jobs.
General Motors will receive $500 million to convert its Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Michigan to EVs at an unspecified future date.
GM said it will make its own unspecified investment to produce EVs in Lansing at a future date but said the plant will continue to produce the Cadillac CT4 and CT5.
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In plain and simple words, thanks to the largesse of Joe Biden, General Motors will receive $500 million gratis, and then at an UNSPECIFIED future date, which could be one year, ten years, or maybe a hundred years, GM might actually use it to produce EV’s nobody wants, so that money is a GIFT to GM, and nothing more.
Going back to Reuters, we have more, to wit:
In October, Stellantis agreed to build a new $3.2 billion battery plant and invest $1.5 billion in a new mid-size truck factory in Belvidere, Illinois under a new union contract — a project Biden has touted.
The DOE plans to award Stellantis $334.8 million to convert the shuttered Belvidere Assembly plant to build EVs and $250 million to convert its Indiana Transmission Plant in Kokomo to produce EV components.
Stellantis said the expected awards were “an important step in continuing to expand our electrified vehicle offerings.”
Hyundai Mobis, which operates a Stellantis supplier in Ohio, will receive $32 million to produce plug-in hybrid components and battery packs.
Other awards include $89 million for Harley-Davidson to expand its York, Pennsylvania plant for EV motorcycle manufacturing; $80 million for Blue Bird to convert a former Georgia plant to build electric school buses; and $75 million to engine company Cummins to convert part of an existing Indiana plant to make zero-emission components and electric powertrain systems.
The DOE also plans $208 million for the Volvo Group to upgrade plants in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania to increase EV production capacity and $157 million for ZF North America to convert part of its Marysville, Michigan plant for EV component production.
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Other awards include $89 million for Harley-Davidson to expand its York, Pennsylvania plant for EV motorcycle manufacturing?
What a joke that is!
On February 8, 2024,Harley-Davidson released its financial results and reported that LiveWire electric motorcycle unit sales were a whopping 1,000 to 1,500 units with an operating loss of $115 to $125 million, and a RideApart article titled “Harley-Davidson Should Give Up On Electric Motorcycles” by Jonathon Klein on April 26, 2024, gave us this news on that subject, to wit:
There was a single glaring problem from the start: Price.
When Harley-Davidson announced that, after its botched acquisition of Alta, it was launching the all-electric LiveWire, the Milwaukee-based outfit committed the cardinal sin of failing to read the room.
It’s understandable, though, as Harley had made its bones on expensive motorcycles built for folks who had a leg up with a booming economy and were always on financially stable ground.
These dentists, middle managers, and soccer coaches had cash to burn, and they had the freedom to enjoy a toy that’d sit for 10 months of the year in their garage, only to enjoy it one perfect summer day.
That’s just not the case for today’s buyers who face massive income inequality, trash job prospects, and rising inflation.
Their spending goes to housing, food, and paying off their school loans, not five-digit motorcycles.
And so, Harley’s attempt at capturing the next generation and bringing them into the brotherhood of the brand became a joke after announcing LiveWire’s eye-watering $30,000 sticker.
We’re painted a pretty bleak future for LiveWire as a whole, as Q1 saw operating losses for the brand hit $29 million, which is on the back of 2023’s $125 million losses, and $85 million in loses in 2022.
And sales have just gone nowhere, with the company stating it sold 660 motorcycles in 2023, with 2024 year-to-date sales of just 117 bikes.
That’s just not enough for a brand to sustain itself, nor am I sure it should continue as it is.
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And the BIDEN BULL**** continues unabated!
Stay tuned for more yet to come.
Going back to Joe Biden’s ditzy Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who has absolutely no qualifications whatsoever to be an energy secretary, knowing nothing about energy, or much else for that matter, other than how to spew reams and gobs of pure political bull****, such as her telling Fox News Digital recently that Joe Biden is utterly on his game, and compared to her and the rest of the idiots in his cabinet that Joe is the wisest, most knowledgeable person in the room, and he asks the toughest questions, like what planet he is on, and is it tomarrow, or the end of time, and has the keenest insights on the complex questions brought to him and he is sharp, thoughtful and wise, which spewing of political bull**** praising Joe Biden is her only qualification to be Joe Biden’s energy secretary, this being the same Jennifer Granholm, a proven Democrat party loyalist who was a member of the presidential transition team for Hussein Obama before he assumed office in 2009, an important point to remember in the light of what follows about Hussein bailing out GM and Chrysler in 2009, becaming host of “The War Room” with Jennifer Granholm after that, and in 2017, was hired as a CNN political contributor, and more importantly, at least as far as Joe is concerned, because Joe made a campaign promise to select a team that “looks like America” and modernizes the predominantly male, white institution, she won the Miss San Carlos beauty pageant, and then as a young adult, she attempted to launch a Hollywood acting career but abandoned her efforts at age 21, and after that, in 1978, she appeared on The Dating Game, another top qualification to be a member of TEAM BIDEN and of great importance to Joe, she held jobs as a tour guide at Universal Studios and in customer service at the Los Angeles Times and was the first female tour guide at Marine World Africa USA in Redwood City, piloting boats with 25 tourists aboard, and who today apparently thinks we all are as stupid and ignorant and empty-headed and unaware of what happened more than five minutes ago as she is, the airhead, telling reporters the awards, CORPORATE WELFARE in reality, to GM, Stellantis and Harley-Davidson were a “hallmark of the Biden administration’s industrial strategy” and would “modernize historical auto manufacturing facilities,” further stating that it had become clear more than a decade ago that automakers, to embrace the future, “needed a federal partner especially to compete with other countries who were subsidizing their auto industries and that’s what this massive investment is all about,” reminds me of yet another White House “fact sheet,” this one entitled “Obama Administration Auto Restructuring Initiative – General Motors Restructuring,” where we had as follows concerning GM’s obvious inability to compete in the automotive market place, because they are incompetent, to wit:
On March 30, 2009, President Obama laid out a framework for General Motors to achieve viability that required the Company to rework its business plan, accelerate its operational restructuring and make far greater reductions in its outstanding liabilities.
After two months of significant management engagement, General Motors has developed such a plan and has already begun to make progress toward its achievement.
The Company has also secured commitments of meaningful sacrifice from all of its major stakeholder groups , sacrifices sufficient for this plan to proceed forward.
As a result, the President has deemed GM’s plan viable and will be making available about $30 billion of additional federal assistance to support GM’s restructuring plan.
To effectuate its plan, General Motors will use Section 363 of the bankruptcy code to clear away the remaining impediments to its successful re-launch.
The President made clear throughout this process that every one of the Company’s stakeholder would be expected to sacrifice, and that none would receive special treatment because of the involvement of the government.
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As we all should be aware, Joe Biden was Hussein Obama’s vice president at that time, which takes us to a Forbes article titled “As Obama Takes Victory Lap Over Auto Industry Rescue, Here Are The Lessons Of The Bailout” by David Kiley on January 20, 2016, where we had this on Hussein’s bail-out of not only GMKJ, but Chrysler, as well, which is now Stellantis, to wit:
If there is one city, and one state, where President Obama should feel welcome, it’s Detroit and Michigan.
In his visit to the North American International Auto Show today, he took a victory lap touting his administration’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler.
The decision to bail out General Motors and Chrysler, and aid their financing subsidiaries and suppliers through loan guarantees in 2009 in the teeth of the economic meltdown that gripped world markets, was hotly debated at the time and since.
“I think the president is well entitled to come to Detroit to celebrate the auto industry, because he made some very tough decisions that at the time were politically very unpopular,” Steven Rattner, former “car czar” who advised the President on the bailout told mlive.com ahead of the President’s visit.
Besides the job recovery in the auto industry, GM and Chrysler have paid back their obligations to the U.S. Treasury.
Both companies, plus Ford Motor Co., which did not go through bankruptcy, are thriving today – having restructured healthcare and pension obligations and closed brands and factories they did not need.
GM, for example, shuttered Hummer, Pontiac, Saturn and Saab.
In short, the three companies were able to dramatically lower their break-even point – the number of industry sales required to cover their costs.
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And here we have Joe Biden effectively bailing them out all over again, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Harley-Davidson profit skids, cuts yearly outlook on slowing demand” by Bianca Flowers and Kannaki Deka on July 27, 2023, where we have Harley-Davidson, another recipient of Biden largesse with our federal tax dollars in the spotlight, to wit:
July 27 (Reuters) – Harley-Davidson Inc. missed Wall Street expectations on Thursday as profit declined 18% in the second quarter and slowing consumer demand in North America, its largest market, prompted the company to cut its sales outlook for the year.
Despite disappointing earnings, shares for the Milwaukee-based company were up 5.3%.
Company executives partially attributed the earnings miss to production being temporarily halted in June at the company’s York, Pennsylvania, assembly plant for the second time in just over 12 months due to a parts shortage.
The 120-year-old manufacturer revised its full-year revenue target and is anticipating sales growth for its motorcycles and related products to be flat to 3% from its previous forecast of 4% to 7%.
Operating margins are expected to be between 13.9% and 14.3%.
Tighter credit for American borrowers is denting consumers’ ability to purchase big-ticket leisure items, Harley Chief Executive Jochen Zeitz told investors on a conference call.
“We’ve seen clear impact on customer demand and affordability with higher interest rates giving pause to higher-credit customers,” he said.
Harley’s price increases and surcharges for popular models have lifted the manufacturer’s earnings per share in previous quarters, but analysts say the slowing demand is also reflective of consumers becoming less tolerant of price hikes.
Harley has sustained margin growth through its wealthier customer base but hasn’t been as successful luring younger riders with the release of its electric bikes, such as its more affordable Del Mar model that retails for nearly half the price point of its top-selling bikes.
The manufacturer also shifted its electric motorcycles unit sales for the year.
Lower sales for its latest model, LiveWire ONE, and electric-powered balance bikes for kids translated to a 44% yearly decline in revenue.
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And from there to a Bloomberg article titled “Slump in Big Purchases Clashes With Government’s Strong Consumer Data” by Leslie Patton and Michael Sasso on 28 October 2023, to wit:
(Bloomberg) — Makers of refrigerators, boats and teeth straighteners say US consumers are shunning big-ticket items, defying the macro economic reports on spending.
Shoppers think long and hard before buying a motorized vehicle or washing machine, and they are increasingly reconsidering them.
That’s a bad sign for a US economy that has been kept afloat — and out of recession — by the willingness of Americans to keep spending despite high inflation and interest rates.
For Harley-Davidson Inc., higher borrowing rates hurt sales of motorcycles, which tumbled 15% in North America.
The company has rolled out generous new incentives to stimulate demand, but even then, sales were weak in the third quarter, according to dealerships and research from UBS Group AG.
“It is clear that the macroeconomic backdrop has been a challenge,” CEO Jochen Zeitz said on Thursday during a call with analysts.
Inflationary pressures and high interest rates are making it harder for consumers to afford its vehicles, he said.
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And from there to a Reuters article titled “Harley-Davidson profit slumps on weakening demand, shares tumble 11%” by Bianca Flowers and Kannaki Deka on October 26, 2023, where we have as follows:
Oct 26 (Reuters) – Harley-Davidson Inc on Thursday reported a 24% yearly decline in third-quarter profit as customers cut back on discretionary spending due to higher borrowing costs and inflationary pressures, sending shares down 11%.
The Milwaukee-based company’s shares hit their lowest level in three years.
Customers have become reluctant to splurge on big-ticket leisure items as U.S. interest rates climbed over the past year while higher inflation forces them to focus on essentials.
“It is clear that the macroeconomic backdrop has been a challenge for our customers globally,” Chief Executive Jochen Zeitz said on a conference call.
Harley has maintained margin growth through its wealthier customer base, but hasn’t been as successful in luring younger riders with the its fleet of lower-priced models and the revamping of its apparel business, featuring a series of new collections and collaborations with A-list celebrities.
Company executives reassured investors they are focused on “what we can control” by managing inventory levels that are expected to be higher compared to the past two years but in line to meet demand.
Yearly operating income guidance was unchanged.
Harley’s price increases and surcharges for popular models have lifted the manufacturer’s earnings per share in previous quarters, but analysts say slowing demand is reflective of a murkier outlook for the leisure retail sector heading into next year.
Harley’s retails sales were down across all of its regions.
North America, its largest market, declined for a third consecutive quarter.
The company attributed the revenue shortfall to higher borrowing costs and the discontinuation of its legacy Sportster model at the end of last year.
Sales from motorcycles and related products fell about 9% to $1.30 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30.
Global motorcycle shipments decreased 20% during the period due to the production suspension announced late in the second quarter, the company said.
Harley’s net profit fell to $198.6 million compared to $261.2 million year ago.
Earnings per share tracked by analysts came in at $1.38 per share in the third-quarter, slightly above expectations of $1.36.
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And from there to yet another Reuters article titled “Harley-Davidson profit falls 23% on slowing sales, shares tumble” by Kannaki Deka on April 25, 2024 where we have yet more fall-out from Joe Biden’s BIDE-O-NOMICs requiring Joe’s Jennifer to hand out CORPORATE WELFARE to Harley-Davidson, to wit:
April 25 (Reuters) – Harley-Davidson on Thursday reported a 23% decline in first-quarter profit, hurt by slowing motorcycle sales as high borrowing costs deter potential buyers from making expensive purchases, sending its shares down 18% in afternoon trade.
The company also reaffirmed its full-year revenue growth forecast of flat to down 9% for its motorcycle business and an operating income margin of between 12.6% and 13.6%, the top end of which was in line with the year-earlier number.
“We’re really just entering the riding season … and a lot depends on the second quarter, which is why we have not changed our guidance at this point in time,” Harley-Davidson CEO Jochen Zeitz said on a call with analysts.
Despite Harley’s attempt to spruce up its offerings with electric and low-cost options, the 120-year-old motorcycle maker has not been highly successful in attracting the younger generation, forcing it to rely on its tried-and-tested customer base of boomers to drive sales.
During the first quarter, North American motorcycle retail rose 6%, helped by sales of its new Touring motorcycles.
But that figure came in below an estimate of 9% by Raymond James analyst Joe Altobello.
“With growing pressure on consumer discretionary spending, we think HOG’s unchanged guidance despite a significantly better-than-expected Q1 reflects caution as it pertains to its motorcycle sales and margins for the balance of the year,” CFRA analyst Garrett Nelson said.
The company reported an adjusted profit of $1.72 per share for the first quarter, above average analysts’ expectations of $1.51 per share, according to LSEG data.
Revenue for the quarter fell 5% to $1.48 billion, beating estimates of $1.34 billion.
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As Joe Biden’s BIDE-O-NOMICS destroys the US economy, can we expect more CORPORATE WELFARE?
Probably.
So stay tuned, more is yet to come.
So, it would seem that Democrat Joe Biden almost got his wish, and that of his fellow Democrats and their media enablers and supporters fulfilled when some 20-year old dude identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white, relatively well-to-do city in the southern reaches of greater Pittsburgh, which according to published statistics, tends to be democratic based on voting results in recent elections, and compared to other nearby cities, Bethel Park has more democratic voters, while compared to the nation as a whole, Bethel Park leans more democratic, tried to assassinate his political rival, Donald Trump at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, about an hour’s drive north of Pittsburgh, on Saturday, 13 July 2024.
As to Joe Biden’s wish, which almost came true, I am referring to the following comments made by Joe Biden in a Washington Post story titled “Biden calls Trump ‘a toxic presence’ who is encouraging violence in America” by Matt Viser, Ashley Parker and Chelsea Janes on August 31, 2020, where we had Joe Biden on the record calling for political violence against Donald Trump, as if Trump were some sort of vermin to be eliminated, to wit:
“Donald Trump has been a toxic presence in our nation for four years,” Biden said.
“Will we rid ourselves of this toxin?”
“Or will we make it a permanent part of our nation’s character?”
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And in my mind, anyway, that takes us back in time to April 10, 1901, when Democrat William Randolph Hearst’s Journal attacked then-U.S. president McKinley in an editorial that ended with the following words:
“Institutions, like men, will last until they die; and if bad institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, then the killing must be done,”
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So, on August 31, 1901, a dude named Leon F Czolgosz traveled to Buffalo, New York, the site of the Pan-American Exposition, where President McKinley would be speaking, and he rented a room in Nowak’s Hotel at 1078 Broadway.
Thereafter, on September 6, Czolgosz went to the exposition armed with a concealed .32-caliber Iver Johnson “Safety Automatic” revolver he had purchased four days earlier, and he approached McKinley, who had been standing in a receiving line inside the Temple of Music, greeting the public for ten minutes.
At 4:07 p.m., Czolgosz reached the front of the line and while McKinley extended his hand, Czolgosz slapped it aside and shot the President twice in the abdomen at point-blank range: the first bullet ricocheted off a coat button and lodged in McKinley’s jacket; the other seriously wounded him in the stomach.
McKinley’s stomach wound was not lethal, but he died eight days later on September 14, 1901, of an infection that had spread from the wound.
The scorn heaped upon Hearst was swift and overwhelming from Republican-affiliated newspapers, which blamed the publisher’s editorials for spurring the assassin to pull the trigger against the president.
That same swift and overwhelming scorn should be heaped up on American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, today, and the Democrats, and their MEDIA STOOGES by every single person in America.
Going back to September 19, 2018, in a Daily Caller article titled “Gov Jerry Brown: ‘Something’s Got To Happen To’ Trump, People Must ‘Get Rid Of Him’” by Joshua Gill, we had that same sort of inflammatory political language from GOVERNOR MOONBEAM of California, another RABID DEMOCRAT, to wit:
Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown called President Donald Trump a “saboteur” and claimed Trump would undermine America “if we don’t get rid of him.”
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Now, how many ways would some crackpot out there in America, a land full of crackpots, take that kind of language – “if we don’t get rid of him?”
How is that inflammatory language any different from the language in the editorial in the April 10, 1901 edition of Wiliam Randolph Hearst’s Journal, himself a DEMOCRAT political hack like GOVERNOR MOONBEAM and Joe Biden, saying “Institutions, like men, will last until they die; and if bad institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, then the killing must be done?”
And the simple answer is, it is no different at all – THE DEMOCRATS WANT TRUMP MURDERED, plain and simple!
As to Hearst, he was twice elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives, and in his early years, his politics were so progressive that critics called him a socialist.
Elected to Congress in 1902, he rarely followed up on bills he put forth, or even bothered to appear in Congress at all so that of two hundred roll calls in his first year, he missed all but four.
He also ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States in 1904, for mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909, and for Governor of New York in 1906, espousing views generally associated with the left wing of the Progressive Movement.
During his run for president in 1904, an editorialist in a rival newspaper stated:
“It is not simply that we revolt at Hearst’s huge vulgarity; at his front of bronze; at his shrieking unfitness mentally, for the office he sets out to buy.” which should remind us of Joe Biden today trying to buy this election with his blatant ELECTORAL BRIBERY, and “There never has been a case of a man of such slender intellectual equipment, absolutely without experience in office, impudently flaunting his wealth before the eyes of the people and saying, ‘Make me President.’”
Speaking of a case of a man of slender intellectual equipment, that is American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden today, who claims to be the first Black woman to serve as a vice president for a half Black man named Hussein Obama, the same Joe Biden who on September 17, 2018 had what was called his HILLARY CLINTON MOMENT when he called Trump’s supporters “virulent people, some of them the dregs of society.”
HATE SPEECH, people, plain and simple!
For those of us with working minds who recall American history more than five minutes ago, after Heart’s failed 1904 White House bid, as stated above, Hearst ran unsuccessfully for New York mayor in 1905, New York senator in 1906, and then president again—this time as an independent—in 1908, and his presidential campaign went nowhere, in part because Hearst refused to take any advice.
“We have no prominent men associated with us,” he bragged.
“If I have prominent men connected with me, I will have to consult with them — and I don’t consult with anybody.”
Hearst had already become a pariah among Democratic party bosses, who viewed him as a loose cannon and a megalomaniac.
“He is controlled by the idea that he is greater than the Democratic Party,” one disgruntled leader said.
“He is a slave to passion and egotism.”
“His creed is that everybody who is for him is an angel, while everybody who is against him is a demon.”
Most of all, critics blasted the shameless manner in which Hearst used his own media empire to support his political campaigns.
Hearst newspapers ran block headlines in praise of him throughout the 1904 presidential contest and during his subsequent runs for office.
As Teddy Roosevelt said, “He (Hearst) has enormous popularity among ignorant and unthinking people.”
“He preaches the gospel of envy, hate and unrest.”
“He is the most potent single influence for evil we have in our life.”
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Sounds very much like DEMOCRAT Joe Biden today!
Stay tuned, more is yet to come.
Besides not much, what truly can be said about this version of America that we now find ourselves, as the nation now conducts a “death watch” for the administration of American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first Black woman to serve as a vice president to a half black man named Hussein Obama.
Old Joe right now is back in his basement where he started his campaign, down with COVID once again, which is quite the testimonial for the man who back on September 9, 2021 issued his “Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic,” where he told the nation and the world he is running, or ruling, as follows on defeating the COVID that he is once again suffering from, although it well could be nothing more than a handy excuse as the Democrats en masse are weeping and moaning about losing the house and senate unless the gaffer throws in the towel and ends his campaign, to wit:
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, my fellow Americans.
I want to talk to you about where we are in the battle against COVID-19, the progress we’ve made, and the work we have left to do.
And it starts with understanding this: Even as the Delta variant 19 [sic] has — COVID-19 — has been hitting this country hard, we have the tools to combat the virus, if we can come together as a country and use those tools.
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And of course we can’t come together as a country precisely because Joe and his pack of Democrats who want him gone keep working overtime with great effort to keep us divided, and if we actually did have the “tools” to combat the virus, then why oh why does Joe Biden have it today?
Going back to September 9, 2021, old Joe rambled on as follows, to wit:
If we raise our vaccination rate, protect ourselves and others with masking and expanded testing, and identify people who are infected, we can and we will turn the tide on COVID-19.
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Which takes us back to December 21, 2020, and a CNN story titled “Biden receives first dose of Covid-19 vaccine on live television” by Kate Sullivan, where we had the gaffer getting the miraclc cure for the COVID he now has, to wit:
CNN — President-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on live television Monday afternoon and reassured Americans of the vaccine’s safety.
The shot, which Biden received in his left arm, was administered at ChristianaCare’s Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, by Tabe Mase, who is a nurse practitioner and the head of employee health services at the hospital, according to the Biden transition team.
“We owe these folks an awful lot,” Biden said, thanking those involved in the vaccine’s development and distribution and front-line health care workers.
“I’m doing this to demonstrate that people should be prepared, when it’s available, to take the vaccine.”
“There’s nothing to worry about.”
“I’m looking forward to the second shot; so is Jill,” Biden said.
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Nothing to worry about?
Then why is Joe down with COVID t0day?
Which takes us to September 9, 2023, and a Politico article by Olivia Alafriz titled “Biden receives updated Covid shot amid rocky rollout, vaccine polarization,” where we had more on Joe’s war against COVID, to wit:
President Joe Biden received the updated Covid-19 vaccine, according to a memo from White House physician Kevin O’Connor released Saturday.
“As we enter the cold and flu season, the President encourages all Americans to follow his example and to check with their healthcare provider or pharmacist to assure that they are fully vaccinated,” O’Connor wrote in the memo.
The president received the Covid vaccine alongside the annual flu vaccine Friday, O’Connor wrote.
First lady Jill Biden experienced “mild symptoms” when she contracted Covid earlier this month.
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And that takes us back to September 9, 2021, where we had more from Joe on how he was going to lick COVID, which he obviously has not done, given he has it again, to wit:
It will take a lot of hard work, and it’s going to take some time.
Many of us are frustrated with the nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated, even though the vaccine is safe, effective, and free.
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Old Joe, who has been vaccinated and now has COVID, is frustrated with the nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated?
Do tell, Joe.
I am almost as old as old Joe, and I haven’t been vaccinated and unlike Joe, I have not caught COVID, which takes us to an article in The Hill titled “How many times has President Biden tested positive for COVID-19?” by Miranda Nazzaro on July 17, 2024, where we have as follows on Joe’s war against COVID, to wit:
President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, marking the third time in the past two years the president has tested positive for the virus.
He received his first dose of Paxlovid, an antiviral therapy produced by Pfizer.
Earlier in the afternoon, Biden experienced upper respiratory symptoms, including a runny nose and nonproductive cough, his doctor said in a statement.
“He felt OK for his first event of the day, but given that he was not feeling better, point of care testing for COVID-19 was conducted, and the results were positive for the COVID-19 virus,” the doctor added.
The White House noted Biden is vaccinated and boosted.
Biden, 81, first tested positive for COVID in July 2022, after which he isolated at the White House and began taking Paxlovid.
After completing a five-day course of the antiviral medication and experiencing only mild symptoms, Biden emerged from isolation just to test positive with a “rebound” case of COVID-19, which lasted one week until Aug. 15.
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So when it comes to catching COVID, old Joe is on a roll, which makes him a real good walking advertisement for the “efficacy” of the COVID vaccines he is touting, which again takes us back to September 9, 2021, to wit:
You might be confused about what is true and what is false about COVID-19.
So before I outline the new steps to fight COVID-19 that I’m going to be announcing tonight, let me give you some clear information about where we stand.
First, we have cons- — we have made considerable progress in battling COVID-19.
This progress is real.
But while America is in much better shape than it was seven months ago when I took office, I need to tell you a second fact.
We’re in a tough stretch, and it could last for a while.
The highly contagious Delta variant that I began to warn America about back in July spread in late summer like it did in other countries before us.
While the vaccines provide strong protections for the vaccinated, we read about, we hear about, and we see the stories of hospitalized people, people on their death beds, among the unvaccinated over these past few weeks.
This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
And it’s caused by the fact that despite America having an unprecedented and successful vaccination program, despite the fact that for almost five months free vaccines have been available in 80,000 different locations, we still have nearly 80 million Americans
who have failed to get the shot.
And to make matters worse, there are elected officials actively working to undermine the fight against COVID-19.
Instead of encouraging people to get vaccinated and mask up, they’re ordering mobile morgues for the unvaccinated dying from COVID in their communities.
This is totally unacceptable.
Third, if you wonder how all this adds up, here’s the math: The vast majority of Americans are doing the right thing.
Nearly three quarters of the eligible have gotten at least one shot, but one quarter has not gotten any.
That’s nearly 80 million Americans not vaccinated.
And in a country as large as ours, that’s 25 percent minority.
That 25 percent can cause a lot of damage — and they are.
The unvaccinated overcrowd our hospitals, are overrunning the emergency rooms and intensive care units, leaving no room for someone with a heart attack, or pancreitis [pancreatitis], or cancer.
And fourth, I want to emphasize that the vaccines provide very strong protection from severe illness from COVID-19.
I know there’s a lot of confusion and misinformation.
But the world’s leading scientists confirm that if you are fully vaccinated, your risk of severe illness from COVID-19 is very low.
So here’s where we stand: The path ahead, even with the Delta variant, is not nearly as bad as last winter.
But what makes it incredibly more frustrating is that we have the tools to combat COVID-19, and a distinct minority of Americans –supported by a distinct minority of elected officials — are keeping us from turning the corner.
These pandemic politics, as I refer to, are making people sick, causing unvaccinated people to die.
We cannot allow these actions to stand in the way of protecting the large majority of Americans who have done their part and want to get back to life as normal.
As your President, I’m announcing tonight a new plan to require more Americans to be vaccinated, to combat those blocking public health.
My plan also increases testing, protects our economy, and will make our kids safer in schools.
It consists of six broad areas of action and many specific measures in each that — and each of those actions that you can read more about at WhiteHouse.gov. WhiteHouse.gov.
My job as President is to protect all Americans.
The bottom line: We’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers.
And my message to unvaccinated Americans is this: What more is there to wait for?
What more do you need to see?
We’ve made vaccinations free, safe, and convenient.
We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin.
And your refusal has cost all of us.
So, please, do the right thing.
But just don’t take it from me; listen to the voices of unvaccinated Americans who are lying in hospital beds, taking their final breaths, saying, “If only I had gotten vaccinated.”
“If only.”
It’s a tragedy.
Please don’t let it become yours.
The second piece of my plan is continuing to protect the vaccinated.
For the vast majority of you who have gotten vaccinated, I understand your anger at those who haven’t gotten vaccinated.
I understand the anxiety about getting a “breakthrough” case.
But as the science makes clear, if you’re fully vaccinated, you’re highly protected from severe illness, even if you get COVID-19.
In fact, recent data indicates there is only one confirmed positive case per 5,000 fully vaccinated Americans per day.
You’re as safe as possible, and we’re doing everything we can to keep it that way — keep it that way, keep you safe.
So let me close with this: We have so- — we’ve made so much progress during the past seven months of this pandemic.
We have the tools.
Now we just have to finish the job with truth, with science, with confidence, and together as one nation.
Look, we’re the United States of America.
There’s nothing — not a single thing — we’re unable to do if we do it together.
So let’s stay together.
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We’re the United States of America and there’s nothing — not a single thing — we’re unable to do if we do it together?
Oh, really!
Looks to me as if we are unable to keep Joe Biden from getting COVID three times now, and that for the moment is the news.
“I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down!”
So said American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first Black woman to be an American vice president in the history of the nation on Sunday, July 21, 2024, ending the “death watch” of his crumbling, bumbling, incompetent and inept reign of power in America and the world, as the senile gaffer threw in the towel and headed for the showers after his last fifteen fast balls barely made it to home plate on a slow roll, and yes, as an American citizen, I do have to agree with Joe that it is in the best interest of the country for him to stand down, but what is this “best interest of my party” BULL****?
And it is of note that Joe put PARTY, i.e. FACTION, ahead of country.
As a political INDEPENDENT who believes in REPUBLICANISM, that being the THEORY of government this nation was supposedly founded on, which theory emphasizes the participation of ALL citizens, which would include Joe Biden, but obviously doesn’t, given his devotion to his FACTION, for the common good of the community with the responsibilities and duties of citizens, including Joe Biden, being paramount, so that citizens subordinate personal to public interests, I am past sick and tired of hearing “PARTY UBER ALLES” (Party above all else), as is the case here with old Joe’s capitulation speech.
And of course, we DO NOT have anything close to REPUBLICANISM in America today.
We have rampant greed and moronic ignorance instead, cultivated by the REPUBLICAN faction or gang, which is as far from REPUBLICANISM as it is possible to be, and the DEMOCRAT faction, which feeds off of greed and ignorance while worshipping moronic idiocy as its god.
If we go back to the 1930’s, we find American political commentator H.L. Mencken in “On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe” stating that as democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people so that on some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron, which was the case with DICTATOR Biden.
But what Mr. Mencken overlooked or failed to mention, given he was following national politics at the presidential level, is that while those people in America who vote for morons as their presidents do so 0nly once in every four years, every year they vote in local elections for federal representatives and senators and governors and county and city, town and village officials so that today not only the office of president is adorned by a downright moron, but the offices of local governments and county governments and state governments are as well along with the US congress and senate.
And these people who put downright morons in power over them are in many cases the supposedly “smart” and “intelligent” folks of the land, the so-called BEST AND BRIGHTEST, who in actuality are at the level of morons, and as a result can’t put words together to make sentences and paragraphs to convey intelligent thoughts and so are reduced to spouting drivel and gibberish in TWEETS on X, which is a platform designed for morons to communicate with each other, which platform has 106.23 users in the USA, including Joe Biden, Karmela Harris and Nancy Pelosi, who on 21 July 2024 TWEETED “President Joe Biden is a patriotic American who has always put our country first,” which is partisan political BULL****. and “his legacy of vision, values and leadership make him one of the most consequential Presidents in American history,” which is more partisan political BULL****, concluding with love and gratitude to President Biden for always believing in the promise of America and giving people the opportunity to reach their fulfillment, and “God blessed America with Joe Biden’s greatness and goodness,” which is incredible BULL**** that makes GOD out to be just another moron who seriously bungled creation if that is the case,
So we are now at a point in American history where local governments, county governments and state governments are now adorned by downright morons who in turn protect the morons in their faction who put them in office and who keep them in office which makes it exceedingly difficult and dangerous today for those like myself who are not morons and who don’t wish to be morons and who refuse to give respect to the morons in the majority which leaves us open to oppression by the morons who know nothing of law nor do they care to, as it is too complicated a subject for them to grasp.
Thanks to this FACTIONALISM, which Joe Biden certainly has been a proponent of, we are now very much a divided country thanks to the two opposing gangs called Democrats and Republicans, as opposed to Sharks and Jets or Bloods and Crips, which statement is supported by the statement at the top of this Democrat Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/PKDemocrats/ where it says “WE are stronger together,” with the “WE” being the gang members of the Democrat faction, and who is not a member of that gang is an outsider, as it is about POWER, plain and simple, at the local level, just as it is at the national level.
And if one such as myself dares to stand against the gang, then one finds life can be very hard in a small town in America today.
“GROUP THINK!”
“DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD!”
“LEAVE YOUR MIND AT THE DOOR!”
“INDEPENDENT THINKING NOT ALLOWED!”
“PARTY UBER ALLES!”
Not the country.
Boil it down and these faction members like these Poestenkill Democrats are nothing more than ignorant, greedy thieves, intent of treasury looting, which is why this country is now on its way down, like a Boeing 737.
And people wonder why this is a divided country.
It is divided precisely because democracy made it that way with the majority morons who now own the various levels of government oppressing those who aren’t morons and so, are seen as existential threats to the democracy of the morons as was the case in Nazi Germany back when.
“New York will be strongly Kamala Harris country!”
So said New York state governor ditzy Kathy Hochul in a Hearst publication article titled “Hochul praises VP Harris: ‘New York is Kamala Harris country’ – Gov. Kathy Hochul, long one of Joe Biden’s most ardent supporters, pledged to throw New York’s considerable political clout behind Vice President Kamala Harris” by Raga Justin of the Albany, New York Times Union on July 22, 2024, wherein we were informed as follows, to wit:
ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul committed Monday to rally around Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now poised to be the Democratic front-runner after President Joe Biden announced he would not seek a second term.
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This of course is the same ditzy Kathy Hochul who just days earlier, on July 18, 2024, was quoted in an ABC News story tited “Hochul says she’s ‘with’ Biden ‘as long as he wants to do this’ amid campaign speculation” by Kristina Watrobski as follows:
WASHINGTON (TND) — New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul reignited her support for President Joe Biden Thursday as a growing number of Democrats call on him to exit the presidential race.
Various reports have surfaced this week saying top Democrats have privately cautioned Biden against continuing his campaign.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., reportedly both warned the president late last week doing so would put the Democratic Party at risk of losing control of both chambers next year.
Meanwhile, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately presented Biden with polling showing he likely cannot beat former President Donald Trump, according to the Associated Press.
There is now speculation swirling that Biden may drop out as soon as this weekend. However, Gov. Hochul indicated during an interview with Bloomberg Thursday the rumors have done little to deter her.
“What I said when I met the president, literally the day after his debate … what he said [is] he is in it to win it,” the governor said.
“Once he said he’s in, my view is he’s gonna be in.”
“He’s staying.”
“As long as he’s staying in this race, I am with him,” Gov. Hochul added.
“I am with him as long as he wants to do this, and he’s been an extraordinary president.”
Gov. Hochul has been a steadfast supporter of Biden throughout the election cycle.
In May, the Democratic governor labeled those backing Trump as “clowns” and asserted her state will “never ever” vote the Republican into the White House.
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Note the words “HER STATE,” as if New York state were literally her personal possession, and we who live here merely her chattel, or possessions, which of course is true for the MINDLESS bovine-like cud-chewing Demo0crats in this state who do exactly what the party bosses above them tell them to do, and think exactly what the party bosses above them tell them to think, which takes us back to that Poestenkill Democrat Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/PKDemocrats/ where it says “WE are stronger together,” with the “WE” being the gang members of the Democrat faction in that town, a satellite of Hochul’s crime-ridden capital city of Albany, and its political boss Poestenkill Democrat boss Susan Mullen Kalafut, who at the same time is also a high-ranking state Democrat, being a member of the state Democrat committee, as well as a high-ranking Rensselaer County Democrat, being the 2nd Vice-Chair of the Rensselaer County Democratic Committee 2022-2024 Executive Committee, which is how the Democrats maintain iron discipline over their drones and soldiers at the local or grassroots level, a structure that incidentally worked well for the Nazis under Hitler, where gauleiters, the equivalents of Democrat bosses like Susan Mullen Kalafut of Poestenkill, were political officials governing a district under Nazi rule, which takes us back to the AB C story, to wit:
“We know [Trump] better than anyone, and that means we understand what he’s all about is just for himself,” she said.
“So, this state will go solidly behind Joe Biden for president as it has in the past.”
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Except now, that is no longer true, so all the Democrat drones and soldiers at the local level such as Poestenkill, the GOOD DEMOCRATS, have put away the Biden flags they were vigorously waving when Hochul’s New York was solidly behind Joe Biden for president, and now they are mindlessly waving Harris flags instead, because they have been told to do so, which is how Democrat politics works in this state, anyway.
“GROUP THINK!”
“DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD!”
“LEAVE YOUR MIND AT THE DOOR!”
“INDEPENDENT THINKING NOT ALLOWED!”
“PARTY UBER ALLES!”
Not the country.
Going back to the Times Union article, it continues as follows:
Hochul, long one of Biden’s most ardent supporters, had until recently indicated she would continue to support his candidacy despite shrinking favorability within the Democratic Party.
But she softened that endorsement last week during a live interview with the Times Union, indicating she would support whoever became the nominee amid weeks of intensifying calls among Democrats for Biden to exit the race.
She said Monday that she had not yet spoken with Biden since he announced his departure from the presidential race in a letter released Sunday afternoon and without addressing the public in an interview or news conference.
Biden is isolating at his Delaware beach house while recovering from COVID-19.
Hochul said she did not regret standing with Biden as long as she did and applauded him for federal investments in economic development and infrastructure in New York during what will be his only term as president.
It remains unclear which New York Democrats, including some facing tough races this year, will fall in line behind Harris.
As of Monday, endorsements from Democratic candidates in the state’s swing districts were still trickling in.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced her support of Harris on Monday but Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer has not.
Hochul avoided directly mentioning Democratic holdouts by name.
A number of other Democratic candidates running in tight congressional races in Long Island and the Hudson Valley had stayed silent late Sunday and into Monday morning, although though as the afternoon wore on several began to post similar statements endorsing Harris, including former CNN journalist John Avlon, a Democrat who is campaigning against incumbent U.S. Rep. Nick LaLota, a Republican, in the First Congressional District in Suffolk County.
Hochul said she could not speak to the timing of those endorsements, but said she is “very confident” New York Democrats would present a united front for Harris.
During a news conference on Monday, U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, an Amsterdam Democrat, avoided answering whether Harris should be held at least partially responsible for her role as vice president in concealing from the public any concerns around Biden’s mental fitness.
Instead, Tonko deflected and talked about the rigors of running a campaign and the White House simultaneously as factors behind Biden’s decision to step down.
“I think the rigors of the campaign and being the most forceful messenger along that campaign trail is what drove his decision,” Tonko said.
“(Harris) working with him routinely, I’m certain got a flavor of what I sensed when I was in the company of the president.”
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And there we have a look into what passes for the minds of the mindless Democrats of New York, anyway.
But stay tuned, more is yet to come, and if ditzy Kathy Hochul thinks I am going to vote for cackling Karmela Harris with her Venn diagrams and little yellow school buses because ditzy Kathy says this is Harris country, shy can pogue mahone.
And according to an article titled “N.Y. Democrats coalesce around Harris after Biden break – By Tuesday, Democrats in New York had unified behind Harris as their nominee” by Dan Clark of the Hearst publication the Albany, New York Times Union on July 23, 2024, like a bunch of cringing, cowardly slinking curs crawling on their bellies, the hold-out Democrats are now rallying around the flag of cackling Karmela Harris, the PARTY CHOICE, with her Venn diagrams and little yellow school busses who can’t appear in public without laughing like a hyena, lest they end up being shunned and un-churched by the DICTATORIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY, which comment about DICTATORIAL DEMOCRATS takes us back to the ABC News story titled “Hochul says she’s ‘with’ Biden ‘as long as he wants to do this’ amid campaign speculation” by Kristina Watrobski on July 18, 2024, as follows:
In May, the Democratic governor labeled those backing Trump as “clowns” and asserted her state will “never ever” vote the Republican into the White House.
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Her state will “never ever” vote the Republican into the White House?
That statement, people, tells us all we really need to know about the DEMOCRACY of the DEMOCRATS, which is NO FREEDOM OF CHOICE, PERIOD!
So when we hear the pencil-necked California Democrat Adam “SHIFTY” Schiff saying in a CNBC article titled “Rep. Adam Schiff calls on Biden to drop out of election contest, warns of losing Congress” by Dan Mangan on July 17, 2024 “A second Trump presidency will undermine the very foundation of our democracy,” there is what he is talking about, and when we hear U.S. Sen. Pat Ryan, a Hudson Valley Democrat, saying in the Albany, New York Hearst publication Times Union article titled “Hochul praises VP Harris: ‘New York is Kamala Harris country’ – Gov. Kathy Hochul, long one of Joe Biden’s most ardent supporters, pledged to throw New York’s considerable political clout behind Vice President Kamala Harris” by Raga Justin on July 22, 2024 “Vice President Harris fights for freedom” and “Trump wants to take it away,” there is the so-called “freedom” Karmela Harris is fighting for, which is no freedom of choice at all, which takes us back to the Times Union article titled “N.Y. Democrats coalesce around Harris after Biden break – By Tuesday, Democrats in New York had unified behind Harris as their nominee” by Dan Clark on July 23, 2024, as follows:
ALBANY — It took less than 48 hours for the cracks that had begun to widen between Democrats in New York about this year’s elections to be sealed after President Joseph R. Biden dropped his reelection bid Sunday.
By Tuesday, the same Democrats who had loudly disagreed over having Biden as the party’s nominee days earlier had coalesced around their new one: Vice President Kamala Harris.
The 307 delegates from New York chosen to attend the Democratic National Convention next month in Chicago jumped on a well-attended virtual call Monday night to make that decision alongside Gov. Kathy Hochul, the state party’s de facto head.
The message was clear, Hochul said.
The delegates from New York — the second-largest delegation behind California — will go to Harris.
“I’m so proud of New York’s delegation for joining me to support Vice President Harris,” Hochul said.
Democrats running for Congress who hadn’t yet pledged their support for Harris soon fell in line.
Rep. Tom Suozzi, who hadn’t yet endorsed Harris, said he would back her as the nominee around 10 p.m. Monday.
“The response to Kamala Harris’ historic candidacy has been overwhelming and I add my name to the chorus of endorsements,” Suozzi said.
The other Democrat from New York who had reserved his opinion was House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries from Brooklyn.
His endorsement — along with that of Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, also a Democrat from Brooklyn — was expected, but not promised.
Then the pair of high-ranking Democratic congressional leaders announced a rare joint news conference Tuesday afternoon and emerged in full support of Harris as their nominee.
They wanted to wait to see how delegates from New York and other states reacted to Harris, Schumer said.
She secured more than half the number required for the party’s nomination Tuesday.
“Now that the process has played out, from the grassroots bottom up, we are here today to throw our support behind Vice President Kamala Harris,” Schumer said.
Harris spoke with Schumer Sunday, he said, and told him she wanted to convince Democrats in New York and across the country to support her nomination rather than demand it from the top levels of the party.
“We deeply respected that,” Schumer said.
But while Harris didn’t direct the delegates personally, she instead deployed powerful surrogates like Hochul and Schumer to drum up support for her at the state level.
That wasn’t hard, Schumer said.
“The enthusiasm in this big, diverse party was amazing.”
“It was palpable,” he said.
“You could cut it with a knife!”
They view Harris as their best shot heading into November not only to win the White House, but to build their numbers in Congress.
Democrats have a razor thin majority in the U.S. Senate and are in the minority in the House.
If Democrats flip enough seats in the House to win the majority, that would earn Jeffries a new title: House speaker.
“We’re going to hold the Senate, we’re going to win the house, we’re going to elect Kamala Harris as our next president in November,” Jeffries said.
The pair had reportedly asked Biden personally to consider ending his campaign for president but when asked if that was true, Schumer declined to answer.
“He put his country first and made the right decision,” Schumer said.
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Yeah, right, Charley “CHUCK.”
Old Joe is a patriot, alright!
Which takes us to a necessary pause for station identification, but don’t go away because we will be right back with cackling Karmela Harris telling us that “Nobody says a Venn diagram has to only be three circles, right?”
So stay tuned!
And in response to the pondersome existential question posed to us by newly-appointed Democrat presidential contender cackling Karmela Harris, that being “Nobody says a Venn diagram has to only be three circles, right?” the answer is yes, Karmela, nobody ever said a Venn diagram has to be only three circles, and to delve further into Karmela’s question, while a simple Venn diagram consists of just two overlapping circles, a complex Venn diagram may compare up to five or more data sets using up to five or more circles, so Karmela can have 100 or 200 or even 10,000 circles if she wants, and it is asking very heavy-duty, serious mental questions like that, that make cackling Karmela Harris presidential material in the America of today, and if elected, why, she could even issue an executive order establishing a blue-ribbon select committee of various experts to give serious consideration to that question and come up with a blue ribbon report making it clear that when it comes to the number of circles there could be in a Venn diagram, the sky is the limit, and we would all be the wiser and better people, as a result.
And while we are on that subject of the prospect of the massive intellectual horsepower cackling Karmela Harris could bring to the white house as head of the nation and ruler of the world if elected, let’s go back in time to 12 January 2023, and a Fox News article titled “Kamala Harris mocked for repeating several word salads during climate crisis talk: ‘WTF is her deal'” by Lindsay Kornick, where we had the massive intellectual capacity of the mind of cackling Karmela Harris on display to the candid world, to wit:
Vice President Kamala Harris gave a series of familiar word salads and comments during her latest appearance in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Thursday.
Harris was joined by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and University of Michigan professor Kyle Whyte at the university’s Rackham Auditorium to discuss further efforts to combat the climate crisis.
However, over the course of the discussion, Harris made several statements which triggered the memories of many Twitter users.
The vice president repeated her love for Venn diagrams.
“I love Venn diagrams.”
“I do.”
“I love Venn diagrams.”
“So, the three circles — and you can do more!”
“Nobody says a Venn diagram has to only be three circles, right?” Harris said on Thursday.
Harris made a similar comments in October.
“Let me just say, I love Venn diagrams.”
“I really love Venn diagrams.”
“You know, the circles, right?” Harris said.
Back to the Michigan event, Harris jovially referenced the prospect of electric school buses.
“I’m excited about electric school buses.”
“I LOVE electric school buses.”
“I just love them!”
“For so many reasons.”
“Maybe because I went to school on a school bus.”
“Hey, raise your hand if you went to school on a school bus!” Harris exclaimed while raising her hand.
The comment was almost identical to one Harris made during a Seattle appearance back in October.
“Who doesn’t love a yellow school bus, right?”
“Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus?”
“Many of us went to school on the yellow school bus, right?”
“It’s part of our experience growing up,” Harris said.
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And people, what can possibly be said about that, other than she sounds like a complete idiotic moron, which is why the Ochlocrats who head up the Democrat party in America chose her to be their presidential candidate, which decisi0n now has all the mindless, lock-step Democrats out there in America vigorously waving the “HARRIS FOR RULER OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD” flags while singing her praises at the same time they are doing a complete white-wash of her actual record, including being a failed presidential contender back in 2019, while they are inventing a brand-new history for her, and while we are on that subject of what we can expect from Karmela Harris with respect to our “national security, ” which has never been weaker, let’s talk about the B-1 bomber that crashed in South Dakota back in January for a real hard look at the state of our military readiness under the BIDEN-HARRIS administration, which takes us to an Associated Press article titled “Multiple crew failures and wind shear led to January crash of B-1 bomber, Air Force says” by Tara Copp on 25 July 2024, where we have the leadership of Karmela’s boss, COMMANDER IN CHIEF Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, that Karmela praises, on full display, as follows:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A fiery January crash of a B-1 bomber in South Dakota was caused by multiple crew failures, terrible winter weather and a last-minute brush with wind shear that resulted in all four members ejecting and the total loss of the $450 million warplane, Air Force Global Strike Command said Thursday.
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How to go, Joe!
Getting back to that story of the leadership of Joe Biden with respect to our national security, and we can expect Karmela Harris to be at least a step down from Joe on this score, because while Joe is senile, Karmala is just plain dumb, to wit:
The command’s report was unusually blunt in describing what the investigation uncovered about the crews involved in the evening crash at Ellsworth Air Force Base.
The investigators said the crash exposed an “organizational culture that tolerated decaying airmanship skills, a lack of discipline, poor communication, and inadequate focus on regulations.”
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And in America, that “organizational culture that tolerated decaying airmanship skills, a lack of discipline, poor communication, and inadequate focus on regulations” begins in the oval office of the Washington white house where Joe Biden sits and make no mistake about that, which takes us back for more, as follows:
On the night of the accident, the B-1 was the second of two bombers on a training flight that were about to land in quickly deteriorating winter weather.
While both bombers came in too low for the weather they were facing, the first was able to correct its speed and altitude to land in visibility so poor the control tower could see neither the bomber nor its taxi lights once it landed.
The second bomber also came in too low, but inside the cockpit, the crew was not doing what was required — relaying specific communications to one another and taking responsibility to monitor and cross-check the aircraft’s instrument readings to ensure they maintained the needed speed, altitude and descent.
In the final 55 seconds of flight, the bomber encountered wind shear, and the pilot’s reactions resulted in the aircraft losing too much power.
But neither the pilot nor a supervisory instructor pilot caught that in time, because they were looking outside the aircraft instead of monitoring their instruments, and the required communications that might have caught the error did not occur.
Another crew member responsible for assisting with cross-checking testified they were reading a post-landing checklist instead of backstopping the instruments, the investigators found.
The flight became unrecoverable.
As the B-1 hit the ground short of the runway all four crew members successfully ejected.
Almost every part of the flight exposed problems, even the ejection, the investigation found.
While the scathing report has suggested there may be larger issues at Ellsworth to address, it also has raised questions on whether continued strain on personnel, resources and aircraft availability — an issue that military aviation overall is facing — played a role.
Primarily, communication and supervision had eroded not only inside the crashed bomber, but also within its squadron and even from the control tower.
A pre-flight squadron brief did not include a key advisory that required the crews to approach at a higher altitude, given the lost visibility, and investigators found that none of the eight aviators aboard the two bombers knew the Air Force’s instructions for the cold weather they were flying in.
There was a “willful disregard” for the equipment each crew member was required to wear, a lack of which was found possibly to have added to the injuries they received from ejecting.
After the crash, two members of the maintenance crew failed toxicology tests.
And while each crew member survived, the instructor pilot was injured during the ejection likely because he weighed at least the maximum of 245 pounds that the ejection seat could support.
A few days after the crash he weighed in at 260 pounds, among many other discrepancies, the report found.
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I mean, come on here, people – this is something that one would expect to be reading in a National Lampoon spoof, or maybe an article in TALES OF THE ABSOLUTE EXTREME BIZARRE, and yet, it is real, which takes us back for more on why BIDEN-HARRIS have made the United States of America an international laughing stock when it comes to our deteriorating national security under BIDEN-HARRIS, which takes us back for more, to wit:
On the airfield, communications were also broken down.
A key sensor on their runway that could have told the crews how bad visibility was had been malfunctioning for months, and while air traffic control knew it was broken, the squadron did not.
At the time of the crash the control tower knew on-the-ground visibility was zero but did not communicate that to anyone, and neither did the first bomber.
Even as the first of the two bombers flying that evening landed, it did not relay information back to the second aircraft that the visibility conditions were “minnest of mins,” the report found.
But ultimately, the second bomber crashed as a result of the crew having “succumbed to complacency and fixation, while the (instructor pilot) was ineffective in his crew leadership and instructor supervision duties,” the investigators found.
The report revealed the instructor pilot had flown just 5.6 hours in the B-1 in the 60 days prior to the crash.
Many mid-level leadership posts responsible for supervision and for ensuring critical flight information was disseminated were left unstaffed, “severing the connective tissue” across the squadron and overwhelming the officers who were left to complete those leftover tasks.
As a result, many tasks were pushed down to more junior aviators.
At the time of the mishap the 34th Bomb Squadron director of operations “testified that he elected to focus on administrative office work,” despite the worsening weather and knowing he had a junior non-instructor pilot serving as the flight supervisor.
The breakdowns “all speak to culture and leadership issues,” the investigation found.
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The breakdowns all speak to culture and leadership issues that began in the oval office of the Washington white house when American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior took the helm as COMMANDER IN CHIEF of the U.S. Air Force, and God help the nation, those breakdowns will only get worse if this mindless idiot Karmela Harris gets elected, and that people, once again is the news – live, late-breaking, news as it happens when it happens, stay tuned, more is yet to come!
And if you rode a little yellow school bus to school, please raise your hand to make Karmela Harris feel good about herself and all squishy inside as she tries to make a Venn diagram with two-and-a-half million circles to prove to the world that she has the mental capacity to make it happen!
Yes, people, BIZARRE BEYOND ALL BELIEF, which takes us back to the subject of BIDEN BULL****, of which there are copious amounts still being strewn around as DICTATOR Joe enters the LAME DUCK portion of his ONE TERM presidency, as we have old Joe showing the world that in his senile mind, he is in fact a DICTATOR in the mold of Joe Stalin who knows nothing about the U.S. Constitution, and cares absolutely nothing about it as we see from a Reuters article titled “Biden proposes Supreme Court term limits, binding code of conduct” by Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason on July 29, 2024, where we have the ignorant DICTATOR Biden spewing forth UNCONSTITUTIONAL nonsense as follows:
WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Monday proposed sweeping changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including term limits and a binding code of conduct for its nine justices, but opposition from Republicans in Congress means the proposals have little chance of enactment.
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Yes, people, Joe Biden want to put the Supreme Court of the United States under the control of the president, the way the courts of Soviet Russia under Stalin were under the control of Joe Stalin himself, which made it quite convenient for Stalin when he wanted to use his courts to rid himself of his many political enemies, and in this case, it is obvious that the senile DICTATOR is completely unaware of Section 1 of Article III of the United States Constitution, wherein is stated in clear and unequivocal language a hot-shot lawyer like either Joe or Karmela Harris should be able to comprehend and understand that the judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, so that if Joe wants to set term limits on them he needs to AMEND the US Constitution as opposed to doing so through one of his dictatorial executive orders, which takes us back to FEDERALIST No. 78 by Alexander Hamilton, titled “The Judiciary Department” from McLEAN’S Edition, New York to the People of the State of New York, where we have as follows on that subject of good behavior, to wit:
WE PROCEED now to an examination of the judiciary department of the proposed government.
In unfolding the defects of the existing Confederation, the utility and necessity of a federal judicature have been clearly pointed out.
It is the less necessary to recapitulate the considerations there urged, as the propriety of the institution in the abstract is not disputed; the only questions which have been raised being relative to the manner of constituting it, and to its extent.
To these points, therefore, our observations shall be confined.
The manner of constituting it seems to embrace these several objects: 1st. The mode of appointing the judges. 2d. The tenure by which they are to hold their places. 3d. The partition of the judiciary authority between different courts, and their relations to each other.
First.
As to the mode of appointing the judges; this is the same with that of appointing the officers of the Union in general, and has been so fully discussed in the two last numbers, that nothing can be said here which would not be useless repetition.
Second.
As to the tenure by which the judges are to hold their places; this chiefly concerns their duration in office; the provisions for their support; the precautions for their responsibility.
According to the plan of the convention, all judges who may be appointed by the United States are to hold their offices DURING GOOD BEHAVIOR; which is conformable to the most approved of the State constitutions and among the rest, to that of this State.
Its propriety having been drawn into question by the adversaries of that plan, is no light symptom of the rage for objection, which disorders their imaginations and judgments.
The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy, is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.
In a monarchy it is an excellent barrier to the despotism of the prince; in a republic it is a no less excellent barrier to the encroachments and oppressions of the representative body.
And it is the best expedient which can be devised in any government, to secure a steady, upright, and impartial administration of the laws.
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them.
The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community.
The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated.
The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever.
It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.
This simple view of the matter suggests several important consequences.
It proves incontestably, that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power 1; that it can never attack with success either of the other two; and that all possible care is requisite to enable it to defend itself against their attacks.
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter; I mean so long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the Executive.
For I agree, that “there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.”
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And while Joe and the Democrats are screeching about Trump wanting to take away our freedom, here we have a clear-cut case of Joe and the Democrats wanting to take away OUR LIBERTY by putting the Supreme Court under the control of the president and congress, which takes us back to FEDERALIST No. 78, as follows:
And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have every thing to fear from its union with either of the other departments; that as all the effects of such a union must ensue from a dependence of the former on the latter, notwithstanding a nominal and apparent separation; that as, from the natural feebleness of the judiciary, it is in continual jeopardy of being overpowered, awed, or influenced by its co-ordinate branches; and that as nothing can contribute so much to its firmness and independence as permanency in office, this quality may therefore be justly regarded as an indispensable ingredient in its constitution, and, in a great measure, as the citadel of the public justice and the public security.
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NOTHING can contribute so much to its firmness and independence as permanency in office, people.
If Joe wants to change that by imposing term limits, then by God, let him get the Constitution amended to make that clear, because if Joe Biden, Karmela Harris and the Democrats in Congress can set term limits by simply making a law, they can change that law whenever they want so they could pack the court with their judges and then raise the term limits back up to give them virtual power over our lives and our liberty with their control over the judiciary, who would be their servants instead of the protectors of our liberty and our rights.
And while we are on that subject of good behavior in office, let’s scan down through that Reuters artcle to the following:
“This nation was founded on a simple yet profound principle: No one is above the law.”
“Not the president of the United States.”
“Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.”
“No one,” Biden wrote in the opinion piece.
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Well, then Joe, what about YOUR treasury secretary Janet “TOODLES” Yellen?
Is she above the law, and here I specifically refer to the Harch Act, which applies to “TOODLES”
as a cabinet officer?
If NO ONE is above the law, then why, Joe, is “TOODLES” out there campaigning for Karmela Harris, who was quoted in that same article stating, “In our democracy, no one should be above the law.”
First of all, it isn’t our “democracy,” it is our REPUBLIC, and if in your and Karmela Harris’ “democracy,” no one should be above the law, then why is “TOODLES” Yellen above the law?
To see “TOODLES” openly campaigning for Karmela Harris in violation of the Hatch Act, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “Yellen says Harris would maintain US leadership on global issues” by David Lawder on July 25, 2024, to wit:
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 25 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris shares President Joe Biden’s core values on global and economic issues and would maintain U.S. international leadership if she were elected to succeed him.
In her first public remarks on the issue since Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris for president, Yellen said Harris “deeply understands” economic issues, from helping families thrive to creating good jobs and bringing down inflation.
“On issues confronting America in the world, she deeply understands what’s necessary and why it is important to restore U.S. leadership on the global stage and she’s been a critical part of that effort,” Yellen said in a press conference at a Group of 20 finance leaders meeting in Brazil.
“I feel the core values that have been reflected in the policies of this administration are ones Vice President Harris deeply embraces,” Yellen added.
Yellen said she was “deeply proud” to work for both Biden and Harris and added that their administration would continue to demonstrate a “commitment to multilateralism,” including through joint work on climate, hunger, pandemics, debt relief and halting Russian aggression against Ukraine.
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And then we have another Reuters article titled “Harris would adhere to Biden’s vow against middle-class US tax hikes, Yellen says” on July 30, 2024, where we have more blatant campaigning for Harris by “TOODLES,” to wit:
PHILADELPHIA, July 30 (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris would adhere to President Joe Biden’s vow not to raise taxes on middle-income taxpayers and has helped to determine the Biden-Harris’ administration’s approach to tax fairness, including higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday.
“Vice President Harris has indicated her support for avoiding tax increases for middle-income families.”
“So I believe that’s a principle that she would adhere to,” Yellen told an Internal Revenue Service event in Philadelphia with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a contender to be Harris’ vice-presidential pick.
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So what kind of BULL**** is this?
Clearly, “TOODLES” Yellen is above the law, so if Joe Biden wants to impose a CODE OF CONDUCT on anyone, he should start with the members of his own administration, and people, that for the moment is all the news I can handle without vomiting, so let’s cut to a commercial break and a pause for station identification, and then we will be right back, so don’t change that dial!
And here we need to go to a Fox News article titled “Biden gives 4-word answer on when he’ll campaign for Harris” by Greg Norman on 31 July 2024, where we have the senile DICTATOR saying as follows:
Biden said Monday at the LBJ Presidential Library at an event in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act that “in recent years, extreme opinions that the Supreme Court has handed down have undermined the longest civil rights principles and protections.”
Biden named a number of recent cases, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade and Trump v. United States, which he said “most shockingly” established some presidential immunity and called it a “dangerous precedent.”
“This court is being used to weaponize an extreme and unchecked agenda,” Biden said and called the immunity decision “a total affront to the basic expectations we have for those who wield the power of this,” the president said.
“My fellow Americans, based on all my experience, I’m certain we need these reforms.”
“We need these reforms to restore trust in the courts, preserve the system of checks and balances that are vital to our democracy,” he added.
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In all of Joe’s experience, his Uncle Bosie was eaten by cannibals, which never happened, and in all of Joe’s experience, he was the first Black woman to be the vice president to a half Black man, and in all of Joe’s experience, he was the first American president to be dumped by his own party because he was deemed too senile to run for office and was thus deemed a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to his own party which feared that if Joe stayed on the ballot, he was going to take his gang down with him and thus, remove their access to the CANDY JAR that is the US treasury.
In ALL of Joe’s experience, he has never been anything but a hack politician feeding off the taxpayers instead of having meaningful employment in the real world where we all reside.
And there is absolutely NOTHING in Joe Biden’s “experience” that qualifies him to tell us what reforms are needed in OUR Republic which is based on OUR Constitution.
And the very last thing we need is some senile fool like Joe Biden “reforming” OUR courts to benefit his gang and their “SACRED DEMOCRACY,” which like fascism and communism, is a religion, and that takes us to a Daily Caller article titled “‘Don’t Think She Has Any’: Several Swing-State Voters Can’t Name Single Kamala Harris Accomplishment” by Jason Cohen on 31 July 2024, where we have the fruits of Joe Biden’s seriously flawed judgement on full display, to wit:
Several Georgia voters told Newsmax they could not name any of Vice President Kamala Harris’ accomplishments during a segment that aired on Tuesday.
Some of the voters on “National Report” named Harris’ accomplishments before assuming the role of vice president without citing policy wins, while others could not name any successes throughout her entire career.
One male voter said he “can’t” name a few of Harris’ accomplishments.
Another female voter remained silent when Newsmax asked her what the vice president’s accomplishments are.
Two other female voters said they don’t think Harris has any accomplishments.
“I honestly just don’t think she has any,” one of them said.
“The four years that she was in office as vice president, I didn’t hear her speak once until, like, last week.”
“So that’s kind of my take on it.”
Four male voters noted Harris was a district attorney in San Francisco as an example of the vice president’s accomplishments.
None of the voters mentioned Harris’ time in the Senate, where she pushed several left-wing pieces of legislation, including government workforce diversity, environmental justice, eviction pauses and work authorization for some unlawfully present migrants.
She also previously endorsed a fracking ban, compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the Ku Klux Klan and praised the “Defund the Police” movement.
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And from there, we go to a Reuters article titled “Intel to cut 15% jobs, suspend dividend in turnaround push; shares plummet” on August 1, 2024, keeping in mind that this same Intel was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the U.S. Chips Act signed by President Joe Biden in August 2022 with $52.7 billion in subsidies, BIDEN CORPORATE WELFARE on steroids, where we have as follows:
Aug 1 – Intel said on Thursday it would cut more than 15% of its workforce and suspend its dividend starting in the fourth quarter as the chipmaker pursues a turnaround centered around its loss-making manufacturing business.
Shares of the Santa Clara, California-based company slumped 20% in extended trade, setting it up to lose more than $24 billion in stock market value.
The stock had closed down 7% on Thursday, in tandem with U.S. chip stocks plummeting after a conservative forecast from Arm Holdings on Wednesday.
A majority of the job cuts will be completed by the end of 2024, Intel said.
Much of Wall Street’s focus has centered around the heavy investments and huge costs incurred by Intel as it builds-out its manufacturing capacity in a bid to compete against Taiwan’s TSMC.
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And to the BIDEN STUPIDITY ON THE HOOF here, as Intel tries to compete against TSMC, let’s go back to a Reuters article titled “TSMC wins $6.6 bln US subsidy for Arizona chip production” by David Shepardson and Stephanie Kelly on April 8, 2024, where we have as follows:
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it would award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s U.S. unit a $6.6 billion subsidy for advanced semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona and up to $5 billion in low-cost government loans.
Congress in 2022 approved the Chips and Science Act to boost domestic semiconductor output with $52.7 billion in research and manufacturing subsidies.
Lawmakers also approved $75 billion in government loan authority.
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So Intel, an American company, is shedding jobs, not creating jobs, as it tries to compete with TSMC, a Taiwanese company, and it can’t compete with TSMC precisely because Joe Biden is financing TSMC’s efforts to remain out ahead of Intel, which is TSMC’s competitor, and is there anyone out there in America alive today who can see a lick of sense in any of that, because I sure as hell can’t.
And once again, time for station identification, because this is all so ******* stupid it boggles my mind, but don’t change that dial because we will be right back with more TALES FROM THE EXTREME ABSURD BIZARRE that is the failing administration of ONE TERM American president and Joe Stalin wannabee, Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first Black woman to be a vice president in this country in its entire existence, and when we return, it will be to hear the senile Biden saying “The Republican Speaker of the House says whatever he proposes is dead on arrival,” well, I was thinking his thinking is dead on arrival,” and that for the moment is the news!
I think the most misunderstood book in America is “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand, a book I have read twice now, and each time, the story remains the same, and that is ALL that book is, which is a story.
People ascribe all kinds of motives to Ayn Rand the author, and so what?
Who Ayn Rand was and what philosophies she might have embraced do not change a thing about the story she tells, which is a story of people, and what I would call the descent of a nation into IDIOT-O-CRACY or MORON-O-CRACY, which is a parody of government by absolute dead wood like American DICTATOR Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior and Charley “CHUCK” Schumer, which is where we are in America in real life in my opinion, anyway, with Cherly “CHUCK’s” “No Kings Act” that he just introduced in the senate to put the U.S. Supreme Court under the control of the Democrat party and himself.
As to who Ayn Rand was, she was born on February 2, 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia, not America, and at that time, her father, Zinovy Rosenbaum, was a prosperous pharmacist.
After being tutored at home, she was enrolled in a progressive school, where she excelled academically but was socially isolated.
Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, which people in America today are totally clueless about, because it happened more than a TWEET on X ago, her father’s shop was confiscated by communist authorities, an event she deeply resented, and I would say, rightfully so.
As a student at Leningrad State University, she studied history and became acquainted with the works of Plato and Aristotle and after graduating in 1924, she enrolled in the State Institute for Cinematography, hoping to become a screenwriter.
She came to this country when a letter from cousins in Chicago gave her an opportunity to leave the Russia on the pretext of gaining expertise that she could apply in the Soviet film industry.
So I would say that her experiences in Russia gave her some unique insights into people and how they function.
So, are those people she portrayed in “Atlas Shrugged” real?
At this stage of my life, and even many years ago when I first read the book, I would say of course they are.
And here we now are in America, in what I would say was a scene from straight out of the book, and what better example can I point to but Boeing, which personifies and epitomizes the corporate stupidity that I think is front and center in “Atlas Shrugged.”
Consider, for example, a Business Insider article titled “Boeing says it’ll lose at least $125 million more as its Starliner aircraft remains stuck in space with no return date” by Aditi Bharade on 2 August 2024, where we have as follows:
As the Boeing Starliner’s return to Earth is delayed indefinitely, the aerospace company expects to lose $125 million more.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore reached the International Space Station (ISS) via the Starliner on June 6, and were supposed to stay in space for eight days.
However, due to thruster issues and helium leaks on the spaceship, they have been stuck there for 57 days and counting, with their return delayed indefinitely.
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Speaking as an engineer, who incidentally is considered being “guilty of being overly thorough” by the political hacks up here to the north of Cape Charles, which would disqualify me from working for some “fly by night” lash-up like Boeing, I find that incredible, but more to the point, an indication of these times that we are now in, an “AH WHOOPS” moment which as I say, is a scene from straight out of “Atlas Shrugged,” which takes us back to that article, as follows:
In a Wednesday SEC filing, Boeing said that because of the delays, it has “increased the reach-forward loss on the program by $125 (million).”
This was on top of the $288 million additional loss that the company had projected in 2023, per the filing.
This was when it first delayed the Starliner’s launch after identifying problems with the aircraft’s tests.
From the get go, the Starliner launch has been plagued by delays due to technical issues.
On May 6, a pressure relief valve in the Atlas 5 rocket led to the first delay.
Then, on June 1, there was an issue with the ground computers that orchestrated the final countdown, which led to a second delay.
While the eventual launch on June 5 was successful, one of Starliner’s 28 Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters unexpectedly shut down, and another went offline as it approached the ISS.
Later, NASA discovered five leaks in Starliner’s helium supply, which is used to pressurize its propulsion system.
Its ground crew has been troubleshooting the issues since.
In a statement on July 31, Boeing said: “The Starliner team is proceeding through checklists to be ready for return when a date is chosen.”
It added: “They spent Tuesday practicing for undocking during an integrated simulation with the International Space Station.”
NASA has also floated the idea of using a SpaceX spacecraft to bring the astronauts down to Earth.
“We have two different systems that we’re flying,” Steve Stich, the manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, said in a press briefing on July 25.
He was referring to the Boeing Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.
“Obviously, the backup option is to use a different system,” he added.
“I would rather not go into all those details until we get to that time, if we ever get to that time.”
Adding to Boeing’s financial troubles
The Starliner’s new projected loss adds to Boeing’s increasing financial woes.
The company burned $4.3 billion in cash and reported a net loss of $1.44 billion for the second quarter of 2024.
The financial troubles come amidst a series of investigations into Boeing’s manufacturing quality and safety regulations.
It agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge linked to two crashes of its 737 Max jetliners that killed 346 people, according to a court filing by the Justice Department on July 7.
Under the plea deal, Boeing will pay an additional fine of $243.6 million.
This is on top of the $243.6 million Boeing paid in 2021 as part of the settlement it breached.
It will also be required to invest at least $455 million in its compliance and safety programs and appoint an independent monitor to oversee the company.
Representatives for Boeing did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.
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And of course Boeing (“If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going”) did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider, because what could they possibly say, other than “I guess we really ****** up here,” and once again, people, that is THE NEWS!
Stay tuned, more is yet to come, and when we return we will have the first Black woman to be an American president whose uncle Bosie was eaten by cannibals talking about his administration as follows: “For all practical purposes, the court’s decision almost certainly means that the president can violate their oath, flout our laws and face no consequences.”
With regard to BIDE-O-NOMICS, a term we never hear anymore from TEAM BIDEN/HARRIS. on 6 August 2024, Fox News had an article titled “Flashback: Kamala Harris responds to how she’d handle inflation” by Eric Revell wherein we were informed as follows as to how DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEE Karmela Harris, chosen by Joe Biden to be his successor views her role with respect to the US economy, which lately6 is exhibiting some cracks that Karmela will own as Joe Biden’s chosen successor, go wit:
Vice President Harris’ past comments about the impact of inflation on American consumers and how the Biden-Harris administration would address it are resurfacing in the wake of her becoming the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
Harris spoke at a press conference on Nov. 12, 2021, and was asked about the administration’s plans to prevent spending under the Build Back Better agenda from exacerbating inflation and the administration’s other efforts to prevent prices from rising.
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And ah, yes, BUILD BACK BETTER, another stupid term we hear nothing about anymore precisely because it was a stupid term that nobody, starting with Joe Biden himself, actually knew the meaning of.
Going back to that story, it continues as follows with respect to Joe and Karmela building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out which enriches those at the top so they will have some spare change to put back into the political coffers of Joe Biden and the Democrat National Committee, to wit:
As of November 2021, inflation had reached 6.8% year-over-year and would continue to rise to a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022.
Her remarks followed Congress’ passage of the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the enactment of Democrats’ $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act and came as the Democrat-controlled House prepared to vote on the $2.2 trillion Build Back Better Act.
“Let’s start with this: Prices have gone up, and families and individuals are dealing with the realities of — that bread costs more, that gas costs more,” Harris said.
“And we have to understand what that means.”
“That’s about the cost of living going up.”
“That’s about having to stress and stretch limited resources.”
“That’s about a source of stress for families that is not only economic but is on a daily level something that is a heavy weight to carry.”
“So that is something that we take very seriously, very seriously.”
“And we know from the history of this issue in the United States that when you see these prices go up, it has a direct impact on the quality of life for all people in our country.”
“So it’s a big issue, and we take it seriously, and it is a priority, therefore,” Harris explained.
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And there, we can see what an intellectual powerhouse we have in Karmela Harris, which is precisely why Joe Biden picked her, of all possible p0eople in the United States of America, to be his personal successor – because she is such an intellectual powerhouse, which takes us back to that story, as follows:
She went on to tout the Biden-Harris administration’s Build Back Better proposal as a means of lowering costs for Americans.
“There is also a point that is important to make on the Build Back Better framework.”
“One, it is designed to make it less expensive for working people to live.”
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And on that note about BUILD BACK BETTER and BIDE-O-NOMICS making it less expensive for working people to live, which is horse****, plain and simple, let’s come forward to today and a Reuters article titled “US household debt levels edge up in Q2, NY Fed survey shows” on August 6, 2024, where we have reality staring us in the face, to wit:
The bank report, part of its survey of household debt and credit conditions, showed that overall debt levels rose by $109 billion, or 0.6%, in the second quarter to $17.80 trillion.
Overall borrowing levels are now $3.7 trillion above where they were at the end of 2019, before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the report said.
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So think about it, people – IF BUILD BACK BETTER and BIDE-O-NOMICS are truly making it less expensive for working families to live, then why are debt levels for working families going up, instead of down?
Going back to that article, we have more, as follows:
Roughly 9.1% of credit card balances and 8.0% of auto loan balances transitioned into delinquency over the past year.
Credit card balances during the quarter were 5.8% above the level they stood at a year ago.
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So whom are we to believe here, people?
The actual figures put forth by the Federal Reserve on realo debt levels?
Or the intellectual powerhouse Karmela Harris?
And talk about Biden PROPAGANJDA MINISTER Karine Jean Pierre waxing idiotic and hysterical as only she can do it, while demonstrating to the candid world just how stupid our national government has to be to have her of all people as its chief spokesperson, let’s g0 to a Daily Caller article titled “KJP Responds To JD Vance’s ‘Stolen Valor’ Accusation Against Tim Walz” by Nicole Silverio on 9 August 2024, where we have this spew of nonsense from out of the ignorant running mouth of KJP, to wit:
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre praised presumptive Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s service in the Army National Guard on Wednesday in response to Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance accusing him of committing an act of “stolen valor.”
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Now, speaking as a VEET NAM combat veteran, and having read all sides of this story, I would tend to agree with Vance if we go by the Wikipedia definition of “stolen valor” as being a term for the behavior of military impostors: individuals who lie about serving in the military or the extent of their military service, especially in the light of a Fox News story titled “Tim Walz ‘misspoke’ about using weapons ‘in war,’ Harris campaign says: report” by Louis Casiano on 10 August 2024, where we have the root of that controversy clearly stated, as follows:
The 2018 video clip shows Walz discussing gun control and referring to his own military background.
“We can make sure that those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at,” Walz said in the clip, which was posted by Harris’ campaign on Tuesday.
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The point is that Warz never carried weapons of war in war, because Warz was never in a war, and the Harris campaign can call that “misspeaking all they want,” but the truth of the matter is that Warz would have known better, unless like Joe Biden, he hallucinates a history for himself that had him carrying a weapon of war in some war he thought he was in, the way Joe Biden hallucinates a history for himself where he is the first Black woman to be an American vice president, while his poor uncle Bosie was getting eaten by cannibals, so that if we go by the Wikipedia definition of “stolen valor” being individuals who lie about the extent of their military service, then Warz is clearly guilty as charged.
As to Vance making the charge, that article continues, as follows:
Vance, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, has accused Walz of “stolen valor.”
“I wonder Tim Walz, when were you ever in war?” Vance said at an event in Michigan.
“What was this weapon you carried into war?”
“What bothers me about Tim Walz is this stolen valor garbage.”
“Do not pretend to be something that you’re not.”
“I’d be ashamed if I was him and I lied about my military service like he did,” he added.
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Is Vance off the wall or out of line there, or acting weird?
Frankly, I don’t think so, and if the Democrats were justified in 2022 in going after Republican J.R. Majewski who presented himself as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, once describing “tough” conditions including a lack of running water that forced him to go more than 40 days without a shower while campaigning for a northwestern Ohio congressional seat, when military documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request indicated Majewski never deployed to Afghanistan but instead completed a six-month stint helping to load planes at an air base in Qatar, a longtime U.S. ally that is a safe distance from the fighting, then certainly Vance is justified in questioning that false statement by Warz about carrying a weapon of war in a war, which takes us back to the hysterical shrieking of KJP on the subject, to wit:
Jean-Pierre told a reporter that Walz bravely served in the National Guard for 24 years without addressing his avoidance of a deployment.
“Today, Sen. J.D. Vance has accused Gov. Walz of stolen valor, and obviously military service is something that is deeply personal to the president given the service of his son.”
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HUH?
Obviously military service is something that is deeply personal to the president given the service of his son?
What on earth does that have to do with anything here?
Going back to KJP, she rambles on in coherently, as follows:
“I’m curious, how is he reacting to these statements?” a reporter asked Jean-Pierre.
“Look, any statements, attacks or comments, I would have to refer you to the campaign,” Jean-Pierre replied.
“I think when I was answering your colleague‘s question earlier about Gov. Walz, I laid out and you’ve all seen his bio, right?”
“This is someone who enlisted at 17 years old to serve this country, he was part of the Army National Guard for 24 years.”
“This is someone who [was] a high school teacher, a high school coach as well, who grew up in a small town in the Midwest.”
“And so I think his bio speaks for itself, who he is speaks for itself, his record speaks for itself, and I’m just not going to say anything beyond that.”
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She’s not going to say anything beyond that because she is a mindless idiot with nothing meaningful or coherent to say and she completely ducked and dodged the issue of Warz claiming to have carried a weapon of war in a war when he was never in a war, which actually might have been too complicated for KJP to understand.
Going back to the Fox News story titled “Tim Walz ‘misspoke’ about using weapons ‘in war,’ Harris campaign says: report” by Louis Casiano on 10 August 2024, it starts out as follows, to wit:
“Governor Walz would never insult or undermine any American’s service to this country — in fact, he thanks Senator Vance for putting his life on the line for our country.”
“It’s the American way,” the Harris campaign spokesperson said in a statement to NBC News.
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Now, while Governor Walz would never insult or undermine any American’s service to this country, that clearly does not apply to the Democrats who support Walz, as we see from an article in the Independent titled “What JD Vance did in Iraq, as told by the friend who served with him” by Richard Hall on 10 August 2024, to wit:
But Vance’s criticism of his opponent’s record has drawn greater scrutiny of his own time as a “combat correspondent” in the Marine Corps, a role that involves gathering news and writing articles for internal Marine Corps publications and facilitating interviews and access for civilian media.
Following his attacks on Walz, some Democratic critics gave him the disparaging nickname ‘Sergeant Scribbles’ because of the clerical nature of his assignment.
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Sergeant Scribbles?
What a hoot!
Which proves what we already know and have known for years now – the Democrats are a bunch of complete A-HOLES who worship FORTUNATE ONES and DRAFT DODGERS and COMBAT SKULKERS like William Jefferson Clinton who avoided military service during the VEET NAM era, Charley “CHUCK” Schumer, who avoided military service during the VEET NAM era, and Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, who avoided military service during the VEET NAM era.
And from there we go to a Tampa Free Press article titled “CNN’s Jim Acosta Corrects Minnesota Senator Who Falsely Suggested JD Vance Never Served In Military” on 8 August 2024, for another mindless Democrat attack on Vance while praising Walz as a veteran, to wit:
CNN anchor Jim Acosta on Wednesday corrected Democratic Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith live on-air as she falsely suggested vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance never served in the military.
Smith said she was “unaware” of Vance serving in the military in an attempt to praise presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s service in the National Guard.
Acosta pointed out that Vance enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. and served time in the Iraq War.
“Well here is Tim Walz who enlisted when he was 17 years old.”
“He served in the National Guard for 24 years and I’m not aware of any military service that J.D. Vance has ever served, so let’s just make the comparison there,” Smith told Acosta.
“Well, he was in the Marines,” Acosta interjected, to which Smith accepted.
Vance enlisted in the Marine Corps. in 2003 and served in Iraq as a combat correspondent for six months in late 2005, before later becoming a military journalist, according to an excerpt of his bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
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And people, as stupid as that all is, except for the “stolen valor” claim, that is what we have for news today, so make of it what you will and stay tuned, because the SILLY SEASON in America is now underway with Democrat presidential appointee Karmela Harris hiding in her basement and refusing to give interviews in order to conceal how mindless she truly is, so stay tuned, more is yet to come!
Retired Command Sergeants Major Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr, two veterans who say they served in Walz’s battalion, wrote a letter in 2018 accusing the Minnesota governor of “betraying his country” by allowing the remainder of the battalion to be deployed to Iraq without him, according to the New York Post.
“On May 16th, 2005, [Walz] quit, betraying his country, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war,” Behrends and Herr wrote, according to the NYP.
Vance accused Walz on Wednesday of shamefully abandoning his battalion and “lying” about fighting in combat.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ headquarters posted footage of Walz saying civilians should not own the weapons he carried in war.
“I think it’s shameful to prepare your unit to go to Iraq, to make a promise that you’re going to follow through and to drop out right before you actually have to go,” Vance said during a Wednesday press conference.
“I also think it’s dishonest …”
“He said we shouldn’t allow weapons that I used in war to be on the streets.”
“Well, I wonder, Tim Walz, when were you ever in war?”
“What was this weapon that you carried into war given that you abandoned your unit right before they went to Iraq and he has not spent a day in a combat zone?”
“What bothers me about Tim Walz is the stolen valor garbage.”
Vance enlisted in the Marine Corps. in 2003 and was deployed to Iraq in the latter part of 2005, according to an excerpt from his 2016 bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
I think a comment that really sums up just who anointed Democrat presidential candidate Karmela Harris really is, was made on April 4, 2013 when then-U.S. president Hussein Obama assessed the beauty of California’s attorney general Kamala Harris, calling her “the best looking attorney general,” during remarks at a fundraiser in Atherton, California.
Nothing about her intellect, because she really doesn’t have an intellect.
Nothing about her intelligence, because she really doesn’t have any intelligence.
It was all about how she looks (Obama liked her “booty”), which is all the qualification she had and needed to be Joe Biden’s vice president as we see in a Washington Examiner article titled “The Kamala Harris cringe continues” by Eddie Scarry on 3 June 2021, as follows:
Vice President Kamala Harris had one job: Be the woman of color Joe Biden needed at his side to win the presidency.
That job was completed in November, and now, it’s clear that Harris doesn’t know what to do with herself.
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And since then, she has done pretty much nothing, other than being a “PRETTY BACK FACE” with a nice *** according to Hussein Obama, anyway, for Joe Biden, with these following being examples of the level of intellectual horsepower Karmela Harris would bring to the presidency, to wit:
– Cackling Karmela Harris 12 January 2023
“I love Venn diagrams.”
“I do.”
“I love Venn diagrams.”
“So, the three circles — and you can do more!”
“Nobody says a Venn diagram has to only be three circles, right?”
– Cackling Karmela Harris 28 July 2023
“I love Venn diagrams, I really do!”
“… I’m just kind of an undercover geek!”
And then on top of those, we have this intellectual tour de force from Karmela, to wit:
“I’m excited about electric school buses.”
“I LOVE electric school buses.”
“I just love them!”
“For so many reasons.”
“Maybe because I went to school on a school bus.”
“Hey, raise your hand if you went to school on a school bus!”
“Who doesn’t love a yellow school bus, right?”
“Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus?”
“Many of us went to school on the yellow school bus, right?”
“It’s part of our experience growing up.”
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And yes, people she really said all of that, I didn’t make it up, which takes us for more to a Fox News article titled “Harris and Walz interview each other while dodging media, get trashed online: ‘Completely scripted and fake’” by Gabriel Hays on 17 August 2024, where we have Karmela Harris and Tim Walz having a very serious and deep intellectual discussion, to wit:
Vice President Kamala Harris and 2024 running mate Gov. Tim Walz took heat on social media for sharing clips of a “scripted and fake” interview they did with each other online while they continue to evade interviews.
The clip in question – taken from a longer discussion between the Democratic ticket that will be released Thursday – featured the two playfully reminiscing about the phone call Harris made to ask Walz to be her running mate.
Harris teased Walz for missing the initial phone call.
“I called you, Tim.”
“I called you, Tim.”
A bashful looking Walz replied, “Yes.”
“You didn’t answer, Tim,” the vice president continued.
“I know.”
“I know.”
“The most important call of my life.”
“It popped up, and we didn’t recognize the caller ID, and it went to uh, it went to voicemail,” Walz said, as Harris laughed.
The clip then flashed to a scene of Harris listening to Walz’s voicemail and leaving one of her own, saying, “Hey Tim, it’s Kamala.”
“I really want to talk to you.”
The scene then jumped back to the two candidates, with Walz saying, “It is an amazing privilege.”
“I’m excited.”
“I just want to be part of the excitement that you’re generating.”
“Well, we’re doing it together, buddy,” Harris replied as the clip ended.
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And yes, people, that is real, too!
Which is why Iran is trying to meddle in our affairs to get Karmela elected president, as we see in a Reuters story titled “OpenAI blocks Iranian group’s ChatGPT accounts for targeting US election” on August 16, 2024, to wit:
Aug 16 (Reuters) – OpenAI said on Friday it had taken down accounts of an Iranian group for using its ChatGPT chatbot to generate content meant for influencing the U.S. presidential election and other issues.
The operation, identified as Storm-2035, used ChatGPT to generate content focused on topics such as commentary on the candidates on both sides in the U.S. elections, the conflict in Gaza and Israel’s presence at the Olympic Games and then shared it via social media accounts and websites.
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And that for the moment is the news – LIVE, LATE-BREAKING, NEWS AS IT HAPPENS, AND ALL THE NEWS THAT IS FIT TO PRINT!
So stay tuned, for more on this HARRIS/WALZ PRESIDENTIAL BRAIN TRUST is yet to come.
I just got finished reading through the official transcript of the August 16, 2024 Remarks by Vice President Harris at a Campaign Event in Raleigh, NC at Wake Tech Community College, word for word for word, and before I go into detail critiquing it as a blatant power grab by Karmela Harris that will greatly expand the powers of the office of U.S. president, turning the office into a literal dictatorship with control over every aspect of our lives, here is a capsule summary that really sets the tone for what is to follows, to wit:
AUDIENCE: We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: And I pledge to continue this progress.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We’re not going back!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: — and we’re not going back.
AUDIENCE: We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: We’re not going back.
We’re not going back.
AUDIENCE: We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
Now is the time to chart a new way forward, to build —
AUDIENCE: A new way forward!
A new way forward!
A new way forward!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: A new way forward, yes.
A new way forward.
AUDIENCE: A new way forward!
A new way forward!
A new way forward!
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And that is straight from the transcript, so, no, I am not making that up.
That is what the white house says happened, and being GOOD AMERICANS, we have to take their word for it, and it reminds me of scenes from Animal Farm where the sheep are chanting over and over, “FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BETTER,” after Squealer, the pig in “Animal Farm” who was Napoleon’s (the head or chief pig who now walks on two legs) propagandist and lead communicator, sort of like Karine Jean Pierre today, amended the Seven Commandments affirming the supremacy of animals over humans, and taught the sheep to sing that “‘Four legs good, two legs BETTER,'” with Squealer being so influential that the other animals did not fight against these changes, just as the mindless cult followers of incipient dictator Karmela Harris doing the chanting in Raleigh, North Carolina on August 16, 2024 did not fight against Karmela turning the office of U.S. president into a Joe Stalin type of dictatorship.
As I have stated elsewhere, and will state again, as an older American who remembers decorum, dignity and maturity in presidential politics, and here I would be referring to Eisenhower and John Kennedy, personally I find this following nonsense from the Official transcript of the August 16, 2024 Remarks by Vice President Harris at a Campaign Event in Raleigh, NC at Wake Tech Community College to be a major league embarrassment, referring to this mindless and infantile chanting by Karmela Harris, who people in America, starting with Joe Biden and the Democrats, view as presidential material, accompanied by a brain-washed chorus of mental midgets and pure bred plain old idiots, this taking place at is what is called somewhat mockingly I would say, a COLLEGE no less, where we also had governor Roy Cooper in attendance chanting his little heart out with the best of them, along with Attorney General Josh Stein, and Representatives Adams, Manning, Foushee, and Nickel, plus Chair Thomas of the Wake County Board of Commissioners and the students and instructors there at Wake Tech North, especially in the light of her statement to that same audience of idiots that it would be in the weeks to come that she would be addressing in greater detail her plans to build an opportunity economy, which means those chanting fools had absolutely no idea what they were chanting about, it’s what they were told to do by the Harris campaign and so they mindlessly complied, because neither did Karmela, who just bought herself many more weeks that she can hide in without having to discuss realistically and rationally her plan for this “opportunity econ0my,” to wit:
AUDIENCE: We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: And I pledge to continue this progress.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We’re not going back!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: — and we’re not going back.
AUDIENCE: We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: We’re not going back.
We’re not going back.
AUDIENCE: We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
We’re not going back!
Now is the time to chart a new way forward, to build —
AUDIENCE: A new way forward!
A new way forward!
A new way forward!
THE VICE PRESIDENT: A new way forward, yes.
A new way forward.
AUDIENCE: A new way forward!
A new way forward!
A new way forward!
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Talk about absolutely weird and cringe-worthy, there it is right above here in official language from the Biden white house, which takes us back to these words from that same transcript said before all the mindless chanting, said to be quite orgasmic, began, to wit:
Building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency, because I strongly believe when the middle class is strong, America is strong. (Applause.)
So, in the weeks to come, I will address in greater detail my plans to build an opportunity economy.
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So, people, ask yourself this existential question based on her own words right above here:
When she talks about building her “opportunity economy” in the same breath that she is clearly stating that building up the middle class will be a defining goal of her presidency, for whom will her opportunities be for?
ALL OF US EQUALLY?
OR JUST A FEW OF HER CHOSEN PEOPLE?
And going back to August 16, 2024, and Remarks by Vice President Harris at a Campaign Event in Raleigh, NC at Wake Tech Community College, we have Karmela on the record stating as follows after some introductory gibberish and her signature un-presidential cackling, as if everything is a joke to her, to wit:
So, listen, this election, I do strongly believe, is about two very different visions for our nation: one, ours, focused on the future; and the other, focused on the past.
We see that contrast clearly in many ways, including when it comes to how we think about the economy.
So, our country has come a long way since President Biden and I took office.
At that time, we sadly remember the millions of Americans that were out of work.
We were facing one of the worst economic crises in modern history.
And, today, by virtually every measure, our economy is the strongest in the world.
We have created 16 million new jobs.
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Now, let’s carefully examine that statement by Ms. Harris on August 16, 2024 that she and Joe Biden “created” 16 million new jobs in America, to see if in any possible way it could be true, as if the only way jobs are created in America is by the president and vice president, itself a very doubtful premise, except for government jobs, or whether she is simply trying to fill our heads with yet more BIDEN BULL****, which first takes us to a press release put out by Joe Biden’s cheerleader and commerce secretary Gina Raimondo on February 5, 2024, titled “By the Numbers: U.S. Economy Adds Over 350,000 Jobs in January Exceeding Expectations,” where we were informed as follows., to wit:
Hiring Increases Due to Rise in Consumer Confidence and Spending
Kicking off 2024, the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that the U.S. economy added over 350,000 jobs in January – far exceeding expectations.
The unemployment rate was 3.7 percent for the third month in a row coming in below 4% for two straight years – the longest such streak since the 1960s.
In total, 14.8 million jobs have been created under President Biden, with 3.1 million created last year alone.
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Now, if we go to Gina’ statement on February 5, 2024 that the U.S. economy added over 350,000 jobs in January – far exceeding expectations, and then we jump ahead to a Reuters article on March 8, 2024 titled “US labor market cooling; unemployment rate rises to two-year high of 3.9%” by Lucia Mutikani, what we find is that that number supplied to us on February 5, 2024 by Biden cheerleader Gina Raimondo of “over 350,000 jobs in January” is neither true, nor accurate, to wit:
The economy created 167,000 fewer jobs in December and January than previously estimated.
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But seriously, given the sheer amount of pure BULL**** that comes out of Washington, D.C. these days, who can be surprised that we are being fed some more there by Biden cheerleader Gina Raimondo, which takes us back to this statement from cheerleader Gina on February 5, 2024, to0 wit:
In total, 14.8 million jobs have been created under President Biden.
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And given the write down by the Lab0r Department of the January job numbers on March 8, 2024, we have to ask ourselves, can that number be true, or is it yet more Biden BULL****, which in turn would call into question Karmela Harris’s claim on August 16, 2024 that she and Joe Biden have created 16 million new jobs, and to answer those questions, all we need do is go to a Reuters article titled “US job growth in year through March was far lower than estimated” on August 21, 2024, where we have the truth of the matter Karmela is not telling us staring us in the face, as follows, to wit:
Aug 21 (Reuters) – U.S. employers added far fewer jobs than originally reported in the year through March, the Labor Department said on Wednesday, underscoring the growing concerns the Federal Reserve has about the health of the labor market as it gears up to start cutting interest rates in September.
The department’s estimate for total payroll employment for the period from April 2023 to March 2024 was lowered by 818,000.
The revision represented a total downward change of about 0.5% and means that monthly job gains during the period averaged roughly 174,000, compared to the previously reported figure of 242,000.
Private employment growth was revised down by 819,000, or 0.6% below what had been previously estimated by the department.
Government employment was basically unchanged.
The professional and business services category saw the biggest reduction of jobs, shedding 358,000, or 1.6%, from the prior estimate, followed by leisure and hospitality at 150,000 jobs, down 0.9%.
The hard-pressed manufacturing sector saw a reduction of 115,000 jobs, also down 0.9%.
The few sectors that saw upward revisions included private education and health services, up 87,000, or 0.3%; transportation and warehousing, up 56,400, or 0.9%; and utilities, up 1,700, or 0.3%.
The revisions suggest government and private employers had about 157.3 million workers on their books in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, down from about 158.1 million as previously reported.
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So, according t0 that data, Karmela Harris is blowing smoke up our ***** with her figure of 16 million new jobs, but seriously, people given she is another hack politician with a career built on lies like that of Joe Biden, can anyone be surprised?
And to see just how profoundly stupid and clueless this BIDEN/HARRIS administration really is, keeping in mind that Karmela Harris has been involved with it since Day One, which serves as a window into just how profoundly stupid the HARRIS/WALZ administration will be, given it will be more of the same old same old ineffable idiocy, all we need do is go to a FOX News article titled “Commerce Sec doesn’t ‘believe’ news of grim job revisions because Trump said it: ‘I’m not familiar with that’” by Gabriel Hays on 22 August 2024, where we have the empty head of BIDEN/HARRIS commerce secretary and cheerleader Gina Raimondo on full display for all the candid world to see and appreciate as a prime example of the dead wood that comprises the BIDEN/HARRIS cabinet, and will comprise the cabinet of HARRIS/WALZ to our detriment as a people and as a nation, to wit:
Social media users trashed President Biden’s Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo for admitting to ABC News on Wednesday that she wasn’t “familiar” with the day’s major revision to the jobs numbers.
ABC News correspondent Kayna Whitworth asked Raimondo what she thought of the jobs numbers revision by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“I am curious as to your thoughts on today the Bureau of Labor saying that more than 800,000 fewer jobs were actually created than initially reported,” Whitworth said.
The reporter played a clip of former President Trump talking about the report at his rally in North Carolina on Wednesday.
“The administration padded the numbers with an extra – listen to this one – 818,000 jobs that don’t exist.”
“So they said they existed and they never did exist.”
“They built ‘em up so they could say what a wonderful job they’re doing,” Trump said.
Raimondo appeared to dismiss the news as Trump spreading misinformation and when asked if the revision could be a liability for Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Harris, she said no.
“No.”
“When I hear that, first of all, I don’t believe it because I’ve never heard Donald Trump say anything truthful,” Raimondo said.
“It is from the Bureau of Labor,” Whitworth responded.
“I’m not familiar with that,” Raimondo said, despite the report having been released several hours earlier.
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BIZARRE BEYOND BELIEF!
And to use the Democrat’s favorite new word, people, that is just plain weird, or weird on steroids, that somebody can be so stupid and uninformed and yet, still hold a high governmental position in Washington, D.C. in the BIDEN/HARRIS administration, and yet, there we have it in black and white, right before our eyes!
And going back to August 16, 2024, and Remarks by Vice President Harris at a Campaign Event in Raleigh, NC at Wake Tech Community College, we have Karmela on the record stating as follows:
And, today, by virtually every measure, our economy is the strongest in the world.
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To which claim I would say she is either dreaming or hallucinating, but in either case, as she has been for the last four years, she is way out of touch with reality, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US business activity edges lower; pricing power ebbs further” on August 22, 2024, where we have the reality Karmela Harris is totally clueless about, to wit:
Aug 22 (Reuters) – U.S. business activity fell to a 4-month low in August and firms continued to struggle to pass on higher prices to consumers, bolstering the likelihood that inflation will stay on a downward trend over the coming months.
A slight pick-up in the services sector was outpaced by an easing in the manufacturing industry.
Average prices charged for goods and services rose at the slowest rate since January and are now at levels that S&P Global viewed as consistent with the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target.
This echoed reports from businesses that customers are pushing back against high prices, through bargain hunting, scaling back on purchases and trading down to lower-priced substitutes.
Private sector employment fell, with a decline in the service sector accompanied by the manufacturing sector adding the fewest jobs since January.
The survey’s flash manufacturing PMI retreated to an 8-month low, falling to 48.0 this month from 49.6 in July.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the index for the sector, which accounts for 10.3% of the economy, to remain unchanged.
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Supposedly, BIDEN/HARRIS were going to bring back the manifacturi8ng segment with all of their TRILLION dollar investments, but that obviously hasn’t happened, with manufacturing continuing to decline, which again takes us back to August 16, 2024, and Remarks by Vice President Harris at a Campaign Event in Raleigh, NC at Wake Tech Community College, where we had Karmela on the record stating as follows:
We have made historic investments in infrastructure, in chips manufacturing, in clean energy.
And new numbers this week alone show that inflation is down under 3 percent.
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As if BIDEN/HARRIS had anything to do about that, which takes us to another Reuters article titled “Fed’s Harker is ready to start methodical course of rate cuts” by Michael S. Derby on August 22, 2024, where we have this dose of reality concerning inflation, which BIDEN/HARRIS told us on July 19, 2021 was “TEMPORARY,” to wit:
Harker flagged the retreat in inflation and even as he supports rate cuts, he acknowledged it will still take time to get price pressures back to the 2% goal, saying “we’re definitely going to move in that direction, probably it’s going to take at least another year or more.”
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Yes, people, another year 0r more of ever rising prices, thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS and BIDENFLATION which will continue unabated under HARRIS/WALZ, and make no mmistake whatsoever about that!
GASLIGHT CITY here come, America, and big time at that!
A mass hallucination or delusion or psychoses is rapidly descending down on us as November 5, 2024 looms large on the horizon.
In that mass hallucination or the MAJOR-LEAGUE GASLIGHTING OF AMERICA, Karmela Harris never met Joe Biden and knows absolutely nothing about him or his policies.
In fact she never heard of the man, and thus has not modeled her policies or lack thereof on his, since she doesn’t even know who he is, so how could she have?
Karmela Harris was never Joe Biden’s hand-picked vice president and thus was never a part of the BIDEN/HARRIS administration, and as a consequence, bears absolutely no responsibility for any of the failed policies of BIDEN/HARRIS, because she was someplace else when all of that was happening, so how could she possibly be held to account for any of that when she wasn’t even there when it was happening, because she was someplace else instead?
In fact, Karmela Harris, who was born yesterday as far as American presidential politics goes, is brand new to American presidential politics and thus is a much-needed breath of fresh air who because she is brand new to American presidential politics is going to unite us as a people and teach us all how to sing Kumbaya in three-part harmony to make us all better people than we were before as she brings everlasting peace to America and the world.
Consider a New York Times article titled “Harris Wants America to See Itself in Her – The vice president’s speech sought to reassure Americans of her values even as many may be unfamiliar with her background” by Lisa Lerer, a national political reporter for The Times, based in New York, and Erica L. Green, a White House correspondent covering President Biden and his administration, both of whom were reporting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, on August 23, 2024, where we were fed the following, to wit:
With her acceptance of the Democratic nomination for president, Kamala Harris simultaneously made American history and invited the nation to help her craft the next chapter of it.
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And before I deal with that statement about her inviting the nation, which presumable is all 333 million of us, to “help her craft the next chapter of it,” as if we are all in kindergarten making a group statue out of paper mache, or at the beach in Cape Charles building a community sand castle where everybody has an opportunity to contribute, I want to go back to the headline and this statement, to wit:
“The vice president’s speech sought to reassure Americans of her values even as many may be unfamiliar with her background,”
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Unfamiliar with her background?
Unfamiliar with her values?
How so, America?
After four years of BIDEN/HARRIS, how on earth can we possibly be unfamiliar with her background and values, unless, of course, that was somebody else and not her?
I personally have been making myself familiar with her background going back to 24 January 2019 and an article in The Hill titled “Chris Cuomo apologizes for Kamala Harris tweet” by Michael Burke, as follows:
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo apologized Thursday for a since-deleted tweet in which he appeared to suggest that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) needs to prove that she was born in the U.S.
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And I have been aware of who she is since at least April 4, 2013 when then-president Hussein Obama assessed the beauty of California’s attorney general Kamala Harris, calling her “the best looking attorney general,” during remarks at a fundraiser in Atherton, California, because Hussein
thought she had a nice ***.
So how on earth can anyone alive in America today not be familiar with who she is, or what her values are, given they have been on display at least since 26 January 2019 when Vox.com posted an article titled “Analysis: Kamala Harris’s controversial record on criminal justice, explained” by German Lopez, wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
Is Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) a progressive hero — or a relic of a “tough on crime” era going back to the 1990s and 2000s?
The answer to that question could determine the fate of her presidential campaign, which she announced on Monday.
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And on December 3, 2019, that same campaign folded because it was going nowhere and it was going nowhere, because NOBODY wanted Ms. Harris for president.
So how on earth can we possibly not be aware of her background?
We would all have to be brain-dead to be unaware of her background and her values today, which takes us back to the NYT, to wit:
In the most consequential speech of her career, Ms. Harris asked Americans to see her as the embodiment of the country’s traditional values, rather than a rejection of them.
It was a message intended to reassure voters that, as much as her background and identity represent change, Ms. Harris also represents a through line to the nation’s founding ideals.
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And that is the biggest burst of pure BULL**** I have heard in a long, long time, that Karmela Harris represents a through line to the nation’s founding ideals.
What a joke that is, but of course, what else can we expect from the New York Times!
And that for the moment is the news!
People today seem to not know or not realize that in terms of politics, the internet has only been a factor since 2004 when it was first used by Democrat presidential candidate Howard “SCREAMER” Dean in his failed presidential bid (2004: The scream that doomed Howard Dean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6i-gYRAwM0 ).
Also in 2004, John “Jackie Boy” Kerry had an internet site that I mo0nitored on a daily basis, given that at that time, I was new to the internet, as was presidential politics, and to be frank, I was quite curious and interested to see exactly what was going on, and in that experience, I learned quite a bit about presidential politics and the internet, and since then, I have been on the internet on a daily basis as a citizen involved in what I consider to be CITIZENSHIP DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES, which is to say, following current events and commenting on them, something not possible for a common citizen like myself before 2004.
As to TWITTER, now X, that did not come into existence until July 2006.
With regard to the Cape Charles Mirror, on September 2, 2018, I posted an essay in here titled “Opinion: On the Corporate Control of Speech and Thought in America Today,” wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
As we here in the United States of America continue to ponder and explore the question of alleged foreign interference with our supposed “democracy” in this country, and the role the “press,” a very ill-defined term, as is the word “media,” play in that foreign interference, presuming it actually exits, which I believe does based on my own research in the matter, we must step back as citizens ask ourselves, if we truly care about “democracy” in this country, as opposed to merely mouthing an empty, meaningless word, such as “democracy” has become, is it really the “press” that is the true enemy of the American people?
Or is it really corporate control of the press and the media in America today that is the true enemy of the American people?
And more importantly, how exactly is it that that that corporate control of our “media” and “press” is being gained, and by whom?
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Today, 20 years after the internet first became a national factor in presidential politics from the standpoint of a common citizen, that question posed above still remains, although in the years after 2018, the answer is much more clear, as we see in a Wall Street Journal article titled “Behind Harris’s New Mantra: ‘The Opportunity Economy’” by Greg Ip, Jeanne Whalen, Justin Lahart on 25 August 2024, where we had this following statement concerning the HARRIS/WALZ campaign, to wit:
In her acceptance speech, Harris castigated Trump’s plan to increase tariffs on goods as a national sales tax that would fall heavily on the middle class.
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That was it – no attempt, as seems always the case with the main-stream media, to turn that around and say, hey, wait a minute, Karmela, what about the BIDEN/HARRIS tariffs?
And that takes us to a Reuters article titled “US industry seeks easing of steep Biden-Harris China tariff hikes” by David Lawder on August 26, 2024, the day after the Wall Street Journal article, where we had as follows concerning the impact of the BIDEN/HARRIS tariffs on goods as a national sales tax that would fall heavily on the middle class, which we are only hearing about here in the non-corporate Cape Charles Mirror, the GRAND PALLADIUM of our liberty as a free people, to wit:
WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – The Biden-Harris administration this week is expected to announce final implementation plans for steep tariff increases on certain Chinese imports, and if U.S. industry gets its way, many of the planned duties would be softened.
Manufacturers from electric vehicles to electric utility equipment have asked for the higher tariff rates to be reduced, delayed or abandoned, and for potential exclusions to be greatly expanded.
President Joe Biden in May announced a quadrupling of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to 100%, a doubling of duties on semiconductors and solar cells to 50%, as well as new 25% tariffs on lithium-ion batteries and other strategic goods including steel to shield U.S. firms from Chinese excess production.
The White House had said initially the new tariffs would take effect on Aug. 1 but that was delayed until some time in September as the U.S. Trade Representative’s office studied more than 1,100 public comments.
A final determination is due by the end of August.
Whether to ease the tariffs is the administration’s first major trade decision since Vice President Kamala Harris emerged as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee after Biden stepped aside in late July.
The decision is politically tricky.
Dialing back the duties could draw criticism from Republicans that Harris will take a softer stand on China trade in a campaign where Trump has vowed to hit Chinese imports with hefty tariffs.
Proceeding with the original hikes would draw complaints about higher costs, even from some Democrats in Congress.
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It is indeed interesting that in her acceptance speech where she attacked Trump for a future action he might or might not take, given he holds no public office in the United States of America, while she is a definite part of BIDEN/HARRIS, that she was absolutely silent on the tariffs she and old Joe have proposed and are about to implement.
Why her silence on that important subject?
And why isn’t she being held to account by her corporate media enablers, cheerleaders and apologists?
Going back to the Reuters story as to the adverse impact the BIDEN/HARRIS tariffs will have on we, the American people, it continues as follows:
China has vowed retaliation against the “bullying” tariff hikes and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said they showed that some in the U.S. may be “losing their minds.”
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The some in the U.S. who may be losing their minds are Joe Biden, who the UNDEMOCRATS all agree has lost his, and Karmela Harris, who in fact may not have one to lose, a mind, that is, given that it seems that inside her head is a lot of plain empty space, which takes us back to Reuters, a global news and information provider headquartered at 5 Canada Square in Canary Wharf, London, England, to wit:
The U.S. decision will come in the same week that U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will meet with Wang in a visit aimed at keeping U.S.-China tensions in check with the November U.S. election fast approaching.
The Biden-Harris tariffs include a new 25% levy on Chinese-made ship-to-shore cranes, a China-dominated sector with no U.S. producers.
The Port of New York and New Jersey said it has eight cranes on order from China’s state-owned ZPMC at $18 million apiece, and a 25% tariff would boost the cost of each by $4.5 million, “causing a significant strain on the Port’s critical and limited resources.”
Democratic senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner from Virginia and Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff from Georgia also raised concerns about the impact on ports in their states, calling for existing orders for Chinese cranes to be exempted.
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BIDEN/HARRIS = shortsighted and shallow thinking!
Staying with the story, it continues as follows:
Warnock and Ossoff also urged USTR to reconsider the planned 50% tariff on syringes, saying they could disrupt supplies for those used to feed newborn infants.
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As an older American, I read this stuff and I truly wonder how in the hell did we ever get to here, with these two fools in charge of our lives and futures?
And God help the nation i9f Karmela Harris with her lack of sense and her lack of awareness of what our lives are like as common citizens should make it into the oval office.
Back in 1988, a far different time in America than it is today, being before the internet and mindless TWEETS and empty sound bites as it was, CNN employed a journalist named Bernard Shaw, who unlike the empty heads we are stuck with today in the main-stream and legacy media who are gushing over Karmela Harris, an intellectual light weight, with their love fest as if she were brand new to U.S. politics, as opposed to having been a central figure in the unpopular failed policies of BIDEN/HARRIS with its BIDENFLATION, liked to see the presidential candidates sweat, as Karmela Harris should be made to sweat, and he liked to see the panic in their eyes when instead of pitching softballs, he liked to zip in a high, hard question right from the start and see these men who run for president gulp and gape and search their memories for the answer they had read in their briefing books.
Except that the answers to Shaw’s questions were almost never in the briefing books.
For example, he had asked Al Gore what he would do if he or one of his children got AIDS.
He asked Dan Quayle if it was “fear of being killed in Vietnam” that caused him to join the National Guard.
He had asked Al Haig, flat out: “Do you think Bush is a wimp?”
Back then, Bernard Shaw was known as one tough customer, and we sure could use someone of his caliber today questioning Karmela Harris as to her policies, or lack thereof, given all we have from her to date is platitudes, as we see in a Wall Street Journal article titled “Opinion | Kamala Harris Offers a ‘New Way Forward’ of Platitudes” by The Editorial Board on 23 August 2024, to wit:
Kamala Harris introduced herself to the American public on Thursday, and her presentation was much like this week’s Democratic convention: well delivered, confident and optimistic, and mostly devoid of policy substance.
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I have read through the complete transcript of the address, word for word, and have to0 agree wholeheartedly with that conclusion, which takes us back fo9r more from that article and why we need a Bernard Shaw today, to wit:
Whether she can keep this up, unexplained and unexposed, for the next 12 weeks will determine whether she becomes America’s 47th President.
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And with the love fest ongoing, while Democrats come out of the woodwork to make excuses for her, while gushing over her, as well, in all likelihood, she will keep it up, unexplained and unexposed, for the next 12 weeks, and may well be our next president as a result of her n on-campaign, which again takes us back to the WSJ, to wit:
The Vice President spoke with authority and admirable brevity at 37 minutes.
She opened with a lengthy account of her own biography, relying heavily on the story of her mother’s lessons and resilience as a divorced single parent.
It’s not an unusual American story, which may have been the point as she tries to convince voters to take a risk on someone they know little about.
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Which is a bunch of crap that we know so little about her, and her staffing problems because she can’t get along with those who work for her, she being a shrewish boss, given she has been a vital part of BIDEN/HARRIS since January 2021.
I mean seriously, people, who can forget the substance of a widely reported New York Post story titled “Kamala Harris comms director leaving in aftermath of reported Biden rift” by Callie Patteson on November 18, 2021, where we had as follows:
Vice President Kamala Harris’ communications director is leaving her post as the veep’s office and White House battle tanking poll numbers and leaks detailing frustration among Harris allies.
Vanity Fair was first to report the departure of Ashley Etienne, while multiple outlets cited a White House official in reporting that her resignation would take effect next month.
The official said that Etienne was leaving the administration to “pursue other opportunities,” but did not elaborate.
The departure of Etienne — a former Biden campaign adviser who has also been a spokesperson for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — comes days after CNN reported that Harris has been increasingly sidelined in the administration and her working relationship with President Biden has become an “exhausted stalemate.”
On Thursday, Harris attempted to dispel the report, denying to ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that she felt, as the anchor put it, “misused or underused.”
However, those close to Harris have suggested that the first woman and first woman of color to be vice president has been entrusted with politically detrimental issues — like the ongoing border crisis — and not received the level of support given to other members of the administration.
“I’m very, very excited about the work that we have accomplished,” Harris told Stephanopoulos.
“But I am also absolutely, absolutely clear-eyed that there is a lot more to do, and we’re gonna get it done.”
Throughout the week, the White House and vice president’s office have defended Harris, calling the report “gossip.”
On Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki described Harris as a “valuable member of the team.”
“I know that the president relies on the vice president for her advice, for her counsel,” Psaki said, adding.
“She’s not looking for a cushy role here — no vice president is, no president is.”
Harris spokeswoman Symone Sanders has dismissed the report as “gossip.”
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So, that is some of the stuff we know about Karmela Harris, although given that it happened more than the length of a TWEET, the Harris love festers in the main-stream and legacy media treating Ms. Harris as newly arrived on the presidential scene have totally forgotten it.
But I haven’t!
Nor have (I forgo9tten a POLITICO story titled “‘Not a healthy environment’: Kamala Harris’ office rife with dissent – There is dysfunction inside the VP’s office, aides and administration officials say. And it’s emanating from the top” by Christopher Cadelago, Daniel Lippman and Eugene Daniels on June 30, 2021, where we had as follows:
When Vice President Kamala Harris finally made the decision to visit the Mexico border last week, people inside her own office were blindsided by the news.
For days, aides and outside allies had been calling and texting with each other about the political fallout that a potential trip would entail.
But when it became known that she was going to El Paso, it left many scrambling, including officials who were responsible for making travel arrangements and others outside the VP’s office charged with crafting the messaging across the administration.
The handling of the border visit was the latest chaotic moment for a staff that’s quickly become mired in them.
Harris’ team is experiencing low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust among aides and senior officials.
Much of the frustration internally is directed at Tina Flournoy, Harris’ chief of staff, a veteran of Democratic politics who began working for her earlier this year.
In interviews, 22 current and former vice presidential aides, administration officials and associates of Harris and Biden described a tense and at times dour office atmosphere.
Aides and allies said Flournoy, in an apparent effort to protect Harris, has instead created an insular environment where ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out.
Often, they said, she refuses to take responsibility for delicate issues and blames staffers for the negative results that ensue.
While much of the ire is aimed at Harris’ chief, two administration officials said the VP herself also bears responsibility for the way her office is run.
“It all starts at the top,” said one of the administration officials, who like others requested anonymity to be able to speak candidly about a sensitive matter.
“People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it’s an abusive environment,” said another person with direct knowledge of how Harris’ office is run.
“It’s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated.”
“It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s—.”
And with that stated, here is a good time to take a pause for station identification, but don’t go away and don’t change that dial, because we will be right back with more on the Karmela Harris we know and have absolutely no reason to love, so stay tuned!
With respect to American politics today in this age of TWEETS, and talking heads who are gushing about Karmela Harris as if she were somehow a breath of fresh air on the American political scene, there is an old story with a moral that goes as follows, to wit:
One day a man named Truth and a man named Lie stood by a river just outside of town.
They were twin brothers.
Lie challenged Truth to a race, claiming he could swim across the river faster than Truth.
Lie laid out the rules to the challenge stating that they both must remove all their clothes and at the count of 3, dive into the freezing cold water swim to the other side and back.
Lie counted to 3, but when Truth jumped in, Lie did not.
As Truth swam across the river, Lie put on Truth’s clothes and walked back into town dressed as Truth.
He proudly paraded around town pretending to be Truth.
Truth made it back to shore, but his clothes were gone and he was left naked with only Lie’s clothes to wear.
Refusing to dress himself as Lie, Truth walked back to town naked.
People stared and glared as naked Truth walked through town.
He tried to explain what happened and that he was in fact Truth, but because he was naked and uncomfortable to look at, people mocked and shunned him; refusing to believe he was really Truth.
The people in town chose to believe Lie because he was dressed appropriately and easier to look at.
From that day until this, people have come to believe a well-dressed lie rather than believe a naked truth.
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Which brings us to a Washington Examiner titled “Wes Moore apologizes for Bronze Star ‘mistake’ after lengthy Walz military debacle” by Emily Hallas on 31 August 2024, where we were treated to the following well-dressed lie from the Democrat governor of Maryland who would know he was lying when he made this false claim, given he was a captain in the United States Army, to wit:
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) confessed to making “an honest mistake” after it was revealed he misrepresented his military record years ago.
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An “honest mistake,” my ***!
His misrepresentation of his military record was neither “honest,” nor a “mistake,” and make no mistake about that, which takes us back to that story of “STOLEN VALOR” on his part, where “Stolen Valor” is a term applied to the phenomenon of people like Democrat Wes Moore falsely claiming military awards or medals they did not earn, to wit:
Moore claimed the military “awarded me the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Action Badge” on an application to join a prestigious White House fellowship in 2006, according to a New York Times report that broke Thursday.
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Having been the actual recipient of several military awards of medals, including the Combat Infantry badge, the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, two Air Medals, and two Army Commendation Medals, I can speak with authority in saying that when you have a set of orders in your hand attesting to the fact that you have been issued the award, then and only then can you say you have the award, since you have the orders to prove it!
For example:
Department of the Army
Headquarters 25th Infantry Division
APO San Francisco 96225
General Orders Number 8657
4 July 1969
Award of the Silver Star
1. TC 320. The following AWARD is announced:
PLANTE, PAUL R. PFC
Co. A. 2d Bn, 12th Inf, 25th Inf Div
Awarded: Silver Star
Date Action: 13 June 1969
Theater: Republic of Vietnam
Reason: For gallantry in action
Authority: By direction of the President under the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved 9 July 1918, AR 672-5-1, and USARV Reg. 672-1.
Now, note that I was a mere PFC, and yet, as such, I was well aware of the fact that if you don’t have orders, you don’t have doodley squat, so what can we say about Democrat Wes Moore’s specious claim of an “honest mistake” with respect to his claim that he had a Bronze Star, when he was a captain, a commissioned officer far above me in terms of rank, other than that in making such a claim, he is chock full of ****, just like Democrat Tim Walz who falsely claimed to have been in a war along with having been a Command Sergeant Major.
Going back to that story of Democrat STOLEN VALOR, it continues as follows:
The Maryland governor wrote Thursday that he was later “disappointed” to learn that he did not ultimately receive the promised Bronze Star.
He admitted he never issued a correction to the application.
“I sincerely wish I had gone back to correct the note on my application.”
“It was an honest mistake, and I regret not making that correction,” Moore reflected.
He also apologized in comments to the outlet for failing to correct two interviewers in 2008 and 2010, as well as a newspaper columnist in 2013, who referenced him as a Bronze Star recipient.
Moore’s comments came after his gubernatorial campaign claimed in 2022 that during “hundreds of interviews and speeches about his military service, Wes Moore has never claimed to have a Bronze Star.”
Months after the shocking incident, Moore was rumored to be among the contenders vying to become Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate.
Instead, she tapped Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), an Army National Guard veteran, who has also come under fire for misrepresenting his military record.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who is former President Donald Trump’s running mate, led the charge of critics earlier this month who relentlessly attacked Walz for framing himself as a retired command sergeant major.
Although the title was bestowed on the Minnesota veteran at one point, it was later rescinded after he failed to complete the necessary paperwork.
Walz also made a remark saying he had carried weapons “in war,” despite never having served in combat, which earned him the insult of “stolen valor garbage” from Vance.
Unlike Moore’s swift statement on his military debacle, the Harris-Walz campaign defended the Minnesota governor’s comments about his military record for days before admitting he “misspoke.”
Moore was among Walz’s ardent defenders during the controversy and argued that he deserved the nation’s “utmost respect.”
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Yeah, right, Wes!
Up yours, dude!
And what are you going to do about it?
Take away my birthday?
And that for the moment is the news!
As an American citizen who is also a combat veteran from a small town with what would probably be dismissed out of hand as “simply small town values” such as honesty, integrity and forthrightness (the quality of being straightforward in attitude and speech) by national league heavy hitter politicians and political figures such as Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Wes Moore and Dana Bash of CNN, I find this trivializing of the outright lying about their service records by Harris vice president candidate Tim Walz and Democrat governor Wes Moore to be disturbing from the standpoint of the message that it sends, especially to younger, impressionable Americans, that lying by public officials is not only not that big a thing, but in fact is necessary to do if one wants to get ahead, at least in Democrat politics at the state and national levels here in America.
Harris vice president candidate Tim Walz never in his life went to war, and he was never a true command sergeant major because he never met the qualifications to be such, but hey, really, what difference does it make and what harm does it do for him to say he did and that he was?
Everybody knows politicians lie, and the higher level they occupy in our government, the more they lie, until i9ts all they do, and the lies just keep getting bigger and bigger until the truth all but disappears, and that’s the way it is supposed to be, because that is how it has always been, and there we are!
And Democrat governor Wes Moore never had a Bronze Star, but he needed to pad his record by saying he did have a Bronze Star to get that prestigious White House fellowship in 2006, because lying is the only way to get one, and who can blame the dude for that!
Certainly not the people who voted him into office, and since in a democracy, the people know best what is good for them, there we have our answer!
As to Tim Walz’s lying be trivialized on national TV, we need to drop back in time to JD Vance being interviewed on CNN’s State of the Union https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGzoVxPP-20 by CNN’s Dana Bash @ 6:20 where Ms. Bash has just confronted JD Vance about “honoring” the National Guard service of Tim Walz, as if the fact that Mr. Walz spent over 20 years in the National Guard somehow gives Mr. Walz the indisputable right to lie about that service which is the exact point JD Vance makes in detail to Ms. Bash @ 6:20 and after, and having listened to both Ms. Bash and JD Vance in that exchange, I would say the arguments of JD Vance were quite compelling and exactly on point – Tim Walz lied about his service record to raise himself up in Democrat politics, plain and simple, and there is no sugarcoating that fact, as Ms. Bash attempted to do at 7:36 by pointing out some soldier defended Tim Walz’s service, as if lying about his service was in any possible way defensible, which it isn’t!
And if one watches the face of Dana Bash in that video, I truly don’t think she understands a word of what JD Vance was saying ih that video about the seriousness of Tim Walz lying about his service record, and it was a good response from Vance about not caring about the hominem in response to Dana’s comment about all these people out there, like Democrat Wes Moore, who himself lied about having a Bronze Star, praising Walz for lying about his service record.
And most importantly, as Mr. Vance says, it most certainly does go to the judgment of Ms. Harris, period!
WHY DID SHE SELECT SOMEONE WHO LIED ABOUT HIS SERVICE RECORD TO BE HER VICE PRESIDENT?
She is going to be Commander-in-Chief of OUR military, so why is she selecting someone who lied about his service record to be her vice president?
As Commander-in-Chief, according to Article II of OUR Constituti0n, whether Ms. Harris is aware of this, or not, it would be she who appoints commissioned officers in the military, so is she for commissioning liars to be officers in our military?
As an enlisted Viet Nam combat veteran who experienced some incompetent officers over us whose incompetence got people killed and me wounded, I think that is an important and relevant question, especially in light of a recent news story about the Navy on Friday firing the commander of a guided missile destroyer who would have been appointed by DRAFT DODGER and SKULKER Joe Biden that is part of an aircraft carrier strike group deployed in the Middle East to counter attacks on shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
And her question to Vance about whether or not Trump had bone spurs was pure BULL****!
Vance wasn’t born until August 2, 1984, long after the Viet Nam war was over, and he has never claimed to be a medical expert, s0 how the hell would he know whether Trump had bone spurs or not?
So it was a STUPID question intended to deflect attention away from the fact that Tim Walz, like Democrat Wes Moore, was guilty of STOLEN VALOR, for lying about his service record.
AND WHAT ABOUT JOE BIDEN WHO DIDN’T SERVE IN VIET NAM BECAUSE HE HAD A MEDICAL DEFERMENT FOR SUPPOSEDLY HAVING ASTHMA, DESPITE HAVING BEEN A COLLEGE ATHLETE?
Did he really?
The candid world would like to know and it would like to know why Dana Bash didn’t bring that up when she was grilling JD Vance about Trump not being a veteran, when Trump has bever claimed to be one!
And before we go back to August 22, 2024 and the Acceptance Speech of Vice President Harris, where we have Kamala saying “To Joe Biden — Mr. President, when I think about the path we have traveled together, I am filled with gratitude; your record is extraordinary, as history will show, and your character is inspiring; Doug and I love you and Jill and I am forever thankful to you both; and to Coach Tim Walz, you are going to be an incredible Vice President,” let’s go back to the Washington Examiner story titled “Wes Moore apologizes for Bronze Star ‘mistake’ after lengthy Walz military debacle” by Emily Hallas on 31 August 2024, where we were had as follows, to wit:
Walz also made a remark saying he had carried weapons “in war,” despite never having served in combat, which earned him the insult of “stolen valor garbage” from Vance.
Unlike Moore’s swift statement on his military debacle, the Harris-Walz campaign defended the Minnesota governor’s comments about his military record for days before admitting he “misspoke.”
Moore was among Walz’s ardent defenders during the controversy and argued that he deserved the nation’s “utmost respect.”
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And as a twice-wounded Viet Nam combat veteran from a family of veterans in a small town in America reminiscent of John Mellencamp’s song “Small Town” with its lyrics about being born, living and dying in a small town, and having gone to a small school built by returning veterans from WWII who I was surrounded with, and from whom I got my values, and where I learned how small communities take care of each other, where the family down the road may not think like you do, or may not pray like you do, but they’re your neighbours, and you look out for them, and they look out for you, I would like to ask Democrat governor Wes Moore this relevant question, where the word “respect” is defined as a feeling of deep admiration for someone elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements, to wit:
WHY DOES TIM WALZ, WHO LIED ABOUT HIS MILITARY EXPERIENCE “DESERVE” THE NATION’S “UTMOST RESPECT?”
I grew up, as I say, in a small town surrounded by WWII veterans and Korean War veterans who had my respect, a feeling of deep admiration for them elicited not by some politician demanding that I had to respect them, because I was taught from an early age that if you want respect, you have to first earn it, but by their abilities, qualities, and achievements, so I seriously have to wonder why Tom Walz, who lied about his military experience to aggrandize himself and make himself out to the public as something he wasn’t, is deserving of my respect, or the nation’s, for that matter?
To me, respecting Tim Walz for lying about his military experience makes a mockery out of everything I believe in as an American citizen, and it totally dishonors the memory of all those veterans I grew up with who taught me my values.
Tim Walz for example makes a big thing out of enlisting in the National Guard at 17, when my father enlisted at age 16, and his brother, my uncle, enlisted in the Navy during WWII at age 16.
And here, let’s go to August 29, 2024 and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris being interviewed by CNN’s Dana Bash at Kim’s Cafe in Savannah, Georgia, where we have Tim Waloz on the record, as follows:
BASH: Governor Walz, the country is just starting to get to know you.
I want to ask you a question about how you’ve described your service in the National Guard.
WALZ: Yeah.
BASH: You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone.
A campaign official said that you misspoke.
Did you?
WALZ: Well, first of all, I’m incredibly proud.
I’ve done 24 years of wearin’ uniform of this country.
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Talk about ducking a direct question, alright, being evasive as opposed to straightforward, there we have it, and let’s be clear on something else here, people:
TIM WALZ DID NOT DO 24 YEARS OF WEARING THE UNIFORM OF THIS COUNTRY, AS IF HE HAD BEEN ON ACTIVE DUTY STATUS LIKE MILITARY RETIREES THAT I DO RESPECT, BECAUSE THEY ARE WORTHY OF IT BASED ON THEIR ABILITIES, QUALITIES, AND ACHIEVEMENTS!
TIM WALZ WORE THE UNIFORM ONE WEEKEND A MONTH AND FOR TWO WEEKS A YEAR AT SUMMER CAMP FOR 24 YEARS AS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL GUARD!
Do I, a combat veteran who enlisted in the regular Army, owe him my utmost respect because he served in the National Guard?
NO, I most certainly do not!
And here, let’s go for a moment to a Daily Caller article titled “PIERCE: The Misleading Nature Of Tim Walz’s Military Record Reveals Something Deeper About Democrats” by Will Pierce on 14 August 2024, where we had this very same Tim Walz who is demanding our resp0ect disparaging fellow National Guard members, as follows:
During the Minneapolis riots, Walz further revealed his disdain for those in uniform by dismissing National Guard troops as “19-year-old cooks” as he prolonged deploying them to restore order.
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Now, Walz has been quoted as a saying that he would never demean another service member’s service, but there we have a case of him doing that exact thing, by National Guard troops as “19-year-old cooks!”
Is that what makes him worthy of our “utmost respect?”
And that answer is not hardly, which takes us back to the CNN interview as follows:
BASH: And the — the idea that you said that you were in war, did you misspeak, as the campaign has said?
WALZ: Yeah, I said — we were talking about in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war.
And my wife the English teacher told me my grammar’s not always correct.
But again, if it’s not this, it’s an attack on my children for showing love for me, or it’s an attack on my dog.
I’m not gonna do that, and the one thing I’ll never do is I’ll never demean another member’s service in any way.
I never have and I never will.
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Except he would and except he has and except he did when he dismissed those National Guard troops as “19-year-old cooks.”
So, with all the lies, why should we believe a si9nglke word Tim Walz says about anything?
And why does someone who lies to us deserve our utmost respect?
And as to how this is all being viewed out there in the candid world, tune into these two Sky News segments from Australia, and form your own opinion as I have formed mine:
‘Weird’ Harris Walz relationship exposed in bizarre CNN interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvYol_wJEe8
Lefties losing it: Joe Biden ‘barely coherent’ in front of the press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eHJx6FzKU
And going back to August 22, 2024 and the Acceptance Speech of Vice President Harris, where we have Kamala saying “To Joe Biden — Mr. President, when I think about the path we have traveled together, I am filled with gratitude; your record is extraordinary, as history will show, and your character is inspiring; Doug and I love you and Jill and I am forever thankful to you both; and to Coach Tim Walz, you are going to be an incredible Vice President,” if we scroll down through that transcript, we c0me to this from Kamal, to wit:
As Vice President, I have: confronted threats to our security, negotiated with foreign leaders, strengthened our alliances, and engaged with our brave troops overseas.
As Commander-in-Chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.
I will fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families.
And I will always honor, and never disparage, their service and their sacrifice.
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She reminds me of Hussein Obama saying on 28 September 2015: “I lead the strongest military that the world has ever known.”
And Joe Biden saying on July 04, 2024 in his Remarks by President Biden at a Barbeque with Active-Duty Military Service Members and Their Families: “Understand you are the finest fighting force in the history of the world.”
And then, on 24 August 2024, we read in The Telegraph a story titled “The Houthis have defeated the US Navy” by Tom Sharpe, wherein we had as follows about the “strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world” as follows:
Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG) was set up in December 2023 in response to the Houthi attacks on commercial shipping passing through the southern Red Sea.
The aim was to provide a unified international front that would both deter the Houthis from further attacks and reassure the shipping companies who due to reasons of risk and associated insurance costs were already starting to take the long route round the Cape of Good Hope.
The problem was, it didn’t work.
The Houthis were not deterred and continued taking pot shots at anyone and everything from ships with the most tenuous links to Israel, to Iranian grain carriers to Russian dark fleet oilers.
For relatively little effort and money, they achieved their desired end states of ‘improved local influence’ and ‘challenging international shipping’ almost immediately.
Their line that they would stop if there was a ceasefire in Gaza convinced only a few.
This led to Operation Poseidon Archer starting in January 2024, with US and UK counterstrikes on Houthi targets.
But as Saudi Arabia proved between 2015 and 2023 (and repeatedly told us) trying to disable the Houthis by kinetic strikes is like punching smoke, and so it proved.
None of these efforts were helped when the EU formed a splinter coalition called Aspides so as not to associate with the US posture in Israel.
The West’s inability to agree on how to perform a relatively basic task did not go unnoticed by potential adversaries.
It was certainly noticed by the shipping companies we were trying to reassure.
Since January, not only have the attacks steadily increased in number, they have diversified too.
Drones and cruise missiles were accompanied by hijackings and ballistic missiles.
April saw the first use of a surface drone and there has been a steady increase in this method since.
Recently the Houthis have started following up their attacks with small arms fire from fast boats and the last few weeks have seen the amount of attacks increase above what was an average of 2.5 a week.
Even Russia doesn’t want to risk it at the moment.
Back in May when the carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower was present, the US had 12 warships on station providing a mix of missile picket and escorting duties.
Now they have zero.
The UK for one brief moment had three.
HMS Diamond did some outstanding work as part of OPG but when she left, we left.
From a UK perspective the reason is straightforward, we don’t have enough ships – or specifically we don’t have enough in working order.
The US is more complicated because they do have the ships, they’ve just chosen not to send any.
That is not to say they don’t have problems of their own.
Yesterday the US Navy announced that it might have to park up 17 auxiliary support ships due to crewing issues.
The Western Pacific is without an aircraft carrier for the first time in years (ironically because two of them are in the Middle East area … but not in the Red Sea), the latest US frigate build programme is unravelling, Virginia class submarine build rate is below what’s needed to maintain the existing fleet and the US Coast Guard now has no working ice-breakers.
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And then we had a Daily Caller article titled “‘Loss Of Confidence’: Navy Relieves Officer Once Pictured Shooting Rifle With Backwards Scope From Ship Command” by Nick Pope on 1 September 2024, where we had the following story about a Naval officer commissioned and put in command by Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden, to wit:
The U.S. Navy relieved an officer who was once photographed firing a weapon with an attached scope facing the wrong direction from the command of a missile destroyer ship on Friday.
Rear Adm. Christopher Alexander, commander of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, relieved Cmdr. Cameron Yaste of his duties as the commanding officer of the USS John McCain, citing a “loss of confidence” in his ability to command the ship.
Yaste and the Navy were ridiculed in April after he was pictured in a since-deleted Navy social media post firing a rifle with a scope that was attached to the weapon facing the wrong way.
“The Navy holds commanding officers to the highest standards and holds them accountable when those standards are not met.”
“Naval leaders are entrusted with significant responsibilities to their Sailors and their ships,” the Navy said in a statement announcing the move.
“Yaste reported to assume the role as John S. McCain’s commanding officer in October 2023.”
“He has now been temporarily reassigned to Naval Surface Group Northwest.”
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And this business of the media making Tim Walz out to be some kind of strong military leader takes me back in time to “ROCKY THE FLYING SQUIRREL,” a nickname given to then-Democrat presidential contender Michael Dukakis who was then running against George H.W. Bush.
To make himself look strong on national security, the way Kamala is trying to make herself look strong on national security with Tim Walz by her side and his 24 years “wearing the uniform” and keeping America and its national borders safe from harm, Dukakis, who was a small man, had the bright idea to have himself filmed in a publicity stunt riding around perched in the turret of a moving tank as if he were the tank commander, which reminded me of the lyrics by the Rolling Stones of “Sympathy For The Devil,” to wit: “I rode a tank, held a general’s rank When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank.”
Except with his tanker’s helmet on and his diminutive size, Dukakis in fact did look like ROCKY THE FLYING SQUIRREL, which made a fool out of him, especially as he had no military experience of his own.
See, Dukakis and the Tank: The Making of a Political Disaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBlEOvIBTEs
So, is Coach Tim Walz going to end up being another Michael Dukakis?
A laughing stock?
Seems so to me, anyway!
And once again going back to August 22, 2024 and the Acceptance Speech of Vice President Harris, we have Kamala saying “As Vice President, I have: confronted threats to our security, negotiated with foreign leaders, strengthened our alliances, and engaged with our brave troops overseas.”
Which is all BULL****, plain and simple.
Take her statement “As Vice President, I have: confronted threats to our security,” and then consider, for example, a Los Angeles Times article from August 18, 2021 titled “Kamala Harris has touted her role on Afghanistan policy. Now, she owns it too” by Noah Bierman, Staff Writer, where we have as follows on the harm Kamala Harris has done to OUR National security, to wit:
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has been, at least visually, front and center as President Biden has overseen America’s retreat from Afghanistan.
She attends most of his security briefings and had to leave a meeting with business leaders last week to attend an urgent intelligence session as the Taliban rapidly cemented control over the country.
When the White House released a photo Sunday of Biden sitting alone at a telebriefing from the situation room in Camp David, Harris was on the other end of the screen, occupying the center square among Biden’s coterie of virtual advisors.
She watched his high-profile speech Monday from a nearby room at the White House, a detail officials made sure to highlight in a continuing effort to brand the Biden-Harris administration as an unusually close team.
The harrowing images of the United States’ retreat from Kabul this week, with desperate Afghans futilely chasing a packed U.S. Air Force plane, is likely to be a defining moment in Biden’s presidency.
But the execution of the withdrawal will also be added to Harris’ resume, underscoring the complex challenge she faces as Biden’s understudy during what is arguably the first crisis of his presidency.
Harris, who ran aggressively against Biden for the Democratic Party’s 2020 nomination, has been eager as vice president to be seen as loyal, while at the same time sharing in the administration’s successes to pave the way for another potential run at the top job.
She boasted on CNN, shortly after the president ordered troops withdrawn in April, that she was the last one in the room before Biden made his decision, and felt comfortable with the plan.
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And as we all know, that was a huge ****-up which greatly harmed our image as a nation in the world to the detriment of our national security which takes us to a CNN article titled “Harris heads to Southeast Asia in search of a foreign policy win amid Afghanistan crisis” by Jasmine Wright and Arlette Saenz on August 20, 2021, where we had more floundering around by Kamala Harris as she futilely attempted to negotiate with foreign leaders to strengthen our alliances, to wit:
CNN — Vice President Kamala Harris faces a steep challenge next week when she travels to Singapore and Vietnam, as a once-low-risk trip to friendly nations comes at the same time as a bungled US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Harris will have dual responsibilities largely unfamiliar to her in the seven months she’s been in office: Deliver a foreign policy win for an administration in crisis and embody Biden’s call to pivot US foreign policy focus to counter a rising China.
Allies and experts say Harris will now face enhanced pressure to convey to the Southeast Asian nations that the US is sincere in its long-term commitment to the region, as well as convincing them of US competence.
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And thanks to how BIDEN/HARRIS ran from Afghanistnam like sacred rabbits leaving chaos, dead and live Americans and copious amounts of high-tech American military hardware behind, America’s competence in the eyes of the world looks very low, indeed, which is hardly an accomplishment for Kamala to be bragging on, unless she feels being incompetent is somehow a quality that makes her somehow presidential.
And how about her claim that she “engaged with our brave troops overseas?”
Going back to that CNN Article, it continues as follows on that score, to wit:
After departing Washington on Friday, Harris will land in Singapore on Sunday before traveling to Vietnam later in the week.
On Monday in Singapore, she will meet with US sailors aboard the USS Tulsa in a visit to Changi Naval Base, becoming the highest ranking official to address troops in person as the crisis in Afghanistan plays out, an official said.
The vice president will also visit troops after her time abroad, delivering remarks to servicemembers stationed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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And if we go to the transcript of that “meeting” with US sailors aboard the USS Tulsa in a visit to Changi Naval Base, we see that it is nothing more than just another vapid Harris political speech full of word salad while using OUR troops as political props for Kamala https://www.c-span.org/video/?514206-1/vice-president-harris-remarks-aboard-uss-tulsa , to wit:
August 23, 2021
Remarks by Vice President Harris Aboard USS Tulsa in Singapore, Singapore
Changi Naval Base
Singapore, Singapore
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
Thank you, all.
It’s good to see you guys.
It’s really good to see you.
I gave a speech today, earlier.
I was — spent a large part of the morning with the Prime Minister of Singapore, and I was very proud to talk about you all.
And I was sharing with Commander Cornes that there is so much about our relationship with the countries in this region, which I’ll talk about in a moment — but there’s so much about that relationship, both the tradition that is the foundation of that relationship and also our vision for the future of that relationship, being as we are — the United States — a member of the Indo-Pacific region — here in Southeast Asia, here in Singapore.
And almost everything about the foundation of that relationship — certainly anything that has to do with one of the two most important pillars of that relationship — security — is about you guys.
It’s about you.
It’s about what you all do here, what you do every day — the sacrifices that you have made, that your family makes for you to serve — that allow us then — me, as your Vice President; the President; we, as a country — to engage in these relationships to the benefit not only of the United States but, frankly, of the world.
So, I’m here, first of all, to say thank you.
Thank you, all of you, and — and, Commander, for your incredible welcome.
So, it is great to be on the USS Tulsa.
And it’s great to be with you in person so I can again say thank you for your service and for your courage and for your commitment and for representing the best ideals of our great country.
Because, you know, we talk a lot — those of us who have chosen a life of public service and you, in particular — about what our country stands for, but it is your courage, that is not without sacrifice, that allows those ideals to be real and to ring true.
So, I know that your life is a life about service and sacrifice, and it is in your DNA.
And you all have sailed for months, away from your families, without much rest and, due to the pandemic, without much liberty, I think.
And I know too that, like all of us, you are thinking right now, as we all have been every day — recently, in particular — about the men and women who have served in Afghanistan, including some who are here today — and I’ve read about your service — and those who are serving there right now.
And I just want to say that we are all grateful to those men and women in uniform and the embassy staff on the ground who are bringing safety to Americans and to the Afghans who worked side by side with us, and to other Afghans at risk.
And they’re doing this mission in an incredibly challenging and dangerous environment.
And the President and I are thankful for their service.
And, as I know you all know, we send them our thoughts and our prayers.
And from afar and close up, we thank you every day for the work that you do.
At the same time — at the same time, other missions continue all around the world.
So you all are here in Singapore, in Southeast Asia, in the Indo-Pacific with a mission of your own — a mission that is vital to the American people.
Over these months, you have had quite the journey.
You left from my home state of California in May and then quarantined in Guam for two weeks.
Since then, you have sailed to Okinawa and through the South China Sea.
You have teamed up with the Royal Malaysian Navy and the Indonesian Navy.
And now, here you are in Singapore.
And the reason we are here is important: The Indo-Pacific is critical to the security and the prosperity of the United States.
I do believe a big part of the history of the 21st century will be written about this very region where you now serve, and we want to the be ones who are helping to shape and dictate that history.
You, in your service, are going to be the ones who help shape that history.
Our presence in the Indo-Pacific has a long, long history, including now, of helping to guarantee peace and security; freedom of trade and commerce; freedom of navigation — I’m going to say that again: freedom of navigation — and open waterways; and the rules-based international order that has brought so much safety and prosperity to so many.
American workers — let’s think about folks at home, people we know, members of our family — American working families and people re- — rely on the waters that you all sail to provide for their families.
American businesses rely on the ports that you dock in to get their markets — to get their goods to market, to buy the things they need.
You know, we’ve recently been talking about whether folks are going to be able to get their — their school supplies.
We’ve been talking about supply chain issues.
We’ve been talking about whether goods are going to cross the seas in time for kids to get their Christmas toys in time.
The American economy grows ever stronger as the work that you do in these seas grows stronger.
President Biden and I know that our country has deep and enduring strategic interests here in this region, which is why our security presence matters and it is why our partnerships here matter and it is why your mission matters.
It is in our vital interest to stand united with our allies and our partners in Southeast Asia in defense of a free and open Indo-Pacific.
Free and open.
Again, this is the work you are doing every day.
Policy people talk about it — foreign policy people talk about it.
We talk about it in diplomatic meetings.
Free and open.
This is the work you all are doing.
So, to conclude, I want you to know that each and every one of you, no matter your rank or title, is advancing American interests and protecting the American people.
Our nation is stronger and it is safer because of you, because of your sacrifice, and because of your service, and because of the duty that you honor and what you stand for and what you represent every day.
So, I’m here to personally, again, thank you for all you do.
Know that we see you, that we care about you, and that we’re proud of you.
And may God bless you.
And may God bless America.
Thank you, all. (Applause.)
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We’ve already dealt with her claim that as Commander-in-Chief, she will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world which takes us to her claim that she will fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families, except there is no evidence in the record that to date, she has ever taken any action of any kind in that regard, which takes us to her claim that she will always honor, and never disparage, their service and their sacrifice, where the word “disparage” means “regard or represent as being of little worth,” which is exactly what her chosen running mate, retired COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR Tim Walz did, according to a Daily Caller article titled “PIERCE: The Misleading Nature Of Tim Walz’s Military Record Reveals Something Deeper About Democrats” by Will Pierce on 14 August 2024, where we had this very same Tim Walz who is demanding our respect disparaging fellow National Guard members, as follows:
During the Minneapolis riots, Walz further revealed his disdain for those in uniform by dismissing National Guard troops as “19-year-old cooks” as he prolonged deploying them to restore order.
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Kind of makes her claim that she will always honor, and never disparage, their service and their sacrifice, a bit suspicious to me, anyway, and she can’t claim to be ignorant of Tim Walz saying that, calling them “19-year old cooks,” if I’m aware of it, because I am just a common citizen keeping up with current affairs as an American citizen, while she wants to be the Commander-in-Chief of OUR military, so she should be as aware as I am of what is going on in the world, especially with regard to her own chosen vice president pick, and for the moment, that is the news!
And with respect to her claim in her August 22, 2024 Acceptance Speech of Vice President Harris, that she “engaged with our brave troops overseas,” if we go back to that CNN article titled “Harris heads to Southeast Asia in search of a foreign policy win amid Afghanistan crisis” by Jasmine Wright and Arlette Saenz on August 20, 2021, we had her saying this, to wit:
On Monday in Singapore, she will meet with US sailors aboard the USS Tulsa in a visit to Changi Naval Base, becoming the highest ranking official to address troops in person as the crisis in Afghanistan plays out, an official said.
The vice president will also visit troops after her time abroad, delivering remarks to servicemembers stationed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Now, above here, we have the transcript of her vapid word salad remarks to the US sailors aboard the USS Tulsa in a visit to Changi Naval Base, but what about her remarks to servicemembers stationed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii?
What were her remarks to them as the crisis in Afghanistan caused by the gross stupidity and sheer incompetence of BIDEN/HARRIS was playing out?
And the answer to that question is that we do not know and never will know, because as we see in a Washington Examiner article titled “Reporters blocked from Kamala Harris’s remarks to troops at Pearl Harbor without explanation” by Daniel Chaitin on August 27, 2021, those remarks from their Deputy Commander-in-Chief to Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden’s troops in Pearl Harbor are the toppest of very high level top secret, because they involve high level strategy she don’t want our enemies and adversaries all over the world to know anything about, strategy related to protecting our national security, which is what Joe Biden as the High Commander-in-Chief had tasked his Deputy Commander-in-Chief Kamala Harris with taking care of, which necessitated her keeping her remarks so top secret, lest our many enemies find out what she has prepared for them if they dare disrespect her or fail to address her by her preferred personal pronouns, or misgender her, to wit:
Media access to Vice President Kamala Harris’s address to U.S. troops at Pearl Harbor was suddenly blocked on Thursday.
No explanation was given, according to the White House press pool, but the move came hours after two explosions outside the airport in Kabul killed 13 U.S. service members and 60 Afghans during evacuations.
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And how about that, folks!
Hours after two explosions outside the airport in Kabul killed 13 U.S. service members and 60 Afghans during the BOTCHED evacuations Kamala Harris felt comfortable with, all of a sudden her address to the troops at Pearl Harbor became classified!
Going back to that story, it continues, as follows:
“The VP’s staff informed the pool during the flight that her event with troops at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam would now be closed press.”
“No explanation given by the VP’s team for why it has been changed to closed press when asked by a member of the pool,” the dispatch said.
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As if any explanation were needed!
The by the VP’s team NEEDED it changed to closed press to protect Kamala Harri8s from charges 0f incompetence that killed 13 U.S. service members and 60 Afghans during the BOTCHED evacuations Kamala Harris felt comfortable with, which takes us back for more, to wit:
Her original schedule said Harris would “participate in a troop engagement event at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam” and that there would be “travel pool coverage of this event.”
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And her incompetence that killed 13 U.S. service members and 60 Afghans during the BOTCHED evacuations Kamala Harris felt comfortable with caused that original schedule to be scrapped to protect Kamala from press scrutiny, to hide her like she is being hidden now, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
Harris had Afghanistan on her mind today, as the White House said she was briefed on the situation and her office released a statement about the deadly explosions, for which an Islamic State affiliate claimed responsibility, around the same time she landed in Hawaii.
She did not answer questions from reporters as she walked off Air Force 2.
She also did not respond to shouted questions about Afghanistan as she got back on the plane to fly to Washington.
“Today in Kabul, a terror attack killed 13 American service members.”
“These courageous service members died while saving countless lives.”
“They are heroes,” she said.
“Doug and I grieve for the Americans we lost, we pray for the Americans injured in the attack, and our hearts go out to their loved ones.”
“We also grieve for the Afghan civilians killed and injured,” Harris continued.
“Our country is grateful to all our women and men in uniform, and in particular, those working today to get Americans and our Afghan partners out of harm’s way.”
“And we will complete that mission.”
“Today, we honor those who gave their lives in service to their nation.”
“We will never forget.”
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EXCEPT SHE DID FORGET!
BOTH HER AND JOE BIDEN!
End of that story!
And before we go to the State of the Union show with the highly partisan airhead Dana Bash of CNN in her Interview With Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/11/politics/video/watch-part-one-of-dana-bashs-interview-with-gop-vice-presidential-nominee-jd-vance aired to not only to the people of this nation, but to the people of the candid world as well, on August 11, 2024, where we had @5:26 host Dana Bash looking out at each one of us from the view screen, while saying to each and every one of us, “Governor Walz served 24 years, do you honor his service?” I want to make an impo9rtant point here with regard to the service of Tim Walz as a member of the Minnesota National Guard, not the regular Army, by going to Title 32 of the United States Code, which is the law that governs the National Guard, where in §101. Definitions, we have as follows:
(2) “Armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.
(3) “National Guard” means the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard.
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So, Tim Walz DID NOT serve in the “Armed forces” of this country, which takes us to §304. Enlistment oath, where we have as follows:
Each person enlisting in the National Guard shall sign an enlistment contract and subscribe to the following oath:
‘‘I do hereby acknowledge to have voluntarily enlisted this __ day of ____, ____, in the ____ National Guard of the State of _________ for a period of ___ year(s) under the conditions prescribed by law, unless sooner discharged by proper authority.”
‘‘I, ________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and of the State of ______ against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to them; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the Governor of __________ and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to law and regulations. So help me God.’’
The oath may be taken before any officer of the National Guard of the State or Territory, or of Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia, as the case may be, or before any other person authorized by the law of the jurisdiction concerned to administer oaths of enlistment in the National Guard.
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So, Tim Walz enlisted pursuant to that oath to obey the orders of the Governor of Minnesota who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Minnesota National Guard, so that today, governor Tim Walz is himself the Commander-in-Chief of the Minnesota National Guard of which he falsely claims today to have been a Command Sergeant Major of, and given he is the Commander-in-Chief, who out there is going to stand up and accuse him of lying?
As to the Minnesota National Guard, it is a state-based military force of more than 13,000 soldiers and airmen, serving in 61 communities across the state with functions ranging from limited actions during non-emergency situations to full scale law enforcement of martial law when local law enforcement officials can no longer maintain civil control.
So, when Dana Bash of CNN asks each one of us if we honor Tim Walz’s service, it is his service to the state of Minnesota as a member of the Minnesota National Guard she is referring to, and my answer to the pertinent question of do I honor Tim Walz’s service to the state of Minnesota as a member of the Minnesota National Guard is “NO, AND WHY SHOULD I?”
Why should any of us honor Tim Walz’s service in the Minnesota National Guard where the word “honor” means “regard with great respect?”
With his record of lying to us about his military service as a member of the Minnesota National Guard, why should any of us here in America regard Tim Walz with great respect?
Since when are people who lie to us about their military record worthy of being regarded with great respect, as CNN’s Dana Bash is demanding of each and every one of us in the case of Democrat Kamala Harris’ chosen running mate Tim Walz?
And how little self-esteem does someone have to possess to regard Tim Walz with great respect with his record of lying to us about his military service as a member of the Minnesota National Guard?
There, for CNN’s Dana Bash, is the question of the hour.
And before we go to BIDEN/HARRIS transportation secretary and failed Democrat presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg willfully, blatantly and intentionally pissing all over the Hatch Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 7321-7326, which Act restricts the involvement of Federal cabinet officers in partisan political activity where partisan political activity is any activity directed toward the success or failure of a partisan candidate, political party, or partisan political group such as HARRIS/WALZ, by appearing as a political attack dog and apologist for HARRIS/WALZ on CNN’S “STATE OF THE UNION” on August 11, 2024 with CNN PROPAGANDIST and HARRIS/WALZ SHILL Dana Bash, where he misrepresented his own military service record before spewing some real weird crazy talk about JD Vance wanting Peter and his husband Chasten to be forcibly divorced and separated from their children, let’s first go to another segment of “STATE OF THE UNION” which aired on August 11, 2024 where we have the empty-headed host of “STATE OF THE UNION,” Dana Bash, firing a high-speed torpedo right into her own flank, thus blowing the little bit of credibility she might have had clear out of the water, making herself out to be an uninformed imbecile and simpleton, to wit:
State of the Union
Interview With Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH); Interview With U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Aired 9-10a ET
VANCE: But I think Kamala Harris clearly owns the policies of the Biden/Harris administration, especially when we consider the fact that, as we have all learned over the last few months, Joe Biden clearly isn’t capable of doing the job.
And so I think that drives home that Kamala Harris really has been the one calling the shots.
I mean, how could she not?
I think Joe Biden doesn’t really know where he is.
BASH: Kamala Harris has been calling the shots?
Says who?
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Says who, Dana?
How about Section 1 of Article II of the United States Constitution which states in clear and unambiguous language CNN host Dana Bash should have learned in grade school, to wit:
In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President.
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How on earth could Dana Bash be so stupid that she wouldn’t know that?
And given she obviously is that ignorant, why on earth should we trust her judgment on anything she says?
Which takes us back to Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, as follows:
Former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg will join me next to respond.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
[09:34:01]
BASH: Welcome back to STATE OF THE UNION.
You just heard from the GOP vice presidential nominee, J.D. Vance.
Here with me now to respond is former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, a Navy veteran.
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And WHOA, Dana, stop right there, because Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg IS NOT a Navy veteran.
According to his bio, from 2009 to 2017, Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, not the United States Navy, where after eight years, he attained the rank of lieutenant, equivalent to a captain in the Army.
In 2014, he was mobilized and deployed to the War in Afghanistan for seven months where he served as an armed driver for his commander on more than 100 trips into Kabul, where he was tasked with watching out for ambushes and explosive devices along the roads and ensuring that the vehicle was guarded, jokingly referring to this role as a “military Uber.”
So, to be correct, he is a RESERVE OFFICER, not a Navy veteran.
Going back to that interview, the empty-headed Dana continues as follows:
Thank you so much for being here.
You heard me ask J.D. Vance about his attacks on Tim Walz’s military record.
I want to replay part of what he said about that.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
VANCE: I’m not criticizing Tim Walz’s service.
I’m criticizing the fact that he lied about his service for political gain, Dana.
Now, I served in the United States Marine Corps.
And you know this.
And, look, there are a lot of things that I’m proud about.
I have never lied about what I did or overstated it because it would be beneficial to me in election.
I think that’s what Tim Walz did.
That’s what I was criticizing.
And, yes, I do think it’s scandalous behavior.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BASH: Now, the Harris campaign says Walz misspoke when he said he carried weapons of war.
You heard me mention that to the senator.
You served in the military.
You deployed to Afghanistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Buttigieg#/media/File:Pete_Afghanistan_5.jpg_large.jpg
Does Senator Vance have a point when he said that we should hear more from Governor Walz himself or even Vice President Harris to correct the record there?
[09:35:08]
PETE BUTTIGIEG, U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY: No, he doesn’t.
And the fact that a veteran wants to go out and disparage another veteran just goes against certainly everything I learned as — during my time in service.
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Disparaging another veteran goes against everything Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg learned as an intelligence officer during his time in service in the Navy Reserve?
Well, how about this, then, for the Navy itself disparaging the service of a Navy veteran from a Daily Caller article titled “‘Loss Of Confidence’: Navy Relieves Officer Once Pictured Shooting Rifle With Backwards Scope From Ship Command” by Nick Pope on 1 September 2024, where we had the following story about a Naval officer commissioned and put in command by Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden, to wit:
The U.S. Navy relieved an officer who was once photographed firing a weapon with an attached scope facing the wrong direction from the command of a missile destroyer ship on Friday.
Rear Adm. Christopher Alexander, commander of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, relieved Cmdr. Cameron Yaste of his duties as the commanding officer of the USS John McCain, citing a “loss of confidence” in his ability to command the ship.
Yaste and the Navy were ridiculed in April after he was pictured in a since-deleted Navy social media post firing a rifle with a scope that was attached to the weapon facing the wrong way.
“The Navy holds commanding officers to the highest standards and holds them accountable when those standards are not met.”
“Naval leaders are entrusted with significant responsibilities to their Sailors and their ships,” the Navy said in a statement announcing the move.
“Yaste reported to assume the role as John S. McCain’s commanding officer in October 2023.”
“He has now been temporarily reassigned to Naval Surface Group Northwest.”
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If that is not a case of the Navy itself disparaging (regard or represent as being of little worth) the service of a veteran whose service deserved to be disparaged, then nothing is, and it is surprising that a real hot shot intelligence officer like Peter Paulo Montgomery Buttigieg would be unaware of that reality – the intolerance of the Navy for incompetent officers.
Going back to the interview, it continued as follows:
BUTTIGIEG: Look, I think, in many ways, it’s the exception that proves the rule, if the only thing that they can find about Tim Walz to complain about is to disparage his military record that was clearly honorable.
Remember, you can retire at 20 years.
Tim Walz served for 24.
And the fact that they have to go back to find a clip from 2018 to find the one time that he slipped up when he talks about the weapons of war that he carried and said something instead about carrying a weapon in war, it’s kind of an exception that proves the rule, in terms of how hard you have to look to find Tim Walz saying anything that isn’t precise and accurate.
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Oh, Peter, dude, you are such an idiot!
Tim Walz said he was a retired Command Sergeant Major.
That is false.
And talk about Tim Walz disparaging the service of every member of the Minnesota Nation Guard at a time when Tim Walz as governor was Commander-in-Chief 0f the Minnesota National Guard, which makes it especially egregious (outstandingly bad; shocking) and insulting, we have it here in this Daily Caller article titled “PIERCE: The Misleading Nature Of Tim Walz’s Military Record Reveals Something Deeper About Democrats” by Will Pierce on 14 August 2024, where we had this very same Tim Walz who is demanding our respect disparaging National Guard members he was the Commander-in-Chief of, as follows:
During the Minneapolis riots, Walz further revealed his disdain for those in uniform by dismissing National Guard troops as “19-year-old cooks” as he prolonged deploying them to restore order.
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Now, if Tim Walz as Commander-in-Chief of the Minnesota National Guard was mocking and disparaging the service of the troops he was responsible for as their Commander-in-Chief, why on earth would we want to put him in any kind of position of responsibility over our Armed Forces?
Be kind of silly, wouldn’t it!
And that for the moment is the news!
Look, I think, in many ways, it’s the exception that proves the rule, if the only thing that they can find about Tim Walz to complain about is to disparage his military record that was clearly honorable.
Remember, you can retire at 20 years.
Tim Walz served for 24.
And the fact that they have to go back to find a clip from 2018 to find the one time that he slipped up when he talks about the weapons of war that he carried and said something instead about carrying a weapon in war, it’s kind of an exception that proves the rule, in terms of how hard you have to look to find Tim Walz saying anything that isn’t precise and accurate.
But there’s something, I think, much bigger at play here, which is, I watched that interview and watched J.D. Vance present himself as suddenly very particular about precision in speech and very concerned about honesty.
He’s running with Donald Trump, somebody who has set records for lying in public life.
He just gave a press conference where fact-checkers estimate that he told 162 distortions or lies.
That, frankly, is just impressive in terms of being able to physically do that.
It’s like the Olympics of lying.
So, maybe just because it’s Sunday morning, I can’t stop thinking about the Scripture that says, how can you look at your brother and say let me take the speck out of your eye when you have a plank in your own eye?
And then we had a Daily Caller article titled “‘Loss Of Confidence’: Navy Relieves Officer Once Pictured Shooting Rifle With Backwards Scope From Ship Command” by Nick Pope on 1 September 2024, where we had the following story about a Naval officer commissioned and put in command by Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden, to wit:
The U.S. Navy relieved an officer who was once photographed firing a weapon with an attached scope facing the wrong direction from the command of a missile destroyer ship on Friday.
Rear Adm. Christopher Alexander, commander of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, relieved Cmdr. Cameron Yaste of his duties as the commanding officer of the USS John McCain, citing a “loss of confidence” in his ability to command the ship.
Yaste and the Navy were ridiculed in April after he was pictured in a since-deleted Navy social media post firing a rifle with a scope that was attached to the weapon facing the wrong way.
“The Navy holds commanding officers to the highest standards and holds them accountable when those standards are not met.”
“Naval leaders are entrusted with significant responsibilities to their Sailors and their ships,” the Navy said in a statement announcing the move.
“Yaste reported to assume the role as John S. McCain’s commanding officer in October 2023.”
“He has now been temporarily reassigned to Naval Surface Group Northwest.”
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Does Senator Vance have a point when he said that we should hear more from Governor Walz himself or even Vice President Harris to correct the record there?
[09:35:08]
PETE BUTTIGIEG, U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY: No, he doesn’t.
And the fact that a veteran wants to go out and disparage another veteran just goes against certainly everything I learned as — during my time in service.
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Disparaging another veteran goes against everything Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg learned as an intelligence officer during his time in service?
Well, how about this, then, for the Navy itself disparaging the service of a Navy veteran from a Daily Caller article titled “‘Loss Of Confidence’: Navy Relieves Officer Once Pictured Shooting Rifle With Backwards Scope From Ship Command” by Nick Pope on 1 September 2024, where we had the following story about a Naval officer commissioned and put in command by Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden, to wit:
The U.S. Navy relieved an officer who was once photographed firing a weapon with an attached scope facing the wrong direction from the command of a missile destroyer ship on Friday.
Rear Adm. Christopher Alexander, commander of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, relieved Cmdr. Cameron Yaste of his duties as the commanding officer of the USS John McCain, citing a “loss of confidence” in his ability to command the ship.
Yaste and the Navy were ridiculed in April after he was pictured in a since-deleted Navy social media post firing a rifle with a scope that was attached to the weapon facing the wrong way.
“The Navy holds commanding officers to the highest standards and holds them accountable when those standards are not met.”
“Naval leaders are entrusted with significant responsibilities to their Sailors and their ships,” the Navy said in a statement announcing the move.
“Yaste reported to assume the role as John S. McCain’s commanding officer in October 2023.”
“He has now been temporarily reassigned to Naval Surface Group Northwest.”
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Going back to the interview, it continued as follows:
BUTTIGIEG: Look, I think, in many ways, it’s the exception that proves the rule, if the only thing that they can find about Tim Walz to complain about is to disparage his military record that was clearly honorable.
Remember, you can retire at 20 years.
Tim Walz served for 24.
And the fact that they have to go back to find a clip from 2018 to find the one time that he slipped up when he talks about the weapons of war that he carried and said something instead about carrying a weapon in war, it’s kind of an exception that proves the rule, in terms of how hard you have to look to find Tim Walz saying anything that isn’t precise and accurate.
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Oh, Peter, dude, you are such an idiot!
Tim Walz said he was a retired Command Sergeant Major.
That is false.
As to this particular SILLY SEASON as the presidential campaign period here in America is known, and with good reason, political columnist Victor Davis Hanson writing for the Tribune Content Agency sums it up nicely in an article titled “Who is ‘destroying democracy in darkness?’” on 23 August 2024, as follows:
The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic.
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Yes, people, the strangest indeed, as we see in a video of coronated Democrat presidential contender Kamala Harris, who in 2019 was a failed Democrat presidential contender along with BIDEN/HARRIS transportation secretary and combat veteran Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg who deployed to Afghanistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Buttigieg#/media/File:Pete_Afghanistan_5.jpg_large.jpg where he served as an armed driver for his commander on more than 100 trips into Kabul, where he was tasked with watching out for ambushes and explosive devices along the roads and ensuring that the vehicle was guarded, jokingly referring to this role as a “military Uber,” and who now entertains the bizarre, weird and paranoid belief that JD Vance wants Peter and his husband Chasten to be forcibly divorced and separated from their children, playing on Sky News in Australia, where Kamala Harris, speaking at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, goes into a bizarre and weird rant with copious doses of her signature cackling thrown in about the white lids on containers of Starbucks coffee, to wit:
Kamala Harris’s Starbucks Cups Gaffe: A Bizarre College Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBbe-Dt_LMk
“We talked about those lids.”
“So here’s what I said to her.”
“Here’s what I said to her.”
“So you know how those lids — well I’m just going to speak ok so this is it.”
“So you know how those lids on the Starbucks cups, they’re white, right?”
“And so if you wear lipstick, they get all over the lid.”
“And so then I find myself in meetings, if I’m the only woman — so I keep taking the lid off and having my cup out so I don’t have that big lipstick mark on the lid.”
“So I said, can we do something about the color of the lid?”
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As if the lipstick wouldn’t show up on every other color lid other than one that was the actual color of the lipstick, which bit of logic went right over the empty head of Kamala Harris, and who other than some pretty shallow people would give a damn in the first place in a meeting where Kamala Harris was the only woman that she was leaving lipstick stains on her white Starbucks coffee container lid?
OMG is all I can think when I watch that video and think of four long years of her as president of the United States of America, which is exactly what the Australians are thinking.
This is who the senile Joe Biden has endorsed to be his chosen successor in the white house – someone obsessed with leaving lipstick stains on the white covers on containers of Starbucks coffee!
And this person obsessed with leaving lipstick stains on the white covers on containers of Starbucks coffee is also the same person who told us in her Acceptance Speech on August 22, 2024 that as Commander-in-Chief, she will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.
Somehow, as I listen to her ranting in that video about the white covers on containers of Starbucks coffee showing lipstick stains and cackling like a maniac as she does so, I have trouble seeing her as the Commander-in-Chief of our military, because who she really is, is that person in that video, and to me, that person in that video DOES NOT belong in charge of this nation’s military and national security, because that person comes across as an imbecilic idiot!
So no wonder tyrants and dictators like Kim-Jong-Un of North Korea are rooting for her to win, which would be a huge win for them, as well!
And once again, folks, that is the news!
Stay tuned, however, for more is yet to come, and before you go, take a good look at the photo of BIDEN/HARRIS transportation secretary, Rhodes scholar and Harvard graduate Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg in 2014 during his combat tour in Afghanistan, with his combat gear on and all his patches on his uniform, and focus on how he is holding his rifle, for there is a picture worth a thousand words.
And going back to August 22, 2024, and the Acceptance Speech of Vice President Harris, this being the same Kamala Harris who was a failed Democrat presidential contender in 2019, and the same Kamala Harris who in 2018 at Spelman College was ranting about leaving lipstick marks on the white covers of Starbucks coffee containers, we come across this claim by Kamala, to wit:
Five days before Russia attacked Ukraine, I met with President Zelensky to warn him about Russia’s plan to invade.
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Now when I read that in the transcript, I said to myself, “HUH?”
Five days before Russia attacked Ukraine, Kamala Harris met with President Zelensky to warn him about Russia’s plan to invade?
Now, according to established history, Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, 178 days AFTER BIDEN/HARRIS fled Afghanistnam in a panic on August 31, 2021.
So five days before that would have been February 19, 2024.
So, the question is, on February 19, 2024, didn’t Zelensky have a clue at that time that Russia was going to invade, so that on February 19, 2024, he needed Kamala Harris of all people to give him a warning?
Let’s take a look at some facts here, to see what we can see, to see if like her running mate Tim Walz, who lied about his military record to embellish it, Kamala isn’t doing the same exact thing here, claiming credit for herself where credit clearly is not due.
For example, on 27 January 2022, 28 days BEFORE Russia invaded Ukraine, and thus, 23 days before Kamala Harris says she warned Zelensky, ABC NEWS had a story titled “US, NATO using military moves to send message to Russia over Ukraine,” wherein we had what appears to me to be a definite warning to Russia, as follows:
Wednesday’s arrival of American F-15 fighters in Estonia to join an ongoing NATO air policing mission over the Baltics would normally not garner much attention were it not for the rising tensions of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.
While the F-15’s weeklong deployment to Estonia to join fighter jets from Belgium had been in the works for a while, Thursday’s arrival in Lithuania of four Danish F-16 fighters for a similar mission was a more recent decision by Denmark tied to the rising tensions over Ukraine.
Though small in scope, Denmark’s deployment of the additional aircraft and a ship to the Baltic Sea sends a message to Russia about the willingness by NATO countries to demonstrate their military capabilities and commitment to NATO partners during a crisis.
The deployments also highlight NATO’s existing presence in eastern Europe and the Baltics, prompted by Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea, and how any military movements are being viewed through the prism of the crisis with Ukraine, no matter the size of the deployment.
Since Ukraine is not a member of NATO, the alliance has no security commitment to Ukraine should Russia invade, but it is intent on assuring the security of neighboring NATO countries.
On Wednesday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that while diplomatic efforts continue to try to defuse the crisis with Russia “we are also prepared for the worst.”
Stoltenberg also said this week’s announcement by the Pentagon that 8,500 troops in the United States had been placed on heightened alert demonstrated “demonstrates the strength of the NATO alliance.”
On Monday, the Pentagon announced that most of the troops had been placed on shortened “prepare to deploy orders” in case they were needed for the 40,000 man NATO Response Force was activated on short notice to respond to a crisis.
Both the U.S. and NATO have been very public with any new or potential military call-ups or deployments to message to Russia that the alliance remains strong and has the capability of quickly reinforcing member nations that request assistance.
That messaging can include disclosing military planning and procedures that are not normally made public.
The Pentagon’s top spokesman acknowledged on Tuesday that publicly announcing that 8,500 American military on heightened alert and on shorter “prepare to deploy orders” was not customary for the U.S. military.
“It’s not typical that we talk about it as much as we’ve been talking about it,” John Kirby told reporters.
Kirby also noted that the 8,500 troops on alert have not received orders to deploy and that the thousands of American troops already stationed in Europe were more likely to initially resource the NATO Response Force should it be activated.
The public messaging about military readiness is in line with the very public warnings to Russia by President Biden and American allies that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would have severe economic consequences for Russia.
“Although “strategic ambiguity” is an essential part of our international diplomacy, in this case, Russia needed to have a strong and unified message from the U.S. and NATO,” said Mick Mulroy a former deputy assistant of defense and an ABC News national security contributor.
“The Pentagon has also been very forthcoming on all its activities,” he said.
“This is likely in an attempt to avoid any misinterpretation of their actions.”
Mulroy that Russia should do the same particularly with more than 100,000 ground troops on Ukraine’s borders.
“Without constant communication, this situation could lead to a conflict in which every nation involved, and even those that are not, is negatively impacted,” he said.
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So, no mention whatsoever of Kamala in that Biden press release, anyway, that makes it crystal clear that it was Joe Biden, the man at the top who was in charge, not Kamala Harris.
But should we be surprised that Kamala Harris would lie to us here, thinking we are stupid and uniformed to embellish the record of accomplishment she really doesn’t have?
Of course not, is my thought!
And staying with the claim of Kamala Harris in her August 22, 2024 Acceptance Speech that five days before Russia attacked Ukraine, she met with President Zelensky to warn him about Russia’s plan to invade, as if by then, he couldn’t have possibly known that himself, if we go to a Rigzone story titled “Oil Jumps on Ukraine Invasion Risks” by Julia Fanzeres on Monday, February 14, 2022, which is TEN (10) days before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and FIVE (5) days before Kamala Harris says she warned Zelensky on February 19, 2024, we find this, as follows, to wit:
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Friday that the U.S. believes Russia could take offensive military action or attempt to spark a conflict inside Ukraine as early as next week.
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So if National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Friday, February 11, 2022, that the U.S. believes Russia could take offensive military action or attempt to spark a conflict inside Ukraine as early as next week, which was the week of February 14, 2022, isn’t it logical to think that he or somebody in the Biden administration other than Kamala Harris would have passed that information along to Zelensky as a warning in a timely fashion?
And the fact that it was printed in a Rigzone story about oil prices makes it incandescently clear that this was no secret back then, which thought takes us to a Rigzone story titled “Oil Jumps on Ukraine Invasion Risks” by Julia Fanzeres on Monday, February 14, 2022, where we have Zelensky apparently blowing off the warnings, to wit:
Oil jumped as simmering geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine kept the market on edge and volatility high.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy spooked markets with what appeared to be a sarcastic comment about the rest of the world predicting a date for a Russian attack.
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So, who is it Zelensky didn’t believe?
Jake Sullivan?
In that same story, we had as follows, as well:
Russia has repeatedly denied it plans to invade and its foreign minister said he would propose to continue diplomatic engagements with the West.
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And from there, we go to a Reuters story titled “Ukraine’s Zelenskiy declares ‘day of unity’ for Feb. 16, cited as possible invasion day” by Darya Korsunskaya and Natalia Zinets on February 14, 2022, where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:
MOSCOW/KYIV, Feb 14 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Ukrainians to fly the country’s flags from buildings and sing the national anthem in unison on Feb. 16, a date that some Western media have cited as a possible start of a Russian invasion.
Ukrainian officials stressed that Zelenskiy was not predicting an attack on that date, but responding with skepticism to foreign media reports.
Several Western media organisations have quoted U.S. and other officials citing the date as when Russian forces would be ready for an attack.
“They tell us Feb. 16 will be the day of the attack.”
“We will make it a day of unity,” Zelenskiy said in a video address to the nation.
“They are trying to frighten us by yet again naming a date for the start of military action,” Zelenskiy said.
“On that day, we will hang our national flags, wear yellow and blue banners, and show the whole world our unity.”
Zelenskiy has long said that – while he believes Russia is threatening his country – the likelihood of an imminent attack has been overstated by Ukraine’s Western allies, responding to Moscow’s efforts to intimidate Ukraine and sow panic.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, told Reuters the president was responding in part “with irony” to media reports of the potential date of the invasion.
“It is quite understandable why Ukrainians today are skeptical about various ‘specific dates’ of the so-called ‘start of the invasion’ announced in the media,” he said.
“When the ‘start of the invasion’ becomes some sort of rolling tour date, such media announcements can only be taken with irony.”
Zelenskiy’s office released the text of a decree calling for all villages and towns in Ukraine to fly the country’s flags on Wednesday, and for the entire nation to sing the national anthem at 10 am.
It also called for an increase in salaries of soldiers and border guards.
U.S. officials said they were not predicting an assault ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on a specific day, but repeated warnings that it could come at any time.
“I won’t get into a specific date, I don’t think that would be smart.”
“I would just tell you that it is entirely possible that he could move with little to no warning,” Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told reporters.
Earlier, Kirby said Moscow was still adding to its military capabilities on the Ukrainian frontier.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington, which has already sent most of its diplomats home, was moving its remaining diplomatic mission in Ukraine from Kyiv to the western city of Lviv, much further from the Russian frontier.
He cited a “dramatic acceleration in the buildup of Russian forces”.
Russia has more than 100,000 troops massed near the border of Ukraine.
It denies Western accusations that it is planning an invasion, but says it could take unspecified “military-technical” action unless a range of demands are met, including barring Kyiv from ever joining the NATO alliance.
Russia suggested on Monday that it was ready to keep talking to the West to try to defuse the security crisis.
In a televised exchange, Putin was shown asking his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, whether there was a chance of an agreement to address Russia’s security concerns, or whether it was just being dragged into tortuous negotiations.
Lavrov replied: “We have already warned more than once that we will not allow endless negotiations on questions that demand a solution today.”
But he added: “It seems to me that our possibilities are far from exhausted…”
“At this stage, I would suggest continuing and building them up.”
Western countries have threatened sanctions on an unprecedented scale if Russia does invade.
The Group of Seven large economies (G7) warned on Monday of “economic and financial sanctions which will have massive and immediate consequences on the Russian economy”.
After speaking with the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he still believed “from his own analysis, his own hopes” that there would not be a conflict, a U.N. spokesperson said.
Moscow says Ukraine’s quest to join NATO poses a threat.
While NATO has no immediate plans to admit Ukraine, Western countries say they cannot negotiate over a sovereign country’s right to form alliances.
ECONOMIC DAMAGE
Ukraine is already suffering economic damage from the standoff.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan told congressional leaders on Monday that Washington was considering offering Ukraine up to $1 billion in sovereign loan guarantees to calm markets, a source familiar with the adviser’s call told Reuters.
Ukraine International Airlines, Ukraine’s biggest airline, said its insurers had terminated cover for at least some of its aircraft on flights in Ukrainian airspace.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held talks in Kyiv with Zelenskiy.
On Tuesday, Scholz is due to fly to Moscow, the latest Western official to make the trip after French President Emmanuel Macron and two British ministers went last week.
Scholz said he saw “no reasonable justification” for Russia’s military activity on Ukraine’s border, and that “we are ready for a serious dialogue with Russia on European security issues”.
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So, hmmmmm!
A lot to think of there, people, with respect to the claim of Kamala Harris on August 22, 2024 in her Acceptance Speech that on February 19, 2022, FIVE (5) days AFTER that Reuters story, she met with President Zelensky to warn him about Russia’s plan to invade Ukraine.
Something isn’t adding up here.
Could it be that Kamala Harris is embellishing her record here like her running mate Tim Walz is doing by blowing smoke up our ***** and making claims that simply are not true?
Stay tuned, more is yet to come!
The term “Fabulism” as applied to the presidential campaign of HARRIS/WALZ means a literary genre on the internet and in the mainstream and legacy media that combines fantasy, such as Tim Walz carrying weapons of war in a war, and Kamala Harris being a President for all Americans, and myth, such as Tim Walz being a retired Command Sergeant Major, along with futurism, such as Kamala Harris charting A New Way Forward to a future with a strong and growing middle class because we know a strong middle class has always been critical to America’s success, and building that middle class will be a defining goal of the Kamala Harris presidency as she never gives up, because the future is always worth fighting for, and that’s the fight she and Tim Walz are in right now, a fight for America’s future, while as Commander-in-Chief, Kamala Harris will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world, and surrealism, such as Kamala Harris being a President who unites us around our highest aspirations, all to create a contemporary fictional world, which the HARRIS/WALZ team is doing quite spectacularly as they invent a Kamala Harris who before now has never truly existed, such as the Kamala Harris who warned Vladimer Zelensky, the fascist dictator of Ukraine, that Russia was going to invade in five days.
And before we go back to that HARRIS/WALZ FABULISM, to see how well BIDE-O-NOMICS as endorsed by Kamala Harris on the Dana Bash Show on CNN on August 29, 2024 is working, let’s go to a September 12, 2024 PRESS RELEASE from the BIDEN/HARRIS treasury department, where we learn more about the serious harm BIDEN/HARRIS and BIDE-O-NOMICS are doing to OUR economy and OUR future as a nation and as a people, to wit:
Treasury’s fiscal year-to-date interest costs hit $1.049 trillion through August, up about 30% from the comparable period in fiscal 2023, as its weighted average interest during the month reached 3.35%, up 43 basis points from a year earlier.
The higher interest outlays also reflect financing costs for a larger amount of debt, now above $35 trillion.
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Think about that, people – thanks to the fiscal irresponsibility and profligacy of BIDEN/HARRIS, we are now throwing away over a TRILLION DOLLARS in unproductive-to-our-economy interest payments to countries like China and Japan, with no end in sight thanks to BIDE-O-NOMICS, which is beggaring the American people by saddling us with more and m0re debt.
But let’s go back to this FABULIST claim of Kamala Harris in her August 22, 2024 Acceptance Speech that five days before Russia attacked Ukraine, she met with President Zelensky to warn him about Russia’s plan to invade, as if by then, he couldn’t have possibly known that himself, and thu7s, needed Kamala Harris to tell him, which from the record seems to be fanciful BULL****, as we see in a Reuters story titled “Biden sure Putin will invade Ukraine in days as civilians bussed out” by Anton Zverev, Pavel Polityuk and Polina Nikolskaya on February 18, 2022, the day BEFORE Kamala Harris says she warned Zelensky, where we have as follows, to wit:
MOSCOW/KYIV/DONETSK, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Russia’s Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine within days, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday after separatists backed by Moscow told civilians to leave breakaway regions on buses, a move the West fears is part of a pretext for an attack.
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So, if the BIG GUY himself, Joe Biden, was warning Zelensky on February 18, 2022 that Russi9a was going to invade in a matter of days, why did Zelensky need Kamala Harris to warn him on February 19, 2022 of the same thing Joe Biden had warned him about the day before?
Don’t make sense, does it?
But maybe we are missing something here, so let’s go back to Reuters and see what it could possibly be, besides BULL**** from Kamala Harris as she tries to aggrandize (enhance the reputation of someone beyond what is justified by the facts) herself in the eyes of the American voting public, to wit:
“We have reason to believe the Russian forces are planning to and intend to attack Ukraine in the coming week, in the coming days,” Biden told reporters at the White House, adding that Kyiv would be a target.
“As of this moment, I am convinced that he has made the decision.”
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So, if Joe Biden himself was convinced on February 18, 2022 that Putin was going to invade, what exact role was Kamala Harris playing then, when the next day, February 19, 2022, she says she warned Zelensky Putin was going to invade?
What isn’t adding up here?
Let’s go back to Reuters for more, to wit:
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said she did not think a fully-fledged invasion was the most likely scenario but that Russia could carry out a coup in Ukraine, attack critical infrastructure or instigate violence it would blame on Kyiv.
Kyiv also said a full-scale invasion was unlikely.
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AH!
Looks like Zelensky needed Kamala Harris to warn him, because apparently Zelensky did not believe either Joe Biden or Jake Sullivan, neither of whom had much credibility by then, following Joe Biden’s disastrous debacle when he skedaddled out of Afghanistnam in a panic on August 31, 2021, which takes us to an Associated Press article titled “Ukraine president’s ratings fall as crisis with Russia brews” on February 14, 2022, where we had a look at was going on inside Ukraine at the time of these warnings about Russia invading, as follows:
Zelenskyy tried to calm the political turbulence Sunday by downplaying the stepped-up warnings from the U.S. about the imminent possibility of a Russian invasion.
“We understand all the risks,” Zelenskyy said, adding that if anyone has any “information regarding a 100% certain invasion, beginning on the 16th,” they need to come forward.”
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Seriously, people, talk about a CLOWN SHOW – this is the surrealism on steroids here that is so characteristic of BIDEN/HARRIS, which takes us back for more, as Kamala Harris tells us in her August 22, 2024 Acceptance Speech that as President, she will stand strong with Ukraine and our NATO allies, to wit:
The maneuverings and the dismay among ordinary Ukrainians present a significant challenge for a country where democracy has been shambolic for decades.
“The biggest risk for Ukraine and the biggest risk for the sovereignty of our state … is destabilization within our state,” Zelenskyy said last month.
But Ukrainians have little confidence that Zelenskyy can ensure that stability.
According to a January poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, only 30% of the country’s people want Zelenskyy to run for a second term and even fewer — 23% — would vote for him.
The continuing conflict in the rebel east and the prospect of a full-scale war aren’t the only factors in his declining support.
“Zelenskyy promised to end the war and defeat corruption, but this did not happen,” said Anatoly Rudenko, a 48-year-old driver in Kyiv.
“Prices are rising, corruption has not gone away and we have begun to live even poorer.”
“The miracle did not happen.”
“The situation is only getting worse,” said Tatyana Shmeleva, a 54-year-old economist.
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And there is what attracts Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to this Zelensky – the corruption, because like everybody else, politicians have to eat, and when politicians eat, they want to eat well, and nothing pays a politician like corruption does, so there we have it, people.
A simple formula, indeed.
So who is this Zelensky whose action we should be backing in Ukraine, because Kamala Harris tells us we have to?
Here is what AP has to say on that, to wit:
Zelenskyy initially made his name in Ukraine as a comic actor portraying on television a teacher who inadvertently becomes president after railing against corruption.
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And there we have it – Kamala Harris, who has no military experience or expertise, plans on continuing to use our tax dollars to back a comic actor in Ukraine who is now a dictator, who himself has no military experience or expertise of any kind, let alone experience of the real world outside a television studio, and as the saying goes, what can possibly go wrong with that!
And as we consider the term “Fabulism” as applied to the presidential campaign of HARRIS/WALZ, meaning a literary genre on the internet and in the mainstream and legacy media that combines fantasy, such as Tim Walz carrying weapons of war in a war, and Kamala Harris being a President for all Americans, and myth, such as Tim Walz being a retired Command Sergeant Major, along with futurism, such as Kamala Harris charting A New Way Forward to a future with a strong and growing middle class because we know a strong middle class has always been critical to America’s success, and building that middle class will be a defining goal of the Kamala Harris presidency as she never gives up, because the future is always worth fighting for, and that’s the fight she and Tim Walz are in right now, a fight for America’s future, while as Commander-in-Chief, Kamala Harris will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world, and surrealism, such as Kamala Harris being a President who unites us around our highest aspirations, all to create a contemporary fictional world, which the HARRIS/WALZ team is doing quite spectacularly as they invent a Kamala Harris who before now has never truly existed, such as the Kamala Harris who warned Vladimer Zelensky, the fascist dictator of Ukraine, that Russia was going to invade in five days. we American citizens who care about this nation and its future and who are not card-carrying members of the DEMOCRAT CULT OF PERSONALTY that worships Kamala Harris, are presented with a very serious question, to wit:
IF KAMALA HARRIS AND TIM WALZ WILL OPENLY AND WILFULLY LIE AND PREVARICATE ABOUT THINGS EASILY FACT-CHECKED TO DEBUNK THE LIES, THEN WHAT IS IT THAT THEY WON’T LIE ABOUT?
And here, I don’t want to hear, “well what about all the lies that Trump tells,” because this has absolutely nothing to do with Trump.
Trump is nothing more than a private citizen.
He holds no public office.
He is not a public servant who took an oath of office, and the fact that he is an ex-president means absolutely nothing in this discussion, nor does the fact that some gang calling themselves “Republicans” when they are anything but want him as their presidential candidate.
So, as a private citizen, Trump is free to tell as many lies as he wants, and truthfully, at this point,l who really gives a damn?
Kamala Harris, on the other hand, along with RETIRED COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR Tim Walz, who as Minnesota governor is the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of the Minnesota National Guard, is a public servant holding public office who like Tim Walz has swore out an Oath of Office and thus, the two of them are to be held to a much higher standard with regard to veracity and truthfulness, especially in the case of Kamala Harris, who was a district attorney, a state attorney general, both of which positions are law enforcement positions, and a United States senator.
Why should any of us have anything other than ZERO TOLERANCE and OUTRIGHT CONTEMPT for an elected public official like Kamala Harris telling us bald-faced lies about anything, for any reason?
And that question takes us back in time to October 29, 2018 and a transcript of Senator Kamala Harris’ speech at Spelman College’s Homecoming weekend titled “Go forward unburdened, unwavering, and undaunted by the fight,” where we had Kamala saying as follows on the record, to wit:
And there are a lot of people in our country right now who are extremely distrustful, understandably, of our government, its institutions and its leaders.
And what we know is there is something about the nature about the relationship of trust that must be acknowledged.
The nature of a relationship of trust is that it is a reciprocal relationship.
You give and you receive trust.
And one of the most important ingredients in trust is truth, is truth.
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Ah, yes, Kamala, indeed, one of the most important ingredients in trust IS truth, which raises the essential question, then, of why you have chosen Tim Walz, of all people, as your running mate, when Tim Walz has wantonly violated that most important ingredient in trust which is truth by lying to us to embellish his military record, an act on his part of STOLEN VALOR!
And that brings us to August 11, 2024 and CNN’s State of the Union with host Dana Bash and her Interview with U.S. Transportation Secretary and failed Democrat presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, where that exact question was put to Peter by host Dana, as follows:
BASH: Now, the Harris campaign says Walz misspoke when he said he carried weapons of war.
You heard me mention that to the senator.
You served in the military.
You deployed to Afghanistan.
Does Senator Vance have a point when he said that we should hear more from Governor Walz himself or even Vice President Harris to correct the record there?
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Now, that is a very simple and straightforward question that doesn’t even require a high school diploma to understand or comprehend, so let’s see how a Harvard graduate like Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg who majored in history and literature, and was a Rhodes Scholar like HILLARY Clinton’s husband, who was University of Oxford graduate where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in philosophy, politics, and economics after studying at Pembroke College, Oxford handled that very simple question before segueing off into Trump being a liar without ever dealing with the naked fact that it is Tim Walz who is a liar, which is what the Bash question was about, to wit:
PETE BUTTIGIEG, U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY: No, he doesn’t.
And the fact that a veteran wants to go out and disparage another veteran just goes against certainly everything I learned as — during my time in service.
But there’s something, I think, much bigger at play here, which is, I watched that interview and watched J.D. Vance present himself as suddenly very particular about precision in speech and very concerned about honesty.
He’s running with Donald Trump, somebody who has set records for lying in public life.
He just gave a press conference where fact-checkers estimate that he told 162 distortions or lies.
That, frankly, is just impressive in terms of being able to physically do that.
It’s like the Olympics of lying.
So, maybe just because it’s Sunday morning, I can’t stop thinking about the Scripture that says, how can you look at your brother and say let me take the speck out of your eye when you have a plank in your own eye?
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Yes, indeed, and well said, Peter!
When Tim Walz has a plank in his eye, and he is a public official, not a mere citizen like Trump, why are you looking for a speck in Trump’s eye?
Is it because as Kamala said on October 29, 2018, what we also know is speaking truth can often make people quite uncomfortable?
Is that what’s happening here, Peter?
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz know very well as politicians that speaking truth can often make people quite uncomfortable, so that is why they are lying to us, in the light of this following that Kamala also said on the record on October 29, 2018, to wit:
You know for people like me who stand at podiums like this and people who run for office, there’s actually an incentive that when we get in front of a microphone we’ll give a speech and it’ll be a lovely speech and everybody will feel lovely about it and we’ll spread the lovely dust all over the room and then we’ll just walk out and everybody will applaud feeling just wonderful.
But speaking the truth doesn’t always accomplish that goal, and so sometimes there’s a disincentive to speak truth.
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Like now, in a presidential race?
And staying with the play action here, according to BIDEN/HARRIS, the Cabinet’s role is to advise the President on any subject he or she may require relating to the duties of each member’s respective office, and President Biden’s Cabinet reflects his pledge to appoint leaders of government agencies that reflect the country they aim to serve.
So, on August 11, 2024, when he chose to appear on CNN’s State of the Union with host Dana Bash to defend Harris running mate, Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota who is COMMANDER IN CHIEF of the Minnesota National Guard, against charges of STOLEN VALOR levied against him by US senator JD Vance, U.S. Transportation Secretary and failed Democrat presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg was in fact a member of the BIDEN/HARRIS cabinet that BIDEN/HARRIS tell us reflects Joe Biden’s pledge to appoint leaders of government agencies that reflect the country they aim to serve, which raises the question then, if the role of the BIDEN/HARRIS Cabinet is to advise Joe Biden on any subject he may require relating to the duties of each member’s respective office, where according to the website of the US Transportation Department, the duties of U.S. Transportation Secretary and failed Democrat presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg are to formulates national transportation policy; prepares needed transportation legislation; help negotiate and implement international transportation agreements; and assure the fitness of U.S. airlines and enforce airline consumer protection regulations, all of which seems quite clear cut, then what was BIDEN/HARRIS Transporation Secretary Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg doing on CNN’s State of the Union with host Dana Bash on August 11, 2024 to defend Harris running mate, Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota who is COMMANDER IN CHIEF of the Minnesota National Guard, against charges of STOLEN VALOR levied against him by US senator JD Vance, other than willfully violating the Hatch Act, while making it crystal clear that he personally has absolutely no problems whatsoever with Harris running mate Tim Walz committing acts of STOLEN VALOR by lying about his military record to embellish it, which makes Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg out as someone who condones public officials openly and blatantly lying to us, which makes his word about anything totally worthless, because somebody who condones lying will lie to us themselves.
And for the record, let’s go back to that critical exchange between Dana Bash and Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg on August 11, 2024, as follows:
BASH: Now, the Harris campaign says Walz misspoke when he said he carried weapons of war.
Does Senator Vance have a point when he said that we should hear more from Governor Walz himself or even Vice President Harris to correct the record there?
PETE BUTTIGIEG, U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY: No, he doesn’t.
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In other words says BIDEN/HARRIS Transportation Secretary Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, LET THE LIES OF TIM WALZ STAND UNCHALLENGED ON THE RECORD, and CNN’s Dana Bash herself has absolutely no problem whatsoever with that stance by Peter!
But seriously, people, should we be surprised at any of this?
And that answer is no, we shouldn’t!
And staying with the timeline here as we continue to delve into the outright DISHONESTY and LACK OF TRUSTWORTHINESS of VICE PRESIDENT and coronated Democrat presidential contender Kamala Harris for US president, on August 11, 2024, when U.S. Transportation Secretary and failed Democrat presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, a member of the BIDEN/HARRIS cabinet that BIDEN/HARRIS tell us reflects Joe Biden’s pledge to appoint leaders of government agencies that reflect the country they aim to serve, where according to the website of the US Transportation Department, the duties of U.S. Transportation Secretary and failed Democrat presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg are to formulate national transportation policy; prepare needed transportation legislation; help negotiate and implement international transportation agreements; and assure the fitness of U.S. airlines and enforce airline consumer protection regulations, all of which seems quite clear cut, chose to willfully violate the Hatch Act by appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with host Dana Bash to defend Harris running mate, Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota who is COMMANDER IN CHIEF of the Minnesota National Guard, against charges of STOLEN VALOR levied against him by US senator JD Vance, while making it crystal clear that he personally has absolutely no problems whatsoever with Harris running mate Tim Walz committing acts of STOLEN VALOR by lying about his military record to embellish it, which makes Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg out as someone who condones public officials openly and blatantly lying to us, Kamala Harris was in fact the elected VICE PRESIDENT of the United States pursuant to Article II of the United States Constituti0n, which position is 24/7/365, without gaps for being out playing politics and telling lies and whoppers in a bid to be elected president in November.
Further, pursuant to Section 1 of Article II of the United States Constitution, in the case Joe Biden’s obvious inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office (cue Youtube, Biden at the Beach While the World Burns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5pSxWTY6Q ), those same duties have devolved on Kamala Harris as the Vice President, so that on August 11, 2024, when U.S. Transportation Secretary and failed Democrat presidential contender Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, a member of the BIDEN/HARRIS cabinet, chose to willfully violate the Hatch Act by appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with host Dana Bash to defend Harris running mate, Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota who is COMMANDER IN CHIEF of the Minnesota National Guard, against charges of STOLEN VALOR levied against him by US senator JD Vance, Kamala Harris was in fact his direct superior in our national government, and thus, bears full responsibility for Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg violating the Hatch Act in order to campaign for HARRIS/WALZ.
And with regard to her lack of dignity (the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect; a composed or serious manner or style) and decorum (behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety), two essential presidential qualities Kamala Harris is sorely lacking of, along with an intellect (the faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively), I can point to no better example than VICE PRESIDENT Harris acting like a second rate comedienne on open mic night at a cheap comedy club in this following video, which speaks a thousand words as to VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris’ lack character and distinguished presence on the world stage as BIDEN/HARRIS edge us ever closer to involvement in WWIII, which would be a clear disaster for the US with VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris in charge as COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF:
Kamala Harris mocks Donald Trump’s “concepts of a plan” remark during Tuesday’s debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlMm7PRjXzU
Call me small-town and old-fashioned, but I think that odd performance is a great embarrassment for the US to have its VICE PRESIDENT on display like that, acting the fool while cackling like an idiot, and she must not be aware that all her and Joe Biden’s many enemies in the world are watching her make an idiot out of herself on the world stage with stupid performances like in that video, where her jokes are so funny, they even make her crack up, as they hope and pray that she will be America’s next leader, which will be a great gift to them, having a cackling moron like her in the white house instead of somebody with sense, and let me say here that as much as I don’t like Trump, there was nowhere near the amount of turmoil in the world when he was in office that there has been since BIDEN/HARRIS has been in office.
And with regard to her DISHONESTY, or perhaps it is just plain IGNORANCE of reality, let’s go back to the GREAT DEBATE which the Democrats say Kamala won, and a USA TODAY article titled “Kamala Harris was wrong when she said there are no U.S. troops in combat zones” by Kim Hjelmgaard on September 11, 2024, where we have her DISHONESTY or IGNORANCE or both on full display, as follows:
During Tuesday’s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, Harris inaccurately made it sound as though there are no U.S. soldiers deployed in overseas conflict zones.
“And as of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, the first time this century,” Harris said.
That’s not quite true.
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In fact, as we hear from these American troops on active duty in a combat zone, that statement is quite false, to wit:
American Troops React to Kamala Harris’s Claim of No U.S. Troops in Combat Zones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izCNetefXDg
SO LET’S MAKE HER THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THOSE TROOPS WHOSE PRESENCE IN A COMBAT ZONE SHE IS TOTALLY UNAWARE OF, JUST AS SHE IS TOTALLY UNAWARE OF THEIR EXISTENCE AS PEOPLE!
ARE WE REALLY THAT STUPID?
And then there are our concerned allies around the world who have as much of a stake in the outcome of this election as we do.
So how is it that they see HARRIS/WALZ through their 0wn lens?
No better person to ask that question than straight-talking Rita of Sky News in Australia, who calls it as she sees it:
Brutal fact check on Kamala Harris delivered by American soldiers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iX8xjTW08o
And once again, that is the news!
And while we are on the subject of the independence of the Federal Reserve, an important and timely issue in this election season between the Democrats and Republicans, on August 11, 2024, Reuters carried an article titled “Harris says she would never interfere in Fed independence” by Jeff Mason, wherein we had as follows on that subject as to where AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris, who isn’t either truthful or trustworthy, says she stands, to wit:
PHOENIX, Aug 10 (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday that she disagreed strongly with rival Donald Trump’s views on the Federal Reserve and pledged not to meddle with the central bank if she wins the Nov. 5 presidential election.
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And let’s keep that statement well in mind, because where we are going is to a Fox Business News article titled “Sen. Warren tears into Fed while doubling down on calls for massive rate cut: ‘Putting the economy at risk'” by Taylor Penley on 17 September 2024, but before we get there, let’s get some further background into the mix, keeping in mind that Lizzy Warren, who seems hysterical half the time to me, is a DEMOCRAT like VICE PRESIDENT Harris, who posted a video on “X” on July 21, 2024 https://x.com/ewarren/status/1815179495743365343 Elizabeth Warren
@ewarren where she looks like she is raving titled “I endorse Vice President Kamala Harris,” and who, pursuant to Section 2 of Article II of OUR Constitution. is charged with giving advice and consent to Kamala Harris in her role as ACTING US PRESIDENT during this period of Joe Biden’s incapacity ((cue Youtube, Biden at the Beach While the World Burns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5pSxWTY6Q ), which takes us back to Reuters, to wit:
Harris’s view contrasts sharply with that of the Republican nominee and former president, who on Thursday said that U.S. presidents should have a say over the Fed’s decisions.
“The Fed is an independent entity and as president I would never interfere in the decisions that the Fed makes,” Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, told reporters in Phoenix, Arizona.
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And if Kamala Harris would never interfere in the decisions that the Fed makes, we must wonder why she is tolerating DEMOCRATS Lizzie Warren, Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo. doing that same thing.
Going back t0 that article, we next have this to consider, to wit:
Trump’s comments on Thursday offered the most explicit indication so far of his interest in infringing on the Fed’s independence should he regain the White House.
“I feel the president should have at least (a) say” on Fed decisions, Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
His comment followed a Wall Street Journal report this spring that said Trump allies have drafted proposals that would attempt to erode the central bank’s independence if he wins.
While the Trump campaign distanced itself from the report at the time, his latest remarks indicate that he is squarely aligned with one of the main thrusts of the proposals; that the president should be consulted on interest rate decisions and that Fed banking regulation proposals should be subject to White House review.
Current Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who was appointed by Trump and reappointed by President Joe Biden, is due to serve until May 2026.
Trump repeatedly criticized and commented on the Fed while he was in office, a departure from the practice of other U.S. presidents.
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Which takes us to a CNBC article titled “Trump, Vance double down on call for presidential influence on Fed policy” by Jessica Dickler on August 12, 2024, where we had as foll0ws:
When it comes to raising and lowering interest rates, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says the president should “at least have a say.”
“They’ve gotten it wrong a lot,” Trump said of the Federal Reserve’s decision-making during a news conference Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, echoed this opinion in a CNN interview that aired Sunday, saying that interest rate policy “should fundamentally be a political decision.”
Also over the weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters in Arizona that she “couldn’t … disagree more strongly” with Trump’s suggestion that the president should have a voice in the central bank’s monetary policy moves.
“The Fed is an independent entity, and as president, I would never interfere in the decisions that the Fed makes,” Harris said.
Inflation and high interest rates are “destroying our country,” the Republican presidential nominee said at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention in Chicago.
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Which takes us to Reuters on September 16, 2024 in the story titled “White House’s Brainard says US inflation at turning point, focus should shift to jobs” by David Lawder and Lananh Nguyen, where we have this to consider:
Brainard did not say in her remarks what action the Fed should take on Wednesday, and her comments were in line with recent comments from Fed officials.
But she said President Joe Biden has emphasized the independence of the U.S. central bank, drawing a contrast with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s frequent criticism of Fed monetary policy decisions during his presidency.
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Which gets us to where I wanted to go, which is this Fox Business News article titled “Sen. Warren tears into Fed while doubling down on calls for massive rate cut: ‘Putting the economy at risk'” by Taylor Penley on 17 September 2024, where we have DEMOCRAT Lizzie Warren sounding just like Trump, except Trump on steroids in this case, as follows:
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for “putting the economy at risk” on Tuesday, while doubling down on demands that the Fed cut rates by an ambitious 75 basis points.
“The Fed chair has already said he’s waited too late.”
“He has already indicated that there were economic consequences of having held interest rates too high for too long.”
“The data show us that inflation is down.”
“He should have lowered these interest rates earlier,” Warren told FOX Business correspondent Hillary Vaughn.
“He needs a bigger cut so that he shows that he finally gets it and that he is not making a deliberate effort to crash this economy,” she continued.
Her remarks came as investors bet on the odds of a 25-point decrease or a more ambitious 50-basis point cut that fellow Democrats have widely demanded.
Any cut would mark the first since 2020.
Warren doubled down on criticizing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in her talk with Vaughn, accusing him of “putting our economy at risk.”
“It is time to lower the interest rate.”
“I believe it should go down by 75 basis points.”
“He needs to signal to the market that he finally gets it and that his job is to keep this economy steady,” she continued.
Warren and Senate colleagues Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., also penned a letter to Powell on Monday, urging the aggressive rate cut, warning that delays in doing so “have threatened the economy and left the Fed behind the curve.”
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It sounds more than a bit hypocritical to me for the DEMOCRATS to be going after Trump on this matter, when their position as emphasized by DEMOCRAT Lizzie Warren is even more radical, but hey, what can I say, other than that, folks, is the news!
And before we get back to the supposed but highly doubted “independence” of the federal reserve, that just delivered up a .50% interest rate for the benefit of HARRIS/WALZ, is Kamala Harris, the elected vice president of the United States of America who pursuant to Section 1 of Article II of the United States Constitution, in the case Joe Biden’s obvious inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office (cue Youtube, Biden at the Beach While the World Burns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5pSxWTY6Q ), has had the duties of Joe Biden devolved on her as the Vice President, a complete mindless and imbecilic idiot?
Or is it a case that she really just isn’t very intelligent?
And here I am referring to her weird, zany and very bizarre appearance before the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation on 14 September 2024 where she was talking with some weird accent while laughing, giggling and cackling like a fool, as we see in this Youtube video, to wit:
Kamala Harris raises eyebrows with another ‘mysterious accent’ at Congressional Black Caucus dinner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utemWGyUE5o
THIS, PEOPLE, IS THE ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WE ARE WATCHING HERE!
THIS, PEOPLE, IS THE ACTING COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF MILITARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WE ARE WATCHING HERE!
THIS, PEOPLE, IS WHO WE HAVE TO TRUST TO PROTECT OUR NATIONAL SECURITY, AND THE LAUGHING, CACKLING GIDDY PERSON WE ARE WATCHING HERE IS CLEARLY NOT UP TO THE TASK, PERIOD!
Talk about an AIR HEAD on the world stage, alright, to our detriment as all the many enemies BIDEN/HARRIS have created for America and its people without us having any say in the matter look on and hope and pray that she and Tim Walz emerge victorious on Election Day, November 5, 2024, which for them will be a gift from heaven.
And that takes us to September 15, 2024, and this appearance by straight-talking Tulsi Gabbard on Fox News, where we have as follows on the vital subject in this time of uncertainty in the world created by the policies and ignorance BIDEN/HARRIS, including their fleeing Afghanistnam like scared rabbits of America being stuck with this cackling idi0t Kamala Harris as COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of OUR troops, to wit:
Tulsi Gabbard – Kamala Harris Should Never Be Commander-in-Chief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8yQ-Z-xVVw
Now, for the record, while cackling Kamala Harris with all her different fake accents is totally UNFIT to be COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of OUR military, and it would be CRIMINAL of us to therefore put her in that position of responsibility over our troops, in April 2003, while Tulsi Gabbard was serving in the Hawaii State Legislature, she enlisted in the Hawaii Army National Guard, and in July 2004, she was deployed for a 12-month tour in Iraq, serving as a specialist with the Medical Company, 29th Support Battalion, 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
While in Iraq, Gabbard served at Logistical Support Area Anaconda, another name for Balad Air Base, an Iraqi Air Force base located near Balad in the Sunni Triangle 40 miles (64 km) north of Baghdad, Iraq, completing her tour in 2005, which incidentally was the same year Harris running mate Tim Walz retired from the National Guard to run for Congress just before his unit received an order to mobilize for the war in Iraq, this being the same Tim Walz who overstated the rank he held at the point he left the service, while lying about having carried a weapon of war in a war.
Thereafter, in March 2007, Tulsi Gabbard graduated from the Accelerated Officer Candidate School at the Alabama Military Academy and graduated at the top of her class, the first woman ever to do that.
She was commissioned as a second lieutenant, and assigned to the 29th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Hawaii Army National Guard, this time to serve as an Army Military Police officer.
She was stationed in Kuwait from 2008 to 2009, and she was one of the first women to enter a Kuwaiti military facility, as well as the first woman to receive an award of appreciation from the Kuwait National Guard.
Gabbard is a recipient of the Combat Medical Badge and the Meritorious Service Medal from the United States, and she also received the German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency in gold.
On October 12, 2015, she was promoted from the rank of captain to major at a ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, and she continued to serve as a major in the Hawaii Army National Guard until her transfer to the 351st Civil Affairs Command, a California-based United States Army Reserve unit assigned to the United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command, in June 2020.
In 2020, after serving with them for 17 years, Gabbard left the Hawaii Army National Guard for a new assignment with California-based Army Reserve unit.
On July 4, 2021, Gabbard was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant colonel, while she was deployed to the Horn of Africa working as a Civil Affairs officer in support of a Special Operations mission.
So, in my opinion as an enlisted combat veteran, Tulsi Gabbard with her record of accomplishment is eminently qualified to judge the fitness of Kamala Harris as COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of OUR military, and if Tulsi judges her to be unfit, that, people, is the end of the story!
So, people, according to Democrat Maura Tracy Healey, born February 8, 1971, an American lawyer with a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in 1998, and politician serving as the 73rd governor of Massachusetts since 2023, it is alright for Democrat UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris to openly and blatantly lie to WE, the American people, which happens to be us, if the venue where she is doing the lying is a presidential debate concerning her fitness, or lack thereof, to serve as president of the United States of America.
And how is it that I know this?
I know this because Democrat Maura Tracy Healey appeared on ABC News on September 15, 2024 with Martha Raddatz on “This Week” https://x.com/TomiLahren/status/1835521524368814094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1835624937521815994%7Ctwgr%5E45706a46976cf1c8707b120cda771d20bd92bedb%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.capecharlesmirror.com%2Fassesvillains-wheres-kamala%2F where we had as follows:
RADDATZ: Governor, I want to go back to the debate because that was important and I want to go through a few things that Kamala Harris said.
I want to ask you about her comments about the military.
She said during the debate this about the U.S. military.
Let’s listen.
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HARRIS: As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
RADDATZ: Our fact checkers found that to be false and I have a lot of experience in that area, as well.
There are currently 900 U.S. military personnel in Syria, 2500 U.S. troops in Iraq, all have been under regular threat from drones and missiles for months.
We also have action in the Red Sea.
We also — every single day, the Navy SEALs, Delta Forces, special operators can be part of any sort of deadly raid.
So why would she make that claim?
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And here we get a real healthy dose of lawyerly Democrat SHUCK AND JIVE and DUCK AND DODGE from Maura, who like Kamala, RETIRED COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR, football coach and WAR VETERAN Tim Walz, and combat veteran Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, seen here carrying a weapon of war in a real war, not a fake one ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Buttigieg#/media/File:Pete_Afghanistan_5.jpg_large.jpg , can’t give a straight answer to a simple direct question, to wit:
HEALEY: I think what’s important here, Martha, is that Kamala Harris in contrast to Donald Trump demonstrated herself to be commander-in-chief.
We are in a world where there are all sorts of conflicts and it’s all the more reason we need somebody who’s serious and who supports the military and just remember —
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Just remember?
Remember what, Maura?
How Kamala backed Joe Biden’s cowardly skedaddle out of Afghanistnam which was the subject of a CNN article titled “US State Department report details damning failings around chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal” by Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood on June 30, 2023, where we had as follows regarding Kamala’s lack of military prowess, to wit:
CNN — The US State Department on Friday released its long-awaited Afghanistan After Action Review report, which found that both the Trump and Biden administrations’ decisions to pull all US troops from Afghanistan had detrimental consequences, and details damning shortcomings by the current administration that led to the deadly and chaotic US withdrawal from that country after nearly two decades on the ground.
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The phrase “DAMNING SHORTCOMINGS” by the current administration, BIDEN/HARRIS, speaks very loudly as to9 the unfitness of Kamala Harris to be Commander-in-Chief of OUR military, which takes us back to that story of the failed judgement of Kamala Harris, to wit:
The State Department’s report contains much sharper criticism around the Biden administration’s actions than the White House summary document released in April.
That document blamed the Trump administration’s decisions for creating the conditions that led to the chaos of the evacuation, and did not overtly admit any mistakes.
“The sudden departure of President Ghani from Kabul and the fall of the city to the Taliban happened with a speed that caught almost all close observers by surprise,” the report said, noting that “until Kabul fell, commercial flights out of Afghanistan were available and even Afghans planning to depart were taking time to sell property and settle their affairs.”
“But there had been warning signs that prospects the Afghan government forces would defend Kabul and hold out for a possible negotiated transfer of power were evaporating,” it said.
The handling of the evacuation operation has been one of the areas where the administration and the State Department have received the most criticism, as thousands of Afghans who had served alongside US forces were left behind and those on the ground struggled through perilous circumstances to try to reach the airport and get out before government-led evacuation efforts ended.
“U.S. military planning for a possible NEO had been underway with post for some time, but the Department’s participation in the NEO planning process was hindered by the fact that it was unclear who in the Department had the lead,” the review found.
“Senior administration officials had not made clear decisions regarding the universe of at-risk Afghans who would be included by the time the operation started nor had they determined where those Afghans would be taken.”
“That added significantly to the challenges the Department and DoD faced during the evacuation,” the report said.
According to the review, “crisis preparation and planning were inhibited to a degree by concerns about the signals that might be sent, especially anything that might suggest the United States had lost confidence in the Afghan government and thus contribute to its collapse,” which it did in mid-August 2021.
“Constantly changing policy guidance and public messaging from Washington regarding which populations were eligible for relocation and how the embassy should manage outreach and flow added to the confusion and often failed to take into account key facts on the ground,” it noted.
The report detailed 11 recommendations, mostly related to the Department’s crisis response and preparedness.
“In particular, the AAR’s recommendations identify the need to plan better for worst-case scenarios, to rebuild and strengthen the Department’s core crisis management capabilities, and to ensure that senior officials hear the broadest possible range of views including those that challenge operating assumptions or question the wisdom of key policy decisions,” the report said.
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That people, is a serious record of ABYSMAL FAILURE by BIDEN/HARRIS that Democrat Maura Healey is trying to cover over and whitewash here, which takes us back to September 15, 2024 and the Healey interview with Martha Raddatz on “This Week,” where we have Democrat Maura Healey making it incandescently clear to all of us that to her, a Democrat governor, it is alright for Democrat UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris to openly and blatantly lie to us, if the venue where she is doing the lying is a presidential debate concerning her fitness, or lack thereof, to serve as president of the United States of America.to wit:
RADDATZ: But, Governor —
HEALEY: — Donald Trump’s own —
RADDATZ: But, Governor, excuse me, but she said there is not one member of the United States military who is an active duty in a combat zone.
That is not true.
You say she demonstrated her ability to be commander-in-chief, but did she not know about these people in Syria and Iraq?
Why would she say that?
HEALEY: Look, that was a comment — that was a comment in a debate.
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Yes, Maura, it was, and regardless of the venue, she is VICE PRESIDENT of America 24/7 until her term of offi8ce comes to man end in January 2025.
SO WHY IS KAMALA LYING TO US, GOVERNOR HEALY?
AND WHY IS THAT OKAY WITH YOU?
The candid world which watches and waits would like to know.
Has time stopped moving?
Does anyone know?
I ask that because last night, Joe Biden, our Joe, the same Joe Biden who has been fighting the good fight on our behalf for the SOUL OF AMERICA and to win the 21st Century for America, was at the UN talking about an “inflection point” in history, as follows:
“I truly believe we’re at another inflection point in world history, where the choices we make today will determine our future for decades to come.”
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And that takes me back to September 21, 2021, and Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, New York, where we had the same empty rhetoric from Joe Biden about “inflection points,” as follows:
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, my fellow delegates, to all those who dedicate themselves to this noble mission of this institution: It’s my honor to speak to you for the first time as President of the United States.
Simply put: We stand, in my view, at an inflection point in history.
As we steer our — steer our nations toward this inflection point and work to meet today’s fast-moving, cross-cutting challenges, let me be clear: I am not agnostic about the future we want for the world.
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So, is this a different inflection point we are at today, than the inflection point Joe said we were at three years ago on September 21, 2021, or is it still the same one, which is why I am wondering of time has stopped while I was sleeping or reading a book or something, maybe eating an ice cream cone for all I know?
Now, with respect to an inflection point, the term refers to a key event that changes the trajectory of some process or situation related to the economy or society, and focus on the words “KEY EVENT.”
In the real world where we all reside, any key event that dramatically changes the trajectory of a business, industry, or economy can be regarded as an inflection point, and again, focus on the words “KEY EVENT.”
The Cambridge Dictionary tells us that an inflection point is a time of sudden, noticeable, or important change in an industry, company, market, etc.
So, are we really at an inflection point as Joe Biden has been saying now since at least 2021, which would have us stalled or stuck at an inflection point for three years, although on October 29, 2018, Joe’s vice president Kamala Harris, now Joe’s undemocratically CORONATED successor as president, used the term in her speech at Spelman College’s Homecoming weekend, to wit:
I believe we are at an inflection moment in the history of our country.
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What exactly an “inflection moment” might be eludes me, but we’re talking Kamala Harris here, so who can be surprised that she doesn’t know what she is talking about, which was one of her chief qualifications to be Joe Biden’s vice president, and is the reason Joe chose her, of all the Democrats, to be his successor.
With respect to Joe, the first time I saw the term “inflection point” applied to him, it was in an Associated Press article titled “Biden on racism: Whites ‘can never fully understand'” by Bill Barrow on 15 September 2019, as follows:
Biden’s appearance in Birmingham comes at a political inflection point for Democrats’ 2020 polling leader, as he tries to expand and hold his diverse coalition across the party.
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I think Joe read that article, and the term “inflection point” caught his attention as a catchy sound bite that would make Joe sound intellectual, and so he picked up on it and made it his own, as we see in his address to a joint session of Congress on 28 April 2021, to wit:
I wanted the world to see that there is consensus that we are at an inflection point in history.
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With respect to Democrat politics, like the term “weird,” which has become a staple of the Democrat political lexicon, so too has the term “inflection point,” as we see in a New Yorker article titled “Adam Schiff’s Plans to Obliterate Trump’s Red Line – With the Democrats controlling the House, Schiff’s congressional investigation will follow the money” by Jeffrey Toobin in the December 24 & 31, 2018 issue, as follows:
“We are at an inflection point where we cannot say that next year more people are going to live in a free society.”
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Now, whether the inflection point of Adam Schiff on December 24, 2018 was the same inflection point United States senator Kamala Harris, like Adam Schiff, a lawyer, was talking about on October 29, 2018, or a different one, remains unknown at the time of this writing, but suffice to say, the term has been hanging out there for quite some time, which takes us to September 16, 2021, and Remarks by President Biden on the Economy, where we had as follows:
I want to start by thanking the House committees for working hard this week to advance critical components of the economic plan that I’ve put before the Congress.
I know we still have a long way to go, but I’m confident that Congress will deliver to my desk both the bipartisan physical infrastructure plan and the Build Back Better plan that I have proposed.
And I’ve said many times before: I believe we’re at an inflection point in this country — one of those moments where the decisions we’re about to make can change — literally change the trajectory of our nation for years and possibly decades to come.
Each inflection point in this nation’s history represents a fundamental choice.
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Frankly, I think Joe is quite confused when it comes to what inflection points really are, which may well be one of the reasons why Joe Biden is a ONE TERM president whose candidacy for re-election was rejected by his own party, because Joe is a clear and present danger to their hold on power in this country, so, in a moment of inflection, the Democrats dumped Joe Biden and put Kamala Harris in his place, and that, people, is a true moment of inflection.
And talk about some real weird **** at this Biden-esque inflection moment in American history, how about a CNBC story titled “Secret Service agent under investigation for alleged sex assault on Harris aide” by Dan Mangan on September 25, 2024, where we have the following details to consider as everything once decent in America seems to turn to **** under BIDEN/HARRIS, to wit:
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating allegations that one of its agents sexually assaulted a female staff member of the office of Vice President Kamala Harris, the agency confirmed Wednesday.
The agent allegedly forced himself onto the woman and groped her in her hotel room after eating a meal and drinking alcohol with her and several other Harris staffers at a restaurant in Green Bay, Wisconsin, during a visit in the past week to scout possible stops for Harris’ presidential campaign, Real Clear Politics reported.
Real Clear Politics reported that the agent’s actions toward the Harris campaign staffer “were apparently witnessed by other people present.”
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Talk about declining standards under BIDEN/HARRIS, there we have a good d0se of it right there before our eyes, and that takes us to a Fox News article titled “Biden defends withdrawing from Afghanistan, dropping re-election bid in last UN address as president – ‘I was determined to end it,’ Biden said of the war in Afghanistan” by Brooke Singman on September 24, 2024, where we have more Biden senility and lack of touch with reality on display, to wit:
NEW YORK CITY — President Biden, in his final address to the United Nation’s General Assembly, warned that the world is at an “inflection point,” while defending his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan and his move to suspend his re-election campaign.
Biden said the world needs to work towards “a two-state solution where the world — where Israel enjoys security and peace and full recognition and normalize relations with all its neighbors; and with Palestinians, living securely with dignity and self-determination in a state of their own.”
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Which is a bunch of horse**** because there is NO two-state solution which in turn takes us back to a Reuters article titled “Biden visits Michigan autoworkers as Gaza protests threatened” by Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal on February 1, 2024, where we had this bit of truly uninformed idiocy from Joe, to wit:
Before heading to Michigan, Biden attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
He said he was working to resolve the Israel-Hamas conflict, including a two-state solution for Palestinians and bringing home the hostages still held following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.
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That so-called “two-state solution,” which we have been hearing about since back when Hillary’s husband Bill was president, if not before, is BULL**** and has been BULL**** since the 1930’s, which goes to show just how ignorant not only Joe, but everyone, including those at that prayer breakfast, and the media and everyone who listens to Joe and believes a single word he says, about anything, are about HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY.
As to Bill Clinton, in a Times of Israel story titled “Bill Clinton: No alternative to two-state solution” on 17 June 2013, ELEVEN (11) years ago now, we had HILLARY’s husband Bill on record on that subject as follows:
Former US president Bill Clinton on Monday night urged Israel to work toward a two-state solution with the Palestinians, saying that he had never heard a credible alternative that would enable Israel to remain a Jewish and a democratic state.
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ELEVEN years later, all we still have is empty talk while violence under BIDEN/HARRIS rages, and as we clearly see by going to “World Wars And Revolutions” copyrighted 1943, by Walter Phelps Hall, PhD, of Princeton, where we have that HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY I mention above, it is clear that there is no viable two-state solution and hasn’t been since the 1930’s, to wit:
And still the Jews flocked into Palestine.
The advent of Hitler in Germany stimulated their advent greatly, so much so that in 1935 no less than sixty thousand reached the land of promise, and the Jews by that date had increased to almost one-third of the entire population.
Thereupon, the next year the Arabs declared a general strike in which a thousand lives were lost.
This resulted in the British sending a Royal Commission to Palestine in 1937 to investigate and recommend.
It produced a voluminous report which angered both Jew and Arab.
The Commission proposed that Palestine be divided into two separate countries, one Jewish, one Arab.
The mandate of the League of Nations, which Britain held, was to be ended, but the cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, sacred to both Jew and Arab as well as to Christian, were to continue under British protection and were to belong to neither of the two new countries.
The Report was a counsel of despair.
The two new states would be too small to be self-sufficient units, for the total area of even the undivided Palestine was only approximately that of Wales or Vermont.
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And here we have this MORON Biden today thinking we are all as stupid as he and his administration are with respect to HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY!
And as we clearly see by going to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris being interviewed by CNN’s resident AIR-HEAD Dana Bash at Kim’s Cafe in Savannah, Georgia, on August 29, 2024, Kamala herself is also proposing the two-state solution, and since Dana Bash herself doesn’t know any better, she just bobbles her head and goes along with the ruse, to wit:
BASH: OK.
Let’s talk about some foreign policy issues that would be on your plate if you become commander in chief.
President Biden has tried unsuccessfully to end the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
He’s been doing it for months and months, along with you.
Would you do anything differently?
HARRIS: Let me be very clear.
I’m unequivocal and — and unwavering in my commitment to Israel’s defense and its ability to defend itself.
And that’s not gonna change.
We have to get a deal done.
This war must end—
BASH: And in the meantime—
HARRIS: And we must get a deal that is about getting the hostages out.
BASH: But no change in policy in terms of arms and — and so forth?
HARRIS: No.
I — we have to get a deal done.
Dan — Dana, we have to get a deal done.
I remain committed since I’ve been on October 8 to what we must do to work toward a two-state solution where Israel is secure and in equal measure the Paletin — the Palestinians have security and self-determination and — and dignity.
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Frankly, I cannot believe just how ignorant and uniformed these people at the top really are, along with those in the main-stream and legacy media, like CNN’s Dana Bash!
It truly boggles the mind that a supposed superpower like the United States of America would be governed by such an outright MORON-O-CRACY.
And before we go to some real weird, crazy talk from the members of Joe Biden’s cabinet concerning the state of Joe Biden’s declining mental cognition, a seeming miracle has occurred here in America in that CNN, the homeland of the VERY SILLY AIR HEAD Dana Bash, FAUX NEWS on steroids, has called out UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris as a pathetically poor liar, a character flaw that served her well as a DA and AG and US senator and Biden vice president, so that even CNN with its ridiculously low standards of veracity where UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris is concerned, has been forced to call her out as a liar in order to salvage what shreds of credibility it might have left, and frankly, I am surprised that the nose on the face of Kamala Harris isn’t three or four feet long by now, with all the lies and whoppers she has been telling, and when it is CNN is calling her out as a liar, then you know you have a real good source for that being the truth, to wit:
“Fact check: Harris makes false claim about Trump’s record on manufacturing jobs”
Story by Daniel Dale, CNN
26 September 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris made a false claim about the jobs record of her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, in an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday evening.
Interviewer Stephanie Ruhle asked Harris what she thought about polls that show most likely voters still think Trump is the better option on handling the economy.
Harris responded, “Well, here’s what I know in terms of the facts.”
“Donald Trump left us with the worst economy since the Great Depression, when you look at, for example, the employment numbers.”
After Ruhle interjected by saying it was the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic that made the employment numbers bad, Harris continued, “Even before the pandemic, he lost manufacturing jobs – by most people’s estimates, at least 200,000.”
Facts First: Harris’ claim is false.
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And how weird is that, people, that UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris would try to blatantly lie to us about something so easy to fact-check that even CNN could do it, and while we are on the subject of weird in conjunction with the BIDEN/HARRIS administration, the PINNACLE or ACME of weirdness in American politics today, let’s go to a Fox News article titled “White House Cabinet officials rally around Biden despite backlash over his wife taking control of meeting” by Jamie Joseph, Adam Shaw, and Alec Schemmel on 25 September 2024, where we have Joe Biden’s cabinet members blatantly violating the Hatch Act by playing politics for Joe Biden as the Democrats pull out all the stops in their futile effort to present Joe Biden to the world as somebody whose wits aren’t totally shot like Joe’s so clearly are, to wit:
Biden Cabinet members praised the president for his “exceptionally effective” leadership and believe he is still fit for office after he handed over the reins of a Cabinet meeting to his wife, Jill Biden, just days ago.
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Biden Cabinet members praised Joe Biden for his “exceptionally effective” leadership and believe he is still fit for office?
HUH?
Who on earth are they trying to kid, other than themselves?
IF Joe Biden were still fit for office, then why, according to Victor Davis Hanson in a Tribune Content Agency article titled “Victor Davis Hanson: Coup upon coup upon coup” on 26 July 2024, did the Democrat party bosses, mega-donors, and Obama puppeteers suddenly go into action on a Sunday, July 21 — just days left before state ballots were formalized with the names of the parties’ official nominees, and on the eve of the Democratic convention — and reportedly threaten Joe Biden with a complete loss of any further campaign funding while raising the specter of invoking the 25th Amendment to end his presidency — should he not suddenly withdraw from the race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as his surrogate on the ticket?
Why, in one moment, were the choices of nearly 15 million Biden primary voters vitiated?
Biden was dethroned; Harris was coronated — without much public input or even knowledge of how or why.
So in sum, at the 11th hour of a two-year reelection effort, a cabal arbitrarily decided that Biden might well lose the Democrats the White House and the Congress.
So, they reversed course, now claiming his dementia was so acute as to destroy their November prospects.
But mysteriously, his decline was not severe enough to imperil the American people, whom Biden must continue to lead until January 20, 2025, which takes us back to Fox and this weird **** from 10 Cabinet officials who sent Fox News Digital statements, there was a general agreement of confidence in Biden’s leadership and his ability to continue serving out his term as president, as we see from the following, to wit:.
“President Biden continues to be an exceptionally effective president, and his focus on delivering results — like record job creation, major infrastructure development, and increased domestic manufacturing — is something he demonstrates every time we interact,” Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg told Fox News Digital.
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Hey, Pete, WHAT ABOUT BOEING, dude, and their BIDEN DEI culture problems leading to safety problems under BIDEN/HARRIS?
Boeing: Our Number 1 Priority Is Diversity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkj5A7B52Bk
There’s some results you and Joe have delivered, alright, which takes us back to Fo9x for more, to wit:
Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, went a step further and called Biden “one of the most accomplished presidents in American history and continues to effectively lead our country with a steady hand.”
“As someone who is actually in the room when the President meets with the cabinet and foreign leaders, I can tell you he is an incisive and extraordinary leader,” Raimondo said.
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Ain’t this **** just great, people?
That Gina is a million laughs and more fun than a barrel of monkeys, which again takes us back to Fox and this attempt by the Biden cabinet to gaslight the people of America, to wit:
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra – one of Biden’s staunch defenders – said Biden “has done more as president for this country than any other president whom I have worked with since 1992.”
“So yes, not only can he do the job, but he has been doing it,” he said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“And we are fortunate to have someone who continues to use all of his experience to take us further.”
“If you recall where we were four years ago, the depth of a pandemic, Americans losing their jobs, Americans losing their health care.”
“Today, more Americans are employed than ever before.”
“Today, more Americans have health coverage than ever before.”
“No President in the history of this country has ever placed 700 million vaccines in the arms of Americans to keep them alive and keep them healthy.”
“The result?”
“Our economy is healthy.”
“Is he fit?”
“He’s proving it,” Becerra added.
Biden’s apparent declining mental acuity first made headlines during the summer before his poor debate performance against former President Trump.
Less than a month after the June debate, Biden faced pressure from his Democratic base to drop out of the race and allow VP Kamala Harris to run as the party’s candidate.
“Throughout President Biden’s term, Americans have benefited from his leadership and experience.”
“He led a productive Cabinet meeting on Friday and clearly laid out his expectations for the months ahead,” Acting secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Adrianne Todman told Fox News Digital.
“President Biden charged us with not only continuing to get the historic levels of funding he secured out the door, but ensuring that those funds are being put to work to help the American people.”
“I look forward to continuing to work with the President, and the entire Administration, to expand affordable housing for all,” she said.
Biden convened his Cabinet on Friday for the first time since Oct. 2, 2023 – this time with the first lady joining him to speak about the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research.
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And once again, as weird and unbelievable as it is, that, folks, is the news!
SCENE: Joe Biden, the president of the United States who is also running the world is in MANHATTAN (New York City) in the company of fellow despots and dictators from around the world in a POSH setting to discuss the Joint Declaration of Support for Ukrainian Recovery and Reconstruction at the Continental NEW YORK Barclay hotel.
PLAY ACTION: Joe Biden walks onto the stage to applause, and addresses the audience as follows:
“Thank you, thank you, thank you, welcome to Washington.”
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Except it wasn’t!
But should that really matter?:
Isn’t one city pretty much the same as another, anyway?
So nothing wrong with Joe here, folks!
Rather, it is another case of poor preparation by Joe’s staff who failed to tell Joe what city Joe was really in when he uttered those words.
So we can’t blame Joe’s mental decline here when it clearly is the fault of Joe’s staff to keep him properly informed as to where he actually is each and every minute of the day, because let’s face it, if his staff doesn’t keep him informed as to where he really is, then how on earth is Joe himself supposed to know?
SCENE: an intimate but thoroughly vapid CHIT-CHAT or CHIN WAG with some PALAVER between UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris and MSNBC’s “11th Hour” host Stephanie Ruhle https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/kamala-harris-first-solo-network-interview-as-2024-candidate-i-msnbc-exclusive-220163653802
PLAY ACTION:
RUHLE: When’s the last time you had to make a gut decision?
This here is very prescribed.
It’s very controlled.
HARRIS: Yes.
Probably the biggest gut decision I have made most recently is to choose my running mate, yes.
There were lots of good, incredible candidates.
And, ultimately, that came down to a gut decision.
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A GUT DECISION?
That’s it?
GTFOOH!
That’s how we ended up with Tim Walz, who committed acts of STOLEN VALOR by lying about his military record, as a vice presidential candidate?
Because Kamala Harris made a decision based on intestinal gas caused by eating crap food while on the campaign trail?
Talk about weird, alright, people, that truly takes the cake!
And here is a great place to take a pause for station identification and a commercial break, but don’t change that dial, because we will be right back with more from Kamala about how if you are hardworking, if you have the dreams and the ambitions and the aspirations of what Kamala believes you do, then you’re in her plan, and she has to tell you, she really loves and is so energized by what she knows to be the spirit and character of the American people, about how we have ambition, and we have aspirations, and we have dreams, and we can see what’s possible, and we have an incredible work ethic, but not everyone has the access to the opportunities that allow them to achieve those things, because not everyone gets handed stuff on a silver platter like Kamala did, and hey, for those of us who didn’t get handed stuff on a silver platter like Kamala did, tough titty, dudes, suck it up!
So, staying with this intimate but thoroughly vapid CHIT-CHAT or CHIN WAG with some PALAVER (talk unproductively and at length) between UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris and MSNBC’s “11th Hour” host Stephanie Ruhle https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/kamala-harris-first-solo-network-interview-as-2024-candidate-i-msnbc-exclusive-220163653802 on Sept. 25, 2024, we are faced with the question, given this was the first solo one-on-one interview with Vice President Kamala Harris this election season after Kamala had appeared on CNN with Dana Bash with her COACH, retired COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR Tim Walz, who carried weapons of war in a war, at least in his head, by her side to bob his head as her emotional support puppy, of who exactly is Stephanie Ruhle, other than an obvious MEDIA HARRIS SHILL, and for that answer, let’s go to a Daily Beast article titled “Who Is Stephanie Ruhle, the Only TV Anchor Kamala Harris Wants to Face Right Now? – Just days after Stephanie Ruhle smacked down Bret Stephens on “Real Time With Bill Maher,” her vocal support of Kamala Harris pays off with a primetime MSNBC interview” by Corbin Bolies on September 25, 2024, where we learn as follows:
Kamala Harris has found her next TV interview forum—and she’s a friendly face.
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And with Kamala Harris, and her NON-SUBSTANTIVE CAMPAIGN, which is based on Kamala laughing, cackling and giggling a lot ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utemWGyUE5o ) to make people feel joyful and hopeful themselves ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xElg1sDb-50 ) having that “friendly face” at her next TV interview forum, where she wouldn’t have COACH Tim Walz there to hold her hand and comfort her and calm her fears, was an all-important consideration for her and TEAM HARRIS/WALZ, who are keeping Kamala far, far away from any and all venues where Kamala would be asked HARD QUESTIONS and have her feet held to the fire, such as by Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “THIS WEEK” https://www.foxnews.com/video/6361995343112 .
As to how the HARRIS SHILL Stephanie Ruhle landed that exclusive solo interview, the Daily Beast informs us as follows:
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle will interview Harris Wednesday night for the vice president’s first one-on-one network since she became the Democratic presidential nominee.
The sit-down is the latest in a string of breakout moments for the MSNBC host, the host of The 11th Hour who has wafted between pressing President Joe Biden over his octogenarian status last year to defending Harris’ short-on-policy campaign last week.
The taped interview comes less than a week after Ruhle, also a senior business correspondent for NBC News, told New York Times columnist Bret Stephens in a spirited discussion on Real Time with Bill Maher that Harris was “not running for perfect,” and indicated the vice president provided a better alternative than former President Donald Trump.
“We have two choices,” Ruhle said.
“And so there are some things you might not know her answer to.”
“And in 2024, unlike 2016, for a lot of the American people, we know exactly what Trump will do, who he is and the kind of threat he is to democracy.”
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So there’s the way you do it, people, if you want to be a BIG STAR on NETWORK TV like Stephanie Ruhle who is going down in TV HISTORY as the very, very first MEDIA STAR to get a solo appearance with Kamala Harris, which takes us back to the Daily Beast, as follows:
Ruhle saw a step-up in status and stature at the network in 2022, when MSNBC President Rashida Jones replaced the abruptly departed Brian Williams with Ruhle as the host of The 11th Hour.
Jones said Ruhle would be “bringing her business acumen, hard-hitting interview style and original reporting” to the network, slotting in a policy expert in primetime next to the block’s usual opinionated hosts.
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HARD-HITTING INTERVIEW STYLE?
With Kamala Harris?
NOT HARDLY, which takes us back to the Daily Beast for these closing words, to wit:
It’s unclear what sectors Ruhle plans to focus on in her interview on Wednesday, though her questioning has the opportunity to put the Peacock brand back in the election playing field after NBC lost the prospect of a Harris-Trump debate to CNN this week.
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Ah, yes, an opportunity to put the Peacock brand back in the election playing field after NBC lost the prospect of a Harris-Trump debate to CNN this week.
That’s what this is really all abo9ut – not substance, but TV ratings!
Stay tuned, more is yet to come!
This video that follows shows Biden administration Transportation Secretary Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg sitting in comfy and cozy Washington, D.C., instead of flood-ravaged Asheville, N.C., where Peter, instead of doing his NON-SHOW JOB as Biden transportation secretary by getting his *** down to Asheville, is instead spending his time violating the Hatch Act by politicking for Democrat VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris and prepping HARRIS COMFORT ANIMAL and RETIRED COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR “COACH” Tim Walz, who like Peter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Buttigieg#/media/File:Pete_Afghanistan_5.jpg_large.jpg , a hard-nosed, hard core, salty Naval intelligence officer and commando in Afghanistnam, before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris ran like a scared rabbits from the place in 2021, carried a real weapon of war in a war someplace, for his upcoming debate with JD Vance:
Transportation Secretary Buttigieg says the Helene Situation is Shocking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFIODXmMVFE
We know Biden administration Transportation Secretary Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, an ARDENT ANTI-CONSTITUTIONALIST and failed Democrat presidential contender in his own right, is prepping Tim Walz because we have a story from CNN, the homeland of the AIR-HEAD HARRIS APOLOGIST AND DEFENDER Dana Bash titled “Heading into the vice presidential debate, Tim Walz is fighting nerves” by Edward-Isaac Dovere on 29 September 2024 that tells us so, to wit:
Tim Walz is telling people he’s just as nervous about facing JD Vance as he was the Sunday afternoon in August when he warned Kamala Harris in his running mate interview that he was a bad debater.
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How we ended up with “bad debater” Tim Walz, who committed acts of STOLEN VALOR by lying about his military record, as a vice presidential candidate for Kamala Harris was made incandescently clear by Kamala herself during her intimate but thoroughly vapid CHIT-CHAT or CHIN WAG with MSNBC’s “11th Hour” host Stephanie Ruhle https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/kamala-harris-first-solo-network-interview-as-2024-candidate-i-msnbc-exclusive-220163653802 , as follows:
RUHLE: When’s the last time you had to make a gut decision?
This here is very prescribed.
It’s very controlled.
HARRIS: Yes.
Probably the biggest gut decision I have made most recently is to choose my running mate, yes.
There were lots of good, incredible candidates.
And, ultimately, that came down to a gut decision.
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A GUT DECISION, people!
That’s it!
That’s how we ended up with Tim Walz, who committed acts of STOLEN VALOR by lying about his military record, as Kamala Harris’ vice presidential candidate, because Kamala Harris made a decision based on intestinal gas in her gut caused by eating too much greasy crap food while on the campaign trail, which takes us back to CNN, as follows:
Maybe more nervous, according to multiple people who’ve spoken to him.
And the pressure is even higher, when for the first time in modern campaign history, the vice presidential debate Tuesday is likely to be the last marquee event before Election Day.
With many voters still saying they don’t know enough about Harris, it could be up to Walz to help convince them to trust a vice president he barely knew himself before she picked him.
Talking to the aides who have coalesced around him in Minnesota and other supporters, Walz constantly comes back to how worried he is about letting Harris down, according to close to a dozen top campaign staffers and others who have been in touch with the governor and his team.
He doesn’t want Donald Trump to win.
He doesn’t want Harris to think she made the wrong choice.
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And of course, it is a little late for those kind of feelings now – Kamala ate some greasy crap on the campaign trail which gave her a bad case of stomach gas which resulted in her picking Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate, and now, she is stuck with him, which takes us back to CNN for more, to wit:
Walz is confident in Harris’ vision.
But the governor fears he won’t make his case as well as he needs to, according to people who have been speaking with him.
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And because as was proven on September 25, 2024 in the exclusive interview of Vice President Kamala Harris by MSNBC’s “11th Hour” host Stephanie Ruhle, Kamala herself doesn’t have a clue as to what her “vision” is, that makes it impossible for Tim Walz to make his case as well as he needs to, regardless of any debate prep by Biden administration Transportation Secretary Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, an ARDENT ANTI-CONSTITUTIONALIST and failed Democrat presidential contender in his own right, which takes us to the Transcript for Episode #672 of Real Time with Bill Maher published 9/21/2024 with guests HARRIS APOLOGIST AND DEFENDER Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC, who is actually quite shrill, and who broke into journalism in 2011 after nearly 15 years as a Wall Street banker when Bloomberg Television’s Andy Lack — later the head of NBC News — hired her as a co-anchor of its “Inside Track” program, and whose decadelong success in media (she is also a former co-host of Weekend Today) hasn’t gone unblemished, with her getting flack in 2020 after she appeared in a six-minute video for JPMorgan Chase as part of its “Chase Chats” series raising ethical concerns over a perceived conflict of interest between a journalist and a reporting subject, and with her turning a different questionably ethical corner after The Wall Street Journal reported on an unusually close relationship between her and then-Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank between 2015 and 2016, with him giving her a cell phone and email address solely dedicated to communications between the two, on which she’d receive sensitive company documents and talking points intended to boost the company, character flaws with endeared her to AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris and TEAM HARRIS/WALZ; and Bret Stephens, an American conservative journalist, editor, and columnist who has been an opinion columnist for The New York Times and a senior contributor to NBC News since 2017, and who was previously a foreign affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor at The Wall Street Journal, overseeing the editorial pages of its European and Asian editions, where Stephens won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2013, where we had the following colloquy (conversation, dialogue) to consider, to wit:
STEPHENS: But my question to you I mean it’s an honest question.
Is she just being vague because the political equities are such that it doesn’t pay to be specific?
Or does she simply have no idea?
And you know, I am an undecided.
RUHLE: Okay.
And that’s not an honest question to me because there’s no way you think I’m gonna turn and say, you know what Brett, you’re right, she has no idea.
STEPHENS: No, it’s the question that Americans have, okay, the question, look, I’m an undecided voter.
I’m never gonna vote for Trump, but I’m not sure I wanna vote for Kamala.
And my fear is that she doesn’t really have a very good command of what she wants to do as president.
It would be great for her to sit down with you or George Stephanopoulos or you Stephanie, and get me a succession
MAHER: Or me, as if she’d sit down with me.
STEPHENS: It’s not too much to ask Kamala say, are you for a Palestinian state if Hamas is gonna run that state, okay, yes or no?
RUHLE: And let’s say you don’t like her answer, are you going to vote for Donald Trump?
STEPHENS: No, I’m not.
Kamala,
RUHLE: Kamala is not running for perfect.
She’s running against Trump.
We have two choices.
And so there are some things you might not know her answer to.
And in 2024, unlike 2016, for a lot of the American people, we know exactly what Trump will do, who he is, and the kind of threat he is to democracy.
STEPHENS: I don’t know her.
RUHLE: So it’s unclear to me how there could be an informed.
STEPHENS: Stephanie, the problem that a lot of people have with Kamala is we don’t know her answer to anything.
Okay?
And I think
RUHLE: But you know his answer to everything.
STEPHENS: I think that’s, and, and that’s why I would never vote for him.
And people shouldn’t vote for him.
But people also are expected to have some idea of what the program is of the person you’re supposed to vote for.
You’re just not supposed to say, well, you have to vote for Y because X is this, that and the other.
Let’s find out a little bit more.
And I don’t think it’s a lot to ask her to sit down for a real interview as opposed to a puff piece in which she describes like her, her feelings of growing up in Oakland with no slogs.
RUHLE: Then I would just say to that, when you move to Nirvana, give me your real estate broker’s number and I’ll be your next door neighbor.
We don’t live there.
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IS STEPHANIE RUHLE OF MSNBC A BIGGER AIR HEAD THAN DANA BASH OF CNN?
Stay tuned!
Never in my life do I recall seeing such a shallow-thinking, empty-headed BULL**** artist on TV as is Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC, who herself has become a TV and MEDIA SENSATION, a literal MEDIA DARLING, even more so today than Kamala Harris, and who is in demand on other TV talk shows because she is now “THE ONE” who landed a solo sit-down interview with Democrat Kamala Harris, who chose Stephanie Ruhle to interview her because Stephanie would let her ramble on without ever saying anything of substance, so in that regard, they were a marriage made in heaven, as we see in this MSNBC video titled “See Stephanie Ruhle react after her exclusive interview with Kamala Harris – Stephanie Ruhle and Chris Hayes discuss Ruhle’s one-on-one interview with Kamala Harris on tariffs, price-gouging, her economic vision, and more” Sept. 25, 2024:
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/see-stephanie-ruhle-react-after-her-exclusive-interview-with-kamala-harris-220158533734
As to Ruhle, herself an intellectual light-weight, a prime qualification to be a main or prime talking head on MSNBC, it is not at all clear that she has a clue as to anything going on in the world right now, but her biggest thrill from the interaction between Kamala and her, the BONDING MOMENT, was that she and Kamala got to talk about “collaborative inclusivity,” which made Stephanie, a Progressive Liberal, feel very, very good about herself and all warm and squishy inside, because talking about collaborative inclusivity is something she really likes to do, even if nobody, including herself, understands a word she is saying about it, given that in concrete terms, being made up as it is out of moonbeams and fairy dust and cobwebs, the term “collaborative inclusivity” means absolutely nothing at all, which is why empty-headed, shallow-thinking people like Stephanie Ruhle and Kamala Harris like to talk about it, because since it means nothing, they can never be wrong about it.
And yes, people, you can tell from the real weird **** going on in national politics in America today in this, “THE YEAR OF THE WOMEN,” those women being Kamala Harris and her enablers and sycophants (a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain advantage) Dana Bash of CNN and Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC, that we are truly at another inflection point in world history, where the choices we make today will determine our future for decades to come, and that takes us back to the Transcript for Episode #672 of Real Time with Bill Maher published 9/21/2024 with guest HARRIS APOLOGIST AND DEFENDER Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC, who is quite shrill, and who broke into journalism in 2011 after nearly 15 years as a Wall Street banker when Bloomberg Television’s Andy Lack — later the head of NBC News — hired her as a co-anchor of its “Inside Track” program, and whose decadelong success in media (she is also a former co-host of Weekend Today) hasn’t gone unblemished, with her getting flack in 2020 after she appeared in a six-minute video for JPMorgan Chase as part of its “Chase Chats” series raising ethical concerns over a perceived conflict of interest between a journalist and a reporting subject, and with her turning a different questionably ethical corner after The Wall Street Journal reported on an unusually close relationship between her and then-Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank between 2015 and 2016, with him giving her a cell phone and email address solely dedicated to communications between the two, on which she’d receive sensitive company documents and talking points intended to boost the company, character flaws with endeared her to AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris and TEAM HARRIS/WALZ, as follows: for this bit of rank hypocrisy from Stephanie Ruhle, to wit:
RUHLE: You don’t stop calling out the truth because people aren’t listening.
Right.
When Donald Trump tells lie after lie, you don’t say, nobody seems to care.
It’s our job in the media, right?
When people complain Donald Trump got fact-checked way more than Kamala Harris did, you’re damn right he did. you know why?
He told more lies.
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So, that was on September 21, 2024.
Just four (4) days later, on September. 25, 2024, Stephanie got a chance to put her money where her mouth is to “call out the truth” with her SOLO INTERVIEW of VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris, and guess what, people – she didn’t do it.
She didn’t do it, call out the truth with Kamala, because she likes Kamala Harris and she doesn’t like Trump, and she wants Trump to lose, which means she has to help Kamala win, and if Stephanie were to do like Martha Raddatz did on ABC’s “THIS WEEK” https://www.foxnews.com/video/6361995343112 where Martha called out Democrat governor of Massachusetts Maura Healy about Kamala’s lie during the presidential debate about no troops in a combat zone, then that would have made Kamala out to be no better than Trump, and worse, actually, given that Trump is a civilian, while Kamala is a sworn Federal officer, the Vice President of the United States, who should be held to a lot higher standard than she was by Stephanie Ruhle on September. 25, 2024, so Stephanie chose to let the lies of Kamala run free, and in the course of doing so, made herself out as a fraud and hypocrite, which is why Stephani8e has her position at MSNBC, and why TEAM HARRIS/WALZ chose her to help Kamala peddle her lies, evasions, misinformation and disinformation to the American people on network TV.
According to a Rigzone article titled “Oil Skyrockets as Markets Brace for Potential Israeli Strikes on Iran” by Antonia Mufarech and Devika Krishna Kumar on October 03, 2024, we have as follows:
Oil surged as the market braced for the possibility that Israel’s retaliation against Iran for its recent missile barrage will include strikes on the country’s oil infrastructure.
West Texas Intermediate soared more than 5% to settle above $73 a barrel after President Joe Biden was asked if he would support Israel striking Iran’s oil facilities.
“We’re discussing that,” Biden responded.
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Which brings us to this famous quote from Hussein Obama concerning this same senile Joe Biden, to wit:
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.”
(Cue Youtube, Biden at the Beach While the World Burns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5pSxWTY6Q )
And as BIDEN/HARRIS head us into yet another conflict that they won’t have a clue as to how to handle, especially the shallow-thinking, air-headed Kamala Harris, who is the worst possible choice for COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF in the history of this nation, let’s drop back in time to Afghanistnam, and what Joe Biden knew about the deteriorating situation over there long before he didn’t know anything, and pay attention to the date, October 16, 2003, to wit:
Senate Hearing 108-320
S. Hrg. 108-320
AFGHANISTAN: IN PURSUIT OF SECURITY AND DEMOCRACY
HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
OCTOBER 16, 2003
The Chairman. We welcome all of our witnesses and look forward to their insights.
But before hearing those, I recognize the distinguished Ranking Member of our committee, Senator Biden.
Senator Biden. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
So let’s remember, with all due respect, the key issue here, for me at least, is the expansion of ISAF in a way to decrease our own burden of bringing about security in Afghanistan and give some prospect, some prospect, that there can be a government there that’s going to be able to sustain itself after we’ve gone.
I’ll never forget walking into a high-ranking administration official and saying, but we have a security problem.
They said, there’s no problem with Afghanistan.
And I said, what do you mean?
Ismail Khan is running the show.
She said, that’s right.
There’s no problem.
There’s security.
Ismail Khan is in charge.
We never have been able to have a situation in Afghanistan where there are not warlords.
Now I’m paraphrasing what was said in a meeting with high-level American administration officials.
So our allies seem to be ready to begin to help us lighten the load.
Every German, French, and Turkish soldier deployed to bring security to the Afghanistan countryside potentially frees up an American soldier to help fight the Taliban, which is —
they’re in a resurgent stage, and hunt down al-Qaeda.
And so, again, I have a longer statement, Mr. Chairman, and I’ll ask unanimous consent that it be placed in the record, if I may.
The Chairman. It will be placed in the record.
Opening Statement of Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Mr. Chairman, in May of last year I voiced my concerns about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan.
“If current trends continue,” I said in a floor speech, “we may soon find that our hard-
won success on the battlefield has melted away.”
I wish I could now report that events of the past year had proven my concerns ill-founded.
But while our attention has been focused on the war in Iraq, we have failed to consolidate our victory in Afghanistan.
As we consider the President’s request for $87 billion to fund war and reconstruction operations on two separate fronts, it is high time for us to reexamine our policy in Afghanistan.
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And of course, as Joe heads us into a war with Iran, along with a war against Russia, the rest of that story is now history, and thanks to BIDEN/HARRIS, that history appears to be on the verge of being repeated, and somewhere along the line, IF we really care about there being a future for this country, We, the people, ought to start taking some heed here.
CAN WE AFFORD FOUR MORE YEARS OF BIDEN/HARRIS?
CAN WE AFFORD FOUR MORE YEARS OF SNABU (Situation Normal, All Bidened Up)?
The choice is yours!
And while we are on this serious subject of all the real weird **** going on in national politics in America today in this “THE YEAR OF THE WOMEN DRIVING PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS,” those women being AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT and BIDEN APOLOGIST Kamala Harris and her personal team of enablers and sycophants (a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain advantage) comprised of the AIR-HEAD Dana Bash of CNN and GIDDY CHATTERBOX Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC, and the fact that we are truly at another inflection point in world history, where the choices we make today will determine our future for decades to come, let’s go back to August 29, 2024, and the interview of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris by CNN’s RESIDENT AIR-HEAD Dana Bash at Kim’s Cafe in Savannah, Georgia, where we had as follows, to wit:
BASH: So you maintain Bidenomics is a success.
HARRIS: I maintain that when we do the work of bringing down prescription medication for the American people, including capping the cost — of the annual cost of prescription medication for seniors at $2,000; when we do what we did in the first year of being in office to extend the child tax credit so that we cut child poverty in America by over 50%; when we do what we have done to invest in the American people and bringing manufacturing back to the United States so that we created over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs, bringing business back to America; what we have done to improve the supply chain so we’re not relying on foreign governments to supply American families with their basic needs, I’ll say that that’s good work.
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And let’s focus on Kamala’s words there about her and Joe Biden investing in the American people and bringing manufacturing back to the United States so that we created over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs, and from there go to a Reuters article titled “Blowout US employment report reinforces economy’s resilience” by Lucia Mutikani on October 4, 2024, where we have as follows with respect to manufacturing jobs according to Joe Biden’s own labor department, to wit:
But manufacturing shed 7,000 jobs, concentrated in the motor vehicle industry.
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So much for Kamala’s EMPTY BRAGGING about all the manufacturing jobs she says she has created using our federal tax dollars to hand out tax breaks to the world’s richest corporations, which takes us to a Reuters article titled “US factory orders unexpectedly fall in August” on October 3, 2024, where we have more on manufacturing, as follows:
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – New orders for U.S.-manufactured goods unexpectedly fell in August, while business spending on equipment appears to have pulled back in the third quarter.
Factory orders dropped 0.2% after a slightly downwardly revised 4.9% increase in July, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on Thursday.
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So the facts about jobs and manufacturing do not agree with what Kamala Harris was telling Dana Bash, but since Dana doesn’t know any better, and would not dare to challenge the VICE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA if she did, Kamala was able to get away with lying to us on network TV about supposed job creation that is not happening, which takes us back to August 29, 2024, and this from Kamala in that same interview, to wit:
What we have done to improve the supply chain so we’re not relying on foreign governments to supply American families with their basic needs, I’ll say that that’s good work.
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Which HARRIS HORSECRAP about “improving ” supply chains takes us to a New York Post story titled “Kamala Harris boosted solar firm linked to Chinese slave labor with nearly $2B in handouts to set up US plant” by Josh Christenson on 5 October 2024, where we have some further reality on that score, to wit:
The Biden-Harris administration helped out a South Korean solar company whose supply chain is tied to Chinese slave labor, a list of federally sanctioned entities shows, handing out nearly $2 billion to the firm to expand its presence in Georgia.
Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, visited Hanwha Qcells’ manufacturing plant in Dalton, Ga., in April 2023, touting how the administration’s tax credits would expand the facility and help Hanwha build another one in nearby Cartersville to produce millions of panels as part of “the largest investment in solar energy in our nation’s history.”
But the Seoul-based company is using polysilicon, a key component in manufacturing solar panels, from at least two suppliers that have been banned by the Department of Homeland Security because of their dependence on the forced labor of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province, Bloomberg reported in July.
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People, how do we know when Kamala Harris is lying to us?
That’s easy – we watch her mouth, and if the mouth is moving, there is an almost certain odds-on bet Kamala is lying to us, because she seems incapable of ever telling us the truth, which takes us back to the NY Post for more on Kamala’s real supply chain, to wit:
Qcells’ sub-suppliers include the sanctioned Xinjiang GCL New Energy Material Technology and Xinjiang Daqo New Energy Co. Ltd.
Its parent company, Hanwha, also has at least one of its own facilities based in the northwestern Chinese province.
Biden, 81, first announced the partnership with the South Korean company in January 2023 — and his former Senate chief of staff, Danny O’Brien, was hired by Qcells as its executive vice president and head of US corporate affairs by March.
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And my goodness, who can be surprised at that.
Going back for more, it continues, as follows:
Lobbyists had raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars while advocating for handouts to the firm to be included the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Senate disclosures show, and the hard work paid off with $230 million in tax credits after the president signed the administration’s signature climate bill into law in August 2022.
The following June, Qcells became a preferred vendor for the US government — even providing solar panels for the Pentagon — and the Department of Energy awarded a $1.5 billion loan guarantee in August to set up the Cartersville plant.
While a spokeswoman for Qcells denied to Bloomberg that forced labor is “used to produce goods supplied to Qcells,” Bret Manley, executive director of the nonpartisan Energy Fair Trade Coalition, told The Post that “any product that sources from China is problematic.”
“Not all Chinese polysilicon is problematic, but China’s laws prohibit Chinese companies from complying with sanctions, foreign sanctions that target their economy,” Manley said.
“So if you are a Chinese company that is engaged in forced labor, it is against Chinese law for you to disclose that to the benefit of the United States.”
The Qcells spokeswoman, Debra DeShong, also admitted to Bloomberg that Hanwha doesn’t have the authority to track its polysilicon sub-suppliers — but does ask them to sign affidavits confirming their facilities aren’t in Xinjiang.
Polysilicon is used to make wafers or ingots that are exported to the US and manufactured into solar panels.
China produces roughly 80% of the world’s supply, with one-third of its material originating in Xinjiang, according to Bloomberg.
The DHS banned-entities list is a result of the 2022 Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation signed into law by Biden.
That same year, Qcells broke off its business with one of its Chinese sub-suppliers that “failed to meet traceability standards.”
In 2023, an independent report by UK-based Sheffield Hallam University also noted that Qcells was at “very high risk” of allowing polysilicon tied to forced labor into its supply chains.
“DHS is charged with enforcing this,” Manley said.
“If they detain your shipment and claim that you have exposure to forced labor, you have to prove [otherwise] — they assume you’re guilty.”
“You have to prove that you are not.”
“And if you can’t prove that you’re not, then you cannot import that product.”
“The Biden-Harris Administration is willfully ignoring their own law to the apparent benefit of one company with significant exposure to forced labor,” he added.
“It’s simply not possible the Administration is unaware of this fact.”
“You can’t claim to care about human rights while simultaneously sending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to companies that profit from forced labor.”
Qcells is the number-one supplier of residential and commercial solar panels to the US, fueled largely by its business with the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, and has announced plans to invest a total of $3 billion to expand its US footprint.
The company could net more than $900 million per year from the IRA’s tax credits until 2032, Bloomberg reported.
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And make a note of that figure, people, of those tax credits, as well, as WE, THE PEOPLE pay 0ver a TRILLION DOLLARS a year in interest payments on all that borrowed money that funds Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ INFLATION REDUCTION ACT, which is CORPORATE WELFARE for rh world’s richest corporations, like this Seoul Korea-based Hanwha Qcells company, while Kamala Harris talks about corporations “paying their fair share,” which is more HARRIS HORSECRAP, which takes us back to the New York Post, to wit:
Manley, however, noted that there are already US-based polysilicon suppliers that the Biden-Harris administration could have tapped to reshore manufacturing and achieve its climate-related goals — something Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have boasted about on the campaign trail.
Hemlock, a Michigan-based polysilicon producer, used to be one of the world’s largest suppliers, while Wacker, a firm based in Germany, already has a large footprint in Bradley County, Tenn.
“If we’re going to spend these billions of dollars on green technologies, we should spend them in the United States,” Manley emphasized.
“Or at the very least, we should be spending them in places that don’t have problematic human rights records and have ethical sourcing of materials.”
Instead, the decision to reward foreign firms with Chinese sub-suppliers will make solar panel production “always reliant on China,” he said, which can undercut US producers with cheap labor.
In Harris’ Sept. 10 debate with former President Donald Trump, she proudly mentioned that she “was the tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act” and her administration had “invested a trillion dollars in a clean energy economy.”
“We have invested in clean energy to the point that we are opening up factories around the world,” she said.
In his own war of words with GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Oct. 1, Walz also touted the investments.
“What we’ve seen out of the Harris administration now, the Biden-Harris administration, is we’ve seen this investment, we’ve seen massive investments, the biggest in global history that we’ve seen in the Inflation Reduction Act, has created jobs all across the country,” Walz said.
“The largest solar manufacturing plant in North America sits in Minnesota.”
“The real issue is that if you’re spending hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars of American taxpayer money on solar panels that are made in China, number one, you’re going to make the economy dirtier,” Vance responded in a question about renewable energy efforts effects on climate.
“We should be making more of those solar panels here in the United States of America,” the Ohio GOP senator said, advocating for a total reshoring of the whole production process.
The Harris campaign, the White House and Qcells did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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And seriously, how could they?
And once again, that is the news!
MSNBC, as everyone in America knows, is a third-rate media outlet of the sort associated with corrupt third-world tin-pot dictatorships, say Uganda under Idi Amin, or Haiti under “Baby Doc” Duvalier of Haiti, and today, it is also known as the HOMELAND of GIDDY MINDLESS CHATTERBOX Stephanie Ruhle, who is now a MEDIA TALK SHOW SUPERSTAR in high demand by other lesser-light media talk show hosts who want to bask in her glory as “THE ONE” who landed a one-on-one interview with BIDEN VICE PRESIDENT and notorious EMPTY HEAD Kamala Harris, appointed in an alleged but highly questionable moment of lucidity by the senile Democrat Joe Biden as his chosen successor, as if the old gaffer were a Roman emperor, as opposed to an American president in a DEMOCRACY, which UNDEMOCRATIIC ACT by Biden, which may well have struck a FATAL BLOW to OUR SACRED DEMOCRACY in America, reduced to irrelevancy the DEMOCRATICALLY-CAST VOTES of 14 million Democrat primary voters, had a story out on the internet titled “I was at the Harris rally where Cheney spoke. Its significance cannot be overlooked” by Charlie Sykes and Allison Detzel on 5 October 2024 which was an adapted excerpt from the Oct. 3 episode of “The ReidOut,” another insipid political talk show on MSNBC, where we were treated to the following, to wit:
On Thursday, I was in Ripon, Wisconsin — known as the birthplace of the Republican Party — to witness a truly important moment in American politics.
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Now, given the story is by two people, not one, they being Charlie Sykes and Allison Detzel, we don’t know which of them was there, which in the end, however, is immaterial because what follows is DEMOCRAT TRIPE of the sort to be expected from MSNBC, and what is important in that highly subjective article is the hyperbolic (exaggerated) statement that either of these two authors witnessed a truly important moment in American politics in Ripon, Wisconsin on 3 October 2024, which takes us back to the story, as follows:
Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, put country above party and joined Kamala Harris on the campaign trail for the first time.
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Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, put country above party?
Oh, really?
Like back in 2021 when Lizzie Cheney surrendered herself to DEMOCRAT Nancy Pelosi and had herself made a card-carrying member of Nancy’s WITCH HUNTERS?
Going back to the hype, it continues as follows:
“I am proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” Cheney told the crowd.
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Ah, okay, Lizzie, and by the way, Lizzie, THIS IS STILL AMERICA, and because of veterans like me who stand up to actually protect and defend OUR CONSTITUTION, you get to have the right to cast your vote for whomever you choose, without fear of retribution or retaliation, so next time you see a veteran, male or female, like Tulsi Gabbard, for example, be sure to thank them for their service and for keeping safe YOUR SACRED RIGHT to cast your vote for Kamala Harris, which takes us back to MSNBC, as follows:
You cannot overlook the symbolism of having this campaign event in Ripon.
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And actually, people, YES, WE CAN, because the event was not symbolic of anything, at all!
Lizzie Cheney, who is nothing in America other than just another citizen, like you or I, goes to Ripon, gets up on a stage and says she is going to vote for Kamala Harris.
SO WHAT?
BIG DEAL!
Where’s the symbolism?
Going back to the story, it continues as follows:
In 1854, it was the place where a group of Americans came together to form a new political party and fight against the spread of slavery.
It was a moment of real moral clarity in our country.
And on Thursday, as I stood in that crowd, I felt like this was another one of those moments.
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And it would be interesting to know what they were smoking or imbibing before they joined the crowd, because it very much sounds like they were stoned right out of their gourds when they got there, and so were hallucinating or tripping, which takes us back again, to wit:
I got to speak to Harris and Liz Cheney before the event, and they were both very aware of the symbolic significance and the weight of this moment.
When you step back, it’s rather extraordinary to think about what we are seeing from the Democrats and the Harris campaign and their willingness to create a big tent.
They’re not relitigating things that happened in the past.
Instead, they’re coming together with those on the other side of the aisle around a common cause: our democracy.
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Which statement on the face of things in America today is PATENTLY LUDICROUS, because Kamala Harris and Lizzie Cheney represent clear and present dangers to democracy in OUR REPUBLIC today, which again takes us back to MSNBC, to wit:
This is not a choice between right or left, liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican.
It is a moral decision about our constitutional order and about whether or not we’re going to put country over party.
When they took to the stage together, Harris and Cheney embraced that message.
They essentially said, let’s set aside our political and ideological differences because our country is in survival mode.
American democracy is facing a five-alarm fire.
We must rise to the occasion and not let traditional ideological differences get in the way of recognizing the importance of this moment, because in November it’s all on the line.
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And yes, people, it most certainly is!
DO THE RIGHT THING FOR AMERICA AND REJECT OUT OF HAND HARRIS/WALZ!
With respect to Lizzie Cheney, were one to peruse OUR CONSTITUTION in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, one would find these following words, to wit:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States.
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Accordingly, a vice president of the United States like Dick Cheney is not a noble of any kind, nor would his daughter, in this case Lizzie Cheney, be one, either.
So the fact that Lizzie Cheney is for Kamala Harris is not earth-shaking, it is not historic, it is hardly extraordinary, and as to the supposed symbolic significance and the weight of this moment, there was none.
As to Ripon, Wisconsin, a meeting in a simple, one story clapboard and frame schoolhouse on March 20, 1854, and another in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, to protest passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which permitted the extension of slavery beyond the limits of the Missouri Compromise, drew dissatisfied Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats and these meetings were the first of those that led to the formation of the Republican Party, and the birth of this party brought a dedicated following of individuals who pledged to organize together and fight against the spread of slavery by the DEMOCRATS who then seceded from the Union to start their own HIGHLY UNDEMOCRATIC COUNTRY, and thereby started the CIVIL WAR!
Ripon Wisconsin’s Little White Schoolhouse was designated a National Historic Site in 1974.
So it was indeed a moment of real moral clarity in our country when these people gathered in
Ripon on March 20, 1854, these dissatisfied Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats who realized the CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER the SLAVE-OWNING DEMOCRATS were to this Union and OUR REPUBLIC, and decided it was necessary to stand up against the DEMOCRATS before they made slaves out of us all, and that, people, is true American history!
How much more weird and surreal can this SILLY SEASON become, I wonder, than where it already is, and here I am talking about a Mediaite story titled “’60 Minutes’ Reporter Asks Tim Walz Whether He ‘Can Be Trusted To Tell the Truth’ Following ‘Misrepresentation’ of His Background” by Charlie Nash on 8 October 2024, where we had as follows:
60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker grilled Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on whether he could “be trusted to tell the truth” following his history of “misrepresentation.”
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In all my life, which spans a period of time back to when Democrat Harry S. “The Buck stops here” Truman was in the white house, this is the first time I ever recall hearing a vice presidential candidate who has a history of lying to us being grilled as to whether or not he could be trusted to not keep lying to us in the future if elected, and frankly, it boggles my mind that someone who lies to us is even considered presidential material in this country in the first place.
Obviously, Kamala Harris, who herself is “truth-challenged,” not only does not mind and even wants another liar on her ticket to round it out, but my goodness, who in their right mind would want a liar as our vice president?
Besides the Democrats, that is, which takes us back to that story, to wit:
During a special Monday episode of 60 Minutes, which included interviews with Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris, Whitaker noted that Walz had “been criticized for embellishing or telling outright falsehoods about his military record and about his travels to Asia in the 1980s.”
Interviewing Walz, Whitaker said, “In your debate with JD Vance, you said, ‘I’m a knucklehead at times,’ and I think you were referring to the time that you said that you were in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square unrest when you were not.”
“Yeah,” replied Walz.
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AND WHY ARE WE BEING SOLD A SELF-ADMITTED KNUCKLEHEAD BY KAMALA HARRIS AND THE DEMOCRATS AS A VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE?
HAVE WE SUNK THAT LOW AS A NATION AND AS A PEOPLE THAT THE BEST NWE CAN SCRAPE UP OFF THE BOTTOM OF THE POLITICAL BARRELL IS A KNUCKLEHEAD WHO LIES TO US?
ARE WE THAT BANKRUPT AS A NATION AND A PEOPLE THAT THE BEST AMONG US IS A LYING KNUCKLEHEAD?
As to the term “knucklehead” as it is used in the United States of America, it means a stupid person.
According to Vocabulary.com, a “knucklehead” is someone who is a dunce or does something foolish, while Dictionary.com defines a knucklehead like Tim Walz as a stupid, bumbling, inept person.
SO WHY ARE WE TAKING THIS MAN TIM WALZ SERIOUSLY AS A VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE?
Because we are stupid?
Because we don’t know any better?
Going back to the story, it continues as follows:
Whitaker then questioned, “Is that kind of misrepresentation?”
“Isn’t that more than just being a knucklehead?”
“I think folks know who I am, and I think they know the difference between someone expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong by – rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee argued.
Whitaker shot back, “But I think it comes down to the question of whether — whether you can be trusted to tell the truth.”
Walz concluded, “Yeah, well, I can.”
“I think I can.”
“I will own up to being a knucklehead at times, but the folks closest to me know that I keep my word.”
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Tim Walz “thinks” he can be trusted to tell the truth?
What a sick joke on the people of America that is, and how weird it is, as well – having a vice presidential candidate foisted off on us by Democrat Kamala Harris who is unsure of whether or not he can be trusted to tell the truth, after not telling us the truth about his military record, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:
In recent months, Walz has been criticized for making misleading and outright false claims about his background.
Walz was accused of stolen valor after he falsely claimed to have carried weapons “in war” – a remark he blamed on “grammar” after being confronted by CNN anchor Dana Bash.
During his debate against Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance last week, Walz was also confronted about his false claim about being “in Hong Kong during the deadly Tiananmen Square protests in the spring of 1989.”
Asked by debate moderator Margaret Brennan to “explain that discrepancy,” Walz replied, “I’ve tried to do the best I can, but I’ve not been perfect, and I’m a knucklehead at times.”
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PATHETIC!
There is no other word for it!
And why, pray tell, is it necessary for the people of Florida to have to hear this ridiculous DRAMA QUEEN Kamala Harris, with her record of idiocy, incompetence, ineptness, failure and word salads, tell them about hurricane Milton, when there are already people who know far more about hurricanes than does Kamala Harris, who doesn’t seem to know much about anything, telling them everything they need to know?
And by DRAMA QUEEN, I am referring to Kamala, who essentially is nothing with respect to these hurricanes, being merely Joe Biden’s vice president, raising a huge flap and a huge media stink about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis not taking the time, if he even knew she was calling, which he says he didn’t, to answer a phone call from her about God alone knows what.
Which takes us to a story about Kamala’s hissy fit and apparent emotional breakdown (cue, Youtube, Vice President Kamala Harris Discusses Hurricane Milton With The Weather Channel Television Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92RxIISRxtQ ) in the Latin Times titled “Kamala Phones the Weather Channel to Address Floridians Directly After DeSantis Refuses to Take Her Call” by Taylor Odisho on 10 October 2024, where we have Kamala clearly and plainly POLITICIZING this hurricane to her benefit as another chance to get her face before the American people and to slam her hated opponent Trump (see, Washington Post video, Harris pushes back on GOP hurricane misinformation https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/harris-pushes-back-on-gop-hurricane-misinformation/vi-AA1rY2nN?ocid=msedgntp&t=41 ), as follows:
The vice president called into the Weather Channel to address misinformation and reassure Floridians that the federal government is working on their behalf as Hurricane Milton approaches.
During her 10-minute appearance, Kamala Harris addressed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ accusation that the vice president is politicizing the storm.
Harris started off by saying “this is not a time for us to point fingers at each other as Americans, it’s really not.”
“Anybody who considers themselves to be a leader should really be in the business right now of giving people a sense of confidence that we’re all working together and that we have the resources and the ability to work together on their behalf, on behalf of the people of our country,” Harris said.
“That’s what I’m focused on.”
She added that she welcomes anyone to work with her on behalf of Americans.
“I don’t care who you voted for in the last election or who you’re voting for in the next election,” Harris said.
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All of which is ridiculous, empty, purely partisan political BULL****, which takes us to a Daily Caller article titled “Kamala Harris Complains About Hurricane Becoming Political Days After Attacking DeSantis For Not Taking Her Call” by Nicole Silverio on 9 October 2024, for more on Kamala’s emotional breakdown as she works overtime to POLITICIZE this storm for her benefit, to wit:
Vice President Kamala Harris complained Wednesday about her political opponents allegedly politicizing Hurricane Milton just days after she attacked Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for not taking her call.
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And pardon Kamala, people, she is out of her league here and she is hyperventilating, because she so much wants this to be about her, she wants to be the QUEEN OF THE MAY here, the undisputed STAR$ OF THE SHOW, and it just isn’t, and truth be told, she has no role to play, at all, which takes us back to the Daily Caller, as follows:
Harris complained during a phone call with CNN’s Dana Bash that Republican leaders are politicizing Hurricane Milton with alleged misinformation that are making “desperate” Floridian residents “afraid” of seeking aid.
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Ah, yes, the CNN AIRHEAD Dana Bash, Kamala’s BEST FRIEND FOREVER, who is giving Kamala a friendly shoulder to cry on here, and big surprise that, because it makes Dana feel important and part of the DRAMA as well, which again takes us back to the Daily Caller, to wit:
She called on the political “gamesmanship” to end just two days after she lamented DeSantis for not taking her call about the storm.
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And my advice to DRAMA QUEEN Kamala is that if she truly wants the political “gamesmanship” to end, then stop playing political games, Kamala, because with this whiney partisan political crap, Kamala, you are a part of the PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION, which again takes us back to the Daily Caller, to wit:
“But leaders on the ground who know that it is not in the best interest of the people living in those areas to not know their rights, not to know what their entitled to and to be afraid of seeking help,” Harris said.
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HUH?
Does anybody have a clue as to what she just said there because it sounds like pure nonsensical Harris WORD SALAD GIBBERISH to me?
Going back to the Daily Caller, we have more, as follows from the emotionally unstable Kamala Harris, to wit:
“It is dangerous, it is unconscionable, frankly, that anyone who considers themselves a leader would mislead desperate people to the point that those desperate people would not receive the aid to which they are entitled.”
“And that’s why I call it dangerous, and we all know it’s dangerous and the gamesmanship has to stop.”
“At some point, the politics has to end, especially in a moment of crisis and the crises that we’ve been seeing.”
“It affects so many people, I’ve met people who have lost family members to Hurricane Helene.”
“We know the desperation and the fear that the folks who are attempting to evacuate Florida are experiencing.”
“The last thing that they deserve is to have a so-called leader make them more afraid than they already are,” the vice president continued.
Harris accused DeSantis of playing “political games” after the Florida governor did not return her phone call, though President Joe Biden countered her remarks by confirming he had been in close contact with DeSantis for reports of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
The Florida governor said he was unaware that Harris had tried to contact him and said he has “zero time” to pay attention to her “political games” during a Tuesday segment on “Fox & Friends.”
“It’s not about you, Kamala,” DeSantis said.
“It’s about the people of Florida.”
“My focus is exactly where it should be, and I can tell you this, I’ve worked on these hurricanes both under President Trump and President Biden, neither of them ever tried to politicize it.”
“She has never called on any of the storms we’ve had since she’s been Vice President until apparently now.”
“Why all of a sudden is she trying to parachute in and inject herself when she’s never shown any interest in the past?”
“We know it’s because of politics, we know it’s because of her campaign.”
“I have zero time to entertain these political games.”
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That makes two of us, Ron!
And that for the moment is the news!