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January 16 - January 20, 2023
According to the RealClearPolitics average of major polls, Biden-Harris-Mayorkas is polling at just 27 percent approval on immigration, or 33 points underwater. When limiting the question to handling of the border, Biden-Harris-Mayorkas clocks in at 23 percent. Boy, I’d love to play cornhole with that 23 percent over a few suds sometime .
“[I] heard Border Patrol agents loud and clear. . . . I am fighting to get more resources they need,” Mayorkas also tweeted in January 2022. Actually, that’s not the case. In a federal budget unveiled in April 2022, Biden allocated $309 million for border security technology and $494 million for “noncitizen processing and care costs.” So we’re talking just $800 million out of $5.6 trillion, 0.014 percent of the entire budget. Nothing for border wall construction, of course. In the announcement of Mayorkas’s nomination to run homeland security, what many in the press focused on wasn’t
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“This individual has actually been dangerous to America and to the young men and women who are fighting [for] and serving it,” McCain said of Blinken, referring to his foreign policy worldview as “at worst anti-strategic.”
Just as McCain predicted, Blinken and Biden pulled out all U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August 2021 by sticking to a firm timetable and broadcasting that commitment to the world.
desperate people throwing children over the barriers. The results were fatal for U.S. service members, with thirteen being killed at the airport. Americans were left behind. A ragtag Taliban called the shots during the withdrawal.
Overall, it was an utter embarrassment on the world stage that only emboldened the Pu...
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Under Blinken’s watch, McCain proved to have been 100 percent correct. Antony Blinken is dangerous to this country and our allies. The Taliban runs Afghanistan. ISIS and Al Qaeda have a playground to plan attacks on our homeland again. North Korea has resumed earnest missile tests. Russia invaded Ukraine without provocation. China is eyeing up Taiwan. And what is Blinken doing? Trying to revive the Iran nuclear deal.
We’re governed by children.
If he had won in 1988, Biden would have been the youngest president in U.S. history (ironic considering he eventually became the oldest president in U.S. history).
Then, less than four months after announcing his presidential run, Biden was out. But not because of a lack of support or a health issue, but due to a plagiarism scandal that, in a sane world, should have made this bid for the White House his last.
So this isn’t just plagiarism with a small p. It’s rhetorical grand theft auto. It’s also an outright lie that Biden’s relatives worked in coal mines. They didn’t. So, yes, somehow Biden combined Kinnock’s fact-based family background and combined it with his fabricated one. It’s almost impressive on some level.
“On the political scene, one of the Democratic candidates, a Senator Joseph Biden—have you seen the problem he’s been having? He went around and made a speech and apparently he quoted a—I think it was a British politician, took his speech and kind of paraphrased it as his own.
“And then the press got on him. And then he was charged also with taking part of Bobby Kennedy’s speeches. And Biden says, not to worry. He reassured his staff, he said, ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’”
And this wasn’t the only time: Biden’s first recorded plagiarism incident came twenty-two years earlier at Syracuse Law School. Again, he swore it was just an accident. And this wasn’t just lifting a few paragraphs, either, but five pages used in a fifteen-page report.
“We choose truth over facts!” Biden once explained, which may explain his allergy to facts.
Know this: Joe Biden will say or do anything that is politically expedient. If you think playing the race card is beneath this crusader for transparency and truth, well, you haven’t been paying attention.
Claim: “I went to law school on a full academic scholarship.” Fact: Biden went to school on a half-scholarship based solely on financial need. Because when you are earning all Cs and Ds in your first three semesters at the University of Delaware and an F in ROTC, full scholarships tend to not be extended. Claim: “I ended up in the top half of my class.” Fact: Biden finished 76th out of 85. Claim: “I won the international moot court competition.” Fact: He didn’t. Claim: “I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school.” Fact: Biden graduated with one degree.
Fourteen years later, Biden’s plan as president to get us out of Afghanistan without our interests in the region falling apart failed spectacularly.
Overall, Biden was at odds with his boss and top military brass on major issues: Obama and his defense secretary, Robert Gates, were for a troop surge in Afghanistan, but Biden was against it. Obama and Gates were both for military intervention against Libya and Muammar Gaddafi, but Biden was against it. On the raid that took out Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Obama and Gates were for it, while Biden said we shouldn’t go in.
“This is a big fucking deal,” Biden said, which could very clearly be picked up on a nearby microphone.
Moreover, the other Democratic candidates were profoundly flawed, inexperienced, or simply unhinged.
Thanks to Donald Trump, COVID-19, and a media finally ready to embrace him, Biden would at last get his first real shot.
You’ve heard of Reid, an MSNBC prime-time host who is the very worst that cable news or television in general has to offer. This is the same person who referred to Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas as “Uncle Clarence,” a clear reference to Uncle Tom. That should have been a fireable offense.
This is the same person who said Florida governor Ron DeSantis is rooting for COVID deaths of children in his state. This is the same person who said white supremacists elected Glenn Youngkin governor and Winsome Sears (who at last check is Black) lieutenant governor. That election took place in Virginia, a state Joe Biden won by double digits just one year before apparently it was taken over by the Klan.
It was Reid who slammed the media for covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine because (checks notes) on...
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“Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black!”
A CNBC/Change Research poll at the time found that 52 percent of likely voters believed that Biden was unfit to be president. Those numbers have only risen since he took charge and the spotlight has become brighter.
But perhaps the best part about Biden and the coverage of him is this notion that he’s like some kind of white combination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali. This was most evident when he attempted to claim that he was arrested in South Africa as he fought to see Nelson Mandela. February 11, 2020: “This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid. I had the great honor of meeting him. I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robbens [sic] Island.”
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This. Also. Never. Happened. The Washington Post, to its credit, fact-checked this statement and gave it four Pinocchios, the worst rating it can give on the truth-telling scale. There is no fifth Pinocchio.
Why would Biden choose to tell this story in 2022? Because he needed to sway public opinion on his voting rights bill.
But this claim around “voter suppression” really gets me. I’m not a terribly emotional person, but this got me profoundly angry. “When the Bible teaches us to feed the hungry and give water to the thirsty, the new Georgia law actually makes it illegal—think of this—I mean, it’s 2020, and now ’22, going into that election—it makes it illegal to bring your neighbors, your fellow voters food or water while they wait in line to vote,” Biden said in January 2022 to students in Atlanta. He was spinning a tale of an America where disenfranchised voters were fainting from hunger and thirst.
What the hell was he talking about? Could he be mixing American voting up with communist breadlines?
As for Black turnout in Georgia, 64 percent of the state’s eligible Black voters voted in the 2020 presidential election. In deep blue Massachusetts, for comparison, that number was just 36 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
But just to underscore how toxic the president and vice president were entering their second year of office, when the president and vice president arrived in Georgia, Abrams, who is running again for governor, weirdly cited a scheduling conflict as the reason she couldn’t appear with the two at a campaign event. We haven’t seen a snub like this since The Shawshank Redemption didn’t win Best Picture in 1994.
He said, “[Biden’s] deeply unpopular. He’s old as shit. He’s largely been ineffective, unless we’re counting judges or whatever the hell inside-baseball scorecard we’re using. And I think he’ll probably get demolished in the midterms. People will smell opportunity, and DC is filled with people who want to be president.”
That must make Elizabeth Warren on the side of Bull and Jefferson. Because early voting in Massachusetts, for example, is just eleven days. In Georgia under its new law, it’s expanded to seventeen days. No matter. Warren called the changes in the Georgia law “a despicable voter suppression bill” as Democrats desperately attempted (and thankfully failed) to federalize voting laws in Biden’s first year. By the way, Delaware, up until this year, had no in-person early voting. Period.
Because if looking for one of the few issues that Americans are united on, requiring an ID to vote is one of them.
Almost impossible? What year—no, what century—does Harris think the rest of the country lives in? By the way, if voter suppression was truly real in any tangible way, doesn’t anyone think by now that CNN or MSNBC would be doing town hall after town hall packed with those who are disenfranchised telling their harrowing tales of dehydration or hunger pangs while waiting in line to vote?
Donald Trump was elected in 2016 and earned 74 million votes in 2020 because his supporters knew they were electing a president, not a priest. It’s why Trump connects with working-class voters so well despite being a New York billionaire. He doesn’t speak down to those of color and doesn’t make up shit about getting arrested in the name of civil rights, unlike Biden.
Playing the tough guy. Joe Biden has been doing that going back to his days as a lifeguard when he allegedly stared down a gang leader named Corn Pop. And that’s another story . . .
The Biden administration has been a cockamamie catastrophe, but what’s to blame? Is it just the same effects of liberal policy that we’ve seen before? Or does it lie in the answer to another question, one that many Republicans and Democrats and everyone in between are increasingly asking: Is the president of the United States mentally sharp?
A majority of the American people don’t believe he has the mental chops to do the job. It’s obvious: Joe Biden isn’t the same person he was when he served as vice president just a few years ago.
instead of criticism or concern about someone seeking the presidency calling it a day several hours before Fred Flintstone would ever dream of, Politico applauded not working as a genius strategy: “The Democratic nominee is sticking to his strategy: Keep a low profile, and let Trump light himself on fire.”
Funny how that “strategy” has extended well into his presidency, when he’s supposed to be working for the American people 24/7.
Imagine that: A majority of the greatest country in the world doesn’t believe its leader is mentally sharp.
So did Biden outright lie or was he confused? Could it be both?
According to Rasmussen Reports, two-thirds of voters want Biden to take a cognitive test. That perception speaks volumes and indicates that more and more Americans don’t believe he’s all there now.
Wow. Impressive stuff. The Six-Day War between Israel and an Arab coalition of Jordan, Syria, and Egypt occurred just five years after Lifeguard Biden stared down an armed Corn Pop. Now here he was, sitting across from an Israeli prime minister, the iconic Golda Meir, the first female leader of Israel, advising her on the war! The problem for Biden is that he was still a student at Syracuse Law School in 1967 when the war broke out and when this meeting supposedly had taken place. Oh, one more fun fact: Golda Meir didn’t assume office until 1969.
“It was the best inaugural address I have ever heard,” then–Fox News anchor Chris Wallace concluded. Wallace would go on to CNN+, the network’s streaming service, which folded in the span of thirty days.
Look, mocking Biden on his unsteady grasp of the truth or reality is one thing, but there is a serious aspect to this regarding his “gaffes,” because they can present serious national security issues.
