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So, who was this guy?
https://headlineusa.com/mystery-atf-agent-at-butler-rally-was-there-in-personal-capacity-agency-says/
Excerpt:
Is this just Joe babbling or is he saying it as a bit of revenge? Jill probably put him up to it if I had to guess.
A fine post for OLD FOLKS board! Thanks for posting it there too. He's a funny guy!
Joe Biden Says He Delegated ‘Everything’ to Kamala Harris: ‘Foreign Policy to Domestic Policy’
WENDELL HUSEBØ 25 Sep 2024 2:34
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he delegated “everything” as commander-in-chief to Vice President Kamala Harris, including foreign policy and domestic policy.
The acknowledgment is significant because it contradicts Harris’s talking points. Harris has tried multiple times to distance herself from the Biden-Harris record.
“My approach is about new ideas, new policies that are directed at the current moment. And also, to be very honest with you, my focus is very much in what we need to do over the next ten, twenty years to catch up to the twenty first century,” Harris told Brian Taff of Philadelphia’s Action News 6 ABC on September 13.
“I’m obviously not Joe Biden, and you know, I offer a new generation of leadership,” she said, providing examples of what the Biden-Harris administration failed to achieve.
Fifty-seven percent of registered voters believe they are not better off under the Biden-Harris administration as they were four years ago under former President Donald Trump, RMG Research polling found in September. Only 25 percent of Americans rate the economic conditions under the Biden-Harris administration as “excellent or good,” a Pew Research survey showed.
While campaigning for Harris on The View on Wednesday, Biden appeared to blame Harris for the administration’s failure to reduce inflation, secure the southern border, and responsibly withdraw from Afghanistan.
“As Vice President, there wasn’t a single thing that I did that she couldn’t do and so I was able to delegate her responsibility on everything from foreign policy to domestic policy,” he said.
Biden’s statement exacerbated Harris’s conundrum: She cannot campaign on policies to fix crime, inflation, and border security without undermining the Biden-Harris administration’s policies, but she must tout the administration’s policies to validate her record and candidacy.
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/09/25/joe-biden-says-he-delegated-everything-to-kamala-harris-foreign-policy-domestic-policy/
Not quite there yet. This guy's great!
https://www.tiktok.com/@sparks8675309/video/7418238798099713311?_r=1&_t=8q1V9pxnNXy
Ex-NYC COVID czar details in secret recording how to use media to ‘spin’ monkeypox drug stories
https://nypost.com/2024/09/25/us-news/jay-varma-details-in-secret-recording-how-to-use-the-media-to-spin-stories-about-mpox-drug/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=mail_app
Species dysphoria: The new gender dysphoria?
By Eric Utter
Since boys that identify and want to girls are put into situations (sports, locker rooms, bathrooms ect) maybe wolf boy should be put out into the wild to run with the wolf packs. Can do that with dinosaurs though!!!
Gender dysphoria is so yesterday!
According to the Daily Mail, a youngster in Britain has been officially allowed to identify as a wolf.
Officials say the secondary-school student is suffering from 'species dysphoria,’ which occurs when someone believes they aren’t truly human and instead belong to a different animal species. Voilà, welcome to the trans-specied community!
As you might well guess, teachers are said to be ‘supporting’ the pupil, who authorities say belongs to a group called ‘furries.’
Oddly enough (O.K., not really), species dysphoria is becoming ever more common -- along with all the other dysphorias — in an age when it seems nearly everyone wants to identify as something they aren’t and can never be. (I myself sometimes identify as a 6’ 4” 27-year-old Chippendale dancer named Lance.)
We are told that increasing numbers of schoolchildren are taking on the personalities and identities of creatures from cats and dogs to birds and snakes. Apparently, a few even claim to be dragons or dinosaurs.
Well, that should make for interesting classrooms. And locker rooms. What could go wrong? Cats and dogs, mongooses and cobras. Oppressors and the oppressed. Just what we need, more division and chaos in hallways, schools, and society in general.
Dictionaries state that dysphoria is the opposite of euphoria. That’s as may be, but it is certain that it is exacerbated (if not created) by the dismissal of standards, consequences, religion … and objective truth.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/species_dysphoria_the_new_gender_dysphoria.html
Who knew that too many people would create a problem?
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Some knew from the beginning that that's part of the plan!
Ex-Gov. Cuomo ‘inappropriately influenced’ witness in text message as House probed COVID deaths: memo
https://nypost.com/2024/09/25/us-news/ex-gov-cuomo-inappropriately-influenced-witness-in-text-message-as-house-probed-covid-deaths-memo/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=mail_app
Unless you are brain-dead (or a total government leach), you toss the dice to TRUMP!
Trump’s Campaign Gambit: Rewriting the Rule Book
A high-risk, high-reward strategy.
by Mark Angelides | Sep 25, 2024
The 2024 presidential election campaign is shaping up to be anything but normal. Put aside for a moment that the GOP contender is technically a non-incumbent incumbent and that the Democrat hopeful has not won a single primary vote. What yet remains is the most bizarre electoral contest in modern history in which all things that were once held true are now – at best – highly debatable.
While Vice President Kamala Harris is leaving the groundwork to surrogates and only engaging in cozy tête-à-têtes with friendly media outlets, Donald Trump appears to be in the process of remaking what it means to campaign for office. It’s a high-risk gamble that is leaving the GOP cognoscenti with sweaty palms and a sense of spiritual unease.
Outsourcing the Campaign Shoe Leather
Traditionally, campaigns would pay staff or rely on volunteers to pound the pavements and speak to voters in key neighborhoods. A decision earlier this year by the Federal Election Commission, however, changed the way ground games can now be played. In March, the FEC determined that:
“Canvassing literature and scripts are not public communications, and as a result, are not coordinated communications under Commission regulations. Further, the costs to produce and distribute the canvassing literature and scripts are not coordinated expenditures.”
What this means in practice is that outside groups can spend their own time and treasure hitting the sidewalks, freeing up resources for campaigns to spend elsewhere. And that’s precisely what is happening now.
Turning Point USA and the Elon Musk–backed Save America PAC, among others, are running ahead with the “get-out-the-vote” efforts, knocking on doors and making the case for Trump – and the operatives are being very specific with their targeting. The Hill reports that these groups are focusing not on die-hard Trump supporters but rather on “those who may not be locked into supporting a candidate in November … Strategically, the campaign is focused on low- and mid-propensity voters who are known to support the former president.” It’s a bold strategy but one that could pay dividends if, and that’s a risky “if,” one assumes that Trump’s base is holding strong. Essentially, doors will be skipped if it is believed they are already counted on for a vote.
Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary under Trump, said, “They have a plan, the question is, is it going to work? … An effective ground game is worth 2-3 points, and every one of these battlegrounds is within 2-3 points.” His math is both obvious and flawless. This election will be decided by a handful of votes in a handful of states.
However, it’s not only the door-to-door gambit that Trump hopes will get him across the finish line.
A Digital Battlefield
Trump has determined he will talk to anybody at any time about any subject under the sun, whether that’s an in-depth discussion on policy lasting two hours, hosted by Musk on the most significant media platform in the world today, or joining popular podcasters for a chat about mortality and UFOs. The former president is reaching out to audiences that may be averse to partaking of legacy media fare.
As Liberty Nation News recently noted:
“Combined with the growing popularity of long-form podcasts that reach audiences who are skeptical of Big-Box media, it is almost a certainty that Trump’s approach to this election, whether successful or not, will set the model for future presidential contests. American voters may have rewarded Joe Biden with the keys to the White House in 2020 despite his basement-style campaign. But the times they are a-changin’, and the public’s demand for accessibility and spin-free coverage is a wish that the new media nexus of independent outlets and social media ubiquity seems poised to grant.”
Conversely, Kamala Harris is eschewing these new audiences in favor of friendly turf. She appears to be running a campaign best suited to the admittedly successful Obama ’08 juggernaut: somewhat revolutionary at the time. And why wouldn’t she? It worked for Barack Obama twice; she has many of his people intertwined with her own nascent campaign. And when she ran as Biden’s number two in 2020, the whole campaign could have been effectively run from a small studio with occasional special guests.
But 2008 was 16 years ago. The digital world has changed, and it seems Harris and her cohorts have not. It’s the same people, same strategy; they seem to be hoping that a tried-and-tested formula will prove efficient ad infinitum. Team Trump, it appears, is rolling the dice on a new method of campaigning that could shatter the old playbook and usher in the new normal. A keen gambler knows when the odds are in his favor, but it is the long shots that captivate the public’s imagination.
https://www.libertynation.com/trumps-campaign-gambit-rewriting-the-rule-book/
Mark Cuban Inspires Thousands By Proving Even The Very Retarded Can Become Wealthy
https://babylonbee.com/news/mark-cuban-inspires-thousands-by-proving-even-the-very-retarded-can-become-wealthy?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm
DALLAS, TX — Mark Cuban was recently recognized for his monumental contributions to human morale, as the businessman and investor has inspired thousands of people by proving that even the very retarded can become wealthy.
According to several very retarded people, Mark Cuban has been a shining light for their aspirations of one day owning several companies and a failing basketball team despite being handicapped by a severe case of retardedness.
"DUUURRRR! DUHH, DER!" Cuban said to reporters. "DUUUHH DER!"
"In many ways, Mark's success is a win for morons everywhere," said Jimmy Bungo, who was late for his interview after he repeatedly tried to pull open a push door. "I'm personally inspired that someone so idiotic managed to make something of himself in the world. I mean, if he can do it, maybe I can, too! Thanks, Mr. Cuban!"
In addition to receiving the National Stupid Peoples' Association Award for Inspiring The Dumb That They Can Get Rich Good Too, Cuban has been recognized for his other philanthropic efforts, such as giving the NBA a great laughing stock to make fun of all the time.
At publishing time, Cuban had endorsed fellow retarded person Kamala Harris for President.
10 Most Devastating Effects of Getting Rid of the Department of Education
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-most-devastating-effects-of-getting-rid-of-the-department-of-education?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm
When Donald Trump recently promised that, if elected, he would abolish the Department of Education, Democrats pounced on the statement, foretelling an apocalyptic hellscape of the uneducated should the federal government no longer oversee education in the United States.
Through extensive investigation, The Babylon Bee has compiled the following list of far-reaching and terrifying consequences of abolishing the Department of Education:
Fewer tax dollars taken by the federal government: You may now be forced to take your kids to Disneyland this year.
Children will only learn about two of the seventy-two genders: Unless they live in California, then they can still learn about all seventy-two genders AND how to smoke pot out of a banana peel all before second grade.
Child might be left behind: This has not happened once since it was declared America declared NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.
Kids will learn how to do math the actual way instead of with those weird number lines: Imagine the world returning to actual mathematics instead of the mysterious, arcane processes of Common Core.
No one to write "this page intentionally left blank" on intentionally left blank pages on standardized tests: States won't be able to handle this level of complicated bureaucratic fenangling.
4,400 unelected government bureaucrats will have to find new jobs as CNN correspondents: Nothing is more terrifying than adding more CNN correspondents.
Kids will never learn how to do anything: Just like how it was before 1979 when the Department of Education was founded.
Decentralizing government power is always a bad idea: In such a dangerous scenario, freedom may ensue.
No one will D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs: Illicit drugs will run rampant through American schools which is totally different from the way things are now.
2+2 will equal 4 again: Back to the horrific, oppressive days of the 1950s we go!
Don't fall for Donald Trump's evil plan to improve the quality of education for America's school children.
I stand corrected. lol Have a good one.
I like to call them the Dregs of Society!!!
Morning, Mr. G. This is friggin' insane. The world does not have the "right" to move here.
It makes me sick.
I am eternally grateful for being born here. I do feel sorry for the world's beleaguered masses, but I don't want our way of life destroyed by them. Nor do I want my tax dollars being spent on them. We have enough homegrown (worthless) welfare types already. Lord, help us.
Sounds like the Haitian Gov. is getting nervous about not being able to send their unwanted citizens here!!!
Investor-Backed Haitian Lobby Group Asks Court to Order Arrest of Donald Trump and JD Vance
NEIL MUNRO 25 Sep 202 6:46
(If Harris wins, we are so screwed.)
A group that campaigns for more Haitian migration asked judges Tuesday in Springfield, Ohio, to arrest and file criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and JD Vance.
The call comes amid the duo’s criticism of the government-funded migration drive into the citizens’ jobs, homes, and communities.
The charges were requested by the Haitian Bridge Alliance, which has been backed for many years by Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us investor group, and by investor George Soros’ political campaigns. The jarring claim was loudly echoed by pro-Democratic media sites, such as NBCNews.com, who prefer to hide the ordinary civic and pocketbook damage of migration behind elite claims about racism.
“The Haitian Bridge Alliance made the move after inaction by the local prosecutor, said their attorney, Subodh Chandra of the Cleveland-based Chandra Law Firm,” the Associated Press wrote September 24:
Charges brought by private citizens are rare, but not unheard of, in Ohio. Examples might be a grocery store charging a customer for a bounced check. State law requires a hearing to take place before the affidavit can move forward. As of Tuesday afternoon, none had been scheduled.
Trump and Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, are charged with disrupting public services, making false alarms, telecommunications harassment, aggravated menacing and complicity. The filing asks the Clark County Municipal Court to affirm that there is probable cause and issue arrest warrants against Trump and Vance.
“Guerline Jozef, a co-founder and the executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, filed the charges on behalf of the group,” NBCNews reported:
“Over the last two weeks, both Trump and Vance led an effort to vilify and threaten the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio,” Jozef wrote.
…
“If anyone else had disrupted public service, made false alarms, and engaged in telecommunications harassment in the manner Trump and Vance did with their relentless and persistent lies—even after the governor and mayor said what they were saying was false, they would’ve been arrested by now,” Chandra said in a statement Tuesday. “They must be held accountable to the rule of law in the same way any of the rest of us would be.”
The lawfare follows the government-arranged delivery of perhaps 20,000 Haitians to the city, which has had a huge civic and pocketbook impact in the town of almost 60,000 Americans.
The inflow has been welcomed by business, political, and media leaders in Springfield, but is decried by ordinary Americans who are losing wages, opportunities, housing, safe roads, civic aid, and their stable community to the chaotic migration.
Nationally, many progressives and business leaders are defending the Haitian migration, partly because they already support similar migrant inflows in cities and towns across the nation. Investors gain much wealth from migration because it cuts Americans’ wages, boosts consumer spending, spikes the cost of housing, and delays the need for productivity-boosting workplace investment.
In 2021, Soros’ Open Society advocacy group provided groups that aid Haitians’ migration — including the Haitian Bridge Alliance — with more than $1 million:
NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations today announced $1.3 million to support frontline organizations working to aid Haitian and Black migrants dislocated, detained, and expelled as they sought asylum and safety at the U.S. southern border this fall.
This funding will help provide legal services to Haitian asylum seekers arriving at the southwest border and support advocacy to protect their rights. It will further enable Black-led organizations to champion more broadly the humane treatment of all Black immigrants seeking safety and stability in the United States.
“The treatment of Haitian migrants at the southern border is unconscionable and a stain on our country’s standing across the region and among Black Americans,” said Alexander Soros, who was then the deputy chair of the Open Society Foundations.
However, the investor groups do not complain about the damage done to Haiti by the federal government’s policy of extracting human resources from Haiti. That extraction is draining the small nation’s very limited supply of police, professionals, and skilled workers, leaving it to sink further into chaos.
In 2021 and 2021, the Haitian Bridge group received $8 million from various unidentified donors. For example, the group got almost $300,000 from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative reportedly run by Mark Zuckberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan.
The Zuckerbergs also helped to create the pro-migration FWD.us lobby group of investors. The group was created to push the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty through Congress. This year, David Plouffe quit the group’s board to run Kamela Harris’ race for the White House.
In 2021, FWD.us granted an award to the Haitian group’s leader:
Guerline Jozef is a true hero, and no one is more deserving of an award celebrating courage in the pursuit of human rights and social justice. Through her leadership of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, Guerline has not only dedicated her life to defending the rights and dignity of Haitian and Black immigrants and saved countless lives, but has shone a light on our cruel and long-broken immigration system that disproportionately disadvantages Black, brown, and indigenous people seeking protection. She continues to be a leader advocating against cruel and inhumane policies that harm people seeking asylum, particularly Black migrants, such as Title 42, and the outrageous continued deportation of Haitians.
FWD.us spends heavily to promote immigration but is allowed to hide its donations because it is organized as a private company.
The breadth of consumer-economy investors who founded and funded FWD.us was hidden from casual visitors to the group’s website sometime in the last few months. But copies exist at the other sites. They stand to gain from more cheap labor, government-aided consumers, and room-sharing renters.
The group has funded many astroturf campaigns, urged Democrats not to talk about the economic impact of migration, and manipulated coverage by the TV networks and the print media.
Jozef has frequently been welcomed into the White House, according to government data tracked by the Oversight Project.
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/09/25/investor-backed-haitian-lobby-group-asks-court-to-order-arrest-of-donald-trump-and-jd-vance/
*LIVE* ~ President Donald J. Trump,
45th President of the United States of America,
will deliver remarks in Mint Hill, NC, on Wednesday,
September 25, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. EDT.
Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at 11 a.m. ET.
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/video/live-president-trump-delivers-remarks-in-mint-hill-n-c-9-25-24/
Hi Larry. Lately, I've been watching The Five (for as much as I can stand it).
The female Democrat (whatever her name is) must pride herself on being an idiot. I can't tell if she really believes the crap she spews from her mouth or if she's getting paid the big bucks to play the fool. I suspect she believes it and there are millions out there who think the way she does. Fingers crossed common sense prevails and we win on November 5th. Once again, I'm not holding my breath.
I need more to do besides fixating on the news.
It's bad for my BP.
Good Morning back atcha, cap. I also read (skim) through the online comments.
It's horrifying how many people jump in to vilify Trump. What the....???
Mon Dieu. I'm living in big time fear these days.
Stay safe.
Joe Biden’s disastrous legacy of crime at home and war abroad on full display in his final UN speech
By Michael Goodwin Published Sep. 24, 2024, 10:19 p.m. ET
In 1980, The Boston Globe put a place-holding headline on an editorial about a speech by President Jimmy Carter.
“Mush from the wimp,” the headline read — and it appeared in more than 150,000 copies of the paper before editors caught their error and removed it.
(Wonder what the headline was supposed to be.)
I thought about that headline as I watched Joe Biden’s UN speech Tuesday.
The similarities go far beyond another mushy speech from another wimpy president.
Biden now rivals Carter as the worst American president of the modern era — and maybe of all time.
Both men were one-term Democrats felled by inflation and disorder at home.
On the global stage, they pursued policies that too often treated American power as a problem rather than a solution, and were rewarded with mayhem and murderous aggression.
There are differences, too, with Carter constrained by his faith-based moral imperatives, while Biden’s family got rich by selling his name to foreigners, some of them adversaries.
But the bottom line is that both were shown the door because most Americans had lost confidence in their ability to lead the nation safely forward.
Only the details differ.
Still deep in denial
To judge by his UN speech, Biden has not yet come to grips with reality.
He dishonestly suggests he voluntarily passed the party’s torch to his vice president, declaring that “Some things are more important than staying in power.”
That was one of several passages designed to weave a positive legacy out of thin air and rampant failure.
No sale.
The nation and the world are in far worse shape now than when Biden took office and had he stayed in the race, he would have lost to Donald Trump in a landslide.
Americans are generous and patient, but not stupid.
Indeed, the widespread belief that we are now closer than ever to World War III captures the truth of Biden’s disastrous term.
Rarely if ever have things gotten so bad, so fast.
As part of his sleight of hand, he used his UN speech to paint himself as an optimist, and cited the end of our wars in Vietnam and Iraq as proof that “things can get better.”
Of course they can — with the right leadership, which in this case means someone else.
He tried to sneak Afghanistan into the memory lane mix, saying “I was determined to end it, and I did,” before saying he thinks “every day” of the 13 service members who died in his chaotic withdrawal decision.
As always, he ignores the inconvenient fact that every military leader warned him the complete and sudden abandonment would be a disaster — and it was.
So what does he think about when he thinks about those Americans who died because of his arrogant mistake?
Does he acknowledge even to himself that he is responsible for their deaths?
And what about Taliban rule — does he ever think of the brutality toward dissenters that filled the vacuum he created?
How does he reconcile his actions with the Taliban’s latest barbaric restrictions on women, which require total body and face covering and public silence?
Then there’s the message the Afghanistan bugout sent to the world.
Vladimir Putin saw the sudden withdrawal as proof America was in retreat and decided the time was ripe for an invasion of Ukraine.
A “minor incursion” would be OK, Biden stupidly said.
Iran smelled the weakness and unleashed the hell of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis on Israel.
Yet, repeating the mistakes of Barack Obama, Biden continues to reward Iran with sanctions relief and punishes Israel by withholding arms and isolating it on the world stage.
He, along with many Dems, insists that “Israel has a right to defend itself” and then quickly adds a “but” that effectively limits the Jewish state’s defense to its own borders.
Had Israel agreed to his terms for a cease-fire in Gaza, it would soon be facing another armed Hamas and Iran would be preparing the next round of assaults.
Although the Israelis rightly rejected the suicide pact Biden offered, it was another example of American prestige being squandered on bad decisions.
Then there’s China, which had to be giddy when Biden made excuses after one of its spy balloons flew openly across America’s heartland.
No doubt Xi Jinping was delighted to hear that Biden downplayed the incident and even expressed doubt that Xi himself knew about the brazen gambit.
It’s more than a point of curiosity to wonder how Biden thinks about all these and other terrible things that happened on his watch.
The world is on fire and despots are on the march, yet he paints himself as a man of peace, as if all these events are just coincidence or bad luck.
See no evil
He doesn’t see, or admit, that his obsession with peace isn’t noble when it appeases evil.
Peace through strength is not in his playbook and it is nonsense to boast about American might while you shrink our military and force our brave warriors to focus on pronouns.
If you’re a foreign power eager to seize territory and momentum, you couldn’t ask for a softer touch than Come-And-Get-It Biden.
That’s what the millions upon millions of illegal migrants have realized as they cross our borders.
Most stop to fill out paperwork with Border Patrol agents who have been reduced to clerks, but millions of others — “gotaways,” in official speak — have entered the US without even that formality.
This is a problem unlike any America has ever seen, and Trump is not wrong to call it an invasion.
Biden has never admitted the scope of the problem, nor explained why he threw open the doors to let it happen.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the erstwhile “border czar,” has adopted Biden’s dishonest defense that Trump urged Republicans to kill a bipartisan Senate bill that would have shrunk the numbers.
It’s dishonest because the bill came in the fourth year of their tenure and would have reduced the number of illegal crossers by about half, when a simple reversal of the executive orders Biden used to open it would have been faster and more effective.
Besides, the bill didn’t pass either chamber of Congress, so claiming it was a cure isn’t even an honest talking point.
Democrat crime wave
Meanwhile, the invasion has led to a crime wave all its own in many locations far from the border, New York included.
And it has been a budget buster, with tens of billions of dollars being spent on a massive new problem created by the stroke of Biden’s pen.
If that weren’t legacy stains enough, here’s a prediction: History will record Biden’s tenure as the moment when the Department of Justice violated its honor and traditions by jumping headlong into partisan politics.
The prosecution of Trump, both as a former president and as Biden’s opponent, marks a new low in our nation’s history.
Never before has a former president been charged with a federal crime, and I don’t believe it’s simply a matter that all others were angels after leaving office.
Rather, it’s that previous generations understood something profound about the fabric of our nation, and what held it together.
They put country ahead of party.
The irony is that Biden took office promising to unite America, saying in his inaugural address he would work equally hard for his opponents and his supporters.
It was a promise that evaporated the moment he made it.
Biden, like so many on the left, hates Trump and his supporters and wants to erase them from history — by force if necessary.
When Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon over Watergate, he declared that “our long national nightmare is over.”
When Biden leaves the White House in January, let us hope and pray we can say the same thing.
(It won't be if Harris wins.)
https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/opinion/joe-bidens-disastrous-legacy-of-crime-at-home-and-war-abroad-on-full-display-in-his-final-un-speech/
Good morning, Fasten your seatbelts is right.
Biden-Harris irresponsible legacy: Debt is 100% of GDP, highest since WWII
By Brian Riedl Published Sep. 24, 2024, 7:15 p.m. ET
(And yet, there are far too many people who will vote for Harris. Fasten your seatbelts.)
The Biden-Harris administration has seen the national debt grow to be the same amount as the GDP — the first time this has happened since WWII.
Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, federal spending and debt are at the highest levels in US history outside of wars and recessions. Here's how public-held debt has compared to the Gross Domestic Product dating back to 1790. This year debt will hit 100% of GDP, a level seen only once before, at the end of WWII.
NY Post composite
The presidential campaign season is once again turning politicians into pandering game show hosts, promising voters huge tax cuts and spending expansions with no regard to the debt crisis these policies will accelerate.
Budget deficits are set to exceed $2 trillion this year — despite relative peace and prosperity — and then surge to $4 trillion within a decade under current policies.
For the first time since the end of World War II, the federal debt will top 100% of the gross domestic product.
The impending completion of the Biden-Harris administration brings an opportunity to assess their role in these rising deficits.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris surely inherited an economic and fiscal mess. President Trump had already signed legislation and executive orders adding $4 trillion to 10-year deficits before the bipartisan pandemic response added $4 trillion more.
Post-pandemic toll
That said, as Biden-Harris entered office, the pandemic-ravaged economy was finally reopening and Americans were returning to work. Thus, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecast that budget deficits — which had temporarily leaped to $3 trillion — would drop back to the pre-pandemic $1 trillion levels as the pandemic aid expired.
Instead, the administration immediately disregarded the advice of even liberal economists and pushed through his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
Because CBO had calculated that the recovering economy was only $420 billion short of its operating capacity, this $1.9 trillion bazooka wildly overshot its economic stimulus purpose.
Consequently, just as economists warned, the excessive stimulus overheated the economy and contributed three more percentage points to an inflation rate that was already rising due to past pandemic stimulus and supply constraints.
Overall, this inflation cost typical families more than $10,000.
Moreover, the American Rescue Plan’s individual expenditures were largely unnecessary. This pent-up Democratic wish list included $350 billion to bail out state budget deficits that did not actually exist, a bloated union pension bailout, and a decade’s worth of additional federal school funding — all sold to the public with added unemployment benefits, taxpayer rebates and child tax credits.
$28.2 TRILLION OWED
The Biden-Harris administration’s spending spree did not stop there. It also signed $1.4 trillion in new spending in omnibus appropriations bills, $620 billion in student loan bailouts, $520 billion for new veterans’ benefits, a $440 billion infrastructure law, a semiconductor bill, and $360 billion in new SNAP and health spending forced through by executive order.
The offsetting savings promised in the Inflation Reduction Act and Fiscal Responsibility Act are unlikely to materialize.
Adding it all up and including the resulting interest costs brings the total to more than $5 trillion in new 10-year costs enacted under President Biden.
And that bloated figure would have been even higher had the Supreme Court not blocked an even larger student loan bailout, and had a Democratic Congress not reached its breaking point and blocked the original “Build Back Better” proposal costing $2.3 trillion.
Nearly all of this spending occurred during the first two years of Biden-Harris administration, before inflation-weary voters staged their own intervention and elected a Republican House in late 2022.
Thus, instead of the pandemic’s conclusion returning budget deficits to $1 trillion as CBO had projected, the Biden-Harris spending pushed the deficit back up to $2.8 trillion in 2021, and approximately $2 trillion this year.
The results are shocking:
• CBO-projected deficit for the cumulative 2021-2031 period has jumped from $14.5 trillion to $21.3 trillion — reflecting an additional $6.8 trillion in deficits.
• Last year’s federal spending level (24% of GDP) and budget deficit (7.5% of GDP) were both the largest in American history outside of wars and recessions.
• The US debt is expected to be $28.2 trillion this year, 100% of the GDP — the highest level since the end of WWII.
• Since 2021, annual interest costs have nearly tripled, from $352 billion to nearly $1 trillion.
• The debt held by public is currently $212,600 per household.
White House gaslighting
Rather than take responsibility for this sea of red ink, the White House gaslit voters by claiming to have reduced budget deficits.
President Biden brags that his $2 trillion budget deficits are $1 trillion below the 2020 pandemic peak of $3 trillion.
Of course, that 2020 figure was a one-time pandemic anomaly that had been preceded by $1 trillion deficits that were expected to return as soon as the economy reopened and pandemic aid expired.
Essentially, the president is treating the previously-scheduled expiration of temporary pandemic spending as his own historic spending cut — and then spending its savings. This gaslighting was rebuked by the fact checkers at the Washington Post with a rare “Bottomless Pinocchio” rating.
Biden’s successor will inherit $2 trillion deficits, soaring interest costs, and Social Security and Medicare’s trust funds approaching insolvency. Truly a dismal fiscal record that leaves Washington closer to a debt crisis.
Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on X @Brian_Riedl.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/opinion/biden-harris-irresponsible-legacy-debt-is-100-of-gdp-highest-since-wwii/
I bought a 2009 Nissan Versa a year
and a half ago to be my beater around town. High mileage but I knew the owner and it was in good shape. A 6 speed manual
and fun to drive, easy to park, no bells and whistles. On Good Friday I got T-boned and the insurance company scrapped the car. It was a
low speed accident so I disagreed. They did give me more money for it but not enough. If I had been younger I would have kept it. I regret
it now it's almost impossible to find a car with a manual transmission in good shape these days. So back to the F150.
omg That was some serious dental surgery.
Here's to some serious healing and heavy-duty painkillers.
Good luck to Marc... and to you. Take care.
My God she's so gifted!
I drive a 2011 Nissan Frontier with no special electronic gadgets. 103000 miles, very little rust and hope it keeps me motoring until they pull the plug on my license.
The wife drives a 2012 Nissan Rogue with the add on GPS, screen and that crap but we never use it. Only has 43000 miles on it and it better outlive the both of us!!!
Years ago ... Today!!!!
😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/QyyO604TzJ
— A Man Of Memes (@RickyDoggin) September 24, 2024
We got a 2008 Jeep Commander, that's the one we use all the time. I can barely see over the hood, but I got Marc home OK yesterday. He had surgery for full top dental implants.
You have to love it, to hell with the overpriced new junk.
My 2005 Focus lives on!
FJB and his sidekick lol
I'm driving a 2002 GMC pickup and hope it lasts too, it's still doing great so far.
Mary Matalin on Kamala: ‘Unless She Can Serve Salad Dressing on It, She Hasn’t Said a Thing’
PAM KEY 23 Sep 2024 1:30
Republican commentator Mary Matalin said Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in word salads.
Cooper said, “What did you think of your former boss, Dick Cheney, endorsing Harris?
Matalin said, “I love that. Cheney has turned from Darth Vader to Captain America. Like last night, Nancy Pelosi’s people were like we love Dick Cheney. I’m the one who drove him to 11% as Darth Vader. I have friends on all sides of this with deep convictions and that’s as it should be. And that’s why I say everybody should quit listening to opinions because there’s this as many of them as other things. It’s just like think for yourself.”
Democratic strategist James Carville said, “I think he set up this dichotomy that you got nothing to lose so you ought to try all of these tariffs and mass deportations which everybody says would have horrifically negative impact on economic growth. And I think that she’s set up to say, you have something to lose, you have something in protective. We can do better, but we certainly don’t want to go back. I think she’s got a giant opening. I hope she takes it.”
Matalin said, “Nobody is denying that Trump’s sets her up to say a lot of things. The problem is she says nothing unless she can serve salad dressing on it, she hasn’t said a thing.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/09/23/mary-matalin-on-kamala-unless-she-can-serve-salad-dressing-on-it-she-hasnt-said-a-thing/
Yeah, been having IHUB issues
Yep, this is unusual for me.
I figured as much. Never mind that most PAYING IHubbers use their PC's and not phones!
Seems to work OK from my phone.
Yeah, it's a mess today. Wasn't great yesterday either.
Anyone getting long wait times when moving around IHub and on occasion the 503 error? Looks like the Q&A board hasn't had a post in a while ... Opps, I see K² just get one to go through.
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