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Is There a Doctor Jill in the House? (Satire)
By Robin M. Itzler
In the United States, between 40-50 percent of first marriages end in divorce. It’s even higher for second marriages: a whopping 60-70%. American Thinker contributor Robin Itzler recently met with First Lady Jill Biden to learn more about her and Joe and the secrets of their successful long-time marriage. (This is satire, for those who may be unsure.)
ME: You and President Biden have been married since 1977. There’ve been numerous stories about how you met. Some scenarios raise eyebrows and others are heartwarming. Can you take a few minutes to share how you met your future husband?
JILL: Yes.
ME: Go ahead...
JILL: Yes.
ME: Please take your time...
JILL: Yes.
ME: Okay, moving along. Americans have always been intrigued by our First Ladies, especially their tastes in fashion. Can you tell us when you became fascinated by sofa prints?
JILL: For some reason, the best dress designs are on couches.
ME: As our nation’s First Couple, much is done for you. Are there any tasks you continue to do on your own?
JILL: I like doing some things around our Delaware house. For example, when our daughter Ashley comes for a visit, I always make sure the shower is sparkling clean.
ME: Do you think working Americans identify with you and Joe?
JILL: Lunch Pail Joe and I are just like regular folks who shop at Balmart …
ME: You mean Walmart.
JILL: Yeah, Galmart. We are like average working Americans except most of our friends are in China, Iran, and Ukraine.
ME: Some Americans believe the Biden family partners with the Communist Chinese.
JILL: ?? (Never)
ME: Some Americans believe the Biden administration is too cozy with the Islamic terrorist regime in Iran.
JILL: ???? (Never)
ME: Certainly, there’s reason for suspicion about President Biden being involved with Hunter in Ukraine.
JILL: ????? (No)
ME: Joe Biden has been in public office most of his adult life. Some people say he doesn’t understand what it’s like to work in the private sector and live paycheck to paycheck.
JILL: Joe knows what hard work is since he once drove an 18-wheeler.
ME: Besides patriotic Americans, what else does Joe hate?
JILL: Well, he hated that Special Counsel Robert Hur asked him when his son Beau died.
ME: Excuse me, Mrs. ….
JILL: That’s DOCTOR Biden!!! Not, “Mrs.” I spent several hours writing that dissertation paper with all the spelling mistakes and typos so people would have to call me DOCTOR Jill Biden!!!!
ME: My apologies, DOCTOR Biden. But the official transcript shows that Special Counsel Hur never asked President Biden when his son Beau died. It was your husband who brought it up.
JILL: That might be true. However, most of the media is on our side and they will say Hur brought it up. You need to watch The View.
ME: Speaking of the The View, what programs do you and President Biden watch together?
JILL: Our television viewing is limited to when Joe isn’t conducting presidential duties. Joe conducts presidential business between 10 AM and noon with one hour for lunch.
ME: After the horrific Hamas attack on Israel last October 7, it seems to many people that your husband supports the Hamas terrorists.
JILL: Is this interview going to be published in Michigan and Minnesota?
ME: Yes, American Thinker is a leading national conservative website with millions of readers across the United States.
JILL: Well, as Joe said, there are good people on both sides. You have innocent Israelis who were mutilated, tortured, raped, kidnapped or killed, and you have innocent Hamas folks who did all the mutilating, torturing, raping, kidnapping and killing.
ME: Are you and President Biden upset about all the antisemitic protests taking place on college campuses?
JILL: Joe and I think it’s great when college students enjoy the outdoors.
ME: They say surprises are important for a long, loving marriage. Can you share with us a recent surprise gift that Joe gave you?
JILL: Yes, Joe bought me the most beautiful keffiyeh to wear when we visit Michigan and Minnesota.
ME: Special Counsel Hur wrote in his report and repeated before Congress that Joe Biden is an “elderly man with a poor memory.” This is very sensitive, DOCTOR Biden, but there are some people who think President Biden has dementia and—
JILL: Ridiculous! That makes as much sense as saying he wears wide soles to maintain his balance. Or uses the shorter rear stairs on Air Force One to keep from falling. Or hides his slow and shuffling gait, by having others walk with him to and from helicopter Marine One. Or shakes his hand with the air after giving speeches. Or wanders on stage because he doesn’t know to go left or right. Or walks off the stage in the middle of a speech to sniff a child’s hair. Or turns his back on the audience while giving a speech where I need to turn him around.
ME: What was the most frightening moment in all your years together?
JILL: The horrific kitchen fire that lasted 20 minutes and almost resulted in Joe losing his beloved Corvette. You know the Corvette in the garage that protected all the classified documents that Joe took home when he was senator and vice president. Joe said that our small kitchen fire reminded him of the devastating Maui wildfires that killed more than 100 people, destroyed more than 2,200 structures and caused about $5.5 billion in damages. And let’s mention Beau, too.
ME: Besides you, who has most influenced President Biden?
JILL: Corn Pop and Nelson Mandela. Joe was arrested trying to see Mandela in prison.
ME: Even the liberal media says that’s not true.
JILL: But the intelligent gals on the critically acclaimed The View say it’s true.
ME: Does the president have any hobbies?
JILL: Sniffing children’s hair. Would you like to see some photos?
ME: No, thank you. I can find them on the internet.
ME: DOCTOR Biden, some people say you are the driving force behind the President running for re-election.
JILL: Malarkey! That makes as much sense as Joe saying, “pause” when reading the teleprompter.
ME: After 48+ years of marriage, what do you treasure most about Joe Biden?
JILL: Being First Lady.
ME: What do you love most about being Joe’s wife?
JILL: Being First Lady.
ME: What are you most thankful for?
JILL: Being First Lady.
ME: What gives you the most satisfaction in life?
JILL: Being First Lady.
ME: How do you want to be remembered?
JILL: Being First Lady.
ME: Does it bother you that some people accuse you of elder abuse since it’s obvious President Biden suffers from dementia or some mental acuity issue and yet you still want him to run for re-election?
JILL: Being First Lady.
ME: Any final thoughts?
JILL: Being First Lady.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/is_there_a_doctor_jill_in_the_house_satire.html
The White Left and the Racial Rubicon
By Erik Gregory, Todd Gregory
Punked
By Clarice Feldman
This week, a lot of people and institutions got “punked,” that is, humiliated, by their own actions. Of course, the eternal punkees, as Hussein Aboubakar so brilliantly notes, are those who bought the Nakba myth by which Arab rulers instrumentalized the Palestinians for their own ends, a myth which ended with the Abraham Accords.
There are so many hoist by their own petard this week, I’m faced with an embarrassment of riches. Let’s start with the attack on Justice Samuel Alito. The Left simply cannot abide the fact that it doesn’t control all branches of the government, and threatens to pack the court and, barring that, disparages and tries to force the recusal of justices Clarence Thomas and Alito from the presidential immunity case, if not their removal from the court altogether.
They promote one pretext after another. Someone -- maybe a dummy or a prankster determined to expose them as idiots -- reported that once the American flag at Alito’s home in Virginia briefly was flown upside down. In the fevered world of the Left, this represented Justice Alito’s support of the January 6 “Insurrection.”
For people with any military or historical background, an upside-down flag is a distress symbol, and Alito responded that it was his wife’s response to some incivility by neighbors. Not satisfied with this first, not terribly successful, smear of the justice, a second flag, a pine tree with the words “An appeal to God” flown at the family’s vacation home, became the get-Alito rallying point.
The usual media mob, and even the once sane Bill Kristol (who years before had endorsed Alito for the court) argued this was further evidence of disqualifying bias by Alito because one person on January 6 waved such a flag. In fact, the flag is an historic one. It was created during the Revolutionary War and was used by George Washington’s troops. It has been seen flying over the office of the San Francisco government and remains the official naval and maritime flag of Massachusetts. Anyone and any media outlet which reported that these flags were controversial or provocative chiseled away any remaining credibility he or it still had. (On any day anything may be “proof” of wrongthink. Remember when it was the AOK sign?)
President Donald Trump is the greatest punker of all. Just as Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were patting themselves on their brilliant strategy of tying him down in New York’s courtroom defending against a preposterous lawsuit and under gag orders from a demonstrably prejudiced judge, he announced a rally in the very blue Bronx at a venue which normally accommodates 3500 participants. At least 25,000 enthusiastic Trump fans showed up, fans of all races, mostly working-class Bronx residents. This cannot be of comfort to the Democrats.
The Internationalists and the Death of Raisi
Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash this week along with several other officials of the Iranian government, including Iran’s foreign minister. Raisi was a monster, a man who murdered by slow strangulation thousands of Iranians, and who tortured and murdered a pregnant woman. He was known as “the butcher of Teheran.” If, like me, you think the international organizations created after World War II have outlived their purpose, have admitted members of failed states who hold views antithetical to the organizations’ stated missions, and need to be abolished and recast, this week, they punked themselves and made our case. Among those offering condolences and tributes were NATO, the European Union, the Secretary-General of the UN, the UN Security Council, and the International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA) which Iran has made a monkey of for years. Even our own State Department joined in this absurd sympathy charade.
The supportive message repulsed many who follow US-Iran relations, including commentator Katie Pavlich, who said the statement “made no sense.”
“There should be no word of sympathy from any member of the Biden administration for Raisi,” former National Security Council official Richard Goldberg, now a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told The Post before the State Department statement came out.
“If a mass murderer in the United States died, no one would issue sympathy statements; they would issue statements of support for the victims. That’s exactly what we should be doing now.”
Around the same time the State Department’s message went out, US Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood stood to observe a moment of silence for Raisi during a meeting of the UN Security Council.
Just as the bodies of four people who were murdered on October 7 were discovered secreted beneath an UNRWA facility in Gaza, the prosecutor of an outfit called the International Criminal Court, a creation of the UN General Assembly, sought arrest warrants for Yahya Sinwar, Benjamin Netanyahu, and others in connection with the attack on Israel and the response in Gaza. Apparently, this was after consultation with luminaries like jet-setting fashion plate and “international lawyer” (whatever that means) Amal Clooney. Neither the U.S. nor Israel are signatories to the treaty which created the ICC. This overstep by the ICC, was roundly condemned in the U.S.
The decision has earned near-total condemnation in Washington, with President Joe Biden slamming the prospect of warrants against Israeli leaders as “outrageous” and Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying the administration is ready to work with Congress on a bipartisan effort to appropriately respond.[snip] Because the court lacks a police force, it relies on the 124 member states that have signed on to the statute to execute any warrants it issues. Four major countries -- the United States, Israel, Russia and China – have not signed the treaty and do not accept the court’s jurisdiction.
The satire site Babylon Bee nails the significance of this self-punking by the ICC:
HARTFORD, CT -- Sources within Jimmy Carter Hillary Clinton Harvey Milk Elementary School are claiming Mrs. O'Leary's third-graders have just voted 18-2 to pass a powerful, landmark resolution ordering Israel to withdraw all troops from Rafah, a city in southern Gaza.
In addition to calling for all Israeli troops to stand down immediately, the official, strongly-worded resolution from the third-grade social studies class helpfully suggests that Israel "just be nice to the poor Palestinians" and calls for Benjamin Netanyahu to "maybe try sharing the land." Additionally, the statement points out that "perhaps Hamas just needs its voice to be heard" and calls for Israel to "stop denying the Palestinians their truth."
"This class has really made a significant contribution to the cause of freedom and world peace," said Mrs. O'Leary as she adjusted the Palestinian flag kerchief covering her light-blue hair. "We hope that the Israeli government will give this ground-breaking intervention the recognition and compliance it deserves."
Jack Smith, who previously served as a prosecutor in the Hague, pursued cases against more than one Republican political figure. In one such case in which the Supreme Court reversed the conviction, he was rebuked for overstepping his “boundless interpretation of the law”. Such fanciful notions of law may work at the ICC but not here.
But even as his documents case against President Trump is on rocky shoals, he’s not giving up. This week, Judge Aileen Cannon released some previously redacted materials which showed that the FBI agents who conducted the raid on Mar-a-Lago had authorization to use deadly force against anyone who might obstruct the raid, including Trump’s Secret Service detail. The raid was for materials which may or may not have been declassified, which admittedly had been manipulated by the prosecution.
There was understandable outrage at the news. While the Attorney General said this is standard form in such raids and was also a provision in the raid on Biden’s classified document cache, no evidence was provided in support of that, and certainly it appears the retrieval of documents held by Biden was conducted far differently. Smith is seeking an order gagging Trump from discussing the deadly force directive. In my view he’s just keeping the issue alive. (In any event, as Julie Kelly reports, in his motion for a gag order, Smith does not repeat Garland’s claim that the same directive went to FBI agents retrieving classified documents from Biden, another indication that the agency was accomodating to Biden.) Mike Davis has as good an explanation as any of why the Administration is flogging this weak case and why it is seeking a gag order:
Naturally, Jack Smith and Jay Bratt's motion to gag Trump is wholly devoid of required facts and law. They point to no instance of any threat -- let alone how Trump incited any threat. Their motion is frivolous. The bottom line is this: The Biden Justice Department wants to unconstitutionally gag Trump to control their political narrative. They pretend criticism of government officials equates to threats. That's a very dangerous mindset. In America, a defendant -- more than anyone -- must have the constitutional right to publicly speak out against the judge, prosecutors, investigators, staff, witnesses, biases, and the process. If a defendant obstructs justice by threatening witnesses, charge him with obstruction of justice. Jack Smith and Jay Bratt know they cannot do that, as they have zero evidence. Instead, they are conspiring to impose an unconstitutional -- and un-American -- gag order on Trump. The Biden White House and Justice Department pretend their supporters have a First Amendment right to obstruct justice by doxxing and intimidating Supreme Court justices and their families in their homes. Even after justices and their families went to safe houses. And even after Justice Kavanaugh and his family faced a 1 am assassination attempt. But the Biden Justice Department now wants to gag Trump for criticizing the FBI's unprecedented raid on him. Which Biden and Garland knew included the potential of deadly force when they authorized it. To get damning Crossfire Hurricane presidential records Trump was allowed to have under the Presidential Records Act. Add all this to the overwhelming evidence of Biden Democrats' criminal conspiracy against Trump.
Last, I want to bring your attention to the incredible article in Mosaic about the Nakba, “The Perennial Power of the Nakba.” How after facing humiliation after humiliation on the battlefield against Israel, Arab leaders deflected attention away from their own failures and the weaknesses of their societies by using the myth of a return to the land held by Israel and how this mythologizing has been (at least until the Abraham Accords upended the fantasy) an unmitigated catastrophe for the Arabs.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/punked.html
Hillary Persists, and Chicago Democrats Prep for Doomsday
Has America learned anything?
by Sarah Cowgill | May 26, 2024
Heartlanders were rudely reminded that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is continuing her blame game. The City of Chicago is preparing early for absolute chaos coming to town with the Democratic National Convention, and corporate-owned media is amazed that President Trump is doing well in blue-state strongholds. Finally, a week of demands from Joe Biden to nemesis Trump had folks calling for sanity – including a few Democrats.
The Democrats Abandoned Hillary Clinton
It is somewhat sad that a once powerful woman in political circles has not regained her balance after losing to Donald Trump in 2016. Her latest accusation is that women couldn’t stomach her because she was “not perfect.”
In an interview published last week, Clinton was adamant: “They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me because, as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect.” LeNae Smith in Idaho asked, “Why is Bill still hanging around then?”
Clinton continued: “They were willing to take a risk on [former President Trump] — who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection — because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander in chief.”
Hillary’s claims were “fact-checked” by Clinton consultant and sometimes surrogate Tracy Sefl. “Is there a double standard? One hundred percent times 100 percent. And God forbid if she coughs.” Well, that’s just deplorable in this day and age.
Unfortunately for her, however, Democrats, Republicans, and people of myriad other political ideologies just didn’t appreciate what Hillary would bring to the Oval Office. Geoffrey Sea of Sargents, OH – who proudly admits to being a delegate for Joe Biden in 2020 – had a very thoughtful response: “Women and men abandoned her because she blamed all of her own and her husband’s failings on voters, instead of accepting the blame herself.” He continued: “She was likely the only politician in America who could have lost to Donald Trump. She should never have run, and after announcing her candidacy, she should have withdrawn so she could be prosecuted for the classified documents charges.”
However, in Alabama, John Bailey was less subtle: “Many abandoned her because they felt there was a greater than 50/50 chance she was the Antichrist.”
The Audacity of Americans
Dasha Burns from NBC News was taken aback that the Bronx Trump Rally featured so many black and brown-skinned folks, with several Hasidic Jews thrown in for good measure, wearing MAGA swag and chanting “I Love Trump.”
She related her frustrations: “I talk to them about some of the comments that he’s made and the policies beyond rhetoric, right? They are just so focused on what their lives are like right now, what they can feel tangibly that when I push back with those comments, they shut that down.”
In Fort Wayne, IN, Dave Clark’s view was an alternative theory to Miss Burns’: “No. That’s because Americans are waking up to fake news and lies! Those pushing racism are Democrats who are the true racists.”
Bracing for 1968 Chicago: 2.0
The DNC held their nominating convention in Chicago in August 1968, and it was a doozy, with political delegate infighting on the convention floor and protesters on the outside fighting local law enforcement and brawling on the city streets. There was some head cracking involved. “The whole world was watching,” storied CBS reporter Dan Rather announced from ground zero inside.
Jim Schnura in Bulls Gap, TN, made a prediction: “I’m betting 2024 is going to make ’68 look like child’s play.” He might be right.
Alderman Brian Sigcho Lopez lobbed this grenade on X: “We have a clear message to @POTUS & the whole DNC establishment, including @GovPritzker who shamefully has not called on a Cease fire yet. If war criminal Netanyahu is allowed to attack Rafah with our tax dollars, we will reject the DNC in Chicago.”
Lopez has friends, too. Over 70 organizations have created a “March on the DNC” coalition and plan to protest President Joe Biden as “complicit in the genocide” of Palestinians. The federal government has given $75 million to the Windy City to secure the greatest show on Earth. Still, the other Lopez in the debate, Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez, says gatherings are “raising some serious concerns.” He said:
“Individuals are not coming here to peacefully protest. They’re coming here so that they can take home the badge of honor being pelted by a police officer’s weapon or some sort of mark of shame to take home. When you have Democratic Socialist members of the city council and other individuals openly advocating for people to organize without permits, to organize protests and counter-protests, and to be prepared to make this greater than 1968, which was one of the darkest chapters in our city’s history, politically, we have to be prepared for anything.”
Biden Team Demands Coddling
Team Biden keeps coming up with demands to honk off Donald Trump. So far, the GOP contender has stayed unruffled. Joe wants debate rules: no live audience, candidates always seated at a table, no standing, loitering, or asking follow-up questions, and mics muted after each candidate speaks. Also, only two candidates are allowed. C’mon, man, where’s the democracy in keeping RFK Jr. outside?
Heartlanders have their own set of rules: pack the house, no teleprompters, no ear bugs, and pre-debate drug tests. Laura DT in Evansville, IN, advised: “Trump should just stand anyway.”
https://www.libertynation.com/hillary-persists-and-chicago-democrats-prep-for-doomsday/
Blinken calls honoring sexual perverts a moral imperative
Dr. Steve LaTulippe
Sat May 25
The same perps who sponsored the global plandemic continue to push an ideology of social mayhem that would be cause for celebration in any insane asylum. Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls sexual deviance normal and healthy for society. In his own words, “LGBTQI+ persons deserve recognition of their universal human rights and human dignity.” But he doesn’t stop there. He affirms:
“We will continue to advocate for the rights of LGBTQI+ persons not just because we have a moral imperative to do so, but because it helps to strengthen democracy, bolster national security, and promote global health and economic development.”
Secretary Of State Blinken Speaks About Need For LGBTQ+ Worldwide Rights
While Trump faces felony charges, NY-based Clinton campaign only faced fines for its records issue
Selective Prosecution? Following the 2016 election, the FEC determined the Clinton campaign incorrectly recorded opposition research as legal expenses, but was only hit with an administrative fine.
By Steven Richards
Published: May 24, 2024 11:00pm
Rep. Ilhan Omar berates UCLA chancellor for October 7 footage projected during pro-Hamas protests
By Monica Showalter
Why I carry a handgun, 2024
By Mike McDaniel
America the disgusting
By M.B. Mathews
The nation’s largest healthcare provider wants its unvaccinated doctors back
By Andrea Widburg
No Tehran ‘Moment of Silence’ for US Policy Collapse on Israel
By Richard J. Douglas
First up was the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, who declared open season on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. A day later, the United Nations Security Council beclowned itself with a moment of silence for Iranian butcher Ebrahim Raisi. Finally, Ireland, Norway, and Spain embraced the two-state solution Netanyahu opposes. All these events strengthen the terrorist regime in Iran. None would have been possible without tacit Biden administration assent.
Pressured for months by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to drag PM Netanyahu into the ICC on phony genocide charges, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan faced a dilemma. Khan was aware of Ramaphosa’s responsibility for actual genocide of white South African farmers, so as the ICC’s anti-Netanyahu messenger, Ramaphosa wouldn’t do. Enter “human rights” lawyer Amal Clooney, a godsend for Khan who brought the glamour and saintliness that genocide-tolerant Ramaphosa lacks. Clooney is now the face of Iran’s proxy attack on Israel at the ICC.
Tehran has another reason to be grateful to Mrs. Clooney and Prosecutor Khan. Behold, who was not named for prosecution, together with Netanyahu, by Khan and Clooney: none other than Iran’s Butcher-in-Chief, Ali Khamanei. Instead, the Khan and Clooney team will pursue Tehran’s blood-soaked Hamas stooges, effectively exonerating Iran for its role in the October 2023 attack on Israel. Another huge win for Tehran.
A day after the ICC-Clooney extravaganza, it was revealed at the United Nations in New York that Russia, China, and Algeria suggested a moment of silence at the UN Security Council to honor mass-murderer Raisi. At the Council’s May 21st meeting, it fell to Mozambique’s luckless delegate, current occupant of the rotating Council presidency, to call on the Council’s fifteen members to stand and honor the dead Raisi.
And so they did. Not one delegate walked out. Not even senior U.S. Foreign Service Officer Robert Wood, sitting in the United States chair occupied over the years by U.S. permanent representatives Henry Cabot Lodge, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John Bolton, and Nikki Haley. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, another career U.S. Foreign Service Officer and our current UN permanent representative, was nowhere to be seen when the Security Council and its members publicly debased themselves.
Wood and Thomas-Greenfield have been in the Foreign Service long enough to have known survivors of Iranian or Iranian-inspired attacks on their U.S. government colleagues. Attacks on places like our Marine Barracks and Embassy in Beirut, in Nairobi, in Dar es Salaam, and in Benghazi. Or attacks on our people in Iraq and Afghanistan with Iranian-supplied .50 caliber sniper rifles and explosively formed penetrators.
The craven U.S. performance at the United Nations was disgusting. But it was almost certainly not spontaneous. Rather, it’s a safe bet that the “moment of silence” spectacle was vetted in advance with every Security Council delegation, including ours. In turn, the delegations would have sought instructions from home governments, including our own, about how to respond to the toxic initiative. The result? Thomas-Greenfield vanished, and Wood stood up for Raisi. A humiliating defeat for the United States, and a massive diplomatic victory for Tehran.
Finally, we come to the May 22nd decisions of Ireland, Norway, and Spain to publicly embrace the “two state solution” in the Holy Land that Netanyahu has condemned. Younger readers may not recall Spain’s 1992 formal public apology for its brutal expulsion of Spanish Jews from their homeland in 1492, or the 2004 al Qaeda bombing of Madrid’s Atocha Railway Station. Apparently, the current Spanish Government doesn’t recall these events either.
Beyond rank appeasement of Iran, only Oslo, Dublin, and Madrid know for sure what led to this patently anti-Israel step. The rest of us, however, understand it as a transparent effort to cripple Netanyahu’s pursuit of a vital Israeli national interest, and as a significant diplomatic victory for Iran.
Iran’s big week could be cast as a massive failure of American diplomacy. In reality, however, the Biden administration appears to be intentionally standing aside rather than engaging to derail events which unmistakably strengthen Iran. If more proof of this toxic policy is needed, look no further than the U.S. Senate, whose majority is controlled by the president’s party. On May 20th, Senate Chaplain Barry Black disgraced a Congress once distinguished by the presence of Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos by publicly mourning Raisi’s death in his morning prayer. Senate chaplains and other officials work for the Senate majority leadership. Chaplain Black was most assuredly speaking for Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his president.
Muscular U.S. diplomacy led by a Trump, a Pompeo, or even a Moynihan, could have stopped the ICC, the UN Security Council, and the European appeasers cold. Instead, Iran had a good week, because of the Biden administration’s lunatic policy, not in spite of it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/no_tehran_moment_of_silence_for_us_policy_collapse_on_israel.html
It’s High Time We Kicked All the Tyrants and Traitors to the Curb
By Albin Sadar
Memorial Day Weekend in the City
By John F. Di Leo
New York Equal Rights Amendment Off the Ballot
Equality under the law is a noble pursuit – but is that really what this ERA offered?
by James Fite | May 25, 2024
The Equal Rights Amendment has been removed as a ballot initiative for the November elections in New York. The proposed change to the state’s constitution easily and quickly passed through the legislature in response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. And the many progressive voters of the Empire State no doubt looked forward to enshrining it in their constitution just as decisively. But according to the judge who struck it down, the speed with which the amendment was approved is the problem. The process was rushed, making the ballot initiative unconstitutional.
“They put forth this amendment to the constitution. There was no open debate. There was no public hearings, there was nothing,” explained Bobbie Anne Cox, the attorney who sued the legislature to stop the referendum. “They referred it to the AG that day, but then they voted that same day. They didn’t even wait one day,” Cox added.
The New York Constitution requires that a proposed amendment must be presented to the attorney general to determine that it isn’t in conflict with other parts of the constitution, and the AG has 20 days to respond. New York Supreme Court Justice Daniel J. Doyle declared the amendment null and void because the Democrats didn’t give the attorney general the required time – or, really, any time at all.
Equal Rights or Progressive Ideology?
Opponents and supporters alike recognize that this Equal Rights Amendment would enshrine in the New York Constitution a legal right to abort. Indeed, many would argue it’s the whole point of the amendment. But that isn’t all that has conservatives concerned about this ERA. Some fear it threatens parental rights, as it would guarantee “gender-affirming” care for kids, including gender reassignment surgery or puberty blockers, without need for parental consent. Some also argued that it would require sports programs to allow biological males who identify as female to compete against girls and women. “Any decent lawyer will take one look at the Proposition One language and say, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” said Greg Garvey, the executive director of the Coalition to Protect Kids – New York. “This ballot initiative is written so broadly and so poorly that it could cause irreparable harm to children and families,” he continued.
The amendment would have modified the New York State Constitution Article 1, Section 11. The text of the proposed amendment reads:
“1. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivision thereof. No person shall, because of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability creed, or religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy, be subjected to any discrimination in their civil rights by any other person or by any firm, corporation, or institution, or by the state or any agency or subdivision of the state pursuant to law.
“2. Nothing in this section shall invalidate or prevent the adoption of any law, regulation, program, or practice that is designed to prevent or dismantle discrimination on the basis of a characteristic listed in this section, nor shall any characteristic listed in this section be interpreted to interfere with, limit, or deny the civil rights of any person based upon any other characteristic identified in this section.”
What makes this stand out from the usual talk of equal rights, which classically evokes the civil rights movements against racism and sexism, is the addition of “gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy” to the list of classes protected from discrimination.
What’s in a Name?
The New York State Bar Association published an article in March titled “What the Equal Rights Amendment Will Mean in New York,” written by Kimberly Wolf Price. The article, which clearly endorses this ERA, makes the point that 29 states have some sort of equal rights amendment in their constitutions but that New York doesn’t.
New banner Liberty Nation Analysis 1“This means that judicial review of any alleged discrimination under the categories of gender, gender identity, sex, age, disability, et al. is based on intermediate scrutiny, a lower standard than that provided to constitutional protections,” Price wrote. “And while laws can be altered each legislative session, any amendment to New York’s Constitution must follow the constitutionally mandated complicated path the ERA has traveled to the ballot.” Notice how Price didn’t mention the abortion protection in that statement, choosing rather to include it in the “et al.” bit?
What the author of this article and the NY Bar Association – or, for that matter, most LGBTQ or abortion advocates – don’t highlight is that not all equal rights amendments are created equal.
“False equivalence is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone incorrectly asserts that two or more things are equivalent, simply because they share some characteristics, despite the fact that there are also notable differences between them,” wrote Dr. Itamar Shatz of the University of Cambridge Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. The simple example he gave after that explanation paints a good picture: “For example, a false equivalence is saying that cats and dogs are the same animal, since they’re both mammals and have a tail.”
Sometimes, however, one must dig a little deeper to find the false equivalence. In this case, the shared characteristic is the name. Many states have equal rights amendments, but how many match the wording of what Empire State progressives hoped to add to the New York Constitution?
Florida’s 1998 amendment reads:
“All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, to pursue happiness, to be rewarded for industry, and to acquire, possess and protect property. No person shall be deprived of any right because of race, religion, national origin, or physical disability.”
“Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national origin. This amendment is self-operative,” reads the 1972 ERA of Texas. Montana has, since 1973, protected people from discrimination based on “race, color, sex, culture, social origin or condition, or political or religious ideas.”
Notice how none of these equal rights amendments constitutionally protect abortion or declare it a crime to insist there are only two genders? These cats and dogs may all be mammals, but they’re far from the same animal.
https://www.libertynation.com/new-york-equal-rights-amendment-off-the-ballot/
COVID Cover-Up: Ex-Fauci Aide David Morens Opens Pandora’s Box
“I learned from our Foia lady here how to make emails disappear …”
by Leesa K. Donner | May 25, 2024
Secret back channels, ways to make emails disappear, and dark jokes about kickbacks were explored during the testimony of former Anthony Fauci aide Dr. David Morens, who appeared before a House Select Subcommittee regarding the Coronavirus Pandemic this week. Under intense questioning from both sides of the political aisle, Morens statements raised “serious questions of whether Dr. Fauci took part in a conspiracy amongst the highest levels of NIAID [National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] to hide official records regarding the origins of COVID-19,” according to a subcommittee memo penned by Republicans.
But there was plenty of fire coming from Democrats, as well. Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) said the quiet part out loud when he addressed Morens, saying: “Do you want to take the Fifth Amendment? I mean, you don’t seem to remember anything.” Then he added: “Sir, I think you’re going to be haunted by your testimony today.”
David Morens Private Work Emails Made Public
A FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request seeking the private emails of Morens and NIH (National Institute of Health) employee Gerald Keusch brought forth 155 pages of subpoenaed communications. These documents are a veritable treasure trove of what went on behind the scenes in the early days of the pandemic.
The emails occurred mostly between Morens and Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, whose project at the Wuhan Institute of Virology funded by NIH is at the epicenter of the controversy surrounding the origins of the deadly virus. The congressional subcommittee alleges that Daszak used money from NIH for gain-of-function research on coronaviruses.
David Morens, who worked under Fauci but apparently was friends with Daszak, came under questioning regarding several emails he had written, including this one:
“Peter, from Tony’s [Fauci] numerous recent comments to me, and from what Francis has been vocal about over the past 5 days, they are trying to protect you, which also protects their own reputations.”
On Feb. 24, 2021, Morens wrote to an undisclosed recipient the following:
“You are right, I need to be more careful. However, as I mentioned once before, I learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foia’s [sic] but before the search starts, so I think we are all safe. Plus i deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail. D.”
Then there’s this one from Morens to co-worker Gerald Keusch under the subject heading “Conspiracies are winning here”:
“I had a long off the record chat with PBS Newshours’s Nick Schifrin this morning. The craziness is receding at least a bit.
“I forgot to clarify in my email yesterday that BOTH my gmail and phone calls are now safe. Text is NOT, as it can be FOIA’d, as can my govt email.
“So you and Peter and others should be able to email me on my gmail only …”
Then to Peter Daszak, Morens wrote:
“Peter have a stiffdrink before you read. But do not worry, this is the new normal and there will be no ‘there’ there …. D”
Another gmail from Morens to Daszak regarding FOIAs read:
“We are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns, and if we did we wouldn’t put them in emails and if we found them we’d delete them.”
The Washington Examiner reports that EcoHealth Alliance has denied any wrongdoing, saying that “all allegations of misconduct are misunderstandings of the circumstances and that the organization has not engaged in misconduct.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has called for the Department of Justice to investigate the use of private emails for public business purposes.
https://www.libertynation.com/covid-cover-up-ex-fauci-aide-david-morens-opens-pandoras-box/
Saturday's Energy Absurdity: 17 Million Scottish Trees Lost to Big Wind
David Blackmon
May 25, 2024
I’m old enough to remember when haughty people who call themselves “environmentalists” at least pretended to care about the actual environment. Those were some good times, weren’t they?
But those times started to fade when the climate alarm movement succeeded in convincing craven and gullible Western policymakers and judges that carbon dioxide, i.e., plant food that forms the very foundation for all life on Planet Earth, simply must be regulated as a “pollutant.” This obsession with using CO2 as the means to pursue a worldwide authoritarian form of socialism quickly led to the death of what reasonable people used to refer to as true environmentalism.
As a result, we end up with stories like this one from the Scottish Daily Express:
“Anger as 17 million trees chopped down in Scotland to clear way for wind farms.”
That’s right: The Scottish government has approved the destruction of more than 17 million trees in this century to make way for their being replaced by Big Wind industrial developments, including more than 1 million in just the past year.
Here is an excerpt from that story:
The Scottish Government has been blasted after it was revealed that more than one million trees have been chopped down on publicly owned land in just a year to make way for wind farms. This mass cutting down of trees came despite the SNP and Scottish Greens claiming environmental credentials.
Communities in rural Scotland have complained about massive turbines blighting their landscapes, with even more planned in areas such as Aberdeenshire and Moray. And now it has been revealed that a SNP quango is getting rid of healthy trees in order to make space for them.
According to new statistics, more than one million trees were chopped down on public land, which is the equivalent to 2,700 per day. Critics described this as "appalling" and warned that the rising number of wind farm developments are causing “irreparable damage” to the countryside.
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This obsession with destroying whatever scenic or arable lands necessary to put up ugly, intermittent, unreliable, and hugely costly developments of dozens of gigantic wind towers with less than a 20% efficiency rate is what has replaced the “environmental” movement in the Western world today.
It is one of the saddest and most ruinous social developments in modern times, and it simply must be stopped.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/saturdays-energy-absurdity-17-million?publication_id=712558&post_id=144967786&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick: Trump's N.Y. Judge 'Absolutely Corrupt'
By Mark Swanson | Friday, 24 May 2024 07:29 PM EDT
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York is "absolutely corrupt," adding that the business records case is nothing more than a "show trial."
Patrick made a four-minute video he posted to X on Friday after "spending a day with President Trump at trial."
While the trial is in the midst of a recess for the Memorial Day holiday, Patrick took aim at Judge Juan Merchan, beginning with his ruling on Monday that, according to Politico, sharply limited the testimony of defense witness and election law expert Brad Smith.
"He's doing everything in his power to help the jury find a pathway to convict the president," Patrick said in the video. "The judge kept an expert witness on campaign finance from testifying that the president did not break any campaign finance law."
He added: "The president's lawyers asked the judge to give the jury an instruction that there is no campaign violation by the action the president took. The judge said no. In fact, this corrupt judge virtually granted every jury instruction the Biden prosecutors asked for and virtually none of the instruction the Trump team asked for."
Patrick's observation mirrored that of Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor emeritus, earlier this week.
"[Merchan] had already denied the defendant's Sixth Amendment rights over and over again by keeping evidence out that should have come in, although he let everything in in the prosecution's case," Dershowitz told Newsmax on Thursday.
Patrick slammed the trial as something you'd see in a "tin-pot dictatorship in a Third World country."
"No one would ever imagine that this would happen in America," Patrick said. "Remember, there is no crime; there is no evidence of any wrongdoing. But they are persecuting and prosecuting President Trump because they know they can't beat him in November."
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/texas-dan-patrick-trump/2024/05/24/id/1166129/?ns_mail_uid=110c4f27-b39e-4490-8c9e-becd156886f8&ns_mail_job=DM627335_05252024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010104qyn8ru
Washington Update From the US Oil and Gas Association - 5.24.2024
David Blackmon
May 25, 2024
Let's Get This Party Started...
May 24, 2024
Memorial Day Weekend – Let’s Make This Short….
Summer Driving: Think CNN wants to hear about the 200+ things the Biden administration has done to increase the price at the pump?
Congressional Democrats are trying to get the pressure off President Biden and his attack on the oil industry and instead are trying to blame oil companies for higher gasoline prices. CNN reports:
Congressional Democrats are investigating whether leading U.S. oil companies have illegally colluded with one another and with OPEC to inflate prices at the pump, CNN has learned.
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., the ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, sent a letter Tuesday night to ExxonMobil, Chevron, Hess, BP America and three other fossil fuel companies demanding a trove of documents and communications.
Just wait until they learn about Joe Biden. Bet they will be cheesed to hear what he has done to try to reduce oil and gas production in the United States and make it more expensive. But then again, probably not…
Numerous stories this week trumpeted that the Biden Administration was working to lower gasoline prices. For example, a headline from the AP stated, “Biden releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from Northeast reserve in bid to lower prices at pump.” This headline is only true in an aspirational/marketing sense.
The article itself contains all of the important information. First, Biden is selling off the Northeast gasoline reserve because he was mandated by Congress. In the article, the AP explains, that the mandate to close the gasoline reserve "was included in a spending deal Congress approved in March to avert a partial government shutdown.” That sounds a bit different than Biden is doing this because of gasoline prices.
This is especially true because 1 million barrels of gasoline is not that much. At the end of the article, the AP states:
Patrick De Haan, an analyst for GasBuddy, said sale of the Northeast reserve would have little impact on gasoline prices nationally, although there “may be a slight downward pressure on prices” in the Northeast. The million-barrel reserve only amounts to about 2.7 hours of total U.S. gasoline consumption, he said.
This is one more example of Biden trying to say he is trying to reduce the price at the pump when, in reality, there are hundreds of examples of him working to increase the price at the pump.
Ford apparently enjoys losing $100k per EV sold but as a shareholder – I can’t say that I enjoy it as much as they do….
Last week the news reported that Ford lost over $100,000 per EV it sold in Q1 and that it was cutting battery orders. You might think that would mean that Ford would say publicly that maybe this forced transition to EVs is not something American consumers really want—but you would be completely wrong. Here’s Reuters explaining why Ford wants to continue to lose billions of dollars on a forced transition to EVs by supporting Biden's EV mandate:
Ford Motor Co, opens new tab said on Monday it backs the Biden administration's moves to dramatically cut vehicle emissions through 2032, rejecting Republican arguments the new climate rules are bad for business.
The second largest U.S. automaker said it supports the Environmental Protection Agency's regulations announced in March to cut passenger vehicle fleetwide tailpipe emissions by nearly 50% by 2032 over 2027 levels.
"Complying with emissions regulations requires lengthy advance planning, and Ford has taken steps to transform its business to ensure compliance with stricter emissions standards," the Dearborn-based automaker said.
Why would Ford support regulations which are costing it billions of dollars a year? I think there are two reasons. The first possible reason is that Ford knows the majority of car buyers don’t want EVs, but Ford believes EVs are the future, so it’s good to have the federal government harm consumers by limiting the choices of the car-buying public. Then it’s not Ford’s fault it is losing billions on switching to EVs too quickly.
The second possible reason is power politics. The Biden administration likely told the Detroit car companies that if the car companies supported Biden’s regulations, Biden would impose massive tariffs on Chinese EV imports to protect American car companies—which Biden did.
Regardless of what is motivating Ford, supporting Biden’s forced transition to EV is bad for their business and bad for America. The majority of Americans do not want to buy EVs. According to a recent Gallup poll, in 2023 43% of people said they might consider buying an EV, but that number fell to 35% this year. Just as Biden is starting to mandate EV sales, fewer people want to buy EVs.
Ford needs to get on the side of the American people. Until then they will continue to lose billions of dollars a year on an attempted forced transition to EVs.
Now start your weekend a bit early. Happy Memorial Day!
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/washington-update-from-the-us-oil-d20?publication_id=712558&post_id=144958008&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Attention, media lapdogs — It’s NOT “loan forgiveness!” This is shifting loan costs to the national debt, pure and simple. It’s income redistribution, taking money away from some college graduates, who are likely to earn higher income, to people who will never go to college or who already paid off their debt. Biden is not some magician who is suddenly making debt costs disappear with fairy dust. Stop pretending this is anything except transparent vote-buying of a demographic he desperarately needs to to sway. After all, the vote has to be close enough that he can steal another election.
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I have little faith in repubs doing anything to help. Trump is the only one with balls enough to point things out and do something. That's why he is hated by the left.
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Big Silicon Valley Investors Abandon Biden in Droves – And Many Are Embracing Trump
by Paul Serran May. 24, 2024 5:20 pm
One does not need to be a visionary investor or a savvy venture capitalist to understand that Joe Biden is a disastrous President – in fact, many of these supposedly most well-informed business leaders kept voting for their own demise, supporting the Democrat party and its failed policies.
But this seems to be rapidly changing, as some relevant Silicon Valley venture capitalists turn against President Joe Biden, and – shocker – openly support former President Donald Trump.
That’s a tidal change for this industry.
Prominent Wall Street leaders such as David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Marc Andreessen, and Shaun Maguire have expressed their dissent against Biden policies.
Some will even say ‘It’s impossible to support Biden’.
Marc Andreessen, the founder of the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, has “real issues” with the Biden administration.
The New York Post reported:
“A second Trump administration would be staffed by ‘very different kinds of people’ particularly at the SEC and FTC, Andreessen said in a recent podcast interview.”
Entrepreneur and investor, former chief operating officer at PayPal, David Sachs plans to host a fundraiser for Trump and interview him on his ‘All In’ podcast.
He says he has bigger disagreements with Biden than with Trump.
“Sacks cited Biden’s tax proposal, which would penalize startup founders who are wont to offer stock options to employees. ‘It’s a good reason for Silicon Valley to think really hard about who it wants to vote for’, Sacks told tech investors at the conference.”
Sacks was at a prominent tech moguls’ ‘anti-Biden’ dinner alongside Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
“Palihapitiya, the venture capitalist who was Mark Zuckerberg’s vice president of user growth shortly after the founding of Facebook, has also flipped from backing Democrats in the past to endorsing Trump. [He] plans to co-host the fundraiser for Trump alongside Sacks.”
Shaun Maguire, an investor at Sequoia Capital, criticized Biden on social media, though he has refrained from directly supporting Trump.
“After Biden indicated that the US would withhold certain weapons to Israel in the midst of the war in Gaza, Maguire accused him of ‘getting away with double standards his entire career’ — a reference to the Democrats’ drive to impeach Trump for threatening to withhold aid from Ukraine during his presidency.”
Needless to say, these expressions of support for Trump have been unheard of in Silicon Valley in many election cycles.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/big-silicon-valley-investors-abandon-biden-droves-many/
Federal Agents Found Out During 2016 Election That Joe Biden Met with Hunter’s Chinese Business Partners – But Kept It a Secret
by Cristina Laila May. 24, 2024 4:20 pm
Federal agents found out during the 2016 election that Joe Biden met with his son Hunter’s Chinese business partners during a trip to Beijing in 2013, but they kept it a secret.
According to Secret Service travel records obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, Hunter Biden took 411 trips across 29 countries between 2009 and 2014 while his father was US Vice President. On several of these trips, Hunter Biden was hidden from public view or was already waiting in the car before Joe Biden departed the plane.
Notably, Hunter Biden traveled to Beijing with then-VP Joe Biden in 2013 to meet with Chinese banker Jonathan Li.
Hunter Biden received a $1.5 billion loan from the Bank of China 13 days after traveling on Air Force Two with his father back in 2013. The Secret Service has redacted documents related to that trip.
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Joe Biden has repeatedly denied being involved in Hunter’s overseas business deals.
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden previously said to reporters.
However, newly released documents reveal Hunter Biden connected Joe Biden to his Chinese business associates in a Beijing hotel after Joe Biden met with President Xi Jinping.
“They got to meet Dad. All very good. Talk later,” Hunter Biden said in a December 2013 email to his Rosemont Seneca business partner Devon Archer.
Hunter also said his dad was “in love” with Xi Jinping.
“I think they are in love with each other,” Hunter Biden said in emails, according to Just The News. “They all most kissed on departure.”
THE FEDS KNEW ABOUT THE BIDENS
New reported emails from a 2015-2016 federal investigation show agents were looking into Hunter Biden’s communication with business associate Devon Archer leveraging Joe Biden’s trip to China in 2013.
ARCHER: “Did you end up meeting Jonathan… pic.twitter.com/sTC3MiKwox
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) May 24, 2024
Per RNC Research, Joe Biden met with Hunter’s business associates over at least a dozen times:
1. November 2010: Joe Biden had a sit-down meeting with Eric Schwerin — the president of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the West Wing.
2. November 2011: Joe Biden met with Chris Heinz — a co-founder of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the West Wing.
3. March 2012: Joe Biden met with Andres Pastrana Arango — the former president of Colombia who Hunter was doing business with — at his personal residence.
4. December 2013: Hunter flew with Joe Biden aboard Air Force Two to China where he introduced him to Jonathan Li, a Chinese businessman.
5. February 2014: Joe Biden had lunch with Hunter and two of Hunter’s Mexican business partners and was pictured giving them a tour of the White House.
6. April 2014: Joe Biden met with Devon Archer — another co-founder of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the White House a week before Archer joined the board of Burisma.
7. June 2014: Joe Biden met Manuel Estrella — Hunter’s Latin American business associate. After the meeting, Estrella emailed Hunter: “Hunter, I just met your father! So exiting! [sic]” Hunter replied: “I’m glad it all finally came together.”
8. August 2014: Pictures show Joe Biden golfing with his son, Hunter, and Devon Archer while they were both serving on the Burisma board.
9. April 2015: Joe Biden attended a dinner in Washington, D.C. with Hunter’s business partners from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
10. November 2015: Joe Biden hosted his son’s Mexican business partners — Carlos Slim, Miguel Aleman Velasco, and Miguel Aleman Magnani — at his personal residence.
11. February 2016: Biden flew Hunter and Jeff Cooper — a family business partner — to Mexico City for a business trip aboard Air Force Two.
12. May 2016: Joe Biden met with Eric Schwerin — the former head of Hunter’s private equity firm — for dinner in Washington, D.C.
13. September 2016: Joe Biden attended a fundraiser for Francis Person — a business associate of Hunter’s and a former advisor in Biden’s VP office.
14. May 2017: Joe Biden met with family business partner Tony Bobulinski TWICE.
15. June 2018: Joe Biden texted Hunter saying that he was with Jeff Cooper — a family business partner — and that Cooper wanted to “do some work” with him.
In addition to meeting with Hunter Biden’s associates, Joe Biden has also received dirty money from China and other countries.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Monday released subpoenaed bank records revealing Joe Biden received direct monthly payments from Hunter Biden’s business entity, Owasco PC.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/federal-agents-found-during-2016-election-that-joe/
Weird: Soros-Funded D.A. Declines To Prosecute Soros-Funded Campus Protesters
NEW YORK, NY — In what analysts have labeled a shocking turn of events, a district attorney whose career had been funded by global powerbroker George Soros declined to prosecute a group of violent university campus protesters who had also been funded by global powerbroker George Soros.
The surprising development came unexpectedly following college campus protests in various places across the country, with district attorneys strangely choosing to not prosecute lawbreakers who had been financed by the same person who had put the district attorneys themselves in office.
"I have chosen to not pursue charges," said New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg. "This decision has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that my ascent to the office of the district attorney and the activities of these protesters were bankrolled by the same person. I have just chosen not to. And that's ok. I very much like my job and wish to keep it."
Political experts determined the link between Bragg and campus protesters both being funded by George Soros as a mere coincidence. "One has nothing to do with the other," said one observer. "Having a public official who accepts money from a global boogeyman decline to prosecute lawbreakers who were funded by the same boogeyman is purely happenstance. Any claims to the contrary would be wild conspiracy theories with no basis in reality."
At publishing time, District Attorney Bragg had released a subsequent statement denying that the personal letter he received from Soros ordering him to refrain from prosecuting protesters had anything to do with his decision.
https://babylonbee.com/news/weird-soros-funded-da-declines-to-prosecute-soros-funded-campus-protesters
DOJ Authorizes Postal Workers To Use Deadly Force On Trump When Delivering His Mail
U.S. — Unsealed documents from the Department of Justice reveal that postal workers were formally authorized to use deadly force while delivering mail to Mar-a-Lago.
"This is standard procedure," confirmed Attorney General Merrick Garland. "We are in no way secretly targeting Donald Trump. We are merely authorizing mail carriers to fire on Donald Trump if he shows up to collect his mail. This is for the safety of our postal workers and is nothing out of the ordinary."
To date, no mail carriers have been harmed while visiting Mar-a-Lago, but experts warn it's only a matter of time before Trump is caught eagerly waiting for a package. To prepare for this eventuality, the United States Postal Service will require all its employees who deliver to Mar-a-Lago to pass a gun safety course in which they fire on targets made to look like Donald Trump.
"This totally standard and not at all unusual protocol saves lives," Deputy Postmaster Milton Farmland said. Then, speaking through an intercom to trainees, he shouted, "Shoot to kill! Shoot to kill!"
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor Trump shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," said Postmaster General Benjamin Connell, quoting the United States Postal Service creed as he adjusted the sights on his SVD Dragunov.
Asked to comment on the matter, President Biden explained he had no knowledge of what the DOJ does, or what his name is. "What is mail?" asked Biden. "This sounds like a trick. Did Jill put you up to this? Where's my ice cream?"
At publishing time, outraged congressional Republicans vowed to hold the administration accountable by writing a strongly worded letter to the DOJ.
https://babylonbee.com/news/doj-authorizes-postal-workers-to-use-deadly-force-when-delivering-trumps-mail
Prosecution Offers Michael Cohen $130,000 Hush Money To Stop Talking
NEW YORK, NY — Prosecutors in the trial against former president Donald Trump offered star witness Michael Cohen $130,000 if he would keep his big mouth shut for a while.
"Every time Cohen talks, it totally ruins our case…" Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger told the press. "I mean, he's totally legitimately trustworthy, completely. Totally. But sometimes he sort of has this knack for completely undermining the entire credibility of our totally and completely airtight case against Trump. So we're just going to go ahead and slide him a little ‘please shut up' money."
Cohen admitted in court this week he stole $60,000 from Trump when he was serving as the presidential candidate's attorney. Legal analysts say the admission further lampoons the prosecution's very well-thought-out case against Trump and makes them look a little like "low-IQ donkeys."
"We're going to pay Michael some money if he'll promise to just go away and stop all the blah blah blah for a bit," Hoffinger said. "When we do it, it's to protect democracy."
At publishing time, Trump had been indicted for failing to condemn the prosecution's hush money payments.
https://babylonbee.com/news/prosecution-offers-michael-cohen-130000-hush-money-to-stop-talking
Biden Placed In Presidential Weeble-Wobble To Keep Him From Falling Down
WASHINGTON, DC — According to sources in the White House, President Biden has been given his very own Weeble-Wobble to help keep him occupied and upright in the months leading up to November's election.
According to White House staffers, Biden's new bottom-heavy outfit was custom-made by Fisher-Price and is completely bullet-proof in addition to being impossible to knock down. It also sports a spiffy new presidential seal on the front.
Sources confirmed that if knocked over, Biden will quickly bounce upright due to the state-of-the-art weeble-wobble design.
"The president is taking a stand for democracy," said Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as Biden weebled and wobbled behind her. "The right-wing conspiracy theorists who claim that the president is falling down on the job are literally wrong. This is just another example of President Biden bringing stability to our government in these topsy-turvy times."
"After I signed the packandelempackatlackact into law, my staff gave me this wbegbbobbler - PAUSE," Biden said when asked for comment. "And it only cost four hundred million billion - if you don't like it, yer a... a... well, anyway..."
At publishing time, former president Donald Trump had criticized Biden's Weeble-Wobble, demanding the pear-shaped contraption be removed for the debates.
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-placed-in-presidential-weeble-wobble-to-keep-him-from-falling-down
AOC Demands To Know Where Alito Bought An Upside-Down U.S. Flag
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As controversy continued to swirl around Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded to know where Alito bought an upside-down U.S. flag.
After reports surfaced that an inverted American flag had been spotted flying over Alito's home, AOC issued a statement calling for the source of Alito's offensive flag so that the vendor could be reprimanded appropriately.
"Where does someone even get an upside-down American flag, anyway?" Ocasio-Cortez asked reporters. "Every store that sells flags should know how offensive an inverted U.S. flag is and should never manufacture or sell them to anyone. I think we all deserve to know where Justice Alito was able to purchase an upside-down American flag, don't you?"
AOC even went as far as to threaten legislative action to hold Alito accountable. "Don't even think I won't get to the bottom of this," she said. "Anyone who is selling inverted American flags should be publicly outed as un-American and a threat to democracy itself! As a Supreme Court judge, Justice Alito must be held to a higher standard. If there is some type of black market for upside-down U.S. flags, the American people deserve to know about it."
AOC expressed concern that more people would begin purchasing upside-down American flags if they were made easily attainable. "The next thing you know," she warned, "everyone will be able to have an inverted flag."
At publishing time, AOC was unable to be reached for further comment due to getting her head stuck between the spindles of the U.S. Capitol staircase banister.
https://babylonbee.com/news/aoc-demands-to-know-where-alito-bought-an-upside-down-us-flag
‘Balancing’ the new marching orders for America
By George Shuster
Well, the American voters have just gotten their marching orders from an unexpected source. Reacting to the testimony of prosecution witness Michael Cohen in the New York show trial wherein he admitted stealing from Trump, MSNBC's Lawrence O’Donnell announced that it was not stealing. Oh, no, it wasn’t that. It wasn’t illegal. Nor criminal. Nor unethical. None of that. It was just natural and fair. Cohen was just “rebalancing.” Despite being paid millions, he was just evening things up by helping himself to some more compensation, as his due.
Apply that thinking to what all Americans can see for themselves. The Biden regime has weaponized all of government and its accomplices to steal the 2024 election before it even takes place. They have committed massive resources of money, persons, and time trying to, or succeeding in, having Trump:
tied up in court;
indicted with 91 counts in four venues;
confiscated of his money;
forced to pay massive legal fees;
prevented from campaigning;
gagged from speaking;
forced to focus his time, energy, and resources elsewhere;
subjected to numerous hoaxes and lies;
attacked by corrupt judges and prosecutors;
denied due process, as in the Pelosi-selected committee;
falsely impeached;
removed from the ballot.
What should the American voters do in response to these blatant efforts to tip the scales of the election? The answer is obvious. We must all “rebalance” these outrages by electing Trump with the largest margins in electoral history.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/balancing_the_new_marching_orders_for_america.html
Video: Ted Cruz demonstrates for a leftist-activist judicial nominee why he's Supreme Court material
By Monica Showalter
MSBNC’s Ruhle says the poors need to quit cryin’ about the economy and focus on a new ‘American dream’
By Jack Hellner
Bidenflation eats into the working poor's fast food -Axios
By Monica Showalter
Joe Biden is losing working-class voters across racial lines based on his Bidenomics economy, and one of the reasons is the rise in fast-food prices, Axios writes.
Why it matters: Fast food restaurants have had some of the sharpest price hikes during the Biden administration, higher than both grocery bills and gas prices.
Biden relied on working class voters to win in 2020, but high prices and high interest rates are hitting the poorest Americans the hardest.
Biden is now either losing, or splitting, lower income voters, according to survey after survey.
Nearly three in five Americans believe (incorrectly) that the U.S. is in recession, according to a new Harris poll for the Guardian.
Zoom in: The average price of "meals at limited services eating places" has outpaced wage gains for workers since before the pandemic, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Prices are up 31%, vs. average hourly earnings up 25%.
That's Bidenflation for you, eating into your fast-food hamburger, along with your groceries and your gas prices.
Axios doesn't prove this anywhere in its piece, but it stands to reason that its writer's argument is probably right. Poor and working-poor people have less disposable income, so expensive restaurant dining is usually out, but fast-food historically is less costly as well as quite available in inner cities, and more accessible.
It's also a bit more than just food. Anecdotally, I've spoken to women on public assistance who have told me taking their kids out to have fast food is a special occasion experience they value being able to give their kids, given their limited incomes. Taking their kids out to have fast food is the treat they save up for.
Fast food historically has been the least-expensive restaurant option, so it makes sense that more poor people might use it more, though people of all ages and social statuses like fast food.
Is it the least expensive option now?
Well, to get back to more anecdotes, yesterday I tried Applebee's, a fast-casual restaurant chain in San Diego, California for the first time with two other people and the tab came to $42. The atmosphere was pleasant, the service attentive, and the food, while probably out of some freezer, was fresher and more carefully made as well as delicious. In contrast, I tried El Pollo Loco, a fast-food chain, a few weeks ago, with the same two other people, and the tab for three salads and an extremely tiny order of chips going for $6 came to $45. This was before California's famous fast-food wage hike to $20 for fast-food workers, so all I can conclude is that it's even more now.
Obviously, it's cheaper to go fast-casual, or better still, ethnic food truck, than to dine out on fast food, and if that's the treat you give your kids for special occasions, well, there won't be any more treats.
Of course you'd hate Joe Biden for that kind of inflation: It doesn't just hit you, it hits your ability to do something special with your kids. Things like that have got to make voters angry.
Axios adds that the problem doesn't significantly affect the rich, either:
Zoom out: Five months before the election, America is a tale of two economies.
For wealthier households, smirking about their low fix-rate mortgages, the Fed's aggressive rate hike just doesn't sting that much, if at all.
The S&P is up 12% on the year, frequently flirting with new record highs.
And just as the poorer Americans are moving towards Trump, wealthier Americans are heading in Biden's direction.
By the numbers: In 2020, Biden beat Trump 55%-44% in households earning less than $50,000. In households between $50,000-$99,000, Biden had even bigger margins, at 57%-42%.
What's significant here is that while Biden is responsible for Bidenflation, Biden's union pals, particularly the Big Labor SEIU, have been the bedrock force driving fast food costs even higher than other costs, which Axios has a chart on.
The wealthy leaders of the SEIU, such as its newly elected leader, insist that they're doing this to help the working class. The irony is, they and Joe Biden are driving working people to President Trump more than anyone else is. Take away poor people's small remaining pleasures and they will turn on you.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/joe_biden_has_a_big_mac_problem_axios.html
California hemorrhages its law enforcement officers to a red state
By Olivia Murray
Here’s the report, from Fox News today:
Blue line getting thinner in West Coast states as police take refuge in Idaho
High concentration of retired and active first responders in Idaho not a coincidence, says former California High Patrol officer[.]
California is losing its law enforcement officers to a red state—imagine that! Men and women whose job may require them to lay their lives on the line, who handle some of the scummiest and darkest realities in the history of humanity, want to be respected and supported by their employers and community? No kidding.
And it’s not just a few cops here and there—deep blue pro-crime cities are hemorrhaging law enforcement officers:
Cities large and small across the country suffered severe staffing shortages on the heels of anti-police protests in 2020. Four years later, some departments still can’t stop the bleeding.
Seattle’s police staffing is at its lowest level since the 1990s, according to a March KING 5 report. Earlier this year in California, the Alameda Police Department offered a $75,000 signing bonus — the highest in the nation — on top of a six-figure starting salary to try to entice new officers.
Of course the lawlessness of the “defund the police” agenda, which isn’t really an accountability movement in bureaucratic policing (like I’d like to see) but a pro-crime and anti-law enforcement agenda, is obnoxious (and unacceptable) enough, because the citizens and the people suffer tremendously, especially the most vulnerable people us: minority communities which are pervaded by violent crime that’s already high enough, and the children in such communities who are subjected to terrible abuses. But, what I find doubly obnoxious is that instead of implementing policies that work, like the tough-on-crime policies of red states, the government uses taxpayer dollars—like the $75,000 bonus in Alameda, California—to woo new officers.
The people responsible for this don’t pay, in the slightest, and it’s enraging.
And, with the staffing crisis being what it is, how much have standards been lowered? This is extremely concerning for all of the obvious reasons; I distinctly remember being in the Chicago airport during the Trump years, and seeing a female Chicago police officer literally waddle through the airport because she was so overweight, and that was years ago. How much worse has Chicago gotten? L.A.? Seattle? Portland? Baltimore? Philadelphia?
Now, I really don’t like citizen initiatives, ballot measures, or any other roundabout ways in which the people directly vote on policy, but perhaps I might make a exception for this:
A ballot measure that forces all mayors and city council members in deep blue cities to serve in the local law enforcement agencies, for a considerable amount of time; I assume the crime problem would be solved quickly, if their own skin were in the game.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/california_hemorrhages_its_law_enforcement_officers_to_a_red_state.html