President Biden: More than half the women in my administration are women
The transphobic bigot doesn't think transwomen are women. Plus he stumbled a lot at the start
The Forgotten Town: East Palestine's Catastrophe Ignored by Biden - "Despite the severity of the situation, weeks after the disaster, President Joe Biden has failed to visit. To make matters worse, he decided to instead visit Ukraine. This move has only served to exacerbate the sense of betrayal felt by the people of East Palestine. With this move, he has turned the concept of "America first" on its head, treating Americans last, and leaving many Americans feeling as if they are last in line for his attention and concern."
Toxic Ohio chemical spill was Trump admin, GOP's fault: White House - "Jennifer Homendy, who chairs the National Transportation Safety Board, said the brake rule would not have prevented the East Palestine derailment because it was proposed for "high-hazard flammable" trains carrying 20 or more loaded tank cars."
‘You’re not forgotten‘: how the right racialized the Ohio train disaster - "The idea that the rail disaster should be viewed through a racial lens has spread like a toxin from Fox News, through right-wing news sites and social media, into the political realm."
Racial lenses are only good when they push the liberal agenda. Only "minorities" get to be victims
‘Saturday Night Live’ mocks Trump visit to East Palestine
Anything good Republicans do must be mocked
WATCH: Biden insults Coast Guard Class of 2021, calls them 'dull', quotes Mao Zedong - "Biden took a shot at the graduates by saying "You are a really dull class” during his commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy. Biden attempted to make a joke at the Navy's expense and when no one laughed Biden appeared to get frustrated saying to the class, "c'mon man."... Biden also quoted Chinese Communist dictator Mao Zedong in reference to women in the Coast Guard Academy. Biden said: "There's a saying we use in a different context, it's a Chinese saying, it says, 'Women hold up half the world.' He goes on to say "It's an absolutely stupid position not to make sure they represent at least half of what we do." Biden has a history of similar comments. In 2016, while addressing troops in Al-Dharfra Air Base Biden told to troops "clap for that you stupid bastards." Biden seemed upset and continued to call the servicemen and women "a dull bunch" and said they "must be slow.""
Meme - "I just want someone to laugh at my memes the way Kamala laughs at questions she can't answer."
Billionaires turn on Biden and his ‘party of hate’ - "the once-strong ties between US Democrats and Silicon Valley, the new heart of American corporate power, have broken down. In the last week, the tech industry’s two wealthiest individuals have attacked Joe Biden’s party, while a growing number of senior figures have questioned the administration. “In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party,” Musk tweeted on Wednesday. “But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.”... Amazon founder Jeff Bezos launched a rare political intervention, attacking Biden over his record on inflation. In response to Biden calling for higher taxes on corporations to fight price rises, Bezos accused the US president of “misdirection”. “Inflation is a regressive tax that most hurts the least affluent”... The Biden White House has been more hostile to tech companies and their owners, however. Biden has accused companies like Facebook of “killing people” for not regulating Covid posts more strictly. He has also appointed a string of senior officials who have called for Big Tech to be broken up, such as Tim Wu and Lina Khan, two stars of the antitrust movement. Biden has also strongly supported unions, putting him in conflict with the likes of Amazon and Tesla. Amazon has fought unionisation efforts at major warehouses in America, while Musk has been a vocal opponent of organised labour. The Tesla billionaire has also grumbled at Biden’s apparent reluctance to credit his company with driving the electric vehicle revolution, while heaping praise on Ford and General Motors... But it is Democrats’ tax policies that have caused the biggest stir among Silicon Valley’s wealthiest... A string of top Silicon Valley investors such as Paul Graham, the Welsh born founder of Y Combinator, and Marc Andreessen, the head of one of Silicon Valley’s top venture firms A16Z, have become more outspoken about Left-wing censorship in recent months. “It used to be that censorship was something the Right did, and free speech was something the Left were in favour of. But over the last few decades, banning ‘problematic’ ideas has become a huge component of Left culture,” Graham wrote last month... If tech’s elite are divorcing from the Left, it could put them in further conflict with the Silicon Valley rank and file, who have protested over work such as military contracts and who disproportionately donate to Democrat candidates. But as the tech industry moves out of California, its politics may change too. Miami’s Republican mayor has cosied up to the city’s booming cryptocurrency scene, and Texas governor Greg Abbott has embraced tech firms moving to his state. As a wave of anti-tech sentiment runs through US Democrats, Biden risks losing one of his most powerful constituents."
Biden’s nonsensical claim about Alzheimer’s and hospital beds - The Washington Post - "This is one of those classic Biden factoids — an assertion with specific numbers that seems to change in each telling. In the course of a couple of months, the period when Alzheimer’s patients would overwhelm hospital beds shrank from 20 years to 15 years. (And during an Oct. 13 campaign stop in Florida, then-candidate Biden said “every single solitary bed” would be occupied in 19 years.)... Normally when a politician makes a detailed claim like this, we can quickly find a possible source — a report in an academic journal or from a think tank, a congressional hearing or an expert’s speech — from which the factoid was plucked (and possibly twisted). But we could not find anything. We consulted with many experts on Alzheimer’s disease, but they were stumped, too. This seems to be a Biden original."
The Post Millennial on Twitter - "Wow. CNN's Scott Jennings lists several of Biden's failures and asks "Are we any better off on these three issues that we crucified Trump over?""
Woke and Weak: Biden Punishes Americans, Emboldens Adversaries - "the Biden Department of Justice announced it was building a new domestic terror unit, despite the fact it has never clearly demonstrated a commensurate threat. To put the purported peril in perspective, an FBI official noted there were four domestic violent extremist attacks in 2021, resulting in 13 deaths. By comparison, last year there were more than 800 murders in a single city, Chicago. Officials have said the more urgent danger primarily derives from those espousing "racial or ethnic bias" or "anti-government or anti-authority sentiments." In practice, this has meant "critics of the regime." If you oppose federalizing elections and enshrining 2020's integrity-eroding measures, draconian COVID diktats or taxpayer-funded indoctrination in racial Marxism—critical race theory—you are treated as a threat, liable to be targeted with the brunt of federal force. Shortly thereafter, the Biden DOJ—either bending to, or otherwise provided cover by, withering pressure from the Left to make the legal fallout of January 6 match the administration's unhinged rhetoric on the subject—charged several Capitol riot participants with sedition. For a sense as to how infrequently prosecutors have successfully made such a case, and the grave level to which a defendant's acts must rise in order to meet that charge, no one has been convicted of seditious conspiracy since 1995, when the "Blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel-Rahman, and nine of his followers were so prosecuted. They were convicted for activities like conspiring in the first World Trade Center bombing, plotting to bomb other New York City landmarks, assassinating militant Zionist Rabbi Meir Kahane and planning the same for former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Meanwhile, new details emerged that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona also colluded with the National School Board Association to concoct the infamous letter sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland used to justify siccing federal authorities on concerned parents outraged over critical race theory and anti-scientific COVID restrictions. The FBI even tags such "threats" with a handy label, "EDUOFFICIALS," to track them internally... A British Muslim of Pakistani descent flew to New York, made his way to a Texas synagogue, and held hostage a rabbi and several congregants in an attempt to procure the release of an imprisoned jihadist, Aafia Siddiqui, i.e., "Lady al-Qaeda." The unsuccessful terrorist had a long rap sheet, history of mental instability, previously expressed Islamist views and allegedly maintained terror ties—a background disturbing enough to garner an MI5 investigation. Any one of these points should have prevented him from coming here. Yet he entered America unimpeded. Perhaps the fact that President Joe Biden rescinded President Donald Trump's executive order calling for enhanced vetting measures targeting terrorists played a role. Perhaps it had something to do with the diversion of scarce law enforcement resources toward targeting Wrongthinkers. Perhaps it was just plain incompetence. We do not yet know. But initial comments from FBI officials and the president provided insight into the administration's broader mentality. One official initially said the Islamist was "singularly focused on one issue" not "specifically related to the Jewish community," and that "we are continuing to work to find [the] motive." Got that? While you are on the side of Jefferson Davis if you support voter ID, or a potential terrorist for opposing total governmental control under pretext of a pandemic, the FBI does not want to jump to conclusions about what might have possessed an Islamist who sought to free a virulent Jew-hating jihadist serving 86 years in prison to hold up a synagogue. Either authorities did not want to acknowledge that Jew-hatred and jihadism go hand in hand, or the purging of training materials that would have told them as much at the behest of the likes of the unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing case in U.S. history, Hamas-tied CAIR—which, like the Texas terrorist, supports freeing Aafia Siddiqui to this day—has had its intended effect. President Biden's initial response was equally dumbfounding: I don't think there is sufficient information to know why he targeted that synagogue, why he insisted on the release of someone who's been in prison for over 10 years...[or] why he was using anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments... The Biden DOJ dropped a case against an MIT professor, Gang Chen, accused of hiding his China ties while applying for a federal research grant... Last summer, prosecutors nixed several visa fraud cases against visiting researchers alleged to have hid their affiliations with the Chinese military. Most prominent, last fall, as Xi Jinping demanded, prosecutors signed a sweetheart deal with Meng Wanzhou, the detained CFO and daughter of Huawei's founder, releasing her to China... Russia, another burgeoning Iran partner, also appears to see weakness that it intends to exploit with aggressive action against Ukraine. How else would it have interpreted, for example, Team Biden's de facto support for Moscow's long-desired Nord Stream 2 pipeline? To tie a bow on these events, Senate Democrats just used the "Jim Crow" filibuster on the administration's behalf to block sanctions on the vital Russia-Germany energy tie. And it was the purported treasonous Russian colluder Donald Trump, backed by the Russian stooge-turned-domestic terrorist MAGA masses, who had fought the pipeline's development tooth and nail."
Biden: US Democracy 'In Its Greatest Danger of My Lifetime' - "In a speech in Buffalo on Tuesday, just days after a shooting at a supermarket there, President Joe Biden warned that American democracy is “in its greatest danger of my lifetime.”"
Meanwhile, all the people who claimed Trump was responsible for everything bad that happened when he was President...
Meme - Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "We must be absolutely clear about what is true and what is a lie. The former president did what no president in the history of this country has ever done: He refused to accept the results of an election and the will of the American people."
"Biden says upcoming elections could "easily be illegitimate""
Karine Jean-Pierre has history of accusing things of being racist - "Newly installed White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has a long history of accusing policies and political enemies of “racism,” a review of her social media and TV news appearances show. The Post looked at Jean-Pierre’s tweets between 2015 and 2020 and found a staggering 57 instances where she accused people, policies, ideas, or words of being “racist.” And Jean-Pierre accused people and ideas she was opposed to as “racist” at least 43 times in TV appearances too"
Meme - Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "The President needs to stop blaming others and do his job."
President Biden @POTUS: "I know that families are still struggling with higher prices. I grew up in a family where if the price of gas went up, we felt it. Let's be absolutely clear about why prices are high right now: COVID and Vladimir Putin."
Jen Psaki is set to deliver her final press briefing - "'There is a circulation of my address among the Arlington Republican Party'"
Tears of joy, no doubt
Apparently it's only ok to protest at the houses of "Republican" judges
Jimmy Kimmel blames 'sexism and racism' for Kamala Harris' historically low approval rating - "Despite calling out sexism as a reason for Harris' low approval, Kimmel has a history of questionable portrayals of women. From 1999 to 2003, he co-hosted "The Man Show," which celebrated and lampooned typical male stereotypes; one of its most famous segments was each show concluding with "girls jumping on trampolines." Harris' approval rating is the lowest of any modern vice president. A majority 51% of poll respondents disapproved of the job she's doing, while 21% were undecided. President Joe Biden fared slightly better"
When you only have a hammer...
Biden administration cancels Alaska oil and gas lease sale - "The Biden administration has canceled one of the most high-profile oil and gas lease opportunities pending before the Interior Department. The decision, which halts the potential to drill for oil in over 1 million acres in the Cook Inlet in Alaska, comes at a challenging political moment, when gas prices are hitting painful new highs... According to a recent CBS News poll, Mr. Biden's approval rating is lowest when it comes to the economy and inflation, with 69% of those surveyed disapproving of his handling of inflation. Sixty-five percent of respondents said they believed the president "could do more" to lower gas prices."
So much for wanting to reduce energy prices
Executive Orders | The American Presidency Project
The most executive orders of any president since Carter
Joe Biden's 'extreme leftist' bank nominee asked to hand over Karl Marx thesis written at Moscow university - "Saule Omarova, 55, who has suggested plans to "end banking as we know it" in America, has been accused by Republicans of being the "most radical" nominee ever put forward for any government position... There was widespread consternation among bankers over a tweet she wrote in July, after JPMorgan Chase took over some smaller companies. Ms Omarova wrote: "Does the world need JPMorgan to grow bigger and more powerful? Just wondering." Two years ago she tweeted: "Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always 'know best,'...All women got very generous maternity benefits. Both things are still a pipe dream in our [US] society!" Mr Biden's decision to nominate Ms Omarova was reportedly opposed by his Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, and was believed to have been a move to appeal to the left wing of his party. She would be the first woman, and first non-white, Comptroller... Mr Toomey has written to Ms Omarova, saying: "I write today seeking a copy of your thesis, 'Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital,' which you wrote as a student at Moscow State University on the V.I. Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship." He said reference to the thesis appeared to have been deleted from the Cornell Law School website but had appeared on Ms Omarova's CV as recently as 2017... Ms Omarova told the Financial Times some of the criticism of her was racist. She said: "I don’t look like your typical Comptroller of the Currency, I have a different history. I am easy to demonise and vilify." She also described how her relatives had been sent to die in Siberia by Stalin, and how she became an anti-communist while at Moscow State University where she listened to Pink Floyd and discussed Solzhenitsyn."
President Biden on Twitter - "On this National Day of Prayer, no matter how or whether we pray, we are all called to look outside ourselves. Let us find in our hearts and prayers the determination to put aside our differences, come together, and truly see one another as fellow Americans."
Joe Biden on Twitter - "Let me tell you about this Ultra-MAGA Agenda."
Posted in the same minute
Biden’s claim that his spending plan ‘costs zero dollars’ - The Washington Post - "given our long experience in writing about the federal budget, we’re pretty certain a deficit score of zero would only be accomplished with some dubious gimmicks that help disguise the true cost of Biden’s agenda."
Meme - Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss: "Last time I checked, I didn't vote for Joe Manchin for president."
Charles C. W. Cooke @ @charlescwcooke: "Joe Manchin is in the federal legislative branch. He's one of 51 senators opposing BBB. The president runs the federal executive branch. The federal legislative branch -not the federal executive branch- is in charge of federal legislation. I hope this helps clear up your confusion."
Manchin Kills Biden Agenda Again: Build Back Better Is Deader Than Ever - "Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has once again killed President Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda, telling reporters on Tuesday that it’s deader than ever... Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Tuesday reportedly acknowledged Biden’s agenda is dead – at least until Senate Democrats attempt to pass legislation to federalize all local elections. To federalize all local elections, the senate would need at least 60 “yes” votes in a 50/50 split Senate. GOP senators oppose federalizing elections. Therefore Senate Democrats have proposed doing away with the filibuster, which would mean the measure could pass with 50 Senate votes. But Manchin told reporters Tuesday canceling the filibuster to only federalize elections is a “heavy lift” and is not his “absolute preference.” “And the reason I say it’s a heavy lift is once you change a rule or you have a carve out, I’ve always said this – anytime there’s a carve out, you eat the whole turkey. There’s nothing left because it comes back and forth”"
Manchin to vote against bill federalizing elections, dealing major blow to Democrats | Just The News - "The For The People Act would among other things ban voter ID requirements, mandate mail-in voting options and begin registering voters at age 16. It has faced uniform Republican opposition. In an op-ed published in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Manchin declared the bill as too partisan and divisive... He added he would fight to “seek bipartisan compromise no matter how difficult and to develop the political bonds that end divisions and help unite the country we love.”"
Report: Manchin’s Fundraising Surged While Opposing Biden’s Agenda - "While Manchin has opposed the legislation over fears it would increase 40-year-high inflation and cement the American welfare state, Democrat members ridiculed the West Virginia senator for disloyalty. “If his comments on FOX and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position, and a breach of his commitments to the President and the Senator’s colleagues in the House and Senate,” the White House scolded. Reports on Monday revealed Manchin, who hails from a state where Biden lost by nearly 40 percentage points in 2020, was considering becoming an independent."
The fact that what Joe Manchin just did is considered “scandalous” is one of America’s biggest problems - "1. It was a bloated, haphazard, bad bill.
2. Realities of West Virginia
The bill failed because of the people of West Virginia. Well, actually that's not fair. It failed because of the people of West Virginia and the people of every other state that elected a Republican since every one of them opposed this bill too.
3. The Biden administration's stubbornness"
CBO: Build Back Better Not Quite 'Fully Paid For' - FactCheck.org - "The disagreement between the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Treasury Department centers on how much revenue could be raised from a provision giving the Internal Revenue Service more enforcement capabilities for tax evaders. Even after the CBO issued its analysis, Biden maintained that the bill, which would establish child care and pre-K programs, expand health care programs, and invest in climate change initiatives among other provisions, “reduces the deficit over the long-term” and is “fully paid for”"
GOLDBERG: The trouble with 'Build Back Better' is no one really wants to pay for it | Toronto Sun - "Sen. Bernie Sanders is very upset that the Democrats’ “Build Back Better” package is stalled. “Poll after poll shows overwhelming support for the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better legislation,” Sanders said in a statement, “and the need to lower prescription drug costs, expand Medicare to cover dental, hearing and vision…” and so on. But as National Review’s Charles Cooke wrote, Sanders’ statement refutes itself. In the next paragraph, the Vermont senator says, “polling also shows that despite President Biden having introduced this proposal five months ago, a majority of Americans have very little knowledge as to what is in this bill.” Sanders adds, “It is hard to ask people to have faith in their government when they have little understanding of what their government is trying to do.” As Cooke rightly notes, it’s odd to simultaneously claim a bill is overwhelmingly popular and that a majority of Americans have no idea what’s in it... Sanders is perpetuating a myth that harms democracy, too — specifically, that massive social welfare spending is wildly popular with American voters. In 2016, Vox polled Bernie Sanders’ proposals for nationalized healthcare and free college tuition. They didn’t poll the general public; they polled Bernie Sanders’ own supporters. Not surprisingly, respondents favoured single-payer healthcare. But when asked if they’d be willing to personally pay more for it, support dropped. Two-thirds said the most they’d be willing to pay in additional taxes for “free” healthcare was $1,000 per year, about $83 per month. This number includes the 8% of Sanders supporters who said they wouldn’t be willing to pay anything for universal healthcare. Cheap socialists aren’t the story here. Americans, in general, don’t want to pay much of anything — out of their own pocket — for the stuff progressives constantly say America is demanding. A Washington Post poll in 2019 found that 68% of Americans supported taxing “wealthy families” to pay for fighting climate change. But when asked if they would agree to pay an extra $2 a month on their electric bills, support fell to less than 47%. That same year, an AP-NORC poll asked people if they’d be willing to spend $10 more a month in their energy bills to fight climate change. Some 68% of respondents said nope. This is where the truly dangerous ignorance begins. For years now, voters have been told that the rich as well as greedy corporations are an untapped renewable resource that can pay for everything and anything. That’s false. You could confiscate all of the wealth of the top 1% and it wouldn’t come close to covering the bill for, say, the Green New Deal or Medicare for All. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may turn heads by scrawling “tax the rich” on her ball gowns, but the truth is we already do — at a remarkably progressive rate... even if the rich could pay for it all, democracy isn’t enriched when voters think one very small class of people is greedily standing in the way of economic salvation. When populist politicians promise it would be easy to deliver that salvation but then fail to do it, voters feel betrayed and the politicians shift blame to sinister and corrupt forces (the “one percent,” special interests, evil corporations) or allegedly outdated obstacles to progress like the filibuster or even the Constitution itself. That sense of betrayal doesn’t foster healthy politics. It leads to “extreme” demagogues promising to deliver what they claim the corrupt establishment could not."
Meme - "If "Build Back Better" was a person.
*Demi Lovato before and after*"
Meme - Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin @JR.. : "If Manchin is no on both BBB and voting, Biden is done. Democracy is hanging by a thread. Hard to think of anyone more destructive
Either the WH wasn't listening /completely misread the situation or Manchin is a horrible liar
Either Manchin is going to do the mother of all walkbacks or WH wasted months and its political credibility leading up to a humiliating defeat"
Meme - "Gasps and applause on the Senate floor as John McCain votes no on 'skinny' Obamacare repeal."
"A single senator is about to seriously set back an entire presidential agenda."
It's only a danger to democracy if it hurts the Democrats
As usual liberals are bad at maths. Half the Senate plus one voting a single way means you blame one person
Disclose.tv on Twitter - "NOW - Biden: "This MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that has existed in American history.""
"Translation: The KKK isn't that bad."
Every Republican presidential candidate is Hitler. The current enemy is always the worst ever: that's how they mobilise their base
Meme - Biden to black clad protesters: "MAGA is the most extreme political group in recent American history.""
Antifa: "Open borders now!"
BLM: "Defund police"
Democrat: "Support late term abortion"
Normal people: "School choice. No CRT"
"Support parents' rights"
"Secure our borders"
"Support our police"
"Lower taxes"
"Support free speech"
Lee on Twitter - "A dude on horseback wearing a cowboy hat and plate carrier lasso’ing black immigrants as they run away barefoot is not actually what I pictured from a Biden admin lmao 😂…"
Biden Promised Harris Lunch ‘Once a Week.’ They’ve Had Two This Year - "Joe Biden takes lunch seriously. As vice president, his weekly lunch with Obama wasn’t just a meal. It was a meeting when things really got done, a moment set aside on the White House calendar for the two men to break bread and build out an agenda. The weekly meal was so important to Biden that he carried over the tradition to his own presidency... Biden and Harris have only sat down to lunch twice this year, a significant drop when compared to the 12 times they shared the meal together by this same point last year... the lack of lunch comes amid whispers of a rocky start to their working relationship. Biden has tried to duplicate the dynamic with Harris that he enjoyed with Obama, but he reportedly hasn’t been able to recreate the same sense of camaraderie. In an excerpt of their new book, “This Will Not Pass,” obtained early by Politico, Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns of the New York Times write that “their weekly lunches lacked a real depth of personal and political intimacy.”... some in Biden World were less than enthusiastic about Harris joining the ticket. Most notably: future first lady Jill Biden. “There are millions of people in the United States. Why do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe,” Dr. Biden reportedly said after learning that Harris was the leading candidate to be the Veep nominee."
OUT OF SYNC: Psaki and Biden now contradict each other on definition of 'border crisis'
Mia Cathell on Twitter - "11 pro-life activists have been indicted by Biden's DOJ for protesting outside an abortion clinic in Tennessee. Meet the Christian memaws and papaws charged as "co-conspirators" now facing up to 11 years in federal prison for a peaceful "blockade" demonstration 🧵"
Peaceful protest is only a right if you're on the left
Musk Rips Biden, Says ‘Real President Is Whoever Controls The Teleprompter’ - "“The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter,” said Musk, who added he has voted “overwhelmingly for Democrats.”... Musk also blasted the Democratic Party as “overly controlled by the unions and by the trial lawyers, particularly the class action lawyers.” The party, he said, goes against “the interests of the people.” “In the case of Biden, he is simply too much captured by the unions, which was not the case with [former president Barack] Obama,” who Musk said was “quite reasonable.”... Amazon founder Bezos had said: “The administration tried hard to inject even more stimulus into an already over-heated, inflationary economy and only [Sen. Joe] Manchin [D-WV] saved them from themselves. Inflation is a regressive tax that most hurts the least affluent. Misdirection doesn’t help the country.”"
Biden is the most radical left-wing president in US history, period
