Links - 29th April 2024 (1 - Joe Biden)

Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News 🙌 on X - "Dean Phillips, who is running against Biden in the Democratic primary, makes a great point. Biden can’t run a bath or a hairdryer, let alone the country."
Biden Democratic Challenger Dean Phillips Snaps at Reporters - "“I’ve said this 18,000 times; I’m only doing this to defeat Donald Trump,” an agitated Phillips told CBS News. He continued:      Nobody seems to want to do that in the Democratic Party right now, other than me, because Joe Biden can’t, is my proposition, because the data says he can’t. No one in the country cares. In fact, most of the people in the country are going to the Trump rally right now because he’s listening to them. No one’s asking about this stuff. I’m just frustrated. I hope you understand why I’m getting tired of it. You’re doing your jobs, but you’re not asking the questions that Americans give a shit about!" CNN reported that Phillips originally launched his long-shot campaign, “saying he wanted to ‘strengthen’ President Joe Biden. He talked about not wanting to ‘demean’ or ‘diminish’ the president. He said he wanted to be a mainstream voice, making a broad appeal for a new generation wanting change.”  But those goals seem to have changed with Phillips’ arrival in New Hampshire, where he’s spent his time criticizing Biden for skipping the Granite State altogether over a dispute with the Democratic National Committee’s 2024 nominating calendar."

Jon Nicosia on X - "CNN now saying Biden WILL NOT talk to the nation."
Stephen L. Miller on X - "Because he can't. And everyone knows he can't."

President Biden on X - "While you were Super Bowl shopping, did you notice smaller-than-usual products where the price stays the same? Folks are calling it Shrinkflation and it means companies are giving you less for every dollar you spend. I’m calling on the big consumer brands to put a stop to it."
Zach Henry on X - "48 second video 14 jump cuts 🤦🏻‍♂️"

‘Incompetence?’: Joe Biden’s NATO video suspiciously edited together - YouTube - "Sky News Australia host James Morrow has reacted to what appears to be some suspicious editing on US President Joe Biden’s new NATO ad.   The social media video posted by The White House features the President talking about the importance of the NATO alliance.   Eagle-eyed journalist Joe Concha, however, counted 28 jump cuts despite the video being two minutes long and took to X to share his discovery.   “I don’t want to get all conspiratorial here, but there’s pretty much two options,” Mr Morrow said.   “One - someone in the White House decided that they would get a bit clever with the editing software and just went a little bit overboard.   “Or, maybe two, they used two cameras to jump between takes without it seeming obvious ... so that every time the President stumbled … they could put it back together.   “To put it in another way - the question is, is this a case of incompetence or incompetence?”"

Wilfred Reilly on X - "The reason most people think Biden is a trash President - obvious ~dementia aside - is that multiple fairly massive calamities have occurred with him in charge, such as....
*An almost fully open border and 8,000,000+ new illegal residents
* 2020-22 surge in crime, w USA back over 20,000 annual murders. The Black murder rate doubled during the BLM Era, and surged about 40% under Unc Joe.
*Stage 2 opiate crisis, with us over 100,000 annual drug ODs
*Lost war and disastrous pull-out in AFG, after ALL THAT TIME
*Our involvement in a Ukraine war that almost no one truly thinks would have started under Trump
*Something like 24% total inflation of food/core goods prices
*2nd half of the COVID crisis
Etc etc. You can argue he handled a garbage hand all right, but this "one of the best Presidents of my life-time" stuff is lunatic cope."
Of course, the same people who insisted that Trump was responsible for everything bad that happened when he was President, even if they admit he was not to blame, are either silent or making excuses for Biden or blaming others

Meme - Libs of TikTok: "The DOJ is demanding prison time for the person who discovered Ashley Biden's diary. Here's a reminder of what she wrote."
"Was I molested... @ a yung age ; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate"

Wilfred Reilly on X - "So, SOMEONE finally got penalized for Biden's semi-pedo diary full of disturbing family and business news.... ...the woman who found it!"
Peorian Refugee ☦️ on X - "How on earth did this alleged theft of personal property become a federal crime? Because I have a list of items stolen from me over the years that I would like the FBI to investigate and the DOJ to prosecute. Forthwith."

Meme - End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "EXCLUSIVE: Biden's FDA is distributing DEl instruction manuals: white fragility, micro-aggression, misgendering, etc. This is one document:"
"Ableism: Prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions based on differences in ability; usually directed towards individuals with physical, intellectual, or psychiatric disabilities.
Able-Bodied: A person who does not have a disability.
Accessibility: The design, construction, development, and maintenance of facilities, information and communication technology, programs, and services so that all people, including people with disabilities, can fully and independently use them. Accessibility includes the provision of accommodations and modifications to ensure equal access to 'employment and participation in activities for people with disabilities, the reduction or elimination of physical and attitudinal barriers to equitable opportunities, a commitment to ensuring that people with disabilities can independently access every outward-facing and internal activity or electronic space, and jit of best practices such as universal design.
ADA: Acronym for American with Disabilities is a federal civil rights legislation dealing with discrimination in employment, public accommodations, transportation, and telecommunications on the basis of disability.
Affirmative Action: Proactive policies and procedures for remedying the effect of past discrimination and ensuring the implementation of equal employment and educationat opportunities, for recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting women, minorities, people with disabilities, and veterans in compliance with the federal requirements enforced by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).
Ageism: Prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions based on differences in age.
Ally: A person of one social identity group who stands up in support of members of another group; typically, a member of a dominant group standing beside of a target"

John Hasson on X - "1. Biden removes Houthis from terror list
2. Houthis start attacking ships
3. Biden threatens to put Houthis back on the list
4. Houthis keep attacking
5. Biden puts Houthis back on the list
6. Houthis keep attacking
TODAY: Biden offers to take Houthis off the list"

Biden's state of the union was a taxpayer-funded campaign speech - "As constitutionally mandated administrative reports go, U.S. President Joe Biden’s 2024 state of the union address was quite the jacked-up campaign speech... The speech was neither coherent nor content-rich, let alone necessary. But for several minutes, it was at least loud... “Turning up the volume to sell assertions that people don’t fundamentally believe won’t make them more convincing,” wrote David Winston in Roll Call. “Nor will an aggressive, if not downright angry, delivery.” Angry is right. Biden not only invoked the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot by supporters of Donald Trump, he repeatedly attacked his predecessor (and near-certain return opponent in the November election) as an enemy of democracy. “In his state of the union address last night President Biden cast himself as the defender of democracy who would jail former President Donald Trump,” observed Steven Calabresi, a professor of constitutional law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. He warned that, “One of the key causes of the death of democracy is the criminalization of political disagreements.” Biden also “did what was once unthinkable,” as NBC News’s Natasha Korecki put it, deriding the Supreme Court justices who were present (several, understandably, rarely attend these events) for their controversial decision stripping federal protection from abortion and returning the issue to the states. The rest of the speech involved defending his unpopular performance on the economy and stumping for costly policy goals that his administration hopes to implement, including subsidies for housing and higher education. He also, jarringly, found time to demand the wealthy pay their “fair share in taxes,” even as his son faces charges for tax evasion. None of this is new. Calabresi added that, “Former President Trump and House Republicans are just as guilty of criminalizing politics as is the Biden administration,” and that, “Former President Barack Obama started this recent descent into the criminalizing of politics.” Criminal investigations and tax inquisitions of opponents by those in power are now a regular feature of American political life... Regarding George Washington’s verbal addresses to Congress as monarchical and unworthy of a republic, Thomas Jefferson chose to submit a written report to Congress, and this is how it was done throughout the 19th century and into the 20th. Appropriately, the state of the union report was converted back to an in-person speech by the monarchical Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Americans have suffered through the restored pageant ever since. The addresses are sometimes eloquent, other times incoherent and occasionally unifying. More recently, they’ve become exercises in ginning-up votes on the public dime without dipping into campaign coffers. Yet state of the union addresses aren’t even very effective at rallying the faithful. Among those who watched Biden’s address, “the 65 per cent who had a positive view of the speech was actually lower than any such speech CNN has polled in the past quarter-century — the previous low being Donald Trump’s 2018 address (70 per cent),” Aaron Blake noted in the Washington Post... There was no boost. RealClear’s average of polls currently puts the president’s approval at 40 per cent and disapproval at 55.5 per cent, which is essentially unchanged since December."

Biden says he commuted over Baltimore bridge by train 'many times'. The problem? It has no rail tracks! - "It's being called a case of 'mental derailment'. The US President Joe Biden said he had travelled to the collapsed Baltimore Key Bridge by train 'many times'. So what's the problem? The bridge does not have any rail lines and is only commutable by car or other vehicles... Clarifying Biden's remarks, a White House official in a statement said that he was "clearly" describing driving."

PolitiFact on X - "President Joe Biden recently said he commuted by both train and car as a senator, including over the Baltimore Key Bridge. Social media posts about his statement omitted context."
Stephen L. Miller on X - "Joe Biden makes another lie up and Politifact is fact checking users on social media."

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 on X - "BREAKING: The FBI has just informed the House that they cannot guarantee the physical safety of the Biden whistleblower after revealing what he knows"

It's time for the White House to put up or shut up - "If you’d asked me a year ago, I would have told you that Joe Biden was a reasonably clear favorite in the event of a rematch against Donald Trump.  Not an overwhelming favorite, mind you. But perhaps a 65:35 favorite. The case for Biden seemed obvious enough. Incumbents win re-election more often than not — and, of course, Biden beat Trump in 2020. The economy was beginning to recover from a period of intense inflation, and the labor market was strong. Trump had to fade a number of downside risks, being subject to a series of criminal trials and what looked like it could be a competitive Republican primary. (This was before Ron DeSantis began his long and embarrassing decline in the polls). Democrats were coming off a relatively strong midterm, buoyed by voter concerns about extreme and under-qualified Republican candidates and the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade... The first time my internal needle began to shift was in late summer, when Biden’s approval numbers remained poor even as the economy was improving and it was becoming more apparent that his advanced age — Biden turned 81 in November (Trump is 77) — was an enormous problem for voters and one that Democrats weren’t going to be able to spin away... What’s gotten worse for Biden? There are basically three categories of problems... it’s no longer safe to ignore that Biden has consistently trailed Trump in polls both nationally and (more importantly) in swing states. Or that Biden’s approval rating is just 39 percent and shows no signs of improvement, well below the threshold that would ordinarily make a president a favorite for re-election. Second, to borrow the poker term, Biden no longer has as many “outs” — meaning, contingencies that could improve his situation... Trump’s various criminal trials are (perhaps predictably) facing delays and the Georgia one is a mess, fairly or not, because of an alleged improper romantic relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and another member of the prosecution team. Yes, Democrats still have some upside if Trump is eventually convicted of something. But so far Trump’s favorability ratings have only improved.  And the economy? Well, it has gotten better and both consumer and investor moods have turned more optimistic. I’ve argued there was never really a gap between economic reality and economic perception in the first place, but if there was, it’s pretty much gone now. And yet Biden’s standing has not improved. On balance, that ought to be a concerning fact for the White House. It implies that Biden’s poor position is not the result of something fixable (the economy) but rather something that very much isn’t — the fact that he’s 81 and getting older every day. Third, yes, it’s become even clearer that Biden’s age is an enormous problem for him. As many as 86 percent of Americans say he’s too old in one poll, though numbers in the 70-to-75 percent range are more common — still an overwhelming majority in a bitterly-divided country. There’s also been recent bad news for Biden on this front. In the past couple of weeks:
A special counsel report characterized Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”;
In response to the special counsel report, Biden conducted an impromptu press conference in which, defending himself against allegations of memory loss, he confused the names of the leaders of Egypt and Mexico and was defiant with reporters in a way that — yes, this latter part is subjective — I doubt many impartial observers would say came across well.
Biden also declined to do a Super Bowl interview that might have allayed public concerns — something that President Obama did all eight years in office, Trump did three times, and Biden did in 2021.  The White House skipped the interview last year when the Super Bowl was carried by Fox, part of a general pattern of Biden avoiding Fox News. But with the game on CBS this year, there were no such excuses...
he's losing now and there's no plan to fix the problems other than hoping that the polls are wrong or that voters look at the race differently when they have more time to focus on it... even the most optimistic Democrats, if you read between the lines, are really arguing that Democrats could win despite Biden and not because of him... A lot of commentators that I respect have pointed out that Biden ought to do more public events that would help to allay public doubts about his mental sharpness. The problem is, one can infer the reason that Biden is not doing them — namely that the White House comms team is rational and has inferred that the cost of doing them outweighs the benefits because Biden is too likely to come across poorly... Biden’s doing a lot fewer interviews than even the media-hostile Trump. And when he does them, his performance is still just mediocre. That’s why something like turning down a Super Bowl interview ought to be highly concerning. It’s a relatively friendly setting — the White House presumably has some room to negotiate factors like the correspondent conducting the interview and the scope, and it’s pre-recored, so there’s an opportunity to formulate a damage control plan if anything goes really badly. Biden still didn't do it.  It’s also why the press conference from two weeks ago was worrying. This was an IPA that Biden basically couldn’t avoid. You can’t respond to your own Justice Department’s claim that your memory is failing by not saying anything at all. And yet when forced to make this appearance, Biden’s performance was poor... Biden was elected on the premise that he could handle four simultaneous crises: COVID, the economy, racism and climate change. Now even one such crisis leaves him overwhelmed, such that he suffers from repeated memory lapses? Nobody but the most hard-core partisan Democrat is being fooled by these excuses. And even they have their doubts; in the polls, majority of Democrats express concern about Biden's age."

John LeFevre on X - "Make this make sense.   According to the corporate media...   Christine Blasey Ford has no evidence, witnesses, or recollection of being in the same room as Brett Kavanaugh. She spent her GoFundMe on plastic surgery and is on The View promoting her new book. She is credible, brave, and heroic.   E. Jean Carroll has no evidence, witnesses, or recollection of what year she met Donald Trump. With her $83 million award, she's taking Rachel Maddow shopping. She is credible, brave, and heroic.  Tony Bobulinski has texts, emails, witnesses, and bank records showing pervasive Biden Crime Family corruption and perjury. He is a liar, fraud, and tool of Russia."

Meme - "Her: I bet he's thinking about other woman.
Him: I wish Ashley was still eight year's old. I miss taking showers with her.
*Jill Biden* *Joe Biden*"

Meme - *Biden sworn in*
"FINALLY, A RETURN TO NORMALCY."
*Warzone*

Biden says he regrets referring to 'an illegal' and defends direct criticism of Supreme Court in State of the Union - "During his State of the Union speech Thursday night, Biden used the term “an illegal” to describe Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan who was previously arrested by federal authorities after having crossed the border into the U.S. Ibarra has been charged with killing 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley. The president did not mention Riley’s case in his MSNBC interview."
Naturally, someone was claiming this was fake
Respecting the judiciary is only when they support the left wing agenda

Despite media spin, there's still overwhelming evidence Joe Biden knew of family's business dealings - "For more than three years, Joe Biden has refused to address the avalanche of evidence about his family’s corrupt influence-peddling while he was VP. He has refused to address evidence that he was involved in son Hunter and brother Jim’s lucrative shakedown of shady characters in the world’s most corrupt countries — where he was in charge of US policy. He has lied point-blank when confronted, claiming to have no knowledge of Hunter and Jim’s business dealings, despite dozens of proven instances when he met Hunter’s foreign business partners, and spoke to them at least two dozen times on speakerphone."

Meme The New York Times @nytimes: "President Trump's allies have promoted unsubstantiated claims of corruption aimed at Hunter Biden in an effort to damage Joe Biden's campaign. Here's what we know, and what we don't know."
The New York Times @nytimes: "A federal grand jury charged Hunter Biden with a scheme to evade taxes on over a million dollars in income from foreign businesses, and could face a maximum of 17 years in prison if convicted. Here's a timeline of key events in the president's son's life."

Meme - Biden: "I'M SORRY, AMIGO."
Woman: "WHY ARE YOU APOLOGIZING TO THAT CRIMINAL ALIEN WHO KILLED MY GIRL?!"
Biden: "IT'S "UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANT", YOU BIGOT!"

Shane Gill - "I just saw Vladimir Putin do a two hour interview where he covered Russian history, the war in Ukraine, foreign policy and a myriad of other topics in an erudite and astute manner. I then saw Joe Biden babbling incoherently about how his memory is fine while calling Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the president of Egypt, the president of Mexico. The blunder came as he addressed the press about a special counsel report concerning his mishandling of classified documents. This man seems to be the candidate the DNC plans to run in an election that happens 10 months from now. He can hardly remember yesterday. At some point this has to be elderly abuse.  I don't think people understand how much trouble the United States of America is in. They tripped long ago, they just haven't crashed into the floor yet. But believe me, the ground is rushing up right into America's face."

Snopes REVERSES ‘fact check’ claiming Joe Biden didn’t wear hard hat backwards - "Misinformation hall-monitor website Snopes was forced to reverse a fact-check on Saturday after making the false claim the Joe Biden did not wear a hard hat backwards during a recent photo-op with construction workers.  When Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) posted the photo of Biden to X with several other construction workers, users responded slamming Biden for wearing the hard hat backwards."

‘Largest threat to US national security are US cops,’ says Biden’s new State Department spokesperson - "In a 2016 Facebook post, Jalina Porter, the newly named deputy spokesperson for the US State Department under the Biden administration wrote that American police posed the largest national security threat, greater than that of ISIS, because they 'killed' Black Americans... Porter, a former staffer of Rep. Cedric Richmond, (D-LA), who is now a White House senior adviser added, "If y’all don’t wake up and rise up to this truth, the genocide against Blacks in America will continue until we are near extinct." Porter’s comments appear to have been made following a video being released of Terence Crutcher, who was shot by police in Tulsa, OK. Crutcher, was under the influence of PCP and TCP at the time of the incident according to an autopsy.  The jury of the case wrote, "it is clear to the Jury after intensely studying the video, still photos, and testimony that the windows to the SUV driven by Terrance Crutcher that evening were open and that the Jury believes from said evidence that Terrance Crutcher did in fact reach into the window disobeying the instructions of the police officers on location.' The jury added that "any officer put in that situation at that exact moment and regardless of the skin color, gender or size of the suspect, would have performed the same way, which is in accordance with their law enforcement training.""
From 2021

Biden’s exploitation of the Tulsa tragedy - "Biden did not simply commemorate this tragedy. Instead, he used the occasion to make the false claim that the racism of Tulsa in 1921 is just as prevalent in the US in 2021, and to promote policies designed to ratchet up racial conflict...   Americans should remember and mark this racist violence. Tulsa should remind us of the wickedness of viewing society, and treating people differently, on the basis of race. It should serve as a warning that racial division risks terrible bloodshed. At the same time, we can also draw some hope from the fact that the Tulsa massacre is widely condemned today for the atrocity it was, and that the virulent racism that fed the white mob in 1921 is no longer tolerated. But that’s not the type of commemoration Biden had in mind. He sought to leverage the occasion to push his administration’s propaganda about the supposedly severe threat of white supremacy in the US today. In drawing crude analogies between 1921 Tulsa and today, Biden ultimately cheapened the gravity of the Tulsa race massacre. He sought to harness the emotion of this memory to support his mundane political initiatives. Biden even inserted excerpts from a standard stump speech about his infrastructure bill into what should have been the remembrance of a terrible event.   Biden levelled partisan arguments against Republican voting bills in states like Georgia and Texas, referring to them as a ‘truly unprecedented assault on our democracy’. This ‘current assault’ was ‘not just an echo of a distant history’, he claimed. As it happens, Biden’s claim is misleading. These Republican bills, while introducing some restrictions (including the rollback of some pandemic-related changes), provide for more voter access than in Biden’s home state of Delaware. Reasonable people can disagree about the details and effects of the bills. But Biden’s historical analogies are completely illegitimate – whether he is calling the Georgia law ‘Jim Crow on steroids’ or likening the Texas law to racial violence. Such exaggerations inflame rather than enlighten.   Biden also used his Tulsa address to announce efforts to support minority-owned small businesses and home ownership among black people. As I noted last week on spiked, Biden’s ‘equity’ policies, which call for government money to be distributed on the basis of skin colour, are a recipe for racial conflict... according to Biden’s narrative, nothing has really changed since 1921. Rather than viewing black people as potential agents of their economic future, Biden offered a patronising message that painted them as helpless. ‘Black entrepreneurs are just as capable of succeeding, given the chance, as white entrepreneurs are’, Biden said in Tulsa, ‘But they don’t have lawyers. They don’t have accountants.’ Someone should tell him that some black people are lawyers and accountants themselves.   Much worse than all of this was Biden’s attempt to raise the spectre of an ongoing white-supremacist movement – one that is allegedly just as bad as the rampaging white mob of 1921. ‘What happened in Greenwood was an act of hate and domestic terrorism with a through line that exists today still’, he said. ‘Terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al-Qaeda – white supremacists.’  Biden is peddling a fictional tale. Neo-Nazis, the KKK and other racist groups are miniscule and do not represent a serious threat to the country. Where is Biden’s evidence of this threat? The fact that he has to cite, over and over again, the relatively small number of Charlottesville marchers from four years ago only highlights the absurdity of his claim. And are America’s white supremacists today really on a par with al-Qaeda, which killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11 alone? What about ISIS, which beheaded, gang-raped and ethnically cleansed its way across the Middle East? The comparisons are ridiculous. A few days before Biden’s Tulsa address, his Department of Homeland Security issued a warning that domestic extremists may use violence on the 100th anniversary of the massacre. Of course, that did not happen – just like all the other warnings issued by the same department this year. Biden’s administration is clearly engaged in a fearmongering campaign that has sought to exploit the 6 January riot in the Capitol to his party’s advantage. Biden and the Democrats routinely refer to these rioters as ‘insurrectionists’ and ‘white supremacists’ without evidence. None has been charged with treason, sedition, insurrection or domestic terrorism. Biden is now leveraging the memory of Tulsa to wage a war on an enemy within... the Biden administration is heavily pushing a curriculum based on critical race theory and the New York Times’ 1619 Project into the nation’s schools... Barack Obama’s talks on race, including his 2008 campaign speech and his remarks following the Ferguson verdict, may not have been perfect. But at least he sought to provide a balanced reckoning. Compared with Biden, Obama appears like the second coming of MLK. Biden’s vulgar, ahistorical speech in Tulsa shows how far the Democrats’ views on race have degenerated since then. Rather than move us forward to a post-racial future, Biden and his party are trying to drag us back into the past."
From 2021