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September 9, 2021
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Unpacking the first eight months of the country's most self-destructive presidency . . . Analysis. Due to a series of catastrophic self-inflicted failures, President Joe Biden has received intense rebukes from voters. Public polling confirms this crisis of confidence. Biden’s approval rating has dropped an astounding 16 points in the last three months, leaving many to question his capacity to serve as commander in chief. Here are
the top five blunders of the Biden presidency:
1. Disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal - Biden’s haphazard and poorly calculated withdrawal led to the death of 13 U.S. service members, put countless Americans and trusted allies in peril, and tarnished our international reputation.
2. Broken promises - During his inauguration, Biden promised that he would govern for all people. Instead, Biden has delivered the single most radical and divisive agenda in our nation’s history. He has not sought consensus in governing as promised but has been single-minded in pushing his partisan agenda.
3. Defunding the police - It’s no secret that far-left progressives are pulling the strings of Biden’s agenda. As a result, the radical and senseless “defund the police” movement has not only come to define the Democratic Party, but its civil unrest mantra has put our communities and law enforcement in danger.
4. Biden’s border crisis - One of Biden’s first acts as president was to unravel the commonsense border protections put in place under former President Donald Trump. This administration is on pace to allow 1.7 million illegal immigrants into the United States by the end of 2021. Biden’s self-inflicted border crisis is a direct result of his inability to form a cogent national security policy.
5. Tax-and-spend agenda - Thanks to Biden’s nonstop tax-and-spend agenda, inflation is at its highest rate in 40 years. Now, nearly 9 in 10 people have reported a concern about the rising cost of living. High inflation is a disproportionate tax on the poor in this country, and big government spending only makes it worse. Washington Examiner
Biden so scripted he has instructions to ‘stop and walk out of the room’ . . . President Biden reveals how stage-managed he is here. Can you imagine other presidents being given direction by staff to walk out of the room? Is this man actually running the country, or is it someone else? Can we know who? White House Dossier
General Failure: How the U.S. Military Lied About the 9/11 Wars . . . After 20 years of conducting a disinformation campaign about what was really happening on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq, not a single U.S. general has faced any punishment. The reverse happened — they were praised for their deceptively upbeat assessments and given more stars, and when they retired with generous military pensions, they landed high-paying
jobs on corporate boards, further profiting from their disingenuousness.
This disconnect is getting new scrutiny after the collapse of the American campaign in Afghanistan. Last month, however, a Marine officer posted a video in which he scorched the country’s generals for the chaos of the evacuations from Kabul. His video went viral. But Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller’s video — which elicited a rapid reaction from the military’s machinery of discipline, with Scheller being relieved of his command in hours. Intercept
Biden Admin Prepares to Sue Texas Over Abortion Law . . . The Biden administration is preparing to sue Texas over its new law banning most abortions, people familiar with the matter said, an action that would set off a federal-state clash at a time when the future of abortion rights becomes an ever-more-pressing question before the courts. The Justice Department could file a lawsuit as soon as Thursday, the people said, adding that
the timing could be pushed back. The Biden administration has faced pressure from Democrats and abortion-rights groups to take action to stop the Texas restrictions after the Supreme Court last week allowed them to take effect. Wall Street Journal
Biden White House stonewalls two key senators in inquiry into president's use of private email . . . The White House failed to meet a deadline last month to provide information to two key Republican senators concerning Joe Biden's use of a private email account as vice president to send government information to his son Hunter Biden. Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republicans on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations and the Senate Judiciary Committee respectively, asked White House Counsel Dana Ann Remus in a July 30 letter to answer whether Biden used one or more private email accounts as vice president, whether he is using any today as president and whether government-related emails in the private accounts were preserved as required by the Federal Records Act. Their letter was prompted by articles published in Just the News and the New York Post that released copies of emails
purportedly from Joe Biden to White House staff during his vice presidency and to his son Hunter Biden that involved official government business. Just the News
White House fires Trump appointees from service academy boards . . . The Biden administration on Wednesday told Kellyanne Conway, a former senior counselor in the Trump White House, that she would be fired if she didn’t step down from an advisory panel she sits on at the U.S. Air Force Academy. “I’m not resigning, but you should,” Conway replied in a letter to President Biden. The White House is purging anyone appointed by
former President Trump who sits on a Board of Visitors at one of the nation’s service academies: the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy. In her letter to Mr. Biden, Mrs. Conway said the move is a break from presidential norms. Members are usually appointed for three-year terms and some Obama administration holdovers were still serving into the Trump years, she said. Washington Times
Psaki says Biden’s trillions will be paid for, but Pelosi disagrees . . . Even if they pretend to pay for the $3.5 trillion spending bonanza President Biden and the Democrats want, it will be budget trickery. Maybe Pelosi is being more honest in that she is not even pretending to pay for it. According to Fox News:
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki contradicted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s assessment of how much of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package will add to the debt, saying the entire package “is going to be paid for.” But those comments seemingly contradicted Pelosi, who said earlier Wednesday that “maybe” all of the package could be paid for without adding to the debt. “We will pay for more than half maybe all of the legislation,” Pelosi said. “We will be taking some
responsibility to pay for what is in there so the cost for the future will be much lower than any 3.5.” White House Dossier
Woman In A Gorilla Mask Misses Larry Elder’s Head With An Egg From About 18 Inches Away . . . California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder and his campaign team were attacked by egg-throwing protestors while walking through a Los Angeles neighborhood Wednesday. Video footage shows an egg flying across the screen, narrowly missing Elder. Just seconds later, an unidentified woman in a gorilla mask throws another egg at Elder and narrowly
misses. It is not known if Elder or any of his team members were struck by any eggs. Shortly after throwing the egg and missing, the gorilla-masked woman gets approached by a male staffer and shouts “Don’t touch me, motherf*cker!” before appearing to slap him in the face, video shows. Daily Caller
Obama cuts ad in support of Newsom ahead of California recall . . . Former President Obama is appearing in a TV ad backing California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) as part of his campaign’s final efforts to boost Democratic turnout in next Tuesday’s recall election. Footage of the ad shared by Inside Elections on Twitter showed Obama telling California voters that they had a “big choice to make” in the election, while also defending Newsom’s job
performance during the coronavirus pandemic. “Governor Newsom has spent the past year and a half protecting California communities,” Obama says in the ad. “Now, Republicans are trying to recall him from office and overturn common-sense COVID safety measures for healthcare workers and school staff.” The
Hill
Former CIA official announces bid to oust Elise Stefanik from House . . . A former CIA officer announced a 2022 campaign to unseat Rep. Elise Stefanik from her position representing New York's 21st Congressional District. Matt Castelli, a Democrat, posted a video to declare his candidacy, accusing Stefanik of betraying her oath to protect the Constitution during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol when Trump supporters swarmed the
building as lawmakers certified President Joe Biden's victory. Washington Examiner
Trump rips removal of Robert E. Lee statue: 'Complete desecration' . . . Former President Trump on Wednesday blasted the decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., saying it would result in a “complete desecration.” Trump has defended such statues from being removed in the past, calling activists' effort a means to "take away" U.S. history and culture by calling for the removal of Confederate
statues. A different statue of Lee served as the site of the deadly protest that was the scene of the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va. The Hill
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Police expect Capitol fencing reinstalled for Sept. 18 rally . . . Police are expected to reinstall fencing around the Capitol building ahead of a Sept. 18 rally amid fears of renewed violence, according to a source familiar with the request. Far-right groups are slated to attend the rally next week, where demonstrators intend to call for “justice” to those who face charges for storming the Capitol and interrupting Congress from
certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential win. The Hill
Taliban to Allow 200 Americans, Other Foreigners to Fly Out of Kabul . . . Taliban authorities are allowing some 200 Americans and other foreign citizens to leave the country on a flight to Qatar scheduled for Thursday, the first such departure by air since U.S. forces withdrew last month, Qatari and American officials said. The expected flight by a Qatar Airways Boeing 777 would mark the resumption of international passenger operations
at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, and is expected to be followed by daily air links to foreign countries, a senior Qatari official said. Qatar is facilitating the movement to the airport in a convoy of minibuses that were parked Thursday morning in a Kabul hotel, one of them with a bullet hole through the windshield. Wall Street Journal
Fort Hood shooter congratulates Taliban from death row . . . Nidal Hasan, the radical Islamic terrorist who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, wrote a letter from death row, congratulating the Taliban as the terrorist group took control of Afghanistan. In the letter – which Hasan's attorney, retired Army Col. John Galligan, provided to Fox News – Hasan triumphantly declared, "We Have Won!!!" Hasan, who fatally injured 13 and
wounded more than 30 others, wrote the letter from death row at Fort Leavenworth Prison. Fox News
Pro-China social media campaign hits new countries, blames U.S. for COVID . . . A misinformation campaign on social media in support of Chinese government interests has expanded to new languages and platforms, and it even tried to get people to show up to protests in the United States, researchers at security company FireEye and Google said. The operation has spread to thousands of handles on dozens of sites around the
world. China is now employing misinformation techniques that Russia has used for years. False information about COVID-19 has been a major focus. Accounts on social media in Russian, German, Spanish and other languages have asserted that the novel coronavirus emerged in the United States before China and that it was developed by the U.S. military. Multiple Russian-language LiveJournal accounts used identical wording: "U.S. Ft. Detrick was the source of COVID-19," referring
to the U.S. Army's Fort Detrick installation in Maryland.
Other priorities for the group include criticizing fugitive Chinese propagandist Guo Wengui and his ally, former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon, and exploiting concerns about anti-Asian racism. Reuters
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Pentagon Chief Says Hopes Fading for More Open Taliban Government in Afghanistan . . . The Taliban’s newly named interim Afghan government, which includes former leaders ousted 20 years ago by the U.S. invasion and members of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, dashed international hopes of providing more representative leadership, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday. Austin says he sees no evidence of reforms
after Taliban appoints old guard leaders to top government positions. On Tuesday, the Taliban named a transitional government and declared the restoration of their Islamic Emirate, three weeks after claiming control of Kabul. The new cabinet elevated the traditional hard core of the Taliban leadership, and was made up almost exclusively of ethnic Pashtuns. The interim government also excluded women and other political factions, prompting protests that were violently dispersed. Wall Street Journal
Only incompetent Austin could not have predicted it.
Realizing That Pakistan Is Behind Rise Of Taliban In Afghanistan, Protesters In Kabul Demand that Pakistan Leave Afghanistan . . . Hundreds of Afghans – most of whom were women defying the Taliban jihadis patrolling public life in Afghanistan – turned out in the streets of Kabul chanting anti-Pakistan, anti-Taliban slogans. Some of the slogans raised by the protesters included: "Pakistan, Pakistan, Leave Afghanistan" and "Freedom,
Freedom." The women protesters – chanting "Death to Pakistan," "Allah-o-Akbar," "Freedom," and "We do not want captivity" – demanded the closure of the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul. MEMRI
Libyan Warlord Hires Ex-Clinton Aide Lanny Davis, Ex-Republican House Leader Bob Livingston, to Lobby D.C. . . . A Russian-backed warlord vying for power in Libya has hired a one-time senior aide to President Bill Clinton and a former Republican lawmaker to lead a nearly $1 million effort to lobby the Biden administration for political support, documents show.
Lanny Davis and former Rep. Robert Livingston (R., La.) have signed with militia leader Khalifa Haftar to try to arrange meetings with officials at the White House, State Department and Congress before Libya’s national election scheduled for December, documents filed with the Justice Department show. Human-rights organizations and international prosecutors have accused Mr. Haftar’s forces of war crimes. The lobbying campaign is an effort by Mr. Haftar to regain some of the influence he has
lost since the collapse last year of his 14-month long offensive against the country’s internationally-recognized government in Tripoli. Wall Street Journal
Can't make this stuff up.
Biden Admin Seeks to Waive Sanctions on Assad . . . The Biden administration is expected to waive sanctions on Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad to facilitate an energy deal with Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, according to congressional sources briefed on the matter. The administration wants to waive portions of the bipartisan Caesar Act, which applied wide-ranging sanctions on Assad for his war crimes in Syria, to facilitate an energy deal
with Arab nations that would provide the Assad regime with a financial and political lifeline. Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa who was caught having an extramarital affair with a reporter in 2008 while serving as the Obama administration's ambassadorial nominee to Iraq, is pressing Egypt to sell gas to Lebanon via a pipeline that runs through Syria, congressional sources told the Washington Free Beacon. The Biden administration would have to
waive key sanctions on Assad in order for the deal to go through. Washington Free Beacon
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Vince Coglianese Rips Into Liberals For Celebrating Deaths Of Unvaxxed . . . Radio host and Daily Caller editorial director Vince Coglianese ripped into public figures who suggest that the unvaccinated be denied treatment from COVID-19 while pandering to “people in charge.” Coglianese appeared on the Wednesday episode of Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” where he took aim at comedians Jimmy Kimmel and Howard
Stern for their bits that supported depriving the vaccine-hesitant of vital medical care. “They have decided that they’d rather crap on normal people and suck up to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is the highest paid federal government federal employee,” Coglianese told guest host Brian Kilmeade. Daily Caller
Covering up Fauci’s role in COVID leak . . . Powerful people are going to a lot of effort to protect Dr. Anthony Fauci’s reputation, despite mounting evidence of his role in funding dangerous research on bat coronaviruses in the Chinese laboratory believed to be the most likely source of the pandemic.
It is clear that Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser, misled Congress when he denied that US money had paid for “gain-of-function” research in the Wuhan lab. Grant documents published this week by The Intercept show that the organization Fauci heads, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, funded research in Wuhan on a number of novel (new) bat coronaviruses. Commentary. New York Post
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Janet Yellen warns US Treasury risks running out of cash in October . . . Janet Yellen has warned the US Treasury risks running out of cash next month unless Congress increases its borrowing limit, as Joe Biden’s administration grows increasingly worried about a possible debt default. In a letter to congressional leaders on Wednesday, the Treasury secretary said she could not offer “a specific estimate” of when it would
run out of cash, but the “most likely outcome” was that its coffers would be “exhausted” during October. “A delay that calls into question the federal government’s ability to meet all its obligations would likely cause irreparable damage to the US economy and global financial markets,” Yellen added. The mounting risk of a US sovereign debt crisis as early as next month complicates Biden’s efforts to pass his multitrillion-dollar economic agenda through Congress in the coming weeks. Financial Times
Biden wants solar energy to power 40% of electricity within 14 years . . . Prepare to open your pocketbooks and wallets. From a statement released this morning by the Department of Energy: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released the Solar Futures Study detailing the significant role solar will play in decarbonizing the nation’s power grid. The study shows that by 2035, solar energy has the potential to power 40% of the
nation’s electricity, drive deep decarbonization of the grid, and employ as much as 1.5 million people—without raising electricity prices. The study’s findings call for massive and equitable deployment of clean energy sources, underscoring the Biden Administration’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis and rapidly increase access to renewable power throughout the country. White House Dossier
Biden Admin Spars With Food Processors Over Rising Meat Prices . . . The Biden Administration is pointing to corporate consolidation as the reason for the rising costs Americans are paying for food, but Tyson Foods, the nation’s largest meat processing company, says it rejects this assessment.
A report released by the White House on Wednesday said that about half of the added expenses that consumers have paid at the checkout aisle over the past few months can be attributed to three meats: beef, pork, and poultry. According to the report, prices for beef have risen by 14.0 percent, pork by 12.1 percent, and poultry by 6.6 percent since last December. It goes on to say that there is a processing bottleneck in the supply chain of these meats, dominated by four companies that own
between 55 and 85 percent of the market. It says those companies have seen record profits in the first half of this year while wholesale prices paid to farmers have remained largely flat. Epoch Times
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Amid Big Tech fight, web hosting company gives conservatives a cancel-proof alternative . . . As conservatives look to fight back against what they see as an ideologically driven censorship push by Big Tech, one company is looking to make the building blocks of the Internet cancel-proof – giving conservatives more solid footing online. RightForge is an internet infrastructure company providing server space and web
hosting, with what it describes as an ideological commitment to free speech, and it is offering a platform that caters to conservative outlets, campaigns and others who fear they could be canceled by Big Tech. "We are absolutely ideological," CEO Martin Avila told Fox News in an interview. "What we saw here was the need to have the internet, because it was created in America, carry with it as part of its principles American values, American ideology – that’s our ideology. We believe that
the American framework, the core ideas enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution incubated the internet. Fox Business
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10 Reasons It's Way Better To Just Let The Government Take Care Of The Poor . . .
1) There's literally no other way to care for the poor.
2) The government is known for its compassion and mercy in all things: Just listen to politicians whenever they speak.
3) Just look how happy all the people on welfare are.
4) The government is very efficient and always accomplishes its missions perfectly.
5) Americans have enough on their plates already.
6) Thousands of government bureaucrats need something to do with their time: Do you want all those federal employees sitting around feeling bored? What will that do to their self-esteem?
7) Nobody knows the people in your community better than a government official living 2,000 miles away.
8) Poor people are completely incapable of rising to any challenge or living a life of meaning: It's better to just give them money and hope they leave everyone alone.
9) Welfare is so successful, its rolls grow more and more every year.
10) With the government on the case, it leaves more time for you to sit around and watch football. Babylon Bee
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