Sunday, April 3, 2022

Politics: Biden’s Very Troubled Presidency

Tony Branco

What We’re Reading: Biden Flails, Russia Bails, Oscar Ails . . . And More – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

Joe Biden Uses Cheat Sheet to Give Pre-Scripted Answers to Reporters’ Prearranged Questions About Ukraine — American Greatness

Analysis: 1.1 Million More Illegal Aliens in U.S. Since Biden Took Office — Breitbart

$4,638,000,000,000: Biden’s Budget Calls for Record Taxes in 2023 — CNSNews

Oil Industry Report Warns Of Massive Job Losses From Biden’s Anti-Drilling Agenda — The Daily Caller

Manchin shoots down Biden’s new billionaire tax plan  — The Hill

The Tragedy Of Bidenomics

Who caused inflation? — American Thinker

Farmers on the Brink — Doomberg Substack

Here Comes the Food Shortage! — PJ Media

Dollar Dominance Isn’t Going Away — City Journal

Unbeknown To Most, A Financial Revolution Is Coming That Threatens To Change Everything (And Not For The Better) — NakedCapitalism.com

Larry Summers: ‘the situation continues to resemble the 1970s’ — New York Times, via Hot Air

San Francisco Fed Blames Inflation on Biden Admin. Spending — NewsMax

More...

To Biden’s Handlers: Shut Him Up, and Shut Him Down - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   Every time he opens his mouth, we get closer to World War III.

"Shut him up, and shut him down. He doesn’t need to be put out there in public anymore. It’s been a year, and we all know it won’t get any better, and it’s no good now."

Ukrainian troops around Kiev horrified by what retreating Russians left behind

 Ukrainian troops around Kiev horrified by what retreating Russians left behind – HotAir   . . ."Reporters entering Irpin for the first time in weeks describe a devastated city:

The town whose once leafy parks were left strewn with bodies is now back under Ukrainian control, as Russian troops hastily pull back from outside Kyiv…

Barely a building has escaped the fighting unscathed. Shelling has blasted huge chunks out of modern, pastel-coloured apartment blocks.

The foggy streets are eerily empty, littered with cars with bullet-scarred windscreens, and echoing with the sound of stray dogs.

“It’s the apocalypse,” says a Ukrainian soldier who hitches a ride across the empty town.

"The streets of Bucha are even more apocalyptic, as this horrifying video shows:

 

Biden wish for Trump prosecution leaked as Democrats mount pressure campaign on DOJ


 Biden wish for Trump prosecution leaked as Democrats mount pressure campaign on DOJ | Washington Examiner   
"A new report claims President Joe Biden has told people he wants former President Donald Trump to be prosecuted.

"The leak was published in the New York Times on Saturday as Democrats mount increasing pressure on the Justice Department to take action against Trump and people within his orbit in relation to the Capitol riot. At focus are Attorney General Merrick Garland and his "deliberative approach," as the report put it, which is causing frustration.

"As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments," the report read. "And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6."

"Just what Trump would be prosecuted for is unclear. However, the House committee investigating the Capitol riot says its investigators have reason to believe Trump and his associates broke multiple laws in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. In a recent court filing for John Eastman, a Trump-linked conservative lawyer, the panel said it has evidence to show Trump may have engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States and illegally impede Congress's counting of electoral votes.

"Nevertheless, the House committee can only make a criminal referral, leaving the onus on the Justice Department.

"Trump and his associates have repeatedly denied any criminality related to the Capitol riot, which took place on the day Congress met to certify Biden's 2020 election victory, and its surrounding events. One former aide, Steve Bannon, has been indicted on contempt charges for refusing to comply with subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee, while another, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, has so far escaped prosecution.

"White House spokesman Andrew Bates offered comment for the article, insisting that Biden "is immensely proud of the attorney general’s service in this administration and has no role in investigative priorities or decisions.". . .

When politicians and media can't get enough division, they fabricate it


 When politicians and media can't get enough division, they fabricate it - American Thinker  "In 2016, a YouTube movie review channel known as RedLetterMedia posted a video discussing the deceits surrounding, and controversy at the time regarding, the new Ghostbusters movie, featuring four female protagonists in replacement of the original all-male cast.  The nature of their video could be used to illustrate how much our current-day politics suffers from the same types of deceptions. ". . .

. . ."Then Sony handpicked reviewers and bloggers to attend early screenings of the film.  Apparently, they paid people to see the movie once it came out and lie about how much they enjoyed it.

So one can begin to see how relatively simple it is to create a narrative.  Ultimately, there was an insignificant number of hateful comments posted, and Sony, along with its accomplices in the entertainment media, exacerbated a minuscule issue, besmirching American culture and society in the process.  According to Mike Stoklasa at RedLetterMedia, "they were able to ignite a fraudulent movement based on a dumb, unfunny 'comedy' film."

Now, who is to say that our government and their lackeys in the mainstream media do not do the exact same sort of thing on a daily basis for the purpose of misleading the public on a whole host of issues?  Remember when Democrats besmirched the TEA Party (who merely felt they were being overtaxed) by claiming to have seen saw swastikas at their rallies?  There was no evidence of this, but it did not matter.  It made it into the zeitgeist anyway.  The same thing happened with the Michael Brown "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" fiasco, which happened very differently from how it was reported.  Who could forget how NBC News doctored George Zimmerman's call regarding Trayvon Martin in an effort to make Zimmerman look racist?  I recall when an MSNBC reporter referred to Black Lives Matter protests in Minneapolis as "mostly peaceful" while buildings burned behind him.  Look at how quickly people were willing to buy into Jussie Smollett's bald-faced lie that he was assaulted by racist MAGA supporters.

Remember this when the powers that be try to tell you there is a racist white supremacist behind every tree, that there is a rape culture on college campuses, that there are widespread weekly school shootings, or that there is an epidemic of police shooting unarmed black people, or that "trans women" are women while "Lia Thomas" crushes the competition, or the current "gay" misinformation campaign regarding Florida's recent anti-grooming bill, despite that fact that the word "gay" is nowhere within it, or that the "science" declares for safety that we wear masks, lockdown for years, get a mandatory vaccine (or get fired), get mandatory booster after booster, et cetera, et cetera.

Looking for a Democrat who stands up to the crazies? Here he is

 Looking for a Democrat who stands up to the crazies? Here he is - American Thinker

"Over the last 15 months, Rep. Henry Cuellar of South Texas has been a loud critic of President Biden's border policies, such as eliminating Title 42.  Cuellar was one of two Democrats in Texas to say no!

"On another matter, Mr. Cuellar is refusing to go along with his party.  This is from The Texas Tribune:

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a moderate Democrat from Laredo, broke with his party to vote against a landmark marijuana legalization bill on Friday that passed in the House. Only one other Democrat voted against it.

Cuellar, who is currently in a fierce runoff for his 10th term against progressive attorney Jessica Cisneros, has long infuriated progressive Democrats with his conservative positions on many social issues. 

The Laredo politician opposes abortion and was the lone Democrat to vote against federal abortion rights [sic] legislation last fall.

"Yes, Mr. Cuellar is making it easy for the AOC wing of the party to hate him, opposing open borders, marijuana, and abortion.

"Mr. Cuellar may pay a price for his conservatism or independence.  He is fighting to keep his seat in a party runoff.

"At the same time, Mr. Cuellar may know his district better than we do.  It is a culturally conservative section of Texas trending Republican, in large part because of the Democrat party's attack on the 2nd Amendment, support of abortion, and open borders.

"Last, but not least, Mr. Cuellar could switch parties and come to our side.  My guess is that he'll have more in common with us than the woke Democrats."

AOC-endorsed candidate Jessica Cisneros forces Texas runoff (nypost.com)


“How is it Ethical to Have These Conversations with Outlets?” Reporter Asks Psaki About Joining MSNBC

 "How is it Ethical to Have These Conversations with Outlets?" Reporter Asks Psaki About Joining MSNBC (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)

"White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday was asked about her plans to join MSNBC.

"Jen Psaki is reportedly set to leave the Biden White House for MSNBC, Axios reported Friday.

"White House reporters have known these negotiations were going on behind the scenes but they acted surprised and concerned on Friday.

“ 'Is it true that you are leaving the White House to work for MSNBC?” a reporter asked Psaki.". . .

From the comments to this post:

Jen Psaki quitting the White House. MSNBC has hired her. Perfect. Propaganda rules!

Not Everything Is Ideology, Disney

 Before ruining a company that seemed impossible to ruin, these insane Disney executives should have read G. K. Chesterton, or anything at all really, and then put up a big neon sign over their headquarters, bearing the words of the old English writer: “That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”

Not Everything Is Ideology, Disney - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  "No matter what kind of attitude you adopt on the street, the way you dress, the speed you choose to drive at, or the words you use to address the shopkeeper, someone will be watching and forming a political opinion about you. We live in a time when even going to the supermarket to buy a chicken can become a heinous, militant ideological act, even if the chicken is not right-wing. From sports to social relations, everything is tainted by ideology.

"Any practice that has not managed to transcend into some kind of political idea has fallen into historical disuse, and the resulting world is of such ideological intensity that we are left exhausted by the end of the day. I go to sleep and before I close my eyes, I think: ‘And how should I be doing this from a conservative point of view?’

"Yes, we have gone crazy. Or rather, we’ve been driven crazy. By whom? Them. Because if there is another characteristic of contemporary ideological confrontation, it is the simplification of any problem to two sides: the good guys and the bad guys. I don’t care much for what in Europe they call centrism, which tries to dilute any moral dilemma into a grayscale, but I admit that dividing all reality into good and bad reminds me too much of the binary code used by machines. I don’t know about you, but I long for the time when life allowed us to choose between more than two positions.". . .

I'm a mom and I'm saying goodbye to Disney  . . ."Turning Red" rated PG, is the story of a thirteen-year-old girl named Mei who inherits her family’s curse to become a red panda whenever she feels passionate emotions, including sexual tension, which feels wildly inappropriate in a movie targeting young children like mine. The adults at Disney create a storyline for the young main character and her fictional friends around their attraction of an older boy dangerously close to being a legal adult at seventeen. 

"It’s even more appalling when Mei begins to draw this boy in what a "Turning Red" YouTube account calls "dirty drawings." Her drawings include half-naked sketches of him, and, at one point, she crawls under her bed to get all hot and sweaty with her sketchbook of semi-nude scribbles. It would be hard to explain this scene as anything other than masturbation. 

"Mei and her friends are in a tug of war with their parents that the writers sexualize as they have the characters catcalling boys at school, endorsing "stripper music," and making plans to rebel against their parents who have legitimate concerns for their safety. But it gets worse.". . .

Disney just can’t seem to quit grooming kids - American Thinker  . . ."It’s been apparent for a while that Disney has strayed from Walt Disney’s vision of a traditional family-friendly product and has become, instead, an entity dedicated to advocating for the LGBTQ++ cohort. You can see the trajectory in (a) the increasingly open same-sex love LeFou has for Gaston in Beauty and the Beast (in the animated version, it was hero worship; in the 2017 life-action movie, it was open), (b) the lesbian cop in Onward, (c) the fish who’s also a boy in Luca, a story that all sentient people understand as a metaphor for so-called transgenderism, and (d) Disney’s Muppet Babies pushing cross-dressing. Meanwhile, Disney has also actively courted the LGBTQ++ crowd at its theme parks.". . .