Biden's not merely old, he is incompetent

 Biden's Problem Isn't Age—It's Biden | Opinion; Newt Gingrich

The truth is, as a candidate, U.S. senator, vice president, and president, Biden has always had a loose relationship with reality—and a stunning willingness to just make things up.  

. . ."Those who argue that President Joe Biden is too old to run for reelection are wrong. He's not too old—he's too Joe Biden.

"His age isn't the problem. His competence is." . . .

"Paul McCartney is staying busy and traveling around the world at 81 as one of the wealthiest musicians in the world (estimated to be worth more than $1 billion). 

"Dame Judi Dench continues to make several movies a year at 88.

"Chuck Grassley, who will be 90 in less than two weeks, was reelected to his eighth term in the U.S. Senate. He was first elected in 1980. He is now the longest-serving Republican senator in history and is aggressive in digging out the facts about corruption in the Biden administration and continuing his work with whistleblowers. 

"Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) took up painting at 78 and became a world-famous painter who created more than 1,500 paintings. She passed away at 101.

"The point of this long list of continuing achievers is that age is not the problem for them. Some people age well and remain major contributors to their art or profession. Others age badly and become less effective long before many of their contemporaries. " . . .

"The truth is, as a candidate, U.S. senator, vice president, and president, Biden has always had a loose relationship with reality—and a stunning willingness to just make things up. 

"His recent story about his house almost burning down is a lie he has told on at least eight occasions over the years. It simply is not true, and that simply does not matter to Biden.

"President Biden telling the parents of those who were killed during his administration's disastrous Afghanistan evacuation that his son Beau had died while serving in Iraq is another example of his unending—and, indeed, mystifying—willingness to make things up. (Beau died from cancer in Maryland.) 

"Biden's lack of accurate memory may have gotten a little worse—but there has always been a big gap between the truth and his recollections. 

"Importantly, the president's cognitive decline is clear and painful. To have the leader of the most powerful nation in the world wander around a stage because he does not know where he is supposed to go—or what he is supposed to do—is just plain frightening. His slipping mind compounds with his lifetime of yarn-spinning and it makes both seem worse. 

"Just remember the next time this comes up: it isn't about Biden's age, it's about Biden."

Israel: Now is the Time for Choosing

  CarolineGlick.com

"Israel’s choice is between defeating its enemies on the battlefield even at the cost of terrible condemnation and isolation or collapsing under pressure and losing. Israel is called to make this choice in the immediate term, and its fate stands or falls with its decision about Rafah."

"Early this week, rumors began to swirl that ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan is poised to act on these groundless complaints and issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces. . .

. . ."Israel’s war is not a war of choice. It isn’t a conflict that Israel can shrug its shoulders and walk away from, or opt for a limited goal of blocking incoming strikes. This is a war for national survival. Hamas made clear the genocide it aims to achieve on Oct. 7. Its appalling cruelty to the hostages it has held captive for more than six months demonstrates still further that there is no way to fight to a draw with this jihadist terror regime. There is no “deal” to be had with Hamas leaders. The same is true of Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon. And, of course, the same is true of Iran.

"Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and their terror partners have used all the resources at their disposal to expand their capacity to annihilate Israel. They have not done this to jockey for stronger negotiating positions. They are putting everything they have into building these capacities because they really want to destroy Israel and kill the Jews. The calls for Israel’s destruction are not mere slogans. They are solid commitments.

"The good news is that Israel has the military and economic power to defeat its enemies completely. The bad news is that in their efforts, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and their other partners are not fighting alone. While the United States and other Western nations are willing to speak out against Hamas and Iran from time to time, they completely oppose Israel’s effort to defeat its enemies. Israel is permitted to defend against incoming attacks. But it is prohibited from taking decisive offensive action.

"To block Israel from winning, the United States and its partners in Europe and the United Nations are waging an unprecedented, comprehensive and ever-escalating political war against Israel. Its clear goal is to criminalize Israel’s war effort and to effectively deny the Jewish state the right to self-defense." . . .

Joe Biden Is, at Best, a Fair-Weather Friend of Israel | Opinion (Newsweek)

. . ."The first lesson of the Shoah is that Israel will defend the Jewish people in the Land of Israel as an independent, democratic country; allies are essential and friends are welcome, but Jews will no longer sit at the mercy of governments that may be friendly one day but not the next. Israel has the right and obligation to make decisions about its safety and security.

"The second lesson is that American choices that empower Israel's enemies, and that constrict the flexibility and defensive capability of Israel, ignore the first lesson and engender a rift in the relationship.

"That is exactly what has happened under Biden's presidency." . . .

Biden’s troubled Gaza strategy: ‘the US looks feckless’ (Financial Times)  ..."But most importantly, Biden does not want to be seen as the president that allowed the worst massacre on the Jewish people since the Holocaust to pass without consequence, analysts say. Not only did Biden denounce the Hamas attack as “sheer evil”, but within days he was in Tel Aviv visiting Netanyahu and the Israeli war cabinet." . . .

"US officials do not believe that a cooler or even a more combative approach to Israel — such as the one that Barack Obama adopted during his years in the White House — would necessarily help trigger a change of heart by Israel and may, in fact, backfire. Biden administration officials say that while they have some sway with Israel, the notion that they dictate the terms of Israel’s campaign or can tell it when to stop are overblown." . . . 

As Jewish Heritage Month Begins, Let's Recognize Donald Trump's Achievements

 As Jewish Heritage Month Begins, Let's Recognize Donald Trump's Achievements (townhall.com)

"With President Trump, promises made were promises kept. Unfortunately, the promises President Washington made—“which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance”—seem to have been forgotten by the Biden administration. . . ."

"In 1790, Moses Seixas, warden of  Congregation Yeshuat Israel of Newport, sent a letter of thanks, on behalf of the Jewish community, to the first President of the United States. With a “deep sense of gratitude,” he praised a government built by the people “generously affording to All liberty of conscience, and [immunities] of Citizenship.”

"In his response, President George Washington declared that “happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens[…].”

"While a traditional article on Jewish American Heritage Month would celebrate the many accomplishments of Jewish Americans since the early days of our republic, this year is different. We cannot escape the alarming dangers, both at home and abroad, brought on by the current administration. 

"We have seen a sharp rise in virulent, open antisemitism on our college campuses and in our streets, with a landscape that’s becoming more toxic by the day. We have seen the Biden administration’s agonizingly weak foreign policy, which has emboldened and empowered Iran—and therefore Hezbollah, Hamas, and ISIS. Jews are under attack everywhere and our current Federal government can only play politics.

Trumps Veep? Not a chance

"For those in the Jewish community who need reminding of the accomplishments of the Trump Administration, in which I and many other Jewish-Americans proudly served our country, the contrast couldn’t be more stark.

"It was President Trump who followed through on more than two decades of promises to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It was President Trump who recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  And it was President Trump who brokered the historic Abraham Accords—peace deals with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. It was President Trump who extended the protections of Title VI to defund universities that failed to suppress antisemitism. For every year that President Trump issued a proclamation for Jewish American Heritage Month, we saw success after success, not just for Jewish people around the world, but also for the State of Israel." . . .

Joe Biden Just Committed an Impeachable Offense, and Donald Trump Might Have Something to Say About It

If this contemptible Quisling* was president in 1939-1945, they would be speaking German in England, and all the British War Cabinet, Including Winston Churchill, long dead. TD

Bonchie – RedState

"With that said, this is another example of the president throwing Israel under the bus. He's so terrified he's going to lose the Islamists in Dearborn, MI, and with it, the presidency, that he's willing to hold up already-passed aid to an ally in the middle of the most crucial part of their operation against a terrorist group. If it weren't real life, you'd think it was a parody." 

"Joe Biden has committed his umpteenth impeachable offense. According to reports, the Biden administration has halted multiple arms shipments to Israel. That decision comes amid a domestic political crisis for the president in which he is desperately seeking to appease Hamas-supporting Democrats who have taken to the streets. 

"The shipments are Boeing-made precision bombs and follow a ruse by Hamas to claim they had accepted a "ceasefire" just as Israel began its assault on Rafah. 

"In other words, Biden just committed an impeachable offense. Congress appropriated that aid to Israel. He doesn't get to delay it in an attempt to smooth over his political misfortunes at home. How do I know that? Because that's the standard Democrats set with their first impeachment of Donald Trump. 

"The former president was impeached and given a trial in the Senate in early 2020 based on the idea that he had held up an aid package to Ukraine in an attempt to benefit politically (in this case, investigating Biden family corruption in the country). There is no tangible difference between that and what Biden is doing with this aid to Israel. Congress appropriated the money, and it is being held up by the president to benefit him politically. 

"In other words, Biden just committed an impeachable offense. Congress appropriated that aid to Israel. He doesn't get to delay it in an attempt to smooth over his political misfortunes at home. How do I know that? Because that's the standard Democrats set with their first impeachment of Donald Trump. 

"The former president was impeached and given a trial in the Senate in early 2020 based on the idea that he had held up an aid package to Ukraine in an attempt to benefit politically (in this case, investigating Biden family corruption in the country). There is no tangible difference between that and what Biden is doing with this aid to Israel. Congress appropriated the money, and it is being held up by the president to benefit him politically. " . . .

*Quisling: " . . ." a citizen or politician of an occupied country who collaborates with an enemy occupying force – or more generally as a synonym for traitor or collaborator.^[1][2][3] The word originates from the surname of the Norwegian war-time leader Vidkun Quisling, who headed a domestic Nazi collaborationist regime during World War II."

The Democrat Party's Antisemitism Went Big With Barack Obama

 The Federalist

Obama’s embrace of antisemites is responsible for the anti-Israel radicalism rampant among Democrats today.

"In 2018, a photo surfaced showing Obama and well-known antisemite Louis Farrakhan smiling together during a 2005 Congressional Black Caucus meeting. Farrakhan — who heads Nation of Islam, a black supremacist group — has claimed that Judaism is a “gutter religion,” whites are a “race of devils,” and Adolf Hitler “was a very great man.”

"For a man who has never been shy about sharing his sanctimonious opinions, former President Barack Obama has been noticeably quiet about anti-Israel anarchists’ takeover of U.S. college campuses.

"'On Monday, Columbia University — Obama’s alma mater — announced it will not host its university-wide commencement ceremony for this year’s graduating class. That appears to be a response to the pro-Hamas demonstrations that have engulfed the school for weeks. The announcement came days after the university (finally) permitted law enforcement to arrest participants unlawfully occupying a school building.

"One would imagine the erection of illegal encampments and harassment of Jewish students at Columbia and other American universities would prompt outcry from any former president. Donald Trump, for example, has repeatedly condemned these demonstrators and their anti-Israeli sentiments. But for Obama, the task is seemingly too difficult.

"Since the launch of the Columbia encampments last month, Obama has issued a smattering of posts on X, none of which address leftists’ takeover of campuses throughout the country. While the former president wished Jews a happy Passover on April 22, he couldn’t be bothered to condemn the antisemitic behavior on display at his alma mater or any of America’s post-secondary institutions." . . .

How do two feckless self-absorbed men greet each other? Like this:  ‘I Just Want To Take A Moment To Drink You In’: Colbert Praises Obama During Interview

“Can we just take moment- I can just- and I want to talk. I just want to take a moment to drink you in for just a moment. Because I’m having to get used to looking at a president again,” Colbert said, prompting a laugh from Obama.

Stephen Colbert flirts with Barack Obama during lovefest interview: ‘I just want to take a moment to drink you in’ | The Post Millennial

In a series of bootlicking exchanges during a sit-down interview, former President Barack Obama and Democratic sycophant Stephen Colbert engaged in eye-rolling flirtatious banter. 

America's Alice-in-Wonderland judicial system

 

This first post is Joy Reid-worthy:   Maxine beyond repair - Silvio Canto, Jr.  . . ."Democratic Representative Maxine Waters stated Donald Trump supporters are “training in the hills” in preparation for an attack.

“I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that [Trump] is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere and targeting what communities they are going to attack,” she said.

Waters’ allegation comes as she fears what might happen if US President Joe Biden wins the November 5 election.

The 85-year-old appeared on MSNBC’s ‘The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart’ when she made the bold claim.

Waters’ comments about Trump could be considered hypocritical after she ordered her supporters to “absolutely harass” members of Trump’s cabinet in 2018.

"To be honest, I don't follow MSNBC -- I'd rather watch cartoons -- but these comments from the congresswoman merit some response."

. . ."Of course, the Congresswoman knows that MSNBC is the only venue on TV that would let her say that. Even “desperately looking for ratings” CNN would pull the plug on this woman and tell her to get some help, and quickly." . . .

Jack Smith's Lawfare Scheme Under Scrutiny and Fraying -  "Prior to the Obama-era the radicals tearing down government defended the transparently guilty, their allies and fellow traveling communists. Those who were arrested for violence the radicals supported, were defended, excused and their activity justified.

"After the election of Obama, as noted first by author Jack Cashill, something changed; the radicals reversed their position. Instead of defending the transparently guilty, the Obama aligned usurpers -now with actual power at their fingertips- began accusing the transparently innocent.

"In the “anger games” era of Barack Obama, the radicals began attacking the innocent and using their allies in media as part of the attack narrative. George Zimmerman, Darren Wilson, the Baltimore-six, etc. The list is long; we tracked them all with detailed research; however, the theme amid every story was the same. Isolate, ridicule and marginalize the transparently innocent target and make them appear guilty." . . .

The kangaroos keep coming in Judge Merchan's courtroom - Monica Showalter

. . ."He's telling Smith what he's allowed to testify about instead of letting New York district attorney Alvin Bragg make those arguments to the jury. He's saving Alvin the hard work of having to defend his flimsy politically motivated prosecution by gagging Trump's best witness.

Victoria Taft at PJMedia points out that this testimony could well make a difference in how the jury views the so-called 'crime' of this argument over bookkeeping entries." . ..

 FNC's Turley: Judge Merchan 'Lost Control of His Courtroom'  The trial has been the punishment. TD

. . . [Turley] continued:

So the court had the opportunity repeatedly to say we are not going to take this courtroom through details of this relationship. If you want to establish a relationship occurred, do so. Establish the dates, it’s likely those facts could’ve been been stipulated to. So the prosecutors wanted to get salacious details out. This is a form of punishment. They are trying to use a witness for punitive purposes and in my view, political purposes, and this is what happens. It happened because the judge lost control of his courtroom.

"John Roberts said, “There seems to be no argument, Jonathan, that this was only to make Trump look like a bad guy. ”

"Turley said, “You know, you really can’t have this cat walk backward. The judge knows that, the prosecutors know that, but what the prosecutors are arguing here is completely ridiculous.”

Georgia Appeals Court Agrees to Review Fani Willis Disqualification Ruling | The Epoch Times     "The Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed to review the decision a trial court judge issued that allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to stay on the high-profile case against former President Donald Trump so long as she took a special prosecutor off the case to avoid the appearance of impropriety." . . .

Israeli Officials Say U.S. Blindsided Them with Surprise Hamas 'Agreement'

 Joel B. Pollak (breitbart.com) 

No, Bibi, NO!

"Israeli officials said Monday that Biden administration officials had secretly worked with mediators, without Israel’s knowledge, to craft a Hamas “agreement” to ceasefire terms in an attempt to deter an attack on Hamas in Rafah.

"On Monday, as Breitbart News reported, with Israel beginning its operation in Rafah by warning civilians to leave, Hamas suddenly announced that it agreed to a “ceasefire” — on unfamiliar terms that Israel had not actually offered.

"Israel, regarding the move as a bluff aimed at the international media in an attempt to pressure Israel to abandon the operation, decided to send junior-level diplomats to Cairo, Egypt, to explore talks, while continuing to fight in Rafah.

"The White House seized on the announcement of an agreement by Hamas, though it would not say (or speculate) what was in the agreement itself, puzzling reporters.

"Barak Ravid of Axios.com reported (original emphasis):

Israeli officials claim the Biden administration knew about the latest hostage and ceasefire deal proposal Egypt and Qatar negotiated with Hamas, but didn’t brief Israel before Hamas announced it accepted it on Monday. A senior U.S. official pushed back saying “American diplomats have been engaged with Israeli counterparts. There have been no surprises.”  …

Judenrein in America

"They are honing their skills.  Our leaders have failed us miserably in their feckless response to what could essentially be called a minor revolution.  For all those downplayers and deniers of this, taking down the American flag and putting up a foreign flag is just that.  This is not hyperbole."  I love this scene from "Saving Private Ryan"

Michael Berenhaus - American Thinker   "Judenrein, the German word for an area “cleansed of Jews,” used by the Nazis to describe their ultimate goal, is alive and well in America.  On college campuses, if a Jew does not conform to a certain ideology, he is not allowed in — not welcome.  And that is the state of affairs in numerous American college campuses today.  There are blocked off zones, cleansed of Jews or Jew-free.

Lost on politicians, college administrators, and some other Americans is that if this occurred with any other ethnic or racial group, it would be widely abhorred, without debate.  However, it seems to get a free pass while being done to the most persecuted people in the history of the world.

How do we know this?  Few seem to be in a hurry to stop it.  These ethnically cleansed college zones continue and are metastasizing.  So much for the selective “Inclusion” part of the darling progressive initiative across America known as “diversity, inclusion, and equity” or DIE.  DIE has done nothing for Jews but let them down.  The ethnic group that makes up 2% of the American population is the recipient of more acts of hatred against it than all other religious groups combined.  Fathom that!  Moreover, it dwarfs the other groups, since October 7." . . .

Douglas Murray: Students Chanting "Intifada" Clueless To Its Evil

Listen to What They’re Chanting; Reuters  Mindless sheep.

. . .The chanting creates a rhythm that can induce a sort of hypnosis, fusing individuals into a movement. The beat should be no more sophisticated than Bum-bah bum-bah bum-bah bum-bah, as in, “There is only one solution! Intifada, revolution!” To claim that a chant means only what it says is like asserting that a theatrical production is the same as a script." . . .

Can the disgusting scarf people on campus be educated to the point that they become capable of discerning what is naively campus fashionable and what is absolutely evil? Are they not aware of the years of attacks on Israeli homes and families with rockets, bombs, and knives by these murderous people calling themselves "Palestinians"?

Jews have been attacked and massacred en masse for no reason than they are who they are, and were at last given a home for their own in the land that had been theirs since the days of Abraham. Two movies I see as properly connected are, of course, "Schindler's List", coupled with "Exodus", a story of Holocaust victims leaving Europe for the land of their own, first told as given them by God in Genesis 12. 

Over the past century, evil people including Nazis, the Hitlerphile Nazi copycat Mussolini, Muslims, and the so-called Palestinians have burned Jews alive with glee. Jew's desire to live in peace in their land which they made to prosper has been anathema to those people who now include easily influenced American campus sheep chanting phrases they do not understand. The Tunnel Dweller

 J-TV (youtube.com)  Douglas Murray explains to the ignorant students the meaning of their words.

Douglas Murray: Can You Change People's Minds on Israel? "It seems Israel is the only country in the world not allowed to defend itself."

@roisinsherrard3940   "You make a huge difference Douglas , even if it's just sowing a doubtful seed into the mind of a brainwashed Hamasian follower . What an incredible voice for the truth you are . How anyone could be anti Israel and pro Hamas is beyond belief. Haven't the Jews already suffered enough throughout history , can they not be left in peace !!!"

Comments to the top video here:

  "My name is Betty and I live in Jerusalem. During the second intifada on June 18 2002 my cusin, age 11, went on a bus to her school. The bus exploted, it was a hammas suacide boomber. My cusin survived only because she sat behind a plastic barrior. She had to go through multipul surgeries for a whole year because inside the explosive was a box of nails to make as much damage as possible. The survivers of these attacks sometimes takes years ro recover physically and imotionally. On that attack alone 19 people died and 74 were injured.

"This is what intifada really means." @Bettybaminjerusalem

@TmHudsonArt posted:  "Konstantin Kisin here in the Uk attended a pro hamas rally and was also asking young people these questions and about their signs and they had absolutely no idea what any of it meant. One said he'd just bought the sign and another said he was given it. They had no idea what an intifada was or what river, what sea.........but yet had taken time out of their lives to attend a protest promoting it. These people think they are the smartest people. They are a complete and utter joke. Unfortunately, I know even old people who are very strongly pro palestine and anti israel. A friend of mine who is actually retired referred to it as Israhell.....

"She got rather funny with me when she found out I wasn't in the same camp lol. I told her it was silly to fall out over something happening on the oither side of the world and neither of our views was going to change anything over there anyway. I really cannot grasp how she can hold her views but there we go.....I managed to sort of hold onto the friendship for now but this subject has to be avoided at all costs...."