Joe Biden Trying to Charge $300K for Speeches, Having Trouble Finding Customers

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“If travel is required, a private jet and expenses for five staffers also is expected for Biden, who has been repped since early February by the Creative Artists Agency.”

Joe Biden is trying to follow in the footsteps of Bill and Hillary Clinton, charging massive fees to give speeches. Now that the influence peddling is gone, he has to make up the loss in income, somehow.

The problem old Joe is running into, is that there’s just not a huge market for barely coherent speeches that drift from creepy whispering to suddenly yelling angrily at the audience.

The New York Post reports:

Joe Biden ‘having trouble booking gigs’ with $300K per speech asking price

Former President Joe Biden’s attempt to bill $300,000 per speaking appearance is finding few takers, The Post has learned — as some of his own former aides say it’s time for the 82-year-old to leave the spotlight for good after reminiscing about “colored kids” Tuesday in his first public address since leaving office.

A source familiar with Biden’s faltering speaking career said that the 46th president’s standard pitch is $300,000 — 25% below Barack Obama’s $400,000 asking price upon leaving office in 2017." . . .

"Joe Rogan had some fun with this. Watch:

Joe Rogan shares his take on Biden’s first speech since leaving office — and he’s not holding back:

"Who’s letting him talk? This is crazy."pic.twitter.com/NMTsUXpUOQ

Scott Jennings puts Senator Van Hollen on blast for meeting with Abrego Garcia.

“If you’re explaining how you came to be sipping margaritas with an MS13 gang banger who’s lived illegally in the US for 14 years before he was finally deported. You’re losing, okay? You’re losing.”

Scott Jennings puts Senator Van Hollen on blast for meeting with Abrego Garcia. pic.twitter.com/aAKZkEfPi9

— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) April 19, 2025

Scott Jennings calls out Senator Van Hollen for meeting with an MS-13 gang member who had been illegally in the U.S. for 14 years, a consequence of the failed policies under the previous Biden administration. These failures have allowed dangerous criminals to slip through and jeopardize American safety. – Trump Gunner

Dems and Dem Activists are pretending these potential Dem Voters, may be Tortured and Murdered? While ignoring families of the American victims that were actually tortured and murdered by these new, vicious friends of Dem Leaders! – Walt

Van Hollen needed to make that guy was told to not spill the beans on what the dems wanted him in the US for.

From MD We are being taxed to death, with new fees, old fees doubled, & some tripled. Our governor turned a 5 billion surplus into a 3 billion deficit. Energy costs have risen 200%- 57% of MDs are talking about leaving & Van Hollen flies to El Salvador? What about the rest of MD? – Denise Kay

Fake Virtue Lowers the Value of Citizenship   . . ."The usual suspects in the political realm are posing as champions of democracy. Senators fly off to El Salvador, hoping to make grand gestures of righteous advocacy for the case of a Salvadoran citizen here illegally. The Salvadoran has had his several days in court, was found by the judge to be an MS-13 gang member — and this finding was upheld on appeal —  and was ordered removed from the country. Moreover, his girlfriend had twice lodged complaints to Maryland courts that he physically assaulted her. But the Senators are appealing beyond the law, claiming somehow that not to do so would destroy the Constitution, and that deporting this man meant American citizens had to fear being jailed on the President’s whim.

"Clearly, the Senators believe that their audience don’t have the logical powers of even a third grader. They are making a grand theatrical gesture of virtue — that should be enough to override every rational consideration and have everyone in awe of them.

"It is nice to go beyond the law when it is your sacrifice — you suffer the consequence of your choice, which makes the sacrifice genuine. But that is not the Senators’ intention. They will not live in the neighborhood of this gangbanger if they succeed and force his return to the U.S. The Senators and their like live in safe places, and let the subordinate classes pay for their grand displays of virtue." . . .

Easter: the Resurrection of Jesus Transformed the World Forever

 Scott S. Powell  

"It turns out that Easter, which has its ultimate meaning through the resurrection, is one of ancient history’s most scrutinized and best attested events. Easter is the commemoration and celebration of the single event that transformed the world forever."

Across cultures throughout human history, people have sought to flee oppression and escape persecution. A recurring theme in Western literature and in modern classics such as Superman and Disney originals, which revolve around the struggle between good and evil, is the need and critical role for a rescuer or savior.

Easter is the celebration of the finished work of the messiah Jesus Christ, the ultimate rescuer and savior for mankind, who sacrificed his life to provide forgiveness of sin -- enabling all who believe in Christ to have a direct relationship with God.

That no other religion makes the claim that it was founded by a messiah makes Jesus the most revolutionary figure of human history.      

Still, some assume Christianity is like other religions that require followers to perform certain works and rituals acceptable to God. Not so with Jesus, for he implores us in Matthew 11:30 that, “My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” When a learned Jewish Pharisee, whose life required living up to stressful “dos and don’ts” of the Mosaic law, asked Jesus which was the greatest commandment in the law, Jesus answered simply that if we love God and love our neighbor as ourselves, we will have fulfilled all the laws.

Christ is absolutely unique in other ways. First, he is the only person in history who was pre-announced starting a thousand years before he was born, with eighteen different prophets between the tenth and the fourth centuries B.C. predicting his coming birth, life, and death. Hundreds of years later, the details of Christ’s coming birth, life, betrayal, and manner of death validated those prophecies in surprisingly accurate and minute detail. One thousand years B.C., David prophetically wrote about the crucifixion of Christ, at a time when crucifixion was unknown as a means of execution.

The death of other religious leaders -- such as Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Mohammad, or Confucius -- brought anticlimactic endings to their lives and work. But Christ came into the world as God’s son to die and pay the price for man’s iniquity." . . .  More

Scott S. Powell is senior fellow at Discovery Institute. This article is a vignette out of his acclaimed book, Rediscovering America, which was an eight-week Amazon #1 new release in the history genre. Reach him at scottp@discovery.org