Remember East Palestine, Ohio? Joe Biden Doesn't, but the White House Says He Still Plans to Visit

Ferguson and Conrad are probably on to something. East Palestine sits in Columbiana County, Ohio. Donald Trump took that county with more than 70 percent of the vote in the 2020 election. Contrast that with the fact that in September, Biden made a beeline to stand in support of striking auto workers in Michigan.

RedState   "As Joe Biden settles in to enjoy his New Year's vacation, Americans are left to ring in 2024 by dealing with a tanking economy, crime rates through the roof, and conflicts abroad. The people of East Palestine, Ohio, have the added bonus of still coping with recovery efforts stemming from the February 3, 2023, Norfolk-Southern train derailment that left their small community a virtual toxic chemical dump. The toxic chemicals that poured into the air and water supply in East Palestine read like an alphabet soup of hazardous waste. Vinyl chloride, ethylene glycol, ethylhexyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, and isobutylene have made residents chronically ill with ailments such as headaches, coughs, fatigue, and skin burning. 

REMINDER— 324 days since the train derailment in East Palestine, OH. Said to be the worst chemical spill in U.S. history. Joe Biden has taken countless vacations, & ZERO trips there. Never forget it’s always Americans last with Joe Biden. FJB 🖕🏽

— 🔥🇺🇸 KC 🇺🇸🔥 (@KCPayTreeIt) December 24, 2023

 "But the citizens of East Palestine can take comfort in the fact that the White House insists that nearly a year after the derailment, Joe Biden plans on visiting them. On Thursday, White House Spokesman Jeremy Edwards said, “The president continues to oversee a robust recovery effort to support the people of East Palestine, and he will visit when it is most helpful for the community." Kind of hard to oversee things when you haven't shown up to see what is happening. As late as September, the White House continued to say that Biden would visit.  One person who did show up to offer support and help was former President Donald Trump. Trump visited East Palestine weeks after the accident with pallets of water and cleaning supplies and met with East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), and other officials. Trump also treated firefighters and other first responders to lunch at the local McDonalds."

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NY Times: Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on 10/7

 HotAir

"This article should be required reading for every woman who dares to protest in support of Hamas and that begins with AOC. It should be posted in the common area of every dorm at Harvard , Penn , MIT. It makes you wonder what happened to all the female hostages. . ."

Didn't Democrats tell us to "Believe all women"?

"Since 10/7 there have been reports that Israeli women were raped as well as murdered during the Hamas attack on Israel. And since that day Hamas has been denying it. There have also been a significant number of very online leftists doing their best to downplay or outright deny the sexual violence carried out by Hamas. As recently as a few weeks ago they were all talking about the lack of evidence for it. Here’s an example of the sort of thing I mean. This comes from a leftist site called MintPress News. It’s not an outright denial just a strong suggestion that these claims about Hamas and rape may not be true.

"These are just a couple of examples but there are hundreds more like this. Today the NY Times published the results of its own investigation into the evidence and concludes that Hamas definitely weaponized rape during the 10/7 attack.

Israeli officials say that everywhere Hamas terrorists struck — the rave, the military bases along the Gaza border and the kibbutzim — they brutalized women.

A two-month investigation by The Times uncovered painful new details, establishing that the attacks against women were not isolated events but part of a broader pattern of gender-based violence on Oct. 7.

Relying on video footage, photographs, GPS data from mobile phones and interviews with more than 150 people, including witnesses, medical personnel, soldiers and rape counselors, The Times identified at least seven locations where Israeli women and girls appear to have been sexually assaulted or mutilated.

"Very few of the victims survived and those who did have so far chosen not to come forward. But a woman who was hiding under a bush near the music festival said she witnessed a group of Hamas fighters raping and murdering several women." . . .

. . ."I’d like to think most people are this sensible. That they can see what Hamas is and stop defending them and chanting their slogans, i.e. from the river to the sea. The fact that these brutal, theocratic, anti-Semitic, misogynist murderers have become heroes to many on the left should be shocking to every sane person in the world."

Tone deaf: Anti-Israel Crew Storms, Blocks Entrance to World Trade Center, Shouting 'Revolution' and 'Allahu Akbar!' –

  RedState

I have to think that whoever is behind the anti-Israel actions must be trying to pick the worst possible places to target on purpose, because they keep doing things that are guaranteed to tick off people and drive away people from their "cause."  

 Update: Holocaust Museum Weighs in As Anti-Israel Group Furiously Backtracks on Museum Storming Event

"But let's remember this isn't only about Israel. Some of the protesters have sported banners saying "abolish the settler project." They regard the U.S. as part of settler/colonizers that must be "abolished," not just the state of Israel, as one professor/activist explained. 

"So on Thursday when they blocked the exits of the World Trade Center, many had a visceral, bad reaction to seeing people posing there in keffiyehs, waving the Palestinian and Yemen flags. The crowd was also carrying Syrian flags. You can see that video here on X.

"The police prevented them from getting inside the building. 

"The red, white, and black flag you can see in the video is Yemeni. Iranian proxies -- the Houthis from Yemen -- are presently attacking U.S. assets.  So, not only is this offensive because of 9/11 but it's also very problematic to wave the flag of the people attacking us. They also raised the one-finger salute to Allah right in front of the front door." . . .  

BREAKING: Now There's Proof! Brad Raffensperger Lied to President Trump When He Told Him in Jan 2021 Phone Call There Was No Fraud in 2020 Election

 The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

"In late December 2020, President Trump made a call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to look at some of the items that were uncovered by his auditor.

"There was plenty of evidence for a competent auditor or any man of integrity to know that the election was uncertifiable.

"Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger’s office secretly recorded the phone call with President Trump, then lied about its contents later when they leaked it to the far-left Washington Post.

"Raffensperger’s office ran to the Washington Post and leaked a fraudulent transcript of the call." 

"Georgia Chairman of the Republican Party David Shafer later revealed that Raffensperger and Fuchs lied to the Washington Post about Trump, demanding that they “find the fraud.”

"Then, after they leaked their version of the story to the Washington Post, they deleted the audio of the call.

"The audio file was later found in the laptop’s “trash” folder. . .

Maine: The nightmare scenario we are now facing

But even if the spineless members of the GOP did in fact give in to Democrat demands and put Biden into office, this would set off a chain reaction amongst Republican voters who simply could not abide by such an abdication of duty, which would largely result in a massive restructuring of the country in a way that is not even comprehensible. 

 Timothy Jankowski - American Thinker   "Not since Gavrilo Princips assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 has the politically-motivated action of a single individual threatened to plunge an entire nation into strife and crisis like the decision by Maine’s Democrat Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, to keep Donald Trump off of the state’s primary ballot.

"Does that sound like hyperbole? Allow me to explain.

"Donald Trump’s path to re-election in 2024 is simple: Hold the red states that he won in 2020, which he should do with ease, and win back the swing states of Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia. That outcome would result with him receiving 270 electoral votes, the exact margin needed to regain the presidency.

"The push to remove Trump from state ballots is largely irrelevant. He’s not going to be removed from any red state ballots and there are no signs he will be removed from the aforementioned swing states. Even if every blue state were to keep him off the ballot, the scenario laid out above would remain not just possible, but likely… with one exception: the state of Maine. Unlike most states which apportion their electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, Maine divides its four electoral votes by Congressional districts; in 2020 Biden won three, while Trump managed to win one from the more rural, conservative region of the state.

"Now let’s assume that the election plays out in the highly likely possible manner as suggested, with the caveat that Trump is not on the ballot in Maine. This means he will lose one of the votes he held in 2020 bringing his electoral vote count to 269, one vote short of the number needed to win. The result will be an electoral college tie meaning the election will be thrown to the House of Representatives to decide." . . .

Remember the insane   . . ."As in Colorado, they throw the 14th Amendment and “insurrection” accusation at former President Trump.

"The problem is that Mr. Trump has not been convicted of an insurrection, or for that matter, even charged in a court of law.  To my knowledge no one arrested on January 6th was charged with the “I” word either.  I guess that’s what happens when a mob of people shows up without guns.

“ 'Insurrectionist” has now joined “racist” as the new “shut down all dialogue” buzz word in the Democrats’ vocabulary.  

"My guess is that Maine’s Secretary of State knows that this insane idea will be overturned by the Supreme Court.  She is only doing this to add some value to her resumé, or maybe to get a show on MSNBC.  Once the Supreme Court (hopefully) shoots this down, she will say that the justices appointed by the “insurrectionist” protected Trump.

"In the meantime, the people who burned businesses and police stations are walking free because that was definitely not an insurrection." . . .  

Lawfare Continues - Maine Democrat Secretary of State Determines, Without Judicial Hearing, Donald Trump Is Disqualified from 2024 GOP Primary Ballot

. . .The Maine decision by fiat will likely first travel through the judicial system in the state, as the determination of the Secretary of State holds no legal basis outside the authority granted to an individual office holder." . . .  But she will be a hero.

Jonathan Turley Decimates the Decision of the Maine Sec of State . . ."George Washington professor Jonathan Turley decimated her decision in a thread on X.

He said he had decided to "add her name to the ignoble list of Democratic officials claiming to defend democracy by preventing its exercise for millions of Trump supporters" and that "Maine shows why the Court needs to rule quickly, clearly, and hopefully unanimously in rejecting this pernicious theory."

"He did not think much of her reasoning." . . . 

A look inside the largest Hamas tunnel ever discovered by the Israeli military

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

IDF destroys Hamas tunnel in Palestine Square where leaders hid during Oct. 7 attack (msn.com)   Video "The IDF blew up an extensive Hamas tunnel system hidden beneath Gaza’s Palestine Square where terrorist leaders hid during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel — as officials said the ground offensive in the north is nearing an end.

"The Israeli military released video Thursday of a huge series of explosions demolishing the tunnels in the upscale Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City that once housed Hamas’ upper echelons.

"Col. Benny Aharon, who gave a tour to reporters two days before the demolition, said the homes and offices of Hamas’ top Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar and military chief Muhammad Deif were linked to the tunnel network, The Times of Israel reports.

"Also located in the ritzy neighborhood was the home of the daughter of Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh.". . .

A look inside the largest Hamas tunnel ever discovered by the Israeli military (msn.com)     "As Israel says it’s almost destroyed Hamas’ brigades in northern Gaza, its forces  are preparing to blow up some of the hundreds of tunnels it says belonged to the militant group — including one large enough to drive a car through.

"NBC News was invited into Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday to take a look at what it says is the largest tunnel discovered so far. 

"The entrance is roughly a quarter-mile or a 10-minute walk from the destroyed Erez border crossing, which was breached by Hamas terrorists as they launched multipronged attacks on Israel on Oct. 7. 

"The IDF said the tunnel is roughly 2.5 miles long and extends all the way to Gaza City, the enclave’s largest city, although NBC News could not independently verify this claim." . . . 

Female Israeli soldiers who defeated 100 Hamas terrorists tell their story

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Campus Reform’s list of some of the most shocking examples of calls for Jewish genocide coming out of American colleges and universities.

  Bare Naked Islam (barenakedislam.com)

1. UPDATE: UC Davis prof ‘still employed’ after threatening Jewish journalists with death, home invasion, kidnapping   "A University of California Davis assistant professor threatened ‘zionist journalists’ in a social media post that implied threats of murder, home invasion, and kidnapping."

2. UPDATED: ‘Kill Jews’: Cornell’s kosher dining hall shuts down after death threats emerge   "A Jewish student group at Cornell cautioned students away from a kosher dining hall after students made violent anti-Semitic threats.

"The Cornell chapter of the Jewish student organization Hillel told students to stay away from 104West!, home of the kosher and multicultural dining room on campus, after students posted violent threats to a discussion forum.

3. Students walk out of class nationwide to rally against Israel. Some are getting extra credit for it.   "An image posted to social media, reportedly from New York University’s walkout, shows an individual holding a sign advocating for the eradication of Jewish people worldwide, with a drawing of the Star of David in a trashcan underneath the phrase “Please Keep the WORLD Clean.”"

A transgender bid to bully a Delta Airlines employee crashes and burns

"Now, with one man's courage to shout out his variation of Desmet’s antidote to mass formation outrage, he shows how America can survive this onslaught of this transgender bullying."  

Dorfman

 Marie Hembree - American Thinker   "During the Christmas rush, a Delta Air Lines employee at New York City’s La Guardia Airport inadvertently taught America a viral lesson on how to instantly shut down a “transgender” person claiming to be a victim of “misgendering.”

"The transgender person tried to bully the airline employee at the check-in area, using a totalitarian mob-rule tactic to force subservient pronoun-use. But the bid fizzled quickly and peacefully, as seen in this Western Journal video, just based on the employee's calm, rational demeanor.

"It can also be seen here:

. . ."This employee exemplified what clinical psychiatrist, professor, and author Dr. Mattias Desmet teaches is the antidote for diffusing the mass formation outrage that creates mob rule. The idea is to confidently, calmly, and relentlessly repeat logic until the attempt at totalitarian tyranny extinguishes itself.

"Consequently, Dorfman stopped his bullying and wisely decided not to be led out the door by the Port Authority for harassing a Delta clerk. Dorfman also took down his TikTok video after social media comments resonated respect for the airline employee’s demeanor.

"That must have been a surprise.

"Desmet’s mass formation principles were explained in several interviews including on the Tucker Carlson Show and an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience which also featured immunologist Dr. Robert Malone’s take on the COVID-era’s fascism. Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology was himself attacked by mass formation’s psychotic individuals for considering the vaccine and masks’ flaws/effectiveness and for suggesting alternative therapeutics which evidently threatened the established superior morality of the collective’s narrative." . . .

Political Activism, Institutional Failure, and Anti-Intellectualism in America

Free thought is a thing of the past now. TD

 Lars Møller - American Thinker  "The West shares an old problem with the rest of the world: the constant menace of totalitarian zealots determined to interfere in the lives of others, however they brand themselves ideologically, citing religious or political dogma.

"What sets the West apart is that it has actually been the home of free thought since the Enlightenment. However, the pressure on freedom worldwide has been growing; there is no such thing as eternal peace. Civilization depends on solidly founded institutions for its lasting protection against barbarism—and as always, the Jews are the canary in the coalmine. Totalitarianism, whether it marches under the banners of fascism, socialism, or Islamism, has the Jews and free society as its enemies." . . .

"Held back by indecision, authorities allowed a general atmosphere of anarchy to paralyze large parts of society, notably in cities like Portland, Los Angeles, and Seattle. At the time, slogans such as “defund the police” echoed in the streets. Revolution was in the air. A motley crew of self-styled “leaders,” who all had issues with the present society, mingled with the crowd and called for a fight against “capitalism,” “colonialism” (past and present), “Zionism,” and “moral traditionalism,” which included “sexual conventionalism.” The perception that the most savage attacks on social order were somehow legitimate, combined with the absence of law enforcement, emboldened every resentful maladaptee. Now was the chance to take revenge on the world.

"Like socialist agitators of the past, the leaders of Black Lives Matter (BLM) knew how to play the game—they were “trained” Marxists after all. Impatient to exploit the momentum and rally the protesters around a common cause, they leaned towards conspiratorial rhetoric. It represents a strategy well-known from the recruitment of the street mob: Blame everybody but yourself for the misfortunes of your life (e.g. “white bigots,” “capitalists,” or “Jews”—depending on the political season). Rather than having to account for anything, the terrifying brigades of covetous, envious, and maladapted souls could now, inspired by BLM, plead their victimhood." . . .Much more here.

On Claudine Gay of Harvard

 

• "Harvard President Claudine Gay prompted an uproar telling Congress that penalizing students espousing genocide depends on the context. She needs to work on her replies. Claudine Gay was informed that she's being investigated for forty cases of academic plagiarism, and she replied, copy that!" Argus Hamilton

Harvard president Claudine Gay is now accused of botching study that landed her major tenure at Stanford and refusing to share research with professors who questioned her thesis over 'logical inconsistencies' | Daily Mail Online    "Harvard's embattled president is facing yet further questions about her academic record, after a statistics expert challenged the data used in a report which helped win her tenure at Stanford.

"Claudine Gay, who took over as president in July, has been at the center of a firestorm since the October 7 Hamas attacks. She was seemingly slow to condemn students who justified the terrorist violence, and slow to speak out against antisemitism on campus.

"The harsh spotlight has spread to her academic record, with accusations of plagiarism - and on Tuesday, a data scientist challenged her analytical methods. It was then revealed that she had refused to share her data, raising eyebrows in academia." . . .

Claudine Gay Was Pretty Cagey About Her 2001 Research Paper That Got Her Tenure (townhall.com)   . . ."Yes, there’s nuance regarding free speech, and there would have been a way to thread that needle, as FIRE president Greg Lukianoff noted with Bill Maher, but the three women came off as exceedingly apathetic to the growing calls from the far left to kill all Jews. Murder isn’t an academic exercise, ladies, and neither are these situations. There was a heinous terrorist attack against Israel on October 7; people have acted on these chants. Magill lost her president’s office at UPenn over this public relations fiasco. Gay remains safely sheltered under an umbrella of Harvard’s pro-terrorist and antisemitic faculty. Yet, the plagiarism scandal that’s bubbled up from this is more damning than the antisemitism-enabling episode before lawmakers. 

"Gay has hinged her career and reputation on these words, some of which are copied word-for-word with no attribution. This unrelated incident has snowballed to the point where a new review should be initiated, not just the one previously conducted by Harvard, who admitted they found “duplicative language” in Gay’s work. Even CNN has even pointed out instances of plagiarism in her career. Now, we learn that she was cagey about sharing the data from her 2001 paper, which got her tenure tracked at Stanford (via NY Post):" . . . 

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report -

  Argus Hamilton (jewishworldreview.com)  • King Charles delivered the Christmas Day message wishing compassion and peace to all three religious faiths descended from Abraham. I concur. It's the time of year to say Merry Christmas to Christians, Happy Hanukkah to Jews, and for the purposes of inclusion, Allah Akbar to the Terrorists.

• New York began making security preparations to host one million revelers in Times Square for the televised Ball Drop ceremony bringing in the New Year on Sunday night. I need to come up a New Year's resolution I can keep. I can't believe it's been a year since I failed to become a better person.

• A N.Y. federal judge ordered the unsealing of Jeffrey Epstein's flight lists to Pedophile Island on his airliner called the Lolita Express. It's a revelation that some Senators are trying to stifle. A lot of powerful politicians are late bloomers, and many of them didn't have a high school girlfriend until they were forty.

• Harvard President Claudine Gay prompted an uproar telling Congress that penalizing students espousing genocide depends on the context. She needs to work on her replies. Claudine Gay was informed that she's being investigated for forty cases of academic plagiarism, and she replied, copy that!

• Business Insider reported Monday that Russia and China are very close to signing a mutual defense treaty to take on the United States. The president reacted quickly to reassure Americans. President Biden stated that anybody killed during World War III will have their student loans forgiven.

• President Biden spent Christmas at Camp David last weekend but not before he scolded the press before boarding the helicopter and demanded more positive coverage about the economy. The president may not grasp what inflation is doing to shopping. It now takes two Karen's to complain to the manager.

• President Biden granted all federal employees a five percent raise Thursday even though many admit they are still working from home. I now understand why these infrastructure projects aren't getting done. Nothing slows down Build Back Better like a trip to the refrigerator every twenty minutes.

• The White House posted a video of President Biden and First Lady Jill reciting The Night before Christmas Monday. It gets even more heartwarming. You can go to the White House Gift Shop website today and order a children's book illustrated by Hunter Biden called Hookers and Blow Save Christmas.

• Iran vowed revenge against Israel Monday after an Israeli missile targeted Iran's Revolutionary Guard leader Sayyed Mousavi in Damascus while he was walking down the street. Well that's show business for you. One day you're all over the newspapers, and the next day you're all over the pavement. . . .