Is This What Biden Meant By ‘Unity’?

 The American Spectator 

Instead of bringing people together, he made them suspicious of one another. Instead of uniting the nation, he has divided it further. 

"During President Biden’s inaugural address, he used the word “unity” at least a dozen times. He told us, “Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people.” Three years later, his irresponsible policies and incendiary rhetoric have rendered the nation more divided than at any time in recent memory. Nowhere is this more evident than at the southern border where Biden has created a humanitarian crisis by ignoring federal immigration law and suing the state of Texas for exercising its constitutional right to defend itself from what its governor accurately describes as a foreign invasion.

"As Gov. Greg Abbott said in a Jan. 24 statement, “I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary.” The Biden administration disputes Gov. Abbott’s contention that the hordes of illegal aliens pouring into the Lone Star state amounts to an invasion. The voters, however, agree with Gov. Abbott. A Rasmussen survey conducted early this month found that “65 percent of
likely U.S. voters believe it is accurate to describe the current situation with migrants at the border with Mexico as an ‘invasion’ of the United States.”

"Ironically, Biden’s attack on Texas has produced “unity” among presidential candidates who agree on little else. On Truth Social, former President Trump wrote, “When I am President, on Day One, instead of fighting Texas, I will work hand in hand with Governor Abbott and other Border States to Stop the Invasion.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. echoed this on X: “As President, I will end this humanitarian crisis once and for all. I will secure the border and destroy the business model of the drug cartels.” Nikki Haley expressed her support on X: ‘Governor Abbott is right: the state of Texas has every right to defend itself and its borders.” In addition, 25 GOP governors declared their support of Gov. Abbott:" . . .Full article here

Voters back Texas border wall, feel Biden starting ‘civil war’ - Washington Examiner   "A sizable majority of the public supports Texas’s construction of a wall along its border with Mexico and feels that President Joe Biden’s efforts to stop it are the first step toward civil war.

"In a sobering analysis of the escalating topic, 69% of likely 2024 voters said that they support the border wall and razor-wire fence that Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has ordered. Among those, a majority, 51%, said they “strongly” back Texas in its fight to stop illegal immigration and the surge of “gotaways” getting past federal border agents." . . .

Maybe Joe will feel he does better at starting a Race war. He does have Joy Reid as an ally there. TD

Still a man after all those laps in the pool

 Silvio Canto, Jr. - American Thinker  

It is sick, and the feminists should be screaming.  Of course, they won't scream unless they are talking about "reproductive rights" or Trump turning into a dictator. 

 "The latest episode in insanity is that Lia Thomas wants to compete in the Olympics as a woman. 

"By the way, he is Will Thomas, or a man who has apparently discovered his feminine side just in time to spoil the Olympics for real girls.  

 

"Talk about being a male chauvinist!  After all, there is nothing more courageous in this world than to steal a girl's trophy.   Once upon a time, we used to shame men like that.  Today, they are victims in the latest chapter of victimhood.

 

"Let's check this from Carrie Sheffield: 

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas is lawyering up, seeking to coerce the Olympic governing body for swimming — which operates in the dark, behind closed doors — to accept biological males competing against females. 

 

It’s unfair, unscientific and the height of selfishness. Thomas couldn’t care less about women’s rights.

 

Thomas reportedly retained Tyr, a Canadian law firm with a track record of bringing these types of suits, to demand the Court of Arbitration for Sport reverse the World Aquatics’ ban of anyone who experienced “any part of male puberty” from competing against females. . . .

 Don't let selfish Lia Thomas ruin the Olympics for women (nypost.com) "Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas is lawyering up, seeking to coerce the Olympic governing body for swimming — which operates in the dark, behind closed doors — to accept biological males competing against females. 

"It’s unfair, unscientific and the height of selfishness. Thomas couldn’t care less about women’s rights.

"Thomas reportedly retained Tyr, a Canadian law firm with a track record of bringing these types of suits, to demand the Court of Arbitration for Sport reverse the World Aquatics’ ban of anyone who experienced “any part of male puberty” from competing against females." . . . 

Boys Will be Boys, Not Girls, on the Golf Course - Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.

. . ."Hailey Davidson is 30 years old, and was 21 when he began hormone therapy, well past the age of puberty. The male golfer was already built with minimal change after hormone therapy or gender surgery.

"What do other golfers or athlete parents say about this?

"Judy Murray is the leading Scottish tennis coach and mother of former world No 1 tennis star Andy Murray, said on X, “No. Not fair at all.  Protect women’s sport. Listen to the facts, the scientists and the medics. This is wrong.' ” . . .

Yet many commentaries continually refer to those like this guy as "she" and "her".

Consider: "Why aren’t women golfer[s] speaking up? Fear of losing sponsors, most of which are woke corporations pushing a DEI or ESG agenda.". . .and:

"Feminist and “women’s rights” groups are conspicuously silent, throwing women athletes under the bus to further this destructive woke agenda." 

Sagacious commented to this post:  "Although she claims, there is “a lot of work to be done” before she can join the LPGA Tour, which is “incredibly far off.” if she keeps winning tournaments, her LPGA card may be closer than she thinks, ..."

"She"??? "Her"??
The author makes great points about science and athletics yet still uses pronouns that legitimize the dysphoria.
Sane people don't go along with the delusions of the mentally ill."

If younger voters are worried about economic stability, Biden's got trouble in 2024

 

Biden family and Pelosis' economies are doing just fine, thank you.

If younger voters are worried about economic stability, Biden's got trouble in 2024 - Washington Times   

. . ."In the fall of 2022, I sat for an interview in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.” He asked what impact Jan. 6 would have on voters in my state. I challenged him to walk around Frame Park with me and find a resident who was motivated by the issue of Jan. 6. There was not one vote; people had moved on from what had happened nearly two years earlier.

"Liberal activists seem to wake up obsessing over Jan. 6. Most Americans obsess about how they are going to pay the bills. Under “Bidenomics,” they are paying more. According to a report from the Senate, a typical household pays about $11,500 more each year in living costs than they did in January 2021, before Mr. Biden took office. 

"My son and daughter-in-law are trying to buy their first home. Alex and Bailey will pay about $1,500 more a month on the mortgage than they would have before Mr. Biden took office. This a problem for millions of young couples like them — and it is a problem for the Biden campaign.

"According to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll of registered voters in Georgia, Mr. Trump is beating Mr. Biden by 45% to 37%, with nearly 20% not ready to support either candidate. Winning Georgia would be critical for the 45th president to become the 47th president."

Janet Yellen Throws Biden Under the Bus With Astounding Comment Destroying His Claims About Inflation – RedState   . . ." 'Well, I think most Americans know that prices are not likely to fall," Yellen said. "It's not the Fed's objective to try to  push the level of prices back to where they were." "Oh". 

"So sorry, just accept we broke everything. 

"What is it that Biden is saying to us then? What is it that the Fed is trying to do with higher interest rates that are now also a problem? Do these folks check with each other with the statements that they keep shoveling out? Do any of them know anything? Or do they just keep talking and talking, hoping we won't notice the problems?" . . . 

Famed financial analyst Richard X. Bove predicts the fall of the US economy and says China will take over as the money superpower in his final forecast ahead of his retirement: 'The dollar is finished as the world's reserve currency' | Daily Mail Online   . . ."In a characteristically histrionic forecast, the recently-retired 83-year-old banking oracle has announced that 'the dollar is finished as the world's reserve currency'. His dire prophesy comes despite the collapse of China's Evergrande - impacting its property sector which accounts for roughly a quarter of the country's economy - and despite the US economy doing better than expected in the last quarter."

"characteristically histrionic" being the operative term. TD

Beto Urges Biden to Treat Texas Like Segregationist Arkansas in 1950s, Send in Troops

 C. Douglas Golden (thefederalistpapers.org)  

The average informed person will remember the character and silliness of O'Rourke, except for those rioting in the streets supporting Hamas. TD 

"There are plenty of takes on the showdown between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Joe Biden’s administration over the situation at the nation’s southern border. As always, some of these takes are good, some are bad.

"But why am I not surprised that arguably the worst take came from a man who — in spite of every reason for him to disappear from our public life — refuses to go away: former Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke?

"O’Rourke, as you may remember, was campaigning to be Texas’ governor during the 2022 midterms. Texans had other plans, handing the Republican Abbott a third term by a margin of nearly 11 percent.

"Abbott’s third term has inarguably been his toughest, and for reasons beyond his control: Thanks to the Biden administration’s de facto open borders policy, Texas has been swamped with illegal immigrants.

"The governor and other Texas Republicans have employed a number of measures to try and stem the flow when it became clear Washington wasn’t going to do anything — which caused the Biden administration to take them to court repeatedly, claiming it had responsibility for the border even as it was obviously abdicating that responsibility." . . .

My statement on Texas’ constitutional right to self-defense. pic.twitter.com/seNFZdmujP

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 24, 2024

Joe Biden’s war with Texas’ Greg Abbott threatens a constitutional crisis — but Abbott holds the high ground (NY Post Editorial Board)

. . ."Team Biden’s border chaos is becoming a dangerous constitutional crisis, pitting Texas against President Biden.

"Make no mistake: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott holds all the moral high cards here — and some legal ones, too.

"With Biden refusing to enforce immigration law and millions flooding in illegally, Texas has been utterly swamped.

"In response, Abbott has installed razor wire on the border and taken control of riverfront Shelby Park to deter migrants — something Biden should be doing" . . .

 

After Hamas atrocities, MLK’s embrace of Israel and disdain for antisemitism confronts liberals

  Just The News

There are still people in captivity right now, eight of whom are Americans," [Bernice King said]. “We must stand up, I say. Where's the moral outrage about this? Why isn't this the lead story in the news every single day?” she asked.

CBS Los Angeles

"Just 10 days before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at a podium with war raging between Israelis and Arabs in the Middle East and strife evident in urban American communities between blacks and Jewish shopkeepers. Without equivocation, he embraced Israel and condemned antisemitism in all its forms.

“ 'We cannot substitute one tyranny for another, and for the black man to be struggling for justice and then turn around and be anti-Semitic is not only a very irrational course but it is a very immoral course. And wherever we have seen anti-Semitism we have condemned it with all of our might,” King declared in a question-and-answer session in March 1968 at the Rabbinical Assembly.

"He added for good measure: “Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.”

"You can read the full transcript here: conversation-with-martin-luther-king.pdf  . . .

Adam Schiff’s past effort to fan Russia collusion tale boomerangs in California Senate bid

 Just The News

You remember California Congressman Adam Schiff, the man who exploited his position on the House Intelligence Committee by notoriously lying about having seen evidence that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election?  Matt Margolis 

The Week

"Steve Garvey, Pre-transgender nun Dodger, 10-time MLB all-star first baseman and four-time Gold Glove winner, is slugging it out with Rep. Adam Schiff.

"Rep. Adam Schiff’s past effort to fan the Russia collusion tale is boomeranging as he now seeks the vacant U.S.Senate seat in California.

"Former MLB star Steve Garvey, now a GOP candidate, accused Schiff, D-Calif., of lying to the public on the debate stage this week, prompting Schiff to claim he was censured for "standing up to a corrupt President."

"Garvey and Schiff are among the candidates in the race for the Senate seat held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. 

"In the California primary election, the two candidates who receive the most votes head to the general election for a head-to-head match-up in November.  A recent poll released by Emerson College found 25% of respondents said they would vote for Schiff and Garvey was in second place with 18%.

" 'I called out Adam Schiff for being censured for lying to 300 million Americans. His response: 'I would do it all over again,'" Garvey wrote Thursday on X.  Schiff was censured in a resolution stating that Schiff held positions of power during Trump’s presidency and “abused this trust by saying there was evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia.” There was no such evidence. 

"Schiff had drawn attention to himself throwing the "Russian collusion" narrative at anyone who opposed him. At one point, he accused on live television then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson of "being a Russian agent" and said to Carlson, according to New York Magazine, “You’re carrying water for the Kremlin!”

"Schiff ignored the question of throwing the "Russian agent" allegations around, and instead deflected with comments arguing that Garvey supports allowing states to ban abortion." . . .

Imagining a world without Israel

  The Forward

At the end of the Six Day War, Israeli soldiers hug and kiss the stones of the Western Wall. 

"Years ago, I canceled a subscription to a newspaper after it landed on my doorstep with a headline shouting “Crazed snow plower kills 1, rams 50 cars.” I wasn’t protesting its decorum or even its journalistic accuracy — though I doubted the news staff had the medical training necessary to diagnose the snow plower as “crazed.”

"Rather, my cancellation was to protect my own sanity. Whatever reasons the editors had for sensationalizing the front page, it left me on edge, expecting any day to see a headline blaring “War with China.”

"I felt the same way last week when turning on a CNN broadcast to a news crawl and graphic blaring “Israel under attack on seven fronts.” Shocked, I immediately checked other sources to learn if Israel really was at the brink of destruction. The volley of attacks from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, Yemen, Iraq and Iran were real, I learned, according to Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant, but not quite the armageddon suggested by the CNN crawl.

"Yet there was a difference between CNN’s hype and that long-ago newspaper headline: This time, the calamity was very much imaginable." . . .

The Rebirth of Israel Ezekiel 37 – Israel My Glory . . ."On November 29, 1947, Theodor Herzl’s dream became a reality. The United Nations voted 33 to 13 (with 10 abstentions) to partition what was then called Palestine into two independent states: one Arab and one Jewish. Great Britain, which had administered the land since 1920 under a mandate from the former League of Nations, did everything in its power to hamper statehood for the Jewish people. But on May 14, 1948, the British evacuated; and Israel declared independence for the first time in 2,500 years.
"Today Israel’s Jewish population numbers about 5.3 million.2 In the past 59 years, those returning have rebuilt and cultivated the land, bringing it back to life and beauty (36:8–12). But they do so in unbelief.

"Some people question whether today’s Israel is the Israel referred to in the dry bones passage and believe the prophecy will not be fulfilled until the Messiah’s return. However, other prophetic passages show that Israel must be in its land as a recognized nation before the Messiah returns: . . ."

WATCH: Trump Supporters Spring Into Action and Unmask Protesters at Vegas Rally — Before Shoving Them Right Out the Door

The Gateway Pundit | by Cassandra MacDonald

"Supporters of former President Donald Trump sprung into action on Saturday and unmasked two protesters before shoving them out the door.

"The protesters had their faces covered with American flag bandannas and wore patriotic attire, in a clear attempt to blend in.

"Moments after Trump took the stage, they began shouting at him.

“ 'His supporters jumped into action and forced the man and woman out the exit while trying to pull off their masks to take pictures of them,” the Reno Gazette-Journal reports.

"As the troublemakers were removed from the event, the crowd chanted, “USA! USA! USA!' ”

Evangelicals Embrace Trump. Joy Reid is livid!

 William Manning   . . ."Rather than portraying evangelicals as racists, Ms. Reid should ask  why conservative Christians vote for Republicans.  Evangelicals have voted for Republicans since 1980, when they deserted Jimmy Carter, a Southern Baptist, to vote for Ronald Reagan.  Conservative Christians have continued to vote for Republicans and have no incentive to switch.

"Democrats believe they are the arbiters of morality and use government agencies to force their reimagined morality on the people.  President Obama believes that evangelicals cling bitterly to their religion.  Hillary Clinton tossed them into her basket of deplorables.  Biden’s DOJ wanted to investigate Catholics who choose to celebrate the old Mass.  The House Judiciary Committee recently disclosed that the Treasury Department warned banks that customers purchasing “religious texts“ might be violent extremists.  Federal investigators then asked the banks to hand over their customer records related to the purchase of Bibles and other “extremist” material.  Since the Feds regulate and control the banks, the records were delivered without a warrant.  Evangelicals view Biden, not Trump, as the threat to democracy.

"At a White House Pride Party last summer, a man calling himself a woman exposed himself on the White House lawn moments after shaking hands with Joe Biden.  Democrats suggest that transgender people use restrooms for the opposite sex.  Public schools have become tools of state indoctrination teaching children that pansexuality is a morally viable lifestyle.  If one doesn’t accept the state’s idolatry of pansexuality, one is accused of bigotry." . .   The bitter woman speaks on MSNBC:

Alina Habba's Courtroom 'Circus' May Be Donald Trump's Strategy

 "Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Newsweek Habba's behavior, though a "shameful display of courtroom decorum," is likely her "taking direction from her client.' "

Alina Habba's Courtroom 'Circus' May Be Donald Trump's Strategy

"Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba's behavior during his civil trial involving journalist E. Jean Carroll has drawn scrutiny, but legal experts told Newsweek that her conduct could be part of the former president's strategy.

The defamation trial involving Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist who has accused him of assaulting her in a New York City department store changing room in the mid-1990s, kicked off this week in a New York courtroom. Last May, a New York City jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll, ordering him to pay $5 million in damages. Her attorneys now are seeking an additional $10 million in damages after the former president said she was lying about her accusations, saying he has no idea who Carroll is and that she was not his "type." Trump maintains his innocence in the case." . .  .

The E. Jean Carroll case against Trump shows our morally corrupt legal system - Andrea Widburg

. . ."In 2022, New York State upped the ante against Trump by passing its “Adult Survivors Act,” a law intended solely to create a window of time in which Carroll could file a civil sexual assault suit against Trump. Carroll promptly filed suit against Trump and reiterated her defamation claim. Incidentally, Reid Hoffman, a major Democrat party and Nikki Haley donor, helped fund her litigation." . . .

Why is no one wondering why the Trump trials have such idiotic jurors? -Patricia McCarthy   . . ."Exactly what would the ideologically biased prosecutors in each of the absurd lawfare trials of President Trump be looking for?  

"That is an easy question. They would be looking for Trump-haters, people who watch MSNBC and The View, for example; people easily led and relatively ignorant of American history and current events beyond leftist talking points.  They would know nothing about the fact that Trump led the U.S. to energy independence that made our gas prices low and brought in huge profits to workers' 401(k)s because we had enough oil and gas to sell to other nations.  They would not know that Trump brought peace to the Middle East. They would most likely buy into the climate change hoax.  They would be persons who leapt to be vaccinated with the wholly experimental mRNA jab that has caused thousands of deaths (perhaps more), especially of young people.  They would be people who wanted to jail the vaccine-hesitant.  In short, they would be people who are easily manipulated by the media and easier still by clever and deceitful lawyers intent upon destroying Trump.  They would be sheep. " . . .

Case in point: "In Wednesday’s season finale of “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” the juror raised his left arm in a clenched fist salute to O.J. as the panel left the courtroom. His name is Lionel (Lon) Cryer, and as The New York Times reported on October 4, 1995, he was “a former Black Panther whom prosecutors had inexplicably left on the panel.”

This never ends: Internet wants Joy Reid fired as she claims 'White Christian' Iowa Trump voters want people of color to 'bow down' before them - MEAWW News

Biden Freaks Out in South Carolina and Starts Screaming About Trump

President Trump didn't "Refuse" to visit the cemetery, he could not go because of weather restrictions. a motorcade was out of the question as well.

RedState   . . ."That practically screams 25th Amendment. But that wasn't even the worst part. 

"This part was even worst where he completely lost it while repeating a debunked hoax about what former President Donald Trump supposedly said about a cemetery visit where American soldiers were buried in France. 

A VERY confused Joe Biden starts absolutely SCREAMING as he recounts the recycled "suckers and losers" hoax — slurring the entire way.

The man is NOT well. 😳 pic.twitter.com/4c7QRL5sr7

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 28, 2024

" 'Donald Trump, when he was Commander-in-Chief, refused to visit a cemetery, a U.S. cemetery outside of Paris for fallen American soldiers and he referred to those heroes, and I quote as 'suckers and losers.'" Then Biden lost his mind and started screaming, "He actually said that!! He said that! HOW DARE HE say that! How dare he talk about my son and all [unintelligible] like that." 

"This has been roundly debunked and no, there's no evidence that "he actually said that." Moreover it's just completely untrue that Trump "refused" to go. He wanted to go but they didn't go because of concerns about weather, as emails revealed." 

Under Biden, America has entered its darkest chapter in history

 Zoe Strimpel; The Telegraph

"It would be difficult to overstate the danger represented by the presence inside our borders of what is comparatively a multi-division army of young single adult males from hostile nations and regions whose background, intent or allegiance is completely unknown.”

Barbed wire barricades at the US border wall

"The US has always had bits so horrifying that too close a look could leave your face permanently frozen in horror. When I was growing up in a relatively enlightened Massachusetts in the 1980s and 1990s, there was the spectre of police brutality and racism – you couldn’t miss it, from park benches in Boston where black men were hassled and taunted to the casual, unprofessional menace of the local force.

"But if the police are more woke than racist in 2024, oh how the horror has grown and multiplied on other fronts. Last week a man on death row in Alabama was executed by nitrogen gas. And the death penalty, a measure no civilised state has had for decades, isn’t going anywhere. Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida’s ex-presidential hopeful, used the promise of more capital punishment to lure voters through a “tough on crime” stance, with the state of Florida in 2023 executing more people than at any time since 2019.

"Opioid addiction is out of control. Abortion rights at the federal level were overturned in 2022, instantly triggering their savage removal in 21 states, most of which have implemented total bans and criminalisation of anyone seen to aid and abet terminations. Horrendous, entirely predictable stories of desperate pregnant women nearly dying thanks to the scrapping of Roe v Wade have kept coming. It’s Handmaid’s Tale stuff."

"But there’s more. Much more. And it’s all worsened under the man who was meant to save America from the cartoonish parallel universe of crudeness, relentless bombast, stupidity and criminality represented by Trump and his fanboys. Under Joe Biden, despite a marked increase in civility and experience, domestic problems are worse than ever. America has become an archipelago of darkness and chaos, and it’s at breaking point." . . .

Joe Biden Gives an Ultimatum to Greg Abbott, 'Pound Sand' Is the Proper Answer  

"According to a new post put out by the Border Patrol Union, and a new report from Griff Jenkins of Fox News, Biden has lost operational control of the situation, at least in a practical sense."

 "Joe Biden, or more likely his handlers, levied an ultimatum on Thursday, demanding that Gov. Greg Abbott relinquish control of the "disputed" border areas Texas has been securing. That came after 25 states joined together to pledge their support to Abbott as he battles the federal government and its refusal to enforce immigration laws." . . .

. . ."Abbott should stand tall on this. He's got absolutely nothing to lose. What is the Biden administration going to do? Open fire on the Texas National Guard if they don't clear out? The federal government has no leverage here and no ability to exact its will. Texas is holding Shelby Park and the other "disputed" areas, and they have no obligation to leave. 

"It is insane that this is even an argument. The border crisis has reached horrific proportions, and the Biden administration is wasting its time and resources trying to cut razor wire laid out to stop illegal entries. Texas has a right to self-defense. It has a right to protect its territory. If the federal government refuses to do the job, that's on its leaders, not state officials who are just trying to do the common sense thing. 

"In short, Abbott should tell Biden to Pound Sand ."