Biden left a mess, and Jan. 20 can't come soon enough

" The Biden White House seems to be trying to leave the incoming administration with as big of an international mess as possible on their way out the door." . . . Twitchy

Biden is leaving a mess for Trump  . . ."Biden also leaves Trump the nightmarish task of extricating the U.S. from Ukraine’s war with Russia and — once again — having to restore a sustainable balance of power in the Middle East. 

"No wonder Trump is preparing to hit the ground running.  

"If Joe Biden were a decent fellow and a patriot, he would be using his remaining weeks as president to fix some of the disasters he has created. Instead, he is doing just the opposite.  

"Biden and his apparatchiks are trying to spend every last dollar authorized by the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act so that the Trump administration cannot recapture those funds. The IRA gave the White House some $375 billion in taxpayer funds to be strewn about the country as they see fit, under the total control of former Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. 

"Because the Biden White House has almost no one with private-sector experience — no one with a history of building successful businesses — the hapless crew proved unable to spend the many billions available. Pete Buttigieg’s laughable effort to build charging stations for electronic vehicles, in which the Transportation secretary spent $7.5 billion on eight such facilities after promising 500,000, or Kamala Harris’s total failure to roll out internet access to rural areas despite the $42 billion at her disposal, are emblematic of this administration’s capabilities." . . .   

Guess Why Americans are Suddenly Hopeful for the Next Year?

   . . ."According to a new CBS News/YouGov poll. 60 percent of respondents said that they feel “hopeful” for 2025.  The reason, of course, is that Donald Trump is coming to office in less than a month on January 20 of next year.

Michelle Obama slammed for gloomy New Year's message as Trump prepares to take office   . . ."But many thought her 'gloomy' message to the internet was taking aim at Trump's landslide victory over Kamala Harris in the presidential election just last month.

"And hundreds of viewers flooded the comments with their own opinions on what's in store for 2025.
" 'Twenty-four more days and we are out of this nightmare you and your husband created for the American people!' one commenter wrote.

"Another agreed, adding: 'What a joke. Trump can hopefully fix the mess your husband has gotten this country into. The subway in your video, how ironic.'

" 'It has not been difficult for most of us! Most of us voted for Trump!' wrote another. 'We are good!'" . . .

Walmart removes Sinwar shirts, but leaves Nasrallah tee for sale

Times of Israel   "US retail giant Walmart appears to have removed two shirts it offered for sale online that featured pictures of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

"The shirts were flagged by US-based watchdog Antisemitism.org, which calls the fashion choice “outrageous.”

"One shirt shows Sinwar’s face and his name broken into “Sin” and “war,” while a second one features a doctored caricature of the terror mastermind firing a weapon while in combat gear.

"Another shirt featuring a low-resolution picture of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah remains for sale on the Walmart website, though it won’t come in time for Christmas and is only available in XXL, for your bigger terror supporters. The shirt, sold by a Texas-based third-party vendor, is titled “Nasrallah Safe Following Israeli Airstrikes,” a decidedly false claim about the Iran-backed terror chief, who is quite dead following an October 27 airstrike.

"There is no immediate comment from Walmart." . . .

The Secret Invention That Changed World War 2

Real Engineering

"This was one of the British technological crown jewels included in the Tizzard Mission to the US in late 1940. It included ideas & designs for the Photoelectric fuse & the Radio fuse. It also included the Cavity Magnetron which was quoted by the historian of the American OSRD as "the most valuable cargo to ever reach our shores' ".

TECHNICAL DESIGN POINT: VT fuzes had a small, especially-shaped antenna wrapped around the battery and oscillator radio source for transmission and reception. The antenna had to be configured as designed. However, when a glowing base tracer element was used to allow the gunners to see where the shells were going and adjust their aim, this burning tracer was ionized and electrically conductive, leaving a long invisible trail of electrified air behind the shell. This acted like an extension of the antenna in the fuze and short-circuited its operation. Thus, VT-equipped shells had to have their tracers removed, To fix the aiming vision problem, every so many shells would be an old powder or clockwork time fuze with a tracer installed. The smallest shells that could fit a VT fuze in WWII was a 3" (75mm) gun projectile, with 4-5.25" being used in the majority of US and British naval guns. Against German troops in Europe and Japanese-held islands, larger guns from 106mm through 203mm Army guns and up to 16" naval guns had HE shells with VT fuzes.

How Democrats relentlessly dialed up violent rhetoric against Trump before assassination attempt — comparing him to Hitler

 NY Post  

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who [was then] vying to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority leader, wrote on X, “Democrats and liberals in the media have called Trump a fascist. They’ve compared him to Hitler. This isn’t some unfortunate incident, this was an assassination attempt by a madman inspired by the rhetoric of the radical left.”

 . . . "Trump’s political opponents have long used incendiary language in response to his more controversial statements — commonly casting him as a cartoon villain hellbent on bringing about the end of democracy itself.

"Their divisive statements frequently include tossing around words like “dictator” or making overt references to the Holocaust or Nazi Germany.

"Republicans now blame this very rhetoric for stoking the assassination attempt that got Trump shot and left a hero firefighter dead and two others critically wounded.

Iranian Mullahs In A Panic As Their ‘Axis Of Resistance’ Collapses

Issues & Insights

"The West should heed the shriek of a wounded animal emanating from Tehran. The Islamic Republic is now dangerously unstable. There is no point in trying to negotiate with the Iranian puppet president Masoud Pezeshkian, foolishly regarded as a “moderate” by some Western leaders. Pezeshkian has presided over the execution of 562 prisoners, including 20 women, since he took office in August. He is no moderate and, in any case, takes all his orders from Khamenei."

"Suffering a series of devastating blows, the Islamic Republic of Iran is now like a wounded beast, dangerous and unpredictable. Having seen their “axis of resistance” crumble, with the effective decapitation of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the mullahs’ regime has now suffered its greatest catastrophe, with the fall of their closest ally Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s ailing and increasingly confused Supreme Leader, regarded Syria as Iran’s 35th Province.

"For decades he funneled more than $50 billion and tens of thousands of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) personnel and other Islamist militias into propping up Assad’s brutal regime. The sudden collapse of the Assad dictatorship has removed a fundamental pillar vital for the Islamic Republic’s regional strategy, creating a seismic upheaval.

"The imminent arrival of Donald Trump as America’s 47th president, must seem like the final straw for Khamenei and his tyrannical mullahs. Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Barack Obama’s deeply flawed nuclear deal with Iran and introduced a campaign of ‘maximum pressure’ sanctions.

"In a rambling speech last week to his senior officials in Tehran, the Supreme Leader kept repeating “Don’t be demoralized, don’t have despair”, as he tried to justify the massive loss in blood and treasure that his regime has squandered in Syria.

"Western powers, gloating at the dismantling of Iran’s proxy allies, should now be wary of the theocratic regime’s next moves. Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) warned at a conference in Bahrain that the Iranian regime has dramatically increased its production of highly enriched uranium, up to 60% purity, a hair’s breadth away from weapons grade. He says the mullahs, who are no longer cooperating with his inspectors, could develop a nuclear missile very rapidly.

"Carefully watching how Western powers run for cover every time Vladimir Putin even mentions a potential nuclear retaliation, the Iranian mullahs may consider a nuclear threat their best option for clinging onto their diminishing authority in the Middle East." . . .

From the Tunnel Wall; July 6, 2018:  Iran has completely stopped harassing US ships now that strong Trump replaced weakling Obama 

. . .During the final years of the Obama administration, Iranian gunboats regularly harassed U.S. ships, with three dozen such interactions occurring in 2016. During President Donald Trump’s first year in office, the number of annual incidents dropped to 14, a decrease of about 60 percent. So far in 2018, there has not been a single case of harassment, the U.S. Navy told Fox News." . . .

Scott Jennings Has Some Thoughts About Vivek Ramaswamy's Tweet Calling Americans Lazy, Mediocre

Jeff Charles  

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

"Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy made some waves on social media when he posted a scathing critique of American culture amid widespread debate over immigration and H1B visas.

His comments received mixed reactions from the right, with many criticizing him for generalizing and not being sensitive to the plight of many Americans who say they have lost opportunities because of immigration. CNN’s Scott Jennings slammed Ramaswamy, echoing these concerns.

The controversy began when Ramaswamy wrote a post on X on Thursday, arguing that tech companies tend to hire immigrants, especially through the H-1B visa program, instead of Americans because of “culture.”

The entrepreneur claimed, “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer.” . .  .

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The American people are not wholly to blame for these things for glorifying such things you criticize. It has been the things that Hollywood has glorified. For the values that which you want the young people to stand for first you have to make movies, and other things.

American politician Elise Marie Stefanik calls for deportation of 'pro-Hamas' Columbia students on federal visas

Americans willingly learn to shout "death to America and Israel!" They become louder and shake fists more angrily for their Iranian ventriloquists. TD

Stefanik calls for deportation of 'pro-Hamas' Columbia students on federal visas  . . ."Stefanik said she hoped the House Education & the Workforce Committee hearings featuring the other administrators would have served as a reminder to protect students of all faiths and condemn antisemitism.

"We have seen the exact opposite in the case of both Harvard and Penn. While their university presidents were forced out because of their morally bankrupt answers to my question in that historic hearing, we have not seen those schools step up to protect Jewish students," she said.

"Then, of course, we have the Columbia University hearing with President Shafik, where clearly their strategy was say whatever you have to to get through the hearing, to try to avoid the fate of the Penn and Harvard president, but yet their actions — they weren't taking any action on campus to protect Jewish students, to address the rise of antisemitism." . . .

"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel. They are calling for genocide against Jews around the world and in America.

"It is unthinkable that we are allowing this to happen at U.S. universities.

"Columbia has surrendered to the radical pro-Hamas antisemitic mob instead of securing campus and protecting Columbia's jewish students.

"There can be no more extensions or delays. There can be no negotiation with self- proclaimed Hamas terrorists and their sympathizers.

American taxpayers don't want to support antisemitism. They oppose antisemitism, and we know that we're going to continue to stand up for what's morally right.

" 'Consequences are needed for those who are calling for terrorism and violent attacks.”

"Stefanik cited the Immigration and Nationality Act, which states that anyone who endorses terrorism can become ineligible for American residency, and noted that protesters are "brazenly endorsing Hamas and other terrorist organization."

Trump WH urged to prioritize deportation of foreign students with pro-terrorism views   

. . ."The Republican Party platform released in July was a sparse list that reflected Trump’s ideological priorities but included few concrete policy proposals. Trump’s pledge to tackle antisemitism was coupled with just one policy goal: “support revoking Visas of Foreign Nationals who support terrorism and jihadism.”

"Now, some of Trump’s backers argue that should be a day-one priority for the new administration. They are urging the president-elect to take on antisemitism in a way that incorporates counterterrorism measures, such as digging deeper into Iran’s influence on U.S. campus protests and looking into whether radical campus organizations receive illicit foreign financing. 

" 'I think we’d like to see people who are on student visas, who have publicly and specifically endorsed Hamas or Hezbollah or what is a designated terrorist organization by the United States, and they’re showing they are very vocal in their support for them, that those students would lose their student visas to the United States and therefore be removed,” said Luke Moon, executive director of the Philos Project, which works to promote Christian engagement in the Middle East. Vice President-elect J.D. Vance spoke at the Philos Project’s Oct. 7 memorial rally in Washington this year." . . . 

Scott Jennings Drives CNN Panel to Fits As He Nukes Biden's Time in Office Into Next Week

Nick Arama

  Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Solomon Jones said, "I think Donald Trump needs to apologize that a million people died in COVID while I was telling people to shine light in their bodies and take disinfectant." Jennings wrecked that, "That's false." First, a million people didn't die from COVID under Trump; it hit a million under Biden, and more died under Biden.  

Jen Psaki forced to retract false book claim that Biden did not
 check his watch

"On Thursday, Scott Jennings just dropped some truth bombs about Joe Biden's failed time occupying the White House, driving the CNN panel into fits. 

"He started with Biden's shameful failure to have any regrets about some of the horrible things he's done. Jennings particularly excoriated him over the deaths Biden was responsible for during his debacle of a withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

"When he got asked about regrets, the fact that he didn't say, 'I regret that 13 American service members lost their lives in Afghanistan,' to me, that he can't muster the courage to say that now is a disgrace," Jennings declared. 

"Indeed. This was truly shameful: . . .

An ailing Biden says there's not a single thing he regrets or would do differently from his disastrous presidency 😳 pic.twitter.com/ICR457Ai3m

— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) December 19, 2024

An end-of-year round-up on all the long-standing corporations that just couldn’t survive a Democrat economy

 Olivia Murray 

 . . ."So where did all that wealth go? I mean, it had to go somewhere right? Real wealth, which is generated by the private sector, the small business man, the farmer, the entrepreneur, it doesn’t just evaporate into thin air—it has to go somewhere." . . .

"As Bidenomics and progressive left policies wind to a close with Trump and DOGE on the horizon, it’s time to take inventory and see who’s still standing, and who just couldn’t survive this “strongest ever” Democrat economy:

Biden and the democrats destroyed our economy pic.twitter.com/o4t6GxHKbJ

— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) December 22, 2024

"To be fair, financial woe for a number of these brands started long before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: trouble for Sears was brewing in the 1980s when Walmart began to make headway in the same market; Sam Goody was a dinosaur, and filed for bankruptcy almost 20 years ago; and who’s going to shop at the Party City middle-man for cheap, from-China party goods when Amazon gets the product to the consumer faster and cheaper, and any number of “dollar stores” (dollar-fifty stores under Biden) have about the same selection for a much lower price?

"Yet, the point remains, when long-standing iconic brands finally go bust, it means the economy isn’t so hot.

"Now, what happens when you include all the small business owners who suffered the same fate? Recall what Missouri congressman Jason Smith had to say about the past four years:

The Biden-Harris Administration has spent billions for a manufacturing jobs boom, but really, it’s been a blue-collar bust. America, today, has fewer manufacturing jobs than it did a year ago. Small businesses are getting crushed by failed policies and had to cut over 43,000 jobs just in the last year. Make no mistake, the Biden-Harris Administration is no friend to small businesses or workers. . . .

Harmeet Dhillon, Trump’s Choice for DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Battled Woke Policies in California

Her nomination could indeed be historic.

"If confirmed, California attorney Harmeet Dhillon could be the first Justice official to take on government DEI discrimination nationwide. So her nomination could indeed be historic."

"President-elect Donald Trump has nominated San Francisco attorney Harmeet Dhillon to lead the Civil Rights Division of the federal Department of Justice. As NBC News reports, the India-born Dhillon is “also on track to be the first Sikh American to hold the position.” There’s more about Harmeet Dhillon that people should know, and NBC gives the people cause to wonder.

"An India-born nominee would be more accurately described as an Indian American, in the style of African American, Mexican American, and so forth. “Sikh” refers to a religion, not a nationality and it’s hard to think of Department of Justice officials described as Catholic Americans, Buddhist Americans, or Hindu Americans.

"India-born Harmeet Dhillon is dark-skinned, yet she is not described as a “woman of color” or “person of color.” This description is often invoked for DEI hires, but skin shade has nothing to do with qualifications for a key Department of Justice post.

"Dartmouth College graduate Harmeet Dhillon earned her juris doctorate at the University of Virginia, where she was on the board of the Virginia Law Review. Dhillon clerked for Judge Paul V. Niemeyer of the U. S Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Constitutional Torts Section of the Civil Division (D.C.).  Dhillon is also a former member of the board of directors for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, but her critics are not impressed.

“ 'Dhillon has focused her career on diminishing civil rights, rather than enforcing or protecting them,” contends Maya Wiley, president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. That invites a look at Dhillon’s record on civil rights. In 2020, when California Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down the state, Dhillon filed suit against his draconian stay-at-home rules.

" 'The governor has chosen to limit protests to zero in this state which is outrageous and absurd,” Dhillon told reporters. For small businesses there was “no appeal process, no selection criteria,” and “going to church to worship communally is a First Amendment-protected activity and while it does not sustain the level of protection as protests, petitions, the press, other forms of speech, it is protected under the constitution and we believe it is unconstitutional for the governor to impose restrictions on worship that are broader than necessary to achieve the government’s interests.”

"Those unfamiliar with Gov. Newsom’s lockdown should also see California’s rules for gatherings during the pandemic. “All gatherings must be held outside” and “mixing between groups gathering is not allowed.” Masks were mandatory and the six-foot distancing rule enforced “in all directions,” but there was more to it." . . .

How can Democrats not feel shame over what they have become?

Sister Toldjah

"As RedState readers know, there is a lot to dislike about the White House press corps.

The primary issues, of course, revolve around - among other things - their frequent water-carrying on behalf of Democrats, their Baghdad Bob-esque reporting in the aftermath of press briefings, and their bizarre but persistent focus on irrelevant things, like the milkshake flavors President Joe Biden and other Democrats prefer.

One bright ray of sunlight in the briefing room has been Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy, who has tied the Biden White House in knots for years, going toe to toe with a cast of characters including Biden himself, his former press secretary, Jen Psaki, and current press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, asking important questions that others in the room wouldn't dare.

Doocy, who Biden once infamously called a "stupid son of a b**ch" on a hot mic, has handled Jean-Pierre's patented evasiveness and deer-in-headlight moments like a boss, with one moment coming to mind how she tried to dunk him over the summer about not seeing him for a while, only to get the following response: . . .

Shall we roll the tape?! Sure!https://t.co/bal3ZNWvPd

— D (@DuderonoME) September 17, 2024

 

READ MORE: Karine Jean-Pierre's System Reboots in Real Time After Doocy Asks About Biden 'Bloodbath' Remarks

https://x.com/i/status/1836147469719355629

Breaking Video: Former CIA Director Calls For Trump's Death pic.twitter.com/PlJ6LAhkco

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) September 16, 2024 

In Memoriam: A Look Back At KJP’s Greatest Fibs As Her Time In The White House Ends

Daily Caller  

Reporters called into questions the veracity of her claims that Biden’s poor debate performance was not due to a declining mental state, but rather that he had a cold due to jetlag from a trip to Europe 12 days earlier. 

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"President Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter was a direct contradiction to numerous public statements from his Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

"On at least four occasions since Hunter Biden’s plea deal for gun charges collapsed in July 2023, Jean-Pierre assured reporters, in no uncertain terms, that President Biden would not be pardoning his son.

"Shortly after the deal fell through, Jean-Pierre offered a simple one-word answer to the question of whether or not Biden would pardon his son: “No.”

"Later she was asked again and repeated, more emphatically this time “It’s still a no. It’s still a no. It will be a no. It is a no. And I don’t have anything else to add. Will he pardon his son? No.”

Here’s Karine Jean-Pierre saying over an over again that Joe Biden will absolutely not pardon his son Hunter…

"She claimed he wouldn’t on at least 4 separate occasions.

It’s the supercut you didn’t know you needed. pic.twitter.com/3lwBVrzzK3

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) December 2, 2024

. . ." KJP repeated the false claim on ABC’s “The View.”

“They want a national ban on abortion and it’s not gonna matter if you’re in a red state or a blue state, that means it will be completely banned. That is their message. That’s what they’re doing here and we have to remember that we can’t allow that to take us back. We cannot be moving backwards.” . .

The Babylon Bee sees the ingredients for parody in the Hunter-Joe- KJP axis:  Karine Jean-Pierre: 'The Entire Biden Presidency Is A Private Family Matter And I Won't Comment On Private Family Matters.'

   Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, however, was not finished. "Okay, but what about Ukraine?" he asked. "Surely, that's not a family matter." Jean-Pierre replied sternly. "You really haven't been paying attention, have you?"

"White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who both is black and gay, declared she will no longer be answering questions from reporters during the press briefing. She cited the importance of protecting private family matters, which she claimed the Biden presidency technically qualified as.

"I'm just not going to speak to any private conversation that the President has with his family, especially as it pertains to possible felonies or acts of light treason," Jean-Pierre clarified. "It just wouldn't be appropriate."

"Because they're a family."

"Members of the media who attempted to limit their questions to matters of policy were also shut down.

" 'So look, the President is a man. And that man has a family. Therefore, the entire Biden presidency is a family matter. I won't comment on private family matters," Jean-Pierre said." ...