Joe Biden's Legacy Will Be That of a Criminally Incompetent Buffoon and Nothing Can Change That Verdict

 RedState

"Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates once said of Biden, "I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." We can add economic and domestic policy issues and an additional decade to that list."

"Joe Biden's inner circle put on a full-court press on Saturday to try to prevent Jimmy Carter dying vindicated in the knowledge that he was not the worst president in American history. In a front-page article in the Washington Post on the lowest readership day of the week, Biden's advisers tried to shore up their future employability as much as they tried to make their soon-to-be former boss look good (Joe Biden’s lonely battle to sell his vision of American democracy - The Washington Post). My colleague Nick Arama covered some of the highlights on Saturday, as well as the preview we got on Friday.

"Let's do a quick run-through of Biden's vision.

Biden was a victim of valuing policy over style.

“I have come to the conclusion in recent days that I’m wrong about that,” the South Carolina Democrat, 84, remembers telling Biden. “The new environment that we currently live in — style seems to carry the day more than substance.”

“Your style,” he told the president, “does not lend itself well to the environment we’re currently in.”

Clyburn’s conclusion — which was shared by anxious Democrats in the months before the president ended his reelection bid — undermined Biden’s theory of presidential leadership. After Donald Trump’s ascent, Biden believed that he just needed to show Americans that traditional democracy still worked — by listening to experts, working with Republicans, passing popular policies — and voters would rally around him.

"If there was any substance to Biden, and that is a very arguable position, it was his utter contempt for half the country. He set about corrupting federal law enforcement (more on that in a moment) and enslaving the executive branch to the forces of racial division and, indeed, hatred. 

Biden was too deep a thinker to be appreciated by the Lumpenproletariat.

“The president has been operating on a time horizon measured in decades, while the political cycle is measured in four years,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, said in an interview.

Sullivan added that Biden’s accomplishments by their nature will take a long time to bear fruit. “How to govern at this moment to set the U.S. up for long-term success has one answer, and how to govern to deal with midterm and presidential elections in the very short term might have a different answer,” he said. “The president went with doing the things that really put America in a strong position.”

"This may be the most ludicrous item in the article and can best be viewed as Jake Sullivan interviewing for a think tank job or university faculty position." . . .  Much more here...

January 6 Political Prisoners Launch Historic $50 Billion Class Action Lawsuit Against DOJ

 The Gateway Pundit

"In a groundbreaking legal battle, over 100 January 6 political prisoners have come together to file what is being hailed as the largest lawsuit ever against the Department of Justice.

"Officially named the January 6 Restitution and Wrongful Incarceration Lawsuit, this $50 billion class action is spearheaded by Jake Lang, a January 6 prisoner who has been incarcerated for nearly four years. Lang, through his new organization, Federal Watchdog, the Anti-Lawfare Group, is joined by an esteemed team of conservative attorneys, including Steven Metcalf, Anthony Sabatini, Stephanie Lambert, and Jonathan Gross. Together, they aim to expose the injustices faced by January 6 prisoners and secure much-needed restitution.

A Fight for Justice

"The lawsuit, set to be filed on January 20, 2025, has already garnered widespread support, with over 100 prisoners signing on. This historic legal action seeks to compensate these individuals for the extensive harm inflicted by what they describe as a weaponized justice system. From the loss of generational family businesses, homes, and careers to the irreparable emotional and psychological damage suffered during years of wrongful incarceration, the plaintiffs are demanding accountability for the Federal Government’s actions." . . . Full article

* THERE IS STILL TIME TO JOIN THIS CLASS ACTION J6 RESTITUTION LAWSUIT – CLICK HERE TO JOIN *    $50 BILLION DOLLAR JANUARY 6 LAWSUIT AGAINST WRONGFUL ARREST / INCARCERATION

New Rasmussen Poll Has More Bad News for Liz Cheney About FBI Investigation 

 . . ."As we previously reported, a recent interim report from the Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight found that the events of Jan. 6 were preventable. It also dropped some bombshell allegations against former Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney including that she may have tampered with a witness, Cassidy Hutchinson." . . .

 . . ."I don't think Cheney expected that during the election, and I'm fairly certain Kamala Harris didn't. Another example of how much Harris completely misjudged the opinion of the American public. She embraced Cheney, thinking that she was somehow reaching out for some mystical, middle vote that Cheney represented. But as the people of Wyoming proved, Cheney had no constituency except Democrats and those folks were already voting for Harris (or sitting out). She didn't add anything. Harris only lost leftists who saw the embrace as a cynical rejection of all their past concerns about Cheney and her father.

"But the report and the poll are certainly going to add to the call for Kash Patel to act, if he is approved to head the FBI."

‘The View’ Co-Host in Hot Water: Alyssa Farah Griffin Caught Coaching Federal Witness and Known Liar Cassidy Hutchinson – May Face Criminal Investigation  . . ."As Cristina Laila pointed out earlier, Loudermilk obtained January 6 ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson’s Signal messages, which revealed she was directly communicating with J6 Vice Chair Liz Cheney in 2022.

"Liz Cheney was communicating with Cassidy Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge—knowing this is unethical.

"“In the months prior to Hutchinson’s explosive private and public testimony, Cheney communicated with Hutchinson, both directly and through an intermediary—Alyssa Farah Griffin—while Hutchinson was represented by her attorney, Stefan Passantino. The Select Committee conducted six transcribed interviews of Hutchinson in total. Passantino represented Hutchinson for the first three interviews,” the Oversight Committee said.

"Text messages were posted on social media showing The View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin Cassidy Hutchinson was clearly tampering with the witness Cassidy Hutchinson." . . .

"Byron Donalds Floats Theory About the Biden Death Row Commutations, and He Might Be Right on the Money"

Sister Toldjah; RedState   

"Biden's guiding force for the entire four years of his presidency has been the activist left, who have used Biden as a vessel to try and foist the worst of their ideas (and there are many) on the American people by way of executive decisions/actions/orders." . . .

"As RedState previously reported, President Joe Biden decided to drop an unwelcome Christmas surprise on the families of murder victims whose killers were on federal death row by commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

"... guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level," Biden's said in a statement posted to the White House website Monday.

"In the next sentence, Biden confirmed he was doing this in part to spite President-Elect Donald Trump, a proponent of capital punishment, saying, "In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted."

"Biden's announcement came some two weeks after he commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39, which was done just a few days after he issued a sweeping pardon of his son, convicted felon Hunter Biden, in what many political observers view as Democrat privilege run wildly amok.

"Though the death row commutations were particularly infuriating, some have suggested that maybe it wasn't Biden himself who was the driving force behind the move. Among them is Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who during a Fox News interview Thursday noted that he believed Biden didn't even know what he was signing: . . ."

Joe Biden Is No Longer In Touch With Reality  "Is President Joe Biden making any decisions anymore? Who knows? Probably not. Heck, it was debatable from day one whether he was the one actually in charge of his administration. Well, now he’s made it crystal clear that he’s utterly disconnected from reality.

"According to White House insiders, Biden is reportedly lamenting his decision to to drop out of the presidential election, and—try not to laugh—he still believes he could have easily defeated Donald Trump had he stayed in the race. " . . .

Joe Biden heads out on a low note, more despised by the public than ever   . . ."These are his naked poll numbers, without the media gaslighting. That tells us they've been protecting him a lot. Good press coverage kept a lid on negative public perceptions of him,  but that manhole cover has blown off now, and the gross reality is seeping out.

"That's Joe Biden, one of the worst presidents in U.S. history, with the public recognizing his failure."

Democrat Jasmine Crockett Shows Off Her Special Brand of Stupid on MSNBC in Lame Attack on Trump

Twitchy 

 Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas is giving Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a run for her money as the dumbest politician in Washington, D.C. Crockett was on MSNBC Saturday. She had trouble finding the words to call President-Elect Donald Trump a big dummy.

. . ."Crockett’s tired shtick is that she’s oppressed and had things hard in her life because of racism. Commenters say that’s complete bunk."

Caroline Kliby

She's a member of the House, she's on national TV and she gets paid $174K per year, so where is the oppression?

Tomi Lahren

I think my favorite is that this woman constantly yammers on about oppression, yet every time we see her, she’s wearing Gucci or Chanel…

If he comes to Auschwitz liberation anniversary; disgusting!

 RBC Ukraine

In the 1940s, Poles collaborated with the Nazis to kill every Jew they could. Now they work with those who support the murderers from Hamas. TD

Israel News; Benjamin Netanyahu

"In January 2025, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz will be celebrated. However, if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives, he may be arrested under an ICC warrant, reports The Jerusalem Post.

"Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Władysław Bartoszewski said that if Netanyahu arrives in Poland, he will be arrested in accordance with the country's obligations to the International Criminal Court.

"The anniversary is usually a major state event. However, Israeli officials have refused to confirm whether Netanyahu will be allowed to attend the event, and President Isaac Herzog's participation also seems unlikely.

"Education Minister Yoav Kish will be the only representative of the Israeli government at the anniversary.

ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu

"In November of this year, the ICC indicted Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for a series of crimes.

"According to this, states that have signed the Rome Statute are legally obliged to execute ICC arrest warrants." . . .

Poland to arrest Israeli PM Netanyahu if he comes to Holocaust memorial - Benjamin Netanyahu - The Jerusalem Post

Other EU states have confirmed they would arrest Netanyahu regardless of diplomatic immunity – including Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Lithuania, and Slovenia.

The fire suppression paradox

Kevin Finn

"My forestry professor used to say, “Wildfires are nature’s way of taking out the trash.”  Modern fire management techniques enable foresters to conduct controlled burns to remove this “trash,” this combustible debris in a relatively safe manner." . . . 

"There’s nothing like a hike through an old growth forest.  Whether oak and maple trees on the east coast or redwoods and sequoias out west, it’s immensely soothing to walk on soft, mossy ground and listen to the sound of the wind through the branches.

"You won’t find a lot of four-legged critters there, as the shade precludes the growth of a leafy understory, so there’s not a lot for them to eat.  Native Americans picked up on this right away.  If you’re living off rabbits, deer, elk, and buffalo, you don’t want dense forests; you want open grasslands or, at most, widely scattered trees.  So they set fires to clear the land and set forest succession back to an earlier stage, one composed of shade-intolerant grasses and shrubs.  These fires were planned and desired but largely uncontrolled.

"Wildfires are unplanned, unwanted fires that occur in undeveloped locations.  They’re caused by lightning, sparks from vehicles and campfires, human negligence, and even arson.  They’re also inevitable.  Some of America’s wildfires were legendary, and not in a good way.

"One of my professors in forestry school told us the story of the Coeur d’Alene (Idaho) Fire of 1910.  Follow that link, as the accounts are hair-raising.  When fires get this large, they create their own weather.  The rising heat acts as a chimney, and the fire sucks in air from ground level that can uproot trees, roots and all.  When they hit the fire, they literally explode.  The smoke from this fire blotted out the sun from Saskatoon, Canada, south to Denver, Colorado and east to Watertown, New York.  It burned enough wood to fill a train 2,400 miles long, enough to have built 800,000 homes.  Twenty million acres were burned in only three days. 

"That fire was so horrific that it defined fire management practices from that point forward.  In brief, firefighters began to extinguish wildfires as quickly as possible and performed controlled burns to reduce forest litter, which is unburned fuel.  After logging, it’s not uncommon for foresters to perform these controlled burns to remove branches, tops, and assorted combustible debris.  This also serves to stimulate the growth of grasses and shrubs that attract wildlife." . . .   Full article...

Newsom Misled The Public About Wildfire Prevention Efforts Ahead Of Worst Fire Season On Record - capradio.org   . . ."As required by Newsom’s executive order, the agency said it paid particular attention to equity — focusing on areas with high “poverty levels, residents with disabilities, language barriers, residents over 65 or under five years of age, and households without a car.”

"Officially, the projects totaled about 90,000 acres. That’s well short of the amount of forestland experts say needs treatment in California, but it would have substantially increased Cal Fire’s prevention output compared to past years."

. . ."Newsom did not identify a new set of priority projects to tackle after declaring victory on the initial 35 in January 2020, even though Cal Fire’s recommendations underscored the urgent need to make this an ongoing effort."

Ending Daylight Savings Time

James Stansbury

"A more scholarly case for returning to year-round standard time was made by Jeffery Tucker in the Epoch Times. He wrote that “[e]very study shows that this disruption is terrible for health, disrupting sleep patterns, and contributing to mental fatigue and even depression." . . . 

"Trump’s proposals are coming fast and furious. His newest two include a threat to take back control of the Panama Canal and a renewed interest in buying Greenland although these two may be negotiating tactics. However, his earlier proposal surprised me more. The Hill reported that Trump said “Republicans would push to eliminate daylight saving time [DST], calling it “inconvenient” and “costly.” 

"Although Trump’s desire to end DST and make standard time year-round will please many people, any change will be controversial. There are only three options and each has supporters: (1) Do nothing. (2) Make DST year-round. (3) Make Standard Time year-round. Following are some thoughts on each: . . .

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." . . .