Scranton Finally Turning on Biden as Officials Demand Removal of His Name from Landmark

The Western Journal 

  "It is indeed rather difficult to see why Biden deserves to have any highways named in his honor. This cash-for-kids scheme was clearly the last straw for at least some in Scranton." . . .

"President Joe Biden has proudly referenced his roots in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on countless occasions.

"But after he pardoned a judge involved in a cash-for-kids program that jailed thousands of juveniles in northeastern Pennsylvania, the Electric City is no longer feeling that spark of love.

"The newly elected Pennsylvania Republican State Rep. Brenda Pugh called on officials in Scranton to remove Biden’s name from expressways labeled in his honor after he pardoned former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan.

"That now-disgraced official was convicted after taking kickbacks in exchange for sending juveniles to jail for committing minor crimes, or committing no crime whatsoever, according to PAHomepage.

"Pugh said the fact that Biden pardoned Conahan was a disgrace that merits renaming the “President Joe Biden Expressway,” originally named for the commander-in-chief by the Scranton City Council in 2021.

“Conahan’s conduct is forever a blight on Pennsylvania and is a slap in the face to the victims and their families who deserve justice to be served for his atrocious crimes,” Pugh wrote, per PAHomepage.

“His clemency places complicity and a stamp of approval on his behavior,” she continued. “Children are among the most vulnerable Pennsylvanians. This decision is nothing short of a travesty and his clemency is a miscarriage of justice.”

"Pugh is far from the only Pennsylvania official to express concern over the presidential pardon.

"Even Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro cringed at the pardon of the corrupt official." ...

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Mind-Boggling Backfire: By Pardoning Hunter, Joe Biden Might Be Going to Jail

                  Here we have Joe Biden bragging about how he totally manipulated the judicial system in another country and got the Ukrainian prosecutor fired. This all while that same prosecutor was investigating the company (Burisma) that just happened to be paying his son, Hunter..... pic.twitter.com/UwbNUQzIj2

— Richard (@ricwe123) December 2, 2024

 

Putin: Joe Biden Is Corrupt, Unpresidential… and Less Honorable than Stalin!

. . ."In 1943, Stalin’s son, Yakov, was a prisoner in a German concentration camp. The Nazis offered to return him — in exchange for German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus. Stalin refused: “I will not exchange a field marshal for a soldier.” Yakov Stalin died in a German concentration camp." . . .

PJ Media   . . ."“He is a politician,” Putin said of Biden. “And it is always important what is more in you — a politician or a human being. It turned out that Biden is more of a human being. I would not condemn him for this.”

"He’s not saying that as a complement! He’s saying that Biden is corrupt!

"Because, as the article explained, Putin went on to cite history (of course he did; he’s Russian), and pointed out that Joseph Stalin once had to make an eerily similar decision.

"In 1943, Stalin’s son, Yakov, was a prisoner in a German concentration camp. The Nazis offered to return him — in exchange for German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus.

"Stalin refused: “I will not exchange a field marshal for a soldier.”

"Yakov Stalin died in a German concentration camp.

“Things were different then,” Putin emphasized. 

"When Putin said that Biden is “more of a human being,” he was telling the world that Biden put his “human” responsibilities ahead of his presidential obligations. And because of it, he’s more corrupt and less honorable that Joseph freaking Stalin.

"January 20 can’t get here fast enough."

"Rep. DeLauro praises Buttigieg’s plan to solve ‘gender inequity’ by promoting female crash test dummies

 Legal Insurrection

"Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) recently praised Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for promoting the use of female crash test dummies in order to promote gender equity.

"It has gotten to the point where it is nearly impossible to distinguish reality from parody.

FOX News reports:

"Rep. DeLauro praises Buttigieg’s plan to solve ‘gender inequity’ by promoting female crash test dummies

"Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., turned heads Thursday by stressing the need for “female dummies” in car crash testing during a congressional hearing.

"During the House Appropriations Committee hearing on the Department of Transportation budget, DeLauro used her time to praise Transportation Secretary Pete Butigieg’s initiatives to rectify the “gender inequity” among crash victims.

"DeLauro singled out the “use of female dummies” for roadway crash testing as one of these Buttigieg initiatives she supports." . . ."JUST NOW: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) mocks Republicans for getting "scared - because President Musk said 'don't do it [pass the bill]!'" 

"Imagine. What does HE know about what people go through when the government shuts down? Are his employees furloughed? H*ll no! Is… pic.twitter.com/JNKCZ4kWXU

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 19, 2024

Watch Scott Jennings Slap Down This Shoddy Talking Point About the Spending Bill

Elon Hilariously Decimates Rosa DeLauro and Dems' Juvenile Tactics Over Funding Battle   . . ."So we'll have to see how things go or if there will be a shutdown. 

"But I don't think either President-elect Donald Trump or Elon Musk are being intimidated by the Democrats and their whiny, insulting ways. The effort to create dissension by calling Musk "President" or Trump "Vice President" is so silly; it's like the Dems are playing 12-year-old games. 

"But as we reported, purple-haired Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) went right along with the cult-think in a wild rant." . . . 

https://x.com/Defundmedianow

"Panic! Government will shut down if Congress doesn't pass a funding bill!
"That's how most media cover it.
"But during previous shut downs, what terrible things happened? None!
"Life went on. Government demonstrated how needless most of it is.
"I made this video about that: pic.twitter.com/NIPYeO2r6X

— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) December 20, 2024

Watch Scott Jennings Slap Down This Shoddy Talking Point About the Spending Bill 

. . ."Suppose Democrats are worried about unelected officials and private citizens directing policy. In that case, they need to read the latest edition of The Wall Street Journal, which further detailed the elaborate system Biden's White House aides deployed to keep the president’s condition hidden and reportedly made key decisions without Joe’s knowledge or approval. That’s a coup. No one elected these people; they’ve been allegedly doing this since day one of the Biden presidency." . . .  Vance warned about unelected people making key government decisions, where Scott Jennings couldn’t hold his tongue.

Walter Duranty Would Be Proud Of How The Press Covered For Biden

  Issues & Insights 

"No one should buy it. This was journalistic malpractice, pure and simple. It’s time to scrap the Pulitzer Prize and start issuing the more appropriate Duranty Prize for flagrant attempts to lie to and mislead the public to push a leftist agenda."

Duranty was the MSNBC of the 1930s

"Five years too late, the Wall Street Journal finally reports – when it no longer matters – what journalists knew all along but covered up: Joe Biden was not mentally fit to be president.

"The mainstream media’s disservice to the public ranks right up there with Walter Duranty’s New York Times reporting, in which he fed Soviet Union propaganda to the U.S. as news and helped cover up the hellscape that was Stalin’s Russia. (The New York Times never returned the Pulitzer Prize that Duranty won for his lies.)

"Except in this case, it wasn’t one reporter halfway around the world in a closed society. It was a legion of reporters inside the White House.

"The Journal report reads as though it’s the result of hard investigative work. “This account of how the White House functioned with an aging leader at the top of its organizational chart is based on interviews with nearly 50 people, including those who participated in or had direct knowledge of the operations,” it says.  "Bullsh-t."

"The Journal’s story is just a catalog of what reporters knew – or must have known – all along but refused to tell the public.

"Remember, these are reporters who are as close to a president as you can get. They hear all the White House gossip. They see the president up close every day. They knew how bad he was. They knew he was being protected by a close-knit group of advisers. They knew that the staff was frustrated, and lawmakers concerned. They just covered it up on Biden’s behalf. And the party’s.

"Not only did they refuse to cover these things, they attacked anyone who dared suggest that Biden was incapable of carrying out his duties. When Biden slurred, stumbled, tripped, mumbled, or did something that so obviously showed his frailty, the mainstream press, including the reporters at the Wall Street Journal, would rush out stories about how he was full of vim and vigor.

"The Journal also pretends that the White House efforts to insulate Biden were so effective that reporters had no idea what was going on." . . .

We urge you to sign the petition to deprive Walter Duranty of the Pulitzer Prize | National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide   "Walter Duranty is a famous journalist, a special correspondent of the New York Times in Moscow, who contributed to the concealment and denial of the Holodomor. His materials from the early 1930s are a clear example of disinformation that helped the communist regime hide the facts of mass starvation from the world. Regretfully, in 1932, Duranty was awarded the Pulitzer Prize – the most prestigious journalistic award for a series of reports about life in the USSR.

"In 2021, the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor Genocide Awareness initiated a petition to revoke Walter Duranty of the Pulitzer Prize. To date, more than 10,000 people have signed it." . . .  Tunnel Wall has posted about the Holodomor previously.

Starving children in Ukraine, 1930s

George Stephanopoulos Has Always Been A Propagandist

The Federalist   

"George Stephanopoulos served as Bill Clinton’s White House communications director and then joined the ranks of the news media to become a shill on behalf of the Democrat Party."

 "It is about time ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos faced consequences for his propaganda; he has always been a Democrat activist masquerading as an “objective journalist.”

"ABC was recently forced to fork over $15 million after Stephanopoulos falsely asserted multiple times that Donald Trump had been found liable for rape, a payout he is reportedly “apoplectic” about. But in light of his career as a far-left media hack, the sum seems like a slap on the wrist.

" 'George Stephanopoulos is who we always thought he was: a partisan tool to the very end,” Curtis Houck, managing editor of MRC NewsBusters, told The Federalist. “There’s only one reason ABC settled: discovery. They were deathly terrified of reaching any point of discovery in which e-mails or texts from Stephanopoulos, his assistants, and the rest of ABC News about the show and week in question would come to light.”

“Needless to say, they would have been damning in showing not only an aversion to Trump, but a disgust for half the country that doesn’t share their ideology,” Houck added.

"While other left-wing propagandists in the corporate media were angry after the settlement, claiming that the $15 million payout “undermines journalists doing their jobs,” blatant defamation has always been illegal. It is also considerably harder to find a reporter guilty of a defamation claim against a public figure like Trump, which suggests that ABC and Stephanopoulos knew what they were doing was illegal and settled to avoid a potential guilty verdict.

"To make matters worse, Stephanopoulos was reportedly warned by producers not to use the word “rape” in his segments, but decided, apparently out of his sense of journalistic duty, to make the false claims anyway.

"But that is not surprising for a person like Stephanopoulos, who was President Bill Clinton’s White House communications director, and then senior advisor, and then joined the ranks of the news media to become a shill on behalf of his party while trying to dupe the American people into believing he is objective.

Bill Clinton’s Fixer

"Back in his White House days, Stephanopoulos was a fixer, shielding Clinton from Paula Jones’ accusations of sexual harassment by claiming she was simply seeking money. He also made calls to friends in the media, successfully pressuring outlets like CNN and NBC not to cover Jones’ news conference." . . .

Nancy Mace Fires Back at George Stephanopoulos Rape Shaming and Lies about Trump on ABC News "In this heated interview on ABC News, Congresswoman Nancy Mace stands her ground against George Stephanopoulos after he tries to rape shame, and corrects his lies about Donald Trump. Watch as Rep. Mace shuts him down with a powerful response, defending her stance and speaking out on behalf of rape survivors and women."

The Democrat Trump-Musk Feud Strategy

How about the faceless Democrats controlling Biden's actions, using his vindictive desires and anger towards President Trump? Knowing all along that Trump is a far more effective and respected leader Democrats still prefer a failed America to him. What kind of people want an America led by Biden- Harris, taught by MSNBC and peopled by illegal immigrants and murderous gangs with not a trace of reverence for this nation and our history? TD

Rajan Laad

  . . ."The usual hoaxers Kinzinger, Sanders, the Lincoln Project, Democrat representatives, etc. are pushing this falsehood. Democrats allies are posting memes depicting Trump as subservient to Musk. USA Today," . . .

. . ."This is depicted in Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Yojimbo and its remake A Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood. They are hoping that the constant bombardment of this narrative will enrage Trump. They are also hoping it will color his judgment about Musk, if he finds a comment or a Tweet that appears to be a difference of opinion, Trump will interpret it as an act of defiance. They are also hoping that Musk will succumb to the flattery and think of himself as a puppet master and make a display of it on X.

"The main goal is to cause a massive feud which will lead to Musk's sacking and the dismantling of DOGE. Many Democrat proxies are openly declaring this on X. They are hoping that the rift will make Musk one of Trump's worst adversaries and that they will engage in a vicious war of words on social media.

"In subsequent days, expect mainstream news outlets to use unnamed sources to declare a battle royale between Musk and Trump.

"We will learn of 'sources' claiming that Musk ridiculed Trump among friends. 'Sources' will claim Trump is furious with the President Musk hoax and told allies he will 'kick Musk the f---k out of Mar-a-Lago and banish his a—forever.' In the coming weeks, months, and years both Musk and Trump have to be careful.

"Musk must understand that Trump is the founder and will always be the leader of the MAGA movement. He was a great support and an ally. But it was Trump who won. 

"During the early 80s, rock superstar Sting's manager Miles Copeland revealed that his primary job was to keep the egos of his Police bandmates in check. He said bandmates would complain they had better ideas than Sting and he had to remind them that if Sting dropped out, the concert would be canceled. But if any bandmate quit, he would be replaced and nobody would notice. 

"Musk is a guitarist in the MAGA band, but Trump is the lead. Musk is a valuable bandmate, as is Lara Trump, Dan Scavino, Susie Wiles, Dana White, Vivek Ramaswamy, etc.

"While exercising his opinions Musk must be clear that he reports to Trump in DOGE. Musk must not be seen to defy Trump in any way. Musk is accustomed to being the boss and doing as he pleases, and he will have to exercise restraint given this new role.

"To be clear, Musk hasn't shown any disloyalty or defiance toward President Trump. There is also no indication that Musk is behind this hoax. Musk even praised Trump in a recent tweet."

. . ."The swamp dwellers are now in a quandary. They know that they cannot misuse agencies to target Trump as they did before. Their media proxies aren't going to engage in blatant lies, after the ABC settlement. They desperately need to derail this Trump train."  Emphasis mine, TD

Think Hunter’s pardon is bad? President Biden’s ‘merit’ mercies are even worse

 NY Post 

 "If Democrats had a lick of self-respect — or any real instinct for political self-preservation — they would censure, if not impeach, Biden while they still have the time." 

Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons have been positively scandalous — and the one for his son Hunter hasn’t even been the worst of them.

"Biden’s pardons are terrible in and of themselves, but taken together they illustrate a more important point. Pardons are for resolving individual cases one at a time; pardons aren’t for policymaking. 

"First: Holy smokes, some of these pardons are bonkers, including Biden’s grant of clemency for the corrupt judge at the center of the “Kids for Cash” case, in which former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan took bribes in exchange for wrongly sentencing children to time in for-profit youth prisons, padding his own bank account while helping the prisons to pad theirs.

"Some 4,000 juvenile convictions had to be thrown out after the kickbacks were discovered.

"And Biden gave clemency to Rita Crundwell, a corrupt local official in Illinois who carried out the largest municipal fraud scheme in US history.

"Also on the list: Meera Sachdeva, a Mississippi doctor who committed large-scale Medicare fraud, in part by shortchanging cancer patients by giving them diluted drugs.

"She also reused needles, which seems to have led to an HIV infection in at least one patient."

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 ‘Black Widow,’ Who Murdered 3 Ex-Lovers, Freed in Biden’s Historic  Clemency Spree   . . ."A Maryland woman dubbed the "Black Widow" for murdering two husbands and a boyfriend for insurance money is now free after President Joe Biden commuted her 40-year prison sentence, undercutting the White House's claim that Biden released only "non-violent" offenders in a clemency bonanza last week." 

 Gray, who collected $165,000 from the three insurance settlements, was charged with murder by Maryland state authorities but ultimately convicted in federal court in 2002 for insurance fraud for violating what’s known as the "slayers rule," which prohibits killers from receiving inheritance and insurance proceeds from their victims' death. 

Trump files amicus brief to 'immediately' stop Biden sale of border wall, says conduct is 'possibly criminal'

Fox News 

"Perception suggests the current administration is “...deliberately selling off border-wall materials...to obstruct the pro-wall policy of Congress and President Trump...likely constitutes a criminal act, such as a conspiracy to defraud the United States.” . . . Comment to the post below.

President-elect Trump filed an amicus brief late Thursday in support of a legal effort by Texas and Missouri to "immediately" stop the Biden administration’s sale of border wall materials, saying the action is "possibly criminal." 

"Texas and Missouri filed a motion earlier this week in a district court in the southern district of Texas to hold a status conference to determine if the government is in breach of the court’s permanent injunction from earlier this year. That injunction barred the Biden administration from using funds obligated for wall construction for anything other than that purpose. 

"The Court should issue an order directing the Defendants to immediately stop any ongoing sale of border-barrier materials to private parties pending the Court’s review of Defendant’s conduct, and the Court should swiftly conduct a searching examination of the Government’s conduct, by formal discovery if necessary, to examine the Government’s compliance with the law, the Constitution, and the Court’s injunction," Trump’s amicus brief states. " . . .

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George Soros-backed Cook County’s former top prosecutor, Kim Foxx, lost her Illinois license to practice law

 Fox News 

 Foxx entered office with significant support from billionaire George Soros, who contributed $400,000 to her 2016 campaign. He also donated $2 million to a fund supporting Foxx in the 2020 election. 

"Former Cook County Prosecutor Kim Foxx is no longer authorized to practice law in Illinois after she failed to keep her license current.

"According to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARCD), Foxx is "unauthorized to practice law as [the] attorney has not demonstrated required MCLE [Minimum Continuing Legal Education] compliance."

"Her license to practice law was suspended on Dec. 1." . . .

. . ."Foxx became the state's attorney for Cook County, Illinois, in 2016 and has frequently been under heavy criticism over her lax enforcement policies, including her handling of the Jussie Smollett case.

"The prosecutor set off widespread objections after she dropped charges against Smollett, a Black and gay actor who had concocted an elaborate "hate crime" hoax in which he claimed two White individuals attacked him in the streets of Chicago while yelling, "This is MAGA country," tying a rope around his neck and dousing him in bleach." . . .

Biden Promised A Return To Normalcy, Looks Like Trump Will Deliver It

 I & I Editorial Board  

"As an added bonus to all this, the country won’t have to endure the freak shows Biden staged on the White House lawn." . . .

"What do a $15 million settlement with ABC News, a Washington, D.C., waitress getting fired, and the Los Angeles Times planning to include a bias meter in its news stories have in common?

"They are all welcome signs that the nation is embracing normalcy once again – something that Joe Biden was allegedly going to restore after Donald Trump’s supposedly chaotic years.

"Trump’s first term was chaotic, but not because of what he did so much as the four-year hysteria unleashed by his opponents.

"Biden, on the other hand, brought true chaos. A tainted election, foreign wars, open borders, runaway inflation, exploding deficits, shortages, censorship, weaponized justice, incompetent leaders and a senile president, two assassination attempts, rising disunity, despair.

"But now that the left’s unhinged efforts to silence conservative voices and block Trump’s reelection have been soundly defeated, a return to some semblance of normalcy is actually possible."ABC News’ settlement – which includes a public apology in addition to the $15 million to settle a defamation case over “journalist” George Stephanopoulos’ repeated assertion that Trump had been found “liable for rape” – is a sign that news media can’t do or say whatever it wants to push an agenda.

"That came after two papers refused to endorse Kamala Harris for president because she is so undeniably unsuited for the office, causing some allegedly neutral reporters and editors at those papers to quit.

" 'More recently, the owner of the Los Angeles Times’ spiked an editorial he deemed unfairly critical of Trump’s Cabinet picks and announced that Times news stories would be accompanied by an AI-powered bias meter rating. As CNN reports, “(Patrick) Soon-Shiong said major publishers have so far failed to adequately separate news and opinion, which he suggested ‘could be the downfall of what now people call mainstream media.'”

"That also has the left freaking out. How dare a publisher ask journalists to do what they promise – report the news – and not propagandize their readers." . . .

Biden Seals His Legacy As Worst President In History  . . ."To further underscore Biden’s disdain for taxpayers, he’s instructed his people to spend as much money as they can in their final weeks because Trump has promised to rescind unspent funds for Biden boondoggles such as the Inflation Reduction Act.

Biden’s chief of staff Jeff Zients called it a “sprint to the finish line” to “get as much done as possible for the American people.”

We call it another stick in the eye of taxpayers.

Finally, there was Biden’s speech last week in which he once again cluelessly bragged about how great the economy has been on his watch – a claim that voters just overwhelmingly rejected – and repeated the lies that he’d “rescued” the economy and created “over 16 million new jobs.” Even the teleprompter couldn’t take it anymore and shorted out halfway through his speech.

News reports say Biden is trying to protect his legacy. We agree. He’s sealing his failures in amber.

Why Were Feminists So Silent After 10/7? And Why Are They Still Silent?

 Phyllis Chesler

"On December 15, the Marxist-feminist Katha Pollitt followed Letty’s example and challenged the feminist silence in a piece published by The Nation. Like Letty, Katha herself had been silent for many months. She wrote: “This silence sits oddly with how quick our movement has been to credit much iffier claims and to raise consciousness around sexual misconduct that falls far short of rape. What happened to the clarion call to ‘believe women’? What happened to #metoo? Where’s the Women’s March? Feminist Majority? The National Women’s Studies Association?”

Below: Families of female Israeli hostages release graphic abduction footage to pile pressure on Netanyahu | CNN  A year later, what are these women like now? Ask campus scarf people. TD

"I feel that I've been writing versions of this piece for the last year. And yes, I am weary of this subject--but not as weary or as traumatized as Israelis must be after a year and almost a month of being attacked, wounded, displaced, murdered, kidnapped--and blamed for having provoked Iran.

"To date, the shameful feminist silence continues, heels dug right in.

"In this issue of the estimable journal, Dr. Catherine Chatterley, the Editor of Antisemitism Studies, focuses on the immediate denials of sexual violence--despite or because just such violence had occurred. In her article, Dr. Amy Elman correctly refers to the silent ones as "feminist impersonators." For a long while, I've described them as "faux feminists." Doing so, gives me no pleasure. Here's a necessary perspective: Academics, leading literary lights, international organizations, politicians, the media, have not only remained silent--they have actively blamed Israel for daring to defend herself.

"Educated, progressive, pro-woman advocates ought to be better than the common herd but they aren't.

"How did a globalized version of Stalinism trump their feminist ideals? How could these "feminist impersonators" have chosen gender over sex based rights; become so invested in the legalization of surrogacy and in trans rights over and above women's rights; queer and bi rights over and above the rights of women not to be raped, beaten, trafficked, honor killed, tortured, and murdered?

"But mainly, why are so many radical feminists so hard-hearted against Israel? So inclined to believe the worst about the Jewish state when the allegations are simply not true?

"I wrote this piece in the summer of 2024. In the hope that this abbreviated timeline may be of use, in case you haven’t already read all about it, I share it with you.

Why Were Feminists Silent After October 7?  By Phyllis Chesler:   "In the early 1970s, I experienced antisemitism among leftwing and lesbian feminists. It was not political. I was told that Jews like me were too pushy, too smart, too sexy, and were taking over the movement. Such views sent me straight to Israel. A small group including myself, Aviva Cantor Zuckoff, the founder of Lilith Magazine, and Cheryl Moch held a press conference on the subject of antisemitism; for years, we tried to interest leading Jewish feminists in joining us to discuss the problem. At the time, neither Andrea Dworkin nor Letty Cottin Pogrebin were interested in such a discussion.: . . ."