Biden calls Masters champ Hideki Matsuyama ‘Japanese boy’ in odd compliment.

There he goes again. Quite the extemporaneous speaker. Perhaps he meant house boy.

President Biden on Friday awkwardly hailed Masters golf champion Hideki Matsuyama as a “Japanese boy” during a press conference in the Rose Garden with Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

Matsuyama, 29, won the Masters Tournament on Sunday at Georgia’s Augusta National Golf Club.

“Yoshi, I know how proud you are — the people of Japan are — and you’ve got a Japanese boy coming over here and guess what? He won the Masters. He won the Masters. He won the green jacket,” Biden said in the Rose Garden.

“And Matsuyama was the first Japanese player to take home that green jacket at the Masters tournament this week. So let me say congratulations to Japan as well on that feat.”

Biden’s description of the celebrated golfer turned heads online.

“Hideki Matsuyama is 29. Joe Biden just called him a ‘Japanese boy.’ To the Japan PM’s face,” one viewer wrote on Twitter.

“Did Biden just use the term ‘Japanese boy’ to describe a grown ass man? oof,” wrote another.

Biden and Suga spoke privately about tensions with China and also about a rise in reported anti-Asian prejudice in the United States, they told reporters in the Rose Garden.

The Biden administration previously drew outrage from Asian Americans when senior White House adviser Jen O’Malley Dillon brushed off concern from Senate Democrats about the lack of prominent Asian American nominees.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (I-Ill.) vowed to block Biden’s other nominees, saying Dillion made an “incredibly insulting” remark that, ‘Well, we’re very proud of Vice President Harris,'” whose mother was born in India.

Duckworth later backed down when the White House agreed to appoint a prominent in-house Asian-American liaison officer. On Wednesday, that person was revealed to be the relatively obscure Erika Moritsugu, who will serve as a deputy assistant to Biden.

Biden kicked off the Rose Garden event with another awkward remark to Suga, declaring, “The prime minister’s brought the sun out, so we can do about anything.”

LINK: https://nypost.com/2021/04/16/...suyama-japanese-boy/

Hunter Biden's Memoir Flops Despite Media Fluffing

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...spite-media-fluffing

Hunter Biden's memoir, Beautiful Things, has totally flopped - selling under 11,000 copies to date, according to Publishers Weekly.

The dismal sales come despite, as Sara Carter's Douglass Braff notes, "the abundant media promotion from places such as CNN, CBS News, and ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!“ - especially about the memoir’s sex and drug content - in the lead-up to the book’s release."

The book of President Joe Biden‘s youngest son debuted at twelfth place among hardcover nonfiction books. Some notable books that beat Hunter Biden’s memoir include National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” in first place with 42,318 copies and Fox News host Shannon Bream’s “The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today” in second with 32,686 copies during the same timeframe.

His memoir did have a stronger showing on The New York Times’ Best Sellers list though, finishing its debut week in fourth place in the “Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction” category. -Sara A. Carter

Braff also notes that Biden attempted to downplay the significance of the infamous laptop scandal broken by the New York Post in the run-up to the 2020 US election - telling Jimmy Kimmel that it's a "red herring," while falsely claiming that it had been deemed part of a Russian disinformation operation by the Director of National Intelligence's office.

Of note, Donald Trump Jr.'s book Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us sold 70,000 copies in its first week, according to Neilsen BookScan, and infuriated liberals when it made the New York Times' best seller list.

In a series of executive orders signed by President Biden since taking office, one signed on Jan. 27 could impact land. It’s known as the ’30 by 30’ plan and would place 30% of U.S. lands and 30% of U.S. waters under federal jurisdiction by 2030.

While details of the plan are still sparse, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack mentioned the plan in an interview this week.

“The President has committed to a 30 by 30 effort: 30% of our working lands and public lands being dedicated in some form or fashion to conservation [by 2030]," said Vilsack, during an interview with Illinois Public Radio. "I think that also plays to the strength of CRP. I think it’ll play a particularly important role in that.”

Without specific details, the goals of the plan include

support locally led conservation efforts
work toward a more equitable and inclusive version for nature conservation
honor the sovereignty of tribal and indigenous communities
support private land conservation
be guided by science
“I want to note it doesn't say to protect 30% of the nation's farmland. I want to point that out and mention some states have a lot of non-farmland,” said Jim Wiesemeyer, Farm Journal Washington correspondent, on “AgriTalk” this week.

The President’ 30 by 30 plan was a topic of discussion on “AgriTalk,” as Nebraska Director of Agriculture Steve Wellman voiced his concerns of possible implications to agriculture.

“One of the main concerns right now is the lack of information,” Wellman said. “There’s a lack of clarity on what they're really trying to do. In the document, they also mentioned use of the federal government's buying power, real property and asset management — words like that make us nervous the federal government is intending to use their buying power to conserve 30% of the land and 30% of the water in the United States. In a state like Nebraska, where agriculture is the heart and soul of what we do, 92% of our land is used for agricultural production. It's about 45 million acres, and half of that is grassland, which includes the Sandhills. We have a lot of land we think is maybe a target for some of these programs.”

One Washington insider told Farm Journal the President is expected to outline his plan during the Leaders’ Climate Summit on April 22-23. The summit coincides with the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Paris Agreement, as well as Earth Day. The Biden Administration has invited 40 world leaders to attend.

The April date would align with the timeline set — 90 days after the Executive Order was signed on Jan. 27. It’s also expected, when it comes to agriculture, the deal will largely touch CRP, but the rest of the plan could fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Interior and Forest Service.

“The Department of Interior has the responsibility of developing the report, and the report goes to the National Climate Task Force, but there are a lot of questions about what federal agency or agencies will be responsible for managing the 30 by 30 program, who will make those decisions about what lands and waters are placed in the program and also how will these lands be administered in the future,” Wellman said.

Those answers could be outlined when the President is expected to unveil the details of the program next week.

“We're concerned about being able to keep that productivity and protect personal property rights for the owners,” Wellman said. “That's why we're raising concern about this proposed program.”

Wellman said the root of his concerns dates back to the Obama Administration, with the Waters of the U.S. Wellman called that regulation a ‘power grab’.

“I think we have a reason to be concerned about what federal policies are being developed and how that affects our productivity, and how that might affect our personal property rights,” he added.

Wellman thinks the history of agriculture proves conservation efforts are already underway.

“I think we have a very good track record of being able to demonstrate how responsible we are with utilizing our natural resources and still being productive for what we all need for food, feed, fuel and fiber,” Wellman said. “And it really comes down to a national defense issue, too; we need to be able to produce our own food, feed and fuel.”



https://www.agweb.com/news/pol...l-30-30-plan-details

This is what it looks like when Ralph Wiggum becomes President.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...c-racism-in-america/

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Friday, telling reporters that “most people recognize the history of systemic racism in our country.”

On Wednesday, Thomas-Greenfield told Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) that “the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles.”

A reporter asked Psaki about those comments, and whether President Joe Biden would keep her in her position

Q "Thanks, Jen. The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, talking to her group on Wednesday, said that white — essentially said that white supremacy is woven into our founding documents and principles.

Now, this statement is getting widely criticized as essentially parroting Chinese Communist Party talking points. So is the President going to remove her from her position as the representative before that body to promote United States values?"

MS. PSAKI: "Is the President going to remove an African American woman with decades of experience in the Foreign Service who is widely respected around the world from her position as ambassador to the U.N.? He is not.

He will — he is proud to have her in that position. He — she is not only qualified; he believes she is exactly the right person in that role at this moment in time.

I have not seen her comments. I will say that there’s no question that there has been a history of institutional racism in this country, and that doesn’t require the U.N. Ambassador to confirm that."

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Biden administration four primary "ram it down their throats" messages:

#1 America is racist. White people are privileged and bad. Most especially white males

#2 Climate Change. Climate Change. more Climate Change. OKeefe's video of CNN nailed it. CNN will be moving to hammering Climate Change nonstop

#3 Open borders. Open floodgates to illegal aliens. Sign em up to vote (to vote DEM)

#4 Expand the loose voting rules to allow even more DEM vote cheating and election stealing

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2...gy-dominance-n383892

Biden's Interior pick moves to undo American energy dominance

Despite having pledged to take a balanced approach to energy issues during her confirmation hearings, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland made some of the worst predictions by Republicans about actions on such matters come true yesterday.

Haaland revoked a dozen different energy policy orders put in place during the Trump administration, announcing that her priorities would be to address climate change and shift to “the green energy potential” of public lands, assuming any energy is to be produced at all.

These moves not only fly in the face of many promises that Joe Biden made on the campaign trail, but also undermine statements that Haaland herself made this year when trying to tunnel her way through the confirmation process. Of course, absolutely nobody who has been paying attention will be surprised by these developments as they were all predicted by energy hawks who were familiar with the Secretary’s background

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday revoked a series of Trump administration orders that promoted fossil fuel development on public lands and waters, and issued a separate directive that prioritizes climate change in agency decisions.

The moves are part of a government-wide effort by the Biden administration to address climate change ahead of a virtual global summit on climate change that President Joe Biden is hosting next week.

“From day one, President Biden was clear that we must take a whole-of-government approach to tackle the climate crisis , strengthen the economy and address environmental justice,” Haaland said in a statement. The new orders will “make our communities more resilient to climate change and … help lead the transition to a clean energy economy,″ she added.

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This is what happens when you pick people because of "diversity" and not because they are smart

Ms. Psaki, I cannot recall your position being held by a person of color.

When will this president change that trend?

^^^^^^^
We will circle back on that one.

Biden finally calls migrant surge at border a ‘crisis’ as he explains his cave on refugee cap

https://nypost.com/2021/04/17/...ns-refugee-cap-cave/

President Biden is finally calling the chaos at the southern border what it is — a crisis.

The startling rhetorical turnabout came Saturday in an off-the-cuff conversation with reporters in Wilmington, Del., as Biden tried to defend his Friday flip-flop on refugee admissions.

“We’re going to increase the number [of refugees allowed into the country],” Biden said as he headed home after playing the first golf game of his presidency. “The problem was that the refugee part was working on the crisis that ended up on the border with young people.”

“We couldn’t do two things at once,” he added. “But now we are going to increase the number.”

In his somewhat garbled comment, Biden seemed to be saying that the strain of handling the influx of migrant children has overtaxed the nation’s immigration authorities — making it impossible for them to handle an increase in authorized refugees as well.

On Friday, hours after Biden signed an executive order retaining the Trump administration’s 15,000-person cap on refugee admissions for this year, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a hasty announcement saying that the White House will unveil an undisclosed higher cap on May 15.

The sudden switcheroo came after progressive Democrats, led by Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), excoriated the initial decision on social media.

But in his justification, Biden may have given his press office a new headache, by using the very word — “crisis” — his administration, including Psaki and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, has staunchly been avoiding for months.

The dramatic surge of migrants rushing across the Mexican border into the U.S. — with 172,000 apprehended in March alone, a 15-year record — has overwhelmed the Customs and Border Patrol, Republicans charge.

“We have a very serious challenge and I don’t think the difficulty of that challenge could be overstated,” Mayorkas said at a congressional hearing last month. “We also have a plan to address it,” he added.

more evidence we are in for a biden administration fire hose of "climate change"

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...e-climate-emergency/

The United States and China have agreed to cooperate and “curb climate change with urgency” in the lead-up to President Joe Biden hosting a virtual summit of world leaders to discuss the issue. The announcement of “strong pledges” by Washington and Beijing was made Sunday in a joint statement issued by the two countries.

John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua agreed to the common declaration of intent during two days of talks in Shanghai last week

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John Kerry. Man, I thought he was in the rear view mirror. biden works hard to bring the worst of the obama team

coordinated attack. media and biden administration

The fact that Biden’s policies are a failure is a reflection of the person.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
The fact that Biden’s policies are a failure is a reflection of the person.

Biden thinks he's President, but I really think he has very little, if anything at all, to do with any policies or decision making.

I don't think this ominous headline overstates the apparent ugliness of this EO --

Executive Order Canceling the Constitution

On April 15, Preident Biden signed an Executive Order on Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation. Contrary to its title, this EO is not about Russia. It is designed to allow the Biden administration to deprive American citizens and organizations of their rights and property by arbitrarily linking those persons to real, imagined, or vaguely defined activities of the Russian government.

The Biden administration unilaterally makes the determination and requires neither criminal acts nor intent. The punishment is blocking assets and a prohibition on any dealing with the accused person. Spouses and adult children of individuals found guilty by accusation under this EO are punished, too.

The EO was preceded by some distracting maneuvers, both diplomatic (hostile rhetoric toward Russia) and military (sending naval ships toward the Black Sea and recalling them back, as if dealing with Russian threats). Thus, many people assumed that the EO was directed at Russia, and completely missed the fact that it is directed at dissent here, at home.

Over the past four years, the Democrat Party, Fake News, and Big Tech have been frequently portraying their opponents as Russian trolls or Russian misinformation operators. The Russian collusion narrative, initially invented to overthrow the Trump administration, has been used to smear many conservative movements. Now this effort has been crowned by an Executive Order.

Biden’s administration has been recently pushing so many other radical changes, such as packing the Supreme Court, eliminating the filibuster, restricting Second Amendment rights, etc., that the real ramifications of this new EO went completely unnoticed. In my opinion, this EO is the most dangerous of them all. It allows the Biden regime to eliminate its opposition, quickly and quietly.

Section 1 of the EO enumerates prohibited activities and defines guilty persons as those “determined” by the Secretary of Treasury and/or Secretary of State in consultation with the Attorney General to be:

(a)(ii) responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, any of the following for or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, directly or indirectly, the Government of the Russian Federation:

(A) malicious cyber-enabled activities;

(B) interference in a United States or other foreign government election;

(C) actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in the United States or abroad;

(D) transnational corruption;

Some of the language in this EO borrows from another: EO-13224 - Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism. George W. Bush signed EO-13224 on September 23, 2001, in response to 9/11.

However, Biden’s EO is as similar to Bush’s EO as an atomic bomb is to a sniper rifle. Bush’s EO targeted financing terrorism. It defined terrorism clearly and narrowly. It minimized legal jeopardy to US persons. It did not strip away the standard for criminal liability requirements of action and intent. It did not target spouses or children of accused individuals. Additionally, Bush made a legally meaningful promise to use it with due regard to culpability and the Bush administration used it with restraint. Even so, Democrats criticized it harshly, opposed it, and fought it in courts.

In contrast, Biden’s new EO is directed mostly at US persons. It criminalizes speech and political activities, based on whimsical and arbitrary definitions. The Biden administration can define “malicious activities,” “democratic processes or institutions,” and the activities that undermine them as it wants.

The Biden administration is also free to interpret what constitutes “interests of the Russian Government.” Such broad and vague language allows the Biden regime to select US citizens and political organizations arbitrarily, and then deprive them of their property and rights without anything reminiscent of due process. The EO does not even require that anybody commit an actual crime somewhere. False cyber-attribution or fake bounty claims are sufficient. Biden’s remarks to the EO showed no regard to the culpability of any targeted US citizens or other persons.

Leftist pseudo-elites have been eager to ban speech based on allegations that such speech may be beneficial to Russia. Such ideation has been present among Big Tech influencers for a long time. This EO effectively gives Big Tech, banks, and credit card companies a new pretext to deplatform conservatives and anyone else who opposes the Biden regime by claiming that they are now engaged in illegal activity.

Biden’s EO appears to allow the Democrat party to deny Americans the right to advocate against it in future federal elections. This might be accomplished through a “determination” that Russia is interfering in elections against democratic candidates. Thus, any US citizens who also oppose Democrats could be found to acting for Russia’s benefit, directly or indirectly.

The list of prohibited activities justifying a Biden administration “determination” to deprive American persons of their property and other rights (referred to here as a “Deprived Person”) states:

[a] (iii) to be or have been a leader, official, senior executive officer, or member of the board of directors of:
… (C) an entity whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order;

For comparison, Bush’s EO only covered the leaders of terrorist-supporting entities, not multiple officials, executives, or directors.

Unprecedently, Biden’s EO targets children and spouses:

[a] (v) to be a spouse or adult child of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to subsection (a)(ii) or (iii) of this section;

and countless associations:

[a] (vi) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of:

(A) any activity described in subsection (a)(ii) of this section; or

(B) any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order ...

[a] (vii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, … any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

Notice the infinite reach these subsections afford. Those connected to a “Deprived Person” can receive the same designation, and so on. There is no limit to the number of iterations.

“Deprived Persons” essentially become untouchables, as dealing with them in any way is expressly prohibited without additional determinations:

Sec. 2. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order include:

(a) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; and

(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.

Giving legal representation, hosting the website, selling food, and giving medical care to a “Deprived Person” is automatically prohibited. Section 4 prohibits transactions that “cause a violation” of this EO, even absent intent or knowledge. This serves as a hint to pre-emptively cut ties with anyone the Biden regime targets.

Section 9 exempts UN bodies and “related organizations” (NGOs) from any responsibility for interfering in US elections and other activities under this order.

The Russian Federation is mixed into the EO only for distraction and as a primer, triggering expanding layers of culpability.

I do not expect any putative human rights organizations or large media outlets to hold the Biden regime accountable for how it applies this EO or to defend its victims. So far, these outlets have either ignored it or defended it.

Even Brazil knows we no longer have any working synapses at the helm....wants Biden to throw $1B at them for, essentially, nothing, as a start 'up front'....

WSJ: Brazil’s Climate Overture to Biden: Pay Us Not to Raze Amazon

quote:

Mr. Salles said that Brazil has taken to heart Mr. Biden’s comments, made in a presidential debate last September, to gather $20 billion from around the world to help Brazil’s government cut forest destruction. The minister calculated that Brazil is entitled to as much as $294 billion for the big reductions the country made curtailing deforestation, even though they occurred long before Mr. Bolsonaro took office in 2019.

“We think that $1 billion, which is only 5% of the $20 billion that were mentioned during the campaign…is a very reasonable amount that can be mobilized up front,” Mr. Salles said.

for Joe and the Ho, it continues to get better - rapidly apparent that not only is he incapable of solving the problem, he's done everything he can to make it worse



Arizona governor declares state of emergency and surges National Guard to border

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared a state of emergency on Tuesday and surged the National Guard to the United States-Mexico border as unprecedented numbers of migrants continue to enter the country.

A total of 250 National Guard members is set to head to the border under the direction of Brig. Gen. Kerry Muehlenbeck to "assist with medical operations," set up cameras, monitor data, and "analyze satellite imagery" for smuggling trends. The governor said his decision resulted from inaction at the White House.

"The situation in our border communities is just as bad — if not worse — than the coverage we've been seeing," Ducey said in a statement. "It's become evidently clear that Arizona needs the National Guard, and the White House is aware of that. Yet, to this day, there has been no action from this administration, and it doesn’t look like they are going to act any time soon. If this administration isn't going to do anything, then we will."



15,000 MIGRANTS RELEASED INTO US WITHOUT NOTICE TO APPEAR, CONGRESSMAN SAYS

The state will provide $25 million to jump-start the initiative, and the order applies to Cochise, Yuma, Maricopa, Pinal, Pima, and Santa Cruz counties. Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot said the guard members "will provide much-needed support" in the area.

“The crisis at the border is serious and cannot be taken lightly,” he said in a statement. “The Arizona National Guard will provide much-needed support to our officers and safety officials, and will help ensure Yuma and other border communities are further protected from dangerous and illegal activity. By deploying National Guard assets, the Governor will allow me to deploy more first responders to mission critical tasks where we will work side by side with our federal partners to target, apprehend and prosecute transnational criminal organizations."

Ducey's action follows a report from Customs and Border Protection that agents witnessed 172,000 attempted illegal crossings in the month of March alone, the highest number in 15 years. The number dwarfed the 100,000 who tried to do the same in February and the 78,000 who attempted to gain entry in January.

President Joe Biden has faced bipartisan backlash for his handling of the crisis as those in top-level positions in his orbit scramble to find alternative housing for a wave of unaccompanied migrant children. The administration has opened well over a dozen new buildings to handle the surge, but facilities across the country still struggle to accommodate the minors amid the pandemic.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
A total of 250 National Guard members is set to head to the border under the direction of Brig. Gen. Kerry Muehlenbeck to "assist with medical operations," set up cameras, monitor data, and "analyze satellite imagery" for smuggling trends.

I notice he didn't add the most important function: Stopping them from entering the country in the first place.

Perhaps I don't know enough about the chain of command, but I don't understand why the Governors of TX and AZ (CA and NM are a lost cause) don't simply deploy their Guard and stop this shit.

Are any of these National Guard members trained in babysitting and diaper changing?

That brings up a great question.
Where are all of these unaccompanied minors, parents?

The Biden administration (let's be honest, Joe has no clue what is going on, he is there in name only) came out today in favor of allowing black teenagers to stab and kill each other without racist white police officers intervening. No, I'm not kidding.

https://thefederalist.com/2021...h-a-knife-as-racist/

If that’s what they really want then why stop them?