President of the United States (Donald Pleasance) saves Snake Plissken in Escape from New York.



Whadda ya say, Joe? Can you do that?

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
When Sen. Kennedy was sick, Sen. Hatch made a big deal of abstaining to keep the status quo.

Orrin Hatch was, if not sui generis, certainly off in his own little world when it came to concepts like 'comity'. I'd still like to wait and see what happens in the current Senate.

The gangsta's LOVE those drum mags for Glocks. I see it every time I have to work the range on a Saturday. After the crack of noon, here come the homeys with their drum mags.

As Parabellum pointed out, they never work properly. We have to go out and clear them every time. Thats why I encourage them to keep using them. Regards 18DAI

Simple question, Do taxpayers have a right to know how you spend their money?

Fucking bureaucrats. He deserved the derisive laugh and offhand dismissal at the end of that clip. Useless fucking speedbump.

ever notice that when someone says, "thank you for your question" the answer is likely to be far removed from the original question.

Biden Repeats Debunked Lie in Assault on the Second Amendment

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...d-amendment-n2602797

During a Thursday speech in New York City that was billed as addressing the crime crisis laying siege to cities across the country, President Biden sounded more like a broken record of debunked claims that have been repeatedly rated false by even his friends in the liberal media.

he also repeated a definitively debunked claim about the Second Amendment and the rights it protects from government infringement. "You couldn't buy a cannon when this amendment was passed," the president claimed of the right to keep and bear arms.

On June 23rd, 2021, Biden also claimed that "The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon." And even before that instance, while campaigning for the presidency on May 21, 2020, Biden said in a video that "You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual."

It was a lie in May 2020, it was a lie in June 2021 and it was a lie in February 2022

The Washington Post fact-checked the president's use of the alleged fact back in June and awarded the lie "Four Pinocchios." PolitiFact rated the May 2020 use of the falsehood by Biden "false" as well

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Democrats:

Liars
Bigots
Corrupt

joe is his own,”lying dog faced pony soldier.”
He’s always been a liar.

I’ve never known anyone that liked him or bragged up anything the doofus has done or didn’t do. An embarrassment to our country.

Biden is indeed a traitor, and he’s following a script at the global level. The REAL people in power do not like so many law abiding, getting-angrier-by-the-day real Americans owning the proper tools for defending themselves from the tyranny they represent.

I don’t get this at all unless they’ve cooked the books for Brandon. Everywhere I go around here it looks like businesses are struggling to find workers yet we are being told that we have this huge increase in people going back to work? I don’t buy it


January Payrolls Huge Beat: 467K Jobs Added As December Revised Massively Higher

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All government jobs?? Isn't that how Slick Willy cooked the employment/unemployment books back in the 90's? Or was that Hussein Onumb-nutz??

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Originally posted by PASig:
I don’t get this at all unless they’ve cooked the books for Brandon. Everywhere I go around here it looks like businesses are struggling to find workers yet we are being told that we have this huge increase in people going back to work? I don’t buy it

January Payrolls Huge Beat: 467K Jobs Added As December Revised Massively Higher

Not everyone in the government believes it either, evidently.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opin...eople-return-to-work

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...-since-2014-n2602830

Gas Prices Hit High Not Seen Since 2014

on Friday retail gas prices hit a $3.423 per gallon average for regular unleaded fuel — a high not seen in nearly eight years.

One month ago, the national average was $3.288/gallon and one year ago gas was nearly $1 cheaper at $2.443/gallon.

Let's Go Brandon !

In California, gas is now averaging $4.63/gallon, and those filling up in Oregon, Washington, Illinois, and Pennsylvania are all paying more than $3.58/gallon. The cheapest state average for gas is currently $3.061/gallon in Mississippi.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I don’t get this at all unless they’ve cooked the books for Brandon. Everywhere I go around here it looks like businesses are struggling to find workers yet we are being told that we have this huge increase in people going back to work? I don’t buy it


January Payrolls Huge Beat: 467K Jobs Added As December Revised Massively Higher

Don't believe it for a moment. Your eyes and ears tell you the truth. This administration cannot and should not be believed on any level on any topic. They needed a positive to offset all the rampant failure, and they manufactured one.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:

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Originally posted by PASig:
I don’t get this at all unless they’ve cooked the books for Brandon. Everywhere I go around here it looks like businesses are struggling to find workers yet we are being told that we have this huge increase in people going back to work? I don’t buy it

January Payrolls Huge Beat: 467K Jobs Added As December Revised Massively Higher

Not everyone in the government believes it either, evidently.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opin...eople-return-to-work

Here is another report full of doubt.

https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...unning-payrolls-beat

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Here is another report full of doubt.

https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...unning-payrolls-beat

It's Cash for Clunkers all over again. Fake out the numbers today to try and get a quick win, and watch the next six months plummet as a result (assuming BLS doesn't keep fraudulently cooking the books). Let's see how many financial 'experts' seriously question February and March's numbers when they bear no relationship to January's.

Judge lets convicted Hunter Biden business partner freely roam globe while awaiting sentencing

Federal judge's lenient treatment for Devon Archer renews debate about a dual system of justice, as Jan. 6 and Russia defendants faced travel restrictions.

https://justthenews.com/accoun..._campaign=newsletter

From Paul Manafort to the Jan. 6 defendants, federal prosecutors and courts routinely seize passports and impose travel restrictions on those charged with or convicted of crimes to eliminate any flight risk.

But those same standards have not been applied to convicted defendant Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's longtime business partner and collaborator at the allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm Burisma Holdings.

Court records reviewed by Just the News show the trial judge in Archer's case has allowed the Biden buddy to take more than three dozen global trips since he was indicted in 2016 and convicted two years later for fleecing an Indian tribe.

More than half of those trips — which span from Communist China to Turks and Caicos — have come since a jury convicted Archer on two felony counts of securities fraud in the summer of 2018.

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DevonArcherConviction.pdf
The permission for Archer's globetrotting was revealed in a Nov. 12, 2021 letter from his defense lawyers, who asked and received permission from U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams, an appointee of President Barack Obama, for his 41st trip since he was first charged by federal prosecutors.

"I write to respectfully request the Court's permission for Mr. Archer to travel on vacation with his family from November 23 to November 28, 2021, to Jamaica for the Thanksgiving holiday," defense attorney Craig Wenner wrote. He added for good measure: "The Court previously approved the same trip this time last year."

You can read the letter here:

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DevonArcherTravelOrder11-15-21.pdf
Judge Abrams — whose elite liberal family in New York includes famous First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams and TV legal analyst Dan Abrams — obliged once again by affixing her signature approving the request.

Remarkably, Abram's husband was a federal prosecutor in Robert Mueller's Russia investigation and part of the team that seized passports and restricted travel for high-profile defendants like Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates.

Archer did not face the same restrictions. As he awaited trial since summer 2016 and since his conviction in summer 2018, Archer has been allowed to travel freely across the globe.

His travel log, enumerated in the court documents, reads like the travels of an American secretary of state: Russia, Mexico, China, Spain, Italy, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Ukraine, the money laundering capital of Latvia, Hong Kong, London, Singapore and the French Antilles, to name a few.

You can see the travel approvals here:

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DevonArcherTravelOrder11-15-21.pdf
Archer's lead defense attorney, Matthew Schwartz, works at the same Boies Schiller Flexner law firm where Hunter Biden also once practiced law. Schwartz did not return a call seeking comment Thursday.

His firm's letter, however, did offer one line a defense. Their client "on each and every trip ... has returned on time, and without incident, demonstrating that he is no risk of flight," the letter to the judge boasted.

Most remarkably, Judge Abrams granted the travel permission over the objections of federal prosecutors who protested allowing a convicted felon who fleeced an Indian tribe to globetrot for five years as he awaited trial and then sentencing.

Just the News reached out to defense attorneys, former prosecutors and public defenders and members of Congress, all of whom said they were shocked by Abrams' leniency and said it stood in stark contrast to the treatment of the Jan. 6 defendants and other high-profile defendants whose travel privileges were revoked upon indictment.

"Just in case anyone needs further evidence that we do not have equal justice under the law, the accommodations made for Hunter Biden's convicted business partner take the cake," said Sen Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), who has spent two years investigating the Biden family's conflicts of interests and national security risks.

"If you're a powerful Democrat ... you get kid glove treatment," Johnson added. "If you're a Republican or ordinary citizen, you better watch out."

Kash Patel, a former Trump administration national security official, said in his two decades as a federal prosecutor and public defender he never saw so much travel approved for a convicted defendant.

"It is simply unheard of for a convicted felon facing years in prison to be permitted to galavant around the world by a federal judge instead of being remanded to custody of the U.S. marshal," Patel told Just the News.

"The treatment of this defendant shows a two-tier system of justice on full display," he added. "What is this judge going to allow Archer to do next, have the U.S. government rent him a private jet?"

Gates, Manafort's business partner who also was convicted of unrelated financial crimes in the Mueller investigation, said Judge Abrams' husband Greg Andres and his team seized both his passport and that of his wife (who wasn't accused of wrongdoing.)

"I wish I could tell you I am surprised by this revelation, but I am not," Gates told Just the News on Thursday night. "During the Mueller probe my passports were confiscated by Greg Andres with the Special Counsel's Office. My wife's passport was also confiscated, which I later learned was highly irregular and unethical.

"No doubt an attempt at intimidating our family," he added. "Many months after the final Mueller report was issued, the judge in my case ordered my passport to be returned. It took several weeks to find anyone that could help. Mueller's team had been disbanded by this point. In the end, I was informed that the passport was lost."

The questions surrounding Abrams' travel approvals are the second time her conduct in the Archer case has elicited scrutiny.

After Archer and two other defendants were convicted in the tribal securities fraud case, the judge vacated the conviction only for Archer.

A federal appeals court last year reinstated Archer's conviction, concluding Abrams should not have set aside the guilty verdict and rebuking the defendants for fleecing an Indian tribe out of as much as $60 million.

"The conspirators harmed not only the Wakpamni but also several investors upon whom they foisted the Wakpamni bonds — which had no secondary market — in order to generate cash for their own personal use," the appeals judges ruled.

"We are left with the unmistakable conclusion that the jury's verdict must be upheld," they added.

File
ArcherAppealsRuling.pdf
The Supreme Court agreed, refusing to overturn the appeals court.

Archer's sentencing has been delayed several times, but it's now slated for the end of this month.

PDFs at link provided.

This is very clear and well written:

Has the US Government Declared War on Its Citizens?

https://www.americanthinker.co...on_its_citizens.html