"Space is exciting!"

mmmmmmmNo, space is mostly empty space.

Yep

Excellent article. Too long to post. Same bunch are now intervening in Ukraine. Think about that for a moment.


'Al Qaeda Is on Our Side': How Obama/Biden Team Empowered Terrorist Networks in Syria

https://www.realclearinvestiga...in_syria_827477.html

Consider the "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" Rahm Emanuel corollary "If a crisis doesn't present itself, create one".

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As an aside, I think Terri Crews would make a terrific president. He damn sure would bring a sense of humor and respect back to the oval office.

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Kamala Harris addressing Space Force

video at

https://twitter.com/i/status/1516804556495233032


typical Kamala Who writes her stuff?

"I think everyone here recognizes how extraordinary space is,"
"Whether it is satellites that orbit the earth, humans that land on the moon, or telescopes that peer into the furthest reaches of the universe, space is exciting,"

"It spurs our imaginations, and it forces us to ask big questions,"

"Space, it affects us all — and it connects us all."

Last week, one of my 10th grade students asked me to explain the goings on in the Ukraine.

I began with, "To quote our vice president: 'There is a big country next to a small country.'"

This kid, who I know to be the usual teenage liberal, had this knowing look of "why the fuck is Kamala so stupid".

Like so stupid that teenagers easily spot how idiotic the people in charge are.

Kamala is like the kid who has to get up in front of the class and read her book report, but she forgot to read the book...

New figures show Biden administration thumbing nose at courts over Remain in Mexico policy

With justices set to hear arguments next week, feds only put a minuscule 0.1% of illegal aliens into required border program last month.

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

The Biden administration has been repeatedly ordered by courts to continue enforcing the Trump-era Remain in Mexico policy for illegal migrants, but its own records show it has willfully thumbed its nose at those rulings as it waits for a final crack at the Supreme Court.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency data reviewed by Just the News shows just 199 of the 221,303 illegal aliens stopped by federal agents in March were placed into the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), the formal name of the Remain in Mexico policy.

The CBP press office in Washington did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails seeking comment Wednesday. But a senior U.S. Homeland Security official confirmed the 199 figure was accurate for March.

That amounts to a miniscule 0.09% of participation in MPP, an enforcement percentage border experts say makes a mockery of the courts' orders.

"They only enrolled a couple hundred in the Remain in Mexico while they apprehended 221,000," former CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan told Just the News on Monday. He added that the Biden administration, even when it enforces the regulation, is not applying it to the loophole it was designed to close: migrant groups posing as fake family units.

"They're not even applying the Remain in Mexico program to the demographics it was designed to address," he said. "It's all a joke."

Both federal district and appeals judges have ordered the administration to keep enforcing the policy as a larger legal challenge is considered by the U.S. Supreme Court. Even the nation's nine justices refused to impose an injunction blocking the policy while they considered the case.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose initial lawsuit led to the rulings, said the Biden administration's March performance is proof it is ignoring the courts' authority.

"They are not willing to comply with the law," Paxton said. "... The reality is we've had wins on Remain in Mexico on preliminary injunctions. They're supposed to be enforcing it."

He added that the biggest winners from the failure to enforce the policy are the Mexican drug cartels, which are earning as much as $10,000 for each illegal migrant they help traffic.

"The cartels are basically in business with the Biden administration," he told the Just the News TV program on Wednesday.

"The message has been sent to them: Bring as many as you can, and we'll do the handoff. And these people coming across, they're not running from the agents, they're running to the agents to be transferred to the agents, and then the handoff can take place, and they can be sent all around the country."

The Supreme Court once before upheld the legality of the Remain in Mexico policy under Trump. Arguments are slated for next Tuesday, and a ruling is expected by the end of June.

If the high court upholds the regulation again, the nation could face a constitutional crisis if Biden refuses to follow the justices' instructions, Paxton said.

"We're going to be in the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to get a final say on the merits of the case," he said. "I'm hopeful that we're going to win. And two, if we do, we're not in a constitutional crisis wondering why the president of the United States not only ignores federal law, but then ignore federal court orders."

Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents are demoralized and defeated, feeling that they are not being allowed to enforce the law and instead are helping assist illegal aliens to move to the interior of the United States, their former boss Morgan said.

"A 26-year veteran I talked with, he is getting up every single day putting the badge on his chest and heading on the front line to protect our nation's border," Morgan said. "He said one day he was getting dressed, as he always does, looked in the mirror making sure his uniform was squared away as most Border Patrol agents do, and he said it kind of hit him.

"It came just like, just rushed over. And when he looked in the mirror ... he said, 'You know, I realized I'm actually part of the largest federal smuggling organization in the world.'"

video at link

biden mixes up title 42 with masks on planes

https://twitter.com/i/status/1517145326011920386

^^^ His mind is mush.
He doesn't have a working grasp of the policies, just the talking points. And without prompting he gets them mixed up.

Which brings us to the question of who has he been meeting with 1/4 to 1/3 of the time when he's in Delaware?

Whom exactly was Biden talking to during his many stays in Delaware?
By Andrea Widburg

When a man becomes president, he suddenly gains a new appendage: the Secret Service. Wherever he goes and whatever he does, members of the Secret Service are there, keeping an eye on him. And, like all bureaucracies, you can be sure that the agents are required to document everything on their watch. That's why it's truly peculiar that, in response to a FOIA request from the New York Post to see documents identifying Joe Biden's visitors during his regular stays in Delaware in 2021, the Secret Service is claiming that it has no records with that information.

The New York Post was curious about what goes on at Biden's Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach residences in Delaware because he spent roughly 25% of his first year not in the White House, but at those residences. For that reason, the Post asked for documents recording all visitors during more than a year of Biden's time in office. And that's when the Secret Service provided a bizarre response:

Secret Service Freedom of Information Act officer Kevin Tyrrell wrote in a response dated Monday that "[t]he Secret Service FOIA Office searched all Program Offices that were likely to contain potentially responsive records, and no records were located."

From the Post's point of view, this bizarre non-response, which is impossible to believe, is a way of hiding the fact that Biden is engaged in some sort of influence-peddling, perhaps on matters connected to Hunter Biden's conduct. After all, Hunter was frequently a conduit for this influence-peddling when his father was the vice president:

First son Hunter Biden is under criminal investigation for possible tax fraud and unregistered foreign lobbying after routinely seeking business in countries where his father held sway as vice president. The younger Biden worked on some overseas projects with his uncle Jim Biden.

Documents and photos from a laptop that formerly belonged to Hunter Biden indicate that he introduced his dad to business associates from China, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine — including at the vice president's residence in Washington.

The Post points out that Biden is known to have conducted official business from Delaware. For example, on October 24, he and Chuck Schumer tried to bully Sen. Manchin into voting for the "Build Back Better" bill. Manchin, wisely, pointed out that the bill would destroy the American economy and refused to give his vote.


Image: Biden’s Wilmington house.

Biden has also spoken about having houseguests whose opinions have changed his views on matters of policy. Thus, in an effort to show empathy with Americans being destroyed by Biden's inflationary policies, he recounted sitting in the kitchen at one of his Delaware homes, along with Jill, Jill's sister, and a friend.

According to Biden, this friend, whom he identified as Mary Ann (you were thinking it was Corn Pop, weren't you?), was talking about the high price of hamburger meat. It's not a believable story, but whatever...

When pushed on the matter, press psecretary Jen Psaki psaid that people should be grateful that the White House releases visitor logs and should stop whining about not getting such information from the place in which Biden pspends so much of his time. Psaki can afford to say this because, writes the Post, "Presidents can pick and choose what they reveal through visitor logs thanks to a federal appeals court ruling written by now-Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2013."

The president, said Garland in that opinion, has a constitutional right to confidential communications. However, given that Biden has said this privilege doesn't apply to Trump's visitor logs, and is handing them over to the January 6 committee, it seems to me that Biden has stated a principle that applies to him as well. I hope someone makes that argument.

But back to what Biden is covering up, because he's clearly covering up something. As I noted, the Post seems to think he's covering up financial malfeasance, and that's certainly a reasonable guess.

I have a different guess: I think the secret visitors making their way to Biden's Delaware homes are doctors who specialize in dementia. My theory is that they're closely monitoring Biden's mental status and are giving him a variety of drugs enabling him to get his act together for specific events, such as statements to the press, speeches, and official events.

The one thing I don't believe is that the Secret Service doesn't have any records at all. They're making notes of everything but, clearly, are under strict orders to keep everything on the down-low, and they are following those orders. Wouldn't it be crazy if those fake DHS agents who were able to gain the confidence of some members of Jill Biden's Secret Service detail know who was in Delaware and have passed the word on to Iran's mullahs?

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

Can't wait too see what this idiot says today while he was here.
Thanks for fucking up my drive home you sack of shit.

He's at the Portland Yacht Club.
I wonder why he's not Downtown basking in all the shit and misery it has to offer?
I wonder if he took a tour down 33rd Ave just around the corner with the miles of garbage and junkies staggering around?

^^^^^ Cease wondering. I wasn't there but it is inconceivable that Biden was given a tour of that place.

flashguy

Pretty lame really.
From the airport on Airport way make a left at 122nd, couple hundred yards hook a left on Marine Drive for a few miles.

Just down the road they like to gather and drift cars since the Police don't do anything about it.
They do show up when they start shooting at each other and bodies are on the ground.

What a Shmuck.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...ign=rightrailsticky2

Tina Flournoy, who is the vice president's chief of staff, will soon be leaving, for what the White House is saying amounts to personal reasons. She'll be replaced by Lorraine Voles. This announcement comes just weeks after it was shared that Harris' deputy chief of staff Michael Fuchs was also leaving.

Additionally, Symone Sanders, who was previously Harris' chief spokesperson and advisor, whose departure was announced last December. Hours later, Peter Velz, director of press operations, and Vince Evans, deputy director of the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs in the vice president’s office were reported to also be leaving. Last November, it was reported that her communications director, Ashley Etienne, was leaving.

Previous reports, which have used anonymous sources, have indicated that Harris is incredibly difficult to work for

Joe Biden personally wrote the Infrastructure Bill with "My own paw"

https://twitter.com/RNCResearc...ll-2700-pages-lol%2F

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Joe Biden personally wrote the Infrastructure Bill with "My own paw"

If there's a line in there that says "10% for the BIG GUY".

Joe Biden Has a Presentation Problem
Voters would be grateful if he stopped talking down to them and learned to be straightforward. By Peggy Noonan. BTW she used to write for Reagan.

I want to talk about Joe Biden and his unique problems presenting his presidency. You’re aware of his political position and the polls. The latest from CNN has him at 39% approval. Public admiration began to plummet during the Afghanistan withdrawal. That disaster came as it was becoming clear the president was handing his party’s progressive caucus functional control of his domestic agenda, which fell apart and never recovered.

James Carville the other night on MSNBC amusingly and almost persuasively said Democrats in the 2022 congressional elections should hit Republicans hard on their weirdo content—candidates who are both extreme and inane, conspiracists in the base. But the Democrats too have their weirdo quotient—extreme culture warriors, members of the Squad—and last summer the president appeared to have thrown in with them. That and Afghanistan were fateful for his position, and then came inflation.



But what struck me this week was a little-noticed poll from the New Hampshire Journal. It’s always interesting to know what’s going on in the first presidential primary state, but the Journal itself seemed startled by the answer to its question: If the 2024 election were held today and the candidates were Joe Biden vs. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who would you back? Mr. Sununu trounced the president 53% to 36%. Mr. Sununu is popular and that unusual thing, a vigorous moderate conservative who appears to have actual intellectual commitments. But Mr. Biden carried New Hampshire in 2020 with 53%. He’s cratering.

All politics grows from policies, and policies are announced and argued for through presentation, including, crucially, speeches. Joe Biden has a presentation problem. This is worthy of note because his entire career has been about presentation, specifically representing a mood. In 50 years he has cycled through Dashing Youth, the Next JFK, Middle-Class Joe and Late-Life Finder of His Inner Progressive. But the mood he represents now isn’t a good one. It’s there in the New Hampshire poll. Asked if they thought Biden was “physically and mentally up to the job” if there’s a crisis, “not very/not at all” got 54% and “very/somewhat” 42%. Here we all use euphemisms: “slowing down,” “not at the top of his game.” If Mr. Biden’s policies were popular, nobody would mind that he seems to be slowing. But they aren’t.



So to the presentation problem. Here are some difficulties when he speaks.

When he stands at a podium and reads from a teleprompter, his mind seems to wander quickly from the meaning of what he’s saying to the impression he’s making. You can sort of see this, that he’s always wondering how he’s coming across. When he catches himself he tends to compensate by enacting emotion.

But the emotion he seems most publicly comfortable with is indignation. An example is his answer to a reporter’s question in November about the administration’s plans to compensate illegal-immigrant parents who’d been separated from their children at the border. Suddenly he was angry-faced; he raised his voice, increased his tempo, and started jabbing the air. “You lost your child. It’s gone! You deserve some kind of compensation, no matter what the circumstances.” Then, catching himself, he added mildly, “What that will be, I have no idea.” He was trying to show presentness, engagement. But there’s often an “angry old man yelling at clouds” aspect to this.

There are small tics that worked long ago. He often speaks as if we are fascinated by the family he came from and that formed him. Thus he speaks of the old neighborhood and lessons. And my mother told me, Joey, don’t comb your hair with buttered toast. This was great for a Knights of Columbus pancake breakfast in Rehoboth Beach, Del., but not now. For all the mystique of the presidency, people hired you to do a job and want you to be clear and have a plan. They aren’t obsessed with your family, they’re obsessed with their family.

Mr. Biden tends to be extremely self referential: “I’ll give it to you straight, as I promised that I always would.” Because I’m such a straight shooter. It’s better to shoot straight and not always be bragging. He should lose “Lemme say that again.” When you speak to America you don’t have to repeat yourself for the slow. I don’t think he’s aware he often seems to be talking down. People will tolerate this from a politician when they think he’s their moral or intellectual superior, but they push back when they don’t, as in the polls.



The larger problem for the president is that in his most important prepared speeches there’s a lot of extremely boring faux-eloquence, big chunks of smooth roundedness, and nothing sticks. Last April to a joint session of Congress: “America is on the move again, turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity, setback into strength.” This sounds as if it means something—it has the rhythm and sound of good thought—but it doesn’t, really. It’s the language of the 60-second advertising spot, and America tunes it out. Not from malice but from Alice. It’s the sound of the past 40 or 50 years, meaning it’s had its day.

Mr. Biden has an opportunity to do something new, reinvent his rhetorical approach. Why not, nothing else has worked. He should commit, when speaking, to Be Here Now. He should be straightforward and modest.

When I think of what is needed at this moment in history, my mind goes to the brisk factuality, the lack of emotionalism, of Oct. 22, 1962. John F. Kennedy from his desk in the Oval Office offering 18 minutes of fact and thought. “Good evening, my fellow citizens. This government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island on Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. . . . Having now confirmed and completed our evaluation of the evidence and our decision on a course of action, this government feels obliged to report this new crisis to you in fullest detail.”

It was down to the bone, stark and completely compelling. The military response he explained was persuasive because it was based in fact and clearly put interpretation. He provided complicated information: “The characteristics of these new missile sites indicate two distinct types of installations.” You talk only to the intelligent this way; his listeners were aware of the compliment. He didn’t stoop to them but assumed they’d reach to him.

He wasn’t self-referential: He didn’t say “as I promised,” but “as promised,” because putting himself in the forefront would be vulgar. It was “this government,” not “my government.” He said, “This nation is opposed to war. We are also true to our word.” He was declaring the American position while putting the virtue of it on America, not himself.

You say: Well, that was a crisis, you cut to the chase in crisis. But our political moment is pretty much nonstop crises, and there are more than enough national platforms for emotionalism.

All politicians could learn from this approach. They have no idea how refreshing it would sound, how gratefully it would be received: “I’m not being patronized by my inferiors!” How people might listen again.

LINK: https://www.wsj.com/articles/j..._opin_pos_2#cxrecs_s

Biden holds up Portland as model for America, foresees expanded Senate majority
By Monica Showalter

Is Joe Biden, or whoever is handling him today, aware of his latest "optics"?

Get a load of what he's been up to:

President Joe Biden stopped in Portland for a few hours Thursday afternoon to drum up excitement for his administration's trillion-dollar effort to revamp the nation's roads, bridges, airports and railways.

Biden's speech was part pep talk, part explainer.

"Oregon and America have gone from being on the mend to being on the move," Biden said. "We just gotta get the hell out of our own way."

Oregon? Portland? Seriously? That's like touting Flint, or Detroit as the great model upon which to build back all of America. Do his handlers think these things through -- or is Portland the only place out there that will step up to serve as his model?

Portland is a disastrous antifa-infested mess, a pit of drugs, crime, and homelessness, with corporations and citizens pulling up stakes to flee the city. Its infrastructure is a mess in no small part because city officials are so busy handing out the city coffers to the homeless instead of repairing the roads, and antifa is busy trashing and burning it. Any city like that would have infrastruture problems. Joe says he's coming to transfer money from other taxpayers to fix Portland up -- so antifa can burn it down again. Neither Biden, nor Portland Democrats talk about getting rid of antifa.

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

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Oregon? Portland? Seriously? That's like touting Flint, or Detroit as the great model upon which to build back all of America. Do his handlers think these things through -- or is Portland the only place out there that will step up to serve as his model?

^^^^^^
Nah. More like Somalia. Maybe he will visit there. He has a real optics problem. Read what Noonan says above.

Biden says US spending billions to make military vehicles 'climate friendly'


"We’re going to start the process where every vehicle in the United States military, every vehicle, is going to be climate-friendly — every vehicle — I mean it."

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...les-climate-friendly

From the comments:
"The rainbow VOC-free organic paint will help the electric tanks slip through the cleaner air and get better mileage. They will also use sugar-free cluster jelly beans as projectiles so as not to hurt anyone."



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So we'll be eco-friendly about blowing crap up and letting it burn, right?