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Originally posted by bdylan:
I haven't watched or listened to Biden this year...too irritating. Our broken media will need to start campaigning for Biden shortly after the midterms...very interested to see how they polish that turd.

He will return to the basement.

Politico reports Biden is ‘finally’ going to stop ‘trying to work with GOP’ and instead go on ‘attack’..

Dumb Ass

A recent Politico piece reported that President Joe Biden is "finally" rethinking efforts to reach across the aisle and work with Republican lawmakers because of their "obstructionism."

On Sunday, Politico’s John Lemire began his piece declaring, "The fever didn’t break. And for the Biden White House, efforts at bipartisanship have finally taken a backseat."

Apparently, Biden has been trying hard for bipartisanship, so much so that Democrats have been annoyed. "To the frustration of many Democrats and some of his closest advisers," Lemire continued, "President Joe Biden has steadfastly spent more than a year in office insisting on trying to work across the aisle with Republicans."

Doesn't matter what Biden does. The economy is in shambles, the border is wide open, 75% of Americans think the country is going in the wrong direction, and he keeps on digging the hole deeper. Historic inflation and people from every walk of life are hurting.

Not to mention the coming food shortages beyond baby formula.

Obama tried the " I got a pen and I got a phone " Most of his executive orders got overturned by the courts.

Isn't the problem that Biden isn't working with anybody?

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Originally posted by bdylan:
I haven't watched or listened to Biden this year...too irritating. Our broken media will need to start campaigning for Biden shortly after the midterms...very interested to see how they polish that turd.

The Mythbusters actually manaaged to do that in one of their episodes.

flashguy

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Isn't the problem that Biden isn't working with anybody?

No, the problem is as Musk noted a bit ago...Biden is nothing more than a "Meat Puppet" at this point. And the individuals behind the curtain actually running things are either completely incompetent, 'or' they are have incredible success wrecking everything.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/po...ross-the-nation-warn

Biden admin risks Americans' retirement accounts to push climate agenda

Attorneys general and treasurers from 24 states urged the Biden administration to drop a proposed regulation that would require retirement investment managers to prioritize climate change concerns while managing American employees' retirement portfolios.

The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration submitted a rule that "would irrationally require fiduciaries to elevate immaterial and speculative risks in employee retirement savings investment decisions," the state leaders wrote in the letter, first provided to FOX Business. "Instead, fiduciaries must be held to their duties of prudence and loyalty by considering only the material financial or pecuniary factors of each potential investment."

Utah Republican officials – Attorney General Sean Reyes, Treasurer Marlo Oaks, and State Auditor John Dougall – led the letter, which Republican officials from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming joined.

The letter notes that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's (ERISA) rules bar fiduciaries – entities entrusted with employee retirement funds – from subordinating "the interests of retirement plan participants and beneficiaries to unrelated or other objectives."

The DOL's proposed rule implements an executive order President Biden signed on May 20, 2021, which directed DOL to consider ERISA rules that would "protect the life savings and pensions of United States workers and families from the threats of climate-related financial risk."

This is Biden’s America.

He's too clueless and befuddled to even know what's going on and his evil handlers DGAF:

CBS: Moms Struggling With Formula Shortage Say “It’s Hard,” “I Cry At Night,” “It’s Stressful"

Fake twitter accounts/Fake votes/ rigged elections. On and on it goes

Half Of Biden's Twitter Followers Are Fake According To Audit

https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...fake-according-audit

According to Newsweek, an audit tool provided by SparkToro found that 49.3% of accounts following @POTUS, who officially received the most votes in US history, are "fake followers."

The analysis was based on several factors, including 'location issues, default profile images and new users,' according to the report.

SparkToro defines fake followers as "accounts that are unreachable and will not see the account's tweets (either because they're spam, bots, propaganda, etc. or because they're no longer active on Twitter)."

The software company's tool also found that Biden's account has more fake followers than most. -Newsweek

The topic of fake accounts has resurfaced following Elon Musk's deal to purchase the social media giant for $44 billion.

On Tuesday, Musk said the deal "cannot move forward" until CEO Parag Agrawal publicly proves that 5% or less of Twitter accounts are "fake/spam," as his offer "was based on Twitter's SEC filings being accurate.

On Monday, Agrawal posted a lengthy Twitter screed in which he essentially said he couldn't reveal how many users are actually fake.

"Unfortunately, we don’t believe that this specific estimation can be performed externally, given the critical need to use both public and private information (which we can’t share)," to which Musk replied with a poo emoji and asked "So how do advertisers know what they’re getting for their money? This is fundamental to the financial health of Twitter."

Shares of Twitter are now trading under its pre-Musk announcement price of $39.31.

An audit of President Joe Biden's Twitter account found that nearly half of his 22.2 million followers are fake.

oopsy!

Biden administration 'disinformation' board on pause amid free speech concerns

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The Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board is being put on hold weeks after its establishment was announced to the public, and board director Nina Jankowicz will resign, sources told The Associated Press.

Suck it, baby. Maybe you can compose a little song and dance about how your gigantic fucking mouth and your supremely weird personality fucked you out of all that power you wanted so badly. Post it on TikTok and you'll feel all better.

Fucking makes my day, man. Seriously. Makes my day.

That's too bad


Karma didn't use lube on that one

Welcome to the party, pal!

Seriously, can you believe how low this administration has dragged this country in just over one year? It is now the Berlin airlift to get baby formula to starving infants in the most powerful country to ever exist. Incredible.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/...campaign=android_nyp

Why can't Biden invoke the Defense Production Act to drill for more oil and natural gas and refine gasoline and diesel fuel to save the American economy?

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Why can't Biden invoke the Defense Production Act to drill for more oil and natural gas and refine gasoline and diesel fuel to save the American economy?

Simple- because Biden isn’t calling the shots; an America hating globalist cabal is.

How much more do we have to witness before this buffoon is impeached. These career politicians know the deal. Do your job!

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
How much more do we have to witness before this buffoon is impeached. These career politicians know the deal. Do your job!

Just a couple more years unless you want the second in command idiot in charge.

Oh, it’s a two fer. Impeach joe & Cameltoe, a package deal & toss in pelosi as a bonus.

^^ Meanwhile, let's make sure Occasional Cortex gets Chuckles Schumer's job. The irony would be sweet and one of the biggest liberal states in the union would get the grossly incompetent representation that the rest of us deserve for it to have.

Hunter Biden Took In $11 Million Over 5 Years According To NBC Analysis

https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...cording-nbc-analysis

https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...-2013-2018-rcna29462

Hunter Biden and his company brought in around $11 million over a five-year span, most of which was while his father was Vice President of the United States, according to an analysis by of his abandoned laptop by NBC News obtained through Rudy Giuliani.

Perhaps most interesting is the harsh tone NBC takes with the first son...

"Biden and his company brought in about $11 million via his roles as an attorney and a board member with a Ukrainian firm accused of bribery and his work with a Chinese businessman now accused of fraud."

The documents and the analysis, which don’t show what he did to earn millions from his Chinese partners, raise questions about national security, business ethics and potential legal exposure. In December 2020, Biden acknowledged in a statement that he was the subject of a federal investigation into his taxes. NBC News was first to report that an ex-business partner had warned Biden he should amend his tax returns to disclose $400,000 in income from the Ukrainian firm, Burisma. GOP congressional sources also say that if Republicans take back the House this fall, they’ll demand more documents and probe whether any of Biden’s income went to his father, President Joe Biden. -NBC News

$5.8 million of Biden's income - more than half his total earnings over the five years - came from two deals with Chinese business interests. The most lucrative of the two was a consulting relationship with a powerful (and now missing) CCP-linked Chinese businessman, Ye Jianming, who's company, CEFC, paid $4,790,375.25 to Biden's Owasco PC over the course of about one year. Jianming was accused by Chinese prosecutors of "economic crimes" in 2018, and hasn't been seen in public since he was detained.

"No government ethics rules apply to him," said Walter Shaub, a former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics who is now an ethics expert with the Project on Government Oversight, who added that "it’s imperative that no one at DOJ and no one at the White House interfere with the criminal investigation in Delaware."

Shaub has previously raised questions over Hunter's lucrative 'art' sales being a method for laundering influence.

And according to the FBI's former assistant director for counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, there's a national security risk when the CCP can get close to people like Biden.

"It’s all about access and influence, and if you can compromise someone with both access and influence, that’s even better," he said, adding "Better still if that target has already compromised himself."

An analysis of Hunter's expenses reveal over $200,000 per month from October 2017 through February 2018 on everything from Porsche payments, dental work, cash withdrawals and luxury hotel rooms - which Biden has admitted he used on drugs and partying with strangers who often stole from him.

Hunter also struggled to keep current on multiple mortgages, alimony, and child support payments to his ex-wife.

Things got so bad that Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris, who began advising Hunter in 2020, arranged to pay off around $2 million owed to the IRS (which legal experts say doesn't let Hunter off the hook for criminal liability, or necessarily erase his debts).

NBC News analyst Chuck Rosenberg, a former Justice Department official, said that Biden’s paying what he owes could even be seen as an admission of criminal violations. Not paying taxes for many years, rather than one or two, Rosenberg said, helps establish intent, which can otherwise be a struggle for prosecutors in white-collar cases.

Paying the bill, Rosenberg said, might help Biden if he faced sentencing and “mitigate some of the damage, but it doesn’t undo the crime. That would be like returning money to a bank that you robbed. You still robbed the bank.” -NBC News

According to a Senate GOP report on Hunter's finances, CEFC was one of three firms involved in certain transactions that were "among those identified as potential efforts to layer funds."

The U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network describes the layering of funds as “separating the illegally obtained money from its criminal source by layering it through a series of financial transactions, which makes it difficult to trace the money back to its original source.”

But the report doesn’t say whether or not Hunter Biden was personally involved in any transactions that were suggested to involve “layering.” -NBC News

Hunter also worked for Jianming associate Patrick Ho, who was convicted in US federal court of bribery in relations to oil deals in Chad and Uganda starting in September 2014. A jury found that Ho - while employed by CEFC - bribed or attempted to bribe officials to the tune of $2 million, and was sentenced to three years in prison on March 2019.

Biden has denied any illegal activity and says he's "cooperating completely" with a federal investigation in Delaware.

"And I’m absolutely certain, 100 percent certain," said Hunter, "that at the end of the investigation, I will be cleared of any wrongdoing."