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and now he says he had an appointment to the Navy Academy

He just misspoke, he really had and appointment at the Naval academy.
But the appointment in question had nothing to do with him attending.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
He lied.

I would bet a nickel or even two that you are correct.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
As far as I know the NA does not offer appointments to college graduates for the simple reason that it makes no sense.

That, however, may not be true. Although admission standards for the service academies have changed over the years, many individuals attended college or even other service academies such as VMI before being appointed and accepted to a US military academy. Even now I cannot find that being a college graduate is a bar to acceptance.

In addition, most appointments are not offered by the academies themselves, or at least were not in 1965. A congressional appointment like that man mentioned was just that: it was made by the member of Congress. Such an appointment did not guarantee acceptance because of the admission requirements that had to be met and therefore it was usual for a primary and alternate(s) to be appointed, but the appointment itself was not by the academy.

Has any of Biden’s handlers…errr I mean “staff” been out saying he “misspoke” again or trying to explain “what he MEANT to say was…” yet?

He’s truly out of control now and coming apart before our very eyes. God help us all.

Does it even matter ? No media outlet, government body, legislative caucus or group of chimpanzees will take him to task or attempt to hold him accountable. The whiny, DNC Media believing sheep were offended by tweets and prosperity, they got what they wanted reaped on us all. Hopefully this fall will start a change in Congress. Then maybe we can get back on track. It doesn’t matter anymore what he says, heck he could’ve told the graduates he was beamed in by aliens, in his feeble mind he believes it. The caretakers need to keep him on script, maybe more medications or convulsions with electrical therapy at night. Barry and Susan will figure it out.

Dead balls on.

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Originally posted by spunk639:
Does it even matter ? No media outlet, government body, legislative caucus or group of chimpanzees will take him to task or attempt to hold him accountable. The whiny, DNC Media believing sheep were offended by tweets and prosperity, they got what they wanted reaped on us all. Hopefully this fall will start a change in Congress. Then maybe we can get back on track. It doesn’t matter anymore what he says, heck he could’ve told the graduates he was beamed in by aliens, in his feeble mind he believes it. The caretakers need to keep him on script, maybe more medications or convulsions with electrical therapy at night. Barry and Susan will figure it out.

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern to meet with Biden, discuss combating online radicalization

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/29/ardern-biden-meet

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who successfully oversaw the implementation of gun control measures in her own country, will meet with President Biden on Tuesday at the White House to discuss a range of issues, including countering "radicalization to violence both off and online."

Why it matters: This is the first time a New Zealand leader has visited the White House since 2014, with Biden and Ardern slated to discuss their bilateral relationship, their shared vision for the Indo-Pacific region, and the climate crisis, according to a statement from White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

They will also discuss the need for "countering terrorism and radicalization to violence both off and online," Jean-Pierre said.

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t would be interesting for someone to ask him why, if he was appointed, he didn’t attend.

^^^^^^^^^^^
I believe he decided to attend Top Gun school. Was motivated by the Tom Cruise film.

BLM Rails Against Biden Executive Order: ‘Policing’ Is a ‘White Supremacist Institution’ Rooted in ‘Slave Patrolling’

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...ed-slave-patrolling/

In the wake of the president’s signing an order intended to improve accountability in policing, the official Black Lives Matter (BLM) Twitter account, which has over one million followers, expressed outrage over the fact that policing continues.


BLM:

"Maintaining a white supremacist institution like policing costs Black lives. This continued commitment by politicians to support our killers makes them accessories to our demise."

"Politicians have been protecting systems of policing as if it could magically abandon its roots of slave patrolling and anti-Black violence. Banning choke holds and requiring body cameras doesn’t keep us safe. More money for “training” doesn’t keep us safe."

"President Biden’s EO willfully ignores the inherently racist origins of policing & advances the same ideas over and over again as if somehow it will magically make old, outdated approaches work. Halfway measures will not save our people from white supremacy and state violence."

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Has BLM jumped the shark ?

The biggest risk for black Americans is other black Americans. By orders of magnitude. Reducing police funding has resulted in more murders everywhere its been tried.

So I propose we eliminate all police in majority black precincts in major cities. Lets see how it goes...

Those turds want the police around for their own protection. If it was vigilante justice, those turds would've been toast a looooong time ago.

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So I propose we eliminate all police in majority black precincts in major cities. Lets see how it goes.

^^^^^^^^^^
Good idea. Move them to Gary, Indiana and expand their metro area. Besides Guns are easier to get in Indiana.

Attending college isn’t a disqualifier to being accepted at USNA. I’m a grad, I know plenty of guys who had a couple years of undergraduate studies and then went. That’s not the same as graduated with a 4 year degree from a college. The Navy has no reason to pay for college again. Guys with a degree go to OCS. That is how it works. Never heard of anyone going there with a degree already. Never. I will ask my Blue and Gold officer buddies but this didn’t happen. We can all suppose it’s possible but I would bet a lot that it didn’t. Like a lot. He’s a liar. Plus, based on his school records he was no high performer. USNA is hard to get in to. (I found a back door way for less stellar academics lol)

Former Vice President Biden is making remarks today at the Tomb of the Unknowns after the wreath laying ceremony. I am sure he will invoke the memory of his son Beau.

Looming Price Hikes on Food Set to Hit Americans This Fall

Higher inflation could force Fed action, leading to a 'deeper recession'


https://www.theepochtimes.com/...7Y5KPwcKanxOOAgMJYyK

In its effort to contain inflation, the Federal Reserve has launched what many expect to be an ongoing series of interest rate increases, which are already taking a toll on stock and housing markets, with job losses likely to follow. As weary as Americans have become from paying record high gas and grocery prices, however, another round of price hikes is making its way through the food supply chain and is expected to reach consumers this fall.

“People don’t realize what’s fixing to hit them,” said Texas farmer Lynn “Bugsy” Allen. “They think it’s tough right now, you give it until October. Food prices are going to double.”
The 8.8 percent increase in food prices that Americans have already seen does not take into account the dramatic cost increases that farmers are now experiencing. This is because farmers pay their costs upfront and only recoup them at the point of sale, months later.

“Usually, what we see on the farm, the consumer doesn’t see for another 18 months,” said John Chester, a Tennessee farmer of corn, wheat, and soybeans. But with the severity of these cost increases, consumers could feel the effects much sooner, particularly if weather becomes a factor.

Lorenda Overman, a North Carolina farmer who raises hogs and grows corn, soybeans, and sweet potatoes, said the spike in fuel costs has put her farm into the red this year. “Nothing that consumers are paying is going to bridge the gap for farmers right now,” she said. “The prices now have not hit the grocery stores yet,” but she expects they will start to by the end of summer.
Much of the cost of food hinges on the price of oil.

“They have no electric trucks delivering that food and there are no electric tractors,” Allen said. “It takes diesel to run all this.”
Chester said that fuel and fertilizer together make up 55 percent of his total costs. The price of diesel fuel has more than doubled, from $2.50 per gallon at the end of 2020 to more than $5 per gallon today. Farmers say the cost of fertilizer, an oil derivative, has tripled and in some cases quadrupled.

“When you look at the machinery that uses diesel, it’s farm equipment, it’s railroads, and it’s truckers,” said Daniel Turner, Executive Director of Power the Future, an energy advocacy group. Diesel “moves all of our goods, it grows our food. From cargo ships arriving from overseas to trucks or trains getting those goods across the country. All those things now have added costs that will get sent to the consumer.”

“That surge in food and energy costs is very demand destructive for U.S. households,” said Joseph Lavorgna, Chief Economist at Natixis, a European bank. “If you have to pay a lot more money for your food, to heat or cool your home, or put gasoline in your vehicle to get to work, there’s less money available elsewhere.” Price hikes in gas and food will leave Americans with less money to spend on other goods, which will reduce demand and have a knock-on effect on the wider economy.

Economic reports are indicating that Americans are already unable to keep up with inflation. Household savings fell to the lowest rate in 14 years, as people struggle to maintain their standard of living. Credit card debt is hitting record highs, and retailers say they are preparing for more consumers to limit their spending to the “bare-bones basics.”

While it is possible that Americans’ loss of spending power may help to reduce inflation, some economists fear a return of 1970s-era “stagflation,” rising prices coupled with economic stagnation and increasing unemployment. That period of inflation was ultimately tamed by the Fed raising interest rates to nearly 20 percent.

In contrast to the Carter-era energy crisis, which was sparked by an embargo from foreign oil producers at a time of declining American oil output, today’s energy shortages are largely the result of domestic U.S. government policies, as the Biden administration attempts to force Americans to switch from fossil fuels to wind, solar, and electric. This effort has included shutting down pipelines, suspending oil and gas leases, and putting up regulatory roadblocks—all of which has reduced new investment in American oil and gas production.

Last week, Biden stated that the spike in oil prices was “an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels.”

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said last week that rising oil prices were “an exclamation point” for the need to transition to wind and solar and “build homegrown clean energy.” Granholm previously stated that “if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you.”

With natural gas prices now hitting a 14-year high, Biden’s Department of Energy recently posted “a few tips on how you can prepare your home and office to safely navigate a blackout.”
Samantha Power, head of Biden’s Agency for International Development, said the solution to rising fertilizer prices is “natural solutions like manure and compost, and this may hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers anyway. Never let a crisis go to waste.”

“That’s not the real world,” Overman said. “We are in the highest density for hog production in the nation and there’s not enough hog manure or turkey manure or chicken manure to fertilize our crops. We tried this fall to lock in some chicken and turkey litter to spread on our crops and there’s none to be had. There’s just not enough animals to produce the amount of fertilizer we need.”

“Energy is a very capital intensive business and we’re basically down to about half the level of cap-ex within energy that we had a couple years ago,” Lavorgna said. “A lot of that has to do with the fact that oil companies are not tone-deaf to what shareholders want, or more importantly what the regulators and politicians want.”

“It’s incredibly curious that of all [Biden’s] rhetoric, I have yet to hear anything along the lines of ‘we will do everything to increase production in America.’” Turner said. “They are comfortable with the current state because of their green philosophy, and we’re just necessary casualties.”

Together with ruptures in global supply chains, oil and food prices are a key reason why many economists think the Fed will have a particularly hard time taming inflation. “There is a real risk the price [of gas] could reach $6 a gallon by August,” Natasha Kaneva, head of global oil and commodities research at JPMorgan Chase, told the press. “U.S. retail price could surge another 37% by August.”

The higher prices climb, the more aggressive the Fed will need to be to contain inflation.

“We think the risks are skewed towards a much more significant recession, as inflation proves more persistent than is generally expected … the moves from the Fed currently envisioned by markets will be too slow to restrain inflation,” stated economists from Deutsche Bank in a research report titled “Why the coming recession will be worse than expected.”

“A mild recession would be a relatively small increase in the unemployment rate,” Lavorgna said. “If, however, the Fed feels that it needs to compress demand further, then we are looking at a much deeper recession, with the unemployment rate perhaps doubling, if not more.”

One of the unique features of the current economic crisis is the extent to which it is driven by government actions, as opposed to a market failure. This includes trillions of dollars in federal spending to prop up an economy reeling from draconian government lockdowns that now appear to have had little success in containing the coronavirus. This spending was compounded by the Federal Reserve holding interest rates near zero while expanding its balance sheet to $9 trillion, flooding America with cash. These problems were then further exacerbated by the Biden administration’s re-regulating of the economy and its antipathy toward America’s fossil fuel industry, together with a western boycott of Russian oil and fertilizer exports following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Inflation is the result of too many dollars chasing too few goods, and, in this case, it has been a “perfect storm” on both sides of the equation. As the Fed works to cool demand by raising rates, some economists say the Biden administration must reverse the policies it has put in place that are undermining productivity and holding back supply.

“If you want to address the inflation problem, you do it through the painful way of Federal Reserve action and higher interest rates and borrowing costs,” said Jonathan Williams, Chief Economist at the American Legislative Exchange Council. But simultaneously, “you do it through the supply side, which reduces taxes and gets productivity back up across the United States.”

Given the federal government’s reluctance thus far to take the necessary steps, some states have stepped up with their own solutions, Williams said. Since March, four states—Iowa, Mississippi, Georgia, and Arizona—have gone from progressive income tax rates as high as 8 percent to flat tax rates in the range of 2–4 percent. North Carolina eliminated business income tax, and nine other states currently have no state income tax at all.

On May 17, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wy.) and other GOP Republicans introduced the ONSHORE Act, which would give states the power to manage oil and gas production on federal lands within their borders. They simultaneously introduced the Lease Now Act, which would require the Department of Interior to resume the sale of oil and gas leases.

Asked what Biden could do to help farmers, Allen said “lower the fuel prices. It will save the middle-class people. It will help them when it comes to buying food.”

Joe Biden on Memorial Day: ‘The Constitution, the Second Amendment Was Never Absolute’

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...-was-never-absolute/

President Joe Biden pushed for more gun control on Monday, even though it was Memorial Day, a national patriotic holiday.

“The Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute,” Biden said to reporters.

The president spoke to reporters about gun control as he returned to Washington, DC, from Delaware for Memorial Day ceremonies.

Biden falsely claimed again that Americans were unable to purchase a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed, despite being repeatedly fact-checked as false by even the Washington Post and Politifact.

“You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed and you couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons,” he said.

Biden recalled a briefing he had when he was a senator on bullet calibers and the damage they caused to the human body.

“The 22 caliber bullet will lodge in the lungs and we can get it out,” Biden said. “A 9 mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.”

“The idea of a high caliber weapon, there is no rationale for it in terms of self-protection, hunting,” he said.

Biden also referred to a quote from Thomas Jefferson who said “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants,” tying it in with his argument about the Second Amendment.

“There was a while there, where people were saying, you know, the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots, and what we have to do is to be able take on the government when they are wrong,” Biden said.

Biden argued in order for citizens to hold the government accountable with equal levels of force, Americans would have to own a fighter jet or a tank.

“To do that you need an F-15, you need an Abrams tank,” he said, suggesting it was an outrageous idea.

Biden revealed he had not had any conversations with Republicans on the issue of gun control but said he wanted to act.

“I know that it makes no sense to be able to be able to purchase something that can fire up to 300 rounds,” he said.

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^^^What a tool! Sure Joe, not absolute, but a mighty high bar in order to amend and/or repeal...

Per Article V, an amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if two-thirds of the States request one, by a convention called for that purpose. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification.

Good luck with that...

Heard part of Bidet’s speech today and read the whole thing. Once again, fired right off with Beau. It’s always about him. And of course, his constant pandering with the phrase “women and men” is downright nauseating.

Regarding the USNA speech on Friday, Howie Carr had a great article:

https://www.bostonherald.com/2...-in-time-again/amp/I

Moderated rights are permission. Permission can be denied.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:

“You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed and you couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons,” he said.

False, you demented asshole.

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“The 22 caliber bullet will lodge in the lungs and we can get it out,” Biden said. “A 9 mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.”

My Goodness, what an imbecile.

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Biden argued in order for citizens to hold the government accountable with equal levels of force, Americans would have to own a fighter jet or a tank.

“To do that you need an F-15, you need an Abrams tank,” he said, suggesting it was an outrageous idea.

Wanna bet?

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“I know that it makes no sense to be able to be able to purchase something that can fire up to 300 rounds,” he said.

What the hell does that even mean?

And the Republicans are maybe trying to negotiate something with these people? No. Nothing. Not compromising on a single freaking thing.

Joe Biden, ballistics expert