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Originally posted by sdy:
sometimes i doubt my own sanity

biden: "MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security – a move that could allow nearly 900 pounds of fentanyl into our country,"

"We need more resources to secure the border. Not less."

It's too early in the morning for that kind of "No, U." In fact... I'm not sure there's a good time of day, but the sentiment stands.

Is it just that I'm old enough to see this stuff now and it's always been this way, or is this era of politics truly just "we'll just totally make shit up, accuse the other side of the bad stuff we're doing and take credit for the good stuff they want to do"? Which is it? I suspect it's a blend of things, but the latter has to account for a greater percentage now than other points in even the recent history of our nation.

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Originally posted by jljones:
It seems that when they lost their safe space on Twatter they all moved to Reddit.

LOL. "[M]oved to Reddit." That's rich.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

Is it just that I'm old enough to see this stuff now and it's always been this way, or is this era of politics truly just "we'll just totally make shit up, accuse the other side of the bad stuff we're doing and take credit for the good stuff they want to do"? Which is it? I suspect it's a blend of things, but the latter has to account for a greater percentage now than other points in even the recent history of our nation.

Little of both, today we have immediate access to all things news worthy, and much that isn't, and politicians have direct access to people through social media.

Smart Phones changed how we get information and how we can respond to more than our circle of friends.

Before you just got mad, told you wife and family, maybe a few friends but it didn't outside of your local group.

Now you can bitch about anything, and do it all day, sitting on the throne, in multiple places to reach everyone in the world who wants to read the comments.

Kamala Harris is going on a trip to Africa

She has been working on an appropriate play list of music for her trip

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...p-to-africa-n2621159

Song #1: "Act a Fool"

as biden likes to say, not a joke

Senator Josh Hawley, questioning DHS Secretary Mayorkas, stated that there’s been a 900% increase in encounters with Chinese nationals, in the Rio Grande Valley this year. Referring to the thread concerning the potential for war with Russia or China, I guess this country needs to understand that a lot of Chinese have slipped into this country under Biden and Mayorkas, and undoubtedly quite a few are CCP members.

YT link

https://hotair.com/stephen-moo...-not-working-n541471

A policy question these days that has befuddled federal lawmakers is why so many millions of people have not returned to the workplace in the post-COVID-19 era. The labor force participation rate among employable adults is near a record low today. There are at least 2 million to 4 million employable adults who could and should be working but aren’t.

Very few people with even minimal skills can credibly say they can’t find a job. Employers report some 10 million job openings. Small business owners say their biggest problem is finding competent workers.

There are many explanations for why so many people aren’t working — fear of COVID-19, the skills mismatch, more people taking early retirement, and so on. But a major factor is that the federal government is back to doing what it did in the 1970s and 1980s. The welfare state today is paying people not to work — even a single hour.

That problem went away in the 1990s after many states, such as Wisconsin and Michigan, began reforming their welfare systems with work requirements. Then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and the Republican Congress in 1996 passed a historic bipartisan welfare reform bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law.

That law required able-bodied welfare recipients to be in a job or training/education program to qualify for welfare assistance. It also placed time limits on welfare so it would not become a way of life.

Few laws in the last half-century have had such stunning success. Here is a quick summary of the impact, as reported by Brookings Institution welfare expert Ron Haskins:

No. 1: Caseloads declined by 60%, and the number of welfare recipients fell to its lowest level since 1969.

No. 2: Between 60% and 70% of those leaving welfare got a job.

No. 3: The child poverty rate fell every year between 1994 and 2000 because parents were working.

No. 4: The federal government saved more than $50 billion (almost $100 billion in today’s dollars).

Despite these stunning successes, President Joe Biden eviscerated all work requirements during COVID-19, and they haven’t returned . The House Ways and Means Committee reports that less than half of Americans collecting welfare benefits today are working. The Biden administration opposes work requirements.

Why? Do they want to make people dependent on the government?

Getting welfare recipients back into the labor force is good for the economy and will reduce government debt. But a pro-work policy is good for those who escape welfare dependency.

Every study shows that having a job is highly associated with better health, longer life expectancy, happiness, and improvements in family conditions. Children and spouses of someone who is working are better off.

There is dignity and a sense of self-worth from working.

America is a rich nation, and we should absolutely have a safety net so that those who fall on tough times, lose a job or become disabled — and that happens to almost all of us at some point in our lives — do not go hungry or homeless or suffer from deprivation.

But welfare is supposed to be temporary and a hand-up, not a handout. The goal of welfare was to end poverty, not perpetuate it.

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) said that restoring work for welfare requirements is “a top priority” of his panel. It should be a top priority for our country. Let’s make work, not welfare, pay.

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Despite these stunning successes, President Joe Biden eviscerated all work requirements during COVID-19, and they haven’t returned . The House Ways and Means Committee reports that less than half of Americans collecting welfare benefits today are working. The Biden administration opposes work requirements.

Is it just plain time for the Republicans to simply focus on ending the political "existence" of the Zombie-like never-ending Kung Flu Crisis so that we can better deprive Uncah Ho of the arbitrary powers they use so thoughtlessly and ineffectively?

At some point it becomes necessary to ignore the individual symptoms and go after the disease itself if there's going to be any hope of curing the patient.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ly-financial-records

The House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas to banks asking for the Biden family's financial records.

Fox News has confirmed that the Oversight Committee subpoenaed Bank of America, Cathay Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and HSBC USA N.A., as well as former Hunter Biden business associate Mervyn Yan, asking for financial records.

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A bit more info. The Dems are furious.

“House Oversight Committee Republicans are forging ahead in their probe of President Biden and key family members amid howls from Democrats, this time demanding financial information from a host of financial institutions.

The subpoenas came to light during a week when committee staff met with former Joe Biden executive assistant Kathy Chung in a separate probe of the president's handling of classified documents.

It all has top Oversight Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin of raising alarm about Comer's 'misrepresentations' about the committees aggressive investigatory work.

Fox News confirmed the subpoenas to financial institutions, which include Bank of America, Cathay Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and and other HSBC USA, as did Comer.

The panel also subpoenaed former Hunter Biden associate Mervyn Yan. That comes after the panel last month subpoenaed another Hunter associate, John R. Walker, who wired cash to Biden family members including Beau Biden widow Hallie Biden.

'OversightDems have again disclosed Committee’s subpoenas in a cheap attempt to thwart cooperation from other witnesses,' Comer tweeted Friday. 'No one should be fooled by Ranking Member Raskin’s games. We have the bank records, and the facts are not good for the Biden family.' …” (my emphasis)

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/11950959

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the committees aggressive investigatory work.

I can see why the dems are pissed. Work like this is supposed to be done by them. It should last a few months, until the story dies down and most people have forgotten it, then just kind of go away with no results.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
A bit more info. The Dems are furious.

But it's perfectly OK to dig through decades of Trump's financial records looking for a crime.

Biden unveils strictest emissions rule to date in bid to FORCE Americans to switch to electric cars: Staggering new climate plan could mean battery-powered vehicles and trucks make up TWO-THIRDS of sales by 2032

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...tronic-vehicles.html

I believe that is only a minor tweak to the targets already legislated and in place. All without the actual plan for how to manage the challenges of materials sourcing for production or providing sufficient power on the grid for all this.

IOW, we were already screwed, now just screwed-er.

Great plan with no plan Jo, fuckin tard

Being pushed by ecco Terrorists the Sierra Club, they feel the current rating system they helped develop is too generous and allows manufacturing companies to continue to make and sell ICE vehicles.

The point of this is to reduce the MPGe contributions of EV's which will make the CAFE number worse, and thus make it harder to build ICE cars.

It has nothing to do with environmental reasons, they just want to put more pressure on car companies to stop building ICE vehicles, that's the objective, period.

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The Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club petitioned for the change in 2021, arguing “excessively high imputed fuel economy values for EVs means that a relatively small number of EVs will mathematically guarantee compliance without meaningful improvements in the real-world average fuel economy of automakers’ overall fleets.”

Ex-White House stenographer says FBI ignored Biden’s role in son Hunter’s business dealings

https://nypost.com/2023/04/11/...s-business-dealings/

Former Obama White House stenographer Mike McCormick tells The Post that he wants to testify before the federal grand jury in Delaware considering charges against first son Hunter Biden, saying he has relevant information — ignored by the FBI — that implicates President Biden in a foreign influence-peddling “conspiracy.”

“Joe Biden committed crimes in Ukraine in a conspiracy with [current national security adviser] Jake Sullivan,” McCormick said.

“I’m a witness to that happening.”

McCormick visited Ukraine with then-Vice President Biden three times and says that on a 2014 trip, Sullivan — then a Biden national security aide — briefed reporters aboard Air Force Two as an anonymous “senior administration official” about how the US was interested in helping Ukraine’s natural gas industry.

At the time — and unbeknownst to the public — Hunter had joined the board of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma, working with an executive who would later meet with Joe Biden in Washington.

“I think the FBI should investigate it based on an eyewitness report,” McCormick said.

“This happened. Joe Biden was part of this.

“They’ve been looking at Hunter Biden, but this ties Joe Biden and [Sullivan] into promoting a kickback scheme with Ukraine. It’s the timeline that does it.”

McCormick says he was with Sullivan in the press cabin of the vice presidential jet en route to Kyiv on April 21, 2014, as the aide outlined how the world’s wealthiest country would help the deeply corrupt post-Soviet state build its gas industry.

Giving a rundown of Biden’s priorities, Sullivan said the then-vice president would “discuss with [Ukrainian officials] medium- and long-term strategies to boost conventional gas production, and also to begin to take advantage of the unconventional gas reserves that are in Ukraine.”

In December of that year, amid broader Obama administration support for Ukraine, Congress approved $50 million to support the country’s energy sector, including the natural gas industry.

Hunter’s role at Burisma was not disclosed until a May 12, 2014, press release from the company.

A BuzzFeed article, citing company documents filed in Cyprus, said Hunter had joined Burisma on April 18 and emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop include discussions in the run-up to his dad’s visit to the country.

Four days before Sullivan briefed reporters, Burisma paymaster Vadim Pozharskyi emailed Hunter’s business associate Devon Archer, already on the board, that he recognized Hunter Biden could be both an asset and a liability.

“As to the HB I do believe that we have to reach reasonable balance here. I realize fully that his role … is of long term perspective and taking into account the political weight of our Directors we have to ‘use’ their personality carefully and strategically wise, I do realize their vulnerability in this respect,” Pozharskyi wrote in an email recovered from Hunter’s laptop.

“Therefore I kindly suggest to indeed now or after his father left our country just put him on our website without going for public camping [sic].

“And then after we meet in May we agree on joint plan and move forward accordingly, with media campaign or without it, just concentrating on informal talks with relevant interested parties etc.

“In some sense we cannot ‘hide’ our directors.”

More at link

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Could this be part of the lefts orchestrated purging of grandpa poopy pants from the 2024 run? He has certainly had some monumental fuck-ups while in office. Then there’s his prior activities. Biden is a brainless, mentally failing train wreck and a lot of work for his handlers.

I hope that guys life insurance policy is paid up.

Who are you talking about?

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Who are you talking about?

If this is for me I am talking about the guy from the article above that wants to testify against the Biden crime family syndicate.

Pedo Joe doing us proud in Ireland. Nice to know we've got Hunter in charge of things...



We Can't Believe This Biden Transcript Is Real...but It Is
Spencer Brown
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April 13, 2023 11:15 AM

President Joe Biden is doing his best to hold himself together during his multi-day swing across Ireland, but his best has just not been good enough. As Townhall reported earlier during the president's foreign trip, Biden confused the New Zealand "All Blacks" rugby team with the "Black and Tan" who were officers fighting in the Irish War of Independence. Not great.

But now, an official transcript from the White House — a masterful piece of work by the stenographers — shows again just how coming-apart-at-the-seams Biden is when he's caught without a teleprompter or prepared remarks. When Biden met with embassy families and firefighters in Dublin — joined by his son Hunter Biden — the president was asked by one child in the crowd about his tips for success. It did not go well.

Here's what the White House released:

MR. HUNTER BIDEN: In the back. He’s got a question.

THE PRESIDENT: What’s your question?

CHILD: What’s the top step to success?

THE PRESIDENT: What’s the top what?

CHILD: Step — steps — step to success.

THE PRESIDENT: What’s the top step to succ- — to success?

CHILD: Yes.

THE PRESIDENT: Oh, well, making sure that we don’t all have COVID. What — why — what are we talking about here?

CHILD: Like —

MR. HUNTER BIDEN: If you can — what’s the — what’s the key to success?

THE PRESIDENT: Oh, what’s the key to success? You know what I found out is the key to success is? And I’m not sure I’m the best guy to explain it; these guys can tell you.

The key to success is whenever you disagree with someone, it’s okay to question their judgment — whether they’re right or wrong — but it’s never okay to question their motive. If you question their motive, then you never get to be able to agree.

For example, if you say to somebody, “The reason why you don’t agree with me is because you are stupid, you are bad, you are — you just don’t like the people I like.”

Instead of saying I just didn’t — just tell you why, I disagree with you because of the following things. Because once you question somebody’s motive — why they’re doing something — because you don’t know. In fact, what happens after that, you can never get an agreement, get together.

I learned that lesson a long time — I say to that to all the embassy folks, too — I learned that a long time ago.

Rest of article:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...f-the-rails-n2621919