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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Without a viable replacement, this will cause mayhem on an unimaginable scale. It’s very possible that this could be the catalyst to kick off the next revolutionary war. These leftist traitors are practically begging to be removed. They won’t have the US populations help, the police, or military to back their plans, and any kind of UN style force would be quickly eradicated.

That's crazy talk! Well it used to be crazy talk just a few years ago.

I believe there is an increasing fervor amongst a growing number of people to bring "the system" down so they can rebuild it to their Marxist utopia. But I think most of them believe it can be done without much pain and it will arise quickly to the new fabulousness.

As always, there are a few truly evil people who want dictatorial power, but most of these people are useful idiots.

But they don't realize the huge numbers who will rise up in opposition with whatever it takes. Our failing perhaps is still having hope for a peaceful turnaround. There will be a tipping point, a catalyst as you said, where it gets very ugly.

I think it is probably inevitable we will see some form of widespread civil violence. Crazy.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...l-fitness-questioned

Biden was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Howard University on Saturday for his "analytical intellect" and "popularity on both sides"

Dr. Wayne Frederick, the president of Howard University, introduced Biden with high praise at the school's 155th commencement on Saturday.

"Admired for your sound analytical intellect and open embrace for all, your popularity on both sides of the aisle of the United States led to your illustrious reputation and outstanding service of 36 years as a Democratic senator from Delaware beginning at a tender age of 29," Frederick said of Biden


video (if you can stand it):

https://twitter.com/i/status/1657556046661971969

^^^^ I wonder how much of a donation that cost.

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^^^^ I wonder how much of a donation that cost.

And probably a side order of “We have something here you might not want to be made public knowledge….”

Sunday Talks, James Comer Says 9 out of 10 Biden Crime Witnesses are in Jail, Court or Missing

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer reappears with Maria Bartiromo today to update on the status of the Biden crime family investigation.

During the interview Chairman Comer informs Ms Bartiromo that nine out of ten people that would be considered material witnesses for the intent of the committee investigation are either in jail, in court, or missing. Additionally, Comer states those who do have information are intimidated and fear for their lives.
WATCH:



https://theconservativetreehou...missing/#more-246691

^^ So, unless they're unfindable or Chinese nationals, they're subject to subpoena, right? Get them to say (or not say) something, investigate, rinse and repeat, for as long as Comer has the gavel.

More on the Biden Crime Family, aided and abetted by State Media, this time from renowned Washington attorney, Jonathan Turley.

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This week, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) tried to do the impossible. After he and his colleagues presented a labyrinth of LLC shell companies and accounts used to funnel as much as $10 million to Biden family members, Donalds tried to induce the press to show some interest in the massive corruption scandal. “For those in the press, this is easy pickings & Pulitzer-level stuff right here,” he pleaded.

The response was virtually immediate. Despite showing nine Biden family members allegedly receiving funds from corrupt figures in Romania, China and other countries, The New Republic quickly ran a story headlined “Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden.”

America’s State Media

IRS removes investigative team from Hunter Biden probe in move whistleblower claims is ‘clearly retaliatory’

https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/...clearly-retaliatory/

The IRS on Monday removed the “entire investigative team” from its long-running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation against a whistleblower who alleged a coverup, The Post has learned.

“Today the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Supervisory Special Agent we represent was informed that he and his entire investigative team are being removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile, controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistleblower disclosures to Congress. He was informed the change was at the request of the Department of Justice,” the whistleblower’s attorneys informed Congress.

The whistleblower, who has supervised the Hunter Biden probe since early 2020, has not publicly identified the first son as the subject of his coverup claims, though congressional sources have done so.

“On April 27, 2023, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel appeared before the House Committee on Ways and Means. He testified: ‘I can say without any hesitation there will be no retaliation for anyone making an allegation or a call to a whistleblower hotline.’ However, this move is clearly retaliatory and may also constitute obstruction of a congressional inquiry,” attorneys Mark Lytle and Tristan Leavitt wrote.

More at link.

The whistleblower program is a sham; it exists to protect people in high places in federal government. I personally watched it fail not only to hold the turd executive accountable for illegal acts, but failed to protect the whistleblower. He was attacked by the agency for his troubles. I told the regional law enforcement specialist to his face that I would never use it unless there was danger to someone’s life, and made it clear that I considered it fraudulent.

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More on the Biden Crime Family, aided and abetted by State Media,

State Media can ignore it... but this continues to smolder. Michelle?

It sure looks like Michelle Obama is being pressured to run for president, forcing Biden out of the 2024 race

It’s obvious to anyone in the Democrat camp not totally delusional that Joe Biden’s declining mental faculties make him almost impossible to re-elect in 2024. Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein are two Democrats that have a good grasp of reality, and so they are putting out a signal in the Wall Street Journal – which is read by virtually every media editor in the country – that it is time to push Michelle Obama into running. That is, if she has not already been convinced by her husband.

Donald Trump’s spirited performance in last week’s CNN town hall, combined with recent polls, has some Democrats realizing he could be elected president again in 2024. The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll finds President Joe Biden with a 36% approval rating and trailing Mr. Trump by 6 points in a race for the White House. We aren’t the only Democrats considering alternatives and wondering: If not Mr. Biden, who should be the nominee? (snip)

If Mr. Biden can’t run for re-election, his natural successor is Vice President Kamala Harris. But Ms. Harris is even less popular than the president: Only 35% of registered voters have a favorable opinion of her compared with 41% for Mr. Biden, according to a recent Wall Street Journal poll. Ms. Harris’s approval rating in November 2021 hit a historic low for any modern vice president, and she is viewed much less favorably than her four predecessors at the same point in their respective tenures.

Furthermore, Mr. Trump trounces Ms. Harris in a general election match-up. According to a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll released this year, Mr. Trump leads Ms. Harris by 10 points, 49% to 39%. (snip)

A Zogby Analytics poll released last year found that if Mr. Biden were to bow out in 2024, Mrs. Clinton would be a distant third choice for Democratic primary voters, behind Ms. Harris in second place. The favorite is the only Democrat with broad national appeal: Michelle Obama.

Mrs. Obama is popular within the Democratic Party. She left the White House with a 68% favorability rating nationally and was one of the most admired women in the U.S. from 2018 through 2020, according to Gallup polls. With a broad network of supporters and the ability to resurrect Barack Obama’s political organization, she would be the strongest candidate by far.

While Mrs. Obama has expressed no desire to seek national office, she may be persuaded to jump in if Mr. Biden can’t run and Mr. Trump appears close to returning to the White House.

This is more than a trial balloon by Schoen and Stein, who are serious players. Schoen was a key figure in Bill Clinton's campaigns for president and a White House advisor. Stein was Manhattan Burough President and the last President of the New York City Council. It is a message: Biden is losing it by the day and could lose if he sticks it out, even to Trump, which is the unimaginable horror in Democrats’ (and many establishment Republicans’) minds

So who is the best backup? They say there is need for a backup plan, but once out of the bag, this is game on. Unless Michelle claims an absolute lack of interest, then she is OK with it.

Biden would withdraw before South Carolina if she challenged him since he would be humbled there, as Hillary was by Obama in 2008. Blacks may love the white candidate who kisses up to them, but only until there is a black challenger around. Our country is much more tribal than it has been since the Civil War.

https://www.americanthinker.co...f_the_2024_race.html

The problem with this scenario is that Joe Biden is the Baghdad Bob of Washington politics- everything is fine, everything is wonderful, the enemy is not at our gates, the future is bright and all is under control.

Joe won't budge from this and therefore he'll continue behaving as if he is the right man for the job and nothing needs to be done.

People on both the left and the right have for years been suggesting Michelle Obama might run for the office (so much so that I have stated that I don't want to see this tired old shit in this forum anymore), but she's not interested. She's already had eight years in the White House and she does not want to go back because she and her commie husband are enjoying a lavish lifestyle, which the presidency would impede severely. Also, despite having her husband as a personal advisor, there are moments when she would be truly on her own in the job and she knows she is not up to the task. Not to mention- does anyone actually believe that the Obamas would put themselves in the position of running the very real risk of being humiliated by Donald Trump? No, the Obamas have been there and done that and there's no thrill in it for them.

Joe won't go and Michelle won't step up. If it's anybody but Joe, it won't be her, and the fact that people on both the left and the right think she's the pick, shows just how much of a desert is the Democratic field.

Trump/Lake 2024

To add to the above, now I see coming out with the Durham report, that Barack Obama was briefed while in office on the particulars of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane phony investigation at the time his attorney general Loretta Lynch had a "tarmac meeting" with Bill Clinton. Barack Obama was aware that this investigation was nothing more than a political smear campaign against the opposing political party's candidate and he did nothing to intercede.

Does anyone really believe that that America-hating son of a bitch is going to have his wife step into the political arena with the man who was unjustly the target of this criminal smear campaign?

It's hard to relax on a beach in the French Riviera, being waited on hand and foot and treated like gods when you're campaigning against Donald Trump and the truth has come out about the potential "first husband". You can't be at ease hobnobbing with the world's greatest celebrities when The Donald Is making new nicknames for you and your spouse at overflowing campaign rallies he's holding.

The Obamas are treated like royalty wherever they go and they are not giving that up to spend years of slogging though the political sewer of Washington once again.

The video starts at a pertinent section:



Shapiro: "Do you know who's briefed on this? Barack Obama..."

Now, in light of what is now coming out, tell me again about the grand plans for Michelle.

The POS today managed to cause additional harm to US manufacturers to support his ChiCom overlords.

Biden vetoes bipartisan bill protecting US solar panel makers from Chinese competition.

President Joe Biden vetoed a bipartisan resolution Tuesday that would have reversed his executive action last year in which he ordered the Department of Commerce not to enforce tariffs on Chinese solar panel manufacturers for two years.

Link to complete article.

Hillary Clinton- subtle as a jackhammer.

Hillary Clinton says Biden's age is a legitimate issue: 'People have every right to consider it'

biden in Japan:

“My son was a major in the US Army. We lost him in Iraq,”

Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015 at the Walter Reed military hospital

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...-japan-trip-n2623581

^^^Yeah, that’s the third time, that we know of, that the shameless piece of shit has stolen valor by telling that lie. I would love to see Peter Doocy ask him why he keeps telling that lie.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/22/...-five-years-on-case/

A second IRS whistleblower in the criminal investigation of first son Hunter Biden emerged Monday in documents sent to Congress following the purge of the entire investigatory team looking into President Biden’s son for tax fraud and related crimes.

The new whistleblower is a special agent in the IRS’s international tax and financial crimes group and worked on the Hunter Biden case since it was opened in 2018 — until he was ousted without explanation last week.

The agent joins his supervisor, who plans to testify behind closed doors before the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday, in publicly registering concerns about how the Justice Department has handled the investigation.

Both IRS whistleblowers expressed concerns internally for years about the case being swept under the rug but got nowhere, and they lay out extensive claims of retaliation in new disclosures to Congress.

Hunter, 53, allegedly failed to pay taxes on millions of dollars he received from foreign associates who in some instances interacted with then-Vice President Joe Biden.

Hunter wrote in communications retrieved from his abandoned laptop that he had to share “half” of his income with his father.

The IRS supervisor, who oversaw the probe since January 2020, and his 12 subordinates were removed from the case — allegedly on Justice Department orders — after he contacted Congress on April 19 to allege “preferential treatment” and false testimony to Congress by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

House rebukes EPA’s vehicle emissions crackdown, heads to Biden’s desk

The Senate voted in April to overturn Biden's unprecedented crackdown on heavy-duty trucks.

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

On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of a resolution to strike down the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) emissions restrictions for heavy-duty trucks.

The joint resolution, which passed the House by a 221-203 vote, was introduced by Republican lawmakers in February via the Congressional Review Act (CRA) — a law that allows Congress to reverse rules made by a federal agency.

Passed narrowly by the Senate last month in a 50-49 vote, the resolution now heads to President Biden’s desk, where the White House previously said he would veto the bill in response.

The EPA’s decree was first announced in 2021 and finalized in December of last year, touted by the agency as the “strongest-ever national clean air standards.” It forces manufacturers, trucking companies and more to take drastic steps to cut carbon emissions for their products, which are over 80% stricter than the standards that have been in place for decades.

Both Republicans and Democrats have heavily criticized the Biden rules. West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin called it “oppressive regulations” that will “push truck drivers and small trucking companies out of business” through high costs. Michigan Republican Rep. Tim Walberg appeared to second such sentiments, saying the agency’s push would “upend” the “entire economy.”

Other EPA measures under Biden have also received intense scrutiny across party lines. Along with his rebuke of the truck rules, Sen. Manchin vowed he would vote to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which he previously supported, and oppose all Biden EPA nominees over the agency’s plan to require power plants to slash nearly all of their CO2 emissions, which many experts say would spell disaster for the nation’s power grid.

Perhaps most notably, the EPA has proposed requiring roughly two-thirds of all new car sales to be fully electric by 2032, a move that is still garnering widespread opposition.

In his first days in office, President Biden directed all federal agencies to aggressively push for rules and policy changes to combat climate change by pushing for a green energy transformation.

Ruining gas lawn mowers, gas ranges, internal combustion vehicles, and now dishwashers. Tyranny at it's finest.


The Federal Dirty Dish Rule

New ‘efficiency’ rules mean you can taste last night’s spaghetti again.

https://archive.fo/i9hJ6#selection-133.5-137.71

The White House swears it isn’t gunning to ban gas stoves, but why would anyone believe that after its latest attack on functional home appliances? Last week the Energy Department dropped a sweeping proposal for “efficiency” mandates on dishwashers. Did you enjoy last night’s spaghetti, still crusted on the plate? Now you can taste it twice.

The proposal requires manufacturers to slash water use by a third, limiting machines to 3.2 gallons per cycle, down from the current federal limit of five gallons. New appliances must simultaneously cut estimated annual energy usage by nearly 30%. Americans have learned the hard way that stricter efficiency rules on already efficient appliances translate into higher costs, inconvenience, and ultimately waste.
The Obama Administration’s dishwasher regulations raised the average price of a machine nearly $100, while producing a new norm of dirty forks and smelly glasses. When the Trump administration in 2018 proposed relaxing the rules, it received an avalanche of comments from Americans sick of overpaying for lousy equipment. It’s “ridiculous that dishwashers I had years ago worked better than the high-tech ones today,” one comment said.

Another lament was dishwashers that make a visit to the DMV feel speedy. Machines can only meet much higher efficiency standards by recirculating water in longer cycles, meaning run times of two or three hours. Yet if the dishes aren’t clean, owners run them again, undermining the argument about conservation. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says that in 2020 nearly 20% of American households that owned a dishwasher never used it. That means they hand washed, which is as inefficient as it comes.
The Biden Administration wasted no time in rolling back the Trump-era rules, but now it’s going further. The Energy Department plan gives manufacturers only until 2027 to produce the miracle of costlier washers that do a worse job. There are also new regulations for electric motors used in manufacturing, as well as beverage vending machines.

In recent months the Energy Department has proposed or finalized punishing new standards for ovens, microwaves, refrigerators and laundry machines (get ready for even moldier clothing). These come on top of rules for furnaces, air conditioners, and lightbulbs. In December the White House bragged that it had taken more than 110 efficiency actions for “appliances and equipment,” as if frustrating the daily household experience of millions of Americans is somehow a point of pride.

The press release on dishwasher standards makes clear the intent is to reduce “carbon pollution” and combat the “climate crisis,” never mind that the trivial CO2 emissions savings from your ill-functioning Whirlpool are laughable next to the coal power plants China is building. At least progressives are being honest about their goal of controlling every detail of American life. And yes, your gas stove is next.