I can’t see how the SecDef gets to keep his job after this, but then again we are talking about Biden the puppet so who the hell knows:


https://x.com/ByronYork/status...047350585114928?s=20

Incredible.

I guess his job is not that important. I would be missed immediately if I did not show up for work, and I have nothing to do with the defense of the United States.

First, there is no accountablility with the left. He'll apologize and all will be well.

Second, this "administration" is running nothing. You can bet that those who are actually running this country (into the ground) were well briefed on the situation.

Talk about a biased media. I know it is the Daily Beast but this is ridiculous:" On Saturday night, three years to the day after supporters of Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol building, election objecting Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is the subject of an active police investigation into an alleged physical altercation with her ex-husband, Jayson Boebert, at a restaurant in her district Saturday night."
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Really??? Are we gonna hear this all the way to November?

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Really??? Are we gonna hear this all the way to November?

It's January. We've just begun.

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Biden says Summer 2020—featuring George Floyd riots—was 'historic movement for justice'

I'm sure Biden's open border clusterfuck had an underlying plan for his buddies in China


https://twitter.com/realmuckra...sistance-day-1084%2F

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I'm sure Biden's open border clusterfuck had an underlying plan for his buddies in China

Trump Will Be "The Winter Coat" - Charles Nenner Warns "The Cycle Is Turning Down Very Fast"

“The cycle is turning down, and people ask is there anything you can do? You cannot do anything about it. The question is what can you do? You have summer and then you have winter...

if you know winter comes after summer, you can buy a coat. I have predicted all these war situations, and out of the blue they are here. There is nothing you can do about it.”

Where does Donald Trump fit in? Nenner says,

“Trump is going to be the winter coat. I think he can make it less bad. If this continues the way it is, then we are going downhill very fast. I think Trump is coming back.”

Nenner says interest rates are not going down until summer. He likes gold longer term, but it has not bottomed yet.

The stock market is in for at least a 30% fall in the next few months, and the country will fall into a deep recession after the halfway point in 2024.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...rning-down-very-fast

https://www.foxnews.com/us/bid...ounding-pennsylvania

Biden admin reverses decision to remove William Penn statue from park commemorating founding of Pennsylvania

The National Park Service has withdrawn plans to remove a statue of William Penn from a Philadelphia park commemorating his founding of Pennsylvania, situated at his former home.

The preliminary draft proposal for the "rehabilitation" of Welcome Park "was released prematurely and had not been subject to a complete internal agency review," NPS announced Monday evening.

"No changes to the William Penn statue are planned," a news release said. The park service never explained the reason for the impetus to remove the statue.

The plan, announced Friday, also involved expanding the telling of Philadelphia's Native American history and fixing up the park. It faced a torrent of criticism, receiving more than 2,600 comments on a social media post calling for public comment to be submitted over a 2-week period on a dedicated website.

"Good! Now please fire whoever came up with this idea," one X user, the platform formerly known as Twitter, wrote in response to the update by Independence National Historic Park.

The park is named for the ship, Welcome, which Penn took to Philadelphia in 1682. The park was established 300 years later, and is located just blocks from the Liberty Bell and the National Constitution Center.

Pennsylvania's top Republican state House member, Rep. Bryan Cutler, had accused President Biden of trying to "cancel" William Penn. In a statement, Cutler called it "another sad example of the left in this country scraping the bottom of the barrel of wokeism to advance an extreme ideology and a nonsensical view of history."

With the proposal being withdrawn, Independence National Historical Park has closed the public comment period until a new proposal is issued.

"The National Park Service (NPS) remains committed to rehabilitating Welcome Park as the nation prepares to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026," NPS said in Monday's release. "Upon completion of all the necessary internal reviews, the park looks forward to engaging in a robust public process to consider options for refurbishing the park in the coming years."

Whoever came up with even the idea is full of shit. William Penn himself dealt fairly with the Indians. After his death his son screwed them over, but that's not the point.

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Biden admin reverses decision to remove William Penn statue from park commemorating founding of Pennsylvania

Yep, been following this story since Sunday night. William Penn was not a conqueror and treated the Native Americans so well, his name was revered for 100+ years among them in Pennsylvania.

This is more of the Third Obama Administration's efforts to destroy our heritage and history to rebuild it in their image of what our nation should be. OMG, Penn owned 12 slaves! So did every-freaking-one-else at that time, you could not operate without human power in that Pre-Industrial day and age.

It sounded like the Governor of Pennsylvania stepped in and basically said "what the hell are you guys trying to do here? Removing a statue of William PENN from the city he founded in PENNsylvania?" and the NPS quickly backed off the idea, using the old excuse that some lowly staffer released this without it being properly vetted. What a load of shit.

With that being said, this park DOES need a good refurbishment. It always reminded me of some random parking lot in the middle of the city they recovered and put a wall around with murals and a small statue of Penn and a very small model (like you'd see in a museum exhibit) of his house that stood there for 200 years; the Slate Roof House. I think they should rebuild the Slate Roof House there and make it into a museum and exhibit about William Penn.


https://x.com/GovernorShapiro/...502454048178194?s=20

I worked for the NPS for 30 years. They are absolutely a democrat infested echo chamber to include all upper level management. This move does not surprise me in the slightest. What does is that they didn’t try to do it on the sky without the public’s knowledge.

An example of their perfidy and blind devotion to the leftist democrats- during the darkest days of Covid, we were instructed to kick people out of parks in outdoor settings. Once things relaxed slightly, we were further instructed to issue tickets to people refusing to mask OUTDOORS that were within 6 feet of other people. Absolute lunacy with no basis in science, but the mission was to isolate and divide people.

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This is more of the Third Obama Administration's efforts to destroy our heritage and history to rebuild it in their image of what our nation should be. OMG, Penn owned 12 slaves! So did every-freaking-one-else at that time, you could not operate without human power in that Pre-Industrial day and age.

There's a good article about that here:

Democrats’ Statue Toppling Is A Dress Rehearsal For Going After Actual People
By: John Daniel Davidson

It’s time to stop debating history and facts with people who only care about the exercise of raw political power.

https://thefederalist.com/2024...after-actual-people/

The Bizarre Case of a Missing Defense Secretary

These days, it’s not controversial to point out that on the Biden administration’s watch, the world has become far less stable and far more dangerous.

The sudden and haphazard U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 surely emboldened our adversaries, given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine six months later.

And Russia, despite failing to take Ukraine as rapidly as many predicted, has resorted to nuclear coercion, threatening to use nuclear weapons not only in Ukraine, but on many NATO countries—including the United States.

More recently, the United States failed to respond to the Hamas attacks in Israel—despite the fact that as many as 31 Americans were killed in the attack, and as many as 20 Americans were held hostage by Hamas.

Despite the Biden administration taking the Yemen-based, Iran-backed Houthis off the list of terrorist groups, Houthis’ missiles are now forcing global shipping to reroute around the Cape of Good Hope, just as in the days of Vasco de Gama.

And Tehran—despite ejecting International Atomic Energy Agency weapons inspectors from Iran and stockpiling 60% enriched uranium (just a technical step away from weapons-grade nuclear material)—continues to sponsor Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, with nary a word of objection from the Biden administration.

And amid all those gathering threats, a truly bizarre, unprecedented story broke over the weekend about how, for roughly three days, no one was apparently in charge of the Pentagon.

If what follows is unclear and ambiguous, that’s because the entire story is unclear and ambiguous—and still unfolding.

The public learned on Saturday evening that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was in intensive care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, D.C.

Austin, 70, was admitted on Jan. 1 due to “intense pain” that followed a few days after a yet-to-be specified “elective procedure” he undertook on Dec. 22. As of Sunday, Austin remained at Walter Reed.

While Austin was supposedly teleworking the week of Jan. 1, according to his front office staff, he was in fact in intensive care—a fact that he shared with only the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. C.Q. Brown, and Austin’s chief of staff, Kelly Magsamen.

No one else knew that Austin was in intensive care—not the president, not the National Security Council, not the military service chiefs, our military combatant commanders, nor service secretaries, nor the undersecretaries, let alone congressional leaders, until Thursday, three days after Austin was hospitalized.

One odd exception was the No. 2-ranking civilian in the Defense Department, Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks, who was on vacation in Puerto Rico with her family. Officials in the Pentagon informed Hicks on the afternoon of Jan. 2 that she was assuming “certain operational responsibilities that require constant secure communications capabilities.”

However, Hicks wasn’t informed that Austin was hospitalized until Jan. 4, the same day that the Pentagon informed the White House and the day that President Joe Biden learned that his secretary of defense had been incapable of performing his job functions for the better part of a week.

According to public statements, Biden spoke with Austin on the phone on Sunday, as the secretary remained in a hospital bed at Walter Reed and they are said to have had a cordial conversation.

Unfortunately, very little beyond that is known at this point. And the more we learn, the more questions we have.

What was the elective surgery that triggered all this? Austin, of course, is due some privacy, but given the number of crises unfolding in the world, why have elective surgery at all at this time?

Why did Austin not tell more people about his hospitalization than Brown and his chief of staff? He is a Cabinet secretary at a time of two wars, in Europe and the Mideast. Why did he not tell the National Security Council or the relevant combatant commanders?

If Austin was in intensive care on Jan. 1, why did the deputy secretary not assume the responsibilities of acting secretary until the afternoon of Jan. 2? And why was she not told he was in the hospital until Jan. 4?

Even if Austin was unable to call more than a couple of individuals that he was being put in intensive care on Jan. 1, why didn’t Brown inform the White House, the service secretaries and the senior military commanders?

Magsamen apparently was ill, which was why she didn’t inform the White House or Hicks before Jan. 4.

Everyone has been flat on their back sick for a few days. That’s a part of life.

Literally, all she or Brown would have to do is say to a member of the secretary’s Secret Service detail, “Place a secure call to the White House Situation Room and brief them on what’s going on.”

As noted, Hicks was in Puerto Rico on a no-doubt well-earned family vacation. But during this time of crisis, if the secretary of defense was hospitalized and no senior leaders were aware of his condition, why was she not summoned back to the Pentagon?

Finally, the defense secretary was in the hospital and was incommunicado during a period in which Iranian generals are being killed, Russians are shelling hospitals in Ukraine, Israel is conducting a war in Gaza, and global shipping is being rerouted out of the Red Sea … and no one in the White House or the National Security Council noticed?

More details will surely come to light. But this potential disaster is without precedent in the Defense Department. There has never been a week when the Pentagon’s chain of command broke down to such an extent that—for all we can discern—no one was in charge.

While we wish Austin a full and speedy recovery, the fact of the matter is that had anyone else in any other organization been so derelict in his or her responsibilities for the organization they lead, they would have been fired.

But as is the case with the failures in Afghanistan, Ukraine and Israel, it appears no one will be held accountable, and the American people are less safe for it.

https://www.dailysignal.com/20...g-defense-secretary/

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The Bizarre Case of a Missing Defense Secretary

Lloyd Austin, 70, was treated for prostate cancer during secret hospital trip: Pentagon admits it should have revealed details of ICU visit earlier and will take 'immediate' steps to address transparency

If it was a prostatectomy then wasn’t the whole damn thing removed? And why would you only take part of it, especially at his age. Been there/done that, no regrets.

Lets be real, Austin has transitioned and the new pronouns are she/her/hers. The surgery went quicker than scheduled, as the doctors found Austin had no balls, so it was just a simple "tuck job."

Just turn off your computers, JSCODY has won the internet for today.