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The National Park Service has withdrawn plans to remove a statue of William Penn from a Philadelphia park commemorating his founding of Pennsylvania, situated at his former home.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

Prostate surgery or brain surgery?? JSMH……

Hunter Biden's art dealer gives latest evidence shredding WH narrative on Biden family finances

Georges Berges tells Congress he did not communicate with the White House about an ethics agreement for Hunter art sales and that most of the first son's paintings were purchased by Democratic Party donors and at least one political appointee.

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

The Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, until it wasn't. Joe Biden never met any of the family's business partners or got proceeds from the ventures, until he did. And now there was an ethics agreement to govern Hunter Biden art sales during the Biden presidency until the art dealer in the middle of those sales revealed there wasn't, at least to his knowledge.

Renowned international art dealer Georges Bergès, whose galleries range from Berlin to New York, and represents Hunter Biden as an artist is the latest figure to blast a hole into the Biden White House narrative about the millions the first family has collected.

No ethics agreement shown to art dealer
According to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, Berges told Congress in a transcribed interview Tuesday that the White House never communicated anything to him about ethics requirements governing Hunter Biden's art sale and that much of the artwork he sold on behalf of the first son went to two Democrat donors.

"Georges Berges testified under oath that he's never communicated with the White House. He didn't know anything about an ethics agreement. So this is another lie that the White House has told the mainstream media and the American people with respect to the Biden family shady business games," Comer told the "Just the News, No Noise" television show Tuesday night.

This revelation came one night before House Republicans are set to hold a markup on a resolution to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for his failure to appear for the closed door deposition after he was subpoenaed by the Oversight Committee.

Neither the White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre nor spokesman Ian Sams immediately responded to a request for comment from Just the News.

Hunter Biden’s personal attorney, Abbe Lowell, also did not immediately respond.

Comer's committee released highlights of the art dealer's transcribed interview that confirmed Just the News' prior reporting on the art dealings including:

Presidential appointee and donor Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali bought Hunter Biden's art work, one piece before she was appointed to a federal commission by Joe Biden and one afterwards;
Kevin Morris, another Democrat donor who befriended Hunter Biden and became one of his lawyers, bought artwork too;
Biden fund-raiser Lanette Phillips helped arrange the initial relationship between Bergès art gallery and Hunter Biden that led to the sales.
Just the News reported late last year that federal investigators had confirmed that Morris, a respected Hollywood talent lawyer, had bought at least one Hunter Biden painting for more than $47,500 and also loaned the first son more than $5 million since Joe Biden began running for president.

But, Comer revealed Morris' assistance to Hunter Biden was even larger because Bergès testified that Morris bought closer to $900,000 in paintings from the first son.

"It's very safe to say that your figure on Kevin Morris is probably somewhere around $6 million to Hunter Biden," Comer explained. "So that would include the loans and the artwork and everything else that we know of thus far. Now, Kevin Morris will have an opportunity to come in and explain that."

Morris is slated to be interviewed by Comer’s Oversight Committee in the coming weeks, according to Comer.

New tranche of evidence
Comer also told Just the News that his committee is planning to pursue a new tranche of evidence: all the financial records Hunter Biden turned over in an Arkansas paternity court case that was settled last summer. That case was the source of a portion of the evidence that federal investigators gathered to allege that Hunter Biden engaged in tax evasion. The first son faces nine federal counts in that case now.

Bergès’ lack of knowledge about the ethics agreement previously touted by the White House marks the latest in a series of misleading – or ever-changing – statements by President Biden, his administration, and political allies about the Hunter Biden story, the business dealings of Biden’s relatives, and the president's own personal benefits from the millions in foreign payments the family raked in.

In July 2021, about six months after Joe Biden was inaugurated, then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that there would be an ethics agreement to govern Hunter Biden’s art sales while his father occupied the presidency.

“[A] system has been established that allows for Hunter Biden to work in his profession within reasonable safeguards,” Psaki told reporters at the time.

“But all interactions regarding the selling of art and the setting of prices will be handled by a professional gallerist, adhering to the highest industry standards. And any offer out of the normal course would be rejected out of hand,” she continued.

Biden had never sold a painting at exhibition prior to 2021. Alex Acevedo, 75, the owner of the Alexander Gallery in Midtown Manhattan told The Independent that "anybody who buys the president’s son’s work would be guaranteed an instant profit”, and added that is not entirely owing to Hunter Biden’s talent, saying: “He’s the president’s son. Everybody would want a piece of that." Acevedo also told the newspaper that if Hunter Biden were not the president’s son, his work would likely fetch around $25,000 to $100,000.

Bergès told the committee that a majority of Hunter Biden’s art was purchased by Democratic donors, which Chairman Comer called an “ethics nightmare” in a press release following the gallery owner's sworn testimony on Tuesday.

A pattern of changing the story
Previously, 51 former U.S. intelligence officials signed an open letter warning that the explosion of the Hunter Biden laptop story on the eve of the 2020 presidential election has all the hallmarks of a “Russian information operation.”

Following the election, it was revealed that the FBI had verified the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop as early as November of 2019, according to IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley. But, the damage had already been done.

At least one prominent signatory of the letter, Antony Blinken, now serves in the Biden Administration as the Secretary of State.

Previously, President Biden claimed, misleadingly, that he never met with his son’s business partners. “I did not. And it’s just a bunch of lies. They’re lies. I did not. They’re lies,” President Biden said in response to a question from the New York Post about his contacts with his son’s business associates.

Yet, Just the News has extensively documented meetings that Joe Biden had with his son’s business partners from a variety of foreign countries, including Ukraine, China, and Kazakhstan.

In 2014 and 2015, Hunter Biden organized two dinners with some of his European business associates with his father in attendance. Among Hunter Biden's partners who dined with Joe Biden were Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, Kazakhstani oligarch Kenes Rakishev, and Burisma executive Vadim Pozharskyi – who functioned as Hunter Biden’s point of contact on the board of the Ukrainian gas company. Pozharskyi even sent an email to the younger Biden thanking him for being able to meet the Vice President the next day in April 2015.

Rob Walker, a longtime Biden family friend and business associate, also told the FBI in an interview that Joe Biden personally attended meetings with Hunter Biden’s partners, including one with China-based CEFC Energy and its top executive, according to testimony by IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, the agency’s supervisory agent for the Biden case.

President Biden and his allies have insisted that the senior Biden never financially benefitted from any of his family’s business dealings, including those organized by his son, Hunter, or his brother, James.

These denials came to a crescendo when Hunter Biden appeared for a speech outside the U.S. Capitol in December, announcing his decision to defy the Congressional subpoena to appear before the House Oversight Committee and claiming that his father had no “financial involvement” in his foreign business deals.

“Let me state as clearly as I can: my father was not financially involved in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of Burisma, not in my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not in my investments at home nor abroad, and certainly not as an artist,” Biden told the assembled reporters, his lawyers Kevin Morris and Abbe Lowell in tow.

The documentary evidence keeps mounting despite denials
Yet, the Oversight Committee has uncovered bank records that both Hunter and James Biden sent money to Joe Biden which coincided with payments from Chinese companies.

The records show that at least one payment of $1,380 was sent from Hunter Biden’s Owasco PC to Joe Biden in September 17, 2018, Just the News reported in December. At the time, Hunter Biden’s Owasco PC account was receiving payments from Hudson West III, a joint venture set up with executives from CEFC China Energy—a Chinese company that sent at nearly $5 million to the first son over the course of their partnership.

In addition, a $40,000 check from James Biden to Joe Biden was linked by the Oversight Committee to a larger payment that the President’s brother received from the network of companies connected to CEFC. A Chinese company connected to CEFC sent $5 million in August 2017 to Hunter Biden's company, according to the committee.

Later that month, Hunter Biden wired $150,000 to Lion Hall Group, a company owned by Joe Biden's brother, James Biden, and his sister-in-law Sara Biden, evidence shows. Days later, Sara Biden took out $50,000 in cash from Lion Hall Group and then deposited it into her and James Biden's personal account that same day. The following week, Sara Biden sent a $40,000 check to Joe Biden marked as a "loan repayment,” Just the News previously reported citing the bank records obtained by the committee.

Hey Congress, begin impeachment proceedings or admit that you are a pack of traitorous rinos. I suspect if it were initiated, they wouldn’t get the votes to impeach which is why they haven’t. The uniparty is the enemy to our freedoms; call them out on it.

Peter Doocy:

“If the administration’s going to go to such great lengths to keep secrets about the defense secretary’s health, how can anybody be certain that the administration would not go to the same lengths to keep secret problems with President Biden’s health in the future?”

John Kirby:

???

Republican lawmakers confronted Hunter Biden at Wednesday’s hearing to hold him in contempt of Congress for defying a congressional subpoena.

In what appeared to be a public relations stunt, Hunter Biden, along with his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, and so-called “sugar brother,” Kevin Morris, showed up at the hearing .

Congressional leaders could have sent the House Sergeant at Arms to arrest and detain Hunter for failing to comply with a subpoena.

“You are the epitome of white privilege…You have no balls…I think Hunter Biden should be arrested right here, right now, and go to jail,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said, directing her gaze towards the president’s son



Hunter and his posse immediately left the hearing when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) began to speak. “[He] sits here with a smug look on his face and runs away when it’s my turn to talk,” she said.

“He can’t even face my words as I was about to speak to him,” she said. “What a coward.”

videos at

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...g-you-have-no-balls/

what an "in your face" move

Students kicked out of NY school so illegals can be sheltered

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Students kicked out of NY school so illegals can be sheltered

Standard liberal Dem practice... "You gotta make it hurt", in particular, you have to make it hurt people who aren't involved and who's fault it ISN"T. Just like they do with budget cuts, throw a childish temper tantrum and make the changes where it will be most painful.