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Biden Says He “Really Enjoyed Teaching” When He Was a “Professor” at the University of Pennsylvania – Biden Never Taught a Single Class (VIDEO)

Joe Biden said he “really enjoyed teaching” when he was a “professor” at the University of Pennsylvania during an interview with podcast host Heather Cox Richardson.

This is one of Joe Biden’s favorite lies.

Biden was never a “professor” or teacher after serving as Vice President in 2017.

Biden was paid $1 million to do nothing, as the Daily Caller noted:

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When the Daily Caller asked whether Biden had in fact taught any courses since being hired, UPenn Vice Provost for Faculty Anita Allen did not list any, saying his work was instead based in Washington.

Biden was paid to give a few speeches (typical career politician/DC grifter) but he never taught a class.

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“You make me miss being a professor at Penn,” Biden said in the interview taped February 25 and released on Friday. “When I left the Vice Presidency I had a chance to do a number of things but I took a professorship at the University of Pennsylvania in presidential politics and history, so I envy you.”

Clown show.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1499851156700413953

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...e-class-video/

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Biden on verge of making worst deal ever with Iran

As the civilian death toll mounts in Ukraine and the world prepares for unspeakable crimes against humanity yet to come, the Biden administration said Friday it’s close to announcing a Russian-brokered deal with Iran that will flood the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism with billions of dollars and leave Tehran on the nuclear weapons threshold. While the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was bad enough, the coming deal is even worse. Much has changed in the years since the Obama administration entered the old Iran deal — an agreement that let Iran keep enriching uranium, developing nuclear-capable missiles and sponsoring terrorism in exchange for billions of dollars in US sanctions relief. A deal that would supposedly put Iran’s nuclear program in check and lead a radical regime to moderation failed to do either.

The Obama White House claimed the Iran deal guaranteed the most intrusive inspections the world had ever known, but only Israel’s Mossad found the evidence Iran was cheating — a secret nuclear weapons archive that the mullahs kept hidden before, during and after negotiating the Iran deal. That archive led inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, to at least four previously unknown sites inside Iran. At three of them, the inspectors found traces of uranium. The full extent of Iran’s cheating remains unknown. Inspections haven’t gotten any more intrusive; Iranian military sites remain off limits.

Russia has been a leading opponent of the IAEA’s probe in Iran for years. Since Moscow regularly breaks its own international treaty obligations — whether in the use of chemical weapons or the war crimes we see today in Ukraine — Russian diplomats work overtime to shield rogue nations like Iran and Syria from accountability. The new deal takes Moscow’s side — flouting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, lifting sanctions and legitimizing Iran’s nuclear program without first demanding a full accounting of previous and current violations. Put simply, it is an agreement knowingly built on deceit that will encourage other authoritarian regimes to violate their international commitments.

Another important change since 2015: We know so much more about the ways in which key Iranian banks and companies finance terrorism. The Obama administration told Congress that nothing in the Iran deal precluded America from imposing terrorism sanctions on Iran. Congress, on a bipartisan basis, took that promise to heart and directed the Trump administration to impose sanctions on affiliates of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Today, the Central Bank of Iran, the National Iranian Oil Company and hundreds more entities are subject to US terrorism sanctions — not nuclear sanctions — due to indisputable evidence showing their involvement in financing terrorism. To lift sanctions on these banks and firms without any indication of behavioral change will be unprecedented. The deal will directly subsidize the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations — a win for another Russian client state, Syria, as well.

In January, 1,200 Gold Star family members wrote to President Biden urging him not to release any funds to Iran until the Islamic Republic first paid off the $60 billion in judgments owed to American victims of Iran-sponsored terrorism. To date, the White House has not responded to their plea. The deal may go even further and remove the IRGC from the State Department’s official list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations — not only making America less safe but weakening legal cases pursued by these and other victims of terrorism.

What must Iran do in exchange for $100 billion in sanctions relief, freedom from terrorism sanctions and a blind eye toward its nuclear secrets? Not much. Iran will be able to threaten the world at a time of its choosing since it can keep enriching uranium and developing long-range nuclear-capable missiles to menace the American homeland. And the infamous sunset provisions of the old deal remain in place — they ensure the near-term expiration (or “sunset”) of all key restrictions. This sets up a nuclear crisis as early as 2025 even if Iran abides by the terms of the new agreement.That American and other Western hostages will be released as part of the agreement will be celebrated. That is, until Iran takes another hostage and then another, knowing the Biden administration will likely pay huge sums for their release.

The Biden White House will say it’s all Donald Trump’s fault. The Iran deal was working. Maximum pressure failed. It’s this deal or war. None of that is true. Iran was cheating on the old deal from the very start and using its benefits to destabilize the Middle East. Which is exactly what they will do again, thanks to the new worst deal in history, brokered by Russia at the Biden administration’s request. It ensures the United States will face an increasingly imminent choice of military action against Iran or accepting an Iranian nuclear weapon.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/04/biden-...ver-with-iran/

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The recklessness... incompetency and foolishness of the Biden administration has no bounds...

White House Mulls Biden Visit To Saudi Arabia To Plea For More Oil

US President Joe Biden's advisers are reportedly discussing a possible trip to Saudi Arabia this spring to urge the kingdom to ramp up oil production amid fears of a supply shortage as the United States mulls a ban on Russian crude imports. But progressive members of Congress and anti-war commentators were quick to pan the idea of further deepening US ties with Saudi Arabia, pointing to the years-long, catastrophic assault the kingdom has been waging on Yemen since 2015—often with military and diplomatic support from the US government. "Our response to Putin's immoral war shouldn't be to strengthen our relationship with the Saudis, who are currently causing the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet in Yemen," U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) wrote in a Twitter post late Sunday. "Yemenis might not matter to some geopolitically, but their humanity should. This is a wildly immoral act."

Axios reported Sunday that a Biden trip to Saudi Arabia would be part of an attempt to "help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil." "A hat-in-hand trip would illustrate the gravity of the global energy crisis driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine," Axios continued. "Biden has chastised Saudi Arabia, and the CIA believes its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was involved in the dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi."

While the Biden administration has blamed bin Salman for the brutal murder of Khashoggi, it has thus far refused to take steps to punish the Saudi leader. The Biden administration has also been accused of reneging on its promise to end U.S. support for the Saudi kingdom's war on Yemen, which continues to cause immense suffering and civilian deaths. In response to its report on a possible Biden trip to Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks, a White House spokesperson told Axios that the administration doesn't "have any international travel to announce at this time, and a lot of this is premature speculation." Basav Sen, director of the Climate Justice Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, said Sunday that if Axios' reporting is accurate, "it's a disastrously bad idea." "President Biden and his administration are out of touch with reality if they're pushing for more oil and gas production, in this country or anywhere else," Sen argued. MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan said during his show late Sunday that he finds it "odd that we are going to send our president to Saudi Arabia to say, 'Give us more oil while you bomb Yemen so we don't have to get oil from Russia as it bombs Ukraine.'"

Axios' report came as Biden administration officials and congressional leaders considered moving to impose a ban on Russian oil imports to the US, a proposal framed as part of an attempt to isolate Russia in response to its deadly assault on Ukraine, which has entered its second week with no end in sight. The potential for an import ban on Russian crude helped send oil prices surging. As Bloomberg noted Sunday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said over the weekend that "the White House is in 'very active discussions' with its European allies about a ban to tighten the economic squeeze on President Vladimir Putin." "The U.S. has so far resisted restrictions on Russian crude imports due to concerns about the impact of rising prices on consumers," the outlet observed, "but most buyers are refusing to take it, resulting in an embargo in all but name." The US imported an average of roughly 209,000 barrels of crude oil per day from Russia in 2021. According to the International Energy Agency, Russia is the second-largest exporter of crude oil in the world behind Saudi Arabia.

As The Intercept's Ken Klippenstein reported last month, "While the media focuses on the conflict in Ukraine, a major cause of the gas price spike has gone overlooked: Moscow's partnership with Saudi Arabia has grown dramatically in recent years, granting the two largest oil producers in the world the unprecedented ability to collude in oil export decisions." "The desert kingdom's relationship with the US has chilled in the meantime, as demonstrated earlier this month, when President Joe Biden pleaded with the Saudis to increase oil production—a move that would not only have helped to alleviate rising inflation and gas prices, but also reduced Russia's extravagant profits amid its aggression against Ukraine," Klippenstein wrote. "The Saudi king declined."



https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/whi...-plea-more-oil

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Just remember this everytime you go fill your tank... grocery shopping... pay your heating bills and just about everything else you purchase now and in the future because...

this is what Biden calls our economy roaring back better than anyone predicted and building a better America...

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Just remember this everytime you go fill your tank... grocery shopping... pay your heating bills and just about everything else you purchase now and in the future because...

this is what Biden calls our economy roaring back better than anyone predicted and building a better America...

That is a laughable moment.. If that had been Trump they would have a skit on SNL every Sat for a month or two..

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That is a laughable moment.. If that had been Trump they would have a skit on SNL every Sat for a month or two..

This would of been a perfect time for Nancy's dramatic disply...

But that's Nancy for you... always a day late and a mind short...

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Kremlin BLASTS Biden’s Cognitive Decline – Issues Statement Saying Sleepy Joe’s “Irritability,” “Fatigue,” and “Forgetfulness” Lead to “Aggressive” Temper Tantrums

Biden is a total embarrassment. It’s no secret that this guy is not fit to be the leader of the free world.

After bungling his way into another massive crisis, this time with the implications of nuclear war, Biden is continuing to tarnish the standing of America as he makes himself look like an idiot on the world stage once again.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...mper-tantrums/

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No conspiracy theory ... just something to ponder on about a false flag operation that would kill two birds with one stone as far as the Deep State is concerned...

Warning: Global Deep State May Be Planning Assassination of President Biden When He Travels To Europe Next Week

Joe Biden has become a liability for the global deep state, which is why they may try to have him assassinated as a way of accelerating a world war against Russia. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief diplomatic adviser on Saturday asked Biden to visit the embattled city of Kyiv next week during his trip to Brussels, saying in a taunting message that “one should not be afraid to – if you are brave.”

Inviting a sitting U.S. president to an active war zone is probably not the wisest of ideas.Coincidentally, this comes amid reports by the Russian military that they received intelligence of Ukrainian nationalist hardliners planning to target U.S. and Western military installations in Lviv. “The officer spoke…about [planned] terrorist acts in Lvov [the city’s Russian-language name] against employees and facilities of the diplomatic missions maintained by the US and other Western nations,” said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov. What’s more, the Ukrainian government is apparently aware of this plot but is doing nothing to stop it. “I’d like to stress that the Kiev regime is fully aware of the plans harbored by the nationalists, but is doing nothing to prevent them,” Konashenkov added. The stage appears to be set to have Biden assassinated during his diplomatic visit to Europe. Such a scenario could echo the prelude to World War I, where Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination by Serbia’s Black Hand terrorists in 1914 was actually orchestrated by the British Secret Service.

Biden’s assassination could potentially be extremely useful to the globalists not just to spark a global war, but to also alleviate political fallout for the Democrats in America. The Democrats are getting dragged down politically because of Biden’s terrible polling due to his disastrous radical domestic and foreign policy positions. Bracing for massive losses in the incoming midterms, Democrats have even been discussing amongst themselves how best to replace Biden in 2024. At this point, to the globalists, Biden is now more useful dead than alive, which is a precarious situation for the whole world. However, in a veiled response to Ukraine’s request, Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday that Biden would not travel to Ukraine during his visit to Brussels.

We will have additional details of @potus trip to Europe to announce later today. The trip will be focused on continuing to rally the world in support of the Ukrainian people and against President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine,

but there are no plans to travel into Ukraine.

— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) March 20, 2022

Biden is instead scheduled to appear at a NATO meeting “to discuss ongoing deterrence and defense efforts” against Russia and a G-7 meeting with European leaders. Hopefully his bumbling European visit will go off without a hitch.

https://miamistandard.news/2022/03/2...ope-next-week/

No need to worry though... the United States has never stooped as low as to create a false flag operation to drag us into a war... right?

And as insightful... upstanding and morally just as we know our Congress to be... they wouldn't never allow such a thing to happen because they would spot a false flag operation a mile off and the just as insightful... upstanding and morally just media would defentely sniff out the facts of it all before you can say Jack Robinson ... right?

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Did The New York Times Admit Joe Biden Is Corrupt So Democrats Can Get Rid Of Him?

Joe Biden is no longer useful to the ruling class.

It is painfully obvious, as was predictable, that Joe Biden’s presidency is a dumpster fire. As demonstrated by the party’s destructive callousness towards children, the elderly, and the poor during their Covid lockdown frenzy, Democrats care about none of these real-world results of their policies. But they do care about polling, and Joe Biden’s is abysmal. According to even heavily politicized polls, Biden is at least performing as badly as Donald Trump. Biden is between the third- and fifth-most ratings-underwater president ever in American history at this point in his first term.

Biden of course also has the advantage of a wildly favorable press and social media monopoly while Trump had the strong headwind of a wildly negative one. That factor obscured for a great many of American voters actions that easily demonstrated long before his election that Biden was unfit for the presidency. Now that he’s president, however, and very publicly bungling essentially every major issue all the way up to U.S. national security, Biden’s weakness and incompetence have been impossible for the corrupt media to entirely cover up. Biden’s appalling withdrawal from Afghanistan may have been the first major blow to public confidence in his governing ability, and it’s been followed by blow after blow: the repercussions of ending U.S. energy independence, historic inflation caused by massive government spending, aggression by America’s foreign foes, a tacitly open border with human trafficking of historic proportions, not to mention fueling America’s legalized mass killings of unborn infants and forcing schools to inflict gender dysphoria on the children in their care.

So yes, the polls look bad. That’s why Democrat officials suddenly switched away from their Covid mania, lifting mask mandates in blue states, ending the daily falsified “body counts” on TVs and newspapers, and jumping immediately into European war hysteria. But that’s not been enough to turn those polls around. Historic indicators presently suggest a “red wave” in the upcoming midterms.That brings us to The New York Times’s recent “limited hangout“: its highly suspicious, very late acknowledgment that, hey, that laptop containing evidence that Joe Biden is just as corrupt as his son Hunter Biden told Russian prostitutes — that laptop is real, and so is its data. Yes, the United States’s top foreign adversaries likely have blackmail material on the U.S. president, and likely paid him some very big bribes.

Oh, and yes Twitter and Facebook did use their global communications monopolies to rig the election for Joe Biden by hiding this information (and who knows what else). Why would The New York Times do this — and Facebook and Twitter not ban this information release just like they did before? Well, one explanation is hierarchy reinforcement. As I wrote Monday, like forcing their “minions” to wear face masks, the ridiculously belated laptop confirmation also equals the ruling class “flexing their power to say things they won’t allow their political opponents to say.”

There’s another explanation, though. It’s that Joe Biden is no longer useful to the ruling class. After being used to win an election, he’s now making it impossible for them to credibly foist on Americans the idea that his party could win another one with him on their masthead. The donkey is showing through the lion skin, and so they need a new donkey. So while it seems utterly legitimate to insist on accountability such as appointing a special counsel to investigate the Biden family’s apparent corruption, that also could relieve the Democrat Party of their greatest liability. They’d probably deeply appreciate that, in fact. Biden got the ruling class what they wanted, and they don’t need him any more. Getting rid of him now would in fact be highly convenient for maintaining their power.

There’s only one problem with that. Kamala isn’t at all going well for them either. Enjoy that bed you made for yourselves, Democrats. I hope it’s at least as uncomfortable as that bed you’ve made for all the Americans whose long-term outlook is more suffering, thanks to Democrats’ criminal prioritization of power for themselves above all else.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/23...et-rid-of-him/

According to even heavily politicized polls, Biden is at least performing as badly as Donald Trump. Biden is between the third- and fifth-most ratings-underwater president ever in American history at this point in his first term.

That… right there tells me that the establishment has lost much of its ability to influence and control the majority of Americans any longer because as good as Trump was for America… they were able to persuade and turn many Americans against him… but now… even the MSM Propaganda network… as deceitful and manipulative as we all know they can be with their mistruths… half-truths and outright lies can no longer cover for Biden and his democratic subordinate group of corrupt... immorral misfits… fruitcakes… racists and morons. And why… because it’s so obvious that they really are that bad for America!!!

Just two more hurdles to get through now that the majority of Americans know just how evil and corrupt our leaders and media are when it comes to their mistruths… half-truths and outright lies concerning our affairs here in the US… let’s hope they can now see through all their BS when it comes to the affairs of other nations as well. With that being the first and then… now that the masses are on full alert when it comes to our leaders and media deceitful and destructive tactics… let’s just hope they will be able to recognize all the signs leading up to and including a rigged election. And no… not because our corrupt leaders and media told you so like they did with the 2016 election… but yes… like when they went all out to condemn…cancel… outcast and in some cases,,, even destroy the lives of those that even dared to question the validity of the 2020 election with all their accusations and censorship of spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation… labeling them as racists… homophobes… sexists… white supremacists and even going as far as labeling them insurrectionists and actually accusing them of staging an insurrection.

And for those who find themselves still undecided on just who to believe on such matters but want to try and be righteous about the whole thing… you can just stay on the fence like many throughout our history but if you want to go out on a limb and try making the right call… if I might make a suggestion… just go with the opposite of what those lying corrupt leaders and media are trying to force feed you on a daily basis and in my honest opinion… you’ll have made the right call nine out of ten times. Or then again… you can start doing what many Americans have been doing all along… heeding a politician’s actions… not their words because if you are one of those who are…



Trust me… actions do really speak louder than words… and the pen is not mightier than the sword unless one chooses to rely on what they hear and read rather than what actions they actually see with their very own eyes. After all… that would make one considered as not only deaf and dumb by their peers… but also as blind as a bat. But then again… one just might choose to be a mindless useless follower who likes being led by the nose which I like to refer to as a useful idiot. After all… that’s what big government is there for… isn’t it… to control... protect and cuddle their sorry asses… even if they commit crimes on innocent law abiding citizens!!! Just bow and obey and Uncle Sam will have your back… right!!!

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Grassley-Johnson Letter on Biden E-mail Scandal Remains Unanswered. VP Biden Used Private Addresses to Send Gov’t E-mails.

In the summer of 2016, Hillary Clinton and her campaign hatchet men conceived the Russia Collusion Hoax to destroy then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. Clinton had to distract the world from her own scandal. As secretary of state, she had illegally used a private server to send and receive official e-mails. But that wasn’t the only potentially dangerous Democrat e-mail scandal. The other involved then-Vice President Biden, who with son Hunter, had set up the Biden-Burisma influence-peddling scheme.

Biden, it turns out, did just about the same thing as Clinton. He used at least three secret e-mail addresses, the New York Post reported in July, which were used to send government information to his son. GOP Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin asked the National Archives about the matter and whether the e-mails were properly memorialized. To date, the letter remains unanswered either by the archives or the White House counsel.

Off-the-books E-mails

“Two US Senators say they’ve received no response from the White House counsel’s office to their July 30, 2021 letter asking about Joe Biden’s use of private email for government business as vice president,” freelance journalist Sharyl Attkisson reported this week.The unanswered two-page inquiry directed at David Ferriero, national archivist, said Biden “used private email for government use and as part of that use he sent government information to his son, Hunter Biden.” Biden’s pseudonyms for the e-mail addresses were [email protected], [email protected] and JRBWare. JRB is clearly Joseph Robinette Biden, now POTUS 46.

Johnson and Grassley’s letter riffed off Miranda Devine’s report in the Post, which had divulged the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop. E-mails from the laptop included one from Burisma Holdings advisor Vadym Pozharskyi, who thanked Hunter for arranging a meeting with his father.That e-mail proved that Joe Biden did know about his son’s business ventures, contrary to what he said. In fact, he was up to his elbows in those shady enterprises, which included Red China. When Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, was paying Hunter a fortune, Biden senior strong-armed the country into firing the prosecutor who was investigating the company. “As vice president, Joe Biden kept a variety of private email addresses from which he would sometimes forward and receive government correspondence, Hunter Biden’s laptop shows,” Devine reported:

“Robin Ware,” “Robert L. Peters” and “JRB ware” were three such pseudonyms on e-mails that mixed official and family business. In a four-week period in 2016, for instance, John Flynn, who worked in the Office of the Vice President, sent Joe his official daily schedule to his private e-mail address [email protected] and copied Hunter. There were 10 such e-mails copied to Hunter between May 18 and June 15, 2016. In one e-mail from Flynn to Joe, a k a Robert Peters, on May 26, 2016, and copied to Hunter, the schedule includes “8.45am prep for 9am phonecall with Pres Poroshenko.”

But then-Vice President Biden was sending e-mails through the accounts too, Devine reported. On March 26, 2012, Biden forwarded an e-mail about Ukraine to sons Hunter and Beau. A brain tumor killed Beau Biden in 2015. Worst thing was, it was an e-mail from the American ambassador to Ukraine through the No. 2 man in the State Department, Antony Blinken:

“The e-mail was from Deputy Secretary of State (now Secretary of State) Antony Blinken,” Devine reported, “forwarding an e-mail from US Ambassador to Ukraine John Tefft: “Beau visited Kyev [Ukraine] on the Friday and gave a talk on corruption at the Hyatt … then attended reception at the residence where he met many young Ukrainian lawyers. We received many compliments on his presentation and for simply a frank discussion of a problem that still bedevils this country.”… The use of private e-mail not only could represent a conflict of interest with official duties, the services are also more prone to hacking than government accounts.

As well, it might mean that Biden tried to skirt the requirement that all official documents are preserved in accordance with the law. “If these reports are accurate,” Johnson and Grassley wrote, “it is unclear whether then Vice President Biden forwarded these and related emails to a government account to ensure that they satisfied federal record-keeping and archival requirements.” The senators worry that Biden is still emailing off-the-books “to provide government information to his family members, including Hunter Biden.”

No Answer, No Problem

Likelihood is, Biden’s torpedoes will ignore Grassley and Johnson. So no one will learn why Biden used e-mail cutouts, or what else he might have sent that was not on Hunter’s laptop. If that’s the case, he would be the second Obama administration alumnus to skate away from violating strict government rules on using private e-mail accounts to send government documents. Aside from not preserving those documents, Biden might have spilled government secrets.That’s what Clinton did when she used a private e-mail server to send and receive government secrets.

Though Clinton clearly broke the law, FBI Director James Comey did not charge her. She did not, he said, intend to break the law. Just before the 2020 presidential election, which Biden won partly because he and the leftist media lied about his son’s laptop, which they called “Russian Disinformation,” John Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence, said the Obama administration knew that Clinton and her campaign legmen concocted the Russia Collusion Hoax.

The reason: To keep the eyes of the media diverted from her e-mail scandal and help her into the White House.

https://thenewamerican.com/grassley-...-govt-e-mails/

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Biden says he'd be 'fortunate' to run against Trump again

Joe Biden went to Europe to make speeches during Europe's most serious crisis since World War II, but was mostly focused on his own re-election. That meant some pre-emptive shots at President Trump, who "lost" the election to him, based on various manipulations and cheatings, while Biden's polling approval has gone downhill ever since. But Joe was upbeat:

According to CNBC:

President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would consider himself “very fortunate” if former President Donald Trump runs against him for a second time in the 2024 election for the White House.Biden’s swaggering remark comes as the Democrat faces low public approval ratings — and as Trump has signaled he likely will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.“In the next election I’d be very fortunate if I had that same man running against me,” Biden said at a news conference from NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, where he and other leaders of the alliance’s countries discussed responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Naturally, he repeated some lies about Trump, the one about Trump supposedly praising Nazis in North Carolina after an incident, which never happened. He likely did his credibility in Europe some damage, given that he equated that incident to Vladimir Putin's claims that Ukraine was full of Nazis, The moral equivalence there of holding his own country up as a Nazi hotbed, to the Europeans who know what real Nazis are, was pretty repellent in itself. But he also signalled that Putin's lies about Nazis in Ukraine were basically fine, given that he spouted his own lies about Nazis, so "everyone does it." That pretty well scrapped the U.S. moral authority against Putin's Nazi lies. Biden enjoys a good lie himself. He also inadvertantly called attention to his incompetence by citing his own long foreign policy experience for the Europeans:

BIDEN: "I've been dealing with foreign policy for longer than anybody that's involved in this process right now."

Memo to Joe: That experience comes with a record. Former CIA Director Bob Gates summed it up nicely:

Biden has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."

His advice to Europeans on how to deal with Putin pretty well proved it -- it had to have had eyes rolling in Brussels:

Biden just spoke in Brussels after the NATO meeting. Biden's again proves he's an idiot! His response to Putin's war is more green energy! What crap!

Memo to Joe: Europe's been "going green" for years, with credible reports suggesting that Putin's been paying green activists to ensure just that -- it's what got them in hock to Putin. Got a campaign ad, GOP? But this didn't stop Biden from being upbeat, not just about beating President Trump, but on Democrats holding their majorities in Congress in 2022:

When it comes to elections, Biden says his focus is on retaining Democrat majorities in the House and Senate so he has "room to continue" his policies on the economy as well as "deal in a rational way with American foreign policy and lead the world."

That stands in stark contrast to polls out there -- which show Joe Biden at record lows, and worst still for him, amid significant gains for Republicans among black, Latino and young voters. What's more, Republicans beat Democrats on the generic ballot, suggesting that the Mother of all Shellackings is coming up for Joe's entire party shortly. It was weird stuff, given the campaign offerings Joe had onhand for the voters in his speeches:

Out: Winter of Sickness and Death

In: Springtime of Hunger and Famine

The guy is running for re-election by promising famine and food shortages? People made a lot of fun of Jimmy Carter for his "malaise" speech as he sought re-election and lost to Ronald Reagan. This famine promise from Joe, though, takes the cake -- and the whole grocery bag. It was so bad it meant another cleanup on Aisle 46 for White House Spokesweasel Jen Psaki:

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at a press conference earlier this week that the U.S. is itself not expecting a food shortage for Americans. “While we’re not expecting a food shortage here at home, we do anticipate that higher energy, fertilizer, wheat, and corn prices could impact the price of growing and purchasing critical . . . food supplies for countries around the world,” Psaki told reporters.

Good luck with that one, Corn Pop. He had other stuff on offer, too, not just from words but from his actions. The border surge, which has seen the record invasion of 2 million illegal migrants all claiming "asylum" for one, is about to get worse, way worse.

Biden Administration Finalizes Plan to Rubber-Stamp Asylum Grants; Hiding the border disaster by turning ‘illegal aliens’ into ‘asylum seekers’ with the stroke of a pen https://cis.org/Arthur/Biden-Adminis...paign=addtoany via @CIS_org

Anybody not think that won't send a message to would-be illegal migrants that the cost of breaking into the U.S. illegally and taking a job from an American is about to go way, way, down?

Not good. The Biden Administration may lift restrictions that aided expulsions of illegal immigrants. Do that, and the border crisis gets even worse.

Biden faces influx of migrants at the border amid calls to lift limits that aided expulsions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...flux-pandemic/

Gas prices, crime surges, wokester ideology, and bad judges are among his other offerings for the voters. But even from the far-left perspective, Biden is falling flat. Here's Biden's fellow Democrat, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who had a warning about those coming elections with Joe the millstone around the party's neck:

'Collapse of support': AOC says Biden is in real danger among Dem voters https://trib.al/UyXujWU

Now Joe Biden's saying he'd feel "fortunate" to see a challenge from President Trump, the man who brought us energy independence and $2 gas.

What planet does he live on? And how can we keep him there, happy and contented for himself, while promising apocalyptic misery for the voters?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...ump_again.html

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Leaked Email Emplicates Biden Family

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The leader of the free world in all his glory... while we citizens bellow in anger... disgust and shame...

Was Joe Biden ever competent?

Joe Biden was never smart.

When I interned in Congress for two summers many years ago, other congressional members openly referred to him as one of the dumbest men on Capitol Hill. Staffers and interns, including ones who worked for Democrats, made fun of him.

Old age and dementia have done this dull man no favors. That was apparent over the weekend when Biden, stupidly even for him, went off script and called for regime change in Russia. It also was apparent a few months ago when Biden may have precipitated the war by, according to President Zelensky's account of their phone call, encouraging Ukraine to apply for membership in NATO. Biden then later suggested that the response from Western allies to any offensive moves by Russian troops massing at Ukraine's border might be more muted if Russia were to carry out a "minor incursion" into Ukrainian territory.

Elsewhere, Biden has shown the same kind of incompetence on forging another nuclear deal with Iran.

It is really quite pathetic to see the same pro-Israel individuals and organizations who supported Biden over Trump raising the alarm on the administration's weak Iran nuclear negotiations. This was all so predictable for those of us who could see past Trump’s "mean tweets" and were instead focused on supporting his administration's policies, which brought unprecedented peace and prosperity.

Instead of mean tweets, we have an incompetent administration that has brought the very opposite of peace, along with high inflation through its reckless spending policies. With all of the giveaways to Iran, the administration might as well include the development of Iran's nuclear capability in its "infrastructure" project and funding.

I wonder whether, when in a few years Iran is aiming its nuclear weapons directly at Israel and the Gulf States (and perhaps Berlin and Paris, too) those moderates and independents who tipped the election to Biden will continue to congratulate themselves on being "on the right side of history" by voting against Trump.

Once the Republicans take back Congress in the midterms, I would be in favor of impeaching Biden on the grounds that he is dumb and incompetent except for the inconvenient fact that his vice president is even more so. That's one of the reasons he picked her. Sadly.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...competent.html

Biden denies saying every bad, stupid, scary thing he said last week

As every media outlet in the world reported last week, Joe Biden said three remarkable things: That America’s military would be heading into Ukraine, that it was possible America would use chemical weapons, and that Putin needed to be removed from power, which presumably either a call for Putin’s assassination or for regime change (which Putin probably wouldn’t survive). In each case, the White House went into emergency damage control. Now, though, Biden denies saying any one of those things. Is this a broken brain or his usual narcissistic dishonesty?

One of the coolest things about malignant narcissism, if you happen to be the narcissist, is that you never tell a lie. It’s possible other people might perceive you as lying or even accuse you of lying, but the fact is that you never lie—and you have the passed lie detector tests to prove it. You see, the deal about being a malignant narcissist is that there is only one truth: Yours. Whatever you need to say at any given moment, either to achieve an advantage or to protect yourself, instantly becomes the one, the only, the absolute truth.

That’s the world in which Biden, a compulsive liar, has always existed. However, when he was one Senator among many—especially among many who shared the same trait—his chronic lying was less obvious. For most people, it first burst into view during his 1987 run for the presidency, when he told a series of lies about his educational abilities and plagiarized a speech from a British politician. After that, “Joe Biden lies” was a known fact but most people ignored it. All politicians lie, they would say. As president, though, especially one who presents as slowly losing his marbles, it’s harder for Biden’s flaks in and out of the media to hide the fact that Joe always and only tells his own truth, with no concern for whether it aligns with objective facts.That’s how you end up with this amazing dialogue between Joe Biden and Fox’s Peter Doocy:

DOOCY: Are you worried that other leaders in the world are going to start to doubt that America is back if some of these big things that you say on the world stage keep getting walked back?

BIDEN: What’s getting walked back?

DOOCY: It may sound like, just in the last couple days—it sounded like you told U.S. troops they were going Ukraine. It sounded like you said it was possible the U.S. would use a chemical weapon. And it sounded like you were calling for regime change in Russia and we know—

BIDEN: None of the three occurred.

DOOCY: None of the three occurred?

BIDEN: None of the three. You interpret the language that way.

Biden then contends that his talk about troops going into Ukraine was really about troops staying in Poland to train Ukraine fighters. Of course, that doesn’t explain his saying that they’d see brave women stand up to Russian tanks. If there are Russian tanks in Poland, we’ve got a whole new set of problems. So, that’s a lie. On the subject of chemical weapons, other than saying that, should Russia use such weapons, there’d be a significant response, Biden said that he wasn’t going to tell Peter Doocy anything. Last week, though, he said America would “deliver a response in kind.” Maybe he meant a kind response....



Biden sounded convincing as he told those lies, something that was probably helped along by the cheat sheets clutched in his hand:



Malignant narcissist or demented? I’m inclined to believe that it’s mostly the former with a touch of the latter. But who cares what I think? What matters is how the world’s nuclear-armed evil actors are sizing up the man in the White House. If they were religiously inclined, they might say of him, “You have been weighed and found wanting.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...last_week.html

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Biden, the Ersatz President

The United States does not have a real president right now. There is an individual named Joe Biden who shows up occasionally and sits in the Oval Office, but in no way can he be considered to be “President” in the traditional understanding of that term. Biden is an ersatz president.

An American president is essentially the CEO of the federal government. He or she sets the overall strategy and direction of the country, outlines and articulates its major objectives and manages the subordinate elements that create the actual policy in order to achieve the big-picture goals laid out by the president. Like any CEO, that person likely doesn’t personally have the specific technical knowledge and expertise on a micro level in a given subject area that his/her subordinates have (nor should a CEO or president get bogged down in that kind of attention-diverting minutia), but the CEO must have an overriding vision of their company’s intended direction and be able to see how the various component parts work together in the proper proportion and timing needed to achieve the stated goals. That holds true as well for the President of the United States.

Donald J. Trump was the prototypically ideal president in terms of setting clear achievement objectives for the country (securing the southern border, becoming energy independent, rebuilding our military, renegotiating advantageous international trade agreements, stopping China from taking unfair advantage of America in trade matters, getting NATO to pay more of its share of its defense needs, etc.) and putting in place the laser-focused personnel required to execute the plan. This was classic large-scale business-style vision and management at its best.

Putting aside the unfounded, irrational personal animosity that his political opponents felt for him for having defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 and for being direct, rough-edged and unapologetic in his dealings with the liberal media, recalcitrant foreign adversaries and feckless erstwhile “allies,” President Trump’s clear-eyed ambitions for the country led to a very targeted effort with unrelenting emphasis on the ultimate goal.

Many presidents, coming from a life-long appearance-oriented, “You-scratch-my-back-and-I’ll-scratch-yours” political background, are only too happy to compromise their objectives for the sake of popular acceptance and media adulation. For them, the final results as they redound to the country’s benefit are not their true goal. For the conventional politically minded president, an agreeable process is actually the end goal: activity that looks and sounds good, even if it’s bereft of real, meaningful substance.

Results vs. Process. Trump was a Results president. Biden is a Process president. Biden and the Democrats embark on a flurry of meaningless activity that plays well to the media and to their supporters, but which amounts to nothing of positive significance. To the extent that Biden’s empty activity subtracts from or negates President Trump’s actual beneficial results, what Biden and the Democrats are doing is incredibly harmful to this country and detrimental to a smooth-running world order.

Unlike President Trump’s clearly-stated, very specific intentions of how to improve the quality of daily life in America, Biden and the Democrats seem intent only on currying favor with special-interest groups and their accomplices, the adoring liberal media. Consider the major initiatives undertaken or proposed by the current Democrat regime:

• The dissolution of our border integrity, with intentional unrestricted illegal immigration.
• Ending American energy independence, curtailing fossil fuel exploration and production -- astonishingly, before a viable replacement exists! -- and imposing crippling restrictions on future fossil fuel energy industry activity.
• Supporting destructive BLM activities and riots, favoring defunding the police, eliminating cash bail and decriminalizing what liberals laughably refer to as “low-level” crimes like shoplifting, robbery and breaking & entering.
• Endorsing positions clearly opposed by the majority of the country, such as men competing in women’s sports, the U.S. military paying for gender-change surgery, males being able to declare that they “identify as women” and enter female bathrooms and locker rooms, elementary-age children being taught and exposed to “alternative” LGBTQ lifestyles far before children have any natural understanding or interest in such matters, and so on. This is the fringe woke speaking to the fringe woke. It’s not a government putting forth policies approved by the majority that benefit the majority.
• Denuding our military of its equipment, mission and spirit by attempting to transform it into a mechanism for social change instead of a sharply honed, singularly aimed instrument of national security. It’s bad enough that the Biden Democrats are reducing the funding and equipping of our military. It’s even worse when Biden’s Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says his biggest concern is understanding “white rage.” The only thing Mark Miley should be concerned with is defeating our enemies on the battlefield. Nothing else.

This is the difference between a president concerned with bottom-line beneficial results and one who’s concerned with laughably shallow meaningless activity that amounts to nothing, other than buying the favor and future votes of niche special interest groups.

President Trump’s results-oriented approach gave us:

• Energy independence with $2.25 per gallon gasoline vs. begging Iran for oil and $4.37 gasoline.
• Secure, orderly, humane borders vs. human trafficking, drug infestation and illegals overwhelming our schools and healthcare system.
• Treating 8-year-olds like 8-year-olds with worthwhile educational methods that emphasized a solid understanding of scholastic fundamentals along with a proportional appreciation for tolerance and compassionate societal norms.
• A battle-ready military standing proud and poised to defeat any threat to American national interests.

The Biden Democrats have saddled us with the opposite. As a direct result of having an ersatz president without any semblance of worthwhile goals or inspired vision, daily life in America is now close to an unmitigated disaster. Absent America’s clear leadership on the world stage, uncertainty and potential catastrophe loom everywhere, around every corner because foreign adversaries are emboldened by our weakness. We are living through the debacle of not having a real president, someone with a clear plan to better the country.

Results are all that matter. Are you safe? Are you prosperous? Are you healthy? Are your children being educated? A real president understands all that and works to bring it about. A real president is immune to the distractions of appearances and media approval.

We don’t have a real president now.

https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...president.html