Longtime Democratic lawmaker turned activist defects to Republican Party
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Posted:Jul 21, 2023 8:53 am
Last Updated:Jul 21, 2023 8:54 am 1857 Views
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liberal dems circling the wagons
A prominent Democrat and Jewish leader who served for decades as a New York lawmaker and now leads a group committed to fighting antisemitism announced Thursday he's leaving his lifelong political party and becoming a Republican, arguing Democrats have become "radicalized" and "turned their back" on the Jewish people.
"It's official: My wife and I have switched our party affiliation from Democrat to Republican!" Dov Hikind, who spent 36 years in the New York State Assembly and later founded Americans Against Antisemitism, tweeted.
"[People] have long been asking, 'Dov, when are you gonna leave the Democratic Party?' Well, the time has come [because] the Dems have turned their back on Jews & Israel, so it's officially done!"
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IF I WERE THE DEVIL
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Posted:Jul 20, 2023 6:28 pm
Last Updated:Jul 24, 2023 3:02 pm 3656 Views
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THIS WAS WRITTEN BY PAUL HARVEY ON THE RADIO IN 1965.
NEARLY 60 YEARS AGE. MR HARVEY WAS A PROPHET. HE PREDICTED THE WORLD AS IT IS TODAY.
EACH THING HE WROTE THEN. IS HAPPENING NOW.
THE DEVIL IA TRYING TO CONTROL. THE ATHEIST ARE HELPING HIM
If I were the devil, if I were the prince of darkness I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness and I’d have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population but I wouldn't be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, thee, so I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States, I’d subvert the churches first, I’d begin with a campaign of whispers with the wisdom of a serpent I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve, “do as you please.” To the young I would whisper that the Bible is a myth, I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what's bad is good and what's good is square, and the old I would teach to pray after me, “Our father which art in Washington.” And then I’d get organized, I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I’d threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice versa. I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could, I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction, I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.
If I were the devil, I’d soon have families at war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves, until each in its turn was consumed and with promises of higher ratings, I’d have mesmerizing media fanning the flames.
If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine young intellects but neglect to discipline emotions just let those run wild, until before you knew it, you'd have to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door. Within a decade I’d have prisons overflowing, I’d have judges promoting pornography, soon I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from the houses of Congress. And in His own churches, I would substitute psychology for religion and deify science. I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls and church money. If I were the devil, I’d make the symbol of Easter and egg and the symbol of Christmas a bottle.
If I were the devil, I’d take from those who have and give to those who wanted until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And what’ll you bet, I couldn't get whole states to promote gambling as the way to get rich. I would caution against extremes in hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct. I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on TV is the way to be, and thus I could undress you in public and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words if I were the devil I'd just keep right on doing what he's doing.
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FBI Knew About ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden’s Ukraine Business Before Laptop from Hell Reporting
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Posted:Jul 20, 2023 12:57 pm
Last Updated:Jul 20, 2023 12:58 pm 1882 Views
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The form alleges that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden each received $5 million from Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings, after Joe Biden threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine until President Petro Poroshenko fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma.
""""Suspicious activity reports obtained by Comer show Hunter Biden’s business partner, Rob Walker, received a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC in 2017. In turn, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden” — received a collective $1.3 million cut from the $3 million wire transfer""""".
The FBI knew about President Joe Biden’s Ukraine business dealings before the “Laptop from Hell” reporting, an FBI informant document released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shows.
The FD-1023 form is dated June 20, 2020, and the source reporting was from June 26, 2020.
It also confirms Breitbart News’s reporting that the FBI’s informant document said that Hunter and Joe Biden allegedly “coerced” the Burisma executive into paying them $10 million in bribes, along with Grassley’s claim that the FBI informant said Zlochevsky kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations with Hunter and Joe Biden as an “insurance policy.”
The dates on the form predate the New York Post’s initial reporting about the “big guy” from “Laptop from Hell” in mid-October 2020.
The initial Post’s story on October 14 read in part:
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post.
The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.
A second story published October 15 reported on the “big guy,” an alias whistleblowers say Biden business associates used to mean Joe Biden. The “big guy” reference was used in relation to a business deal with CEFC China Energy Co. in which Joe Biden would receive “10 held by H for the big guy.”
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A HAPPY MEDIUM ON BLOG POSTING
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Posted:Jul 19, 2023 1:22 pm
Last Updated:Jul 20, 2023 6:34 pm 3661 Views
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FROM TIME TO TIME. COMMENTS ARE MADE ABOUT ME OR ANY ONE MAKING TOO MANY BLOGS.
THEN, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN COMMNETS ARE MADE "WHERE IS EVERY ONE"".
THE SET UP HERE AND MOST OTHER BLOGS ALLOWS EVERYONE/ ANY ONE TO POST A BLONG/ MANY BLOGS / OR NO BLOGS.
NUMBER OF,. OR LACK OF. HAS NO AFFECT ON ANY ONE'S ABILITY TO POST BLOGS.
NOW!!! THE CRUX OF THE MATER I WOULD SPECULATE IS????? THE SUBJECTS POSTED/ THEPERSON POSTING OR BOTH.
I HAVE AT TIMES. STOPPED POSTING FOR AS MUCH AS 2 WEEKS.
DURING THAT TIME. SOME OF OUR TRUMPH*TERS MAKE SNIDE COMMENTS THAT I HAD LEFT OR GOT KICKED OFF.
THAT IS THEIR RIGHT AND CHOICE. YET THESE SAME ONES OFFER NOTHING IN WAY OF BLOGS OF ANY THING OTHER THAN, *ate for trump. conservatives, republicans, right wingers .
i get many or most of my blogs are copy an paste of news articles. i post to point out the failures of the biden admistration and corruption as well as the all out W*R THE LEFT HAS ON ANY ONE NOT A LEF/ LIBERAL.
SO NOW!!!
I ASK. WHAT IS CORRECT NUMBER OF BLOGS PER DAY. WEEK, MONTH ETC
IF MY BLOGS BOTHER U, OFFEND U, YOU DONT LIKE THEM OR ME.
THEN DONT READ THEM."IGNORE""
PLEASE SOME ONE SHARE A MAJORITY THOUGHT ON WHAT IS CORRECT.
I AM AWARE THE SAME ONES WILL POST COMMENTS AND AROUND WE GO
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J6 security failures mount as footage shows Capitol Police losing control of gear used against them
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Posted:Jul 19, 2023 4:33 am
Last Updated:Jul 19, 2023 4:34 am 1831 Views
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Intelligence forewarning of violence kept from decision makers. A plea for National Guard rejected. Security locks on a door deactivated, allowing rioters to flood into the Capitol. And now officers losing control of gear that then gets used against them.
The evidence of serious security failures inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 tragedy keeps mounting as House Republicans use their new found control to expose information that was suppressed by their Democrat counterparts' original investigation.
The latest bombshell surfaced Tuesday night when security obtained by Just the News revealed Capitol Police lost control of a yellow bag of law enforcement-like equipment, including plastic handcuffs that are immediately used by rioters to put officers in danger.
The dramatic footage from the Memorial Door area on the east side of the Capitol covers about a 20-minute period of time as the building is first being breached by rioters, and was identified during a Just the News review of hours of security footage made available to the news organization by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and House Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.).
The closed-circuit video -- which has no sound -- clearly shows Capitol Police officers leaving the bag of gear unattended at various times and even allowing a flag-waving rioter to eventually walk off with the entire bag and a separate hardshell case of other equipment. You can watch the footage in the player above.
At one consequential moment in the footage, the officers carry the bag toward an entry door and drop it on the ground, forcing two plastic zip-tie handcuffs to fall to the ground. The officers walk into the building with the bag without retrieving the handcuffs.
Soon after, a protester picks up the zip-tie plastic cuffs and uses them to lock the door from the outside, trapping officers inside a foyer where rioters begin to spray them with fire extinguishers. The officer struggled to break through the handcuff-locked door, eventually getting out as they gasp for fresh air after being exposed to the gases from the extinguishers.
Later, the officers leave the bag and hardshell case unattended in the same foyer as rioters breach the premises, allowing the flag-waving protester to grab both bags and walk off with them into the rowdy crowd. A short while later, other protesters return the bag and case to the same door, but rifle through them and remove some equipment, including what appears to be a police riot helmet.
Loudermilk told Just the News on Tuesday he found the footage troubling and "very strange" and plans on investigating it among many new security breaches his investigation of the Jan. 6 tragedy has unearthed in recent weeks.
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Why is china Joe Biden so unpopular
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Posted:Jul 19, 2023 3:52 am
Last Updated:Jul 19, 2023 6:28 pm 2514 Views
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Joe Biden with an illustration of a chart showing a downward-facing arrow.
Photo illustration: Jack Forbes/Yahoo News; photos: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images, Getty Images (3)
What’s happening
At this point in his term — about 910 days in — Joe Biden is the second-most-unpopular president in modern U.S. history. As of July 18, Biden’s average job-approval rating, according to the poll aggregators at FiveThirtyEight, is a paltry 39.1%; his average disapproval rating is 55.4%. That means his “net approval rating” is -16.3%, which is well “underwater,” as pollsters like to say.
Negative 16.3% is also really bad historically speaking. In fact, the only president with weaker numbers than Biden was Jimmy Carter, who hit -28.6% on day 910. At the time, just 29% of Americans approved of Carter’s performance on average, while 57.6% disapproved.
Why there’s debate
The U.S. was in much, much worse shape in 1979 — the year before Carter lost reelection to Ronald Reagan — than it is in 2023. Inflation had skyrocketed by 13.3% year-over-year; unemployment was stubbornly stuck around 6%; and the price of oil was in the process of doubling. Global shortages were so bad that Americans took to waiting in long lines — and occasionally punching each other — at their local gas stations.
In contrast, a gallon of gas today costs roughly 30% less than it did 12 months ago. At 3.6%, unemployment is on par with 50-year lows — and down by almost half since Biden took office. The U.S. economy added 4 million jobs over the past year. Inflation has cooled to 3% after peaking last summer at triple that rate. And America’s so-called misery index — a combination of unemployment and inflation — is lower now than it has been during 83% of all months since 1978. Recession fears are subsiding.
Meanwhile, as the Washington Monthly’s Bill Scher notes, illegal border crossings “have dropped by 70 percent in the last few weeks, according to the Department of Homeland Security, after Biden implemented a new border-management policy.” And “murder is down about 12 percent year-to-date in more than 90 cities that have released data for 2023, compared with data as of the same date in 2022,” according to crime data analyst Jeff Asher, writing in the Atlantic — a trend that could lead to “one of the largest annual percent changes in murder ever recorded.”
On top of that, Biden has delivered on several policy promises that poll pretty well with the public.
In the past, a president’s standing has tended to improve along with conditions in the country. Yet Biden’s numbers haven’t budged; since September 2022, his approval rating has remained mired around 40% while his disapproval rating has never broken out of the low to mid-50s.
The question is why. Is it something systemic — the way Americans are increasingly stuck in their own partisan media bubbles and unwilling to give presidents of the opposing party any credit? Is it the economy — the way certain indicators (such as real wages and the cost of services) have yet to fully recover even as the overall picture brightens?
Or is it Biden himself — his advanced age, his frequent gaffes, his ongoing family drama? And can the president turn things around in time for the 2024 election?
What’s next
Election season. Biden’s 2024 campaign spent a total of $1.1 million in the second quarter of this year, a “remarkably small amount that would put him behind several Democratic Senate candidates in terms of expenditures,” according to Politico. In comparison, Biden’s old boss Barack Obama spent about 11 times as much during the second quarter of 2011.
Biden, in other words, hasn’t really started selling himself to voters yet. Assuming the economy keeps improving, a national campaign — and the contrast it could create with the even-less-popular Trump, Biden’s likeliest GOP rival — might help the president become more popular over the next 16 months. In July 2011, Obama was underwater too; by Election Day 2012, his net approval rating had climbed to +5% or so.
Perspectives
Biden is unpopular because inflation pain is uniquely hard to shake
“One possibility is that, after enjoying largely stable prices for decades, Americans simply have little tolerance for inflation. Sure, their wages may have grown faster than prices since February 2020. But voters might be inclined to attribute their income gains to their own efforts, while blaming rising prices on the government’s mismanagement. They still have not adjusted psychologically to the jump in their grocery bills, and are irked each time they see the receipt and remember what things used to cost when Donald Trump was still president.” — Eric Levitz, New York magazine
Meanwhile, prices remain stubbornly high ‘where it counts’
“Although inflation has eased some, it hasn’t where it counts. Per the Wall Street Journal, prices ‘are stubbornly rising for what retail and food executives refer to as the center store,’ a euphemism for non-perishable staples from cereals to paper towels. In percentage terms, the cost of these goods is up by double digits across a variety of categories from just months or even weeks ago. And to judge by this report, many of the customers surveyed by Journal reporters went out of their way to note the tradeoffs they have had to make to stretch their dollars as far as possible. That’s an inconvenience that almost everyone feels and is liable to resent.” — Noah Rothman, National Review
Even if various indicators keep improving, it will take time for Americans to feel it
“Most Americans do not follow monthly inflation, crime, or border-crossing statistics. They experience inflation through more expensive bills, less abundant grocery purchases, and delayed big-ticket investments; crime through if-it-bleeds-it-leads local news broadcasts and major events like mass shootings; immigration through vivid images of people in migrant camps or the frequency with which they hear foreign languages spoken in their own communities. The positive statistics … need to be reflected over time in real-life experiences — and they need to persist until the moment voters decide how to vote.” — Ed Kilgore, New York magazine
Partisanship might have permanently changed how we grade presidents
“A survey question along the lines of, ‘Do you think economic conditions are good or bad?’ is answered more along the lines of, ‘Do you like the current president or not?’ In October 2020, just before President Trump lost re-election, Republicans' economic sentiment was 26 points higher than Democrats' in the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey. In February 2021, after Biden took office, Republicans rated the economy 28 points worse. A similar pattern occurred between the parties around the 2016 and 2008 elections, when partisan control shifted hands. We seem to be experiencing something similar right now.” — Neil Irwin, Axios
Americans are really ‘unhappy’ to boot
“Since 1990, the number of Americans reporting they feel ‘not too happy’ has been trending upward, particularly among those without a college education. The onset of the pandemic only exacerbated the growing national unhappiness. … Whatever the causes, it turns out that unhappiness is a very strong predictor of voting behavior. Being extremely unhappy more than doubled a person’s likelihood of voting for Trump in 2016, and the unhappiest counties were the Trumpiest.” — Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams and Harry Hanbury, Democracy Journal
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A federal court just handed Biden's Ministry of Truth a big defeat
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Posted:Jul 19, 2023 3:40 am
Last Updated:Jul 19, 2023 3:40 am 1775 Views
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china joe keeps losing
In a landmark decision that should have all Americans cheering, a Louisiana federal court recently upheld their First Amendment right to speak without being censored by the government. Judge Terry Doughty said the case, Missouri v. Biden, "arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history."
Judge Doughty issued a preliminary injunction forbidding numerous federal agencies, including the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as many individuals within the executive branch like White House Press
Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, from communicating or meeting with: "[S]ocial-media companies for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech posted on social-media platforms."
The injunction bans the feds from working with outside groups such as the Stanford Internet Observatory that induce social-media companies to suppress and delete "protected free speech." And it even prevents the government from "notifying social-media companies to Be on The Lookout (‘BOLO’) for postings containing protected free speech."
Missouri and Louisiana, alongside five individual plaintiffs, including Jim Hoft who runs The Gateway Pundit and two infectious disease epidemiologists, challenged the alleged collusion of the Biden administration with social-media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. They claimed the administration was suppressing dissenting voices and controlling the narrative on numerous issues including elections; the effectiveness of masks and the COVID vaccine as well as the COVID lab-leak theory; the Hunter Biden laptop story; parodies that targeted the defendants; and negative posts about the economy and President Joe Biden.
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'Mumbler in chief:' Biden's lackluster delivery in front of world leader draws scorn on social media
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Posted:Jul 19, 2023 3:32 am
Last Updated:Jul 19, 2023 3:32 am 1741 Views
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Mumbler in chief," Citizen Free Press reported.
A clip of President Biden mumbling through his comments during Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to the White House renewed many Twitter users’ concerns over his mental fitness.
While addressing the visiting leader, Biden gave a few words on the United States’ relationship with Israel. However, as he touted progress between the two countries, he began looking down and mumbled his words.
"We got a lot more to do, but there's progress. Last year, we can be the largest gathering of Arab Israelis in a decade together form, and we resolved the maritime boundary dispute between Israel and Lebanon, which people thought could never happen. We opened up the airspace for Israel over Saudi Arabia and Oman after I had a little visit there," Biden said.
And we brought Israelis and Palestinians together at a political level," he added before mumbling something unintelligibly, then continued, "And as I affirmed with Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday, America's commitment to Israel is firm and it is ironclad. And we're committed as well to assure that that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon."
Multiple Twitter users called out his somewhat inaudible comments as a sign of Biden’s weakness.
"Mumbler in chief," Citizen Free Press reported.
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