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Pete Buttigieg Turns on Joe Biden: Iraq War ‘Worst Foreign Policy Decision’ in My Lifetime
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg turned on Joe Biden in an interview in Iowa on Sunday when asked about the former vice president’s support of the Iraq war.
“This is an example of why years in Washington is not always the same thing as judgment,” Buttigieg said. “He supported the worst foreign policy decision made by the United States in my lifetime, which was the decision to invade Iraq.”
Buttigieg commented on the war during an interview with Iowa Press on Iowa Public Television, according to a transcript obtained by the Associated Press.
The South Bend mayor has been hesitant to attack Biden directly in the campaign, as the former vice president remains at the top of the 2020 Democrat presidential field.
In October, Buttigieg criticized Republicans for attacking Biden’s actions in Ukraine and his son Hunter’s lucrative board position at a Ukrainian energy company.
At the time, Biden was grateful.
I’m a friend of Pete Buttigieg,” Biden said. “By the way, he’s a really decent guy. I turned on the television this morning and he was defending my family against these outrageous, lying ads of the president of the United States of America. That’s a good man.”
But Buttigieg appears willing to remind voters of Biden’s past support of the war in Iraq, a key distinction for modern Democrats.
In the 2008 Democrat presidential primary, former President Barack Obama successfully weaponized then-Sen. Hillary Clinton’s support for the war in Iraq as a cause to doubt the more experienced senator.
FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT HER POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALLS OF CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT PUT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN HER POCKETS.
Everything we know about Hunter Biden's business connections in China
Is Dianne Feinstein out to kill off Kamala Harris's presidential bid?
BLOG: BIDEN AND FEINSTEIN GO WAY BACK WITH THEIR RED CHINA FOR RAW CASH DEALS SIPHONED THROUGH HER HUSBAND AND HIS SON.
BLOG: THE OLD WHORE FEINSTEIN MADE A VAST FORTUNE SERVING CRIMINAL OPERATIONS LIKE PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS FARGO AND BANK OF AMERICA AND THE FREAKING PARASITE TRIAL LAWYERS!
“He’s a totally corrupt swamp thing, and here’s the worst part of his manifest corruption – he doesn’t seem to realize that he’s corrupt, if not personally than in terms of allowing his bum kid to leverage his position. He thinks it’s A-OK for his boy Hoover to cash in all over the globe. After all, that’s what you do, right? That’s part of the benefits package for being in the liberal elite. And all these people fussing and fighting about the paternity test-failing dirtbag getting rich are totally out of line. How dare they? HOW DARE THEY!”
Buttigieg: No Jail Time for Meth, Cocaine, Ecstasy Possession
By Michael W. Chapman | December 26, 2019 | 2:51pm EST
In an interview with the Des Moines Register on Dec. 23, Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg, the may of South Bend, Ind., said that he does not support placing people in jail if they are caught in possession of any illegal drug, including cocaine, ecstasy, or even methamphetamine.
After Buttigieg explained his views on drug possession and prison, an editor asked him, "Is that across the board? So, if it's meth or coke or ecstasy, any drug if it's possession incarceration isn't --."
"That's right," said Buttigieg, who earned degrees from Harvard University and Oxford University.
In his earlier remarks on the issue, as transcribed by Breitbart News, Buttigieg said, “Incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession. What I have seen is that while there continues to be all kinds of harms associated with drug possession and use, it's also the case that we have created -- in an effort to deal with a public health problem -- we have created an even bigger problem, a justice problem, and it’s own form of a health problem, if you think about the adverse aspects on a child."
"We have kids in South Bend who have grown up with the incarceration of a parent as one of their first experiences," said the candidate. "That makes them dramatically more likely to wind up themselves having an encounter with the criminal legal system."
"So I’ve always been skeptical of mass incarceration," he said. "But now I believe, more than ever, we need to take really significant steps like ending incarceration as a response to simple possession.”
Pete Buttigieg, 37, is openly gay and is "married" to Chasten Glezman, 30, a high school teacher. The two men met on the dating app Hinge.
Pete's father was Joseph Buttigieg (1947-2019), a tenured English professor at the University of Notre Dame (1980-2017). Although teaching at a Catholic university, Joseph Buttigieg spent much of his career translating and editing a three-volume edition of the Prison Notebooks, written by the Communist revolutionary Antonio Gramsci. Prof. Buttigieg also was a founder and president of the International Gramsci Society.
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Communist committed to the overthrow of capitalism and Western, Christian civilization. Gramsci is largely known for promoting communism through culture, the academy, the media and the arts, a long-term and less violent means to attain revolutionary ends. Gramsci was a founding member of the Italian Communist Party. He was arrested by the Fascists in 1926 and died in prison 11 years later.
Prof. Buttigieg's only real book on literature was the 1987 A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective, an ineffectual and largely forgotten analysis of James Joyce and the New Criticism.
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.
This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” --- Karen McQuillan
SHE HAS AVOIDED PROSECUTION BY VOTING AGAINST ANY ETHICS BILLS AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM'S HANDING OUT "CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION" BRIBES TO EVERY DEMOCRAT OUT THERE!
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IN THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts.
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“All in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
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“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
Everything we know about Hunter Biden's business connections in China
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· President Donald Trump this week suggested that Hunter Biden had used his position as then-Vice President Joe Biden's son to secure a $1.5 billion deal with the Chinese state bank for a Chinese private equity company where he is a board member.
· There is no evidence to this claim.
· The $1.5 billion appears to refer to a sum that BHR, the private equity firm, was trying to raise in 2014 to invest outside China, according to The Wall Street Journal.
· But Biden's lawyer said Biden has never profited from his work at BHR.
· Here's what we know about Hunter Biden's business dealings in China.
The global business dealings of Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, have been thrust into the spotlight after President Donald Trump suggested without evidence that the father and son had engaged in corruption in Ukraine and China.
Trump on Thursday openly called on China to investigate the Bidens, suggesting — without evidence — that China had given $1.5 billion to a Chinese private equity firm where Hunter Biden was a board member to secure favorable deals with the US while Joe Biden was Vice President.
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President Trump: "China should start an investigation into the Bidens because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine. So, I would say that President Zelensky, if it were me, I would recommend that they start an investigation into the Bidens." pic.twitter.com/Xia8vLUVT2
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President Trump: "China should start an investigation into the Bidens because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine. So, I would say that President Zelensky, if it were me, I would recommend that they start an investigation into the Bidens." pic.twitter.com/Xia8vLUVT2
Here's what we know about the background of this allegation.
· Biden has been a board member at BHR Equity Investment Fund Management Company, a Chinese state-backed private equity firm, since late 2013, according to The New York Times and the South China Morning Post.
· In 2017, Biden bought 10% of the company for about $420,000, The Times reported.
· The $1.5 billion Trump cited on Thursday appears to refer to a sum that BHR was trying to raise in 2014 to invest outside China, as The Wall Street Journal reported at the time.
· That sum appeared in "Secret Empires," a book published last year that criticized Biden's business activities, The Journal reported.
· Peter Schweizer, the author, said BHR "would seal a highly unusual $1.5 billion deal with funding from the Chinese government" after Biden flew to Beijing aboard Air Force Two at the time.
· Trump has praised the book in the past, The Journal reported.
· Trump on Thursday suggested that Biden used his position as the vice president's son to secure the money from China's state-owned bank, and made millions in the process, the South China Morning Post reported.
· But Biden's lawyer George Mesires said earlier this week that Biden had never been paid for sitting on BHR's board, and has not received any payouts from his investment, according to The Times and The Washington Post.
· BHR has removed all photos of Hunter Biden from its website, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday. BBHR has not yet responded to Business Insider's request for confirmation and comment on the date of the photo's removal.
Mesires has not yet responded to Business Insider's request for comment on Biden's current role and responsibility at BHR Partners.
BHR has not yet responded to Business Insider's request for comment on Biden's role and responsibility at the firm.
Is Dianne Feinstein out to kill off Kamala Harris's presidential bid?
Kamala Harris has always been known for her lean and hungry, pushy, grabby, ambition, which includes a willingness to sleep her way to the top to get what she wants. Her political start began as a social mountaineer with San Francisco's old-money Pacific Heights set dating from her 20s and then just moved onward and upward.
That's not sitting well with California's lizardy old-money senior Senator, Dianne Feinstein, who knows that establishment well.
BLOG: BIDEN AND FEINSTEIN GO WAY BACK WITH THEIR RED CHINA FOR RAW CASH DEALS SIPHONED THROUGH HER HUSBAND AND HIS SON.
According to reports, Feinstein, the senior senator from the Golden State, will throw a fundraiser next month for Democratic 2020 presidential frontrunner Joe Biden -- and not for Harris, another White House contender whose poll numbers suggest she could probably use some high-profile help.
BLOG: WHAT FEINSTEIN MEANS IS THAT OL' BIDEN IS AS CORRUPT AS SHE IS ANY DAY!
“My candidate would be Joe Biden,” Feinstein told CNBC back then. “I watched him as vice president. I’ve seen him operate. I’ve seen him perform and I think he brings a level of experience and seniority, which I think is really important.”
The early evening reception will be the first that Feinstein hosts for Biden in the 2020 election, CNBC reported. Her husband has already participated in several fundraising events for Biden, who campaigned for Feinstein in 2018, when she was re-elected by a landslide.
Oh, spare us. Feinstein knows as well as anyone that old Joe is addled and gaffe-tastic. This is more likely about putting Kamala back in her place.
Fox News speculated that this fundraiser among the fatcat donors might just have been payback for Harris's nasty first-debate attack all but accusing Biden of being a Bull Conner racist. Remember Harris's phony earnestness in: "That little girl was me"?
Sure, it's possible. But it's also been known for close to a year that Feinstein considers Harris a wretched parvenu who hasn't paid her dues.
Remember this?
“I’m a big fan of Sen. Harris, and I work with her. But she’s brand-new here, so it takes a little bit of time to get to know somebody,” Feinstein said of the junior senator, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Her press secretary told CNN that Feinstein later added that she certainly likes her California colleague, saying, “Oh, I love Kamala.”
Translation in a plummy accent: Do we know her?
Hard to get a better old-money passive-aggressive remark than that one. People are either known or unknown in Feinstein's rich circles and it's pretty obvious to Feinstein that Kamala doesn't cut it.
What's more, Feinstein is a 'get off my lawn, whippersnappers' non-ideological sort of small-c conservative, or, as Fox News put it, she pulls rank. Remember this?
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein pulled rank Friday when a group of kids tried to school her on climate change.
After the group sought her support for the Green New Deal, the 85-year-old senior senator from California let them know she wasn't about to be bossed around by a bunch of youngsters.
BLOG: THE OLD WHORE FEINSTEIN MADE A VAST FORTUNE SERVING CRIMINAL OPERATIONS LIKE PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS FARGO AND BANK OF AMERICA AND THE FREAKING PARASITE TRIAL LAWYERS!
“You come in here, and you say it has to be my way or the highway. I don’t respond to that,” Feinstein continued. “I’ve gotten elected, I just ran. I was elected by almost a million-vote plurality. And I know what I’m doing. So you know, maybe people should listen a little bit.
So just the fundraiser in Harris's home state of California was a shiv in the side to Kamala.
Why is that?
Well, for one thing, the Democratic political set widely believes that to win the presidency, one must win California. Harris is from California, so that stacks things in her favor.
Now Feinstein is marshalling money from California Biden's way? So that they give their money to him and feel 'donor fatigue' when Kamala comes calling?
The matter is compounded by the fact that the California Democratic campaign fatcats weren't impressed with Harris's performance in the third debate, as this CNBC report here indicates. Feinstein knows those people and may very well be egging them toward Biden, or at least piling on.
Here's another thing: Money from fatcats over little-people donations is Kamala's vulnerable spot. The queen of fake Twitter followers is also highly reliant on big dollar donors over the little guys, even as the New York Times tries to claim she's changing that. Well, maybe she is, but if she is, it would be in the infant stage and in any case, they're taking her word for it. More likely, she still relies on the big boys, because that's what she knows.
Which would mean that Feinstein's bid to separate Harris from that cash lifeline is like that of General Grant at Vicksburg, targeting Confederate supply lines. The California dinosaur strategizes.
The Feinstein fundraiser, which will channel and suction big money toward Biden, can't help but come at a cost to Harris. And Feinstein, right in the middle of the Pacific Heights crowd, is lobbing her cannon ball where the funds are richest and Kamala's ties are tightest.
It almost looks like a concerted chess move to checkmate the upstart. And given the evidence of Feinstein's antipathy toward Harris, one can't help but think it's all intentional.
“He’s a totally corrupt swamp thing, and here’s the worst part of his manifest corruption – he doesn’t seem to realize that he’s corrupt, if not personally than in terms of allowing his bum kid to leverage his position. He thinks it’s A-OK for his boy Hoover to cash in all over the globe. After all, that’s what you do, right? That’s part of the benefits package for being in the liberal elite. And all these people fussing and fighting about the paternity test-failing dirtbag getting rich are totally out of line. How dare they? HOW DARE THEY!”
Hunter Biden deadbeats IRS on $112,000 in taxes from his Burisma 'earnings'
Hunter Biden, who pulled in some $80,000 a month in a no-show job as a board member for Ukrainian gas giant Burisma, seems to have a problem paying his taxes on his "earnings" from it.
According to the Daily Caller:
The IRS placed a tax lien on Hunter Biden seeking $112,805 in unpaid taxes from 2015, according to records the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained.The federal agency issued the previously unreported lien in November 2018 and it seeks unpaid taxes for a year in which Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, served on the boards of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings and the Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners.“We have made a demand for payment of this liability, but it remains unpaid,” the IRS stated in the lien notice, which it filed with the Washington, D.C., Recorder of Deeds. “Therefore, there is a lien in favor of the United States on all property and rights to property belonging to this taxpayer for the amount of these taxes.”
You'd think someone making that much cash as a "board member" would have a minimal grip on the tax obligations that come of it. But based on Biden junior's history, it appears to have been another case of "and when the money keeps rolling in, you don't ask how," or, Evita stuff. We all know how well that worked out for Argentina.
The thing is, it signals how significant a life of privilege young Hunter had, given that he felt free to do this, based on an assumption that nothing would ever happen to him. He was a princeling, a child of privilege, and just as he admitted he wouldn't have gotten his Burisma board positions "if my name wasn't Biden," he also thought it pretty well gave him a get-out-of-jail free card on taxes.
Perfect family to have in the White House, right? Just the people to raise your taxes as they avoid paying their own. As Leona Helmsley famously said: Little people pay taxes.
It's actually very surprising that Biden junior hasn't been sanctioned any harder than a lien for the unpaid taxes - ordinary Americans who pull such stunts at those levels get their properties and incomes seized.
And young Biden was just recently spotted trotting around at The Grove, a high-dollar Los Angeles mall, with the New York Post's Page Six noting that he's been eating pretty well these days.
More to the point, he's been living well. He's since moved into a Hollywood Hills mansion and is living the celebrity lifestyle these days. Page Six also reported:
A stone-faced Hunter climbed into the driver’s seat of a silver, late-model, four-door Porsche Panamera — which costs at least $92,000 new — leaving Melissa to open the passenger door herself.Hunter and his wife live in the same Hollywood Hills ZIP code as stars such as Halle Berry and Ben Affleck. The couple’s current digs are worth $2.5 million, The Post recently reported.
Which is strange stuff, given that he's told a judge in Arkansas that he's out of money and has no job in the case of a stripper's paternity suit, yet he lives as he lives on either his no-show job payouts or else somebody else's money. It's strange stuff. Why he hasn't had the IRS swat team swoop down on him for massive tax violations like these is a mystery. But it can't come as a surprise that this junior with a no-show job doesn't pay his taxes to the feds either. The disgraced ex-Navy officer with a politically connected dad is probably is most fit to be a fry cook, who only pays taxes if someone takes them out of his paycheck for him. Fool and his money. But why he gets away with this behavior is something that bears more investigation.
“He’s a totally corrupt swamp thing, and here’s the worst part of his manifest corruption – he doesn’t seem to realize that he’s corrupt, if not personally than in terms of allowing his bum kid to leverage his position. He thinks it’s A-OK for his boy Hoover to cash in all over the globe. After all, that’s what you do, right? That’s part of the benefits package for being in the liberal elite. And all these people fussing and fighting about the paternity test-failing dirtbag getting rich are totally out of line. How dare they? HOW DARE THEY!”
He’s a totally corrupt swamp thing, and here’s the worst part of his manifest corruption – he doesn’t seem to realize that he’s corrupt, if not personally than in terms of allowing his bum kid to leverage his position. He thinks it’s A-OK for his boy Hoover to cash in all over the globe. After all, that’s what you do, right? That’s part of the benefits package for being in the liberal elite. And all these people fussing and fighting about the paternity test-failing dirtbag getting rich are totally out of line. How dare they? HOW DARE THEY!
Watch — Joe Biden Heckled at Campaign Event: ‘Don’t Touch Kids, You Pervert!’
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Former Vice President Joe Biden was slammed as a “pervert” and “creepy” by hecklers during a campaign event in Milford, New Hampshire, over the weekend.
Just minutes into his rally remarks, Biden was interrupted by a man who accused him of inappropriately touching others, shouting, “don’t touch kids, you pervert.”
“We don’t need another old, white man running for president,” the heckler added.
“This is not a Trump rally,” Biden hit back frustratedly. “This is a democracy.”
Ahead of formally launching his White House bid, Biden was accused of inappropriate touching by several women. In March, former Nevada politician Lucy Flores wrote in New York Magazine that Biden approached her from behind, touched her shoulders and kissed the back of her head in 2014. Another accuser — Amy Lappos, then a congressional aide to Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) — accused the former vice president of rubbing his nose on hers at a 2009 political fundraiser.
Shortly after the first heckler, a woman began chanting “quid pro Joe,” which gave way to another heckler bringing up allegations of corruption against him and his son Hunter Biden, who has received increased scrutiny for serving as a board member of Ukrainian gas firm Burisma Holdings despite no expertise in the energy sector. Several reports indicate he was paid up to $83,000 per month to serve in the post.
“I’ve released 21 years of my tax returns, how many has yours? What’s he hiding?” the former vice president replied.
Sunday evening’s incident is the second this month in which Biden has been pressed on allegations of corruption against him and his son. At a New Hampton, Iowa, event, the 2020 frontrunner called a farmer a “damn liar” and “fat” after he was told he was “too old” to be president and was grilled over his son’s ties to Burisma Holdings.
The Biden campaign did not issue a statement addressing Sunday evening’s interruptions.
“He’s a totally corrupt swamp thing, and here’s the worst part of his manifest corruption – he doesn’t seem to realize that he’s corrupt, if not personally than in terms of allowing his bum kid to leverage his position. He thinks it’s A-OK for his boy Hoover to cash in all over the globe. After all, that’s what you do, right? That’s part of the benefits package for being in the liberal elite. And all these people fussing and fighting about the paternity test-failing dirtbag getting rich are totally out of line. How dare they? HOW DARE THEY!”
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