America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Sunday, November 29, 2020
JOE BIDEN INJURED! - BARACK OBAMA AND KAMALA HARRIS STEP IN AS ACTING PRESIDENTS ELECT
What's Biden hidin'? Biden team won't let fawning media off bus to cover his dog-broke-my-foot story
It might be called a metaphor -- Joe Biden getting off to his purported presidency -- on the wrong, or broken, foot.
Which might explain why Biden didn't want to let the news get out.
Biden blocked reporters from taking pictures of him and his broken foot, something he claims to have sprained with hairline fractures while playing with his dog named 'Major.'
According to RedState, which has an excellent curation of various reporter tweets, Biden attempted to hide from press scrutiny of his condition, this time by refusing to allow reporters to get off the bus. Here's a screenshot sample of the shareable tweets, with the clickable links to them here:
Which is ridiculous stuff. This is a mundane story about a sprained foot in what's one of the few things Biden-beat reporters are allowed to cover, which is stupid dog stories.
Yet the Biden team is acting like Kim Jong Un's on the dog matter and the questions about Biden's health. Questions abound as to how one shattered a foot while playing with a dog. It's possible perhaps. But more likely, Biden's physical condition is as tenuous as his mental one, impacted by his advanced age. There are plenty of reasons he didn't campaign, yet still "won" the presidency, and this is likely one of them.
It's part and parcel of how Biden treats the press, which isn't with a few snarls at reporters, as President Trump does, but by actually repressing valid news stories, and with it, a free press.
Gov. Rick Scott has had his well-known tiffs with the Florida press pool, but at least he's not locking them in closets. Vice President Joe Biden was in the Orlando area last week headlining a private fundraiser for Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. Journalist Scott Powers of the Orlando Sentinel was selected as the pool reporter, but to prevent him from mingling with guests before the veep arrived, Biden's team basically locked the journalist in a closet.
"Turns out the veep hadn't arrived, but about 150 guests (minimum donation $500) were already in the house," the Sentinel's recount reads. "So to prevent Scott from mingling with the crowd, a member of Biden's advance team consigned him to a storage closet — and then stood outside the door to make sure he didn't walk out without permission."
Powers was locked in the closet for about 90 minutes and allowed out only to hear Nelson and Biden deliver their remarks. He was then locked back in the closet in the private home of developer Alan Ginsburg.
After the deed was done and the news was repressed (this was about what Biden was saying to campaign donors in private, as opposed to his phony statements in public), Biden apologized, because it's easier than allowing the usual protocol of letting the press follow him around. He got away with it then, and all it did was make it his way of doing business. Watch for an apology on this one, too. The dog, see, ate his homework. The only thing Biden won't do is change his behavior.
The incredible thing about this is that this isn't a hostile press. It's a fawning, drooling, lapdog press, that reports dog stories and what flavor ice cream Joe chooses. But even when one of those stories leads to real news, such as the highly non-transparent news of Joe's health, the stonewall goes up. Biden doesn't answer questions. Nobody's allowed to even ask.
So now we know he's got a broken foot, with a fairly improbable excuse. And once again, nobody can cover the news. What's Biden hidin'?
ARE YOU IN DOUBT THAT JOE BIDEN IS A PAID SERVANT OF WALL STREET AND THEIR OPEN BORDERS AGENDA?
For decades, the big business lobby, Wall Street, and donor class have said mass immigration is crucial to growing GDP in the U.S. though research has shown that increasing legal immigration levels to an enormous ten million admissions a year would only grow GDP by about 2.5 percent. Meanwhile, Trump’s low-migration, high-wage economy has translated to 3.2 percent annual economic growth. JOHN BINDER
Report: Joe Biden Suffers Injury; Heads to Orthopedist
Former Vice President Joe Biden reportedly suffered an injury Sunday and will be seeing an orthopedist soon. According to a pool report, he twisted his ankle when playing with his dog Major, a German shepherd.
.@JoeBiden slipped and twisted his ankle Saturday while playing with his dog Major, his office says. He is en route to an orthopedist this afternoon, per pooler @JonathanTamari
During the election, the Biden campaign was at great pains to emphasize his physical fitness, to counter perceptions that he would be too old for the job at 77 years old (78 today). For example, they showed him riding his bicycle — to the delight of the media — even though he rarely left his home in Wilmington, Delaware, to campaign.
As Breitbart News’ Kyle Morris reported on Sunday, Biden also has another German shepherd, Champ. The two dogs and a cat will also join Biden in the White House, should he take the oath of office:
“Champ and Major, who have been featured frequently in Biden campaign advertisements and promotions, will be the first dogs to reside at the White House since Barack Obama’s Portuguese water dogs, Bo and Sunny,” Morris noted.
There is no word yet on Biden’s condition, though reporters were told on background that his condition does not seem to be serious, and he is only being examined out of an abundance of caution.
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The President and his top economic advisers bought the “too big to fail” concept, the notion that regardless of how profligate, irresponsible, even criminal, heads of the leading financial institutions in America had been, it would be worse for the nation if those institutions were to collapse. Consequently, while pushing a legislative agenda of public bail-outs, the Obama Administration maintained a secret program of multi-trillion dollar loans, including billions at below market interest rates. The principal recipients of the funding were JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley.
This was not because of difficulties in securing indictments or convictions. On the contrary, Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate committee in March of 2013 that the Obama administration chose not to prosecute the big banks or their CEOs because to do so might “have a negative impact on the national economy.”
Pinkerton: Barack Obama Is a Machiavellian Fox in ‘A Promised Land’
Barack Obama’s new memoir, A Promised Land, bills itself as “a riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.”And of course, it’s an instant mega best-seller, eagerly bought by blue-dot believers everywhere, fully justifying the 2017 book-deal by which Barack and Michelle Obama jointly sold their reminiscences for$65 million.
So okay, now that Barack Obama is firmly and forever instantiated among the one percent, we might ask: What does A Promised Land have to say about, for instance, income inequality and high-end financialism?This is a particularly pertinent question because much of Obama’s presidency was defined by his relationship with Wall Street, including the bailouts, the cost of which a 2010 estimate put at $14.4 trillion.
As they look back at the Obama years, Americans might ask: Why did the stock market get so high?Why did Manhattan real estate get so expensive?Why did the Democrats get so many large campaign donations?For answers, Americans might look to those bailout trillions because the money had to go somewhere.
BLOG EDITOR: ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROFITEERS
OF FORECLOSURE WAS STEVEN 'KING OF
FORECLOSURES' MNUCHIN. LAWYER KAMALA
HARRIS AS CA ATTORNEY GENERALY MADE SHE
MNUCHIN AND WELLS FARGO NEVER FACED
PRISON TIME FOR THEIR CRIMES. SHE WAS
RICHLY REWARDED FOR HER SELL OUT TO BIG
BANKSTERS.
In the meantime, from 2007 to 2010, the banks and other lenders foreclosed on an estimated 3.8 million homes.
We can see that this was, indeed, a scandalous situation: many trillions of dollars was sloshed around for the very fatcats (OBAMA-BIDEN-HARRIS BANKSTER DONORS!) who had helped provoke the meltdown, while the lives of millions of ordinary people melted.
Protester sit down in front of a police barricade in front of the Obama administration’s U.S. Department of Justice during a rally against big banks and home foreclosures in Washington, DC, on May 20, 2013. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
So what did President Obama do?Well, first he hired
Wall Street-friendly officials, such as Tim Geithner at
Treasury and Larry Summers at the National
Economic Council, and then he sat passively as his
Justice Department did little or nothing about obvious
One of the greatest and most shameful failings of the Obama administration: the lack of even a single arrest or prosecution of any senior Wall Street banker for the systemic fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.
In his memoir, Obama has little choice but to take up these matters.He writes that while it was “tempting” to view high finance as honeycombed with crooks in need of “Old Testament justice,” that was not possible. He argues:
BLOG EDITOR: I DOUBT OF OBOMB REFERENCED
THE FACT THAT HE HAD TAKEN MORE DIRTY
BANKSTER MONEY BEFORE HE TOOK OFFICE
THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN HISTORY. WHAT DID
THEY KNOW THAT THE REST OF US WHO BOUGHT
INTO HOPE & CHANGE DID NOT?!? HE ALSO
PROBABLY DID NOT MENTION THAT BOTH OF HIS
ATTORNEY GENs WHERE HAND CHOSEN FROM
LAW FIRMS THAT HAD LONG PROTECTED WALL
STREET'S BIGGEST CRIMINAL BANKSTERS... ALL
OBOMB DONORS!
The trouble was that in the midst of a financial panic, in a modern capitalist economy, it was impossible to isolate good businesses from bad, or administer pain only to the reckless or unscrupulous.Like it or not, everybody and everything was connected.
In other words, Obama is saying, the national and international financial system was too connected—too delicate—for anyone to be prosecuted.The memoir’s obvious filibustering about bringing the law to bear on grifting greedheads moved Harry Siegel of The Daily Beast, in an otherwise mostly admiring book-review, to splutter about his rationalization, “What chickenshit!”
The bailouts might have been justifiable in terms of preventing another 1929-style Depression, and yet they were going to be popular only if they had been accompanied by clawbacks of ill-gotten gains and criminal prosecutions.Such a plan wouldn’t have been so much “Old Testament justice” as simply justice.
Interestingly, Obama seems to have had some second thoughts about his passivity, writing,”I wonder whether I should have been bolder in those early months, willing to exact more economic pain in the short term in pursuit of a permanently altered and more just economic order.”
But Obama’s second-thoughts-ing doesn’t last long.After contemplating in print for a little bit, he concludes that he had it right the first time: “I can’t say I would make different choices.”
Of course, one good way to defend Obama from the criticism that he was a Wall Street tool is to point out that his immediate predecessors were little different: George W. Bush filled his administration with Goldman Sachs executives and other financialist monarchs, as did Bill Clinton.And Obama’s successor, Donald Trump, hired as his Treasury Secretary yet another Goldman Sachs alum, Steven Mnuchin.
The point here is not that Wall Streeters are automatically bad—Mnuchin, for example, has been energetic and effective in dealing with the impact of Covid-19.Instead, the point is that Obama wasn’t so different from the presidents around him; seen from a distance, his administration blends in with most others of his era.
Audacity?What Audacity?
That blending in—the existence of more similarities than differences between his presidency and those of others—is what jumps out of Obama’s tome.Indeed, the book speaks to his instinct simply to get along and go along.A Promised Land is studded with words that speak to the limitations that the author felt as president: words such as “maybe,” “process,” and “still,” as in, High hopes notwithstanding, it was still the case that . . .
Wading through such waffling, it’s hard to remember that one of Obama’s previous books was entitled, The Audacity of Hope.
We can add that another word oft seen is practical, as in “as a matter of practical politics” and “as a practical matter.”And another “p”-word is pattern: “I didn’t like the deal. But in what was becoming a pattern, the alternatives were worse.”
Yet even if Obama’s more ambitious policy goals were often easily thwarted—that’s not practical, Mr. President—Obama himself plays the starring role in his own internalized drama.Indeed, close observers have long noted his abundant use of the word “I,” and this book is in keeping with that solipsistic pattern.
As he writes of himself, he has “a deep self-consciousness.A sensitivity to rejection or looking stupid.”And he adds that sometimes he has “a preference for navel-gazing over action.”
Sometimes, to be sure, this inwardness helps him maintain perspective.For instance, in 2009, when it was announced that he has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, his immediate reaction was “For what?” (In fact, during his first term Obama greatly expanded the Afghanistan war; such a military escalation is surely a first among Peace Prize laureates.)
U.S. President Barack Obama, flanked by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford (R), delivers a statement from the Roosevelt Room at the White House on July 6, 2016, concerning the deployment of more U.S. troops in Afghanistan than he originally planned. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
BLOG EDITOR: AS BEN CARSON, M.D. STATED, OBOMB IS A SOCIOPATH. THERE IS NO CORE VALUES OR ETHICS. HE IS ENTIRELY POLITICALLY AMORAL.
In the summarizing words of another reviewer, John F. Harris, writing for Politico, “Obama as a writer makes clear: He spends a lot of time in his own head, and Obama as politician and president did the same.” And as Washington Post reviewer Carlos Lozada explained, A Promised Land “is less a personal memoir than an unusual sort of history, one recounted by the man at the center of it, a man who seems always to be observing himself in action, always wondering if he is guiding the currents or driven by them.”
Yes, Obama’s book is also a history, even as it is curiously truncated. After 700 slogging pages, the book ends in May 2011.The second volume, on sale in a few years, will take us through the remaining time of Obama’s presidency, as well as his post presidency.
Yet still, there’s some modesty here, too.For instance, Obama invites the next generation to “remake the world, and to bring about . . . an America that finally aligns with all that is best in us.”That’s a nice thought, although, of course, it only underscores the point that Obama as president did not “remake the world.”(Some will say, Just as well!)
Thus the author is left to justify his actions by his intentions, as opposed to the results.As reviewer Harris puts it: “[Obama] plainly believes if he can adequately explain himself—how smart he is, how conscientiously he agonized over questions, and with such keen perceptiveness about differing points of view—this will cause people to look sympathetically at the decisions he did make.”
Unfortunately, such keening self-awareness is not the same thing as candor or revelation. For instance, the book gives short-shrift—more like no shrift—to such dubious figures in Obama’s past life as Bill Ayers, Allison Davis, and Tony Rezko.
In addition, the reader does not have to believe the author when he tells us that he was never in the pews of the Trinity United Church of Christ on the Sundays when the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was delivering “God damn America”-type sermons.
Yet at the same time, Obama shows awareness of others.Having padded the book with shout-outs to past aides and advisers, he is less complimentary towardpolitical opponents; he writes, for instance, that Sen. Mitch McConnell “lacked in charisma or interest in policy,” and yet, he continues, the Kentuckian “more than made up for” those lacks through “discipline, shrewdness and shamelessness—all of which he employed in the single-minded and dispassionate pursuit of power.”
And Obama is even less complimentary to Sen. Lindsey Graham, describing him as like the snaky guy in the crime-caper movie “who double-crosses everyone to save his own skin.”
As for his vice president for eight years, Joe Biden, Obama praises him fulsomely, yet adds that he could “get prickly if he thought he wasn’t given his due.” Yes, Biden’s prickliness in the face of a slight could be an interesting dynamic to watch in the coming years.“Middle Class Joe” might never tweet much, but most likely, we’ll have good occasion to see how he reacts toward a perceived insult.
A Fox, Not a Lion
So we are starting to see Obama’s self-portrait of himself as a thoughtful guy—maybe too thoughtful to be an effective president.After all, one might say, a great president is one who can make great change.
It’s often said that politics is the art of the possible, and yet at its most profound, politics is the art of the transformation. One transformative president, of course, was Ronald Reagan.In fact, even Obama recognized the powerful impact of the 40th president; back in 2008, when he allowed, “I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.He put us on a fundamentally different path.”
So we can see that Obama has always been aware of the possibility of transformative change; it’s just not quite his cup of tea.In the White House, Reagan faced plenty of obstacles, too, and yet he found a way to transcend them.
And that’s the irony of Obama: For all his “Yes, we can” rhetoric in 2008, he was content to say, at least to himself, “No, we can’t.”
Yet still, he isn’t the type to blame himself, at least not too much.For instance, he writes of the 2010 midterm elections, when Democrats lost the House and nearly lost the Senate, that the results “didn’t prove that our agenda had been wrong.”
But then he adds, damning himself ever so slightly, “It just proved that—whether for lack of talent, cunning, charm or good fortune—I’d failed to rally the nation, as FDR had once done, behind what I knew to be right.”
Indeed, as Obama seeks to explain away failures, he sometimes leans on arguments about structural racism.There’s no doubt that some Americans disliked him simply because he was black, and yet at the same time, he was elected to national office twice.So yes, it’s true that America has sometimes witnessed “centuries of state-sponsored violence by whites against Black and brown people,” and yet it’s also true that Obama benefited from enormous good will and the hope that he would succeed—and not just from Democrats.In 2008, after all, he carried Mike Pence’s Indiana.
Meanwhile, unsurprisingly, Obama’s discussion of race includes swipes at Trump.The memoirist argues that no small part of Trump’s appeal in 2016 was to “millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House,” adding, “He promised an elixir for their racial anxiety.”We can assume that in the forthcoming volume two, Obama will stick it to Trump, good and hard.
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump to update him on transition planning in the Oval Office at the White House on November 10, 2016. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Yet as we think about the 44th and 45th presidents, we might be reminded of the typology set forth five hundred years ago by the Italian political philosopher Machiavelli.The political world, he asserted, was divided between two types: lions and foxes. As he explained in Book XVIII of The Prince, each creature had its strength and weakness:
The lion cannot defend himself against snares and the fox cannot defend himself against wolves.Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves.
Machiavelli’s idea was that the two metaphorical critters—in reality, of course, two types of people—would be best if they could work together.That is, the fox would identify the traps, and the lion would chase away other predators.
And yet by themselves, foxes and lions were each vulnerable: The fox lacked strength and courage, while the lion lacked the wisdom to steer clear of traps.
In our time, we can update Machiavelli: Obama is fox-like.That is, he saw the dangers, and so he slinked away from them.Yes, he was audacious enough to run for president as just a first-term senator, but once in office, he was sly enough to put his feet down carefully, thus avoiding traps.
As a result, Obama stayed in the White House for the maximum of eight years, and now, in active retirement, he is living prosperously ever after.And A Promised Land helps to show us how he went from a pot-smoking adolescence in Hawaii to life on Easy Street—where maybe he still sometimes sneaks a (tobacco) cigarette.The life of a fox might be long, and yet it most likely won’t be consequential.The ability to avoid traps is not the test of greatness.
Oh, and what about Trump?He is obviously a lion: In the White House, he has made change, that’s for sure, and he has fallen into traps—that, too, is for sure.Can he survive 2020 to roar again?We’ll have to see.
In the meantime, though, Obama, the never-trapped fox, is working on his next best-seller.And it, too, is sure to be full of cautions, meditations, and ruminations about avoiding traps.
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