When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Protesters reportedly got a shipment of bats before anti-police activists clashed with officers on the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday.
A car parked near City Hall made the delivery, and one man was seen retrieving six bats from the trunk, according to surveillance footage provided to the New York Post.
“Police sources said the bats were delivered so the anti-cop activists could confront a ‘unity’ rally proceeding over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan,” the outlet noted, adding that clergy, law enforcement, and community activists attended the unity rally.
It was unclear whether the City Hall protesters used the bats during the altercation with the opposing protesters; however, at least one was recovered following the incident, police sources told the Post.
Several New York Police Department (NYPD) officers were attacked and injured during the confrontation, according to the Associated Press (AP).
“At least four officers were hurt, including Chief of Department Terence Monahan, and 37 people were arrested, police said. Information on charges was not immediately available,” the report noted.
Video footage posted by the department’s official news account appeared to show one person hitting an officer with a long object:
Three officers violently attacked by protesters crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. The officers sustained serious injuries.
Tuesday, Monahan said during an interview that there was “a feeling on the street that the police are handcuffed,” and “are fearful that they may be arrested if they take some proactive-type enforcement,” according to Breitbart News.
He continued:
[T]here’s a lot of different factors into it. We’ve mentioned bail reform and COVID releases, but just as importantly, if not more importantly, is the animosity towards the police that was generated after the Floyd protests. The new law that was passed by the city council has cops hesitant. They are fearful that they may be arrested if they take some proactive-type enforcement.
“The disbanding of anti-Crime, obviously, has a huge effect. Those are our best cops out on the street, grabbing guns. So, there’s a feeling that it’s safe to carry a gun on the street,” Monahan concluded.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden quoted Mao Zedong, the former communist leader of China, during a virtual fundraiser on July 13.
“We’ve got to get real economic relief into women’s hands now,” Biden said, before telling people on the call that he wanted to cite “an old Chinese proverb.”
“Women hold up half the sky,” Biden said.
The quote was first presented by Mao in a bid to reinforce supposed government support for equality between men and women.
Mao’s rule resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese due to purges and disastrous policies.
The Biden campaign didn’t reply when asked whether Biden was aware of the phrase’s provenance.
The former vice president and U.S. senator said during the fundraiser that the economic crisis is hitting industries dominated by women.
“Unless you take advantage of half or more of your brain power, you are never going to be in the position where you’re going to be able to compete internationally,” he added. “Women. Women. Women.”
Paramilitary police officers marching past the portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate, as it undergoes renovations in Beijing, on May 18, 2019. (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images)
Steve Guest, a rapid-response director for the Republican National Committee, highlighted Biden’s quoting of Mao.
“REMINDER: Joe Biden is in the pocket of China,” he wrote in a social media statement.
“Chairman Mao would approve,” added Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign’s director of communications.
Anita Dunn, a senior adviser to Biden’s campaign, praised Mao in 2009, describing the dictator as one of her two favorite political philosophers.
Mao and Mother Theresa were “the two people that I turn to the most to basically deliver a simple point: which is, you’re going to make choices, you’re going to challenge, you’re going to say why not,” Dunn, who was President Barack Obama’s communications director at the time, told an audience of high schoolers.
“The Mao quote is one I picked up from the late Republican strategist Lee Atwater from something I read in the late 1980s, so I hope I don’t get my progressive friends mad at me,” Dunn told CNN after receiving criticism for what she said.
“The use of the phrase ‘favorite political philosophers’ was intended as irony, but clearly the effort fell flat.”
One
has to wonder, do those on the left, including the media, actually think that
Joe Biden is a viable candidate for president? Do they not realize
that Nancy Pelosi is as senile as Joe? Like Joe, she often slurs her words,
suffers brain freezes mid-sentence and spews gibberish. Biden is life-long
corruptocrat, a known plagiarist, a pathological liar and a truly mean and evil
man. You can catch a glimpse of just how mean in the film about Clarence Thomas; it was Biden who
grilled him mercilessly during the hearings over Anita Hill’s phony
allegations. Biden is a racist as well. Pelosi is a life-long
power-mad lunatic. She has allowed her own district to dissolve into a homeless
camp with all the attendant problems – discarded needles, feces on the streets
and sidewalks, and an ever-escalating crime wave. Smash and grab car
burglaries occur by the minute in San Feancisco and there are no consequences
for the perpetrators if caught. Like Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, Pelosi and her husband are millionaires several times
over; they’ve become rich because both have been in Congress for so many
years. They all get rich on insider information. Joe
Biden goes further; we all know he used a billion dollars in U.S. aid as
leverage to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired because he was investigating his
son. John Kerry was in on that bit of bribery. He is as
low a form of life as Biden.
And
yet, at the moment, Biden is their candidate and Pelosi is their Speaker who
embarrasses herself every time she opens her mouth, as does Biden. Both
of them belong in a long-term care facility for the aged. That the
Democrats consider either of these pols a credit to their party is proof of
their willful blindness. Why do they not see what everyone outside
of their party can see? That these two people are way past their
sell-by date. How is Joe going to debate President Trump? He is
unable to utter a coherent sentence or answer a simple
question. Pelosi submitted a $3 trillion spending bill that is
simply a joke. Biden has vowed to pick a “woman of color” as his
running mate. Woe be unto him if he doesn’t.
As
for the left’s “believe all women” mantra, that went out the window the moment
Tara Reade accused Biden of sexual assault. Reade’s allegations are
infinitely more credible than Christine Blasey-Ford’s fabricated accusations
against a high school-aged Brett Kavanaugh, but Democrats are so self-unaware,
they don’t recognize their own gross hypocrisy. This time Reade is
“making it up.” See Ami Horowitz’ recent video. Blasey-Ford
most likely never met Justice Kavanaugh. Reade did work in Biden’s
office, did report his behavior and tell others at the time. But the
Dems believed Blasey-Ford and don’t believe Reade. Go
figure. Denial is a dangerous and mystifying psychological defense
mechanism and the Democrat party is in denial about the mental capacity of its
two most prominent “leaders.”
Donald
Trump has warned our federal government about the dangers China represents to
the US since the 1980s. He was right and since he took office he has
tried to rectify the horrific trade imbalance. No one can refute the
fact that China purposely unleashed the covid virus upon the world but Nancy
Pelosi calls Trump’s focus on China “a diversion.” Is she really
that clueless? Probably not, but destroying Trump is far more
important to her than protecting America. Her comments about Trump’s
use of hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic are outrageous. It
is the most effective drug at the moment, used all over the
world. And Trump is not “morbidly obese” She however is morbidly
botoxed and has undergone so much plastic surgery she resembles a character
from the film Death Becomes Her. She is a
ghoul in every sense of the word but the left seems not to realize
it. They celebrate how she wields her power. That is what
they admire; it’s the only thing they admire in anyone. They just
cannot abide it in a republican, especially when they were so certain Hillary
was going to win the 2016 election and they would all be in fat
city. They would have been all-powerful. They would have
had control of all the levers of power in this country. And being
the spoiled children they are, to this day they cannot accept that defeat,
especially to an outsider like Trump. They love to mock him, to call
him stupid but he has them all by the short hairs and runs rings around their
collective body of never-Trumpers.
To
be sure, Biden and Pelosi have their devoted fans who are so blinded by their
hatred of Trump and their thoroughly unwarranted hero worship of Biden and
Pelosi that they mistakenly think they are normal and healthy but both are
seriously in need of an intervention. Why Jill Biden allows Joe’s
candidacy to continue is a cruelty, a form of elder abuse. As for
Pelosi, where are her five kids telling her it is time to retire? Of
course the lady of iron will would refuse but how much longer can her infirmities
be on public display? Only time will tell but it seems pretty
likely Trump has the election in the bag. Biden is the weakest
candidate the democrat party has run since George McGovern and McGovern was a
decent man; Biden is not. As for Pelosi, her district is so
damaged, so depressed, they will likely re-elect her and keep her in office
until she is 100% wax-ready for Madame Tussaud’s.
Photo illustration by Monica
Showalter with use of images by GageSkidmore, via Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0, andUSFWS // public domain
Well, it looks like the
makeover has begun.
Corrupt Joe Biden, who used his office to
enrich himself and his family, to say the least, is now the foreign policy
maven, particularly on China. That's the spin from the New York Times, which
has beclowned itself badly, trying to tell the audience that something smelly is shinola.
To voters
unsettled by President Trump’s disruptive approach to the world, Mr. Biden is
selling not only his policy prescriptions but also his long track record of
befriending, cajoling and sometimes confronting foreign leaders — what he might
call the power of his informal diplomatic style. “I’ve dealt with every one of
the major world leaders that are out there right now, and they know me. I know
them,” he told supporters in December.
Brett McGurk,
a former senior State Department official for the campaign against the Islamic
State, said Mr. Biden had been an effective diplomat by practicing “strategic
empathy.”
And unlike Trump, Biden was oh so
personal, as well as "not an ideologue."
Mr. Biden
made a quick “personal connection” with the Chinese leader, even if he
sometimes confounded his Mandarin interpreter by quoting hard-to-translate
Irish verse, said Daniel Russel, an aide present at several of the meetings.
“He was
remarkably good in getting to a personal relationship right away and getting Xi
to open up,” Mr. Russel said.
Had enough? The translation, according to
Peter Schweizer's Profiles in Corruption is:
For Vice
President Joe Biden, effective diplomacy was about forming personal
relationships with foreign leaders. "It all gets down to the conduct of
foreign policy being personal." The vice president had a series of
important and tense meetings with Chinese officials on a variety of critical
matters in the bilateral relationship. The trip coincided with an enormous
financial deal that Hunter Biden's firm, Rosemont Seneca, was arranging with
the state-owned Bank of China. What Hunter did during the official visit to
Beijing we cannot know for sure. Other than a few photo ops with his father, he
was nowhere to be seen.
...and...
Approximately
ten days after the Beijing trip, Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca Partners
finalized a deal with the Chinese government worth a whopping $1 billion.
The deal was later expanded to $1.5 billion. As of this writing, the fund's
website says its investments amount to more than $2 billion.
It's
important to note that this deal was with the Chinese government--not
with Chinese company, which means that the Chinese government and the son
of the vice president were now business partners.
Now he's Mr. Congeniality, the perfect
opposite of President Trump who confronts China rather sternly on issues.
To the Times, that's a bad thing. To the average 'hey fat' out in the American
heartland as Biden puts it, Trump's diplomacy is actually standing up for
the interests of Americans.
It's also a disgusting double standard.
Trump is no China hater - he does his best to cut the best deal possible for
main street America by driving a hard bargain the Chinese know they have no
choice but to accept. Any time Trump says something concilatory to the Chinese,
it's denounced as sucking up to dictators, while any time Joe does it -
pocketing the profits, which any non-ideologue is adept at doing - he's Mr.
Personality.
Here's the problem with this kind of
'personal' diplomacy. It is very personal indeed to Joe, given the wealth it
has brought is family members. It's also very dangerous, given that every
string and hook China's oligarchs can get into him makes him an even bigger
sock puppet than he already was. Combine with the world's dodgiest players
considering Biden a non-entity (Osama bin Laden considered Biden a fool) and
the picture is a very ugly one for America's interests.
Here's the second problem: This apparent
media makeover for Joe, painting him as the great personal-touch diplomat who
can get along with everyone is clearly the new party line being promoted in the
press, and we can expect to see lockstep echoing of this embarassing face-lift.
The JournoList talking points have gone out and now the shots are fired. As
those shots went out, attempting to boost Joe while taking down Trump, the
Chicoms themselves have been very active, too. Just days ago, according to a
report in the Daily Caller, the Chinese investment firm that made Hunter a very
rich man has quietly removed Hunter's name as a board member. That's to help
Joe win his presidential bid for sure, which ought to make voters very wary
given whose interests are being boosted. Worse still, the Caller reports, they
allowed him to keep his sizable stake in the company - worth milions at least.
No wonder he's comfortably ensconced in the Hollywood Hills these days, bored
and playing 'artist,' dodging release of his financial statements to an
Arkansas judge over a babydaddy case with a stripper looking for child support.
No wonder he apparently settled with the woman and swept the whole thing off
the front pages.
Now the makeover is on, with the media
ignoring the pocket-lining entirely -- the New York Times makes simply no
mention of it -- and the cash spigots still going.
The whole thing -- pocket-lining and media
coverup is a disgusting double-load of corruption that anyone with a brain
can see right through. The GOP must keep the heat onto this issue because it's
being distorted beyond recognition.
Joe
Biden is running away from his record as the "pro-China" candidate so
quickly that his defenders in the liberal press can't make heads or tails of
it. Ordinary Americans are equally confused.
Biden
spent over three decades opening American markets to Chinese goods, ignoring
China's abhorrent human rights record, and dismissing the challenge posed by
our greatest rival for global leadership. The "made in
China" era coincided with the closure of tens of thousands of American
factories, stagnant working-class wages, and the loss of America's ability to
produce essential goods domestically — a vulnerability that took on incredible
significance when we learned that we were dependent upon China to produce the
medical equipment needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
This
disaster was facilitated by politicians of both parties, and no one was
more gung ho than Joe
Biden, poster child for the globalism that reigned supreme until the
2016 presidential election, which Donald J. Trump won by campaigning on a
platform diametrically opposed to the "open markets and open borders"
philosophy of the D.C. establishment. In the White House, President
Trump became the first American leader in decades to take a firm stand against
China's malfeasance and demand a genuinely fair and reciprocal trade deal for
American workers.
While
Joe Biden was the vice president of the United States, conversely, he was downplaying the consequences of
China's rise — even as his own family tried to get rich through
deals with Chinese state-owned companies.
How
is it possible, then, that Biden has suddenly tried to recast himself as the
"tough-on-China" candidate in the 2020 race?
Biden's
campaign even ran an ad claiming the
president had "rolled over for the Chinese" in response to the
coronavirus that Beijing unleashed on the world. It's one of the
most poorly executed flip-flops in American electoral history, coming just
months after Biden called President
Trump's life-saving ban on most travel
from China "hysterical xenophobia."
No
one is buying it. Everyone knows about President Trump's record of
success in bringing China to the negotiating table through strategic
counter-tariffs. The "Phase One" trade deal that was inked
earlier this year represents the first major trade concessions from China in a
generation. Even the fanatical free-traders who actually liked Biden's
globalism see right through his new façade. The libertarians at the
Cato Institute, for instance, published an article
acknowledging that Biden's reversal is "futile" and "inherently
lacks credibility."
Even
the intellectual left is aghast at Biden's fake toughness on
China. The Atlantic called it "utterly
futile" and "pointless — even dangerous." The New
York Times published an op-ed all but begging Biden to drop the
act.
If
even his own supporters are rolling their eyes at Biden play-acting as a China
skeptic, why are he and his team even bothering to attempt the deception?
The
answer is simple. Americans have finally woken up to the economic
and national security threat posed by China. The coronavirus pandemic made that
threat impossible to ignore. No one wants to go into this November
as the "pro-Beijing" candidate.
Unfortunately
for Joe Biden, he's been the "pro-Beijing" candidate throughout his
political career, and there's a decades-long record to prove it.
Ken Blackwell served as mayor of
Cincinnati, Ohio treasurer, and a U.S. ambassador to the U.N. He currently
serves on the board of directors for Club For Growth.
A top official said 99% of funds were paid, but only 55% of
small business owners reported receiving the money. Borrowers were told there
was a technical glitch, but the Small Business Administration would not answer
questions about it.
"There's little doubt that today's Democrat Party is the party of the rich. Actually, that's an understatement. Far more than billionaires are involved." PETER SKURKISS
Pelosi is also mulling a rollback of the SALT taxes, which would be nothing short of a giveaway to millionaires. And by the giveaway, it would be something of a $620 billion tax cut for them. Remember, this is the party of the working people, or so they say, and a part of me hopes she goes aggressive on this, so we can see Bernie Sanders gum up the Democratic works for a bit. In addition, establishment Republicans are no better than Democrats at stemming the flow of illegal immigration because big businesses reap the benefits of this cheap labor without incurring any of the social costs.
Chuck Schumer Pushes Tax Cut for Richest 1% in Coronavirus Relief Bill
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is pushing for a repeal of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap in the next round of coronavirus relief — giving a tax cut to the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers, especially in “blue” states.
In his landmark tax reform law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, President Donald Trump and the Republicans offset some of the revenue losses from low tax rates by restricting deductions. The law capped the SALT deduction at $10,000.
Previously, those taxpayers wealthy enough to file a list of itemized deductions could count all of the taxes they paid to state and local governments toward a deduction in their federal tax liability. That meant wealthy taxpayers in the most heavily taxed states — primarily run by Democrats — benefited most. The SALT deduction also gave Democrats political room to raise taxes higher, because it made rich taxpayers less likely to resist: they could claim some of the money back.
Trump ended the deduction — at some political cost to himself. Republicans went on to lose congressional seats in wealthy suburbs in high-tax Democrat-run states. Orange County, California, for example, flipped entirely to Democrats.
But Democrats still want to repeal the SALT cap, regardless, because they want their state and local governments to avoid tax cut — and because their wealthy campaign contributors want to be subsidized, once again, by the rest of the country.
Even Seth Hanlon, a former Obama administration official who is now a senior fellow at the left-wing Center for American Progress, has protested against Schumer’s idea, noting that repealing the SALT cap would help “the top 1%.”
Come on, not this again.
Repealing the SALT cap for 2020-21 would be a $137 billion tax cut, with about 63% going to the top 1%.
It does nothing for states and localities except potentially crowd out the actual fiscal relief they urgently need. https://t.co/jlSjIhnzpq
Here is the distribution just for New York. Largely the same story. A few more middle-income people benefit a little compared to nationwide, but still, the tax cut goes overwhelmingly to top one-percenters. Not the people most affected by COVID!!! pic.twitter.com/Dp0evxq3P7
The Democrat-run House of Representatives has already passed a repeal on the SALT cap that would be effective for two years.
According to The Hill, “Schumer urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) [on Tuesday] to ‘join the House, and join the Democrats in the Senate, and get rid of that cap.'”
Schumer also vowed to make the SALT deduction — the effective tax cut for the 1% — permanent: “If I become majority leader, one of the first things I will do is we will eliminate it forever,” he added, according to The Hill. “It will be dead, gone and buried.”
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
ALL BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS. ALL BILLIONAIRES WANT OPEN BORDERS FOR MORE CHEAP LABOR AND NO CAPS ON IMPORTING CHINESE AND INDIANS TO WORK OUR TECH JOBS CHEAP.
