Thursday, June 17, 2021

BIDEN GOES PUSSY ON PUTIN - As Barack Obama once said of Joe Biden: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up."

 THE RAPID RISE AND EVEN QUICKER FALL OF A

SOCIOPATH BRIBES SUCKING LAWYER   -  WE'RE

TALKING ABOUT KAMALA HARRIS

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“The effrontery to all of us to put an obviously ailing and incoherent Joe Biden for the top spot and for the V.P., Kamala Harris, who couldn't even carry her own state in the primaries, indicates their lack of judgment.”  ALAN BERGSTEIN

“However, I would like to encourage my fellow Democrats to approach Senator Harris with a healthy dose of skepticism. As a prosecutor and California State Attorney General, Harris has engaged in blatantly unethical behavior for her profession and embraced positions that actively hurt her constituents.”

                                                             JESSER HOROWITZ

Joe Biden, the corrupt, unaccomplished 47-year career politician, with a reputation of having been a proud segregationist, an unabashed plagiarist and liar, a resolute tale-teller, and a serial flip-flopper, is pretending to head up a radical social-democratic ticket for President of the United States that includes as his running mate the ambitious, disagreeable junior senator from California: Kamala Harris. 

Joe Biden hands Putin a target list

As Barack Obama once said of Joe Biden: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f--- things up."

That brings us to yesterday's Russia-U.S. bilateral summit in Geneva, and Biden doing what comes naturally.

According to the Washington Examiner:

President Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday he gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a list of 16 critical infrastructure "entities" that must be "off-limits" to cyberattacks and hinted at major retaliation from the United States should Russia allow continued malign activity in the sphere.

Biden, speaking ahead of his press conference following a slate of bilateral meetings with Putin and Russian officials, claimed the topic of cybersecurity was included in a discussion on establishing a "mechanism" for "strategic stability."

"I talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off-limits to attack, period, by cyber or any other means," the president stated. "I gave them a list, and I don't have it in front of me, if I am not mistaken, of 16 entities — 16 defined as critical infrastructure, from the energy sector to our water systems."

It was lunacy.  Who hands a "killer" as Joe said earlier, or even a "worthy adversary" as our commander-in-chief said later, a "do not attack list," as if Putin would heed it with only the best of intentions?

Problems galore stand out with that approach, and they're all doozies.

First, Biden is giving Putin a "do not attack" list, informing Russia of where the U.S.'s worst vulnerabilities are.  It's pretty much a target list, a declaration of America's biggest fears.  That's pretty valuable intelligence for any "worthy adversary."  That's information that spies pay big dollars for to their agents to get, and here Joe Biden just handed it to them without making them shell out.  Scott Johnson at Power Line has the list of 16 from Biden's "do not attack" list here

Second, it's also very naïve.  Tell Putin where it hurts, Joe, and Putin will stay away, seems to be the logic.  That's pretty comparable to Biden's announcing a U.S. pullout date in Afghanistan, offering the Taliban a convenient date for calculating a response.  Our enemies thrive on such certainty.  Yet here Joe goes, handing Putin a list of where it hurts most, and trusting in his good offices to refrain from cyber-attacks, based on a threat of retaliation.

Third, Biden seems to be saying that while 16 American industries, such as water and power and 14 others are all off limits to cyber-attacks, pretty much everything else is perfectly acceptable.  No consequences for attacks on a retailer or a baseball team or anything one can anticipate didn't make the top-16 list, it seems — that's the implication.  Picking and choosing who can't be a target and who can is not going to instill confidence in the American economy, even assuming that Putin does heed the Biden command.

Fourth, with the list of 16 in hand, it's only a matter of time before the list starts to leak out.  Yes, it's already public, but Biden highlighted its importance. Biden has already cited water and energy as two targets off limits to Putin to cyber-attacks.  That's sent a message to the world's hackers as well as China and North Korea to get busy, because if Biden doesn't want these targets attacked, then all the better to attack them.  That's the logic of hackers and sovereign enemies, and they're not all Putin. 

Two other issues muddle the picture, and they're problematic, too.

First, does Putin control the hackers?  If so, he's got a list of targets for attack now, but if not, then the list is worthless because the hackers operate outside his control.

Putin, in fact, is still denying that he controls Russia's cyber-hacker rings that have already targeted a U.S. energy pipeline in the South and the U.S. meat industry in the recent past, which makes him hard to work with.  Any attack at all is going to be denied, merited or not, so you can bet the 16 will be breached.  Yet the question remains: does Putin control these people, or does he not?  Does Putin control hackers in some place like Belarus, or North Macedonia, which is also where such attacks could originate?  Does Putin control them in China?  Seems we need some "root causes" here, as Kamala Harris likes to say before we can go farther.

Does the U.S. have flawless intelligence on who is doing it?  If so, why isn't the U.S. acting to stop just the culprits?  It seems overly broad to blame a whole country for the actions of a few criminals and take hell-to-pay retaliation.  It has a high potential for trouble, given that all of these attacks have happened undercover with complete deniability.  It seems like a lot to threaten when the provenance of such attacks remains unclear. 

Second, are Biden's threats even going to scare Putin?  We also already know that even with a smoking gun on the matter of China and its creation of COVID in a Wuhan lab, Joe doesn't seem to be willing to take action.  We also know that the U.S. sometimes gets faulty intelligence, as happened in the case of Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.  Biden's now vowing massive retaliation on Russia for any cyber-breach, verified or not verified, yet then said: "We'll find out whether we have a cyber-security arrangement that begins to bring some order," according to the Washington Examiner.  Will that be before or after the boots on the ground and the flattening of cities, Joe?

It's obvious that the threats Biden is vowing are largely going to be read as toothless by Putin if that's what his plan is.  It's unrealistic.  And not only does it call to mind Obama's profane statement about Biden, but it also recalls former CIA director Bob Gates's statement — that Biden has been "wrong on nearly every foreign policy front."

He's beneath his office with this foolish list.  And he's rapidly moving into the ranks of America's worst presidents.


Biden is a joke on the world stage

Stop me if you've heard this joke before.  The Russian president and the American president decide to meet up in Geneva to work out their differences.  

The Russian president says, "I'm concerned for your country, sir.  The same Big Tech companies that helped rig your election by paying off election workers and manipulating the flow of information to voters are now engaged in mass censorship of half the country as they protect your grip on power.  Your corporate news people discarded any pretense of being an investigative 'free press' long ago and openly launder propaganda from your Intelligence Community and a small collection of multinational corporate oligarchs advancing outright lies.  They spent years blaming Hillary's election loss on a 'Russian dossier' that Hillary's own campaign created, and nobody was ever brought to justice for a lie that tore your country in two and brought ours to the brink of war. 

"Antifa and Black Lives Matter have destroyed many of your cities and repeatedly terrorized your citizens, yet you celebrate them as heroes, while your corrupt FBI categorizes them as mere 'ideas' spreading 'hope and change.'  Your Democratic Party has closed churches and punished the faithful for practicing their religion in the face of a virus that has proved far less lethal than predicted.  At the same time, your government health agencies and medical journals conspired to cover up the origin of the illness in Wuhan, China, while allowing hundreds of thousands of your citizens to die by engaging in a disinformation campaign against certain generic pharmaceutical drugs that have been around for decades and proven highly effective in treating the new lab-created disease.  

"Your education system is teaching that racism is good if it hurts people with lighter skin color.  Your military is purging members who speak out against communism.  Your Justice Department has engaged in the worst kind of political persecution against conservatives, while shielding Democrats from criminal inquiries.  You're encouraging anger and violence against your own citizen police forces.  You're aiding drug cartels and sex-traffickers at your southern border.  You and your family have been bought handsomely by the Chinese Communist Party.  And even though a majority of the American people believe you outright stole the 2020 election, you've criminalized those who say so as 'domestic terrorists,' thrown hundreds of political prisoners into solitary confinement without bail or trial, and excused the killing of an unarmed Air Force veteran for the crime of trespassing in the 'People's House,' even though there is ample video footage of Capitol Police inviting political protesters inside the building. 

"My apologies, Mr. President, but how is all of this possible in a country founded on liberty, a nation that has historically seen itself as the 'city on a hill' and the American president as the 'leader of the free world'?  How can you call Russia the greatest threat to Americans' security today when your own government does such an outstanding job of threatening Americans?"

The American president, listening intently, nods his head and replies, "I understand.  I will transmit this information to Vladimir."  

"Wait, I'm Vladimir.  You mean Obama?"  

What's scarier about this scenario — that it strikes too close to home to be funny, or that Biden's conversation with Putin in Switzerland may go a whole lot worse than what I describe?  When the White House handlers have to pre-emptively nix any possibility for a joint press conference days before the big meeting because the Russian president might make the American president look dumb and feeble, you know that nobody in Biden's orbit believes he is up for the job.  

What's that standard from the Constitution's 25th Amendment that Democrats dragged out for four years in their attempts to remove President Trump from office by hook or by crook?  Oh, yeah — presidential fitness.  Wouldn't admitting that Joe Biden can't be trusted to appear alongside "Pootie-Poot" without being humiliated before the world or risking being provoked into a dementia-raddled rage or being tricked into handing Alaska back to Russia set off most alarm bells that the American president is a national security risk and not fit for office?  

It's not as if America is asking Sniffy-Feely to storm Normandy under fire and guns-a-blazin' — hell, the Biden White House can't even be bothered to remember D-Day or the mainly white Americans who died there so Europe could be free.  All we need is an American executive capable of recalling that he is president, committed to protecting America's interests, and alive enough to stand before reporters for an hour and competently answer softball questions given to him in advance by a compliant and obsequious press corps all too eager to pretend Biden's descent into dyspeptic confusion and inaudible mumbling is the result of a childhood lisp.

Which part of all that is too much to ask of the "most powerful man in the world"?  The standing part, the speaking English part, or the idea that Biden can appear in public that long without forgetting where he is or why he's there?  If America needed any reminder that its doddering old fool of a puppet president lost what little mental fitness he once had sometime around when he was complimenting Barack Obama for being surprisingly "clean" for a black man, it has seen more than any nation should have to stomach as Bag-o-Bones stumbles around Europe.  

When he's not getting lost in Cornwall or being retrieved from common cafeterias by his nursemaid wife who has somehow become acting president for the duration of Joe's time in office (heh, why not, once you train a country to accept election fraud, you can train the people to accept hereditary dictatorship pretty easily), he's busy confusing military action in Syria and Libya, immediately forgetting what's said by world leaders sitting right next to him, and getting repeatedly touchy-feely with onlookers.  By comparison, the queen of England looked downright youthful at the tender age of ninety-five, if for no other reason than her composed demeanor and situational awareness around guests of the G-7 summit highlighted how perpetually lost America's head of state seems to be.  

Biden's splash on the world stage with back-to-back fêtes in Cornwall and Brussels should have been an easy showing — even for a man who cannot speak or answer questions unless he is reading verbatim from remarks written down for him.  Shoring up America's commitment to G-7, the NATO military alliance, and U.S.-E.U. hegemony were supposed to be simple endeavors in which Europe could embrace the new American president, celebrate the end of President Trump's "America First" policies, and jump back into the business-as-usual neoliberal global order that keeps the West's ruling class well fed and in power.  

Instead, Joe Biden has looked every bit the imbecile Americans already know him to be and has no doubt made more than a few Europeans wonder, as state audits of the 2020 election continue to pick up steam, how a man who so noticeably struggles with English could be elected president of an English-speaking country or how a man who routinely disparages America and Americans both at home and overseas could be chosen to represent them.  No doubt the Russian president will be asking those questions, too.  As one British member of Parliament remarked, though, Biden's "so senile that he probably won't remember" anyway.


How Nations Slip from Greatness to Obscurity

Is America on a path of permanent decline?

 

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Men, like nations, think they’re eternal. What man in his 20s or 30s doesn’t believe, at least subconsciously, that he’ll live forever?

In the springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it’s harder to hide from reality.

Nations too have seasons. Imagine a Roman of the 2nd. century contemplating an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will endure forever.

Forever was about 500 years, give or take.

France was the thing in the 17th and 18th centuries. Now the land of Charles Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British empire. Now Albion exists in a perpetual twilight. Its 95-year-old sovereign is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.

In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world. Business schools taught Japanese management techniques. Today, its birth rate is so low and its population is aging so rapidly, that an industry has sprung up to remove the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.

I was born in 1946, almost at the midpoint of the 20th century – the American century.  America’s prestige and influence were never greater. Thanks to the Greatest Generation, we won a World War fought over most of Europe, Asia and the Pacific. We reduced Germany to rubble and put the rising sun to bed.

It set the stage for almost half a century of unprecedented prosperity. We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia, and fought international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on much of the world.

We built skyscrapers and rockets to the moon. We conquered Polio and COVID.  We explored the mysteries of the Universe and the wonders of DNA, the blueprint  of life.

But where is the glory that once was Rome?

America has moved from a relatively free economy to socialism – which has worked so well nowhere in the world. We’ve gone from a republican government guided by a constitution to a regime of revolving elites. We have less freedom with each passing year.

Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror, the cancel culture is everywhere. We’ve traded the American Revolution for the Cultural Revolution.

The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel filled by his handlers. At the G-7 Summit, Dr. Jill had to lead him like a child.

In 1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader was too. Now a feeble  nation is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the presidency.

We can’t defend our borders, our history (including monuments to past greatness) or our streets. Our cities have become anarchist playgrounds.

We are a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced charity. Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.

The president of the United States can’t even quote the beginning of the Declaration of Independence correctly. Ivy League graduates routinely fail history tests that 5th graders could pass a generation ago.

Crime rates soar and we blame the 2nd. Amendment and slash police budgets.

Our culture is certifiably insane. We have men who marry men. Men who think they’re women. People who fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race that they’re inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual victims. A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person.”

We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips lower year by year.

Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even pretend that we will repay it one day. It’s a $28-trillion monument to our improvidence and refusal to confront reality.

Our “entertainment” is sadistic, nihilistic and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the trash. Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to repulsive.

Patriotism is called insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion sanctified.

A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress.

We’re asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in.

How meekly most submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks and hand sanitizers) shows the death of the American spirit.

How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?

  • Fighting endless wars they can’t or won’t win
  • Accumulating massive debt far beyond their ability to repay
  • Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation to be inundated by an alien horde
  • Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule
  • Allowing indoctrination of the young
  • Moving from a republican form of government to an oligarchy
  • Losing national identity
  • Indulging indolence
  • Abandoning faith and family – the bulwarks social order.

In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicating an advanced stage of the disease.

Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what we had?

I’m surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union soldiers who held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered bastards of Bastogne, those who served in the cold hell of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of Southeast Asia and came home to be reviled or neglected.

This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose uniform my father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War. I don’t want to imagine a world without America, even though it becomes increasingly likely.

During Britain’s darkest hour, when its professional army was trapped at Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill reminded his countrymen, “Nations that go down fighting rise again, and those that surrender tamely are finished.”

The same might be said of causes. If we let America slip through our fingers, if we lose without a fight, what will posterity say of us?

While the prognosis is far from good, only God knows if America’s day in the sun is over.

 

Putin Humiliates Biden

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While Russia held military exercises off Hawaii and pushed the press around, the media desperately tried to pretend that Biden was going in strong to his meeting with Vladimir Putin.

The meeting would have been a disaster even if Biden weren't missing a significant percentage of his marbles.

Long before the meeting, Biden had already given in to Putin's two biggest demands, avoiding any interference with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline (while crushing the Keystone pipeline and all the jobs and energy independence that come with it in America) and joining Russia's scam arms accord that President Trump had refused to renew. 

The rest was theater and Putin is a lot better at it than Biden.

Biden raised human rights issues that neither he nor Putin cares about. Mentioning them was just an opportunity for Putin to humiliate Biden.

Facing obvious cognitive decline, Biden brought prep cards to the meeting and was reduced to pleading with Putin that cyberattacks on American "critical infrastructure should be off-limits". 

Russia obviously doesn't feel that way. Neither does China. 

Biden's hollow threats of retaliation are a pathetic joke.

When Russia or China targets critical water and power infrastructure in America, is Biden going to give the order to cut off water and power in a major Chinese or Russian city with all the attendant humanitarian consequences? 

The fundamental difference came in one critical comment by Biden that, "All foreign policy is a logical extension of personal relationships."

Too many American presidents keep saying dumb things like this. And worse yet, they believe it.

Foreign policy is an extension of personal and national interests. Biden, like most Democrats, can't conceive of any national interests, just ideologies. Russia, China, and the rest of the world have national interests. That's why our diplomacy is in shambles even when we're not being represented by a senile party hack. 

Republicans Rip Biden for Delaying Sanctions on Putin Regime

Sen. Risch and Rep. McCaul say Biden's inaction 'projects weakness'

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Congressional Republicans on Wednesday said President Joe Biden is backing down to Russian president Vladimir Putin by delaying legally required sanctions on the strongman's regime.

House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Michael McCaul (R., Texas) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Jim Risch (R., Idaho) called on the president to impose sanctions on Russia that are mandated by the 1991 Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act. Although the administration enforced sanctions in March in response to the Putin regime's poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, it is required to enforce a second round of sanctions within 90 days if Biden is unable to certify that Russia no longer uses chemical weapons.

Risch and McCaul said Biden's delay in enforcing sanctions "projects weakness" amid the president's meeting Wednesday with Putin in Geneva to discuss national security and human rights issues.

"We are concerned that the delay of the imposition of these mandatory sanctions appears to be part of a larger pattern to avoid confronting the Putin regime ahead of the U.S.-Russia summit," the lawmakers wrote in a Letter to the president. "Forgoing this second round of U.S. sanctions, especially directly before your meeting with the Russian president, signals an unwillingness to stand up for the rule of law and democratic values and to truly hold the Putin regime accountable for its continued efforts to undermine them."

Before the summit, the Biden administration also waived sanctions on Nord Stream 2, a pipeline that will transport gas directly from Russia to Germany. The Biden administration has also yet to respond with legal action against Moscow after Russian hackers—likely permitted by the Putin regime—conducted a cyberattack that shut down American energy company Colonial Pipeline last month.

Following the Geneva summit, Biden said there is a "genuine prospect" of significantly improving Russian-American relations in the months ahead, but also criticized Putin for the continued detention of Navalny and the arbitrary imprisonment of two former Marines, Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed. Putin, who spoke to the press alone after the summit, likened Navalny's opposition coalition to the Black Lives Matter movement. Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo said Biden's absence at Putin's post-summit press conference allowed the strongman to "spout Russian propaganda."

"He was allowed to go up there and spout Russian propaganda to create the context for moral equivalence between the United States and Russia on every front, whether it was talking about BLM or protesters or our judicial system," Pompeo said. "I hope that President Biden is able to confront this."

No. 3 Senate Republican John Barrasso vows to make Biden a 'one-half-term president'

The No. 3 Senate Republican, John Barrasso of Wyoming, told a group of voters that he wants to make President Joe Biden a "one-half-term president."

"Mitch McConnell's come under a lot of criticism for saying, at one point, he wanted to make sure that Barack Obama was a one-term president," Barrasso said last Thursday at an event hosted by the Ripon Society, a centrist Republican think tank, which posted the remarks Tuesday.

"I want to make Joe Biden a one-half-term president. And I want to do that by making sure they no longer have House, Senate, White House," he said.

McConnell, R-Ky., the Senate minority leader, has vowed to block Biden's agenda and sharply criticized the administration's policies. McConnell said last month that he is "100 percent" focused on "stopping" Biden's administration.

"We're confronted with severe challenges from a new administration and a narrow majority of Democrats in the House and a 50-50 Senate to turn America into a socialist country, and that's 100 percent of my focus," he said.

Video: Biden and Putin meet at Geneva summit

 
 
 I HOPE HE HANDLES OTHER CURVE 
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Before the 2010 midterms, McConnell told the National Journal that "the single most important thing" Republicans wanted at the time was for Obama to be "a one-term president," adding, "I don't want the president to fail; I want him to change."

Obama was re-elected for a second term, but Republicans won control of the House after the 2010 midterms and gained the Senate for the final two years of Obama's presidency, which denied him confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee. Republicans lost control of the House during the Trump administration, and Democrats narrowly regained the Senate last year.

Barrasso said Democrats are the "party of socialism" in his remarks and excoriated the Democratic agenda as government welfare.

"I'm looking forward to a very successful 2022," he said. "Republicans want to continue to work on growing the economy, and the Democrats want to grow the government."

He said Biden is going "along for the ride" as the party veers left on policies regarding policing, jobs and climate change. Barrasso also suggested that Biden is a rubber stamp for the Senate majority leader and the House speaker.

"Joe Biden will never veto a bill," he said. "He will go down in history as a president who has never vetoed a bill, because he will sign whatever Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi put on his desk."

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