Sunday, June 13, 2021

IS KAMALA HARRIS REALLY THE NATION'S FOOL OR IS SHE SIMPLY TRIPPED UP KEEPING UP WITH ALL JOE BIDEN'S LIES ABOUT HOMELAND SECURITY?

 

Calamity Kamala Is An International Laughingstock

Jeff Crouere
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Posted: Jun 13, 2021 12:01 AM
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Calamity Kamala Is An International Laughingstock

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Upon becoming president, Joe Biden created a disaster at the nation’s southern border. He foolishly ordered an immediate halt to the construction of our border wall. He also abandoned Trump administration policies that were clearly working. The result has been a massive increase in the number of illegal immigrants entering the United States. 

This stampede of migrants has overwhelmed our resources at the border and created a true humanitarian catastrophe. To show he was taking action to deal with the problem, Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to be his point person on the border crisis. 

Even though he has selected crazed leftists for many of the positions in his administration, choosing Harris may have been his worst appointment. Harris is a total embarrassment who has never succeeded in any position throughout her political career. 

As a presidential candidate, Harris departed the race early after a series of pathetic performances in debates. Her fundraising collapsed and she exited several months before the first presidential caucus. 

Biden rescued her from political obscurity when he chose her as his running mate. As the vice-presidential candidate, she failed to capture the imagination of voters and was fairly ineffective. In her only televised debate with her Republican opponent, Vice President Mike Pence, she was terrible and lost convincingly. 

Her performance as vice president has been even worse, so it is mystifying why Biden would choose her for such an important role as dealing with the border crisis. In this position, she has been even worse than expected, acting in an arrogant, ill-informed manner that has only exacerbated the crisis. 

For months, Harris has been dodging questions about whether she would visit the border. Eventually, the Biden administration morphed her mission into an investigation of the “root causes” of the border catastrophe. To further her investigation, she visited Guatemala and Mexico last week. To say it was an unmitigated disaster is an understatement. It was possibly the worst foreign trip for any United States vice president in modern history. 

Her performance was so poor that even pro-Biden news outlets like CNN were reporting the White House was disappointed in the trip and “perplexed” by her statements. In an interview with NBC news anchor Lester Holt, Harris seemed unprepared when he asked her about when she was going to visit the border. Her excuse was that she had not visited “Europe” either. 

This answer was so poor that Meghan McCain of ABC’s The View commented that Harris “sounded like a moron” in the interview. McCain also noted that Harris seems to laugh whenever asked about the question. She remarked that her “nervous laugh is making me nervous that she doesn’t know what she’s doing.”

Sadly, she does not know what she is doing on any issue. Her incompetence was on display during her recent trip where she clearly did not make any friends. 

In Guatemala, the vice president was greeted by angry local residents who were upset that the Biden administration policies had worsened the problems in their country. Their signs read “Trump Won,” “Go Home” and “Kamala, Mind Your Own Business.”

The meeting with the President of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, was not much better.  He noted his disagreements with the Biden administration on the border crisis. In a CBS interview that aired right before the Vice President arrived, Giammattei criticized the Biden administration. He said, “We asked the United States government to send more of a clear message to prevent more people from leaving.” He also observed that he was “not on the same side of the coin” as the vice president on the issue of migration. 

In her press conference with the Guatemalan leader, Harris stated that migrants should not come to the United States for asylum because they will be returned to their home country. She claimed that “The president and I discussed that fundamentally, most people do not want to leave home, they don't want to leave the place where the language they know is spoken.”

Despite the challenges of travelling thousands of miles in dangerous conditions, the migrants continue to come to the United States because the Biden-Harris administration has created an open border. Along with stopping construction of the border wall, the new administration ended President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers. In addition, immigration court cases are being “fast tracked” for families that recently crossed into the country from Mexico. 

Illegal immigrants have viewed the Biden administration policies as a clear sign to enter the United States. The results are both catastrophic and predictable. According to United States Customs and Border Protection, over 178,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at the border in April 2021. The influx is not stopping as the problem continues to explode. 

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As the person charged by the president to deal with this crisis, Harris has refused to visit the border and examine the problem personally. Even though she now claims that she will make the trek to the border at some point, the delay has been totally unacceptable. According to United States Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), “I hope she does visit the southern border very, very soon. It is imperative. The longer she waits, the harder it is for her to explain why she hasn’t gone to view the crisis herself and form her own opinions about what’s going on.”

For Vice President Harris, there will be no escape from the border question until she visits. She was even questioned about it during participation at an LGBTQ pride parade on Saturday. 

Not only is her refusal to visit the border a major problem, but her lack of consistency is not helping matters. After telling migrants to stay home during her visit to Guatemala, she changed her tune in an interview on Friday with the Spanish news wire service EFE. She claimed that she was committed to providing a “safe haven for those seeking asylum.” 

Vice President Kamala Harris is the epitome of both inconsistency and incompetence.

Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs nationally on Real America's Voice Network, AmericasVoice.News weekdays at 7 a.m. CT and from 7-11 a.m. weekdays on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America's Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jeff@ringsidepolitics.com

JOE BIDEN EXCUMMUNICATED! - WHAT THE HELL DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? JOE THE BRIBES SUCKER WAS HEADED FOR HELL ANYWAY AND CAN'T TAKE ALL HIS STOLEN 'BIG GUY' LOOT WITH HIM


Senators Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and Bob Menendez (N.J.) introduced an act to require the State Department to include abortion access in its annual reports on international human rights.

BOB MENENDEZ AND HIS WHORES:

CORRUPT BRIBES SUCKING DEMOCRAT PARTY POLITICIANS-LAWYERS - IS THERE A GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN THESE PIG LAWYERS?

 

 https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/05/corrupt-bribes-sucking-democrat-party.html


KAMALA HARRIS, THE GODLESS.

https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/10/kamala-harris-godless-just-follow-money.html

Harris is no friend of religious liberty. Her recent decision to exclaim in the year of our Lord, which has been conveniently picked up by her staff, is a ploy designed to appeal to unassuming Christian voters impressed by "God talk." As the old adage says, actions speak louder than words, and on this score, Harris fails to convince.

It is the handmaidens working for Planned Parenthood who have joked about selling aborted baby body parts.  And it was Kamala Harris, when she was A.G. of California, who viciously prosecuted the young man who exposed that scandal, after she had received a hefty donation from Planned Parenthood.

THE SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE WAS VERY GENEROUS AFTER KAMAL HARRIS LET THEM AVOID PRISON…. JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!

As most people know, prior to her being a Senator, she served as the chief prosecutor for the city of San Francisco.  Now, complaints are coming forward that she flat out refused to pursue criminal cases against Catholic priests who allegedly sexually battered children.

People who say they were victims of childhood sexual abuse call out Harris for not doing all that she could to prosecute their cases. 

 

Democrats Make Abortion a Top Foreign Policy Priority

Dems seek to enshrine abortion as global right

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.) and Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) / edited from Getty Images
 • June 10, 2021 4:10 pm

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President Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing to make abortion a foreign policy priority for the United States.

Following the Biden administration's decision to lift the ban on foreign aid for abortion providers, congressional Democrats are calling for the State Department to consider abortion in its assessment of global human rights. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and Bob Menendez (N.J.) introduced an act to require the State Department to include abortion access in its annual reports on international human rights.

The bill identifies a lack of access to abortion as a human rights violation. "Reproductive coercion, which is any behavior that interferes with autonomous decision making about reproductive health outcomes, is a violation of human rights," the resolution says.

"The bill would require the U.S. State Department to include reproductive rights in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – including reports on the adoption of national policies to promote access to contraception, maternal health care and family planning services – to help ensure accountability around abuses on these rights," the lawmakers said in a statement.

Biden drew objections from Republicans when

he removed domestic protections

against taxpayer funding for abortions from his

$6 trillion budget proposal. The administration

has also pursued policies that could pump

millions of dollars into pro-abortion

organizations operating overseas.

The State Department requested a 12 percent increase for its 2022 fiscal budget, with the most significant increase going to spending on global health initiatives. The budget request includes the Helms Amendment, a provision that is supposed to limit foreign aid funding for abortion. In reality, international abortion organizations have been able to collect tens of millions of taxpayer dollars for decades through family planning programs. The agency's budget includes initiatives designed to increase that funding.

Congressional Republicans have raised concerns about the use of taxpayer money to fund international organizations that provide abortion services or referrals. Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (Miss.) clashed with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a hearing Tuesday, saying the State Department's budget proposal would devote millions of taxpayer dollars to funding abortions overseas.

"Your budget would funnel even more taxpayer dollars to these organizations by increasing the slush fund for international family planning reproductive health by $8.7 million," she said. "Promoting abortion in poor, developing nations, especially when those nations have pro-life laws in place right now, harms the most vulnerable and undermines the goodwill we seek to do with global health assistance."

Blinken denied that the budget request would fund abortions. "We take very seriously the proposition that … the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls are key to their health and well-being," he said. "We also take very seriously the proposition that we are not in the business of funding internationally abortion."

A State Department spokeswoman said the agency said "reproductive health" abroad is a matter of national security.

"The empowerment and protection of women and girls, including promoting their sexual and reproductive health and rights, is a central part of U.S. foreign policy and national security," the agency said in a statement. "The Administration takes [the Helms Amendment] and other related legislative restrictions very seriously and will work with partners to ensure compliance."

The White House did not respond to requests for comment on the role abortion would play in U.S. foreign policy.

The move to prioritize abortion echoes the Obama administration's policies, under which abortion providers successfully lobbied the State Department and received millions of dollars in funding. Biden's decision to repeal the Mexico City Policy, which bans giving taxpayer aid to international abortion providers, reversed the Trump administration's decision to cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, which has funneled millions to abortion groups worldwide. In 2017, the State Department cut off funding for the population fund because of its involvement with the Chinese government's genocide against the Muslim Uyghur minority. Congressional Democrats introduced legislation in 2019 to permanently repeal the Mexico City Policy.

Here's the Details of if the Catholic Bishops Will Decide Whether to Deny Pro-Abortion Joe Biden Communion

Rebecca Downs
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Posted: Jun 13, 2021 3:45 PM
Here's the Details of if the Catholic Bishops Will Decide Whether to Deny Pro-Abortion Joe Biden Communion

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As Townhall has covered, that President Joe Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi both portend to be devout Catholics while still publicly advocating for abortion has created something of a situation for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). 

Next week, the Catholic bishops will meet virtually for their twice-annual gathering to discuss a number of action items, though the one gaining the most attention has to do with clarifying the Church's stance on abortion. 

As Michael J. O'Loughlin with America magazine reported:

Earlier this year, Bishop Kevin Rhoades, the chair of the doctrine committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, took the first steps in a process that could result in the bishops adopting a formal statement pertaining to “Eucharistic consistency.” According to a draft of the proposal, which was distributed to U.S. bishops along with a memo from the conference’s president, Archbishop José Gomez, on May 22, the proposed statement is a response to both a strategic plan that focuses on catechism about Communion as well as recommendations from a working group Archbishop Gomez created following President Joe Biden’s election last November. Mr. Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, supports access to abortion, which the church condemns.

“The statement will be addressed to all Catholics,” the proposal reads, though it notes it would also “include the theological foundation for the Church’s discipline concerning the reception of Holy Communion and a special call for those Catholics who are cultural, political, or parochial leaders to witness the faith.”

Such a statement will not mention President Biden or Speaker Pelosi or any other figure by name. A pastoral letter from Nancy Pelosi's hometown archbishop, Salvatore Cordileone, as Townhall reported, stressed the importance of a pro-life stance for public figures, without referring to the speaker by name. Such a public rebuke would not be appropriate. 

The statement will not merely apply to Biden or Pelosi, but to all Catholics. One could argue that by making themselves such high profile Catholics while still actively advocating for pro-abortion policies, Biden and Pelosi are the ones making it about themselves.

Missing from Biden's $6 trillion budget proposal is Hyde amendment language, which protects Americans from having to fund elective abortions with their taxpayers. The Hyde amendment has passed every years since 1976 with bipartisan support, including under the Obama administration, when Biden was vice president.

O'Loughlin also reported:

Nearly 70 bishops signed a letter dated May 13 asking Archbishop Gomez to delay the discussion about the document until bishops are able to meet in person.

“The serious nature of these issues—especially the imperative to forge substantive unity—makes it impossible to address them productively in the fractured and isolated setting of a distance meeting,” reads the one-page letter urging a delay on the vote, which was signed initially by four U.S. cardinals, including Washington, D.C., Cardinal Wilton Gregory.

But on May 22, Archbishop Gomez distributed a memo to all U.S. bishops informing them that the vote would take place in June. His memo noted that the proposal followed established protocols, which have been in place for decades.

This is the part which has gotten considerable attention, specifically those who claim it is the Catholic bishops who are weaponizing the faith.

As Olafimihan Oshin recently reported for The Hill, "21,000 sign petition protesting US Catholic bishops vote on Biden, abortion," which focused on letters organized by Faithful America calling out the Catholic bishops. 

That same group had issued yet another campaign against Archbishop Joseph Naumann, the Chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Pro-Life Activities, a position he was elected to by his fellow bishops. The campaign was in reaction to an interview Naumann gave to the Atlantic in March where he said Biden should not call himself "devout" and should not present himself for communion because of his pro-abortion stance. 

As the Cardinal of Washington D.C., Wilton Gregory is Biden's bishop when the president is in the district. Cardinal Gregory has signaled he will not deny Joe Biden communion over his stance on abortion and also took part in aspects of Biden's inaugural events. Speaker Pelosi has also done readings at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, which is in Washington, D.C.

What really matters to the conversation, including and especially what the Vatican wants, is that the bishops take their time and have a sense of unity and consensus. 

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The Coma Before the Storm

Kurt  Schlichter
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Posted: Jun 14, 2021 12:01 AM
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.
The Coma Before the Storm

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It’s beyond any reasonable dispute that the slack-jawed old pervert staggering through this punchline presidency is getting more senile by the day. All the while, his cackling understudy is biding her time everywhere but at the border, getting huffy at being questioned, and generally failing at a job historically assigned to morons as a role where they could do little damage. The only people who dig their hep jive – yeah, go on and believe the 79% approval numbers among people now paying $5 a gallon for unleaded – are the talking tubers of cable news. But even the tater thots of Brian Stelter, who is a potato, can’t dispel the growing sense of unease that watching these incompetent weirdos brings.

This epoch is the interregnum, a caretaker presidency presided over by a human asterisk who cares only about his post-lid bowl of mush and being wrapped in a shawl, set in front of the tee-vee, and allowed to watch his stories. The only thing moving less expeditiously than his bowels is his ridiculous legislative agenda, and all the prunes in the world aren’t going to help clear out that particular constipation, not with Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema refusing to commit ritual political suicide on the altar of coastal leftist dreams.

The progs were so close, just a vote or two away, to the unrestrained power they thought they could flex and thereby secure their control forever. But * is no Franklin Roosevelt. Nor is he Teddy Roosevelt. Nor Eleanor Roosevelt, though he could be if he really, really wanted to be. He’s not even Melvin Roosevelt. Instead, Grandpa Badfinger is a rickety joke, bumping elbows with his younger fellow-incompetents at the G7, wandering about mindlessly chasing moths until his ridiculous wife, with her ridiculous “Dr.”, wrangles him back into the hapless pack. You look at this sorry set of leaders of the formerly-free world and the vibe you get is “exhaustion.” There’s no energy, no drive, no hope. Boris Johnson, formerly a man, explained to a bored UK that that “nations coming out of the pandemic need to ‘build back better’ in a ‘greener,’ ‘more gender neutral and perhaps a more feminine way.’” Hack clichés are their solution, but these relics have nothing else. They are weak and stupid and they represent a spent elite that cares about nothing except just a little more time holding fast to their uncertain sinecures.

You can feel the tension beneath the surface, the sense that something is coming, a great changing. Oh, the elite at Davos fantasizes about a “Great Reset,” but they mean it literally – they want to reset the world back to how it was set when they were young and had energy and people hadn’t yet noticed that their venality and incompetence was matched only by their insanely inflated sense of their own abilities. But why would they be any better at pulling that off than they are at anything else? When the shattering disruption comes, they are the ones who will be disrupted, they and the whole post-War establishment our betters thought would last a thousand years and that won’t make it past 80. The elite aren’t, not even close, and we all know it now and we all sense that their Jenga tower o’ power can’t keep from toppling over even as they pull more and more blocks out of it, shredding norms (just this once – it’s always “just this once”) to keep their grip.

But what comes next? Something big, but the question is “What?” The only thing for certain is that the people running things now won’t like it. It’s been said here many times that Donald Trump was not our last chance, but theirs, our final fair warning to our failed elite from back when, at some level, we still thought the ruling caste acknowledged that we normals had at least some theoretical right to participate in our own government. But such illusions, to the extent they had endured, got shattered last November. We heard for four years how the 2016 election had been hacked, stolen, whatever the hyperbole du jour was, and the minute they could proclaim His Asteriskness president questioning elections became treason. But we saw the cheating, and we saw the judicial and executive sleight-of-hand that changed the rules in ways a real Supreme Court would have objected to, and we saw the informal rigging of the election through the lies and covering-up of the professional, licensed, and registered janitors of narrative journalism.

Now it’s all about holding onto power no matter what the cost. The corrupt feds toss trespassers into solitary while letting Antifa/BLM scumbags walk. Their tech buddies desperately try to play whack-a-mole with the unapproved ideas that keep popping up. The garbage media celebrates noted onanists while it ignores the Snortunate Son’s latest entry on his CV of shame – he’s added racial epithets to his remarkable and remarkably unremarked-upon record of tapping the tills of Slavic oligarchs, tapping rando strippers, and re-imagining the classic 80s novel of coke-fueled excess as Bright Lights, Big Guy (who gets his 10%).

It can’t last. Maybe if these puffy clowns were pros they could keep their boots on our throats forever, but they don’t own boots – too cis – and their Guccis and Birkenstocks just don’t have the same heft. They are weak, and stupid, and they are not even cunning enough to ensure that the cops and military, who would be expected to provide their final protective fire when accountability comes to overrun them, are prepared to do their dirty work. They need a savage Praetorian Guard – who doubts they would turn the razor-sharp gladii of their legionnaires on the people if that’s what it took to keep power? – but instead they’ve driven the best LEOs out via defunding and persecution and they’ve turned the Army into a camo-clad Ivy League faculty lounge that, over the last couple decades, has won precisely the same number of military victories as an Ivy League faculty lounge. 

You can see the signs and hear rumblings out there. You can feel the growing anger. We are flocking to Ron DeSantis and others who pick and poke at the status quo, while rejecting the Nikki!s and Asa!s and Kristi!s who still take the Chamber of Commerce’s calls. Change is coming, not just here but throughout the West. The smart set refused to see the signs or hear the rumblings. Part of the fun will be seeing the surprise on their smug, perpetually-masked faces.

And now the elite has reached peak zombie with President * literally stumbling through his tenure as the tongue-bath media not only praises the Emperor’s new clothes (and literally praises Dr. Empress’s tacky duds) but marvels at his ability to feed himself. Look for a 99% approval rating to come down the pike even as we’re told that the biggest threat to Our Democracy is those wicked insurrectionists and their insurrectiony ideas about normal people having a say in their own governance. 

Tick tock.

It’s not clear what’s going to happen, but this mess is unsustainable and what happens next may get ugly. They aren’t just going to shrug and give up power any more than we’ll shrug and submit to the serfdom they have planned for us. So, enjoy this coma before the storm, because the storm is coming.