Biden has mastered the art of deflecting criticism of his corruption and incompetence by using black women as human shields. It began with Kamala Harris, who was grossly unready to serve in the White House, but whose nomination made a ticket headed by an old white hack seem transformational and whose continued presence makes it all but impossible to remove or bypass Biden from an office that he is equally unfit to occupy on ethical and moral grounds. DANIEL GREENFIELD
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If Corruption Was A Game Show
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Schweizer added, “We also now know that Hunter Biden did these deals, but the larger family benefited. We know that James Biden, Joe Biden’s brother, got at least $2 million of that money from China. We also now know that Hunter Biden was subsidizing his father’s lifestyle. He was paying for his bills. He was paying for renovations on his home up in Delaware while Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States. It’s not only illegal according to ethics laws. It also shows that Joe Biden is now a beneficiary of the foreign dealings that Hunter Biden has had. It’s no longer good enough for him to say, well, I didn’t have anything involved. He was a beneficiary.”
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Despite calls to resolve income disparity, Biden and Harris donate very little to charity
Last week, Fox News carried a report about the charitable donations made by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2021.
It was revealed that Joe and Jill Biden reported $610,702 in income for 2021, and paid $183,925 in federal and state income taxes. They donated $17,394 to charity -- i.e., roughly 2.8%.
Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff earned $1,655,563 in 2021 and paid $523,371 in federal income taxes. They donated $22,100 to charity i.e., roughly 1.3%.
According to 2016 data from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, American families making between $500,000 and $2 million donate around 3.1% of their earnings.
Hence, the Bidens paid 0.3% less than the average charitable deduction; for the Harrises, it was a significant 1.8% less than the average charitable deduction for Americans.
How much an individual donates to charity is strictly their personal affair. The spending habits of individuals, even public figures, should be no concern of any third party, unless the pursuits are illegal. In a free society, people must be allowed to spend as they desire. They can splash all their money on the luxuries of life or donate copiously to charity.
The sole reason that the scant charitable donations from the Bidens and Harrises deserve scrutiny is to verify if they follow the principles they relentlessly advocate.
Both Harris and Biden have complained that the rich do not pay their fair share.
The Biden administration claimed that lessening the disparity in income between the wealthiest and the rest of the populace has been among its top priorities. They prescribed two solutions: The first was to heavily tax the wealthiest within the U.S. The second was to provide welfare payments to regular people via their $1.9 trillion relief package.
Do they not realize that if the rich are taxed heavily, they will have no incentive to invest in U.S. companies? They will merely transfer their businesses and finances to business-friendly countries. The result is higher unemployment within the U.S. This has been happening for ages with manufacturing jobs being shipped abroad.
Providing welfare benefits to the needy is worthy, e.g., a single mother who is in poor health deserves government support to feed her family. However, if the government pays able-bodied people just because they are from a specific income bracket, there is no incentive to work. The workforce is reduced and businesses, especially small businesses, struggle.
The only way to reduce income inequality is to remove gratuitous regulations and reduce taxes. This causes investors to have more money to invest in businesses, resulting in job creation. It causes consumers to have more money to spend. This is exactly what President Trump did and he caused enrichment and empowerment of groups from all demographics. It even enriched the government i.e. the prosperity increased the number of taxpayers which is infinitely better than extracting more from a small group of taxpayers.
Tackling income inequality has been a Democrat idea since the 60s, perhaps even before that. In 1963, President Kennedy initiated planning for what became the “War on Poverty” to resolve income inequality. Subsequent Democrat Presidents such as Johnson, Carter, Obama, and now Biden frequently talk about this need to lessen the gap between incomes.
Back in the 1990s, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher exposed the mindset of the left when its denizens talk about income disparity.
The Democrats could have been excused if they were sincere. But like all Democrat utterances, these are empty words; virtue signaling to feign concern for the less fortunate. The Democrat base is not, as they would like you to think, lower-income individuals, it is in fact the very wealthy from Corporate America, Big Tech and Showbiz.
This explains why most Democrat pet issues have nothing to do with the empowerment or upliftment of regular people and lessen the income gaps.
Open borders cause an influx of illegal immigrants who often work for very low wages and no benefits. The beneficiaries are big businesses that need cheap seasonal fruit pickers in their orchards. Regular working citizens are either rendered unemployed or suffer a depression in wages.
What about climate change or Obamacare? The result of overregulation or government mandated insurance is small businesses have to waste their capital to meet gratuitous standards rather than invest in growth and adding more employees. The result is their profits either dwindle or they cannot sustain themselves and shut down causing unemployment. Who benefits, from this? Big businesses who can afford to survive despite over-regulations.
What about law and order? Violence due to Democrat misgovernance or calls for defunding the police cause instability. The result is existing businesses are destroyed and investors refrain from investing in local businesses. When a small business shuts down, it causes local unemployment. The customer base is transferred to big businesses.
The draconian lockdowns for prolonged periods of time hurt regular people. Small businesses suffer losses and could be compelled to close forever. The Democrats in government who made these lockdown rules and the Democrats in media who promote these rules have the luxury of working from home. Big businesses can also tolerate losses.
The vaccine mandates also have compelled regular people to quit their jobs causing strain on small businesses.
Hence, contrary to their claim, every item on the Democrat agenda causes of losses for small businesses and unemployment for the working class. The results is income inequality.
This has prompted people to wonder if it is all purposeful -- to create a permanent underclass and Democrat voting bank.
To return to the Biden and Harris matter: If they really want the rich to pay their 'fair share,' they could have become the change they claim to want and donated a significant portion of their income and savings. This would have brought them closer to regular Americans.
Despite never making any tall claims to virtue, it was President Donald Trump who donated his salary to various initiatives of national significance. The first $100,000 went to the National Park Service. Subsequently, he donated to various federal departments. Trump donated the last two-quarters of his 2019 salary and the first quarter of his 2020 salary to the Department of Health and Human Service specifically for COVID-19 and the U.S. opioid crisis.
The real goal behind this relentless Democrat talk about inequality is to cause class warfare that results in resentment, bitterness, and jealousy which they direct at Republicans.
Vilifying the rich and talking about punishing taxes is their way of making people vote on Schadenfreude, i.e., some Democrat voters may derive pleasure from the thought that the rich will suffer. In reality, nothing of the kind occurs because the Democrats are the party of the super-rich donors.
Biden and Harris’s paltry charity donations should be another wake-up call for voters regarding Democrat hypocrisy. Judge them solely by what they do, not by what they claim, and vote them out.
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Our definition of a lawyer is one who is institutionally trained in law school to LIE, CHEAT, COMMIT PERJURY, ORCHESTRATE PERJURY and ultimately GAME THE LEGAL SYSTEM. While they perpetrate these actions the lawyer will be sucking the blood out of their clients or the Nation itself. We only have to look at the political lives of lawyer Joe Biden, his lawyer son, Hunter Biden, and his lawyer brother, James Biden as well as bribes sucking sociopath lawyer Kamala Harris and her parasite lawyer husband, Douglas Emhoff.
We are all familiar with the staggering lawless regime of Barack Obama, describes as a sociopath by Ben Carson, M.D., and then there is the crime dual of Bill Clinton (impeached and disbarred), and his partner in crime Hillary Clinton described by Julian Assange as a “sadistic sociopath”.
This blog has dedicated a substantial amount of time to exposing the crimes of these gamer lawyers and the institutions that enable, protect and abet their criminality.
Lawyers are substantially nothing but parasites feeding on America and, as a class, constitute this Nation’s greatest threat to democracy and the American middle class.
The LAWYER CLASS is comprised of the entire Judicial, from servants of Wall Street on the Supreme Court, the bribes sucking lawyer-politicians who exist to serve primarily banksters, and billionaires and all the way down to the lowest sociopath lawyer-judges who exist to protect the special interests, primarily the business interests and to game the laws, which for lawyer do not really exist, for that judge’s particular special interests. That said, there is no special interest more important to the LAWYER CLASS than lawyers themselves.
HOW MANY OF THESE PIGS ARE GAMER LAWYERS?
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton (LAWYERS-2) Foundation and the (LAWYERS-2) Obama book and television deals. Then there is the Biden (LAWYERS-3) family corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the (LAWYER) Warren and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (YOU CAN ADD LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS, BANKSTER’S RENT BOY LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER, AND THE LYING GROPPER BROTHERS LAWYERS ANDREW AND CHRIS CUOMO TO THE PANTHEON OF DEMOCRAT BRIBES SUCKING CORRUPT LAWYER POLITICIANS!).
THE HOOK AND CROOK TROIKA OF CORRUPTION
The Regime Media’s Quandary: By Exposing Joe Biden They Exonerate Donald Trump
The regime media (the amalgamation of the legacy media, elitist opinion writers, and the internet troika: Google/Facebook/Twitter) finds itself in a quandary of its own making. As the nation descends into recession and societal turmoil, the candidate for whom they prostituted themselves, Joe Biden, reveals on a daily basis that he is not mentally or physically capable of being President. Further, it has become increasingly more difficult to continuously obfuscate not only the ongoing revelations in Hunter Biden’s laptop but Joe’s life-long history of corruption and mendacity.
By comparison, for four years, despite a lack of evidence coupled with numerous exculpatory investigations, this same cabal incessantly promoted the fictitious narrative that Donald Trump was a racist, a xenophobe, a demagogue, and the most corrupt person to ever serve as president of the United States.
Accordingly, the regime media proclaimed that was in the nation’s vital interest to replace Trump with the “decent, honest, and honorable” Joe Biden. As he has the “experience and character” to rescue the nation and restore “decency and honor” in the White House.
The quandary: how does the regime media avoid the exposure of Joe Biden’s lifelong corruption and failures without the public’s inevitable comparison of the two men, their families, and their accomplishments? A comparison that would result in the effective exoneration and rehabilitation of Donald Trump, whom they relentlessly accused of being the most unscrupulous person on earth. A cudgel they could no longer use if he decides to run for the presidency in 2024.
Their only option is to continue steadfastly limiting any exposure of Joe’s career-long penchant for selling his political office for personal gain. They will have to throw Hunter Biden under the bus by claiming he was solely responsible for any revelations of corruption emanating from his abandoned laptop. That a gradually diminishing but dedicated public servant, Joe Biden, was blissfully unaware of what was going on in his name. Meanwhile, they and the Democrats in Congress can never abandon their quixotic search for Trump wrongdoing or continue beating the drum that he is the personification of corruption.
Why do they need to obfuscate Joe Biden’s personal history? They cannot continue to muddle the revelations in Hunter Biden’s laptop if it is general knowledge that Joe Biden’s malfeasance and the “Biden Family Enterprise” began almost immediately after Joe Biden was first sworn in as a Senator in 1973 when Hunter was two years old.
In August of 2019, Politico International, in a lengthy article, traced the beginning of the “Biden Family Enterprise” back to 1973, Joe’s first year in the Senate. Freshman Senator Biden adamantly demanded and was appointed to a seat on the Senate Banking Committee. Soon thereafter, his brother James, then a 23-year-old business neophyte with a net worth of less than $10,000, decided to open a nightclub. Per a bank officer, James used the Biden family “connection” to obtain $165,000 ($1.1 million in 2022 dollars) in mostly unsecured loans from a failing Delaware bank. Within less than 18 months the venture started to unravel, and James was unable to make the loan payments. Joe intervened with the bank’s Chairman to make certain the bank did not harass James for payment or foreclose on the nightclub.
Miraculously, James was able to find another bank, which was on the Federal Reserve watch list, that gave him a $500,000 ($2.6 million in 2022 dollars) loan. Around the same time Joe Biden met with that bank’s senior vice-president on “other matters” -- no doubt a coincidence. The nightclub venture soon failed, leaving behind a trail of lawsuits and unpaid loans and debts.
The Bidens sanctimoniously proclaimed that Joe and his status as a U.S. Senator had nothing to do with James getting the loans. The fact that Joe served on the Senate Banking Committee (which oversees bank regulatory agencies) and his 23-year-old brother with no business experience received extraordinary – actually, unheard-of -- loans from two banks under scrutiny by the government was, no doubt, also a mere coincidence.
Thus began a pattern that over the years that continued to include James and occasionally other members of the Biden family, and eventually Hunter Biden as the ultimate front for the Biden family business. A family enterprise that despite chartering and acquiring numerous companies over the decades never operated a successful business. Perhaps no prominent family in American history has been involved in so many consistent business failures. The only successful aspect of the “Biden Family Enterprise” was selling Joe Biden and his political influence.
It was while Joe Biden was vice-president that the flood gates opened and what was a domestic influence-peddling business expanded globally into Ukraine, China, Russia and Kazakhstan, among other nations. The layers of greed and unabashed willingness to sell access to the second-highest office in the country is mind-boggling. The most egregious examples are five deals with the Communist Chinese and the subsequent payments to Hunter Biden and the Biden family valued at $31 million.
For the past five decades, the legacy media and virtually all of Washington, D.C. has known about Joe Biden’s corruption and penchant for being a serial fabulist and compulsive liar. However, when Donald Trump was elected President, he was immediately inundated with false and hyperbolic corruption charges.
A month before his inauguration on January 20, 2017, Politico Magazine featured an article full of absurd innuendos and breathtaking assumptions entitled: “Trump Could be the Most Corruptible President Ever.” Within ten months after his inauguration it was unabashedly proclaimed to the nation that the Trump Administration was already the most corrupt in American history.
Unsurprisingly, by the end of his term the regime media and left-wing “historians” declared that Donald Trump was not only the most corrupt president in American history but also the worst.
The New York Times, in a hyperbolic October 2020 editorial, pleaded with the public to vote for Joe Biden “and return the country to a more peaceful, stable and respectful form of self-governance” and accused Trump of “rampant corruption, celebrations of violence, gross negligence with people’s health and incompetence—the worst American president in modern history.”
It would not be an overstatement to say that Donald Trump and his immediate family are the most investigated, vetted and audited people in American history. Yet virtually nothing substantive has been found. I spent nearly forty years in international finance and interacted with numerous domestic and international real estate developers. Success in this field requires a single-minded focus and determination in order to build or acquire properties. Virtually all developers at some point have skirted the law, or greased palms, or by-passed regulations.
In light of Trump’s massive business success and nearly 50 years in real estate development, it is remarkable, considering the armies of investigators and auditors with unlimited budgets, that nothing of consequence has been unearthed. Which confirms that Donald Trump is among the least corrupt men to serve as President of the United States. In other words, Donald Trump is the antithesis of Joe Biden.
That is why the regime media, and the Democrat Party will do everything possible to avoid the full exposure of the decades of corruption with
in the “Biden Family Enterprise.” They cannot run the risk of the inevitable comparison of Donald Trump and his family to Joe Biden and his family.
Nor can the regime media risk the unmasking of their primary role in not only falsely incriminating Donald Trump but duplicitously praising and overtly suppressing damning information about Joe Biden during an election. As the citizenry will rightfully conclude that they are chiefly responsible for the disastrous state of affairs in the country today.Photo credit: Michael Vadon CC BY-SA 4.0 license
Biden Had Income of $610,702 in 2021—And Gave $3,400 (or 0.55%) to Catholic Churches and Charities
(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden and his wife Jill have released their 2021 federal income tax return, which shows that they had a total income of $610,702 for the year and that they gave $3,400 of that—or 0.55 percent—to Catholic Churches and a Catholic charity.
According to the first page of their tax return, the Bidens had a total income of $610,702. With itemized deductions worth $42,290, they were able to reduce their taxable income to $568,412.
Those $42,290 in itemized deductions included a $10,000 deduction for state and local taxes, $14,896 for home mortgage interest payments, and $17,394 for deductible contributions.
This total of $17,394 in deductible contributions was itemized on Statement 5 of the Bidens’ tax return and included $5,000 to the Beau Biden Foundation; $3,194 to Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors; $2,000 for NoVa, $1,000 for Cranston Heights Fire Company, $1,000 for Ministry of Caring.
It also included $2,200 for St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., $550 for Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., and $50 for St. Edmonds Catholic Church in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
It additionally included $600 for the St. Patrick’s Center, a Catholic food kitchen and homeless shelter in Wilmington, Del.
The Democrat Plan to Stop Joe Biden
Who needs the Twenty-Fifth Amendment when you’ve got a family of crooks?
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The Democrat Party is much more worried about stopping Joe Biden than whatever Republican he might end up facing in 2024. Everyone expects Biden not to run, but no one told him that.
Biden keeps talking about running again and it’s not a joke. After spending two generations clawing his way to power, the guy who would have been one of the youngest presidents when he first tried to make a dash at the big job, is not about to just walk away whistling to Delaware.
The Democrats have become a gerontocracy of dementia patients with the party trying to push Senator Dianne Feinstein, 88 years old, and Rep. David Scott, 76, to the exit after reports that they appear out of it. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 82, has vowed to run again and so have her number two and three, Steny Hoyer, 82, and James Clyburn, 81, who got Biden the party's nomination, making it rather difficult to dump Biden on account of being old or out of it.
The real issue comes from the poll numbers which are catastrophic for Biden and the Dems.
Fantasies of a Twenty-Fifth Amendment aside, which even if somehow executed would just saddle the party with Kamala in the White House who polls even worse than her boss, the Dems know that they’re going to be stuck with Biden’s idiotic nonsense for a few years.
Biden cunningly kept his promise to pick a black woman, but also picked one with little support from the black community or the Left, making it unlikely that he’d be ‘Breyered’ to make way for her. Kamala’s only base are the members of her staff and they’re leaving because they know that working for her isn’t a step toward working for the president, just a political dead end.
Dems want to get rid of both Biden and Kamala by keeping him from running again, but what’s going to convince a hack at the end of his wits that he needs to step down and make way?
Family.
The party has to walk a fine line between publicly damaging Joe Biden in a way that would doom the party if he were to run and win, and persuading him that he ought to consider spending the rest of his life in a padded Delaware basement stocked with lots of ice cream.
Biden’s son is the leverage. During the election, Democrats and their media feverishly suppressed any coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop only to now revive the story. In recent weeks and months, the New York Times and the Washington Post have legitimized the laptop.
Going much further, Yahoo News ran a Michael Isikoff article suggesting that Hunter may have been the target of a Chinese counterintelligence operation. Isikoff had been a crucial component of Russiagate with his previous Yahoo News article being used to justify a FISA warrant after he was privately briefed on the Steele smears. The last time Isikoff and Yahoo News put out an article suggesting that a White House candidate was a potential target of a foreign intel scheme, it was just the tip of a much bigger iceberg being used to try and wreck his candidacy.
The media’s treatment of Hunter Biden has been more nuanced than some conservatives realize. While there was a frantic effort to shut down reporting on Hunter during the election, there was no effort to shut down the actual investigation the way that Durham and others have been targeted. The media and the publishing industry abetted a redemption narrative for Hunter and even now the articles suggest that Hunter will likely have to do little more than pay a fine.
Democrats and the media are best served with Schrödinger's Hunter, not indicted or exculpated, but the subject of an ongoing investigation that can be used as leverage on his father, that holds out possible consequences for the son without severely damaging Joe’s election chances.
They would like Joe Biden to say that he’ll be stepping down after one term and for the Hunter Biden investigation to go away with a slap on the wrist. But will the Dems get their wish?
The current investigation is relatively trivial compared to the sort that could be unleashed against Hunter and James Biden, Joe’s brother, and that’s the real power play. The same media that blithely provides inside details on the Hunter investigation could provide starter packs for a dozen more comprehensive investigations that would be far more damaging and dangerous.
It’s a game of chicken in which the Democrats and Biden are facing off. The party wants him to step down after one term, but without crashing the already damaged party car with a fight. But what if Joe Biden is ready to crash the car and wage a primary battle for the nomination? If black voters come out for him again while the white vote is split, Biden could win again.
Black voters are a solid part of the party’s base, and they’re also intensely loyal to the candidates they know. That’s why they initially backed Hillary over Obama, why they picked Biden, and why the Congressional Black Caucus is full of machine politicians in their seventies and eighties who have spent their whole lives commuting between mansions and D.C.
While black support for Biden has declined, it’s fallen less than among any other group.
Black voters helped Carter stave off a challenge from Ted Kennedy. They could play the same role for Biden and whatever candidate or candidates emerge to oppose him in the primaries. The primary battles fatally damaged Carter, but didn’t succeed in blocking him from the nomination thereby giving the Democrats the worst of both worlds.
That history could be about to repeat like a skipped record.
Democrats can’t afford to alienate black voters and they also can’t afford to alienate all the other voters by running the same old damaged ticket. They’re prisoners of their own demographics.
The party and its media don’t want Hunter and James Biden in real trouble, but they also don’t want his father on their ticket. Blowing up the investigation weakens Joe Biden’s election prospects, but it also weakens the party, and so the Dems have to play a double game, slowly legitimizing the investigation to weaken Biden while being ready to pull back at any time.
The quiet pressure campaign isn’t just being aimed at Joe Biden, but at his donors, warning supporters and staffers that there’s no future here because a bigger scandal could be coming.
Why bother investing your money and your career into a politician who’s on the way out?
How far will they go if Joe Biden doesn’t see reason and announce that he wants to spend more time with his word salads, inappropriate sniffing, and his Corn Pop? That’s the big question.
Joe Biden, despite his blowhard posturing, is naturally cautious. It’s why he pulled out rather than face Hillary in 2016, opposed taking out Osama bin Laden, and fled Afghanistan. Like most big talkers, he’s a coward whose boasts and lies are pathetically obvious overcompensation.
But is he really ready to give up the big chair and everything that comes with it to appear remotely on telethons? If he’s not, the Hunter Biden scandal may become very serious.
Who needs the Twenty-Fifth Amendment when you’ve got a family of crooks?
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