THEY CAN'T DESTROY AMERICA FAST ENOUGH AND IT'S SURE NOT MIDDLE AMERICA WHO IS BENEFITING FROM THEIR WHOLESALE PLUNDERING!
Biden Throws $3 Billion to Calif. Electric Train Project That’s 13 Years Behind, $95 Billion Over Budget, 91% Shortened
The Biden Administration has announced that it’s giving $3.01 billion of taxpayers' money to a failed California electric train project launched in 2008 that’s nearly four times more expensive than originally projected – and that has yet to produce a single inch of track.
Biden made the announcement on Friday, promising that the project will, ultimately, produce high-speed, "all-electric trainsets will produce zero emissions and be powered by 100% renewable energy” and add 171 miles of track “extending the rail line between Bakersfield and Merced.”
What Biden failed to mention, however, is that the project was supposed to add 1,955 miles of track - more than eleven times the new estimate.
"This commuter train isn’t even ‘high speed,’ is at least 13 years behind schedule, and will now cost four times the original price tag promised to voters," Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) told Fox News Digital.
Indeed, the project for the full 1,955 miles was budgeted at $33 billion and expected to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles. At $128 billion, the new estimate is nearly four times higher, while the amount of new track is 91% lower.
Indeed, the project for the full 1,955 miles was budgeted at $33 billion and expected to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles. Fifteen years later, at $128 billion, the new estimate is nearly four times higher, while the amount of new track is 91% lower. At that time, the federal government planned to subsidize $24 billion of the cost.
“Biden and Newsom sure know how to waste your money,” Rep. LaMalfa added.
Republicans have dubbed the project “the train to nowhere” and doubt it will ever be completed.
In response to Biden’s announcement, California Senate Republicans published a Fact vs. Myth website, debunking claims made by the project’s supporters, including:
Myth: High-Speed Rail will cost $33 billion.
Fact: Now estimated to be at least $128 billion before completion.
Myth: High-speed Rail will allow travel “from Los Angeles to San Francisco in about 2 ½ hours for about $50 a person.”
Fact: In 2015, a Los Angeles Times study estimated the cost of the trip would be at least $83, back when the cost was expected to be nearly four times lower. At the new cost, plus inflation, the ticket price is sure to be much higher.
Myth: High-Speed Rail will attract billions of dollars of private investment.
Fact: In the fifteen years since the project was announced in 2008, “not a single dime has materialized.”
Nonetheless, Democrats continue to be optimistic, as California's KTVU reports:
"I'm getting old, but I'm not dying until I jump on the first train that moves out of Merced, California," said former [Democrat] California Gov. Jerry Brown.
Brown is currently 85 years old, which would put him at 93, if the trains become operational by the new target of 2030.
Merry Christmas: Rand Paul continues the tradition and releases the 2023 Festivus Report, citing $900 billion in waste
It’s that time of year again! Time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, gather with family and friends, make gingerbread houses, go Christmas caroling, play in the snow, and… remind yourself how much your government absolutely hates you.
Don’t forget, every holiday season is also time for Rand Paul’s annual Festivus Report, and this year, for the ninth report, Paul highlighted nine hundred billion dollars in waste by the Festivites; from Paul’s opening segment:
This year, I am highlighting a whopping ~$900,000,000,000 of waste, including an NIH grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill, Barbies used as proof of ID for receiving COVID Paycheck Protection Program funds, $6 million to promote tourism in Egypt, and $200 million to ‘struggling artists’ like Post Malone, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne.
Yes, you read that right. Our (literally) good-for-nothing government got us scammed out of our hard-earned money by pictures of knock-off Barbie dolls and AI-generated freakshows. See the pathetically unpassable images below, that could only be verified as “legitimate” recipients by the stupidest and most feckless Festivites on the planet:
Naturally, Festivites entered government because that’s the only environment that props up and feeds non-producers, but this latest crop took things to the next level—they bought themselves a restaurant industry-sized lobster tank.
Yes, the same people who are banning our small household appliances, and demanding we lower our standard of living and forgo modern amenities to stop a climate “emergency,” are buying massive pieces of kitchen equipment so they can dine on fresh lobster. If this weren’t 2023, you wouldn’t believe it.
Of course, those destitute music industry celebrities got a huge piece too, like Post Malone ($60 million net worth) and Chris Brown ($50 million net worth), who both received $10,000,000.
And unsurprisingly, since Anthony Fauci has been a pronounced blight on the public sector for decades, we saw receipts for a whole lotta nasty animal experimentation. Where is PETA when you actually need them? In one NIH-funded study, monkeys were drugged with meth, then tracked with the implanted wires “running ‘subcutaneously from the head incision to the eye orbit, exiting the eye orbit from underneath the upper eyelid.’”
How filthy.
$900,000,000,000 divided by 330,000,000 citizens means each American could have had an extra $2,700 dollars in their pockets were it not for these few unbelievably absurd expenses. If we split the cost by each taxpayer we find that each of us was forced to burn around $5,500 dollars. Of course, those numbers are in reality, much higher when you consider inflation and rising interest rates with a $34,000,000,000,000 (that’s twelve zeros).
BIDEN HAS NEVER BEEN ANYTHING BUT A TOTLA POS!
What it tells us is that Comer is onto something dangerous for Biden and the Biden machine will stop at nothing to protect its kingpin and take down his rival. Call that corruption piled upon corruption. One can only hope that Comer will recognize that he's over the target and expose these thugs to the max, the getting to the bottom of the whole corrupt foundation of House Biden before they can do any more damage to the country. MONICA SHOWALTER
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Biden White House Viciously Targets Ex-Aide Publicly Critical of President’s Faltering Reelection Efforts
The Biden political machine has turned its guns on a former aide who has spoken critically of the increasingly unpopular president’s reelection efforts.
The message from Biden’s mafia-style enforcers to current and former members of the president’s political circle is clear: break the “Biden code of silence” and get blackballed from Democrat politics — or worse.
A report from Axios observes “an unusual load of West Wing dirty laundry is being aired about former staffer” Michael LaRosa, former press secretary to first lady Jill Biden.
“A surprising number of President Biden’s current and former aides — at least six — are lining up to tell backstairs tales to The Daily Mail,” the outlet reports.
The timing of the stale allegations is no accident. The Axios report continues, “Colleagues bit their tongues for over a year, until LaRosa recently started criticizing the White House on cable news programs and social media.”
The charges levied against LaRosa, over a year after his departure from the East Wing — include leaking information about Willow, the Biden’s cat, to tipping off reporters about the Biden’ upcoming travel — a common occurrence in scoop-hungry Washington.
Sources also told the Daily Mail that during a state visit to Ukraine, LaRosa attempted to bring a male date to his hotel room in violation of security protocols before security forces intervened. LaRosa, who is openly gay, denies he violated any rules or disobeyed any instructions from Secret Service agents and disputes the characterizations of the unnamed sources.
The sources also paint a picture of LaRosa as a hothead, with one source telling the outlet “He was talked to about his behavior and told you can’t yell at colleagues, that you have to modulate your temper.”
Yet despite the new charges against LaRosa, at the time his alleged actions took place, they apparently did not trigger Biden’s clearly stated punishment for such behavior. Biden publicly told his staff “treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot.”
In addition, current and former White House colleagues have attacked LaRosa’s credibility, deriding him as a low level staffer despite his closeness with a first lady and an immense amount of influence with President Biden and across the White House.
NBC News reported White House aides call the first lady “the decider,” claiming she has “unparalleled influence and impact on the president.”
LaRosa’s criticisms of Biden’s reelection efforts that triggered the Biden retaliation are hardly unwarranted.
Biden is polling behind former President Trump, a notion once unthinkable among Democrat operatives. His approval has reached historic lows, with his approval rating in the mid-thirties in various polls. And his popularity with key demographics Democrats have long tsken for granted, including young people, blacks, and Hispanics, has plummeted as Trump has made inroads.
Many high-level Democrat Party operatives have criticized the notoriously insular Biden-world for seemingly turning a blind eye to the president’s historically low popularity. The high-level smears against LaRosa come as the New York Times reports Democrats in key Senate and House critical battleground states worry that Biden will be a drag on their races.
The Times report on the growing concerns from key states, which mirror those expressed for months by LaRosa, says:
These Democrats fear that the Biden campaign is late in building a strong organization in the handful of states that are likely to determine next year’s presidential election. They point to polling numbers showing Mr. Biden lagging far behind Democratic candidates for Congress in those states and struggling among key groups of voters, including Black and Latino Americans.
A Biden-supporting Democrat mayor in Georgia — a state critical to Biden’s hopes of remaining in the White House — told the Times that Team Biden is pursuing “a passive strategy,” lamenting Republicans were far more excited about next year’s election than Democrats.
“I don’t see any passion, any excitement, nothing,” he said.
Additionally, Democrats have grown concerned with the President’s emerging ties with his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings. The President’s refutations of attacks about his level of involvement and knowledge of his son’s business dealings have evolved as it has become clear the President was indeed aware of Hunter’s business ties, including with overseas entities.
President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden arrive at Fort McNair, Sunday, June 25, 2023, in Washington. The Biden’s are returning from Camp David. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
High-level Democrats have sounded the alarm about the White House strategy for pushing back against Hunter-related attacks. LaRosa is perhaps the most high-level former Biden official to publicly sound the alarm.
Yet despite the growing anxiety among Democrats about Biden’s reelection prospects, and Biden’s plummeting numbers in key states, his team has made clear they will not tolerate canaries in the coal mine. And their personal attacks against LaRosa, who has made clear he wants to see Biden reelected and has kept his criticisms against Biden’s floundering reelection efforts respectful and professional, showcase a level of aggressiveness that, frankly, many Democrats would like to see more productively channeled.
With Biden’s allies so ruthlessly mobilizing against LaRosa for stating the obvious, voters would be justified in asking what else may be out there that the public does not know because people are afraid to come forward.
Bradley Jaye is a Capitol Hill Correspondent for Breitbart News. Follow him on X/Twitter at @BradleyAJaye.
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