Is Dianne Feinstein out to kill off Kamala Harris's presidential
bid?
Kamala Harris has always
been known for her lean and hungry, pushy, grabby, ambition, which
includes a willingness to sleep her way to the top to
get what she wants. Her political start began as a social mountaineer
with San Francisco's old-money Pacific Heights set dating from her 20s and then just moved
onward and upward.
That's not sitting well
with California's lizardy old-money senior Senator, Dianne Feinstein, who
knows that establishment well.
BLOG:
BIDEN AND FEINSTEIN GO WAY BACK WITH THEIR RED CHINA FOR RAW CASH DEALS
SIPHONED THROUGH HER HUSBAND AND HIS SON.
According to reports,
Feinstein, the senior senator from the Golden State, will throw a
fundraiser next month for Democratic 2020 presidential frontrunner Joe Biden -- and not for
Harris, another White House contender whose poll numbers suggest she could
probably use some high-profile help.
BLOG: WHAT FEINSTEIN MEANS IS THAT OL' BIDEN IS AS CORRUPT AS
SHE IS ANY DAY!
“My candidate would be
Joe Biden,” Feinstein told CNBC back then. “I watched him as vice president.
I’ve seen him operate. I’ve seen him perform and I think he brings a level of
experience and seniority, which I think is really important.”
The early evening
reception will be the first that Feinstein hosts for Biden in the 2020
election, CNBC reported. Her husband has already participated in several
fundraising events for Biden, who campaigned for Feinstein in 2018, when she
was re-elected by a landslide.
Oh, spare us. Feinstein
knows as well as anyone that old Joe is addled and gaffe-tastic. This is more
likely about putting Kamala back in her place.
Fox News speculated that
this fundraiser among the fatcat donors might just have been payback for
Harris's nasty first-debate attack all but accusing Biden of being a Bull
Conner racist. Remember Harris's phony earnestness in: "That little
girl was me"?
Sure, it's possible.
But it's also been known for close to a year that Feinstein considers
Harris a wretched parvenu who hasn't paid her dues.
Remember this?
“I’m a big fan of Sen.
Harris, and I work with her. But she’s brand-new here, so it takes a little bit
of time to get to know somebody,” Feinstein said of the junior senator,
according to the Los Angeles Times.
Her press secretary told
CNN that Feinstein later added that she certainly likes her California
colleague, saying, “Oh, I love Kamala.”
Translation in a plummy
accent: Do we know her?
Hard to get a better
old-money passive-aggressive remark than that one. People are either known or
unknown in Feinstein's rich circles and it's pretty obvious to Feinstein
that Kamala doesn't cut it.
What's more, Feinstein is
a 'get off my lawn, whippersnappers' non-ideological sort of small-c
conservative, or, as Fox News put it, she pulls rank. Remember this?
Democratic Sen. Dianne
Feinstein pulled rank Friday when a group of kids tried to school her on
climate change.
After the group sought
her support for the Green New Deal, the 85-year-old senior
senator from California let them know she wasn't about to be bossed around by a
bunch of youngsters.
BLOG: THE OLD WHORE FEINSTEIN MADE A VAST FORTUNE SERVING CRIMINAL OPERATIONS
LIKE PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS FARGO AND BANK OF
AMERICA AND THE FREAKING PARASITE TRIAL LAWYERS!
“You come in here, and
you say it has to be my way or the highway. I don’t respond to that,” Feinstein
continued. “I’ve gotten elected, I just ran. I was elected by almost a
million-vote plurality. And I know what I’m doing. So you know, maybe people
should listen a little bit.
So just the fundraiser in
Harris's home state of California was a shiv in the side to Kamala.
Why is that?
Well, for one thing, the
Democratic political set widely believes that to win the presidency, one must
win California. Harris is from California, so that stacks things in her
favor.
Now Feinstein is
marshalling money from California Biden's way? So that they give their money to
him and feel 'donor fatigue' when Kamala comes calling?
The matter is compounded
by the fact that the California Democratic campaign fatcats weren't impressed
with Harris's performance in the third debate, as this CNBC report here indicates. Feinstein
knows those people and may very well be egging them toward Biden, or at least
piling on.
Here's another thing:
Money from fatcats over
little-people donations is Kamala's vulnerable spot. The queen of fake Twitter followers is also
highly reliant on big dollar donors over the little
guys, even as the New York Times tries to claim she's changing
that. Well, maybe she is, but if she is, it would be in the infant stage and in
any case, they're taking her word for it. More likely, she still relies on the
big boys, because that's what she knows.
Which would mean that
Feinstein's bid to separate Harris from that cash lifeline is like that of
General Grant at Vicksburg, targeting Confederate supply lines. The California
dinosaur strategizes.
The Feinstein fundraiser,
which will channel and suction big money toward Biden, can't help but come
at a cost to Harris. And Feinstein, right in the middle of the Pacific Heights
crowd, is lobbing her cannon ball where the funds are richest and Kamala's ties
are tightest.
It almost looks like a
concerted chess move to checkmate the upstart. And given the evidence of
Feinstein's antipathy toward Harris, one can't help but think it's all
intentional.
BLOG: BIDEN AND FEINSTEIN GO WAY BACK WITH THEIR RED CHINA FOR RAW CASH DEALS SIPHONED THROUGH HER HUSBAND AND HIS SON.
BLOG: THE OLD WHORE FEINSTEIN MADE A VAST FORTUNE SERVING CRIMINAL OPERATIONS LIKE PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS FARGO AND BANK OF AMERICA AND THE FREAKING PARASITE TRIAL LAWYERS!
The Electability
Myth of Joe Biden
The leftstream media
characterization of Joe Biden is that he is moderate, likable, and the
most electable Democrat candidate. He is affable Uncle Joe, the
self-made lunchbox-toting common man of the people.
In truth, he is none of
the above.
Joe the Moderate
The "Biden as
moderate" canard is getting increasingly hard to defend. On the
economy-, car-, and cow-killing $93-trillion Green New Deal, Biden was asked if
it goes too far or is unrealistically promising too
much.
He answered, "No, no
it's not."
When previously asked if there
would be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking, in his
administration, Biden answered, "No...we would make sure it's eliminated,
and no more subsidies for either one of those, period."
Green New
Deal? Two thumbs up. Fossil fuels? Fracking
and coal? Kill them. How he would eliminate them is one
of history's great mysteries.
Not content to destroy
the economy, Biden has embraced the full gamut of abortion radicalism, to
include flipping to oppose the Hyde Amendment, which forbids
taxpayer funds to pay for most abortions. This is the amendment that
pro-abortion Democrats traditionally use to hide their radicalism, but Biden
threw off even that fig leaf.
He said, "I can't
justify leaving millions of women without the health care they
need. If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer
support [the amendment]."
The death-cult
pro-abortion groups love Biden because they know he is fully committed to their
hellish agenda.
On border security, Biden's position is
indistinguishable from those of the other radicals in the party. His
hand went up when asked if he is in favor of decriminalizing border security
and providing taxpayer-funded health care to non-citizens.
When asked about
immigration detention centers, he answered, "Close them
down! By the way, we don't need them!" Apparently,
arguing that nations don't need borders exemplifies moderation.
Biden is a panderer with
no core convictions. Today's Democrat primary voters are radical, so
Biden is a radical. His positions are all but indistinguishable from
those of socialists Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The entire
Democrat primary has been an extremism arms race, and Biden regularly ups the
ante.
Affable Uncle Joe
The media regularly
compliment Biden for his sterling personality. He's that crazy but
lovable uncle we should all want to meet for a beer to swap stories about
toiling for a workman's wage in the coal mines. But, like most of
Biden's biography, his entire persona is a lie.
Biden has always been a
plagiarist and prevaricator. Most of his lies have served his
own biography. These are among the creepiest of lies. He
is relentless in his biography-building. He was the original valor
thief, seeking to steal the best parts of other people's biographies to add to
his own.
The media gloss over
these bold lies as gaffes. But these lies speak to a serious
character defect. Biden is egocentric, delusional, and
small-minded. This lying addiction is not something new that can be
explained away as a symptom of a failing mind. It has been the
central strand of Biden's political DNA since before dinosaurs wandered the
earth.
So, okay, Biden may be a
liar, but at least he's a nice guy. Um...not so much.
Would a first-rate personality say candidate
Barack Obama was the first "mainstream African-American," an
"articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," implying
that other black Americans are lacking in all these qualities and that Obama
was somehow a new invention? This is one of the most outrageously
racist comments I've seen in recent years.
Biden apologized to
Obama, the one black American he wasn't really insulting. He should
have apologized to everyone else. Pro-civility Biden is not very
civil at all.
There is also Biden's
penchant for making women and girls uncomfortable, a habit that would be
treated entirely different if he were a Republican. Imagine if Vice
President Mike Pence liked to bend over and sniff girls' hair, or grab a
woman's arm and hold her essentially captive until he is done talking to her.
Somehow, I don't think
the leftstream media would tell us it was just Mike being Mike, an endearing
old-fashioned character trait. Instead, they would have painted him
as the worst kind of pedophile and misogynist.
So if Biden is not
moderate and not likable, what is he basing his electability argument on?
Electable Biden, the
Political Unicorn
Biden has pulled off his
greatest trick yet in convincing a sizable chunk of the Democratic Party,
particularly the power brokers, that he is the most electable
Democrat. He argues that he is an establishment moderate Democrat
who has broad electoral appeal. That's about as true as his recent
war story.
He's also argued that his
exemplary personality will exert a gravitational pull on voters in places like
Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. But what will matter more to
these voters: that Biden claims to have once been a coal miner or that he has
promised to destroy coal miners?
Those voters who crossed
over to vote for President Trump against a fake, condescending liberal
politician who excites nobody are not going to cross back over to vote for...a
fake, condescending liberal politician who excites nobody. Many
Republicans are pulling for Biden, not because they like him, but because they
consider him the weakest candidate.
Liberals will line up to
vote for anyone not named Trump. The real battle is for independents
and former Democrats who crossed over in 2016. Because of this, the
most electable Democrat candidate is Tulsi Gabbard. Biden is not
going to win disaffected voters back, nor will he drive turnout among the
identity politics–obsessed Democrat base.
Gabbard, while liberal,
has interesting things to say and embraces positions that could attract
independents. She doesn't emanate raw hatred and contempt toward the
military, police, and America. She acknowledges that we need borders and, while still
an abortion radical, at least
admits that some abortions should be restricted, which puts her way outside the
Democrat mainstream.
This is not an
endorsement. Gabbard is liberal and would be a poor
choice. But, unlike the rest of the Democrat candidates, she is
prone to occasional bouts of sanity. After both of the first two
Democrat debates, she was among the most Googled candidates. She
is this year's Bernie Sanders, the candidate the Democrat establishment
buried. The Democrats did the Republicans a huge favor, because
Gabbard would have been a tough out.
Instead, the Democrats
are on course to elect an avowed socialist or a close facsimile in
Biden. To loosely paraphrase advice given by Napoleon,
never interfere with the Democrat establishment when it's in the process of
destroying itself by nominating a boring, radical, unlikable liar like Lunchbox
Joe.
FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT HER POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALLS OF
CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT PUT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN HER POCKETS.
SHE HAS AVOIDED PROSECUTION BY VOTING AGAINST ANY ETHICS BILLS
AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM'S HANDING OUT "CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION"
BRIBES TO EVERY DEMOCRAT OUT THERE!
IN THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional
ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules
Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the
ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been
beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics
experts.
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“All
in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has
done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
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“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and
Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with
third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by
its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
Hunter Biden made $850,000 on board of Ukraine gas company
The son of Vice President Joe Biden, a lawyer-lobbyist with no known expertise in the production, transport, or distribution of natural gas, or in the complex financial operations of such a business, was placed on the board of the largest gas company in Ukraine in April 2014 and remained there until spring of this year, netting some $850,000 in payments.
The Hunter Biden-Ukraine connection has become the trigger for the opening of impeachment proceedings against President Trump, but the connection itself is worth examining in its own right. The younger Biden’s career sheds light on the decay of American democracy and the vast social gulf that has opened up between the ruling elite and the vast majority of the population, struggling to survive from paycheck to paycheck, and, as a recent survey found, unable to afford paying an unexpected bill of $400.
Hunter Biden, now aged 49, is the former vice president’s younger son, and the sole survivor among his children. Naomi, then a year old, was killed in the 1972 car crash that also took the life of Biden’s first wife. Beau Biden, the older son by one year, died of brain cancer in 2015.
BLOG: WHAT WAS HUNTER'S QUALIFICATIONS TO BE ON ANY BOARD???
The younger Biden has always been the black sheep of the family, even according to various sympathetic accounts, most of them appearing in publications—The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post—favorable to the Democrats.
The New Yorker piece, at more than 10,000 words by far the longest, published in July, was obviously planted by the Biden campaign for the purpose of venting all the bad news about Hunter Biden as a preemptive measure against anticipated stink bombs from the Trump campaign.
It was prepared through lengthy interviews by reporter Adam Entous with Hunter Biden. And it delivers a lot of bad news about a career devoted apparently to influence-peddling and drug abuse, both on a scale that matches or exceeds that of any dubious relative of any previous president, at least until Donald Trump.
Hunter Biden was hired by MBNA bank in Delaware, fresh out of Yale Law School, and paid a six-figure salary at the age of 26 because his father was a senator from that state and a fervent defender of the bank and credit card industries. MBNA was then the largest US issuer of credit cards.
He then moved to Washington to take a position in the last years of the Clinton administration. Once the Republicans came to power with the George W. Bush administration, in 2001, he became a lobbyist, helping Jesuit Catholic colleges insert earmarks into congressional appropriations bills.
When earmarks became more difficult to obtain, and after losing money in a speculative venture on the eve of the 2007-2008 financial crash, Biden formed a “consulting” group with Christopher Heinz, stepson of Senator John Kerry and an heir to the Heinz fortune, and a Yale friend of Heinz’s, Devon Archer.
Inevitably, after his father’s election as vice president, given a prominent international role in the Obama-Biden administration, Hunter Biden’s consulting firm branched out into global deal-making, focusing on countries where influence-peddling would be most lucrative and actual business credentials least necessary, among others, China and Ukraine.
In China, the younger Biden traveled on Air Force Two in 2013 with his father, who was making an official trip to Beijing. In the course of this, Hunter Biden introduced a Chinese business partner, Jonathan Li, to the vice president. He left China with promises of future investments, although not with the $1.5 billion that Trump now falsely claims. According to Hunter Biden’s attorney, no money has yet flowed from that particular connection.
Another Chinese business prospect gave
Hunter Biden a diamond worth either
$80,000 (according to his ex-wife’s divorce
suit) or $10,000, according to Biden’s
response to the suit, but in any case,
much beyond the normal range of
business gratuities.
But Ukraine is where Hunter Biden has apparently cashed in most extensively, trading on his father’s name and position. In 2013-2014, a right-wing populist movement backed by the CIA and the German government gained the upper hand in an internal power struggle within the Ukraine capitalist class.
The Maidan “revolution” was actually a right-wing coup, spearheaded by outright fascist forces, some of whom marched under Nazi insignias, against the elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, who was aligned with the Russian government of Vladimir Putin.
Ukraine has been a “wild west” for the operations of foreign intelligence services and capitalist oligarchs at least since the so-called Orange Revolution of 2004, the first successful effort by Washington to bring to power a US-backed regime in one of the major countries emerging from the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Photo: Joe, Hunter Biden Golf with Ukraine Energy Company Board Member in 2014
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A newly-unearthed photo shows former Vice President Joe Biden and son Hunter sharing a round of golf with Devon Archer, who sat on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings alongside Hunter.
The photo, first obtained by the Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, is believed to have been taken at the Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton, New York in 2014. Both Hunter Biden and Archer both joined Burisma Holdings as board members in April 2014.
The photo raises serious questions regarding the extent to which Joe Biden is aware of his beleaguered son’s overseas business deals — something the top-tier 2020 White House hopeful claimed earlier this month he has never discussed with his son.
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden told reporters during a campaign stop in Iowa. “I know Trump deserves to be investigated. He is violating every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader. You should be looking at Trump.”
However, in a wide-ranging interview with New Yorker magazine, Hunter Biden claimed that he and his father discussed his business activities in Ukraine “just once.”
As Breitbart News reported earlier this year, Biden forced out former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin as he was investigating an energy company called Burisma Holdings, which was paying Biden handsomely as a member of its board. The former vice president even boasted to the Council of Foreign Relations last year that he had threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid unless the prosecutor was fired. (He did not tell the audience about his son’s role.) Conservatives claim Biden obstructed justice to protect his son — who enriched himself using his father’s prestige.
Appearing Sunday on the Fox News Channel’s Life, Liberty & Levin, Breitbart News senior contributor and Secret Empires author Peter Schweizer pointed out how the former vice president’s son was appointed as a board member of Burisma Holdings despite his lack of experience in the energy sector.
“The key question here that nobody seems to want to ask in the media is: What was he being paid for? He wasn’t being paid for his expertise. What was he being paid for? And what were the Ukrainians expecting to get in return?” Schweizer asked host Mark Levin. “I think when you overlay the financial payments with the fact that Joe Biden as point person on Obama administration policy to Ukraine was steering billions of dollars of Western money to Ukraine it becomes crystal clear exactly why they were paying him money. They wanted access and they wanted to influence Joe Biden. And Joe Biden has been around a long time here, and he had to know exactly why his son was being paid.”
The photo’s emergence comes as House Democrats are moving swiftly with an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump over his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he raised the issue of Hunter’s business dealings in the eastern European country. A partisan CIA officer, with second-hand knowledge of the call, filed a so-called “whistleblower” complaint with the intelligence community about the conversation, alleging Trump sought to exchange U.S. military aid for a probe into Hunter. However, both Trump and Zelensky have denied any pressure to look into the Biden family was applied and the White House, in a nod to transparency, released the transcript of leaders’ July 25th conversation last week.
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