It is unlikely they would want him out before 2024 since that would make Kamala Harris president, and even the Democrats know that is worse than bumbling old Biden.
Judge Jeanine: Kamala was a disaster before White House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeuIip-3DHc
KAMLA HARRIS - I CAN CON THEM! I'M A LAWYER, IT'S WHAT I HAVE DONE MY ENTIRE BRIBES SUCKING LEGAL CAREER!
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/09/kamala-harrs-i-can-con-them-im-lawyer.html
All of this is, if we can be permitted to use Biden’s catchphrase, “malarkey.” Harris has already proven herself as a trusted servant of the interests of the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class. The Wall Street Journal wrote last week that Wall Street financers had breathed a “sigh of relief” at Biden’s pick of Harris. Industry publication American Banker noted that her steadiest stream of campaign funding has come from financial industry professionals and their most trusted law firms.
There is something fitting in the selection of Harris to co-lead the Democrats’ ticket. The response of the Democrats to the mass multi-racial and multi-ethnic protests against police violence that erupted earlier this year was to divert them into the politics of racial division, using the reactionary and false claim that what was involved was a conflict between “white America” and “black America,” rather than a conflict between the working class and capitalism.
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Kamala Saves The Day
'Babbling moron' Kamala Harris shouldn't be a 'heartbeat away' from the presidency
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Kamala Harris viewed White House aides not standing when she walked into a room as 'a sign of disrespect,' book says
Vice President Kamala Harris felt slighted by White House aides not standing when she entered into a room, per a forthcoming book.
"The vice president took it as a sign of disrespect," NYT journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns wrote.
Harris allies in recent months have attempted to form a reset of her office, per The Washington Post.
Vice President Kamala Harris felt slighted by White House aides not standing when she entered into a room, part of a pattern of "perceived snubs" that the former senator was reportedly was "fixated" on, according to a forthcoming book by New York Times correspondents Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
In the book, "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future," Martin and Burns described a relationship between Harris' staff and President Joe Biden's West Wing that was progressively uneasy, per excerpts published by Politico's West Wing Playbook.
"Some of Harris's advisers believed the president's almost entirely white inner circle did not show the vice president the respect she deserved," Martin and Burns wrote. "Harris worried that Biden's staff looked down on her; she fixated on real and perceived snubs in ways the West Wing found tedious."
According to the book, Harris had her chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, speak with then-Biden senior advisor Anita Dunn about her discontent with White House staffers not standing when she entered rooms as they did with the president.
"The vice president took it as a sign of disrespect," according to the book.
Dunn, a well-known Democratic political strategist who served in the Biden White House from January 2021 to August 2021, told Playbook that she wasn't "going to comment except to say that everyone in the West Wing has a high degree of respect for the Vice President and the hard work she is doing for this President and our country.
She added: "Particularly me."
In the book, Martin and Burns also detailed Harris' dissatisfaction with her policy agenda, writing that the vice president's staffers proposed for her to oversee relationships with Nordic countries to no avail. The authors described the proposal "as a low-risk diplomatic assignment that might have helped Harris get adjusted to the international stage in welcoming venues like Oslo and Copenhagen."
However, the idea was reportedly not well-received, per the book.
"White House aides rejected the idea and privately mocked it," Martin and Burns wrote. "More irritating to Biden aides was when they learned the vice president wanted to plan a major speech to outline her view of foreign policy. Biden aides vetoed the idea."
Insider has reached out to Harris' office and the White House for comment.
Since taking office in January 2021, Harris has faced a series of media reports about dysfunction in her office, which many allies feel have been rooted in unfair coverage of the first female, first Black, and first Indian American vice president in American history.
In recent months, there's been a major effort for a reset by Harris' team, according a report by The Washington Post.
The vice president in January brought on Jamal Simmons, a longtime Democratic analyst, to become her communications director at a time when many felt that her office lacked consistent messaging on her duties and political accomplishments.
Kamala Saves The Day
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New revelations about Hunter will hit President Joe Biden's already plummeting popularity
During Obama’s presidency, everyone joked that he selected Biden for VP because Biden’s incompetency insured that Obama would never be impeached. Yes, Obama was bad, but Biden would be worse. Now that Biden’s the president, that joke was 100% correct. Sadly, he’s multiple times worse than anyone imagined. Biden has more failures in one year than most presidents have in a lifetime – the Afghanistan debacle and surrender, huge crime spikes due to Democrat “defund the police” insanity, actively working to destroy the petroleum industry while supporting Russia’s, soaring inflation, open support and deference to China, and his weakness being directly responsible for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine -- to name just a few epic failures. As bad as Biden is as president, it’s obvious he selected Harris for the same reason that Obama selected him -- to insure he’s never removed from office. If you think things can’t possibly get worse, just look at Harris and you instantly realize – yes, they can. She would be multiple times worse than Joe.
Kamala Harris Bound for Poland as U.S. Rejects Fighter-Jet Offer
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris leaves for Poland on Wednesday to broach the matter of “military assistance” for Ukraine, White House officials said, hours after Washington dismissed Warsaw’s unilateral plan to transfer Soviet-era MIG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. military base in Germany.
The trip was planned last week and was seen as a peace making effort by the White House, as Breitbart News reported.
Since then diplomatic events have moved rapidly culminating in Poland taking the Pentagon by surprise Tuesday by offering to send its Mig-29 jets “immediately and free of charge” to Ukraine via a U.S. air base.
Washington rejected the proposal.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the prospect of warplanes departing from a U.S.-NATO base “into airspace that is contested with Russia over Ukraine raises serious concerns for the entire NATO alliance.”
Harris will meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday, according to U.S. officials who requested anonymity.
She’ll also meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau while in Warsaw. He has also been on the diplomatic trail in Europe this past week.
Harris will travel on Friday to Bucharest, where she’s to meet Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.
Kamala Proves the Peter Principle
Most of my life, I assumed that we elected serious politicians and appointed competent people to deal with the country’s complex problems -- the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the economy, immigration, terrorism, foreign policy, natural disasters, etc. -- major problems that required competent people, serious about addressing (and fixing) the issues.
That was then, this is now. America is no longer a serious country, and the West is not a serious culture. Proof of how far we’ve fallen -- boys claim they’re girls, girls claim they’re boys and we must accept the new biology or be cancelled; racism is openly taught in public schools under the lie called Critical Race Theory (thank you, teachers unions); schoolchildren are taught to hate the country’s very founding claiming more racism; the military is focused on white rage (not defeating our enemies); and we installed an imbecile (as president) who mumbles the words his handlers put on the teleprompter. Vice President (VP) Kamala Harris is further proof that, as a nation, we’re unserious.
Watching Kamala, Biden, Tony Blinken, Pete Buttigieg, etc. it’s obvious that the Peter Principle is at work. The Peter Principle says that people rise to the level of their incompetence. During Obama’s presidency, everyone joked that he selected Biden for VP because Biden’s incompetency insured that Obama would never be impeached. Yes, Obama was bad, but Biden would be worse. Now that Biden’s the president, that joke was 100% correct. Sadly, he’s multiple times worse than anyone imagined. Biden has more failures in one year than most presidents have in a lifetime – the Afghanistan debacle and surrender, huge crime spikes due to Democrat “defund the police” insanity, actively working to destroy the petroleum industry while supporting Russia’s, soaring inflation, open support and deference to China, and his weakness being directly responsible for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine -- to name just a few epic failures. As bad as Biden is as president, it’s obvious he selected Harris for the same reason that Obama selected him -- to insure he’s never removed from office. If you think things can’t possibly get worse, just look at Harris and you instantly realize – yes, they can. She would be multiple times worse than Joe.
It’s difficult to believe that Biden could find someone less competent than himself, but he did. Among the vast numbers of very unintelligent politicians, VP Kamala is perhaps the least competent and least intelligent of them all. Her diminished mental acuity is Biden’s insurance against replacing him. Kamala’s incoherent statements are legendary. Following are some examples:
- She told us her pronouns are “she, her, and hers.” What should a woman’s pronouns be? Oh, that’s right, in Democrat world, boys can be girls and vice versa. Only Dems and Leftist understand such nonsense.
- Months after Kamala was appointed the immigration/border security czar, she was challenged why she had not visited the Mexican border. Her snarky response, “and I haven’t been to Europe either.” Say what?
- January 2022, Harris was asked if it’s time to change COVID strategy. Kamala responded, “It’s time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things available to us.” I have no clue what she said. Unfortunately, neither does she.
Last month, at a NATO conference held to discuss Russia’s massed troops threatening to invade Ukraine, Kamala made the following comment, “Perhaps this is a moment, as life presents us with these moments, that challenge us to ask what is our reason for being? I think we all know the history of NATO and its reason for being. The spirit behind this term we use “the transatlantic community”, the word community meaning a collection, not a collection of individuals who see themselves as a collection, than as one.” Despite such incoherent babble, Putin invaded Ukraine two days later. - When NBC asked her about sanctions on Russia’s oil industry, Harris said, “As it relates to what we need to do domestically as well as what we need to do in terms of this issue generally, we have, as the president said, reevaluated what we’re doing”
- Finally, further proof that Biden is not serious, he appointed Kamala as point person on Ukraine. Why not Biden, you ask? Good question, but he goes home to Delaware most weekends; perhaps that’s why he delegates war and Ukraine to Kamala. To demonstrate her superior knowledge on Europe (she’s now been once), a radio show asked her to explain the Ukraine situation to its audience. Harris said, “Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically that’s wrong.”
Yes, those were her words. Her condescending answers tell us everything about her. She belittles the audience. She can’t talk normally to people because she thinks we’re too dumb to understand the situation. Then again, who’s surprised? Our elite leftists (Hillary, Obama, NY Times readers, academics, Hollywood, the media, etc.) think we’re beneath them because we haven’t been educated at Harvard or Yale. They demand we defer to their superior education to save us uneducated bumpkins out here in places like rural Georgia. With Kamala, Biden, and his entire administration, the Peter Principle is alive and well. Between Biden’s and Harris’ constant idiotic statements, it’s almost impossible to quantify which one is the least capable.
However, we still have three more years for one or the other to rise (or fall) to their ultimate level of incompetence.
Image: National Archives
Kamala Saves The Day
DESTROYING AMERICA - THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AT WORK
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President Biden delivered the ‘stumbles of a feeble man’ at SOTU address
Victor Davis Hanson: Biden is the most dangerously radical President in US history
Watters: The Five (CRIME) Families of the Democrat Party
New revelations about Hunter will hit President Joe Biden's already plummeting popularity
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White House Sending Kamala Harris to Europe to Reassure NATO Allies
The White House is sending Vice President Kamala Harris to Europe next week to reassure NATO allied countries the United States stands with them.
The Vice President will travel to Poland and Romana, two countries bordering Ukraine, where Russian President Vladimir Putin has significantly escalated his military invasion in recent weeks.
“Her visit will demonstrate the strength and unity of the NATO Alliance and U.S. support for NATO’s eastern flank allies in the face of Russian aggression,” Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said in a statement to reporters about the vice president’s visit.
Her trip will take place March 9-11.
This will be the second trip for Harris to Europe in just weeks, as she was also sent Germany for the Munich Security Conference to demonstrate the strength and support of the United States.
During that trip she met with world leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and publicly warned Putin that if he further invaded Ukraine, he would be met with punishing sanctions.
“These are some of the greatest sanctions, if not the strongest, that we’ve ever issued,” the vice president said to reporters during her trip, noting that, “The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence.”
When asked by reporters if the sanctions would deter Putin, she replied, “Absolutely.”
The Russian president chose to escalate his war in Ukraine anyway.
Afterward, President Joe Biden admitted that he never believed sanctions would prevent Putin from escalating the war.
“No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening,” he said. “This is going to take time.”
Ingraham: Biden, DOJ's 'pretend warriors' look tough, but don't act it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2-7KjrYabs
Russians have been crossing into America from Mexico
President Biden is more worried about Russians crossing their border with Ukraine than he is about the Russians crossing our border with Mexico.
The problem with America’s porous southern border and an unfinished wall to serve as a deterrent is the inability to know who has entered into the United States. Other than wanting to get into America without following the legal process, we know nothing about the countless illegals who are already here, including rough estimates that are close to accurate.
Border Patrol drone video of unknown illegals crossing the border
Most people who cross illegally may be decent and simply want to take care of their families as best they can. Then there are those unknown from all over the world who are not decent and have no honorable intentions. Without a means to identify people coming across the border illegally, there may very well be war criminals and other bad actors hiding from their own people.
Several outlets have reported Russians being found at the southern border. Not a small number, but thousands with no way to know how many Russians are in America illegally. The cartels deliver anyone who will pay without question.
On January 30 of this year, Business Insider had an article by Sarah Al-Arshani, The US southern border saw a growing number of migrants from Russia, Ukraine, and other distant countries last month, stated:
“In December, over 2,000 Russians and 300 Ukrainians made their way to the border. Axios reported most of them had either arrived or were found at a legal port of entry in San Diego, California.”
Over 2000 Russian at a single port of entry who were caught, compared to how many at other points in last December alone who made it into the United States. There are several unverified stories about Russian saboteurs who were already in Ukraine before Russia invaded, which is certainly in line with Putin’s history.
The Russians who are currently in the United States illegally are an unknown threat. Not just the potential added ranks to the Russian mob, one of the most brutal organized criminal organizations in the world, if not the worst, but Russian saboteurs as well.
Ukraine has been invaded, again. Under another Democratic president who will do nothing, just like Obama with Crimea. If sanctions worked, there would have been no invasion a second time and Crimea would have returned to Ukraine. What are new sanctions going to do to Putin? Same thing as the old. Absolutely nothing.
If there are enough saboteurs in place and the Russian Mob supplying weapons, we could be very busy fighting an enemy from within and without. An attack on American power grids would be devastating to the country and easy target with the right military hardware in place.
That is just one of numerous potential targets that could easily be attacked by Russian saboteurs that are most likely already in the United States. Motivated individuals have carried out devastating attacks against America in the past through military or terroristic actions and will do so in the future.
Considering the weakness of Biden, God help all Americans if it happens during his presidency.
Exclusive—Matt Mowers: ‘If Biden Was Serious About Immigration, He’d Defund Sanctuary Cities to Build the Wall’
New Hampshire’s First Congressional District Republican candidate Matt Mowers, who is looking to unseat vulnerable Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas, exclusively told Breitbart News after President Joe Biden’s “wildly hypocritical” State of the Union address that “if Biden was serious about immigration” which he brought up during his address, “he’d defund sanctuary cities to build the wall” on the Southern Border.
Mowers — who worked in Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign, served on former President Donald Trump’s transition team, and then was a senior White House adviser at the State Department before being the Republican nominee who ran against Pappas in 2020 — slammed Biden’s “wildly hypocritical” call to secure the border by outlining his plan to Breitbart News.
Mowers told Breitbart News that to complete the security wall at the Southern Border, the United States should direct federal aid sent to local jurisdictions that either refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement and/or allow noncitizens to vote.
“Enough is enough,” Mowers said on the Biden administration’s “hypocritical” immigration position.
“Despite his ham-handed, throwaway line at the State of the Union, it is one year later, and Joe Biden’s open border disaster has left our communities ravaged by a record amount of illegal drug activity, including lethal fentanyl doses, and the devastating effects of human trafficking,” Mowers said explaining on his position.
He continued, “If woke politicians in Sanctuary Cities continue to aid and abet the Administration’s reckless disregard for the safety and well-being of their fellow Americans, they should lose their federal funding in favor of supporting and completing the security wall at the Southern Border.”
Mowers, who appears to be the first candidate to call on the Biden administration to take this position, was also the first on many other initiatives:
- In January 2020, at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, called for a travel ban from China before the country started to shut down.
- In January 2022, Mowers was the first candidate to strongly come out against members of Congress and their family members from trading stocks and the first candidate in the country.
- In February 2022, he also was the first candidate for National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to resign after the explosive allegations from Special Counsel John Durham were made public.
“It is long past the time to take back control of this situation from violent cartels and to empower our communities to protect themselves,” he concluded.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter.
Biden Wants $10B to Protect Ukraine’s Border After Spending $6M Every Day to Not Build U.S.-Mexico Border Wall
President Joe Biden is looking to spend more than $10 billion in American taxpayer money to protect the borders of Ukraine even as he spent $6 million every day to not build a wall along the United States-Mexico border.
On Thursday, Punchbowl News reported that Biden will request Congress approve $10 billion in “emergency military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine and Eastern European allies” amid the region’s ongoing conflict.
Already, Biden has issued $350 million to help protect Ukraine’s borders.
Meanwhile, infrastructure at the U.S.-Mexico border has been neglected for over a year by the Biden administration. Immediately after taking office, Biden halted all construction of border wall, leaving materials to rust in the region’s desert-like weather.
In March of 2021, Breitbart News exclusively reported that Biden had been spending about $6 million every day in taxpayer money to not build the border wall. By July, Biden had spent $2 billion to not build the wall, with costs leveling out to about $3 million in taxpayer money wasted every day.
Unused pieces of steel bollard-style wall lay near a portion of unfinished border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border on April 14, 2021, in La Joya, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Unused pieces of steel bollard-style wall lay near a portion of unfinished border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border on April 14, 2021, in La Joya, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)
A family of asylum seekers from Cuba cross an open section of wall at the US-Mexico border to turn themselves into US Border Patrol agents on May 13, 2021, in Yuma, Arizona. (Apu Gomes/Getty Images)
Parents-to-be from Haiti stand at a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border wall after having traveled from South America to the United States on December 10, 2021, in Yuma, Arizona. (John Moore/Getty Images)
As Biden focuses attention on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the nation sees its own invasion where more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens arrived at the southern border last year — a record-setting figure of illegal immigration not seen before in American history.
Likewise, Biden has ensured that more than 530,000 border crossers and illegal aliens who arrived at the border last year were subsequently released into the U.S. interior. The figure is likely some hundreds of thousands higher, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has refused to reveal the official total.
This year, experts are predicting that Biden will again set a new illegal immigration record with more than 2.1 million border crossers and illegal aliens expected to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border. Hundreds of thousands of those arrivals are likely to be released into the U.S. interior.
In January alone, Biden released into the U.S. interior more than 62,500 border crossers and illegal aliens — a foreign population more than twice the size of Princeton, New Jersey; nearly twice the size of Lexington, Massachusetts; and more than six times the size of Jackson, Wyoming.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Why Kamala? Jill Biden Questioned Picking Harris as Joe’s Vice President
After Joe Biden won the Democrat primary, Jill Biden questioned her husband’s team for selecting Kamala Harris as his running mate, according to a new book.
The report from the book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns sets out that Jill Biden was not happy with the decision.
From the book:
Speaking in confidence with a close adviser to her husband’s campaign, the future First lady posed a pointed question. There are millions of people in the United States, she began. Why, she asked, do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe?
Jill Biden’s team did not deny the story, cryptically telling Politico in a statement “some accurate, some inaccurate” stories would be told about the First Lady and she did not plan to respond to any of them.
Jill Biden was reportedly livid after Harris attacked her husband during a 2020 presidential debate on public busing, expressing her frustrations in a call with supporters.
“With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he’s committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis?” Jill Biden said according to multiple people on the call. “Go f— yourself.”
The president’s wife has not denied those reports, telling reporters in May 2020 that she and Harris “moved on from that.”
When you try to sound SMART but you just sound STUPID..
Kamala Harris comes out with another whacked oratorical moment
If you like your Vice President to function as comic relief, Kamala Harris is the gift that never stops giving. Because she’s been propped up for her entire career, first by Willie Brown and then by a political establishment that valued her kneejerk leftism and needed her XX chromosomes and melanin load for the optics, Kamala has developed a decidedly inflated sense of her oratorical skills. She truly thinks she’s Marin Luther King, something apparent from a speech she gave on Monday, while in a library in Sunset, Louisiana, to promote affordable, accessible, high-speed internet access.
Kamala’s rhetorical tropes rely heavily on repetition. She’ll say a sentence once, then twice, and sometimes even three times. And this isn’t because, like her boss, she may have forgotten the sentence as soon as she uttered it, requiring that she repeat it until she grasps that, yes, she’s said what she meant to say. Nope, not that.
What dawned on me today was that Kamala thinks she’s Martin Luther King, Jr., who was the master of repetition. In his speeches, King would repeat a phrase as a rhetorical drumbeat, emphasizing and expanding upon his message to the point at which everyone wanted to stand up and preach along with him. Jesse Jackson used to do that, too, but he lacked King’s beautiful voice, sense of spoken rhythm, powerful intelligence, and absolute moral clarity:
Then there’s Kamala, with a voice like Fran Drescher, except that Kamala’s Fran Drescher voice always sounds as if Kamala just emerged from an all-night session in the dorm spent smoking pot and, while stoned, solving the world’s problems. And I think we can all agree that, in addition to lacking Martin Luther King’s beautiful voice, Kamala comes up short on the intelligence and moral clarity metrics too. That, though, does not stop our brave Vice President from trying to mimic King’s elegant, powerful rhetorical flourishes.
All of which leads to this priceless audio of Kamala Harris’s philosophical musings in Sunset, Louisiana, where she’s making a sales pitch for Joe Biden’s $277 million plan for broadband access nationwide:
The governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time. Right? The significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires... what we need to do to create these jobs. And there’s such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.
Without hearing more of the speech, I have a sense that Kamala is trying to point out that, given childhood’s brevity, we cannot delay this government project to ensure that kids get high-speed internet during that brief interlude. (That’s my guess.)
Of course, Kamala may have meant to say something completely different than my guess. Her problem is that there is no way to elevate her mindless repetitive statements into rhetorical brilliance. Her sentences, like those dreams brought to Mona Lisa’s doorstep in Nat King Cole’s lovely song, “they just lie there, and they die there.”
Nor should you ever think that Harris makes up in practical intelligence what she lacks in rhetorical and oratorical brilliance. Richard Grenell, Trump’s former Acting Director of National Intelligence and former US Ambassador to Germany, knows Harris and has nothing good to say about her. I’ve cued the video so it goes straight to the Harris material but I actually recommend the whole thing. What Grenell has to say about Biden’s foreign policy, Antony Blinken’s qualifications, and Angela Merkel’s disastrous decisions (among other things) is worth hearing:
You know, they’re not competent and I blame the Sacramento media for allowing Kamala Harris, as a woman and as a Black person, to rise and win all of these different offices simply because of her identity. She wasn’t qualified. She doesn’t have the capacity and I honestly will double down on that.
If you look, there’s no possible way Susan Rice and Ron Klain did not prepare her with a good book [about Ukraine] of what to say and what to do and what the policy was. I don’t think it was a lack of preparation. I think it is a capacity issue; that she doesn’t understand these issues.
She’s been allowed to rise to the top without any vetting from the media. There’s been no push until she got into the presidential [race] and then the national media, a little bit, were like, “Wait, you’re not really ready,” and so she imploded. But the Sacramento media allowed her just to, you know, capapult and take over. I don’t think she’s qualified.
Once again, the inimitable Kamala Harris has demonstrated why she is Joe Biden’s insurance policy. He is demented, stupid, and always wrong. And she’s worse.
White House Alters Transcript to Cover for Kamala
She may not have a high IQ, but she does have an extremely high woke quotient.
You heard it. I heard it. The whole world heard it. Even CNN reported it. PJM’s Matt Margolis reported on it here. At the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Washington on Saturday, Kamala Harris said: “The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people in defense of the NATO alliance.” Now, Ukraine is not actually in NATO, and so standing firmly with the Ukrainian people would not actually be an act in defense of the NATO alliance, and of all people, the person pretending to be vice president of the United States should know that. So over at WhiteHouse.gov, the ever-helpful anonymous wonks who record every august word and deed of the socialists, clowns, puppets, freaks, and saboteurs responsible for this period of American misrule knew that they had to do something to prevent the American people from realizing just how oblivious and out of touch our putative vice president really is. Voilá! Now it has her saying: “The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people [and] in defense of the NATO Alliance.”
Sure, the “and” is in brackets, so the White House gremlins are tacitly admitting that she didn’t really say it. But the correction itself reduces an obvious revelation that the ostensible vice president is woefully ignorant of the basic things every public official should know to a simple slip of the tongue. She meant to say “and” and didn’t; that’s all, MAGA rubes! Haven’t you ever had something come out the wrong way?
Maybe that’s all it was. But the alleged vice president hasn’t exactly impressed the world of late with her knowledge and intellectual acumen. On Friday, Harris was asked about historic inflation and unprecedented gas prices in the United States and, before answering, first looked to President Klaus Iohannis of Romania, as if he might have a better answer about conditions in the country of which she is supposed to be vice president. Then: “In terms of, uh, the discussions that the president Iohannis and I had, uh, they ranged in subject, including the issue of the Black Sea, and I’ll let him explain in more detail as he would like. Uh, but, we are again, fully aware and apprised, because we are in constant communication with the president, with his administration here, about the concerns that they have about the entire region, and frankly, the vulnerability. All you have to do is look at the map.” Did you miss the part where Harris addressed inflation and skyrocketing gas prices? So did we all. She simply changed the subject rather than dealing with the unpleasantness. Statesmanlike!
Harris may not have a high IQ, but she makes up for it with an extremely high woke quotient. In November 2021, she was listening to a NASA presenter discussing “climate adaptation strategies” and interrupted him to ask: “Can you, can you measure, um, trees?” The presenter, perhaps trying to humor the faux vice president, responded “Yes!,” but Harris plowed on: “‘Cause part of that data that you are referring to, and it’s in EJ, environmental justice — that you can also track by race their averages in terms of the number of trees in the neighborhood where people live.”
Harris no doubt firmly believes in the socialist race-baiting myth that trees are distributed in a racist manner, which completely ignores both the urban rich and the rural poor, and probably up until recently she believed that Ukraine was in NATO, too. It’s clear at this point that once Joe Biden shuffles off this mortal coil or is sent back to his walled Delaware beach house by the 25th Amendment, the handlers that are running this catastrophic administration will not be out of a job. Harris needs them as much as Biden does. Just imagine her unscripted, and you’ll immediately see what I mean.
As far as Kamala Harris herself is concerned, however, anyone who notices that she isn’t all that bright is simply, you guessed it, a racist. According to an admiring piece in that ever-reliable far-Left propaganda outlet known as the New York Times, “Ms. Harris has privately told her allies that the news coverage of her would be different if she were any of her 48 predecessors, all of whom were white and male.”
No, Ms. Harris. That’s a tired excuse, of a piece in its unimaginative Leftist sloganeering with the quality of your other statements. News coverage of you would be different if you showed any sign of being remotely competent. But no such luck.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is The Critical Qur’an. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
When you try to sound SMART but you just sound STUPID..
THE LOOTING OF AMERICA
KAMALA HARRIS AND HER GOLDMAN SACHS BANKSTER STEVEN MNUCHIN
A tidy corrupt partnership
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-looting-of-america-kamala-harris.html
She also declined to prosecute OneWest, run by now-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin from 2009-2015, after her own prosecutors said they discovered over a thousand violations of foreclosure law committed by the bank. (OneWest donated $6,500 to Harris' attorney general campaign in 2011, and Mnuchin himself donated $2,000 to her Senate campaign in 2016.)
US Vice President Kamala Harris 'is such a hoax'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRg6KxiOr3Q
How Kamala Harris Made Her Millions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIipQxGdjYs
The Shady Side Of Kamala Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flz5k8RPQGk
The United States is 'literally leaderless'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJf-XRgzcjs
Newt Gingrich calls Joe Biden a 'sickness'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVlPJcgRCj8
Kamala Harris comes out with another whacked oratorical moment
If you like your Vice President to function as comic relief, Kamala Harris is the gift that never stops giving. Because she’s been propped up for her entire career, first by Willie Brown and then by a political establishment that valued her kneejerk leftism and needed her XX chromosomes and melanin load for the optics, Kamala has developed a decidedly inflated sense of her oratorical skills. She truly thinks she’s Marin Luther King, something apparent from a speech she gave on Monday, while in a library in Sunset, Louisiana, to promote affordable, accessible, high-speed internet access.
Kamala’s rhetorical tropes rely heavily on repetition. She’ll say a sentence once, then twice, and sometimes even three times. And this isn’t because, like her boss, she may have forgotten the sentence as soon as she uttered it, requiring that she repeat it until she grasps that, yes, she’s said what she meant to say. Nope, not that.
What dawned on me today was that Kamala thinks she’s Martin Luther King, Jr., who was the master of repetition. In his speeches, King would repeat a phrase as a rhetorical drumbeat, emphasizing and expanding upon his message to the point at which everyone wanted to stand up and preach along with him. Jesse Jackson used to do that, too, but he lacked King’s beautiful voice, sense of spoken rhythm, powerful intelligence, and absolute moral clarity:
Then there’s Kamala, with a voice like Fran Drescher, except that Kamala’s Fran Drescher voice always sounds as if Kamala just emerged from an all-night session in the dorm spent smoking pot and, while stoned, solving the world’s problems. And I think we can all agree that, in addition to lacking Martin Luther King’s beautiful voice, Kamala comes up short on the intelligence and moral clarity metrics too. That, though, does not stop our brave Vice President from trying to mimic King’s elegant, powerful rhetorical flourishes.
All of which leads to this priceless audio of Kamala Harris’s philosophical musings in Sunset, Louisiana, where she’s making a sales pitch for Joe Biden’s $277 million plan for broadband access nationwide:
The governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time. Right? The significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires... what we need to do to create these jobs. And there’s such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.
Without hearing more of the speech, I have a sense that Kamala is trying to point out that, given childhood’s brevity, we cannot delay this government project to ensure that kids get high-speed internet during that brief interlude. (That’s my guess.)
Of course, Kamala may have meant to say something completely different than my guess. Her problem is that there is no way to elevate her mindless repetitive statements into rhetorical brilliance. Her sentences, like those dreams brought to Mona Lisa’s doorstep in Nat King Cole’s lovely song, “they just lie there, and they die there.”
Nor should you ever think that Harris makes up in practical intelligence what she lacks in rhetorical and oratorical brilliance. Richard Grenell, Trump’s former Acting Director of National Intelligence and former US Ambassador to Germany, knows Harris and has nothing good to say about her. I’ve cued the video so it goes straight to the Harris material but I actually recommend the whole thing. What Grenell has to say about Biden’s foreign policy, Antony Blinken’s qualifications, and Angela Merkel’s disastrous decisions (among other things) is worth hearing:
You know, they’re not competent and I blame the Sacramento media for allowing Kamala Harris, as a woman and as a Black person, to rise and win all of these different offices simply because of her identity. She wasn’t qualified. She doesn’t have the capacity and I honestly will double down on that.
If you look, there’s no possible way Susan Rice and Ron Klain did not prepare her with a good book [about Ukraine] of what to say and what to do and what the policy was. I don’t think it was a lack of preparation. I think it is a capacity issue; that she doesn’t understand these issues.
She’s been allowed to rise to the top without any vetting from the media. There’s been no push until she got into the presidential [race] and then the national media, a little bit, were like, “Wait, you’re not really ready,” and so she imploded. But the Sacramento media allowed her just to, you know, capapult and take over. I don’t think she’s qualified.
Once again, the inimitable Kamala Harris has demonstrated why she is Joe Biden’s insurance policy. He is demented, stupid, and always wrong. And she’s worse.
The Decline and Fall of Kamala Harris
She thought she was a queen, but she was only a pawn.
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 end of the Obama era renewed the civil war between the Democrat establishment and the Socialist insurgents. Hillary Clinton, the establishment woman whose loss to Obama had inaugurated 8 years of insurgent rule, faced down a new challenge from the Sanders insurgency.
The next round of the fight in 2020 was a virtual draw with black voters choosing Biden and white lefties backing Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The Biden administration was a compromise between both wings of the party. Its senior members are establishment while many of their juniors are Warren allies or linked to the Congressional Black Caucus.
JOE BIDEN: THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S MENTAL BRIBES SUCKER
Biden was a useful compromise candidate because his age and mental condition made him a “one-and-done” politician whose administration would take the hit by implementing radical policies and coping with the political fallout from the pandemic and runaway inflation.
Except that Biden, who keeps promising to run again, doesn’t seem to know it.
The only member of his administration who is even more clueless than Joe is Kamala. The compromise that put her in the White House was the most misguided one of them all.
Biden had promised the Congressional Black Caucus a black female veep. The CBC wanted one of its own, particularly Rep. Karen Bass, but considering her Castro sympathies and general leftist radicalism, that would have meant writing off Florida and the rest of America.
Instead, Biden, in his only clever move, picked Kamala, a failed primary opponent, not because she was popular, but because she was unpopular. Rather than an affirmation, Biden went over the protests of his own people to select a political human shield. The party of identity politics would never pressure him to step down to make way for this particular “black woman”.
On the political chessboard, Kamala functioned as Biden’s incompetent queen. Her unpopularity protected Biden from any political pressure to step down, but also blocked potential opponents from trying to replace him. When Buttigieg’s efforts to build a platform for a presidential run inside the White House became too public, Kamala brought out the race card.
Kamala was too unpopular to run and too rich with identity politics to be cut out of the race.
Picking Kamala was a brilliant move for Biden. Not so much for Kamala. The mediocre political hack, rapidly elevated to the Senate and then the Veepdom, has little experience in D.C., few political skills, and is incapable of even running any kind of basic organization. The same qualities that wrecked her presidential campaign also devastated her vice presidency.
KAMALA HARRIS, THE LYING SOCIOPATH LAWYER. SHE CAN STAGE HERSELF AS A BORN AGAIN 'POPULIST' AS SHE SERVES BANKSTERS AND WALL STREET FOR THE BRIBES!
After her campaign collapsed into feuding between her staff and her sister, history is repeating itself. And once again Kamala can’t decide if she wants to be a radical or a moderate, and is trying to be all things to all people. Like her campaign flip-flopping on socialized medicine, she veers between open borders and immigration enforcement rhetoric, between demonizing Israel and conducting outreach to Jews, without being able to pick a platform and stick with it.
DYNAMICS OF A SOCIOPATH: THERE IS NOTHING THERE. NO VALUES, NO CORE BELIEVES, AND THE ABILITY TO LIE ABOUT ANYTHING.
Kamala Harris is far from the only Washington D.C. politician who doesn’t believe in anything, but it’s her inconsistency that makes her appear phony and insincere even to her own people. Her opportunism has always been too blatant to conceal under fake idealism, even more transparently artificial identity politics, or a truly implausible “ordinary woman” facade.
HILLARY AND KAMALA: BOTH LYING SOCIOPATH LAWYERS ON THE TAKE.
That’s the Hillary problem. And the establishment already made two bad bets on Hillary.
In a party deeply divided between radicals and establishment types, Kamala tried and failed to win the support of both, but is coming away with the support of neither. No one likes her and no one trusts her. And the campaign to undermine her is being waged subtly, but effectively.
Kamala’s top people are leaving because everyone in D.C. understands that she doesn’t have a future. Staffers work for politicians whom they expect will be able to advance their careers. It’s become obvious even among the third and fourth tier people around Kamala that she isn’t going anywhere. And no one with any ambition is likely to stick around and follow her off to the exit.
No longer a senator and a veep no one wants to see in the big chair, she has nowhere to go.
2024 Democrat candidates are making it plain that they don’t see either Biden or Kamala as political threats. In what other administration could a cabinet member like Buttigieg keep his own PAC going for a potential future presidential run against his own boss and Kamala?
This isn’t just palace intrigue, it’s a palace coup.
Buttigieg isn’t the only Democrat aiming at 2024. Senator Cory Booker is going to New Hampshire. Senator Bernie Sanders says that there’s only a “slim” chance he’ll run, but Nina Turner, his campaign co-chair, declared that, “If President Joe Biden does not seek reelection for whatever reason, that makes this a totally open seat. Period,”
As a black woman, Turner is immune to Kamala’s race card even while warning that the Sanders camp will not respect any kind of incumbency by Kamala. That’s not a coincidence.
BUTTIGIEG IS TRULY AN 'ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE' AND IS A CLONE OF BIDEN. FROM DAY ONE PETE WAS UP HIGH TECH'S ASS AND PROMISED OPEN BORDERS AND AMNESTY FOR MORE 'CHEAP' LABOR THE TRUE COST OF WHICH IS PASSED ALONG TO MIDDLE AMERICA
Both sides expect 2024 to reopen the Democrat civil war. Buttigieg is positioning himself as the establishment candidate and even if the Sanders camp doesn’t run their figurehead, they will likely turn up another candidate to build a completely unearned cult of personality around.
Where does that leave Kamala? Just like in the primaries, nowhere.
Too clueless to realize that her plum job was really a put-up job, Kamala has finally reached the pinnacle of her profession only to discover that it’s really a dead end. If the country continues to be an economic and medical mess, the last thing anyone will want is Biden or his political prop.
Instead, Democrats are likely to embrace a radical change candidate and run against themselves. In an age where the establishment Democrats are just a more moderate breed of radical, the difference between the establishment and the socialists is only skin deep.
But skin deep differences are how voters get scammed by the same political hacks.
Kamala’s problem is that her scam was uninspiring, her invocations of victimhood unconvincing, and her brand was inauthentic. Leftists hate her because she’s phony and the establishment doesn’t want another Hillary. The Congressional Black Caucus resents her because of her covert campaign against Rep. Karen Bass. Her only allies in D.C. are on her payroll.
And that’s not a good place to be.
Kamala thought she was boarding an elevator to the White House, but instead she’s a puppet in the middle of a civil war that she is uniquely incapable of participating in, let alone winning.
Kamala Harris thought she was a queen, now she’s realizing that she’s only a pawn.
Image: Kamala Harris (edited). Twitter screen grab.
JOE BIDEN'S BANKSTERS AND THE PARASITE LAWYER CLASS
LOVE THIS SOCIOPATH!
Biden presumably picked Harris as his running mate for three reasons: She was black-ish; she’s female; and, most importantly, she wouldn’t outshine Biden and might be an insurance policy against efforts to oust him under the 25th Amendment.
KAMALA HARRIS - I CAN CON THEM! I'M A LAWYER, IT'S WHAT I HAVE DONE MY ENTIRE BRIBES SUCKING LEGAL CAREER!
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/09/kamala-harrs-i-can-con-them-im-lawyer.html
All of this is, if we can be permitted to use Biden’s catchphrase, “malarkey.” Harris has already proven herself as a trusted servant of the interests of the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class. The Wall Street Journal wrote last week that Wall Street financers had breathed a “sigh of relief” at Biden’s pick of Harris. Industry publication American Banker noted that her steadiest stream of campaign funding has come from financial industry professionals and their most trusted law firms.
There is something fitting in the selection of Harris to co-lead the Democrats’ ticket. The response of the Democrats to the mass multi-racial and multi-ethnic protests against police violence that erupted earlier this year was to divert them into the politics of racial division, using the reactionary and false claim that what was involved was a conflict between “white America” and “black America,” rather than a conflict between the working class and capitalism.
US Vice President Kamala Harris 'is such a hoax'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRg6KxiOr3Q
How Kamala Harris Made Her Millions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIipQxGdjYs
The Shady Side Of Kamala Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flz5k8RPQGk
The United States is 'literally leaderless'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJf-XRgzcjs
Newt Gingrich calls Joe Biden a 'sickness'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVlPJcgRCj8
Democrats plan to resurrect Kamala Harris’s reputation
The Hill, which often serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat press releases, has written an article stating that “Democrats see Harris as a major player in midterms.” When it comes to Harris’s moribund reputation, Dems want us to think of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead but saving Harris is more like Mel Brook’s Young Frankenstein and “Abby Normal’s brain.”
Kamala’s lack of national viability made itself known during the Democrat primaries in 2019 when Harris dropped out without even breaking the 4% barrier in the polls and with zero delegates.
Biden presumably picked Harris as his running mate for three reasons: She was black-ish; she’s female; and, most importantly, she wouldn’t outshine Biden and might be an insurance policy against efforts to oust him under the 25th Amendment.
Since she’s been in office, Kamala has been a disaster. Monica Showalter’s astute posts about Kamala Harris tell the story. Here are just a few of the highlights:
Already in December 2020, perhaps as Democrats had their “Oh, my God! What have we done?” moment about getting Biden into the White House, there was the first of several desperate efforts to build Kamala up. This wasn’t helped by the fact that Kamala was mostly window dressing, standing behind Joe, wearing her little mask, like Death waiting for a turn.
In March, as Biden’s disastrous open border policy began to take shape, he appointed Kamala his “border czar.” And again, there was a push to resurrect her reputation. Kamala showed unusual initiative by ignoring the border and focusing on renovating the Veep’s mansion.
By April, even the Democrat cheerleaders in the media were wondering “Where in the world is Kamala Harris (and why isn’t she at the border)?” Jen Psaki, who may not like Kamala, covered for her by saying that Harris, who had bopped off to a Chicago bakery, was just like other Americans in Chicago, in that “she got a snack.”
A week later, Harris announced her solution to the border problem: She was going to Latin America to hunt down “root causes.” As for the border itself...meh! Two weeks after that, Kamala explained that El Salvador needed to have an independent judiciary, an interesting statement from a politician whose party fanatically wants to pack the United States Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Kamala avoided that border over which she allegedly presided as czar.
While Kamala dodged and weaved on the border, it emerged that people don’t like working for her. Apparently, like all people over their heads, she’s mean to and tries to blame the staff that can’t compensate for her inadequacies. (Her Secret Service agents suffer too.)
Because Kamala had failed so well as border czar, Joe promoted her to voting rights czar. Her aides allegedly panicked and then panicked some more. They were on to something because her trip to Latin America was a P.R. disaster. Her staff engaged in CYA behavior, stating that they were “perplexed” about her performance.
In early June, as border czar, Kamala told illegal aliens “do not come.” Well, that should stop them...NOT. Still, at the end of June, when Trump threatened to get to the border first, Kamala finally announced a visit. She carefully avoided going to the site of illegal border crossing and, of course, she blamed Trump for everything.
Eventually, even a true believer like Ezra Klein had to admit that Kamala is incompetent. And so, in July, there was another effort to reboot Kamala’s popularity. It’s hard, though, when you have a Veep (and voting rights czar) who boasts about talking with Republicans about the Dems’ “reform” bill but can’t name anyone with whom she’s spoken.
In August, there was another effort to improve Kamala’s reputation. Again, though, she made it difficult, performing horribly in Asia, including wiping her hand after shaking the hand of the South Korean president.
And always, always, there’s that crazed, manic cackle. Plus the fact that her popularity is lousy. Very lousy.
With that history, it’s laughable when The Hill claims that “Democrats expect Vice President Harris to be a major player in revving up the party’s liberal base ahead of next year’s midterm elections.” She’s obnoxious, incompetent and, outside of rabid Third Wave feminist circles, disliked.
When a single Democrat pollster, a Harris ally, and a White House official sing her praises, no one should be impressed. Instead, there’s a strong odor of desperation when The Hill assures readers that “Democrats see Harris as uniquely positioned to drive up turnout among young people and women....”
Currently, Kamala’s only advantage is that no one is yet hollering “F*** Veep Harris” at sports events and concerts. As between a corrupt and senile president and an incompetent and unpleasant veep, it’s to be hoped that neither of them gets out the Democrat vote in the 2024 midterms.
Image: Kamala Harris. YouTube screen grab (edited).
BLACKROCK - WATCH THE BANSKTERS' RENT BOY CHUCK SCHUMER SUCK OFF A ROOM OF PLUNDERING BANKSTERS.
Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream⎜WHY POVERTY?⎜(Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6niWzomA_So&list=WL&index=19
The close collaboration between the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the multi-billion dollar asset management firm Blackrock in devising the March 2020 rescue operation for Wall Street has been revealed in an article published in the New York Times yesterday.
BANKSTER BLACKROCK IS JOE BIDEN'S BIGGEST PAYMASTER AND OPERATES ITS INTERESTS OUT OF THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE UNDER GAMER LAWYER BRIAN DEESE, A FORMER BLACKROCK EMPLOYEE,
World’s largest asset management firm was “front and center” of Fed’s Wall Street bailout
The close collaboration between the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the multi-billion dollar asset management firm Blackrock in devising the March 2020 rescue operation for Wall Street has been revealed in an article published in the New York Times yesterday.
According to the article, Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock, the world’s biggest asset management firm, was “in frequent touch” with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Fed chair Jerome Powell “in the days before and after many of the Fed’s emergency programs were announced in late March.”
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
The extent of the collaboration is revealed in new emails obtain by the newspaper together with information that has been previously made public.
In one newly obtained email, Fink refers to planning for the rescue measures as “the project” that he and the Fed were “working on together.”
As the article notes, “America’s top economic officials were in constant contact with a Wall Street executive whose firm stood to benefit financially from the rescue,” showing “how intertwined Blackrock has become with the federal government.”
Blackrock’s close collaboration with the Fed and Treasury came at a crucial point in the development of a crisis in financial markets which began with the onset of the pandemic in March and fears in corporate circles over the response in the working class amid walkouts by workers insisting that safety measures be out in place.
The Fed responded to the initial turbulence in the markets by cutting interest rates. But these measures proved to be insufficient and the potential for a major meltdown in the markets emerged in the week ending March 20 when the $21 trillion US Treasury bond market—the bedrock of the US and global financial system—froze.
Instead of providing a “safe haven” for investors it moved to the centre of the crisis as Treasuries were sold off and no buyers could be found as the sell-off extended to all areas of the financial system.
Faced with a disaster when the markets re-opened, Mnuchin, Powell and Fink were engaged in a series of discussions over the weekend of March 21–22 to devise a rescue package. According to the Times report, Mnuchin spoke to Fink five times over the two days, more than anyone else, other than Powell with whom he spoke nine times.
One of the most significant features of the rescue measures announced on Monday March 23 was the decision by the Fed, for the first time ever, to buy corporate bonds which, as the Times noted, “were becoming nearly impossible to sell as investors sprinted to convert their holdings to cash.”
Blackrock had already closely collaborated with the Fed developing its response to the 2008 financial crisis was thereby set to play a key role in the March intervention.
The article pointed out that, while Blackrock signed a non-disclosure agreement on March 22 restricting officials from sharing information about the upcoming measures, the way in which the rescue package was devised “mattered to Blackrock.”
The decision of the Fed to buy corporate bonds and provide an underpinning for the market was significant and involved two key areas of Blackrock’s operations. One of the ways it makes profit is by managing money for clients charging a preset fee. But assets under management were contracting as investors went for cash and its business model was under threat.
Blackrock is also a major player in the short-term debt markets which were coming “under intense stress” as investors moved their holdings to cash.
Electronic Traded Funds (ETFs), which track market indexes but which trade like a stock, were also severely impacted.
In the words of the Times article: “Corporate bonds were difficult to trade and near impossible to issue in mid-March 2020. Prices on some high-grade corporate ETFs, including one of Blackrock’s, were out of whack relative to the value of the underlying assets.”
As Gregg Gelenzis, associate director for economic policy at the Center for American Progress told the Times: “This was the first time that ETFs came under stress in a really systemic way.”
In the rescue package the Fed committed itself to buying already existing debt as well as new bonds and also decided it would purchase ETFs with the result that the “bond market and fund recovery was nearly instant.”
As the Times article notes, while practically all of Wall Street benefited from the Fed’s intervention, and other financial firms were “consulted” apart from Blackrock “no other company was as front and center.”
The closeness of the relationship between Blackrock and the financial and economic arms of the state, the US Treasury and the Fed, were highlighted in a comment by William Birdthistle, of the Chicago-Kent College of Law and the author of a book on funds, cited in the article.
He said Blackrock was “about as close to a government arm as you can be, without being the Federal Reserve.”
The Fed makes every effort to cover up that relationship in order to try to preserve the fiction that it is not beholden to Wall Street and operates as an independent public authority concerned above all with the state of the economy and the welfare of the population.
The Times article recalled a news conference in July 2020 in which Powell was asked about the discussions with Fink.
“I can’t recall exactly what those conversations were,” he said, “but they would have been about what he is seeing in the market and things like that.
He said there were not “very many” conversations and that the Blackrock chief was “typically trying to make sure that we are getting good service from the company he founded the leads.”
Powell’s claim that, in the midst of the most significant crisis since the meltdown of 2008—with a potential to go even further, as the freeze in the Treasury market showed—he could not recall those conversations simply does not pass muster.
The value of every crisis, it has been rightly said, is that it reveals the real relations that are obscured and covered over in “normal” times.
And that is the case here. The economic arms of the capitalist state are not some independent authority but function every day in the interests of the corporate and financial oligarchy, servicing its needs and interests above all else.
Why is the New York Times suing for access to State Department correspondence on Hunter Biden and Romania?
By Rajan Laad
A few days ago, Politico.com reported that The New York Times was suing the Biden State Department for withholding correspondence mentioning Hunter Biden that is in possession of the U.S. Embassy in Romania.
In its lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, the NYT states that it had on two separate occasions placed requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
The State Department had responded that the requested records would be provided only after April 15, 2023. The law requires all federal agencies to respond to a FOIA request within 20 business days unless there are "unusual circumstances."
The NYT's suit is obviously an effort to expedite the State Department's timeline for the FOIA disclosures.
To be precise, the NYT had requested access to emails, memos, and other records from 2015 to 2019 from U.S. embassy officials in Bucharest, including former U.S. ambassador to Romania Hans Klemm, mentioning a number of individuals such as Hunter Biden and his former business associate, Tony Bobulinski.
Politico reports that the goal behind the exercise was to investigate if embassy officials did any special favors on behalf of private businesses such as that of Hunter Biden.
The request seeks records about the following:
1. The possible improper use of federal government resources to assist and advance private business interests with connections to United States government officials.
2. The possible evasion of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by those private business interests.
3. The non-enforcement of FARA by the federal government in relation to those private business interests.
This would raise questions about possible conflicts of interest and corruption.
In a statement to Politico, a New York Times spokesperson said, "As a routine part of their reporting, NYT journalists regularly seek potentially newsworthy information from a variety of sources, including from the U.S. government through FOIA requests."
"We're hopeful the government will promptly release any relevant documents, and as always we are prepared to pursue our request through a lawsuit if necessary. Just as we do on any line of reporting, we will assess the newsworthiness of the material once we receive it," the spokesperson added.
The State Department has declined to comment on the situation.
Last year, the U.K. Daily Mail reported that an email from Hunter's laptop shows that Hunter was hired by Romanian real estate tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu to overturn his bribery conviction through a massive propaganda campaign with help from V.P. Joe's government connections and former FBI director Louis Freeh. Despite the efforts, Popoviciu was convicted of bribery.
Emails also showed that Freeh "donated" $100,000 to a trust for two of President Biden's grandchildren as he sought to pursue "some very good and profitable matters" with him.
Perhaps this is what the NYT is looking into?
Back in October 2020, less than a month prior to Election Day, the New York Post had reported about Hunter Biden's misplaced laptop that contained emails that proved that Hunter Biden had introduced his father, who was vice president, to a top executive from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. This contradicts Joe Biden's claim that he's "never spoken to my son" about his overseas business dealings.
Burisma was paying Hunter around $1 million a year when Biden was vice president; the amount was cut in half two months after Biden left office.
This was a clear case of nepotism, conflict of interest, and corruption.
Mainstream media outlets scoffed at a New York Post's story, while Facebook and Twitter prevented the stories from circulating.
The Media Research Center study discovered that one of every six Biden voters (17%) said he would not have voted for Biden if he had known the facts about various news stories the mainstream news media refused to cover and that social media chose to block.
The question remains: why would the NYT, who have been willing propagandists for the Democrats, suddenly develop the urge to pursue to truth and sue a Democrat State Department?
Back in 2019, the NYT's Kenneth Vogel was among the rare few in the mainstream media that covered the Hunter story and even described Hunter as both a "significant liability" for Biden. Throughout the 2020 presidential campaign, the Biden team regularly expressed anger at the Times over Vogel's coverage of Hunter Biden, while Democrats viciously attacked him on all forums possible.
Perhaps Vogel is merely doing his job in pursuing the story or maybe he is taking on the Bidens? Perhaps Vogel is taking on the Bidens as a vendetta for the abuse he previously received?
It does give the NYT an occasion to feign fairness and claim that it was tough on Biden.
Another possible explanation is that the Washington Media-Democrat complex are tired of Biden's incompetence. They think Biden's abominable record of misgovernance will cause them to lose rather emphatically to the Republicans during the midterms in November.
However, what the Democrats fear most is that Biden may lose in a landslide to Donald Trump in 2024. Polls show Biden losing support among all traditional Democrat voter groups.
Perhaps the NYT is being used as a proxy in this struggle. It has certainly placed Biden in a Catch-22.
If Biden's State Department were to reveal communication records that prove a clear case of conflict of interest and corruption, Joe certainly looks bad and could be forced out of office. Their attempt to stall the handover of information makes them appear guilty, as if they have something to conceal. They could be accused of obstructing the path of the news media.
It will be interesting to see if the NYT will actually publish a story that reveals Hunter Biden's shady web of international business relationships cultivated when his father was vice president.
The story perhaps is being used as leverage for the Democrats to compel Biden not to run in 2024 and keep him under control while he occupies the White House.
It is unlikely they would want him out before 2024 since that would make Kamala Harris president, and even the Democrats know that is worse than bumbling old Biden.
In the coming weeks, if CNN, MSNBC, and other propaganda outfits amplify this NYT vs. Biden State Department story, we can be sure that powers that be in Washington want Biden out of the way.
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