Bear Grylls
Edward Michael Grylls (born 7 June 1974), better known as Bear Grylls, is a British former SAS serviceman, survival instructor, and honorary lieutenant-colonel, and, outside his military career, an adventurer, writer, television presenter and…
When I see Nancy Pelosi resign, that is going to be a glorious moment.
Q1266
It's him, and he is hung like an elephant.
Even whores cross their legs, when he walks by.
Are you just saying that, with your huge gaping mouth open?
Twitter Confirms It Could Ban Trump After Inauguration, but Good Luck Keeping Him Quiet
By Sarah Lee | Dec 16, 2020 8:10 PM ET
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Twitter and Facebook will certainly hand over the official POTUS accounts to the incoming president after the January 20 inauguration, but will they ban Donald Trump from tweeting from his personal account once he’s no longer a public official?
There are reports — and even suggestions from some left-leaning outlets — that they should do exactly that. But there is enough chatter that Trump has plans post-presidency that it may not matter what efforts social media decides to take to keep him quiet.
Twitter could ban President Donald Trump from the social media platform after Inauguration Day, a Twitter spokesperson told Forbes Thursday.
President Trump is shielded by Twitter’s “World Leaders Policy”, which means the platform can leave up a tweet that breaks its rules so the public can view what their leaders are stating.
Brookings has a long-form piece suggesting several options available to social media platforms to keep Trump from releasing his often polarizing thoughts unencumbered into the wild.
Social media companies appear to have three options for censorship once Trump returns to civilian life. First, they could maintain a libertarian stance: granting his accounts continued public interest exceptions and allowing him to say whatever he wants. Even though he would no longer be in office, he is a political leader whose words impact the public, and millions will still want to know what he has to say. This approach is similar to the one that Facebook appears to be adopting. Still, these decisions could facilitate the continued spread of hate speech and false information, perhaps even at a greater rate once Trump is free from the constraints of public office.
Second, the companies could remove his public interest exception and treat him like any regular user. When he utters falsehoods or makes inflammatory statements, they could remove the tweets or temporarily suspend his account. Indeed, some Democrats, such as Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) have called for greater oversight of his provocative rhetoric, explicitly asking Twitter and Facebook’s CEOs to monitor his accounts post-inauguration. This option carries its own risks: social media fact-checks can further polarize Americans than if posts were unaltered, but even in the face of these risks, the importance of maintaining some baseline of truth cannot be overstated.
https://redstate.com/slee/2020/12/16/twitter-confirms-it-could-ban-trump-after-inauguration-but-good-luck-keeping-him-quiet-n295862
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Third, these firms could permanently remove accounts on the grounds he is a repeat offender. Using the “three strikes and you are out” principle, they could label him incapable of rhetorical rehabilitation and revoke his posting privileges completely. This approach is both extreme and incredibly risky: it would move Trump off mainstream platforms and force him to rely on newly emerging sites such as the conservative platform Parler, which would drastically reinforce the partisan echo chamber effect promulgated by social media.
There will doubtless be many reasons given for these efforts to, as Brookings admits, censor Trump. He’s revealing classified information could be one. Or he’s repeating debunked and dangerous conspiracy theories. Or his tone and style is violating community standards. They will almost certainly be creative in their rationale for whatever steps they may take.
But they’re going to have quite a battle if reports are true that Trump and his family are exploring the idea of creating a media company to compete with the mainstream press.
Jared Kushner has been talking up the idea of starting a Donald Trump-themed news outlet or some other media company, possibly as soon as after the election, five Republicans familiar with the discussions told Insider.
Kushner has floated the idea to Republicans and media types throughout the year, according to three of the people. But the increased chatter about the rise of another conservative media outlet, possibly branded under the Trump name, has kicked up even more over the past few weeks as the president’s reelection chances continue to sink.
The timing so close to Election Day has Trump advisors wondering if Kushner himself is anticipating a defeat much like he and others did before the president’s upset White House win in 2016.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that Jared’s future is in building a media empire of some kind,” one of the Republicans familiar with the nascent talks said. “He believes that controlling the media means controlling the policy, controlling the people.”
Of course and ironically, it’s wise to take reports attributing quotes to unnamed sources with a huge grain of salt. Trump was one of the best at reminding the nation of that. But it’s not an idea out of left field, and it wouldn’t be the most shocking thing if it turned out to be true. In short: no matter what Trump does following his time in the White House, it’s a good bet we’ll be hearing a lot about it. And it will be even less filtered than it has been these past four years.
In short, the season with Trump as a private citizen may be where the show starts to get really interesting.
https://redstate.com/slee/2020/12/16/twitter-confirms-it-could-ban-trump-after-inauguration-but-good-luck-keeping-him-quiet-n295862
Trump Is Considering Giving an Order That Should Terrify Joe Biden
By Bonchie | Dec 16, 2020 7:15 PM ET
I could write this article in just two words: Do it.
A new report is out saying that President Trump is currently considering the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden. This comes after the revelation of at least four investigations involving the former VP’s son. Money laundering appears to be one of the chief concerns, though there are also other corruption issues at play. Joe Biden himself could also be fingered, given some of the past evidence we’ve seen that his knowledge of what went on is far deeper than he’s admitted (see: New Hunter Biden Email Further Implicates Joe Biden).
Now, Trump is recognizing that these investigations need to be preserved, if Joe Biden takes office.
Report: Trump Considering Ordering Special Counsel To Investigate Hunter Biden https://t.co/NbtwI4gvaP pic.twitter.com/xb85AjbkLC
— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 16, 2020
President Donald Trump is considering pushing for a special prosecutor to take up an ongoing federal investigation into Hunter Biden.
Trump has talked with a number of White House and outside advisers about the possibility, including White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and White House counsel Pat Cipollone, according to the Associated Press. The son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has been under investigation by federal authorities over “tax issues” for the past two years, Hunter Biden confirmed last week.
What the media are going to do is insist this makes everything dealing with Hunter and Joe Biden a partisan witch-hunt. Of course, they are already saying that, so who really cares? But think about this rationally. How would it even begin to be proper for Joe Biden to take office and oversee criminal investigations into his own son? And that includes the fact that Biden would appoint the next Attorney General. The idea that any appointment made by Biden could be considered enough separation is ludicrous. That would be far more of a conflict of interest than anything that spurned the Robert Mueller special counsel that targeted Trump. Again, we are talking about a president being in total control of a department investigating his son. That’s as conflicted as it gets. If someone were giving a hypothetical example as to why a special counsel would ever be needed, this would be the best example.
Plus, Trump has absolutely nothing to lose here, nor does he owe Biden anything. It was Biden’s former apparatchiks that saddled the Trump presidency with the entire Russia hoax in the first place. Here, we don’t have a hoax. We have Biden’s son pretty obviously involved in very corrupt behavior oversees. Hunter Biden wasn’t making $50,000-plus a month from a Ukrainian oil company and getting diamonds from the Chinese because he’s actually good at something. These investigations are real and completely justified. Further, they must be protected from Joe Biden, who will enjoy complete cover from the media to end them, if he’s given that power. If a special counsel is appointed, the DOJ has to fire them for cause, and that would turn really messy if Biden’s pick tries to intervene.
So I’ll reiterate: Do it.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2020/12/16/trump-now-considering-appointing-a-special-counsel-to-investigate-hunter-biden-n295812
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/12/16/fact-check-did-kkk-style-hate-groups-receive-4m-in-ppp-funds-n1215715
Fact Check: Did KKK-Style 'Hate Groups' Receive $4M in PPP Funds?
BY TYLER O'NEIL DEC 16, 2020 8:27 PM ET
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The CARES Act, a stimulus package to help Americans struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic, established the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to help small businesses retain employees during and after COVID-19 lockdowns. Last week, NBC News claimed that no fewer than 14 “hate groups” received $4.3 million in forgivable loans from PPP. While the NBC News report did highlight one especially noxious group on the list, it largely relied on the biased and corrupt Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to smear mainstream conservative organizations as “hate groups.”
The SPLC, which gained national notoreity (and millions in donations) for bankrupting organizations like the Ku Klux Klan, expanded its “Klanwatch” program to smear its political and ideological opponents as “hate groups.” The SPLC’s history gives the accusation undue weight, and the SPLC repeatedly uses the “hate group” accusation to suggest mainstream conservative groups pose a danger to society similar to the racial terrorism perpetrated by the KKK.
“It is simply unconscionable that the federal government would give taxpayer dollars to organizations that openly advocate against LGBTQ people and immigrants, and those connected to white supremacy. This administration is putting its rubber stamp on the vile ideologies these groups espouse by giving them forgivable federal loans,” Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst at the SPLC, said in a statement on the NBC News report.
“SPLC has long fought to eliminate white nationalism, to expand inclusive anti-discrimination protections, and to reinvigorate our values as a diverse, welcoming, and compassionate nation. We will not stand idly by as these hate groups try to take our money to help spew their hate. Every American of good conscience should be outraged,” she added.
As in this statement, the SPLC repeatedly leans in to the association between “hate groups” and white supremacist terrorism. In January, the SPLC’s Lecia Brooks demanded that the federal government and Big Tech take action to censor “hate groups” based on the idea that the SPLC’s list of “hate groups” is a statistically-significant measure of the threat of white supremacist terrorism.
Yet most of the organizations the SPLC accuses of being “hate groups” have nothing to do with racism, much less white supremacy.
For instance, only one of the accused “hate groups” in the NBC News report is openly racist. The New Century Foundation, which published the now-discontinued white supremacist magazine American Renaissance, reportedly received $51,600 in PPP funds. Jared Taylor, who for decades argued that immigration policy should aim to “keep the country white,” runs the organization.
It is indeed a scandal that this white supremacist group received even a cent, but none of the other organizations on the NBC News list comes close to The New Century Foundation, which itself is a far cry from the KKK.
The bulk of the money went to mainstream conservative organizations that the SPLC wrongly smears as “hate groups.”
For instance, the American Family Association (AFA), a conservative Christian group the SPLC brands an “anti-LGBT hate group,” received $1,390,800 in PPP funds. AFA fights culture war battles, mobilizing petitions against Target’s transgender bathroom policy, for example. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an immigration restrictionist group that the SPLC brands as an “anti-immigrant hate group,” received $683,680.
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Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian law firm that has represented pastors facing discriminatory COVID-19 restrictions, received $428,100 in PPP funds. The SPLC has branded Liberty Counsel an “anti-LGBT hate group.” Liberty Counsel unsuccessfully sued the charity navigation website GuideStar after GuideStar added SPLC “hate group” accusations to its pages on various nonprofits, including Liberty Counsel. The organization is working with others falsely branded “hate groups” that plan to sue the SPLC for defamation.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a conservative non-profit that fights illegal immigration and which the SPLC brands an “anti-immigrant hate group,” comes fourth on the NBC News list, having received $364,900 in PPP funds. Church Militant, a conservative Christian group the SPLC has branded an “anti-LGBT hate group,” received $301,100 in PPP loans. The Center for Security Policy (CSP), a national security nonprofit the SPLC has branded an “anti-Muslim hate group,” received $288,200 in PPP funds. The David Horowitz Freedom Center, which the SPLC has branded an “anti-Muslim hate group,” received $265,700 in PPP funds.
These seven groups account for $3.7 million of the $4.3 million in the NBC News report, and not a single one of them is white nationalist or white supremacist. In fact, the SPLC has attacked most of them because they advocate policies the SPLC opposes, such as restrictions on immigration, religious freedom for people who define marriage as between one man and one woman, and policies to fight against radical Islamist terrorism. Each of the “anti-Muslim hate groups” gladly works with Muslim reformers to fight radical Islamism.
Six of the seven remaining organizations are similar. The Pacific Justice Institute, a conservative law firm the SPLC demonizes as an “anti-LGBT hate group,” received $159,000 from PPP. The Clarion Project, an anti-extremism group that the SPLC brands an “anti-Muslim hate group,” received $127,100. The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM), a conservative Christian group the SPLC brands an “anti-LGBT hate group,” received $117,100.
The Ruth Institute, a small Roman Catholic charity dedicated to helping the victims of the Sexual Revolution that the SPLC brands an “anti-LGBT hate group,” received $37,084 from PPP. The American College of Pediatricians, a group of conservative pediatricians who rightly warn against experimental transgender “treatments” for children, received $18,558. The Remembrance Project, an anti-illegal immigration group based in Texas which the SPLC demonizes as an “anti-immigrant hate group,” received $15,600.
Thirteen of the 14 “hate groups” that NBC News and the SPLC were outraged to find on the PPP recipient list are not hate groups at all, but conservative or Christian organizations that oppose the SPLC’s far-left policy agenda. The SPLC has weaponized its history in fighting the KKK and related groups to smear these political opponents in a rote form of defamation.
NBC News reported that Church Militant, C-FAM, and the American College of Pediatricians disputed what NBC News characterized as their “hate group status.” Yet the outlet did not deign to print any arguments against the SPLC’s smears.
Last year, the SPLC fired its co-founder, had its president step down, and had a prominent member of the board distance herself. The scandal broke out due to accusations of (decades-old) racial discrimination and sexual harassment. Amid the scandal, former employees came forward to expose the “con” of exaggerating hate to bilk donors.
The SPLC’s false accusations of “hate” have inspired at least one attempted terrorist attack. A man tried to kill everyone at a conservative Christian nonprofit due to the SPLC’s “hate group” accusation, intending to shoot everyone in the building and place a Chick-fil-A sandwich by his or her head.
The $4.2 million in PPP loans that AFA, FAIR, Liberty Counsel, CIS, Church Militant, CSP, David Horowitz Freedom Center, the Pacific Justice Institute, the Clarion Project, C-FAM, the Ruth Institute, the American College of Pediatricians, and the Remembrance Project received is a drop in the bucket of the more than $525 billion in loans that the PPP has approved. This sum also represents a drop in the bucket compared to the $80 million that 37 Planned Parenthood affiliates received. Other leftist groups also received PPP funds, including Media Matters, which received $1.12 million.
Rather than relying on a scandal-plagued smear factory like the SPLC, NBC News should examine PPP recipients according to their actual policies and beliefs. It is a scandal that the New Century Foundation received $51,600 in PPP loans, but it is not a scandal that conservative and Christian nonprofits the SPLC falsely smears as “hate groups” received loans to keep their employees on payroll during the pandemic.
Perhaps the real scandal is that these conservative groups received an order of magnitude less cash than Planned Parenthood affiliates did.
Video of Julian Assange Desperately Trying to Reach Hillary Clinton by Phone Has Already Been Released
By Michael Thau | Dec 16, 2020 6:00 PM ET
(This is a massive article)
https://redstate.com/michael_thau/2020/12/16/tapes-of-an-illuminating-chat-between-julian-assange-hillary-clintons-state-department-have-already-been-released-n295464
Dominion Falsely Claims QR Codes Protect Against Fraud
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UPDATED 6:33 AM PT – Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Dominion executives are being called out for making false claims about the company as lawmakers increase calls to it’s officials to answer for election irregularities. One America’s Chanel Rion has more.
https://www.oann.com/dominion-falsely-claims-qr-codes-protect-against-fraud/
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@USArmy
Join us in congratulating active duty #Soldier and
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https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1339418748223180801
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The Great Awakening
https://twitter.com/QohnG/status/1338099696724807680
Leaked files expose mass infiltration of UK firms by Chinese Communist Party including AstraZeneca, Rolls Royce, HSBC and Jaguar Land Rover
Loyal members of Chinese Communist Party are working in British consulates, universities and for some of the UK's leading companies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal
Leaked database of 1.95m registered party members reveals how Beijing's malign influence now stretches into almost every corner of British life, including defence firms, banks and pharmaceutical giants
Some members, who swear oath to 'guard Party secrets, be loyal to the Party, work hard, fight for communism throughout my life…and never betray the Party', are understood to have jobs in British consulates
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9046783/Leaked-files-expose-mass-infiltration-UK-firms-Chinese-Communist-Party.html
Amid Probe and Dad's Rise to Power, Hunter Biden Leans Into … Art?
With his father headed to the White House late next month, and the Justice Department investigating his foreign business deadlines, Hunter Biden appears to be focusing on something else, a burgeoning art career, Page Six reported.
Hunter Biden, 50, is close to a deal with New York's Georges Bergès Gallery, with a solo show coming sometime next year, per the report.
Notably, the controversial son of the president-elect, Joe Biden, has used art as an escape from getting himself into trouble during his father's presidential campaign. "It keeps me away from people and places where I shouldn't be," Hunter Biden told The New York Times in February.
Hunter Biden has battled addiction, telling the Times his painting "is literally keeping me sane."
"For years I wouldn't call myself an artist; now, I feel comfortable saying it," he told the Times, adding painting "puts my energy toward something positive."
Hunter revealed last week the Justice Department is investigating his taxes while he held a lucrative seat on the board of the Ukraine energy company Burisma. Federal investigators served a number of subpoenas on Dec. 8.
He has been dogged by accusations that he used Joe Biden's status as Barack Obama's two-term vice president to extract profit overseas, peddling access to the halls of power here in the U.S.
He has denied wrongoing.
“I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors,” Hunter Biden said in a statement.
And on Wednesday, the elder Biden directly addressed allegations against Hunter, telling Fox News reporter Peter Doocy he is confident his son did nothing wrong.
Joe Biden’s presidential transition office in a statement said the former vice president is “deeply proud of my son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger.”
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/hunter-biden-painting-investigations-taxes/2020/12/16/id/1001916/
The Morning Briefing: Trump Can Be a Social Media Kingmaker if Twitter Bans Him
BY STEPHEN KRUISER DEC 17, 2020 4:01 AM ET
Twitter Needs Trump More Than Trump Needs Twitter
Happy Thursday, my Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. I have never owned a bean bag chair.
We’re going to talk about Twitter and social media today, even though I haven’t been hanging around there much lately. I went and set a reading goal on Goodreads at the beginning of the year and I hit December a full four books behind. I’ve been doing a lot of reading to catch up. Why does every modern novelist think that each book he or she writes has to be 600 pages long?
When Donald Trump first ran for president I was immediately impressed by his deft use of social media, specifically Twitter. He was using it to bypass the always biased mainstream media to get his message directly to the people. Very early on in that campaign I said that political science departments would one day be teaching classes about Trump and Twitter.
President Trump’s Twitter escapades these past four years have consistently annoyed all of the right people, and have been a never ending delight to watch. My favorite thing, of course, has been watching the Democrat flying monkeys in the mainstream media lose it because they weren’t able to be full time gatekeepers of the narrative.
His presence on Twitter has been a constant source of irritation the liberals, including all of the Twitter brass. They can’t get rid of him because he’s the president. There has been a lot of speculation about what might happen when the day came that he wasn’t.
Matt had a post yesterday that explored the subject:
For years now, the anti-Trump mob has been calling on Twitter to ban him from their platform, which he has effectively used to communicate directly with voters, bypassing traditional media. Twitter has resisted those calls for Trump’s ouster but has now confirmed that after he leaves office his account could be banned if he continues to “spread conspiracy theories,” Forbes reports.
Twitter has been aggressively flagging tweets alleging voter fraud with the disclaimer: “This claim about election fraud is disputed.”
For example, a Wednesday morning tweet—highlighting his 12 million-vote increase in 2020 over 2016 compared to Obama’s reelection in 2012, despite losing 3 million votes—was flagged because his tweet also said “Rigged Election!!!”
The libs are all acting like it will be a sick burn if Twitter bans Citizen Trump. I’m fairly certain he will get over it rather quickly.
In fact, if Twitter spurns Trump, it would put him in a position to give an almost overnight boost to some of its competition.
After Twitter and Facebook decided in October to punish anyone who told the truth about Hunter Biden, conservatives on social media began moving to other platforms rather quickly. Facebook types have been moving to MeWe and Twitter folk have been moving to Parler in droves.
Parler’s record growth has been greatly helped by Mark Levin, who has been using his considerable social media presence to exhort people to move over there:
Hurry & follow me at Parler. I’m trying to encourage as many of you as possible to immediately join me there as I will leave Facebook at the end of the year for continuingly censoring me. Parler is a wonderful alternative. It believes in truly open speechhttps://t.co/3RnjMoknfj
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 16, 2020
Imagine the kind of growth spurt Parler would experience if Trump joined Levin in leading the conservative masses to the platform. I’m sure the Parler execs are probably thinking about that a lot.
Twitter would stupid to get rid of Trump, of course. He’s the greatest free advertising the platform has ever had. They’ve been in the advanced stages of Trump Derangement Syndrome over there for a long time though, and we know those afflicted with it don’t make good choices.
I’m beginning to get the feeling that the petty vindictiveness that we will be seeing from the Left for the next year or so is going to backfire on them in so many ways and provide opportunities for us on the Right.
So let the small people keep getting smaller.
We’ll always figure out a way to have fun while they do. It’s what we do over here.
They Really Still Hate Him
https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2020/12/17/the-morning-briefing-trump-can-be-a-social-media-kingmaker-if-twitter-bans-him-n1215642
Oblivious Biden
By Donald N. Finley
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What kind of man must Joe Biden be to accept being illegitimately put into the Oval Office?
We’ve all seen the clips. Nearly every recent Joe Biden public appearance has been an embarrassment. The media called his garbled statements 'gaffes,' as if they were innocent, harmless mistakes, but many have suggested far worse age-related cognitive failures. We experienced embarrassment with him, and pitied a man clearly past his prime. What seemed most prominent about Joe Biden, other than his mental decline, was his obsession with one singular goal – to be president of the United States.
He first ran for president in the 1988 presidential election. He didn’t last until the first primary, being forced to drop out when caught in multiple lies about his background, his upbringing, his academic record, and for plagiarizing other politicians. Twenty years later, he ran again in the 2008 presidential election, but dropped out after coming in fifth in the Iowa caucuses, with less than 1% of the vote. He was later chosen as Barack Obama’s running mate.
After eight years of office there, and four years out, he announced his run in the 2020 presidential election, where his plagiarism problem came up again as some of his policy positions were lifted verbatim from other organizations. The blame was immediately deflected to his staff, and the scandal seemed not to touch him.
For most politicians, such scandals end careers, but Joe Biden outlasted the scandals, and remained in office for more than four decades, really only rising above the noise on three occasions.
The first was as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings, where he conducted what Thomas called “a high tech lynching” of a black man who dared to be a conservative. Thomas was still confirmed, though, and remains on the court today.
The second time was as Barack Obama’s vice president, where little was heard from him, but much has since surfaced about family conflicts of interest during that period, including illicit family business relationships with several adversary foreign countries.
Third, and finally, is the present day. While the election is still contested, and more evidence of widespread Democrat fraud surfaces daily, Biden speaks and behaves as if he were the clear and universally accepted victor.
Looking back, one may ask, ‘Why didn’t Biden run in 2016 as the heir-apparent after eight years as vice president?’ He claims it was due to the death of his son, but here's the far more likely answer: Because Obama lacked confidence in him.
Obama said of Hillary, in 2016: "I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/oblivious_biden.html
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When Biden announced his 2020 run, Obama reportedly told him, “You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t.”
During the campaign, Obama said of Biden, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.” In reference to a connection to the Democrat electorate, Obama said, “And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden.”
Obama’s own Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, wrote in his 2014 memoir, while Obama and Biden were still in office, that Joe Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
Ben Rhodes, Obama’s former deputy national security adviser, wrote, "…in the Situation Room, Biden could be something of an unguided missile.”
The picture is getting clearer as to the kind of man Joe Biden is, from those who worked closest with him.
But there’s more.
In 1972, only weeks after Biden’s first election to the Senate, Neilia and Naomi Biden were tragically killed in a collision with a tractor trailer. His sons, Beau and Hunter, were both seriously injured and hospitalized. Neilia was Joe Biden’s first wife, and Naomi his 13-month old daughter. During a public appearance in 2007, Biden told his audience, “A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly — and I never pursued it — drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons …” He had also told the story in 2001.
The truck driver was Curtis C. Dunn, and he was not drunk. In 2008, Delaware Superior Court Judge, Jerome O. Herlihy, who oversaw the police investigation as chief prosecutor, recalled that Mrs. Biden drove into the path of Dunn’s tractor-trailer, and he did all he could to avoid hitting the car, including overturning his truck and trailer. Following the collision, Dunn ran to the car and was the first to render aid. He remained traumatized by the accident, and the media’s repeated retelling of it, for 27 years, until his death in 1999.
In 2008, Dunn’s daughter, Pamela Hamill, said she had had enough of Joe Biden’s lies about her father, and demanded an apology. “I just burst into tears,” Hamill said. “The story already is tragic enough. Why did he have to sensationalize it by saying my father was drunk? My family is outraged.” Hamill told Politico in 2019 that Biden did apologize in 2009, a full ten years too late for the man he had wrongfully and repeatedly publicly humiliated.
In 1977, Joe married Jill after her first marriage had broken up. They met on a blind date in 1975. That’s the romantic story they tell, but her first husband, Bill Stevenson, tells it differently. He says he and Jill had helped on Biden’s first campaign in 1972, and that he first suspected they were having an affair in 1974. "Then one of her best friends told me she thought Joe and Jill were getting a little too close. I was surprised that she came to me.” Soon afterward, he discovered the truth. Today, Stevenson says, “Joe Biden stole Jill from me.”
It’s clear Joe Biden is not the type whose intelligence, competence, or mastery of even a single topic has ever been a point of envy. Those he worked with have not thought highly of him, and the few times he has risen into the spotlight, he has failed to accomplish anything of note on his own accord. Without the coattails of another, namely Barack Obama, Joe Biden would have vanished from public life over a decade ago. Had it not been for other Democrats sabotaging Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democrat primary, Biden would have certainly fallen away early. If he hadn’t sold his soul to the socialist and progressive wings of their fractured party to get support, the Democrats couldn’t have manufactured enough votes to save him.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/oblivious_biden.html
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There is one certainty about Joe Biden, and Barack Obama capitalized upon it. So did China. So did Ukraine. So did Iraq. So did Kazakhstan, and others. One thing he has proven time and time again is that he’s for sale. He will take the position and use his elected powers to implement the policy most beneficial to Joe Biden and his family. Remember the flip-flopping fracking fiasco? He is a piece of moldable flesh, a useful idiot, who will do what he’s told and paid to do. His positions change as his handlers change. He is wholly void of any core beliefs, a single bank of knowledge he could be considered an expert in, the ability to think for himself, or any recognizable moral principles. His Catholic faith does not even conform to the Catholic Church teachings.
The question is not whether Joe Biden is a liar, it is whether he is a compulsive liar (sees his lies as clearly untrue, but cannot stop himself from telling them; lies out of habit), or a pathological liar (sometimes believe their own lies; plan their lies in advance). He’s also a serial liar (lies repeatedly over time). But whatever type, he is undoubtedly a liar. Proof: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. That’s more than enough.
So back to the original question: What kind of man must Joe Biden be to accept being illegitimately put into the Oval Office? From his speech on Monday, after the Electoral College vote, I must reiterate everything above, and add one more word: Oblivious.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/oblivious_biden.html
December 17, 2020
Both the Left and Right Have a Biden Problem
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Joe Biden will never be my president, period. This election was stolen for him even if he is the only one who does not know it. He is a despicable man who has been one of the most divisive politicians of the last half century. He is a kleptocratic pederast and rapist (forced digital penetration is rape – ask Tara Reade). In a more just world, he would receive nothing but scorn.
Americans know this election was stolen. And just in case we did not realize how little respect they have for us, Democrats boasted continuously of their millenarian machinations as they absconded with the election for all to see.
Arising every day at the crack of 9 A.M., after Jill Ed. D (the “Ed” stands for Education, not the medical condition.) assists him with his morning ablutions and toiletry, Joe looks in the mirror and sees not just any president, he sees the President. The rest of us, meanwhile, see a man picked by Obama as his vice president because Joe had a reputation as an amiable simpleton and therefore, would be no threat to Barry politically. He knew Biden’s mouth was a yawning chasm of logorrheic gibberish, but Barry knew he could control him by giving him places to collude with and loot from, like China and Ukraine.
Yet, the Democrats never accounted for Joe being a most dangerous of morons: the moron who does not know he is a moron. Their intention was to let him be president for a while, not thinking he would actually believe he was in control.
The left is now faced with Joe Biden, President Select, an addlepated buffoon standing on home plate in an adult diaper absolutely convinced Americans believe he hit a home run.
Biden thinks he is supposed to be in charge, when in reality he should change his name to Xiden to acknowledge the real boss. Believing it is his prerogative, he is checking off the identity politics boxes with retreads from the Clinton and Obama administrations, when the left thought they would get appointees who were more radical.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/both_the_left_and_right_have_a_biden_problem.html
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What’s a criminal political party to do? They were hoping that after his inauguration, they could infect him with COVID and blame his demise on Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic. If the blame does not stick, they can say Trump was right and Biden was too old, cognizant of the fact that in 2024 Trump will be the age Illegitimate Joe is now. Either way, the plan is to ruin his chances in 2024. It is why they are shutting the nation down again. They need the virus to be ascendent for their plot to work.
The world then would get President Harris. I shudder at the thought of the damage she would do to this country.
C’mon man. Here’s the deal, folks: on day one, day one, we get Biden the idiot. If the left figures out how to get rid of Joe, we get President Harris. A woman whose first job was literally a “job” for Willy Brown.
Harris is a piece of work and considerably to the left of Biden (afflicted as he is with the inability to tell his left from his right). The destruction she would wreak upon the nation would be appalling and perhaps irreversible. Her Green Raw Deal alone would cost the nation tens of trillions of dollars and millions of jobs.
The same could be said for Joe, who after all, has claimed to support the same policies that Kamala Harris supports. But she is in control of her faculties and would be much more effective than a doddering fool like Biden.
Those of us on the right should get right with God and pray that Joe keeps the mask on, hires a food taster, and washes his hands regularly while always putting down the lid when he flushes, because we are praying he lives for at least the next two years when we can give the Democrats a shellacking in the midterms like we did to Barry. I look forward to Biden suffering one humiliation after another. He is, after all, a horrible person. And c’mon man, he has literally no accomplishments in almost 50 years of public service. It is not like he is going to get smarter and pick up the task of running the country now. His incompetence is legendary, and he should be every bit as effective as president as he has been at everything else.
The best-case scenario for the nation and the world would be Joe running for reelection against Trump in 2024. But we will probably have to make do with Harris as their candidate – hopefully running as Joe’s VP seeking the presidency. When she ran against Biden in the primaries, she fought for and received 1% support. Enough said.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/both_the_left_and_right_have_a_biden_problem.html
Unconstitutional? Wisconsin city election officials sought private money to register voters
GOP official, legal expert says private funding requirements detailed in memos raises ethical, Constitutional issues.
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Updated: December 16, 2020 - 11:51pm
City officials in Green Bay, Wis., solicited private money from a voter advocacy group backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, pledging they would use some of the the $1 million grant to run registration campaigns and conduct outreach to "underrepresented" minority voters, according to memos obtained by Just the News through an open records request.
"[W]e’d like to reach out to the Hmong, Somali and Spanish-speaking communities with targeted mail, geo-fencing, posters (billboards), radio, television and streaming service PSAs, digital advertising, robo calls and robo texts, as well as voter-navigators," the city's grant questionnaire to the Center for Tech and Civic Life stated.
"We could also employ our voter navigators to have town halls, registration drives in trusted locations and conduct virtual events," the questionnaire added.
Legal experts and Wisconsin GOP officials said Wednesday the grant arrangement appeared to put city election officials in the business of conducting partisan activities like get-out-the-vote efforts and registrations usually reserved for political parties and candidates. They added it possibly violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution by targeting only certain ethnic communities deemed favorable to Democrats.
"Using private funds to have government workers implement voter registration drives — that should be done by political groups — is an ethical concern," Wisconsin GOP chairman Andrew Hitt told Just the News. "And the fact that they initially offered this money to Democrat cities, to target Democrat constituencies, sheds more light on their actual intentions.”
Phill Kline, head of the Thomas More Society's AMistad Project that has filed lawsuits in several states challenging irregularities in the 2020 election, said the grant application suggested private money was used to "fund partisan political activity by local election officials. Such conduct violates equal protection and federal law. Such private interests must not be in the voting booth or the counting room."
When the Center approved a grant for $1,094,400 grant for the fall election to Green Bay, it included the requirement to "dramatically expand voter & community education & outreach, particularly to historically disenfranchised residents," suggesting a target of 20,000 new registered voters. It even suggested city officials might help residents get the officials documents needed to register.
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"It would require both considerable staff time to construct that list of residents and directly mail a professionally-designed piece (in multiple languages) to those voters. ($50,000 total for staffing, design, printing, and postage). To assist new voters, the City would also like resources to help residents obtain required documents (i.e. birth certificates) which are needed to get a valid state ID needed for voting," one of the documents attached to the Center's grant approval letter stated.
In a section of "add on questions," city officials were asked "what steps [they could] take to register new voters."
The city's mayor, chief of staff and city clerk responded: "We would ideally like to use voter navigators to work with community groups to identify and register voters."
Amaad Rivera, a spokesman for Green Bay Mayor Eric Gengrich's office, told Just the News on Wednesday that city officials never held any voter registration drives this year. Rather, the city engaged in what he said was "voter education" efforts throughout the election year.
That distinction conflicted withe terms contained in the Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan, a document submitted to CTCL by the mayors of Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha, and Racine, all urban Democrat strongholds. The cities in that proposal said they were seeking funds to engage in "voter outreach and education," which the document said would involve efforts to "encourage and explain new voter registration." The plan also said that "significant resources are needed for all five municipalities to … encourage and facilitate new voter registration and registration updates."
Rivera did not respond to a followup email asking for clarification on those proposals. Asked earlier about "voter navigators" who would help "community groups" in their voter registration efforts, Rivera said that term refers to municipal employees "who helped people answer questions such as, what forms of ID work? What are the early vote rules? If I have a disability, what can I do?"
The Center for Tech and Civic Life, which ultimately distributed $6.3 million to the Wisconsin cities, did not respond to a query on Wednesday regarding the funds.
CTCL made headlines earlier in the year when it received what ended up being more than a third of a billion dollars from Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan that it planned to use to "help ensure that [local jurisdictions] have the staffing, training, and equipment necessary" to conduct the 2020 election. That infusion occurred after CTCL's multimillion-dollar grant to the Wisconsin cities.
In the U.S., get-out-the-vote campaigns and voter registration drives are overwhelmingly the province of nonprofit groups and political campaigns rather than government authorities, though municipal authorities, including in Wisconsin, have at times undertaken voting outreach and registration efforts, as Milwaukee County was doing prior to the pandemic this year.
Yet the documents offer further evidence that the major cash infusion from the CTCL into Wisconsin politics was intended in part to allow municipal authorities to proactively boost voter numbers in Democratic strongholds in the state, critics say. Wisconsin has been officially certified with Joe Biden holding a razor-thin 20,000-vote lead, even narrower than Trump's victory there in 2016.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/documents-show-wi-municipal-authorities-sought-use-grant-money-voter
TRUMP: Fox News 'is dead'
"Played right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats, & now are floating in limboland," the president recently tweeted.
President Trump was once a big fan of Fox News. He'd call in to the morning show and hold court for an hour or more.
But he's now among the conservative cable network's harshest critics.
"Can’t believe how badly @FoxNews is doing in the ratings. They played right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats, & now are floating in limboland. Hiring fired @donnabraziIe, and far worse, allowing endless negative and unedited commercials. @FoxNews is dead. Really Sad!" Trump tweeted Wednesday.
Brazile is a former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee and once leaked the topics of a town hall-style event to 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Trump has been blasting Fox over the network's decision to call Arizona in favor of Joe Biden on election night long before other networks. He has also railed against Fox for calling the entire election for Biden and referring to him as "president-elect."
Earlier this week, Trump blasted Chris Wallace, its most high-profile news anchor, who moderated the first debate. Critics complained that Wallace was unfair and repeatedly interrupted Trump, but not Biden.
Trump had another complaint he aired on social media, blaming the network for his reelection loss.
"Perhaps the biggest difference between 2016 and 2020 is @FoxNews, despite the fact that I went from 63,000,000 Votes to 75,000,000 Votes, a record 12,000,000 Vote increase. Obama went down 3,000,000 Votes, and won. Rigged Election!!!" he wrote on Twitter.
Axios reported Tuesday that Trump has pledged to make Fox "pay" for calling the election for Biden, but he's also told confidants that the "people at the highest levels of Fox" have tried to make peace with him
"He's focused in particular on Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. Trump interrupted a recent conversation that had nothing to do with Fox to ask the person he was talking to whether they'd heard that Newsmax's Greg Kelly recently beat MacCallum in the 7 p.m. hour," Axios reported.
Kelly, in fact, beat MacCallum in one demographic in that time slot.
And Fox still continues to dominate in the cable ratings, despite Trump's criticism.
Figures for the week starting Dec. 7 show Fox News averaged the most total viewers on cable television in prime time and was also No. 1 in total viewers across the 24-hour day, Adweek reported. The network's 2.8 million primetime viewers last week was a 2.8% increase over the previous week.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-fox-news-dead
Jenna Ellis to the American People: ‘Take Heart, This Is Not Over Yet’
BY JANITA KAN AND JAN JEKIELEK December 17, 2020 Updated: December 17, 2020 biggersmaller Print
Trump legal adviser Jenna Ellis on Wednesday urged the American people concerned with election integrity to have hope in the ongoing efforts aimed at exposing voter irregularities and alleged fraud.
“I would just say to the American people: Take heart. This is not over yet. And we absolutely have every intention of continuing to fight for election integrity,” Ellis told The Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders.
Trump’s legal team, which is led by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, is fighting against the clock to ensure that the sanctity of the ballot box is preserved. The team and its allies have been building a case to ensure that all concerns about voting irregularities and alleged unconstitutional actions passed by state and election officials in the 2020 election are investigated to secure confidence in the election outcome for all.
Although Dec. 14, the day that presidential electors case their votes for president, has come and gone, Ellis argues that President Donald Trump still has time to challenge the election results and that state legislatures still have time to decide which set of votes from dueling slates of delegates to send to Congress on Jan. 6, the day when the electoral college votes are counted.
This comes after Republican electors in seven states cast alternate votes for President Donald Trump, setting up a new challenge for Congress when they count the votes next month. Critics argue that those votes are merely symbolic and have no force of the law. However, alternate votes have been accepted by Congress before.
In 1960, Democrats successfully cast an alternative set of votes for John F. Kennedy in Hawaii after the state’s governor certified the electors for Richard Nixon amid a recount. Congress ultimately counted the votes from Kennedy electors, who were signed off by the governor as well, even though he wasn’t declared the winner in the election until 11 days after Nixon’s electors were certified.
Republicans in the seven states said their rationale for sending dueling electors to Congress was to preserve Trump’s legal claim in the election as his team pursues legal challenges over the counting of “illegal votes.” The offices of the Nevada and Pennsylvania secretary of state told The Epoch Times that they have only received the certificates of the vote from Democratic electors and not Republicans.
Ellis is urging state legislatures in the contested states to hold an electoral session to consider evidence of potential election fraud and pass a resolution to send to the Republican slate of electors.
“If one state is willing to do this, I think others will follow,” she said.
She also believes it is the responsibility of every American to protect free and fair elections, noting that there is a group of Americans who would like to get to the bottom of all the allegations.
“It’s incumbent, though, upon every American—regardless of who you voted for, whether or not you like the outcome of this election—to stop any cheating, to stop any lawlessness, to stop anything that runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution to make sure to protect free and fair elections,” she said. “I think there is a movement among the American people who really want to get to the bottom of these questions.”
She added that every state legislature should also be looking at their own laws and their own administration to ensure the integrity of votes.
Ellis said Americans have the ultimate say in holding their leaders accountable for their actions, and there are a series of actions that can be taken to ensure that politicians are held responsible.
“We can do that through not only contacting them and through putting pressure on them to continuing this fight, not only in the media, but also to make sure that our elected officials know that that’s what we expect of them—to take election integrity seriously,” she said.
She said that Americans in some of the contested states could also consider initiating recall petitions—a procedure that allows citizens to recall and replace public officials before their term ends. The petition requires a specific number of signatures over a specified period of time. If a valid number of signatures are collected, then a recall election can be held. Different states have different rules for this procedure.
“And so now, when we’re looking at the state legislatures, if that branch fails, then it’s up to ‘We the People’ to make sure that we go through the constitutional processes, that we can then change those who are in authority because no person in the United States is entitled to government authority,” she said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/jenna-ellis-to-the-american-people-take-heart-this-is-not-over-yet_3621990.html
China to Buy 100 Million Doses of Pfizer Vaccine, Snubbing Domestic Option
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Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group, a Chinese pharmaceutical group, announced Wednesday it had inked a deal with German company BioNTech to purchase 100 million doses of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine it had developed with American company Pfizer — the first vaccine approved for use in the United States.
Shanghai Fosun co-owns Sinopharm Group alongside the government of China, a company developing its own coronavirus vaccine candidate. At press time, the Sinopharm vaccine candidate is believed to be about 86 percent effective, a significantly lower rate of functionality than the Pfizer option. Pfizer and BioNTech have reported their vaccine tested to be 95 percent effective in stopping Chinese coronavirus infections.
Mass importing of a vaccine developed by an American company suggests that the Chinese state is not confident that its options — in addition to Sinopharm, the Chinese company Sinovac, whose vaccine candidate is currently being tested in Brazil — will be of sufficient quality or produced quickly enough to inoculate the entire country.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine last week, allowing its administration in America. Canada and the United Kingdom have also approved the vaccine. It is the first vaccine for coronavirus approved for use in the United States.
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group announced Wednesday that it had cut a deal directly with BioNTech to purchase 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine — enough for 50 million people, as the vaccine requires two doses — which would begin arriving in China in 2021. The vaccines would be made in Germany, not America, given the direct deal with BioNTech.
“We are pleased to reach the supply agreement with BioNTech, which is an important step in Fosun Pharma and BioNTech’s efforts to achieve vaccine accessibility and affordability in China,” Wu Yifang, the CEO of the Chinese company, reportedly said of the deal, according to the South China Morning Post.
The deal, Shanghai Fosun explained, was intended to ensure that all Chinese citizens receive a vaccine — suggesting Beijing does not believe it can source a functional vaccine entirely domestically. Shanghai Fosun agreed to pay $152 million for the first 50 million doses and would pay for the second half after receiving authorization to use it from the ruling Communist Party. The Chinese company insisted on describing the purchase as being of “at least” 100 million doses, leaving the door open to purchase more of the American vaccine if necessary.
A Sinopharm subsidiary had announced on Sunday that it expected to manufacture 1 billion doses of its vaccine candidate, which it expected to be publicly available by the end of December, through 2021. Sinopharm, a Shanghai Fosun-affiliated company, has administered its experimental coronavirus vaccine to 1 million people within China as of November, the company announced that month.
“In terms of emergency use, the vaccines were applied to nearly a million people and there has not been a single case of a serious adverse event. People have had only mild symptoms,” company chairman Liu Jingzhen announced told a Chinese media outlet. “Until now, all our progress, from research to clinical trials to production and emergency use, we have been leading the world.”
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At the time, Pfizer and Moderna had announced they had documented far higher effectiveness rates on their vaccine candidates, prompting the head of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Gao Fu, to tell the world, “Pfizer and Moderna said their vaccines were very effective, but please trust me, the Chinese vaccines are very effective, too.”
Following the news of the Shanghai Fosun purchase, Chinese state media companies published stories that provincial Communist Party governments had cut deals with Shanghai Fosun subsidiary Sinopharm and its main competitor, Sinovac, to ensure that Chinese citizens would have to pay only $30.57 per dose of their vaccines.
Pfizer announced recently, Chinese state media itself noted, that its more effective vaccine would cost $20 a dose.
The Global Times emphasized reports that Chinese officials were fervently training health workers on how to administer coronavirus vaccines.
“Chinese authorities have said on many occasions that domestically made vaccines are likely to be available by the end of this year,” the Global Times noted, adding that Chinese government-approved “experts” believed that demand for the vaccine in China would be low because the Communist Party had so effectively contained the pandemic it created.
The Global Times also ominously noted that its experimental vaccine candidates should be distributed to “areas with sporadic COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] outbreaks,” naming Xinjiang, home to the majority of the nation’s ethnic Uyghur minority, on the top of that list.
While Sinopharm continues to market its vaccine candidate, competitor Sinovac faced challenges in Brazil this week, where it is conducting much of its research. In a statement regarding the potential that Sinovac’s product, named “CoronaVac,” would receive emergency use authorization in Brazil as it did in China, the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) stated that the Communist Party had not clarified sufficiently what made it confident in the product.
“This vaccine has already received emergency use authorization in China since June of this year,” Anvisa said in a statement. “The Chinese criteria to issue authorization for emergency use in China are not transparent and there is no information available over the criteria currently used by Chinese agencies to make this decision.”
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has vocally opposed importing any Chinese vaccine candidates or mandating citizens take them.
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/12/16/china-buy-100-million-doses-pfizer-vaccine-snubbing-domestic-option/
Thank you.
These people are sick.