Anonymous ID: e4ad73 July 3, 2023, 9:43 a.m. No.19116336   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Biden Taken Apart for Greatest 'Denial Psychosis in History'

Katie Pavlich

 

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court striking down his reallocation of student debt from wealthy college degree holders to the middle class, President Joe Biden lashed out and claimed the justices 'misinterpreted the constitution." (He’s insane!)

 

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre also piled on.

 

George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley is calling Biden's reaction to the ruling the "greatest denial psychosis in history."

"During the 2020 presidential election, Biden admitted that he needed congressional approval for such a massive loan forgiveness. Likewise, as cited in the opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stated the obvious: 'People think that the president of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress,'” Turley wrote on his website.

 

"The problem is that he could not get this measure through Congress and, despite his earlier acknowledgment of the obvious, Biden simply claimed that he could give away hundreds of billions of dollars without congressional authorization."

 

"He is now crying hypocrisy when the Court said he was right all along," Turley continued.

 

Meanwhile, the White House has already released a new plan in an attempt to get around the ruling.

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2023/07/01/biden-taken-apart-for-greatest-denial-psychosis-in-history-n2625217

Anonymous ID: e4ad73 July 3, 2023, 10:26 a.m. No.19116574   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6689 >>6790 >>6868

Massive Storm Brewing in South Carolina after Lindsey Graham Booed Off Stage

By Shawn Bradley Witzemann Jul. 2, 2023 8:15 pm

 

Shortly after President Trump finished yesterday’s stump speech, a freak storm wrecked the small town of Pickens, South Carolina.

 

Trees were uprooted, and roofs were blown away. One day later, the power has yet to be fully restored while nearly all 3,126 residents have a hand in cleaning up.

 

But considering the way a crowd of 50,000 welcomed Sen. Lindsey Graham to the stage yesterday, the latest forecasting suggests bad weather has only just begun for the political establishment in the Palmetto State.

 

“It was an odd, wild storm that only touched two counties,” explains Film Director and friend Andrew Mullinax in a Sunday afternoon phone call, “Here in Pickens County and Greenville County — where Trump’s plane landed and took off.”

 

Mullinax says the freak storm blew in just about an hour after Trump took off — leading his more conspiratorial mind to wonder if it was because someone modified the weather.

 

“It tore the whole town up,” Mullinax says while laughing at my suggestion the storm resulted from a MAGA rain dance, “There are trees down everywhere. For just a 10-minute storm, it was monstrous.”

 

I called the outgoing Chair of the Pickens Republican Party, Tim Bruce, and asked for his perspective on the inclement weather event.

 

“The storm we had afterward?” Bruce asks in playful response, “Or the storm we had before?”

The storm before is at the forefront of conversation in Republican Pickens — the result of a massive Trump rally that nearly booed Senator Lindsey Graham into the next state.

 

“It was funny,” Bruce explains, “I was watching what looked like 80-year-old ladies who were standing out there in the heat, and they were just giving him down the country, booing him.”

 

Current Pickens GOP Chair Bob Fetterly says the reaction is more evidence of how out-of-touch Senator Graham is with the grassroots constituency he’s known to brag about.

 

“Graham touts very proudly that he was born in Central South Carolina, which is in Pickens County,” Fetterly explains, “But to give you an idea of how detached he really is from us, he came up to one of our members at the Trump rally and said, ‘Hey, how’s Teddy doing?’”

 

Fetterly explains the “Teddy” Senator Graham was looking for passed away after a hard battle with cancer in 2020. “He had no clue,” Fetterly says.

 

“And then you throw on top of that, a war in Ukraine that’s very unpopular with our members, and we’re all very aware how quickly he processed Trump’s judicial nominees, but he did the same thing for Obama and Biden,” Fetterly explains, “So frankly, we’re not impressed.”

 

Still, however unimpressed the people of Pickens County may be, Senator Graham keeps getting elected. Former Greenville County Chair and current State Executive Committeeman Jeff Davis says the root of the problem lies in open primaries.

 

“We’ve been trying to get closed primaries in the state of South Carolina for a long time,” Davis explains, “Lindsey’s been the one to kind of prevent that.” Tim Bruce says multiple county calls to censure Graham were in 2022 met with Executive Committee criticism from the State GOP in Columbia.

 

Rather than censure, Bruce and others were asked to invite Senator Graham to listen to his grassroots constituents in the region.

 

“So, I proposed that to our executive committee,” Bruce says, “I told them, “Let’s hold off on passing any censures. Let’s give Senator Graham an opportunity to respond to these charges.’”

 

“We wrote a letter, we emailed it, we sent it registered mail, and then finally we had it hand-delivered to one of his offices,” explains Bruce, “But the registered mail was never taken out of his post office box. So, in other words, they refused even to take the letter. Nothing was ever answered.”

 

Out of touch and beyond communication, it seems Senator Graham doesn’t care for opinions in Pickens and Greenville Counties.

 

Even though the Senator is widely reviled, Bob Fetterly says it’s an uphill battle to get Graham out of office in 2026.

 

“What we’re battling is the half-informed voter,” says Fetterly, “I don’t believe we have too many of them in Pickens County, but we have too many of them statewide. And it’s going to take somebody with a very well-organized grassroots campaign becausemy understanding is he has a 200 million war chest.”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/massive-storm-brewing-south-carolina-after-lindsey-graham/

Anonymous ID: e4ad73 July 3, 2023, 11:10 a.m. No.19116805   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6868

3 Jul, 2023 15:48

EU could be ‘disgraced’ by confiscating frozen Russian assets – Austrian FM

Alexander Schallenberg has argued that the bloc must find a ‘watertight’ legal case if it wants to appropriate Moscow’s funds

 

The EU must ensure it has a clear legal basis if it decides to confiscate frozen Russian assets and hand them over to Ukraine, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has warned. The diplomat argued that failure to do so would significantly tarnish the bloc’s reputation.

 

In an interview with Austrian broadcaster ORF published on Sunday, Schallenberg stressed that any such confiscation of Russian assets “must be watertight” from a legal viewpoint. He claimed that Austria and other EU members “are countries with the rule of law,” and that they must apply that approach in international relations. According to Schallenberg, this is one of the fundamental differences between Western European nations and Russia.

 

“Expropriation is a massive intervention, according to law,” the Austrian minister noted. “If we do this… as states with the rule of law we must make legal decisions,”Schallenberg insisted, adding thatany such step could be challenged at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. (There’s no Robinhood international laws, the US & EU has been studying this they seized the assets, which are both state, corporate and private citizens funds!)

 

Should the appropriation of Russian assets not be deemed to have a legal basis, this would be an “enormous setback, and basically a disgrace” for the EU, the official concluded. (In other words its a really stupid idea!)

 

Regarding relations with Moscow in general, the minister said that geography dictates thatRussia will remain part of European history, and that attempting to ‘cancel’ the country would be wrong. Schallenberg called for communication channels to remain intact, and claimed that emotions should not guide EU policies toward Russia.

 

Bloomberg reported last month that EU leaders had considered plans to impose a windfall tax on profits generated by more than €200 billion ($217 billion) of frozen Russian central bank assets to aid Ukraine’s reconstruction. While the option had reportedly appeared to be the least problematic, some participants had still raised concerns over its legality, Bloomberg claimed.

 

In mid-June, the European Central Bank spoke out against a windfall levy, warning that it could undermine confidence in the euro as a global currency and hurt financial stability.

 

Back in April, theEuropean Commission ruled that member states could not seize frozen Russian assets outright. The EU and its allies froze hundreds of billions of euros of Russian central bank holdings as well as private assets soon after Moscow launched its military campaign against Ukraine in February of 2022. Russian officials have repeatedly described any seizure of the country’s assets as theft and illegal under international law.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/579147-austria-foreign-minister-eu-russian-assets-disgrace/