Biden Actions ... And Reactions

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Facebook has pledged to remove "often-true content" the government considers COVID-19 misinformation under sustained pressure from a White House official, according to newly disclosed communications in the federal censorship collusion lawsuit by Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general.

In a March 14, 2021 email with the subject line "You are hiding the ball," White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty showed a Facebook executive a Washington Post article on Facebook's research into drivers of vaccine hesitancy on its own platform, including fears of worse-than-expected adverse events.

Flaherty put Andy Slavitt, senior adviser on President Biden's COVID response team, on the thread, too.

The executive, whose name is redacted in the email thread, responded that there was a "misunderstanding." Flaherty shot back that he has been "asking you guys pretty directly" about the extent to which "borderline content" is driving hesitancy and how Facebook plans to mitigate such spread "as part of your 'lockdown.'"

Facebook promised to remove 'often-true content' on COVID under White House pressure: emails

Officials had demanded Facebook explain how it plans to mitigate "borderline content" from its internal research, and prove it's not "playing a shell game with us."

justthenews.com

 

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Biden DOE rejects bids to restock oil reserve​

At the time, Biden was saying that he would place the first order for three million barrels of oil for the SPR in February. That doesn’t happen overnight, so they opened up the process to take bids from the oil companies. As you would expect, the oil and gas industry responded, sending in their bids quickly. Those bids were turned over to the Department of Energy (which oversees the SPR), but the process remained under the watchful eye of the White House. This weekend we received our answer. Nobody’s bid was accepted. The DOE rejected all of them. Where we go from here remains a mystery. (Yahoo News)



The DOE did not release the actual bids for the media to review, so we’re just taking them at their word here. (I know…) But an Energy Department spokesperson released a statement saying that the government will only accept bids “that meet the required crude specifications and that are at a price that is a good deal for taxpayers.”

They waited too long, oil's going back up.

 

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Trump had the reserves stocked when oil was cheap. Biden used it when it was expensive.
Assumedly he sold it foe the higher price. What happened to the profits. Can't those profits be used to restock it--even at the higher price?

 

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Trump had the reserves stocked when oil was cheap. Biden used it when it was expensive.
Assumedly he sold it foe the higher price. What happened to the profits. Can't those profits be used to restock it--even at the higher price?

Campaign ads be my guess .

 

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This is the kind of story that makes me believe in “White Hats.” CBS News ran a story yesterday headlined, “U.S. Attorney Reviewing Documents Marked Classified From Joe Biden’s Vice Presidency Found at Biden Think Tank.”

Uh-oh!

Apparently, Joe Biden was storing some classified documents at a commercial office building in Washington, D.C. , where six years ago he’d leased an office for his money-laundering outfit, I mean his “think tank,” the Penn-Biden Center for Diplomacy & Global Engagement:



Before the midterm elections, CBS News reporters got an anonymous tip about the documents, disclosing that sensitive classified documents including nuclear secrets were laying around in Biden’s old office, which was “secured” by a single lock on the office’s front door.

So of course, CBS told the DOJ and kept quiet.

Showing uncharacteristic sensitivity, grandmotherly Attorney General Merrick Garland waited until now, safely AFTER the midterm elections, to acknowledge the story and assign the case to a US Attorney — not in Washington DC or Florida or Texas — but in Chicago, of course. You gotta love that city.

CNN said the unsecurely-stored classified materials include top-secret files designated “sensitive compartmented information,” or SCIF, meaning the super-highly sensitive classified information originally came from U.S. intelligence sources. The New York Post reported that the Penn-Biden Center’s DC office, where the classified documents were “stored,” was paid for by donations from China — of course — totaling over $54 million dollars that Penn collected from the communist superpower.

Unlike President Trump, the former vice-president had no authority to declassify anything.

According to The Hill, President Trump asked, when does the FBI plan to raid Biden’s various homes, to find out if there are more illegally removed, classified documents in Biden’s possession?

Haha, good one.

People, PLEASE. Don’t fly off the deep end. This is TOTALLY DIFFERENT. I’m not sure how yet, but the democrats will be telling us all about it, very soon.

☕️ CLASSIFIED SQUID ☙ Tuesday, January 10, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

An update on the CTV reporter; an update on the Thai princess; an update on the new GOP congress; Joe Biden found hoarding classified documents; covid experts craft a scary name for XBB; and more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

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Biden administration gas stove ban idea leaves NYC restaurants feeling burned​

On Monday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said it was considering a nationwide ban on gas stoves, which are currently used in 37% of US households and 76% of US restaurants, according to Consumer Reports and the National Restaurant Association. The safety commission cited recent reports that gas stoves emit unsafe levels of pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide and have been linked to cancers, respiratory illnesses and cardiovascular problems. But the city’s chefs and restaurateurs are fuming at the possibility of a ban and the devastating effect it could have on the health of their businesses.

“The majority of New York City restaurants use gas. It’s the most common stove in a high-volume kitchen,” Petti told The Post. “Gas lets us do our job efficiently.”

Gas stoves are powered by sending natural gas or sometimes propane to a cooktop burner to fuel a flame. Alternatives to gas include old-fashioned electric coil stovetops – typically only found in residences and known for being slow to heat and adjust to temperature changes – and induction, which relies on electromagnets to heat cookware. Induction can be quite fast, bringing a pot of water to a boil in two minutes or less, as opposed to five to eight minutes on gas and electric coil stove tops. But, induction also takes some getting used to and can’t be used with some cookware.

 

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Biden Hides the IRS Attacks on the Poor, Claims GOP Is Protecting Billionaires With New Bill​

Except, Biden is lying about the true intent of the IRS and is attempting to distract the public by making this about his political opponents protecting mustache-twirling bad guys with vaults full of cash. Even if Biden was trying to muster the IRS to go after billionaires, the numbers don’t add up.

There are over 600 billionaires in the United States. Why does the IRS need an entire army of 87,000 agents to deal with just over 600 people? Why do they need 87,000 new agents in enforcement to deal with these 600-plus people? Why are these enforcement agents armed? Do they anticipate a firefight against these billionaires?

None of this makes sense in this context, and that’s because the context given is a falsehood. This army isn’t for the wealthy, who have lawyers, accountants, and experts to help them avoid paying as much as they can in taxes legally. No, this army is for middle-class Americans and the poor, and we can see that by looking at what the IRS spent a lot of time doing in 2022.

According to Reason, the IRS attacked the poorest of Americans significantly more than they did anyone else:

On Wednesday, Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) released data provided to it by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on audits performed by the agency in fiscal year 2022. Despite the infusion of new funding earmarked for the IRS via last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, the agency continued historic trends of hassling primarily low-income taxpayers, with relatively few millionaires and billionaires getting caught up in the audit sweep.
“The taxpayer class with unbelievably high audit rates—five and a half times virtually everyone else—were low-income wage-earners taking the earned income tax credit,” reported TRAC, noting that the poorest taxpayers are “easy marks in an era when IRS increasingly relies upon correspondence audits yet doesn’t have the resources to assist taxpayers or answer their questions.”

 

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This is the kind of story that makes me believe in “White Hats.” CBS News ran a story yesterday headlined, “U.S. Attorney Reviewing Documents Marked Classified From Joe Biden’s Vice Presidency Found at Biden Think Tank.”

Uh-oh!

Apparently, Joe Biden was storing some classified documents at a commercial office building in Washington, D.C. , where six years ago he’d leased an office for his money-laundering outfit, I mean his “think tank,” the Penn-Biden Center for Diplomacy & Global Engagement:


Before the midterm elections, CBS News reporters got an anonymous tip about the documents, disclosing that sensitive classified documents including nuclear secrets were laying around in Biden’s old office, which was “secured” by a single lock on the office’s front door.

So of course, CBS told the DOJ and kept quiet.

Showing uncharacteristic sensitivity, grandmotherly Attorney General Merrick Garland waited until now, safely AFTER the midterm elections, to acknowledge the story and assign the case to a US Attorney — not in Washington DC or Florida or Texas — but in Chicago, of course. You gotta love that city.

CNN said the unsecurely-stored classified materials include top-secret files designated “sensitive compartmented information,” or SCIF, meaning the super-highly sensitive classified information originally came from U.S. intelligence sources. The New York Post reported that the Penn-Biden Center’s DC office, where the classified documents were “stored,” was paid for by donations from China — of course — totaling over $54 million dollars that Penn collected from the communist superpower.

Unlike President Trump, the former vice-president had no authority to declassify anything.

According to The Hill, President Trump asked, when does the FBI plan to raid Biden’s various homes, to find out if there are more illegally removed, classified documents in Biden’s possession?

Haha, good one.

People, PLEASE. Don’t fly off the deep end. This is TOTALLY DIFFERENT. I’m not sure how yet, but the democrats will be telling us all about it, very soon.

☕️ CLASSIFIED SQUID ☙ Tuesday, January 10, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

An update on the CTV reporter; an update on the Thai princess; an update on the new GOP congress; Joe Biden found hoarding classified documents; covid experts craft a scary name for XBB; and more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

Its already happening. Your guy did it worse.

The question that should be asked of CBS, would you cover up what was found if it involved Trump .?

 

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Biden administration gas stove ban idea leaves NYC restaurants feeling burned

 

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*UPDATE* Biden Official Tries to Deny He Ever Said the Govt is Coming for Your Gas Stove​

You can also light the stove when the electricity goes out.

I’ve never known anyone with health problems caused by a natural gas stove:

Natural gas stoves, which are used in about 40% of homes in the US, emit air pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and fine particulate matter at levels the EPA and World Health Organization have said are unsafe and linked to respiratory illness, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and other health conditions, according to reports by groups such as the Institute for Policy Integrity and the American Chemical Society. Consumer Reports, in October, urged consumers planning to buy a new range to consider going electric after tests conducted by the group found high levels of nitrogen oxide gases from gas stoves.
New peer-reviewed research published last month in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that more than 12% of current childhood asthma cases in the US can be attributed to gas stove use.
“There is about 50 years of health studies showing that gas stoves are bad for our health, and the strongest evidence is on children and children’s asthma,” said Brady Seals, a manager in the carbon-free buildings program at the nonprofit clean energy group RMI and a co-author of the study. “By having a gas connection, we are polluting the insides of our homes.”

How about some good old common sense? It turns out the problem is not necessarily from the item in question. Use ventilation:

The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, which represents gas range manufacturers such as Whirlpool Corp., says that cooking produces emissions and harmful byproducts no matter what kind of stove is used.
“Ventilation is really where this discussion should be, rather than banning one particular type of technology,” said Jill Notini, a vice president with the Washington-based trade group. “Banning one type of a cooking appliance is not going to address the concerns about overall indoor air quality. We may need some behavior change, we may need [people] to turn on their hoods when cooking.”

 

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What the Classified Scandal Shows About Biden’s Foreign Connections​

But beyond the misappropriation of classified documents, a violation of the Espionage Act, the discovery renews old questions about the foreign connections of Joe Biden and his family.

While details about the classified documents remain scant, we know that they included briefing materials related to three countries: Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom.

It may be a coincidence that Biden has corrupt ties to two of the countries on the list, but it’s more likely that there was something in these briefing materials that specifically interested him.

The most prominent of the Trump documents at the heart of the illegal Mar-a-Lago raid by the Biden administration focused on his peace efforts with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. Trump personally staked a great deal on trying to forge a personal connection with Kim and it is not surprising that he would have wanted to retain access to some of the correspondence.

There’s no apparent reason why Biden, on leaving office as vice president, should have kept memos and intelligence materials about Iran, the UK and Ukraine. And yet he had strong official and unofficial relationships with Iran and Ukraine that crossed the streams of government policy and personal gain.

That may explain why Biden, as a private citizen, felt the need to retain classified documents.

The Penn Biden Center, the location where the first set of documents was found, was not just an academic project, it was a humbler version of the Clinton Foundation. Like it, the Penn Biden Center was a prepping stage for the Biden administration financed by foreign donors. Such organizations often focus on ‘global engagement’ or ‘international humanitarian projects’, but, as a practical matter, provide jobs for past and future administration officials using foreign money.

 

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*UPDATE* Biden Official Tries to Deny He Ever Said the Govt is Coming for Your Gas Stove​

You can also light the stove when the electricity goes out.

I’ve never known anyone with health problems caused by a natural gas stove:



How about some good old common sense? It turns out the problem is not necessarily from the item in question. Use ventilation:

Its a ploy to see how many will switch over to electric for fear of not being able to use it.

 

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Despite the media’s apparent willingness to report this story, they’ve also been trying to provide some political cover for Biden. It didn’t take long for them to go to extraordinary lengths to try to explain the differences between Biden’s classified documents scandals and Donald Trump’s, and why Trump’s was obviously worse. One reason, they claimed, is that none of the documents found in Biden’s office or home were marked top secret. However, on Saturday morning, were learned that several documents found at Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center were indeed marked top secret.

The White House was clearly unprepared for this story to break. They’ve been limping along, desperately trying to talk their way out of the scandal, but it’s not going well. If anything, the scandal has highlighted just how badly they are handling it. In fact, they appear to be attempting to lie their way through it.

In addition to repeated claims that Joe Biden takes classified documents “very seriously,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that the search for documents was completed Wednesday evening.

“We are being fully cooperative with the Department of Justice throughout this process, as part of the President’s lawyers look through the places where documents could have been stored and the Counsel’s Office released, as you said, a statement explaining that,” Jean-Pierre said during Thursday’s press briefing. “But that search was completed last night. And now, this is in the hands of the Justice Department.”

Garage-gate Proves (Again) How Bad the White House Is at Lying

pjmedia.com

 

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CONFIRMED: Joe Biden Did Have Documents Classified as ‘Top Secret’​

Joe Biden’s classified documents scandal got even worse on Saturday when CBS News reported that at least ten of the items found in his office at the Penn Biden Center were marked “top secret” — the highest level possible — meaning that a leak of these documents could do “exceptionally grave damage” to national security. It was previously not known what level of classification these documents had.

Of the classified documents later found at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Del., allegedly none were marked “top secret.” But it is unclear at this point if the top secret documents found at the Penn Biden Center had once been amongst the stash kept in the Wilmington garage next to Biden’s prized Corvette Stingray.

A 2020 campaign video shared on Joe Biden’s Twitter account shows boxes of documents in his garage.

 

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A man called in Friday claiming he was sent to recover classified documents left in a hotel room by then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama years.

The man, who called himself “Fred” and said he needed to keep certain details vague to protect himself, said he was part of a trip where the then-VP left classified information in a hotel room somewhere in the continental United States. That information was allegedly discovered, presumably by hotel staff, who were definitely not supposed to have access to it.

Fred claimed that the information was the equivalent of a “presidential daily briefing,” suggesting huge amounts of highly classified domestic and international data was in the leftover documents. That information was accessed by individuals who were “absolutely not cleared” to see them, according to Fred.

“The issue at hand was the cavalier attitude of this,” Fred noted, stating that the Administration just “made it go away,” and staffers didn’t seem to see why this was a big deal. “Zero accountability for it,” Fred noted. “That was what was mortifying.”

Random Caller Tells Radio Host He Once Personally Covered Up A ‘Mortifying’ Biden Security Breach

A man called in to a radio show Friday claiming he was sent to recover classified documents left in a hotel room by Joe Biden during the Obama years.

dailycaller.com

 

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Was the Mar-a-Lago Raid a Biden Insurance Policy?



That raid was obviously a well-orchestrated piece of theater calculated to draw maximum coverage by the corporate news media and to be seen by the American public. Most objective observers assumed this was just another phase of the perpetual “get Trump” project that has obsessed the Democrats since he defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016. There is another potential explanation for the Mar-a-Lago raid that no one has posited, probably because it conjures up images of paranoics in tinfoil hats. However, if the Russia collusion hoax taught us nothing else, it is that the Democrats are by no means above concocting real conspiracies.

Biden’s people all but certainly learned long before Nov. 2 or Aug. 8 of last year that he was illegally in possession of classified material — and had been stunningly sloppy about security. These people are smart enough to know Biden’s classified document problem would eventually become public knowledge, and that damage control would be necessary. What better way to preemptively indemnify the Big Guy than to raid the home of former President Trump on the pretext that he was committing a crime of which Biden himself is guilty? But this may very well backfire, as former Assistant Secretary of State Robert Charles told Fox News:

The bigger thing is the nature of the documents. We know in this case, unlike in Trump’s, that these are potentially very incriminating documents. They relate to Ukraine. The president’s son was taking millions of dollars from Ukraine and from China. They’re housed in a place that China helped to fund. There’s some really questionable things here and I guess the last big question that has to be answered is did Hunter Biden, who was on the pay of Ukraine and China, we know this, did he have access to these documents, and if he did, why, and what does that mean?

 

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Biden attacks ‘fiscally demented’ House GOP days before debt ceiling hits​

“They’re going to talk about big spending Democrats again. Guess what? I reduced the deficit last year $350 billion. And this year, the federal deficit is down $1 trillion-plus. Hear me, that’s a fact,” Biden said.

“There’s gonna be hundreds of billions reduced over the next decade, but so what? These guys are the fiscally — well, they’re fiscally demented, I think. They don’t quite get it.”

Biden also attacked a House-passed bill to ax the proposed hiring of up to 87,000 new IRS agents to help pay for a $437 billion environmental and healthcare spending bill passed last year.

 

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Biden Marks MLK Day by Ridiculously Suggesting Car Insurance Racist​

During his MLK speech, hosted by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, as reported by Breitbart, Biden went full-metal Biden.

If you live in one of those neighborhoods and you have the same exact car I have in the other neighborhood, you pay more for your insurance than that side. No basis for it! None at all other than you’re black, and I’m white.

“None other than you’re black, and I’m white.” Interesting. Is Joe suggesting that if you live in “one of those other neighborhoods” you’re necessarily “black,” and if I live in the “opposite” neighborhood, I’m necessarily “white”? Sure sounded like it: “You pay more on that side” because “you’re black.” Not to nitpick but that’s exactly what he suggested.

I don’t know anything about Joe’s hypothetical neighborhoods, but I do know a thing or two about how risk management rates factor into insurance premium calculations. As anyone who’s sold insurance knows, premiums are higher or lower based on relative risk management. In the case of car insurance, the higher the demonstrated risk of a vehicle being stolen or wrecked, the higher the premium. The converse is true, as well.


Biden pretty much applied his same “logic” to home values:

You know if you build, in the last 25 years, if you build a housing development on one side of an interstate highway and you built the same one on the opposite side and one is predominantly black and the other is predominately white, guess what?
The value of the exact same home built by the exact same builder is more valuable on the white side of that highway than the [black] side. That’s a fact.

 

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Biden Wants It Both Ways On COVID — But Either Way, Taxpayers Get Screwed


Last week, the Biden administration once again extended the COVID public health emergency, the 12th time it’s been extended in the past three years. Just weeks before, however, team Biden told the Supreme Court that there is no COVID emergency, and there hasn’t been one since last April.

Why the two diametrically opposed positions? Simple. Extending the public health emergency declaration lets Joe Biden keep millions of recipients on Medicaid and continue his student loan bailout. Claiming that COVID isn’t an emergency will open the floodgates to illegal immigrants.

Notice the connective tissue? It’s about expanding government dependency – for health care, for college aid, or for illegals getting on welfare. Who loses? You. And anyone else who pays taxes.