Biden Actions ... And Reactions

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‘Truly a form of mind-f**k that’s difficult to stomach’: Gad Saad DISMANTLES Biden and his ‘white supremacy is the greatest threat against US’ rhetoric


Joe Biden seems to think the greatest threat facing the US is white supremacy.
Yeah, we know.

It’s stupid.

And to be fair, we’re pretty sure Biden doesn’t ‘think’ much about anything these days and is really nothing more than some sort of Botox-filled puppet spouting lines someone else is feeding him. Klain? Obama? Who knows for sure but this rhetoric (and yes, that’s all it is) is not only divisive but possibly dangerous. Russia, Iran, China … you know they just laugh their as*es off at Biden babbling about white supremacy and pretending Black Americans can’t get accountants or attorneys.

he really said that

Gad Saad wrote an epic thread on Biden and as usual, it’s spot-on:

 

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Joe Biden Rips Trump For Doing The Same Thing The Obama Administration Did





The president clearly wanted to put himself in a positive light compared to his predecessor, whose administration obtained reporters’ private contacts. Under President Trump, the Justice Department secretly surveilled four reporters from The New York Times (Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eric Lichtblau, and Michael S. Schmidt); at least three reporters at The Washington Post (Adam Entous, Greg Miller, and Ellen Nakashima); and one reporter at CNN (Barbara Starr).

But Joe Biden’s record in the executive branch is hardly encouraging, whether as president or vice president.

The Obama administration snooped on five Associated Press reporters who broke a story about a foiled al-Qaeda plot in 2012, as well as their editor (Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Kimberly Dozier, Eileen Sullivan, Alan Fram, and editor Ted Bridis). You’ll note two of the names — Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman — are the same reporters whose surveillance Biden now calls “simply, simply wrong.”

To get their information, Obama grabbed records from 20 phone lines, including the reporters’ private numbers and the general AP number used by a total of 100 reporters in the House of Representatives.

The AP described the Obama-Biden administration’s actions as “serious interference with AP’s constitutional rights to gather and report the news.”
“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters,” AP CEO Gary Pruitt wrote in a letter to then-Attorney General (and self-described Obama “wingman”) Eric Holder.

 

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Biden Is Carrying Out the New 'War on Terror' Right Under Our Noses


Biden has called for new laws against domestic terrorism, which would enable the federal government to continue its anti-terror tactics, but applied to American citizens who disagree with his leftist agenda.

Even in lieu of such laws, the Biden administration is already waging a new War on Terror that has largely flown under the radar. Last month, CNN reported that “the Biden administration is considering using outside firms to track extremist chatter by Americans online, an effort that would expand the government’s ability to gather intelligence but could draw criticism over surveillance of US citizens.”

Ironically, the same Democratic Party that spent last summer denouncing the police approved $1.9 billion in additional spending for Capitol security and police. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) “Squad” had the power to stop the funding and give teeth to their “Defund the Police” agenda, but half of them instead voted “present,” ensuring the bill’s passage.

Perhaps most chilling, Democrats are demanding the return of due-process-free no-fly lists to crack down on “extremism.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) demanded that the FBI ban January 6 rioters and other “domestic extremists” from air travel without any conviction of a crime and without a hearing to determine whether the prohibition is justified.

Thompson even demanded that the no-fly list include Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), grounding two of the duly-elected members of the United States Senate for raising questions about an election in the same manner as Democrats did in 2017.

 

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Biden Admin Slapped ‘Unprecedented’ Gag Order On Media Execs


The Biden administration not only supported a secret legal effort to obtain the phone and email records of four New York Times reporters, but its Justice Department imposed a gag order on the Times “to shield it from public view” — a move the newspaper called “unprecedented” in journalistic history.

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McCraw called the order “stunning,” while Baquet noted the bipartisan nature of the email probe, which began “in the final 15 days of the Trump administration. And the Biden administration continued to pursue it. As I said before, it profoundly undermines press freedom.”

Such requests — launched to find out which administration officials leaked sensitive national security information to the media — amount to about one “case a year,” said Washington Post national security reporter Devlin Barrett. But the issuance of a gag order has reportedly never taken place before March.

“It’s completely unprecedented for the Justice Department to seek and obtain a gag order in a leak investigation,” Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., a lawyer who assisted the Times with its negotiations, told The Washington Post. “It adds insult to injury for the government to seek to muzzle the news organization fighting to protect its sources.”

The Times said it went public the moment the order was lifted on Friday. Strategic news decisions about releasing bad news just before the weekend are often derisively called the “Friday news dump.”Meanwhile, the Biden administration — echoing the Obama administration — released a statement saying it knew nothing about its own DOJ’s activities until the media publicized them.

 

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Biden Neglects To Commemorate D-Day, Tweets About Tulsa Massacre Instead




YOU can tell what is important by what they talk about

 

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Trump Was Right: The Biden Administration Is Intent on Destroying the Suburbs


So, the Biden administration wants people to move from apartments in dense urban areas to apartments in neighborhoods in the suburbs. Not apartments in suburban towns, which often have a decent selection of apartments and townhomes for rent. The administration wants apartment buildings in developments zoned for single-family homes. They will use grants and tax credits as the carrot and eventually pull highway funds through the Booker Amendment as a stick.

These are not the apartments often built in what is termed cradle-to-grave housing. Several developments in the Atlanta suburbs contain apartments, townhomes, single-family homes, and 55-and-over sections. They are planned communities where all residents use common areas, except for some reserved just for the active senior population. The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule (AFFH), an Obama administration policy, has always called for high-density, low-income housing in the suburbs.


The Trump administration eliminated the rule, leaving zoning with state and local governments, as it should be. The change also eliminated the burdensome data collection required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to support the program. The insertion into the infrastructure bill appears to be a move to codify it into law, rather than just reinstating the rule administratively through HUD, where two new rules have already been proposed. One is the AFFH.

The second rule, the discriminatory effects standard, is premised on the same fiction that all equity policies are: disparate outcomes are evidence of discrimination. This lazy and inaccurate assumption leads to destructive policies all around, rather than dealing with the underlying causes of the identified disparities. The discriminatory effects standard bars seemingly neutral policies in lending, renting, and selling property. These may include requirements like minimum credit scores and security deposits. It is the same mentality that led to the sub-prime lending disaster.

 

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Biden Supports 'Guilty' Muslims, Ignores 'Innocent' Christians


It is hypocritical for Biden to claim that he cares about the religious rights of “all” people — when he clearly means only “all Muslims.” So, too, is it vexing to note that, unlike those whom he totally ignores — for example, the hundreds of millions of Christians currently being persecuted at the hands of Muslims — those Muslims whom he does mention as deserving protection are not exactly innocent.

Consider the three Muslim peoples he singled out: the Palestinians, the Uighurs in China, and the Rohingya in Burma. Far from trying to live peaceably with their non-Muslim neighbors, and like other Muslim populations living alongside or under the authority of non-Muslims, all three have been known to engage in hostile, subversive, and terroristic activities.

One need not dwell much on the well-documented scourge of Palestinian terrorism — primarily in the guise of Hamas and Hezb’allah — which, as is well known, is the root cause for conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. But consider the other two lesser-known Muslim peoples.

The Rohingya of Burma have been committing the same sort of anti-infidel mayhem, violence, terrorism, and rape that one is accustomed to associating with “radical Islam” — though news of it seldom reaches the West. The main difference is that, unlike, say, the West, Burma has responded with uncompromising ruthlessness — thereby making it the “bad guy” in the media. Consider the words of popular Buddhist leader Ashin Wirathu, whom the media refer to as the “Burmese bin Laden“: “You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog,” says the monk in reference to Muslims: “I call them troublemakers, because they are troublemakers.”

 

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WaPo Publisher: Biden DOJ Launching ‘Unprecedented Assault On American News Organizations’


Fred Ryan wrote in his paper Sunday evening that the Biden Justice department not only kept pursuing Trump-era battles against reporters and outlets, but expanded them. Earlier this year, the Biden DOJ won a judge’s approval for a gag order against The New York Times, preventing the newspaper from publicly revealing its legal battle with the federal government over its reporters’ records. Ryan wrote:

After Biden took office, the department continued to pursue subpoenas for reporters’ email logs issued to Google, which operates the New York Times’ email systems, and it obtained a gag order compelling a Times attorney to keep silent about the fact that federal authorities were seeking to seize his colleagues’ records. Later, when the Justice Department broadened the number of those permitted to know about the effort, it barred Times executives from discussing the legal battle with the Times newsroom, including the paper’s top editor.
This escalation, on Biden’s watch, represents an unprecedented assault on American news organizations and their efforts to inform the public about government wrongdoing.

 

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Biden Border Crisis Sinks To Worst Level In DHS History, Explodes 674% Over Last Year


Democrat President Joe Biden’s crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border sank to new lows last month as U.S. law enforcement officials apprehended more illegal aliens trying to enter the U.S. than in any other month on record at the Department of Homeland Security, which was founded in 2002.

“In May 2021, CBP encountered 180,034 persons attempting entry along the Southwest Border,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. “Single adults continue to make up the majority of these encounters.”

The disastrous border numbers for last month represented a staggering 674% increase vs. May of 2020 when 23,237 illegal aliens were apprehended. Last month’s numbers were the worst numbers in more than two decades.

 

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Damn Trump.

 

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WaPo Publisher: Biden DOJ Launching ‘Unprecedented Assault On American News Organizations’


Fred Ryan wrote in his paper Sunday evening that the Biden Justice department not only kept pursuing Trump-era battles against reporters and outlets, but expanded them. Earlier this year, the Biden DOJ won a judge’s approval for a gag order against The New York Times, preventing the newspaper from publicly revealing its legal battle with the federal government over its reporters’ records. Ryan wrote:

Priceless. One of the Dem's most faithful water carriers, complaining about the house plant's administration. They cannot escape responsiblity for helping make that happen.

 

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Biden DOJ Amends Court Filing That Said It Would ‘Vigorously’ Defend Religious Freedom After LGBT Blowback


The court filing, in relation to Hunter v. the U.S. Department of Education, said the DOJ can “vigorously” defend religious schools’ right to practice their beliefs without risk of losing funding. After pushback from activists, though, the department changed its wording in the filing, The Washington Post reported:

However, in a possible sign of the pressure on the administration, the Justice Department amended the document Wednesday, taking out the word “vigorously” to describe its defense of the religious exemption and retaining multiple uses of the word “adequate.”

The department also “removed wording that said the Education Department and the Christian schools “share the same ‘ultimate objective’ … namely, to uphold the Religious Exemption as it is currently applied,'” the Post added.
The Post noted that some LGBT activists were “disturbed” by the filing, likely prompting the DOJ to amend their wording.

“What this means is that the government is now aligning itself with anti-LGBTQ hate in order to vigorously defend an exemption that everyone knows causes severe harm to LGBTQ students using taxpayer money,” complained Paul Carlos Southwick, director of the Religious Exemption Accountability Project. “It will make our case harder if the federal government plans to vigorously defend it like they have indicated.”

However, other activists seemed to acknowledge that the Biden administration was merely paying lip service, using the terminology as an effort to “block conservative religious groups from becoming parties to the lawsuit,” per the Post:

To others, including supporters of President Biden, the administration had no other option, since federal civil rights law regarding education — called Title IX — exempts religion. They noted the purpose of the department’s filing, which was to block conservative religious groups from becoming parties to the lawsuit, arguing the agency can defend the exemption on its own.

amazing such a small whiny percentage of the population wields so much power,

 

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Do Liberals Know That Biden Is Keeping Illegals Separated from Their Families?


I thought this was evil. I thought only Trump did this, despite being an Obama-era immigration policy. Families detained at the border are separated. This isn’t new. When Trump did it, it was draconian in the extreme. When Democrats do it, it’s ignored. The Guatemalan president said that the surge of migrants at the border is due to Biden’s family reunification promise, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Thousands of kids are still waiting to be reunified with their families (via NY Post):

Only seven migrant kids separated from their families by the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance program” have been reunited with their relatives since President Joe Biden took office, the task force in charge of reunifications said.
The task force released a 22-page progress report Tuesday during Vice President Kamala Harris’s trip to Central America that shows 2,127 kids are still waiting to be reunified with their families.
The progress report was submitted to Biden last week.
In a call with reporters, a senior DHS official said the Trump administration was to blame for the sluggish process because there’s “numerous errors and misinformation” in data kept by the former POTUS’s staff, NBC News reported.
“No comprehensive interagency system was in place to separate parents and their migrant children,” the official said on the call.

 

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Biden’s HHS Sec Grins As He Refuses To Say The Word ‘Mother’ Instead Of ‘Birthing People’


When Lankford asked for a good definition of “birthing people,” Becerra was literally unable to say the word “mother,” instead grinning and responding, “I don’t know how else to explain it to you other than” before his voice petered out.

Prior to that exchange, Lankford questioned Becerra about religious freedom, saying, “At your nomination hearing, you and I talked about the conscience and freedom, and freedom and faith, all those protections that are there. I was surprised to see the language in the budget; it stripped out much of that language that had existed in previous budgets about freedom of conscience, freedom of religion. And it also seems that you’re eliminating the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division. Is that true? In your budget, are you eliminating the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division?”

“We’re going to continue to do the work to protect the religious, civil, constitutional rights of all Americans under HHS’ purview, and we are going to be a solid organization through the Office of Civil Rights that we have to make sure we’re protecting everyone’s rights, including religious conscience rights,” Becerra protested.





It's like the intellectually ignorant have taken over the government

 

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Federal Judge Halts Biden Administration Program That Discriminated Against White Farmers, Saying Lawsuit Could Be Successful


Judge William Griesbach ruled that the USDA’s “use of race-based criteria in the administration of the program violates their right to equal protection under the law.”

Matt Herrick, a spokesman for the USDA, told NBC: “We respectfully disagree with this temporary order and USDA will continue to forcefully defend our ability to carry out this act of Congress and deliver debt relief to socially disadvantaged borrowers. When the temporary order is lifted, USDA will be prepared to provide the debt relief authorized by Congress.”

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told The Washington Post that the relief program was designed to help minority farmers.
“For generations, socially disadvantaged farmers have struggled to fully succeed due to systemic discrimination and a cycle of debt,” Vilsack told the outlet.

As Judge Griesbach pointed out, however, the program ignores the actual financial circumstances of applicants, as many white farmers also struggled during the pandemic, which is the basis for the forgiveness program.

“Aside from a summary of statistical disparities, defendants have no evidence of intentional discrimination by the USDA in the implementation of the recent agriculture subsidies and pandemic relief efforts,” Griesbach wrote, noting that the policy was “a loan-forgiveness program purportedly intended to provide economic relief to disadvantaged individuals without actually considering the financial circumstances of the applicant.”

 

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Biden’s Climate Change Stance Exposes A Delusional Administration


Biden has been more focused on appeasing the far-left wing of the party that thinks we will drop dead if we don’t start devouring insects or buying exorbitant electric cars. To the administration, killing jobs over climate orders, joining a costly international agreement, offering climate change as infrastructure, touting trillion-dollar federal plans, and appointing John Kerry as a climate envoy with no scientific experience are all deemed as more pertinent than any legitimate threats.

Even the U.S. Army has joined the energy bandwagon, releasing a memo titled “U.S. Army: Addressing Climate Change Threats” that states climate change is a “serious threat to U.S. National security interests and defense objectives” and “The Army has a lot to be proud of, yet there is a lot of work to continue to operate efficiently across extreme weather and climate conditions.”

Still, data indicates climate change is not the threat that members of the Democratic Party claim it is. As energy expert Marc Morano pointed out to the Federalist in March, “The alleged ‘climate emergency’ is merely a premise for achieving the political goals that the left has sought for decades.” The aim? Expanding the role of government until it has been involuntarily injected into our homes. And as long as the left operates in a vacuum of idealism and denial, it will continue to hurt the American people.

It is no wonder Biden joked to the troops and said, “I keep forgetting I’m president.” It’s long past time for him to start remembering.

 

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6 Takeaways From Biden’s G7 Speech: From Fulfilling A ‘$40 Trillion Need’ In Other Nations To Gaffes



1. Biden’s “top priorities” were focusing on doing more for other countries while speaking in woke terms:

• “Ending the pandemic and maintaining robust support for an equitable, inclusive global economic recovery were the top priorities of our nations as we got together. We know we can’t achieve one without the other; that is, we have to deal with the pandemic and — in order to be able to deal with economic recovery, which — as we’re doing in the States, but we committed that we’re going to do more for the rest of the world as well.”
• “The fact is that we — the U.S. contribution is the foundation — the foundation to work out how we’re going to deal with the 100 nations that are poor and having trouble finding vaccines and having trouble dealing with reviving their economies if they were, in the first place, in good shape.”

2. Biden committed to helping fill a $40 trillion need to build infrastructure in other counties.

3. Biden attacked the use of fossil fuels.

4. Biden insulted the words of the Declaration of Independence, saying they sounded “corny.”

• We’re unique as a country. We’re built on — we’re unique in a sense that we’re not based on ethnicity or geography or religion; we’re one nation that said we organized on an idea: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.” It sounds corny, but it’s real.

5. Biden said that he would be open to handing people inside the U.S. over to the Russian government.

6. Biden repeatedly made embarrassing gaffes in front on the world stage.

• Biden repeatedly mixed up Syria and Libya.
• Biden repeatedly called COVAX, an initiative aimed at supplying the world with vaccines, “COVID.” The White House made adjustments to the official transcript of Biden’s speech to reflect that he repeatedly got the name wrong.
• Biden, at a separate G7 event, was laughed at by world leaders after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had to remind Biden of something that he just happened moments prior.

 

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World Leaders Laugh At Biden After Boris Johnson Has To Remind Biden Of Something That Just Happened



Sky News posted the clip on social media, which showed Johnson introducing world leaders who had just joined the event. In the clip, Johnson introduced South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was the only black leader in the room, and, after Johnson introduced him, Biden introduced the president of South Africa and pointed at him in a manner that suggested that he did not know that he had just been introduced.

“… to say how pleased I am to welcome those who have just joined us in some pretty spectacular weather,” Johnson said. “With them, Prime Minister Modi, President Ramaphosa, President Moon …”

“And the president of South Africa,” Biden interjected.

“And the president of South Africa as I said early on,” Johnson responded.

“Oh, you did?” Biden asked.

The room erupted in laughter.