Biden Actions ... And Reactions

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Obama’s Ethics Chief Slams Biden Over Reported Move To Keep Hunter Biden’s Art Buyers Secret: Enemies Could Use It Against Us


Walter Shaub, the former director of Obama’s Office of Government Ethics, slammed the Biden administration on Thursday over reports that the administration had helped the president’s son, Hunter Biden, craft a deal where the buyers of his “outrageous[ly]” priced art would be kept completely secret.

“Under an arrangement negotiated in recent months, a New York gallery owner is planning to set prices for the art and will withhold all records, including potential bidders and final buyers,” The Washington Post reported. “Biden’s art sale, expected to take place this fall, comes with potential challenges. Not only has Biden previously been accused of trading in on his father’s name, but his latest vocation is in a field where works do not have a tangible fixed value and where concerns have arisen about secretive buyers and undisclosed sums.”

The deal, according to The Washington Post, will keep the purchases secret “from even the artist himself.”

 

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Judge Blocks Biden Administration's Racist Farm Relief Plan


District Court Judge S. Thomas Anderson of the Western District of Tennessee issued a preliminary injunction to halt the U.S. Department of Agriculture from moving forward with the loan payment plan that excluded white farmers and ranchers.

“The Court finds that Plaintiff has shown a substantial likelihood that he will prevail on his claim that Section 1005 violates his right to equal protection under the law,” the decision states. “Absent action by the Court, socially disadvantaged farmers will obtain debt relief, while Plaintiff will suffer the irreparable harm of being excluded from that program solely on the basis of his race.”

On behalf of Tennessee farmer Rob Holman and Wyoming rancher Leisl Carpenter, the Mountain States Legal Foundation and the Southeastern Legal Foundation challenged the program’s constitutionality on equal protection grounds.

 

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Obama’s Ethics Chief Slams Biden Over Reported Move To Keep Hunter Biden’s Art Buyers Secret: Enemies Could Use It Against Us


Walter Shaub, the former director of Obama’s Office of Government Ethics, slammed the Biden administration on Thursday over reports that the administration had helped the president’s son, Hunter Biden, craft a deal where the buyers of his “outrageous[ly]” priced art would be kept completely secret.

“Under an arrangement negotiated in recent months, a New York gallery owner is planning to set prices for the art and will withhold all records, including potential bidders and final buyers,” The Washington Post reported. “Biden’s art sale, expected to take place this fall, comes with potential challenges. Not only has Biden previously been accused of trading in on his father’s name, but his latest vocation is in a field where works do not have a tangible fixed value and where concerns have arisen about secretive buyers and undisclosed sums.”

The deal, according to The Washington Post, will keep the purchases secret “from even the artist himself.”

Kind of a different way to gain access to Biden. Buy a painting, get access. Guess with Biden's obsession with hair sniffing people don't want their wives spending the night.

 

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Biden's ODNI photoshops blind guy, girl in wheelchair into annual report for 'diversity'

 

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Biden's ODNI photoshops blind guy, girl in wheelchair into annual report for 'diversity'

Looks more like two completely different pictures. Besides the two additional people (and dog) head positions differ, proximity to others differ, hand positions of at least one differs and proximity to the back wall/door differs.

 

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Report: Biden Policies Would Make Tax System ‘More Progressive’ While Cutting Economic Growth




A new report indicates that President Biden’s tax policies would decrease employment, wages, productivity, and long-term economic growth in the United States.

According to findings from the Tax Foundation, the President’s budget for 2022 — which incorporates the American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan — would lead to 60.7% of Americans paying higher taxes while only 29% benefit from tax cuts and credits.

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The President’s policies would lead to a more progressive tax regime — a system that demands differing tax rates based on one’s income. For instance, according to the Tax Foundation’s analysis of the American Families Plan:

The tax system would become more progressive than under current law through higher marginal tax rates on high earners and expanded refundable tax credits for lower-income taxpayers. The funding choices in the American Families Plan come at the cost of reduced economic output, fewer jobs, and lower wages.

By drawing more capital from the tax base, long-term economic growth would suffer in a manner that affects all Americans:

The tax provisions in the American Families Plan would reduce the economy’s size by 0.4 percent in the long run, primarily by increasing marginal tax rates on labor and investment in the pass-through business sector. The capital stock would fall by 0.7 percent, wages by 0.4 percent, and employment by about 64,000 full-time equivalent jobs. GNP, which measures American incomes, would fall by 0.6 percent.

 

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But one glaring problem — which was first pointed out by Republican political consultant and podcaster Luke Thompson — is that the woman in the wheelchair and the blind man don’t appear in the original stock photo. They seem to have been Photoshopped into the image used on the ODNI report.

“Siri, show me the worst use of stock photos ever,” Thompson tweeted Thursday.

The Photoshopped image quickly gained more traction than the actual report, which noted that the percentage of minorities and people with disabilities among civilian intelligence community employees ticked up to 27 percent and 11.9 percent, respectively, in fiscal year 2020 (up from 26.5 percent and 11.5 percent respectively in fiscal year 2019). The percentage of female civilian intelligence community employees held steady at 39.3 percent.

Intelligence agency busted for blatant Photoshop job on cover of diversity report

They missed it by *that* much. An image from a diversity report for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was photoshopped, and social media was not kind in response.

nypost.com

 

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Biden Admin Blasted For Claiming Cubans Are Protesting ‘COVID Cases,’ Other Issues: ‘So Disrespectful’

 

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‘Where’s President Biden?’: Officials Sound Alarm As ‘Socialist Shock Troops’ Deployed On Cuban Protesters

 

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Just a thought. back when the Bay of Pigs fiasco was coming about President Kennedy promised the Cubans help, then he lost his balls and left them hanging.
Does anyone think that would have happened if Donald Trump had been President?

 

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Biden Rages: ‘Confederates’ During Civil War ‘Never Breached The Capitol’ Like ‘Insurrectionists,’ Voter Integrity Laws Are ‘21st Century Jim Crow’


Biden made the remarks while also claiming, “We’re going to face another test in 2022, a new wave of unprecedented voter suppression, and raw and sustained election subversion.”

At one point, Biden claimed that the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, would be “dismantling” “racially discriminatory” laws, though he failed to specify how.

“For example, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced for the United States Department of Justice is going to be using its authorities to challenge the onslaught of state laws undermining voting rights in old and new ways. The focus will be on dismantling racially discriminatory laws, like the recent challenge to Georgia’s vicious anti-voting law.”

Biden Rages: ‘Confederates’ During Civil War ‘Never Breached The Capitol’ Like ‘Insurrectionists,’ Voter Integrity Laws Are ‘21st Century Jim Crow’ | The Daily Wire

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Well There is some BIDEN UNITY There For You .... If you support Trump You are WORSE Than a Slave Owner

 

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The real threat to the American electoral process is coming from Biden and his supporters who rigged the 2020 elections.
Trying to stop them from doing it again is what is going on, and it has to be done to save America.

 

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But one glaring problem — which was first pointed out by Republican political consultant and podcaster Luke Thompson — is that the woman in the wheelchair and the blind man don’t appear in the original stock photo. They seem to have been Photoshopped into the image used on the ODNI report.

“Siri, show me the worst use of stock photos ever,” Thompson tweeted Thursday.

The Photoshopped image quickly gained more traction than the actual report, which noted that the percentage of minorities and people with disabilities among civilian intelligence community employees ticked up to 27 percent and 11.9 percent, respectively, in fiscal year 2020 (up from 26.5 percent and 11.5 percent respectively in fiscal year 2019). The percentage of female civilian intelligence community employees held steady at 39.3 percent.

Intelligence agency busted for blatant Photoshop job on cover of diversity report

They missed it by *that* much. An image from a diversity report for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was photoshopped, and social media was not kind in response.

nypost.com

Has anyone noticed that all the white people are on the right and the POC are on the left, until they they put the woman in the wheelchair there.

 

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Biden Nominee For Civil Rights Position Rejects Presumption Of Innocence,

 

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Biden’s Executive Order Moves the U.S. One Step Closer to Rule by Decree


This executive order appears to have been drafted in a way that treats the independence of these agencies as something that is purely nominal.


Yes, technically everything in the order is already authorized in one way or another by current law. However, the president is also constrained on how he directs officials by “rules about rules” such as the Administrative Procedure Act (APA.) The Trump administration, to its credit, tried to strengthen rules about rules by issuing what my colleague Wayne Crews calls “final rules on guidance,” or FROGs, that restricted the use of guidance documents to get around the APA. One of Biden’s early executive orders stomped on these FROGs to make it easier for his officials to issue de facto rules without notice and comment, as required by the APA. The president is prejudging the results of the rulemaking process. That may be the least of the problems with this order.

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The president also “urges” officials nominally not under his control to take certain actions. The Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Surface Transportation Board, and others are supposedly independent agencies, which exercise the functions delegated to them by Congress independent of presidential control. Indeed, the case that validated the existence of these agencies, Humphreys’ Executor (1935), did so on the basis that the commissions exercised quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative functions. Yet here we have the president treating them as if they were arms of the White House, acting under his authority.

The heads of the various independent agencies would be at liberty to refuse to act as the president wishes, which is why the order carefully “urges” them rather than directs them. Yet the chairs of the agencies have been appointed by this president and have so far shown no signs of breaking from his administration’s policy. Indeed, the chairman of the FTC was appointed to the post after being approved by the Senate as a simple commissioner, in breach of long-standing protocol. The acting chairwoman of the FCC has already welcomed the president’s order.

Moreover, as Dan Bosch of the American Action Forum points out, while previous presidents urged independent agencies to take a look at particular topics, this executive order demands specific policy outcomes. The FCC, for instance, is asked not examine net-neutrality issues but specifically to restore the Obama-era rules on the issue, regardless of what experience has shown (that none of the threats foreseen by the Obama-era rules manifested once they were rescinded). This may well call into question the legality of any decisions to go along with the president’s wishes.

 

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White House Flagging Facebook Posts For Removal .......

 

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White House Admits to Flagging Posts For Facebook


The back channel coordination with Facebook further supports the view that this is a de facto state-supporting censorship program. That is the basis for the recent lawsuit by former President Donald Trump. As I have previously noted, there is ample basis for objection to this arrangement but the legal avenue for challenges is far from clear. The lawsuit will face difficult, if not insurmountable, problems under existing law and precedent. There is no question companies like Twitter are engaging in raw censorship. It is also true that these companies have censored material with a blatantly biased agenda, taking sides on scientific and social controversies. A strong case can be made for stripping these companies of legal protections since they are no longer neutral platforms. However, private businesses are allowed to regulate speech as a general matter. It will take considerable heavy lifting for a court to order this injunctive relief.

That is why we need legislative action. That includes removal immunity protections. However, the government should also consider how to incentivize the creation of alternatives to these companies which are now a threat to our political system. A few companies now control a huge amount of the political discourse in this country and have shown a clear bias in taking sides (even on issues later found to be wrong). Since litigation is likely to fail, legislation would seem an imperative. Congress has been spending hundreds of billions with utter abandon. Yet, there is little discussion over a government subsidized platform for social media or other measures to break up this unprecedented level of corporate control over our political discourse. I am no fan of government programs, particularly as it relates to media. However, Apple, Google, and these other companies are now operating like monopolies, including crushing competitors like Parlor. That is a direct and growing threat to our political process.

We need to consider a short-term investment in a social media platform that will focus any censorship on direct threats or criminal conduct. There is currently a lack of not only competition but any real opportunity for competition to challenge these companies. Either we have to redefine what we treat as monopolies or we need to invest in the establishment of competing platforms that are content neutral like telephone companies.

This is why I have described myself as an Internet Originalist:

The alternative is “internet originalism” — no censorship. If social media companies returned to their original roles, there would be no slippery slope of political bias or opportunism; they would assume the same status as telephone companies. We do not need companies to protect us from harmful or “misleading” thoughts. The solution to bad speech is more speech, not approved speech.

If Pelosi demanded that Verizon or Sprint interrupt calls to stop people saying false or misleading things, the public would be outraged. Twitter serves the same communicative function between consenting parties; it simply allows thousands of people to participate in such digital exchanges. Those people do not sign up to exchange thoughts only to have Dorsey or some other internet overlord monitor their conversations and “protect” them from errant or harmful thoughts.

 

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Facebook On Biden’s Vaccine Claims: They’re ‘Looking For Scapegoats For Missing Their Vaccine Goals’

 

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Biden Nominee With Ties To Environmental Terrorists Violated Ethics Rules By Concealing Finances, Watchdog Group Says


The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) says it found that as a congressional aide, Tracy Stone-Manning “took a possibly unethical loan from a Montana developer and political donor” named Stuart Goldberg. The group alleged her testimony at a recent hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Resources revealed “problematic” financial dealings.



More details from the AAF:

In her questions for the record to the U.S. Senate, Stone-Manning describes that in 2008, Mr. Goldberg, who was a close friend of many years, lent her and her husband’s company $100,000 because of financial troubles. As the economy worsened and crashed, Stone-Manning’s business ultimately failed, leaving the outstanding loan from Goldberg unpaid. Rather than pay back in full, Stone-Manning and her husband paid Goldberg $40,000 from the sale of their home and came to a verbal agreement that the remaining $60,000 would be converted to a personal loan, where Stone-Manning would pay Goldberg annual interest until she was able to pay off the principle of the loan.