Biden's America Last Program

[GURPS]

Biden’s Energy Secretary Admitted She Lied Under Oath. Where’s the Accountability?​

During her confirmation proceedings, when questioned by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, she declared under oath that she did not own any individual stocks and conveniently omitted mentioning the six stocks she still held at that time. In her letter to the committee leadership, Friday, Granholm acknowledged her lie from her testimony, referring to it as a “mistake.”

“As you know, as part of the confirmation process before this Committee, in 2021 I divested from assets that could be in conflict with my official duties,” Granholm wrote in the letter. “I did, however, retain assets that were determined by Government ethics officials to not conflict with my official duties.”

“I mistakenly told the Committee that I did not own any individual stocks, whereas I should have said that I did not own any conflicting stocks. In order to make my financial holdings consistent with my testimony, on May 18, 2023, I divested my remaining stock holdings which consisted of stock in six companies, even though these assets were deemed non-conflicting,” she continued.

Granholm conveniently neglected to provide specific details about the stocks she still owned during her testimony, and now admits that she and her husband, Daniel Mulhern, maintained ownership of Ford Motor Company shares valued at $2,457.89, raising huge concerns about conflict of interest given her cabinet position. Granholm only just sold the stock on May 15.

 

[Clem72]

Daniel Mulhern, maintained ownership of Ford Motor Company shares valued at $2,457.89, raising huge concerns about conflict of interest given her cabinet position. Granholm only just sold the stock on May 15.

Way to bury the lede. She owned enough stock that even if her direct intervention in energy policy on behalf of Ford motorcompany caused the value of that company to raise 10 times it's current value she wouldn't have enough stock to afford to buy any of their cars.

Really, $2400 is a conflict of interest for a cabinet level position making a couple hundred thousand a year. They probably accept drinks at donor dinners worth more than that.

 

[OccamsRazor]

Really, $2400 is a conflict of interest for a cabinet level position making a couple hundred thousand a year. They probably accept drinks at donor dinners worth more than that.

You are excusing the bad actions because of the amounts involved?

 

[Clem72]

You are excusing the bad actions because of the amounts involved?

No. I am pointing out the hyperbole that this amount of money constitutes a "HUGE CONCERN". There are a million other concerns that are much more pressing.

And for the record amounts matter. Speeding a little is an infraction, speeding a lot can be a felony. Stabbing someone a little can be an assault charge, stabbing them a lot is murder.

I'm just saying screaming bloody murder over a papercut makes you look silly. I am not saying the act is all fine and above board.

 

[OccamsRazor]

No. I am pointing out the hyperbole that this amount of money constitutes a "HUGE CONCERN". There are a million other concerns that are much more pressing.

And for the record amounts matter. Speeding a little is an infraction, speeding a lot can be a felony. Stabbing someone a little can be an assault charge, stabbing them a lot is murder.

I'm just saying screaming bloody murder over a papercut makes you look silly. I am not saying the act is all fine and above board.

 

[GURPS]

Biden’s Pentagon can’t recruit new soldiers and that threatens us all​

Now, however, it is mired in its worst recruiting stretch in history. Last year, the Army missed its recruiting goal by 25% and already predicts it will miss again in 2023. Ditto the Air Force and Navy.

Officials cite numerous reasons for the shortfall: low unemployment, a smaller pool of young people qualified to serve, declining public confidence in the military and more. Whatever the reasons, these recruiting failures portend trouble for military readiness.

But perhaps the greater misfortune is that, until this trend changes, thousands of young Americans will miss out on opportunities to better their current circumstances, learn important leadership and life skills and indeed become better citizens.

 

[GURPS]

Biden Administration Confirms Chinese Spy Base in Cuba, Shifts Blame to Trump​

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Previously, both the White House and the Pentagon denied claims that China struck a “secret agreement” with Cuba recently to build a spy base, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The report cited anonymous sources who said that Beijing had agreed to pay Cuba billions of dollars for the opportunity to build the spy facility in the United States’s backyard.

Kirby claimed that the report was not accurate but did not elaborate on what he thought was incorrect.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the Trump administration hadn’t done enough to prevent Chinese ambitions to increase overseas intelligence-gathering.

China upgraded its Cuban intelligence collection facilities in 2019, Blinken told reporters on June 12 at a briefing alongside Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.

“It was our assessment that despite awareness of the basing efforts and some attempts to address the challenge in the past administration, we weren’t making enough progress on this issue and we needed a more direct approach,” Blinken said.

“And that’s exactly what President Biden instructed his team to do to address the challenge.”

 

[GURPS]

Analysis: Nearly 17 Million Illegal Aliens in the United States Cost Americans $163 Billion Annually​

As the illegal alien population skyrockets under Biden, so do the costs to Americans.

“Along with the sharp increase in the illegal alien population comes [sic] sharp increases in costs to American taxpayers,” researchers note:

The unprecedented rate of influx of new illegal aliens over the past year would add $12.6 billion annually to the costs of illegal immigration, bringing the cumulative net cost to at least $163 billion a year. At the current pace of illegal immigration, the annual net cost will exceed $200 billion by 2026. [Emphasis added]

“… [T]he fiscal and social burdens of the Biden administration’s sabotage of our immigration enforcement policies are unsustainable,” FAIR President Dan Stein said in a statement.

 

[GURPS]

More evidence the media got the signal to turn against Biden​

By Thomas Lifson


Yesterday, I noted the fascinating media response to the IRS whistleblowers’ testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee, where obvious evidence of Biden corruption was presented. The leading organs of establishment propaganda that signal the rest of the media on the approved narrative evidently spent most of the day Thursday thinking over whether the scandal was likely to be contained successfully, just like all the others involving the Biden crime family to date. Late in the day, they made the decision to cover the whistleblowers’ testimony. So, the New York Times, Washington Post and other pilot fish media that signal the news agenda to lesser outlets went with the story, including the message where Hunter Biden shook down a Chinese businessman by threatening vengeance from his father who was, he said, “in the room.”
That’s it for Biden. His dementia already is obvious and troubling, and now it sems that the corruption can no longer credibly be denied. It’s time to pressure him and Dr. Jill out of running again in 2024. Ideally, if The Kamala Problem can be solved and a chosen instrument 2024 candidate (now looking like Gavin Newsom) installed as vice president so as to become an incumbent after Joe resigns or is taken out via the 25th Amendment, this all can be taken care of before the nominating process gets underway and the troublesome RFK Jr. challenge becomes serious.
My sense that an inflection point had been reached, that the powers-that-be have decided that Joe’s corruption no longer can be successfully buried, was reinforced when White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was hounded by the assembled reporters.

 

[GURPS]

'Most frightening thing I have seen in my life:' Worshippers outraged as Neo-Nazis wave swastika flags outside Georgia synagogue - and police refuse to intervene because it is 'free speech'​

• Around a dozen Neo-Nazis stood in front of a synagogue in Marietta, Georgia on Saturday evening waving swastika flags
• The group were members of the 'Goyim Defense League', which accuses Jewish people of controlling the world
• Police were on the scene, separating the Neo-Nazis from those on the other side of the road who yelled at them to 'go home'

 

[GURPS]

What Is Biden’s Obsession With Using F-16s To Kill Other Americans?​

Putin’s Wagner problem provides an example of what happens when the folks you are counting on to do your dirty work start counting and realize that the numbers are on their side. But all mutinies are not openly mutinous. A little story, with the names omitted to protect the jerk involved: There once was this aviation battalion commander who was a real pain – just obnoxious – and then the battalion deployed to a combat zone. The commander continued being obnoxious, including to maintenance personnel. And suddenly, the unit operational readiness rate for the choppers dropped. This is bad. You do not want to be in a war zone and have to explain why 80% of your choppers are grounded. You can’t just order the aircraft ungrounded – you need to get the maintainers to maintain and sign off. But the OR rate kept dropping, and no amount of threats, screaming, and other fulminations could bring it up. The generals relieved the commander; oddly, the OR rate shot right up under the new CO. So, all resistance is not necessarily kinetic.

Now, let’s look more closely at those fighters/bombers that Biden proposes to vector in on the disobedient. The USAF has about 1660 fighters and bombers, the Navy 530, and the Marines about 300. Let’s call it 2500. How many of those are overseas or on ships? Let’s say 25%, so we have 2000. Remember the OR rate? Let’s say they can get it to 50%, which is pretty good when you calculate guys deserting, casual sabotage, and people blowing up fuelers and parts transporters. That’s 1000 planes for 50 states. That’s 20 planes a state. Against a couple of million rebels. Those are not great odds for Team Tyranny. Oh, and the OR rate keeps dropping over time.

Now, there’s the tactical issue, and it’s delicate because the consequences of the threats the Delaware Dictator keeps making are seriously dank, but he opened the door, so let’s peer on in. Dementia Joe insists that an AR-15 is no use against an F-16, and this is just wrong. An AR-15 is very effective against the most vulnerable parts of the F-16. No, that does not mean a bunch of tacticool guys pumping rounds skyward when one flies over, hoping to knick a fuel cell. The most vulnerable parts of the F-16 are the guys feeding it, fueling it, and flying it. And if Biden is ordering his remaining troops to start dropping bombs on dissidents, that means he is ordering his remaining troops to start dropping bombs on the dissidents’ families. Do you expect folks whose kids got vaporized by a JDAM strike to be particularly picky about who they target in return? If you declare open season, dude, it’s open season. They say that war is hell for a reason. Maybe don’t start one.

Actually, there’s no maybe – stop threatening your fellow citizens, jerks. Comments by nitwits like Biden and Swalwell are not merely stupid but actively evil. They are expressing their sick fantasy of solving the problem of traditional Americans not by winning elections but by making war upon them. They babble on with braindead self-assurance that they can unleash the dogs of war without the hounds turning around and mauling them. But there’s a better way than threatening other Americans with death from above via our military. It’s called abiding by our Constitution. Because if they don’t, these morons will unleash a nightmare they cannot even imagine.

 

[herb749]

'Most frightening thing I have seen in my life:' Worshippers outraged as Neo-Nazis wave swastika flags outside Georgia synagogue - and police refuse to intervene because it is 'free speech'​

• Around a dozen Neo-Nazis stood in front of a synagogue in Marietta, Georgia on Saturday evening waving swastika flags
• The group were members of the 'Goyim Defense League', which accuses Jewish people of controlling the world
• Police were on the scene, separating the Neo-Nazis from those on the other side of the road who yelled at them to 'go home'

A dozen people is frightening .?

 

[Hijinx]

A dozen people is frightening .?

It's a stupid thing to do . Interfering with anyone's right to practice their religion. Using Swastika flags is another dumb move, but a dozen people is nothing compared to 30 people going into a store and stealing everything they can lay their hands on.

 

[herb749]

It's a stupid thing to do . Interfering with anyone's right to practice their religion. Using Swastika flags is another dumb move, but a dozen people is nothing compared to 30 people going into a store and stealing everything they can lay their hands on.

Just like the Westboro Baptist clowns showing up at funerals.

 

[GURPS]

In an interview with the New York Times, McBride said that state laws banning sex change procedures on minors were “wrong and unconstitutional” and “an attempt by MAGA Republicans to distract from the fact that they have absolutely no agenda for families and for workers in our country.”

During his time in the Senate, McBride has spoken out against a proposal that would have barred males from competing in women’s sports.

“Let’s be clear, this legislation is part of a national strategy to ban trans kids from affirming health care, ban certain books, forbid discussion, and to rip trans kids away from supportive parents – policies that try to delay and delay and delay trans kids from living authentically,” McBride said in March 2022.

Prior to the 2020 Delaware Senate election, McBride interned for the Obama administration, worked as national press secretary for the far-Left Human Rights Campaign, and spoke at the 2016 Democrat National Convention.

Biden-Linked Trans Democrat Announces Bid To Bring ‘Diversity’ To Congress

Transgender-identifying Delaware state Senator Sarah McBride announced a bid for the U.S. House of Representatives this week to bring “diversity” to the legislative body. McBride, born Tim, would be the first transgender-identifying person in Congress if elected. McBride was first elected to...

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Meanwhile Europe backs away for ' gender affirming care ' for children ...

 

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[GURPS]

Biden’s ‘Got-Away Tsunami’ Imports Illegal Alien Population the Size of Philadelphia​

The massive “got-away tsunami,” as detailed by Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies, is triple the got-away inflow that occurred under former President Trump from Fiscal Year 2017 to Fiscal Year 2020 when there were about 521,000 illegal alien got-aways.

Arthur said the got-away total under Biden is arguably one of the most important factors in determining the administration’s failure in controlling illegal immigration.

“The president’s policies and his DHS secretary’s performance are increasingly degrading U.S. border security and endangering us all — and we have the numbers to prove it,” Arthur wrote.

The number of got-aways who have entered the U.S. interior in Biden’s first two fiscal years and a handful of months in office is the size of the resident population of Philadelphia and exceeds the populations of San Diego, California; Dallas, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; and Charlotte, North Carolina, among others.

 

[Louise]

Texas Sends July 4th Gift to Blue City - This is Their "Reward" for Their Liberal Policies

Not the present they wanted...

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[GURPS]

Reinsurance Rates for Catastrophic Coverage Jump as High as 50% to Insurance Companies Effective July 1st​

July 3, 2023 | Sundance | 255 Comments

As if carrying Homeowners insurance in California and Florida wasn’t already subject to ridiculous increases in premiums, things are about to get a lot worse.

Effective with the July 1st notification, Reinsurance rates, these are companies who insure the insurance companies, are telling their clients there will be up to a 50% increase in cost for underwriting catastrophic coverage. Perhaps claims in the past few years have been higher; however, I suspect the issue amid the reinsurers is partly connected to the issue that surrounds banks and bond rates.

Back when interest rates were near zero, banks and reinsurers likely scooped up lots of Treasuries and bonds. As the Federal Reserve hikes rates those bonds have declined in value. When interest rates rise, newly issued bonds start paying higher returns to investors, which makes the older bonds with lower rates less attractive/valuable. The result is that most banks, and I suspect big reinsurance houses, have some amount of unrealized losses on their books.

Whatever the reason, the big reinsurance companies are now telling the insurance carriers their catastrophe rates are going up as high as 50%. Those insurance companies will then pass those rate hikes to the individual policy holders for commercial buildings, residential homes, cars, RV’s etc. Bottom line, homeowner insurance rates are about to go up again with policy renewals, especially in Florida and California.

 

[GURPS]

Joe Biden Wants To Oust ‘Privilege’ From College Admissions — Except For His Family​

Following the Supreme Court’s decision ending Affirmative Action in the college admissions process, Biden promised to look into “practices like legacy admissions” that he said only served to “expand privilege instead of opportunity.”

But according to a report published Saturday by the Washington Free Beacon, President Biden was part of a concerted effort in 2018 to pressure the president of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania to accept his granddaughter, despite the school’s 5.9% admissions rate and her less-than-stellar grades.

“I applied early decision to Penn today!!” Maisy Biden reportedly texted her father, Hunter Biden, on October 31 of 2018 — and then asked just days later if he could provide an “update” on the status of her application.

“Going to try to see [University of Pennsylvania] Pres GUTMANN tomorrow,” Joe Biden texted Hunter on December 13, and two days later he followed up. “Had a great talk with Guttman [sic]. Maisy still in the game for regular acceptance. But must do well in class this period. It’s real. We should talk about tutors etc starting tomorrow.”