There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing. (Psalm 41:3)
Remember that this is a promise to the man who considers the poor. Are you one of these? Then take home the text.
See how in the hour of sickness the God of the poor will bless the man who cares for the poor! The everlasting arms shall stay up his soul as friendly hands and downy pillows stay up the body of the sick. How tender and sympathizing is this image; how near it brings our God to our infirmities and sicknesses! Whoever heard this of the old heathen Jove, or of the gods of India or China! This is language peculiar to the God of Israel; He it is who deigns to become nurse and attendant upon good men. If He smites with one hand, He sustains with the other. Oh, it is blessed fainting when one falls upon the Lord’s own bosom and is born thereon’ Grace is the best of restoratives; divine love is the safest stimulant for the languishing patient; it makes the soul strong as a giant, even when the bones are breaking through the skin. No physician like the Lord, no tonic like His promise, no wine like His love.
If the reader has failed in his duty to the poor, let him see what he is losing and at once become their friend and helper.
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. (Proverbs 3:24)
Is the reader likely to be confined for a while to the bed by sickness! Let him go upstairs without distress with this promise upon his heart “When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid.”
When we go to bed at night, let this word smooth our pillow. We cannot guard ourselves in sleep, but the Lord will keep us through the night. Those who lie down under the protection of the Lord are as secure as kings and queens in their palaces, and a great deal more so. If with our lying down there is a laying down of all cares and ambitions, we shall get refreshment out of our beds such as the anxious and covetous never find in theirs. Ill dreams shall be banished, or even if they come, we shall wipe out the impression of them, knowing that they are only dreams.
If we sleep thus we shall do well. How sweetly Peter slept when even the angel’s light did not wake him, and he needed a hard jog in the side to wake him up. And yet he was sentenced to die on the morrow. Thus have martyrs slept before their burning. “So he giveth his beloved sleep.” To have sweet sleep we must have sweet lives, sweet tempers, sweet meditations, and sweet love.
Father, You’re the strength that lifts the burden, You’re the oil that soothes the pain; You’re the sunlight when there’s darkness, You’re the shelter in the rain. You’re the hand that brings all healing, You’re the song that calms all fear; You’re the peace that brings all comfort, You’re the God who’s always near.
“The Lord is my strength and my song; He has given me victory.” Psalm 118:13 (NLT)
As I climbed the stairs a few cloudy and rainy nights ago, I noticed a difference. A veil of darkness blanketed my apartment complex corridor. Halfway up the outdoor stairwell, the rungs disappeared into blackness. Ahead I could barely detect the light pole across the street, but its glow cast down to the pavement, offering very little help from my perspective. Needless to say, a chill clutched my chest for a second. What if someone lurked by my shadowed door?
Normally, a sconce hangs outside my entry to greet me. Via an automatic sensor, it flicks on when the skies darken. The same detector operates the ones at each of the four apartments in my unit along a sheltered, outdoor breezeway. I have become dependent upon its illumination when I come home after dark. It provides not only better ability to see the stairs and my door’s keyhole, but adds a sense of security. Tonight, that safeness I’d taken for granted didn’t exist.
The unexpected darkness unhinged me a bit. I felt for the keyhole and worked my key into it. After several tries, at last it slipped into place. I turned it, heard the click, twisted the door knob, and sighed in relief as I entered my apartment with the table lamp lit to greet me. Safe.
Had I waited for my eyes to adjust to the dimmed glow emitting from street lamp across the street, I probably would have been able to detect the keyhole better and determine nothing evil lurked by my stoop. But being a woman alone in the dark stairwell, I panicked –just a touch. That only made things worse. Time slowed as my anxiety increased. I became jittery with my fumbling to open the door as my brain hissed, “Hurry, hurry, hurry.”
As a Christian, have I become so used to the light of Christ that I become anxious when faced with darkness?
Do I need to “see” evidence of Christ in order to believe He is always nearby? Now you may argue a Christian is never totally in the dark. However, there are dark periods in all of our lives simply because we walk the earth.
When difficult times hit me suddenly in life, may I not react the same way spiritually as I physically did in that dark corridor. Instead, let me wait patiently for my faith-eyes to locate my Lord, the One who calms, guides and protects my soul. In blessed assurance, may I stand firm in the knowledge that Christ has already won the battle over the principalities of darkness. I know He is my faith’s automatic sensor, illuminating me with truth when things appear darker than normal.
Unlike the one at my apartment, He will never fail to light my life.
Lord, keep the jitters at bay and thwart the desire to handle things quickly on my own. Even if I can’t see clearly with my eyes, may I always recall what thePsalmiststates: “You are the lamp unto my feet and the light unto my path.” (119:105) Amen.
The sun’s magnetic poles will flip in 2024. Here’s what that means The sun’s magnetic poles are about to flip, and it could cause lower latitude northern lights, more intense solar storms and potential danger for astronauts and satellite communication. the great geomagnetic storm” that happened in the summer of 1859 as the “most famous space weather event in the last two hundred years. The researchers described those auroras through eye-witness accounts as “blood or deep crimson red”
US may cut info-warfare assets as China, Russia expand influence ops U.S. Army information-warfare capabilities are on the chopping block as the Pentagon looks to trim special operations forces, even as China and Russia expand their own influence efforts, according to multiple individuals with direct knowledge of the Army’s future plans who spoke to Defense One. Service leaders are eyeing cuts to Military Information Support Operations, or MISO—perhaps better known as psychological operations—in order to spare “shooter” special operators such as Green Berets or Rangers, the individuals said.
Fusion research facility’s final tritium experiments yield new energy record The Joint European Torus (JET), one of the world’s largest and most powerful fusion machines, has demonstrated the ability to reliably generate fusion energy, while simultaneously setting a world record in energy output. These notable accomplishments represent a significant milestone in the field of fusion science and engineering. In JET’s final deuterium-tritium experiments (DTE3), high fusion power was consistently produced for five seconds, resulting in a ground-breaking record of 69 megajoules using a mere 0.2 milligrams of fuel.
‘Palestinian Representatives’ Do Not Want A Two-State Solution; They Want The Final Solution Israel has the right to defend herself, but it would be so much easier for everyone if the Jews would just agree to die. I’m sure the UN would arrange a nice bronze plaque: “This land, briefly known as Israel during its flourishing years, we now officially designate a Palestinian heritage site.”
Is Rafah next IDF target? ’12 smuggling tunnels from Sinai still operational’ Israel plans to begin an offensive in Rafah, the southern most city in the Gaza Strip that borders with Egypt, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “especially alarmed” by reports of a possible offensive there.
Contact with Sinwar cut off, Hamas leadership making decisions without him Sources in the security establishment said that contact with the Hamas leader has not only been cut off from his organization’s members but also from the mediators in the hostage negotiations. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was not involved in drafting the answer that Hamas gave to Israel’s proposed hostage deal,
Harvard stalls, as Penn preps to hand Jew-hatred documents over to House As the University of Pennsylvania readies to turn documents over to the House Education and the Workforce Committee, as part of the latter’s investigation into Jew-hatred on campus, Harvard University is drawing the ire of the committee for dragging its feet. “Harvard’s responses have been grossly insufficient, and the limited and dilatory nature of its productions is obstructing the committee’s efforts,” wrote Rep. Virginia Foxx
Israel kills Hezbollah military commander in retaliatory drone strike Hezbollah military commander Abbas al Dabs, known by his nickname Hajj Abdullah, was killed in the strike, Sky News Arabia reported. According to Saudi media al-Hadath, al Dabs took part in construction of Iranian air defense systems across Syria.
Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar set for ‘Arafat-style’ exile from Gaza Israel will allow the exile of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar from the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of all remaining 136 hostages, NBC reported on Thursday, citing six Israeli officials and senior advisers.
Yahya Sinwar lost contact with Hamas leaders ‘weeks ago’ Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, lost contact with fellow terror leaders “weeks ago,” KAN News reported on Thursday, and was not involved in Hamas’s response to the hostage deal and ceasefire proposal. … multiple sources have stressed to the Jerusalem Post that Sinwar is hiding in the southern city of Rafah.
Israel could request a global alliance to finish destroying Hamas’s Gaza tunnels One scenario that is not being publicly discussed, but which former top Israeli officials are aware of, is the possibility that at some point Israel may request a global alliance to finish destroying Hamas’s tunnel in Gaza, the Jerusalem Post has learned.
Gaza hostage deal causing tension between Hamas and Hezbollah Hamas’s demands for the proposed hostage deal were prematurely published by Hezbollah, Channel 12 expert and commentator Ehud Ya’ari claimed on Wednesday. He claimed the document was released against the wishes of Hamas: “Hamas did not want to release this document. It was published by Hezbollah.
Minnesota providers have thrown out over 2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses Health care providers in Minnesota have thrown out 2,225,642 COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to information provided by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). In total, these vaccines were worth roughly $185 million, though the actual figure may vary due to the complex vaccine pricing system.
Rare ‘Super’ El Nino here but rapid collapse beginning as La Nina Watch issued A strong El Niño winter season has become a rare “super” El Niño season, according to the latest data issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. But it’s quickly losing steam as the ocean undergoes a rapid reversal, likely heading to an opposite La Niña pattern as early as this summer.
Tornadoes spotted as Midwest threatened by severe weather It may be February, but Chicago and Milwaukee experienced weather more typical of spring, with thunderstorms that triggered warnings on Thursday, with hail and even tornadoes.
Umbrellas a sure bet in Las Vegas on Thursday as Super Bowl festivities kick off …Scattered showers are forecast in the Las Vegas area on Thursday morning. The showers may produce locally heavy rain. This is due to a storm that caused severe weather in California on Wednesday and brought rain and snow showers to southern Nevada.
Pounding rains force millions of gallons of raw sewage to spill from L.A. County sewers Heavy rains pummeling Southern California for the last several days are forcing millions of gallons of raw sewage to spew from sewer connections across Los Angeles County and flow into coastal waters off Long Beach and San Pedro, according to health and sanitation officials.
70 NYCHA Employees Charged In Biggest Bribery Raid In Justice Department History Prosecutors said Tuesday that 70 current and former employees of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) face bribery and extortion charges in what officials say is the biggest number of such charges issued in a single day in the history of the U.S. Justice Department.
Chinese media warning about ‘World War’ with NATO countries An editorial from the propaganda department of the Chinese Communist Party is openly speculating, even warning, about a coming “World War” with NATO. It was a piece called, “NATO is pushing the Russia-Ukraine conflict toward a ‘world war,’” that was published in the Global Times, an English-language publication run by the Chinese Communists.
Iranian Assassins Disguised as Refugees Tried to Kill Jews in Sweden “Iranian agents Mahdi Ramezani and Fereshteh Sanaeifarid, dispatched by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, infiltrated Sweden disguised as refugees, meticulously mapping and planning the murders of Jewish targets. The egregious oversights by the Swedish Migration Agency almost suggest complicity in Iran’s plot to kill Jews.
Francis: Opponents of Clerical Gay Couple Blessings are ‘Hypocrites’ Pope Francis is now accusing opponents of priestly gay-couple blessings of being hypocrites, when in fact his blessing of homosexual relations and calling it good is hypocrisy. According to Francis, all the holy popes, bishops, and saints of Church history were hypocrites because they denied blessings to gay couples and barred them from the Church.
‘Palestinian Representatives’ Do Not Want A Two-State Solution; They Want The Final Solution The schoolyard bully who bruises the little girl. The thug who pushes an old woman to her death on the subway rails. The gang that robs a jewelry store and stabs the owner. The coward who carjacks and shoots the driver. They’re all guilty of crimes against innocent lives. The abortionist who wields forceps may kill a preborn baby legally, but the end is the same — innocent and alive moments earlier, dead and discarded now because someone had the power to do it.
Knesset Advances Bill Criminalizing Denial Of October 7 Massacre The Knesset took a significant step forward in addressing historical accountability as it passed a preliminary reading of a bill criminalizing the denial, minimization, or celebration of the October 7 Hamas terror attack on southern Israel.
Pfizer’s Pfrankenstein Proteins were injected into billions of people Pfizer’s mRNA covid-19 injections instruct cells to produce additional “off-target” proteins that could pose significant health risks. The finding was revealed by a team of UK researchers, who found a “glitch” occurred due to the way the covid-19 injections were genetically modified. According to the study, off-target cellular immune responses occur in 25% to 33% of those who have received Pfizer’s covid-19 injection.
The New World Order is Satanic “What is the Old World Order and why do we want to replace it with a new one?” What you are about to read will make perfect sense to some of you. Others, not so much.
The United Nations Is Stealing Your Future You didn’t want it. You didn’t vote on it. You didn’t give input on it. You don’t dare to question it. The oracle of science as spoken. Technocrats have decided it all for you. With your public taxes. You will own nothing. Are you happy now? We should drop-kick these grifters and the U.N. headquarters into the Atlantic Ocean.⁃ says the editor from Technology News.
Climate Related News: Electric vehicles prove bad for business While the World Economic Forum fabricates its Global Risk Report, an amateur futurist comes up with his own more realistic list. Wind turbines are not a “green renewable” energy source and electric vehicles are proving to be a disaster for those championing them. The UK House of Lords has found a novel way of explaining away the slow electric vehicle market; it’s Mr. Bean who has put people off them. Meanwhile, in Australia, Queensland state energy companies are remotely turning off air conditioners in people’s homes because the power grid is in trouble.
Health Related News: Wearable devices, face masks, vaccines, ivermectin and gag orders In Taiwan, an infant dies after being forced to wear a face mask at daycare; American colleges that still have covid injection mandates in place; assisted suicide is out of control in Canada; and, an astonishing case of recovery from Stage 4 cancer after taking ivermectin. These are some of the stories we’ve highlighted from across the world.
Astonishing Predictions of Dr. Richard Day, 1969 – Part 2 – “If Population Growth Didn’t Slow Down, Food Shortages Could be Created in a Hurry.” This is part two of the astonishing predictions of the plans that “people of prominence” have devised for our future as told by Dr Richard Day (1905-1989) at a meeting of the Pittsburgh Pediatric Society on March 20th, 1969. In part 1 published here in the Expose, we heard that those plans were said to be “much bigger than communism.” In part 2, the revelations show parallels with what we are seeing today in relation to health care, science surveillance, food control and more,
“Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy.” —Alexander Hamilton (1788)
Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1942, the U.S. government implemented “Daylight Saving Time,” which saves no daylight and messes up the time, but Americans were told it would conserve fuel during World War II. Our Nate Jackson has, with tongue planted firmly in cheek, argued forcefully for keeping Daylight Time all year and for instead sticking with Standard Time. —Mark Alexander
Everyone knows that Joe Biden is incapable of continuing to serve as president. He and the special counsel just proved it.
Nate Jackson
After yesterday’s special counsel report and last night’s press conference with Joe Biden, the only question is whether Super Bowl LVIII will feature an interview with President Kamala Harris.
We kid, but also maybe we don’t. Yesterday began with the Supreme Court considering the lame 14th Amendment challenge to Donald Trump in Colorado. It ended with a lot of talk about the 25th Amendment justification for removing Joe Biden, who’s clearly, as Section 4 of that amendment states, “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
There were two main themes Thursday for Biden: First, the two-tiered justice and the astounding revelations of Robert Hur’s report. Second, the president’s cognitive incapacitation and the astounding revelations of Robert Hur’s report.
Hur is the special counsel tapped by Attorney General Merrick Garland to let Biden off the hook for mishandling classified documents he illegally took while vice president and senator. Mark Alexander thoroughly dissected the docudrama last year.
Predictably, Hur chose not to prosecute Biden — everyone knew that was coming because the only reason for this probe was the veneer of equal justice while Jack Smith probes Trump for the same thing. The end result was always going to be two-tiered justice. Hur even went out of his way to argue that while Biden cooperated, Trump didn’t, and that’s what distinguishes the two cases. Biden has and will continue to seize on that.
So will Trump. “Deranged Jack Smith should drop the case immediately against us,” he said in what will and should become a repeated refrain.
But Hur’s reasoning for not charging Biden was even more devastating to the president than then-FBI Director James Comey’s absolution of Hillary Clinton in 2016.
According to Hur’s 345-page report, his probe “uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.” Without the authority to do so, Biden kept more than 300 classified documents about all sorts of things. That included Afghanistan, over which Hur says Biden contemplated resigning as vice president because he disagreed with Barack Obama’s policies. Of course, Biden later totally bungled the exit from Afghanistan. There was also plenty of other information about “sensitive intelligence sources and methods.”
Documents were stuffed in boxes in his basement, offices, and garage. He even shared some of those documents with the ghostwriter of his memoir. When he didn’t intentionally share, a recorded February 2017 conversation revealed that Biden said the ghostwriter “just found all the classified stuff downstairs.”
However, there was a “shortage of evidence” that Biden himself stashed the documents in various places or even knew about them, given that Biden’s memory problems dated back at least to 2017.
Indeed, “no criminal charges are warranted,” Hur wrote, primarily because a (rigged DC) jury would never convict “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Boy, there’s a campaign slogan for ya. “Biden 2024: A sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Just to drive that point home, the report adds, “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Where Hur’s report is especially damaging is the specific records of Biden’s failing memory. “In his interview with our office,” Hur wrote, “Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”
Biden’s reelection slogan is “Finish the Job.” Does anyone think he’s capable of that?
As if to prove his critics right, Biden called a last-minute press conference at 8 p.m. last night, well past his usual bedtime, primarily to address concerns about his declining cognitive abilities but also to do a little fist-pounding about how different his case is from Trump’s.
It did not go well.
After reading a short prepared statement, Biden took questions. Virtually all of them dealt with his mental fitness for office and the growing concern of the American people regarding their president’s cognitive capacity.
When asked about those concerns, Biden grew irritated and aggressive. “That is your judgment! That is your judgment! That is not the judgment of the press,” he snapped at one reporter. “My memory is fine,” he angrily insisted. Why should he run for reelection? Because, he barked, “I’m the most qualified person in the United States to be president.”
Biden shouted back at Peter Doocy, “I’m well-meaning, I’m an elderly man, and I know what the hell I’m doing.”
He grew obviously emotional when he brought up Beau Biden, and that’s understandable. We’ve said before that we have compassion for a man who lost an adult son, especially after having lost his first wife and a young daughter. But Biden was outraged that Hur had even asked about his son, much less criticized Biden’s memory of it. “How in the hell dare he raise that,” Biden fumed. “Frankly, when I was asked a question, I thought to myself, [that] wasn’t any of their damn business.”
In any case, Biden’s counterargument was essentially that he remembered that Beau had died, not when or how. He even seemed to forget the name of the church where his son got the rosary the president pointed out he still wears every day.
The president lied, too. “I did not share classified information!” he yelled, when Hur’s report clearly says that, yes, he did.
Biden also threw his staff under the bus. Whereas Harry Truman made famous the statement, “The buck stops here,” this is what Biden said: “I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff was doing. Things that appeared in my garage, things that came out of my home, things that were moved, were moved not by me, but my staff, but my staff.”
It must be tough to be an innocent bystander, even an elderly and well-meaning one.
But he saved the “best” for last. After shuffling away from the podium, Biden heard a question that intrigued him enough to totter back to the microphone. Bad idea. Asked about aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza, Biden said, “The president of Mexico, Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in,” but “I talked to him, I convinced him to open the gate.”
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is the president of Egypt. The “gate” with Mexico has been wide open for three years, but that’s another story.
The confusion comes on the heels of other embarrassing Biden mix-ups in recent days. He forgot the name of Hamas; confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi; and spoke of a recent conversation about the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot with both former French President Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996, and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017.
After an excruciating 12 minutes, the press conference was over, and the panicked dialogue about the 25th Amendment began. After all, the special counsel just declared the president unfit to stand trial by means of cognitive disability. How can he possibly “discharge the powers and duties of his office” now, much less for another four years?
Wasting no time, New York Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney sent a letter to Biden’s cabinet, requesting that they “explore proceedings to remove the President pursuant to the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.” Tenney added, “President Biden needs to be charged, or he needs to be removed.”
A joint statement released by House GOP leaders sounded a similar note. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Majority Leader Tom Emmer (R-MN), Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) wrote:
The Special Counsel’s finding that President Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” and engaged in practices that “present serious risks to national security” is deeply disturbing. Not only does it demonstrate the President’s recklessness, but exposes a two-tiered system of justice that is indicting one President with politically motivated charges while carrying water for another amid similar allegations.
Among the most disturbing parts of this report is the Special Counsel’s justification for not recommending charges: namely that the President’s memory had such “significant limitations” that he could not convince a jury that the President held a “mental state of willfulness” that a serious felony requires. A man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office.
Mark Alexander argued back in 2022 that Biden would not be the 2024 Democrat nominee. Though no one wants President Kamala Harris, least of all the entire Democrat Party, there is now a path to his exit.
For the many Americans who care for loved ones with departing memories, conversations turn to whether that loved one should drive or be left unattended. Those are difficult decisions. But one thing is clear: It’s high time for Jill Biden to stop the selfish and reckless elder abuse, uphold her wedding vows, and do what’s best for her husband and the country — convince him to resign.
My father was honest enough to write us a letter and tell us he had Alzheimer’s. He knew when it was time to get off the stage.
Michael Reagan
Videos of Joe Biden not knowing where he is or saying he just met with a French president who died 25 years ago are not so funny anymore.
They’re tragic. And I can’t help feeling embarrassed and sorry for the president.
It angers me to see him dodder out in public almost every other day and make a mumbling and confused fool of himself.
Biden’s clearly been in the early stages of dementia for several years.
It’s getting worse by the week and there’s no pill or treatment he can take that will ever make him better.
In the 1990s I watched my father’s mental decline for years, but I never had to feel embarrassed for him because it happened entirely in private.
After my father told the country in a letter in 1994 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, Nancy brought him home where he was surrounded for the rest of his life by family and friends — and no media.
She was wise enough to know when to take my father off the world stage. She didn’t put him into a rest home where people might see him or take his photo.
She wanted to protect his memory. She wanted him to be remembered the way he was when he was a vital and witty world leader, not the way he was when he was sliding into mental and physical decline.
Biden’s wife Jill, the rest of the Biden family and the Democrat Party people who supposedly love and care for him ought to be ashamed of themselves.
They are allowing the whole world — including the leaders of countries that do not like us — to watch the daily deterioration of our president.
Joe Biden is already on the road to Alzheimer’s. Nearly 7 million Americans already have it. It’s a terrible disease that has no cure.
But his wife Jill, his Democrat Party handlers and the major media who ignore or downplay it have only one thing on their mind — defeating Trump and the MAGA Republicans in the fall.
They all know Vice President Kamala Harris is a joke and even if California Gov. Gavin Newsom replaces her on the 2024 ticket, Joe Biden is the party’s only hope to hang on to its power.
But the whole world knows there is no way he will make it through another four years if he’s re-elected.
He faked his way through the 2020 election by hiding in his basement, but Democrats know he’ll never be able to pull off that trick again, even with the help of liberal media again.
So to protect Biden from betraying how much he has declined, Democrats have made sure there are no primaries or debates he has to participate in.
They aren’t even going to let him give the traditional three-minute Super Bowl interview this weekend because they’re so afraid someone in the media might ask him a question about Hamas.
They just hope they can keep shoving an old man with a broken memory on stage to read words that no longer make much sense to him — and then whisking him off before he gives an embarrassing answer to any question he’s asked.
You’d think Joe’s wife would want him to be remembered as he was when he was a senator or the vice president. But it’s too late for that.
People are going to remember him as he is now — an elderly man with a poor memory and confused mind.
My father was honest enough to write us a letter and tell us he had Alzheimer’s. He knew when it was time to get off the stage.
Nancy protected my father to the end so people would remember him the way we do now, the way he was — as a great president and as a human being.
God bless Nancy. Too bad Jill didn’t take a lesson from her.
Justices seem skeptical of Colorado ruling, Biden finds “new” enforcement powers, House probes John Kerry, and more.
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Cross-Examination
Justices seem skeptical of Colorado ruling on Trump: What gives Colorado the right to decide the presidential election for the rest of the nation? That was the general thrust of the questions from not only the Supreme Court’s conservatives but also its liberals yesterday, as the Court heard oral arguments on whether the 14th Amendment’s Civil War-era “disqualification” clause bars Donald Trump from running for president again. Indeed, some of the toughest questions yesterday came from Obama appointee Elena Kagan and Biden appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson. It was as clear a sign as you’ll ever see that the Roberts Court is seeking a resounding consensus in its ruling on an important constitutional question rather than coming down with a contentious and narrowly decided 5-4 ruling. Not surprisingly, the former president liked what he saw from his home in Florida. “In watching the Supreme Court today,” he remarked, “I thought it was a very beautiful process. I thought the presentation today was a very good one. I think it was well received. I hope it was well received.” Asked whether the events of January 6, 2021, met the Constitution’s disqualification standard, Trump lawyer Jonathan Mitchell answered: “For an insurrection, there needs to be an organized, concerted effort to overthrow the government of the United States through violence.” Apparently, Mitchell thinks a relatively small and unarmed mob of rioters possibly spurred on by a still mysterious number of undercover FBI agents falls somewhat short of that “insurrectionist” standard.
Biden suddenly finds “new” border enforcement powers: Last month, as senators were wrangling over an eventually failed bipartisan border bill, Joe Biden disingenuously claimed that his hands were effectively tied, that he was all out of “options” in his ability to confront the border crisis if Congress didn’t act to grant him more power to address the situation. That claim was a politically calculated lie, which mainstream media outlets like NBC News were more than willing to report as if it were undeniable. Never mind the fact that the reason millions of illegal aliens have streamed across the southern border is due to the Biden administration enacting a de facto policy of open borders where nearly every migrant who illegally enters is classified as an “asylum seeker.” Now that the Senate’s bipartisan border bill has died, Biden has suddenly discovered that he does indeed have more available powers to enforce border security than previously asserted. Biden is considering issuing an executive order to do so. Of course, this, too, is all political theater aimed at projecting the false narrative that Biden has been seeking to do all within his power to tackle the illegal immigration problem but has been stymied by Republicans.
Bad press forces NYC DA Bragg: Speaking of illegal immigration, Manhattan’s soft-on-crime District Attorney Alvin Bragg has suddenly had a change of heart thanks to growing public outrage over video footage that captured a group of illegal aliens beating two cops in Times Square. As New York City residents have increasingly become fed up with the influx of migrants into their self-declared “sanctuary city,” the instance of a gang of illegals beating cops and then immediately walking free — middle fingers on display — has only raised the criticism of the city’s Democrat leaders to a fever pitch. Even New York’s Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul weighed in: “Get them all and send them back. You don’t touch our police officers. You don’t touch anyone.” On Thursday, Bragg announced charges against seven of the illegal aliens involved in the beating, stating, “We have absolutely no tolerance for this despicable behavior.” However, thanks to Bragg’s decision to release those same illegal aliens, some of them “have not yet been apprehended.” These criminal illegal aliens are on the lam. This is what failure to uphold the law faithfully gets you.
Hawaii dismisses Second Amendment: Not content to be outdone by the Colorado Supreme Court’s cockamamie ruling that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist and is therefore ineligible to run for president, Hawaii’s highest court has ruled that our nation’s Second Amendment doesn’t apply to Hawaiians. As Fox News reports: “In the ruling, which was penned by Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins, the court determined that states ‘retain the authority to require’ individuals to hold proper permits before carrying firearms in public. The decision also concluded that the Hawaii Constitution broadly ‘does not afford a right to carry firearms in public places for self defense.’” And what solemn legal principle do these justices cite as justification for this egregious usurpation? Why, “the Spirit of Aloha,” of course. “We read those words differently than the current United States Supreme Court,” wrote Eddins and his fellow travelers. “We hold that in Hawaii there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public.” Don’t get us wrong: We used to watch “Hawaii Five-0” growing up, and we hope to one day visit that earthly paradise before we die. But not if the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply, and not if the people’s right to self-defense is essentially ignored. “Aloha” is, of course, a greeting. But it’s also a means of saying “good-bye.” Which is just what the U.S. Supreme Court should say to this ruling if it ever gets that far.
Trump wins unopposed in Nevada, leads Haley 60-29 in South Carolina: Lost amid the tumult about the Constitution’s 14th and 25th Amendments was yesterday’s Republican presidential caucus in the swing state of Nevada. There, Donald Trump won easily in an event that Nikki Haley boycotted due to what she considered a rigged system favoring Trump. Instead, Haley ran in the Silver State’s symbolic Tuesday primary and finished with 31% of the vote, well behind someone named “None of These Candidates,” who finished with 63% of the vote. As the AP reports: “From Nevada, the GOP contest pivots to the South Carolina primary in Haley’s home state on Feb. 24. Trump remains popular in the deeply conservative state but Haley, who won two elections as South Carolina’s governor, is hoping her local roots give her an edge. Trump is eyeing a massive delegate haul during the March 5 Super Tuesday contests, which would move him closer to becoming the GOP’s presumptive nominee.” As for Haley’s prospects going forward, the RealClearPolitics average has her trailing Trump 74-18 nationally and 60-29 in South Carolina. Her path to victory seems somewhat south of plausible.
House probes John Kerry: Joe Biden’s climate czar John Kerry, who is soon leaving the post, ostensibly to join Biden’s reelection team, may have actually been motivated to jump ship for other reasons. House Republicans on the Oversight Committee have launched an investigation into Kerry in his role as Special Envoy for Climate (SPEC) over claims that he colluded and coordinated “with leftist environmental groups.” Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, “Meetings with leftist environmental organizations, sometimes collectively addressed as the ‘Kitchen Cabinet,’ go far beyond normal briefings and raise questions regarding possible conflicts of interests involving SPEC staff’s ties to these groups regarding climate finance investments.” Comer further alleges that SPEC has failed to comply with any oversight measures. In other words, Kerry has effectively run a rogue executive entity that has hidden the details of its working with leftist environmentalist groups.
ChiComs’ useful Microsoft idiots: Doing the bidding of an evil genocidal communist regime should be a bridge too far for Silicon Valley and its famous expressing concerns for human rights and even human feelings. But as the saying goes, money talks. And apparently, it has been talking so loudly to Microsoft that the tech giant has been more than willing to develop search algorithms for Chinese users that filter out and censor any reference to the genocide Beijing meted out on its Uyghur population. In fact, Microsoft also helped promote false propaganda of images of a happy Uyghur population with absolutely no hint of any negative experience under China’s communist government. And it’s not as if Microsoft doesn’t know, as the UN has officially accused China of “serious human rights violations.” But never mind that. Beijing rejects the well-documented accusations and claims these are merely “anti-China voices trying to smear China.” Evidently, that excuse is good enough for Microsoft to run interference for Beijing and help pull the wool over Chinese citizens’ eyes.
Trans people are happy so shut up you bigot: In its ongoing effort to promote the lucrative industry of gender confusion and sexual mutilation, the National Center for Transgender Equality, one of the country’s most prominent “transgender” rights organizations, is trumpeting the results of a survey of more than 90,000 so-called transgender people finding that they continue to experience workplace and medical discrimination. “However,” as NBC News dutifully reports, “the overwhelming majority of them still report more life satisfaction after having transitioned.” The survey is being heralded as “the most comprehensive look to date at life for transgender people in the U.S.” It comes “as hundreds of bills in the last three years have attempted to roll back trans rights” — you know, like the right of men to shower with adolescent girls and compete against them in sports. Frankly, this survey should be seen as an act of defensive desperation. As our Emmy Griffin reported recently, “We are starting to see a litany of these older teens and adults coming forward with their testimonies, and they are going after the medical industry that led them down the veritable garden path.” The survey is meant to silence any dissent.
Headlines
Conservative commentator Mark Steyn hit with $1 million fine for calling climate scientist’s work fraudulent (Not the Bee)
Senate advances Ukraine and Israel aid after GOP blocked larger border bill (NBC News)
Dem senator torched for calling illegal migrants the “people we care about most” (Fox News)
Biden says Israel went “over the top” in Gaza (Daily Wire) | Antony Blinken accuses Israel of trying to “dehumanize” Palestinians (Breitbart)
Budget gap to top $1.6T this year, growing another $1T over next decade (Politico)
Tech layoffs just keep coming as sector resets for AI (WSJ)
Mayor London Breed backs Republican-led campaign to overhaul Prop 47 (SFist)
Harvard obstructs congressional probe into widespread anti-Semitism (Washington Free Beacon)
Virginia’s largest school district put a “kink-affirming” bondage specialist in charge of reviewing parent complaints about books (Daily Wire)
Five trans players dominate women’s college volleyball game (New York Post)
Pediatricians group says research doesn’t support “gender-affirming” treatments (Daily Wire)
Humor: Troy passes border protection law limiting entrance of wooden horses to 5,000 a day (Babylon Bee)
The iconic beer brand is barely afloat, but Donald Trump may have thrown it a lifeline. Douglas Andrews
It was “a mistake of epic proportions,” said Donald Trump of Bud Light’s decision to throw in with “transgender” influencer and female caricaturist Dylan Mulvaney. But he thinks it might be time to give the company and its leaders a second chance. Thinks maybe they’ve learned their lesson.
The question, though, is whether the rest of us think they’ve learned their lesson.
And maybe we’re missing something, but we still haven’t heard Anheuser-Busch apologize to the customers who found the whole Mulvaney stunt offensive.
To be sure, the year just past was an annus horribilis for Bud Light. In what must be one of the most successful product boycotts in American history, Bud Light’s sales fell a catastrophic 30% in 2023, while Budweiser took a 15% hit as collateral damage. Yet despite this, Anheuser-Busch has done just about everything except apologize. Back in mid-April, shortly after things blew up, the company tried a mealy-mouthed non-apology to stanch the bleeding. No dice. Then its marketing department groveled with a commercial of some all-American kids at a country music concert. Ditto.
Then Donald Trump Jr. pointed out on his “Triggered” podcast that Anheuser-Busch, its employees, and its Political Action Committee gave “about 60% to Republicans” in the last election cycle — which is a remarkably strong share in today’s climate of rank corporate wokeism.
Then, in June, Bud Light inexplicably blew a $200,000 kiss to the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. At this point, we figured the boycott should continue based on the company’s idiocy alone.
Undeterred, Bud Light then inked a six-year marketing partnership with Dana White and his massively popular UFC mixed martial arts enterprise — a sponsorship deal that went “well into the nine figures,” the largest in the sport’s history.
Kid Rock, who fired a few rounds through some cases of Bud Light to kick off the boycott, seemed willing to forgive and forget. Payton Manning bought a round for the house in a recent TV commercial. But the hemorrhaging has continued.
Those who plan to watch Super Bowl LVIII will see A-B’s latest effort this weekend. As Fox Business reports: “The brand created a 60-second advertisement that will air during the Super Bowl this Sunday. The campaign, dubbed ‘Easy Night Out,’ focuses on a group of friends who encounter a ‘Bud Light Genie’ that grants them wishes during a night out, including having Bud Lights magically appear.”
Maybe it’s just us, but Bud Light wouldn’t be at the top of our wish list under any circumstances.
And now, the company has enlisted Donald Trump. As the former president posted on Tuesday:
The Bud Light ad was a mistake of epic proportions, and for that a very big price was paid, but Anheuser-Busch is not a Woke company, but I can give you plenty that are, am building a list, and might just release it for the World to see. Why not, the Radical Left does it viciously to well run, Conservative companies — and people! Very nasty, but it’s the way they play the game! On the other hand, Anheuser-Busch spends $700 Million a year with our GREAT Farmers, employ 65 thousand Americans, of which 1,500 are Veterans, and is a Founding Corporate Partner of Folds of Honor, which provides Scholarships for families of fallen Servicemen & Women. They’ve raised over $30,000,000 and given 44,000 Scholarships. Anheuser-Busch is a Great American Brand that perhaps deserves a Second Chance? What do you think? Perhaps, instead, we should be going after those companies that are looking to DESTROY AMERICA!
Notice that Trump isn’t issuing marching orders. He’s merely asking a question, asking whether Bud Light “deserves a second chance.” Even the Athlete Formerly Known As Bruce Jenner is on board.
Some of Trump’s critics had a different take — that he’d sold out for money. Indeed, the headline of a piece by National Review’s Noah Rothman charged, “Trump Gets Bought Out of the Culture Wars,” while the body copy seemed to take its cue from the lefties at Politico: “Trump’s message also comes as a top Republican lobbyist for the company is set to host a fundraiser for the former president next month, with some tickets going at $10,000 each.”
We hate to break it to these Never-Trumpers, but selling out simply isn’t his style. The Trump brand means a lot more to him than any campaign contribution he might get from Anheuser-Busch in return.
Furthermore, Trump has spent much of his life in and around hard-left Manhattan, so he isn’t a culture warrior like many of us. Remember: The first openly gay cabinet secretary in American history, Ric Grenell, was appointed by Donald Trump. (And, for the record, it was a good appointment.)
Will Trump’s lifeline help Bud Light? Early signs say yes. As NR’s Kayla Bartsch points out: “After receiving Trump’s endorsement, Anheuser-Busch InBev shares rose more in one day than in any other day over the last three months. On Wednesday, the company’s stock rose four percent — its best single day of gains since a five percent rise on October 31 of last year.”
As Trump noted, Anheuser-Busch has been friendly toward causes that conservatives care about. A-B isn’t like Disney, Apple, or Target. But, again, one thing is missing: the apology. Apologies done right are disarmingly powerful. But apologies done wrong — that is, when they’re expected and not delivered, or when they’re delivered equivocally — become a rallying point for the rightly offended.
We’re not sure if even Donald Trump can rescue Bud Light, but we do know this: A sincere apology would help. Until then, we won’t lose any sleep over a continued boycott.
Pro-abortion advocates succeed in suppressing health risks to the mother associated with the abortion pill.
Emmy Griffin
Sage Publishing, which markets itself as an independent academic journal, retracted three studies regarding the dangers for mothers who use the abortion pill. This likely occurred due to outside political pressure, though Sage denies this particular allegation. For perspective, the three studies have been around since 2019, 2021, and 2022, respectively, and the complaint came only after a couple of key political incidents.
Two of the studies were cited as credible sources by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in his ruling suspending the use of mifepristone, a popular abortion pill. The studies warned about the increased danger of recurring emergency room visits and medical complications due to the use of the chemical abortion drug.
Another federal court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, cited one of the authors of all three suppressed studies, Dr. Ingrid Skop. Her strong medical advice was that chemical abortions not be administered through the mail or prescribed via telemedicine. This also has to do with the safety and health of the mother.
Why this accelerated push to suppress these studies and medical professionals? Well, in March, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments regarding the distribution of mifepristone.
This author predicted in June 2022 that pro-abortion advocates would start suppressing information and risks to women vis-à-vis the abortion pill after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. All clues indicate that this is what is happening in the case of these three studies.
Chris Adkins, who got these three studies pulled, is a pharmaceutical sciences professor and abortion supporter. He claimed that the information was “misleading” and that the research authors had a conflict of interest.
As to the conflict of interest claim, one of the researchers, James Studnicki, is Charlotte Lozier Institute’s vice president and director of data analytics. The Charlotte Lozier Institute is the research arm of the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America group. With regard to the two studies that were cited by Judge Kacsmaryk, this affiliation was disclosed at the bottom. In debating the retraction, the researchers pointed out to Sage Publishing that they had no problems publishing other articles that were openly affiliated with the Guttmacher Institute, which is avowedly pro-abortion. Will Sage remove those articles as well, or does it only apply to works cited by judges attempting to protect women from the abortion pill pushers?
What was the information that was “misleading”? The definition of what qualifies as an adverse reaction to a chemical abortion. The researchers, specifically Johns Hopkins-trained Dr. Studnicki, counted every time a woman had to make an emergency room visit as a response to the abortion pill. Sage Publishing would have preferred that the count were limited to surgical intervention or hospitalization. If the point of the research is that chemical abortions can adversely affect the health of the mother, then even going to the emergency room for directly related health emergencies is essential information.
The intellectual capture, which Sage adamantly denies, is evident across the board. Scientific journals, researchers, universities, and others that conduct scientific research now tend to favor whatever studies back up their pet political ideologies. In this case, it’s the pro-abortion lobby. In others, it’s the pro-gender mutilation lobby. If determining whether studies and research are reasonable depends on a political ideology and not the methodology and protocol, then it’s not really science anymore.
In this case, the timing is awfully suspicious, and the studies in question are being discredited ahead of a major political decision. If the retractions were indeed politically motivated, then it brings up this one essential question: Why do pro-abortion advocates feel they need to suppress scientific studies contradicting their preferred ideological stance?
The answer is likely that they don’t actually care about the women on whom they are trying to push these drugs. They only care about the principle of being able to kill babies through the “convenient” method of abortion pills.
As part of its J6 investigation, the administration’s financial crimes network flagged terms such as Cabela’s and Dick’s Sporting Goods, and even purchases of religious books.
Brian Mark Weber
Americans have long suspected their in-store and online transactions are being monitored by companies to aggregate and adapt to our shopping trends and preferences.
After all, who hasn’t had an Amazon ad pop up on their screen to peddle a product they were looking at earlier that morning or talking about a couple of days ago? It’s a little creepy and somewhat invasive, but what’s the harm of an algorithm luring us into buying a new Keurig?
Until recently, we often dismissed so-called conspiracy theories that access to our shopping habits would be useful to Big Brother, but now we know for a fact that the federal government is not only tracking our spending but monitoring our political beliefs. As The Daily Wire reports: “Documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government showed that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) had flagged the terms as part of its investigation related to the January 6 riot. Banks were also told to look at transactions involving the purchase of religious texts and outdoor sporting goods stores like Cabela’s.”
Because, you know, people who shop at Cabela’s might be insurrectionists, right?
It might be funny if it weren’t such an outrageous and dangerous overreach of government power to keep track of citizens’ political leanings. Imagine if President Donald Trump, the guy Democrats think is a threat to our sacred democracy, had allowed FinCEN to generate a list of the limousine liberals who shop at Whole Foods.
You guessed it. There would be calls for impeachment, which they did anyway. Twice.
Now, if you buy a MAGA coffee mug online or dare go into Dick’s Sporting Goods to look for a compound bow, you might end up on a growing list of extremists compiled by the federal government.
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, for one, is taking this very seriously. Scott, the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, penned a letter with Kentucky Representative James Comer to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in which they wrote: “Federal government efforts to target individuals and entities based on their political views is a blatant and egregious violation of our Constitution. Additionally, reported actions like these disrupt confidence in federal law enforcement and raise significant questions regarding the independence of federal financial regulators.”
More specifically, they highlighted Treasury’s role in instructing financial institutions to monitor financial transactions that included specific keywords or search terms. The Treasury Department reportedly searched through Zelle transactions to look for terms such as “MAGA,” “Dick’s Sporting Goods,” and “Trump.” Even more chilling, it identified people purchasing religious books or other materials considered extreme.
Scott also refreshed Yellen’s memory about how this all started when then-President Barack Obama used the powers of the Justice Department and “Operation Choke Point” to pressure financial institutions from providing services to businesses with political positions the Obama administration opposed.
Over in the House, Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan wrote a letter to Noah Bishoff, former director of the Financial Crimes Network (FinCEN), stating, “In particular, your testimony will help to inform the Committee and Select Subcommittee about federal law enforcement’s mass accumulation and use of Americans’ private information without legal process.”
Jordan has already written a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray about information indicating the intelligence organization’s personnel had contacted Bank of America with specific search terms in its customers’ financial transactions.
During a House hearing this week, Missouri Republican Ann Wagner asked Secretary Yellen if the Treasury had directed financial institutions to monitor purchases in order to identify what might be considered extreme viewpoints or whether FinCEN or the FDIC had pressured financial institutions to do the same. Yellen’s response was evasive: “Well, we received the letter from you, I believe, on this topic, and we intend to investigate and to respond.”
Don’t expect Yellen to come back anytime soon and admit an egregious violation of Americans’ privacy and their freedom to choose their political candidates without fear of retribution. And while the letters from Scott and Jordan are a good first step, it’s not enough.
As our own Nate Jackson wrote recently, “Jim Jordan’s a great guy and a tenacious former wrestler, but sternly worded letters and dour lectures for the cameras in a congressional hearing aren’t going to fix this problem.”
Our only hope is that the GOP holds onto the speaker’s gavel in the new Congress. Because if Democrats wrestle back control of the House this November, they will have gotten away with another Orwellian abuse of power.
Biden Responds to Mental Fitness Concerns — Joe Biden held a press conference Thursday to address concerns over his mental fitness, during which he referred to Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the “president of Mexico.”
Joe Biden Absolutely Hated This Question — When asked about his poor memory, Biden boasted about his record as president, cementing the fact that he does indeed have a poor memory.
Fourteen Times Biden Forgot He Was President — Joe Biden continues to insist he is fit to run for another four years as president, but he may need some gentle reminders that if he won, it would be his second term and not his first.
‘This Is More Than Just a Pause’ — Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) questioned experts on the effects of the Biden administration’s recently imposed ban on LNG exports.
‘We’re Going to Get Louder’ — Center of the American Experiment president John Hinderaker and TakeCharge president Kendall Qualls speak out after arson and threats.
PopCon #30: Spy Games, Football Games, Video Games — An update on Dr. K and his run-in with Chinese spies, Taylor Swift with her anti-MAGA NFL season, and Ubisoft’s “you will own nothing and be happy” proclamation.
“Initially, the president of Mexico, El-Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in [to Gaza]. I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate.” —Joe Biden (Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is the president of Egypt, not Mexico.)
“There is only one existential threat we face in the world — that’s the environment. I mean it literally is the existential threat. … There is one existential threat — it’s Donald Trump.” —Joe Biden
“I said, ‘I’m gonna be a president for everybody, whether you live in a red state or a green state.’” —Joe Biden
“Making Roe v. Word — Ward — the law of the land.” —Joe Biden
The BIG Lies
“I did not share classified information.” —Joe Biden (“Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.” —Special Counsel Robert Hur)
“My memory is fine.” —Joe Biden (“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” —Robert Hur)
“I’m well-meaning and I’m an elderly man and I know what the hell I’m doing. I’ve been president. I put this country back on its feet.” —Joe Biden
“I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff was doing.” —Joe Biden
Theater of the Absurd
“Frankly, the reason Republicans turned against [the border bill] was because we did too good a job. … Republicans couldn’t imagine a world in which they didn’t have the border to run on this November.” —Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
“The people we care about most [are] the undocumented Americans that are in this country.” —Chris Murphy
Dumb & Dumber
“This is an impeachment without merit. Secretary Mayorkas has demonstrated no — there is absolutely no evidence for an impeachable offense. It is completely politicized.” —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
“The thing that has distinguished U.S. economic performance from other countries … is the fact that our pro-immigration policies actually allow us to continue in our economic growth, whereas similar countries with anti- or more … closed-border policies experience economic stagnation when they submit themselves to this xenophobic … border panic narrative.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Upright
“How is it possible that [politicians] don’t realize the level of outrage as our country is being invaded on a daily basis? Well, they probably don’t have to wait hours in a hospital emergency room overrun with illegal aliens. Their kids probably aren’t in schools with students speaking a dozen different languages. They don’t have to worry about their wife being attacked when she’s out shopping by gangs of illegal aliens. A good portion of the country is still working from home. Maybe we should make the politicians work at home more often. That way, they can see what life is like in carjacked Chicago and looted San Francisco. They can see the gang warfare in our schools among gangs that aren’t even American kids.” —Gary Bauer
Useful Idiots
“I’m of the view that the conduct of the response in the Gaza Strip has been over the top.” —Joe Biden
“Israelis were dehumanized in the most horrific way on October 7th. The hostages have been demonized every day since. But that cannot be a license to dehumanize others.” —Secretary of State Antony Blinken chastising Israel
More BIG Lies
“The Treasury Department has been extremely aggressive and very vigilant about sanctions on the Iranian regime.” —Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
“The high prices were not caused by Bidenomics.” —Janet Yellen
“We don’t have to get the prices down because wages are going up.” —Janet Yellen
For the Record
“Anyone who owns a car or a home is stuck with astronomically higher expenses just to keep the thing they already own. And that goes a long way to explaining the worry among consumers. … The skyrocketing fixed cost of maintaining ownership of an asset is enough to drive anyone to despair, no matter how many ‘Everything Is Awesome’ stories Democrat media propagandists churn out.” —Nate Jackson
Friendly Fire
“If you tell people they live in a good economy, and they don’t think they do, they think that you don’t understand their lives. … I don’t agree that [Democrats] should go out and tell people how great this economy is.” —Democrat strategist James Carville
Belly Laughs of the Day
“I’m the most qualified person in this country to be president of the United States and finish the job I started.” —Joe Biden
“When people see what’s happening on the ground in their districts, that’s when it really sinks in — the great work that happened under President Biden and with House Democrats last Congress.” —Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA)
“That’s what the American people want … a Congress that will help President Biden finish the job.” —House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA)
Lack of Self-Awareness
“The last time I checked … we were a nation based on the rule of law, not on the rule of individual men.” —Hillary “Rules for Thee but Not for Me” Clinton
Can’t Fix Stupid
“Why did Trump believe Putin more than our 11 intelligence agencies? I think I do have a working theory.” —Hillary Clinton
Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy discusses President Biden saying his ‘memory is fine’ during an address to the nation on ‘Fox News @ Night.’ #foxnews #fox
On Friday’s “Wake Up America,” Judge Andrew Napolitano explains what it would take for Joe Biden to be removed as President under the 25th Amendment. Watch NEWSMAX, an independent news network with a conservative perspective, available in 100M+ U.S. homes.
Fallout continues from the release of special counsel’s report on Joe Biden and his contentious interaction with reporters during a press conference. NEWSMAX Chief White House Correspondent James Rosen has the details. Watch NEWSMAX, an independent news network with a conservative perspective, available in 100M+ U.S. homes.
Fox News contributor Joe Concha joined ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss his reaction to Biden’s hasty press conference and the media’s coverage of the damning special counsel’s report. #FoxNews
The former Fox News host has been criticized simply for presenting Moscow’s position to theAmerican
public, Anatoly Antonov has said
US journalist Tucker Carlson has been vilified in his homeland merely for presenting Russia’s position to the American public, Moscow’s ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, has told RT. The Russian Embassy in the US has been bombarded with questions since Carlson aired his interview with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the diplomat added.
According to Antonov, the embassy has been asked if it paid Carlson or issued specific instructions to him before he traveled to Moscow, which the diplomat dismissed as“nonsense.”
Any negative sentiment toward Carlson, who has been branded“a traitor”and a Russian agent by some public figures, actually exposes the flaws in the American media, which prevents Russian officials from freely making their case to the US public, Antonov suggested.
“It is extremely difficult to get through with an alternative point of view in America, one that differs from the position of the Democratic Party of the US, and for us it is simply impossible,”he said.
Watch Antonov’s full interview with RT in the video below:
Aggregate household debt balances increased by $212 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, a 1.2% rise from 2023Q3. Balances now stand at $17.50 trillion and have increased by $3.4 trillion since the end of 2019, just before the pandemic recession.
Mortgage balances shown on consumer credit reports increased by $112 billion during the fourth quarter of 2023 and stood at $12.25 trillion at the end of December.
Balances on home equity lines of credit (HELOC) increased by $11 billion, the seventh consecutive quarterly increase after 2022Q1, and there is now $360 billion in aggregate outstanding balances.
Credit card balances, which are now at $1.13 trillion outstanding, increased by $50 billion (4.6%).
Auto loan balances increased by $12 billion, continuing the upward trajectory that has been in place since 2020Q2, and now stand at $1.61 trillion.
Other balances, which include retail cards and other consumer loans, grew by $25 billion. Student loan balances were effectively flat, with a $2 billion increase and stand at $1.6 trillion. In total, non-housing balances grew by $89 billion.
Record High Credit Card Debt
Credit card debt rose to a new record high of $1.13 trillion, up $50 billion in the quarter. Even more troubling is the surge in serious delinquencies, defined as 90 days or more past due.
For nearly all age groups, serious delinquencies are the highest since 2011 at best.
Auto Loan Delinquencies
Serious delinquencies on auto loans have jumped from under 3 percent in mid-2021 to to 5 percent at the end of 2023 for age group 18-29.
Age group 30-39 is also troubling. Serious delinquencies for age groups 18-29 and 30-39 are at the highest levels since 2010.
Mortgage Loans
Unlike the Great Recession, mortgages are not a serious issue.
Everyone who could refinance did refinance and often at rates near 3.0 percent. After refinancing, monthly payments dropped. Finally, rising prices put risk of foreclosure very low for all but recent buyers who stretched too far to buy a house.
Yet, here again we see a small uptick across the board but especially noticeable for age group 18-29. But this will not be a replay of the Great Recession mortgage bust.
Economists are and writers are still struggling with what seems obvious if one bothers looking beyond the headline numbers.
Jobs increased but employment is stagnant. People are taking on multiple jobs or coming out of retirement to take part time jobs because they are struggling to make ends meet.
Sudden Stop
Writers and analysts cannot see the picture, especially left wing rags listening to Biden about how lovely this economy is. Polls show the real score. So do the above charts.
I now expect a sudden stop that is going to hit the Fed in the face like a ton of bricks. But which way?
I am open to the idea of a deflationary bust or a stagflation mess. The former will have the Fed cutting rates, the latter would be an extreme world of hurt with the Fed’s hands tied, unable to cut.
Either way it’s going to be a serious problem. It will be another economic payback for general Fed incompetence for time and time again holding rates too low, too long.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — During a press conference conducted to prove he is still mentally fit to lead the country, President Joe Biden recounted the time he parted the Red Sea to escape slavery in Mexico.
The president spoke to a gathering of reporters to assuage growing fears that he is no longer competent to serve, telling everyone that he is just as fit to lead today as he was the day he led a large multitude through the Red Sea on dry land to leave the oppression of the Mexican king.
“Here’s the deal,” Biden shouted aggressively. “All this talk about my fitness to serve as president is malarkey. My memory is sharp as a tack, folks. I can remember clear as day how it felt to stand in front of the… stand up there… stand in front… in front of the… the guy… the king of Mexico… and tell him ‘Listen up, Jack. Let all these people go, or so help me, I’ll… I’ll… anyway…”
Reporters present at the press conference sat in bewildered silence as the president continued his story. “All that stood between us and freedom was the Red Sea, down there at the Mexican border,” he said. “I raised my staff, the waters parted, and we went through on dry ground. That’s leadership, folks.”
At publishing time, Biden adamantly expressed to the media that he was just as fit to lead the United States as George Washington and John Kennedy are today.
By now the whole internet has heard Ben Shapiro rapping, but did you know that there are actually two more verses they cut out of the track?
On FOX News, Kayleigh McEnany gave her analysis of President Biden’s press conference and the political fallout from it: “We just saw an unmitigated disaster play out before our very eyes. We just watched a wounded political animal hobble to a podium and react with defensiveness, with anger, and you know its bad, Jesse, when you have the White House press corps. They are essentially an extension of the Joe Biden press and communications team. When they are shouting at him, asking repeatedly, are you going to step aside Mr. President. The CNN correspondent asking that. When NBC of all places rights the headline, a nightmare, special counsel report triggers panic among Democrats. When you have a president who for 45 minutes announces a press conference with no topic, giving the world 45 minutes to speculate is he stepping aside? What would life be like under a President Kamala Harris? For 45 minutes the nation got to feel that panic, and I don’t think they will forget it come November.”
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