socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Green-Lights Putin’s Pipeline
Who was it that Democrats and the Leftmedia repeatedly insisted was “colluding” with Vladimir Putin? Well, it appears that despite his tough-guy rhetoric, the man in the White House most guilty of acting as a Putin stooge is socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden. On Tuesday, socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s State Department acknowledged that it’s waiving sanctions against the company building Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline — sanctions Donald Trump approved.
Makings matters worse is the fact that just two months ago, Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a statement affirming socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s commitment to enforcing the sanctions, noting, “Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal — for Germany, for Ukraine, and for our Central and Eastern European allies.”
Blinken even explained why it was a bad deal: “This pipeline is a Russian geopolitical project intended to divide Europe and weaken European energy security.” Moreover, he added, “The socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration is committed to complying with that legislation. The Department reiterates its warning that any entity involved in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline risks U.S. sanctions and should immediately abandon work on the pipeline.”
What changed to now make waiving the sanctions good policy? Nothing. Instead, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s talking tough and then backing down when it comes time to stand up. Germany wants the pipeline, so Biden folded. As Axios reports, “The socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration is not willing to compromise its relationship with Germany over this pipeline.” Evidently, standing by Ukraine in its increasingly tenuous situation with Russia is all mere talk too.
Besides this ill-advised bowing to a geopolitical rival, whatever happened to socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s commitment to combat global climate change? That was, after all, the lame justification given for his Day One executive order killing the Keystone XL pipeline, costing thousands of American jobs. Evidently, socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden’s insistence of needing to fight the global climate “crisis” stops at the U.S. border. Or maybe it’s just mere talk as well.
To round things up, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is acting to weaken America’s energy independence and infrastructure development, as well as put much of Europe under Putin’s sway, all while we’re still reeling from last week’s Russian cyberattack on our energy infrastructure via the Colonial Pipeline. So, tell us again, who’s the real Putin stooge? ~The Patriot Post
The Abolition of ICE
Take last summer’s riots, for example, and the calls of the Democrats’ hard-left flank to “defund” or “abolish” the police. Try as they might, their leadership couldn’t unsay those awful utterances, but they did manage to educate Sandy Cortez and her ilk on how to keep from turning off four-fifths of the American people whenever they open their mouths: Instead of “defund” or “abolish,” try saying something softer, subtler, smoother. Try saying “reimagine” instead.
Cortez appears to have learned her lesson, at least partially, because this is what she tweeted on February 23: “It’s only 2 mos into this admin & our fraught, unjust immigration system will not transform in that time. That’s why bold reimagination is so impt. DHS shouldn’t exist, agencies should be reorganized, ICE gotta go, ban for-profit detention, create climate refugee status & more.”
“Reimagination,” she said. But also: “ICE gotta go.”
And away ICE went. Not literally, of course, but functionally. Our nation’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency has become a toothless shadow of its former self.
“Did you miss the story about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) being abolished?” asked Gary Bauer. “socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and his open borders gang are smart enough to avoid saying it out loud, as the socialist Squad does. [They] effectively abolished ICE, but they’ll never tell you they did it. Last month, deportations hit a record low, even as illegal border crossings are surging to record highs. Under new socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration regulations, ICE has effectively been handcuffed.”
Let that sink in. Deportations are at a record low, yet border crossings are at an all-time high. The math speaks for itself.
Crisis? What crisis? There’s no crisis here, says the crisis-free socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration.
“The more we learn about the true dimensions of the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border,” writes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, “the worse it is. Now, a new report says that in the last few months U.S. authorities have encountered illegal border crossers not just from Mexico, or the Northern Triangle countries, but from 160 nations around the globe. People are coming to Mexico from the most distant spots on the planet in order to cross illegally into the United States, confident that President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden will let them stay. And socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is doing just that.”
They’re coming from the “Northern Triangle” countries, of course — Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador — but they’re also coming from Ecuador, and Venezuela, and the Middle East, and India, and elsewhere in Asia.
As York reports, they’re flying to Mexico City, and from there they take a two-day bus ride to the border. “Aid workers report seeing migrants from everywhere — ‘Arabic, Haitian Creole, Hindi and Portuguese speakers,’ among many others.”
And why are they coming? “Because,” as York writes, “they have heard — correctly — that this moment presents a huge opportunity to enter the United States illegally without fear of being sent home. ‘While most of the migrants do not necessarily understand the intricacies of U.S. border policy, many said in interviews that they perceived a limited-time offer to enter the United States,’” said one reporter. “Friends and family members already in the country, along with smugglers eager to cash in, have assured them that they will not be turned away — and this is proving to be true.”
The end result is needless to say, but Bauer says it anyway: “Most Americans are not happy with socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s handling of the border. They blame him for the current crisis, and prefer Trump’s border security policies over socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s open borders agenda.”
But commie/liar-AOC got her wish. ICE has essentially been abol… uh, “reimagined.” ~The Patriot Post
Companies Are Panic Buying, Too
Back about, oh, 18 months ago when our economy was humming along, American businesses lived by a credo of “just in time.” This meant suppliers and retailers chose to provide products as ordered and as needed, keeping inventories thin to save on warehouse space and, for some products, tax liability. Once the pandemic hit, though, a massive toilet paper shortage became just the first of many problems — the “just in time” principle meant backstocks were lean and they ran out quickly. Meanwhile, even essential facilities had issues keeping their workforce thanks to COVID and its associated restrictions.
Now, however, while we’re a year past the scariest part of the COVID shortages, we still have massive problems in the supply chain that can’t seem to be unkinked. While the backlog of container ships still waiting to be unloaded off the California coast provides a good indicator of the issue, the East Coast gasoline shortage earlier this month was a case in point that arguably hit closer to home. The mentality of people who were hoarding a flammable and corrosive product in plastic containers was questionable but understandable. After all, we’ve endured a year of shell shocks with shortages and vastly increased prices for a significant portion of our staple commodities such as lumber, appliances, foodstuffs, and even computer chips. Moreover, even if you don’t live in an area directly affected by the Colonial Pipeline incident, you’re still seeing its effects at the pump.
With the more skittish among us reacting with panic to the latest shock of a temporary pipeline breach, it’s easier to imagine that companies are stocking up in the same way, even if it costs more. Bloomberg News spoke with Dennis Wolkin, the CEO of a small foam mattress company, and noted, “Though polyurethane foam is 50% more expensive than it was before the Covid-19 pandemic, Wolkin would buy twice the amount he needs and look for warehouse space rather than reject orders from new customers. ‘Every company like us is going to overbuy,’ he said.”
That fear of being caught short, combined with a potential long-term shift from brick-and-mortar retailing, has made warehouse space an “in” thing — particularly in urban areas and non-traditional locations, such as shuttered former department stores. For that purpose, cost is not an issue.
But the Bloomberg story also uncovers another angle, stating, “The U.S. Federal Reserve is facing new questions about when it will hike rates to stave off inflation — and the perceived political risk already threatens to upset President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s spending plans.”
Uncle Sam can only pay people not to work (and artificially drive up wages) for so long before the excess money supply swamps the lack of value created and stokes the same type of stagflation we last saw in the Jimmy Carter years. We can’t keep interest rates near zero forever, and someone has to pay for Wolkin’s warehouse space for his foam, not to mention the increased cost to his company from the supplier.
In a normal economy, shortages would work themselves out as entrepreneurs would step in to address the market, increasing supplies and eventually allowing prices to level off. In the post-China virus America, however, government meddling and coddling of favored industries and constituents (such as with generous unemployment benefits and, soon, a child tax credit giveaway) will likely prolong the pain until the people can address the shortage of common sense by electing leaders who believe more in equal opportunity and letting the private sector deal with problems than in perpetuating the equality of misery we have now. ~The Patriot Post
SCOTUS Takes Up Long-Awaited Abortion Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case regarding life in the womb, and the ruling promises to have signifiant ramifications for abortion and perhaps even the deadly legacy of two of the worst rulings the Court has ever handed down, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The Court’s current 6-3 conservative majority has pro-life proponents guardedly optimistic for a favorable decision, expected sometime in the spring of 2022.
The case in question is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which raises the question of the constitutionality of states implementing laws that ban abortions after a preborn baby reaches a certain stage of gestational development. This is the basis for the “heartbeat bills” that have been recently passed in several states.
In 2018, Mississippi passed a ban on abortions after 15 weeks except “in a medical emergency or in case of a severe fetal abnormality.” For context, the 15-week mark comes within the second trimester of a baby’s gestational development, well after a heartbeat is detectable at about six weeks but well before viability, which is generally about 23 or 24 weeks. As such, the Dobbs case represents a more modest abortion ban when compared to that of similar heartbeat bills, though it clearly challenges the wide-ranging precedents of Roe and Casey.
Before the law went into effect, a Mississippi judge issued an injunction that was subsequently upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Fifth Circuit later ruled against the state, asserting, “No state interest is constitutionally adequate to ban abortions before viability.” While Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho correctly observed that “nothing in the text or original understanding of the Constitution establishes a right to an abortion,” he went along with the ruling by citing the precedent the Supreme Court established in its 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey ruling, which established viability rather than pain avoidance for determining the demarkation line for banning abortion.
However, with advances in modern medicine and scientific knowledge, the viability line has been shown to be both increasingly less applicable and even arbitrary. As such, this case presents a potentially significant decision that could have a profound impact on the landmark Roe v. Wade abomination. In other words, if the conservative Court overturns Dobbs, that would in turn put the crosshairs on Roe itself. Overturning Roe, of course, would not ban abortions; rather it would send the issue back to the states as the federalism issue it always has been.
Meanwhile, what does the “very Catholic” President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden think about this case and protecting life as his church teaches? “The president is committed to codifying Roe,” said Press Secretary liar-Jen Psaki on his behalf, “unrelated … to the outcome of this case.” That’s very Democrat, but it’s anti-Catholic and anti-life. ~The Patriot Post
Military Officer’s Warning About CRT and Marxism
We figured it was only a matter of time, but an active-duty officer has finally taken one for the team.
That team, of course, is the U.S. military, and the figurative bullet taken by Space Force Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeier might ultimately cost him his career. But the consolation seems well worth it: He’s struck a blow against the overlapping threats of Critical Race Theory and Marxism in our military, and his self-published book on the topic, Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military, is now an Amazon bestseller.
As the Washington Examiner’s Carly Ortiz-Lytle reports, “A commander in the United States Space Force was apparently relieved from his post after appearing on a podcast to promote his book, which asserts a neo-Marxist agenda is transforming military culture and policy. ‘Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting … relieved Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier of command of the 11th Space Warning Squadron, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, May 14, due to loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead,’ the Space Force said … ‘This decision was based on public comments made by Lt. Col. Lohmeier in a recent podcast. Lt. Gen. Whiting has initiated a Command Directed Investigation (CDI) on whether these comments constituted prohibited partisan political activity.’”
The podcast in question was that of L. Todd Wood of Creative Destruction Media, who hosted Lohmeier for 30 minutes on May 7. It was a fascinating interview. And then all hell broke loose.
If we had to bet, we’d say the outcome of Whiting’s investigation is a fait accompli. Department of Defense Directive 1344.10 prohibits active-duty personnel from engaging in “partisan political activities,” and the last thing socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Lieutenant General Whiting, or anyone else along Lohmeier’s chain of command wants to do is to embolden the active-duty officer corps. It’s one thing when retired generals and admirals speak out against the socialist and Marxist threats facing our nation, but it’s a far more dangerous thing when those in active leadership roles take the same initiative.
Before being relieved of his command, Lohmeier, an Air Force Academy graduate, flight instructor, and F-15 fighter pilot, was responsible for a U.S. Space Force unit tasked with detecting ballistic missile launches. “I don’t believe I was being partisan,” he said on Monday. “The reason I say that is because Critical Race Theory and Marxism are antithetical to American values. Critical Race Theory fuels narratives that attack America’s founding documents. … I don’t criticize any leader, or any person in the DoD, or any elected officials, but I try to tee up ideas that I think are toxic.”
He teed them up all right, and he appears to have done so at Secretary Austin’s unwitting invitation. On February 5, Austin ordered a military-wide, one-day stand-down to address the issue of extremism. Two weeks later, in a five-minute video directed to our nation’s more than two million active-duty and reserve military personnel, here’s the substance of what Austin said:
We need your help. I’m talking, of course, about extremism and extremist ideology — views and conduct that run counter to everything that we believe in, and which can actually tear at the fabric of who we are as an institution. … We’ve got to be better than that. And not just for ourselves … but also for the country and the very idea of what the United States represents to the world. … I want you to revisit the oath that you took when you joined the military. … Read those words again. Consider what they really mean. And think about the promise that you made to yourselves, and to your teammates, and to your fellow citizens. I also want you to share with your leadership your own personal experiences with encountering extremists and extremist ideology in the military … and I want your leadership to listen to those stories. And I want them to listen to any ideas that you might have to help us stamp out of the ranks the dangerous conduct that this ideology inspires. … So we can’t afford actions and behavior that are at odds with our values, and that undermine good order and discipline, that harm or harass or otherwise violate the oath that we share, and the bonds of trust upon which we all rely.
To Secretary Austin we would ask: What is Critical Race Theory if not an “extremist ideology” that pits one race against another and thereby undermines “good order and discipline”? And what about Marxism, whose murderous tenets “run counter to everything that we believe in”?
As for the Oath of Enlistment, it begins, “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” Here we would ask: What is Lohmeier doing if not supporting and defending the Constitution against its very antithesis, Marxism?
Our military is adrift, set so by the ardent leftists in the White House and the Pentagon. Our Armed Forces are drifting dangerously away from their core mission of deterring war and ensuring our nation’s security. And while Marxist legions haven’t infiltrated our military, their ideas certainly have.
Based on Secretary Austin’s order, Lt. Col. Lohmeier was right to speak out — indeed, he was required to speak out. We can be grateful that he did, and we can hope that other patriotic officers and enlisted personnel will be emboldened to do the same. ~The Patriot Post
In Brief: socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s Weakness
As has become all too normal, when the Palestinians attacked Israel last week, Democrats immediately responded by blaming Israel. What was one of the causes of the renewed violence? Weakness from the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden/lowlife/liar-Harris administration. So says Mike Pence in an op-ed for National Review:
The Trump-Pence administration opened the door to a future of peace in the Middle East founded on our strong and unwavering commitment to the state of Israel. But now Israel is enduring the worst outbreak of violence in at least seven years — a direct result of the weakness shown by the socialist/scumbag/liar- Biden administration from its first day in office.
Many Americans witnessing the recent bloodshed in Israel are perplexed by how quickly violence erupted after years of calm. The answer is that President socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden and congressional Democrats have abandoned unambiguous support for our ally Israel, emboldened our enemies, and turned their back on the policy that yielded historic peace deals in the Middle East.
Pence recounts Trump administration policy achievements and objectives:
Under the Trump-Pence administration, we made it crystal clear to the world that America stands with Israel. We withdrew from the dangerous Iran nuclear deal brokered by the scumbag/liar-nObama/socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden administration, which put the world’s leading state sponsor of terror on the path to nuclear weapons while sending pallets of cash to the mullahs in Iran. We acknowledged Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights and the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. And President Trump kept the promise made by countless Republican and Democrat politicians by actually following through in moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, the capital of the state of Israel.
Naturally, Democrats opposed them at every turn. The Trump-Pence crowning policy achievement, however, was a series of Abraham Accords — peace deals between Israel and Arab-Muslim countries.
These groundbreaking peace accords happened not in spite of America’s support for Israel, but because of it. Other nations knew where America stood with absolute certainty. They knew America would respond forcefully if our citizens or allies were threatened. As a result, they responded rationally by pursuing peace and harmony.
It’s tragic, Pence says, what a display of weakness from socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has done.
President socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has emboldened anti-Semitic terrorist groups such as Hamas by shunning Israeli leaders and restoring more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians that had been canceled by the Trump-Pence administration. He unilaterally took the Iranian-backed Houthis off the list of designated terrorist organizations. And worst of all, he has announced his intention to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, destabilizing the entire region. …
He has replaced strength with weakness, moral clarity with confusion, and loyalty with betrayal. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s void, too, is being filled by America’s enemies — and Israelis are paying the price in blood.
Read the whole thing here. https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/violence-in-israel-is-the-price-of-bidens-weakness/
~The Patriot Post
GARY BAUER
Mixed Messages on the Middle East
While socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden continues to figure out how he can surrender to Iran, he has found a way to surrender to the socialist Squad.
In recent days, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has signaled support for Israel’s right to defend itself as the terrorists of Hamas fire thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians. But the progressive wing of the Democrat Party upped its attacks on the “apartheid state of Israel,” a disgusting smear against the most diverse and most democratic state in the Middle East.
Sadly, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is changing his rhetoric. Now, he’s pressuring Israel for a cease-fire. This pressure is misguided. Israel isn’t the problem. The genocidal terrorists of Hamas and their Holocaust-denying sponsors in Iran are the problem!
The bottom line is that the more the White House caves to anti-Israel radicals, the more likely it is that there will be a major war in the Middle East.
The region knows that Israel is unbeatable, especially if the United States stands solidly with the Jewish state. But if there is any question about the U.S.-Israeli alliance, it will hasten the day when Israel is set upon by its enemies.
Ironically, the socialist Squad is attacking Biden for not being sufficiently critical of Israel, when in fact he is engaged in the one thing that could literally result in the destruction of Israel.
While thousands of rockets rain down on the Jewish state, our negotiators are still sitting at a table in Vienna desperately trying to negotiate a deal that will provide Iran’s ayatollah with billions of dollars of sanctions relief.
That money will immediately be used not only to replenish the rockets that have been fired into Israel, but to give Hamas and Hezbollah even more powerful rockets and missiles to kill even more Israelis.
If socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden can’t stand up to radicals like commie/liar-AOC, scumbag/worthless-Omar, and scumbag/worthless-Tlaib, how can we expect him to stand up to the mullahs of Iran?
Just in case you have any doubt that anti-Semitism is driving much of the left’s opposition to Israel, just ponder these examples:
scumbag-Adeel Raja has worked as a freelance writer for CNN since 2013. He was fired over the weekend after tweeting, “The world today needs a Hitler.” Such disgusting statements were not unusual for Raja.
In London, anti-Israel protesters were heard chanting, “F—k the Jews. F—k their mothers. F—k their daughters. Rape their daughters.”
And in another sign of growing division on the left, Black Lives Matter has publicly declared its support for Hamas. Monday, the group tweeted this:
“Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians. We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation. (Always have. And always will be.) #freepalestine”
Standing With Israel
Former Vice President Mike Pence came out swinging against socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s policy in the Middle East. In a new “must read” opinion piece at National Review, Pence warns that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has “replaced strength with weakness, moral clarity with confusion, and loyalty with betrayal… and Israelis are paying the price in blood.”
You can read more here.
Marxists In The Military
I’d like you to imagine a nightmare scenario. Imagine that communists, whether Soviet-era communists during the Cold War or the Chinese communists now, infiltrated our military.
Imagine that they were teaching our brave men and women in uniform that the country they are being asked to fight and die for is actually an evil nation built on white supremacy, slavery and discrimination.
If an enemy could ever do that to us, America would be doomed. No army is going to fight and die for a nation it believes is evil. But that is exactly what is happening in the American military right now.
Under the guise of fighting racism, our military personnel are being required to read books and watch videos promoting critical race theory, which is simply repackaged Marxism based on the lie that people’s lives are determined by their race. It teaches that white people are inherently oppressors, and that America is evil.
Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeier of the Space Force, an important new wing of our military, recently had to read a book that repeatedly called America “a white supremacist nation.”
He was shocked at what was being taught to the troops, like the lie that America began in 1619 when the first African slaves were brought to the British colonies. America began in 1776, and it wasn’t founded on slavery!
Lohmeier blew the whistle on this radical ideology, and now he’s fighting to keep his job.
Whatever happens, he’s already a hero. He is battling domestic enemies who are undermining the very idea of America and trying to erase over 100 years of racial progress. Lt. Col. Lohmeier doesn’t deserve to be fired. He deserves a medal.
Little League Too?
Sadly, the left’s poison continues to infect all aspects of society. Believe it or not, all Little League coaches in Alexandria, Virginia, have been ordered to cancel practices on May 24th so they can attend a course on “diversity, equity and inclusion,” as if there is a big problem with racism in Little League.
During this course, which costs as much as $10,000, local Little League coaches will be instructed on now they can identify “their own ‘internalized racism’ and ‘potential institutional racism’ in the community.”
In other words, the coaches are going to sit through a course to be told how racist they are and what a bunch of bigots their neighbors are.
This is insane!
Strength In Numbers
As we have noted in previous reports, several states have passed laws to protect girls’ sports. In most cases, the laws are very simple: If you’re going to play school sports, you have to play on the team that matches your biological sex. (Oh, the horror!)
The whole point of girls’ sports is so they don’t have to compete against a biological boy who claims to be a girl. If we can’t maintain that simple standard, then we may as well abolish girls’ sports entirely and make every sport unisex.
Last week, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed legislation into law that also preserves private spaces such as bathrooms and locker rooms, so that women and girls are not forced to share bathrooms with biological men. This seems perfectly reasonable, yet it is stunning that we’re even having to debate this.
Major corporations are threatening states that pass these common sense laws. Upping the ante even more, the NCAA said it would ban major games and championships in states that passed such laws. Some governors lost their nerve.
But several states refused to be intimidated, and now the NCAA has apparently caved. It announced Sunday that several significant tournaments will be held in Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee and Oklahoma — states that require athletes to play on teams that match their biological sex.
The lesson here is that there is safety in numbers. There are 23 states with Republican governors and Republican legislatures. If conservative elected officials stick together, there is no way corporations and organizations can boycott half the country.
And politicians who can’t stare down woke corporations and bureaucrats in the NCAA, should get out of politics. They are precisely the kind of feckless wimps who frequently disappoint conservative voters as they move up the political ladder. ~The Patriot Post
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