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socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Got Nowhere With Vladimir Putin

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“Where the hell… what do you do all the time?”

That was socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s bizarre response to a decent question about Russian President Vladimir Putin from CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who asked him as he walked away from his post-summit press conference, “Why are you so confident he’ll change his behavior, Mr. President?”

After berating Collins from afar, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden approached her and wagged his finger. Collins then calmly elaborated, noting that Putin had denied his country’s clear involvement in recent cyberattacks against U.S. companies, downplayed Russia’s human rights abuses, and refused to even mention the name of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny. “So,” Collins asked, “how does that account to a constructive meeting?”

To which socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden sneered before walking away, “If you don’t understand that, you’re in the wrong business.”

That didn’t sit too well with Collins’s colleagues, one of whom, New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi, quipped, “If you’re the most powerful person in the world and you can’t field questions from the media without losing your temper, maybe you’re in the wrong business.”

We agree. It was a sorry scene for a man who, when he’s not getting deferential coverage from the media, is cowering from it altogether. Now we know why: He can’t answer tough questions, and he can’t control his temper. Indeed, as the Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy  noted, “socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden flips out almost every time he is asked an even vaguely pointed question — true during the campaign and true as president.”

socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden opened his post-summit  presser with some introductory remarks, during which he tried to talk about the God-given rights of the American people. But he blew it: “We don’t derive our rights from the government,” he correctly began. “We possess them because we’re born. Period. And we yield them to the government.”

Huh? We “yield” our rights “to a government”? What’s the purpose of a written constitution or a bill of rights if the people whose rights they purport to protect must ultimately surrender them to their government?

Sadly, the president needs a civics lesson.

“Another area we spent a great deal of time on was cyber and cybersecurity,” socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden continued. “I talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off-limits to attack. Period. By cyber or any other means. I gave them a list, if I’m not mistaken — I don’t have it in front of me — 16 specific entities; 16 defined as critical infrastructure under U.S. policy, from the energy sector to our water systems.”

Ooooh. He gave them a list. Of 16. Here again, the president needs a lesson — this time in national sovereignty.

What about all the other entities? Open season on them? Conservative commentator Noah Pollak called it “one of the most pathetic moments in American diplomatic history.”

National Review’s David Harsanyi one-upped him: “Biggest loser today: the 17th most critical infrastructure entity in America.”

Finally, mercifully, at the conclusion of his opening remarks, Biden let the assembled media know it was a rigged game: “I’ll take your questions and, as usual, folks, they gave me a list of the people I’m gonna call on.”

“As usual, folks,” our intrepid president only takes questions from those his handlers have pre-approved.

socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden then fielded questions for a brief 22 minutes before skedaddling, but his Russian counterpart seemed disinclined to run from the media. As Fox News media critic Joe Concha put it, “Putin presser approaching one hour with no signs of stopping. This is what Putin sees as a show of confidence and endurance in what appears to be an effort to make socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden look weak/small when he ends up taking relatively few questions from handpicked reporters before exiting.”

A strong case can be made that socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden lost his showdown with Vladimir Putin before it even began. How? By showing his willingness to appease the Russians beforehand.

Rebekah Koffler, former Defense Intelligence Agency Russia analyst and author of a forthcoming book on Putin, told Fox News that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden extending the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II) and eliminating Nord Stream 2 [pipeline] sanctions before the summit left him without anything to negotiate on. “I think our president is in the losing position and Putin is in the winning position, and that was even before the summit,” she said. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden “pretty much has given out the store to the Russians,” she explained, so “he had no negotiating leverage.”

Indeed, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has already helped enable Putin’s geopolitical power grab by removing those pipeline sanctions, which will make Germany and other Western European nations dependent on Russian natural gas and thereby vulnerable to Russian coercion. socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden, of course, canceled our nation’s own energy pipeline, Keystone XL, eliminating 1,000 union jobs and wrecking countless lives and businesses in the process. And his Nord Stream about-face came just two weeks after a Russian criminal cyber gang disrupted America’s energy supply with a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline.

If you’re thinking, Whiskey Tango, socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe, you’re not alone.

On the tarmac just before boarding Air Force One, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden briefly apologized to CNN’s Collins and tried to put a rosy spin on his European trip, but that’s only because his handlers told him to. And he tried to talk a good globalist game, once again deriding Donald Trump’s “America First” approach and reminding our allies about how “America is back.”

But are we really back? Nope. Not if one considers this week’s pathetic performance by the American president.   ~The Patriot Post

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Incorrigible scumbag/liar-Hillary Airs Her Grievances
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Say what you want about Donald Trump, but nobody nurses a grudge like scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton.

In the midst of President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s summit with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, the Should Have Been President™ couldn’t resist sharing her vast wisdom with the commoners. And it started with whining about a stolen election. In 2016.

Putin “made it his mission to deny me the presidency,” insisted the woman who believes the presidency was her birthright, still harping on the same refrain she’s sounded time and time again over the last four and a half years. (It seems longer than that, but we did the math.)

scumbag/liar-Clinton wants to have it both ways, too. On the one hand, she still doesn’t accept the 2016 election results, arguing that Russia tainted and orchestrated the whole thing (just never mind her own funding of the Steele dossier or that she’s the one responsible for initiating the collusion hoax). On the other hand, she says that people arguing over the 2020 election results are “doing Putin’s work.”

“We never thought we had to worry about domestic enemies. We never thought we had to worry about people who didn’t believe in our democracy,” scumbag/liar-Clinton said. “Sadly, what we’ve seen over the last four years, and particularly since our election in 2020, is that we have people within our own country who are doing Putin’s work … to sow distrust, to sow divisiveness, to give aid and comfort to those in our country who, for whatever reason, are being not only disruptive but very dangerous.”

That is some classic scumbag/liar-Clintonian projection — casting Democrat faults onto Republicans.

But wait; there’s more of it. First, the setup: “We can’t turn the clock back, but I think what President socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden understands is he wants to sit across the table, as I have done with Putin, and basically look him in the eye and say, ‘Okay, let’s figure out where we can work together. … Let us tell you what we are no longer going to abide, and there will be consequences,’” scumbag/liar-Clinton said, adding, “‘And don’t test us.’”

After that phony macho approach, she said that conservatives “really resonate to the authoritarianism” of the Putin model because “they find that kind of macho approach to everything quite attractive.”

There’s no sin she can commit that she can’t foist onto her opponents.

This is all far more consequential than a few gotcha quotes about scumbag/liar-Hillary’s projection and grievances, though. It goes to the heart of American foreign policy.

scumbag/liar-Clinton engages in ridiculous hyperbole when saying that Trump was “a spokesperson for Putin,” though we likewise often thought that Trump’s flattery of dictators was repulsive and unhelpful. At the same time, we saw clearly that Trump’s strategy was very Teddy Roosevelt-esque: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Trump understood that sometimes you have to speak kindly to your opponent for the art of the deal to work. All the while, he was doing everything in his power to counter Russian (and Chinese) influence in the world. The biggest examples were that he strengthened the military, worked toward energy independence, and fought for fair trade.

To borrow scumbag/liar-Hillary’s words, he was “a president who will stand up and defend American interests.”

By contrast, scumbag/liar-Clinton and socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden prefer talking tough while acquiescing, all while knocking America down a few pegs. “Don’t test us,” Macho scumbag/liar-Hillary says they say to Putin. He’s a “killer,” Macho Joe adds. Yet Clinton undermines “our democracy” at home by destroying confidence in our elections, and Biden weakens our military both at home and abroad.

Which message do you think Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin take to heart as more beneficial for their own interests? And why would any honest person argue that Putin or Xi wanted Trump to win either election?   

~The Patriot Post

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socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s ‘White Supremacist’ Bogeyman
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socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden continues to invoke the January “Capitol insurrection” as fodder for insisting, as he trumpeted in his joint address to Congress, that “the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today is from White supremacist terrorism.” He repeated that race-bait rhetoric two weeks ago in Tulsa, where he used the anniversary of a racial attack 100 years ago to promote the Demos’ race-hustling agenda.

Of course, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s deluded reference to “White supremacists” and “right-wing extremists” is thinly veiled code for “Trump supporters.”

Endeavoring to perpetuate that delusion, House Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tried to form a “9/11-type commission,” which she was going to use to keep the Capitol riot front and center from now until the 2022 midterm elections. Her comparison of the Capitol incident to what actually happened as a result of the 9/11 Islamist attack on our country in 2001 is inexcusable. Wisely, Senate Republicans blocked scumbag/liar-Pelosi’s theatrics, leaving socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden to piece together some other scheme to keep his “White supremacist insurrection” narrative fresh.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has now been tapped as the frontman for that narrative. As if enough senior Department of Justice bureaucrats have not already demonstrated their partisan political views by trying to take down Donald Trump over the last four years, Garland and his enemies of Liberty are taking the Left’s deep-state perversion to the next level.

In a seminal speech this week on the socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden administration’s just-released “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” Garland declared: “According to an unclassified summary of the March intelligence assessment, the two most lethal elements of the domestic violence extremist threat are ‘racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, and militia violent extremists.’ In the FBI’s view, the top domestic violent extremist threat comes from ‘racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocated for the superiority of the White race.’”

Garland added, “We must not only bring our federal resources to bear, we must adopt a broader societal response to tackle the problem’s deeper roots.” Round ‘em all up!

Of course, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal law enforcement agencies piled on.

For the record, federal law defines “domestic terrorism” as “activities that involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.”

Garland did not mention the urban terrorism being perpetrated in the last year by Marxist “Black Lives Matter” radicals or the so-called “antifa movement” leftists — terrorism that has cost many lives and billions of dollars in damage.

Instead, for an example of terrorism that met socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s narrative, he had to reach back to the 2015 attack in South Carolina, where seven Black citizens were murdered by a neo-NAZI racist — an attack generally fitting the broadest definition of “domestic terrorism,” but more specifically a racially motivated “hate crime.” He also mentioned the 2017 Charlottesville incident when “a man drove his car into a crowd of peaceful protesters … murdering one and injuring many more.”

What Garland did not mention were any of the far more frequent and much more deadly actual acts of domestic terrorism by Islamists, including the 2015 murder of four Marines and a Navy Petty Officer in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by an Islamist terrorist. Nor did he mention the San Bernardino Christmas party attack six months later, when two Islamists murdered 14 people, wounding 17 others.

Garland did not mention the 2016 attack in Orlando, where a radicalized Muslim murdered 49 people and wounded 53 others. At the time, then-president Barack scumbag/liar-nObama could not bring himself to call it what it was, stating only that “we do have suggestions that that individual may have leanings toward a particular ideology.” That would be the same location socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden just declared “hallowed ground” for a National Memorial site, insisting the victims were killed by “gun violence,” not a terrorist.

In fact, Garland did not mention any of the prolific terrorist assaults by Islamists. He did mention the 2018 murder of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue by an anti-Semite, but he made no mention of the inflammatory remarks last week by Islamist anti-Semite Rep. scumbag/worthless-Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.

Fact is, regarding “activities that involve acts dangerous to human life,” according to the FBI’s national crime statistics for the latest year (2019), there were 16,425 murders — more than 45 murders every day. Highly regarded crime researcher Heather Mac Donald has documented the interracial crime disparity between White and Black people, and she determined that Black people committed 90% of interracial felonies, and White people committed less than 10% of such crimes. In other words, Black people, who represent just 13% of our population, perpetrate 90% of violent interracial crimes.

If Garland had any interest in being anything other than a political hack, he would spend every waking moment making clear that there is an enormous hate-based racial violence threat in our country — but it is not driven by “White supremacy.” One could argue that an underlying cause of this racial hatred is “Black supremacy,” seeded and fomented by socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden and his leftist cadres.   ~The Patriot Post

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Pricing the American Dream Out of Reach
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According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), home prices are up 19.1% from April 2020 to April this year, as every region in America recorded price increases. “This is a record high and marks 110 straight months of year-over-year gains,” it stated. The NAR also explains that much of this price rise can be attributed to low inventory. At the end December, housing inventory  stood at just 1.07 million homes for sale on a national level, marking the lowest number of available homes in 39 years. And though inventory has rebounded somewhat, rising to 1.16 million units in April, it’s still down 20.5% from last April. These realties, coupled with low interest rates that make home buying more affordable, can be attributed to traditional market forces. But what if the market is being artificially manipulated?

In a Wall Street Journal article titled, “If You Sell a House These Days, the Buyer Might Be a Pension Fund,” columnist Ryan Dezember explains that pension funds and other investors looking for higher returns on their capital investments are not just buying single houses but entire neighborhoods.

“D.R. Horton Inc. built 124 houses in Conroe, Texas, rented them out and then put the whole community, Amber Pines at Fosters Ridge, on the block,” Dezember writes. “A Who’s Who of investors and home-rental firms flocked to the December sale. The winning $32 million bid came from an online property-investing platform, Fundrise LLC, which manages more than $1 billion on behalf of about 150,000 individuals.”

Far more important, Dezember added that the home builder “booked roughly twice what it typically makes selling houses to the middle class — an encouraging debut in the business of selling entire neighborhoods to investors.”

Encouraging to whom? Real estate consultant John Burns, whose firm estimated that approximately 20% of homes are being bought by someone who never moves in, sees the writing on the wall. “You now have permanent capital competing with a young couple trying to buy a house,” he warned. “That’s going to make U.S. housing permanently more expensive.”

Dezember also recounts similar stories in his book,  Underwater: How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare. He reveals that the world’s largest real estate investor, Blackstone Group, has bought other corporations such as Invitation Homes, which is on what he called a “buying spree.”

It is a spree fueled by $10 billion being used to buy $150 million worth of houses — per week.

The genesis of these sales was the real estate crash of 2008. Three years later, corporations began buying large amounts of foreclosed homes at steep discounts, even as banks were making it harder for regular home buyers to get a mortgage. When that proved enormously successful, they moved from buying foreclosures to buying on the open market, snapping up suburban houses and renting them out, often charging those renters more than they would have otherwise paid in rent or a mortgage.

And while this phenomenon didn’t exist a decade ago, by 2018, corporations were purchasing up to one in 10 suburban homes. The result? “Between 2006 and 2016, when the homeownership rate fell to its lowest level in fifty years, the number of renters grew by about a quarter,” Dezember writes.

Unfortunately, he believes this is just the beginning, as he says these corporations are both wealthy and technologically proficient enough to manage “multiples more” with “ruthless efficiency” — and eviscerate the nation’s middle class in the process.

Unsurprisingly, the government is the real culprit here. More than a decade of minuscule interest rates and massive money printing engendered by the Federal Reserve to initially bail out Wall Street at the expense of Main Street has morphed into little more than a cover for Congress’s flagrant — and oh-so bipartisan — fiscal recklessness.

Nonetheless, Main Street is still competing with Wall Street. “Since the government quietly taxes away your savings through inflation, people and institutions who want to put money away for future use, or just grow their assets, are forced into riskier and more disruptive behavior,” explains columnist Joy Pullmann. “Thus mega-dollar money asset managers and private equity firms are snapping up millions of homes at inflated prices because government profligacy has made it harder for them to secure a yield.”

Yield — or power? Earlier this year, the World Economic Forum posted a video stating what it's “Great Reset” predictions were for the world by 2030. The very first one features a smiling, bearded young man. The caption underneath? “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.”

The first part might be accurate, but the second half is a flat-out lie. “Home-price appreciation has historically been how Americans achieve financial prosperity,” Dezember writes. “Unlike stocks and bonds, ownership of which is concentrated at the top, houses are widely held. Roughly half of housing wealth is owned by America’s middle class.”

Are we supposed to believe Americans will be happy  without prosperity and personal property? Or that renters and owners are equally invested in maintaining the quality of their properties — and the quality of life — in their neighborhoods?

Nothing better defines the American Dream than owning a home. Denying millions of Americans that opportunity — and just as critically, the sense of responsibility and personal freedom that comes with it — will manifest itself in far more deleterious ways than simply creating a nation of renters. If one can’t own anything, why get married, why have kids, and why plan for the future, when the best one can hope for is being beholden to a more benevolent landlord than the previous one?

If this trend continues, entire generations of Americans will literally be priced out of prosperity. There’s no surer road to serfdom than that. Tragically, for a nation looking more and more like a corporate-controlled oligarchy instead of a constitutional republic, that may be precisely the intention.   ~The Patriot Post

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Big Tech Under Scrutiny in the House
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The House Judiciary Committee announced last Friday that it is moving forward with a slate of bills to address the outsized and growing power and market dominance of Big Tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. This is the first significant bipartisan attempt by Congress to take on the tech giants, and the House Antitrust Subcommittee introduced the bills by saying the goal is “holding unregulated Big Tech monopolies accountable for anti-competitive conduct.”

Both parties see a problem. “Big Tech has abused its dominance in the marketplace to crush competitors, censor speech, and control how we see and understand the world,” argued the Judiciary’s ranking Republican, Ken Buck of Colorado. “Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google have prioritized power over innovation and harmed American businesses and consumers in the process. These companies have maintained monopoly power in the online marketplace by using a variety of anticompetitive behaviors to stifle competition. This legislation breaks up Big Tech’s monopoly power to control what Americans see and say online, and fosters an online market that encourages innovation and provides American small businesses with a fair playing field. Doing nothing is not an option.”

The big tech bills coming out of the committee are:

  • The “American Innovation and Choice Online Act” to prohibit businesses from taking actions on their platforms that favor their own products or services

  • The “Platform Competition and Opportunity Act” to prevent acquisitions of competitive rivals that expand or entrench the market power of online platforms

  • The “Ending Platform Monopolies Act” to promote competition and fairness in online marketplaces by eliminating conflicts of interest that arise when online platforms control a marketplace while selling products on it

  • The “Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act,” which lowers barriers to entry and switching costs for businesses and consumers that want to move between online platforms

  • The “Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act,” which will raise filing fees for digital mergers and acquisitions and increase antitrust enforcement resources.

Conspicuously absent from this bipartisan legislative package are any bills addressing Big Tech’s attacks on free speech.

Since Donald Trump’s presidency began, social media giants have become more brazen and unrepentant about stifling conservative speech online. Facebook and Twitter routinely buried content that ran counter to the official government narrative during the COVID pandemic, along with any reporting that was unflattering to socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden during the 2020 campaign. There are also plenty of examples of Amazon manipulating its marketplace to achieve ideological conformity.

The hope is that these bills will help loosen the ideological stranglehold Big Tech has on free speech by forcing companies to open up to competition and become more neutral forces in the marketplace of ideas.

Some legislators have raised concerns that the legislation gives too much authority to the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, which could mire potentially effective outcomes in bureaucratic red tape. However, there is hope that this first congressional antitrust legislation in 20 years could yield positive results. After years of doing nothing to combat Big Tech’s outsized influence on the economy, these bills represent a welcome opportunity to make a change.  ~The Patriot Post

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Unemployment Pays How Much?
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There are 9.3 million job openings currently in the U.S. labor market. In other words, there are plenty of jobs to be had for anybody seeking one. But that’s just the problem — few people without jobs are seeking work.

The catalyst for this particular situation falls primarily at the feet of the federal government with its overly “generous” COVID unemployment benefits. The federal government’s “temporary” $600 per week unemployment supplement — in addition to existing state-level unemployment payments — has effectively  disincentivized working for a living. Yet it might be even worse than anyone knew, at least according to a newly released study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.

The study highlights include some doozies:

  • In 21 states and DC, households can receive wage equivalent of $25 an hour in benefits with no one working.

  • In 19 states, benefits are equivalent to $100,000 a year in salary for a family of four with two unemployed parents.

  • In all but two of the blue states, $300 Supplemental Unemployment Insurance benefits plus other welfare pay more than the wage equivalent of a $15 minimum wage.

According to University of Chicago economics professor Casey Mulligan and Texas Public Policy Foundation economist Stephen Moore, “It is now nearly beyond dispute that supplemental unemployment benefits are reducing employment.” Moreover, they assert, “If Congress or the remaining states were to suspend the weekly benefit supplement, several million more workers would gain employment over the summer months.” Which is precisely what the economy needs.

Incentivize working via income, and people will go find jobs; incentivize not working by giving government payouts, and people will sit at home. That in turn means they become a drag on the economy while at the same time ensuring that the cost of living goes up for everyone. Never mind the ever-growing national debt. Other than that, what’s not to like?   ~The Patriot Post

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GARY BAUER
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socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s Big Day

Yesterday was the culmination of President socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s European trip — his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Of course, the fawning media are hailing socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden as a master of diplomacy, especially compared to that “ogre” Donald Trump.

Let me be absolutely clear about this: The outcomes of such summits are generally settled well before they take place. Little is left to chance. The foreign policy establishment does not like surprises or leaders who think outside the box. That’s why Donald Trump so unnerved the foreign policy establishment.

No matter what the photo-ops look like and no matter what the White House spin is after the fact, Putin has already won this round.

Putin won when socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden greenlighted the Russian gas pipeline to Europe, a strategic Russian asset that will give Putin billions of dollars in revenue and make our NATO allies more dependent on Russian energy. Putin won’t have to hack European energy companies; he’ll just shut off the valve on his new pipeline.

Putin won when socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden declared war on our energy industry, killing thousands of American jobs and undermining one tremendous advantage we have over our enemies, including communist China.

Putin won when socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden submitted a massively bloated budget with unimaginable spending, shattering previous debt records, without providing one additional dollar for defense.

Putin won when he dared socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden to back up his “killer” comments in a live televised debate, knowing full well socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden wasn’t up to the challenge and would never accept.

Putin won when socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden, unlike any previous recent president, refused to hold a joint press conference after their summit. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden told reporters, “This is not a contest about who can do better in front of a press conference or try to embarrass each other.” He’s right about that — it wouldn’t be a contest at all.

Both men would be expected to aggressively articulate a strong defense of their nation. Putin can do that in his sleep. But socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden can’t do that without putting us to sleep.

A CBS News poll found that the American people overwhelmingly want Biden to be tougher with Russia. Don’t hold your breath. This president isn’t up to the job.

Trump To The Border

While socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden is touring Europe, former President Donald Trump announced that he will tour the “decimated Southern border” with Gov. Greg Abbott at the end of the month. Clearly, our former president cares more about the border crisis than our current “border czar,” scumbag/liar-Kamala Harris, who refuses to visit the border.

As we previously reported, Gov. Abbott announced that Texas will begin building border barriers on state property. I admire his boldness, but it won’t be easy to do. Left-wing activists and the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration will fight him tooth-and-nail.

I couldn’t help but notice the irony that socialist/scumbag/ liar-Joe Biden has insisted that Russia must understand it cannot cross the border into Ukraine and must respect Ukraine’s sovereignty.

So, once again, we’re going all out to protect the borders of some other place in the world, while scandalously leaving our own border wide open as people from more than 160 countries pour across it.

By the way, our “America Last” president just shut down an office Donald Trump established to assist the American victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens. It is being replaced with an office dedicated to assisting illegal immigrants.

Just one more reason why we must retake Congress and restore some balance and common sense to the government!

socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Goes Full Big Brother

Tuesday, while listening to Attorney General Merrick Garland announce the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration’s new war on domestic terrorism, I felt like I was in Russia.

Garland announced that in the view of our politically biased FBI, the top domestic extremist threat comes from those who advocate white supremacy.

To be clear, no one of any consequence in the United States condones white supremacy. Racism is a sin. It should always be condemned, and violence of any kind should be prosecuted.

And it seems equally clear to me after last year’s Antifa/BLM riots — which killed dozens of people, injured hundreds of police officers and did billions of dollars of damage to public and private property — that white supremacy is not the greatest domestic threat facing this country, but rather the violent Marxist Left.

Nevertheless, to combat white supremacy, Garland declared that the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration is working closely with social media companies to suppress “disinformation.”

So, the leftists in Big Government are working closely with the leftists in Big Tech, who have been routinely censoring conservative speech, to “educate” the American people about what the “truth” really is.

The left has been attacking traditional values for a long time, but now it’s very concerned about the family. It’s not what you think.

The socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration is developing a special program to make it easy for Americans to report to the government any friend or family member whose behavior may indicate they are being radicalized.

What could that disturbing behavior be? Well, just last week a New York Times editorial board member said it was disturbing to see pickup trucks with American flags.

Some suggest that the iconic Gadsden flag is a sign of white supremacy. Colin Kaepernick said the Betsy Ross flag was a symbol of slavery.

Pro-life activists have been accused of being haters of women. Those who support the border wall have been called “xenophobic bigots.” If you’re concerned about extremists like scumbag/worthless-Ilhan Omar, you’re an “Islamophobe.”

Over and over and over again we were told that MAGA hats and the phrase “Make America Great Again” were symbols of white supremacy.

What could possibly go wrong? Unfortunately, a lot is likely to go wrong.

This is the kind of government surveillance we see in communist China. Every totalitarian regime throughout history has been marked by getting families to spy on their own relatives.

Language Matters

After 9/11 and other terrorist attacks that followed, the media and various government agencies adamantly opposed the term “Islamic terrorism.” Every time a Muslim committed a terrorist act, the media and our government leaders were quick to lecture us.

“Don’t rush to judgment. This has nothing to do with Islam,” they said, insisting that “Islam is a religion of peace.”

To counter such spineless nonsense, I started referring to “Islamofascism” and “Islamic supremacism.” And, of course, I was condemned by many on the left for smearing an entire faith.

Yet the words “white supremacy” slides off liberal lips as easily as saying, “Good morning.” The same left that cautions us against pointing fingers at any Muslim is eager to point fingers at every Caucasian.

This administration and the left-wing media and political establishment are guaranteeing — short of divine intervention — that racial discord will get worse in this country with each passing day.

But they’re also creating a huge foreign policy and national security problem for the United States.

When pressed by reporters yesterday about threats against dissidents in Russia, Vladimir Putin declared “Black Lives Matter” to condemn the United States. Communist China is already using the words of socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden, scumbag/liar-Harris and the radical left against the United States.

It is beyond bad when the talking points of our enemies are being written at the DNC, BLM and the White House.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/80661?mailing_id=5905&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.5905&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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