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The worst thing of all is he does not even know he is lying having begun plagiarizing so early in life.
The Biggest and Nastiest White House Liar – Ever
He’s our president now.
Yes, Joe Biden – and it isn’t even close. Of course, Biden is widely regarded as an endangered species, a status that serves to protect him from criticism that would be directed at a younger, more mentally stable individual. Even his political opponents are somewhat wary of saying what a catastrophe and menace Biden and his presidency represent. Meanwhile, the whoring intellectual left at the Times and the Washington Post fawn all over this empty suit almost to the same degree that they have slandered Donald Trump for four years as an unrivaled serial liar.
Fortunately, these smears persuade only dedicated Trump haters, who pretend to be horrified because he exaggerated the size of his inaugural crowd. To those not afflicted with Trump-phobia, a politician who can draw 50,000 people on a winter’s night to Butler Pennsylvania (Pop. 1357) is actually insulated from this kind of slander because the reality is clear enough. Trump has the largest and most devoted following of any politician in our lifetimes. His crowd was as large as Joe Bidens are small.
In any case, how is this exaggeration unique to Trump, not to mention sinister? What politician does not inflate their crowd sizes? Trump’s problem was not that he exaggerated. Like any successful salesman, he did. His problem was that he was a businessman new to politics and had not mastered the art of spinning and getting away with it. During the 1960 presidential election, for example, John F. Kennedy was also accused by the press of inflating the size of his campaign crowds. When they asked him how he arrived at his numbers, which didn’t square with theirs, he answered: “Porky [which was Kennedy’s nickname for his aide Pierre Salinger] counts the number of nuns and multiplies by 10.” Situation defused.
The fact this storm of false accusations and cover-ups obscures is that no presidential candidate - no president ever – has been so brazen and malicious at telling political lies as Joe Biden. Before an audience of 70 or 80 million viewers of the final presidential debate, for example, Biden accused Trump of being a mass murderer, of killing hundreds of thousands of coronavirus patients because he “did nothing” to fight the virus. Vote for me, Biden appealed to his audience, because if elected, I will rescue you from the clutches of a villain who doesn’t have a “plan” and doesn’t care how many innocent people die. As president I will change that. I have a “plan.”
This was Biden’s opening salvo in the presidential debate - the “one thing” he wanted voters to remember and take to heart. It was also a monstrous lie. Biden had no plan that would affect the course of the pandemic. He conceded this after the election when one of the first announcements he made as president was: “There is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” No apologies to Trump. No apologies to the people he deceived into voting for him. No apologies at all.
Actually, Biden’s accusation that “Trump did nothing” to fight the epidemic was multiple monstrous lies in one. From the outset, and throughout the pandemic, Trump did not control a single health care policy that would affect infection rates in the fifty states. We are governed by a federal system in which those policies, whether it is mask mandates or business shutdowns, or who gets put in nursing homes, are formulated and executed by the respective governors of those states.
Trump supplied those governors – Democrats and Republicans equally – with record numbers of ventilators, masks, testing kits, swabs and other medical equipment, held daily briefings alongside officials of the Centers for Disease Control, and produced two vaccines in record time which are saving millions of lives. No apologies, let alone thank yous, from President Biden. Just more of the oblivion in which he is allowed to forget he had ever called Trump a mass murderer in order to deceive people into voting Democrat.
While this may have set a new low for dirty political tricks, it probably was not the worst transgression committed by Biden in terms of its impact on the nation’s crisis – the deepening political division between the two parties and the alarming progress towards a First Amendment-free, one-party state in which questioning Democrat orthodoxy is regarded as “domestic terrorism.”
This honor belonged to the central theme, and in that sense, the biggest lie of the Biden campaign: the assurances by the candidate and his enablers that Joe was a “moderate,” whose mission was to “heal and unify” the nation. All of it summed up in his personal “heartfelt” pledge to be a president “for all Americans, whether you voted for me or not.”
Biden fulfilled these promises by using the first week of his presidency to issue 40 Executive Orders that were radically left and whose only unifying theme was that they were each designed to obliterate a policy of Donald Trump – because it was a policy of Donald Trump, whether the policy was beneficial or not.
Biden began with a series of new orders to open America’s southern border – suspending deportations, stopping the border wall, and ending the Mexican quarantine of people trying to get into the country illegally. Biden’s new order was to just let them in. What could possibly be the rationale for making this a priority in the midst of a pandemic, with new mutations of the virus springing up globally? Why encourage an influx of potentially millions of unvetted illegal aliens (a descriptive phrase, by the way, he also ordered banned as part of his party’s campaign to outlaw politically incorrect thought)?
These executive orders had no rationale other than as sticks poked in the eyes of every American who had voted for Trump – all 75 million - and every American whose life these, and a host of other destructive policies, endangered. The fact that these were Executive Orders, and not appeals to a bi-partisan Congress, was a brazenly calculated warning that there was not going to be a healing or unity, as Biden had promised. Instead, Biden himself intended to lead an assault on half the nation, dividing the country for another generation. It was another brazen Biden lie - this time aimed at America’s heart.
That this was no accident was evident by lies he told during the campaign pretending to oppose Executive Orders because only “dictators” like Trump resorted to them. During an infamous campaign interview Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “I have this strange notion, we are a democracy … if you can’t get the votes … you can’t [legislate] by Executive Order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus.” Apparently not. That was only another lie I told to fool you into voting for me.
It’s not difficult to imagine how a rapidly deteriorating human being – and lifetime politician – would sign on to Biden’s Executive Orders and expose himself as a despicable, untrustworthy, dangerous leader in his first week in office. But how did his handlers collude in this? How did the entire Democrat Party contrive to orchestrate the selection and protection and election of this empty shell of a man already burdened with a 47-year history of lying and corruption in public office? This surely amounts to the gravest crime the Democrat Party has committed since the Civil War: to inflict such a devious and damaged human relic onto Americans as their commander-in-chief.
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Creepy:
Incredible. Hunter will get away with his grift (and giving 10% to the Big Guy), his rape of young Chinese girls, and his crack cocaine use.
https://www.dailywire.com/
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One of the main reasons I believe our nation is going down hill is the penetration of what our students are now being taught. Curriculum has been infiltrated with material that teaches school children anti-American thinking. This i has begun in Washington State but is spreading throughout the nation's grade school systems.
Our college and university humanities' departments have already been taken over by liberal professors who are predominantly radicals. They are engaged in brainwashing our students with leftist ideology and any challenges can invite not only intimidation but also result in lower grades etc.
This is where it all begins and it ends with riots and all the new buzz words,like wokeness, cancel culture etc.
These same institutions are also being funded by our adversaries who know how to destroy us from within.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/
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Salena Zito is a friend who is willing to tell it like it is. That is an increasingly rare commodity with op ed writers today:
Frank Biden’s Billy Beer problem
By Salena Zito
It’s fair to speculate that few people would have bought Billy Beer had Billy’s last name not been Carter.
In September of 1977, eight months after former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter had been sworn in as President of the United States, his colorful younger brother Billy, known during the campaign mostly for his love up pickup trucks, colorful antics, and beer drinking for breakfast, teamed up with a Kentucky brewery to produce a brew that bore his name and endorsement.
The label for Billy Beer, which was brewed by Fall City Brewery Co. in Louisville, Kentucky, read: “Brewed expressly for and with the personal approval of one of America’s all time great beer drinkers – Billy Carter.”
Jim Tate, the company president at the time, said, “By no means are we entering into this relationship with Billy Carter simply to capitalize on a fad or to exploit a currently popular personality.”
At the time, it was amusing. But then amusing turned dark.
The younger Carter, a Georgia gas station owner, kept pushing the bounds of his loose and fast exploitation of his brother’s position of power. Eventually, he went from beer endorsements to becoming the agent of the government of Libya.
Traveling there several times, the younger Carter accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Libyans and became the center of influence-peddling accusations.
Lloyd Cutler, then the 39th president’s counsel, said the president was concerned his brother had obligated himself to Libya’s radical regime by accepting $220,000 as part of a reported $500,000 loan from Libya.
Within three years, Billy Carter went from a harmless beer hustler to the center of Billygate, which resulted in a thirty-page FBI file, a Justice Department investigation, and congressional hearings, and played a role in Carter’s loss to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election.
Recently, Frank Biden, the younger brother of President Biden, dipped his toe into the sibling influence pond, but he was far less subtle than Billy was in 1977. He also didn’t even wait until his brother’s hand was on the Bible at his inauguration before doing it.
Click here for the full story.
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Can BIBI pull it off? https://m.jpost.com/israel-
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Trump does not think like a typical politician. He thinks like a businessman who wants to solve, rather than perpetuate a problem. This is partly how he was able to get a Covid Vaccine faster than doing it the D.C way.
As for Cuomo, he got himself boxed in because he is a typical politician who seeks to blame others for his own incompetency.
Why Operation Warp Speed Worked
The successful vaccine program followed the model of U.S. mobilization in World War II.
By Arthur Herman
Every day new questions
and criticisms arise about Operation Warp Speed, the public-private vaccine
development initiative launched by presidential order in May 2020. Most of that
criticism focuses on the distribution bottlenecks that have developed in different
states, as Americans are impatient with the slow pace of the rollout. Jen
Psaki, President Biden’s press secretary, has claimed to see an “urgent need to
address failures of the Trump team approach to vaccine distribution.” Some in
the new administration even want to rename the program.
Nearly all these claims
rest on a misunderstanding both of Operation Warp Speed’s mission and its
nature as a government program. While President Trump’s Health and Human
Services Secretary Alex Azar and others dubbed the original project MP2, or
Manhattan Project 2, after the crash effort to build an atomic bomb, Operation
Warp Speed’s leadership borrowed a more practical model: the industrial
mobilization during World War II that produced the so-called Arsenal of
Democracy.
That model can still
push the vaccine rollout over the finish line. Governors and other state
officials in particular need to realize the federal government is operating in
the wake of a health-care version of Pearl Harbor, and adjust their operations
accordingly.
From the beginning the
principal mission of Operation Warp Speed was the development, manufacturing,
and distribution—i.e., shipping—of coronavirus vaccines. To date, the program
has managed to produce and deliver about 50 million vaccine doses—all made in
the U.S.—with hundreds of millions more on the way. It also had 97,000
certified receivers distributing the vaccine across the U.S.
It is the most
remarkable achievement in modern medicine, made possible by following the model
of the World War II mobilization effort. That model rests on three principles.
First, set a clear
target and a firm deadline. Operation Warp Speed’s goal was 20 million vaccine
doses by December 2020. Aiming at that target enabled the program’s leaders,
Gen. Gustave Perna and Dr. Moncef Slaoui (who resigned last month at the Biden
administration’s request but will stay on as a consultant), to focus everyone
in Operation Warp Speed on achieving a single result.
Second, mobilize the
best pharmaceutical and drug manufacturing companies to hit the target, so that
private industry invests its energy and productivity in the plan. During World
War II, the big automotive and electrical companies became the driving engine
of the mobilization effort, though many had never before produced arms or
weapons.
In Operation Warp
Speed’s case, the vaccine effort went from a single manufacturing facility in
the U.S. to a network of facilities where the country’s drug companies could
pool efforts to develop and manufacture vaccines. What traditional health-care
experts thought of as a laboratory process became an industrial process—with
prodigious results. Companies like FedEx and UPS were pressed into service to deliver
the finished product.
Third, maintain
government oversight from start to finish. The Commerce, Defense, and Health
and Human Services departments invoked the Defense Production Act 18 times to
prioritize materials and supplies for Operation Warp Speed, and get government
contracts for vaccine development and manufacturing to the head of the line.
The use of federal authority to guide but not micromanage the private economy’s
efforts was key to producing victory in World War II and to creating the Covid
vaccine in record time.
In the U.S. federal
system, however, state governments can’t be steamrolled by Washington. The
Arsenal of Democracy was able to ship its goods to two all-powerful federal
agencies, the War and Navy departments, which knew how to get those weapons to
the soldiers, sailors and airmen who would use them. There’s no corresponding
federal agency in this case.
About 50 million
vaccination doses have been made and shipped, but only half have been
administered, while fewer than six million people have received second doses.
While some states have dealt with the crisis well, many have found the process
of getting shots into arms overwhelming.
It isn’t too late to
turn things around, if governors start using the World War II model. One step
would be appointing their National Guard adjutants general as vaccine czars
with clear authority to override state agency procedures and coordinate with
federal leadership.
A second step would be
to set a statewide target for inoculation aimed at twice the number of
inoculations in half the time recommended by state health-care bureaucrats and
experts. An urgent deadline can focus minds and trigger innovative thinking in
ways that can transform the effort.
Another step would be to
turn major businesses with large distribution networks into links in a
logistical chain that can put as much vaccine as Operation Warp Speed can
supply into as many arms as need it. With some 97,000 approved distribution
centers already on the books there are plenty of opportunities for speeding up
dispersal as part of an all-state government effort.
Some states are doing
so. West Virginia has distributed nearly 90% of its first vaccine shot supply.
But much more can be done in every state by combining planning with authority
and imagination—and relying on guidance from the Arsenal of Democracy model.
There’s still plenty to
be done on manufacturing. The Novavax and Johnson & Johnson vaccines look
promising and could be available this spring. One could argue that Moderna
and Pfizer should focus now on making booster
shots for the South African strain. The original architects of the World War II
mobilization model would see all these issues as opportunities not obstacles.
Thanks to Operation Warp Speed, America has established clear leadership in vaccine
manufacturing. It is now poised to do the same for getting that vaccine to
every American, starting with those who need it most.
Mr. Herman is a senior
fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of “Freedom’s Forge: How American
Business Produced Victory in World War II.”
The Cuomo Conspiracy
By Noah Rothman
The world of political commentary is
in a state of shock today. At least, the world of political commentary is
pretending to be shocked, albeit unconvincingly.
The scandalous
revelations emerging from the New York State attorney general’s
office, which has alleged that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration
may have underestimated the state’s official COVID-related death toll in
nursing homes by as much as 55 percent, has forced some to reevaluate their
positive impression of the governor’s leadership. But the accusations emerging
from Attorney General Letitia James’s office came as no surprise to anyone who
had been paying the slightest attention to New York’s handling of the COVID
crisis.
The accusations in
James’s report, which involve not just the undercounting of deaths but the
“guidance requiring the admission of COVID-19 patients into nursing homes” that
put long-term care facility residents “at increased risk of harm” are well
known to the press. We can at least assume this because these charges were
first were reported in the press.
“New York’s coronavirus
death toll in nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could
actually be a significant undercount,” the Associated Press reported as
far back as August of last year. This, the AP speculated, could be a function
of the fact that the state deliberately declined to count long-term facility
residents who died of COVID outside of nursing homes—in ambulances and
hospitals, for example—as nursing-home deaths. The discrepancy between observed
deaths and the state’s statistics was so glaring that it could not be ignored,
but Cuomo somehow blustered his way through the scandal. “You look at where New
York is as a percentage of nursing home deaths,” he barked at reporters who
attended his semi-regular briefings. “It’s all the way at the bottom of the
list.”
That investigation was
one of many that outlined in detail the managerial failures that contributed to
New York’s notorious mishandling of the pandemic.
A June 2020 Wall Street Journal investigation
found that the governor’s obsessive need to contradict and undermine the
authority of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio “contributed to an uncoordinated
effort” to combat the virus in state and city hospitals. Information sharing
between Albany and New York City broke down and life-saving medical equipment
in state stockpiles was found to be “faulty or inadequate.”
A ProPublica investigation published
in May 2020 found that officials in Albany deliberately choked off the flow of
information from the state Health Department to New York City officials. “It’s
like they have been ordered not to talk to us,” one unnamed city official told
reporters. And while the mayor was hardly the model of competence during this
crisis and the city has every reason to shift blame for its failures onto
Cuomo’s administration, ProPublica’s conclusions suggest there is plenty of
blame to go around.
And while it is
important to be charitable when evaluating the performance of leaders operating
under pressure and in an imperfect information environment amid a crisis, it’s
not as if we do not have counterexamples that suggest improvements could have
been made.
“The more telling metric
is the timing of action in relation to spread,” ProPublica’s investigation
concluded. “One way to calculate that…would be deaths per million, which was
about 10 times higher in New York than in California by the time officials
decided to close down the state.” And when Cuomo finally informed New Yorkers
that businesses would close and all “all nonessential gatherings” would be
policed, he gave the public two days before the policy went into effect.
And, of course, there
was the nursing-home debacle. On March 25, the governor’s office issued a
directive forcing the state’s nursing homes to readmit residents who had been
sent to COVID-ridden hospitals. The governor defended that policy all the way
into May of last year when he tacitly confessed to his mistake by rescinding the decree.
The state’s Health Department eventually
conducted an investigation of itself over the carnage that policy produced and
determined that it had performed just fine. But again, some counterexamples
suggest there was a better way—counterexamples like those provided by Florida
and Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“We drew a hard line
early on,” insisted Mary Mayhew,
secretary of Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration. As a byproduct of
Medicare’s reimbursement policy, she noted, there is always pressure on public
officials to move older patients in and out of hospitals as quickly as
possible, but resisting that pressure was critical to keeping COVID fatalities
low. “We wanted people out, not in,” one Florida official said.
Despite its elderly
population, Florida’s nursing-home deaths from COVID-19 are lower than even
the national average. The
discrepancy between Florida’s performance and Cuomo’s was so stark that it
briefly gave rise to a
paranoid theory published in and broadcast by mainstream
media outlets implicating Gov. DeSantis in a conspiracy to hide the bodies. But
the conspiracy was hidden in plain sight all along, and it had nothing to do
with Florida’s performance.
At the outset of the
crisis, Cuomo was branded a hero by
political journalists—“America’s governor,” “articulate, consistent, and often
tinged with empathy,” possessed of a “take-charge attitude” and “comforting
manner.” His presumed competence made him a useful Democratic foil to Donald
Trump’s often unintelligible pronouncements and cavalier attitude toward the
value of non-pharmaceutical interventions (i.e., masking). But Cuomo’s maladministration
was visible for all to see. The allegations in the James report are generating
a lot of attention and putting Cuomo on the defensive. Still, these charges are
not new and are likely come as no surprise to the journalistic establishment. So,
if they come as a surprise to you, you now know whom to blame.
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