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The Biden Clan’s Con Is Coming to an End
Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for looking into state corruption involving the oil company Burisma and Hunter Biden—and ultimately Joe Biden himself.
As Vice President, Biden, in his own words, bragged that he had threatened to cancel the deliverance of American foreign aid to Ukraine unless Shokin was dismissed.
So what is the Congress to do now—un-impeach and exonerate an innocent impeached Donald Trump, and instead impeach a guilty Biden for essentially the same allegations?
After all, the Left redefined the impeachment bar in 2019 as leveraging foreign aid to Ukraine to benefit one’s political career.
And that is exactly what Joe Biden did to ensure his son could continue to raise millions for the Biden family with foreign governments, while being shielded from political consequences.
An impeached Trump also was accused of using the power of government to go after his likely 2020 presidential rival by suggesting that Joe Biden and his family were corrupt, and should be investigated by Ukrainian officials for fraud and bribery.
Despite Joe Biden’s denials, Trump was right: there was plenty of evidence to link Ukrainian unwarranted payoffs going into Biden family coffers.
So Trump in 2019 had good reasons to ensure that none of the Bidens were still burrowed deeply into the Ukrainian payoff machine.
In contrast, Joe Biden had far less grounds to unleash the full powers of government against his probable 2024 rival ex-president Trump.
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is not charging Trump with bribery of the Biden sort. He does not allege that Trump gave special foreign policy preferences for those foreigners who paid his family for such services.
Instead, Smith argues that Trump unlawfully took out classified presidential papers—although Joe Biden did nearly the same.
Biden kept quiet about his vast removal of classified documents for over a decade. Not until Trump was being investigated did Biden suddenly notify the government of his illegal removals.
In contrast, a combative and boisterous Trump fought openly and constantly with federal archivists over which of his papers at his Mar-a-Lago estate were truly classified.
Prosecutorial leaks floated all sorts of unproven nefarious agendas that had prompted Trump’s disputes over his presidential papers.
But no one to this day has seriously asked why senator and then Vice President Biden secretly and weirdly removed and kept such sensitive material for years.
Recent reports allege that Hunter Biden may have been treated with kid gloves by prosecutors, partly because Hunter’s lawyers had threatened otherwise to call Joe Biden to the stand as a favorable witness.
Government prosecutors under pressure from the White House apparently balked at the nightmare of a befuddled president of the United States testifying under oath about the supposed innocence of the very guilty Hunter Biden.
In truth, the former drug addict Hunter has played lots of such strange games with his own family.
In his laptop communications, Hunter whined that no one in the family appreciated his hard work at family grifting.
He sounded petulant that his father forced him to fork over half his income to the Joe and Jill Biden household.
At time of universal scrutiny of Hunter, the last thing any sane first son might do would be to HAWK his own childish paintings at exorbitant prices to those wishing to buy influence with his father the president.
In effect, Hunter was almost daring the White House to stop his blatant grifting artistry.
Instead, the Bidens moved Hunter into the White House, apparently to keep him under closer watch.
Hunter is still out of control. He could take the family down with him unless President Biden continues to shield him from prosecution.
Ironically, the double standard used by Biden and the media to hound Trump has only raised new questions of fairness.
Why had the Biden family—with its far greater legal exposure—never faced such serial indictments?
A Republican House of Representatives had ended prior Democratic protection given the Bidens.
And the Ukraine war has again turned attention to the Biden-Burisma connection and Hunter’s shaking down of Ukrainian officials.
Finally, Joe Biden can no longer work a full day. He mutters. He stumbles. He serially lies.
He hijacks solemn occasions commemorating national tragedies by trying to one up the grieving with his own self-absorbed stories—most of them irrelevant and narcissistic half-truths.
If a cognitively and criminally challenged Biden cannot finish his term, we will finally learn the full story of 15 years of Biden family corruption.
The Bidens will lose the only impediment—Joe Biden’s political machinations—left in the way of an honest, full-blown felony investigation into what is likely the most corrupt presidential family in American history.
Meanwhile the other side:
Opinion 5 Trump mistakes that undercut his 2024 reelection campaign
By Marc A. Thiessen
As Donald Trump appears in court to face his 91st felony charge since April (with a possible 700 years in prison!), many Republicans correctly believe he is in the crosshairs of a deeply politicized justice system — one that has bent over backward to protect the Biden family while using novel legal theories to target the former president.
But it is also clear that Trump bears much responsibility for his predicament. To see why, consider five disastrous choices Trump made over the past three years — mistakes that have given his enemies the pretext to go after him in court, while alienating swing voters and undermining his chances of winning back the presidency.
Mistake No. 1: Imagine how different things would be today if, after exhausting his legal challenges to the 2020 election, Trump had presided over a smooth transition. Imagine if, even without conceding he lost, he invited Joe Biden to the White House as Barack Obama had invited Trump, attended Biden’s inauguration and left office graciously — with a MacArthur-esque farewell address promising that he would return in four years’ time. There would have been no “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, no Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and no second impeachment.
Mistake No. 2: Instead of contesting certified election results accepted by Georgia’s popular Republican governor, Brian Kemp, Trump should have focused his attention on turning out his loyal base in Georgia to save the GOP majority in the U.S. Senate by winning the two runoff elections. He could have left office with a major political victory under his belt and momentum toward a 2024 run — and would have been able to take credit for a GOP Senate reining in the Biden administration. Instead, his false fraud claims depressed GOP turnout, handed Senate control to the Democrats and enabled President Biden to ram through trillions in new spending with Democratic votes alone, which helped unleash the worst inflation in four decades.
Mistake No. 3: When it was discovered that he had taken highly classified materials to Mar-a-Lago, Trump could have cooperated and handed over the documents, rather than reportedly ordering aides to hide documents and delete security footage.
Mistake No. 4: Instead of spending the past three years railing against the “rigged election” (a claim that 70 percent of Americans reject), Trump should have focused on Biden’s failings in office. Trump should have contrasted Biden’s disastrous policies with his many successes, and reminded the record 56 percent of voters who told Gallup just before Election Day 2020 that they were better off under Trump than they had been four years earlier how good they had it when he was in office. Imagine if his message had been “Miss me yet?” instead of “I am your retribution.”
Mistake No. 5: Rather than saddling the GOP with midterm candidates whose main or only qualification was parroting his election denial, Trump could have backed electable candidates and used his $100 million-plus war chest to help Republicans take back the Senate and win an overwhelming House majority in 2022 — thus getting credit for propelling the GOP back into power on Capitol Hill.
If Trump had done these things, he would be facing no criminal charges, except perhaps the flimsy indictment brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. No serious Republicans would be challenging him for the GOP nomination. He would be raising and spending millions for attack ads against Democrats instead of using campaign funds to pay his mounting legal bills. And he would likely have a double-digit lead over Biden in the polls. Indeed, Biden would probably be the one facing serious primary challengers and calls to step aside for the good of the party. Amid the Democratic weakness and infighting, Trump could be cruising toward victory as the 47th president of the United States — possibly in a landslide.
Instead, Trump spent the past three years relentlessly promoting election lies, putting revenge ahead of victory at the polls, costing his party Senate control, alienating swing voters who will decide the next presidential election, and diverting millions of dollars away from beating Democrats and toward his legal defense. So, yes, Democrats are weaponizing the justice system against Trump. But Trump is clearly the author of his own misery.
Do we need to clean house in the Justice Department? Absolutely. But Republicans can’t do that if Biden wins a second term. Right now, 63 percent of Americans say they won’t vote for Trump in 2024, including a 53 percent majority who say they “definitely” won’t vote for him, an AP-NORC poll found last week. That would leave in charge at the Justice Department the same people who went after Trump while trying to give Hunter Biden a pass.
In other words, if GOP voters really want to rally around Trump, the best way to do so is to choose another nominee — someone who can beat Biden, pardon Trump and take on the administrative state.
If Republicans nominate Trump, he will likely lose — and go to jail.
HOOVER DAILY
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Why Twisting The 14th Amendment To Get Trump Won’t Hold Up In Court |
| by John Yoo, Robert Delahunty via The Federalist The effort to hold Trump accountable for his actions should not depend on a warping of our constitutional system. |
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I voted for Trump twice. The first time, I thought we needed to shake things up and the second because he did what he said he would and, except for his personality, may well go down as a great president if judged by what he accomplished against a corrupt woman, named Hillary, and her, even more law breaking, cronies.
How the legal system has been abused for political reasons is not only a disgrace but will come back to haunt us because it smacks of an abuse of our constitution and God given rights. We have become a banana republic. and this is why we "deplorables" no longer trust our public institutions.
Also preventing Trump from being able to campaign, should he become the GOP's nominee, is the consequence of the purposeful weaponization of politics.
How the radicalized Democrat Party comes out is yet to be determined but they may well regret what they sought not to accomplish - Trump's re-election.
Even worse, Biden, the most corrupt and inept man to ever become president, might get a second term
The Fulton County district attorney is also a dangerous disgrace.
Far too many public officials take advantage of their positions and, lamentably, far too many black officials have also proven incapable of executing the functional responsibilities of their positions as well as the moral demands. Is it because they lack training, an educational background or some other human deficiency ?
How the legal system has been abused for political reasons is not only a disgrace but will come back to haunt us because it smacks of an abuse of our constitution and God given rights. We have become a banana republic. and this is why we "deplorables" no longer trust our public institutions.
Also preventing Trump from being able to campaign, should he become the GOP's nominee, is the consequence of the purposeful weaponization of politics.
How the radicalized Democrat Party comes out is yet to be determined but they may well regret what they sought not to accomplish - Trump's re-election.
Even worse, Biden, the most corrupt and inept man to ever become president, might get a second term
The Fulton County district attorney is also a dangerous disgrace.
Far too many public officials take advantage of their positions and, lamentably, far too many black officials have also proven incapable of executing the functional responsibilities of their positions as well as the moral demands. Is it because they lack training, an educational background or some other human deficiency ?
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The Biden Clan’s Con Is Coming to an End
Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for looking into state corruption involving the oil company Burisma and Hunter Biden—and ultimately Joe Biden himself.
As Vice President, Biden, in his own words, bragged that he had threatened to cancel the deliverance of American foreign aid to Ukraine unless Shokin was dismissed.
So what is the Congress to do now—un-impeach and exonerate an innocent impeached Donald Trump, and instead impeach a guilty Biden for essentially the same allegations?
After all, the Left redefined the impeachment bar in 2019 as leveraging foreign aid to Ukraine to benefit one’s political career.
And that is exactly what Joe Biden did to ensure his son could continue to raise millions for the Biden family with foreign governments, while being shielded from political consequences.
An impeached Trump also was accused of using the power of government to go after his likely 2020 presidential rival by suggesting that Joe Biden and his family were corrupt, and should be investigated by Ukrainian officials for fraud and bribery.
Despite Joe Biden’s denials, Trump was right: there was plenty of evidence to link Ukrainian unwarranted payoffs going into Biden family coffers.
So Trump in 2019 had good reasons to ensure that none of the Bidens were still burrowed deeply into the Ukrainian payoff machine.
In contrast, Joe Biden had far less grounds to unleash the full powers of government against his probable 2024 rival ex-president Trump.
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is not charging Trump with bribery of the Biden sort. He does not allege that Trump gave special foreign policy preferences for those foreigners who paid his family for such services.
Instead, Smith argues that Trump unlawfully took out classified presidential papers—although Joe Biden did nearly the same.
Biden kept quiet about his vast removal of classified documents for over a decade. Not until Trump was being investigated did Biden suddenly notify the government of his illegal removals.
In contrast, a combative and boisterous Trump fought openly and constantly with federal archivists over which of his papers at his Mar-a-Lago estate were truly classified.
Prosecutorial leaks floated all sorts of unproven nefarious agendas that had prompted Trump’s disputes over his presidential papers.
But no one to this day has seriously asked why senator and then Vice President Biden secretly and weirdly removed and kept such sensitive material for years.
Recent reports allege that Hunter Biden may have been treated with kid gloves by prosecutors, partly because Hunter’s lawyers had threatened otherwise to call Joe Biden to the stand as a favorable witness.
Government prosecutors under pressure from the White House apparently balked at the nightmare of a befuddled president of the United States testifying under oath about the supposed innocence of the very guilty Hunter Biden.
In truth, the former drug addict Hunter has played lots of such strange games with his own family.
In his laptop communications, Hunter whined that no one in the family appreciated his hard work at family grifting.
He sounded petulant that his father forced him to fork over half his income to the Joe and Jill Biden household.
At time of universal scrutiny of Hunter, the last thing any sane first son might do would be to HAWK his own childish paintings at exorbitant prices to those wishing to buy influence with his father the president.
In effect, Hunter was almost daring the White House to stop his blatant grifting artistry.
Instead, the Bidens moved Hunter into the White House, apparently to keep him under closer watch.
Hunter is still out of control. He could take the family down with him unless President Biden continues to shield him from prosecution.
Ironically, the double standard used by Biden and the media to hound Trump has only raised new questions of fairness.
Why had the Biden family—with its far greater legal exposure—never faced such serial indictments?
A Republican House of Representatives had ended prior Democratic protection given the Bidens.
And the Ukraine war has again turned attention to the Biden-Burisma connection and Hunter’s shaking down of Ukrainian officials.
Finally, Joe Biden can no longer work a full day. He mutters. He stumbles. He serially lies.
He hijacks solemn occasions commemorating national tragedies by trying to one up the grieving with his own self-absorbed stories—most of them irrelevant and narcissistic half-truths.
If a cognitively and criminally challenged Biden cannot finish his term, we will finally learn the full story of 15 years of Biden family corruption.
The Bidens will lose the only impediment—Joe Biden’s political machinations—left in the way of an honest, full-blown felony investigation into what is likely the most corrupt presidential family in American history.
Meanwhile the other side:
Opinion 5 Trump mistakes that undercut his 2024 reelection campaign
By Marc A. Thiessen
As Donald Trump appears in court to face his 91st felony charge since April (with a possible 700 years in prison!), many Republicans correctly believe he is in the crosshairs of a deeply politicized justice system — one that has bent over backward to protect the Biden family while using novel legal theories to target the former president.
But it is also clear that Trump bears much responsibility for his predicament. To see why, consider five disastrous choices Trump made over the past three years — mistakes that have given his enemies the pretext to go after him in court, while alienating swing voters and undermining his chances of winning back the presidency.
Mistake No. 1: Imagine how different things would be today if, after exhausting his legal challenges to the 2020 election, Trump had presided over a smooth transition. Imagine if, even without conceding he lost, he invited Joe Biden to the White House as Barack Obama had invited Trump, attended Biden’s inauguration and left office graciously — with a MacArthur-esque farewell address promising that he would return in four years’ time. There would have been no “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, no Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and no second impeachment.
Mistake No. 2: Instead of contesting certified election results accepted by Georgia’s popular Republican governor, Brian Kemp, Trump should have focused his attention on turning out his loyal base in Georgia to save the GOP majority in the U.S. Senate by winning the two runoff elections. He could have left office with a major political victory under his belt and momentum toward a 2024 run — and would have been able to take credit for a GOP Senate reining in the Biden administration. Instead, his false fraud claims depressed GOP turnout, handed Senate control to the Democrats and enabled President Biden to ram through trillions in new spending with Democratic votes alone, which helped unleash the worst inflation in four decades.
Mistake No. 3: When it was discovered that he had taken highly classified materials to Mar-a-Lago, Trump could have cooperated and handed over the documents, rather than reportedly ordering aides to hide documents and delete security footage.
Mistake No. 4: Instead of spending the past three years railing against the “rigged election” (a claim that 70 percent of Americans reject), Trump should have focused on Biden’s failings in office. Trump should have contrasted Biden’s disastrous policies with his many successes, and reminded the record 56 percent of voters who told Gallup just before Election Day 2020 that they were better off under Trump than they had been four years earlier how good they had it when he was in office. Imagine if his message had been “Miss me yet?” instead of “I am your retribution.”
Mistake No. 5: Rather than saddling the GOP with midterm candidates whose main or only qualification was parroting his election denial, Trump could have backed electable candidates and used his $100 million-plus war chest to help Republicans take back the Senate and win an overwhelming House majority in 2022 — thus getting credit for propelling the GOP back into power on Capitol Hill.
If Trump had done these things, he would be facing no criminal charges, except perhaps the flimsy indictment brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. No serious Republicans would be challenging him for the GOP nomination. He would be raising and spending millions for attack ads against Democrats instead of using campaign funds to pay his mounting legal bills. And he would likely have a double-digit lead over Biden in the polls. Indeed, Biden would probably be the one facing serious primary challengers and calls to step aside for the good of the party. Amid the Democratic weakness and infighting, Trump could be cruising toward victory as the 47th president of the United States — possibly in a landslide.
Instead, Trump spent the past three years relentlessly promoting election lies, putting revenge ahead of victory at the polls, costing his party Senate control, alienating swing voters who will decide the next presidential election, and diverting millions of dollars away from beating Democrats and toward his legal defense. So, yes, Democrats are weaponizing the justice system against Trump. But Trump is clearly the author of his own misery.
Do we need to clean house in the Justice Department? Absolutely. But Republicans can’t do that if Biden wins a second term. Right now, 63 percent of Americans say they won’t vote for Trump in 2024, including a 53 percent majority who say they “definitely” won’t vote for him, an AP-NORC poll found last week. That would leave in charge at the Justice Department the same people who went after Trump while trying to give Hunter Biden a pass.
In other words, if GOP voters really want to rally around Trump, the best way to do so is to choose another nominee — someone who can beat Biden, pardon Trump and take on the administrative state.
If Republicans nominate Trump, he will likely lose — and go to jail.
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Will Iran be President Biden’s Afghanistan 2.0? - opinion
The Biden administration presented human rights as its hallmark promise. But it may oversee two catastrophic global failures of human rights: Abandoning women in Iran and Afghanistan.
“Don’t forget us, goodbye.”
Those were the haunting words tweeted by 32-year-old Majid Khademi last weekend as Iranian authorities were transferring him from home confinement back to prison.
What is he guilty of?
Like thousands of other young Iranians, Majid may be the next Iranian to be disappeared by the mullahs for participating in protests in 2019 – led by brave women – against the grave human rights abuses of the Iranian theocratic regime.
We’re ashamed to say that Majid’s cries seem to fall increasingly on deaf ears in DC. It shouldn’t be this way; so, we are urging Americans – Democrat and Republican – to call their members of Congress while raising their own voices in support of the long-suffering people of Iran.
Will the US abandon Iranian women like they did to Afghanistan?
And now is the time. As the death of Mahsa Amini approaches its first anniversary, the United States faces its own reckoning against promises it made to protect the human rights of Iran’s women. And if the US silent treatment isn’t broken, by action and deed, Iran’s courageous women will be left to their fate much as America left the fate of the women of Afghanistan in the hands of the Taliban.
Truth be told, our diplomats and bureaucrats have little reason to fear as the Iranian people witness their abandonment by America yet again. Not a single American official was held accountable for the debacle that was the withdrawal from Afghanistan in September 2021.
Yes, the murder of Amini by Iran’s religious police caused a torrent of strong statements from the White House and State Department. Leaders and influencers all around the world joined the chorus, and so did more than a few public figures and business executives. The United States even sanctioned Iran’s morality police.
Yet, one year later, tens of thousands of Iran’s young people have been imprisoned, many tortured, and some executed while the State Department, and hashtaggers seem to be losing interest. Meanwhile, Iran is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Amini’s murder by strengthening the hijab rules.
Some businesses based in democracies have no problem aiding and abetting the Mullahs.
A leading German corporation, Bosch, supplied up to 8,000 sophisticated cameras to the Iranian regime to enable them to identify which Iranian women and teens still have the audacity to defy the draconian rules about wearing hijabs. Bosch need not worry about being sanctioned by the US, our government isn’t even enforcing its own sanctions on Iran, enabling Tehran’s oil exports to reach a five-year high.
The oil, of course, is going mainly to America’s main adversary – China – as the Iranian regime also supplies Russia with drones that kill and maim Ukrainians. The Iranian regime has made at least $40 billion already on illegally selling oil to China and it may be as much as $60 billion.
To top it all off, Tehran now has enough fissionable material to rapidly create multiple nuclear weapons, and it now routinely threatens ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and even harassed a US helicopter just days ago.
It is brutally clear that the Biden team has learned nothing from the catastrophe in Afghanistan and the immediate and long-range consequences of not projecting US strength – including moral strength.
Tragically, it looks as if the Administration that presented human rights as its hallmark promise, will have overseen two of the most catastrophic global failures in human rights this century: the abandonment of women in Afghanistan and in Iran.
And it isn’t only Iranian women and young people who are paying the price and are increasingly in harm’s way. It’s about Americans, too.
The US government – after secret negotiations – agreed earlier this month to pay $6 billion ($1.2 billion dollars each) for the five American hostages transferred from Evin prison to house arrest. Everyone knows how the Iranian regime will use the money.
Like the billions president Barack Obama forked over to the regime in 2013, not a dime will go to improve the lot of the Iranian people. It will be diverted to fund terrorism and promote fanaticism around the world. In the past, the regime has only used these types of funds to engage in massive, sanctions-busting schemes.
Forget the spinmeisters in DC, the average American knows exactly what this payoff means. The Department of State’s price-per-American is now $1.2 billion dollars. Tyrants, terrorists, and dictators have taken note. It is less safe to be an American in the world, today.
Of course, our hearts break for the families of any innocent hostage, and we celebrate and pray for their safe return home.
But paying isn’t the only way to win their freedom. Say what you want about the previous and flawed administration, but there’s one fact worth remembering: Many imprisoned Americans were brought home, from Andrew Brunson to Xiyue Wang, without the US unloading forklifts of cash. We need to return to a policy when America made the cost of keeping Americans imprisoned unsustainable. In 2023, we need the president of the United States, acting on behalf of all Americans, to change course.
To help the people of Iran, to protect American citizens at home and abroad, to serve the cause of human dignity, the US must project its power, economic, military, and moral.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the associate dean and director of the Global Social Action Agenda at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Rev. Johnnie Moore is president of the Congress of Christian Leaders. The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
The Biden administration presented human rights as its hallmark promise. But it may oversee two catastrophic global failures of human rights: Abandoning women in Iran and Afghanistan.
“Don’t forget us, goodbye.”
Those were the haunting words tweeted by 32-year-old Majid Khademi last weekend as Iranian authorities were transferring him from home confinement back to prison.
What is he guilty of?
Like thousands of other young Iranians, Majid may be the next Iranian to be disappeared by the mullahs for participating in protests in 2019 – led by brave women – against the grave human rights abuses of the Iranian theocratic regime.
We’re ashamed to say that Majid’s cries seem to fall increasingly on deaf ears in DC. It shouldn’t be this way; so, we are urging Americans – Democrat and Republican – to call their members of Congress while raising their own voices in support of the long-suffering people of Iran.
Will the US abandon Iranian women like they did to Afghanistan?
And now is the time. As the death of Mahsa Amini approaches its first anniversary, the United States faces its own reckoning against promises it made to protect the human rights of Iran’s women. And if the US silent treatment isn’t broken, by action and deed, Iran’s courageous women will be left to their fate much as America left the fate of the women of Afghanistan in the hands of the Taliban.
Truth be told, our diplomats and bureaucrats have little reason to fear as the Iranian people witness their abandonment by America yet again. Not a single American official was held accountable for the debacle that was the withdrawal from Afghanistan in September 2021.
Yes, the murder of Amini by Iran’s religious police caused a torrent of strong statements from the White House and State Department. Leaders and influencers all around the world joined the chorus, and so did more than a few public figures and business executives. The United States even sanctioned Iran’s morality police.
Yet, one year later, tens of thousands of Iran’s young people have been imprisoned, many tortured, and some executed while the State Department, and hashtaggers seem to be losing interest. Meanwhile, Iran is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Amini’s murder by strengthening the hijab rules.
Some businesses based in democracies have no problem aiding and abetting the Mullahs.
A leading German corporation, Bosch, supplied up to 8,000 sophisticated cameras to the Iranian regime to enable them to identify which Iranian women and teens still have the audacity to defy the draconian rules about wearing hijabs. Bosch need not worry about being sanctioned by the US, our government isn’t even enforcing its own sanctions on Iran, enabling Tehran’s oil exports to reach a five-year high.
The oil, of course, is going mainly to America’s main adversary – China – as the Iranian regime also supplies Russia with drones that kill and maim Ukrainians. The Iranian regime has made at least $40 billion already on illegally selling oil to China and it may be as much as $60 billion.
To top it all off, Tehran now has enough fissionable material to rapidly create multiple nuclear weapons, and it now routinely threatens ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and even harassed a US helicopter just days ago.
It is brutally clear that the Biden team has learned nothing from the catastrophe in Afghanistan and the immediate and long-range consequences of not projecting US strength – including moral strength.
Tragically, it looks as if the Administration that presented human rights as its hallmark promise, will have overseen two of the most catastrophic global failures in human rights this century: the abandonment of women in Afghanistan and in Iran.
And it isn’t only Iranian women and young people who are paying the price and are increasingly in harm’s way. It’s about Americans, too.
The US government – after secret negotiations – agreed earlier this month to pay $6 billion ($1.2 billion dollars each) for the five American hostages transferred from Evin prison to house arrest. Everyone knows how the Iranian regime will use the money.
Like the billions president Barack Obama forked over to the regime in 2013, not a dime will go to improve the lot of the Iranian people. It will be diverted to fund terrorism and promote fanaticism around the world. In the past, the regime has only used these types of funds to engage in massive, sanctions-busting schemes.
Forget the spinmeisters in DC, the average American knows exactly what this payoff means. The Department of State’s price-per-American is now $1.2 billion dollars. Tyrants, terrorists, and dictators have taken note. It is less safe to be an American in the world, today.
Of course, our hearts break for the families of any innocent hostage, and we celebrate and pray for their safe return home.
But paying isn’t the only way to win their freedom. Say what you want about the previous and flawed administration, but there’s one fact worth remembering: Many imprisoned Americans were brought home, from Andrew Brunson to Xiyue Wang, without the US unloading forklifts of cash. We need to return to a policy when America made the cost of keeping Americans imprisoned unsustainable. In 2023, we need the president of the United States, acting on behalf of all Americans, to change course.
To help the people of Iran, to protect American citizens at home and abroad, to serve the cause of human dignity, the US must project its power, economic, military, and moral.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the associate dean and director of the Global Social Action Agenda at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Rev. Johnnie Moore is president of the Congress of Christian Leaders. The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
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A male student student was looking for a place to sit in a crowded university library.
He asked a girl student : "Do you mind if I sit beside you?"
The girl replied, in a loud voice "NO, I DON'T WANT TO SPEND THE NIGHT WITH YOU!"
All the people in the library started staring at the man, who was deeply embarrassed and moved to another table.
After a couple of minutes, the girl walked quietly to the man’s table and said with a laugh:
"I study psychology, and I know what a man is thinking; I bet you feltembarrassed, right?
The man responded in a loud voice: "$500 FOR ONE NIGHT?... I`M NOTPAYING YOU THAT MUCH!"
All the people in the library looked at the girl in shock.
The man whispered to her: "I study law, and I know how to screw people".
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There are two basic types of progressives. There are the dreamers whose concepts are dumb and those whose ideas are purposefully dreamt up to destroy everything they do nnot like and/ or feel threatened by, ie.capitalism, America, democracy etc.
An example of the first is "climate change." "Greenies" want to spend trillions of dollars to reduce pollution1%, which makes us far less competitive, while our avowed enemies continue to fill the atmosphere with smoke from coal plants when they could be using cleaner natural gas.
Comparable examples of the second are when vindictive ideas are launched that create divisiveness such as defunding police so law and order breaks down and crime grips an otherwise peaceful, strong nation or Woke ideas that confuse a nation's emerging youth and/or destroys their education and freedoms..
Societies like ours's are more susceptible because our success provides us with feelings of false security causing us, all too often, to drop our guard, allowing dry rot penetration to occur.
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We had one of the most beautiful, elegant and gracious first ladies and she made the White House come alive and Trump haters trashed her. They are despicable. +++
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