The Biden crime family may fall. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of creeps. But they will fall (if they do) only because the traitors and tyrants ruining America want a newer, cooler puppet. They know they can likely pull Biden through with another fraudulent win by overcounting absentee votes in Philadelphia, Atlanta and Phoenix, which is literally all it takes. They will do this no matter who their nominee is. So enjoy the sideshow of Biden’s collapse, if it happens. But it’s not justice. Justice would consist of arrests and prosecutions for treason. Not just for the Bidens — but for every single Democrat in power, and any of the Republicans who sanctioned this regime. I remain every bit as concerned as 2 weeks ago that Trump will be in jail, and the Communists and fascists we still call Democrats will retain and expand their awful, toxic power.
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The talking points must have gone out within minutes of the end of President Joe Biden’s lame debate performance. Among the first to tell us just how fine a man Biden was Barack Obama, who called his former vice president “someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life.” It is, of course, a lie. Biden is not a good man, and the idea he’s “fought for ordinary folks” for even a single day of his “public service” is risible.
Obama’s tweet also claimed that Biden is the candidate “who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight.” From there, the gaslighting grew exponentially worse.
At a July 2 fundraiser in Virginia, Democratic Rep. Don Boyer, whom Biden once called “Doug,” compared our disabled president to Jesus.
“He has been a good, good man. He’s resilient, optimistic, indefatigable, and above all courageous,” said Boyer.
On the day after the debate, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who admitted that watching the debate made him “weep,” assured us that Biden is “a good man and a good president.”
There are too many post-debate examples to list all the “good man” encomia, but here are few more:
-“Biden is widely believed to be a good man” — The Guardian
– The Delaware Democrat is “a good man and a nice man.” — Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear
– “Biden is a good man and has served his country admirably.” — Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Roy O. Disney, and a generous Democratic donor
– “I would still lead with President Biden. He’s a good man.” — Rep. Bennie Thompson, Mississippi Democrat
– Biden “is ultimately a good and decent man.” — Matt Wing, New York Daily News
– “Joe Biden is a good man and has been a good president.” — Rep. Julian Castro, Obama Housing and Urban Development secretary
– Biden is “decent man of strong character.” — Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly
– “I love Joe Biden. He’s a good man, he loves his country, he’s doing the best that he can.” — Van Jones, a CNN political commentator
– “He also is a good man, a strong president and Democrats still believe that this race is winnable.” — former Democratic national chair Donna Brazile
Four years ago we were told that Biden was going to return civility and virtue to the White House. Current First Lady Jill Biden said then that “decency is on the ballot.” Michelle Obama swore that Biden was a “profoundly decent man, guided by his faith,” and “as president” he would “honor the lives and experiences of every American — because that’s what he’s always done.” In October 2020, Brit journalist Jonathan Freedland ignorantly insisted that “most” – really, most? – “Americans regard Biden as safe, unthreatening and fundamentally decent.”
There was even a book published in 2020 that had the title “A Good & Decent Man: Joe Biden: Rescuing America.”
After wading hip deep through the malarkey, let’s look at the Biden record.
The man who occupies the highest office in the world is a pathological liar. We need go no further back than 1987, when he had to drop his campaign for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination because he plagiarized a speech from Neil Kinnock, then a Labor Party member of the British Parliament.
“The tapes of the two speakers, which were eventually aired on U.S. television, show Biden not only echoing Kinnock’s words but aping his gestures,” Time reported in 1987.
Decades earlier, “Biden also failed a course because he wrote a paper that used five pages from a published law-review article without quotation marks or a proper footnote,” Time remembers in a 2019 article.
A decent man would not steal the work of others and claim they were his own.
Biden also lied, Time added, when he rattled “off his academic accomplishments, including saying that he graduated in the top half of his law school, when in fact, he ranked 76th out of 85.”
The truth was also twisted by Biden when he said that he “went to law school on a full academic scholarship,” was “the only one in my class to have full academic scholarship,” and earned three undergraduate degrees. It was a neat package of lies.
There are many other self-aggrandizing inventions, such as his claim that he drove an 18-wheel rig; his oft-repeated implication that late son Beau died a war hero in Iraq; that he was a teen civil rights activist and once arrested for standing up for black family that had moved into a neighborhood during desegregation; that he “had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see (Nelson Mandela) on Robben Island,” a total fabrication; that he was the first in his family to go college (yet Biden also said his grandfather was a star college football player); and that he had been nominated to attend the United States Naval Academy.
The inveterate braggart has also implied that he had an uncle whose last act was to serve as featured guest at a party of cannibals and has told different audiences that he was “brought up by both the Puerto Rican community and the black community,” is “more Jewish than the Jews” and “came close to trying out as a walk-on in the NFL.“
We’re exhausted already, and we haven’t even gotten to Biden’s lies in regard to his and Donald Trump’s presidencies.
For instance, Biden said during the debate that when he took office the “economy was flat on its back,” unemployment was “15%” and “there were no jobs.”
“These are 100%, solid-gold lies,” we said, and we backed up our statement.
Other Biden falsehoods during the debate include the whopper that he is the “only president this century, this decade, that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world” when in fact 13 U.S. service members were killed in action in Afghanistan during Biden’s bungled August 2021 pullout; that the U.S. Border Patrol union had “endorsed me, endorsed my position”; and that Trump “wants to get rid of Social Security. … He’s wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare.”
Biden followed up the debate with an ABC interview in which he said “I’m the guy who put NATO together” and “I’m the guy that shut (Vladimir) Putin down,” both of which are such obvious fabrications that we don’t even need to provide the evidence to the contrary. And, as we pointed out yesterday, he lied about the lies he’d previously told about how economists did or didn’t endorse his economic plan.
Now would a decent man continue to stack lies on lies? Of course not.
Biden also has a nasty streak. Surely there are voters who recall him condescendingly telling New Hampshire teacher Frank Fahey while campaigning in 1987 that “I think I have a much higher IQ than you, I suspect.” All the man did was ask which law school Biden attended and where he placed in his class. And Biden might have been right: The teacher was gullible enough to endorse Biden in 2019 because – get this – he liked Biden’s honesty.
Four years later, it was Biden who led the “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks” during U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearing. Biden was earlier complicit in the smearing of Robert Bork, who was nominated for the Court but rejected by the Senate. Our former Investor’s Business Daily colleague, the late George Neumayr, wrote in 2020 that “Supreme Court nomination hearings have gone from serene to savage, thanks largely to Joe Biden.”
Biden’s shameful conduct was on display during the 2012 campaign, when he said Republicans were going to put black Americans “back in chains,” and again repeatedly over the years claiming that truck driver Curtis C. Dunn “drank his lunch” before the 1972 collision in which Biden’s wife Neilia and infant daughter Naomi were killed. The truth is “the state official who oversaw the investigation” and Dunn’s daughter “said that wasn’t true,” says the Washington Times.
Former Biden staffer Tara Reade might also have an opinion about how “good” Biden is. She accused Biden of sexual assault. In all, according to Business Insider, “eight women have alleged that Biden either touched them inappropriately or violated their personal space in ways that made them uncomfortable.”
We wonder, as well, what Biden’s daughter Ashley might say, if pressed, about her father. She wrote in her diary that she took “showers with my dad” and it was “probably not appropriate.”
The “good man” tale has also been exposed by credible charges that Biden profited from his office through his son Hunter’s business deals with foreign interests. Would a decent man pad his bank accounts in the millions through influence peddling?
We further ask if a good and decent man who promised to unite the country if elected president would later demonize roughly half the population with a speech that looked as if it had been stage-managed by Nazi propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl?
Joe Biden is not a good man and the many who have claimed he is know better. But in the same way, Biden’s mental and physical infirmities have been covered up, Scranton Joe’s nastiness has been concealed, as well. God help us if this unprincipled man who has served only himself and his family is reelected in November.
Socialism is inhumane. So is environmentalism. Destroying the middle class — through hyperinflation — puts millions and millions of people into impoverishment, stagnation and permanent dependence on the government. It can’t be what most immigrants want, and it’s IN NO WAY what most middle class Americans are prepared for.
It’s unkind to decimate the electric grid by passing laws requiring everyone to buy an electric car. Most cannot afford electric cars as it is; and the cost of electric cars will skyrocket once demand goes up with the government (for the most part) outlawing gas vehicles in many of our states (and in all of them if either Democrats or RINOs remain in charge of the federal government).
People say idiotic things like, “Well, socialism and environmentalism are the right thing, but they’re not really feasible.” No. Socialism and environmentalism are the WRONG thing. They are destructive of man’s rights, and they are an annihilation of our prosperity. Overnight, if implemented consistently (as they’re presently on a track to do, within a decade), they will turn America — and therefore the rest of the planet — into a third world country. China and Russia, since they possibly now have the superior military systems, will literally rule over us. Even if China and Russia do not presently have military superiority, America’s military will be ruined by a stagnant or collapsing economy, as Ronald Reagan correctly warned us back in the 1980s.
These ignorant, moronic fools voting for Democrats — since most of them are middle class, and vulnerable to everything I’m saying — are beyond persuasion. RINOs, establishment Republicans and frankly many people who call themselves limited government advocates (libertarians, “Objectivists”) are little better these days. They are so caught up in virtue signaling that “I’m a nice person because I don’t like Donald Trump” that they’re forgetting (or outright evading) what the actual issues are: Quite literally, the survival of life as we’ve always known it, especially in America.
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Socialism wins in Great Britain in a mega-landslide, maybe the biggest ever. How much more left can Britain go? 100 percent taxation (elites and politicians excluded)? White slavery? Mandatory Muslim practices for all citizens? Socialized everything? Immediate outlawing of fossil fuels? Collective farming? The King — a paleo Communist who thinks he’s enlightened — seems delighted. Maybe they can take 100 percent of the Royal family’s wealth to pay for it all. This will be interesting — and tragic — to watch. Britain was once the epicenter of civilization. The Mother Country is going down. It will not survive 5 years of this.
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Biden and Trump, ironically, will soon be in the same situation. The elites and the oligarchs who control America apparently want Biden out — Soros, the media, the government dominated corporations. He served his purpose. When THEY say he’s gone, he will be gone. It doesn’t matter if Biden wants to stay. He’s not the boss, and never was. Neither will his replacement. Kamala is just fine with that, just so she gets to be President, a now meaningless figurehead of a ruined republic. Michelle is greedy: She wants to be a real dictator. They still might get her in. Or Gavin. It really doesn’t matter. Without an actual revolution, we’re screwed. Yes, I will vote for Trump, assuming there’s even an election. But I am realistic.
Speculation aside: It’s no fun to watch America fall. But it is fun to watch the DemComs turn on each other — like the sociopathic savages they are!
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Richard Ruggiero asks a great question: “How is it, on Independence Day, the most sacred day of the year for me, so many people celebrate “the 4th of July” with barbecues and fireworks and at few of those parties do people actually read the Declaration of Independence and discuss the ideas of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Is it too intellectual an undertaking to understand the ideas which have made our lives possible and to transmit them to a younger generation?”
Sadly, the widespread cluelessness about the ideas and values required to sustain a free society are eventually what killed America. To me, the final proof came during the mass submission seen during COVID. Most think that freedom (and its magnificent side-effect, prosperity) will just go on, as if on automatic. They think it will go on despite the wrecking ball applied to our freedom daily by a wildly insane, out of control government — a government that millions of them will continue to support and vote for.
Boy, won’t most of them be surprised to wake up one day, especially under hyperinflation, and realize all that they lost. They still won’t understand why they lost it; and they will blame things like capitalism, Trump, “too few” taxes/regulations, Republicans and “climate change.” You can’t fix cluelessness of this magnitude.
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What’s your favorite line from Star Trek?
There are two different lines from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Drumhead” which I have always really loved. Not because they are particularly brilliant rhetorically, but because of the underlying message they convey.
To quickly set it up for those who haven’t seen the episode, there is an explosion aboard the Enterprise and an investigation begins, headed by Admiral Norah Satie, a very well regarded Starfleet officer who has uncovered many conspiracies in her career.
She determines that a visiting Klingon officer was, in fact, a spy, and suspects that he — helped by members of the crew — was responsible for the explosion. Her investigation grows more paranoid and she starts to see conspirators everywhere, including a junior enlisted crewman who had lied about his supposedly Vulcan grandfather on his applications to Starfleet, in order to hide the fact that he was in fact Romulan.
The witch hunt completely spins out of control, and Captain Picard, who was at one time working well with her, decides to actively fight against her increasingly irrational investigation. After this, Satie calls him into her hearing and ends up accusing him of treason with no evidence.
Her outburst at the trial humiliates her in front of the Chief of Starfleet Security, who walks out of the hearing. She eventually leaves the ship in disgrace, and the Enterprise returns to normal.
The title of the episode comes from the concept of a “drumhead trial” where soldiers would dispense summary justice on the head of a drum, with no due process or respect for the rights of the accused. Satie, in this episode, was attempting to do the same thing.
Now that I’ve set this up, my first, and probably most favorite line comes from the end of the episode when Worf is talking to Captain Picard in the aftermath of the trial.
Worf: I believed her. I, I helped her. I did not see what she was.
Picard: Mister Worf, villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged.
Worf: I think… after yesterday, people will not be so ready to trust her.
Picard: Maybe. But she, or someone like her, will always be with us, waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness. Vigilance, Mister Worf – that is the price we have to continually pay.
Not only is that statement true, but what a wonderful way of putting it. And of course, the delightful Patrick Stewart’s Shakespearian delivery of the lines makes the whole thing all the better.
My second favorite line from this episode, and with it the franchise, is Picard’s speech at the trial itself.
After Satie says that she “questions [Picard’s] loyalties,” he calmly and quietly responds:
“You know, there are some words I’ve known since I was a schoolboy: With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.” Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning. The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged.”
After which she goes absolutely bonkers and starts ranting and raving about her father (who spoke the words Picard recited) and how she has “brought down bigger men than you, Picard!”
In this speech, Picard delivers a broadside against the disregard for personal liberty and human freedom, directly challenging the idea that society can tolerate abridgments in that freedom in the name of security.
And, might I say that both of these remarks, spoken in the early 1990s, proved to be eerily prescient about the coming societal debates we would be having less than a decade later, and beyond. Really top quality stuff, there.
There was no difference between July 3, 1776, and July 5. By all outward appearances, the American colonies were no more free and no more independent. Practically speaking, the governing structures were not different.
So what makes the Fourth of July so special?
Think about it. We do not celebrate October 19, 1781, the date the war for American independence ended. There are no parades commemorating September 3, 1783, when the Treaty of Paris formally concluded the war.
No, we celebrate July 4, 1776. That is the day when our Founding Fathers firmly, finally, and officially committed themselves—their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor—to the cause of American liberty.
Now, make no mistake: many of them had done so personally and individually weeks, months, even years earlier. They already had an army, and blood had already been shed.
Yet, the Fourth of July is celebrated because that is when they formally, out loud, with one voice, declared their independence. They acknowledged to each other and a candid world that they were dissolving their political ties with England.
We celebrate their commitment to the fight. It is a recognition that, in the most important ways, by choosing to declare their independence, they had already achieved it.
Nearly all of our Founding Fathers were men of faith; they understood that the struggle upon which they were to engage may or may not be successful in the eyes of the world. That didn’t matter; they achieved freedom in their choice, declared on the Fourth of July, and the fight ahead was merely the necessary consequence.
On Independence Day, we celebrate our Founding Fathers’ commitment to the ideals of self-governance. On Independence Day, we celebrate their willingness to exercise their convictions for themselves and for us.
On this Independence Day, let us recommit ourselves to their founding convictions. Let us recognize that refusing to accept the yoke of tyranny is the highest expression of liberty.
As it was in 1776, so it is today. The real difference between July 3rd and July 5th is what we commit ourselves to on the Fourth of July.
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