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Monday, May 13, 2024

Joe Biden Mother’s Day Message Sparks Outrage

Joe Biden Mother’s Day Message Sparks Outrage

President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign dropped a nasty Mother’s Day video attacking former President Donald Trump.

The video focused on insulting Trump’s past policies regarding women such as abortion and separating illegal immigrant families.

The attacks begin when the screen flashes “Happy Mother's Day" written on the bottom.

But then the screen goes blank with the words, "But not from Donald Trump” across it.

The campaign urged Americans to “stop Trump,” by doing the moms in their lives a favor.

“Under Trump, the government will be allowed to monitor their pregnancies and rip their families apart. Meanwhile, President Biden is fighting to bring back his historic expanded Child Tax Credit to give families a little extra breathing room and ensure paid leave for all Americans," Biden’s campaign continued.

The Biden campaign also claimed Trump prides himself on “separating mothers from their children,” saying that the president will “fight” for mothers.

In one clip, the video deliberately twists Trump’s words around while showing a family screaming while being separated.

In response, Trump’s campaign team fired shots back at the “miserable, sad, and cowardly” President.

“What a sad, miserable, cowardly existence Crooked Joe Biden and his campaign must have to make such a disgusting ad on such a joyous day. Their lives are obviously filled with anger, hate, and resentment because they clearly suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome," Trump’s team said in a statement. “President Trump continues to live rent-free in their pea-sized brains, even on Mother's Day."

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/05/12/biden-mothers-day-video-n2638970?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=15803c7fc8c68b6fd1f0a5e7f4b59fc49df45d48335d4339ad60f7b0a0c7404d&recip=28668535

Dr. Bhattacharya: Here's Why the WHO Treaty Is Fauciism on Global Steroids

Dr. Bhattacharya: Here's Why the WHO Treaty Is Fauciism on Global Steroids

ED MORRISSEY

The popular definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." That perfectly characterizes a new effort by the UN, the Biden administration, and far-left foundations to expand the power of the World Health Organization (WHO). Negotiations for a treaty not only breathe life back into the discredited pandemic management policies pushed by Anthony Fauci and empire-building bureaucrats in the US but seek to make them unaccountable by having WHO dictate them to member nations without redress or debate.

Dictate is the operative word, too, because the treaty would also give WHO jurisdiction over "misinformation." This has echoes of the worst of the speech-suppressing policies pushed by Fauci, the State Department, and Big Tech. One of the biggest targets for that censorship, Great Barrington Declaration co-author Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, warned about this in a RealClearPolicy essay last week co-authored by Kevin Bardosh. The WHO's funding ask is outrageous enough, but the power grab is much more dangerous and insidious:

Read through the current draft of the treaty itself and you will find a whole section dedicated to “fighting misinformation.” There is no section focused on preventing harm. Those speaking out about these dangers have been subjected to harsh censorship. Once esteemed professionals were summarily fired for describing the reality of what was happening. The authors of the anti-lockdown Great Barrington Declaration—professors at Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford—were subject to a “devastating takedown” at the hands of Dr. Fauci and top scientific bureaucrats at the National Institutes of Health and the WHO.
Public health came to resemble the police, and those pushing the new WHO treaty want to go further. It calls for more mandates, more vaccine passports, and more censorship—our new global health “Lockdown Doctrine.”
Proponents of the treaty would have you believe that it is merely a tool that countries can use to guide future pandemic response efforts, that it cannot trump national sovereignty or be used to force failed policies on entire populations. But the lifeblood of international treaties is not in the dried ink. Treaties are constantly ignored. Nonetheless, they do one thing very well: they create an illusion of consensus, signaling to those with power and influence. These priorities are then filtered down into national laws and plans where they can do tremendous damage.

Dr. Bhattacharya spoke with me yesterday about the disastrous attempt to set bad policies and speech suppression into an unassailable and autocratic regime. The full interview is below, but here are some highlights of our discussion, cleaned up a bit from the AI-generated transcript. Both of us express grave concern over the rise of "scientism," specifically in the form of Anthony Fauci, as well as a refusal to apply any critical analysis to public-policy decisions in light of new data ... and sometimes old data as well.

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Q: You were one of the victims of the scientistic, and I use that term advisedly. It's not scientific, it's scientistic. Scientism as a sort of a belief system. And its high priest was a guy named Anthony Fauci. And to disagree with him or to dissent from him was an attack on science itself. And I'm not exaggerating that, am I?

A: No, he literally said that to some CNN interviewer. I mean, I was absolutely stunned, right? It's one of these things where like, you know, we religious types get accused of this kind of sort of unreasoned faith. But in fact, I've never seen even as a religious person, I've never seen anything more on reasoned faith than in the faith that people placed in Tony Fauci. Scientism is exactly the right word. ...

Tony Fauci actually has this very interesting paper that he wrote a few years before the pandemic. Essentially, it's a utopia. He writes a utopia of how to reorganize our society to rid us of the possibility of disease. And to me, Ed, it reads like a dystopia. Where the central organizing principle of society is that we view each other as biohazards, as primarily biohazards and nothing more.

Q: The problem is that when you allow that type of dystopia to take place, as we did during the pandemic, when we allowed bureaucrats with MDs and PhDs to dictate all of our choices because we didn't know what to do, and you don't have accountability, you don't have debate over those things, you miss the truth.

You opt for bad policies. And that's exactly what happened. And it was, you know, I don't mean to ring your bell constantly during this, Dr. Bhattacharya, but it was guys like you who were trying to stand up and say, we need to have a conversation about this. We need to test these hypotheses. Because they're not tested yet. And that means it's not science. And you got shut down and shut down hard by the mechanism that the World Health Organization wants to put in place to control misinformation in the health space.

(read the rest at link)...

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/05/08/bhattacharya-heres-why-the-who-treaty-is-fauciism-on-global-steroids-n3787993

Joe Biden's Insane Interview With Erin Burnett Should Be the Final Straw for American Voters

Joe Biden's Insane Interview With Erin Burnett Should Be the Final Straw for American Voters

By Bonchie

When is enough going to be enough for American voters? That was the first question that popped into my mind after watching Joe Biden's insane interview with Erin Burnett.

Being lied to is expected when the president speaks and to be sure, there was plenty of that going on during this appearance. For example, he claimed inflation was at "nine percent" when he took office. In reality, it was under two percent.

SEE: Biden Interview With Erin Burnett Is Hilarious Exercise in Childish Denial and Straight-Up Falsehood

There was something deeper going on with this CNN interview, though. Don't get me wrong. There's no doubt Biden is a habitual liar. Likewise, his senility is impossible to ignore. Those are the things we normally focus on when covering him, and for good reason. Here he is telling people that sky-high inflation is fine because American families "have the money to spend." He then repeats a falsehood about "shrinkflation."

Putting that aside, though, Biden is something other than a senile old man who wouldn't know the truth if it punched him in his botox-stretched face.

Joe Biden is objectively evil.

As RedState reported earlier on Wednesday, Biden pledged to withhold arms shipments to Israel if they move into Rafah to finish off Hamas.

If Israel goes after the last remaining Hamas stronghold to eliminate the terrorist movement and free any hostages who happen to remain alive, Biden said, "we’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells used.”

It's cliche to call something astonishing, but it's truly mind-blowing to see a U.S. president side with a terrorist group over a multi-generational ally. Never mind that Hamas continues to attack and is still holding dozens of hostages, including some Americans. Yet, Biden has decided he doesn't care about any of that, instead choosing to prioritize his electoral prospects (and committing an impeachable offense in the process).

Do you know what you call someone who throws an ally to the wolves for cheap personal gain? You call them evil, and Biden is just that. He's also a moral coward who is so terrified of his own shadow that he can't even speak clearly about genocidal maniacs.

Putting aside that Biden appears to have the mental acuity of a five-year-old, words without action are meaningless. Saying lofty things in a speech about respecting the Holocaust while saving and empowering a genocidal terrorist government is not respecting the Holocaust. It's spitting on the memory of those who perished. The president wants to have it both ways and in the process, he has once again exposed himself as the mental midget that he is.

Take this word salad as the perfect example.

BIDEN: When I went over immediately after that happened, I said to Bibi, don't make the same mistake we made in America. We wanted to get Bin Laden, and we'll help you get Sinwar, but we went into Afghanistan to, it made sense to go get Bin Laden, it made no sense to try to unify Afghanistan. It made no sense, in my view, in thinking that in Iraq they had a nuclear weapon. Don't make the same mistake. Focus on, and we'll help you focus on getting the bad guys.

It's hard to put into words how infuriating that excerpt is. Biden was against going after Bin Laden, but that's not the biggest problem with what he's saying. The problem with what he's saying is that it's high-minded garbage that offers zero alternative solutions while lecturing Israel for daring to take the only one on the table.

How exactly is Biden going to "help" get Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar if Rafah, his final stronghold, is deemed completely off-limits for attack? How is the president going to help Israel "focus on getting the bad guys" if he is actively protecting the bad guys? The insinuation there is clear, and it's disgusting to see the president throw a dedicated ally under the bus because his wife and the rest of the pro-terror contingent demand it.

This should be the final straw for American voters. Biden can not be allowed to remain the President of the United States. We are well past the point of these just being simple policy disagreements. What is coming from the White House is simply evil.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/05/08/joe-bidens-insane-interview-with-erin-burnett-should-be-the-final-straw-for-american-voters-n2173950?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=15803c7fc8c68b6fd1f0a5e7f4b59fc49df45d48335d4339ad60f7b0a0c7404d

Trump Finds Brilliant Way to Sidestep Judge Merchan's Unconstitutional Gag Order

Trump Finds Brilliant Way to Sidestep Judge Merchan's Unconstitutional Gag Order

Sarah Arnold

Former President Donald Trump found a brilliant way to throw Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order back at him after saying he would consider jail time for the 2024 hopeful, should he violate it.

The corrupt New York judge threatened to throw Trump in jail after claiming he violated a gag order for the 10th time on April 22 when he commented on the political composition of the jury.

“That jury was picked so fast — 95 percent Democrats. The area's mostly all Democrat," Trump said in an interview. ”It's a very unfair situation, that I can tell you.”

However, after leaving a Manhattan courthouse this week, Trump carefully sidestepped Merchan’s orders by using the left's own words against them in regards to his hush money trial.

While addressing the press, Trump pulled out a piece of paper and read quotes from CNN, Good Morning America, NBC, and other left-leaning outlets on what they are saying about the case.

Trump expertly avoids violating Judge Merchan's unconstitutional gag order by using the left's own words against them. He pulls out a piece of paper and reads quotes from CNN and other news outlets on what THEY are saying about the case. Brilliant. pic.twitter.com/CQXX53J2Gx
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 7, 2024

Merchan claimed that Trump’s comments "not only called into question the integrity, and therefore the legitimacy of these proceedings but again raised the specter of fear for the safety of the jurors and of their loved ones.”

In response to the left-wing judge’s threat, Trump insisted that despite facing jail time, expressing his constitutional rights was more important to him.

“Our Constitution is much more important than jail. It's not even close. I'll do that sacrifice any day," he said.

Quoting the American Founding Father Patrick Henry, Trump wrote “Give me liberty or give me death," on Truth Social.

“It is a really bad feeling to have your Constitutional Right to Free Speech, such a big part of life in our Country, so unfairly taken from you, especially when all of the sleazebags, lowlifes, and grifters that you oppose are allowed to say absolutely anything that they want," Trump continued. "It is hard to sit back and listen to lies and false statements be made against you knowing that if you respond, even in the most modest fashion, you are told by a Corrupt and Highly Conflicted Judge that you will be put in prison, maybe for a long period of time."

Trump hit back against the “thugs” attacking the Republican Party, calling on the nation’s “First Amendment must stand, free and strong.”

https://townhall.com//tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/05/08/trump-finds-brilliant-way-to-sidestep-judge-merchans-unconstitutional-gag-order-n2638798?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=15803c7fc8c68b6fd1f0a5e7f4b59fc49df45d48335d4339ad60f7b0a0c7404d&recip=28668535

Sunday, May 12, 2024

Joe Biden’s biggest problem is that his presidency is an utter failure

Joe Biden’s biggest problem is that his presidency is an utter failure

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President Biden has suffered a collapse in his standing generally, but, fundamentally, it’s because so few people think he’s doing a good job that he’s in such a perilous state.

Other than that, it’s going great.

It’s hard to exaggerate how abysmal Biden’s polling has been lately.

No incumbent president should ever want to be near 43% in a head-to-head ballot test.

Yet here is Joe Biden at 43% in the latest CNN poll, 43% in the latest Morning Consult poll, 43% in the latest Economist/YouGov poll and 43% in the latest Harvard/Harris poll.

(NB: Biden ticked up to 48 when Harvard/Harris pushed respondents to choose between Trump and Biden, and the Economist/YouGov poll had RFK Jr. in the mix.)

Detect a trend? (There are other polls that have Biden a little higher.)

It’s no mystery why Biden’s polling is at crisis levels.

An incumbent president’s level of support in a re-election bid is typically tethered closely to his job approval.

It’s hard to get much more than a couple of points above it.

Biden’s job approval is at 40% in the RealClearPolitics polling average and at 39.3% in the 538 polling average.

The CNN poll has Biden’s job approval right there at 40%, where it’s held steady for about a year, with 60% disapproving.

The Harvard/Harris has his approval rating a little higher at 44%, even though he’s at 43% in the ballot test.

It’s not just that Biden’s job approval is low; he’s trailing Trump on the rather crucial metric of who was or is a successful president.

According to the CNN poll, 55% of the public now considers the Trump presidency a success, and 44% look at it as a failure.

Biden, in contrast, is upside down. Only 39% say his presidency has been a success, while 61% say it’s been a failure.

People may have all sorts of expectations for presidents — that they not get indicted, that they not post on TruthSocial in ALL CAPS, that they accept the results of elections, etc., etc. — but the most important one, surely, is that they succeed at the job.

Being considered a failed president is not, needless to say, a status consistent with winning re-election.

Of course, the economy is the biggest anchor on Biden.

His numbers there are in the tank: CNN has his approval on the economy at 34% and inflation at 29%.

The Economist/YouGov poll found the same thing — 39% approval on the economy and 29% on prices.

In a normal election, these numbers simply wouldn’t be survivable.

But with two extremely well-known, unpopular candidates, this is not a normal race.

Trump’s history and personal radioactivity give Biden a lot of material to work with.

And it’s a boon to him that his opponent is locked down in a courtroom several days a week.

The problem for Biden is that many of the attacks on Trump — especially those based on his legal prosecutions — feel besides the point compared to the bigger questions in the race.

Are more people going to care that Trump has been convicted of felonious bookkeeping related to a payment to a porn star eight years ago — or that they think he can do a better job handling inflation?

And there’s more bad news for Biden: Besides disapproving of his job performance and his economy, people don’t particularly like him, don’t think he’s a strong leader and don’t think he’s fit to be president.

If all that represents trouble for the incumbent, the biggest problem, again, is that he’s failing at his job.

The most direct way for Joe Biden to improve his chances in November would be to become a good president — although it’s unfair to place such unrealistic expectations on him at this juncture in his presidency and career.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/opinion/president-joe-bidens-biggest-obstacle-to-re-election/