[Breitbart] President Joe Biden delivered a bleak commencement address this weekend, characterizing America as a racist place that does not love black people.
Biden gave a commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday where he appeared to characterize America in the harshest light in terms of race relations.
“You started college just as George Floyd was murdered,” Biden proclaimed. “And there was a reckoning on race. It’s natural to wonder if the democracy you hear about actually works for you.”
What is democracy if black men are being killed in the street?” he openly wondered. “What is democracy with a trail of broken promises leaving black communities behind? What is democracy if you have to be ten times better than anyone else to get a fair shot? Most of all, what does it mean, as you’ve heard before, to be a black man who loves his country even if it doesn’t love him back in equal measure?”
The crowd applauded him.
As Breitbart News reported on Sunday, students were seen turning their back on the president due to his support for Israel:
At least three Morehouse graduates could be seen in photos with their backs turned, according to an X post by a pro-Trump super PAC. One of them wore a keffiyeh scarf to signify solidarity with Palestinians.
The press pool traveling with Biden acknowledged seeing one student who stood at the back of the ceremony with his back turned and his right fist raised. According to the pool, a “few” graduates and faculty staff were wearing keffiyeh scarves.
While Biden called Hamas’s attack on Israel on October “vicious,” and mentioned “hostages” from the attack, he focused more on the “humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” called for an “immediate ceasefire,” and told students their “voices should be heard,” in reference to the pro-Palestinian protests breaking out at college campuses.
Biden also touched on issues of voting rights during his speech, sentiments he echoed in a later speech to the NAACP in Detroit.
[Modernity] The freshly reelected Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has declared Donald Trump to be a "racist, sexist homophobe," urging the Labour party to "call him out" as you would do a "best mate."
Khan told POLITICO "I’m quite clear, I understand on Trump... He’s a racist. He’s a sexist. He’s a homophobe. And it’s very important, particularly when you’ve got a special relationship, that you treat them as a best mate."
"If my best mate was a racist, or a sexist or a homophobe, I’d call him out and I’d explain to him why those views are wrong."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up, they say. But really, it’s both.
Dr. David Morens, a senior advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci from 1998 until 2022
Some of Morens' emails have been obtained by congressional subpoena
He said he deleted his communications to avoid turning them over to the public
Some of Morens' emails have been obtained by congressional subpoena and were read out by House Oversight Chairman James Comer in a hearing Thursday, part of lawmakers' probe into the theory that covid came from a leak in a Chinese lab.
Morens, who works at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), wrote about deleting his communications to avoid turning them over to the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
He was writing to Peter Daszak, whose organization EcoHealth Alliance had its federal funding suspended this week for its role in contracting controversial coronavirus research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
'I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA'd but before the search starts,' Morens wrote to Daszak. 'So I think we are all safe. Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail.'
'We are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns,' Morens wrote in a later message. 'And if we did we wouldn't put them in emails. And if we found them we would delete them.'
Fauci and his advisors at NIAID came into the spotlight after it emerged the agency funded EcoHealth Alliance to conduct research including experiments that altered coronaviruses to make them more dangerous.
EcoHealth subcontracted the work to the Chinese lab in Wuhan and, according to the Department of Health and Human Services which pulled their funding on Wednesday, failed to adequately oversee it – potentially leading to an accident causing a global pandemic in 2020.
Congressman Brad Wenstrup, chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, is now concerned that Morens and Daszak may have tried to cover their tracks following the scandal by deleting federal records.
His committee released emails last year showing Morens discussed using his personal rather than government email and deleting communications to avoid scrutiny.
The top official for NIAID, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), wrote in an email to Daszak in 2021 that he communicates on Gmail 'because my NIH email is FOIA'd constantly.'
'Just send to any of my addresses and I will delete anything I don't want to see in the New York Times,' Morens wrote, according to lawmakers.
Wenstrup has now issued two subpoenas to Morens: one for all his gmail correspondence about the origins of COVID-19, and another forcing him to testify to the committee on May 22.
DailyMail.com understands that Morens turned over about 30,000 emails to the committee on April 30.
[Washington Examiner] The Florida classified documents case against former President Donald Trump is not going well for special counsel Jack Smith, both in pace and in consistency.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, an appointee of Trump, reprimanded Smith in a Sunday afternoon order relating to requests for redactions by parties in the criminal case. The judge suggested Smith is flip-flopping on his past claims of concern over grand jury secrecy and witness safety, a move that marks a blow to the special counsel’s consistency in a case that is already facing major setbacks as it moves toward an eventual trial.
[REDSTATE] It's not quite time for closing arguments in the New York-based criminal case against Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , but the crescendo is building.
On Monday, disgraced felon Michael Cohen ...sleazy lawyer who worked for Trump as his ''fixer,'' then turned on him after the Stormy Daniels shakedown. Mikey told about six hundred different stories, most of them contradfictory and some physically impossible. In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts including campaign-finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. As Alvin Bragg's star witness against Trump, he admitted on the stand to enbezzling from the Trump Organization... retook the stand as he continued to serve as the prosecution's star witness. The problem? Cohen is a proven liar and total scumbag, and Trump's legal team got him to admit that on the stand in no uncertain terms.
In a moment that set the internet on fire, Cohen admitted to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the Trump organization.
I can't claim to know what the jury will ultimately decide in this case given how absurd and overly-politicized it is. I can say with some certainty that in any normal situation, having the prosecution's star witness admit to being a dishonest thief would be a death blow to the case's credibility. Remember, everything revolves around Cohen, who is now claiming to be a patsy who was just doing the bidding of Trump in cutting the check to Stormy Daniels.
That wasn't the only gut punch to Bragg's prosecution, though. Trump's legal team later highlighted that Cohen had repeatedly told the press and others that Trump did not know about the payment. It wasn't until after the FBI raided Cohen's home and office that he changed his story. Again, the lack of credibility of Bragg's star witness is simply astonishing.
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#2 He certainly has the basic congressional qualifications down, serial lying and theft. I just don't know if he can be trained to not admit so much of it.
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He will run … right back into jail. The chances of him not committing egregious campaign finance violations is slim to none. After this trial Cohen is of no use to anybody. It doesn’t sound as if he is even welcome on Jake Tapper’s show.
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Has he been disbarred? If not, why?
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So he can only make money on TikTok and teevee appearances, maybe books.
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Somewhere, someone has the complete set of proggy bobbleheads or plush pillows: Cohen, Tish James, Bragg, Jack Smith, Merchan, Chutkan, Fauci. Fanone, Willis, etc.
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@#6 - Next up for disbarment, hopefully, Fani Willis.
[PJM] Last week, after months of uncertainty and conjecture, the Biden campaign finally broke its silence on the issue of participating in presidential debates. However, rather than going through the Presidential Debates Commission, Biden's team proposed direct negotiations with the Trump campaign for two debates: one slated for June and another for September, under terms that were transparently designed to benefit Joe Biden.
The funniest thing about the debate challenge was that Biden tried to flip the script by accusing Trump of ducking debates and acting all macho about it.
"Now he is acting like he wants to debate me again,” Biden said. "Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice. So let’s pick the dates, Donald. I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”
Despite the challenge, I was skeptical. Think about it: Why would the Biden campaign, after months of indecision, now push for debates and act like it was their idea in the first place? Biden’s public appearances have been disastrous. Even with a teleprompter, he struggles to deliver a speech without embarrassing himself. When he strays from the script, it’s a spectacle of blunders. His video challenge to Trump was a debacle as well, requiring a jump cut roughly every two seconds for a video that was just 13 seconds long.
It's certainly possible it was a bluff because the conditions the Biden campaign proposed were ridiculously absurd. Unfortunately for the Biden campaign, Trump called their bluff and agreed to the debates.
My skepticism appears to have been well founded because, according to Cindy Adams of the New York Post, Joe Biden is already trying to avoid debating Trump.
"I’m filled with messages about a maybe floppola failure," she writes. "Mouths kvetch that the debate won’t debate."
If the Biden campaign is truly having second, third, and fourth thoughts about the agreed-upon rules, which his campaign proposed, that tells me the debate challenge was a bluff they never expected Trump to agree to, and now they're fishing for reasons Biden can back out and potentially save face.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made a campaign promise to black farmers that will give them $5 billion in reparations should he win the 2024 presidential election. Kennedy, a one-time Democrat turned third-party insurgent, was speaking on a recent episode of his podcast with John Boyd Jr., founder of the National Black Farmers Association.
Boyd Jr. (pictured) is behind an effort to sue the Biden administration for watering down a proposed debt relief program aimed at helping people of color and 'socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers' in the agriculture industry. The farmers did not receive the relief package as the money was stalled in courts due to white farmers complaining the debt relief infringes on their constitutional rights.
Kennedy promised he will 'get rid' of the people who watered down the provision in the USDA and 'get that money' for black farmers 'when I'm in the White House.' 'That $5 billion is not money, that is an entitlement,' he told Boyd Jr. 'It's money that was a loan that black farmers were entitled to way back when and was stolen from them through discrimination.' Kennedy has several programs attempting to outflank Biden from the left on reparations.
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The 'Inflation Reduction Act; (yes, poorly named) authorized $2 Billion or so for this same thing.
I'm not sure what the requirements are for applying but the law was based on people being discriminated against during execution of farm loan programs. So applicants probably have to show or maybe affirm under penalty of perjury, that they applied for a loan and were turned down.
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...sort of like the COVID applications. That worked out so well. /sarc off
[Breitbart] Former President Donald Trump will purge the administrative state by firing career bureaucrats from the DOJ and the FBI if he wins reelection, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters.
Trump repeatedly vowed to drain the administrative state or “deep state,” as he termed it, upon returning to office.
The term “administrative state” specifically describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies, including the national security apparatus, exercising power to create and enforce their own rules. The administrative state uses its rule-making ability or raw power to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government by creating a so-called fourth branch of government not formed by the Constitution.
Trump’s reported focus on overhauling the DOJ is predicated on his belief that career bureaucrats inside the administrative state improperly target conservatives, conservative groups, or conservative ideals with the help of the national security state or intelligence apparatus. Trump’s contention is buoyed by significant reporting on various controversies, such as the coronavirus, the Russia hoax, and the “laptop from hell.”
The next Trump administration would place new constraints on the DOJ’s authority by decentralizing its power to other law enforcement agencies, the sources told Reuters. The initiative is not a new idea among citizens concerned about the erosion of civil liberty.
Eliminating the FBI’s general counsel, an office that worked against Trump’s presidency and the investigation into the 2016 Russia hoax, would be first, two prominent Trump allies said.
The Biden campaign condemned the idea as Trump exacting revenge on political opponents who allegedly work for a non-partisan agency funded by taxpayers. Most conservatives agree that a president should have the power to fire and hire federal bureaucrats for cause.
Before Trump left office in 2021, he signed an executive order (EO) to reclassify federal government employees into Schedule F, which would have allowed the president to enhance accountability and job performance within the bureaucratic agencies. “You have some people that are protected that shouldn’t be protected,” Trump said in May.
Biden canceled the order when he assumed office in 2021, but if Trump reclaims the White House, he will reportedly reimplement the executive order and purge the unelected technocrats artificially running the federal government. “It would effectively upend the modern civil service, triggering a shock wave across the bureaucracy,” Axios previously concluded about the EO’s impact.
“The mere mention of Schedule F ensures that the bureaucracy moves in your direction,” Russell Vought, Trump’s former director of the Office of Management and Budget, previously told Time.
“The President never had a policy process that was designed to give him what he actually wanted and campaigned on,” he added. “[We are] sorting through the legal authorities, the mechanics, and providing the momentum for a future Administration.”
The administrative state appears terrified of a Trump victory in November. It is preparing for Trump to win reelection by implementing a surge of bureaucratic regulations before a deadline that renders them difficult to undue by a potential Trump administration.
The administrative state implemented 66 rules in just April alone, a number that is greater than any month since the Reagan administration, a Regulatory Studies Center analysis found. Biden’s administrative state published 111 more regulations than Trump implemented at the same point in his term, Axios reported. Many of the rules will protect the progressive agenda of “climate change,” such as limiting auto tailpipe emissions and forcing power plants to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
A potential Trump administration, via the Congressional Review Act, can reverse the rules implemented during an upcoming “lookback period.” When the “lookback period” begins in 2024 is murky, but Axios reported Biden’s deadline ranges between May 22 and September. Any rules put into action before the deadline cannot be reversed.
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When Citizens can no longer trust their nations justice system to be fair, non-political, applied equally and their Election process is clearly fraudulent top to bottom. Then those Citizens tend to start to voice their objections in increasing ways.
Then, the Government elites typically go into a oppressive suppression mode against its citizenry to protect its own existence.
In a manner of Speaking TRUMP is that normal, common voters, voice against the DC Swamp.
An the DC Swamp is seriously worried about their continued unbridled existence and possible prison time for their deeds. To the point they are even openly flaunting their ability to circumvent the law, rights, and justice. All to protect their rule & agendas.
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All the alphabet agencies and government bureaucracy need to be slashed in an Argentina type move. At least a 40% reduction to start and several agencies like the ATF just need to be disbanded. By the time Trump leaves office, government shrunk by 60%, taxes and capital gains cut in half and roll back tons of regulations and you will see the economy roar back to life.
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all constitutional amendments above 10 into the trash. add two...no discrimination based on color or shape of skin...all elections on paper ballots cast in person on day of election. Military no exception, they can vote in situ on national issues.
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Return everything in the Beltway to it's natural original condition. Then farm out what Constitutionally authorized departments of the Executive branch across the country. No state can have more than one.
[NEWARAB] US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... on Monday slammed the International Criminal Court prosecutor's application for arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling the move "outrageous".
"And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence - none - between Israel and Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... . We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security." Biden said in a statement. "Ironclad!" he mumbled Also says he was a truck driver.
His top aide, Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... , also criticised the move, raising questions over the court's jurisdiction and process in making this application. He added that it could jeopardise negotiations to achieve a hostage deal and a ceasefire.
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Karim Khan: A personal appointment of Tony (The gutter mouth) Guterres as a United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and a brother of convicted sex offender Imran Ahmad Khan.
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Why should our taxpayers pay for this? Israel should pay veteran benefits for those that fight for them, just as I wouldn't expect Israel to pay for our veterans benefits if they fought in our war.
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I have a lot less trouble with this than with my tax dollars paying Ukrainian civil servant wages and bennies.
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More kabuki. Introducing a bill is easy, but I can’t imagine such a thing would pass in the Republican-controlled House, and no chance it Hell it would even get heard in committee in the Senate. Nor should it — only those who out on an American uniform should get American veteran benefits.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...sleazy lawyer who worked for Trump as his ''fixer,'' then turned on him after the Stormy Daniels shakedown. Mikey told about six hundred different stories, most of them contradfictory and some physically impossible. In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts including campaign-finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. As Alvin Bragg's star witness against Trump, he admitted on the stand to enbezzling from the Trump Organization...
[Breitbart] Former President Donald Trump will purge the administrative state by firing career bureaucrats from the DOJ and the FBI if he wins reelection, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters.
The Biden campaign condemned the idea as Trump exacting revenge on political opponents who allegedly work for a non-partisan agency funded by taxpayers. Most conservatives agree that a president should have the power to fire and hire federal bureaucrats for cause.
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
