Biden proves once again what a r****t he is. From is long time adoration of Senator "Sheets" Byrd an KKK grand Kleagle, to not wanting his children to grow up in a racial (read integrated) jungle, to his You ain't black comments all show a distinct pattern of r****m. Has he grown past it? I say not. Now he refuses a promise made to a HBCU. Even Kaine commented on it. Of course, for the lying Timmy Kaine, he only said it to garner v**es from the uninformed.
I would surmise that Joebama's supporters are closet r****ts too.....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/virginia-lawmakers-college-leaders-react-after-president-biden-announces-he-won-t-participate-in-debate-at-vsu/ar-BB1msC8f?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=859049d251dc4f349cd48538541dfc2f&ei=24

Biden Aides Lament the 'Psychological Torment' the President Is Suffering

By: Bonchie

Joe Biden's handlers are worried about him suffering "psychological torment." That's the story after several staffers told Politico that his mental health may be at risk if his son ends up in prison.

H****r B***n is currently set to stand trial on June 3rd in Delaware on gun charges. He's also set to face a federal jury over tax evasion sometime after that. The president's son faced a final setback in early May after a judge denied his appeal to delay the proceedings in Delaware.

This has apparently left Biden distraught and angry, with staffers avoiding the subject for fear of beratement.

While aides insist that the White House will have no involvement in the case, brought by special counsel David Weiss, some fear it could dramatically impact the president himself, more psychologically than politically.

Three advisers granted anonymity to speak about private deliberations said they, and members of the First Family, are worried about the weight H****r B***n’s trial will place on the president at an already difficult time for him politically. Biden has expressed fears to them about the possibility that his son will serve time in prison.

“He worries about H****r every single day, from the moment he wakes up to the moment he goes to sleep,” said one of the three advisers. “That will only pick up during a trial.”

On the one hand, I suppose I understand how a father would worry about his son, even if his son is a corrupt scumbag who allegedly abused women. On the other hand, no one is forcing Joe Biden to be president. If this is all too much to bear, and it seems to be, then he's welcome to retire with the multi-millions he made being a career politician to one of his multiple mansions.

Am I supposed to feel empathy for the president's situation despite much of it being self-inflicted by his repeated coddling of and excuse-making for a son who needed tough love long before he committed federal crimes? This idea that there's no other option but for the president to suffer in silence underneath the weight of his office is nonsense. Joe Biden is welcome to go to Rehoboth Beach full-time if he'd like. He could even attend H****r B***n's trial to show his support.

Does this sound like a guy who is up for his current job?

But there is a gingerness among the president’s team about how to approach the matter. With few exceptions, White House aides don’t bring up the subject of H****r B***n with the president, for fear of an angry rebuke or an icy stare, according to two of those people familiar with the president’s reactions. All spoke only on condition of anonymity to describe the personal elements of the presidency.

Given Joe Biden's past struggles with anger, it's not a surprise that his staff are terrified to bring up the subject. You would think a president who is currently losing his ree******n campaign would understand the need to have a coherent political strategy. If he's so psychologically broken, then he has no business being president. The results so far speak for themselves.

At the end of the day, H****r B***n deserves to go to prison. If that's too much stress for Joe Biden, then he should step aside. What shouldn't be expected is for anyone to feel sorry for either of them.


Of late, there have been threads about parents being held responsible for their children’s behavior. I v**e Biden be held responsible for his abysmal parenting which has caused H****r to believe he can evade taxes and lie on a BATFE Form 4473 with no repercussions.

Victor Davis Hanson-- May 13, 2024

Joe Biden’s personal approval rating is at historic lows; almost all his policies do not poll fifty percent. He is behind Trump in almost all the swing states. And now he lies serially even to sympathetic interviewers. In short, finally Biden has been exposed for what he always was and represented. Senator and Vice President Joe Biden was always sort of a buffoon. He is by nature a grandstander who handsomely profited from his office while posing as good ole Joe from Scranton. He is a blowhard meddler, one who proverbially has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades (Robert Gates),” from dissenting on the Bin Laden raid to his trisection of Iraq scheme. He is a fabulist who believes that the more animated he misleads and slurs (“semi-f*****ts” “fat”, “lying dog-faced pony soldier”, “chumps”, “dregs of society”, etc), the more likely he is to get away with it. He is a confessed plagiarist. And he has also invented much of his biography, from would be star, college-scholarship athlete and brilliant law student to semi-truck driver and jailed civil rights activist. His uncle, we are instructed, was eaten by cannibals. Joe assures us that he was the first in his family to go to college. And he is a r****t with a repertory of racial taunts and smears unrivaled among modern politicians (“junkie”, “boy”, “you ain’t black”, “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy”, “put y’all back in chains”, the Corn Pop and golden-leg hairs sagas, the “racial jungle” memes, the strange brag about Delaware as a “s***e state” (e.g., "You don't know my state. My state was a s***e state. My state is a border state.”), and his encomia for the old Democratic r****ts of the Senate from former Klansman Robert Byrd (Biden’s self-described “mentor” and “guide”) to segregationist James Eastland (“never called me boy”). Biden has always had a mean streak that explains why for years he lied about the tragic, fatal auto accident of his first wife and child, using it to libel the truck driver, who was neither drunk nor culpable but smeared publicly for years by Biden as intoxicated and guilty. For years he ignored the pleas of the trucker’s family to please stop libeling an innocent driver. Biden just told his greatest whopper that inflation was at 9 percent (actually 1.4 percent) when he took office and yet soon spiked to 9 percent due to his reckless deficit spending and money printing spree. But recently Biden has reached a nadir and even the Left is resigned to him as a mere construct. After bragging after October 7 that his support for Israel was rock-solid he is now cutting off military aid as it attempts finally to end the Hamas murderous threat—a reversion to old Joe Biden who in his long past has previously threatened to cut off Israel while boasting later that anyone who did so was reprehensible. (Leveraging congressional mandated aid for political advantage is precisely the (false) allegation of politicking that the Democrats demagogued to impeach Trump—to the then cheers of Biden himself). But his sell out of Israel is but a small tessera in his e******n pandering mosaic. He will again begin drawing down the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gas prices during the campaign. He has badgered Ukraine not to hit Russian oil facilities. He has illegally forgiven billions in student loan aid to regain the elite youth v**e. And as the campaign season begins, so too Biden suddenly poses as a border enforcer—after letting in nearly 10-million i*****l a***ns. Biden has always put the agendas of his own and his family above the national interest. We witnessed that when he bragged that he fired the Ukrainian prosecutor looking into his son’s Burisma skullduggery. The Biden consortium is corrupt and was enriched with over $25 million through foreign interests’ assurance that Senator and Vice President Joe Biden would deliver on their quid pro quo investments in him. Any other major politician who habitually invaded the private space of women and preteens to blow on their hair, gobble their necks, squeeze and hug far too long, and be accused of sexual assault would have long since been cancelled by the left. Add the old disturbing narrative of a naked Vice President Joe Biden exiting his pool in front of female secret service agents, the showering with his pre-teen daughter, the Frank Biden and H****r naked selfies, and there seems something eerie among the Biden family. Despite fierce denials, the entire lawfare scheme directed at Trump originated with the White House. Biden was always said to have been exasperated with Merrick Garland for not hastily enough going after Trump. The misadventurous Georgia prosecutor Nathan Wade met with and was tutored by the White House counsel’s office. One of the top Biden DOJ prosecutors was dispatched to rescue the bungling Alvin Bragg farce. Jack Smith, appointed by the Biden DOJ to go after Biden’s 2024 p**********l rival, timed his indictments to coincide with the campaign season, even as Smith’s office mishandled classified files taken at Mar-a-Lago to bolster its prosecution—and then lied about it. Hard-won American deterrence was destroyed by the humiliation in Afghanistan and the lies surrounding the disaster, the Chinese balloon flight and the misinformation about it, the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, and on the Red Sea, and the accompanying disinformation from the White House. Such recklessness abroad is the bookend to the home front where massive borrowing, the destruction of the border, crippling inflation, spiraling crime, and the epidemic of “progressive” anti-Semitism on campuses have made American almost unrecognizable. Again, at the heart of this Biden catastrophe is the Faustian bargain of 2020 when unelectable l*****t candidates dropped out in unison to use a fumbling Biden as their more presentable veneer. So he was foisted upon the nation to serve as “moderate” cover to advance a radical, veritable Obama third-term. In that sense, his duties were ceremonial—as the hard-left channeled through him the most radical agenda in U.S. history, and found his debility and dementia advantageous—the country be damned. If Biden makes it to and through the convention, he and his record remain indefensible. And so expect his campaign largely to be waged through lawfare against Trump, and massive infusions of l*****t cash to ensure record mail-in and early v****g. In the campaign Biden will become an afterthought, a ghost, vapor, as his party seeks to construct the entire e******n one of leftwing, blue-city prosecutors, judges, and juries versus serial defendant Trump. But will Nemesis first catch up to Biden’s long record of hubris and dishonesty?
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Since Biden Inherited The Trump Boom, The Whole Economy’s Gone Bust

Now that the easy-growth environment of the post-C***d era is well behind us, Biden — and the country — face a terrible economic reckoning.

For years, President Joe Biden was flying west to east with the prevailing winds, economically speaking. During C***d, politicians (primarily Democrats) closed down large portions of the economy. When C***d ended, the economy “grew” because that’s what happens when you go from a partially closed economy to an entirely open one.

Why economists fail to recognize this easy-growth environment is befuddling. Now, in rapid succession, we have a weak GDP report, poor jobs and unemployment reports, another terrible fiscal report, and more awful inflation reports. Horrible data that even the pro-Biden media can’t cover up.

The t***h is that Biden’s economic numbers were never any good. And now that the easy-growth environment of the post-C***d era is well behind us, Biden — and the country — face a terrible economic reckoning.
Before C***d, U.S. GDP reached $20.95 trillion and the Trump administration was achieving real GDP growth of about 2.8 percent annually. Had that rate of growth continued, it would today yield a real GDP of $23.56 trillion. The United States is not close to that number. In fact, first-quarter 2024 GDP reflects annual growth of less than 2 percent from the pre-C***d GDP.

Now, if the U.S. economic situation had deteriorated in 2020 because of long-term fundamental weaknesses, Biden’s so-called “growth” might not look so bad. But that is not what happened. Politicians artificially closed down a strong economy.

When the economy reopened, competent leadership would have gotten us quickly back to where we should have been all along. Instead, we got Biden and people like Jared Bernstein — Biden’s music major-turned-chief economic-adviser who literally has no idea what he’s talking about.

As it turns out, the Trump administration did most of the heavy lifting during the C***d recovery. From the depths of the C***d crisis (Q2 2020) through the end of Trump’s term, real GDP rose by about $1.69 trillion in just six months. Under Biden, GDP has grown by about $2 trillion. But that took Biden 39 months.

Real GDP does not tell the whole story because it is adjusted for inflation but not population growth. All things being equal, a society of 11 people should have a higher GDP than a society of 10. Under the Trump recovery, real per capita GDP increased by $5,028 in just six months. Under Biden, per capita GDP has increased by about the same amount ($5,291) in three-plus years. The Trump administration added $2,514 per quarter back to real per capita GDP compared to Biden’s $407 per quarter — six times stronger performance.

One might argue that Trump benefited as well from the same easy-growth environment during this period. Not so. Many of the government-enforced business closures and restrictions remained in place throughout 2020, the end of Trump’s term.

Moreover, C***d v*****es — a catalyst for much of the “return to normalcy,” particularly in Democrat-controlled localities — did not become widely available until well into 2021. Thus, Trump began rebuilding GDP even while the economy remained partially closed. By contrast, Biden has benefitted from an entirely open economy for several years. In any event, even if both men received the benefit of reopenings, Trump took advantage of it and outperformed Biden six to one.

Under Biden, cumulative inflation is 20 percent. Everyone is aware of the painfully high prices for everything. The Biden administration and its media allies have facially done a better job hiding myriad other distressing economic realities. I say “facially” because Americans nonetheless intuitively understand that the Biden economy is awful.
Employment has been bad for more than a year. Last year at this time, 134.4 million Americans had full-time jobs. That number has dropped to 133.9 million. A declining full-time workforce is not a sign of a healthy economy.

Moreover, the true employment level has always been masked by poor labor force participation data under Biden. Labor participation is an important number because it measures the percentage of Americans who are working. By contrast, the unemployment rate does not measure the percentage of Americans actually unemployed because it excludes from its calculation unemployed people who are no longer looking for work.

Labor force participation was trending upward under Trump before lockdowns. And, post-lockdowns, the Trump administration added 1.4 percent back to labor participation in just eight months. The Biden administration has added just 1.2 percent back to labor participation over the last 39 months. Labor participation still hasn’t fully recovered under Biden and remains below its pre-lockdown level. In fact, labor participation has actually declined under Biden over the last eight months.

According to court data, total bankruptcy filings increased by 16.8 percent in 2023. Business bankruptcies increased by a whopping 40 percent. Similar increases in U.S. bankruptcy filings were reported again in the first quarter of 2024.

Over the last year, six major U.S. banks have failed. In t***h, bank failures are not that uncommon. However, the Biden bank failures are unique. By asset size, three of the four largest bank failures in U.S. history — Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic Bank, and Signature Bank — have occurred in just the last year. For context, according to a Forbes analysis, the 157 banks that failed in 2010 due to the mortgage crisis combined had less than one-half the assets of either Silicon Valley Bank or First Republic Bank alone.

Even the GDP numbers that Biden touts have, in reality, been rocky and poor for quite some time. Over the last nine calendar quarters, the United States has experienced two quarters of negative growth (-2.0 percent, -0.6 percent), the most recent quarter of poor growth (1.6 percent), and four additional quarters below the Trump pre-lockdown average of 2.8 percent.

Average annualized growth under Biden across all of the last nine quarters has been an anemic 1.9 percent. That is low. But it is astonishingly low in an economy that moved from partially closed to entirely open.
At the same time Biden was wrecking the economy, he was also wrecking our available solutions to economic problems. The United States has a consumer economy. It depends on consumer spending to thrive. Because of Biden, consumers do not have money to spend.

Real median household income has dropped under Biden from $76,600 to $74,580, according to the most recent data. For context, under Trump, median household income increased from $70,840 to $76,660, and that includes the worst C***d period. During his so-called “recovery,” Biden took $2,020 out of American paychecks. Americans no longer earn enough to spend our way out of a bad economy.

Before lockdowns, personal savings in the U.S. increased each year under Trump from $746 billion in 2016 to $1.2 trillion in 2019. Personal savings peaked at $2.7 trillion in 2020 during lockdowns. Under Biden, savings have plummeted below pre-lockdown levels to $911 billion as Americans have tried to keep up with inflation. Americans no longer have enough savings to spend our way out of a bad economy.

Under Biden, credit card debt skyrocketed from $717 billion in 2021 to $1.13 trillion in 2023. In December 2023, credit card delinquency rates hit their highest level in over a decade. Under Biden, interest rates on credit cards, auto loans, and home mortgages have hovered at decades-long highs.

This means people are paying more in the future for things that they already purchased in the past, leaving them with less for future consumption. Americans no longer have enough credit to spend our way out of a bad economy.
The savings and debt trends are problematic not only going forward but also looking back. They show that Biden’s growth numbers — as lackluster as they are — were artificially supported by draining savings and racking up debt. Stealing from the future is not a healthy way to maintain short-term economic “growth.”

Even the left’s preferred, albeit usually wrongheaded and always misapplied, Keynesian solution — i.e., government deficit spending — is off the table. Put aside that this is one of the things that put us in this inflationary predicament in the first place. Further, put aside that three additional American generations now know this to be true based on lived experience. The fact is that, in just three years, Biden has incurred more national debt than any other president has incurred in four full years in office.

To compound matters, interest rates on the federal debt — like all other interest rates — have skyrocketed with Bidenflation. This year, simply paying interest on the debt will surpass national defense as the government’s third-largest spending program. The government can no longer spend our way out of a bad economy even in a Keynesian fantasyland.

The next president will be flying east to west into severe Bidenomics headwinds.

Ohio secretary of state orders removal of non-citizens from state v**er rolls
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Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) ordered the removal of non-citizens from the state’s v**er rolls after more than 100 were found registered despite confirming their lack of U.S. citizenship.

On Tuesday, LaRose directed all 88 counties to begin a removal process for non-citizens on Ohio’s v**er rolls following a review by his office’s Public Integrity Division and Office of Data Analytics and Archives. The review analyzed data from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) and found 137 v***r r**********ns of non-citizens who had twice confirmed their lack of U.S. citizenship.

State law requires non-citizens to confirm to the BMV twice that they are not U.S. citizens. The secretary of state’s office will send two notices to the Ohio residents to either cancel their v***r r**********n or confirm their U.S. citizenship. If they do not respond to the notices, then they will be removed from the state v**er rolls.

“It’s important to recognize that some of these registrations may be the result of an honest mistake,” LaRose said in a statement. “These may be well-meaning people trying to pursue the American dream, and communication barriers sometimes result in a registration form being submitted in error. We need to help them get that cleared up before an accidental registration becomes an illegal v**e that could result in a felony conviction or even deportation.”

LaRose’s office also asked the Biden administration to provide citizenship data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ SAVE database, federal district court records, and databases from the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration.

Pope Francis, in a recent CBS interview, labeled skeptics of the c*****e c****e narrative as ‘foolish’ for not believing ‘research.’
Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent--LIFESITE
Thu Apr 25, 2024 – PRINTED OFF 5/16/24
MAYBE HE SHOULD WORRY ABOUT A******NS FIRST
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has stated that “deniers of c*****e c****e” are “foolish” as they don’t believe “research,” and insisting that “c*****e c****e exists.”
In comments made to CBS Evening News and aired April 24, the 87-year-old Pontiff decried those whom CBS’s Norah O’Donnell described as “deniers of c*****e c****e.”
“There are people who are foolish, and foolish even if you show them research, they don’t believe it,” responded Francis. “Why? Because they don’t understand the situation or because of their interest, but c*****e c****e exists.”
In contrast, Dr. John Clauser – Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 2022 alongside two other scientists, for his work in the field of quantum mechanics – has argued that “misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic p***********e.”
“In turn,” he added, “the p***********e has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis.”
CBS noted that Francis’ very brief comments will be expanded upon in a longer “60 Minutes” episode on May 19, followed by an hour-long program on May 20.
Pope Francis has indeed made the talking point of “c*****e c****e” a central one in his 11-year pontificate along with the promotion of an “ecological spirituality.”
His 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si’ has become the reference text for numerous Vatican and papal initiatives focused on the so-called “green” agenda. In it, Francis speaks about a “true ecological approach” which listens to “both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.
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The document has given rise to the Laudato Si’ Movement, which aims to “turn Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato Si’ into action for climate and ecological justice,” as the mass divestment from “f****l f**ls” is inspired by the Pontiff’s environmental writings.
Last October 4, Francis published a second part to Laudato Si’ in the form of Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum, in which he issued stark calls for “obligatory” measures across the globe to address the issue of “c*****e c****e.”

“It is no longer possible to doubt the human – ‘anthropic’ – origin of c*****e c****e,” wrote the Pontiff, before later calling for mandatory alignment with “green” policies:
If there is sincere interest in making COP28 a historic event that honors and ennobles us as human beings, then one can only hope for binding forms of energy t***sition that meet three conditions: that they be efficient, obligatory and readily monitored.
Such papal promotion of the “c*****e c****e” cause has not gone without high profile criticism, including lately from Canadian philosopher Jordan Peterson. Peterson slated Francis for his focus on “c*****e c****e,” saying the Pope “seems to be on about [the topic] constantly when you should be saving souls.”
“That’s how you save the planet, not by worshiping Gaia,” Peterson stated, referring to the pagan name for “Mother Earth.” “I don’t see for the life of me what the Catholic Church has to do with the ‘climate crisis,’” he continued. “Just the formulation is wrong; the priority is wrong; you save the world one person at a time.”
In what was set to be the culmination of all of his “c*****e c****e” activism, Francis was due to attend the COP28 climate conference in Dubai last November. However, due to ill health, he had to cancel the trip less than two days before he had intended to leave.
The Pope has also made numerous calls to action for global leaders to implement the pro-a******n Paris Climate Agreement, citing the “negative effects of c*****e c****e” and an “ecological debt” which required “climate finance, decarbonization in the economic system and in people’s lives.”
After many years of climate alarmism rhetoric from the Pontiff, in 2022 the Vatican officially joined the United Nations Framework Convention on C*****e C****e (UNFCCC) and the Paris Climate Agreement. The Pope defended the controversial move, saying that “she [‘Mother Earth’] weeps and implores us to put an end to our abuses and to her destruction.”
His continued promotion of the Paris Agreement, which underpins the majority of the current “c*****e c****e” agenda, comes despite the agreement’s fundamentally pro-a******n principles which connect to the stated U.N. goal of creating a universal “right” to a******n in line with Goal No. 5.6 of the organization’s Sustainable Development Goals.
His actions have disregarded long-standing and repeated concerns from pro-life and family advocates, who continually warned about the climate activism movement’s alignment with pro-a******n and population control advocates and lobby groups.
Consequently, the Pope’s “c*****e c****e” rhetoric has earned criticism also from prelates within the Church. Bishop Athanasius Schneider joined the late Cardinal George Pell in condemning Francis’ concept of “ecological conversion,” with Schneider arguing it was “an expression of pure naturalism… there is no supernatural vision, or a very vacant supernatural vision.” “Ecological conversion is an abuse of this concept of conversion itself,” he stated.