Loneliness has hit ‘crisis’ levels in the US. How do we get out of it? Paloma Chavez Charlotte Observer
There is a growing epidemic the country needs to worry about, and it’s only going to get worse if we don’t take action, the U.S. surgeon general says. Loneliness and isolation and feeling forgotten and left behind are the worst feelings in LIFE and are on the rise in the U.S., and it’s quickly turning into a crisis — with roughly half of adults saying they’ve recently experienced loneliness, according to Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy’s 2023 advisory.
“When I first took office as Surgeon General in 2014, I didn’t view loneliness as a public health concern,” he said in his advisory. Loneliness and isolation are on the rise in the U.S., and it’s quickly turning into a crisis, according to Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy’s 2023 advisory. It wasn’t until he traveled across the country to hear Americans share their stories of feeling “isolated, invisible, and insignificant” that he realized “social disconnection was far more common than” he “had realized.”
The loneliness ‘crisis’ Though the COVID-19 pandemic brought out feelings of isolation and loneliness in many, they were already on the rise. The two make up this national issue of disconnectedness, and though they are related, they do not mean quite the same thing. Social isolation is defined by having few relationships and lack of social interaction, whereas loneliness is an “internal state.”
A 2022 study cited by the advisory showed only 39% of Americans felt like they were connected to others emotionally. The study showed that with this increase in lack of social connection to others, there was also an increase in loneliness.
The two factors are shown to be more “widespread than many of the other major health issues of our day, including smoking, diabetes, and obesity,” the advisory says. An increase in technology use, lack of community involvement and decline in personal participation in social interaction can partially be behind the rise in loneliness throughout the country.
Why social connection matters It’s simple. People who feel connected to others seem to live longer. Recent data spanning 148 studies has shown that individuals with a higher level of social connection has increased their “odds of survival by 50%.” Social connection influences health through three main pathways: biology, psychology and behavior.
The biology as in hormones, genes and inflammation; psychological as in having purpose and hopefulness; and behaviors like exercise, sleep and nutrition. So how can adequate social interaction help a person with these three health factors?
Social connection affects the biological pathway by showing up early in life and “contributing to risk and protection from disease” along the way. The psychological pathway is affected by social relationships and by giving a person motivation in their life.
Behavior can be affected directly through social influence by loved ones’ words of encouragement or following by example, like being more physically active if your friends work out. Lack of social connection, on the other hand, is a risk factor for deaths caused by disease, the advisory says.
Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, depression, infectious disease, anxiety and reduced cognitive function are all possible results. A weakened immune system caused by less social interaction may increase a person’s chance of developing an infectious disease. A study done during the COVID-19 pandemic showed “a lack of social connection with neighbors and resultant loneliness was associated with weaker antibody responses to the vaccine.”
Ways to improve social connection The advisory suggests designing a communal environment that helps build social connection through programs and institutes that bring people together. From a government perspective, policies should be put in place to “minimize harm from disconnection,” Murthy says. Additionally, he says health care providers should be thoroughly trained on the topic and increase tracking of disconnection in communities.
The surgeon general: Also advises that because digital environments may be a cause of loneliness and lack of social connection, companies need to provide more data transparency so officials can more broadly understand how technology affects disconnection. He also says those companies need to increase safety standards to protect users.
For the nation to combat this epidemic, there needs to be a sense of public awareness and more research funding on the topic, Murthy says. He suggests gathering researchers, health professionals and policymakers to make a national agenda to address the issue.
Overall, he says the most important way to cultivate is something people can do in their everyday lives. He says individuals need a new sense of social connection and to build “a culture of connection” through acts of service, being kind, respecting one another, and having these conversations in schools and workplaces.
The surgeon general urges the public to act now because “our future depends on what we do today.” “Answer that phone call from a friend. Make time to share a meal. Listen without the distraction of your phone,” he said. “Perform an act of service.
Express yourself authentically. The keys to human connection are simple, but extraordinarily powerful.” If you or someone you know needs help, you can contact the NAMI HelpLine. The National Alliance on Mental Illness offers a free, nationwide peer-support service providing information, resource referrals and support to people living with a mental health condition, their family members and caregivers, mental health providers and the public. You can call 1-800-950-6264 or text “HelpLine” to 62640 each Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET.
Loneliness leads to higher instances of disease, dementia, stroke, depression and anxiety. But what will cure loneliness requires just a bit more effort from each of us. Jon Gabriel Opinion contributor
President Biden is finally dismantling the last remaining COVID-related restrictions. But don’t worry: U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has announced a new epidemic. This one didn’t escape from a wet market and certainly wasn’t created in a lab. Dr. Murthy has declared “an epidemic of loneliness.” “Millions of people in America are struggling in the shadows, and that’s not right,” Murthy said. “That’s why I issued this advisory to pull back the curtain on a struggle that too many people are experiencing.” Loneliness has real impacts on our health. The surgeon general released an 81-page report this week showing that half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness. That number seems low — who hasn’t felt lonely? — but just 39% answered that they “felt very connected to others.” From the U.S. surgeon general: Our kids’ mental health is as critical as their grades. Here’s how to prioritize both.
All the lonely people: Why Americans’ isolation is a threat to our democracy Murthy took action when research tied serious mental and physical health risks to social disconnection. According to the report, loneliness leads to higher instances of disease, dementia, stroke, depression and anxiety. The damage to life expectancy is as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily. All of this adds to higher health costs, loss of worker productivity and declining community cohesion. It’s not just COVID. Americans have been isolating ourselves for years Every governmental policy bears unintended consequences. Unsurprisingly, the strict COVID-19 lockdowns forced upon much of the country helped stoke this new epidemic. But those restrictions hardly deserve all the blame. Over the past two decades, individual social participation with friends and family has fallen, along with larger-scale community involvement. Fewer people are married and couples have fewer children. Outside of relatives, Americans are far less likely to join community organizations or show up for religious services. Just 20% attend faith communities on a weekly basis.
‘Not left or right, but deep’ :How people of faith can help to heal America’s divisions Then, of course, there’s technology. When you can work from home and attend school online, there are fewer reasons than ever to change out of your pajamas. Technology, social media made the problem worse Bored teens in the 1980s would head to the mall and run into a dozen friends eager to catch a movie or annoy retail staff. Today, the friends all reside in a teen’s smartphone, with many located across the country or on the other side of the world. Adults are much the same. With a few clicks, everything from meals to clothes to books are dropped on our doorsteps.
Stop AAPI hate: New survey shows increase in anti-Asian hate, discrimination. Here’s how we can stop it. Worse still, one can tailor their online communities to weed out anyone with different politics, interests or opinions. With a large chunk of Americans never exposed to a contrary viewpoint, it’s no wonder we’re at each other’s throats. We all know social isolation is a problem and are pretty sure what’s causing it. It’s time to fix it for our own health as well as our communities. Feeling lonely? Here are some things you can do. Murthy offers a few ideas but few show much hope. We can tweak family leave and pass a tech reform or two, but top-down public policy solutions won’t improve much. What will cure loneliness just requires a bit more effort from each of us.
* Join a social club or community organization. And actually show up; no Zoom allowed. * Visit your church, synagogue, or mosque and sign up as a volunteer for anything that strikes your fancy.
Seriously, if I can do this stuff anyone can. I’m a serious introvert by nature and love my alone time. Yet I made a commitment two years ago to meet with a friend for lunch or coffee every week or two to strengthen those critical ties. I applaud Murthy for calling attention to this epidemic, but even he must know loneliness can’t be fixed by a federal agency. Ultimately, it’s up to us. So, call a friend and invite them to lunch. Yes, you’ll have to change out of your pajamas, but won’t kill you.
Now, they’re the highlight of my week. It might just save your life. Jon Gabriel, a Mesa resident, is editor-in-chief of Ricochet.com and a contributor to The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com, where this column was first published. On Twitter: @exjon. If you need immediate help in a crisis, call 1-800-273-8255 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
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BONUS: The Durham Report. WASHINGTON (AP) — An investigation into the origins of the FBI’s probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign has finally been concluded, with prosecutor John Durham submitting a much-anticipated report that spelled out what it identified as major flaws.
Who is John Durham? Durham had spent decades as a Justice Department prosecutor, with past assignments including investigations into the FBI’s cozy relationship with mobsters in Boston and the CIA’s destruction of videotapes of its harsh interrogations of terrorism subjects, when he was called upon in 2019 by then–Atty. Gen. William Barr to look into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, which had become a cause célèbre for the Trump team, with his re-election bid in 2020 then rapidly approaching for Trump-sympathetic media outlets. Durham was tapped to investigate potential misconduct by U.S. government officials as they examined Russian election interference in 2016 and whether there was any illegal coordination between the Kremlin and Trump’s presidential campaign. Despite skimpy results — one guilty plea and two acquittals — that failed to live up to Trump’s expectations, Durham was able to continue his work deep into the Biden administration, thanks in part to Barr’s appointing Durham as a Justice Department special counsel shortly before Barr’s 2020 resignation as attorney general and to Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland’s stated goal of behaving politically atop the Justice Department. Why did the Barr Justice Department feel Durham’s appointment was necessary? The appointment came weeks after a different special counsel, Robert Mueller, wrapped up his investigation of possible connections between Russia and the Trump campaign. That probe produced more than two dozen criminal cases, including against a half-dozen Trump associates. Though it did not charge any Trump aide with working with Russia to tip the election, it did find that Russia interfered on Trump’s behalf and that the campaign welcomed, rather than discouraged, the help. From the start, Barr was deeply skeptical of the intelligence-community investigation’s foundation, telling Congress that “spying did occur” on the campaign. From the archives (May 2019): Barr tells senators that spying has no ‘pejorative connotation’ He enlisted an outside prosecutor to hunt for potential misconduct at the government agencies who were involved in collecting intelligence and conducting the investigation, even taking the unusual step — given that a key reason for tapping a special prosecutor is to insulate that official from real or perceived influence by a political appointee — of flying with Durham to Italy to meet with officials there as part of the probe.
Durham Report Proves GOP Electorate’s Worst Fever Dreams Are Totally True. This article will dive into how much each President has contributed to National Debt, the types of decisions they make that impact debt levels the most and the events that have shaped America’s economic reality throughout history.
Hunter Biden IRS Whistleblower: What Happened? (msn.com) National debt during Joe Biden’s presidency has increased by $2.5 trillion since he took office, an increase of 8.79% as of September 2022. During Donald Trump’s whole presidency, the U.S. national debt increased by $8.18 trillion, a percentage increase of 40.43%. This is less than Barack Obama (69.98%) and George W. Bush (105.8%). But Donald Trump was in office for only 4 years compared to 8 years for both Barack Obama and George W. Bush. However To tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, national debt was increased by a further 18.01% totaling $4.25 trillion in additional debt from March 2020 to Jan 2021 & Democrat Spendfest Stimulus Package.
Abraham Lincoln’s years in the Oval Office saw the largest percentage increase in National Debt under any President, increasing 2859% overall However, Martin Van Buren is the President who spent the most consistently with average yearly debt increasing 375.32% compared to Lincoln’s 148.36% . Woodrow Wilson, who was President during World War 1, oversaw an increase of 722.21% (averaging 35% increase per year in office),
Franklin D. Roosevelt, in office between 1933 – 1945, increased National Debt by 1047.73% (24% increase per year on average) Of the 45 Presidents, only 14 of them have overseen a decrease in debt. Calvin Coolidge was the last President to do so, leaving office in 1929, 15 Presidencies ago. Andrew Jackson is the President who decreased the National Debt the most, nearly eradicating it completely between 1829 – 1837 by reducing the total by -99.42% .
Why can’t our government? Just print money to get us out of debt? How long do you think it will take the US to work off its current $40 trillion in debt? Current Debt 31.8 Trillion USD World Debt Clocks (usdebtclock.org) When Joe Biden was sworn in as President of the United States on 20 January 2021, the U.S. national debt stood at $27.76 trillion. One year later, the total public debt outstanding of the U.S. government has ballooned by nearly $2.11 trillion (or 7.6%) to $29.87 trillion. Perhaps a better question to ask is to whom does the U.S. government borrow n’ owe all the money it has borrowed? The following chart illustrates who the U.S. government’s biggest creditors are as of the end of President Biden’s first year in office along with the portion of the national debt they are owed.
Who’s to Blame for Bumping Up America’s Debt?
– President Biden and Congress continue to attempt to reach an agreement on the $31.4 trillion cap on government spending before the looming deadline in early June. In fact, a new meeting is going to occur today. While it does no good to point fingers at who’s to blame for the massive debt, the limit of which was hit back in January, both sides are very good at it.
The Debt Stalemate
The latest meeting between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last Tuesday evening failed to make any progress on conciliation around government spending. Waiting things out is nothing new for McCarthy. It took 15 rounds of voting and four days of debate and negotiations for him to finally take his seat as Speaker. While McCarthy made concessions to ascend to the highest position in the House, when it comes to America’s budget, the Speaker is not budging. Nor should he. The irresponsible spending by both parties has continued for too long. Sure, it’s quite simple to continue to raise the debt ceiling – again. So simple, it’s been done 78 times since 1960 – 49 times under Republican presidents and 29 times under Democratic presidents. But doing so should come with restrictions. Ones that ensure rigorous cost-benefit analysis is undergone before new programs are enacted. Congress must curb the pork barrel in D.C., costing Americans millions of dollars in inflationary costs.
Who’s Paying the Price? Contrary to popular belief, the majority of American debt is not held by foreign entities such as China. The US adversary actually holds about $1 trillion of our debt, and while that may seem like a big number, it’s relatively small compared to the entire amount, less than 5%.
Americans hold our own debt and we are the ones paying the price. The Consumer Price Index increased almost 5% over the past 12 months. Keep in mind that the CPI doesn’t account for increases in common household goods such as food, gas, and clothing – just a few of the items that have skyrocketed over the past two years, thanks to an increase of about 50% in federal spending between fiscal years 2019 and 2021, largely due to the pandemic. While the increase in expenditures was understandable due to shutting down the economy during the pandemic, like most government payments, there was no significant debate about the future cost of doing so. A typical household can now expect to pay up to between $350-$500 per person per month for groceries, depending on the state. Of course, if you’re living in cities such as Los Angeles or New York, that amount will get you some bad coffee, donuts, and Ramen noodles.
If you’re attempting to eat healthy and invest in preventative care to reduce massive health care costs down the road, that number is going to jump closer to $600-$700 per month, possibly more if you include alternative treatments such as acupuncture, chiropractic, or physical training or therapy. Just like in any household, balancing a federal budget happens in two ways; increasing money in or decreasing money out. When it comes to the government, the main source of revenue is taxes. The government’s highest bills come from Social Security, healthcare, defense, and interest on the debt. And who’s going to touch Social Security? Just look at what happened in France.
Who’s to Blame? Democrats blame Republicans for using the debt ceiling as leverage to force spending cuts. But why shouldn’t they? Imagine you’re a parent and your sixteen-year-old gets in a car accident. You get the car fixed because he promises to be more careful next time. He gets in another accident. You get the car fixed again, no questions asked. No grounding. No requiring him to pay for his own insurance. No restrictions on when he can drive. He gets in another accident and this time, he totals the car. You get him another car. You get the point. It’s ridiculous to expect more responsible behavior from a child without consequences for irresponsible behavior.
Is the government really any more disciplined or accountable than a teenager? Republicans blame Democrats for continuing to pass and enact excessive and expensive programs under the threat of climate change and necessity for “diversity and inclusion.” They have a point. The Democrat’s Green New Deal cost over $2 trillion.
Still, the biggest expenses continue to be income support and health care. Republicans haven’t been any better with tightening their belts. They’ve raised the debt ceiling almost twice as many times as Democrats and President Trump raised it three times during his tenure in the oval office. This battle over the budget is nothing new. The past two months look eerily similar to 2011 when Obama wrestled with then House Speaker John Boehner from Ohio over the debt ceiling increase and reductions in spending. The battle came complete with divisive factions within the Republican party and Boehner telling Republicans unhappy with his proposed plan to “get your ass in line.”
According to a Rasmussen Report poll, 56 percent of the respondents would rather have a partial government shutdown until Congress can cut spending or keep it the same. Only 34 percent said they would rather see the opposite, higher spending levels, to avoid a government shutdown. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It’s time to stop the insanity once and for all. If a threat of default is the only way to do it, so be it. It seems the people agree.
— Biden’s, remarks on the national debt ceiling in Valhalla, N.Y., May 10 As he heads to a showdown with House Republicans over raising the debt limit, the president has sought to add context to the discussion over the nation’s $31 trillion in debt. He has noted that debt has accumulated over the past 200 years. And while Republicans peg Biden as being a big spender, he has pointed the finger at his predecessor, Donald Trump.
NOTED: Trump tamed spending until the Democrats went hog wild on covid stimulus spending? Trump, Biden said, increased the national debt by 40 percent in his four-year term. He added that, besides the pandemic, the biggest contributor to the national debt “over the last decade” was the tax cut passed in 2017 and signed into law by Trump. The implication is that if Republicans are looking for someone to blame for the size of the national debt, it should be Trump.
Biden has a point about the increase in debt under Trump. Using the Treasury Department’s “debt to the penny” website, we can see that the nation’s total public debt, including intragovernmental holdings, was just under $20 trillion when Trump took office in 2017. Four years later, when Trump left, the figure was about $27.8 trillion. That’s an increase of nearly 39 percent. (The debt has increased an additional 13 percent since Biden became president.) But numbers can be deceiving. The Treasury website also shows that $4.3 trillion in debt — more than half of the $7.9 trillion increase — came in the last 10 months of Trump’s term, as the coronavirus pandemic emerged, and massive government spending was needed to mitigate the economic fallout. Both parties strongly supported such measures; Biden has criticized Trump’s handling of the pandemic but he has not questioned the level of government spending needed to combat it. It’s in Biden’s political interest to focus on Trump. But his attack is a bit misplaced. Policy choices made long ago are more responsible for the fiscal state of the nation. Assigning a particular president responsibility for a debt increase is rarely productive, because so much depends on factors beyond a president’s control — an economic crisis such as the Great Recession or the pandemic, for example. (The White House declined to comment for the record.)
The Impact of social programs The main reason the United States has federal deficits, which year after year add to the national debt, is because of “fiscal imbalance.” Simply put, that means the government is not collecting enough money through taxes and fees to pay for public programs and services it has enacted or promised. If actions are not taken to close that gap, the problem gets worse over time. Which president has contributed the most to the nation’s long-term fiscal imbalance? That would be Lyndon B. Johnson, according to a 2021 study by Charles Blahous, a former economic adviser to George W. Bush and a public trustee for Social Security and Medicare from 2010 through 2015. Through an exhaustive study of Congressional Budget Office and Office of Management and Budget reports, Blahous estimated LBJ’s share of the fiscal imbalance is 29.7 percent.
Close behind is Richard M. Nixon, with 29.2 percent. Johnson enacted Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-1960s, and then Nixon in the early 1970s expanded both programs and also enhanced Social Security so that benefits were indexed to inflation. Social Security and Medicare are now so popular that both Biden and Republicans have pledged not to touch them as they haggle over other types of government spending. But in effect, according to this analysis, almost two-thirds of the nation’s long-term fiscal imbalance is a result of policy choices made more than 50 years ago. Spending on Social Security and Medicare happens automatically, not subject to annual appropriations made by Congress. So lawmakers would have to pass new laws to restrain spending in those programs, which are called “entitlements” because benefits are guaranteed for all who qualify. The cost of some of these decisions in the 1960s only became apparent much later.
Former LBJ White House aide Joseph A. Califano Jr. in 1993 disclosed that a seemingly minor provision to provide nursing-home coverage that was added to ensure passage of Medicaid, the health-care program for the poor, unexpectedly led to a gusher of cash from the federal government that helped build what is now a $150-billion nursing-home industry; one-third of Medicaid personal-health spending goes to nursing homes. To pry Medicare out of a Senate committee, Johnson also agreed to pay hospitals a certain percentage above hospital-determined costs and accept doctor fees that were considered “reasonable,” “customary” and “prevailing”— a compromise that at the time he was told would cost just $500 million. Since then, lawmakers have struggled with the spiraling consequences of giving “hospitals and doctors the keys to the federal Treasury,” as Califano put it.
> Related video:Debt ceiling is a crisis ‘but it’s no different than 2011’. You can’t evaluate the effectiveness of policies just by looking at costs. Social Security and Medicare helped mitigate poverty among the elderly. Indexing Social Security benefits to inflation gave the program a feature that virtually no annuity can match — and also has ensured the elderly do not suffer economically during periods of high inflation. Social programs, in fact, can provide more benefits than costs in the long run, but it’s not easy to document because the returns may take decades to materialize. A 2020 analysis by Nathaniel Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser of Harvard University of 133 policy changes found that spending on low-income children’s health and education in particular paid for themselves. That’s because children who benefited from those programs earned more money as adults, thus paying higher taxes and requiring fewer welfare payments.
NOTE: Children’s health programs, for instance, were estimated to earn the government $1.78 for every dollar spent. Spending on adults did not have the same kind of long-term impact, the analysis found.
The Impact of tax cuts Biden, in his remarks, said: “Over the last decade, the single largest contribution to the debt, aside from the pandemic, were the Trump tax cuts — skewed to the wealthy and large corporations — for $2 trillion.”
This is misleading for two reasons. First, Trump’s tax cut, enacted in 2017, has not yet reduced revenue by $2 trillion; Biden is using an estimate for the period between 2018 and 2028. In reality, the CBO estimated the tax cut would reduce revenue by nearly $1.5 trillion through 2023, after accounting for positive macroeconomic feedback (which reduces the deficit) and additional debt service costs (which increases it). Second, note that Biden referred to legislation passed “in the last decade.” That means he’s starting with 2013 — which conveniently leaves out a Barack Obama tax cut — the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. (It’s a close call as to whether it belongs in 2012 or 2013. Despite the name, the Senate and House approved the bill on Jan. 1, 2013, and Obama signed it a day later.)
The revenue loss of Obama’s tax cut amounted to 1.8 percent of the gross domestic product, meaning it was double the size of Trump’s 2017 tax cut, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget — even though Trump often falsely brags he passed the biggest tax cut in U.S. history. If you count Obama’s tax cut (plus another one he signed in 2010), it added almost $2.2 trillion to the deficit between 2013 and 2023, compared with $1.35 trillion for the Trump tax cut and $3.7 trillion for pandemic spending, according to an analysis of historical budget data. (These numbers do not include debt service costs.)
Why don’t you hear much about these Obama tax cuts? Democrats don’t tout them, in part because they extended about 80 percent of tax cuts first passed by George W. Bush in 2001 and 2003. Bush included a ticking time bomb — the tax cuts expired after nine years, forcing Obama to either extend them or allow taxes to go up for many Americans. He reached a deal that just raised taxes on people making more than $400,000. So Democrats often argue that those tax cuts, including what Obama extended, should be counted as GOP contributions to the deficit. Trump included a similar ticking time bomb in his tax cut for whoever is president in 2025, as that’s when his tax cuts will expire. Biden has also engaged in these budget tricks for some of his spending programs, having them expire after a few years to make the fiscal consequences seem lower in the long run.
But Obama’s 2012 tax cut had important long-term fiscal implications. He lifted the ceiling on the alternative minimum tax and indexed it for inflation. That saved Congress from having to address the issue year after year, but it also permanently drained those revenue. (Trump raised the ceiling further.) Blahous said that Congress fiddles so often with the tax code that the effects of one particular tax cut are difficult to discern over a 50-year period. In doing his research, he said he was struck by the fact that policy choices made by Trump will have a greater long-term fiscal impact than his tax cut. Trump eliminated several streams of revenue that Obama enacted to help finance the Affordable Care Act, including a 40-percent tax on high-cost, employer-sponsored “Cadillac” health plans and fines imposed on people who failed to obtain health insurance. Blahous estimated that revoking these taxes will amount to 7.6 percent of the future fiscal imbalance. “One would never know that just following the political debates,” he said. Looking strictly at legislation that affected the 2021 budget deficit, Blahous attributes 38.2 percent of the deficit to policy choices made by Trump, 36.9 percent to Biden (primarily covid spending), 9.6 percent to Nixon, 8.6 to Obama, 3 percent to Johnson and 2.9 percent to George W. Bush.
Democrats prefer to frame the debate by just looking at the impact of policy since 2000. The last budget surplus was achieved in the 2001 fiscal year, which included the final four months of Clinton’s presidency. In 2000, U.S. debt held by the public was about 34 percent of GDP. As 2023 started, the amount of debt was 97 percent — an astonishing leap. Under this analysis, which assumes Obama’s tax cuts should be counted as extensions of Bush’s tax cuts, roughly two-thirds of rise in the debt-to-GDP ratio can be attributed to three policies: the Bush tax cuts and the extensions (37 percent); the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan launched by Bush and sustained by his successors (18 percent); and the Trump tax cuts (10 percent). Pandemic emergency spending passed in 2020 accounts for 23 percent of the increase. But this analysis sidesteps the fact that Obama signed into law two major tax cuts that contributed significantly to the nation’s long-term fiscal imbalance. The Obama White House celebrated the bill as reducing the federal deficit, and Obama was not reluctant to sign it. “This agreement will also grow the economy and shrink our deficits in a balanced way — by investing in our middle class, and by asking the wealthy to pay a little more,” Obama said in a statement at the time.
“The Great Recession and the covid crisis led to unusually large deficits due to congressional action (and in the Great Recession, losses of revenue due to a recession) right at the transition between terms,” said Eugene Steuerle, a fellow at the Urban Institute, in an email. The nation has experienced “ever higher deficits, which result partly from never having policies in place to pay off past crisis-level deficits (and growth in debt) and partly from the automatic growth in spending rather than just legislative increases.” Both parties, he said, have a “joint but growing responsibility for kicking the compounding entitlement shortfall down the road.”
Key points 1. The national debt, which has surpassed $30 trillion, shows how much the federal government owes. 2. All but two presidents since 1900 have contributed to the national debt, some more than others. 3. More significant contributions have been a result of government spending to finance wars and economic recovery. While a country’s national debt and gross domestic product are often correlated, too much debt compared to a country’s GDP can negatively impact economic growth. The country’s debt has grown exponentially in the past few decades. The federal government has countless programs to provide for its citizen’s various needs. But the ever-rising national debt is a constant reminder of the need for more moderated spending. Many people like to see the national debt by the president to get an idea of how certain policies impact our government’s spending. They might use it as a political scorecard to gauge how well an administration is doing. By the end of January 2022, the nation’s debt burden surpassed $30 trillion for the first time.Here’s how the U.S. debt by president breaks down.
National debt by president The U.S. Treasury Department provides a detailed account of how much debt the country has piled up each year since 1900. From 1790 through 1900, the nation’s presidents accumulated $2.1 billion in national debt. Since then, presidents have seen both deficits and surpluses, but the deficits have grossly outpaced the surpluses, and the federal government hasn’t made more money than it spent in a year since 2001. Keep in mind that presidents generally don’t have any control over the budget during their first year in office because it’s already set in stone by the previous president. We adjusted the figures to account for this fact. Here’s how each president has contributed to that debt since the turn of the 20th century: And the president most to blame for the national debt problem is …
The Debt Really Got Out of Hand in The Obama Green Jobs Revolution Years.
The Overall Picture The U.S. Federal Reserve is once again Uncle Sam’s single largest creditor, accounting for 19.1% of the entire U.S. government’s national debt. The Fed’s share of the total public debt outstanding has grown from 16.5% a year earlier. By contrast, the U.S. government’s second largest creditor is Social Security, whose share of the ownership of the national debt dropped from 10.4% of the total to 9.2%. Social Security has been running in the red since 2009, forcing its Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance Trust Fund to sell off U.S. treasuries it accumulated when it was operating in the black in order to keep paying out benefits at promised levels. Social Security’s share of the U.S. national debt is projected to decline to 0% in 2034. After that happens, Social Security benefits will be reduced by somewhere between 20-25% as promised under current law.
The retirement trust funds for the U.S. government’s military and civilian employees together account for 7.1% of the total U.S. national debt. After these large holdings, a diverse range of U.S. institutions, such as banks, insurance companies, independent corporations, investment firms and individuals combine to hold the largest share of money owed by the U.S. government, accounting for 38.6% of the total, down from the 40.4% share they held a year ago. Foreign entities combine to account for holding 25.9% of the total debt liabilities issued by the U.S. government, up from the share of 25.4% they held on 20 January 2021. Of the portion of the national debt owed to foreign-based institutions, Japan now holds the greatest share at 4.5% of the U.S. national debt based on preliminary estimates, whose share is unchanged from a year earlier. China comes in second holding a share of 4.4%, which is down from 4.6% in 2021.
The international banking centers of Belgium, Ireland, and also Luxembourg saw their share of the U.S. government’s total public debt outstanding held steady at 3.0%, while the United Kingdom saw its share increase from 1.5% to 2.1% over the past year. Brazil and the remaining foreign nations saw their shares of the U.S. national debt dip.
President Biden’s First Year in Office. As we noted, the national debt increased by $2.11 trillion in President Biden’s first year in office. That amount was inflated by President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act, which we estimate accounts for $1.34 trillion or 63.5% of the increase by itself. The following waterfall chart breaks down where most the money the U.S. government newly borrowed in President Biden’s first year in office came from: We find the Federal Reserve loaned Uncle Sam 45% of all the net new borrowing. Foreign entities loaned the U.S. government the second largest amount at 33% of the net change, while U.S. individuals and institutions contributed the remaining 22%. I think the most surprising part of the analysis is how much President Biden’s “American Rescue Plan” contributed to the nation’s indebtedness. That burden comes on top of its contributions to today’s inflation.
NOTE: That program helped the country dig itself out of the Great Depression and World War II. (NO IT DIDN’T.)
Woodrow Wilson added a large %increase to the national debt to finance World War I. President George W. Bush was the first president to add a multi-trillion-dollar amount to the debt to finance the war on terror, and Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump followed suit, the former primarily to combat the Great Recession and the latter mostly to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. It’s unclear yet how much President Joe Biden will add to the national debt, but the Congressional Budget Office projects that the country will add $1.3 trillion in deficit spending each year through 2030, totaling $13 trillion over that time. The Biden Administration’s legislation and executive orders in 2022—namely the Inflation Reduction Act and mass student loan forgiveness—could also impact the national debt in unforeseen ways.
If you’re paying way too much for housing, you’ve got plenty of company.
What makes up the national debt? The national debt is composed of both public debt and intragovernmental debt. Public debt includes Treasury bills, notes and bonds, which are owned by U.S.-based investors, the Federal Reserve and foreign governments. Intragovernmental debt is made up of Government Account Series securities that are owned by federal agencies, such as military retirement funds, public employee retirement funds and the Social Security Trust Fund. Each year in which the government spends more than it earns in tax revenues, it runs a deficit for that year, which adds to the national debt total.
How does the national debt correlate to the GDP? Government spending is often designed to boost the economy, which means that the national debt and the country’s gross domestic product—the total market value of all goods and services produced within the country’s borders—are correlated. “The national debt is typically scaled relative to GDP, because this allows investors to determine the total amount of the government’s obligations relative to its ability to repay these obligations,” says Rhea Thomas, an economist at Wilmington Trust. “In addition, it allows for consistent comparison over time and across countries. Countries with high debt-to-GDP ratios tend to be associated with lower long-term growth.” For the fourth quarter of 2021, the U.S. had a debt-to-GDP ratio of 123.39%, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. That’s almost double what it was in the fourth quarter of 2007, shortly before the Obama administration increased spending to deal with the Great Recession.
Poor America: A trailer park in California, where low-income citizens live in stark contrast to wealthier U.S. residents
According to a study conducted by the World Bank, a ratio above 77% for a prolonged period could stymie economic growth. In all of this, it’s important to note that the federal government pays its debts with tax revenue, not GDP. Politicians continue to be at odds over how to generate revenues and how to spend those revenues. “Paying back the debt will require higher taxes or reduced government spending, both of which are difficult to do politically and result in slower growth,” says Thomas. “Governments may also choose to print money to pay for debt, but this raises the risk of runaway inflation and higher interest rates.”
Thomas also adds that as debt levels grow, investors may demand higher interest rates out of concern over the government’s ability to pay its debts. Higher interest rates would, in turn, take away from private investments, and it would also require more government spending to make larger interest payments, dampening productivity and long-term growth. The national debt can be a politically polarizing issue, but it’s important to keep the context in mind for each president. As spending continues to rise without a correlated increase in revenues, the national debt will continue to increase, likely putting more financial strain on future generations.
Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland), American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature.
Life Poe was the son of the English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr., an actor from Baltimore. After his mother died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1811, he was taken into the home of John Allan, a Richmond merchant (presumably his godfather), and of his childless wife. He was later taken to Scotland and England (1815–20), where he was given a classical education that was continued in Richmond.
For 11 months in 1826 he attended the University of Virginia, but his gambling losses at the university so incensed his guardian that he refused to let him continue, Poe returned to Richmond to find his sweetheart, (Sarah) Elmira Royster, engaged.
He went to Boston, where in 1827 he published a pamphlet of youthful Byronic poems, Tamerlane, and Other Poems. Poverty forced him to join the army under the name of Edgar A. Perry, but, on the death of Poe’s foster mother, John Allan purchased his release from the army and helped him get an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Before going, Poe published a new volume at Baltimore, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (1829). He successfully sought expulsion from the academy, where he was absent from all drills and classes for a week. He proceeded to New York City and brought out a volume of Poems, containing several masterpieces, some showing the influence of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
He then returned to Baltimore, where he began to write stories.
In 1833 his “MS. Found in a Bottle” won $50 from a Baltimore weekly, and by 1835 he was in Richmond as editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. There he made a name as a critical reviewer and married his young cousin Virginia Clemm, who was only 13. Drinking was in fact to be the bane of his life. Poe seems to have been an affectionate husband and son-in-law. Poe was also dismissed from his job in Richmond, for drinking, and went to New York City.
To talk well in a large company he needed a slight stimulant, but a glass of sherry might start him on a spree; and, although he rarely succumbed to intoxication, he was often seen in public when he did. This gave rise to the conjecture that Poe was a drug addict, but according to medical testimony he had a brain lesion. While in New York City in 1838 he published a long prose narrative, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, combining (as so often in his tales) much factual material with the wildest fancies. It is considered one inspiration of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
In 1839 he became co editor of Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine in Philadelphia. There a contract for a monthly feature stimulated him to write “William Wilson” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” stories of supernatural horror. The latter contains a study of a neurotic now known to have been an acquaintance of Poe, not Poe himself. Later in 1839 Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque appeared (dated 1840). He resigned from Burton’s about June 1840 but returned in 1841 to edit its successor, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine, in which he printed “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”—the first detective story. In 1843 his “The Gold Bug” won a prize of $100 from the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, which gave him great publicity.
In 1844 he returned to New York, wrote “The Balloon Hoax” for the Sun, and became sub editor of the New York Mirror under N.P. Willis, thereafter a lifelong friend. In the New York Mirror of January 29, 1845, appeared, from advance sheets of the American Review, his most famous poem, “The Raven,” which gave him national fame at once. Poe then became editor of the Broadway Journal, a short-lived weekly, in which he republished most of his short stories, in 1845. During this last year the now-forgotten poet Frances Sargent Locke Osgood pursued Poe. Virginia did not object, but “Fanny’s” indiscreet writings about her literary love caused great scandal. His The Raven and Other Poems and a selection of his Tales came out in 1845, and in 1846 Poe moved to a cottage at Fordham (now part of New York City), where he wrote for Godey’s Lady’s Book (May–October 1846) “The Literati of New York City”—gossipy sketches on personalities of the day, which led to a libel suit.
The Raven, best-known poem by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1845 and collected in The Raven and Other Poems, the same year. Poe achieved instant national fame with the publication of this melancholy evocation of lost love. On a stormy December midnight, a grieving student is visited by a raven who speaks but one word, “Nevermore.” As the student laments his lost love Lenore, the raven’s insistent repetition of the word becomes an increasingly harrowing response to the student’s own fears and longing. The poem consists of 18 six-line stanzas; the first five lines of each are written in trochaic octameter, the sixth in trochaic tetrameter. The rhyme pattern, abcbbb, enhances the gloom of the lyric; the b rhymes are, or rhyme with, “Lenore” and “Nevermore.” His1846 essay “The Philosophy of Composition” describes his crafting of the poem. Edgar Allan Poe | Biography, Poems, Short Stories, & Facts | Britannica
EN ESPAÑOL | GENES, LIFESTYLE AND AGE ARE SOME OF THE FACTORS KNOWN TO PLAY A ROLE IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, BUT MORE STUDY IS NEEDED.
What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Alzheimer’s Disease. Research has delivered only limited insights into causes and treatments. by Kathleen Fifield, AARP.
Here’s what we know:
The risk factor. Age is the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer’s. For most, symptoms first appear after age 65, though brain-imaging scans show that the buildup of specific types of proteins related to Alzheimer’s can start wreckage long before visible symptoms emerge.
Some of the genes linked to Alzheimer’s. One is APOE, which has several forms. APOE e2 reduces your risk of Alzheimer’s, while another, APOE e4, increases your risk. If you receive a copy of APOE e4 from each of your parents, you’ll have the greatest odds of getting Alzheimer’s.
How you live matters. Researchers have determined that nutritious food, exercise, sleep, socializing and other positive aspects of life are good preventive medicine for Alzheimer’s. One study showed that life changes can reduce your chance of developing Alzheimer’s by 35 percent.
Who you are matters. Socioeconomic factors, including education, income and even where you live, play a role in whether Alzheimer’s takes hold. Race matters, too: African Americans are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as Caucasians; Hispanics are 1.5 times more likely.
But we don’t know:
What causes the disease? Scientists have yet to learn what triggers the early deposit of abnormal proteins in the brain or how it damages brain neurons. It’s also unknown why a small percentage of people who have plaque buildup don’t end up getting Alzheimer’s.
How these genes work. Researchers have yet to figure out the complex genetic processes that are behind Alzheimer’s. Scientists only know the disease is likely the result of not just one gene but of dozens of genes — and of the complex interactions that occur among them.
A medicine that works. There are no drugs available to cure or slow down Alzheimer’s, though some may briefly help with its symptoms. Fully 99 percent of clinical trials of Alzheimer’s drugs fail, and some major pharmaceutical companies have stopped trying to develop this class of drugs.
What other factors might matter? More study is needed to determine if social factors are causal or if they somehow help build up resilience to the disease through “cognitive reserve,” a sort of stockpile of brain strength, says Jennifer Manly at Columbia University in New York.
Antidepressants calledSelective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) are often used for people with Alzheimer’s and depression because they have a lower risk than some other antidepressants of causing interactions with other medications. See more
Dementia devastates the lives of everyone it touches, but our analysis shows that women are bearing a disproportionate weight of the impact.
Our analysis shows that dementia became the leading cause of death for UK women more than a decade ago, in 2011. Shockingly, it’s remained at this position ever since, even at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two in three people with dementia (65%) are women, and longer life expectancy alone does not explain this disparity. Women are also more likely to care for a loved one with dementia – making up around two thirds of unpaid carers.
Yet across medical research, data from women is too often missing. And in the lab: female dementia researchers are less likely to move into senior roles than men.
We’re calling for action to tackle dementia’s disproportionate impact on women. And we must ensure women can make a full contribution to research, both as participants and as researchers.
Alzheimer’s impact on women By Staff Reports -May 5, 2023
To the Editor:
On May 14, millions of Americans will honor their mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers for their contributions to families and society.
Unfortunately, thousands in Ohio have already lost a mother or grandmother to Alzheimer’s or are currently caring for someone living with the disease.
The hard truth is that Alzheimer’s disproportionately impacts women. Two-thirds of all Alzheimer’s cases are in women, and an overwhelming majority don’t know they are at an increased risk for the disease.
There is some good news regarding the inequality of Alzheimer’s occurrence in women. Scientists have identified a gene that appears to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s in women, providing a potential new clue as to why more women than men are diagnosed with the disease. Also, a new study shows that women can reduce their increased risk. Personalized lifestyle interventions — such as diet, exercise, stress reduction and sleep hygiene — were found to reduce Alzheimer’s risk factors in both sexes, but they worked even better in women.
In addition to learning more about why the genetics of being a woman increases the risk of cognitive impairment, women can join clinical trials investigating the issues of women and Alzheimer’s risk. Women interested in finding out more about clinical trials can go to alz.org/Trial Match a free matching tool for research studies and treatment trials for Alzheimer’s and other dementia. Anyone can participate. There are trials for those with and without the disease.
While lifestyles are proving to help reduce risks, not everything that makes up a woman’s lifestyle is by choice. Historically, women have fulfilled the role of caregiver for the family, and more than 60 percent of all caregivers are female. They are our mothers, wives, aunts, sisters, and daughters. When caregiving is provided to a loved one with Alzheimer’s or another dementia, the toll on the caregiver can be high. According to the Alzheimer’s Association 2023.
Facts and Figures:
• More than 60 percent of Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers are women, and over one-third of them are daughters.
• The overwhelming majority of dementia caregivers who indicate a need for individual counseling (85 percent) and respite care (84 percent) are women.
• Two and a half times as many women as men reported living with a person with dementia full time. Of those providing care to someone with dementia for more than five years, 63 percent were women.
• Nearly 19% of female Alzheimer’s caregivers had to quit working either to become full-time caregivers or because their caregiving duties became too burdensome.
There are 493,000 family and friends who provide unpaid care for loved ones living with Alzheimer’s. These challenging and stressful caregiving responsibilities often fall on female shoulders. Talk to your female relatives about women and Alzheimer’s risks and learn the 10 warning signs.
You can call the 24/7 Helpline at 800-272-3900 for more information and assistance. According to the History Channel, more phone calls are made on Mother’s Day than on any other day of the year. These holiday chats with Mom — often cause phone traffic to spike by as much as 37 percent. Ignore the increased phone traffic and call your mother this Mother’s Day – or any day for that matter.
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Over 91,000 research articles in the National Institutes of Health (USA) and 6,100 articles in European scientific literature have attested to the effectiveness of this safe, powerful healing modality that costs only about 1-1/2 cents per day to self-administer. This 2nd Edition includes a new section showing how this one-minute protocol makes the body uninhabitable by viruses― including the coronavirus―thereby becoming “…the single most effective intervention for those battling COVID-19.” The One – Minute Cure The Secret To Healing Virtually All Diseases – Bing video
Discover how this therapy has been administered by an estimated 15,000 European doctors, naturopaths and homeopaths to more than 10 million patients in the past 80 years to successfully treat practically every known disease, including cancer, AIDS, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, hepatitis, multiple sclerosis, herpes, arthritis and asthma. The One-Minute Cure: The Secret to Healing Virtually All Diseases – 2nd Edition: Madison Cavanaugh: Amazon.com: Books
Vindicating Trump’s immigration policy. As Democrats were falling over themselves calling Donald Trump an idiot after his CNN town hall, the Biden White House was urgently working on something else: In fact, the White House that had resisted for years acknowledging it had created a crisis on the border was scrambling on Wednesday to publish a new regulation that looks suspiciously like the Trump policy it had fought to abolish. Example like Rush Limbaugh told Trump in their interview that they’re jealous and want to make sure you don’t get the credit for solving the problem Interview with President Donald Trump on Rush Limbaugh | 10/9/20 – YouTube 0:00 / 2:27:03
Number of Migrant Crossings Drops After Lifting of Title 42. (Probably Passing them through at 3AM―when Democrats do their best work.) On May 14, the Biden administration said that migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have fallen since Title 42 expired. The numbers we have experienced in the past two days are markedly down over what they were prior to the end of Title 42, Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, via Reuters.
According to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, border patrol agents have reported a 50% drop in crossings since May 11. Mayorkas said that criminal penalties for migrants entering the country illegally accounted for the decrease in illegal border crossings. There is a lawful, safe and orderly way to arrive in the United States. That is through the pathways that President Biden has expanded in an unprecedented way, and then there’s a consequence if one does not use those lawful pathways, Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, via Reuters.
Reuters reports that officials in communities near the border say that the expected surge of migrants many fears will strain border facilities and towns is still on the way. The number of migrants we were expecting initially – the big flow – is not here yet, Victor Trevino, Mayor of Laredo, Texas, via Reuters. Others pointed out that while the surge experienced at the border has yet to reach the magnitude of what was expected, numbers still remain historically high. What the secretary failed to say is, this week has seen more crossings than any time, any week, in our history, Representative Mark Green, Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, via CNN The GOP proposal to raise the debt ceiling would force Americans on Social Security and Medicare to wait longer to receive help and make college more expensive, the White House says (msn.com)
STOLEN ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. He won’t be laughing when he passes from his miserable life and stands before the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He will have to give an account of his life and what Is he going to say ? Was it Trump’s Fault ? NO, he’ll really shit his pants as he’s been weighed in the balance and found guilty for his smugness, out right arrogance and folly. I would hope ( as many other true American patriots ) would love to see Biden as well as Obama and Crooked Hillary and many more arrested, tried and executed for treason while still living on this earth , but Man’s laws today are so corrupt and polluted, that this may never happen. But there’s always hope.
The Babbling MENTALIYINCOMPETENT BUFFOON. Is TRULY a piece of work and not in IT’S RIGHT MIND! IT needs to be REMOVED from the WHITE HOUSE! IT laughs when an ILLEGAL KID dies! I hope this dumb SOB has his training wheels fall off and he breaks his freakin’ neck. Second president I have no respect for. First was the Marxist Muslim Divider-in-Chief, now Dementia Joe.
What a worthless piece of humanity he is for what he’s doing to our country.
1. How the hell did the child die on United States Soil? 2. How old and 3. what did the child die from? Three simple questions! If a child died in a migrant holding center during Trump’s term, the left would indict him for murder. Instead, pudding pop rides off into the sunset with his helmet on.
That’s where we’re at, people. When are the American people going to call their politicians and demand that Joe Biden Hunter and the other Biden’s be arrested damn it, I just got done watching Bannon’s War Room (rumble.com) with MTG and what she just said will make you pissed. Barack Obama needs to be sworn under oath and questioned and Billary Clinton & Nancy Pelosi possibly even some Republicans (Mitch McConnell.)
Why would he? Historically, the only thing sociopath politicians ever give a damn about is their election / reelection. He doesn’t give a damn about America. Doesn’t give a damn about our citizens. Doesn’t give a damn about the illegals. And because elections are no longer a thing in this country, exactly why would anyone even expect this POS to PRETEND to give a damn?
President Trump went to visit the Border Wall five times when he was in office. President Trump visits Texas to tour the “unfinished border wall” on the U.S.-Mexico border with Gov. Greg Abbott (June 2021). Biden and the people working for him do not care about anyone except themselves and anything except filling their own pockets. REPORT: DOJ Removes Investigative Team From Hunter Biden Probe, Attorneys Say (msn.com)
Ain’t nothing like his crack head kid and the other kid who died not because of cancer, however, because that idiot snorted so much cocaine he literally drilled a hole through his own brain and that’s what killed him. So fuck this puppet and his handlers who are making the decisions; he’s a mouthpiece, nothing more. Republicans could’ve impeached this puppet and his DOG Kamala months ago over the border crisis you must ask yourself why they would do that?
Biden’s lack of concern about solving the border crisis is what will do his presidency in. The people of both major political parties won’t stand for his lack of concern for all the terrorists, disease, crime, illicit drugs including fentanyl, human trafficking, etc. entering our porous borders.
“We the People” will not tolerate a POTUS who doesn’t uphold his most important thing. His oath of office, which is the safety/security of the people. He has encouraged & invited with open arms hordes of illegal aliens who are draining our treasury to maintain and upkeep them with food, housing, education, medical care, cell phones, food stamps, etc. They live like kings & queens while we citizens starve & barely get by.
Current Times are worsening by the inflation that he caused.
SEE LIBS? He doesn’t even care about the ILLEGALS you and your NGOs are nickel and diming everyone to bring in-no matter what color. or age. Newsflash-he doesn’t care about tyranny’s, the military, the climate hoax, the China virus or any of the b-s he has been reading off a card. All he knows is he’s got that cash flow coming from the cartels and China to his grandkids and a freezer full of ice cream. He is in his last few months/years of life and couldn’t give 2 sh**s about this country. BTW, black people, HE is the white supremacist he keeps warning YOU about. (edited)
O’Biden is letting the country decay intentionally.
CAVIAR Trailer (2023) Conspiracy Theory Horror Movie If you have heard any of Michelle Obama’s speeches that is what their goals are. To destroy America. They need to do a Human Trafficking/Kiddie Sex Trafficking Sting in DC and Arrest 80% of the Dems and Clear Out the White House of this douchebag… Not even worth spending any thought on other than calling it what it is.
A Treasonous Criminal!
Just remember, America: If your kids overdose on fentanyl, President Biden will laugh about it to score cheap political points. Talking to a group of House Democrats, Biden smirked off an attack by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R- Ga.) over the testimony of Rebecca Kiessling, whose sons Caleb and Kyler died from the drug. “That fentanyl they took came during the last administration,”chortled the pres., adding a heartless “heh, heh.” But what of the tens of thousands more on his watch? What a worthless POS this POTUS Has Become 🙁
“How dare you,” responded Rebecca. And rightly so — that sociopathic little chuckle exposes the real Joe: utterly heartless (despite his “friendly old uncle” act), focused solely on politics no matter the human cost, and bluntly indifferent to a true tragedy. Yes, this poison was destroying lives under President Donald Trump (and President Barack Obama before him). But it was under Biden — who from his literal first day in office began to undermine and erode any real border security — that the figures for synthetic opioid deaths (i.e., primarily fentanyl-driven) skyrocketed.
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President Biden laughed off accusations from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene that he was to blame for fentanyl overdoses. They topped 70,000 in 2021. The trends suggest the 2022 numbers will be even worse, with the drug killing an estimated 300 or so Americans a day. True, Biden’s not the only villain here. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has basically declared a truce with the drug cartels trafficking it as he focuses on seizing complete control of his nation’s democracy. But Biden is obligated as president to defend the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. And his border policies are doing the exact opposite of that, leaving the Border Patrol and other agencies overwhelmed by the waves of “asylum seekers.”
Biden joked that the fentanyl Rebecca Kiessling’s sons took came from the “last administration.”DEA
Increasing the Fentanyl traffic, Some 6 million migrants have crossed during his term, including 1.2 million gotaways — crossers spotted by Customs and Border Protection but not arrested — plus all those never seen at all. With numbers like that, not even a pretense of security can be maintained. It’s a perfect environment for drug smuggling, which is another big reason the cartels do huge business running migrants to and over the border. Maybe, just maybe, getting caught chuckling at the carnage will embarrass our president enough to finally pull the plug on his border insecurity machine.
He should be dumped there. Permanently. Criminals just don’t care who they hurt or kill. Criminals ARE NOT heroes nor are they sick mentally, they are however the lowest form of humans and that’s why we have prisons full of them. JOSEPH BIDEN is a CRIMINAL and belongs along with his co conspirators in prison, NOT OCCUPYING THE WH.
I’m not sure how any American that is not mentally deranged, can approve of this piece of fuckin garbage. Not shocked. This from the man whose incompetence got 13 brave service members killed and then looked at his watch in front of their loved ones while their bodies were carried off of a plane in caskets! He truly is a piece of shit!
Joe Biden takes oath to become 46th President of the United States: Bing video The Oath of Office he took was worthless, and missed a few words, Protect our border from enemies foreign and domestic. And We’ll pay as a country for his treasonous $millions in bribes long after this total P.O.S. is gone. Also, the mainstream media in this country is as corrupt, and the FBI heads are all on the take and orchestrating coverups of justice as well.
It’s a never-ending mess all created by the Dumbass Democrats. And we’re all going to pay for what we never did. Look at the financial markets, a total trainwreck! The Banks in the country all employ woke hiring practices, you can’t trust your deposits anymore, nor can we trust school teachers or college professors to teach students, nor any elected Democrat at any level!
What a stupid buffoon. Biden is a traitor to our USA.
WATCH: Biden delivers commencement address at Howard University 5/13/2023. So, Biden goes to Howard University to stir up the flames of racial divisions by saying the number one threat in the country is white supremacy. Quite inspiring! The real stats are this: Black on white crimes is 547,948. White on black crime is 59,778. Hispanic on white crime is 365,299. White on Hispanic crime is 207,104. This is from the Justice Dept.’s 2018 stats.
However the DOJ has decided that keeping those kinds of stats is biased. Now you are not allowed to use “protected characteristics” like race, gender, ethnicity, religion” to describe a suspect nor to collect stats like those above. That way we can keep up this BIG LIE about white supremacy and domestic terrorism. A whistleblower is testifying that the FBI is padding the domestic terrorism stats.
He will go down in history as the most despised and hated resident of the White House. I refuse to call this douche President. The border surge is going to be more disastrous than the Afghanistan withdrawal… to rephrase Biden’s boastful claims today on the border.
He navigates his bike ride like he’s navigating our country, no moral compass whose navigational skills will shipwreck America. With Joe, you see the meaning behind his statements. Joe Biden is the epitome of a slap in the face & a kick in the ASS ALL at the same time! He is either mad as heck or he’s laughing like the joker no in between!! (edited)
When imbeciles find themselves in a hole they stop digging. When Joe Biden finds himself in a hole, he digs faster and screams that ultra MAGA people are racist for telling others he’s in a hole. This is one crude, rude Bastard of Societal Evolution.
The Bastard obviously thinks that a child already born deserves to be aborted. He’s 0ne cold blooded & dark hearted Bastard! What an incompetent, useless, lying POS he is. #JoeBiden is a national disgrace.
He’s driving us off a cliff in every regard; and laughing it off. The Bastard Is Worthy of An Ought 6 Round Threw His Brain In Front of a Military Firing Squad Just for That Alone Never mind all The Many, Many Other Things Done to Deserve a Bullet in The Head Laughing at a Child Dying is Actually Like the Bastard Trying to Start an All-Out War. Between him and Us the American People!
He is One More Sick Sonofabitch! OBAMA? I Hope God Makes the Fires of Hell Extra Hot Right Before Throwing Joe Biden in it! (edited)
Never thought I’d see the day. The government of the United States attacking its own citizens, with taxpayer dollars. Either Sloppy Joe is really that stupid, or he’s a sadistic bastard, I get the impression his presidency is Obama’s revenge & he thinks it’s a joke. Come One, Come All – political poetry conservative satire (garbledcrocksatire.com)
This is what a communist lives for. Persecuting the opposition, making their lives pure hell, and laughing at them while they’re doing it…it doesn’t get any sweeter than that for a loony, communist, leftist…. you have to seriously question the American system that enables a sadist like Biden and his handlers t0 reach the pinnacle of power…and call it America is a disservice to all who came before 2008.
All Biden’s discord, plotting and scheming has led him right where he wanted to be. All the evidence comes back in favor of Trump, and no one does anything to right = the wrong. Wow! We can all sleep well tonight knowing Durham backed Trump. End of story. 🙁
Psychopaths that’s what they are! Before this, probably the president considered the worst in US history was the 1 who neglected the problems & left everything go, which caused the Civil War, the press before Lincoln. But Biden is way beyond this. Biden is beyond anything anybody could have ever imagined. Biden is like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, & the psychopathic tendencies t0 match.
Biden is beyond the pale–way beyond. Political biographers & historians R going 2 B writing about Biden 4 years & years 2 come–America’s Worst President. America’s Traitor President. There will be more written on Biden than on the Kennedy assassinations & Nixon Watergate “scandal” combined. Biden makes Watergate look like child’s play. Biden is obscene. As Royce White would say, “He’s a Jerk Off.”(edited)
LONG PAST DUE HONEST PEOPLE IN FBI STOOD UP! AMERICA SEE FBI CRIMES AGAINST THIS NATION! SO, STAND UP AGAINSTTHE EVILS & CORRUPTION & WE KNOW The FBI & DOJ PROTECT PEDOPHILES, AIN’T THAT RIGHT, JOE & HUNTER? NEVER TRUST THE CORRUPT FBI 0r DOJ 0r YOU WILL SUFFER!
Arsonists usually like to watch the buildings they set fire to burn down. Damm this guy should be in prison at minimum and be forced to resign by the American people. It is our constitutional right – He breaks his oath of office and pisses on the laws of our country. And their party along with him are so delusional, they want to run him again? Come on! The Karma he is going to get for deceiving millions of people who venture up here. “Ha ha ha , better than you thought it would be”-Mr Evil , Soulless(edited)
Dilution of patriotism is how you destroy a country from within. Biden laughs at us with record illegal migrants, theft, vandalism, trash, rape, murder, drug overdoses, suicide, human and drug trafficking, lost jobs, decreased wages, also power shortages, depleted supply chains, inflation, school failures, family disruptions, and American depression sets record highs. The fundamental change that the second worst president in history, Barak Obama, promised us. Remember to laugh when Biden gets the handcuffs slapped on him. But personally, I’d rather they let a mother who lost a child to a drug overdose, or child predator, or another criminal alien publicly beat his ass first.
BREAKING NEWS intel **** By Benjamin Fulford May 15, 2023,
The planetary liberation alliance scored major victories last week in the United States, the UK, Thailand and Pakistan, while major battles also rage in Europe and in Turkey. Planetary liberation alliance scores major victories as the Biden Horror show takes over, In the US, the mass awakening has reached critical mass as 70% of Americans agree fake US President Joe Biden’s foreign business dealings, bribery and also influence peddling schemes are ‘very serious.’ This means the majority of people are now close to the truth. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12... https://benjaminfulford.net/2023/05/15/1323...
This is BullShit: Biden and the Greatest Economy Ever – CounterPunch.org Just about everybody on Wall Street knows, despite what you read in the financial press, that the Biden administration’s economic policies are driving our economy into a recessionary ditch. In a recent Wall Street Journal survey of 23 large financial institutions that do business directly with the Federal Reserve, 16 predicted a recession in 2023 and two predicted a recession in 2024, while only five predicted that we would avoid a recession—although even those five predicted we’d have only one-half percent economic growth, well below the 2.1 percent average over the past 20 years and dangerously close to what has traditionally been considered a recession.
A recession is defined, traditionally: As two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. At least it was defined that way before the financial press redefined it prior to the 2022 midterms, ensuring that despite two consecutive quarters of negative growth, President Biden’s policies couldn’t be labeled recessionary. But regardless of the definition, this negative growth meant declining standards of living, fewer job opportunities, lower wages, and increased poverty for the American people. Overall, we have become a far less vibrant and far less prosperous society on the verge of a serious recession.
The hard economic times we are experiencing are especially striking as they come on the heels of the Trump boom, which opened our eyes again to American economic potential when we have low taxes, reduced regulation, and a bountiful supply of domestic energy. Everybody, particularly minority and low-wage earners, reaped the benefits in the Trump years of abundant job opportunities, increasing wages, historic highs in family income, and historic lows in rates of poverty and unemployment.
Consider some of the metrics. In 2019, the last year before the pandemic, median family income grew to nearly $73,000. It went up $4,600 in that year alone, a 6.4 percent increase over 2018—the largest annual increase going back to 1967. That amounted to 45 percent more growth in one year than the $3,200 increase that the Obama administration achieved in eight years. And contrary to what would become an election year talking point, the economic benefits were widespread. Every racial group experienced a record high median family income level: for white Americans it rose 5.7 percent; for black Americans, 7.9 percent; for Hispanic Americans, 7.1 percent; and for Asian Americans, 10.6 percent. As incomes grew in 2019, the poverty rate plummeted 1.3 percentage points to a 60-year low of 10.5 percent—the lowest poverty rate since the government started reporting the statistic in 1959. This lifted 4.1 million people out of poverty.
For comparison purposes: During the eight years of the Obama administration, the number of people living in poverty increased by 787,000. And again, the decrease in the poverty rate under Trump disproportionately benefited minorities: the poverty rate decreased eight-tenths of a percentage point for whites, two percentage points for blacks, 1.8 for Hispanics, and 2.8 for Asians. The year 2019 should be remembered as the year of the worker. And that wasn’t due to mandated wage increases, racial reparations, climate regulations, tax increases, or any other redistributionist policy. Working class Americans saw their circumstances materially improve in 2019 because of policies that encouraged economic freedom. Turning the clock ahead, since March 2021, two months after Biden took office and began reversing Trump’s economic policies, the Consumer Price Index—the average in prices paid by consumers for goods and services, by which inflation is commonly measured—has surged. And it continues to surge. When representatives of the Biden administration say that inflation is coming down, they are playing word games. From month to month, inflation may be going up at a somewhat slower rate—that is, the rate at which inflation is increasing might be down from previous highs.
But the increases are cumulative so the dollar impact of each monthly increase adds to the prior months’ increases. And even though the rate of increases is moderating, it still remains well above levels seen prior to the Biden presidency. The Federal Reserve aims to keep inflation around two percent—which is roughly where it was during the Trump administration. It is now at 6.4 percent, having at one point since 2021 hit nine percent.
Granted, the Federal Reserve has to take some of the blame. It failed to react in a timely manner when inflation started to set in. Remember when everyone insisted that the inflation we were experiencing was “transitory”? It turned out to be anything but. For that reason, since last year, the Federal Reserve has been increasing interest rates at the fastest pace since the 1980s. It intends to continue raising rates because inflation has proven so persistent and widespread.
And the longer these interest rate hikes continue: the more inevitable it becomes that we will suffer a deep recession. This situation has not come about on its own. It was engineered. When the pandemic ended, all we needed to do to create dynamic economic growth again was to leave in place the policies we had before the pandemic. But of course, we didn’t.
Coming out of the pandemic, we knew two things. First, we knew people had accumulated a lot of money. The savings rate had surged in an unprecedented way during the pandemic, and when the pandemic was over this resulted in an increased demand for goods. This surge in the savings rate wasn’t a mystery: the federal government handed out $5 trillion during the pandemic, and people had very little opportunity to spend it since they weren’t traveling, eating out, going shopping, etc.
So, in 2021, Americans had a lot of cash. The second thing we knew coming out of the pandemic was that fewer people were working. If you tried to get anything done around your house back then, you will remember that. First you couldn’t get anybody to do the work. Then if you found someone, you couldn’t get the goods or materials you needed because they weren’t being produced. People were not working, and businesses were unable to anticipate future demand.
The result was a low supply of goods. Excess demand and low supply: this were the situation when Biden took office in 2021. And as any student of elementary economics knows, when demand exceeds supply you get inflation. Isn’t it pretty obvious what should be done in that situation? You should adopt policies that supply juice and avoid adopting policies that demand juice. Instead, the Biden administration proceeded to do the exact opposite. Although the pandemic recession was the shortest recession on record, the economic chaos it created was incredible. And as Milton Friedman said in 1964, the deeper the recession, the greater the recovery. Coming into office in January 2021, the Biden administration was witnessing the beginnings of a dynamic recovery, and perhaps they thought it would continue no matter what they did—that Americans would flock back to work, spend money, travel, go back to restaurants, and so on. So the administration and the Democrats in Congress saw it as a prime opportunity to enact legislation to remake America.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise. A New York Times Magazine headline following Biden’s inauguration read: “The Biden Team Wants to Transform the Economy. Really.” During the campaign, Biden himself said of his plans: “I truly think that if we do this right, we have an incredible opportunity to not just dig out of this crisis, but to fundamentally transform the country.” That’s how the Democrats saw the pandemic—as an opportunity for radical change. So, a little more than a month into the Biden presidency, on a totally partisan basis, the Democrats in Congress passed and Biden signed a $1.9 trillion spending bill they called “The American Rescue Plan.”
Talk about a misnomer! This so-called rescue plan handed out more cash to American consumers, further increasing demand, and discouraging work, further decreasing supply. That this was economic suicide wasn’t only obvious to conservative free-market types like myself. Larry Summers, who served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton and as head of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama—a former president of Harvard and a well-respected liberal economist—called this the least responsible economic policy in 40 years. All you needed to understand this was a simple familiarity with the laws of supply and demand vis-à-vis inflation,
The negative impact on American workers has been tremendous. The chart above traces wages (or income) versus inflation as reflected in the Consumer Price Index. The dotted line is wage growth and the solid line is inflation. The big surge where the dotted line jumps way up reflects the federal spending during the pandemic. To the left of that jump, we see that during the Trump administration, wages were up about three percent and inflation about two percent. To the right on the chart, we see what happened after Biden took office. Within a couple of months, inflation shot way up above wages—indeed, the month inflation crossed over wages was March 2021, the very month Congress passed The American Rescue Plan.
But there’s even more bad news. Since so many people are not working and wages have been declining for those who are working due to inflation, savings have now declined to historic lows—in fact, to the lowest level we’ve seen going back to 1959. People are running out of cash, and as a result they are using credit cards. Credit card debt when Biden took office was at $748 billion and it stayed there until May 2021—again, until shortly after the passage of The American Rescue Plan—at which point it began to shoot way up to what is now $986 billion, the highest level of credit card debt in our history. And this is happening at a time when the Federal Reserve is compelled to continue raising interest rates to try to battle inflation. To sum up, with wage growth unable to keep up with inflation, savings melting like an ice cube in the summer sun, and credit card debt rising to historic highs, we’re facing higher interest rates, declining job opportunities, and increasing economic pain for American families.
So is there anything the Biden administration could do? To repeat, inflation is the result of demand exceeding supply. The Federal Reserve, with its hikes in interest rates, is trying to drive down demand. But if it has to drive demand all the way down to where supply is right now, it’s going to cause incredible misery for the American people. So from an economic standpoint, if the Biden administration wanted to lessen the misery and hasten recovery, it would do whatever it could to increase supply. And there are two areas where it could have a significant positive impact on the supply side: the cost of energy and the cost of labor.
Energy and labor impact virtually everything in our economy. Thousands of products have a petroleum component, and even those that don’t have to be delivered, which requires oil and gas. And you can’t build, manufacture, deliver, or install anything without labor—labor affects the price of everything. So if your goal were to fight inflation, you would implement policies to drive down energy and labor costs. This is elementary. It’s simple. The problem is ideological. Here’s Biden responding to a young person during the 2020 campaign: “Kiddo,” he said, “I want you to just take a look. Okay? You don’t have to agree, but I want you to look in my eyes.
I guarantee, I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuel.” And this wasn’t one of Biden’s all-too-common gaffes. At a rally in February 2020, his prepared remarks contained the same pledge. And he has advanced this goal as president by, among other things, killing oil pipeline projects, failing to grant oil leases, failing to approve drilling permits, and limiting the ability of energy companies to obtain financing. He has done everything in his power to reduce America’s domestic energy production, cripple our energy sector, and increase our dependence on expensive foreign oil.
The cost of labor has also continued to surge. The increase in wages that Biden crows about is normally a good thing. But it makes no economic sense to ignore the impact of inflation on the value of wages. It is simply a fact that workers are better off if inflation is up two percent and their wages are up three percent than if inflation is up six percent and their wages are up five percent. They are making more money in the second case, but the money is worth less. That’s the situation we have now, and it’s disastrous for workers.
Why are labor costs surging? Very simply—we have all seen the “help wanted” signs outside businesses all over America—it’s because employers can’t find workers. Two years after the pandemic ended, there are still 2.8 million workers missing from the labor force. Why? A recent study headed by University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan, “Paying Americans Not to Work,” found that in 24 states, unemployment benefits and Obamacare subsidies for a family of four with no one working are equal to or above national median household income. In three of those states, a family of four with no one working can receive over $100,000 per year in cash and benefits. In 14 states, that number is at least $80,000, which is more than the average salary for a construction worker or an electrician. In other words, two years after the pandemic, we’re still paying people not to work at a time when businesses and our economy desperately need workers. In the Trump economy, increased wages resulted from businesses competing with other businesses for workers. Today, increased wages are the result of businesses competing with government benefits. If increasing people’s dependence on the government is your goal, this is a great approach. It is a dreadful approach if your goal is bringing inflation to heel and sparking a dynamic economic recovery.
The bottom line is this: to address inflation and avoid a deep recession, Biden should, first, tell American bankers, asset managers, bureaucrats, and environmentalists to get out of the way of the energy industry because America needs oil now. Second, he should work with Congress to reduce or eliminate the work-discouraging programs that are keeping able-bodied Americans out of the workforce. We should not cut programs for those who need assistance, but we should reduce benefits for those who are able to work but are choosing not to work. With abundant energy and a vibrant workforce, we could make significant headway against inflation and quickly improve the lives of the American people.
This isn’t rocket science. But let’s be realistic. The problem isn’t the policymakers in the Biden administration don’t understand the basic principles of economics. The problem is that they have different goals than most Americans. When Biden spoke during the campaign about transforming America, he meant it. The goal animating current policy is not the goal of creating widespread prosperity by means of a dynamic and productive economy. The goal animating current policy is the transformation of America’s economy and our way of life in accordance with a Leftist political agenda, using so-called emergencies like climate change as a rationale. The Biden administration is not going to take the simple measures needed to increase American energy production and get people back in the workforce, because that’s not in line with their goals. Americans need to open their eyes to the fact that our elected leaders across the political spectrum understand clearly what policies will lead to prosperity and freedom for the American people, but that only some of those leaders consider prosperity and freedom the goal. We need more of them. Greg Abbott Fractures Sanctuary Cities (msn.com)
Driverless cars creating traffic jams in San Francisco. In San Francisco, where two major companies are testing driverless taxis, some local officials are reporting that the vehicles have caused a number of issues, including rolling into fire scenes and running over hoses. NBCs’ Jake Ward reports.
What the shift to electric vehicles means for the auto industry, mechanics. The auto industry is undergoing a major shift toward electric vehicles in an attempt to be more environmentally friendly. CBS News climate reporter Cara Korte joins Tony Dokoupil and Lilia Luciano to discuss how the shift could affect mechanics and auto shops.
The average age of vehicles on the road reached a record 12.1 years in 2021. Drivers are holding on to their cars longer, and cars are spending more time in the used vehicle market before they head to the junkyard. Automakers are stuffing cars with new technology and improvements, but will that be enough to keep buyers wanting the latest automobiles? Why the American car fleet is getting older.
Is CNN trying to convince its slim viewership or it’s self..self deception is a very unhealthy practice and can lead to mutation of oneself in the name of politically correct self hatred. Those Democrat controlled Cities do not use the taxation to improve the human condition! CNN needs to watch Local SF Bay Area/Sacramento news. I do. It contradicts what they are saying. It’s another, “Don’t believe what your eyes are seeing.“
“Nothing to see here…its gone 🔥”.
Their tax ledgers squeeze any excess taxes into their parties’ pockets! AND CNN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TRUTH. CNN IS The most trusted name in propaganda. Just goes to show how self imposed ignorance can warp one’s mind. Anyone in retail businesses will tell you that at a certain point they can no longer absorb the losses of shoplifting. This is why we no longer see many Kmarts stores, if any. 👹
Americans are living in a lie right now and since November 2nd, 2020. Joe Biden is not the legitimately elected President of the United States. Joe Biden is a criminally induced fraud perpetrated against the American people by a treasonous, criminally motivated establishment that has embedded itself and metastasized inside the people’s governmental departments. This “CLICK” of tyrannical parasites must be removed from our nation’s government lock, stock and barrel. So, the government of the United States can once again serve (work for) and actually benefit the people that pay the taxes for it to do so. ⚒️
Yet, how many Americans still get their daily dose of propaganda from CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CBS, NBC, NPR, the VIEW, the NEW York Times and feel they are informed as to reality. Not to mention their local Fox affiliate and their local Liberal rag called a “News” paper. If there is no difference between ignorance and delusion. CNN crossed that line a long time ago,
When has anything on CNN made sense, originated in reality or contained a grain of truth? Just of the top of my hat, and given that we are dealing with CNN. I would say their take is that businesses are closing because of racism in that white people do not want to be robbed, raped and murdered and are showing “white privilege” by closing looted stores OR maybe ITS TRUMP. Just a guess. Lol
And Climate Change is real! Get the hell out of here. You lost businesses with your “loot at will” campaign, and “defund the police.” You are CORRUPT JUNKIES more stupid than any generation we’ve had in America! The businesses who leave were fools to follow Woke ideology. Marxism is anti-business and all about violence. Read REAL history and you will see how stupid you are.
The Left turned you into Guinea pigs! https://gettr.com/comment/c1ww25d… Stores will continue to close in blue cities because dumbass people keep voting for low IQ demonscum politicians who care more about the criminals than the law-abiding citizens, all I can say is get the hell out of these blue cities before you are a victim of the soft on crime stupid ass democrat policies. 🤥🤡…must be a Russian conspiracy causing these retail closures in democratic cesspool cities. Nothing to do with the mass gangs looting the stores clean of merchandise. The media play duck and cover for Joe Biden (nypost.com)
In Another Real Moment. In 5-13-23 NY Post opinion by Michael Goodwin. He Nailed it. How Today’s Media Playing Duck and Cover for Biden. So, I don’t subscribe to that NY Paper so I couldn’t comment, BUT, reading comment after comment from that opinion, I COULD NOT find one out of the many that actually supports or refutes what Goodwin says. My Question is, Where the Hell are all these alleged 81 million that Voted for Biden ? Can’t Find them anywhere, NOT EVEN IN NY!🤔🤔🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃😮😮😮 Does ANYONE Really Believe Beijing Joe “Really” received 81 million as CNN would want you to Believe?
ICYMI: Outdoor Retailer REI Closes Portland Store Due to Crime Epidemic
REI closing its door in Portland is like Macy’s closing their flagship New York City store. The store closing symbolizes that Portland is dying and it’s current conditions are making the once beautiful Rose City uninhabitable. The news comes after Wal-Mart recently announced its pulling out of Chicago. Several major retail chains have also closed stores in San Francisco, another crime-ridden city. These once iconic American cities are becoming ghost towns as the population shifts to safer cities where criminals are not considered above the law. REI to shutter downtown Portland store amid 20-year high in break-ins: ‘Overwhelming systems in place’ | Fox Business
Why repeats this crap!!?? People are so stupid to think 💩 and those people who 💩 on the sidewalk won’t hinder you’re eating and shopping!! I had no idea #CNN did #Comedy but boy-oh-boy, is their communism showing or what? #WeKnow As if Trump chewing up & spitting out that BIMBO who was TOTALLY RUDE To #45 & who made an arse of herself wasn’t hard enough on their FAILED ratings, now they say this? HAHA! I ♥ self-inflicted mortal wounds from companies.
I was disappointed that Trump had to cancel yesterday’s rally in IA due to weather. God took care of Fox NOT covering it FOR us, but just the same, I hope that WE have another opportunity to SHUT THEM DOWN statistically at the next Rally! I hope everyone’s ENJOYING THE POWER we HAVE over TV stations & companies doing STUPID things! I’m to the point that I no longer wish to give them another chance either. I call it my ONE & DONE as I do that with people: Lie to me ONE TIME & I am Forever DONE with you.
That’s non-negotiable with me.
So if it’s not about crime, is it Biden’s complete collapse of the economy? Just like their CNN constant lies have nothing to do with the loss of viewers!!! 🙈🙊🙉🥴DemocRat are the Party of chaos, violence, devolution, oppression, failure, perverts, and evil.
Does the media really think we’re stupid or dumb.
If it weren’t for the crime, do you really think they would have closed those stores? But the fake news can say whatever they like. But the astronomical homelessness, addicts and thief’s — are the #1 option they have given them to close. When your government isn’t focused on its citizens it’s time to impeach or vote their asses out.
Yes and Mayorcus says border crossings are down 50% since title 42 dissolved. So using the 180° “democrat lying inversion tool,” that means border crossings have increased 150%. Using the same inversion tool for the lies CNN spews, that means all store closures in blue cities are because of crime. They have stated due to the stores being unprofitable.
Why are the stores unprofitable because of their inventory being taken? You can’t make money when you have to price everything high enough that selling 20% of your inventory will pay for the other 80% that walks out the door without penalty.
CNN is a remake of the movie, ‘the Jerk.’ In the movie, a sniper is trying to kill the jerk but misses the mark and hits some oil cans. The jerk thinks the sniper is mad at the oil can display and so he throws the cans in the trash.
This is the same logic used by CNN and store closures.
What do you think CNN’s going to say? They’re the most leftist Democrats in the world! If you remember all they do is spread fake news so why wouldn’t they say that it’s not just blue cities? They want to promote all this crime and then stealing cars and all this and that. They will never tell you the truth! The constant misinformation campaign keeps rolling along with compliments from China Telecom who owns the company!
Multiple stores have closed in Democrat-controlled cities in recent months and in story after story, after story, the companies behind these stores have cited crime as a major reason for closing. CNN has finally decided to cover this issue, but insists – contrary to the owners of these stores – that it has nothing to do with crime. They are defying reality and the words of the businesses themselves. CNN (Communist Network News) is an arm of the praetorian guard for the Biden regime.
CNN Abruptly Ends Interview After Migrant Makes Damning Admission About Title 42. The real reasons are stores such as Nordstrom. Walmart. Whole Foods. Starbucks. CVS. are closing in big cities. These big chains and others have closed stores in major US cities recently, raising alarm about the future of retail in some of the country’s most prominent downtowns and business districts. Several forces are pushing chains out of some city centers: a glut of stores, people working from home, online shopping, exorbitant rents, crime and public safety concerns, and difficulty hiring workers.
Well, that’s true, it’s a crime! Covid policies that went on for years! Taxes! And more crime! 😂😂😂 pretty soon the people who continue to vote for this stupid crap, will have to drive hours away into a red area, to buy their necessities. Will CNN ever stop lying? The profits go down because of extreme theft and the stores can no longer afford to operate in these neighborhoods and cities…CNN, in case you forgot, theft is a crime…but you’d never know it in blue cities and states…To reinvent downtown retail, drastic changes may be required…
Some of those policymakers, including both Republican and Democratic leaders, have pointed to crime as a chief reason for the closures, following videos of brazen shoplifting incidents. “We’re losing chain stores that are closing down. People who are being employed in those stores are losing their jobs” because of crime, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, said in February.
But the impact of shoplifting may have been overstated in some cases… One major factor here is the pandemic-fueled shift to remote work: Between 2019 and 2021, the number of people primarily working from home tripled from around 9 million people to 27.6 million people, according to the Census Bureau. Then came this video. In the first 30 seconds, the host says it has nothing to do with crime: https://cnn.it/3I7fPRA
What a piece of shit. I’m in Cleveland, Ohio. A Communist/Fascist Democratic run City and County. Just about every weekend. Gunshots most of the night. I’m in one of the most upscale places in the city. You can’t find any news townhouse for under $700,000. Carjacking, home break in. Other crimes are up. In the lesser income part of the city. Crime is out of control. But our News Media lead in with crime from the city of Akron. Not Cleveland crime. When they do. They blow over the crime fast with not much cover.
Like this time in April. Cleveland downtown. Two older white women at a bus stop got the shit kick out of them. By a crazy black male. Was on our local News once. Never cover anymore. This Hand and those hands working together with our government and News Media. If MAGA boycott them and Libtards loot them, we can rid the planet of ESG Fascist corporations pushing grooming our children for paedophiles and communism. #justathoughtpbond @pbond
After having unleashed out-of-control CRIMINALITY and VIOLENCE in #Democrat cities and states the WOKE TOTALITARIANS are now forced to mount PROPAGANDA OPERATIONS that are in direct OPPOSITION to observable REALITIES This is their delusional hail-mary effort at trying to prop-up up their MADNESS as total ANARCHY and COLLAPSE becomes unavoidable
Russia’s building a village for American conservatives (newsweek.com) DEM0RATS🐀 and LIBTARDS🇨🇳will do ANYTHING TO AVOID ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY FOR FAILURE OF DEM0RAT🐁SHITHOLE CITIES. ANYTHING. “It is the latest in a string of closures to blight the tech haven, which has been ravaged by rising crime and a homelessness epidemic. Billionaire Elon Musk last week blasted downtown San Francisco as ‘post-apocalyptic’. ” 😩🇺🇸🍊
President Trump needs to give Fake News CNN ANOTHER SMACKDOWN!! Trump Won.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️Clinton News Network= will Always be Wrong. Truth deniers…Lying liars always lie.
What is criminal: Kari Lake is a warrior and everyone knows that she is the rightful governor of AZ! Maricopa county election officials are as criminal and rotten as any county in the country and they will NEVER comply with the courts, law enforcement or anyone else! You cannot beat the mob legally! This has been proven since the dawn of time. The Secretary of State certifying the election results for governor is now the governor!! The criminals could not give the citizens of AZ a bigger middle finger and NOTHING has been nor will be done!! It is a smaller version of what happened on 11/3/2020 when the criminals did it on a National scale and they not only stole the election in broad daylight but have illegally held and prosecuted anyone who dared protest in the DC gulags!! Disgusting
Oh No No No CNN= the Creative News Network. CNN broadcasts have nothing to do with the facts….. Not because of Surging Crimes and their Dumbass Policy you see. Just like the Border issue. It’s all Good there too. No people dying or being Raped, Murdered, and sentenced to a life of Prostitution to pay their entry debt. And There is No fentanyl either. OR, Lets Not look at the Evidence, Biden’s previous Lies, banking Records, Accounts, LLC’s Emails, Texts and hears Whistleblowers regarding the BCF, not to be confused with SBF or SVB. Do any of you Dumbass DumbocRAT voters see a pattern yet? When will it become obvious in your so-called College educated minds?
YOU HAVE BEEN PLAYED for Fools and Useful Idiots? WHEN???????? I know many are a part of the Destroy America First Crowd. But there must be a large Majority of Kennedy Democrats that are not🤔🤔🤔
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, Men are Women, Children are Adults, Blue Cities are thriving – it all makes sense in the Orwellian world of woke ideologues: “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.
Not merely the validity of experience, the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. THE HERESY OF HERESIES WAS COMMON SENSE.” George Orwell – 1984 If you are concerned about the direction of our country, you must read “OFF GRID: ESCAPE FROM THE SURVEILLANCE STATE”.
A near-future, dystopian Thriller that is happening right before our eyes! The libtards keep telling us not to believe our lying eyes but we know not to believe a word they say. From the Dem Jackasses…the real reason so many stores are closing in Dem Jackass run cities based upon WHITE SUPREMACY! (Dem = Donkey = Jackass) 🎯
This is the same ongoing delusional thinking since Trump went down the escalator. Pathological liars . Are Anti Social With A Detachment from Reality = Liberals?
These imbeciles are either stupid or too DUMB to know they’re Stupid! Reality is not the libtards strong point or should we say lying is, they rely on the uninformed to listen to them and believe what they tell them!!
With these Beliefs: Antifa is peaceful. Joe Biden isn’t a pedo. Trump raped a woman. A woman is a man. A man is a woman that can birth. Children can make adult decisions. BLM thinks Black Lives Matter. There’s are as many genders as possible. Donkeys can fly Voting is safe, free & secure. China didn’t create Covid. Bud light is real beer. Amazon should be the only retailer. All electric airplanes. We need to eat bugs. Cows are ruining our environment. Rainbow Colored Unicorns exist. And dogs don’t bite. Soros is a Republican. Chicago is the safest city in America. Epstein really ran an orphanage on his island.
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MSM = “the narrative”. Pure 100% B.🐂S.💩 Spare us with your theater of lies… we’ve had a belly full.
This is CNN lying in an attempt to protect Democrats from well-deserved criticism on crime. Again, proving they are the Clown News Network and that’s Certainly Nothing New. At the end of the day, what does it matter, the stores are still closed. 💯😂
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MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez is joined by Pili Tobar, Partner at Fireside Campaigns, and Dan Restrepo, Senior Fellow at Center For American Progress, to discuss the backlash over Biden’s new restrictions, how some Republicans weaponize asylum seekers, and what it will take to see long-term investments in America’s immigration system that will focus on humanity.
A report this week from Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) found that between Nov. 23, 2022 and May 6, the agency’s office in the southern state of Chiapas, where Tapachula is located, gave out visas and permits to 81,245 migrants from 103 nations across the globe.
The vast majority of the migrants came to Mexico from countries in South America — Venezuela, where many migrants fled the poverty that goes hand-in-hand with socialist rule, topped the list with a staggering 23,329 nationals.
But on the list of countries were 4 Swiss nationals, 39 from Kyrgyzstan, 345 people from Afghanistan, and 738 from China. The longest journey was made by one person from Singapore — over 10,700 miles away.
“These people also come here because they think it’s easier to go from there to the United States…They don’t want to stay in Mexico,” said Eunice Rendon, coordinator for Agenda Migrante, an advocacy organization for migrants in Mexico.
In Tapachula — which is less than thirty minutes from Mexico’s border with Guatemala — The Post spoke with migrants fleeing political and economic instability, who said risking their lives was worth it for a shot at a better future thousands of miles away.
REMEBERING THE AXIOM:May Your Faith Sustain You! In any group there is 95% good in all of us and to each of us, I bet 5% of your time on earth you are ashamed of something you did.
Many people fled political and economic stability on their migratory journey to Mexico. “No one can change the situation” in China, said Zhang Zhiyuan, 68, who is a preacher and former professor at Hefei University, who is traveling to Los Angeles where nearly 200 of his students currently live.
Sweating through a wrinkled yellow shirt in the humid 81-degree heat, Zhang and his wife, Luo Min, 43, recalled being “persecuted” also by the Communist Chinese government back home in Shanghai. “In China there is hardship. People work harder and harder, but there is no freedom of speech, no religious speech,” Luo said.
Noting that they sold their house to afford their multi-continental trip and planned on applying for asylum in the United States. Mexico’s National Institute of Migration office in Chiapas gave out 81,245 permits & visas over the past six months.
“We [could] not go to church for several years.”
The International Organization for Migration in Mexico pointed to myriad factors — including the global economic impact of COVID-19, climate change-related disasters and violence — contributing to the international hodgepodge of migrants flooding the southern border of Mexico en route to the United States.
“Even as policy shifts, these deep-rooted issues persist, underscoring the need to promote safe, orderly, and dignified migration,” the group said in a statement. For a group of Afghanistan migrants standing outside, the Taliban’s rise to power following the United States’ exit sparked their cross-continental trek.
Climate-related disasters, the global economic fallout of COVID-19 and violence are causing migrants to flood southern Mexico en route to the United States. “The Taliban went after us over our professions” said a social worker, noting that he had helped aid a women’s empowerment organization while another had worked as a journalist.
Migrants have spent thousands of dollars trying to get to the U.S, through Mexico. Huang Qing, 40, a cell phone factory worker from China’s Hubei province, said that he spent $6,000 in credit card debt on his journey so far, flying to Quito before taking a bus through Central America.
The cost is worth it to possibly reach New York City, though, because getting an American visa the traditional route is “almost impossible for ordinary people,” he said. “America is the most democratic country in the world, and it’s for making money,” he said rosily about his potential future home, where he plans on learning English while working as a masseur or delivery worker.
Migrants wait to board a bus, before being transferred to Tuxtla Gutierrez, to continue their procedures and obtain the 45-day Multiple Migration Form. Many migrants from around the world may have ended up in Chiapas in the past month because of the news that they could easily obtain temporary permits from the Mexican government, allowing them more than a month to make their way across Mexico to the southern United States border, Rendon noted.
‘In the hands of God’: One Venezuelan family’s journey to the US (clickondetroit.com) “The government doesn’t want the immigration problem and for migrants to be stuck in here, so that’s why they’re making it easier to process visas,” Hope David Zuta Medina, 24, said Thursday, sitting in the shade outside of a bus depot while dreaming about his future working on a ranch in Georgia.
But in the wake of pandemic-era Title 42 policy lapsing. Mexico announced several steps to crack down on migrants crossing the border into Mexico from Guatemala. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to send more National Guard forces to the country’s southern border, Bloomberg reported, although The Post observed armed forces taking no action yet against groups of people illegally crossing the Suchiate River — on makeshift river tube rafts from Guatemala into Mexico.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to send more National Guard forces to the country’s southern border. “In the past, when they tried to be very strict, very forceful, there was a lot of criticism that they were violating human rights and so on, so they have to be very cautious,” said Andrés Ramírez, head of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid about brand new measures. “We are in the eve of elections in Mexico, and this is very political.”
The Institute of Migration, meanwhile, ordered its offices nationwide to stop issuing the temporary permits and shuttered a makeshift office in Tapachula’s Ecological Park handing out the travel documents. Earlier this week, The Post photographed thousands of migrants handing themselves in to get the permits at the makeshift facility.
“[The INM]…ordered all immigration offices in all states not to grant Multiple Immigration Forms, or any other document that authorizes transit through the country,” according to a fact sheet circulated at a conference held by López Obrador. Amadou Diallo, 32, who had left military-run Guinea a month ago, also urged the Mexican gov. to continue providing aid to migrants, allowing them to pass through to make their way to the U.S. Related video: Migrants on what they’ll do if turned away from US (Reuters)
“If I work hard, I believe I can change my life or my family’s life.”
Migrants cross the Suchiate River, which marks the Guatemala-Mexico border, earlier this week. “The Mexican state should create the conditions to help people who come, because we are really in need,” said Diallo — standing in a line with hundreds of confused, exhausted migrants outside of the Ecological Park Friday — waiting to see whether they could still obtain permits.
Diallo said that his journey, which involved flying to Brazil before traveling by bus to Mexico, said he would do whatever was necessary to reach the United States. There, he marveled, “if you want a job, you can have a job.” “I would travel illegally, because we can’t return to Guinea,” he said, noting that the police killed at least seven people during nation-wide protests this week.
“When we [left], life [was] not tranquil.” But suddenly beefed-up US border policies have caused some to abandon adjust their plans for crossing the United States — and instead stay in Mexico indefinitely. Leyanis Durand, 44, said she and her partner, Julio Eduardo Gamboa, left Cuba with fear if they manage to cross the US border now, they’ll be the first to be deported.
Instead, they’ve resigned themselves to settling in Monterrey, in northern Mexico, where they hope to pick up work in restaurants and see Durand’s 21-year-old son who managed to cross the border into Houston, Texas, a few months ago.
“My son said he’d like for us to go and stay in the States with him, but he’s telling me, ‘Mama, you sold everything to leave, so if you get deported to Cuba, you don’t have anything there. Don’t risk it.’”
Opinion by Kenan Malik • It’s no longer ‘the will of the people’ to turn our back on migrants. ‘It is designed to meet the will of the British people in a humane and fair way.” So wrote the home secretary, Suella Braverman, and the justice secretary, Alex Chalk, about the government’s illegal immigration bill in a Times op-ed last week. The bill seeks to detain and remove all migrants who arrive in this country by irregular means and to ban them from ever applying for asylum here. The question of whether government policy is “humane” and “fair”, I have already written about.
But what of it being “the will of the British people”? In April 2022, a YouGov poll showed that 35% of the British people supported the government’s Rwanda deportation scheme, while 42% opposed it. A year later, this March, 42% supported the government plans, while 39% opposed them – a slight shift towards backing the government, but still less than a majority, and still relatively evenly divided. Other polls have similarly revealed a population with a plurality of views.
When presented with alternatives, support for government policy plummets. Polling suggests that just 10% of Britons think the best way to deal with migrants in small boats is to deport them to Rwanda. Almost four times as many – 39% – prefer the government to “make it easier for people to apply for asylum in Britain from overseas”. Far from government legislation meeting the “will of the people”, Britons are divided on the issue. Most favour “fairness” in immigration and asylum policy, and much of the opposition to the Rwanda deportation scheme is precisely because many recognise it as manifestly unfair and immoral.
There is a broader context to this. Britain has, in recent years, become more liberal about immigration. Researchers at the Policy Institute at King’s College London have shown that globally Britain is the most relaxed nation when it comes to immigration. A majority believes that any number of people should be able to come to Britain so long as jobs are available; fewer than a 3rd want strict limits on those coming in. A majority hails immigration as having a “positive” effect on the nation; just one in 10 disagrees. Far more think that immigration has no impact on unemployment and crime than think it does.
Conservatives and leavers are far more concerned about immigration than are Labour supporters and remainders. Exposed here is a chasm between the way most people regard the issue and the way it is presented by politicians and commentators. If all we listened to were the debates at Westminster or in the media, we might imagine that Britain was a nation hostile to, and neurotic about, immigration, rather than one that has become far more relaxed about it.
What many people want, according to the think tank British Future, is a system that prioritises control over numbers. Its polling shows that significantly more people believe it important for the government to have control over who can come to Britain, irrespective of the numbers coming in, than think the government should prioritise deterring people from coming to keep the numbers low.
That thesis may be tested soon. Attitudes to immigration have become more liberal at the very time regular immigration has been increasing. Figures published last November showed net inward migration of 504,000 in the year to June 2022 – half a million more people came to Britain than left. Some speculate that when figures for the whole of 2022 are released later this month, the data might show a net increase of up to a million.
The figures for 2022 are unusual, partly because of large numbers of Ukrainian and Hong Kong refugees admitted last year and partly because of a post-pandemic rebound, mainly for students and those arriving on the new health and care worker visa. The numbers are likely to fall next year. Nevertheless, many commentators have raised the alarm, viewing these numbers as revealing a “lack of control” over immigration, rather than, as others have observed, the post-Brexit system working as designed.
Whether the public will continue to be relaxed about immigration, given the weight of political panic over both Channel migrants and regular immigration, remains to be seen. The intensity of the political and media discussion may be one reason that, while Britons have become warmer to immigration, polls nevertheless reveal a widespread perception of public attitudes as having turned more negative.
There is currently much debate about the role of the “liberal elite” in ignoring the “will of the public” and imposing their own views on policy. The irony is that, when it comes to immigration, if anyone is out of touch with the public, it is those who refuse to acknowledge the degree to which attitudes have liberalized over the past decade, and the policy consequences of that.
If attitudes have become more liberal, they have also become more polarised. Conservatives and leavers are far more concerned about immigration than are Labour supporters and remainers. The Tories clearly see it as a wedge issue to help win back leavers who have deserted them in the recent period. It is, though, a perilous strategy, not least because even those who agree with Tory policies view them as ineffective. And of all groups, leavers are dissatisfied with government policy. Real problems, from housing to health, are being ignored as migrants are scapegoated.
Beyond the fact of its immorality, the illegal immigration bill is also unworkable. There are few “return agreements” allowing irregular migrants to be deported. The Rwanda scheme, if it ever gets off the ground, will accept at most a few hundred asylum seekers. There is currently no other country willing to take Britain’s unwanted. Having created a panic over boat migrants, and having conflated the issues of regular and irregular migration, the Tories may find that people will remember the failure of the “stop the boats” campaign more than the boat people themselves, and be more perturbed by the rise in legal migration than by promises to “take back control”.
The real costs of the government’s theatre of cruelty will be borne not by Conservatives but by migrants, arbitrarily detained and deported and denied their rights, and by the British people whose desire for a fair system is being distorted, whose real problems, from housing to health, are being ignored as migrants are scapegoated, and whose anxieties are being cynically manipulated.
The illegal immigration bill is designed to meet not the “will of the British people” but the Tories’ political needs. And even in that it will fail.
• Kenan Malik is an Observer columnist/
NOTE: If Biden was a Legi mate Leader, he would be having press conference being open, honest with the truth about the migrants flocking to our border, fleeing the Governments he visualizes the United States to be.
Obama, Bush and Clinton have started an NGO to fly migrants into the U.S. Gates and Schwab want to get rid of a third of the world’s population. Quickest way is to get every country to have a civil war. They are counting on it. Enabling it. Paying for it. Masterful plan if you think about it. Biden knows we will not fight each other. Why not bring in illegal aliens to cause havoc. Once we defend ourselves and stack bodies…
Martial Law = gun grab. They know 0nly way they get our guns. Obama and his administration are destroying America right before your eyes, this is only the beginning! It has already started. What they’re doing is putting us in a state of tyranny where we have no recourse to fight back. Basically slavery to the government. The citizens do not realize they are under attack just yet. And that will be their excuse to usher in martial law!!!
“The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.” Ecclesiastes 10:2
Don’t forget the plan to label every single land/homeowner who does use deadly force to defend themselves as a “white supremacist” to reinforce Biden’s lie that white supremacy is the biggest threat our nation is facing. Curious & if the landowners also try defending themselves, democrats could arrest the landowners for murder & relinquish their land to the illegals as a compensation or just let them kill the landowners & take their land etc., would that piss y’all enough to retaliate?
All they care about is giving them enough to live on without working AND most importantly getting them registered as democrats. The libtards know they can not be re-elected by US citizens so bring in voters. The 2024 election will define this country. The smelly turd is the most un-American so-called President that we have ever had!
Biden is a turd of epic proportions, a treasonous POS.
People fleeing socialist countries should be an eye opener for all concerned.
Where we are heading into the fifth dimension, is closer to the flow of the universe’s natural laws, meaning “ease and grace” or “flow.” We share that the New Earth is not about what will happen sometime in the future; it’s about what is happening today on our planet and how it impacts you.
It is not a physical separation creating two physical planets. The New Earth is actually here today, there are natural rhythms ~ within the universe, and when humanity is one with this natural rhythm, this fifth dimension, humankind evolves to the next level and experiences the kinder & gentler New Earth.
Black People, White People & Hispanic people: America’s Immigration Hypocrisy.
Several U.S. cities prepare for influx of migrant arrivals – Search (bing.com) New York City is one of several U.S. cities which are preparing for thousands of migrant arrivals in the wake of the expiration of Title 42. New York City already has about 37,000 migrants housed in shelters. Michael George has the details.
The USA is home to more immigrants than any other country—about 50 million, just less than a fifth of the world’s immigrants. Immigrant access to health care in the USA varies widely by ethnicity, citizenship, and legal status. In recent decades, several policy and regulatory changes have worsened health-care quality and access for the immigrant populations. These changes include restrictions on access to public health insurance programmes, rhetoric discouraging the use of social services, aggressive immigration enforcement activities, intimidation within health-care settings, decreased caps on the number of admitted refugees, and rescission of protections from deportation. A receding of ethical norms has created an environment favorable for moral and public health crises, as evident in the separation of children from their parents at the southern US border. Given the polarizing immigration rhetoric at the national level, individual states rather than the country as a whole might be better positioned to address the barriers to improved health and health care for the immigrants in the USA.
As Title 42 ends which places restrictions on immigrants entering America through the southern border, this is a hot button issue. This is nothing but hypocrisy of America itself and the American government, regardless of who is president. Apparently America has forgotten about opening the door to the tired and the poor and those who are yearning to be free unless they can be used as political pawns for an election.
It was just 2018 that Donald Trump had no problem separating Hispanic families even while he hired illegal immigrants at Mara Lago. Talk about hypocrisy. And while Trump’s policies were overtly racist, Obama ‘s policies were not a whole lot better he put them in cgaes. That in part is why I have labeled this America’s hypocrisy and American government hypocrisy, regardless of who is president.
So let’s take a look at history, because apparently Politicians want to simply forget it, deny it, refuse to talk about it or sweep it under the rug as usual. America was founded by illegal aliens now praised as forefathers. Invaders who called themselves “colonizers”, came to this land, all but wiped out the indigenous people already here and then subjugated and oppressed Black people to make them build this country. And of course, there was slavery, institutional racism and the devaluing of an entire people based on ethnicity which still happens today in America.
We should also not forget that various states in the west were Hispanic. When politicians make it seem like Latina people coming here are an infectious invasion, maybe those politicians should look in the mirror and wonder who invited their ancestors.
Again, hypocrisy rarest it’s ugly head. Every excuse in the book is used to block BROWN people from coming into this country. And every one of those excuses is arguably rooted in racism, fear of full integration and the illusion of white “superiority”. So what approach do our political leaders take?
They scare you by making you think that Hispanic caravans are coming to kill you and your family. Something that never happened. They use propaganda every chance they get to emphasize when a Hispanic person commits a crime in America. But they conveniently leave out that over 90% of the active shooters who walked in somewhere and also killed a whole bunch of people were not Hispanic. They were Caucasian American. That is a fact.
Hitler used some of the same techniques to brainwash the Aryan Germans as what is used in this country today. Make the citizens scared of an entire group of people. Or make the citizens blame that entire group for the problems that the citizens face. Then dehumanize that group of people. And if the country blames them enough, that same country will have no problem with how an entire group of people is mistreated. That is Hitler 101, regardless of what political party you belong to.
So, let’s look at what we do not see. We do not see any accountability for all of the Canadians who come here yet never leave. We do not see accountabilities for all the people from primarily Caucasian Anglo-Saxon countries who come here yet never leave. We do not hear about walls being built between the United States and Canada. We do not hear our American government saying that it should stay out of the over 100 countries where we have embassies and military bases and “peacekeeping” forces.
Fentanyl kills more than Covid – Search (bing.com) Back to hypocrisy all over again. Or did we ever move from it? Why is it that America can go wherever it wants, whether it is welcome or not? Yet America can turn around and hypocritically say who should not come here. Is that what democracy is supposed to be about? In fact, what is the country even founded on democracy? I don’t think the indigenous people got a vote and I seriously doubt that the slaves got a vote either.
People come to America for freedom, or at least because they are under the illusion that Americans are free. But a different type of bondage does not mean freedom. People come to America in search of the American dream, but as a People, how is that working out for African-Americans? Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? How is that working out when “black lives” don’t seem to matter in America, racism is alive and well, mass incarceration is a thing of the present, economic depravity, divorces, single-parent households and abortion rates are highest in the black community and many of our African-American leaders are coons, turncoats, traitors or Cointelpro?
Until we are all free, none of us are free. I wish I had created that statement, but I didn’t.
Still, it has never been truer in modern times than today. Separating families and putting them in cages? Sound familiar? It has a distinct and deafening ring of hundreds of years ago as America did the same thing to slaves brought from Africa. And yet even with that treachery, while the blood cries out from the ground as a testimony of it, the issue is still both debated and widely accepted in these United States.
Has anybody learned anything? Asians in America were targeted and attacked at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Every day in America Black people are profiled, which is not to say that each person should not be held accountable for what they do. But now the bull’s-eye moves to Hispanic people. How dare you America? 1. Most crimes against white people are not committed by illegal Hispanics. 2. Most crimes against Black people in America are not committed by Hispanics who crossed the border. 3. Most crimes against Asians are not committed by Hispanics.
Then we come to the “Boogeyman” issue. Hispanic people are going to take all the jobs. First of all, that would be impossible to do because that would mean that all the companies and corporations in America would have to hire only Hispanic people. And that is realistically not going to happen.
The biggest wall that seems to have been built in America is a wall around the truth. A wall to block out history, or at least tries to. A wall that says those in need are not welcome here. A wall of hypocrisy. And apparently neither America nor its political leaders have the courage to admit what is really happening and why.
The real America no longer wears a white robe and a hood. But it is still just as fearful of its treachery coming back around like a boomerang. I don’t want it. I did not throw the boomerang. But unfortunately, I cannot stop America reaping what is this sown and continues to sow.
America has been a country of “immigrants” since it was founded. Or should I say, since this land was stolen? Illegal aliens and crossing the borders were not a problem when the people from Europe and Spain were doing it. But now that America is becoming a little “too brown” for the powers that be, immigration is a problem? Let’s just be honest.
Black People, White People & Hispanic people: America’s Immigration Hypocrisy. Vice President Kamala Harris broke her silence on the end of Title 42 while attending a fundraiser in Georgia on Friday.
The vice president attended the Democratic Party of Georgia’s fundraising event in Atlanta Friday, a day after the expiration of Title 42, the public health order that began during the coronavirus pandemic to keep asylum-seekers from entering the country.
During an interview with Channel 2 Action News, Harris read a statement from the Georgia GOP that said it was “deplorable that the Vice President is coming to Atlanta for a fundraiser campaigning while the border crisis is overflowing and we have out-of-control inflation.”
Related video: ‘People in need of help’: Fmr Sen. Harris Advisor on Border Challenges. “You know, I hear that everything in the last couple days is going rather smoothly, given what the concerns were,” Harris responded. The bottom line, however, is that this issue of immigration falls squarely within the responsibility of the United States Congress.”
Harris was tasked with leading the White House’s border efforts in March 2021. President Joe Biden carried a similar role while he was vice president to then-. President Barack Obama.
Title 42 ended on May 11, with 1,500 troops deployed across the U.S.-Mexico border to receive an expected surge in migration. The Biden administration does not plan to deploy anymore. A senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection official at the agency’s Washington headquarters told the Washington Examiner in a phone call Friday also that the number of illegal immigrants apprehended nationwide remained very high, with 9,000 on Thursday alone. THE BOTTOMLINE: They should get in line and come legally!!!
Car Thieves are up…let’s ban cars
I live outside Baltimore, and this sounds so stupid. Crime is getting worse here! The car makers should sue the high car theft cities for not making car theft a crime with serious punishment. Nowhere does this article mentioned how many people are prosecuted for car theft in the thug cities. If the cities don’t deter car theft with punishment, then they have no right to blame the mfgs. It all comes down to the communist Bolsheviks thugs in power who love to sue everyone as a fear tactic.
Their communist judges aid and abet the slimy Bolsheviks who rule in their favor instead of ruling on the side of the law. They are equal to the street thugs but wear white collars instead. Seems Baltimore blames the cars for them getting stolen! I’ve never seen a car drive off by itself.
Maybe it’s the Democrats running City that is letting this happen! I know I’m not going to that worthless city as a matter of fact I’m not going to any worthless City on the East Coast or any place else. Cuz all of them are run by democrats.
Eventually liberal problems will solve themselves by attrition. The only bad part is having to wait to get there.
Liberals refuse to place blame where it belongs. That’s why they cannot solve even simple problems. It’s a big part of the Liberal Induced Death Spiral of a city. Lack of legal authority, hands off approach by the police and idiot DA’s not prosecuting will result in more crime. That concept has eluded the morons who call themselves leftists. LOL
These same people probably believe a fork and spoon make you fat. Communists are notorious for framing inanimate objects as having human characteristics! On the subject of vehicles being stolen and NOT blaming the thieves, but more comically blaming the vehicle is beyond ridiculous.
This stance is parallel to communists blaming the gun for gun violence! All true Americans are keenly aware, neither the vehicle nor the gun, inanimate objects both, have the ability to cause those actions of theft and violence! Incessantly, communists are NOT accepting blame for any misdeeds, regardless of circumstance, and that is the crux of the matter!
I can see the bumper sticker on the cars that the ghetto scum already stole…. “My other car is… Yours, as soon as I steal it” We NEED to reopen the mental institutions, so we have a place to house the Liberals.
Typical libturd mentality. Don’t blame the stupid fucks committing the crimes, blame anything but the monkeys stealing the cars. This way the politicians don’t have to own up to their own stupidity.
How silly! If it doesn’t belong to you, don’t touch it. If you do steal the car, a stiff sentence of 10 years or more should be a stiff deterrent. Perhaps we can pay the Russians/Chinese to manage our prisoners in a Russian/Chinese labor camp. If not ‘Made in America,” at least we can say it was “Made by an American” — in China. Carjacker was just standing at the bus stop when a car came up and grabbed him! The horror! LOL
Compassion can collapse the city systems with overcrowding, the draining of limited resources and support services.
I feel bad for them especially if I hear their personal stories. The fact remains they are coming illegally, committing crimes & have respect for the country they’re invading. Are lives going to be severely affected & possibly out of jeopardy! They are sleeping on the streets of El Paso. Women and children are being sold and raped along the way. They are homeless. We don’t have resources for our own homeless.
This isn’t compassionate. Compassion can collapse a nation. Think about it like this, if you were on a life raft with 9 other people, the raft would sink with more than 10 people. You come across 20 people in the water, are you gonna be “compassionate” and allow them to sink your raft and kill everyone?
Compassion is preventing the USA from looking like the socialist disaster countries they are fleeing. Yeah, ok where is the compassion in that? Without a sufficient, functional border control system, there is NO way to protect the migrants from the very cartel criminals We are told they are escaping. The democrats are using these people to supplant their power-(no ID required to vote)
You obviously don’t understand economics. We already have 30% of our own in this country living in poverty. When you add people to the country in mass numbers, who pays for them? It’s just less money for the poor we already have. Not to mention drugs, guns, sex trafficking, streaming across borders. You’re so compassionate you would rather everyone live in squalor than to have controlled immigration.
For thousands of years, humans learn how to protect their houses and land. Learn the hard way, while every time their houses were devastated if they did not protect it. How many people can house one city? SF, LA, NY already overwhelmed with homeless. You want to add 1000? 1000000?
Oh you are so compassionate right? Why don’t you drive down to the border tonight and pick up as many as you can fit in your Prius and take them home with you and pay for their health care, food, lodging, gender transition surgeries, college, school supplies, utilities, etc? Do you have no compassion for the struggling communities that are so detrimentally impacted by these massive influxes? Are you indifferent to the human trafficking and abuses that occur by encouraging this kind of behavior?
You just look at it like it’s an innocent crime. Oh, and your “compassion” will bring in drugs, drug addicts, murderers, bank robbers and other capital crime offenders. etc. What other trash do you want coming in w/folks who want to make a better life for themselves and families. Just go through the process. It’s that simple. We already have millions 0f illegals in the US now – most on Govt dole; Mayorkas declares they are more important than funding for Veterans or Seniors! USA is broke but is paying for Everything for the illegals #BidenGoodieBags AND has been doing for 2 years NOW = NWO https://dcenquirer.com/bidens-border-
Girls’ underwear and clothing alongside condom.
YUMA AZ: Found on the Mexico side as the border invasion continues Women and children are being raped and trafficked to the US | @TPUSA. It isn’t about our resources! It’s about Tx ranchers finding used condoms next to little girls’ underwear in their fields! Then releasing those same men in our neighborhoods and saying we have to accept it for compassion.
We absolutely cannot stop letting migrants come in. It’s what made America in the first place and our economy is heavily dependent on them. We can’t be making decisions based on the bad aspects only. Legal immigration is fine, no one should skip the line in a dangerous disregarding way like this. That’s like if all the homeless in Oregon and Cali stormed Canada’s border, There’s a proper way to apply for immigration and it takes months and years of paperwork.
You don’t just show up. Anyone with a sliver of common sense realizes that incentivizing illegal immigration by toleration is the opposite of compassion. Look into it and you’ll find rape, murder, slavery, prostitution.. all enabled by the federal government’s unwillingness to enforce border law. You think you should be able to just walk into any country and expect to live there?
I am compassionate for immigrants who come here the right way. If these illegals are seeking asylum from Central America, they should be happy to be in Mexico. What happened to adhering to the US Immigration laws which read ‘enter at an official port of entry’. The US as a nation is not the world’s carekeeper. It’s called limited resources to care for a population of people larger than many American cities.
The problem needing to be addressed is the conditions back in their own countries of origin not US compassion. Years of paperwork and a very high denial rate even after that paperwork is a major reason why we have so many people just showing up.
We have homeless Americans living in tents in the woods and in their cars, with kids. Over 6 million people have come across the border since Biden became President. How many is enough? Maybe another million or so?
Where is the compassion for them? Do you know how many are waiting from across the world to come in and they are doing it the legal way?! Anything but regulated will cause imbalance and problems. Hunting the buffalo isn’t the problem, hunting all the buffalo at once is. The limits on entry are designed to not allow the economy to be overwhelmed. The USA was built on it when it was open land and too many made natives move.
I’m planning to go to the USA 100% legal. With all the papers, Illegal people are a freaking disrespect for us, because they go to America without papers or visa, and in a couple of years they will have citizenship. I would argue that the US has enough resources, but it is not well distributed. Also, another thing is, the American dream used to be and is still a lie.
My history teacher would comment that if every people in this planet would live like an American, we would need 3 more planets. Who says they care more about those people fleeing abject poverty, out of control violence, and tyrannical governments than they do about people in the US, many of whom are homeless because of bad choices.
These people coming here are seeking opportunities, not handouts. We *do* have resources for homeless people; we choose not to provide much. Lemme remind you that America is the richest nation on Earth, and every inequity is the result of choices made by the ruling and owning classes. It does us no good to punch down at our fellow human beings. We absolutely have the resources; we just don’t want to give it to them because they’re illegal. And I am sure BLM and Antifa are recruiting them?
No no no… we DO have the resources for our homelessness. We just don’t care… cmon now, be honest. We have 11 aircraft carriers that are about $10 billion each. The next highest country has 2… take ONE away and 10 billion can build lots of homeless shelters and hospitals. People are always going to immigrate whether it’s legal or not. Shutting down the border just stops the good immigrants, not the bad ones. ~Anonymous Comment
Democrats love illegal immigrants and hate voter IDs… We’re losing this country. The land is not yours; you stole it from the Native Americans and massacred them so that you could expand into it. But The USA must have rules to enter w/o rules there is chaos – this chaos is for the simple fact the democrats are continuing to put out the story that the USA will give you everything your heart desires, even allow you citizenship and to vote!
This is 100% Lunacy, 0h compassionate one, how many of these vagrants will you be taking in? Compassion is not invading a country. No other country allows anyone to come to their country w/o Legal process. Kids are being trafficked & we’re paying for these migrants, while Biden is inflating everything in America.
Wide open border is not humane to anyone! Women and children are assaulted and abused on the trip! They ‘re forced to work off the debt to drug cartels and human traffickers! Biden “lost” 85,000 unaccompanied kids! Probably lost in a sex trafficking ring. Human sex trafficking and drug smuggling and all the destruction wrecks on American cities is not compassion.
It comes after law and order and footing the bill for their housing, education, healthcare, etc., while we have doctor, teacher, housing and nurse shortages. There simply aren’t enough resources to deal with this. If you disagree, you can house and feed them yourself but tax payers are already burdened, people can’t afford basic living expenses, let alone having to pay for someone who essentially broke the law.
Why are they lying about it? Biden said he’s sending troops to the border to help expel them back. They also won’t allow any filming of the migrants getting on buses. They the Feds’ fly them into our small local airports in the middle of the night and bus, them out t0 who knows where from there.
You know they’re paying these agents under the table for them to just do as they’re told…What about “compassion” for American citizens first? Many Americans are suffering, struggling to buy food, medicine, housing, gas, etc due to Biden’s inflation. Now YOU want us to pay $60,000 PER YEAR per illegal for their “free” stuff.
We cannot save the whole world and jeopardize our own. Did you know they’ve been coming in, in thousands since Biden was in office? Their problem is since they’re not filming it or being truthful, why do we think those guys are still the good guys? They’ve let in more drugs that’s killing people, rape at the border., lost 85,000 kids.
We already ARE compassionate. It’s called Foreign Aid. Our compassion does NOT require changing the demographics of our entire society to ensure the Democrat party gets more votes. The Democrats aren’t being compassionate, they’re bringing in voters who will be indebted to them.
What happened to obeying the law?? Look at these invaders.
Do they look like they are starving or ragged or unclothed? There is a legal way to enter a sovereign nation, this isn’t it! Our borders are just like that. Compassion??? Why don’t you just leave your back door open 24/7 and see who walks through it.
Who are we letting in? Why do we have millions of single 20’s-30’s men only coming through? What about compassion for the thousands of young girls getting raped?
It is not compassionate if you are using other people’s money. The Government’s obligation is to its own citizens like the tens of thousands veterans who are not being cared for. How many tax dollars do communities have to divert from care of their own to care of illegals? Many of them were released from prison and mental institutions by their government sent to USA borders.
Are you serious…Wake-up America! Biden’s Greatest Failures – Search (bing.com) This could be an invading army, treat it as such. What about your compassion for our vets under overpasses, encampments of drug abusers in inner cities, the money to be taken from social services…?
Politics May 13, 2023, 2:07 PM EDT President Joe Biden on Saturday told graduates of a leading historically Black Liberal University that American history “has not always been a fairy tale” and that “racism has long torn us apart.” But on the nation’s best days, he said “enough of us have the guts and the heart to stand up for the best in us.” At Howard University, one of the nation’s most prestigious Black universities, Biden warned of assaults on democracy and called on attendees “to stand against books being banned and Black history being erased,” a critique of Republican rivals including Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Polls show the two leading a potential 2024 GOP primary field. Biden spoke after he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. As Biden spoke, more than a dozen capped and gowned Howard University students stood with their backs to him in silent protest over what they said were many forms of white supremacist violence. The address at Howard University is the first of two commencement addresses Biden will deliver this year. Watch Biden’s remarks in the video Here.
Gov. Hochul Issues Emergency Order Over Migrant Crisis – Search (bing.com) The governor issued the executive order late on May 9 in an attempt to help New York deal with an influx of migrants. The influx is expected as Title 42 expires on May 11. According to Hochul, the order will grant NY the ability to request 500 more National Guard members to assist the city. The order will also allow NY to secure housing and other necessities for migrants. It is a crisis situation, especially with the suspension of Title 42 on Thursday, Gov. Kathy Hochul, via statement. It’s no surprise that there will also literally be thousands of more individuals coming across the border and ultimately finding their way to the state of New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul, via statement.
Hochul’s order may also help to subdue frustrations brought by Mayor Adams’ recent announcement of plans to move migrants to empty hotels in Rockland and Orange counties. We are in communication with the mayor’s team and also helping him find locations within the city limits, opening up state property and talking to other counties that are interested in having people come, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Hochul said a main hurdle is getting migrants approved to begin working legally. The number one priority for those here is to be able to get a job. We want them to gain employment, however, there’s constraint at the federal level as far as their designation, Gov. Kathy Hochul, via statement.
Migrants Request Asylum at US Border as Title 42 Expires – Search (bing.com) Migrants crossed the US border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas, following the expiration of Title 42 on the night of Thursday, May 11. Also Footage from Corinne Boudreaux shows the situation at the border prior to the expiration of the COVID-related policy. Boudreaux told Storyful that the footage shows two families on the Paso del Norte International Bridge in anticipation of the expiration. Further footage shows migrants who had crossed the border waiting on US soil to be picked up and transported by US immigration authorities. Title 42 was used more than 2.8 million times from March 2020 by US authorities to expel migrants at the southern border without allowing them to request asylum, according to data from Customs and Border Protection. Citing officials, local media reported 13,000 migrants, more than double the current average, were expected to cross the southern border every day once Title 42 was lifted.
Caitlin Dickerson: Focusing on migrant numbers alone is misleading – Search (bing.com) With the lifting of pandemic-era border restrictions, the chaos that was widely predicted to erupt at the border failed to materialize. 2023 Pulitzer-prize winning immigration reporter Caitlin Dickerson of the Atlantic says focusing on migrant numbers in a vacuum fails to take into account that many migrants end up finding jobs within days of arrival. “Clearly Americans are benefiting from services they’re providing,” says Dickerson. “It’s up to us as journalists to be a little more sophisticated in the way that we cover it and make sure that we’re not playing into the sort of fear mongering over preexisting issues.”
Analysts see major hurdles in new US border policy – Search (bing.com) Legal and immigration analysts in the United States weighed in on the Biden administration’s sweeping policy shift at the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday as new asylum restrictions took effect aimed at encouraging migrants to seek asylum through legal pathways, after the COVID-era order that had allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants expired.
Congressman: “We have a broken process at the border.” – Search (bing.com) With Title 42 ended, hundreds of thousands of “Gotaways” entering illegally and asylum-seekers given court dates years away, “We have a broken process at the border,” says Rep. Don Davis (D-NC), “and we need to put party aside in these divisive politics and get together in a bipartisan way.”
Uncertainty clouds U.S. transition at Mexico border – Search (bing.com) The Biden administration began implementing a sweeping policy shift at the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday as a COVID-era order that had allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants expired and new asylum restrictions took effect amid confusion and uncertainty. This report was produced by Freddie Joyner.
WSJ Opinion: The Biden Family Business – Search (bing.com) Review and Outlook: On May 10, 2023, the House GOP Oversight Committee released its report into Biden family business ties, detailing how Hunter and relatives received $10 million from foreign nationals and their companies while Joe was Vice President.
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