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DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#161

Ever see a headline and just go "Did I really read that?!?"

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hunter-biden-psychedelic-toad-venom-kept-sober-year

Oh, FFS...sure did.

Can't

Make

Up

This

$hit

Trump was so bad how? Which one of his children were doing something like this?

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#162

Has Biden already betrayed the trust of pro-Israel Democrats?

A shift towards the Palestinians and anti-Israel international organizations, coupled with an ominous silence about a drift to Iran appeasement, are all recreating Obama’s “daylight” strategy.

It’s only been 11 weeks since Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States. With the president preoccupied with domestic politics and waging rhetorical warfare on his Republican opponents, it’s clear that foreign policy is a low priority for the new administration. And with Biden diving headfirst into partisan scrums—accusing Republicans of being racists with brazenly false accusations about a Georgia voting law and promoting an infrastructure bill that is more of a liberal project wish list than it is about rebuilding bridges and highways—there seems to be little space or oxygen left for a debate about his intentions abroad.

It’s also true that the pro-Israel community is determined to avoid any unnecessary battles with Biden. Though some supporters of Israel have registered justified complaints about many of Biden’s appointees, including both Obama administration alumni and those with more radical connections and beliefs, for the most part, the organized Jewish world is prepared to work with the president’s team. They know that while Obama’s staffers are far less sympathetic to Israel than their counterparts in the Trump administration, they believe that cooperation will yield better results than open opposition.

That makes perfect sense. It’s also true that of all the possible 2020 Democratic contenders, Biden was the friendliest to Israel. Though that was a low bar, it’s nonetheless true that his longstanding ties to the pro-Israel community mark him as more likely to treat the Jewish state as an ally, which is more than his old boss President Barack Obama generally did.

All that adds up to a general willingness to give Biden a chance. And with Israel’s government still paralyzed by a two-year-old political stalemate, relations between the two nations are also seemingly on hold.
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But that doesn’t mean that Biden and his handlers haven’t already tipped their hand.

A number of key moves by Biden on both the Palestinian and Iranian fronts have already undermined confidence not only in his judgment but in his intentions.

With respect to the Palestinians, it was to be expected that Biden would walk back many of Trump’s historically pro-Israel policies. While Biden begged off on any attempt to move the U.S. embassy back to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem, which would both violate U.S. law and spark a battle that would be a huge and unnecessary distraction from his domestic priorities, the new administration has made it clear that the kind of closeness between the two nations that existed prior to Jan. 20 isn’t in the cards.

The least of it was the State Department’s overruling of the Trump-era declaration that the West Bank was disputed rather than “occupied” territory. This will encourage unrealistic Palestinian hopes that the Jewish state will cede territory in the heart of the Jewish homeland that a broad consensus of Israeli voters have consistently labeled as not so much ill-advised as insane. This lip service to the theoretical possibility of a two-state solution that the Palestinians have repeatedly shown no interest in reasserts policies that have failed time and again.

The same is true of the message that Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered to Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi last week when he spoke of the need to deliver the same “equal rights” to the Palestinians that Israelis enjoy. The main obstacle to those rights remains Palestinian intransigence rather than any actions on Israel’s part. Yet Blinken’s trolling disguised as human-rights advocacy will only do more to annoy Israelis than to endanger them. Nor will it do much to help the Palestinians persist in their century-old war on Zionism to which they are hopelessly addicted.

Far more troubling are the signals that show that Biden is prepared to ignore the Taylor Force Act signed into law by former President Donald Trump into law in 2018. The act forbade U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority so long as they were, as they have continued to do, funding terrorism via pensions and salaries to those who shed Israeli and American blood.

The administration first said it just wished to give the Palestinians $15 million to help the P.A. fight the coronavirus pandemic. But now it turns out that it may have allocated up to $100 million in aid to Mahmoud Abbas’s terror-backing kleptocracy, with most of this kept from the public.

Biden is giving Abbas $75 million in economic aid to Abbas as a “confidence-building” measure. Supposedly Blinken wants to give the P.A. a chance to prove itself trustworthy in spite of the fact that for the 27 years of its existence, it has consistently shown the opposite. More to the point, handing over U.S. taxpayer cash to Abbas’s Fatah thieves and thugs is a flagrant violation of law since it helps the P.A. continue its terrorist funding. But the same media that cried foul at what they claimed was Trump’s running roughshod over the law have no problem with Biden treating open violations of it as a thing of no consequence.

Equally troubling is the way Blinken’s State Department is reverting to neutrality, if not hostility, towards Israel when it comes to international organizations that engage in anti-Semitic targeting of Israel.

Biden has restored funding to UNRWA, the U.N. refugee agency that has not only helped keep the 1948 Palestinian refugees and their descendants homeless but is dedicated to keeping their war against Israel going, doing far more harm than good. And the new administration has not only rejoined the viciously anti-Israel U.N. Human Rights Council that Trump had rightly boycotted but also embraced the toxic organization’s endorsement of the Durban Conference, a historic anti-Semitic hate-fest.

Most ominous is the administration’s moves towards a new round of appeasement towards Iran. We knew that Biden wanted to revive Obama’s dangerously weak Iran nuclear deal, though he and Blinken have rightly spoken of the need to strengthen it—a foreign-policy imperative that Trump made a priority by pulling out of the old pact and reimposing sanctions. Biden’s approach to Iran has been much like that of Obama’s terrible negotiating strategy. Iran has refused to put itself back into compliance with the original deal, and Biden and Blinken appear ready to start making concessions merely to get Tehran back to the negotiating table.

But the worst is the supine attitude Biden has taken to what may well be the most dangerous foreign-policy event in recent years: the agreement Iran struck with China that will effectively circumvent sanctions on the Islamist republic. The United States has the power to force China to abandon its attempt to buy oil from Tehran and to make other investments there, as well as institute military cooperation. All Biden needs to do to spike this potential game-changer is to tell the Chinese they must choose between doing business with Iran or the United States. But a week-and-a-half has passed since the announcement, and Washington has contented itself with nothing but mealy-mouthed expressions of a desire for all these countries to have good relations.

If this is allowed to stand, it’s a signal that Biden hasn’t the courage or the will to stick to his promises on stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons. More to the point, it may show that his foreign-policy team thinks that, like Obama’s negotiators, such a development is not a big deal.

All of this means that it’s not too early for the pro-Israel community to start speaking up loudly and angrily about the implications of all these moves, especially the indifference to the Iran-China deal.

It’s one thing for the organized Jewish community to be slow to anger and to pick their fights with the new administration carefully. It’s quite another to sleepwalk through Biden’s first year in office only to eventually wake up and realize that the danger is already here, and it’s too late to do anything about it.

https://www.jns.org/opinion/has-biden-already-betrayed-the-trust-of-pro-israel-democrats/?

Well, they had a nice ride but the voting bloc divided itself and well...with the DNC it's 100% or nothing.

Let's hope the new Latin American wave is paying attention.

RayR
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5 years ago

#163

Yep, that Biden is fixin to start a war somewhere.

HockeyDad
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5 years ago

#164

Pro-Israel Democrat is just an idea not an actual thing.

Stogie1020
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5 years ago

#165

Like him or hate him, DJT did more to establish long term stability in the ME than any other President in recent history. The end-around the PA by encouraging financial alliances with moderate Arab nations was a brilliant move, and one that will establish the baseline for future moves.

Biden would be wise to leave it alone rather than try to wreck it in the name of "Trump-Bad" syndrome...

RayR
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5 years ago

#166

Biden is going to need a war as a smokescreen to cover up the Great Biden Depression.

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#167

Pro-Israel Democrat is just an idea not an actual thing.

HockeyDad wrote:

So what you're really saying is that its more like Palestinian statehood?

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#168

Stogie1020 wrote:

The Xiden Administration has already erased those. Page 3. It was predictable. They ran on it!!!

http://www.cigarbid.com/Forum/c/posts/m/4583605/Presidentin-Is-The-Thing-You-Know-The-Thing#post4583605

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#169

Whew...the Speaker says we're on a "good path" with regards to the crisis at the southern border.

It's all better than Trump's kids in cages movement she helped lead.

Stogie1020
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5 years ago

#170

So what you're really saying is that its more like Palestinian statehood?

DrMaddVibe wrote:

What is really concerning to me is that the largest influencer (IMO) of Congressional US-Israel policy in the US is AIPAC, and their methodology depends on group gatherings and citizens lobbying of members of Congress. None of this can happen right now due to Covid, so there is very little momentum to push back against these reversals by Biden.

AIPAC is commonly referred to as one of the most powerful lobby groups in Washington (on par with NRA, big Pharma, etc.), but only has a handful of actual registered lobbyist. 99.9999% of their lobbying is done grassroots style by ordinary citizens.

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#171

Stogie1020 wrote:

Trust me, I understand your concern and I'm not even Jewish. I was goofing with HD on that post. I can see how someone could misunderstand that. My eyes are focused on Israel being the lone place in the ME that isn't ran by tyrants, war lords, kings or fanaticism. They're by themselves in that region. One of 45's hallmarks was getting Saudi Arabia and the UAE to recognize Israel. Everyone wants to forget just how huge that is/was. I say was because you can see the disdain this administration displays towards them. It's shameful and disgusting. One step forward...three stumbles back.

Stogie1020
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5 years ago

#172

All good, I never thought you were supporting our Dear Leader.

I think the phrase should be "three steps forward, one Biden back"...

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#173

What he's doing is setting America back so hard I really wonder if this is the tipping point.

I don't even want to think like the Intel Analyst I was...seeing the leaders and organizations that must be salivating at our perceived weakness and desire to help them damage ourselves. It was tough up against the Iron Curtain and the jungles of Central/South America...but this? Ugh...I don't know how they sleep at night.

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#174

Let's just stay in the region for a bit if I may...

Biden Administration to Restore Aid to Palestinians

"The Biden administration said on Wednesday it is restoring millions of dollars of economic and humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, reversing the Trump administration’s decision to cut the funds.

The total $235 million in assistance includes funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or Unrwa, which assists Palestinian refugees, along with economic and humanitarian assistance.

The Trump administration had previously cut aid to the Palestinians over their refusal to enter into peace talks with the Israelis and to signal U.S. displeasure with the way that the U.N. refugee agency was run."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-restoring-aid-to-palestinians-11617819667

That was yesterday's news. Yesterday as in April, 7th 2021. Let's look at another headline from yesterday. Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to around 1943....

Photographic Evidence Shows Palestinian Leader Amin al-Husseini at a Nazi Concentration Camp

Only three of the seven men pictured survived World War II and its immediate aftermath. The two German officials in uniform were both directly involved in the Holocaust. Before and after their trip to the camp, Adolf Hitler met separately with each of the foreign guests, who included the Palestinian leader al-Husseini, the former Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Kailani, the Croatian Ustasha ideologue Mile Budak, and the Indian Hindu leader Subhas Chandra Bose. So who were they?

Mile Budak was the ideologue of Croatia’s ethno-radical, anti-Semitic Ustasha party, which ran a Nazi satellite state formed in 1941. On the left is Dr. Fritz Grobba, a former envoy to Kabul, Baghdad, and Jidda. He was a Protestant and not a member of the Nazi Party. He had been in charge of the Middle East in the German Foreign Office since early 1942.

Grobba and the two Arab leaders pictured had supported the anti-British coup in Iraq, which was followed by the al-Farhud pogrom in mid-1941. In it, 179 Jews were killed and many stores looted. Masterminds like al-Kailani and al-Husseini wanted to signal, there in a 2,500-year-old community, how Arabia’s Jews should be treated.

In the second photo is the politician Arthur Seyss-Inquart, who presided over Hitler’s Anschluss of Austria in 1938 and two years later served as commissioner for the occupied Netherlands. In the process, he oversaw the deportation of 100,000 Jews to death camps and the enslavement of half a million Dutch people, half of whom were forced to go to Germany as slave laborers.

On the other hand, both Arab leaders continued their anti-Jewish and Islamist policies unimpeded after the end of the war: al-Kailani until 1965 and al-Husseini until 1974. Outside of Israel, Nazism had hardly been delegitimized in the Middle East, and its adherents often came to power after the war ended. The Iraqi al-Kailani staged a coup in Baghdad but failed. He was sentenced to death, then exiled to Beirut.

Al-Husseini also found himself in Beirut, where he was active in the World Islamic Congress, which he founded in Jerusalem in 1931 (he opened a Berlin branch a year later). With robust backing, he rose to become the first “Global Grand Mufti.” A mufti is a religious and legal authority who hands down rulings on everyday issues to believers in his jurisdiction. His late half-brother Kamil was the previous grand mufti of Jerusalem. Al-Husseini received the title in 1921, and in order to preserve and expand his transregional “Mideast-Europe” legacy after 1945, he chose as his representatives Said Ramadan for Europe, in Switzerland, and Yasser Arafat in the Middle East. The Mufti advised Arafat in 1968 to take over the Palestine Liberation Organization (which he headed until 2004) and “to liberate Palestine,” operating out of Gaza with Fatah troops.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/amin-al-husseini-nazi-concentration-camp

What has History taught us? A tiger doesn't change their stripes. A terrorist organization is still a terrorist organization. Now, it's more what's the word the kids use today...Fluid. Yeah, now a terrorist organization is more fluid. It still has the same outcome. It just roams the planet now and picks and chooses who it strikes. Look at President Slingblade go...trying to influence friends and add to his power base. Its at America's better interests to WTFU. These kind of people don't just sit on their cash...know what I mean?

No?

"Following the initial Nazi victories in North Africa, Hitler ordered Arabs trained in desert warfare and al-Kailani to take part. Erwin Rommel’s army rolled into Egypt and was poised to invade Palestine and Iraq. On April 28, both Arabs—the Mufti carried the pan-Arab flag on his car, the Iraqi had himself addressed as az-Za’im الزعيم, Fuehrer—signed a secret letter with Berlin and Rome for joined struggle until final victory, and for liquidation of the Jewish home in Palestine. To be clear, this always meant killing Jews: This was a quadrilateral, Palestine-oriented genocide pact for “Jew-free Arab lands or empires,” signed by the two Arab leaders and by the Axis foreign ministers."

Anyone really think the Palestinian plan will help Israel?

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DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#175

Kamala Harris' run from the border

Another day, another several thousand migrant families and unaccompanied minors for our border security personnel to deal with. (Or to not deal with in many cases, sadly.) So what happened to our point person on the border crisis “seasonal uptick?” It’s been nearly three weeks since President Biden either appointed or anointed Kamala Harris to take charge of the situation. Surely an historic figure like the Vice President must have things nearly wrapped up by now, right? I mean, how hard could it be? As it turns out, however, the veep has had too many other pressing items on her plate to attend to so she hasn’t even made a physical visit to any portion of the border, to say nothing of announcing any successes or even plans. As Miranda Devine points out today at the New York Post, not all of Harris’ public duties appear to be focused on getting any actual work done.

It’s humiliating for the president that almost three weeks since he appointed Kamala Harris as his border point-woman she still hasn’t visited the disaster zone, come up with a plan or held a press conference on the migrant crisis.

Instead, she’s visited a water- treatment plant in California and a bakery in Chicago, where the press pool reported on her sweet tooth last week.

“Her favorite is German chocolate, and [she] gets that for her birthday each year, and her staff had pre-ordered a slice for her. The bakery’s specialty is caramel cake, and she said she was looking forward to that too.”

Riveting stuff.

A water treatment plant and a bakery? Are those perchance hotspots for illegal aliens seeking jobs?

You can say what you will about the Vice Presidency being an office that’s not worth a bucket of warm piss if you like, but the veep traditionally has some sort of official duties to attend to. They would generally be assigned to at least attend some weddings or funerals not deemed important enough for the POTUS to go in person. But for a person who is allegedly in charge of overseeing one of the worst border crisis situations in living memory, Kamala Harris doesn’t seem to have a very busy schedule.

Don’t look for any help from the official website of the Vice President. All of the stuff from Mike Pence’s time in office has been understandably archived, but today the page is nothing but a lengthy biography of Harris’ life, interspersed with artfully framed photos (of Harris) and inspiration quotes (from Harris). The only bit of actual business to be found is a link at the bottom to use if you’d like her to nominate your child to one fo the nation’s military academies. Back when Joe Biden was Barack Obama’s Vice President they published daily schedules for both men. Obama described publishing the schedules as “just one more way we’re opening up the White House.”

There is no link to any schedule on the veep’s page or really much of anything else for that matter. Similarly, there is no hint of where you can find Harris’ schedule at the White House home page. They don’t even have Biden’s schedule posted.

But if they did have the Vice President’s recent calendar of events posted, what might we find? If you do a current news search on Kamala Harris you find all manner of items. They include a tour of her recently remodeled home at the Observatory, the aforementioned trip to a Chicago bakery (where business really picked up afterwards, by the way), and the release of her official portrait, which is described as “stunning.”

To be fair to Harris, she did have a phone call with the President of Mexico last week where the subject of immigration came up. But beyond that, her official duties seem to mostly entail scheduling softball interviews with friendly press outlets. What is she doing with her time? Isn’t she supposed to be the point person on the southern border?

In the linked op-ed article, Devine suggests that when Joe Biden tapped Harris to handle things at the border, he knew he was handing her “a poison chalice.” The suggestion here is that the relationship between Biden and Harris is souring, as insiders refer to her as “the heiress” and suggest that she’s just waiting around for Biden to quit or be removed. While the latter may have the ring of truth, the idea that Biden believes he could somehow escape responsibility for the disaster at the border by putting Harris in charge doesn’t hold water. Even if she fails spectacularly (or simply does nothing as she’s seemed to thus far), the fault still lies with the person at the top of the food chain. For better or worse, Joe Biden created this crisis and he will bear responsibility for it. Casting the blame on his absentee VP isn’t going to resonate with anyone.

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2021/04/12/kamala-harris-run-from-the-border-n382569

Suckers voted for this!

RayR
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5 years ago

#176

Give the girl a break, she's probably scared that she may catch the RONA if she visits those dirty Biden cages, and it doesn't make for as good a photo op like posing with chocolate cake. Besides, she knows Wokie Joe is setting her up to take the blame for the border fiasco and she's got more important stuff to do like encouraging BLM/ANTIFA riots and plotting how to deep six old Joe.

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#177

She's vaccinated and wears a mask.

What is she afraid of again?

Oh...Fauci moved the goalposts again. No sports. Damn them to hell. Super spreaders. We're all gonna die. Blood blood blood. God can't save you. He said he can work a deal for me though.

Krazeehorse
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5 years ago

#178

Get ready for a shortage of vaccine so they can shut things back down this summer.

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#179

Get ready for a shortage of vaccine so they can shut things back down this summer.

Krazeehorse wrote:

I think we're going to hit the wall with people that still want it and the supply they have on hand...I heard they were stopping the J&J vaccine. Something about blood clots and people dying. Don't know what that's all about.

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#180

You really have to wonder when the Biden supporters are going to get fed up with the inaction or the wordsplay.

They sure were bloviating loudmouths with Trump. Say...same people were with W too. Quiet with the Kenyan King as well. Anyone can see the pattern.

Migrant family holding center virtually empty as Biden spends millions on hotels

A massive immigration holding center in Texas is hardly being used amid the worsening border situation as the Biden administration instead opts to dole out multimillion, taxpayer-funded contracts to house families in hotels.

The Biden administration has spent $87 million to put families in seven hotels across Arizona and Texas rather than place them in similar permanent family facilities, according to two people familiar with the administration’s plans.

Sources said the Karnes County Family Residential Center is far better equipped to hold hundreds of families even amid the coronavirus pandemic but claimed Biden officials are making a “PR play” and are concerned about the “optics” of holding people at a facility that is operated by a for-profit group. Hotels holding families are overseen by the Family Endeavors nonprofit group and are not required to be licensed because they are not holding people more than 72 hours.

"You're sacrificing treatment of the very people you're saying you want to protect," the first person said.

Karnes cost $57 million and is under a five-year contract between the county and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a state-licensed facility to hold up to 835 people who arrived at the border as part of a family group. It is technically a detention facility, but unlike other facilities that hold adults, it is designed with classrooms and recreational spaces for children and comes with amenities not seen in jails or prisons.

At present, Karnes is less than 20% full, two people confirmed.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/migrant-family-detention-center-empty-biden-hotels?

Now you know why the Covid1984 spike is happening.

PS: Ditto for this group too!

https://nypost.com/2021/04/11/never-trump-conservatives-complicit-with-bidens-moral-outrages/

You wanted this...embrace it like the wet steaming colostomy bag full of holes it is!

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