RayR
4 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSaTXfeKFvA

There's an lol for ya...

MACS wrote:



The shocked look on Biden's face when Lemonhead called him the "big guy". Priceless😂
Old Bidey thought Lemonhead was going off the predetermined script and was going to ask about Hunter's laptop.
frankj1
4 years ago

The shocked look on Biden's face when Lemonhead called him the "big guy". Priceless😂
Old Bidey thought Lemonhead was going off the predetermined script and was going to ask about Hunter's laptop.

RayR wrote:


quelle chance, Le HockeyDad!!!
here's the Lemonheads doing It's a Shame about Ray!!!


DrMaddVibe
4 years ago
Biden Administration Officials “Unmasked” Tucker Carlson


A few weeks ago, I testified in the House Judiciary Committee on the surveillance of journalists in a long series of scandals from the Bush to the Obama to the Trump to the Biden Administrations. These scandals have occurred with almost seasonal regularity. There was a rare sense of bipartisanship in the hearing as both parties called for investigation and new legislation to address this ongoing problem. However, there has been a notable silence among members and the media after Tucker Carlson went public with an allegation that his emails were not just intercepted by the National Security Agency (NSA) but that they were shared with members of the press by intelligence officials. Now, there appears confirmation that the communications were mentioned on intercepts and, as some of us assumed early in the coverage, Carlson was “unmasked” by Biden Administration officials. Yet, the response continues to be crickets from the media and members of Congress.

When the story broke, I stated that it was likely that the communication was not a direct targeting but either an incidental interception (when targeting a foreign intelligence subject) or the gathering of the information when it was discussed by third parties on an intercept. It would then have to have been “unmasked” by an official with such authority. The latest coverage would suggest that it was likely the later circumstance of the communication was discussed or read during an interception and later unmasked.

This is once again an example of how bias continues to distort coverage. Many in the media dislike Carlson and the feeling is obviously mutual. However, what Carlson described on his show was extremely serious and concerning. He said that a journalist and a third party both contacted him to say that his emails were being leaked. He said that one email (where he was seeking to secure an interview with Russian President Vladimir) was literally read back to him.

That should have been sufficient to raise calls for investigation and transparency. Whether the email was intercepted directly, incidentally, or merely discussed in a different intercept is not determinative on why the information would have been circulated or why Carlson’s name was unmasked.

Now, Fox News (who I work for as a legal analyst) is condemning reports in The Record that Carlson was “unmasked” at the request of Biden Administration officials. The NSA had previously denied Carlson’s claims. Now, two sources are being cited as saying that Carlson’s communications were discussed in intercepts and then his identity was unmasked.

There remain very serious questions. Who unmasked Carlson’s name and why was there an unmasking? Moreover, how would such information be discussed with reporters or third parties, if the original allegations are true?

You do not have to like Carlson (any more than other media figures subject to such actions) to be concerned over such alleged unmasking and distribution. This should be part of the bipartisan inquiry discussed in the Judiciary Committee.

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/07/25/report-biden-administration-officials-unmasked-tucker-carlson/ 


This isn't what he mumbled on about in his acceptance speech. Unity and transparent? No, it's back to weaponizing govt agencies and cozying up with the Deep State non-elected "leaders" America has. I for one, not surprised. I mean if you can spy on an American citizen...that just happens to run for office...wins said office and the spying continues...NOBODY is safe from the spying.
frankj1
4 years ago
NOBODY is safe from the spying.^^^


bravo for fearlessly risking your freedom on a discount cigar forum...HA!!!
DrMaddVibe
4 years ago
Look out for falling chamber pots!!!


Did Joe Biden Say "My Butt's Been Wiped" in Response to an Immigration Question?



Joe Biden has introduced us to a game we never thought we’d have to play with the alleged leader of the free world.

It’s called “Three Guesses as to What the Doddering Dude Is Saying?” For the win, you get the grand prize if you’re able to figure it out. Unfortunately, sometimes, it’s a pretty hard game.

It seems that multiple times a week we’re scratching our heads trying to figure out just exactly what he said. Now, I really have no idea what the heck he said here. People have said it sounds like “My butt’s been wiped.”


Laurel or Yanny? pic.twitter.com/JwChf7yRNC

— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) July 25, 2021


Indeed it does, but then why would he be saying that? I don’t know, it’s Joe. There is no rationale for the insanity. This is our “leader.”

In case you think that clip wasn’t real, here it is in full context. Not that the context helps. He totters up to them looking like he has a bit of a gait disorder. “Does immigration need to be in reconciliation? A pathway for citizenship?” the reporters ask him. Then he says whatever that weird phrase is.


“Does immigration need to be in reconciliation?A pathway for citizenship?” @POTUS was asked returning to the White House

“There needs to be a pathway to citizenship whether it needs to be in immigration remains to be seen,” he said (he appeared to mean reconciliation) pic.twitter.com/cDiNoG31h3

— Molly Nagle (@MollyNagle3) July 25, 2021


Here’s another angle.



Full interview of @POTUS “my butt has been wiped” comment.
Why, did not a single reporter, ask
excuse me Mr. President?
Can you clarify what happened to your butt?
Journalism is dead


pic.twitter.com/I2Y7uW5Lph

— All Politics is Local with Jon Fetherston (@LocalPoliticsis) July 25, 2021


The reporters all laugh as though this is normal and he rambles off. But even his more coherent response needs more explanation because it doesn’t make sense. “There needs to be a pathway to citizenship whether it needs to be in immigration remains to be seen,” he said. Um, ok? Where would it be, if not in immigration?

Now, if we can’t figure it out, you have to think they would have had trouble too. Why didn’t any of them ask? They just laugh and he moves on. Do they not care that he just says something completely incoherent?

Maybe he did say it, weird as it is. But then do we have to wonder who wiped his butt? And why am I having to ask that of the alleged leader of the free world? Imagine what other countries are thinking about this craziness.

The reporters are actually are asking a pretty serious question – are you going to include amnesty in the reconciliation bill, that’s basically what they’re asking. And he doesn’t really give an answer to it, amongst all the weirdness.



https://t.co/uPQTpTLCts [/color]

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 25, 2021

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/07/25/did-joe-biden-say-my-butts-been-wiped-in-response-to-an-immigration-question-n416357 


đŸŒ« Today's flavor of a$$ cream for the President?
Speyside
4 years ago
I wouldn't read anything from a source called red state, nor would I read anything from a source called blue state. Why? Just those very names point out to me that they are all about propaganda and not truth.
DrMaddVibe
4 years ago

I wouldn't read anything from a source called red state, nor would I read anything from a source called blue state. Why? Just those very names point out to me that they are all about propaganda and not truth.

Speyside wrote:



Yeah, remember the Drudge Report took down Clinton and his chubby intern. The National Enquirer took down the Breck girl and his mistress with illegitimate baby.

You can find Truth anywhere.

You choose not to read it because it disturbs your preconceived narratives. That could be remaining ignorant for a purpose.
Speyside
4 years ago
You misunderstood my meaning, maybe I wrote unclearly which is often the case. Certainly there is some truth there, but I assume it is primarily right wing entertainment. I don't watch or read anything that calls itself news but is primarily entertainment. I do use right and left wing sources that are more about truth and less about entertainment. Even using those I skip the opinions. What actually happened, what actually was said, and so on. That is what I am looking for. I do watch the local news to see what is new that interests me.

Your opinion of what it means to take someone down and mine vary greatly.
DrMaddVibe
4 years ago

You misunderstood my meaning, maybe I wrote unclearly which is often the case. Certainly there is some truth there, but I assume it is primarily right wing entertainment. I don't watch or read anything that calls itself news but is primarily entertainment. I do use right and left wing sources that are more about truth and less about entertainment. Even using those I skip the opinions. What actually happened, what actually was said, and so on. That is what I am looking for. I do watch the local news to see what is new that interests me.

Your opinion of what it means to take someone down and mine vary greatly.

Speyside wrote:



Biden is taking himself down daily.

What that article clearly shows are some reporters that aren't all aboard the "Emperor Has New Clothes" train.

This is Biden's "Covfefe".

Meh
Speyside
4 years ago
I don't disagree that Biden is slowly sinking.
RayR
4 years ago

I don't disagree that Biden is slowly sinking.

Speyside wrote:



I heard all this talk about Biden's mental decline was just partisan entertainment.đŸŒ«
RayR
4 years ago
I saw on the news that Old Joe got a lukewarm reception from the employees at the Mack Truck factory.
I bet he didn't leave without a colder goodbye.

White House Scrambling After Biden Claims He 'Used to Drive an 18-Wheeler'

by Erin Coates July 29, 2021 at 12:49pm

The White House struggled Wednesday to defend President Joe Biden’s claim that he “used to drive an 18-wheeler” truck.

Biden made the claim while he was visiting a Mack Truck facility in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Fox News reported.

“I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man,” Biden said. He then seemed to clarify, “I got to.”

Joe Biden, a career politician who has been in politics for 48 years, claims he “used to drive an 18 wheeler.” pic.twitter.com/eOXI9pwF2g

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 28, 2021

When asked about the claim, a White House spokesperson told Fox News to look at a December 1973 article in the Wilmington Evening Journal.

The article showed that Biden rode in an 18-wheeler on a 536-mile haul to Ohio.

“There is zero evidence that Biden ‘used to drive an 18 wheeler,'” Republican National Committee Research Director Zach Parkinson tweeted alongside images of the Wilmington Evening Journal article.

“The extent of Biden’s trucking experience is that he **rode in** a truck once, for one night in 1973 (he made sure to return home by plane though).”

More...

https://www.westernjournal.com/white-house-scrambling-biden-claims-used-drive-18-wheeler/ 

Speyside
4 years ago
Maybe you heard that, it wasn't what I said. What is the relevance to what I said?

I think neither DMV or I were talking about mental decline. We were talking about politically. For me also trustworthiness. Of course DMV might have meant something different.
bgz
  • bgz
  • Herf-A-Holic
4 years ago

I saw on the news that Old Joe got a lukewarm reception from the employees at the Mack Truck factory.
I bet he didn't leave without a colder goodbye.

White House Scrambling After Biden Claims He 'Used to Drive an 18-Wheeler'

by Erin Coates July 29, 2021 at 12:49pm

RayR wrote:



I heard Al Gore invented the internet.

That spawned the beginning of the Al Gore Rythem... an early 90s dance that involved optimally shuffling your bits to the nearest block of hookers and blow... or something like that.
RayR
4 years ago

I heard Al Gore invented the internet.

That spawned the beginning of the Al Gore Rythem... an early 90s dance that involved optimally shuffling your bits to the nearest block of hookers and blow... or something like that.

bgz wrote:



That Al Gore is just another progtard like Biden that's full of chit.
RayR
4 years ago

Biden Forgets to Name Third Reason Why He Ran for Presidency, Claims He 'Drove' 18-Wheeler Once

by Tim Korso

The Democratic president is well known for his frequent gaffes, especially during off-the-cuff speeches, prompting his political rivals to raise questions about his mental capability to hold the nation's highest post.

US President Joe Biden ran for president for three reasons, according to his own claim during a visit to a Mack Truck factory in Pennsylvania on 28 July. POTUS, however, only named two, leaving the third a mystery.

"When I announced my campaign [
] I said I was running for three reasons. One, to restore the soul of this country, a sense of decency and honour. But secondly, to rebuild the backbone of the country: hard-working middle class folks who built this country", Biden revealed.

More...

https://sputniknews.com/us/202107291083485902-biden-forgets-to-name-third-reason-why-he-ran-for-presidency-claims-he-drove-18-wheeler-once/ 

DrMaddVibe
4 years ago
Predicted in the very 1st post but when OPEC tells a dithering dementia addled sitting US President to STFU...even the Taliban too?

OPEC tells a weak, incompetent US president to drop dead



Last week, we were wondering : What could be more pathetic than the sight of President Joe Biden begging OPEC to increase oil production, just to make up for the U.S. and Canadian oil production that he had gone out of his way to impede from the moment he took office ?

Believe it or not, that was not a hypothetical question. There is, in fact, something even more pathetic than Biden’s desperate request for a foreign oil cartel to spare him motorists’ anger and a political backlash.

That would be the oil producers’ response to Biden, which roughly translates to “drop dead."

At the very moment Biden’s administration was being convulsed by its humiliating strategic failure in Afghanistan, the international oil cartel and the adjacent producers known as “OPEC-plus” added insult to injury with their defiant answer. As Reuters reported it, the major oil producers (including Russia) let word slip that they “believe oil markets do not need more oil than they already plan to release in the coming months.”

On the day Biden was elected, Brent crude oil was under $40 per barrel. Today, it is nearly $75 per barrel. Likewise, average gasoline prices are currently 48% higher than they were the day Biden squeaked out his narrow, no-coattails win over former President Donald Trump.

Biden’s request of OPEC, as we noted previously, evinced a belief that environmentalists in the United States are easily fooled — that he can placate them by restricting domestic production while simultaneously calling for more imported oil that releases exactly the same amount of carbon dioxide when burnt.

But the oil-producing nations’ response to Biden is also evidence of how much respect and diplomatic prestige he has cost the U.S. in the last week.

Biden’s gross bungling in Afghanistan, followed by his appalling attempt on national television Monday to blame everyone but himself, points to a president who has apparently lost touch with reality.

Why should oil-producing countries fear or respect a president who reassured the public that he had everything under control, only to turn around and, through sheer incompetence and lack of basic planning, strand more than 10,000 U.S. citizens behind enemy lines in Afghanistan?

In many ways, Trump set a low bar for presidential conduct. His intemperate social media presence was a constant source of irritation for many people, both during his 2016 presidential campaign and his four years in office.

But it has taken the feckless Biden administration just seven months to make Trump seem like a steady leader who, for all his faults, at least had a clue about how to advance American interests.

Perhaps Democrats will remain in denial about just how weak Biden has become, but the reality has not been lost on OPEC.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/opec-tells-a-weak-incompetent-us-president-to-drop-dead? 


The "buck" stops with Biden? [frypan] [frypan] [frypan] If you gave him a penny he'd give you back change!!!!

Build Back Better cratering each and every day.
DrMaddVibe
4 years ago
The media and the current crop of stupid Democrats are peddling the narrative that this isn't anything like Saigon, Vietnam.

It's not!

EXC: Joe Biden’s State Dept Halted a Trump-Era ‘Crisis Response’ Plan Aimed at Avoiding Benghazi-Style Evacuations Just MONTHS Before Taliban Takeover.




Joe Biden’s State Department moved to cancel a critical State Department program aimed at providing swift and safe evacuations of Americans out of crisis zones just months prior to the fall of Kabul, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.

The “Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau” – which was designed to handle medical, diplomatic, and logistical support concerning Americans overseas was paused by Antony Blinken’s State Department earlier this year. Notification was officially signed just months before the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.


“SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED,” an official State Department document from the Biden State Department begins, before outlining the following move the quash the Trump-era funding for the new bureau.

The document is from the desk of Deputy Secretary of State Brian P. McKeon, confirmed in March by the United States Senate.

Evidence of the pause in the program by Biden’s State Department.

The document is dated June 11, 2021, though The National Pulse understands the decision to pause the program may have come as early as February, both undermining the original Trump-era date for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, and certainly giving the Taliban time to threaten American assets and lives on the run up to Joe Biden’s September 11th date of withdrawal.

The subject line reads: “(SBU) Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau,” and the body of the document recommends:

“That you direct the discontinuation of the establishment, and termination of, the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR), and direct a further review of certain associated Department requirements and capabilities.”

It goes on:

“That you direct the discontinuation of the establishment, and termination of, CCR, consistent with the applicable legal requirements, necessary stakeholder engagement, and any applicable changes to the Foreign Affairs Manual and other requirements.”

The document reveals the recommendations were approved on June 11th 2021.

Speaking exclusively to The National Pulse, former President Donald J. Trump blasted Biden’s irresponsible move:

“My Administration prioritized keeping Americans safe, Biden leaves them behind. Canceling this successful Trump Administration program before the withdrawal that would have helped tens of thousands Americans reach home is beyond disgraceful. Our withdrawal was conditions-based and perfect, it would have been flawlessly executed and nobody would have even known we left. The Biden execution and withdrawal is perhaps the greatest embarrassment to our Country in History, both as a military and humanitarian operation.”
MUST READ: EXC: A Senior Biden Staffer Wrote An Afghanistan Policy Paper Which Was Sponsored By a Top Chinese Communist Influence Group.

In a lengthy article in Vanity Fair from May 2021, the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR) – also referred to in overlap with a predecessor/partner bureau called “OpMed” is described as a “little-known team of medics and miracle workers—hidden deep within the U.S. Department of State.”

“Even before COVID reared its head, OpMed was finding ways to do all sorts of things, serving as the hidden hand behind daring and often dangerous operations to rescue Americans from peril abroad,” the article states, before going on to quote Secretary of State Tony Blinken on the importance of the program’s goals.

“The Bureau of Medical Services’ Directorate of Operation—or ‘OpMed,’ as we call it—is a lifeline for the Department of State and the American people
 Though perhaps lesser known outside of the Department, it’s vital to our operations. That’s because OpMed provides the platform and personnel to save American lives around the world, especially in times of crisis. During the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, OpMed was integral to our evacuation and repatriation of 100,000 Americans to the United States as countries began locking down their borders.”

But The National Pulse understands that career officials inside the State Department objected to the Trump-era aim of creating a Contingency and Crisis Response bureau with the express purpose of avoiding a future Benghazi-style situation for Americans overseas.

Instead, Biden’s team revoked the funding and the approval for the plan, even as the COVID-19 crisis reasserted itself, and and Afghanistan withdrawal loomed.

Vanity Fair reported in May:

“OpMed emerged from the ashes of Benghazi, where, on September 11, 2012, militants attacked the U.S. consulate, killing America’s ambassador to Libya, an information management officer, and two CIA contractors. The day’s events rocked the national security establishment and prompted years of recrimination, congressional hearings, and blue-ribbon commissions. When the dust more or less settled, several findings emerged: First, Pentagon officials had long warned their counterparts at the State Department about the “tyranny of distance” in Libya and other parts of North Africa. Second, CIA medics on the scene in Benghazi played an indispensable role in saving the lives of gravely wounded diplomatic security personnel. Finally, an interagency panel of experts concluded that, in light of the “grossly inadequate” response time to evacuate the injured from Benghazi, “State must ensure it has the capability to rapidly deploy crisis responders and evacuate [
] personnel in harm’s way.”

“Responsibility for internalizing these lessons and bolstering the department’s ability to treat its own fell in no small part to William Walters, who had joined State in December 2011 in what for nine months had largely been a role in search of a mission: managing director of operational medicine. He had served with the Army’s most elite special operations unit and held the euphemistic title of deputy command surgeon for sensitive activities at the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). “They wanted a guy who understood the Pentagon but could also wear cuff links,” he said with a laugh, recalling the clash of cultures. And yet Doc Walters, as he is known in the corridors of Foggy Bottom, quickly emerged as a contrarian (in a department that values consensus) and an egalitarian (in an organization that’s been a bastion of elitism since 1789).”

A 2022 State Department Budget Justification document presented to the U.S. Congress earlier this year notes on page 22: “The Department has paused implementation of Op Med (CCR) pending a policy review.”
MUST READ: CORTES: Welcome to Joe Biden's American Carnage.

On August 15th, Biden’s State Department was forced to issue a humiliating statement warning U.S. citizens that the Embassy in Kabul would be unresponsive to their requests for help.

At the time of publication, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. military is attempting to move 5,000 to 9,000 people to safety per day, according to the Associated Press.

The news flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claims that his government planned for “every contingency” in the war-torn country.

The National Pulse also understands no Congressional notification was sent to the United States Congress, as is required, upon the pause.

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/bidens-state-dept-halted-trump-era-crisis-response-plan/ 


Kinda funny you don't hear Pelosi and Schumer talking about impeachment. I mean "but Trump"...riiight?

Times 2 even.

The DNC is a terrorist organization.
RayR
4 years ago
I love a good rant and those are good ones.
The progtards will be butthurt that their President and his administration are being displayed in all their glory as the reckless baffoons that they are. đŸ€Ą Well, they bought them with duhmacracy which came with a 4 year no return policy.
DrMaddVibe
4 years ago
They'll always have their BLM and LGBTQ flag awareness to look back on with fond remembrance. They were really doing something.
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