RayR
2 years ago
^ Listening to the whole segment made me laugh even more.

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/why-this-version-of-biden-is-best-version-of-biden-205581893677 

“This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever, not a close second and I’ve known him for years 😂 😂 😂

Scarborough is trying hard to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
JGKAMIN
2 years ago
Wondering if Scarborough will still feel that way after watching tonight’s State of the Union Address and seeing Mr. Magoo bumbling through. And if you’re taking a shot every time you hear “my predecessor” you’d have been passed out long ago, talk about somebody with TDS.

“Instead of erasing history, make history”…while we continue to tear down statues and try to re-write history. “Give communities the resources they need to cut down on crime” while the ‘defund the police’ folks stand up and cheer. LOL! Unfortunately we won’t get an honest report on fact-checking this speech like we used to get.
DrMaddVibe
2 years ago
Gold Star Dad Arrested After Heckling Biden Over Son's Death In Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal




President Biden was momentarily distracted from delivery of his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, as the father of a Marine killed during the mishandled withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan yelled from the gallery at the top of his lungs, imploring the audience to remember the bloody bombing that took his son's life.

As Biden was at a part of the speech where he was daring to claim that Americans are "safer today than when he took office," 51-year-old Steven Nikoui bellowed "REMEMBER ABBEY GATE! US MARINES!" He was referring to a gate outside Karzai International Airport where a suicide bomber killed 11 Marines, a Navy corpsman and an Army soldier on August 26, 2021 as the airport was mobbed by people trying to flee the country. Among the dead: Nikoui's son, Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, a 22-year-old Californian.


In a 2022 interview with Fox News, Nikoui condemned "the carelessness of this administration" and said Biden "hasn't taken any accountability." He also called for the resignation of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley. His wife, Shana Chappell, said, "For some reason, [administration officials and generals] want to put the blame on everyone but themselves, but it is actually their fault all of this happened."

President Biden was heckled by a Gold Star father during his #SOTU address

Steve Nikoui, the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui — 1 of the 13 U.S. service members who was killed during Biden's botched Afghan exit on August 2021 — yelled "Abbey Gate, Abbey Gate. United… pic.twitter.com/XyeqMwnd3n
— Mona Salama  (@ByMonaSalama) March 8, 2024

After shouting at Biden, Nikoui was cooperative as US Capitol Police officers asked him to leave and escorted him from the chamber. He was handcuffed and arrested on a misdemeanor District of Columbia charge. "Disrupting the Congress and demonstrating in Congressional buildings is illegal," said Capitol Police in a statement. "This is a routine charge on Capitol Hill. People who illegally demonstrate/disrupt Congress typically are released after they pay a $50 fine, so the misdemeanor charge is resolved without going to court.”
Marine Lance Cpl Kareem Nikoui outside Karzai International Airport

Nikoui was at the address as a guest of Republican Florida Rep. Brian Mast, whose two legs and a finger were amputated after he stepped on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan's Kandahar Valley as he served as a US Army bomb technician supporting a team of Army Rangers.

It's not clear if he knew of Nikoui's intention to disrupt Biden's speech. Earlier in the day, Mast tweeted a photo of himself with Nikoui and wrote, "Joe Biden may try to turn the page on Afghanistan after his incompetence cost American lives, but NOT ON MY WATCH."

Steve Nikoui, the father of fallen Marine LCpl. Kareem Nikoui, was my guest to #SOTU2024.

He was arrested because he cried out to @JoeBiden to remember his son.

Joe Biden has never honored those killed at the Abby Gate and still hails the catastrophic withdrawal as a success! pic.twitter.com/m8Y0sUPLY6
— Rep. Brian Mast (@RepBrianMast) March 8, 2024

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gold-star-dad-heckles-biden-over-sons-death-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal 



So, the Great Uniter let the man get handcuffed and arrested. What's next a Jan 6th tribunal in primetime? An isolation prison cell like the rest of the Jan 6th "insurrectionists"? Shameful. What's more shameful is the manner this "Commander In Chief" chose to behave. He swears up and down it's all Trump's fault. He wasn't in charge at the moment the 13 soldiers were killed. He didn't schedule the military to be wheels up first and let the civilians and translators/support staff that were promised safe passage after the soldiers were out of country! Trump's plan was radically different than the surrender Biden let happen. The Baghram airfield was supposed to be ours in perpetuity. It sure would be convenient now with Iran whipping up the Houtis rebels that are the de facto strike force for Iran! Instead we left billions in military gear that Ukraine could've had that was trainbedded back to Iran via a sale with the Taliban and China is now occupying the airfield.

This man's grief is there for all to see. We all should grieve with this man. We all lost, some more than others at the idiocy that continues within the Biden cranium. To witness the gaslighting and angry screams with baby fists flailing...not Presidential at all. I've said it before, and we all should #REMEMBERTHE13. We should've remembered 9/11 too, but look at our borders and the nations dumping their prisons and mental institutions over our borders! Look at the sheer volume that has streamed across. We're being invaded people. Invaders send their single men out for combat duty, they don't send their families! It's only a matter of when now when our infrastructure, citizens (which are now g00gl3 Laken Riley! No, let me do that for you!

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nancy-pelosi-angry-laken-rileys-killer-was-described-illegal [/i][/color]) and towns are under a real bonafide attack. Yet with all of this mess that is the Biden Presidency he stands before us and belittles the truth, demeans more than half of all Americans and continues down the same stupidity this he's created and is asking you...YOU...to vote for it again. He'll be a lot older next go round and Harris...well, NOBODY wants that!
8trackdisco
2 years ago
Got to give it to WOB last night. He was energized, had a Trump level of fury and energy…… for the first 35 minutes anyway.
Had to be a big syringe to get all those Amphetamines into his system.


Britt from Bama struck me as authentic. Hope she doesn’t do anything stupid.
ZRX1200
2 years ago
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Multi party fun times.
DrMaddVibe
2 years ago
Git yer mandates...Fresh mandates here...Fresh from Biden to you...Get yer mandates!

Biden Admin Preparing "Toughest Ever" Auto Emission Standards



Despite pretty much the entire country making it clear that EV mandates are hurting the industry (with major automakers like Ford and GM slashing investment), President Biden is forging forward with his "green agenda" even further.

This go-round, Biden is "preparing to roll out the toughest-ever" emissions restrictions, according to Bloomberg.

The report says that the Environmental Protection Agency is poised to implement emissions limits that (Biden thinks) could significantly boost electric vehicle sales, requiring EVs to constitute about two-thirds of new car and light truck sales by 2032, a sharp increase from less than 10% last year.


Unless, of course, people stop buying new cars.

Regardless, this regulation supposedly aims to cut down on pollution and carbon dioxide emissions, and marks a major action under President Joe Biden's administration and a step toward meeting the US's Paris Agreement goal of slashing its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

The transportation sector is currently the largest contributor to the US's climate pollution, Bloomberg writes.

Manish Bapna, head of the Natural Resources Defense Action Fund commented: “Cars and light trucks on their own are roughly 20% of the carbon footprint.” Bapna says cutting that is “absolutely essential to real, concrete progress.”

Biden faces a challenge in balancing new emissions regulations with concerns from Michigan voters and autoworkers wary of a swift move to electric vehicles. U.S. carmakers have argued that the proposed EV targets are unattainable without more charging infrastructure. The costs have also weighed against rising labor costs for U.S. automakers.

John Bozzella, leader of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, emphasized to Bloomberg the crucial next few years for building out supply chains and charging networks.

To address these concerns, the EPA is expected to set less aggressive emissions reduction goals in the short term while still aiming for the same 2032 objectives.

David Cooke, a senior analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists noted: “The rule doesn’t meet the moment,” but still creates “some guarantees around movement toward zero-emission vehicles nationwide.”

“We will end up with more EVs on the road as a result of these rules than if we didn’t have them,” he added.

What can be said about such poor policy that flies in the face of economic common sense? We guess that's just the miracle of Bidenomics, Jack.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/biden-admin-preparing-toughest-ever-auto-emission-standards 


Now, if you DGAF about the environment, your money or maybe even your job (if you work in the Auto industry!) line up and do whatever the government tells you to do! They'll be after your gas stoves and AC next...watch. Eat some bugs too! I mean they were so honest and believable with Covid1984...put your trust and blind faith in them riiiight?



STILL want to vote for this guy?
DrafterX
2 years ago
I heard he's going to force all first responders to buy EVs or else... 😟
Brewha
RobertHively
DrMaddVibe
DrMaddVibe
2 years ago
So much for transparency!


Eric Schwerin Testifies Joe Biden and the Biden Family Used Alias Email Accounts During Vice Presidency


Eric Schwerin, an associate of President Joe Biden and his family, appears to have confirmed allegations that the president and several of his family members relied on aliases and personal email accounts to communicate amongst themselves during his term as vice president.

In a transcribed interview conducted on Jan. 30 and released on Monday, Mr. Schwerin identified President Biden as the person behind at least two email aliases that were active between 2009 and 2017 during his time as vice president during the Obama administration. Mr. Schwerin’s testimony provides an added layer of confirmation to allegations Republican investigators have raised for months, that the president and his family concealed their communications through various assumed names.

During the Jan. 30 interview, an investigator asked Mr. Schwerin whether an email account owner identified as “Robinware456” had any relation to President Biden. “Yes,” Mr. Schwerin said.

“That’s Joe Biden?” the investigator asked, to which Mr. Schwerin replied, “Correct.”

The same investigator then asked about another suspected alias name, “Hurricane5155.” Mr. Schwerin replied that he believed that account was operated by President Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden.

Mr. Schwerin identified the alias “261penn” as the account of President Biden’s eldest son, Beau Biden.

The investigator then asked about another account name, “Robert.L.Peters.” Mr. Schwerin replied that it was his understanding this account also belonged to then-Vice President Biden.

“I never used that email, so I don’t know, but that’s my understanding from later on,” Mr. Schwerin said, when asked about the “RobertL.Peters” persona.

Mr. Schwerin said he primarily communicated with President Biden through the “Robinware” persona.

House investigators have previously uncovered more than 260 email communications in which “Robinware456” was either the sender or a recipient. “RobertL.Peters” was a recipient of at least 26 additional email communications uncovered by House investigators. The “Hurricane5155” and “261penn” personas appeared in hundreds of additional email chains involving White House staff accounts.

These covert communications have been a point of focus for Republicans leading an ongoing impeachment inquiry into whether President Biden engaged in influence peddling with his family members throughout his political career.

NTD News reached out to the White House for comment about these email aliases but did not receive a response by press time.

Schwerin Denies Knowledge of Influence Peddling

Mr. Schwerin testified that he became acquainted with the Biden family while working at the U.S. Commerce Department during the Clinton administration, during which time he met with then-Senator Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. After leaving this government position, Mr. Schwerin said he joined Hunter Biden at a law and lobbying firm and later co-founded the firm Rosemont Seneca Partners with Hunter Biden.

Between 2009 and 2017, Mr. Schwerin testified that he performed “a number of administrative and bookkeeping tasks” for then-Vice President Biden, pertaining to his household finances.

“In the course of performing these duties, I had the ability to view transactions both into and out of Vice President Biden’s bank accounts while he was Vice President,” Mr. Schwerin said in his opening statement during the Jan. 30 interview. “Based on that insight, I am not aware of any financial transactions or compensation that Vice President Biden received related to business conducted by any of his family members or their associates, nor any involvement by him in their businesses.”

In his opening statement, Mr. Schwerin further denied any knowledge of President Biden taking any official action to benefit his family members.

“I cannot recall any requests for Vice President Biden to take any official action on behalf of any of Hunter’s clients or his business deals, foreign or domestic,” Mr. Schwerin said.

He said that throughout his interactions with then-Vice President Biden, the elder Biden was “always crystal-clear that he wanted to take the most transparent and ethical approach.”

Mr. Schwerin testified that this bookkeeping work he did for then-Vice President Biden was free. He testified that he also expected no favors from the elder Biden for this bookkeeping work, nor did he elicit any favor or witness Hunter Biden elicit any favors.

While performing these free bookkeeping services, Mr. Schwerin was appointed to the U.S. Commission on the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad in 2015. He said he believed the role came about following a 2009 conversation with a member of then-Vice President Biden’s staff.

“My assumption was that it was something that, you know, the Vice President had signed off on, but I would think it was someone from the staff who said, we can put your name forward to Presidential Personnel, and they would, you know, give you a call about this,” Mr. Schwerin said.

During the interview, Mr. Schwerin also described working with Devon Archer, a business partner of Hunter Biden, helping connect Mr. Archer with Blue Star Strategies. Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company on whose board Hunter Biden and Mr. Archer sat, retained Blue Star Strategies for lobbying services at a time when the company was dealing with investigations of its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky.

Mr. Schwerin testified that he had access to Joe Biden’s bank accounts until some point “towards the end of 2017.” He testified that he could not recall having seen records for loans Joe Biden purportedly gave his brother, James Biden, which were purported to have been repaid in September 2017 and March 2018.

https://www.ntd.com/eric-schwerin-testifies-joe-biden-and-the-biden-family-used-alias-email-accounts-during-vice-presidency_980181.html 


C'mon Jordan.
Abrignac
2 years ago
Yet, Hunter Biden isn’t the President and whether Joe wins or loses he will pardon him.
RayR
2 years ago
I heard Hunter skipped the public hearing even though that's what he said he wanted to defend himself and daddy.

Hunter Biden’s Business Associates Hang Joe and Hunter Out to Dry! Biden Corruption is Real! (VIDEO)

by Grant Stinchfield Mar. 20, 2024 1:20 pm

Biden family business associates testified before Congress today, and they did not hold back. It’s all part of the Biden Impeachment proceedings. The witnesses provided direct evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement in the influence-peddling scheme. From text messages to conference calls, Joe Biden used his position of power to line his pockets.

The Biden associates laid out dates, times, and personal meetings that they insist prove Joe Biden is “The Big Guy.”

More w/ Video...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/hunter-bidens-business-associates-hang-joe-hunter-dry/ 


DrMaddVibe
2 years ago
Top Former US Generals Say Failures of Biden Administration in Planning Drove Chaotic Fall of Kabul


The top two U.S. generals who oversaw the evacuation of Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban in August 2021 blamed the Biden administration for the chaotic departure, telling lawmakers Tuesday that it inadequately planned for the evacuation and did not order it in time.

The rare testimony by former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and U.S. Central Command retired Gen. Frank McKenzie publicly exposed for the first time the strain and differences the military leaders had with the Biden administration in the final days of the war. Two of those key differences included that the military had advised that the U.S. keep at least 2,500 service members in Afghanistan to maintain stability and a concern that the State Department was not moving fast enough to get an evacuation started.

The remarks also contrasted with an internal White House review of the administration’s decisions which found that President Joe Biden’s decisions had been “severely constrained” by previous withdrawal agreements negotiated by former President Donald Trump and blamed the military, saying top commanders said they had enough resources to handle the evacuation.

Thirteen U.S. service members were killed by a suicide bomber at the Kabul airport's Abbey Gate in the final days of the war, as the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

Thousands of panicked Afghans and U.S. citizens desperately tried to get on U.S. military flights that were airlifting people out. In the end the military was able to rescue more than 130,000 civilians before the final U.S. military aircraft departed.

That chaos was the end result of the State Department failing to call for an evacuation of U.S. personnel until it was too late, Milley and McKenzie told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

“On 14 August the non-combatant evacuation operation decision was made by the Department of State and the U.S. military alerted, marshalled, mobilized and rapidly deployed faster than any military in the world could ever do,” Milley said.

But the State Department's decision came too late, Milley said.

“The fundamental mistake, the fundamental flaw was the timing of the State Department,” Milley said. “That was too slow and too late."

In a lengthy statement late Tuesday, the National Security Council took issue with the generals' remarks, saying that Biden's hard decision was the right thing to do and part of his commitment to get the U.S. out of America's longest war.

The president “was not going to send another generation of troops to fight and die in a conflict that had no end in sight,” the NSC said. “We have also demonstrated that we do not need a permanent troop presence on the ground in harm’s way to remain vigilant against terrorism threats.”

The statement said the president and first lady still mourn for those lost at Abbey Gate and are “enormously proud of the men and women of our military, our diplomats and the intel community who conducted that withdrawal,” the NSC said.

In the hearing, which was prompted by a lengthy investigation by the House Foreign Affairs Committee into the decisions surrounding the evacuation of Kabul, McKenzie spoke at length about his discomfort in how little seemed to be ready for an evacuation, even raising those concerns with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

Evacuation orders must come from the State Department, but in the weeks and months before Kabul fell to the Taliban, the Pentagon was still pressing the State Department for evacuation plans, McKenzie said.

“We had forces in the region as early as 9 July, but we could do nothing" without State ordering the evacuation, McKenzie said, calling State’s timing “the fatal flaw that created what happened in August.”

“I believe the events of mid and late August 2021 were the direct result of delaying the initiation of the (evacuation) for several months, in fact until we were in extremis and the Taliban had overrun the country," McKenzie said.

Milley was the nation's top-ranking military officer at the time, and had urged President Joe Biden to keep a residual force of 2,500 forces there to give Afghanistan's special forces enough back-up to keep the Taliban at bay and allow the U.S. military to hold on to Bagram Air Base, which could have provided the military additional options to respond to Taliban attacks.

Biden did not approve the larger residual force, opting to keep a smaller force of 650 that would be limited to securing the U.S. embassy. That smaller force was not adequate to keeping Bagram, which was quickly taken over by the Taliban.

The Taliban have controlled Afghanistan since the U.S. departure, resulting in many dramatic changes for the population, including the near-total loss of rights for women and girls.

The White House found last year that the chaotic withdrawal occurred because President Joe Biden was “constrained” by previous agreements made by President Donald Trump to withdraw forces.

That 2023 internal review further appeared to shift any blame in the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport, saying it was the U.S. military that made one possibly key decision.

“To manage the potential threat of a terrorist attack, the President repeatedly asked whether the military required additional support to carry out their mission at HKIA,” the 2023 report said, adding, “Senior military officials confirmed that they had sufficient resources and authorities to mitigate threats.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-03-19/top-former-us-generals-say-failures-of-biden-administration-in-planning-drove-chaotic-fall-of-kabul 



However, the media continues to carry water for the Wobbling Stuttering Baby Sniffer. Only now do the generals verbalize that the White House created the entire surrender in shame. Instead of falling on their swords to raise awareness they cowardly come to DC and state what was blatantly obvious to anyone that's served in the Armed Forces within the past 50 years.

#REMEMBERTHE13
DrMaddVibe
2 years ago
President Biden’s celeb-packed $25M fundraiser is the height of Dem elitism


U.S. President Joe Biden and former Presidents Obama and Clinton in a panel discussion moderated by Stephen Colbert at a campaign fundraising event in Radio City Music Hall.

Thursday night offered the chance to have glam photographer snap you slapping hands with President Biden, or predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, for a donation of a mere $100,000 to Biden’s re-election campaign: Pretty posh for the supposed party of the working class.

The Radio City Music Hall event featured a three-prez chat moderated by “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert, plus performances from Queen Latifah, Lizzo, Lea Michele and more.

With tickets ranging up to $500,000 a pop, the campaign reportedly pulled in $25 million before the doors even opened, a nice addition to the $155 million the Biden-Harris effort has in hand, en route to likely raising a billion or two total (not counting soft, dark and other off-the record money).

That’s a lot of cash to fund ads telling regular Americans that Joe’s fighting for them.

Too bad the facts say otherwise, with Bidenflation (and the killer interest rates needed to fight it) stretching paychecks ever harder.

Heck, voters are so upset on pocketbook issues that Biden and his team have completely quit talking up “Bidenomics.”

Look: We’re all for star-filled luxe Manhattan events (Page Six was there!), but proudly sucking in campaign cash from fat cats in hopes you can buy your way to victory in November sure seems a . . . questionable . . . tactic.

Especially when ex-President Donald Trump marked the day by attending the wake for Police Officer Jonathan Diller, whose murder Biden has yet to mention.

While Trump was at the Massapequa wake, Biden mingled with boldface names at the ritzy Essex House hotel on Central Park South.

Reveling in decadence while a cop family mourns and Americans pinch pennies sure exposes Biden’s true base: trendy liberals in the highest income brackets.

At last February’s Democratic National Committee meeting, Biden groaned that many blue-collar workers had fled to the Republican Party, saying: “A lot of them came to believe we stopped paying attention to working class the way we used to.”

Can’t imagine why.


https://nypost.com/2024/03/28/opinion/president-bidens-25m-fundraiser-with-annie-leibovitz-is-the-height-of-dem-elitism/ 


See the difference?

One is hobnobbing to grab cash to maintain power and the other is with (at the behest of) the family of a slain police officer. Pedo Joe hasn't even mentioned his name! Shameful. Makes one wonder if Biden were to bother to show up if he'd be checking his watch like he did for each of the 13 coffins when they arrived from his surrender debacle in Afghanistan!
RayR
2 years ago
Up to $500K just to hobnob. You have to wonder what they think they're buying.
DrMaddVibe
2 years ago

Up to $500K just to hobnob. You have to wonder what they think they're buying.

RayR wrote:



Kick up 20% to the Big Guy!

DrMaddVibe
2 years ago
Biden sure likes to flaunt he's a Catholic...I mean who gets to crap their pants in front of His Holiness?



Cardinal Müller joins calls for US bishops to excommunicate Biden



The former prefect of the Vatican’s highest doctrine office, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, condemned U.S. President Joe Biden’s support for abortion, saying it is “infanticide” and that those promoting “infanticide” should be “excommunicated.”

“The word ‘abortion’ is too much a soft word. The reality is killing, murder of a living person,” said Gerhard Cardinal Müller. “There’s no right to kill another person. It’s absolutely against the Fifth Commandment.”

The cardinal made his comments condemning President Joe Biden during an extensive interview with LifeSiteNews in Rome. {Parts I and II can be found here and here.} His forthright critique of Biden’s very public and consistent pro-abortion stance came shortly after the president used his 2024 State of the Union Address to promise to “restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again.”

Cardinal Müller likened the killing of the unborn and the elderly to the “Nazi” times, saying that “it’s absolutely unacceptable that you can say you are a Catholic and promote and justify killing of human persons, human beings [from] the beginning in the mother’s womb, until the last respiration [with] euthanasia… Killing of ill people, like in the Nazi times, is euthanasia.”

Biden is very public about his self-professed Catholic faith, but Cardinal Müller suggested that while Biden is “nominally a Catholic, in reality he is a Nihilist. It’s cynicism and absolute cynicism.”

The prelate contrasted Biden with Catholics and other Christians throughout America who “know and accept as everybody also, the nonbelievers, with their own mere reason, they can understand that it’s not possible that one human being has a right to kill another one.”


Drawing on the example of St. Ambrose of Milan and his excommunication of the Emperor Theodosius, Cardinal Müller commented how “in other times people like this would be excommunicated. In former times the Popes and the bishops had no fear to excommunicate, like St. Ambrose of Milan.”

He stood up and also we should stand up and without looking to the consequences for us we have to stand up and to open our mouth for the innocent people and to protect their life. St. John the Baptist said to Herod, “It is not allowed for you to take the wife of your brother to be your own wife.” It is not allowed to you to kill persons or to justify [this], to open the legislation as if it was legal or legitimate. To kill the people is not a form of regulation of birth and so on, but it is absolutely immoral to kill other people.

And today all the Western world, Western leaders, the great majority of Western leaders also in Germany and France, as they made the right to kill their people, they lost their credibility. They cannot, on the one hand, protest against the killing of innocent people in Ukraine, while on the other hand allow the killing of their own children.

Reiterating the truth that God is “creator of every body and we humans are only the administrator of the good will of God,” Cardinal Müller observed that humanity was called to care for fellow men, since “we cannot distinguish or separate the love of God for us and our love for God, from the love of us to our neighbor and the love of our neighbor to us.”

Promoters of infanticide are excommunicated

Following Biden’ State of the Union address, LifeSite has launched a public action call for the U.S. bishops to excommunicate the pro-abortion president. Questioned directly by this reporter about the endeavor, Cardinal Müller stated that “the first step must be that we [must] have the unanimous U.S. bishops conference, probably together with other Christian religious, other religious leaders, [give] an absolute, clear, strong statement that this [abortion] is against all the standards and principles of humanity.”

Such a statement would be along these lines: “That they [would say] absolutely clearly that everybody in public responsibility who, as a Catholic, is promoting this infanticide, that they are excommunicated.”

The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is always wrong, because it kills an innocent human being, thus violating the Church’s prohibition on murder. (CCC 2270-2272.) The CDF’s 2004 memo states that a politician “consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws” manifests “formal cooperation” with grave sin, and must be “denied” the Eucharist. Additionally, Canon 915 of the Catholic Code of Canon Law says that those who “obstinately” persevere “in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”

The Code of Canon Law 915 also explicitly forbids those in mortal sin from receiving Communion: “Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”

Expanding on the theme of a pro-abortion politician, Cardinal Müller further noted that even if there is no formal process of excommunication, a person is not to be excused from the gravity of his actions in supporting abortion.

So [even] in the case if one is not formally excommunicated, if these people receive Holy Communion, they don’t receive the Holy Communion only with their mouth, 🇦🇸 they don’t receive the grace. They receive it, according to the words of Saint Paul, for their own condemnation, and Biden and all these people, they must know that in the ultimate judgment, when they appear after their death before the tribunal of God, that this is a mortal sin, what they are doing. Even if they are not personally doing it, but they are cooperators, direct cooperators of the murders of innocent people.

Biden says that he has had been in the Catholic schools, but I want to ask what did he learn there? For what is this religion?

It’s not only a certain feeling of belonging to, or a little sentimentality, or a little spirituality of inner good feeling, to read some poems or some books, and so you are feeling well, looking at nature and the apples… all nice. It’s not religion. Religion is a clear confession of all your person, of all your being, to give yourself as a sacrifice to God and for the others. That is our Christian religion.

Pro-abortion mindset is killing humanity

In addition to his comments on the intrinsically evil nature of abortion, Cardinal Müller further noted the “narrow-minded ideas” of the pro-abortion movement that is resulting in the destruction of humanity.

The pro-abortion mindset, he said, holds that “only my happiness is important, that it is an ultimate criteria of definition of happiness and pleasure, of my sense of my life.”

In contrast, Cardinal Müller noted that “we as individual humans, we have to understand ourselves in the context of our family, of our group of our friends, of our classmates, of our culture, of our nation, and of mankind.”

Pointing to the inter-generational nature of teaching the Catholic Faith, the German cardinal highlighted that the pro-abortion mindset of individual happiness is fundamentally against religion.

In closing, Cardinal Müller praised and supported the recently launched nine-month novena from Cardinal Raymond Burke, which is directed towards Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas and the unborn.

Cardinal Müller opined that such an endeavor would serve to also strengthen a Catholic “worldwide conscience and movement,” since the opponents of the Church “have all the power of the media” and “behind them are the international organizations,” like Big Tech and the financial world.

The full transcript of Part III of LifeSite’s interview with Cardinal Müller is found below

Michael Haynes: Your Eminence, we mentioned Fiducia Supplicans, the Synodal Way, and the Synod on Synodality. I wanted to move briefly to America in terms of the discussion as, somewhat similar to the controversy caused by Fiducia supplicans, I think there’s a great pain felt, especially by American Catholics, with U.S. President Joe Biden, who’s nominally a Catholic but is very public in his promotion of abortion. He used his recent State of the Union address to once again very publicly call for abortion. It seems that there’s a silence amongst many bishops, some priests, also on these clear teachings that should be promoted, especially when there is such promotion of abortion. Why do you think there is such a silence on these issues?

Cardinal Gerhard Müller: The word “abortion” is too much a soft word. The reality is killing, murder of a living person. There’s no right to kill another person. It’s absolutely against the fifth commandment. The president, a politician, is calling himself Catholic – or [like] Putin, is calling himself an Orthodox Christian, [as he] spoke in the dialogue and the interview with Tucker Carlson, he spoke about the baptism of Russia as a point of reference for justifying what he’s doing now, killing innocent persons in Ukraine – for me it’s the same.

It’s absolutely unacceptable that you can say you are a Catholic and promote and justify killing of human persons, human beings [from] the beginning in the mother’s womb, until the last respiration [with] euthanasia…Killing of ill people, like in the Nazi times, is euthanasia.

He [Biden] could be nominally a Catholic but in reality he is a Nihilist. It’s cynicism and absolute cynicism.

And the representatives of the Catholic Church and all Catholics, and in America also [there are] a lot of Protestant Christians of other denominations, they are obedient to the Word of God and they know and accept as everybody also, the nonbelievers, with their own mere reasons, they can understand that it’s not possible that one human being has a right to kill another one. There would be no basis for any morals, [it would be] absolutely the domination of brutality. Like Hitler I [would] have the power, I can do whatever I want, I can kill everybody – it’s the same mentality and behavior.

This is a pagan understanding and we must reject openly against this absolutely murderous ideology. And not to make compromises saying “yes, he is a president and we cannot do anything against him.” In other times people like this would be excommunicated. In former times the Popes and the bishops had no fear to excommunicate, like St. Ambrose of Milan. He excommunicated the good Catholic Emperor Theodosius because he killed in Thessalonica, in certain circumstances in the theater, 7000 people, innocent people. He [Ambrose] denied that he [Theodosius] could receive Holy Communion.

On one side the Emperor has also military power today with a public meaning. On the other hand [there is] only a single person, the bishop without weapons, but only with a weapon of the truth and the Word of God.

He stood up and also we should stand up and without looking to the consequences for us we have to stand up and to open our mouth for the innocent people and to protect their life. St. John the Baptist said to Herod, “It is not allowed for you to take the wife of your brother to be your own wife. It is not allowed to you to kill persons or to justify [this], to open the legislation as if it was legal or legitimate. To kill the people is not a form of regulation of birth and so on, but it is absolutely immoral to kill other people.”

And today all the Western world, Western leaders, the great majority of Western leaders also in Germany and France, as they made the right to kill their people, they lost their credibility. They cannot, on the one hand, protest against the killing of innocent people in Ukraine, while on the other hand allow the killing of their own children.

There is no right of the mother to kill her own child, but the mission of a woman and a mother is to protect. Where is the child? It is not in the dog’s house. It is in your womb, in your body. It came in through the love of your husband, in the ideal case. But also in the other cases – the generation of the child outside of marriage – but the objective is given a reality by God. God is a creator of every body and we humans are only the administrator of the good will of God. We have to take care of the children, of the young people, of the elderly people because we cannot distinguish or separate the love of God for us and our love for God, from the love of us to our neighbor and the love of our neighbor to us.

Haynes: Your Eminence, you mentioned how previously such political leaders or public figures would have been excommunicated. I know now there is a petition going around amongst U.S. Catholics for the U.S. bishops to do that with regards to Joe Biden, to move to excommunicate him. Do you think that that is something which would be a good thing for the bishops to do?

Cdl. Müller: The first step must be that we [must] have the unanimous U.S. bishops conference, probably together with other Christian religious, other religious leaders, [give] an absolute, clear, strong statement that this is against all the standards and principles of humanity. That they [would say] absolutely clearly that everybody in public responsibility as a Catholic, who is promoting this infanticide, that they are excommunicated.

So [even] in the case if one is not formally excommunicated, if these people receive Holy Communion, they don’t receive the Holy Communion only with their mouth, 🇦🇸 they don’t receive the grace. They receive it, according to the words of Saint Paul, for their own condemnation, and Biden and all these people, they must know that in the ultimate judgment, when they appear after their death before the tribunal of God, that this is a mortal sin, what they are doing. Even if they are not personally doing it, but they are cooperators, direct cooperators of the murders of innocent people.

And also there is an absolute great stupidity also under political dimensions. We in Europe, all politicians are saying we don’t have enough people for work, and now they are killing their whole future. The creation is shaped so far as a following of generations is belonging to the human constitution. People don’t drop from the air or come out from the earth. They come from the former generation, from the parents, grandparents, back to the beginning of the mankind, until to the last generation which we will see with our own eyes when Jesus is coming back.

They [pro-abortion individuals] have some narrow-minded ideas, [that] only my happiness is important, that it is an ultimate criteria of definition of happiness and pleasure, of my sense of my life. [They say] “surely we are individuals, that is clear, and the person is the ultimate reason of the creation, of the self-communication of God with us.”

But we as individual humans, we have to understand ourselves in the context of our family, of our group of our friends, of our classmates, of our culture, of our nation, and of mankind. Also we are belonging – as our immediate relation to God is not isolated – we are members of the body of the Church and nobody received their faith only by reading the Bible, but beginning with his parents was he was introduced, socialized, and personalized during the different phases of life development.

We didn’t come into the world as adults, but as small kids, depending on the parents of our life growing up, and the love of our parents, of our teachers, and so on, so past us. That is reality, the deepest solidarity between all human beings. And that is forgotten.

Biden says that he has had been in the Catholic schools, but I want to ask what did he learn there? For what is this religion? It’s not only a certain feeling of belonging to, or a little sentimentality, or a little spirituality of inner good feeling, to read some poems or some books, and so you are feeling well, looking at nature and the apples and the screens, all nice. It’s not religion. Religion is a clear confession of all your person, of all your being, to give yourself as a sacrifice to God and for the others. That is our Christian religion.

Haynes: It seems quite fitting then, especially now given the recent developments in France enshrining abortion into the constitution, it seems very fitting with Cardinal Burke’s Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, but patroness of the unborn as well. As a final, very brief question, would you have any comments or thoughts to add regarding that Novena of Cardinal Burke’s, the nine-month Novena, starting just on March the 12th?

Cdl. Müller: No, that seems a very good idea and realization. It’s a Novena to ask for the Holy Spirit, for the Christian Enlightenment and illumination of our minds and to change our thoughts and behavior, and to establish a worldwide conscience and movement because the others are living in an international network.

They have all the power of the media, behind them are the international organizations of Big Mac and Big Tech, the financial world, these businessmen, nothing against businessmen, but only with this experience one cannot rule the world. One cannot give the answer to the basic existential questions of our human existence. We need philosophers and theologians who give the ultimate orientation for mankind.

At least, and at the end, God is the only true and infallible teacher for everybody.

Haynes: Eminence, thank you once again for your time and all your insights. Would you just close us off with your blessing?

Cdl. Müller: We are oriented in Jesus Christ – the only Way, the Church, the Synodal path with Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life – and we ask for His blessing in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

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RayR
2 years ago
The Church will only excommunicate sinners who they feel are redeemable and will atone for their sins.
Blasphemous Biden thinks the 10 Commandments are only a list of suggestions like that Constitution thing.
It would be a waste of energy to excommunicate Biden...he's going straight to the hot place. 🔥👿👺👹
RayR
2 years ago
Geez, this Catholic Archbishop wants to cancel that Blasphemer Biden too.

Archbishop Viganò: "Biden must be recognized as excommunicated after ‘Trans Day of Visibility’ declaration."

“…the mad provocation of a world conflict claims lives in order to bury the horrendous sexual and financial scandals of a power that is now the enemy of its citizens.”
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