Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Biden Explains Who Will Pick Up the Tab of Baltimore Bridge Collapse

By Katie Pavlich | Townhall.com

AP Photo/Steve Ruark

Speaking from the White House Tuesday afternoon, President Joe Biden explained which government entity will foot the bill after a cargo ship slammed into the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, leading to its collapse and the killing of several people. 

"The bridge is also critical to, for travel, not just for Baltimore but for the Northeast Corridor. Over 30,000 vehicles cross the Francis Scott Key Bridge on a daily basis.  It’s virtually, well, it’s one of the most important elements for the economy in the Northeast and the quality of life," Biden said. "My Transportation Secretary is there now.  As I told Governor Moore, I’ve directed my team to move heaven and earth to reopen the port and rebuild the bridge as soon as humanly possible. And we’re going to work hand in hand with the support of Maryland, to support Maryland, whatever they ask for. And we’re going to work with our partners in Congress to make sure the state gets the support it needs."

"It’s my intention that federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge, and I expect the Congress to support my effort," he continued. "This is going to take some time.  And the people of Baltimore can count on us, though, to stick with them at every step of the way until the port is reopened and the bridge is rebuilt." 

When asked about whether the company that owns the ship should be liable for the cost, Biden said that could take too long to litigate. 

"You said the federal government is also going to pay for the repairs. I’m just curious, this was a ship that appears to be at fault.  Is there any reason to believe that the company behind the ship should be held responsible?" a reporter shouted. 

"That could be, but we’re not going to wait if that happened. We’re going to pay for it to get the bridge rebuilt and open," Biden responded. 

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

HOT TAKES: Priceless Liberal Meltdowns After Trump Wins Reduction in Bond

By Nick Arama | RedState.com

AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell

Monday was supposed to be a celebration day for the anti-Trump/liberal forces where they could revel in former President Donald Trump having his properties seized because they were asking him to pony up a ridiculously unfair bond in his civil fraud case in New York so that he could appeal the judgment. 

But the day didn't go as the anti-Trump forces might have liked. 

As we reported, former President Donald Trump scored some major breathing room as a NY appellate court reduced the requisite appeal bond to $175 million and extended the deadline for paying it by 10 days. I would noted that's still a high and unfair amount given the nature of the case, but certainly a more achievable number to make. 

This decision also may be a sign that the penalty is going to get reduced on appeal, if Trump doesn't win the appeal outright. I've felt since the decision it would be reduced because it's so unhinged from reality. 

Then on top of that, Trump's net worth skyrocketed to about $6.5 billion, and according to Bloomberg making him one of the 500 wealthiest people in the world, with a merger between Trump's social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, and a shell company, Digital World Acquisition Corp.

Anti-Trump folks/liberals were just incensed and losing their minds over the decision. In their bizarre inside out view of the world, Trump who is getting "special treatment" by having an unconscionable bond -- one that has no relation to damages -- reduced in a case that never should have been prosecuted in the first place.

The whining is just priceless. 

My favorite has to be this festival of tears from MSNBC legal commentator Tristan Snell. "This is so infuriating I don't even know what to do. I don't even know if I care what the process is," he said.

"Whatever it is, it's flawed," Snell whined. He claimed it was his own "private system of justice...It would not happen for anyone else." 

The tears are delicious. 

In a way, they're right. He is being treated in a "special" fashion, charged with things that aren't normally charged and fined beyond relation to any damages. If the anti-Trump folks cared at all about the rule of law, even if they didn't like Trump, they should care about that, they should care about the unfairness here. But they are so intent in their Trump hate, they don't care about that.

Monday, March 25, 2024

Trump Media & Technology Group Will Trade On the Stock Market Tuesday

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People can show their support for  President Donald J. Trump by buying some of his social media stock that will be sold, beginning on Tuesday.

Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social (Donald Trump's social media platform) will have an opening stock price on Tuesday at $49.95 on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the new social media ticker: DJT.

Truth Social's parent company will have a market value of approximately $5.5 billion when it starts trading and Trump's stake will be worth about $3 billion.

Trump owns 79 million of the 135 million shares that will be outstanding Tuesday. Those shares have handed Trump a crucial lifeline in posting bond as he appeals the civil fraud judgment against him. 

Stock trading information can be found on the websites for E-Trade and Charles Schwab at the below links.

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Bidenomics Sucks, and So Does Joe and All Democrats

By Derek Hunter | Townhall.com

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

It’s weird watching Democrats try to convince Americans they simply don’t know how good they’ve got it. They cite random data points to insist people are uneasy and unable to pay their bills only because of their imagination. Of course, as I always say, if you control the unit of measure, you control everything. They cherry-pick data to make a general case that doesn’t come anywhere close to registering with individuals. It's a lie by sleight of hand, and it will never work for anyone with half a brain cell in their head.

So, what do they point to to convince everyone they’ve got it made? One of those things makes them a special kind of evil – it’s the stock market.

When Donald Trump was President, he was constantly pointing out when the stock market would hit a new record high. When he did it, Democrats would mock it, screaming about how most Americans weren’t in the stock market, seemingly forgetting about 401(k)s. 

Even with that, however, Democrats attacked the idea that a record Dow Jones Industrial Average meant anything other than rich people getting richer.

Now, they’re touting a record stock market as a sign that Americans have it really good under Joe Biden. Hearing a leftist extol the virtues of a high stock market is odd, and then talking about how people’s 401(k)s is hilarious, especially when they’re trying to appeal to people under 60. 

Honestly, telling anyone not retired or about to be that they have it good because something they’re years away from being able to collect on is doing well at that moment shows a level of tone-deafness that might set a record. Young people are actually dipping into their retirement accounts because they can’t afford to buy a house pay rent or just make ends meet, so they’re paying a substantial tax penalty to survive. Bidenomics in action. 

You can’t take your 401(k) into a grocery store and make food more affordable, the Dow hitting 40,000 doesn’t make necessities cheaper or salaries higher, it just makes people who donate to Joe Biden’s reelection campaign recoup in short order the cash they gave to keep the person responsible for the misery in power. Gas prices remain unchanged in this scenario.

Yet, this seems to be a cornerstone of Biden’s campaign: accounts you can’t touch without paying through the nose, and can’t collect on until you’re retired, are up. So, if nothing changes in the ensuing 20-30 years, you should be grateful and vote for grandpa's hair-sniffer…or something. 

The more they tout the stock market, the more it is important to remember something they may well have forgotten, but you never should – they’ve kept you out of it as best they can. Every point they claim is an indication of how well the economy is doing should be a reminder of the money they kept you from having.

Back in 2005, President George W. Bush proposed allowing Americans, if they chose to, to invest a tiny percentage of their Social Security money in the stock market. Unlike the Ponzi Scheme the government completely controls, this would be money people could pass along to their heirs if they should pass away. The Democrats hated every little bit of this concept. 

“There is no crisis,” they yelled. This was an attempt to “privatize Social Security” to make the rich even richer, they said. They never really said how. 

They also claimed it would put Social Security money at risk somehow. The only way that could be – taking money out of it – is if it were the Ponzi Scheme they’ve always denied it was. 

But that’s neither here nor there, just think about how much more money your retirement could have had Democrats not blocked this plan. At the time, the stock market was around 10,000, now it’s almost 40,000. Would you like to have quadrupled your money over those ensuing years? Better yet, would you like to have invested in companies that did much better than that over that time? The possibilities were endless before Democrats limited them to none.

NOW they have the nerve to brag about the stock market and say that, somehow, means the people they excluded from engaging in it are better off than they were 4 years ago, back when they could afford to buy a house, fill up their gas tank AND feed their families? Hell no!

Bidenomics sucks, Joe Biden sucks, Democrats suck. If you’re having any economic problems, it is their doing. If you can’t find a job, if an illegal alien is getting tax money for their housing, food, and general life, that’s because Democrats favor them over you. If you can’t fill your car with gas, can’t pay your rent, can’t afford a home, can’t buy much beyond ramen without making sacrifices elsewhere, thank a Democrat, especially Joe Biden. 

And remember that feeling, even if your situation improves slightly by November, or you get used to the pain. Never forget what they’ve done, because while they’re scrambling to make changes to help their reelection chances, the damage Joe Biden will do if he wins and never has to face voters again will be much, much worse.

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Too Black to Fail

By Sasha Stone | Substack.com


It took us decades, but we finally found religion on the Left. The counterculture initially seemed great: a big bang of movies, civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, comedy, art, and investigative journalism, all in the pursuit of free expression and objective truth.

My generation was raised on atheism, with the idea that if you pursue happiness, you will be fulfilled. But it doesn’t work like that. Making happiness the goal in life ultimately leads to dissatisfaction because nothing and no one will ever be enough.

After the 2000 election that the Supreme Court ultimately decided, we started building our own private paradise on the Left, one that effectively shut out half the country.

However, we didn’t come together as a movement until Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton faced off in 2008. What started out as a contentious battle for the first female president vs. the first Black president would result in a powerful coalition rooted in identity politics.

We had in Barack Obama not just a political leader, the first US president to build his coalition via Twitter, but a spiritual leader too. Obama became not just sacred to us but Too Black to Fail.

From then on, we had our religion. We were the New Puritans, progressive liberals who made ourselves, our children, our country, and our planet more sustainable, diverse, and equitable. We were going to save the climate, ban assault weapons, make gay marriage the law of the land, and fix healthcare once and for all.

But every religion needs an oppositional threat. Ours arrived in the form of the Tea Party Republicans, the Freedom Caucus, and eventually, Trump and MAGA.

It wasn’t long before they were all deemed racists who were angry and resentful of the nation’s first Black president. Our spiritual leader. Our God. The label stuck.

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Demonizing the Tea Party as racists got us out of the jam of solving the immediate problem of a government system too cozy with Wall Street and the banks that were all too big to fail. We didn’t solve the problem of a suddenly awake America fired up and ready to protest the government.

It turns out, though, that it wasn’t a coincidence that the Wall Street meltdown and the subsequent hysteria over racism arrived roughly at the same time. As Vivek Ramaswamy explains here, pivoting to identity politics was their get-out-of-jail-free card. 

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Whatever happened to Occupy Wall Street?

From VJM Publishing:

The greatest fear of the Establishment was the coalescence of the 99% under one banner. Having previously observed the degree of animosity that existed on account of racial tension, a plan became apparent: to divide the 99% up along racial lines. This was primarily to be achieved by pushing a racial oppression narrative that claimed that white people owed blacks reparations for past injustices.

Because the 1% owns the mainstream media, they simply directed their employees in the media to start pushing that narrative. And they did. The mainstream media everywhere stopped reporting on class issues entirely, and started reporting only on racial ones. Any case of racial injustice was blown up to seem an atrocity, and overcoming it a pressing issue, while class inequality was ignored completely.

The Great Awokening

After the death of George Floyd was seen by millions all over the world within minutes, nothing we’d done up to that point seemed to matter. That we had Obama for two terms didn’t change what our country was - built on the backs of slaves and rooted in white supremacy and systemic racism.

The mass hysteria swallowed nearly every part of American society as mobs chanted through neighborhoods, burned buildings to the ground, and demanded everyone raise their fists in allegiance to Black Lives Matter.

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A friend of mine who lived in one of the richest cities in the world joined the protests, and they told him he had to hurl himself in front of Black bodies because the “racist cops” were less likely to shoot a white person.

All of these years later, the opposite is true. The whites at the top are using Black people as shields to protect them from the mob.

After Biden was elected, everywhere you looked were virtual signaling ruling class elites shielding themselves from attacks by placing Black people front and center. They had to be everywhere, or else those at the top would be seen as “racists.”

Black people were used as symbolic shields in advertisements, hosting awards shows, and starring in superhero movies. Absolve us of our sins, the ruling class begged, and thus, they created Too Black to Fail.

A blessing and a curse, Too Black to Fail is a temporary fix to an impossible problem. How to rush equality? Equity. Boost people to top spots based on their gender, skin color, or marginalized status. Then, make it impossible for them to fail, even if they aren’t up to the job.

Kamala Harris was chosen only because Joe Biden wanted to pick “a black woman.” She failed in the California primary and was eaten alive by Tulsi Gabbard. As Joe’s Veep, she is viewed as too risky to run for president. They won’t even allow her to try.

How do I know all of this? As with everything else related to the Left’s insanity and hypocrisy, I was right up in it for years. I was a “woke” blogger before anyone knew what that meant. I believed it was my mission in life to amplify and “platform” Black artists. Nothing else mattered to me.

But in so doing, I expected allegiance in return. When I started pushing back against “cancel culture,” I was called out on Twitter as a “racist” and a “white supremacist,” I expected people would treat me differently because of my history, because of how much time I’d devoted to advocacy for women and people of color in the film industry and the Oscars. “What do you want,” someone told me, “a cookie?”

I realized that I did see myself as a “white savior,” that I was attempting to absolve my white guilt, and that I knew if I kept calling everyone else a racist, no one would call me one.

Tyranny Unbound

The Left’s empire isn’t collapsing because they’re sane and rational people who can be trusted to lead this country. No, it’s collapsing because they have become unmoored from objective reality.

And nowhere is that more clear than the lawfare against Donald Trump. It perplexes most people in the real world unless you can see it from the perspective of the Left. When Trump won in 2016, it sent us into waves of what can only be described as mass hysteria.

When you understand how fearful we all were that there were racists, racists everywhere, and Trump was the leader of a White Supremacist army with one mission - to remove Black and Brown people from power, it’s easier to understand how we’ve gotten here, to one of the darkest and most dangerous times in our history.

When they have become disconnected from objective reality and dehumanized Trump and MAGA to this degree, there is no bottom. Anything can be done to them, and people like Barbra Streisand, tucked away in her high thread count sheets, cuddling her cloned dog and mainlining MSNBC, will cheer.

Too Black to Fail works for them because it doesn’t matter if DA Fani Willis lied on the stand or if she used public funds to go on a vacation with her lover, Nathan Wade. None of that matters because she will never be held accountable by the people at the top. They need her to fight their battles, to be the shield that protects them from accusations of corruption and lawfare.

Fani Willis is marching onward, trying to fulfill her mission for the Biden administration to be the one who locks Trump up in one of the worst prisons in America. It has to be a Black woman, you see, to serve Trump the revenge the Left believes it has suffered for the past eight years.


Willis came right out and said as much when speaking at a church, played here for Megyn Kelly and Defense Attorney Ashleigh Merchant.

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What’s happening to Trump in New York at the hands of the Trump-obsessed Attorney General Letitia James is, by all accounts, egregious and unprecedented. Yet we know it’s all Live-Action Roleplay for the Left, political theater for their base to get what they’ve been promised for eight long years. And, as long as they’re all focused on Trump, no one will be looking at them.

Mara Gay, an editor at the New York Times, seems to have no idea how bad it really is.

 There is no way history writes this story without condemning Letitia James. She doesn’t know it yet. Like Fani Willis, she is certain success will be her fate - book deals, movie deals. They know Trump is their golden ticket and that, at least for now, they are Too Black to Fail.

Yet some reasonable people are out there speaking out, Kevin O’Leary.

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Too White to Succeed

For the majority of Americans who are white, they have found their options increasingly limited in a society that prioritizes marginalized status. That’s what happens when you eliminate class from the conversation. 

It would be one thing if they just ignored and abandoned the working class. But they’ve done far worse than that. The side with all of the power has demonized, dehumanized, and is attempting to disenfranchise the people who have almost no power, no status, and no wealth.

They can throw around the word “Bloodbath” all they want, but their lies led to this incident involving Kyle Rittenhouse. The lie that he was a “white supremacist” was never corrected.

Anyone who is white and on the opposite side is fair game. They seem to delight in humiliating them, stripping them of any power they might have, and charging them for spectral crimes like “helping a fascist.”

How else do you explain the unprecedented jailing of Peter Navarro? Not to mention the protesters of January 6th. They weren’t punished for anything they did. They were punished because of who they supported.

Here is a clip from Glenn Greenwald.

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Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for where they are now. They had every advantage - all the money, all the legacy press, all the culture, and nearly all of the social media. Joe Biden has had four years to prove to Americans that he is the better option. But he’s failed.

For the past eight years, the Democrats have been driven only by hate. The Trump side has been driven by the opposite—by love. Even now, some of his supporters are trying to mortgage their homes to help Trump save his properties. They know he’s put everything on the line for them, and even if they aren’t the richest people in this country, their hearts can still fill up stadiums, something Joe Biden, on his best day, never could.

If they really do start seizing Trump’s assets in full view of the public, and they really do put Trump in an orange jumpsuit and shove him into a jail cell, busting through those unprecedented norms that have held our country together since its founding, all because Biden is afraid he’ll lose in November, that will just make Trump even more popular. And they know it.

Maybe they’ve gone so far by now they’ve made even Trump Too Black to Fail.

[EDITOR'S NOTE:

ALL THE VIDEOS CAN BE VIEWED AT THIS LINK.

Saturday, March 23, 2024

WH Confirms Biden Is Heading to Delaware for a Weekend of 'Rest' As Border Encounters Reach Record High

By Sarah Arnold | Townhall.com

AP Photo/Evan Vucci

The southern border has seen an overwhelming number of illegal immigrants since day one of President Joe Biden’s term. 

In February, there were more than 189,922 illegal alien encounters— higher than the 156,000 encounters at the southern border in February 2023.

On Thursday, nearly 100 illegal immigrants rushed the southern border, bursting through razor wire and surging the El Paso, Texas border wall. 

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On top of the ongoing border crisis, the federal government was facing a looming shutdown pending the passing of a spending bill. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that regardless of what would have happened, Biden still planned to check out for the weekend, ignoring his responsibilities as leader of the country. 

Yet, what is Biden doing this weekend? He’s jetting off to Delaware to enjoy some much-needed rest and relaxation, according to the White House. 

Customs Border and Protection has processed over 42,000 illegal immigrants through appointments using the CBP One app, which critics say is a way to allow for thousands of aliens to be vetted into the U.S. 

Since Biden took office, more than 7 million illegal aliens have entered the U.S.— a number that has quickly surged since the previous administration. Over 2.4 million immigrants illegally came to the U.S. in fiscal year 2023 alone. 

Friday, March 22, 2024

Shocker: Poll Shows Most Americans See Through Democrat Efforts to Prosecute Trump

By Jeff Charles | RedState.com

Joe Biden - Donald Trump. (Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall; AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

These days, finding a poll with good news for President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats is harder than finding a politician in D.C. without their hands in your pockets. A recent survey found that most Americans can clearly see what the slew of indictments against former President Donald Trump is about, an issue that could spell trouble for Biden’s chances of winning reelection. 

The survey, conducted by McLaughlin and Associates, revealed that most respondents believe Biden is using the government against Trump through the justice system to skew the outcome of the upcoming presidential election. Interestingly enough, it is not only Republicans who have this perspective – Democrats and Independents also see through the scam.

In the latest McLaughlin and Associates survey shared with Secrets on Wednesday, 56% said they believe that “Joe Biden wants to stop President Trump from winning the election by putting him in jail.” Some 30% disagreed.

Republicans, 86% to 8%, agreed, as did independent voters, 50% to 33%. But so did many Democrats — 32% agreed to 48% who didn’t.

What’s more, voters said they believe Biden is playing a key role in driving the investigations of his rival. Some 58% said Biden has a role. Of that, 40% called his role “major.”

These findings, if accurate, aren’t a positive sign for Team Biden. They suggest a growing cynicism and disillusionment with President Biden’s governance. But even further, this survey shows that most Americans believe the president, along with his cronies at the federal and state levels of government, is actively engaged in a wholesale effort to imprison a political opponent to boost Biden’s chances of winning reelection.

If this is the case, the 91 charges stretched out over numerous indictments might just backfire on Democrats in November – especially with independents, a voting bloc that Biden is struggling to win over.

A new poll conducted by the Center Square and released Wednesday shows that about 55 percent of the electorate disapproves of the president’s performance so far. But among independents, only 32 percent approve of the job Biden is doing, while 60 percent disapprove.

Even worse for Democrats, the poll also shows that if Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein remain in the race, a significant chunk of independents would veer away from supporting the president.

What makes this situation even more dire for the president is that Trump has been running neck and neck with Biden even with the politically motivated efforts to prosecute him. Indeed, some polls even show that Trump is slightly ahead of the president.

These results suggest that the indictments are either doing no damage or are helping Trump because voters don’t believe they are 100 percent legitimate, even if they are not fans of the former president. This raises another question: If Trump is convicted of a serious crime, will it even matter? Some polls suggest it would – but it is not easy to tell at this juncture.

If this is the case, the 91 charges stretched out over numerous indictments might just backfire on Democrats in November – especially with independents, a voting bloc that Biden is struggling to win over.

A new poll conducted by the Center Square and released Wednesday shows that about 55 percent of the electorate disapproves of the president’s performance so far. But among independents, only 32 percent approve of the job Biden is doing, while 60 percent disapprove.

Even worse for Democrats, the poll also shows that if Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein remain in the race, a significant chunk of independents would veer away from supporting the president.

What makes this situation even more dire for the president is that Trump has been running neck and neck with Biden even with the politically motivated efforts to prosecute him. Indeed, some polls even show that Trump is slightly ahead of the president.

These results suggest that the indictments are either doing no damage or are helping Trump because voters don’t believe they are 100 percent legitimate, even if they are not fans of the former president. This raises another question: If Trump is convicted of a serious crime, will it even matter? Some polls suggest it would – but it is not easy to tell at this juncture.

The upcoming election is already turning out to have its share of drama. Between the prosecutions against Trump and the revelations emerging from the House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry about Biden, this contest has already been a significant departure from past races. Many times, an incumbent victory is a foregone conclusion. But in this case, it could go either way.