Guest essay by Eric Worrall
China is laughing at America “kneeling” before Xi Jinping at COP26: “There will be more apologies from US politicians, and there will be more kneeling down”, according to the CCP backed Global Times.
China mocks ‘powerless’ Biden over climate summit ‘apology’
China has mocked US President Joe Biden after he used his speech at the climate summit to apologise for America’s inaction.
November 5, 2021 – 11:49AM
China has taken Joe Biden’s comments in Glasgow climate summit as a chance to mock the US President as “powerless”, despite the absence of President Xi Jinping from the conference.
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“I guess I shouldn’t apologise, but I do apologise for the fact that the United States under the last administration pulled out of the Paris agreement. That kind of put us behind the eight ball a bit,” Mr Biden said.
Beijing-backed news outlet the Global Times published a piece the following day that ridiculed Mr Biden’s “noble” apology.
The report highlighted the discord between American voters, noting some comments online from “netizens” who “cannot wait until 2024 when the Republican Party, or even Donald Trump himself, apologises for Biden’s apology”.
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The US and others have urged Beijing to make bigger commitments, but Xi’s administration has strongly implied those will only come in exchange for political concessions.
Mr Trump himself had seized on Mr Biden’s comment, claiming that world leaders were “laughing” at Mr Biden.
“We have never been thought of so poorly as we are right now, including the fact that the leaders of foreign countries, all of whom are at the top of their game, are laughing at Biden as he makes the rounds in Europe,” Mr Trump said.
“So low and so bad for America. There has never been a time like it,”
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Read more: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/china-mocks-powerless-biden-over-climate-summit-apology/news-story/5a1785fc4e377915c1bddde5a0b9e25a
From the Global Times, mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party;
Biden’s apology in Glasgow shows hypocrisy, powerlessness of US politicians
By Ai Jun Published: Nov 02, 2021 08:53 PM
US President Joe Biden apologized at the start of the COP26 UN climate summit. On Monday, when Biden made the remarks during a meeting on “action and solidarity” in Glasgow, he said, “I guess I shouldn’t apologize, but I do apologize for the fact the US, under the last administration, pulled out of the Paris accord.” What a “noble” apology, which made Biden seem like he cares about climate change, but also how hypocritical and powerless he is.
Unlike what Biden may have expected, the apology triggered ridicule. Quite a few netizens, including those from the US, claimed they cannot wait until 2024 when the Republican Party, or even Donald Trump himself, apologizes for Biden’s apology. Most people believe this was hardly an apology, but a slap in the face of his predecessor, a move to pin all the blame on Trump. This is not about how sorry Biden is. He was making a show and bringing US political infighting to the global arena.
Climate change is one of the most highly polarizing issues in the US. Leading Republicans, most notably Trump, have mocked the issue as a hoax and are reluctant to take it seriously. In March, 12 Republican-led states sued Biden for his executive orders on climate change.
So if there is anything that Biden did bring to Europe, it must be a massive 85-car and gas-guzzling motorcade. Other than that, Biden can only make empty promises at COP26. His apology does not make any sense, as he has no plan to fulfill his promises and no guarantee to make sure that his commitment won’t be toppled by the next administration. Worse, he cannot even win enough support from his own party to get a green light for his plan. Also on Monday, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, said he would not endorse a $1.75 trillion framework on social spending and climate change unveiled by Biden last week. For Biden, who is in Europe and waiting for something to deliver to the world, this is heavy blow.
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Is there a worst president of the US? Perhaps there is no “worst” but only “worse.” American voters always have high expectations during elections but will soon become frustrated. Can a US president turn the tide? It is worrying. But one thing is certain – political infighting will continue, which is exhausting US strength in dealing with domestic and global issues.
There will be more apologies from US politicians, and there will be more kneeling down, Xu said.
Read more: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202111/1237944.shtml
The Global Times article also attacked President Trump. But China’s mockery of Biden is a geopolitical assertion of authority which the entire world is watching. Biden’s absurd climate apology and helplessness in the face of brazen Chinese aggression risks making America a global laughing stock.
The mockery started with Xi Jinping personally snubbing the COP26 event, then continued when Xi’s representatives snubbed Biden’s climate proposals, demanding a huge payoff to even consider the proposals. Now they are laughing at Biden’s climate apology, calling Biden powerless, mocking the USA as “kneeling down” before China.
The most shocking part of this affair, Biden obviously went into the COP26 conference completely unprepared for Chinese aggression. There are plenty of diplomatic levers Biden could have used to push back against China, ranging from a mild ratcheting up of sanctions, right up to the ultimate comeback, dropping a hint the USA is considering granting full diplomatic recognition to Taiwan. But pushing back would likely cause an immediate Chinese COP26 walkout. Biden is so desperate for a climate deal, China is laughing in Biden and America’s face on the world stage, and everyone is watching China get away with it.
Hey, Xi didn’t travel with 85 vehicles to COP26, much less in one of the 400 private jets.
What is that Chinese term for useless Western leftist suck ups? Baiguo?
The Biden clan is trying g really hard to make Jimmy Carter look astute.
Gweilo – “Foreign devil”
Cantonese slur for westerners.
Guizi in Standard Mandarin.
But in Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia, the Hokkien equivalent “Ang Mo”, ie “red devil”, is preferred, derived from the word for Dutch traders, often blond or red-headed.
For redcoats of the British East Indie Company, that actually ran the Empire.
Most of the East India company troops wore dark blue uniforms and were only running a small part of the Empire, but almost half of its trade at its height. Apart from those small discrepancies, your post is totally accurate!
Bai guo are ginkgo nuts, I believe.
Baizuo is the chinese term for leftie,selfdestructive morons.
I knew it was something like that. The current transliteration scheme is anything but memorable for English speakers.
*baizuo
Let’s Go Brandon – #1 on the Pop Charts in the PRC.
(Do)minion Joe
Do i come,or do I go?
Am I Joe?
I don’t know!
I was told to run for president,
the day they realized I’m dement.
And every morning 8 AM they have to tell me who I am
It’s obvious
I have no clue.
George Soros tells me what to do.
And while George’s pulling my string
Xi’s finger’s deep up my stink.
“Oh tell me George,please tell me Lord.
Are you the real Voldemort?”
(soros- darth vader voice)
“Yes I am almighty George.
A new world order I will forge.
And It’s up to you my little Joe
to bring the NWO.
And once people get real mad
Kamala will be in your stead.
Then It’s her time to pretend
to be someones president.
And she will rule for a decade.
Your country must disintegrate
so the New world order can exist
– the Yankees will be really pissed”
(joe)
“Oh tell me please,almighty Xi.
Why have you chosen me?”
(Xi – little chinese girl voice)
” The reason we have chosen Thee
is your woke psychopathy.
You’re a full blown psychopath
Your sons brain is full of meth
and you would even kill your own to sit on someone elses throne.
And since the day you sold your soul
you are under our control
You are our little prostitute
– one wrong word.
Your mic will mute.
But…but…joe,why do you smell so strange?”
(joe)
“My diapers may need a change”
(xi)
“Oh piss off you little shit.
Smoke some crack,Sniff a kid”
(joe)
“But one last thing I have to tell,before I’m back on road to hell.
The thing i most carass is Kamalas hairy Ass
And my favorite thing to lick
is Michelle Obamas d….”
Absolute magic! sure and it is a muse you are. Now get a finger pickin banjo and big string bass backing and you have a winner.
My English sucks and i Can’t play banjo.
So it’s your turn now.
I’m just for the lyrics.
Everybody mocks Joey the Clown. Joey told someone to look him in the eye, kiddo…..”we are going to get rid of fossil fuels”. We need to get rid of Joey.
Getting rid of Fossil Joe sounds like a good option.
Until you hear the maniacal cackling waiting in the wings.
”we are going to get rid of fossil fuels”
And once we do, we will be back to living in caves, wearing animal skins to try to keep warm, and only going as far as we can walk. Those of us who haven’t starved to death that is…..
Commiefornia and the UK can barely keep the lights on, and their plan is to replace all the ICE cars with EVs, and gas heaters with heat pumps.. yeah, that will work. It’s so weird to see all of the Western worlds elites go utterly insane, and yet no one in the MSM will even give a hint of it.
This great book explains why FF and nuclear are the best and only viable energy source. Click the link for a free copy.
The moral case for fossil fuels
Mocking Joe Biden and, by extension Biden’s USA, is just too damned easy at the moment. Do they not see what they’ve become to the rest of the world?
They don’t care. This is all about power for them.
Mr. Page: Seen your comments, you already know this but… they would prefer to “rule” over a collapsed west than “serve” in a west that’s best for all.
Ah, the old “better to rule in hell than serve in heaven” cliche then? Got it!
The LA Times keeps me up to date on China by enclosing once a month in our Sunday edition a copy of the CCP run China Daily. And UCLA has them all over their campus, too.
I think the Chicoms give the LA Times money to promote the Chicom propaganda.
Is the U.S. paying any Chinese news outlets to promote U.S. propaganda? I didn’t think so. Our leaders aren’t that smart. And they aren’t smart enough to stop the Chicom propaganda.
Our leadership is failing us. The good news is I think the American people are figuring that out.
Maybe so…
The Dem candidate for Mayor of Buffalo was a self-proclaimed Socialist, and she was beaten by a Moderate who ran a Write In campaign. What were the odds of that working? But it did !
Then the Dem head of the New Jersey Senate was beaten by a truck driver who only spent $5000 on his campaign. In Super Liberal New Jersey.
These sound like reports from the Babylon Bee, but they actually happened this week. So yeah, maybe…..
The reports I have seen said he spent $153 on his campaign.
IIRC the actual amount was about $2200.
The $153 was just for the primary . . Big bucks for the general ; )
I think it was $153 for the primary, and about $5,000 total for everything.
His Democrat Senator opponent supposedly spent about $1 million.
“Then the Dem head of the New Jersey Senate was beaten by a truck driver who only spent $5000 on his campaign. In Super Liberal New Jersey.”
I saw a headline yesterday saying the New Jersey Senator has found an extra 12,000 votes, so the Democrats may be still trying to cheat and win the election. The Democrats always seem to find lost votes when it might help them. They are real good at that.
Just waiting for the ink to dry on those “found” ballots so that we can fill them out. Thank God we have all those new undocumented voters flown in from the southern border by the Brandon Administration.
It’s amazing how these last minute votes always benefit the Democrat.
The LA Times was bought by an American/Chinese entrepreneur a few years ago and marches to the CCP ideology. It has always been a Leftist rag but now it is FAR Left and Marxist. Is that redundant?
A Pulitzer Prize winner on its staff keeps attacking the lab origin of COVID.
Probably getting paid handsomely for doing so.
“it is FAR Left and Marxist. Is that redundant?”
Yes, it is.
Sorry Americans, the whole fiasco is awful for your country.
The silver lining is that it reduces the chances that even rigged elections will succeed for the Democrats come 2024.
Way to fight that Global Warming! Attaboys all round! Let’s Go Brandon!
FROM NEW MEXICO TO NEW ENGLAND: MORE THAN 100 MILLION AMERICANS UNDER ‘COLD WEATHER WARNINGS’, + AGW/COVID CULTS
November 5, 2021 Cap Allon
So-called ‘climate experts’ are pointing to this year’s wild temperature swings as the direct impact of “global climate change” — but there is a far more likely culprit that is being willfully ignored: The Sun.
No doubt, check out the Oolu cosmic ray station (http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/) – we are in unusual solar times (at least for the modern era). In particular, note the inflection in overall trend that appears to have begun around 1990…
Hot Scot, I do not share your optimism because of the lack of courage and principle among the Republican leadership. I often wonder if he US does not have the worst bunch of self-interested politicians since WWII. We need wise, honest and decisive leaders unlike this lot.
Oh Lord give us a Churchill in these dire times -even Bojo.
Come on man! Churchill said Anyone can rat but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat so kick nutnuts out of bed, develop a spine and give vent to your dormant inner skeptic. After all deep down you really do know its all a big pile ofcrap
13 RINO Quislings need primary challengers. The anything-but-infrastructure bill has been passed only through their treachery. More unaffordable give-aways to buy parasite votes.
It looks to me like all the Republicans who voted in favor of this boongoogle infrastructure bill did so because the bill had a provision in it allowing Blue States like New York and New Jersy to deduct their State taxes from their Federal taxes, thus giving those States huge tax breaks compared to other States.
I believe all the Republicans who voted for this were from New York and New Jersey.
So in order to get a taxbreak for their constituents, they sell the nation down the river by opening the door to socialism taking over this country by voting for this bill which has very little money in it for infrasturcture and a lot of money for socialism.
We’ll see how many of these short-sighted Republicans get re-elected in 2022.
Six out of 13 are indeed from NJ and NY: Jeff Van Drew and Chris Smith of New Jersey; Andrew Garbarino, John Katko, Nicole Malliotakis, and Tom Reed of New York.
The other 7 are:
Don Young of Alaska; Adam Kinzinger of Illinois; Fred Upton of Michigan; Don Bacon of Nebraska; Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio; Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania; and David McKinley of West Virginia.
Undoubtedly they are all more interested in trying to retain their seat in purple districts than to stand on principle. Principle that they probably don’t believe in in the first place.
Here in Australia we surely have the world covered when it comes to self-interested, weak willed, gutless, flip flopping, lying, arse covering, jellybacks in charge of gullible populations.
The thought of Biden standing up to Xi over Taiwan… that generated a big belly laugh.
The thought of Biden standing up to anyone, really. The left never wanted him, but COVID derailed the primaries before they could find an alternative to Bernie Sanders, who might actually have lost to Trump.
One deal in South Carolina made before COVID, designed to prevent Bernie from running away with it, and there was nothing more they could do other than ride him into the Oval Office and take advantage of his mental state to push him far enough to the left.
But he’s no leader. That much has been clear from the day he took office. Xi doesn’t even have to admit he couldn’t care less about CO2 levels. I’m sure China has plenty of scientists who aren’t as hamstrung by the left-wing journals and university climate “science” departments. All he has to do is use Biden’s own words against him.
And he actually does have a point. When you outsource your manufacturing to a country that embraces slave labor and communism, you don’t exactly have the moral high ground to whine about invisible unicorns mucking about with the climate.
Biden is powerless against China and seems to be profiting from the relationship anyway (Hunter’s laptop evidence, despite our media’s attempts to discredit it). It’s almost as if he’s just as much Xi’s puppet as he is Pelosi’s.
Biden is powerless
against ChinaYou know, us Scots really aught not to comment on politics in other countries like the USA but sopmetimes it is hard not to respond.
Go ahead since it could negatively impact you more than you realize with all the unintended consequences piling up.
Gie’s a leg up here doon in London an a’ an fit about yon gleckit nonsense up in Glesga’ Fit a wheen ae gommerels
Riiight! What you said!
The First thing that needs to happen is to eject China from their embassy on US soil.
The second thing is to Deed the Embassy to Taiwan and welcome them onto US soil.
The third is to build another embassy next door for Tibet and welcome them as well.
How come DJT didn’t need to go through all that carp?
Yeah, all he had was the entire MSM, the entire Dem Party, the entire academic community, the entire Social Media machine, and the Rino half of the Republican Party out to destroy him. And in 4 years he failed to remake the entire world into a Capitalist Paradise. What was wrong with him? /sarc
Maybe too busy playing golf Haha
Too busy trying to SUCCESSFULLY remake trade agreements
Too busy trying to protect our southern border from a tsunami of illegal immigrants
Too busy trying to SUCCESSFULLY make the USA energy independent
TOO BUSY TRYING TO … MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
And Xo BaiDen has been too busy destroying all that headway and trying to make the USA subservient to China
Too busy trying to defend himself from impeachment attempts by the Democrats.
Maybe after the 2022 elections, when the Republicans take control of the legislature, the Republicans can cause Biden to have to defend himself against impeachment and removal, and that will severely hamper his efforts to destroy the United States.
That’s a lark!
Trump accomplished more in his four years than any President since Theodore Roosevelt.
Obama played golf endlessly.
Gave nonsensical speeches promising silly things like the seas stop rising while utterly failing to accomplish anything except corrupt multiple Federal agencies.
G.W. Bush played golf frequently.
Neither Bush nor Obama had the MSM 100% against them. Let alone fringe fanatics falsifying elections for leftist elites or delusional Congressmen and Congresswomen falsifying impeachment charges.
HaHaHa yourself!!
😂 🤣 😂 🤣
The reason the MSM was not going after G.W. Bush like they did Trump is because G.W. Bush allowed them to lie about him and Republicans and hardly ever pushed back on the leftwing lies.
It was a pathetic performance. An infuriating performance.
Trump tells the truth and gets hell from the left for it. G.W. zips his lip, hoping to fly under the MSM radar.
I’ll take a Trump any day over a G.W.
Unfortunately, the Biden crime family has been receiving money from nations Biden should be confronting, but Biden doesn’t do any confronting. This may be because our enemies have blackmail material on Biden, or it may just be Biden’s innate appeaser view of the world. Biden is going to be the last guy to confront anyone. Other than his domestic enemies. He’s fierce when it comes to them, and anything goes to defeat them, even if it is illegal and violates the U.S. Constitution. But when it comes to foreign enemies, Biden runs away as fast as he can like your typical appeaser would do.
I don’t consider either China or Russia “enemies”. I don’t think they harbour malice towards the west, indeed, all bar the shouting Russia is a Democratic and Capitalist country. China is Capitalist in all but regime.
All they’re doing is taking advantage of the American and European drift toward ridiculous naval gazing woke politics. Who wouldn’t?
Biden is just a waste of Oxygen and even the left aren’t ignoring his utter incompetence. Tuesdays elections demonstrated that in spades.
Russia is democratic in the same way that Iraq under Hussein was democratic.
They have elections, but the results are pre-determined.
Russia considers itself a nation under siege from the USA, UK and EU (at times) and Putin as a moderate but successful president. The hardliners really are waiting in the wings with drawn daggers, just waiting for a chance to get in and repay the West. There are far worse than Putin, far worse.
That’s what Putin wants you to believe.
Russia has always been paranoid.
Just because there are bigger murders in the wings, doesn’t make Putin one of the good guys.
Nor does it make Russia democratic.
John Tillman and MarkW – please will you read what I actually wrote, not what you think I wrote. The words ‘Russia considers’ should perhaps have clued you in to the fact that this is the common perception inside Russia, not my view. Your points are well intentioned but perhaps you should address how and why Russia got this view rather than telling me what my views should be?
China is not capitalist. It’s fascist. It allows free enterprise in order to enrich and empower the Party, but strictly limits its capitalists, to include throwing them in jail if they get too uppity.
Both Russia and China are indubitably enemies of the West. The Communist Party of China is by far more dangerous than its de facto allies, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and the Syrian regime.
The Communist Party of China is pure, unadulterated evil, bent on doing to the world what it has inflicted on its own subject peoples. That means mass murder, genocide, executing and harvesting the organs of religious minorities, throwing ethnic and religious minorities into slave labor camps in their millions, suppressing dissent, surveiling its populace and rating the political reliability of individuals, grabbing maritime regions to which it has no valid claim under international law, stealing economic and military secrets, manipulating currencies, intervening in the politics of democratic countries and unfair trade practices.
It is a gangster enemy of humanity. It is now able to modernize its military, thanks to the hard work of its enslaved 1.4 billion people. But its window for world control is rapidly closing, due to its aging and probably declining population. China’s median age is 38, same as the US. India’s is 27.
The Communist Party’s misogynist one child policy is now coming back to destroy its military ambitions. Its tens of millions of wifeless males are rapidly aging, leading to a shortage of its former excess, expendable infantry.
Not to mention unleashing biological warfare on the world.
I think you described the US.
Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
The U.S. is just killing hope in the world’s dictators.
That’s a good thing.
The left has always been willing to tell and believe any lie that puts the US in a bad light.
Excellent post, John.
“It is a gangster enemy of humanity.”
That’s the way I look at the Chicoms.
I also dont consider them enemies, the real enemy is Washington DC. The parasites that infest foggy bottom are the real threat to humanity. Unbcle Sam has waged war with bout every country on the planet.
Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
China is a highly nationalistic authoritarian state that allows the (highly regulated) private ownership of the means of production.
No different then the US.
“Unbcle Sam has waged war with bout every country on the planet.”
Only on the bad guys.
The U.S. has saved a lot of countries from slavery, too. That’s why we wage wars.
It never ceases to amaze me the nonsense that the socialists of the world are eager to believe.
Anyone who believes there is no difference between the US and China has never been to either.
That is a bald faced lie.
Do you bleat such nonsense frequently?
Germany, England, Italy, Japan, Mexico, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam…
1) One was for independence and again in protest against their seizing and impressing Americans into their navy.
2) Four were for world wars helping the Allies and defeating fascism. One of the countries, Japan attacked our navy in Hawaii, our outposts and the Aleutian islands.
3) One was to support Texas independence and eliminate foreign tyranny. And again later in retribution against Pancho Villa depredations.
4) One was to help rescue Kuwait from Iraq.
5) One was in retribution for Bin Laden attacks on America, killing thousands.
6) One was an international effort to rescue Korea from North Korean and China aggression.
Americans have waged war with less than ten countries out of 195 countries. Quite a few countries have been conquered by other countries more frequently than that.
I don’t look at Russia as a looming threat.
I do look at China as a looming threat. I do think that the Chicom leadership considers the United States to be its chief enemy, and I think they would like to eliminate the U.S. from the picture, one way or another, and are working towards that even as I write.
“Unfortunately, the Biden crime family has been receiving money from nations Biden should be confronting, but Biden doesn’t do any confronting. This may be because our enemies have blackmail material on Biden, “
I’m gonna switch this round. See if you can see the irony here…
Unfortunately, the Trump crime family has been receiving money from nations Trump should be confronting, but Trump doesn’t do any confronting. This may be because our enemies have blackmail material on Trump,….
HUH!!
Trump confronted China, Russia, NATO to pay their “fair share” for defense, etc.
What has Biden done?
Bow just like Obama did.
PS. Under Trump the US was energy independent. What are we now?
Like most alarmists, Simon feels free to re-write the past in order to make it fit today’s needs.
In order to switch things around, it’s generally necessary to make it believable.
There is not and never has been any evidence that Trump received money from anybody. On the other hand the evidence against Biden is voluminous and well documented.
BTW, the guy responsible for fabricating the so called Steele dossier was just arrested for making false statements in regard to that dossier.
“On the other hand the evidence against Biden is voluminous and well documented.”
Trump has many business dealings in Russia. He was soft as hell on Putin. His Helsinki conference was shamefully weak
Tump has many dealings in Saudi Arabia. But …You will note they were not on Trumps muslim ban list. Even though many of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudi and Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by them, he did nothing. I wonder why?
Your turn. What evidence do you have Biden was involved in any dodgy stuff? Sure his son was, but if fathers are guilty because of the sins of their sons.
Go read the emails, Simon the Zealot.
So Carlo once again got nuttin.
Sussmann
Danchenko
Who will be next, Simon the Zealot?
If you are keen to read about crime….at last count there were 18 civil or criminal cases against one Donald Trump.
https://www.justsecurity.org/75032/litigation-tracker-pending-criminal-and-civil-cases-against-donald-trump/
All Trumped Up Charges
Anyone can file a lawsuit, whether it has merit or not.
Left wing AGs bring charges that can’t be proved.
Is that really all you’ve got?
Another fake leftist site maliciously trying to pervert justice.
You can always tell when they assume guilty instead of accepting innocent until proven guilty.
An approach you yourself follow, silly. Conservatives are automatically guilty and demorats are automatically innocent no matter what they burned, harmed, killed, harassed, careers destroyed, professors fired, research corrupted, civil rights destroyed, etc.
Trump has been winning lawsuits and inquiries because they neither claimants nor prosecutors are able prove their claims.
PS fishing expeditions into Trump’s finances are just that, fishing expeditions conducted by corrupt prosecutors and Soros Attorney Generals.
Maybe Hillary. Wouldn’t that be delicious!!!
It certainly would, or even that scaly rat Comey.
There you go! I don’t see how Comey is going to escape, if this is a legitimate investigation. We shall see.
My list is incomplete:
Clinesmith
Sussmann
Danchenko
Giving you a source that documents the claims, counts as nothing.
Once again Simon proves that he is impervious to any data that doesn’t back what he wants to believe.
And Hunter sold lots of finger paintings for 6 figures to … ,well, they won’t say.
Trump in a business deal? He came out on top.
Trump in a deal as President? The US came out on top.
Energy Independent.
Biden? Why wasn’t Hunter investigated when “The Big Guy” was VP? Did Joe do a “quid pro quo”?
Are you a fan of the Taliban? Joe just gave them a whole country … and left Americans and allies behind to be hunted down and killed.
“Are you a fan of the Taliban?”
No but Trump was. Biden followed through on Trumps “deal.” Biggest mistake he’s ever made.
“Trump in a business deal? He came out on top.”
No that was Trump with the porn star he screwed while his wife was pregnant.
“Energy Independent.” Yawn no. The US imports large amount of oil. In 2019, the United States imported a total of 3.319 billion barrels.
What color is the sky in Simon-World?
The color of clowns
“No but Trump was. Biden followed through on Trumps “deal.”
Wrong!
Trump’s deal was not to cut and run and abandon Afghanistan. Trump’s deal would have maintained the status quo in Aghanistan, and there would not be a humanitarian crisis going on there now. Trump had no intention of giving the Taliban control of Aghanistan.
Biden followed his own plan which was to get out as fast as he could and damn the conseqences.
We’ll be watching the consequences for a long time in the future. And we will probably have to end up sending troops back into Afghanistan in the future.
Biden is a damn fool, and this Afghanistan stupidity highlights it.
The FUBARs just keep coming, and Simon tries to defend him and them.
Simon is in a losing battle.
Trump’s deal involved milestones that the Afghan government needed to meet. Every time a milestone was met, there was a drawdown in troops.
It was Biden who ordered the troops to be drawn down so far that there was not enough troops left to guard both the Baghran air force base and the national airport, the local commanders begged Biden to reconsider, but he refused. Because of this the local commanders were forced to abandon Baghran and all the equipment stored there.
This resulted in the rapid collapse of the Afghani army as they no longer had air support, as well as all the supplies being stored at Baghran being captured by the Taliban.
Only the useful idiots still try to blame Afghanistan on Trump.
It really is amazing the number of lies you are willing to spew. Have you been taking lessons from griff.
Joe did not follow through on Trump’s deal. He accelerated the time table, he ignored all the checks built into Trump’s deal.
The only thing in common between Trump’s deal and what Biden did, was that they both ended up with the US out of Afghanistan.
If you think Biden wanted to stay in Afghanistan, you are even dumber than you make yourself appear.
In 2019, the US exported more oil than it imported. As usual, you only include the data that backs your distorted view of reality.
Wait… the one thing Trump did that Biden feels obligated to support… and still, he gets it all wrong.
I’m not sure why everyone went along with GWB’s nonsense of nation-building. The Taliban supported a terrible attack against our country and harbored the perpetrators. But building a monument to democracy in the wake of attacking the Taliban? Not a smart move.
Trump (like many others) recognized that. However, his “negotiations” with this terrorist organization were not a good idea. They failed. Cynically, Biden not only stuck with the concept, but botched the execution. That’s on him.
Meanwhile, Biden supports resurrecting the antisemitic Iran deal created by his predecessor, who spent two decades of his life worshiping, every Sunday, in a church devoted to the destruction of Israel (the UCC, home of Jeremiah Wright, does little other than voting to condemn Israel every year or so, but never issues as much as a peep about China or Iran or the Taliban or any of the African regimes that actually are carrying out genocide).
Every thing you bleat is a lie. And you can’t even get the basics correct.
Biden did not follow Trump’s plan for leaving Afghanistan.
Biden didn’t even ask the Generals for their plan. He simply ordered everybody out, after the CIA set up giving the Taliban all of the equipment, vehicles, weapons, planes and ammunition.
Plus, the CIA purposely motivated military age Taliban to join the evacuation while leaving Americans and green card Afghans behind for the Taliban to terrorize and kill
Odds are Biden left a billion dollars in cash too. The real question is what evil did the democrat buy?
It was also revealed that Hunter and Joe shared a bank account for most of the time Joe was VP.
Who’s the “big guy” in Hunter’s emails, Simon?
Trump also has many business dealings in Britain, I guess in your mind this proves that he’s being controlled by the Queen.
Trump was soft on Russia, I guess in your mind anything less than declaring nuclear war is being “soft”.
The fact that the son was just a funnel to get the money to Joe has been well documented. It was also detailed in e-mails found on the son’s laptop.
H was just the bag man for the crime family.
All false fabrications and willful lies, silly.
Democrats failed at every attempt to frame Trump or any member of his family.
Instead, the truth got revealed repeatedly when witnesses were forced to swear an oath.
Democrats were guilty of blocking sworn testimony as it repeatedly destroyed their claims.
“BTW, the guy responsible for fabricating the so called Steele dossier was just arrested for making false statements in regard to that dossier.”
We are going to start calling it the “Clinton Dossier” from now on, because Hillary is the one who instigated this crime against the United States and its president, and that is going to become more apparent with every arrest.
Hillary should have been arrested for that e-mail server in the basement that she set up. Other people have been jailed for less.
FBI went to great lengths to protect Hillary from prosecution.
Possibly to further lengths than their efforts to implicate Trump.
I think this was all combined. Hillary did her dossier as an effort to distract from her email abuse, and to try to undermine Trump.
And the Obama-Biden administration helped her in every way they could. They used the power of the Federal Government to go after their political opponents.
It’s against the U.S. Constitution. It’s Treason.
Joe Biden and the other members of the Obama administration who took part in this are traitors to their country, and are ciminals under the law.
I wonder if Durham will call Joe Biden to testify?
Hillary is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg.
“…but Trump doesn’t do any confronting.”
“Tough talk by former U.S. President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, about Chinese human rights transgressions fell with a thud because of Trump’s inability to muster international support.” FP.com
“Trump called Chinese President Xi Jinping an “enemy,” announced massive tariff increases on all US imports from China, and “hereby ordered” American companies to stop doing business in the country.” wsws.org
“The Trump administration is formulating a long-term plan to punish China on multiple fronts for the coronavirus pandemic.” CNN
“China issues ‘olive branch’ to Trump as it panics over skyrocketing tensions with the US” Express
irony- a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite result.
Here’s some other quotes from Trump re China and Ping. Seems he was a huge fan early on in the virus days
“One of the many great things about our just signed giant Trade Deal with China is that it will bring both the USA & China closer together in so many other ways. Terrific working with President Xi, a man who truly loves his country. Much more to come!”
“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”
“Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days … Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!”
“I think President Xi is working very, very hard. I spoke to him. He’s working very hard. I think he’s doing a very good job. It’s a big problem. But President Xi loves his country. He’s working very hard to solve the problem, and he will solve the problem. OK?”
Dear gawd you’re a clueless git. What a head of state says publicly during diplomatic events has little to do with their foreign policy behind closed doors.
BTW, China’s president is not ‘Ping’. It’s Xi
“Dear gawd you’re a clueless git. “
And you fool friend are a hypocritical twat.
“What a head of state says publicly during diplomatic events has little to do with their foreign policy behind closed doors.”
No way in hell you would grant Biden the same leniency.
No comparison
Zhou Bie-Den is a demented old fool who never was anything but a corrupt politician with little credibility and no brains. He already lost on presidential race for plagiarism, so who cares what he says. He lies constantly. Only someone as stupid as you would defend him.
“He lies constantly. Only someone as stupid as you would defend him.”
He lies constantly. So that’s your yard stick for measuring a president? That they don’t lie? I got news for you snowflake….
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/
Nonsense. Citing the Washington Post is an admission of being utterly brain dead. Has anyone ever fact checked those 30k “lies”? No, of course not, they haven’t. I have checked a few of the prominent ones and they were all bogus. Only an utter fool like you believes such trash. Every time the media have tried to say “Trump lied” it was either a misquote or out of context.
Biden is a demented (probably degenerate) pathological liar with no redeeming qualities. He has been a liar all of his career. He lost his first run at the Presidency for lying.
Those 30573 misleading claims are on the Leftwing News Media, not Trump.
The Leftwing News Media distorts everything Trump says. The Leftwing Media are the ones misleading people.
Russia colluuuusion 😉
That is your dumb
“That is your dumb”
Haha. Can you even finish a sentence?
Haha Russia colluuuusion indeed. You are going to your grave with that nonsense?
As usual, Simon declares that he knows what everybody is actually thinking.
Mirror time.
… and that’s proof of what…? diplomacy?
either he’s a corrupt lapdog in the CCP pocket politician, or he’s a racist xenophobe, I don’t see how you can have it both ways, but then again cognitive dissonance is a common psychological trait in lefty world.
You’re here to try and deflect attention away from a very creepy, perverted, senile old guy and his even creepier, corrupt, perverted, crackhead son, do you sleep well at night?
“You’re here to try and deflect attention away from a very creepy, perverted, senile old guy and his even creepier, corrupt, perverted, crackhead son, do you sleep well at night?
Sorry which of the last two presidents are we talking about here?
Any evidence Trump’s sons have ever had a crack (or any drug) problem?
Once again, Simon demonstrates that he has no connection with any form of reality recognized by modern science.
That you believe the manufactured propaganda and slander directed at Trump shows how “simple” minded you are, Simple Simon. As it turns out it’s the Dems (particularly Hillary’s team) who is guilty of everything Trump was accused of.
I’m guessing you like being sniffed by old men … am I right?
If that’s the best you got, then you got nothing, as usual.
Trump is still president of the US and Xi is still the dictator of China.
“Trump is still president…”
Ummm no he’s not.
Uncle Sam keeps 3 times more people lock up in cages than China with 5 times the population.
Not to worry, the Dem/Soros D.A.s are workin’ on that discrepancy. As crime soars . .
“As crime soars”
Yeah, it turns out it was a good idea to keep these folks locked up.
Yes, and they get a fair trial first, and are convicted of actual crimes, not Communist pseudo-crimes.
Prisoners in the US also tend not to end up as organ donors.
China doesn’t put them in jail, they get sent to work camps so they can be worked to death.
Also, the death penalty in China is short and sweet. They only execute criminals who plead guilty … and all prisoners in China eventually plead guilty. Once the verdict is handed down, the punishment is ‘same day service’. So, fewer prisoners.
That’s the down side of living in the freest society in history. The citizens are free to injure fellow citizens.
No, as a rule the Chinese don’t jail as many people per capita. They just lock down entire cities or countries and enslave them or make their lives a misery. Criminals just get a bullet behind the ear (with no appeal process).
Open your eyes.
How many people are in the Chicom’s Tibetan jail, or their Mongolian jail. That number is probably larger than the U.S. prison population.
It always annoys me when people use false comparisons to score some kind of point … often directed at the US. None of them even speculate what a different sort of world we’d be living in if the US didn’t exist.
Really?
You’re as clueless daft as silly and it’s echoes.
All of those Muslims China keeps enslaved? Or you don’t count their cages?
Foolish twit.
How is Bidenflation working out for you, Simon the Zealot? Like wasting money do you?
Monte the moron…. just fine thanks for asking.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/ha-ha-ha-hilarious-biden-energy-secretary-laughs-asked-bidens-plans-bring-gas-prices-video/
You seem to be so clueless you miss the point every time. I drive an EV. I don’t care about gas prices. In fact every time they go up I do a little dance.
I bet ya do, Mr. Empathy ; )
I’m curous, Simon.
Have you calculated your costs to drive your EV as compared to a gasoline-powered car?
Yep. Long term I am winning(and so is the planet). Hey and thanks Tom for asking. I appreciate it.
You are welcome, Simon. I was hoping for a little more detail on your EV. Is it cheaper to drive than a gasoline car? I’m just asking for a comparison of buying gasoline verses buying electricity for the same amount of driving.
I suppose the constantly changing costs for both gasoline and electricity might complicate the equation.
Forget that Simon. I see down below that you supply your own electricity along with getting some on the grid, so I think that’s too much of a complication for me to use to judge whether an EV is a good deal using your paticular situation.
You really are an idiot—do you actually believe electricity rates are immune from inflation? Or probably you think the government is going subsidize the electrons flowing into your little battery car.
“You really are an idiot—”
And you really are a moron.
A peewee, this the best you got, battery car boi?
Like most socialists, Simon can’t care less when the policies he supports hurts other people.
Don’t look now SimpleSimon, but most electricity is generated from fossil fuels, so you aren’t immune from rising gas prices.
You really are a sad pathetic man. I live in a country that is 80% renewable so your comment is meaningless.
What an idiot!
No silly, you pay for much more expensive electricity whose prices are climbing because of increased fuel costs and taxes they have to pay to subsidize EVs, solar arrays and wind farms.
Hopefully, politicians will recognize their errors soon, eliminate subsidies and to hike fees to cover the real recycling costs for dangerous EV batteries.
What a moron you are. I produce most of my own electricity to run my car. The rest is produced renewably. Sad.
Simon’s mom buys the groceries, so inflation doesn’t bother him.
Simon’s mom does the cooking as well.
At least I know who my mom is….
Ooh, did I touch a nerve?
“I’m gonna switch this round”
Simon, that’s ridiculous. There is no evidence that Trump has accepted bribes from foreign nations.
There is evidence that Joe Biden’s son, among others of his family, has received very lucrative deals from places like China and Russia, and Joe gets 10 percent (the Big Guy), and as far as I know, Hunter Biden is still doing business with the Chicoms. Millions of dollars worth of business. And why did the wife of the Mayor of Moscow give Hunter Biden $5 million dollars?
And since you are such a stickler for morality, Simon, it appears from reports that Joe Biden sexually molested his daughter. She recounts it in her diary that got stolen by someone and wound up in the hands of an investigative journalist.
I guess Biden thinks it is so serious that he sent the FBI to raid the investigative journalist’s business yesterday looking for the diary. Unfortunately for Joe, the contents of the diary have been made public.
As far as I know, Trump never molested any of his relatives.
According to the person who had the diary, t was left in a hotel room, not stolen.
The FBI has recently raided the homes of journalists who covered this story.
Apparently the NYT can publish stolen national secrets, but publishing excerpts from a diary that may or many not have been stolen is going to result in jail time.
The journalists were for Project Veritas, who decided to not publish the diary because they coldu not verify it was A. Biden’s. For this act they were raided by the FBI with search warrants. Ironically, the raid is an indirect admission that the diary is real.
It depends on whether you are a Democrat or a Republican. Democrats get a pass, and Republicans do not get a pass under our current Democrat/Swamp government.
Tom
“And since you are such a stickler for morality, Simon, it appears from reports that Joe Biden sexually molested his daughter.”
Please provide this evidence?
Is Hunter all you got. Unlike Trump Joe Biden admits his son has issues.
“As far as I know, Trump never molested any of his relatives.”
Well they must be the few on the planet who have not been subjected to his sexual advances.
So the diary of Biden’s daughter is not evidence for you?
You got any link?
“Please provide this evidence?”
I don’t have it immediately at hand. One article I saw actually had a picture of Biden’s daughter’s handwritten diary and an excerpt from it.
I’ll see what I can find. You probably shouldn’t be so eager for evidence, considering Biden is your guy.
I can’t find anything. You?
Hey the Russia colluuuusion clown arrives
As always, Simon shows up trying to change the subject and defend the indefensible.
More fantastic lies from silly.
More leftist projection pushing Biden and Clinton crime family sins on the innocent.
Got any real proof there, silly child?
He had the FBI gestap0 raid Project Veritas this morning.
Yep. This doesn’t look good for Joe Biden.
His daughter describes in her diary how Joe and she would take showers together when she was a child. Among other questionable things he did.
The guy is a creep, the epitome of corrupt Big East Politics.
Urggh – I feel unwell. Biden is even creepier than his hair-sniffing antics would suggest.
Perhaps Simon would like to comment.
His only answer is: “ITS TRUMPS FAULT!!”
Finally you are talking sense. It’s the only answer when it is his fault, which just happens to be most of the time.
TDS, Simon.
Happy to comment. Biden may not be a saint, but he doesn’t screw porn stars while his wife is pregnant. That’s the problem for Trump supporters. Everything they accuse Biden of Trump has done it ten times worse.
Do you have a moral compass, Simon?
Trump has consenting relations with an adult woman. Biden fiddles with kiddies.
Ever heard of Tara Reade?
I’ve heard of her. But she was an adult, so by your definition it was all fine. The child thing is complete nonsense. Still when you back Trump the sleeze you will make up anything to make the vile man look “ok.”
And my moral compass (which is just fine) says Biden is a far more moral man than Trump. Mind you that is not hard. So do the 18 cases against Trump.
You desperately, desperately hope the Biden daughter allegations are false, don’t you, Simon?.
Terminal case of TDS, a no-hopa.
Tom you got a link to the daughter thing?
Some information on Ashley Biden’s diary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sm4hSufPK4
More and more, the thought of Joe Biden standing up, period, is becoming less likely.
The way Biden walks and stumbles around is a sign of mental deterioration, according to a couple of people I know who deal with such medical problems.
And no longer in control of his bowels.
Pelosi is also Xi’s paid puppet. Ditto Feinstein (with a ChiCom spy key staffer and driver), Swalwell (with a ChiCom spy GF) many other California pols and Democrats throughout the country. McConnell’s wife however is from Taiwan.
However, Elaine Chao’s parents were born in Mainland China. They fled the Communists. Her dad is still alive.
Her parents own a big shipping business in China, don’t they?
The Chicoms are buying every American politician that is willing.
The Chicoms are buying every influential American that is willing. And there appear to be a lot who like Chicom money.
The very tenet of socialism is that people are entitled to free stuff. So why shouldn’t the free stuff come from China.
Machiavelli in writing Discourses on Livy (1531) hoped to reestablish a unified Italy during the Renaissance and form a Republican government modeled on Ancient Rome. In the opening Discourses he discusses the history how Rome became a powerful Republic originating from a Monarchical city state.
He takes from the Greeks the historical idea of the transient nature of government and the transitions in the ruling forms of governments; and he contrasts the good and bad forms like obverse sides of a coin: Tyranny and Monarchy, Oligarchy and Aristocracy, and Mob rule and Democracy. The Greek people lived under them all.
The American Framers of the Constitution at the Convention in Philadelphia almost all of whom were classical scholars read Machiavelli’s Discourses or at least the early chapters. They absorbed his thinking on how Republics must be expansive geographically and growing in population beyond the size of a City State to become and remain strong.
The Framers created a tripartite system of government with some of Machiavelli’s ideas in mind: an executive in the person of the President; a Bicameral Congress or legislature with a People’s House of Representatives and a Senate selected by the States, and a Judiciary System of Courts to be created in detail by acts of the first Congress. The Framers hoped each elected Constitutional branch represented respectively what Machiavelli defined as a good form of government and to form them concurrently after the Constitution was approved to give rise to a stable, enduring and expanding Constitutional Republic.
During the past 18 months and after the November 2020 presidential election, the United States has experienced aspects of the three “bad” forms of government due to Democratic Party NeoMarxist, Post-Modernist, Woke ideology: Tyranny, Oligarchy, and Mob Rule; you can surmise who plays which part though the Tyrant may be merely a demented puppet, a front man for the ruling Oligarchy of Elites within the Administrative State; regardless, the result has at times been Anarchy in the streets and at the border and the goal seems to be dissolution of the American State as a Constitutional Republic as founded-without the consent of the People.
As Washington told the lady when asked what had he given us – a Republic, if you can keep it. He knew what he was talking about.
Add to the current woke mob, numerous assassinations – JFK being the turning point.
That Oligarchy has shown it’s true face at COP26 – Malthusian eugenicists.
China had 2 wars with that fossil. India was occupied.
All oligarchies through the ages are population reducers, whether by war, plague.
As BoJo said COP26 is the last chance saloon for this crowd.
That was Franklin, not Washington.
Excellent post, Gerard.
“and the goal seems to be dissolution of the American State as a Constitutional Republic as founded-without the consent of the People.”
That is the goal of the radicals, and the radicals seem to be in charge of the Left.
We are in a war for our nations future. Or at least, the Left is in the war. The Right is only about half in the war. Witness the 12 Republican fools in the U.S. House who voted for the “Infrasturcture” bill last night.
Those 12 along with the 12 Republican U.S. Senators who voted for this bill should be voted out of office at the next opportunity, as they have demonstrated they are not smart enough to figure out what the Left is doing in undermining the U.S. and those Republicans voting that way are just helping the radical leftwing cause.
Stupid Republicans! They can’t see the danger right in front of their faces.
Exactly right, those 24 are bought-and-paid for, and should be primaried into oblivion. Expect to see more and more “retirements” as time goes on.
I hope they learn the error of their ways next year.
What an excellent analysis, Gerard. Should be required reading for luke warmers and Rinos.
Biden is not a “stand-up” Guy.
Never has been.
EXCERPT
HIDING THE HUNTER BIDEN EVIDENCE TO PROTECT JOE BIDEN
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hiding-the-hunter-biden-evidence-to-protect-joe-biden
Info status as of December 30, 2020
As additional news comes in during October through February, this write-up will be revised and augmented.
INTRODUCTION
Biden has a history of:
1) Performing near the bottom of his class, in college and in law school,
2) Repeated plagiarism, while a student and in public office.
3) Shady financial dealings with China and Ukraine,
4) Touchy-feeling women and children, in public, on video,
5) Sexually assaulting women co-workers,
6) Impeachable malfeasance relating to emoluments, while in office as VP
I can assure you, I do not like this disappointing news about Biden.
I always thought he was one of the good guys.
All of it can be easily obtained by some googling.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hiding-the-hunter-biden-evidence-to-protect-joe-biden
So much dirt exists, because he ran twice for President, bowed out twice, because Hillary was digging up too much dirt, with help of the Media that favored her. He was not gaining traction, while defending himself.
This time the Media favored Biden, so no dirt was to be found anywhere
However, all hands to the pumps to find maximum dirt on Trump, and Facebook and Twitter helped out as well.
Even the blind and deaf knew what was going on.
Influence Peddling: Biden was doing his influence peddling while VP, an impeachable offense (emoluments), similar to the insider-dealing of Spiro Agnew, the VP of Nixon.
Agnew resigned, with Nixon to follow later.
I am old enough to remember at 83
The Media: I realized the US Media was not going to cover his “activities”
Twitter and Facebook are still blocking accounts and URLs, i.e., putting a lid on the Biden shenanigans.
Twitter and Facebook employees have given 51 times more to Biden than Trump, FEC data shows.
Despite Twitter and Facebook obstructions, the Joe and Hunter Biden corruption story is soaring on social media.
It looks like those obstructions are backfiring.
It looks like the Media versions of “reality” have free reign.
George Orwell has come to pass.
Therefore, I decided to prepare my own well-researched write up.
It has been widely distributed.
As additional news comes in during October, 2020 through February, 2021, the write-up gets revised and augmented.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/28/twitter-is-running-a-blackmail-operation-cooperate-or-no-traffic-for-you/
https://nypost.com/2020/10/20/posts-hunter-biden-expose-soars-despite-social-media-censorship/
https://alphanewsmn.com/twitter-facebook-employees-have-given-51-times-more-to-biden-than-trump-fec-data-shows/
7) Being a complete a$$hat in Senate judiciary confirmation hearings, especially Clarence Thomas.
China is laughing at us all We have loons like this
“Myles Allen
Dear school striker,
Well done on all you are doing – you seem to have made more impact on the climate issue in the past couple of years than I’ve managed in the previous three decades working away on it, and I’ve been described as the physicist behind net zero. Good luck on the demonstrations.” – The Conversation
When they come for my gas boiler, my car etc I’ll know who to blame – the physicist behind net zero
China is also laughing all the way to the bank.
There is perhaps a silver lining in the otherwise very dark Biden cloud. The Dems will likely lose both House and Senate next November. Then the damage can be limited. Meanwhile, we can be hopeful that Manchin and Sinema can keep the House craziness in check in the Senate for the next 12 months, while DeSantis and other governors battle Biden’s OSHA mandate overreach in the courts.
And no matter what, COP26 will fail. Greta is already protesting it.
Too long to wait and those two, while they’ve been good so far, are a fragile thread to hold onto. Too likely to shift positions just before the election.
They were both elected in 2018, so are not up for re-election in 2022. That said, Manchin is the only Democrat in state-wide office in the state of West Virginia, having won in 2018 with less than 50% of the vote in a split contest. Sinema is also considered a conservative Democrat, having voted just over 50% of the time with the Trump Administration. It is difficult, certainly, to predict what they will do, but Manchin in particular must be looking over his shoulder, especially when the Biden Administration’s goal is to eliminate coal. Manchin knows he was lucky the last time, and wouldn’t survive another election if he sells out his state. Even being the one to make the Democrats the majority in the Senate makes him a big target he may not be able to dodge in 2024.
Sinema surely wants to be reelected, but I’m not sure that Manchin does. He’s old, a multimillionaire, and might not run again.
The Democrat senator who rankles me the most is Tester (MT). He must have decided not to run again. Rather than return to small-scale farming and school teaching in MT, he may opt to stay in DC as a lobbyist.
Sometimes, the most repulsive people believe they can make good contractor lobbyists.
Only, people had been dealing with them in spite of their repulsiveness because they can deliver an odd favor now and again.
Wannabee still repulsive lobbyist, especially repulsive people who were utterly thrilled to knife another in the back or thrilled to falsely accuse others, find that they are still repulsive and can no longer deliver any favors.
Everyone avoids those repulsive toads, like a plague.
I’m hoping the idiot Democrats will blow up both the Infrastructure bill, and the socialism bill. There’s a possiblity this can happen.
If it does happen, then the Legislature can go back to the drawing board and mark up a bill strictly focused on infrastructure, without the Democrat socialist agenda included.
Hell, the government hasn’t even spent all the money allocated during the Trump administration for pandemic relief, yet these Democrat imbeciles want to spend 6 or 8 TRILLION more dollars, most of which goes to the Democrat-socialist wishlist.
Based on this afternoon’s House events, you may be right that they will. Prayapil just nixed Pelosi’s vote plan for today. Says both bills together or no bills. But 5 moderate Dems won’t vote for BBB until the CBO scores it. That score will be a fiscal disaster. Pelosi cannot lose more than 3 House votes total, and the bad CBO score could scare off all five moderates, all of who are in serious jeopardy of losing next year. Plus, they already know Manchin won’t go for BBB as currently structured in the Senate, so BBB is not the hill for the five moderates to die on.
As I’m sure you know, but others may not, the U.S. House did pass the Infrastructure bill late last night.
Expect higher prices for things in the future as the Democrats and a couple fo idiot Republicans have just foisted more inflation on all of us.
It hasn’t passed the Senate yet, and that’s a tougher fight than the House for the Democrats.
BBB?
Better business bureau?
Build Back Better By Biden the CCP puppet.
Only in DC could someone pass off as an “infrastructure” bill, a bill that spends less than 3% of it’s funds on actual infrastructure.
The way they do these spending bills is a travesty. You can’t find out what is in it until you vote on it. They finalized the bill yesterday editing 2,000 pages and then they want everyone to vote on it in a matter of hours, so noone actually read the entire bill before they voted for it.
The Line Item Veto by the president is what is needed to reign in this ridiculous spending. That, and a conservative president to apply the veto in the proper places.
It is sick—I saw a picture this am of Steve Scalise with a copy of the End America Act at the podium, it is literally 5 or 6 reams of paper and multiple trillions of fake paper money. Insanity.
Try reading that overnight!
It’s ridiculous.
But that’s the Democrats for you. *They* are ridiculous, except when they have political power, then they are very dangerous to the personal freedoms of all of us. That’s where we are at right now. Our hope is this will change in the near future.
Line item was a thing Reagan wanted but didn’t understand.
Line item veto allows a President to pick and choose want they like in a bill.
Putting tyranny into the hands of the Executive Branch.
A number of U.S. States use the line-item veto.
A line-item veto, contrary to the latest U.S. Supreme Court ruling, does not take power away from the Legislative Branch.
If a president vetos an item in a spending bill, the Congress has the ability to override that veto if they have the votes, so the power of Congress is not infringed by a line-item veto.
The power of Congress to override the president is not taken away. As long as they have the votes, but of course, that also applies where there is no line-item veto scenario.
The line-item veto just requires the Congress to take an extra step in the process sometimes. If they have the votes, nothing prevents them from taking that extra step.
The U.S. Supreme Court is completely off-base on this issue.
Tom, these trillions will end up lining the pockets of billionaires who have been supporting them to the hilt and who are not troubled by turning the rest of us into a new generation of peasants.
Strange isn’t it?
They say they want to tax the rich yet the rich politicians proposing such taxes and the richer who back them them never seem to be affected.
It’s a bit like Britain, we cut taxes to boost the economy, the rich get bigger tax cuts, then a few years later the system tries to recoup the losses by taxing……………….the middle-classes, it’s nearly always they who end up paying more!!! 🙁
In the US, the top 10% pay about 90% of all income taxes.
The biggest change in the bill is the restoring of full deductibility for state and local taxes (SALT). That is going to be a HUGE tax cut for rich people, especially those living in high tax states.
I think SALT is why the Republicans voted for the bill. It looks like all of them are from New York or New Jersey, two high-tax States.
Well I was wrong about that. Only about four or five of the 12 are from New York or New Jersey.
You’re correct, Michael. The Elites on the Left make out like bandits.
Yep – she wants instant cuts in emissions. What a nasty shock she would get if such were implemented, stopping civilisation dead!
The Gretamonster will go on a rampage. Why doesnt she go to China and Russia and scream in Xi and Putin’s face.
The Chicoms disparaged Greta the other day saying she was misinformed.
“Greta is already protesting it.” Ah what a shame. I’ve started to rename dear little Greta after a small character in the former big tv show Dallas, a small blonde bimbo referred to here in the UK as the “Poison Dwarf”, I think it suits Greta perfectly! I wonder, does she & can she formulate an original thought of her own without referring to her little red book for regular re-affirmation of her Marxist beliefs backed up to the hilt by her Socialist activist parents. I read a book on Karl Marx years ago, about how he lived the high-life in London, with Sunday afternoon champagne picnics in Hyde Park during the Summer months, the Capitalist decadent practices were not for the ordinary people, they must be oppressed, re-educated (easier when many hadn’t received one anyway), to serve the ruling elites, as useful idiots, named by his great follower Vladimir Lenin!!! Why is it all the bloody mas-butchering revolutionaries came from well educated, middle-class backgrounds???
““Greta is already protesting it.” Ah what a shame. I’ve started to rename dear little Greta after a small character in the former big tv show Dallas, a small blonde bimbo referred to here in the UK as the “Poison Dwarf”
The tv show Dallas was big in the UK? I guess it was if you have special nicknames for the characters. 🙂
That’s interesting.
I watched it a few times, mostly because I really liked a couple of the actors who played in it.
Trying to right off Bobby’s death as a dream sequence so that they can bring him back into the show was jumping the shark way more than anything Fonzi ever did.
Tyrants always mistake democracy for weakness because they see debate as dissent and therefore a challenge to power.
Unless they are out of power, in which as it’s “speak truth to Power”. But when they are in Power, it’s “shut up”….
The very same leftists who used every naughty word in the book when speaking about Trump, are now having conniptions about “Let’s go Brandon”. Seems one or two of them have found out what it’s a substitute for.
I just want “Brandon” to go.
(For those who don’t know what the big deal is about “Let’s Go Brandon”, a driver named Brandon had just won a car race. He was being interviewed live.
The crowd began a chant. The reporter claimed they were were chanting “Let’s Go Brandon” when it was very clear that they were chanting “F**k Joe Biden”.
A viral failed MSM attempt to cover for Biden.)
Florida Governor DeSantis was talking about the Brandon administration the other day. He got a big response from the crowd he was speaking to. They started chanting, “Let’s go, Brandon”.
Eric Worrall,
You say the article you are quoting is
If that be true then the article is intended for provision to the Chinese people.
That being so, then the point which is of greatest importance in the article says,
This is a clear assertion from China’s Communist government that the Chinese one-party-totalitarian State is innately superior to the American political system because China is not subject to “political infighting will continue, which is exhausting US strength in dealing with domestic and global issues. “
The remainder of the article can be understood to be intended as bolsters of that assertion which is Chinese internal propaganda intended to justify Xi’s absence from CoP26 which Biden attended. As such it has little significance.
Richard
I think the Global Times publishes the CCP’s “talking points” for its truculent “wolf warrior” diplomats assigned to Western countries.
If so, their propaganda is directed at Western targets, rather than the domestic Chinese populace.
Richard,
All true but Biden still looks like a weak suck no matter who is watching. Chinese, Uruguayans, Senegalese, Tralfamadorians all see the same little….
China is not subject to political infighting….
If you believe that, I have a bridge you might be interested in.
Popcorn at the ready for next years 20th Party Congress.
No. If the Chinese government want the people of China to know something, it gets printed in the ‘people’s daily’ newspaper – this is purely for the West.
The article is written in English Richard, and the mouthpiece calls itself the “Global Times”.
This is propaganda intended to bolster China’s power in the minds of a global audience.
Tyrants, like school yard bullies, win when the people who oppose them think the struggle is hopeless.
Conveying the impression of overwhelming Chinese power is part of China’s effort to intimidate the rest of the world into accepting direction from China, to make the world submit to China’s will, without China even having to fire a shot.
And what better way to convey an impression of overwhelming power, than to repeatedly humiliate the US President? And to have that President appear helpless to prevent the abuse?
It is for the global market. My father is wrong, in my opinion; most Chinese don’t read English.
However the article is also wrong, in my opinion; it’s not about making the US leadership look weak.
The Chinese know they are seen as propagandists. The people who matter won’t be influenced by China pooh-poohing the US. China knows that.
It’s about democracy.
That’s what they are fighting in Hong Kong (and elsewhere). They are mocking the change of authority with each election. They are questioning how the President can apologise for the President when Trump and Biden are on different sides of the divide.
It’s a clever attack. And it cuts far deeper than what you suggest.
We need to fight for democracy – despite our fight internally as Left and Right.
There are a lot of people in China who want a change in leadership, Xi Jinping is an economic disaster, his punishment of high profile entrepreneurs in China and crazy central planning energy directives have brought the Chinese economy to the brink of collapse.
Eric Warrell,
Thanks to you and all others who responded to my post.
My only dislike of the responses is with the comment from “Citizen Smith” which attempts to misrepresent what I wrote.
I am especially grateful for your reply that makes several cogent points. My only dispute of your comments is when you write,
My experience of Chinese government officials is that they are much more subtle than that. If they seem to be doing – or saying – one thing then they are probably attempting to do something else.
Chinese communists do use intimidation (especially of their own people) but this has not normally been a method used to promote PRC power internationally. For decades, ‘creeping influence’ has been their favoured method to spread communism especially in sub-Saharan Africa. As illustration, I cite the example of Hong Kong because Matt used it to dispute my post. The policy of ‘one country, two systems’ could have been overthrown at any time but was initially adopted and the democracy in Hong Kong has slowly but surely been usurped by Beijing.
Anyway, my post has engendered discussion of your article which can only be good.
Richard
I made a serious typo.
It was ‘climate believer’ and NOT ‘citizen Smith’ who attempted to misrepresent me.
Apologies to all and especially ‘citizen Smith’
Richard
Cho bei Deng.
No, Zhou Bai-Den.
Do we need the Cinese to laugh ?? 😀
Xi Jinping has gotta love Joey…the destruction that Joey is doing to America is something Xi can only dream about. I am sure Xi is saying Go Joey Go!
Let the Chicoms laugh. They should just remember that the last laugh is the best laugh. They may not be having the last laugh at the moment.
From the article: “The report highlighted the discord between American voters, noting some comments online from “netizens” who “cannot wait until 2024 when the Republican Party, or even Donald Trump himself, apologises for Biden’s apology”.”
I’m waiting for Trump, or the next Republican president to reverse everything Biden has done, in a repudiation of Biden’s stupidity.
That’s how the U.S. gets back on track and back on top.
It’s easy for the Chicoms to make fun of Biden. They won’t be making fun of Trump. They’ll get a whole new attitude.
The ease of dealing with a moron like Biden will soon be over for the Chicoms. Enjoy it while you can. You did see the backlash against the radical Democrats in the latest election, didn’t you? That’s just the beginning. The Democrat cheating has given you four years, but that’s all you are going to get, and maybe not even that much if the Republcians take over Congress in the next election. So enjoy your little laugh while you can. Not everyone in the United States is a fool like Biden.
How’s that Bird Flu doing over there, Xi? Are you going to foist that out on the whole world like you did the Wuhan virus?
No Olympics for you!
I see where China now has a Bird Flu outbreak, and a new outbreak of the Wuhan virus delta version.
Ivermectin for the Wuhan virus. I don’t know if it will work against the Bird Flu but it probably has some good effect since it is an antiviral.
Of course Biden is helpless, he is a senile man who should be in an assisted living facility. The Ron Klain-Susan Rice administration is the most public case of elder abuse in US history.
If Joe is powerless at COP(whatever), that’s good for US!
Classic deflection as well as passive aggression on Biden’s part. He’s trying to make excuses for why his own party can’t or won’t pass his climate legislation. Hilarious.
The Dems have the MSM on their side. And they had COVID on their side in the election that gave his string pullers’ power. (Lot’s of ignoring of a State’s own election laws.)
Sadly Canadian liberals do not mock Biden, they put him on a pedestal. Even though Biden cancelled XL