Joe Biden sounds boring, but his policies are actually kind of extreme if you go through the executive orders. President Trump’s personality was extreme, but his policies were actually, in some cases, pretty leaning right, conventional,” Perino said on “The Five.”
Trump prohibited,
utilities that supply critical defense facilities (CDF) from procuring from the People’s Republic of China, specific BPS [Bulk Power System] electric equipment that poses an undue risk to the BPS, the security or resilience of critical infrastructure, the economy, national security, or safety and security of Americans. //
Well, you and I may agree with Trump’s Secretary of Energy here, but apparently Joe Biden or whoever’s pulling his strings demurs.
Think about that for a second. One of Joe Biden’s first acts in office was to cancel an EO that Trump’s administration used to stop China from being able to sabotage our power grid.
Biden can’t even hold to the most basic of tenants of his religion. That doesn’t make it him observant. It makes him a heretic if you want to get technical. There is no such thing as “liberal” Christianity. //
Biden may wake up on Sunday and listen to a sermon, but his actions and policy positions clearly show he’s not taking much of what he hears to heart. That’s his right in a free country, but no one should pretend he’s anything more than what he is.
The title of a Saturday report from Bloomberg says it succinctly:
‘Dark Money’ Helped Pave Joe Biden’s Path to the White House.
More specifically, Biden’s campaign reeled in more “dark money” than any campaign in history, dwarfing Trump’s special interest contributions by multiples:
$145 million to $28.4 million. //
disintelligentsia
36 minutes ago
Now let's add in all the foreign money donated through prepaid cards because Dems choose not to use the basic security checks on their site while Republicans refuse to do anything about it. Same crap Obama did and yet the GOP did nothing about it when they held all branches. //
rmcgee
an hour ago
Really, that's peanuts alongside the in-kind contributions from Facebook, Twitter, Google, and the media which were probably to the tune of multiple billions of dollars.
Trump: "My Administration will not support giving congressional representation to aliens who enter or remain in the country unlawfully, because doing so would create perverse incentives and undermine our system of government. Just as we do not give political power to people who are here temporarily, we should not give political power to people who should not be here at all." //
"The Secretary [of Commerce] shall report the tabulation of total population by state that reflects the whole number of persons whose usual residence was in each state as of the designated census date in section 141(a) of title 13, United States Code, without regard to immigration status," the order states.
"The Fourteenth Amendment apportions seats in the House of Representatives 'among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State,'" the order argues.
The Fourteenth Amendment was passed after the Civil War for the purposes of recognizing former slaves, not illegal aliens. //
Biden's executive order signed Wednesday revoked two Trump-era orders seeking to exclude illegal aliens from the decennial count. The Census was challenged in the courts, and the Trump administration failed to meet an end-of-year deadline to complete the count.
Illegal aliens have been included in previous counts and are reflected in the current apportionment of House seats in Congress and electors in the electoral college. The Center for Immigration Studies analyzed the impact of excluding illegal immigrants and their children from the census and reapportioning House seats accordingly. The result was a net loss of House seats for Democrats and a net gain of electors for Republicans.
No wonder President Biden reversed this on his first day in office. //
Bob Parkman Scholar
a day ago edited
The amendment refers to jurisdiction thereof and since they're here in violation of our law they dont recognize our jurisdiction and should not be included.
They're not supposed to be here and should be deported thus they should not be counted.
NBC News
@NBCNews
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden visits National Guard troops stationed outside the US Capitol in DC:
"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe ... The White House baked you some chocolate chip cookies." //
In response, actor Tim Matheson (known for being Otter in Animal House and mostly forgettable roles), tweeted a fawning homage to Jill Biden. But in it, he also took a backhanded bigoted slap clearly aimed at Melania Trump.
“So wonderful to have a First Lady with class and heart,” he said. “And, can speak English!” //
The Voice of America
@VOANews
▶️ First lady Melania Trump visits the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, for Valentine’s Day.
👉 First Lady Makes Valentine's Day Art With Pediatric Patients
https://voanews.com/a/first-lady-m //
Tegan Hanlon
@teganhanlon
Melania Trump visits Anchorage military families today at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson via @lisa_demer and @lorenholmes: https://adn.com/alaska-news/military/2017/11/10/melania-trump-visits-military-families-at-jber/
Andrew Malcolm
@AHMalcolm
First Lady Melania Trump made holiday visits today to 3 military installations including CVN 77 the nuclear carrier George HW Bush in the Atlantic. Did you see it in #MSM ? //
Skeptical Techie
9 hours ago edited
Two points:
1 - First Lady Trump went to the troops disturbing their off-duty time as little as a First Lady with all that entails may. Conversely, First Lady Biden stood out on the firm and dry blocked off street and sidewalk and had the troops called from their free time to fall-in in front of her (some of them lined up in cold, possibly soggy grass) for her to bring a couple baskets of cookies. A - I only saw two baskets with too few cookies to show over the rims. I wonder if there was even a cookie a piece for the unit so presented to her. B - I hope none of the troops had to abandon their place in line for the bathroom to fall in for her.
2 - Regarding language acumen: While First Lady Trump is an ESL speaker (and also fluent, as noted, in other languages), certainly as this article and the ratio pointed out, that is patently not a bad thing in this diverse country. However, it seems a mistake to make accusations of linguistic shortcomings given the quality of the paper which was the pinnacle of First Lady "Doctor" Biden's vanity degree. Were she not at the time the Senior Senator's Wife, it is questionable that she would have been awarded a doctorate of any flavor based on such a flabby, shabby and uneven submission. She could not blame that on being an ESL speaker either.
This is a day of national shame and mourning for the tens of millions of slaughtered innocents sacrificed on the altar of inconvenience.
In Corn Pop’s White House, though, the mood was celebratory and triumphalist:
In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack. We are deeply committed to making sure everyone has access to care – including reproductive health care – regardless of income, race, zip code, health insurance status, or immigration status.
The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to codifying Roe v. Wade and appointing judges that respect foundational precedents like Roe. We are also committed to ensuring that we work to eliminate maternal and infant health disparities, increase access to contraception, and support families economically so that all parents can raise their families with dignity. This commitment extends to our critical work on health outcomes around the world. //
Cassie Smedile
@CMSmedile
Jen Psaki spins out of Hyde Amdt. & Mexico City question by saying Pres. Biden is a "devout Catholic".
Either Pres. Biden is about to be a very pro-Life President or Jen Psaki (and basically everyone else) needs to stop referring to him as a "devout Catholic"...! //
Joe Biden is technically a Catholic because he was baptized into the Church. Beyond that accident of history, there is no possible measure that would indicate that Joe Biden is Catholic. Biden has long been a hardcore fan of infanticide, the support of which brings with it automatic ex-communication Latae sententiae:
Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,”77 “by the very commission of the offense,”78 and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law.79 The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society. //
Biden pimping transgenderism, openly endorsing homosexual marriage and claiming that abortion is a legitimate therapeutic procedure all the while claiming to be Catholic certainly has the ability to lead some people to believe that he is correct.
Benny
@bennyjohnson
MILITARY SOURCE IN DC:
“For the last week my battalion has been sleeping on the floor in the Senate cafeteria. Today the Senate kicked us out & moved us to a cold parking garage.
5000 soldiers.
1 power outlet.
One bathroom.
This is how Joe Biden’s America treats solders.”
@politico
Thousands of National Guardsmen were forced to vacate congressional grounds today and are now taking their rest breaks outside and in nearby parking garages, after two weeks of sleepless nights protecting the nation’s capital
https://politico.com/news/2021/01/2
Ben Domenech
@bdomenech
So did the powers that be really just use the national guard as a photo op show of strength only to shove them out onto parking garage concrete on a 38 degree night?
8:16 PM · Jan 21, 2021