September 11-14, 2020
Sep 11 04:20 Senate Democrats vote unanimously against COVID relief bill debate Sep 11 14:45 Ivanka Trump vs. Joy Behar, Kamala Harris Sep 12 05:17 Defining early voting Sep 12 11:25 Twins win as Maeda outduels Bieber Sep 13 03:49 Donald Trump's path to the White House has lots of options Sep 13 09:47 Bomba Squad unloads on Plesac, Indians Sep 14 03:56 NFL in bed with BLM thugs Sep 14 08:03 Joe Biden's tall tales
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Senate Democrats vote unanimously against COVID relief bill debate
Predictably, Senate Democrats voted unanimously against starting debate on a COVID relief bill. Democrats didn't vote against final passage of the bill. Democrats voted against starting debate on a bill that "provides $300 per week in federal unemployment benefits through Dec. 27, another round of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funding, more money for testing and schools and liability protections from coronavirus-related lawsuits."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the bill "is laden with poison pills. Provisions our colleagues know Democrats would never support to guarantee the bill's failure. The truth of the matter is the Republicans and the Republican leader don't want to pass a bill too many on the hard right in the Senate and outside it would be angry."
Do Democrats think that extending federal unemployment benefits until Dec. 27th is a poison pill? Do Democrats think that "another round of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funding" is a poison pill? Do Democrats think that "more money for testing and schools" is a poison pill?
Thursday's vote virtually guarantees another 2 year term for Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader. Thanks to this vote, Democrats will be portrayed as heartless politicians who don't care about the people. I know this because Jason Lewis just used it that way:
U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis released the following statement slamming Senator Tina Smith for delaying COVID relief yet again.
'I wish I could say I'm surprised that Senator Tina Smith is marching in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, but this is just more of the same from Tina. Last month she held up relief over a demand that incarcerated inmates be able to make phone calls for free, and that's after she twice voted to block relief in the spring while simultaneously dumping $1 million dollars in personal stock holdings.
"Further proving this is nothing more than a political game for Tina, she has basically been running a single issue campaign on the alleged need for more post office funding in recent weeks, and yet she shot down the latest round of COVID relief which includes USPS funding, all because party leaders told her to.
Mitch McConnell summed things up perfectly:
Congress has spent months talking -- talking -- about whether to give the American people more relief as they continue grappling with this pandemic. Today, we are going to vote. Every Senator will be counted. Should we move forward with a floor process to deliver hundreds of billions of dollars more for kids, jobs, and healthcare? Should we at least vote to move forward and have this debate out in the open? Or do our Democratic colleagues prefer to hide behind closed doors and refuse to help families before the election? We'll find out in a couple hours. Republicans have tried repeatedly to build on the CARES Act and get more help out the door to American families. But Democrats have blocked us at every turn. They've invented different excuses each time.
Check this out:
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Where's the proof that Democrats give a damn about the American people? I've searched for that proof but haven't found any. It's time for Democrats to start acting like they're compassionate. Otherwise, they'll be seen as heartless as Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton.
Finally, Tina Smith isn't worthy of a spot in the Senate. She's represented Chuck Schumer, not Minnesota. That's pathetic.
Posted Friday, September 11, 2020 4:20 AM
Comment 1 by Chad Q at 12-Sep-20 07:41 AM
Wouldn't have been a need for any sort of relief had we not shut down the economy so a virus that is proving to be no more deadly than the season flu had people not been put into long term care facilities.
The first round of "stimulus" that was rushed through and not thought out has spent millions on fraudulent PPP claims that will take months and years to fight in court and probably never recover the money. Now the democrats are trying to make basic income a right with the generous unemployment benefits. We are broke and going further into debt and the dollar is becoming worthless.
Ivanka Trump vs. Joy Behar, Kamala Harris
This article provides proof that pitting 2 progressives against a capitalist isn't a fair fight. Then again, 3 progressives vs. a capitalist isn't fair, either.
Joy Behar, aka Joyless Behar, shot off her mouth on The View, saying "I will take the vaccine after Ivanka takes it. As far as the vaccine is concerned, I'd like to inform America, in case we don't know this because I looked all this up for you, the mumps vaccine took four years, the polio vaccine took 20 years, and the smallpox vaccine took a few centuries. It was developed initially in 1796, when they started to think about it, and it became useful in the 1950s. OK?"
Thinking that she'd won that fight was Behar's first mistake. Ivanka responded in real time:
Deal @JoyVBehar. I would come on your show to do so.
I trust the FDA and so should all Americans. Vanquishing this virus should be our collective top priority. https://t.co/FXb0Dqjdio
- Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) September 10, 2020
Just to inform Ms. Behar, in the past, government put in place regulations designed to impede progress. Operation Warp Speed is different because a businessman, not a politician, is in charge of creating a life-saving vaccine. When lives are on the line, it's imperative that we make sure that the product passes safety tests but that it also doesn't take longer than it needs to. Being extra-cautious can cost lives, too.
If Joe Biden was in charge, there's little chance of him streamlining the approval process. He's a politician. He's used to a plodding process. President Trump is used to speeding up the process as fast as possible. That's how he's run his companies. Translating President Trump's skill set to the Oval Office means that things get done quickly. That's why he's gotten so many positive things done so fast despite the media- and politician-driven distractions. Predictably, Kamala Harris said she won't trust anything related to the Trump administration:
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Posted Friday, September 11, 2020 2:45 PM
Comment 1 by eric z at 12-Sep-20 01:08 PM
A five-bankruptcy businessman shows something, so wait for Ivanka. She did NOT tweet about her getting jabbed or not - in fact, I'd wait on her and Jarad, and time for side effects to show up before jumping into the deep end. Who knows, a bad vaccine could make her ugly and Jarad musclebound.
Biden is motivated to put medical effort into defeating cancer, so don't sell him short on any medical measure, aside from opposing Medicare for All. He's a problem that way, but cancer is surely a good target, soundly decided, with personal grief a part of the motive.
Defining early voting
According to this website , Minnesota's early voting "runs from Friday, September 18, 2020 to Monday, November 2, 2020." Technically, ending early voting the day before Election Day is ending early. Tonight on Almanac, Joe Mansky, the former director of Ramsey County elections, was interviewed by Mary Lahammer. The most noteworthy thing Mansky said was "Minnesota is one of the states that can process and count ballots prior to Election Day. As a matter of fact, the legislature did election officials a big favor by authorizing earlier this year, election officials can count for 2 weeks prior to Election Day, which they'll need given the number of ballots we'll receive."
Then Mansky added "The overwhelming majority of ballots will be counted by the time we get to 8:00 pm Election Night." That's great news for Republicans. If President Trump does well in Minnesota, there's a strong possibility that they'll be able to call Minnesota during Election Night coverage. Here's the entire interview:
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The definition of early is "in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc." Ending early voting the night before Election Day hardly fits the dictionary definition of early voting, especially when you factor in mail-in early voting. According to Mansky, ballots post-marked by Election Day still count even though the ballots wouldn't get counted until (perhaps) a week after the election.
It's time we defined what early voting means at the federal level. If we don't do it there, then there's a strong probability that we'll finish with a hodge-podge of different definitions. I'm not opposed to different states having different dates. I'm opposed to having some states accept ballots post-marked on Election Day while other states stop accepting mail-in ballots a week before Election Day.
The goal would be to a) have all early voting ballots sent in before Election Day and b) have them counted before Election Day. I want to keep federal elections out of federal courts. The federal government has a responsibility to maintain election integrity. Having a system where mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day triggering a federal lawsuit (or a series of federal lawsuits) doesn't maintain election integrity.
Finally, federalism doesn't automatically mean that the states and municipalities do everything. It simply means that each level of government looks after that level's interests.
Posted Saturday, September 12, 2020 5:17 AM
Comment 1 by Chad Q at 12-Sep-20 07:34 AM
There shouldn't be anything like early voting, period. Either a person goes to the polls and votes on voting day or they have a good excuse as to why they need an absentee ballot. Voting should not be made easier so those that really have no interest in voting, will vote. No need to mail in vote this year either since Fauci said it is safe to go vote.
Twins win as Maeda outduels Bieber
Far too often, the game doesn't live up to the hype when 2 ace-of-the staff pitchers match up against each other. Last night, Twins ace Kenta Maeda matched up aganst Cleveland's Shane Bieber on a wet September night at Target Field in the opening game of the series. Maeda improved to 5-1 while Bieber lost his first game of the season. Bieber's record is now 7-1.
Bieber pitched a strong game, giving up only 5 hits and 2 walks over 7 innings. Unfortunately for him, he gave up 2 laser-like homeruns, the first a 2-run liner by Byron Buxton, the other a solo shot by rookie catcher Ryan Jeffers. Buxton's homer was clocked at 111.5 mph. Jeffers' second-deck homer had an exit velocity of 113 mph. Jeffers' homerun was measured at 437 feet.
For 7 innings, Maeda matched Bieber's performance with nothing but zeros. Bieber finished with 8 strikeouts on the night while Maeda finished with 7 strikeouts. Both pitchers showed why they're the aces of their staffs. Bieber's 95-mph fastball and assortment of nasty breaking pitches make him a candidate for a no-hitter virtually anytime he pitches.
Maeda doesn't have the dominant stuff that Bieber has but he's the most consistent pitcher the Twins have had in years. He's a great tactician on the mound, mixing his pitches up well that induces lots of weak contact. Maeda keeps runners off base, too. Last night, when Cleveland's Franmil Reyes grounded to Twins third baseman Josh Donaldson, Donaldson started a 5-4-3 double play. That's Maeda's first double play of the season.
Twins play-by-play broadcaster Dick Bremer noted that it's difficult to get double plays when a pitcher doesn't allow many baserunners. Jose Berrios was the Twins' Opening Day starter. Since then, Maeda has earned the title of ace-of-the-staff. Berrios still has top-of-the-rotation stuff, as does Michael 'Big Mike' Pineda and Jake Odorizzi.
The Twins should make the playoffs, though it's unclear what seed they'll be. With their lineup and starting pitching, they'd be a formidable challenge for anyone in the AL. It isn't a stretch to think that they're capable of winning the World Series if they get hot at the right time. Right now, the Twins are a Jake DeGrom-like pitcher away from World Series favorites.
With Kenta Maeda pitching, though, they've definitely got a shot.
Posted Saturday, September 12, 2020 11:25 AM
Comment 1 by eric z at 12-Sep-20 01:01 PM
I'm betting Green Bay. A rush without Hunter is less a rush than with him.
Donald Trump's path to the White House has lots of options
This article highlights how tenuous Joe Biden's lead actually is. Forget what the polls say. Most of them oversample Democrats so they aren't that predictive.
Nevada has gone Democrat for awhile now. It's important to remember that Bernie crushed Biden here, mostly with an impressive turnout with Hispanics. Bernie's win in Nevada got Establishment Democrats panicking. It wasn't that much longer than Jim Clyburn rescued Biden's campaign. But I digress.
Biden had a 5-point advantage in the state at the beginning of September, according to a University of Nevada-Las Vegas Lee Business School poll, the first state survey of the general election. But this week, the Cook Political Report shifted the state's rating from 'likely Democrat' to 'lean Democrat.'
Separately, a New York Times/Siena College survey released on Saturday showed Biden up by 4 points, 46% to 42%, after polling of likely voters taken Sept. 8-11. Democrat Hillary Clinton won Nevada by 2 points in 2016.
Biden's campaign better hit that next gear soon. If they don't, President Trump will seize that momentum and ride it through the election.
A surprise win in Nevada, which Trump lost in 2016, could help the president compensate for a loss in another battleground ground state like Michigan or Pennsylvania. Nevada has only six Electoral College votes, compared to Michigan's 16 and Pennsylvania's 20, but Trump's campaign sees a re-election victory path that would entail winning a series of smaller states anchored by Minnesota instead of the Rust Belt states that put him in the White House.
Speaking of Minnesota, that's getting more interesting each week. According to this video, President Trump has made a bigger-than-major ad buy there:
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At the start of the segment, Pete Hegseth said that the Trump campaign has made $14,000,000 worth of ad buys in Minnesota. That's a monster ad buy for a state the size of Minnesota. Had President Trump spent $5,000,000 on advertising in Minnesota, that would've been a major commitment. Trump's spending 3 times that. That's before factoring in the army of volunteers and the field staff in Minnesota.
This also explodes the myth that the Trump campaign/RNC is running out of money. You don't spend $14,000,000 unless there's promising data showing that there's a great shot at flipping the state. President Trump obviously thinks he's got a legitimate shot at winning Minnesota. Let's remember the 'experts' that ridiculed him for stopping in Wisconsin the final Sunday of the campaign. The 'experts' said that stopping in Wisconsin was "campaign malpractice."
Trump will seek to seize on the new advantage with a visit to the Silver State this weekend. The campaign swing includes two rallies, one in Reno on Saturday, followed by another in Las Vegas on Sunday, as well as a roundtable discussion on Latino issues at the Treasure Island casino. He'll also look to appeal to Latino voters with a roundtable in Phoenix on Monday.
Following the news of Trump being competitive with Hispanic voters in Florida's Miami-Dade County, appealing to these states makes tons of sense. The Trump campaign understands that they aren't running a traditional campaign. That doesn't mean they aren't making smart decisions. How often have the 'experts' ridiculed Trump, only to get served a heaping helping of crow a day or week later?
Let's remember, too, that President Trump's chances of flipping New Hampshire and New Mexico aren't as remote as the 'experts' predict. President Trump won 306 electoral votes in 2016. That means he had 36 electoral votes more than he needed. Let's play a game of 'What If?' and say he loses Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. That puts him at 260 EVs. He still reaches 270 by winning Maine, New Hampshire and Nevada. Trump still wins if he loses Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, then loses Arizona if he wins Minnesota and Nevada, New Hampshire or Maine.
This is far from over but President Trump has multiple paths to victory.
Posted Sunday, September 13, 2020 3:49 AM
Comment 1 by eric z at 13-Sep-20 08:50 AM
... and not one single path to defeat.
Other than getting fewer electoral college votes than Biden.
People don't hate Joe Biden. This is unlike the Clintons, last cycle. People have seen Trump in action. Making statements against the truth. Serving billionaires. Same constituency Biden has. But Biden is a calming presence.
Gary, would you buy a used car from Donald J. Trump? Fred Trump's favored son?
I cannot say you're wrong, Gary. I never believed anybody could vote for W, so my opinions unfortunately are not dominant.
Trump could win four more. Racisism might sell.
Comment 2 by Gretchen L Leisen at 13-Sep-20 12:41 PM
So, you never believed anyone could vote for W? 'Trump making statements against the truth?'
What planet are you living on? A better question is this - do you ever listen to anything other than the radical leftist media of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS? You are ill-informed.
I will counter your statement with another - I can not believe that anyone would vote for John Kerry, a loser if there ever was one.
Comment 3 by Chad Q at 15-Sep-20 06:36 PM
You and your progressive pals have so overused the word racism to describe every little thing that offends you that the word no longer means what you think it means.
Bomba Squad unloads on Plesac, Indians
Zach Plesac entered Saturday night's game with a 1.32 ERA. Entering the game, he'd given up 4 home runs. That stat line changed when Plesac faced Minnesota's Bomba Squad. He pitched 7.0 innings, giving up 5 earned runs and 3 home runs.
Cleveland reliever Nick Wittgren picked up where Plesac left off, giving up back-to-back jacks to Eddie Rosario ad Miguel Sano in the 8th inning.
When Jake Cave caught a lazy fly ball to right, the Twins finished off an 8-4 win on the night. That victory gives them a series victory while keeping pace with the Chicago White Sox. The loss dropped Cleveland 3.5 games behind Chicago.
Each time Cleveland put runs on the board, the Twins answered with a home run. The Twins scored first when Marwin Gonzalez hit a 2-run home run into the upper deck in right field. On the next pitch, Willians Astudillo lined a home run 369 feet to left field. After Cleveland scored twice to make it 3-2 in the top half of the 4th, Byron Buxton hit a 2-run shot in the bottom half of the inning, making it a 5-2 game.
When Cleveland closed the score to 5-4 in the top of the 8th, Rosario and Sano went back-to-back in the bottom half.
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Lost in all the bombas (that's Minnesota Twins-speak for home runs) was a strong pitching performance by Rich Hill and a strong finish by closer Taylor Rogers. Since Josh Donaldson and Byron Buxton returned to the lineup, the Twins' offense has started putting up better numbers consistently. When Max Kepler returns, their lineup will get that much stronger.
Posted Sunday, September 13, 2020 9:47 AM
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NFL in bed with BLM thugs
Last night, BLM ripped the mask off (again) and showed who they are. BLM showed that they are domestic terrorists when around "100 protesters took part in the rowdy, two-borough rally, first marching from The Bronx into Manhattan on the Cross Bronx Expressway." It ended with six Black Lives Matter protesters getting "arrested outside of the 34th Precinct in Washington Heights on Saturday night after earlier marching onto the George Washington Bridge and briefly stalling traffic."
The mask is off. BLM activists aren't protesters. They're rioters. Whether they're Antifa or BLM activists or another anarchist organization, this thread of tweets exposes these left-leaning terrorists as hating America and willing to destroy America to achieve political power.
It's apparent that these riots aren't about George Floyd or civil rights. This isn't about empowering minorities, either. It's about manipulating minorities so that they'll look past the Democrats' ongoing list of failures. BLM is just a different type of plantation. Instead of Confederates selling off family members, today's Democrats tell African-Americans that government can do what fathers used to do. Instead of the KKK terrorizing African-Americans, BLM, with the enthusiastic help of the Propaganda Media, pounds into African-Americans that Republicans are racists, that Republicans don't want African-Americans to succeed.
When's the last time that a BLM 'leader' pushed for school choice, strong nuclear families and respect for one another? When did BLM speak out against black-on-black crime? Or against schools where African-American students are essentially illiterate? If implemented, these things would substantially improve black lives. Better yet, they'd likely improve black lives quickly.
This begs the question why the billionaire owners of the NFL would jump into bed with BLM. These aren't stupid people. Stupid people don't become billionaires. This might help explain some things:
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A new group of visionaries are needed. We don't need more Sharptons, Jesse Jacksons and other race-baiters. What's needed are more people like Tim Scott, Candace Owens, Kim Klacik, Jack Brewer and Harris Faulkner. These are men and women of moral clarity, personal integrity and vision.
The Bible says "Without a vision, the people perish." Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton aren't visionaries. It's time for Jackson and Sharpton to retire. It's time, too, for the NFL and the NBA to stop talking about having a conversation on race just for the sake of having a conversation.
BLM protesters are fine with endless conversations. So are Democrats. It's time to put together a plan with achievable benchmarks and deadlines to accomplish those items. In other words, it's essential for talk, followed by action.
Let's see rich NFL players establish foundations that fund opportunity scholarship programs. Those foundations should be in place by the NFL draft. Once that step happen, the rest of things will fall into place with proper diligence.
Posted Monday, September 14, 2020 3:56 AM
Comment 1 by eric z at 14-Sep-20 01:31 PM
I agree with one of your sentences Gary, "A new group of visionaries are needed." (never mind singular/plural quibbling)
I disagree with the sense in which you intended and embedded the sentence, but the sentence itself, true.
Both parties need to reform. Cruz? Schumer?
Neither is best and brightest. Each is a political hack.
Trump and Biden? No visionary, top or second spot of either ticket. Since Franklin Roosevelt things have been downhill, and Roosevelt's brag is he saved capitalism.
So the question: Great again? Relating back to when? Great is an empty vessel unless filled with a context. Great, as thing were before the Civil War? What does Orange Man mean?
A host of groupies buy and wear caps, never thinking to ask, "When was that time you have in mind, Orange Man?"
Comment 2 by Chad Q at 15-Sep-20 06:32 PM
Typical lefty talking point of Trump wanting to go back to pre-civil war days.
Joe Biden's tall tales
Liar, Liar:
By Ramblin' Rose
A children's ditty begins with 'Liar, liar, pants on fire' Its origin dates to 1945 or 1841, depending on the sources. One version continues with 'Nose as long as a telephone wire.' Hmmm, is that the nose of the Pinocchios awarded by the Washington Post Fact Checker?
And even that leftist resource has awarded this dubious honor to Biden comments: a real surprise.
A Biden tweet on September 9, 2020 was 'You deserve a president who tells you the truth." Yes, we do! But it is not Joe Biden!
The public recognizes that Biden has a long history of lying. Recent online headlines have sought to quantify them: the top 10 Biden lies / Biden's 8 biggest lies. Frankly, I don't think the exact number is known. How many are hidden in the historic files stored at the University of Delaware at the cost of $120 million annually through an appropriation in the state budget - taxpayer funding? Tara Reade? How many more? Where to start? Probably at the beginning of the decades-long political career of Joe Biden, or before.
In a current campaign ad, Biden lauds the full scholarship, honors, class rankings and the multiple degrees he earned in law school as he demeans a political reporter in 1987 as being inferior to him. The ad continues to explain the multiple falsehoods in just that one exchange. Biden did have a full scholarship, only a partial one. He was not named as 'the outstanding student.' Nor did he finish at the top of his class - closer to the bottom would be more accurate, exactly 76 of 85. He earned one degree, not three. He also admitted to plagiarism during his first year at Syracuse University's College of Law.
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That was not Biden's only time using other people's words without attribution. He plagiarized statements by Bobby Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Neil Kinnock, a British Labour Party leader, while a U.S. senator. As the presidential nominee of the Democrat party, did he plagiarize the Bernie Sanders platform as his own or did the two reach 'a political understanding?' One would be the nominee and the other the idea-man?
In another current ad, Biden relates the tragic death of his wife and daughter in a car accident. However, he repeatedly placed the blame on a drunken tractor-trailer driver. Oops, that driver had the right of way; Mrs. Biden had a stop sign. In 2001, the then-Delaware prosecutor related the true facts. But, yet in 2007 at the University of Iowa, Biden repeated: "Let me tell you a little story. I got elected when I was 29, and I got elected November the 7th. And on Dec. 18 of that year, my wife and three kids were Christmas shopping for a Christmas tree. A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly -- and I never pursued it -- drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly, and killed my daughter instantly, and hospitalized my two sons, with what were thought to be at the time permanent, fundamental injuries."
And he is repeating it in 2020 as he advocates for a single-payer health insurance plan. His nose continues to grow longer than a telephone wire.
Another car accident revealed another lie. In 1974, Bill Stevenson learned of a fender-bender that his then-wife Jill had had. Only the truth was that Joe Biden was the driver of his friend's car. The 'story' became that the Stevenson marriage was on the rocks, and Joe and Jill met on a blind date in 1975. Truth is that the Stevensons worked on Biden's 1972 run for the US Senate. Jill also turned down an invitation by her then-husband Stevenson to meet Bruce Springsteen. She claimed she had to take care of Beau and Hunter Biden in 1974. Do not the 1972 and 1974 dates precede the 1975 blind date?
Biden's stories about his experiences overseas and with foreign and domestic policy are more far-fetched than science fiction. On the Senate floor in 2006, Biden either had a very bad memory or fabricated a whale of a story.
'On Sept. 10, the day before the attacks on the towers, I made a speech to the National Press Club where I warned about a massive attack on the United States of America from terrorists; why I thought it would happen and why I thought our priorities were misplaced - the day before 9/ 11.'
He did speak on September 10, 2001, at the National Press Club, but his focus was on criticizing the Bush missile defense system and the threats of anthrax and biological terrorism. 'The real threat comes to this country in the hold of a ship, the belly of a plane, or smuggled into a city in the middle of the night in a vial in a backpack,' Biden said.
Reality check: A very specific prediction was made about the probable attack in a book published in 2000, written by Donald J. Trump - The America We Deserve. He wrote: 'I really am convinced we're in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the bombing of the Trade Center look like kids playing with firecrackers. No sensible analyst rejects this possibility, and plenty of them like me, are not wondering if but when it will happen.'
Biden's grandstanding is boundless. Even though he had been an athlete in school, he received five deferments from military service in Vietnam due to asthma. However, he recalls and repeats that he was arrested on the streets of Soweto while trying to visit Mandela on Robben Island. Others, who Biden claims to have also been present, deny the event. And, it would have been utterly implausible since Soweto is located nearly 900 miles northeast of Robben Island. He enhanced the story with a falsely claimed personal visit and thank-you from Mandela in Washington, D.C. for the alleged visit to Robben Island. Even the New York Times refuted Biden's claim of participating in marches and sit-ins in the civil right movement.
At the Breakfast Club in May of this year, hosted by Charlamagne tha God, Biden boasted that the NAACP had endorsed him in every political campaign. They refuted: 'We want to clarify that the NAACP is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse candidates for political office at any level.' They never endorse Biden for any office.
'Nice guy Joe' claims roots among the blue-collar workers of Pennsylvania, claiming that this family were coal miners. That isn't accurate. They were wealthy oil company owners. He attended a private school for which his parents paid tuition and fees. Remember, too, that this candidate is against fossil fuels from which his family gained.
Recently, Biden promised not to increase taxes on persons earning $400,000 a year because he had never earned more than that in a year. Pinocchio! In the first two years following the Obama-Biden administration, the Wall Street Journal reported that Biden had earned some $15.6 million dollars. And what about the special deals in China and the Ukraine?
Is it the failing memory or the pathological liar that now claims to have advocated for a travel ban prior to the one announced by President Trump? - yes, the reaction that Biden called 'hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering.' How many times has Biden announced an innovative reaction to a problem related to the pandemic the day after such an initiative was announced by President Trump?
- Which administration built and first used cages to detain illegally entering juveniles along the Southern border?
- He voted for the Iraq war but claims he opposed it.
- Does he want a national mask-wearing mandate or not?
- Will he ban or allow fracking?
- Does he prefer NAFTA or the USAMCA trade deal?
- Will he have an agenda to move the country forward if he were (subjunctive, hypothetical: he must not) to win the election, or will he follow the 100+ page manifesto of Harris, Sanders, Warren, Pelosi, the Squad, the mobs, etc.?
While we may not be able to answer those questions, with certainty we can say that Biden will continue to lie. Yes, we deserve a president who does not lie - he is not Joe Biden!!
Posted Monday, September 14, 2020 8:03 AM
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