I’m not much of a fan of our current president or his administration. If you read my stuff, that’s pretty clear. The Republican party leaves a lot to be desired as well. But this post is about Joe.

President Biden spends most of his time on vacation (somewhere around 40%) or dodging questions from the media. Given his inability to articulate without a cue card, he spends most of his time in the White House basement. I’m sure he’s a big fan of the new Barbie movie. He has been in the conservative news a lot recently, and much of what’s being said isn’t good. But you have to look hard for information about him on the major networks. Many of the media outlets won’t publish anything negative. I thought I’d find some posts that you might not have seen and share them with you.

Biden confuses Ukraine with Russia, Zelenskyy with Putin during gaffe-filled trip to Lithuania

While speaking to the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on Wednesday Biden referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “Vladmir,” seemingly confusing Zelenskyy with Russian President Vladmir Putin.  FOX News

Vice President Kamala Harris attempts to explain AI in latest word salad gaffe: ‘Kind of a fancy thing’

And so, the machine is taught — and part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine — and we can predict then, if we think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process.”  FOX News

Strategic ambiguity with regard to Kyiv is tantamount to strategic certainty for Moscow. The West needs to be bolder and more decisive about winning.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has consistently pleaded with the West for assistance against this type of aerial assault on his country. Initially last March, he called for the establishment of a no-fly zone. Once U.S. President Joe Biden refused, Zelensky changed his request to ground-based air defense systems to protect his citizens and the nation’s critical infrastructure. Ukraine was again denied when the U.S. and Brussels, seemingly afraid of Putin’s shadows on the wall, viewed the request as a “non-starter,” and refused to place NATO soldiers in a position that could lead to a direct confrontation with Russia.  KYIV Post – Ukraine’s Global Voice

Biden ‘yells’ and shuns 7th grandchild. Now, the most unexpected people are waking up

Joe Biden the dedicated family man? Did they miss all those videos of Biden getting handsy with young girls and sniffing their hair? Or Ashley Biden’s diary, in which she wonders whether she was sexually abused and opines that showering with her dad was “probably not appropriate”? Did they honestly think that was normal? FOX News

Sweden allows protest burning Torahs and Bibles outside Israeli Embassy

Swedish authorities have approved a protest involving the burning of Torahs and Bibles outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden’s national radio broadcaster reported on Friday. CNN

Russian lawmakers approve ban on gender-affirming medical care

Russian lawmakers on Friday passed a law banning gender-affirming medical care in the country as the Kremlin continues its campaign of dismantling individual freedoms and instilling values it believes to be “traditional.” CBS News

Firefighter sets record for longest and fastest run while set on fire

A firefighter has set the record for the longest distance run – while on fire and without oxygen. Jonathan Vero, a 39-year-old from France, ran 893 feet while wearing a protective suit that was set ablaze. It took him just 17 seconds.  CBS News

Ukraine latest: ‘Putin’s political credibility is draining away,’ following Wagner negotiations

Sky’s defence and security analyst Professor Michael Clarke says Russian president Vladimir Putin’s credibility is “draining away” following reports he met with Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin five days after he led an abortive revolt against Russia’s military hierarchy. Sky News

A federal court just handed Biden’s Ministry of Truth a big defeat
Government bureaucracies and the Biden administration cannot be trusted

…a Louisiana federal court recently upheld their First Amendment right to speak without being censored by the government. Judge Terry Doughty said the case, Missouri v. Biden, “arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”

Judge Doughty issued a preliminary injunction forbidding numerous federal agencies, including the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as many individuals within the executive branch like White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, from communicating or meeting with: “Social-media companies for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech posted on social-media platforms.” FOX News

George Floyd Riots Caused Record-Setting $2 Billion in Damage, New Report Says. Here’s Why the True Cost Is Even Higher

“The arson, vandalism and looting… will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims,” Axios reports. “[This will] eclips[e] the record set in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who brutalized Rodney King.” FEE – Foundation for Economic Education

New York to pay $13 million to protesters arrested during George Floyd protests

The city of New York has agreed to pay $13 million to hundreds of people arrested during the 2020 George Floyd demonstrations, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs, who said it was the largest class action settlement ever paid to protesters in the United States. Reuters

“One of the most violent and aggressive” Jan. 6 rioters sentenced to more than 7 years

A man described by prosecutors as “one of the most violent and aggressive” participants in the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. capitol was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in prison.  CBS News

Trump and I can agree: The US is a ‘third-world country’

Despite managing to spend more money on “national defence” than China, Russia, the United Kingdom and a bunch of other big spenders combined, the US had some “40 million people” living in poverty amid glaring “contrasts between private wealth and public squalor”.

As Alston noted, the US was also “alone among developed countries” in insisting that human rights did “not include rights that guard against dying of hunger, dying from a lack of access to affordable healthcare, or growing up in a context of total deprivation”. So much for that line from the US Declaration of Independence about “inalienable” rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. It’s hard to pursue anything if you’re dead.  ALJAZEERA

Poll: Majority of Voters Say Joe Biden Took a $5M Bribe 

In June, the FBI provided Congress with an FBI informant document that alleged Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings. Breitbart

U.S. soldier crossed into North Korea ‘willfully and without authorization‘

A U.S. service member crossed the border from South Korea to North Korea “willfully and without authorization” Tuesday and is believed to be in North Korean custody, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed during a press conference Tuesday.

The soldier was on a civilian tour of the Demilitarized Zone, according to Col. Isaac Taylor of United States Forces Korea Public Affairs, and not on duty at the time. The soldier “willfully and without authorization” separated from the group and crossed the demarcation line, he said. Politico

Jason Aldean video pulled from CMT

Critics say a music video for the country star’s song “Try That in a Small Town,” contains pro-lynching undertones. ABC News

Here’s What’s Wrong With Jason Aldean’s Vision of America

“It’s this narrative of white nationalism,” says a scholar of racial violence. “But it’s packaged in this really nice, seemingly benign package of country music.” Rolling Stone

Jason Aldean almost got away with it

Aldean in this track launches a saber-rattling vision of armed threat and vigilantism in the name of small-town values, while aligning himself with small-town origins. For some time, Aldean has waged culture war battles on social media. Here he does so on the backs of small-town people and country music itself.  MSNBC

Biden’s new Title IX rules deputize teachers to override parents on gender identity

In many places, schools are already claiming legal authority to socially transition children without parental consent or knowledge. In Alaska, one school used Title IX as a justification for changing a child’s name and pronouns without telling her mother. Officials then revised every single school document, other than those sent to the parents, to reflect the child’s chosen male name. That name even appeared in the yearbook. When the mother found out and protested, school officials said she had no say over the matter — because of Title IX. New York Post