the same president who declared Donald
Trump's handling of classified materials
irresponsible was keeping classified
materials in his garage next to his
Corvette Kamal Harris continues to spew
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well well well if it isn't Karma who has
arrived to take revenge upon Joe Biden
it is amazing how pretty much in order
every major Democratic Canada for 2024
is taking the hits this week from Joe
Biden all the way on down the chain to
Pete booty judge but mostly Joe Biden so
coming off of an election cycle in which
he barely escaped the guillotine because
the Republicans decided to raid the
local homeless shelter for candidates
Joe Biden has now enmeshed himself in a
controversy now this controversy began
actually before the election which is in
and of itself part of the controversy
because it turns out that on November
2nd Joe Biden's lawyers found a bunch of
classified documents at the Penn Biden
Center for international diplomacy and
boondoggles over in Washington D.C and
this was not made public until two
months after the election which raises
some serious questions as to how law
enforcement does its work as to why
certain material is leaked to the press
in certain material is not leaked to the
press okay fine and the Biden
Administration immediately claimed well
you know that's an accident that sort of
stuff that happens to anyone not number
one not clear this is true if you are a
doctor working at the VA and you
accidentally take somebody's medical
records into your car in like a
briefcase and you drive off the premises
of the VA you can be prosecuted for a
misdemeanor
and this has been happening in American
law for quite a while unless you're
alone there have been several
prosecutions of people who have taken
so-called classified materials notes
they took to themselves to their hotel
room they've been prosecuted for that
sort of stuff so simply claiming oops my
mistake that doesn't necessarily get you
off the hook but okay fine let's say
that Joe Biden is just a mistake it's
just that oopsie there's a oopsie where
all of these documents ended up mess
kind of
massaged into all of his other documents
at the Ben Biden the Penn Biden Center
for international nonsense or whatever
well it turns out that there was another
batch of documents and these were held
at Joe Biden's home
in Delaware
in his garage
next to his Corvette now
this is not a team particularly secure
to me the line about Donald Trump
remember the whole reason we are doing
this routine right now is because the
FBI decided to raid Mar-A-Lago based on
the idea that Donald Trump had been
keeping highly top secret super secret
super double blind secret document but
the nuclear codes in a closet that was
locked in Mar-A-Lago and this was a
national crisis a crisis of Epic
Proportion a crisis that required the
intervention of the federal government a
vast public bureaucracy dedicated to
Prosecuting the former president and we
were told this isn't just about Trump
it's not just about Trump right it's not
just that we have to get Trump and we
have to get him off the public scene and
there's a great opportunity to hit Trump
no no it's because we take
classification so darn seriously and
many people on the right were saying
well hold up just one second didn't
Hillary Clinton have dozens and dozens
of classified documents on her private
server at home said well yes yes yes but
Hillary Clinton you know she she yeah
yes but but and there's no really good
answer as to why that was significantly
better than what Donald Trump had done
by taking a bunch of classified
documents home and putting them in his
locked closet okay fine but they were
gonna go after Donald Trump anyway
and yet President Biden out there saying
that this was just it was Unthinkable to
take classified documents home to your
house well as it turns out Joe Biden
just didn't didn't just take these
documents home to his house he actually
put them in his garage in a box next to
his Corvette which is not super secure
let's be real about this how secure is
the stuff in your garage do you consider
that stuff incredibly secure I don't I
don't consider stuff in my garage
particularly secure I wouldn't put top
secret materials in the box next to my
car
but according to the New York Post
President Biden admitted on Thursday the
more classified documents were found
inside his Delaware garage now remember
when the media initially reported this
they said in a second location it was
pretty obvious the second location was
going to be his home
and apparently it wasn't interested he
kept it in this second location it was
in an envelope that basically that said
on it like private and confidential
which if you separate out the documents
and you put them in an envelope that
says that sort of thing it sort of
implicates your level of knowledge about
what is in the envelope in any case
and Biden admitted that these documents
were found inside his Delaware garage
near his prized classic Corvette after
the Revelation on Monday the 10
sensitive documents were founded Biden's
former think tank in Washington DC
the jaw-dropping disclosure comes as the
doj reviews whether Biden mishandled
classified information a potential crime
after he left office SVP in 2017.
all this prompts at the Attorney General
Merrick Garland to appoint Robert Herr a
former Maryland U.S attorney as a
special counsel to examine the matter so
things are going amazing we now have two
special counsels investigating a former
president and a current president of the
United States and I will tell you the
Buddy comedy that is going to result
from both of these guys sharing a cell
is going to be just unbelievable or
alternatively both these prosecutions
are going to be dropped and this is
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so the the sort of blowback began
yesterday with Peter Ducey asking Joe
Biden what was he thinking and Biden
being like come on man come on man here
we go
classified classified material next to
your Corvette what were you thinking
let me uh look I'm going to get a chance
to speak on all this God willing soon
but as I said earlier this week
people and by the way my Corvettes in
the lock garage okay so it's not like
you're sitting out in the street
it's a locked garage and Ben's like yes
as well as my Corvette there's only one
problem you can literally see the boxes
with the classified documents in
pictures of Joe Biden next to his garage
with the Corvette this is not where you
keep classified documents my friends
this is not how any of them
our country is run by complete morons
I complete morons stop giving them this
much power they are stupid people who
are stupid
they're all idiots
Joe Biden Captain mashed potatoes for
brains over here he's out there talking
about how he really respect he said
yesterday I said classified documents
super super serious man serious monogony
here we go
people know I take classified documents
and classified materials seriously no we
don't I also said we're cooperating
fully and complete with the Justice
Department's review
as part of that process my lawyers
reviewed other places where documents in
my uh from my time as vice president
were stored and they finished the review
last night
they discovered a small number of
documents of classified markings and
storage areas and file cabinets in my
home in my in my my my personal Library
oh in his homeless personal Library as
well so we now have three separate
locations these classified documents
we're being kept by the way you can hear
that Joe Biden is reading off a piece of
paper so his lawyers formed for him a
piece of paper
that he is reading off of which is
always a really good sign that this is a
person who's totally in control of the
situation when you're reading paper that
your lawyer has provided for you
meanwhile Kareem Jean-Pierre world's
most untalented secretary press
secretary she was asked yesterday about
Joe Biden and she repeated this nostrum
if you just say it often enough it
becomes true it's like clapping for
Tinkerbell you can keep Tinkerbell alive
so if you say often enough that Joe
Biden takes classified documents very
seriously then that lie remains alive so
clap for Tinkerbell guys clap for
Tinkerbell here we go
as the president said he takes
classified information and materials
seriously and as we have said we have
cooperated from the moment we inform the
archives that a small number of
documents were found and we will
continue to cooperate
oh well okay well I mean if he if you
say so then he probably takes it super
seriously which is why he keeps the
classified documents next to his car in
his garage next to his old golf clubs
and a picture of a place that he went
with his wife 20 years like that that's
that's where I keep all my most
important stuff is in the garage in a
box the stuff that I don't want anybody
to be able to break into the most secure
location I can think of he's in a box in
my garage next to my car that I open
daily so that I can take my car out of
the garage
genius stuff here Korean Jean Pierre
says here's the real thing we've been
super transparent here as we'll see this
is not true we've been so transparent so
I mean like we're clear like it like
like a sheet of glass transparent
however the appointee attorney general
doctors were founded December 20th in
his garage Wilmington why was that not
immediately addressed is the weather's
being transparent about that if that was
already known and not discussed up front
so just to you said transparent I want
to say that we have been transparent
here uh that is why the minute that his
lawyers found those documents they
reported it they reached out to the
archives in the Department of Justice
and they did that voluntarily
transparent with whom with whom with the
American people because I checked my
calendar and I noticed that January 13th
is a lot later than November 2nd and
that there was an intervening event
called an election that happened six
days after his lawyers knew about it so
fully transparent stuff happening right
here his lawyer by the way is a human
named Richard salber this is the White
House special counsel he said quote
following the discovery of government
documents at the Penn Biden Center in
November 2022 and coordinating closely
with the doj the president's lawyers
have searched the president's Wilmington
and Rehoboth Beach Delaware residences
the other locations were files from his
VP office might have been shipped in the
course of the 2017 transition the
lawyers completed that review last night
during the review the lawyers discovered
among personal and political papers a
small number of additional Obama Biden
Administration records with classified
markings all but one of these documents
were found in storage space in the
president's residence garage one
document consisting of one page was
discovered among stored materials in an
adjacent room no documents were found in
the Rehoboth Beach residents
his lawyer said as was done in the case
of the pen Biden Center the doj was
immediately notified the Warriors
arranged for the doj to take possession
of these documents
after the appointment of the special
counsel Sauber said quote we are
confident a throw review will show these
documents were inadvertently misplaced
and the president and his lawyers acted
promptly upon discovery of the mistake
now you will note we're going to go
through the statutes that intense is not
an element of the crime so if you wish
to actually prosecute Joe Biden under
the statute you totally could and if you
wish to get Donald Trump under the
statute you would have to apply exactly
the same standard that would allow for
the prosecution of Joe Biden so this is
all over guys ain't no prosecution
coming from Merrick Garland and the doj
and the special counsel against Donald
Trump over the mishandling of classified
info it's not a thing that's going to
happen same thing is true for Joe Biden
all of this is going to disappear into
the ether because the rule is that as
soon as a law is equally applied between
Republicans and Democrats it must never
be applied again this is the rule under
the current doj if the rule can be
applied only to Republicans then it's
totally fine to apply it but if it will
require you to actually apply it against
both parties well then better that the
rule should never be implemented At All
by the way when we are talking about
dangers to public security
Joe Biden was keeping this in his garage
right there's only one problem I mean
there are many problems with this mature
is an additional problem with this
according to the New York Post Miranda
Devine Hunter Biden owned that house in
2018.
yes Hunter Biden snorting parmesan
cheese off the carpet hanging out with
the tricoms brokering million dollar
deals where 10 went to the big guy
hunter Biden had access to the garage
now I don't mean to say that Hunter
Biden probably rifled through the garage
and grabbed those documents and was
trading them and is naturally a traitor
and was committing Espionage what I am
saying is if you are talking about risks
to National Security your son who is a
Bag Man for foreign powers
who then send him
on various
sort of larks to meet with his father
and and to different countries to to
negotiate on behalf of his his own adult
self
that guy having access to the classified
materials is a lot bigger problem than
Donald Trump keeping all this stuff in a
locked closet at Mar-A-Lago
according to Miranda Devine in 2018
Hunter Biden claims he owned that house
where Joe Biden kept the classified
documents alongside his Corvette in the
garage
whoopsie doodle
oops
also the uh the White House was asked
whether or not they would release
visitor logs of his of his residence
because it's not enough to know now
whether you know who's meeting with Joe
Biden over at his over at the White
House now we're talking about the period
when she was keeping classified
documents in his garage so this would
require us to know who actually went to
his house
like if you take classified materials
pretty seriously what you don't want is
him inviting over people who are
scrollless and they have access to the
documents right that's a serious problem
well apparently the White House has
answered and their answer is
no we're not releasing any of those
visitor logs the White House deflected
when asked if the visitor logs would be
provided according to the BBC
the justice department has already
appointed an investigator to look into
the files the White House said well we
did open the White House visitor logs
okay well that is a completely unrelated
question that no one asked
we're asking whether you're going to
release the visitor logs from your house
you know where the documents were
So Yesterday attorney general mayor
Garland forced into a corner announced a
special counsel now all of these special
counsels I have to say I'm not a big fan
of special counsels just generally
speaking mainly because they're a way to
provide a false sense of insulation for
the head of the doj from prosecutions
the doj itself will have to do there is
no body in American government that is
independent of the branch in which it
serves just the unitary executive Theory
suggests that the doj operates under the
auspices of the president the doj
operates under the auspices of the
Attorney General of the United States
you can appoint a special counsel the
special counsel makes a recommendation
but a person in charge of the particular
agency is not at any orders to actually
obey the special counsel for example
so Merrick Garland has been attempting
to avoid any sort of blowback by
appointing special counsels for
everything he's not going to if he
doesn't prosecute Trump the left will be
very mad at him if he prosecutes Trump
and he doesn't prosecute Biden the right
is going to be very mad at him and if he
prosecutes neither which is probably
what he's going to end up doing now then
everybody will be mad at him for some
reason or another he appointed a special
counsel anyway here he was yesterday
pursuant to Department of Justice
regulations governing such matters
in keeping with those regulations I have
today notified the designated members of
each house of Congress of the
appointment
I'm joined today by John lausch the U.S
attorney for the northern district of
Illinois who conducted the initial
investigation into the matter that I
will describe today
based on Mr lausch's initial
investigation I concluded that under the
special counsel regulations it was in
the public interest to appoint a special
counsel
in the days since while Mr laosch
continued the investigation the
department identified Mr Herr for
appointment a special counsel
this morning President Biden's personal
counsel called Mr lausch and stated that
an additional document bearing
classification markings was identified
at the president's personal residence in
Wilmington Delaware
okay so by the way it is worthwhile
noting here that there was in fact a gap
of one month between the time that
Biden's lawyers found documents to the
Penn Biden Center for wasteful spending
and the Joe Biden home there's a month
gap between the search of one place and
the search of the other place
the White House still has not answered
why the discovery was not disclosed when
it occurred according to CNBC
so the the appointment of the special
counsel the the big danger for Biden
here is that any special counsel has
broad remed to actually investigate
anything now theoretically the special
counsel could do what Robert Mueller did
and just keep digging and digging and
digging and digging because once you've
appointed a special counsel basically
they're raised on debt the reason for
their existence is so they can keep
digging and digging and digging and
digging
is that likely to happen you're probably
not probably this person will
investigate the documents declare that
Joe Biden didn't do anything on purpose
and that's enough for them that will
require a changing of the reading of the
statute which is what our attorney
general seems to be in the habit of
doing is what James Comey did with
regard to Hillary Clinton is when you
don't want to prosecute somebody you
just read intent into the law because
here is the problem when it comes to
unauthorized removal and retention of
classified documents or material that's
a strict liability crime under the law
under 18 U.S code 1924 quote whoever
being an officer employee contractor or
consultant of the United States and by
virtue of his office employment position
or contract he comes possessed of
documents or materials containing
classified information of the United
States knowingly removes such documents
or materials without Authority and with
the intent to retain such documents or
materials at an unauthorized location
shall be fined under this title or in
prison for not more than five years or
both
for purposes of this section the
provision of documents and materials to
Congress don't constitute an offense
I mean clearly he has violated this law
correct he was an officer of the United
States he was vice president of the
United States and in the waning days of
the Obama Administration he shipped
himself these documents and apparently
he knew about it because they were in
like in in one case an actual separate
manila folder that set on it private
so obviously he knew
so that is a violation of Statute what
is likely to happen is they will read
intent back into the statute but as
Andrew McCarthy points out by the law
Biden's already guilty
quote in announcing her's appointment
Biden attorney general mayor Garland
laid out the facts of the case that
drove him to the decision Biden while he
was a private citizen after the
conclusion of his term as VP retained
batches of classified information in
unauthorized locations that is enough
evidence of a federal penal offense to
Warrant a criminal investigation and
potential prosecution
the reaction to the special counsel
appointment by Richard salber the lawyer
Biden brought into the White House to
help deal with the investigations was
remarkable he said the president was
confident the special counsel
investigation would find the documents
in question were quote inadvertently
misplaced but it's not a defense to the
charge of a mishandling classified
information it's tantamount to an
admission of guilt for conviction
Federal Law requires prosecutors to
establish that the defendant was grossly
negligent there's no need to prove that
an accused was trying to harm the United
States just that he was trusted with
classified information and carelessly
flouted the standards for safeguarding
it
so it appears that Biden isn't
challenging the documents were
classified which is what Trump did right
Trump said these are all Declassified
I'm the president I can way back I can
wave my hand and now they're
Declassified poof right he was in fact
Joe Biden was not Joe Biden even have
that power
but Biden is is not challenging the
documents were classified that the
locations in which he kept them were not
authorized and that he didn't keep track
of them so all of the elements of the
offense have already been established
so Andy McCarthy says no doubt because
sufficiency of the evidence is only one
of the two questions prosecutors must
ask before charging someone with a crime
the second question is whether even if
the person is guilty an indictment is in
the public interest
it appears Biden's approach will be to
avoid discussing the slam dunk evidence
and spin the equities of prosecutorial
discretion to his Advantage he'll say
the number of documents was
comparatively small and he self-reported
the violation as soon as it was
discovered that he immediately turned
the documents over to the National
Archives and that he cooperated fully
with the investigation
the subtext of course will be that he
compares favorably to former president
Donald Trump's conduct now the subtext
doesn't change the fact that Biden is
apparently guilty of basically the same
offense As Trump
so again the the real precedent here is
Hillary Clinton which is that Hillary
Clinton as I've said all along the real
standard when it comes to mishandling
classified info is Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton did mishandle classified
info James Comey then re-read the law to
turn a strict liability crime into an
intent crime when he did that he
basically exonerated Trump and
exonerated Biden
if that's the reading of the law
everybody gets away with it now I
understand why this exacerbates feelings
from the American people that everybody
is full of crap because the reality is
if it was you if you were found with
classified documents in your garage next
to your throwback Corvette
you would be prosecuted you would
because you're not a famous rich person
who's in politics
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meanwhile the Democrats are moving to a
defend Joe Biden no shock there Hakeem
Jeffries the incoming House minority
leader he says that he has Full Faith
and Credit in Joe Biden which is which
is weird and realized that he had Credit
in Joe Biden as well
like
what okay here we go
we've learned that president was
informed of the initial classified
documents on the same day they were
found more than two months ago are you
concerned the White House didn't
disclose this sooner I have full faith
and credit in President Biden right uh
believe that he's doing everything
to take the appropriate steps to
determine what happened uh and how to
move forward in a responsible fashion uh
and I'm confident that he will continue
to do so
my favorite thing about politician talk
is when they start lying they start
moving their hands a lot
I mean I have full faith and credit
in the president of the United States by
the way full faith and credit does not
mean what you what you think it means if
we're going to talk about every time
people make gaps in American public life
we say that they are foolish um full
Fifth and credit is a reference to
article four section one of the
Constitution of the United States and it
talks about how states have to give full
faith and credit to act of other states
across boundaries for example and so
yeah he's just misusing the language
there but they trust Joe Biden they
trust him why because he's a trustworthy
guy all of which comes back to the
bottom line here when it comes to
political prosecution in the United
States all too often what seems to be
happening is that our methods of law
enforcement go after the person not
after the crime if they're going after
the crime Hakeem Jeffrey's level of
trust in Joe Biden versus Donald Trump
would be completely irrelevant and so
would Merrick Garland it would just be
about who actually committed a crime but
we don't do that anymore
Ayanna Presley one of the most
Progressive members of the House of
Representatives from Massachusetts she
says that Joe Biden this is a man of
integrity he is full of integrity
well he's certainly full of something
are you concerned about the way that
President Biden has handled classified
documents
well I'm learning about this in real
time just like you are so I don't have
any unique insights but what I would say
is that the president has been moving
with cooperation moving proactively
excuse me moving with Integrity which is
more than I can say for the twice
impeached former occupant uh Donald
Trump
oh so we're just going to completely
um we're going to completely rewrite
the actual issue here again the issue is
did you mishandle classified information
if you want to try to charge Donald
Trump with obstruction that's a
completely different crime but if you're
talking about the classified information
stuff Joe Biden did the exact same thing
as Donald Trump period he took
classified documents to his home and he
left them there in far less secure
circumstances than actually Donald Trump
as it turns out all of which is prompted
a more radical members of the Democrat
left coalition to suggest conspiracy
theorizing which was fun remember that
time that Donald Trump suggested that
the documents might have been planted at
Mar-A-Lago and everybody laughed at him
because it was silly because it is silly
well now the left is doing the exact
same thing with regard to Joe Biden so
you have the um the morons over at the
view combined to iq7 suggesting that
Republicans may be planted the documents
right that's how they were going to get
them gang they were going to go into his
garage in Delaware and plant documents
also Joe Biden admitted it and his
lawyers admitted it hey
someone explained to me a how is
possible that after all this time nobody
knew this because to me if you missing
classified information I don't mean to
laugh but in my house if stuff is
missing
I know it's going to feel like apple
research to you does it feel like the
Republicans are behind it
it feels like Republicans are behind it
his own lawyers turned it in you can't
have both ways you can't have it Joe
Biden is totally transparent and totally
honest and man he's really handling this
with alacrity he's doing this quickly
he's doing this expeditiously and also
Republicans plan through that like
that's not how this works representative
Hank Johnson who uh was last seen
claiming that the island of Guam was
going to tip over suggested that um the
documents might have been planted as
well these are very serious members of
Congress again our country is ruled by
morons by the stupidest people alive
alleged classified documents showing up
allegedly in a position allegedly
admitted it
Joseph Biden uh you know I mean there's
so much that needs to be
um investigated and um and that's that's
what I call for is for everything to be
investigated but I'm suspicious of the
timing of it I'm I'm also aware of the
fact that things can be planted on
people
places and things can be planted
things things can be planted in places
and then discovered conveniently
hmm things can be planted in places and
then discovered conveniently by the
president's own lawyer in the
president's home because the president
put documents there
that solid solid stuff now here's the
problem for the Democrats they are they
are tied to Joe Biden's leg at this
point they are tied to that old man that
old dude cannot string together two
sentences who has trouble reading a
script written for him by his lawyers
who has now made himself subject to the
same exact scrutiny that Donald Trump is
currently under that guy they're tied to
him because the Democrats escaped the
blade in 2022 this gave Joe Biden a
little pep in his step it means the
Democrats look at him and they say this
is a world beating president this is a
powerful man this is a person that we
must all solidify behind now the other
reason that they have to do that is
because all their other candidates suck
it's a serious problem for them the
Democrats have no bench the person
standing right behind Joe Biden with a
letter opener is Kamala Harris
and Kamala Harris who is legitimately
the worst politician in human history
constructed in a laboratory to be awful
at her job
Kamala Harris
as an example you can pick any given day
when Kamal Harris does a public
appearance the level of Michael Scott
awkward cringe that comes off the vice
president is just astonishing it is an
amazing thing it vibrates off her it
changes the electromagnetic dynamics of
the planet
how much cringe comes off of Kamala
Harris on a regular basis
so here yesterday for example was Kamala
Harris talking about climate change and
um and she what she says is so
meaningful and she says it so
meaningfully
with so many
pauses that are meaningful with
repetitions of phrases that are
meaningful with meaning and pregnant
with meaning that have meaning that are
meaningful here we go
I think of this moment as a moment that
is about great momentum
inspired by yes optimism inspired by a
crisis no doubt but inspired by also our
Collective ability to see what can be
unburdened by what has been
what does what in the what
that's not even English that's not even
English
I will say once again Kamala Harris is a
predictive tax mechanism come to life
she's significantly less lifelike than
chat AI there's no question about this
we're not going to need a vice president
of the United States we'll just put a
chat AI bot in her place and it will do
a significantly better job of predicting
what she should be saying
it is a moment when there is so much
moment for the momentum of moments
filled with inspiration to be inspired
by the inspiration of what has been
unburdened by what has been
but aware of what is to come
but also present with us in the moment
inspirationally
the good news is that the the vice
president of the United States the
person standing in the wings with a um
with a Vaudeville hook for the current
president of the United States already
to hit the button that opens up the trap
door the alligators are underneath
Kamala Harris uh yesterday she also got
very excited about Venn diagrams it's
like every day her life must be the most
boring lot like I understand that the
vice presidency does not actually it's
not a real job but like I've never seen
a person so excited about Venn diagrams
like that because I don't think this
person exists she's so excited about
Venn diagrams the level of excitement
for Kamala Harris when it comes to
circles that overlap with other circles
is astonishing here we go she's excited
about the Venn diagrams again gang
think of the movement through the lens
of something I love which is to always
think about complex issues through the
the frame of a Venn diagram I love Venn
diagrams I love I do I love Venn diagram
again so see what I'm saying it's nerdy
I'm just saying
no it's not because she's nerdy you can
do more nobody says a Venn diagram has
to only be three circles right
explain Venn diagrams more Kamala do it
can you explain all the Venn diagrams
how about a pie chart can she explain a
pie chart I would love to hear her
explain a pie chart it's like a pie but
it's a chart it's both delicious and
informative I love Jennifer granholm the
current Secretary of Energy stepping in
to try to saver it's because she's so
nerdy guys this is she is nerding out on
Venn diagrams no she's just awful at her
job
if you liked Venn diagrams in third
grade you're a nerd if you like Venn
diagrams when you are 50 and vice
president of the United States this
makes you adult
but that's not the only thing she likes
apparently there are two things she
likes above all others right so I used
to say that she she was on her My
Favorite Things tour like Julie Andrews
from uh sound of music but she is in
fact not uh she she only likes a couple
of things she loves Venn diagrams loves
them like if Venn diagrams were a human
she would divorce Doug I'm Hoff and
marry the Venn diagrams but the other
thing that she loves she loves electric
school buses loves them they are the
greatest thing that she has ever heard
of electric school buses she's talked
about it routinely yesterday was no
exception it was a day ending in why
among the many things I'm excited about
electric school buses I love electric
school buses
I just love them for so many reasons
maybe because I went to so many on a
school bus raise your hand oh like
everyone else a school bus right oh
raise your hand if you breathe air
raise your hand guys if you have ever
been in a vehicle oh we're unified guys
we all been in a vehicle we have it
raise your hand if you have ever ridden
a school and that's why I'm so excited
okay so you wonder why the Democrats are
taking a dead old man and stacking him
on top of a horse and running him in
2024 that right there would be the
reason
that one because um if you're a Democrat
and you look at the possibility of that
in a presidential race you want to stick
your head in the gas oven you want to
ban
okay but there is one other person who
is being held
to the side as a possible presidential
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features a very special guest father
Pavone father Pavone was of course
defrocked recently by the Catholic
church for unspecified crimes it's not
really clear what he did he has been the
head of priests for life and apparently
he was a little bit too loud in opposing
abortion here's a little bit of the
preview
when I see the Democrat Party
destroying life
destroying religious freedom destroying
America destroying our history our
memory our symbols when the church
stands up in points with a very clear
finger this is evil
that's not the church being political
that's the church being the church
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it's a fascinating episode we go into
the contrast between Judaism Catholicism
what they have in common what the
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widely available on Sunday on Apple
podcast Spotify or wherever you listen
to podcasts so as I say one of the giant
problems for the Democratic party is the
fact that they have no backup plan to
Joe Biden which is why they're going to
take this octogenarian Dullard and put
him out front in the 2024 presidential
race that is particularly true since
Pete bootage he must have been cursed by
some sort of witch I don't know if he
came across a monkey's pot like what
exactly happened
as one of my friends had two people to
judge that he has offended the gods so
because I've never seen any Secretary of
Transportation be in the headlines as
much quick name the past three
secretaries of Transportation you cannot
the reason you cannot is because nobody
even knows what the Secretary of
Secretary of Transportation does because
typically speaking Transportation this
country works pretty well you get on
your plane and it goes where it's
supposed to go and it arrives when it's
supposed to arrive your trains arrive on
time to uh to ship all of your goods you
get on the highways and you're able to
take those highways to places
unfortunately for people who judge he's
very bad at his job and the reason that
he got his job in the first place is
because he was a famous gay candidate
for president of the United States he
had no history in transportation his
entire resume with regard to handling
issues like shipping problems was that
he liked Choo-Choo Trains and airplanes
and had made out with his husband in an
airport or something
because you love planes
um this as it turns out does not
actually qualify you'd be Secretary of
Transportation or at the very least it
doesn't exempt you from having to do
your job even if you are on paternity
leave even if you are apparently the
greatest person in the world for having
taken two months of paternity leave
without anybody noticing
as it turns out the failures of the FAA
over the last few days the single worst
flight outage since September 11th of
2001 which as you'll recall was prompted
by a national terrorist attack this
particular outage at the FAA was caused
they're not blaming it on one person
they're blaming on one person who
essentially
hold the plug so it sounds almost like
the the movie Airplane where you have a
weird guy who literally pulls a plug out
of the control tower causing crisis
that's apparently how the FAA works but
the real problem here is that the system
that broke down has been in need of
repair for a very long time and Beauty
judge was very very busy going around
talking about paternity leave on CNN so
here is the Wall Street Journal
reporting Federal Aviation Regulators
lawmakers and air safety Advocates have
for years warned about outdated
technology and other problems with the
pilot alert system that brought U.S air
travel to a halt this week technology
that supports the Federal Aviation
administration's notice to air missions
or no Tam's alert system is quote
failing vintage Hardware that needs to
be quickly replaced according to the
transportation Department's most recent
budget request for the FAA pilots and
Industry officials said the format and
distribution system for the notices
which can contain extraneous information
can make them difficult for Pilots to
digest this is critical infrastructure
said Michael Huerta a former FAA
administrator under both Obama and Trump
who now serves on the board of Delta it
may not be as glamorous as new airports
or new Bridges but without it the system
can't function the administration and
Congress need to make this a priority
a breakdown of the notam system led the
FAA to Halt all domestic departures for
nearly two hours early on Wednesday
snarling thousands of flights and
contributing to around 1300
cancellations
Transportation secretary P Buda judge
has said the FAA tried unsuccessfully to
switch to a backup system and the agency
then ordered a nationwide ground stop
shortly after 7 A.M Eastern Time
apparently the FAA said on Thursday it's
preliminary investigation taken into the
cause of the problem with its notam
system was the result of actions taken
by quote Personnel who failed to follow
procedures so you are telling me that
one dude screwed up the entire air
traffic system of the entire country
the system has undergone updates but is
largely based on Legacy technology that
is about 30 years old according to
current and former government officials
so sort of like the power grid in
California everything has not been
updated for decades the sprawling agency
which oversees everything from drones
and Jet manufacturing to the air traffic
control system has faced challenges
revamping the software and Hardware its
staffers rely on to keep the country's
increasingly busy airspace operating
smoothly
when the transportation department made
its annual budget request to Congress
last year for the FAA it saw 29.4
million dollars to accelerate
development of a program that would let
the agency eliminate what it called that
failing vintage Hardware that currently
supports the notam alert system the
system has failed at least two other
times since early 2021 but in those
cases the FAA was able to avoid
widespread impacts to flights
so what exactly has Pete butterjudge the
big problem solver done about any of
this the answer of course is he has done
nothing he has done nothing
he has been very concerned though about
ensuring the political correctness of
the FAA according to Breitbart the
Federal Aviation Administration has been
focused on lgbtqi plus inclusivity and
gender neutral language under President
Joe Biden
so at least they are they're handling
the issues that you really care about
not your plane getting there on time but
making sure that we use gender neutral
language in all of the systems that
actually are not working
the agency is promoting lgbtqi plus
minus divided by sign happy face emoji
visibility but the positive representing
any residential residual sexual or
gender identity is not covered by uh by
any of that obviously
they've been tweeting out consistently
about Why women's history month is so
important to the FAA
and Hispanic Heritage Month very
important to the FAA why equity in
Aerospace well I mean I guess there was
Equity there was complete equality the
other day because no one could actually
get off the ground
hilariously representative Nancy Mays of
north of South Carolina she filed a bill
on Wednesday that would require
Transportation secretary people to judge
and staff to fly commercial until a
Southwest Airlines debacle and FAA
computer glitch have been investigated
and resolved which is hilarious because
of course people to judge has been jet
setting around on military aircraft to
various public events there have been
prior secretaries of Transportation like
Ray lahood who actually had to resign
for that sort of thing
the bill commercial cabins for cabinet
members would require the Secretary of
Transportation to only fly commercial
just like every other American until the
FAA reauthorization is completed this
should provide enough time to
investigate Southwest and the FAA
yeah that that makes sense to me
a D.O.T spokesperson told Fox News
digital that 111 of Vudu judges 129
flights for the dot have been commercial
given that it's the cheapest way to fly
but um that leaves 18 flights that I'm
sure cost a lot of money to fly people
to judge around to do honorary ribbon
cuttings in various places so people to
judge having a rough go of it again this
is why they are addicted to Joe Biden
because what do they have in the wings
and the answer is they got nothing they
have absolutely zero things in the wings
okay meanwhile the economy continues to
sort of Teeter on the brink
the the latest inflation reports came in
inflation is indeed slowing which is
precisely what you would expect when you
jack up the interest rates which is what
the Federal Reserve has been doing this
is leading to a little bit of outsides
to optimism on the part of the market
every time inflation Stats come in a
little bit lower than they were last
month the market goes oh man I'm sure
the Federal Reserve is going to let up
now that seems unlikely at this point it
looks as though a quarter point increase
is in the cards I would imagine they're
gonna have to go higher than that
according to the Wall Street Journal
fresh data showing inflation eased in
December are likely to keep the FED on
track to reduce the size of interest
rate increases to a quarter percentage
point at its meeting that concludes
February 1st the labor department
reported Thursday consumer prices fell
in December largely reflecting lower
energy prices the Consumer Price Index
declined 0.1 percent from November the
index is still up 6.5 for the year that
is down from a recent Peak increase of
9.1 percent in June the core CPI index
which excludes food and energy Rose at
0.3 from November the 12 months 12-month
increase edged lower to 5.7 percent from
6.6 percent in September on a
three-month annualized basis core
inflation is down to 3.1 percent now
they're supposed to be down at about two
percent on an annualized basis so they
still have some work to do it is a
decrease from where they were but it is
not where they need to be as of yet
beneficials have kept their options open
on whether to raise rates by either a
quarter percentage point or a half
percentage point at their next meeting
but the improving inflation data
suggests officials will strongly
consider the smaller increase of a more
traditional quarter point or 25 basis
points
Philadelphia fed president Patrick
Harker said remarks Thursday morning in
my view hikes of 25 basis points will be
appropriate going forward
now again we're gonna have to see the
impact on the economy of the increases
in the interest rates that have already
taken place San Francisco fed president
Mary Daley said I'm going to be paying a
lot of attention to core Services X
housing because I'd like to see some
improvement there that subset of prices
at Rose 0.26 in December well below last
monthly average of 0.5 percent
so right now it seems as though there is
likely to be some sort of recession the
question is going to be how long that
recession is how severe the recession is
and whether we just end up with very
slow growth so not quite a recession but
really really long-term stagnation
and kind of low levels of inflation
three percent to four percent range plus
long-term stagnation
meanwhile Joe Biden is claiming that
he's going to veto anything Republicans
that send his way because they make
inflation worse yes the captain of
creating 40-year highs in inflation is
explaining how he is going to lower
costs for American families the thing
that he hasn't done he's had to rely on
the Federal Reserve to do it
is this how House Republicans are
starting a new term
cutting taxes for billionaires raising
taxes for Working Families making
inflation worse
well let me be very clear
if any of these bills make it to my desk
not the creepy whisper Joe don't do a
dream that I mean that microphone like a
14 year old girl
yes Joe Biden you you have been um a
stalwart in terms of fiscal
responsibility spending more money than
any president in American history so
really well done right there now again
they're stuck with this guy they're
stuck with him and for all of the
optimism of the moment the reality is
that Joe Biden's bad policies are still
going to come home to ruse he went down
to the Border he created no actual real
change with regards to the Border
situation so that's a crisis that's
going to continue to roll on
Joe Biden is going to have a serious
economy to face in the next couple of
years inflation is coming down but
economic stagnation is coming this was
the problem when Biden took office it
will continue to be the problem long
term I've been predicting this for
full-on two years at this point the
major problem was not going to be
inflation was going to be economic
stagnation Joe Biden is going to have to
face that down plus the dude was keeping
classified documents in a box next to
his Corvette so yes the Democratic party
has a lot more problems than we have
been led to believe by the last election
cycle
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