Biden Actions ... And Reactions
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"In March, in Nevada, I invited the most ambitious housing plan for decades to come to being. For example, it boosts construction on rental units and lowers rent. Crackdown on discrimination by home appraisers so Latino homes are finally valued as fairly as they were when built by wealthy families. Folks, look, we're in a situation where the lower costs across the board, we finally beat big Pharma."
As many noted, what the heck is he even trying to say here? What does Big Pharma have to do with housing or is that just a weird non sequitur at the end? He's made housing more expensive for everyone with Bidenflation and the higher interest rates. So he's made it harder on everyone including Latinos.
But one of the most bizarre things is this: "So Latino homes are finally valued as fairly as they were when built by wealthy families."
Um, what? Can we talk about Joe's racism again? Is he saying that Latino families can't be wealthy families? Plus, families generally aren't "building" the homes they live in. So what is he even saying here? This is like when he spoke about "poor kids being just as bright and just as talented as white kids."
Biden: I’ve Had Best Run of Creating Jobs and Lowering Inflation Ever, ‘It Was 9% When I Came Into Office’
Biden said, “[N]o president’s had the run we’ve had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation. It was 9% when I came into office, 9%. But it — look, people have a right to be concerned, ordinary people. The idea that you bounce a check and you get a $30 fee for bouncing the check, I changed that, you can’t charge more than 8 bucks for that or your credit card, your late payment, $35. There’s corporate greed going on out there, and it’s got to be dealt with.”
Earlier, he stated that “the combination of the inflation, the cost of inflation, all those things, that’s really worrisome to people, with good reason. That’s why I’m working very hard to bring the cost of rentals down, to increase the number of homes that are available.”
Biden is blasted as 'clueless and out of touch' for claiming Americans 'have the money to spend' when told grocery prices are up 30% in rare sit-down interview
- The president gave a rare one-on-one interview on Wednesday
- Polls show voters are nervous and critical of Biden's handling of the economy
- Biden said Americans struggling with inflation have more cash in their pockets
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President Joe Biden stubbornly refused to admit Americans' struggles with inflation might cost him the election in a rare interview Wednesday.
A growing economy could inspire confidence in Biden's leadership ahead of the election, but the issue of persistent inflation could ruin that.
Biden, who was in Wisconsin to tout his record on the economy and to announce an investment by Microsoft to build a factory, defended his handling of inflation.
Polls show voters are nervous and critical of Biden's handling of the economy and anchor Erin Burnett reminded him that grocery prices are up 30 percent.
But Biden, in his interview with CNN, claimed the polls are wrong and Americans struggling with inflation have more cash in their pockets, saying: 'They have the money to spend.'
“I Have Never Failed!” – Unhinged Joe Biden in Dumpster Fire Interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett (VIDEO)
Biden hasn’t created a single job.
Bidenomics: Screw Americans at all costs.
Per the Center for Immigration Studies: All employment growth has gone to the foreign-born. 183,000 fewer U.S.-born Americans are working than in 2019, before Covid. Yet, the number of immigrants (legal and illegal) working is up 2.9 million over 2019.
Last year it was reported month after month that foreign-born workers were taking all the jobs while native born-Americans lost their jobs.
1.2 million native-born Americans lost their jobs in August.
771,000 foreign-born workers replaced them.
After admitting there are no real facts, Biden effectively accuses Israel of war crimes
By Andrea WidburgYesterday afternoon, the State Department issued a report in response to Biden’s demand that it analyze whether foreign governments are appropriately using weapons they received from America. It was apparent from the beginning that this was a set-up to attack Israel, and attacking Israel is what the State Department did. Despite admitting that it has no data to back up its conclusions, it nevertheless concluded that Israel has failed to protect Gaza’s civilian populations while using American weapons.
The New York Times went with the big headline: “US Criticizes Israel for Failure to Protect Civilians in the Gaza Conflict:
Apparently, Israel’s unique approach to protecting enemy civilians—warning its enemy in advance of battle plans, warning civilians in advance of strikes, providing evacuation assistance to civilians in advance of battles, and providing millions of tons (and millions of dollars) worth of supplies, including food and medicine, to civilians—simply isn’t good enough. Nor does it matter that Hamas has deliberately intertwined its military operations with civilians or that it continuously attacks Israeli civilians). If only one Gazan civilian dies, Israel is in the crosshairs.
If you understand that overriding principle—that is, that Israel shouldn’t be waging an offensive war at all against a genocidal military force embedded among a mostly supportive civilian population—you begin to understand how the State Department generated its report. And the way it did was to rely on Hamas statistics that are so obviously fake that they’re easily debunked (indeed, the UN has debunked them) and on...guesses.
In the report, the State Department explicitly concedes that it has no actual information about the facts on the ground in Gaza and is relying on Hamas propaganda. It also recognizes that Hamas uses civilians as shields:
Nevertheless, says the State Department, it just feels deep in its bones that Israel has the kind of sophisticated weapons that should allow it to achieve a magical zero casualty rate for civilians:
Scott Johnson has more about how the State Department acknowledges Israel’s heroic (and often self-destructive) efforts to protect civilians who want all Jews dead but nevertheless finds those Hamas mortality figures just too tempting to resist.
It’s obvious that this report is a purely political document intended to bolster Biden’s decision to withhold from Israel the very weapons that would allow Israel to minimize civilian casualties. This will force Israel to use more destructive weapons, increasing the risk of civilian casualties. At that point, the Biden administration can say, “We told you so!”
Joe Biden Runs Like a Scared Dog From His Pro-Hamas Position, As His Political Fortunes Sour
Leave it to Joe Biden, the worst foreign policy mind in American history, to also manage to take the cake domestically.
In perhaps the dumbest political move in decades, the president recently pledged to cut off arms shipments to Israel while demanding they not enter Rafah to finish off Hamas. Biden did so in an ill-fated attempt to appease his far-left flank, which is populated by woke "pro-Palestinians" who've never met an Islamist they didn't like.
Like money, weapons are fungible. Israel already has vast stores of bombs and artillery shells. Any stipulation that they can't use these latest shipments in "civilian areas" of Rafah will have zero effect on their ability to win the war. The prior concern was ensuring stockpiles didn't get too low in case Hezbollah opened up a northern front. If the shipments resume, though, that won't be a problem. In other words, Biden is folding like a cheap suit while hoping to smear a little lipstick on the pig to make it seem like he didn't turn heel.
To further illustrate just how running scared he is, Biden then put out a statement proclaiming that a ceasefire could be had tomorrow if Hamas released all the hostages.
Given our struggling businesses and the shrinking pocketbooks of our consumers, is this a good time for a trade war? Despite Biden running against Trump’s China tariffs in 2016, they are good now, since a barely-cognitive care-home resident thinks so. Lost in the chatter yesterday about Biden’s economic flip-flopping was the fact these are more sanctions. Aljazeera ran the story yesterday under the headline, “Biden slaps new tariffs on Chinese imports, ratcheting trade war.”
The story’s sub-headline hilariously added, “The US president said China’s financial support for its businesses was ‘cheating’ and not competition.” Biden is talking about, don’t laugh, government subsidies:
There’s just too much material here. Biden meant unfair govnerment subsidies like this one, mentioned in an AIP article from late March:
Oh wait! Sorry! That’s one of our many subsidies. Whoops. When we do it, It’s not unfair and not anticompetitive and definitely doesn’t give us any advantage. Don’t try to reason that out, you could hurt yourself.
I could go on. Biden’s hypocrisy knows no bounds, and so forth. He’s doing exactly what he criticized Trump for during the last election cycle, and he’s doing exactly what the United States government has made into a national pastime for the well-connected. But that’s not the real story.
The real story is that the sanctions war against China just shifted into the highest gear. They skipped all the intermediate gears. No ramping up or anything. It’s economic nuclear war. The new ‘tariffs’ affect an estimated eighteen billion in annual imported Chinese goods like steel, aluminium, semiconductors, electric vehicles, critical minerals, solar cells and for some reason, cranes.
And it’s not just any little warning tariff, either. Biden has quadrupled import duties on Chinese electric vehicles — a jump of more than 100% — and doubled duties on semiconductor tariffs — up 50%.
Why do I call it economic war? Well, for one thing it was right there, in the Aljazeera article:
For another thing, they told us this would happen, not even three weeks ago. Headline from Politico, April 26th:
But even though a child could connect these dots, useless corporate media is dutifully reporting the fake Biden narrative, that the tariffs are somehow intended to help the U.S.’s economy, instead of admitting the truth: this is part of the Ukraine war. Sanctions catastrophically failed against Russia — which is why they’re not calling the tariffs ‘sanctions’ this time — and Biden blames China.
As far as I can tell, Biden and his neocons think their Russia sanctions would have worked if it weren’t for those meddling Chinese. So it’s on, like Donkey Kong, or Godzilla, or whatever fake-looking monster the Chinese have these days.
Prepare for even more inflation as cheaper Chinese goods flee U.S. markets, and as Captain Ahab, I mean Biden, keeps chasing his white Ukrainian whale. Call me Ishmael.
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DC slammed Trump’s tariffs. Biden’s decision to keep them draws a very different reaction.
Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Just over six years ago, when Donald Trump first announced tariffs on Chinese goods, it was as if a bomb had gone off. American stocks fell sharply at the prospect of a trade war, businesses warned of blowback and economists lined up to decry the move. Such is the protectionist mood in Washington now that Joe Biden’s announcement of new measures has been met with rather less panic—even though it concerns significantly higher tariffs.
On May 14th, following a policy review, the White House decided to raise tariffs on, among other things, Chinese semiconductors and solar cells from 25% to 50%, syringes and needles from 0% to 50% and lithium-ion batteries from 7.5% to 25%. It hit electric vehicles with the biggest increase of all, quadrupling the tariff rate on China-made electric vehicles (evs) from 25% to 100%. Lael Brainard of the National Economic Council said the actions would create “a level playing-field in industries that are vital to our future”. Yet it is American consumers who will pay the price.
He just can't help it.