Monday • October 20 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XLIII
Manchester, N.H.
I think we’ve been clear about this. The immunity protections given to Pfizer by the government were never genuine, and the people handing them out knew that. And that while the Pfeds would cover for their own, the rest were on their own. That day may have arrived.
You can now sue the mRNA COVID vaccine manufacturers for damages and the FDA is required to take the COVID vaccines off the market. Why? Adulteration. The plasmid bioactive contaminant sequences were NOT pointed out to the regulatory authorities. It’s considered adulteration. …
The FDA is now at a crossroads. Either they admit that they knew about the plasma contamination, and failed to disclose that to the public and to the outside committees, or they can claim that they didn’t know about it in which case Pfizer is liable. But we have the Pfizer documents that were given to the FDA so we know what the FDA got. And I seriously doubt there’s any disclosure of SV40 contamination. That means we have an adulterated vaccine and the FDA has to remove it from the market until the adulteration is fixed.
That is Steve Kirsch via Thread reader, and thanks to the small army of “researchers” who sent it to me. And I’m very excited to have hinted at Pfizer’s doom (with a lot of help from the internet) just last week. Two pull quotes from my piece. First,
If you hide details that lead to harm, the political rats will abandon your ship faster than you can say mRNA Vaccines.
That’s the boat Pfizer may soon find itself in, and it should not expect its Pfederal Pfriends to lift a pfinger to help, noting that any who might have probably “retired” and have packed their”stipends” and inducements in their saddle bags as they ride into the sunset. Any still on the payroll (wink-wink) also got what they wanted. A full-scale global tyranny test that a majority of the Western World Pfailed.
And second.
The ‘crats (Demo and Bureau) will feign surprise and outrage if the weight of truth becomes too much for the narrative damn to hold back, they will find the nearest microphone and throw Pfizer under the bus. The Pfeds will lose the Pf and launch investigations while states bring lawsuits to take whatever settlement they can manage as “compensation” for being fooled or in on the scam.
For now, rejoice. Shoddy drug-making and sloppy Quality control (remdesivir with glass particles in it) may have opened the door for a global lawsuit that would end Pfizer, which investors saw coming. There is, of course, at least one fiat. While the government stooges will easily switch sides and take their pound of flesh from either with a wink and a smile, one judge’s ruling is only another ruling away from becoming meaningless.
I don’t think this leaking barrel holds water long-term because of systemic deception.
Tens of thousands of pages of Pfizer and FDA documents are in the public domain. There is clear evidence of misinformation, deception, and fraud. Research continues to pile up, proving the jab was crap, getting it made matters worse, getting more of it worst still. And people were wising up to that.
The FDA and CDC then drove disinformation down into the state and local public health Matrix, and the process was multiplied. They created the tagline that will come to haunt them.
Safe and Effective. It was neither. And they have been avoiding the conversation becasue it makes them look dumber than the people they’ve been ridiculing who told the truth. That means you burn any bridge to save some face. So whichever way the ill wind blows, the Government franchise of the Medical Industrial Complex will cover its bloated ass, and blowing up Pfizer is a small price to pay.
And Pfizer doesn’t have a police force if you take my meaning.
So, once they get the okay, every DA and AG across the fruited plain will want a vulture in line to pick at the carcass. And they’ll pretend that means they were looking out for you all along. And? How about more regulations and more government to regulate the regulators?
You can count on that.
Whatever happens, don’t be distracted by the potential for the largest class action lawsuit in human history, Pfizer’s inability to pay what they should, or any government is your health-freedom friend crap. None of them has your back (we do). And all do it again in a heartbeat.
But you saw through the covid crap the first time, so keep that eyesight sharp and your BS meter ready.
Stay frosty.
This article was updated after publication.
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The government in Canada has both embraced and promoted medically assisted dying. Assisted suicide. It started with the chronically ill, but soon, almost anyone could ask the government to please kill them, even those who thought they wanted to live.
Government-approved euthanasia is not new and does not always begin as a call for compassion, but it always develops mission creep. In our so-called modern age, Nation-states or just states stand teary-eyed, choking on their empathy, begging us to give them the authority to end life. It is a kindness. A gift. To stop their suffering. But much the way a hammer sees every problem as a nail, so do the regulators and legislators who empower your government with this hand of death.
The tale begins with word salads of concern for the dignity of the chronically ill—those few who cannot separate daily living from pain, inevitably leading to the government ending life to escape its failures or to solve problems it created. Hide them, even. Every possible encumbrance upon the state is increasingly solved by “allowing” some class of “burden” to end its life.
The old, the poor, the homeless, the depressed, Veterans with PTS, anyone who is a strain on the socialized health system or the welfare budget, and eventually, inevitably, those who speak out against the government.
Housing crisis – look, something just opened up. Not enough food because you won’t let farmers grow it, or perhaps you think there are too many people on your planet?
Another lockdown will have them lining up for a mental illness date with Dr. Death.
Related: Progressive Governing 101: If You Make Life Miserable People Will Volunteer to Kill Themselves
Oh, Steve, that’ll never happen. Except it has or will. Mental health issues are defined by state social workers and therapists, most of whom were trained by partisan Marxist progressives who are all eugenicists and social engineers with the power not just to recommend assisted suicide but to counsel their patients to consider it.
Encouraged by those above their pay grade, they become end-of-life counselors of opportunity. I know you think you want to live, but this is what’s best.
And if you think that sort of handling is crazy talk, NH banned its therapists from counseling the gender confused toward their birth sex, even if that’s what the patient wants. It would be a crime.
States like Oregon have made assisted suicide (MAiD) available to everyone. Hawaii has shortened the waiting period to a few days (you would wait three times as long to get a handgun). Beginning in the Spring of 2024, drug addicts in Canada will have their own box car to carry them to the Medically assisted dying camps. And why not? Keeping the drugs out is expensive. Policing them once we’ve let them in is expensive. Recovery programs that may not work are expensive. If there’s a risk of a drug overdose anyway, and they don’t recall like people anyway, let the state overdose you in peace. Many problems solved.
Slippery Slope.
Dr David Martell, physician lead for Addictions Medicine at Nova Scotia Health, who is presenting the framework at the conference, told VICE News: ‘I don’t think it’s fair, and the government doesn’t think it’s fair, to exclude people from eligibility because their medical disorder or their suffering is related to a mental illness.
‘As a subset of that, it’s not fair to exclude people from eligibility purely because their mental disorder might either partly or in full be a substance use disorder. It has to do with treating people equally.’
It has to do with killing anyone you can convince needs to die. Anyone?
Not that long ago, after Trump was elected in 2016, the soothsayers in the Donkey Party saw signs in the bilgewater wells of their ruined cities. Biblical plagues (minus the Bible), from economic crises to famine to nuclear war. They were, of course, projecting. Back in power, Democrat fears become real for their political opponents, complete with collateral damage Nancy Pelosi promised, always with the specter of a mental illness diagnosis lurking in the wings.
They always said you had to be crazy to support that guy or that thing or to think that way. COVID etched that perception in granite. They will do whatever they can get away with and a few things they likely can’t if it secures their political power.
As a reminder.
A government that thinks there are too many of us, that we are some sort of burden, and encourages medically assisted suicide will always make its citizens suicidal and then pretend it is a kindness to kill them.
That is not speculation or conspiracy theory; it is a fact. Over the past several years, nation-states have gone to great lengths to ensure mental health distress, chronic drug abuse, and illness. At the same time, the more progressive players have either instituted medically assisted suicide or made it easier for you to “qualify.”
Depending on how far gone, the State will declare its political opponents (agitators who brought them to power and agitators who oppose their power) mentally unfit, make them disappear in jails or in mental institutions where they will either kill themselves (suicide), or ask to die (assisted suicide).
Who among us refuses to believe that a government that would lock up and isolate its citizens as political prisoners without due process rights might also brainwash them into accepting medically assisted dying, were it an option? How about in a society where the same government punishes opposing political speech?
Assisted suicide supporters mean well, but in the end, just like welfare, it will cause more harm to good people than do good to people in need.
Freedom is messy, life is a bitch, and personal responsibility is demanding, but governments are evil. And we’ve allowed ours off their leash too long to trust them with this.
Even in New Hampshire.
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This week, I want us to examine the thinking of some of our most important Founding Fathers and Presidents in regard to the place that the Bible has influence in the governing of our nation. The period of the first 150 years of our country’s founding is significant because the foundation was being laid for the building of a nation.
Our nation, America, was conceived in the thoughts and hearts of our Founding Fathers and expressed in our great documents of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. These great documents contain many direct references to scripture and its nuances. The Judeo-Christian Bible was the most consulted book that our Founding Fathers and our current leaders used in seeking to build a great Nation.
In light of the decline monetarily (excessive debt), morally (myriads of assaults on God-given sexuality and fidelity in marriage), and violence in our streets…it is important that we reflect on our decline and ask the simple question, “How did we get here?”
Well, when we stray from the blueprint (the Bible) and seek to build apart from the clear guidelines laid out for nation-building in the scriptures, we create a culture of confusion, a society of no morals, no clear right or wrong. That is where we have drifted, too, since we have severed the chords of faith from government in the name of individual rights over clear truths of nature and nature God.
Two important scriptures speak to us of God being involved in the blessing of Nations. Psalm 33:12 states: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,” and Proverbs 14:34 says: “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”
Let’s examine a few quotes in regard to the place and importance of the Bible and Prayer in the minds and lives of some of our most influential leaders.
“It is impossible to Govern the World without God and the Bible.” George Washington
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the whole of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in the Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which the Constitution is founded.”James Madison
“ The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world..and I say to you, “Search the Scriptures.” John Quincy Adams
“That book, sir, is the Rock upon which our Republic rests.” Andrew Jackson
“ In regard for this Great Book, I have this to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book.”
Abraham Lincoln
“ Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties, write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in you lives. To the influence of this book are we indebted for all the progress made in true civilization, and to this we must look as our guide to the future.” Ulysses S. Grant
“ If you take out or your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken form the Sacred Book, what would be left to bind society together? Benjamin Harrison
“ We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.” Franklin Roosevelt.
“Inside the Bible’s pages lie all the answers to all the problems man has ever known…It is my firm belief that the enduring values presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation. The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, and refresh our souls.” Ronald Regan
“The rights of man came not from the generosity of the state but from the had of God.” John F. Kennedy
There are of course hundreds of quotes from famous leaders conveying the importance of the Bible in our culture for the good of all society. If you have never taken the time to read the Bible, (even if you are not a person of religious persuasion), I would encourage you to examine this amazing book…in the words of Hebert Hoover, “The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.”
Until next week….
Allen
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This is timely. Just days after a UK report on how 95% of those who died from COVID had the COVID vaccines and boosters, CDC Director Mandy Cohen and Senator Chuck (It’s not a) Schumer are asking you to get updated flu and Covid “vaccination.”
Why?
Who needs a reason? Seriously? The sun rises, you pay taxes, and you roll up your sleeves for America. Or not. We also reported that 98% of Americans have not lined up for the latest thing. The Power of the Pandemic has lost its allure. I won’t say that mass psychosis has, at least for the media and the elites. The world showed them their ass during COVID, especially Western Democracies, so they’ll want to keep spanking that.
I have my doubts about the Cohen-Schumer One-Two Beg getting job one done. Especially when Chuck says, “They will do you a lot of good…it will avoid a lot of pain later.” Weaponized flu may still have legs, and in blue cities, states, and counties, their desire to scratch the itch is like Stimpy wanting to hit the bright red button. Still, if you’ve got people inoculated against the idea that voting by mail is fraud by mail everywhere else in the world, there is no need to play dress up.
Credit where it’s due, however, Senator, as the UK COVID data suggests, you might be one booster away from helping COVID kill you and dead people feel no pain later.
Here it is if you’d like a good laugh. Beauty and the Beast? Herman Munster and Cousin Marilyn. Jaclyn and Hyde. One of your own, if you prefer.
CDC Director Mandy Cohen and Senator Chuck Schumer want you to the get jab.
What do you want to say to them? pic.twitter.com/niJ5cPXkGU
— DiedSuddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) October 19, 2023
Update Breaking News – Another reason not to get the shot or, maybe, just a reason to sue Pfizer, because maybe you can!
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The middle, compromising stance of those called “centrists” or “moderates” is very often mistaken for a balanced and reasonable position. Little else is worse than an entire world tricked into what rationally amounts to crime, thinking it is balanced, realistic, and optimal.
The centrist has become convinced that their middle position is the only fair and just stance and that anything else is imbalanced extremism. The opportunity to rationally examine these assertions has never been as important as it is now.
Let us start by realizing that most people do not actually call themselves centrists yet are convinced that their views are a proper mixture of ideas, a negotiation to meet somewhere in the middle, which is what centrism entails. Whether this is a mixture of safety and freedom, socialism and capitalism, or collectivism and individualism, few have admitted that their unique mixture ratio is behind their confidence in their own political views. Most are convinced that they have the right mixture, while they believe those with different views have their mixture somewhat off.
How many traditional conservatives are against socialism without realizing that many of their views are based on socialism? They do not put the label of “socialism” on their beloved military, police, and public schools, but these are textbook examples of socialism. How many progressives for wealth distribution via government will truly admit that they want the profit motive to remain as the deep well from which they can perpetually draw? Nearly everyone has a mix, if only so they can satisfy themselves that they are not radical extremists.
To further the confusion, there are parallels in our world that suggest to us that a mixture is best, like the alloys of metals being more useful than pure metals alone or the right temperature being a mixture of not too hot and not too cold. It is intuitive to infer a moderate compromise in social, economic, and political matters.
Now, let us see the mixture from a different perspective. Engineers do not strive for a healthy balance of both planes that continue to fly and planes that fall from the sky. They are very imbalanced in their view that all planes should continue flying without issue to every possible extent. We would find it unacceptable if the legal system outwardly promoted a healthy mix of bringing criminals to justice and letting them do whatever they want. The point to see here is that we must not mix poison into our food and call that a healthy balance.
No percentage of violent crimes have a fitting place in civilization, same with fraud, corruption, and a long list of wrongful acts. The practice of forceful plunder through the apparatus called “government” is the rational equivalent of criminality, asserting that the ability to do so equates to the right to do so, and dismissing other peaceful means for funding as if they are inferior. No degree of what is rationally criminal is somehow a quality ingredient to mix into one’s political stance, even if the current laws legitimize it. That it comes from the basis of “might makes right” and violates inalienable rights means that justifying any degree of it makes a person complicit with this criminality, which is objectively criminal and evil because objective reality is altered thereby, to the subtraction from objective and measurable well-being.
Well-intentioned people of all kinds mix in ideas that are objectively criminal, not seeing with rational eyes because they used the going laws as their only measure for what is just. Even those reaching for higher moral ideology believe in things like city-states and small or local governments as the solution, as if to not have fully admitted that nobody is fit or entitled to rule, whether they are a person or a group. It is the rational that gives us the tools to collaboratively orchestrate law and order, and the same that stands as the constant standard for what is good and evil, what preserves rational rights, and what depletes them. If rationalism can reveal what toxic and evil justifications we might have mixed into our views, it can be the tool for helping us clean up our views, even if someone thinks that doing so will amount to extremism.
Ben Jarick is a writer, inventor, entrepreneur and lifelong student.
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Mr. Biden speaking from the Oval Office, addressed the nation about the Wars in Israel and Ukraine. He spoke in lofty terms about America’s role in the world, saying in part, “… We’re facing an inflection point in history…” and told us he will spend our money taking on Hamas and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Biden plans on asking Congress for another $60B in Ukraine and $10B for Israel, with smaller sums for Taiwan and the US border. Those are political sweeteners. Ya gotta spread it around to get it done in DC.
But are these the priorities of the American people?
A recent poll from Reuters News Service says 19% of Americans rate the economy as their greatest concern. Second was illegal immigration, and third was crime. That sentiment of priorities is echoed in polling from outlets like Statista and Pew Research Center.
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An AP poll released this week says nearly 70% of Americans think Mr. Biden has engaged in criminality or unethical behavior connected to his family’s foreign business deals.
A CBS poll shows 57% of Americans think Mr. Biden is going too easy on China. China is one of the countries where he and his family maintained relations, resulting in lucrative contracts. 50% think Mr. Biden is making the US weaker in the world. And 31% approve of his foreign policy agenda.
My nickel’s worth says we have to lockdown the southern border. Our open border is having a cascading effects throughout the country, from crushing our communities with drugs and fentanyl deaths, saddling our cities with profound economic burdens to take care of illegals, and giving an open door to untold numbers of unvetted, uninvited foreigners, with record numbers on our terror watch list.
We need to focus on re-establishing law and order in America. The goal is to allow families and kids to flourish in a safe environment. We must create that same safe environment for private industry and manufacturers to both flourish and rebuild business operations previously shipped offshore.
China is America’s gravest threat, hands down. Nothing and no one else comes close. Not climate, not Russia and Putin, not Hamas; China is our greatest threat. The US military, law enforcement, and intelligence communities have confirmed this… repeatedly. The economy has been screaming about it. The vast majority of available American resources should be used to counter China.
That’s because the good news is there are some smart solutions to the China problem, though they are not easy. But the two that are in our most immediate control that would solve most of our problem would include revoking all US visas held by Chinese citizens and sending them all back home. And forcing Chinese investors to divest their holdings, most especially those land purchases in this country.
There will be times when it’s important to give foreign aid or to refocus our military spending. When we do, the guiding principle should be to support the people and countries that will prevent a global fight with the Communist Party of China or shore up our defenses.
There might be smart exceptions to that. Israel is an example. That’s where Presidential discernment comes into play. But those are my suggestions to you. Lockdown the southern border, re-establish law and order, and take on the Chinese.
What’s clear is that poll after poll shows Mr. Biden’s message fell on deaf ears. We have different priorities than he does. We’re not interested in his message, nor are we listening to the messenger. It’s time for change… because he’s killing our security, our prosperity, and our hope.
This was originally published with an incorrect byline.
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I have not yet picked a candidate for President. For me, I am really late in doing so but I just haven’t had the bandwidth to “go after them”, to meet them, to interrogate them, and make them prove their case to me that they best represent what I believe in and are demanding of them. You all know why so I’m not going to rehash them.
That said, other than “Asa Hutchinson – WHY?” again, I just ran across this from the Conservative Treehouse in which Tucker is talking about The Donald in terms that the Left AND the Establishment Right just doesn’t get:
Will I vote for him in the Primary? Dunno. Will I if he becomes the nominee?
Yes.
(H/T: Conservative Treehouse)
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At least two Vermont college students have helped to start the Student Declaration 2023, which is to ensure that overzealous COVID-19-related mandates are never repeated again on their school campuses.
“We were told that mask, vaccine, and lockdown mandates would be justified by their benefits, yet, in light of the incredible harms these mandates caused, such mandates cannot be justified today,” the Declaration states.
It continues that students have been under a lot of peer pressure to fall into line.
“An undeniable psychological toll fell on every student facing pressure from peers, professors, and university administration to comply with mandates, and many, denied face-to-face contact with others for over a year, found themselves forced to accept medical coercion under duress,” it states.
Two of the Declaration’s three originators are UVM students, Lauren Palmer and Isla Stover. Palmer, according to her Linkedin profile, has studied performance arts and offered homeschool courses. Stover is an avid cyclist. The third person is Nadia Ghazal, a graduate law student.
The petition currently has 94 signatures including nine students, 10 faculty/staff and 75 citizens.
The Declaration further suggests that students who refused COVID vaccines were punished for doing so.
“Those who chose not to vaccinate (a choice owed to all people under a truly democratic society), whether for medical or personal motivations, were made outcasts; they were socially ridiculed, segregated, and blamed, losing scholarships, academic and social opportunities, jobs and internships, medical autonomy and privacy, their ability to see friends and family, all campus platforms for free and uncensored speech, and the most basic human rights of Compassion, Dignity, and Empathy,” it states.
It also accuses academic leaders of abandoning the principles of free speech and public debate.
“It is clear that modern academia and academic leaders have betrayed their commitment to the free and open exchange of ideas, allowing fear, and not reason or common sense, to triumph. The freedom of rational thought must be recovered, and, in order to do this, we must first restore the principles of the university: the quintessential fountain of ideas. Dialogue must again be the foundation of all institutions.”
On the UVM student’s petition webpage it talks about empowering students. It states “Students were once the vehicles of change. We hope our movement on October 23rd empowers students, as well as professors, staff, and inspired community members, to be that vehicle of change once again.”
Similar to the Great Barrington Declaration
The statement is not unlike 2020’s Great Barrington Declaration, which has more than 938,000 signatures including at least 43 medical professionals.
It stated in 2020, “Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.”
COVID mandates still in national news
In related news, Children’s Health Defense announced last week that a ruling by the New York State Supreme Court in January to strike down the state’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers will remain after the state’s appeal was dismissed earlier this month. It’s not yet clear what the implications might be in Vermont.
Also, the former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson was in the news recently, warning Americans to reject any return of COVID-related mandates.
“Look at how much control they were able to exercise over the people: shutting down the schools, keeping our children from learning, putting them so far behind. It’s going to take years, maybe decades, for them to catch up again,” he said on Newsmax’s “American Agenda.”
Michael Bielawski | Vermont Daily Chronicle
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If you want school systems that work, start by getting rid of teachers’ unions. They are a Special Interest racket to enrich adults and do not better the educational system for the benefit of kids. Doubt me?
Pull the public contract for your town’s unions and then demand to know from your school board how many children score PROFICIENT in the NAEP standardized tests. Prepare to be unhappy with the results.
Or, you could ask current Manchester City Mayor and candidate for NH Governor Joyce Craig. She is a BIG supporter of the teacher’s unions. HOW is that union helping educate those children? It’s not pretty.
There is a solution – after NOT voting for Craig for Governor.
If you think I’m blowing one bad report out of proportions, the National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] report that came out earlier this year found similarly dismal student performance in the public schools. Reading and math proficiency collapsed over the past four years in part because of the teachers unions’ insistence that public school stay closed during COVID — a national act of child abuse.
The Left obsesses about income inequality and the gap between rich and poor. Yet, they are so captive to the teachers unions that they do nothing about what is arguably the most regressive policy in America: our failing public school system. The decline in test scores is only half the story. The other part of the story is that the biggest declines in learning and achievement are among the poorer families.
I’m the furthest thing from an education expert, but I have had five kids. It’s pretty clear that three essential components to an enriching education are discipline in the classroom, high expectations and a classical curriculum. This isn’t that complicated. It’s not like solving a Rubik’s Cube.
Nor is it rocket science. Our education system, before the 70s, was the envy of the world. Then the Left took control – so here we are.
Let me add to those three:
HT | Hot Air
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We all agree that a calm world results from a strong America. Donald Trump is the first President since Jimmy Carter not to enter U.S. Troops into a new conflict. Part of the reason for that period of peace is Trump rebuilt our military to a point where nobody dared threaten the United States or its allies.
It was Ronald Reagan who coined the term “Peace through strength.” President Reagan hoped that his new military initiatives would not only contain communism but defeat it. Reagan broke the Soviet Union and witnessed the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Joe Biden is the antithesis of Ronald Reagan. Biden has weakened our military by introducing Woke thinking and bad decisions by Biden. Biden opened the door for Russia to invade Ukraine. He has ignored many of the offensive activities of China, and he has allowed Iran to rebound their financial status and accelerate their nuclear program. Tie those situations with the botched Afghanistan debacle, and you have a disastrous foreign policy package.
If not so serious, it would be comical. Biden and his team like to take credit for the way Biden has handled each of these global hotspots, but the truth is these conflicts exist because of him. What he has done is tantamount to saving an elderly person from drowning when you tossed the person overboard in the first place. His reckless policies have turned the world into a powder keg ready to explode.
Joe Biden went to the Resolute Desk and the Oval Office for a prime-time address to the nation. In that setting, there was speculation all day that this was a seminal moment for the President and an opportunity for him to unite the country in a unified effort to save Israel from the latest attempt to obliterate Israel and all Jews. He failed miserably. Instead of coming across as Reaganlike, and finally the leader of the nation and the free world, he came across as the prototypical Liberal and went for our wallets. In what he termed a “small investment,” he detailed his request for $100 Billion that he would present to Congress for speedy consideration.
Now, that kind of money may seem small for someone who has been extorting millions from our foes for decades, but for us in the middle class, that is as painful as trying to balance our budgets with Bidenomics. The significant problems with his request are combining his plea for our money to aid Israel with more funds for Ukraine and asking for $100 Million for Gaza and the Palestinian people. We know he is getting kickbacks from every dollar he sends to Ukraine, and Hamas will scoop up that $100 Million before a single dollar gets to the people for humanitarian aid. He also disappointed many people by continuing to refuse to place the blame on the Hamas and Hezbollah attacks on Israel on Iran, which is obviously holding the strings.
He tried to connect the two struggles as threats to our future freedom, but he failed. Had he focused on Israel, he would have garnered support across the aisles in both chambers. With his approach, he will have a battle in both. I am a realist and did not expect much from Biden on Thursday night. You can put him behind the big desk, but that does not make him a big man. Biden is a weak leader; every time he is behind a microphone and in front of a camera, he looks worse. The only good thing about him sitting for the address is it keeps him off the floor. That small win is insufficient for America, Israel, or the Free World.
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