President Joe Biden is spending nearly half a million dollars in American taxpayer money to build a security fence around his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
In September 2021, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded a federal contract to a Delaware construction company to construct the fence around Biden’s multi-million dollar beach house. The initial contract planned to spend more than $456,000 on the project.
Now, the project has been increased to cost taxpayers nearly $500,000 and is expected to be finished by June 2023.
The construction of a security fence around Biden’s beach house comes as his DHS has canceled contracts to continue building border wall along the highly porous United States-Mexico border, rendering some parts of the barrier useless.
In July, nearly 182,000 border crossers were apprehended along the southern border. Since Biden’s taking office, nearly 4.9 million border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived at the nation’s borders, a recent analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates.
Only recently, DHS officials announced that they would close holes in sections of the border wall in the Yuma, Arizona, sector. Biden has reallocated billions in taxpayer money away from border wall construction to “environmental restoration” projects.
Exclusive footage captured by Breitbart News in San Diego, California, months ago shows large holes in the border wall — aiding the Mexican drug cartel’s billion-dollar human smuggling and drug trafficking enterprise.jbinder0 seconds of 6 secondsVolume 90%00:0100:0600:06
“The materials for the border wall are literally rusting away in southern California,” a source told Breitbart News. The source also noted that about eight miles of California’s border with Mexico remain wide open with no barriers.
In March of 2021, Breitbart News exclusively reported that Biden had been spending about $6 million every day in taxpayer money to halt wall construction. By July, Biden had spent $2 billion to not build the wall, with costs amounting to about $3 million in taxpayer money wasted every day.
“A wall for me but not for thee,” says Uncle Joe – The Liberator
Oversight Democrats Demand Federal Intervention Against ‘Election Misinformation’
Joseph Lord, The Epoch Times
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee demanded in an Aug. 11 report that the federal government do more to respond to alleged “election misinformation,” which they say has weakened the capacity of election offices across the United States to carry out their official duties.
The committee report claimed that so-called misinformation efforts led by President Donald Trump and other conservatives have overwhelmed election offices and caused an uptick in threats against election workers (pdf). To respond to this, Democrats said, “strong federal leadership is needed.”
“Lies and confusion about the 2020 election are an ongoing threat to representative democracy,” the report states. “Misinformation and disinformation drive fraudulent efforts to cast doubt on legitimate election results, increase threats to election administrators, and create pathways for bad actors to subvert our democratic elections.”
In the same strain, the report added, “Lies about our elections, whether intentional falsehoods or pervasive misunderstandings, endanger both the democratic system and the people who administer our elections.”
Threats Against Election Workers Allegedly Increased
A key focus for Democrats in the report is the ways that the alleged misinformation about the 2020 election has increased threats against election officials and made it more difficult for them to do their jobs.
“Election officials have been continuously vilified by conspiracy theorists led by former President Donald Trump and his supporters,” the Democrats wrote in one section of the report.
In a subsection about “disinformation campaigns” carried out by “malicious domestic actors,” the report dives deeper into Democrats’ claims on this front.
“Leading up to the 2020 presidential election, misinformation about all aspects of the voting process surged,” they wrote. “The coronavirus pandemic created a unique environment for voter confusion as states sought to adapt their rules on registering and voting by mail, creating opportunities for online misinformation to spread widely across the country.
“After the election, some elected officials leveraged voters’ distrust to question the election results by espousing the ‘Big Lie’—the false claim that former President Donald Trump was the true winner of the 2020 election. These elected officials carried a dangerous message: that election administrators were to blame for the ‘stolen’ election.
“Election administrators informed the Committee that responding to the influx of threats and disinformation required hours of work and increased security that made it more difficult for them to do their jobs. The President of the Election Officials of Arizona reported to the Committee that responding to the surge of concerns about voting by mail was ‘distracting us to the point where we can’t get our real work done.’ As each new false allegation of voter fraud was released and spread online, ‘the angry phone calls and threats start anew.’
“The President of the Florida Supervisors of Election told the Committee they ‘have been consumed with responding to numerous public records requests, debunking election myths, and increasing voter education efforts to strengthen voter confidence in the elections process.’
“The mounting pressures facing election workers and administrators are compounded by a vicious cycle of misinformation intended to reduce public faith in our election system.”
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) did find in an investigation that more than 1,000 election workers reported contacts that were “hostile or harassing.”
However, though the report implies that the uptick has caused a great deal of violence, DOJ findings showed that only about 11 percent of those reports—about 110 cases—met the threshold for federal criminal investigation.
Election Integrity Laws Targeted
A key critique in the Democrats’ report involved efforts by state legislatures to tighten their election security laws in the wake of continuing concerns over the integrity of the 2020 election.
In late 2021, Democrats in Congress attempted to respond to this spurt of tighter election laws—which many Democrats characterized as a “new Jim Crow”—with a series of ill-fated bills to strengthen federal control over elections.
Though those efforts failed one by one to win enough support in the Senate, where Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) joined Republicans in opposing several of the proposals, Democrats have remained frustrated with the litany of new laws. The Aug. 11 report makes clear that these laws are still a prime target for disgruntled Democrats.
The report contends that “dangerous, misinformation-driven, so called ‘election integrity’ laws … threaten to undermine the voting process in future elections.”
Since the 2020 election, the report says further down, “state legislators have … introduced and passed hundreds of election laws based on the Big Lie. Some of these bills would give partisan legislators more control over non-partisan election systems, while simultaneously making it more difficult for election officials to effectively do their jobs.”
Throughout the report, Oversight Democrats leave no doubt as to whom they blame for the rise in “misinformation”: President Donald Trump and his conservative allies.
“Misinformation led to violent death threats against local election officials, often inspired by comments from right-wing politicians and activists, leading many experienced officials to leave their positions,” the report claims.
In another section, Democrats named several conservative commentators who have cast doubt on the results of the 2020 election by name.
“In Florida, Alex Jones, Roger Stone, and Mike Lindell spread conspiracy theories about one election official for responding to false allegations of fraud,” they wrote in an effort to bolster their claim that conservatives are largely responsible for issues experienced by election officials.
‘Fraudulent’ Audits
Democrats in the report targeted two election audits that took place in Arizona and New Mexico in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Despite being approved by relevant elected officials in the state, Democrats claimed these audits were “fraudulent.”
The most important audit in the aftermath of the 2020 election took place in Maricopa County, Arizona—a blue stronghold in the state, which President Joe Biden reportedly won. Maricopa County was at the center of electoral controversies, spurring Republicans in the Arizona State House to order a full audit of the county’s results.
The other prime audit targeted by Democrats in the report took place in Otero County, New Mexico.
These audits, Democrats said, were “partisan” and “highlight the grave harm that could result from such efforts.”
Committee Democrats said that the audits in Arizona and New Mexico were the result of “a network of malicious actors … encouraging elected officials across the country to undermine the integrity of their election systems.”
“The audit [in Maricopa County],” Democrats claimed, “undermined public confidence in elections and fostered efforts across the country to suppress votes and subvert elections.”
These “fraudulent” audits, Democrats said, “generate a feedback loop of more misinformation, increased pressure on election officials, and disruptive legislation, paving the way for bad actors to overturn valid election results.”
They warned of the possibility of such audits increasing after the 2022 elections, which they said could further damage trust in the electoral process.
“Fraudulent audits and unfounded refusals to certify election results may multiply during the 2022 midterms, further damaging trust in the electoral process.”
‘Strong Federal Action Is Needed’
In concluding their report, Democrats argued that “strong federal action is needed” to counter these alleged threats to the democratic process they say is caused by misinformation.
“The threat posed to American democracy by election misinformation has changed and increased dramatically in the past two years,” they wrote. “The Committee’s investigations make clear that the greatest current threat to democratic legitimacy now comes from lies by domestic actors who seek to convince Americans that their election systems are fraudulent, corrupt, or insecure.”
They describe the “urgent need to implement a federal whole-of-government plan to support local and state election officials as they respond to misinformation and share accurate information with voters. This response must also include vigorous law enforcement efforts to protect election officials from harassment and violence.”
Democrats then laid out a litany of suggestions for actions by both the president and Congress.
“The President should designate a lead federal agency or office to support state and local efforts to counter election misinformation,” they wrote, in a plan reminiscent of the now-defunct Department of Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board, which was shut down after critics blasted the planned body as reminiscent of George Orwell’s “thought police” in the novel, “1984.”
“[The president] should direct relevant agencies to coordinate with the lead agency on overall approaches, chains of communication, and best practices for advancing accurate information about the election process.”
The report continues with the suggestion that “all relevant federal agencies should use their authorities in coordination with the lead agency to support state and local election officials’ efforts to counter misinformation during and after elections.”
Oversight Democrats also recommended the continuation and expansion of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) “rumor control” webpage.
“During the 2020 election, the [CISA webpage] sought to counter election misinformation,” they wrote. “CISA should continue to update this site to respond to national misinformation narratives. Trusted local voices, however, are the most effective messengers against misinformation.”
The report went on to say that CISA’s misinformation team should coordinate with state authorities to create state-level “rumor control” websites.
Further, Oversight Democrats demanded that the DOJ “aggressively pursue criminal and civil enforcement against those who threaten or harass election administrators.”
To aid in this, Democrats recommended the creation of a DOJ task force that would aid local officials in determining which federal charges they can bring against those who threaten or harass election workers.
Finally, on a congressional front, Oversight Democrats called for expanding funding allocations to election offices across the country, in addition to strengthening already-existing laws against threatening, harassing, or harming election officials.
“To counter malicious actors threatening violence against election officials, Congress should also enact meaningful statutory penalties for anyone who threatens election officials and administrators,” the report said.
Failed Efforts to Change Election Law
The items targeted by the report—allegations of misinformation, attacks on legally ordered election audits, and on election integrity legislation passed in state legislatures across the United States—fit into the larger context of a string of failed efforts by Democrats during the 117th Congress to strengthen federal control over elections.
Election integrity bills have been a focal point for attacks by Democrats, who have said that the legislation constitutes a “new Jim Crow.”
Over the summer and early fall of 2021, when many legislatures were considering and passing such legislation for the first time, Democrats put forward a litany of bills designed to counter this alleged threat.
Among many other provisions, that bill would declare Congress has unilateral authority over the conducting of elections in any areas where state and federal prerogatives clashed.
The bill also would have forbidden illegal aliens from facing legal consequences for efforts to vote illegally, allowed for election day voter registration, and permitted convicted felons to vote.
This bill, by far the most expansive piece of election legislation put forward by Democrats, passed the House along party lines but failed in the Senate after Manchin refused to lend it his support.
Other bills, including the House-created “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act” and a compromise bill created by Manchin, would have gone substantially less far—largely reinstating parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that were struck down in 2013 as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder.
Like the For the People Act, these too failed to win enough support in the Senate to overcome the 60-vote filibuster threshold.
Republicans have been almost unilaterally opposed to Democrats’ election schemes, which they have said are an effort at “federalizing” elections.
Thus, even if Congress were to move ahead with a legislative response to Oversight Democrats’ claims, it is unclear whether the bill would get very far in the upper chamber.
Because of GOP opposition, it is likely that any such effort by Democrats will fail for the foreseeable future, short of the party gaining a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate.
It used to work, but not any longer. We’re on to their games. – The Liberator
Author and neuroscientist Sam Harris raised eyebrows on Twitter on Thursday over comments he made about Hunter Biden, saying that his alleged laptop controversy was less significant than the potential damage Donald Trump could do to “democracy.”
“Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement, I would not have cared,” Harris told Trigger Pod hosts Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster in a video clip that has been viewed online over 2.1 million times on Twitter.
President Joe Biden‘s son has been a repeated source of controversy, beginning with a New York Post story published just prior to the 2020 election that publicized emails allegedly showing Hunter Biden arranging a meeting between a Ukrainian business associate and his father in April 2015, and urging Biden’s “influence” in May 2014.
The report garnered even more attention when both Facebook and Twitter restricted the reach of the post on their social media networks.
Harris argued in the 90-plus minute podcast episode, titled “Trump, Religion, Wokeness,” that Hunter Biden’s actions should not be compared with those of the former president who is currently involved in various legal battles, including accusations of hiding classified documents at his Florida home.
Kisin told Newsweek that Harris’ comments were in response to the hosts asking him why he broke ranks with many former friends over Trump, as well as why he celebrated Twitter’s ban of the former president.
“Whatever the scope of what Joe Biden’s corruption is–we can just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand that he’s getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden’s deals in Ukraine or wherever else, or China–it is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in. It’s like a firefly to the sun,” Harris said during the interview.NEWSWEEK SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS >
“It doesn’t even stack up against Trump University,” he continued. “Trump University, as a story, is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden’s laptop in my view.”
Sam Harris: “Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement – I would not have cared” pic.twitter.com/FG3JI68MvO
After Harris said the social media channels limiting the reach of the New York Post story was “a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump” that was “warranted,” Kisin followed up by asking if Harris was content with such a conspiracy.
“It doesn’t matter what part’s conspiracy, what part’s out in the open,” Harris replied. “If people get together and talk about what should we do about this phenomenon…if there was an asteroid hurtling toward Earth and we got in a room together with all of our friends and had a convo about what we could do to reflect its course, is that a conspiracy?”
Harris issued a response via Twitter on Thursday afternoon after saying he didn’t speak “very clearly” in his comments, saying he “was essentially arguing for a principle of self-defense (where there’s a continuum of proportionate force that is appropriate and necessary to use).”
“On the podcast, I was speaking narrowly about the wisdom and propriety of ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop story until after the election,” Harris wrote. “I’ve always thought that this was a very hard call, ethically and journalistically…Nothing I said on that podcast was meant to suggest that the Democrats would have been right to commit election fraud or take other illegal measures to deny Trump the presidency (nor do I think they did that).”
Kisin, who describes himself politically as being in the center while Foster “is an old school leftie with some ‘small C’ conservative views, said “there was a respectful conversation about (Harris’) views” as is customary on their podcast–which does not entertain “gotcha” questions and the like.
He admitted to finding Harris’ comments regarding Hunter Biden “surprising.”
“Neither of us share his views but it’s really important that he had the space to express them,” Kisin said. “We were on Joe Rogan’s show a few weeks ago and I learned that from him: the most important thing is to let people express themselves. Then you can disagree and discuss.
“I thought we pushed back on him respectfully and also forcefully. It’s now for the viewers to make up their mind about what they watched.”
Asked about the reactions to the interview, noticeably on networks like Twitter, Kisin said he and Foster both thought it would garner plenty of attention for comments regarding the Trump Twitter ban.
“But also Sam made a lot of points we thought were important and agreed with, particularly about wokeness being a disaster,” Kisin said, adding that a paywalled portion of the interview included questions about Harris’ “controversial COVID stance” that led to a “robust debate” due to his being in favor of vaccine mandates.
Newsweek reached out to Harris for comment.
What a bunch of crap. This Newsweek piece is nothing more than a CYA piece arranged by Newsweek for Harris and his sycophants Kisin and Foster in an attempt to explain away Harris’s unconscionable comments. Harris is a smug, nihilistic atheist; a man without conscience, character or concern for truth who is the poster boy for Leftism.
And while we’re at it, his ridiculous “asteroid” example is a false equivalency as EVERYONE would be on board regarding an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, but AT LEAST half – if not more like two-thirds – of Americans are in the Trump camp and would oppose his strategy of hiding Hunter Biden’s laptop contents from the public prior to the ’20 election.
Bottom line: Sam Harris is a profoundly dishonest creep who exemplifies the dishonesty of the Left.
No, Mr. Hayden, YOU are the problem, and we are the army that is removing you and your type from power and influence. As we do, America will reverse its relentless downward spiral, and people like you will continue to lose your grip on power and reality. – The Liberator
Watching outgoing (tee hee) Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) compare herself to Ulysses S. Grant was really something. Watching her compare herself to Abraham Lincoln is now (at least so far) my favorite part of the 2022 election season.
The self-regard! The hubris! The self-love!
More like, the self-delusion.
With narcissistic sociopaths like Liz Cheney, you never know if they truly believe what they say or whether they are just saying what they’re required to remain in good standing with the Mika-Joe-Jake-Anderson-Wolf-Rachel morons.
You better tote that barge, girl. You better lift that bale.
To keep her and the rest of our insufferable elites’ delusions in place, Cheney says she’s seriously thinking of running for president in 2024.
As what?
The Democrats will chuck her the moment she stops being useful and represents even a tiny threat to their violent quest for power. Ask Cindy Sheehan about that.
As we saw in her blow-out humiliation in Wyoming, GOP voters can’t stand her.
Will she try to run as a spoiler Independent? Well, who do you think that will hurt? Donald Trump, who left office with record GOP support? Or His Fraudulency Joe Biden, who’s losing Democrat support, even among black voters?
Please, run, Liz. Run like the wind, cupcake. Run like you’ve never run before. Run like there’s a spot on The View for you at the finish line.
Hey, maybe Liz and Evan McMullin could join forces and run for president on the Smug Ticket.
Liz Cheney was not humiliated and rejected in Wyoming Tuesday night because she “betrayed Donald Trump.” Liz Cheney was humiliated and rejected because she betrayed Wyoming.
How much higher do energy prices have to explode before Liz Cheney gives up on her personal (and childish) vendetta against the Orange Whale?
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., arrives, with her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, to vote at the Teton County Library during the Republican primary election on Tuesday, Aug 16, 2022 in Jackson Hole, WY. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
How many illegal aliens have to cross the border before Liz Cheney stops allowing herself to be prostituted against all Trump supporters by Nancy Pelosi?
How much underage grooming does the left have to try and institutionalize in our schools, health care, and entertainment before Liz Cheney stops making everything about Liz Cheney and her “principles?”
How bad does crime have to get?
How many Afghanistan withdrawals?
How many Black Lives Matter riots?
How high does the price of eggs have to get before Liz Cheney disconnects from the crack pipe of establishment media love?
No one — and I do mean no one — sees Liz Cheney as principled. Everyone — including the corporate media, Democrats, and her fellow mercenaries in Never Trump — know exactly what she’s doing: using the quickest, easiest, and safest way imaginable to feather her own nest…
Betray Trump supporters = get rich quick.
The Deep State might not be able to win a war, manage a military withdrawal, handle a pandemic, or run an economy, but one thing these degenerates do better than anyone else is reward their own.
Following are selected slides from a recent presentation* by Mr. Kirsch…
Hmmm…how did he get in there? 😉
The Dems like to call claims that the election was stolen “The Big Lie”. No, The Big Lie is that this damn vaccine is safe. Bullshit! It is killing and permanently disabling hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, especially young people. Soon it will be millions as the vaccine works its magic. – The Liberator
*To view the entire slide deck click HERE and then click on “Source Slides” link under “Vaccine Essentials”.
The Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” – which according to the Congressional Budget Office will raise taxes on the middle class to the tune of $20 billion – not to mention unleash an army of IRS agents on working class Americans over the next decade, was made possible by Bill Gates and (in smaller part) Larry Summers, who have been known to hang out together.
Pals hanging out
The bill, of course, was signed yesterday.
In a Tuesday Bloomberg article that reads more like a newsletter for the Gates fan club, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder recalls how earlier this year, as moderate Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema continued to block the tax-and-spend legislation over concerns that it would raise taxes on the middle class (it will), Gates says he tapped into a relationship with Manchin that he’d been cultivating since at least 2019.
Gates was banking on more than just his trademark optimism about addressing climate change and other seemingly intractable problems that have been his focus since stepping down as Microsoft’s chief executive two decades ago. As he revealed to Bloomberg Green, he has quietly lobbied Manchin and other senators, starting before President Joe Biden had won the White House, in anticipation of a rare moment in which heavy federal spending might be secured for the clean-energy transition.
Those discussions gave him reason to believe the senator from West Virginia would come through for the climate — and he was willing to continue pressing the case himself until the very end. “The last month people felt like, OK, we tried, we’re done, it failed,” Gates said. “I believed it was a unique opportunity.” So he tapped into a relationship with Manchin that he’d cultivated for at least three years. “We were able to talk even at a time when he felt people weren’t listening.” -Bloomberg
We know, gag us with a spoon.
Apparently Gates and Manchin’s bromance began when the billionaire wooed the West Virgina Senator at a 2019 meal in Seattle, in an effort to garner support for clean-energy policy. Manchin at the time was the senior-most Democrat on the energy committee.
“My dialogue with Joe has been going on for quite a while,” said Gates.
After Manchin walked (again) on the bill last Decemberover concerns that it would exacerbate the national debt, inflation, the pandemic, and amid geopolitical uncertainty with Russia, Gates jumped into action. A few weeks later, he met with Manchin and his wife, Gayle Conelly Manchin, at a DC restaurant, where they talked about what West Virginia needed. Manchin understandably wanted to preserve jobs at the center of the US coal industry, while Gates suggested that coal plant workers could simply swap over to nuclear plants – such as those from Gates’ TerraPower.
Manchin apparently wasn’t convinced, announcing on Feb. 1 that “Build Back Better” (the Inflation Reduction Act’s previous iteration) was “dead.”
In an effort to convince him otherwise, Democrats pulled together a cadre of economists and other Manchin influencers – including former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, who convinced Manchin that the bill wouldn’t raise taxes on the middle class, or add to the deficit.
Collin O’Mara, chief executive officer of the National Wildlife Federation, recruited economists to assuage Manchin’s concerns — including representatives from the University of Chicago and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware brought in a heavyweight: former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, who has spent decades advising Democrats.
The economists were able to “send this signal that [the bill’s] going to help with the deficit,” O’Mara said. “It’s going to be slightly deflationary and it’s going to spur growth and investment in all these areas.” Through this subtle alchemy, clean-energy investments could be reframed for Manchin as a hedge against future spikes in oil and gas prices and a way to potentially export more energy to Europe. -Bloomberg
Gates also sprang into action again on July 7, when Manchin was spotted at the Sun Valley media conference in Idaho – which Gates also attended.
“We had a talk about what was missing, what needed to be done,” Gates said. “And then after that it was a lot of phone calls.”
Gates looks back at the new law with satisfaction. He achieved what he set out to do. “I will say that it’s one of the happier moments of my climate work,” Gates said. “I have two things that excite me about climate work. One is when policy gets done well, and this is by far the biggest moment like that.” His other pleasure comes from interviewing people at climate and clean-tech startups: “I hear about this amazing new way to make steel, cement and chemicals.” -Bloomberg
“I don’t want to take credit for what went on,” says Gates – in the article about how he gets credit for what went on.
When the serpent speaks, cover your ears. – The Liberator
They removed their phony “moderate” masks and betrayed the voters of West Virginia, Arizona and America. The so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” (which increases inflation and raises $20B in taxes on the middle class) is on them.
