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the hypocrite-in-chief plagiarises the great eisenhower and the teleprompter dies in shame....President Joe Biden, in his farewell address, reflected on a decades-long political career but also issued a stark warning to the nation as he prepares to cede power to President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking from behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, Biden said he was proud of what his administration accomplished as the country climbed out of the coronavirus pandemic and made investments in the economy, infrastructure, gun safety, climate change and more. "In the past four years, our democracy has held strong and every day I've kept my commitment to be president for all Americans for one of the toughest periods in our nation's history," Biden said. He commended Vice President Kamala Harris as a "great partner" as she sat nearby alongside second gentleman Doug Emhoff, first lady Jill Biden and Hunter Biden. Biden listed several of his key legislative wins, including lowering prescription drug prices, expanding benefits for military veterans exposed to burn pits, investing in domestic manufacturing of semiconductor chips and more. The impact of those policies, he noted, may not be fully realized for years to come. He also briefly highlighted the ceasefire and hostage release deal reached by Israel and Hamas earlier Wednesday, a foreign policy goal of Biden's for more than a year that became reality just days before his departure. He touted working with the incoming Trump administration to see through its implementation. "That's how it should be, working together," Biden said. But Biden spent the majority of his remarks on something he said caused him great concern -- what he said was the concentration of power in the hands of a few wealthy individuals. "Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead," he said. He spoke about the threat he said the wealthy posed to efforts to fight the dangers of climate change. "Powerful forces want to wield their unchecked influence, to eliminate the steps we've taken to tackle the climate crisis, to serve their own interest for power and profit," he said. "We must not be bullied into sacrificing the future, the future of our children and our grandchildren, must keep pushing forward and push faster. There's no time to waste." Biden also raised concerns about the rise of artificial intelligence, and the possibilities and dangers advancing technologies posed. He lamented the rise in misinformation online and what he described as a "crumbling" free press that he said were enabling abuses of power. "In his farewell address, President Eisenhower spoke of the dangers of the military industrial complex," he said. "He warned us then about, and I quote, 'the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power' ... six decades later, I'm equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country as well." Biden pushed for reforming the tax code so that billionaires pay their "fair share" and for amending the Constitution to make clear that no president is immune from criminal liability -- an apparent slight at Trump, who was previously under federal indictment for his behavior after the 2020 election and is set to be sworn into office in five days. "A president's powers is not unlimited. It's not absolute and it shouldn't be," Biden said. "And in a democracy, there's another danger to the concentration of power and wealth. It erodes the sense of unity and common purpose. It causes distrust and division." "Participating in our democracy becomes exhausting and even disillusioning," he continued. "And people don't feel like they have a fair shot. We have to stay engaged in the process." In closing, Biden reflected on his own rise as a kid from Scranton plagued by a stutter to the nation's highest office -- one that he sought repeatedly during his five decades in politics and is leaving reluctantly after withdrawing from the 2024 campaign amid Democrats' doubts. He described America's promise as a "constant struggle." "A short distance between peril and possibility," he said. "But what I believe is the America of our dreams is always closer than we think. And it's up to us to make our dreams come true." Ultimately, Biden asserted, it will be up to the president, Congress, the courts and the American people to stand up to those with ill-intent. "Now, it's your turn to stand guard," Biden said. "May you all be the keeper of the flame. May you keep the faith. I love America, you love it, too."
THE PRESIDENCY OF JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN A CATASTROPHE. SENILE SINCE 2019 (PROBABLY EARLIER AND DECEITFUL ALL HIS LIFE), HE GOT LUCKY TO GET THE GIG WHILE THE REST OF THE WORLD GOT SHAFTED BY HIS ACOLYTES IN CRIME, BLINKEN, SULLIVAN AND LLOYD AUSTIN, WHO RAN THE SHOW. MEANWHILE JOE BULLSHITTED ON HOW GOOD HE WAS... SAY FOR EXAMPLE, HIS DOING THINGS AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE WAS PITIFUL COMPARED TO THE DAMAGE HE DID BY ENGENDERING AND SUPPORTING AVOIDABLE WARS. BUT THIS IS JOE TO THE LAST DROP OF MEGALOMANIAC JUICE AND STUPID DECEIT.... BYE JOE, BYE BYE JOE... I BELIEVE SCOTT RITTER WOULD BE ECSTATIC TO SEE JOE'S BACKSIDE SHUFFLING INTO THE SUNSET.... SEE ALSO: the YD continuum since 2005....
PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.
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biden's exit.....
The legacy of outgoing US President Joe Biden will be defined by “many failures,” US House speaker Mike Johnson said in a post on X on Wednesday.
One of them was “engineering the worst border crisis in US history, bringing terrorists and violent illegals into our communities,” Johnson wrote.
According to data from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), more than 300,000 people were illegally crossing into the US from Mexico at the peak of the influx in the winter of 2022, with the number subsiding to around 100,000 since then.
Biden’s other failure was “fueling skyrocketing inflation,” which peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, the house speaker said.
He also blamed the president for “weaponizing the [Department of Justice] to target political opponents,”apparently referring to the criminal cases launched against US President-elect Donald Trump.
“Pardoning his son despite saying he never would, and giving murderers and rapists clemency” was another of Biden’s blunders, according to Johnson.
Hunter Biden had been convicted of lying about his long-standing drug addiction when buying a handgun and also pleaded guilty to three felonies and six misdemeanor tax offenses. However, the president pardoned his son in December, claiming that he was prosecuted “selectively and unfairly” because of his familial ties.
The 81-year-old Biden was also “hiding from the American people his mental decline,” the speaker noted.
Biden withdrew from the presidential race in July and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement amid pressure from his own Democratic Party not to seek reelection after a poor performance during his first debate with Trump.
Johnson’s critique also included two foreign policy flops by the outgoing president, “orchestrating the disastrous withdrawal [of US forces] from Afghanistan” in 2021 and “emboldening enemies through a policy of appeasement.”
During his speech at the Department of State on Monday, Biden, who will be succeeded by Trump on January 20, claimed that “the US is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years ago”under his leadership.
READ MORE: Biden warns of ‘oligarchy’“America is stronger. Our alliances are stronger,” he insisted, suggesting that the fact that nations like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have been growing closer together during his term was a sign of their weaknesses.
https://www.rt.com/news/611015-biden-johnson-us-trump/
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biden's sacrifice...We should acknowledge that Biden's dealings with Burisma/Ukraine were not corrupt, but HIGHLY CORRUPT. Mind you, Joe Biden was prepared to sacrifice his clean Christian image so the US could spread de-mo-cra-cy in Ukraine — in the name of justice and freedom the American way and take Ukraine away from the clutches of Nasty Russia.
Ukraine being a highly corrupted country, in order to get a look in, one needed to play the game, even after the Revolution of Dignity (Maidan 2014 — inspired and financed in a great part by US cash to the Ukrainian Nazis).To recap:Burisma was (is) a company that “belongs” to Zlochevsky, a former minister of Ecology in the Yanukovych government, who awarded gas and oil leases to himself. Corruption galore.
Burisma was thus prosecuted under the Poroshenko regime for Zlochevsky awarding gas and oil leases to himself when a minister.
Poroshenko was a smart operator who wanted “some of the Burisma cake”. Poroshenko had made his fortune by importing chocolates, sinking and buying all his competitors and “making” deals with other big business in ways that could be compared to Mafia's protection money. When he became President of Ukraine, he got all the big companies investigated by the PGO. The concept was to stop all operations of these companies until they paid bribes. Poroshenko was not too greedy as to kill the goose (geese), though.
For example, Zlochevsky’s Burisma was asked to pay $1million a month to the Poroshenko outfit. This was in the form of free gas to Poroshenko’s own companies. Zlochevsky was still “investigated", but his company was thus allowed to operate. Zlochevsky was not too happy. he wanted the investigation closed. He made a proposal in 2015, relayed by a certain Onyschenko to Poroshenko: $50 million to Poroshenko to close the investigation. Onyschenko secretly recording his conversation with Poroshenko (eventually the recording became public. There is a small connection to Shell and ExxonMobil being exempt of something).
Petro Poroshenko: "Kolya [Zlochevsky] is a good guy... I’ll think about what can be done. The Americans have been getting angry about him lately.”
Oleksander Onyschenko: “in theory, They shouldn’t do anything against him, because Biden’s son is on the board. And so is Kwasniewski. So Westerners won’t be stepping on our toes when I talk to Kolya [Zlochevsky].
Petro Poroshenko: “Well, I’ll think about what can be done. say hello to Kolya for me."
Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former Polish president and a board member for Ukrainian gas company Burisma, said that when Hunter Biden was "asked" in 2014 to join its advisory board, he told him that the company was working to overcome a difficult past and was determined to be well-managed and transparent. Kwasniewski and Hunter Biden were placed on the Burisma board by Zlochevsky, for “protection”.
If Burisma succeeded in tapping into Ukraine's gas deposits, it would help Ukraine get energy independence from Russia, a key part of its broader struggle to exist as an sovereign nation.
“Independence from Russia…” is the key to the whole charade…
Thus the US embassy in Kyiv was in two minds about investigating Burisma. Some staff “wanted" an investigation. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt was neutral. And Poroshenko “had to agree with the Americans”… According to whistleblowers, this was seen "as a way to get some black cash for the US elections"… They could participate in the collection of bribe moneys from Burisma. Biden saw Poroshenko in 2015. Joe Biden gave six hours to Poroshenko to stop the prosecution into Burisma. The Prosecutor was Shokin.
Was this a corrupt act from Joe Biden? YES AND YES AND YES. ONE CANNOT GO IN ANOTHER COUNTRY AND INTERFERE WITH ITS JUSTICE SYSTEM, crooked or not... But Biden gloated about it:
“I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."
The investigations were terminated by prosecutor Lutsenko in 2017 who got a lot of money to stop the investigation — as well as Poroshenko.
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The investigators had raised the hard fact that Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma. This was annoying to their probe… Poroshenko could “not do everything… because the American (Hunter Biden) was there."
The prosecutors in Ukraine were afraid of losing their visa to the USA, should they prosecute Burisma, because of the US connection via Hunter Biden.
Despite Kwasniewski assurances, Zlochevsky had ONLY given the job to Hunter Biden to prevent any investigation into his company, as Joe Biden was the Vice President of the United States. This has been rigorously verified.
But in order to really stop the investigation, before Shokin came along, there were "suggestions” within Burisma of bribing the prosecutor general office (which demanded bribes to stop the investigation)…
Zlochevsky paid, sharing the money to Poroshenko and to the PGO… Controlling corruption by benefitting from corruption was the name of the game. It has been confirmed that investigations into Burisma started under prosecutor Vitaly Yarema.
Shokin (the new so-called “inefficient” prosecutor) had found out that Burisma didn’t just pay $50,000 every months to Hunter Biden but about $3.6 million in hidden money transfers to a Hunter Biden Company. Poroshenko told Onyschenko that Biden had interests into Burisma and they would close the case. So, Zlochevsky paid dark moneys to Biden and Poroshenko. Case closed (after Joe Biden’s intervention) — before the US elections. Now the case has been reopened.
Documents have shown that many members of the Ukrainian parliament had been bribed [by Poroshenko’s government] to vote in favour of Shokin’s removal as a prosecutor.
Meanwhile in the USA, Shokin would be described as "an inefficient prosecutor" by the State Department, replace by "someone who was solid at the time…"
And the “liberal” MSM publishes that Shokin was removed because he was inefficient… Joe Biden is above board. Easy fix.
And we still don’t know of other Biden fiddles, which might surface tomorrow...
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"If His Name Was Hunter Smith He Probably Wouldn't Be Getting Paid"
SEE ALSO: https://www.rt.com/news/610994-hunter-biden-art-destroyed-fire/
SEE ALSO: https://johnmenadue.com/joe-bidens-legacy-the-palestinian-genocide/
go joe, go....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMFJs3pmq54
Bill O'Reilly and Stephen A. Smith Reacts to Joe Biden's Farewell Speech on NewsNationBill O'Reilly and Stephen A. Smith voice their dissatisfaction with President Biden's goodbye speech on NewsNation with Chris Cuomo.
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