Yes, not a recession or depression.
Cause, you know, biden said so.

 

all doom and gloom, how can we make america great again? lol.

 

We can start at mid terms.
That will corral biden and the extreme liberals.

Then in 2024 new blood, someone who sits pretty much middle of the road and can bring together despicables and deplorables.
A tall order but doable. If we get the clowns out of office and a true patriot in their place.

And shooter doesn't care what political party puts them there.

 

All this talk about the definition of a recession. Have you noticed lately there is less traffic, and restaurants have fewer customers??? So what do you call it when people can no longer afford to drive and eat?

biden's new world economy?

 

We could call it build down worse.

 

Biden compares his COVID recovery to Trump's: 'He had to get helicoptered to Walter Reed'
Kayla Gallagher
Jul 27, 2022, 11:03 AM




Former President Donald Trump and Current President Joe Biden both contracted COVID-19 during their time in office.
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• After testing negative for COVID-19, President Biden delivered remarks from the Rose Garden.
• Biden encouraged Americans to get vaccinated and boosted.
• He said his recovery differed from former President Donald Trump because he was vaccinated.

After testing negative for the coronavirus on Wednesday, President Joe Biden delivered remarks from the White House Rose Garden where he compared his recovery to former President Donald Trump's. Biden said that he was able to work while he was sick thanks to the vaccine.

"When my predecessor got COVID, he had to get helicoptered to Walter Reed medical center, he was severely ill. Thankfully, he recovered," Biden said.

"When I got COVID, I worked from upstairs of the White House and the offices upstairs and for that five-day period. The difference is vaccinations, of course," he continued.

Trump tested positive in September of 2021 and was hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center at the recommendation of his presidential physicians. The two presidents also took extremely different approaches when it came to addressing the pandemic.


Biden is vaccinated and twice boosted, but when Trump contracted the virus, vaccines were not available yet.

"You don't need to be President to get these tools to use for your defense," Biden said.

His speech encouraged Americans to get vaccinated, boosted, and seek out treatments because they are "widely available." He noted that while "COVID isn't gone," deaths have gone down "nearly 90%."

Biden's speech was his first public appearance in six days. He completed a five-day PAXLOVID treatment as part of his recovery.


"I got through with no fear," he said. "Now, I get to go back to the Oval Office."

https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-speech-covid-recovery-trump-vaccines-walter-reed-2022-7

 

Huh.
So apparently dementia is a natural vaccine to covid.

 

U.S. Congress passes long-awaited bill to boost chipmakers, compete with China

WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed sweeping legislation on Thursday to subsidize the domestic semiconductor industry as it competes with Chinese and other foreign manufacturers, a victory for President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats hoping to keep their slim majority in Congress in November midterm elections.

The final vote was 243 to 187, with one Democrat - Representative Sara Jacobs - voting present. Twenty-four Republicans joined 218 Democrats in backing the measure. Passage sends the bill to the White House, where Biden is expected to sign it into law as soon as early next week.



The Senate passed the "Chips and Science" act with bipartisan support on Wednesday, after more than a year of effort. A rare major foray into U.S. industrial policy, the bill provides about $52 billion in government subsidies for U.S. production of semiconductors used in everything from automobiles and high-tech weaponry to electronic devices and video games. It also includes an investment tax credit for chip plants estimated to be worth $24 billion. read more


The legislation would also authorize $200 billion over 10 years to boost U.S. scientific research to better compete with China. Congress would still need to pass separate appropriations legislation to fund those investments. read more

The bill passed hours after Biden had a telephone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in which Xi warned Biden against "playing with fire" over Taiwan. Aides had said the leaders of the world's two largest economies also would discuss supply chain and other economic issues. read more



China had lobbied against the semiconductor bill. The Chinese Embassy in Washington said China "firmly opposed" it, calling it reminiscent of a "Cold War mentality" and "counter to the common aspiration of people" in both countries.


Many U.S. lawmakers had said they normally would not support hefty subsidies for private businesses but noted that China and the European Union have been awarding billions in incentives to their chip companies. They also cited national security risks and huge global supply chain problems that have hampered global manufacturing.

Representative Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was one "yes" vote from his party. "We need to manufacture (chips) in this country, and not let it go offshore," he told reporters before the vote.

"... This is vitally important to our national security," McCaul said.

At the White House, Biden interrupted a meeting on the economy with corporate executives when told the House had passed the chips bill. "The House has passed it," Biden said, looking delighted, to applause in the room.

House members cheered after the bill passed. The measure had been in the works for more than a year. The Senate passed a bill in June 2021 with strong bipartisan support, only to have it stall for months in the House as Republicans and Democrats disputed whether it should include provisions addressing issues such as climate change and China's human rights record.

The chips bill passed the House by a narrower-than-expected margin after some Republicans pulled support at the last minute.

Republican party leaders told members to vote against the bill after the announcement on Wednesday of an agreement between Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin that could pave the way for Senate passage of separate legislation to increase corporate taxes, reduce the national debt, invest in energy technologies and lower the cost of prescription drugs.

Democrats hope such legislative achievements will help them in the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Republicans hope to regain control of the Senate, and some polls have them favored to win a majority in the House of Representatives.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/...ost-chipmakers-compete-with-china-2022-07-28/

 

‘I’ve Never Spoken to My Son About His Overseas Business Dealings’: 17 Times Joe Biden Got Involved in the Family Business



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President Joe Biden was involved in his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings at least 17 times over ten years, records from Hunter’s “laptop from hell” and reports show.

Though Joe Biden and his staff have claimed at least seven times that the president has not been involved in the family business, 17 pieces of evidence suggest Joe Biden has played an influential role in his son Hunter and brother James’s activities. Fifty-eight percent of voters believe that Joe Biden has played a role in his family’s business. Sixty percent say Hunter Biden has sold “influence and access” to the president

One:

In 2012, Vice President Joe Biden met with Eric Schwerin, the former president of the investment fund Rosemont Seneca Partners — which Hunter Biden co-founded — and former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana Arango at the Naval Observatory, the vice president’s residence, on March 2, 2012, the New York Post reported.

Two:

In 2013, Hunter flew to China with Vice President Joe Biden aboard Air Force Two. During the excursion, Hunter introduced the vice president to his business partner Jonathan Li, the CEO of a company linked to Chinese oil interests to which the Biden administration reportedly sold 950,000 barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve in 2022.

China issued Hunter’s firm a business license ten days after the visit. The firm also won a $1 billion investment from a state-owned financial institution, the New York Post reported:

Ten days later, Hunter’s company inked a deal with the state-owned Bank of China and created the $1 billion investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR), according to reporting by Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and the best-selling author of “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.”

A representative for BHR told The New Yorker in July 2019 that Hunter Biden introduced his father to Chinese private equity executive Jonathan Li during the trip. Li later became the CEO of BHR.

Three:

Photos from 2014 reveal that Joe Biden met with Hunter’s Mexican business associates, billionaire Miguel Alemán Velasco and his son Miguel Aleman Magnani, in the vice president’s office.

“The then-vice president also flew Hunter and his partner Jeff Cooper on Air Force 2 to Mexico City in 2016 where Hunter arranged to meet Alemán’s son for meetings over a ‘flippin gigantic’ business deal,” the Daily Mail reported.

Four:

In 2014, a photo shows Joe Biden golfing with Hunter and Devon Archer, Hunter’s fellow board member at the Ukrainian gas company Burisma. Archer is now in prison for fraud.

“The photograph includes a fourth man who has not been identified. However, he is not Burisma’s top executive Taras Burdeinyi or founder Mykola Zlochevsky. Photographs of both men can be seen here and here,” Reuters reported.

Five:

Emails from 2015 show that Hunter and Joe Biden met with Francis Person, who was a former adviser to the vice president. Person became president of the Harves Group after leaving Joe Biden’s office in 2014.

“According to Person’s Linkedin, which was recently deleted within the last couple weeks, he ‘[h]elped guide the formation of the Harves Group headquartered in Washington DC, serving as the U.S. affiliate of Harves [Century Group],’ a ‘top tier private chinese real estate development firm,”‘ Fox News reported:

In 2016, when Person was running Harves and emailing with Hunter and Schwerin regarding business deals, he was also running for Congress in South Carolina’s 5th Congressional District. In September of that year, then-Vice President Biden traveled down to South Carolina for a fundraiser for Person. In addition to the visit, Hunter and Schwerin were recruiting their business associates behind the scenes to donate thousands of dollars to the campaign, according to emails reviewed by Fox News Digital. A 2014 Politico profile piece on Person quotes then-Second Lady Jill Biden saying, “Fran has been like a son to Joe and me. For eight years, we traveled the country, shared holidays together … Fran may be leaving the office, but he will always be a part of our family.”

Six:

In 2015, Hunter and Joe Biden met with business associates from Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan at a popular Washington, DC, restaurant. Joe Biden was then vice president. The New York Post reported:

Online photos of the interior of Cafe Milano match the background of the shot that shows the Bidens smiling while flanked by Kazakhstani oligarch Kenes Rakishev and Karim Massimov, a former prime minister of Kazakhstan.

Seven:

In 2015, the day after Joe and Hunter Biden met with the foreign business partners at Cafe Milano, one of the men emailed Hunter his thanks for the “opportunity to meet your father.” The New York Post reported:

The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.

“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email reads.

An earlier email from May 2014 also shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma’s No. 3 exec, asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf.

Eight:

In 2016, Hunter and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two to Mexico, where Hunter met with a business associate from Mexico City. On the trip, Jeff Cooper, who ran a large litigation firm, SimmonsCooper, invested $1 million in Hunter and James’ now-defunct hedge fund. The New York Post reported:

SimmonsCooper also put up $1 million in investment capital for Hunter and his uncle Jim [James] Biden’s abortive attempt to run a hedge fund in 2009. When the venture ended, the Bidens returned the money.

Cooper joined the VP’s entourage on Air Force Two to Mexico in 2016, when he and Hunter were trying to negotiate an ill-fated petroleum deal with Aleman Magnani.

At 6 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2016, about an hour after “wheels up” from Joint Base Andrews on the five-hour flight to Mexico City, Hunter wrote a plaintive email to Aleman Magnani using Air Force Two’s secure, high-speed satellite communications channel. He blind-copied Cooper.

Nine:

In 2017, Joe Biden penned a college recommendation letter for a child of Hunter’s Chinese business partner, Jonathan Li, with whom Joe Biden had met in China. Hunter’s attorney told the Times that Joe Biden’s son left BHR’s board in 2020.

Ten:

In 2017, Hunter stated in an email that Joe Biden was one of his “new office mates” after he “went into business with the CEFC executive,” according to the Washington Post. Hunter also made a key for Joe Biden to use at the House of Sweden in Georgetown. The Post reported:

On Sept. 21, 2017, Hunter Biden wrote to a building manager requesting new office signage to reflect a new family enterprise and a new business relationship: “The Biden Foundation and Hudson West (CEFC-US),” he wrote in emails to the property manager.

He also requested keys for his new office mates: his father, Joe; his mother, Jill; his uncle James; and the Chinese executive, Gongwen Dong.

As part of the request, he provided what he said was his father’s cellphone number, saying an office representative could use it to contact his new office mates.

Eleven:

In 2017, Tony Bobulinski, one of Hunter’s many business partners, twice met with Joe Biden to discuss a business deal in China. “I directly dealt with the Biden family, including Joe Biden,” Bobulinski stated.

Twelve:

After Bobulinski dined with former Vice President Joe Biden, brother Jim Biden, and Hunter to discuss their deal in China, Bobulinski messaged James, telling him to “thank Joe for his time.”

Between 2009 and 2017, Hunter’s business partner, Eric Schwerin, met with Vice President Joe Biden at the White House 19 times, White House visitor logs obtained by the New York Post revealed. Schwerin was the president of the infamous but now-dissolved investment fund Rosemont Seneca Partners.

Fourteen:

In 2018, two years after Joe and Hunter Biden flew to Mexico to meet with Cooper, Hunter texted Cooper about a deal he had in the works with a business partner named Slim, the New York Post reported. “Spoke to my dad about ‘Slim ask,’” Hunter said to Cooper. “Oh that sounds SO F’ING GOOD,” Cooper responded.

Fifteen:

In 2018, Joe Biden called Hunter and left a voicemail about a business deal with the Chinese energy company CEFC. The voicemail revealed the Biden family’s concern that sensitive information was included in a New York Times article about Hunter’s involvement with CEFC’s chairman Ye Jianming. “Hey pal, it’s Dad. It’s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance just give me a call. Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk to you,” Joe Biden said.

“I thought the article released online, it’s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good. I think you’re clear. And anyway if you get a chance give me a call, I love you,” the message concluded.

Sixteen:

In 2019, Hunter’s “laptop from hell” revealed the Biden family’s payout vehicle for income derived from the family’s business deals. The mechanism includes a collection of 50 percent of familial salaries for 30 years. Hunter reportedly paid thousands of dollars for Joe Biden’s house repairs from the money reportedly obtained from selling access to Joe Biden.

“I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years,” Hunter described in texts to his daughter. “It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike Pop [Joe], I won’t make you give me half your salary.”

Seventeen:

In 2020, Hunter Biden’s business partner, James Gilliar, who named Joe Biden ‘the big guy’ in a 2017 email, again referred to Joe Biden as “the Big Guy” in a text conversation the day the New York Post began publishing the “Laptop from Hell” series, the Post reported. Gilliar received a “panicked” message from an unnamed person on October 14, 2020, about Joe Biden’s involvement with the family business on the same day the Post began breaking the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” series.

 

Well, but it's kind of like when someone says "it depends on what your definition of is, is"

As they used to say in the used car business, the first liar ain't got a chance.

 

And didja see?
Biden said no tax increase for those making less than $400,000 a year.
Then he said, well, but we meant for those HOUSEHOLDS making less than $400,000 a year.

Know how to tell if Joe is lying?
His heart is still beating.

Sometimes being right isn't much fun.

Most Americans will feel tax pain from Dem inflation bill despite Biden's past promises: analysis (msn.com)

he vast majority of Americans will pay more in taxes as a result of Democrats' inflation bill despite President Biden's pledge not to raise taxes on those making under $400,000 per year.

The Inflation Reduction Act — unveiled Wednesday by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and endorsed by Biden — would increase tax revenue by $16.7 billion from Americans earning less than $200,000 a year, according to a nonpartisan analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) published Friday. Nearly every tax bracket would pay more in taxes with those making below $10,000 per year seeing the largest uptick, the analysis showed.

"The more this bill is analyzed by impartial experts, the more we can see Democrats are trying to sell the American people a bill of goods," Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, said in a statement Saturday. "Non-partisan analysts are confirming this bill raises taxes on the middle class and produces no meaningful deficit reduction when gimmicks are removed and the full cost is accounted for."

However, Biden has repeatedly pledged that Americans earning less than $400,000 per year would not experience any tax increase during his presidency. The president originally made the pledge during his 2020 campaign.

"This bill will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year," Biden remarked Thursday during a speech about the legislation. "And I promise — a promise I made during the campaign and one which that I ha- — that I’ve have kept."

In 2023, the year in which the legislation would increase tax revenue most, individuals making less than $10,000 per year would pay 3.1% more in taxes and those making between $20,000-30,000 per year would see a 1.1% tax increase, the JCT analysis showed. Tax revenue collected from those making $100,000 per year or less would increase by $5.8 billion in 2023 under the Inflation Reduction Act.

In addition, the share of tax revenue collected from all Americans making more than $200,000 per year would remain at the current percentage, according to the JCT. Taxpayers with an annual income of $200,000 or greater pay more than 57% of all federal income taxes.

The Inflation Reduction Act, though, boosts Internal Revenue Service enforcement, a provision that is expected to increase federal tax revenue by $124 billion. The bill also creates a minimum corporate tax rate of 15% which is expected to boost federal tax revenue by $313 billion.

"There's a $25 billion crude oil tax in this bill," he added. "That's something that's going to hit everyone. That's a regressive tax increase on poor people that raises their energy costs, raises the price of gasoline."

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg previously said that a gasoline tax increase would violate Biden's pledge not to raise taxes on middle class Americans.

 

Red Ink Sea

 

Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again, will continue isolation
White House doctor says Biden feels well but 'occasional cough' still remains

 

Even in COVID isolation President Biden is making hay over the defeat of the Kansas anti abortion referendum. And he is just hammering treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans on the cruelty and harm of their abortion bans. President Biden is making sure abortion is on the ballot for the midterms. And it probably helps doing it in isolation because right now he's about as popular as a case of the clap and hitting the campaign trail might do more harm than good for Democrats. So this way he can just fight for himself.

And President Biden's approval rating is ticking up and the falling prices for oil and gasoline and some legislative wins should really help that.

 

The cruelty and harm of their abortion bans ....................

Course, if you believe life begins right around conception the real cruelty and harm comes when the doctor does the abortion.

Not that they'd expect a shallow minded prejudiced bigot like the american hater to give a flying fuck about that, eh?

 

I'm still waiting to hear why anyone's opinion other than the mother (parents), and their doctor really matter? How is it that the opinions of complete strangers should have any impact on anyone else's life?

 

Midterm Heat: 6 Democrats Who Refuse to Support Joe Biden Running Again in 2024

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At least six Democrats have opted to play it safe and not voice support for a President Joe Biden 2024 reelection bid heading into the midterm elections.

While voters have soured on Biden, with 64 percent of Democrats not supporting Biden’s 2024 reelection hopes, midterm candidates are following their electorate’s lead for fear that supporting the Democrat party’s leader will hurt them in their elections. According to a July 27 CNN poll, 75 percent of Democrat voters want Biden replaced atop the 2024 presidential ticket, up from 51 percent in February.

Biden’s hopes of retaining reelection support came to a head on Tuesday when Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) declined to voice support for Biden in the primary debate for New York’s 12th congressional district. Nadler and Maloney are in a highly contested primary battle after state redistricting place them in the same district after serving in Congress for decades.

“Too early to say,” Judiciary Committee chairman Nadler told the moderator. “I don’t believe he’s running for re-election,” Oversight and Reform chairwoman Maloney admitted to the audience.

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Nadler and Maloney, both establishment politicians, are not outliers. Far-left populist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has also declined to support Biden’s reelection hopes.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it,” Ocasio-Cortez told CNN in June. “If the president has a vision and that’s something we’re all willing to entertain and examine when the time comes … we should endorse when we get to it. We’ll take a look at it.”


President Joe Biden in Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 28, 2022. (Oliver Contreras/Bloomberg)

Reps. Dean Phillips (D-MN) and Angie Craig (D-MN) have also refused to support Biden in 2024. “The country would be well-served by a new generation of compelling, well-prepared, dynamic Democrats who step up,” Phillips said about opposing Biden’s reelection.


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol December 8, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Craig told MinnPost on August 2 that she wants a new form of Democrat in power after the November elections. “I’m talking about Congress and I’m talking about up and down the ballot,” Craig said. “I think Dean Phillips and I are in lockstep and alignment with that and I’m going to do everything in my power as a member of Congress to make sure that we have a new generation of leadership.”


Reps. Angie Craig (D-MN) and Dean Phillips (D-MN) on January 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Failure to support Biden extends past the House. For example, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who hails from a state that overwhelmingly supported former President Donald Trump in 2020, has also declined to voice unwavering support for Biden’s hopes of winning in 2024.

“You know, I’m not making those choices or decisions on that. I’m going to work with whatever I have,” Manchin told NBC News’s Meet the Press, when asked about Democrats’ prospects in the midterms.

“Everybody’s worried about the election. That’s the problem,” Manchin reiterated on ABC News’s This Week. “It’s a 2022 election, 2024 election. I’m not getting involved in…”


Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 21, 2022. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

The lack of support for Biden comes as the nation is reeling from 40-year-high inflation, soaring gas prices, a recession, an invasion on the southern border, supply chain woes, and the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal that left 13 U.S. service members dead and hundreds stranded behind enemy lines.

Despite the crises, Biden reportedly told former President Barack Obama in April he intends to run in 2024 because the president believes he is the only Democrat who can defeat a potential presidential bid by Donald Trump. Yet public opinion seems to be in Trump’s favor. Multiple polls have shown Biden behind Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head contest.

According to a July 14 poll by Politico/Morning Consult, just 14 percent of voters believe Biden is definitely running in 2024. Another 14 percent say Biden will only probably run in 2024. Forty-six percent say Biden will definitely not run in 2024, along with 18 percent who indicate he probably will not.