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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2700 on: April 21, 2023, 09:31:35 AM »
Ex-CIA Official: Antony Blinken Prompted Infamous Intel Statement Calling Hunter Biden Laptop Russian Disinfo
The Federalist ^ | 04/21/2023 | Shawn Fleetwood
Posted on 4/21/2023, 12:18:00 PM by SeekAndFind

According to former deputy director of the CIA Michael Morell, Antony Blinken ‘set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement’ that baselessly asserted Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.
A former CIA official testified that then-Biden campaign adviser and now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken played a role in the creation of a debunked letter from 51 former intelligence officials that falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.

On Thursday, Ohio Reps. Jim Jordan and Michael Turner, chairmen of the Judiciary and Intel Committees, respectively, sent a letter to Blinken informing him that their committees are “conducting oversight of federal law-enforcement and intelligence matters within [their] respective jurisdictions.”

“We are examining that public statement signed by 51 former intelligence officials that falsely discredited a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop as supposed Russian disinformation,” they wrote. “As part of our oversight, we have learned that you played a role in the inception of this statement while serving as a Biden campaign advisor, and we therefore request your assistance with our oversight.”

During his recent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Michael Morell, a former deputy director of the CIA who signed onto the letter, revealed that “on or around October 17, 2020, [Blinken] reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story,” which had been published in the New York Post on Oct. 14. According to Morell, Blinken’s outreach “set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement” that baselessly asserted the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

When asked if he had any intent to write the statement prior to Blinken’s call, Morell said he “did not,” confirming the call “absolutely” pushed him to write it. Blinken would later email Morell an article from USA Today that same day “alleging that the FBI was examining whether the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a ‘disinformation campaign.'”

Blinken wasn’t the only Biden campaign official Morell was in contact with regarding the statement, however. Morell also claimed that following the Oct. 22, 2020, presidential debate, Steve Ricchetti, Biden’s campaign chairman, reached out to him to personally thank him “for putting the statement out.”

He further said the Biden campaign was involved in strategically disseminating the statement to the public. According to the Jordan-Turner letter, Morell testified that “he sent an email telling Nick Shapiro, former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the Director of the CIA John Brennan, that the Biden campaign wanted the statement to go to a particular reporter at the Washington Post first and that he should send the statement to the campaign when he sent the letter to the reporter.”

Brennan, along with former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director Leon Panetta, was among the former intel officials who signed the phony statement.

Morell later claimed in his testimony that there were two intents behind releasing the statement, one being for former intel officials to share their alleged “concern with the American people that the Russians were playing on this issue.” The other was to “help Vice President Biden.”

“You wanted to help the vice president, why?” asked Jordan, to which Morell replied, “Because I wanted him to win the election.”

The debunked letter signed by Morell and dozens of other former intel officials wasn’t just used by corporate media to dismiss a major story implicating the Biden family. It was used by Joe Biden in his Oct. 22 debate with then-President Donald Trump to dispell Trump’s criticisms of the Bidens’ shady business dealings.

“Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, [President Trump’s] accusing me of is a Russian plan,” Biden said. “They have said this has all the characteristics — four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani.”

Shortly after the Post’s publication of the laptop story, Big Tech outlets collectively launched a vicious censorship campaign aimed at preventing its circulation. As revealed in the “Twitter Files,” Twitter “took extraordinary steps to suppress the story,” which included “removing links,” “posting warnings that it may be ‘unsafe,'” and blocking “its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.”

Meanwhile, during an August interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook algorithmically suppressed stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop during the 2020 election after being primed to do so by the FBI. According to Zuckerberg, the FBI warned Facebook about forthcoming “Russian propaganda” just before reports of the laptop dropped.

“This concerted effort to minimize and suppress public dissemination of the serious allegations about the Biden family was a grave disservice to all American citizens’ informed participation in our democracy,” Jordan and Turner wrote.

In concluding their letter to Blinken, the Republican congressmen asked the secretary of state to “produce all documents and communications” and “identify all people with whom [he] communicated” regarding the October 2020 statement decrying the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation by May 4.

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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2701 on: April 21, 2023, 10:36:01 AM »



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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2704 on: April 25, 2023, 01:29:09 PM »
Newly Revealed Emails Between Antony Blinken and Hunter Biden Blow Open a Web of Corruption
Red State ^ | By Bonchie | 3:32 PM on April 25, 2023
Posted on 4/25/2023, 4:28:37 PM by Red Badger

Newly revealed emails between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Hunter Biden are raising eyebrows. According to Fox News, the president’s son had a close relationship with Blinken. That included Hunter Biden being hosted at the State Department in 2015.

Why is that year important? Because it was right at the peak of Hunter Biden’s foreign escapades, including his stint on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a meeting with Hunter Biden at the State Department in July 2015 when he was serving as the deputy secretary of state in the Obama-Biden administration and Hunter was on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, according to emails reviewed and verified by Fox News Digital.

The ties between Blinken and Hunter Biden could face increased scrutiny after former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell testified to the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees last week that Blinken, as President Biden’s then-campaign senior adviser, “played a role in the inception” of the public statement signed by intelligence officials claiming Hunter’s abandoned laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.

The pieces are starting to come together, and the web of corruption is expanding. As RedState reported previously, Blinken, acting on behalf of the 2020 Biden campaign, was the driving force behind the infamous letter from 51 current and former intel agents decrying the Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation.” That letter was then used in a debate by Biden to dismiss the story and claim the Russians were involved.

That’s small potatoes compared to what these emails show, though. According to one of them, Hunter Biden requested an in-person meeting with Blinken. Upon his invitation being accepted, the president’s son then forwarded the email to Devon Archer. Why is that important? Because Archer also served on the board of Burisma.

“Have a few minutes next week to grab a cup of coffee?” Hunter asked. “I know you are impossibly busy, but would like to get your advice on a couple of things.”

“Absolutely,” Blinken replied. “I’m just about to land in Tokyo en route back DC from Burma. I’ll be in office from Tuesday on. Copying Linda in my office to find a good time. Look forward to seeing you. Tony.”

Hunter then forwarded Blinken’s response to his business partner and fellow Burisma board member, Devon Archer.

Reportedly, the original meeting didn’t take place. It was rescheduled in July 2015, and Blinken sent a follow-up email to Hunter Biden saying it was great to “catch up.” Hunter Biden was apparently in contact with Blinken years before that, though. Another email shows that he got in contact with Blinken’s wife and solicited his personal email address to send him “something.”

Ask yourself, what Hunter Biden, who was on the board of Burisma at the time, could have possibly had to talk about with Blinken that wasn’t business related? And why was he alerting a member of the Burisma board about the meeting? Whatever was said in that meeting would likely be of a lot of interest to House Republicans as they probe the Biden family.

Wherever this leads, it’s clear that Blinken is not an innocent bystander in all this. In just a week, he’s been exposed as a Biden family lackey in multiple ways. Did he abuse his office at the State Department to help Hunter Biden? It sure looks that way, but we’ll need more information to see how far this really goes.

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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2705 on: April 27, 2023, 05:58:03 AM »
Whistleblower Mysteriously Disappears after Vowing to Testify against Biden Family
SLAY ^ | April 27, 2023 - 8:35 am | Frank Bergman
Posted on 4/27/2023, 8:55:34 AM by Red Badger

A whistleblower has mysteriously disappeared without a trace after coming forward with information about Democrat President Joe Biden and his family’s business dealings.

Israeli Professor Gal Luft has not been heard from since April 19.

In 2019, Luft independently approached the FBI as a whistleblower.

He reported to the federal agency that he had information regarding nefarious dealings by the Biden family.

However, the FBI reportedly never followed up with Luft on his claims.

The information that Luft gave to the FBI apparently runs parallel to, and possibly even corroborates, the content on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop.

Luft’s testimony would have been especially significant since Hunter’s laptop was not public knowledge in 2019.

Nevertheless, rather than investigate the claims, the Southern District of New York instead issued an arrest warrant and extradition request against the whistleblower.

Almost four years after approaching the FBI, Luft was arrested at an airport in Cyprus on February 16 on his way back home to Israel.

He was arrested on a series of eyebrow-raising charges related to arms trafficking and espionage.

Luft commented on the situation on Twitter and accused the U.S. federal government of persecuting him to protect the Bidens.

“I’ve been arrested in Cyprus on a politically motivated extradition request by the US,” Luft tweeted.

“The US, claiming I’m an arms dealer. It would be funny if it weren’t tragic.

“I’ve never been an arms dealer,” he asserted.

“[The Department of Justice] is trying to bury me to protect Joe, Jim & Hunter Biden. Shall I name names?”


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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2707 on: April 27, 2023, 10:46:04 AM »
Biden Child Trafficking Ring (This is bullpucky and you know it Coach... or you should if you had half a brain.)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/the-biden-legacy-hhs-whistleblower-tara-lee-rodas-tells-congress-biden-administration-is-middleman-in-multi-billion-dollar-migrant-child-trafficking-operation/?fbclid=PAAaYCX3wKDDsVnWPpbvWCx1fXIWe1evdbZxr9j04dakMKFBJ6Jxw-T_0PpRg



Hey Coach. rather than post the Gateway Pundit's typically distorted untruthful version of what Tara Lee Rodas said on April 26, 2023, why not her actual testimony? Guess you prefer the sensationalized lies that support your foregone right wing nut job theories and erroneous views. Too bad because child trafficking is a serious issue that needs immediate attention, which is what she's asking for. The Gateway Pundit turns it into a political football. Since most intelligent people don't put any stock in what the Gateway Pundit publishes, their half-truths and outright lies work against resolving this serious problem.

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/rodas-testimony.pdf

Here are some of Ms. Ried's key remarks from her testimony yesterday which at the Gateway Pundit intentionally left out of their asinine misleading article:

"My goal is to inspire action to safeguard the lives of migrant children, including the staggering 85,000 that are missing."

"Today, children will work overnight shifts at slaughterhouses, factories, restaurants to pay their
debts to smugglers and traffickers. Today, children will be sold for sex. Today, children will call a
hotline to report the are being abused, neglected, and trafficked. For nearly a decade,
unaccompanied children have been suffering in the shadows."


(in 2021) "...I volunteered to help the Biden Administration with the crisis at the Southern Border...  to help the HHS Office of
Refugee Resettlement reunite children with sponsors in the US."

"Whether intentional or not, it can be argued that the US Government has become the
middleman in a large scale, multi-billion-dollar, child trafficking operation run by bad actors
seeking to profit off the lives of children." Note: she did not say this was intentional, she alluded to that.

"I don’t view this as a political issue. I view this as a humanitarian issue."

"It’s my hope you’ll take action to end this crisis and safeguard the lives of these vulnerable children."

"People have asked me, 'What would you do to turn the ship around?'" Ms. Rodas goes on to list several excellent ideas for doing this which I will let you read for yourself.

She ends her testimony with this reminder, "Again, I have hope. I’m counting on you. It’s my hope you’ll take action on to end this crisis and safeguard the lives of these vulnerable children."

Nowhere in her testimony is President Biden mentioned or alluded to as he is in the Gateway Pundit article you linked. Maybe this is because to the best of her knowledge this problem has been going on for at least 10 years, which means three administrations are accountable and not just the current one.

In 2021, Tara Lee Rodas was a Training Instructor at the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency in Washington, District of Columbia. Rodas began working at the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency in 2020 with a starting salary of $157,709. Since then, Rodas's salary has increased to $159,286 in 2021.

I have no idea what Ms. Rodas earns today in her current position, but since whistle blowers whether in the private or public sector, put their jobs in jeopardy when they "blow the whistle" she puts at risk a decent income and career. Note: since Ms Rodas is a federal employee, technically she is not volunteering as she said; she is employed in her current position.


Tara Lee Rodas is a GS-14 under the general schedule payscale.

Year   Occupation   Paygrade   Base Salary   Bonus   Location
2021   Training Instruction   GS-14   $159,286   $0   Washington, District of Columbia
2020   Training Instruction   GS-14   $157,709   $0   Washington, District of Columbia
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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2708 on: April 27, 2023, 12:51:58 PM »
Shitter cant handle basic conversation...

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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2709 on: April 27, 2023, 03:54:25 PM »
Biden Cheat Sheet Shows He Knew What Topic Reporter Would Ask Him About
By  Ryan Saavedra
Apr 26, 2023   DailyWire.com


https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-cheat-sheet-shows-he-knew-what-topic-reporter-would-ask-him-about

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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2710 on: April 27, 2023, 07:32:30 PM »
A young boy asked him today what was the last country he visited and did't know the answer.  A little girl shouted out Ireland and the fool said how do you know. He was just there about a week ago.  Holy shit this is our President.

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« Reply #2711 on: April 28, 2023, 12:35:26 PM »
Biden Cheat Sheet Shows He Knew What Topic Reporter Would Ask Him About
By  Ryan Saavedra
Apr 26, 2023   DailyWire.com


https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-cheat-sheet-shows-he-knew-what-topic-reporter-would-ask-him-about


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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2712 on: April 28, 2023, 01:57:20 PM »
Biden Begins Reelection Bid at Low Point in His Presidency
BY JEFFREY M. JONES
37% approve of job Biden is doing, lowest in his presidency
Approval among independents slides, tying term low of 31%
Economic confidence weakens in April
APRIL 27, 2023
https://news.gallup.com/poll/505202/biden-begins-reelection-bid-low-point-presidency.aspx

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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2713 on: May 01, 2023, 01:04:23 PM »
The Incredible Shrinking Biden Economy! ISM Manufacturing Screams Stagflation, Still Contracting With “Reigniting Inflationary Pressures” (ISM Shrinks For Sixth Month)
Confounded Interest ^ | 05/01/2023 | Anthony B. Sanders
Posted on 5/1/2023, 12:17:19 PM

Ah, that wonderful economy O’Biden talks about. It is actually shrinking.

The ISM Manufacturing index screams stagflation, as it continues to contract. With “reigniting inflationary pressures.

And prices are beginning to take off again.

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« Reply #2714 on: May 01, 2023, 04:30:54 PM »
The whole "raise interest rates on people with good credit" thing kills me. What in the ever loving fuck is that about? I get punished for paying my bills on time? FTN!
Liar!!!!Filt!!!!

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« Reply #2715 on: May 01, 2023, 05:47:23 PM »
The whole "raise interest rates on people with good credit" thing kills me. What in the ever loving fuck is that about? I get punished for paying my bills on time? FTN!


If you pay your taxes and have debt interest you pay on time you are supporting all of them....both the bankster leeches and the social program leeches.

Nothing changes until a tax revolt candidate pops up, and even then we are firmly on a path to dollar hyperinflation and reset because they print far more than they take in. At this point any candidate for office that just wants to tweak the existing system is too little too late and likely controlled opps.

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« Reply #2716 on: May 01, 2023, 09:50:35 PM »
The whole "raise interest rates on people with good credit" thing kills me. What in the ever loving fuck is that about? I get punished for paying my bills on time? FTN!

Right?  It's crazy.

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« Reply #2717 on: May 01, 2023, 10:55:15 PM »


🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

And we know that would happen . Just have to get the menu in his hand

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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2718 on: May 05, 2023, 04:48:02 AM »
US home listings plunged 21% in April with new homeowners reluctant to be 'locked in' to high mortgage rates
Daily Mail ^ | 5/5/23 | Stephen M. Lepore
Posted on 5/5/2023, 6:27:45 AM by CFW

Home sales plunged 21 percent in the United States during the month of April, as new prospective homeowners appear to be scared of being 'locked in' to higher mortgage rates.

The number of new listings continued what appears to be a trend, as listings are down 31 percent from 2019. The 2019 figure was used as a benchmark as it happened before the pandemic.

In April 2021, home listings were up 41.5 percent over 2019.

Mortgage rates have gone over 6 percent since September of 2022, causing the once-booming housing market to finally settle.

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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2719 on: May 05, 2023, 05:30:45 AM »
Biden Implicated In Bribery Scheme, Grassley And Comer Allege In New Subpoena Demand To FBI
The Federalist ^ | MAY 03, 2023 | JORDAN BOYD
Posted on 5/3/2023, 7:12:04 PM


Republicans Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. James Comer subpoenaed the FBI on Wednesday for an unclassified document they say alleges a criminal scheme between now-President Joe Biden and a “foreign national” during his years in the Obama White House.

The record reportedly details the former vice president’s arrangement to receive money in exchange for pushing certain policy positions. The Republicans were only made aware of Biden’s potential criminal enterprise because of an unnamed whistleblower.

“The information provided by a whistleblower raises concerns that then-Vice President Biden allegedly engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national,” Comer announced in a press release on Wednesday. “The American people need to know if President Biden sold out the United States of America to make money for himself.”

As Grassley has repeatedly noted, even though FBI Director Christopher Wray previously promised that whistleblowers like this one would not face punishment, the Biden administration’s FBI and Department of Justice have remained unresponsive to congressional requests and inquiries related to the Biden family business.

Considering the FBI’s own long history of corruption and politicization, Grassley and Comer said they do not trust the FBI to properly investigate whether Biden is compromised by a foreign enemy.

Instead, the Republicans are demanding the FBI turn over in unredacted form every FBI FD-1023 that contains the word “Biden” and other accompanying documents so they can draw their own conclusions.

“We believe the FBI possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicating the current President of the United States,” Grassley said in a statement. “What we don’t know is what, if anything, the FBI has done to verify these claims or investigate further. The FBI’s recent history of botching politically charged investigations demands close congressional oversight.”

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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2720 on: May 05, 2023, 07:55:47 AM »
Democrats are the Nigerian Prince Scammers of American Politics, and their Voters are the Dupes
Flopping Aces ^ | 05-05-23 | Vince
Posted on 5/5/2023, 10:54:07 AM by Starman417



According to the American Heritage dictionary, this is the definition of Stupid:

Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.
Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless.
That applies to a lot of Americans… Democrat voters in general and in particular a majority of blacks, college students and white college educated women.
Notice I said Democrat voters, not Democrat politicians.  Democrat politicians may be many things, hypocrites, liars, traitors, and more, but they’re not stupid as defined above. Why?  Because they do exactly what they need to do in order to win and gain power and fortune.

There’s perhaps no better example than Joe Biden… the man is a congenital liar.  Plagiarism has been a problem since he was in college and was actually the reason he withdrew from his first presidential campaign.  Indeed, Biden is a lying machine!  He claimed to have gone to college on a full scholarship, earned three degrees, and graduated at the top of his class.  All lies

Biden’s career of lies only become more consequential and destructive as he ran for president in 2020.  Every campaign is full of hyperbole like “I’m going to cut taxes” or “I’ll be the education president”.  But with Biden, the lies went far beyond white lies.  He told the American people the story of his son Hunter’s laptop was Russian propaganda, that he never discussed business with his son and perhaps most depressingly of all, once he became president he went on TV and told the country that “White supremacists” are the most dangerous threat to the nation.  All lies.

But Joe Biden is not stupid, although even before dementia began to set in he probably wouldn’t have qualified for Mensa.  He may have never been the brightest bulb, but he was and is smart like a fox when it comes to accumulating money and power.

Not that there’s anything wrong with accumulating money and power.  Most Americans would like to be financially secure and have the power to improve the lives of those around them and perhaps beyond. But there’s a difference between grifting for a living and doing an honest day’s work.

The question is however, how does one guy of marginal intelligence get “elected” to the most powerful job in the world? Easy, Democrats are the Nigerian Princes of American politics.

We’re all familiar with the Nigerian Prince schemes. You get an email telling you that some prince has millions of dollars tied up in an American bank but they can’t get the money without paying some fee or tax, which, because of some visa application hiccup they can’t pay. If however, you’ll just pay the $10,000 tax for them they can get their money and will send you millions. Seems legit…

Any normal person would read the email, often filled with misspellings and outlandish claims, and delete it as an obvious scam. But there are a certain number of people who will take the bait and don’t quite figure out that it’s a scam until their bank accounts are empty, or worse!

But here’s the thing, those misspellings and grammatical mistakes and outlandish claims aren’t a bug, they’re a feature! The whole point of the exercise isn’t to garner responses from millions of people who will do even a minimal amount of due diligence and discover the obvious fraud.  That would waste the culprit’s time and make the whole endeavor too time-consuming to be profitable.  No, they make the email and the claims so obviously ludicrous that the only people who respond are those sufficiently gullible to end up forking over tens of thousands of dollars. The victims of these schemes may be rather dim, but the thieves are anything but.  They’re highly sophisticated in understanding how the human mind works and they are experts at manipulating it.  If they weren’t, the scam never would have taken off and tens of thousands of victims around the world wouldn’t be out of millions of dollars.

Now replace the Nigerian Prince scam with Democrat party propaganda and you begin to see exactly what is going on. The Democrat party, along with their comrades in the media and academia and the regulatory state are the grifters sitting behind the computer screen spamming America with outlandish claims and promises of fortune, knowing that a certain element of the population is sufficiently gullible to believe them.

For fifty years Democrats told American women that men were superfluous to raising children but now that’s moot because men can have babies, genetic men are real women and prepubescent children are mature enough to consent to sex change operations. They tell us with a straight face that the “Woman of the Year” is a guy who used to be a mediocre men’s swimmer but who dominates when competing against real women.

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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2721 on: May 05, 2023, 12:16:59 PM »
Comer says he knows what country is at the center of Biden's alleged 'criminal scheme'
Washington Examiner ^ | by Cami Mondeaux, Congressional Reporter | May 05, 2023 09:15 AM
Posted on 5/5/2023, 3:12:17 PM by Red Badger

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) responded to criticism over his decision to subpoena the FBI over unclassified records detailing an alleged “criminal scheme” by then-Vice President Joe Biden, noting he’s “confident” the document exists and that he knows its contents.

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, the top Republican told host Sean Hannity he knows what country and policy decision are at the center of the alleged scheme but that he “is not at liberty” to disclose the information publicly. His comments come two days after Comer subpoenaed FBI Director Christopher Wray, demanding access to an unclassified record detailing an illegal arrangement between Biden and a foreign national during the Obama administration.

"We're very confident that this does exist. We're very confident in the whistleblower. And look, this fits a pattern of behavior that the Bidens have done," Comer said. "It's my understanding that it is submitted within their database and it's very difficult to take that out and destroy it because I had that same question.”

Comer issued the subpoena in conjunction with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Wednesday, demanding access to an FBI-generated FD-1023 form they say details an exchange of money between Biden and a foreign national that may have influenced U.S. policy decisions. The two Republicans were tipped off about the document’s existence by a whistleblower, although it remains unclear what wrongdoing Biden is being accused of conducting.

An FBI spokesperson confirmed to the Washington Examiner earlier this week that it received the subpoena and letter from the GOP lawmakers. The agency declined to comment further.

The subpoena is the latest development in House Republicans’ investigations into the president’s family and their business dealings, which became a focal point of their agenda after taking control of the lower chamber earlier this year. Many of these investigations have focused specifically on the president’s son Hunter.

The matter first took prominence during the 2020 election as the GOP sought to determine whether then-candidate Joe Biden benefited financially from his son’s transactions, pointing to national security concerns.

The Oversight Committee has made that a high priority in recent months, with Comer leading investigations into the Bidens’ business dealings “to determine if the Biden family has been targeted by foreign actors, if President Biden is compromised, and if there is a national security threat,” he wrote.

“The information provided by a whistleblower raises concerns that then-Vice President Biden allegedly engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national,” Comer said. “The American people need to know if President Biden sold out the United States of America to make money for himself. Sen. Grassley and I will seek the truth to ensure accountability for the American people.”

The panel has obtained thousands of documents detailing the family’s financial records and business transactions, including one report that showed the Bidens’ received more than $1 million from a Chinese company through a third party from 2015 to 2017.

Grassley has also raised concerns about political bias affecting high-level investigations at the FBI, particularly those that focus on the Biden family’s foreign business deals. However, those efforts have failed to garner much momentum in the Democratic-led Senate.

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Re: Biden failures, corruption, destruction, and collapse Thread.
« Reply #2722 on: May 05, 2023, 03:01:18 PM »
The whole "raise interest rates on people with good credit" thing kills me. What in the ever loving fuck is that about? I get punished for paying my bills on time? FTN!

This issue is misrepresented or misunderstood. Read about the program/law. Why it matters: It's not true. This year, the fee structure around mortgages set by housing regulators did change, but rest assured those with good credit scores still pay less than those with worse ones.

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/04/mortgages-credit-ratings-fhfa

The housing market and mortgage lending industry has a somewhat shaky financial history with regards to its impact on the overall economy. Steps should be taken to insure there isn't another Savings and Loan crises like in 1980 or a housing market crash like in 2008.

My credit rating is 849 about what it was when I refinanced the house in 2021 my interest rate was reduced from 4.35% to 2.25%. There is almost no chance I will refinance again unless interest rates drop to 0% which is not ever going to happen.



 




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« Reply #2724 on: May 05, 2023, 04:36:01 PM »
???

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/18/joe-biden-hike-payments-good-credit-homebuyers-sub/#:~:text=Homebuyers%20with%20good%20credit%20scores%20will%20soon%20encounter,are%20also%20in%20the%20market%20to%20buy%20houses.

https://news.yahoo.com/starting-may-1st-home-buyers-232113165.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJaSkBun5ATBJuZhMmpAygWMnkp_Oq0YVYU20L5KMnsqR_E6NNAPk_wYhPkOuyCiOOp__ROST1NcFLAZNT111kITXeoVeXo751f3DBQJ9UW46533wHwKqG2aG7ogz91yPmU9hBvJ40iUwsQZ7mD3ON4tOrhgFRqfld6tpBMDWhPs

Are you saying the liberal controlled media has lied to us?


“Borrowers with higher credit scores will still pay less than those with a lower credit score and the same down payment,” he said.
Notice the part about the same down payment?

Okay, so what does the same down payment mean exactly? In general, the lower the risk to the lender, the better the interest rate is for the buyer. A high down payment lowers the lender’s risk. My guess is folks with lower credit scores are less likely to have high down payments, although that is not a given.

Up until recently when the higher interest rates resulted in lower asking prices and fewer bidding wars, properties were not selling as far above their appraised value as they were just a little while back. The appraised value determines what a lender is willing to finance. The difference between how much lenders finance and the sales price can be offset with a higher down payment for folks who are willing to overpay for a property.

No matter how you cut it, folks who are financially more stable are better positioned to buy properties.

The ability for people to buy property is sometimes used as an indicator for the health of an economy. I understand why there is a push to increase that opportunity for people with lower credit scores.

I admit that this is not an issue I am particularly concerned about as it is unlikely that I will be moving, buying another property, or refinancing this one. Nor does it have much effect on my family or most of my friends as they are well set. I am concerned about banks going under because I was around when this happened with the Savings and loans in 1980. Currently my bank is paying me a much higher interest rate on a CD than I am paying on my mortgage. Hopefully this doesn’t change.