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Nancy Pelosi announces she's going to be running for re-election.
According to her post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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She's now the oldest member of the House of Representatives, among the oldest members in Congress overall.
Not exactly cognitively as sharp as uh she may think either.
I mean, we're now discovering this is a problem, you know, in both parties with John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, Diane Feinstein, Joe Biden, your president, Mitch McConnell more recently, although he's trying to convince everybody nothing happened.
Nothing at all.
It's not a big deal, it's not out of the ordinary.
Uh, I'm not exactly sure I buy into that.
The biggest news to come out of this week by far is the CNN poll showing that fully two-thirds of Democrats now say that it is time to butt dump Joe Biden.
Sixty-seven percent majority of Democrat, Democratic-leaning voters now say it is very or extremely likely that Biden will again be their party's presidential nominee, but sixty-seven percent also say the party should nominate somebody other than Joe Biden.
Uh and if you just you know dig a little deeper into all this, it gets far worse as it relates to the Bidens.
Because now, and this has been the purpose all along.
What why have we been going into great specificity and great detail into the Joe Biden and what I'm calling the Joe Biden uh bribery and money laundering scandal allegations because uh the evidence is becoming overwhelming and incontrovertible.
Well, this poll weighs in on that.
Based on what you have heard or read, do you think Joe Biden did or did not have any involvement in his son Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine and China while serving as vice president?
Sixty-one percent believe that he did.
Well, it's not even in question anymore.
It should be a hundred percent know that he did.
Among those that think Biden did have involvement, do you think Joe Biden's actions related to his son Hunter and his business dealings in Ukraine and China were illegal?
Uh yeah, illegal.
69%.
Because it's obvious none of this was was right.
So one of the things that I've been uh the phrases I've been using, this needs to get into the political, you know, consciousness and bloodstream, where every American this, and by the way, this part has nothing to do with whether or not criminal charges should be brought against Joe Biden.
You can't indict a sitting president.
And it's not about Hunter anymore.
You know, as much as you know, the the prosecutor was forced to follow through on these gun charges and is gonna have an arrest and then a Raymond of Hunter Biden.
That is the low-hanging fruit here.
But it has taken this long.
It really began our understanding of what happened in Ukraine during the Trump Ukrainian impeachment.
That's how far back this goes.
Because it was during that time when Democrats were talking about you know, quid pro quos, that I kept saying that the real quid pro quo with Joe happened in Ukraine when he admitted on tape before the Council of Foreign Relations that he had leveraged a billion to get uh a prosecutor investigating Barisma holdings fired.
That's the same Barisma that his son, who admitted he had no experience, was being paid a fortune for.
And then we now have a uh an even more specific timeline that shows that five days before Joe did that four or five days uh he was meeting and talking with Hunter and Barisma executives when they were in Dubai they called Joe and now we if we could ever get a hold of these pseudonym emails we believe they're emails that will show that in fact that Joe Biden was sending his son Hunter very specific information.
Now his son at the time is an admitted addict did he have any type of security clearance and why is he sending him anything related to to Ukraine?
Why was he meeting with with all of these Rosemon Seneca partners of Hunter Biden?
Why were they going to the White House?
Why did he lie to the American people repeatedly never never once discussed these issues with his son or brother or anybody for that matter of foreign business deals.
You know why isn't there widespread outrage and indignation at the level of lying because not only did he know about them he met with many of or discussed these business deals with many of the people that Hunter was doing business with the 20 phone calls into business meetings by Joe Biden when Hunter was with his foreign business partners or taking the call with Hunter and his Barisma executives at a time when they were writing that they desperately needed DC help.
Well that decision resulted in in Hunter again admittedly no experience continue to be paid a fortune by Barisma Holdings because Joe Biden let that happen I mean you just you can't even make this up why isn't it been a bigger issue up to this point?
Now, the next step in this, James Comer yesterday has now finally said he believes the House is ready to take their first step towards what will, I think, very likely become the impeachment of Joe Biden.
And this is a real impeachment.
I'm not saying they'll get a conviction in the Senate.
They probably won't.
Doesn't mean they shouldn't do it.
Because unlike the Trump impeachments, this would be a real impeachment.
The charges are going to be bribery and money laundering.
Because remember, it was Comer that said they've discovered nine Biden- family members were paid as a result of these foreign business deals he's discovered you know dozens of these shell corporations that show no other real business activity except as corporations that were used to funnel money that could then be paid off to Biden family members.
And then, of course, you got the whole corruption aspect of this in the Biden protection plan by the Biden DOJ and the Biden prosecutor.
This guy didn't want to bring any charges at all.
Let the statute of limitations run out specifically on on on very egregious taxes that were never paid.
And then, of course, didn't want to charge Hunter with anything we find out.
And then was only forced into a plea agreement because of the IRS whistleblowers and they haphazardly put together that sweetheart deal.
That sweetheart deal ended up being rejected by a very astute judge in Delaware that said, Mr. Prosecutor, have you ever seen a deal like this before where you get you get to go into a gun diversion program?
And it within that gun diversion provision inside the plea agreement, they had a complete immunity deal from any further prosecution.
Oh, I didn't know that was in there, your honor.
And then the defense is like, wait a minute.
when we're not agreeing to this if we don't have immunity Homer saying now that the evidence is showing that Joe Biden is the ringleader of this family.
Actually said this yesterday he said this is an investigation of Joe Biden.
It's getting closer and closer to Joe every single day and he said I'd make the argument that there's already enough evidence to point to Joe being the ringleader of this not just knowing not just lying about it but being the actual ringleader he said the coordination between the Biden's family shady business schemes and the government everything was organized comer.
House government oversight and accountability committee chairman this is very organized criminal activity that is what Rico's all about he said now it's getting interesting, and we'll dig deeper into this as the show unfolds today, but you know, we've been now pointing out that a number of media, prominent liberal media figures are now speaking out against Joe uh Biden's run for the for re-election.
Those are canaries and the coal miners, I've been saying.
You know, first it was Maureen Dowd, a brutal takedown of the Biden's uh heartless treatment of a four-year-old granddaughter of theirs in Arkansas that they failed to even recognize.
Anyway, that shamed Joe Biden into finally recognizing his granddaughter.
I don't know if there's ever been a meeting.
I don't know if there's ever been a present sent.
I don't know if the the young girl's ever going to get an invitation to the White House.
She certainly should.
At some point in her life, she's going to learn all about her grandfather and and grandmother ignoring her.
Anyway, James Carvel now looking at these fake news CNN polls that have just been devastating.
Again, two-thirds of the uh well, 67% of the American people, 69% think Joe's involved and has done something illegal here.
You know, it's taken a long time to get this story into the bloodstream of the American people, especially considering we knew about it back during the Trump impeachment.
Anyway, now he's as unpopular as ever.
But there are two reasons Democrats are going to look to remove Joe Biden.
Now the next shoot or drop, if you start hearing from prominent elected Democratic officials, once they start to pull away from Biden and start speaking out publicly, you'll know that the effort to unseat him and remove him as the candidate is very, very real.
And obviously Kamala Harris's team thinks so.
Otherwise, and I'm I'd bet everything I had that they were the ones that leaked the story, you know, shooting a you know an arrow across the bow of uh Gavin Newsom out in California, you know, suggesting that, well, this if Gavin runs and tries to compete against the vice president, uh, that will not be viewed favorably by large portions of the Democratic base, minorities and women, etc.
I go boy.
Now when you have hardcore Democrats and fake news CNN and people like Van Jones and David Axelrod and Dana Bash all seeing these numbers for what they were, that that's just one canary.
Maureen Dowd is another canary in the coal mine.
You get top elected officials now stating the obvious that he's a cognitive mess and that he's corrupt, then they're in real trouble.
James Carville said he's alarmed by Biden's polling numbers.
He said, quote, he can't look at this and not say that you're concerned.
He said, for me to come on television and say I don't find this alarming or troubling at all would be stupid.
I wouldn't do that.
And he's talking about, you know, all of these Democrats now wanting him off the ticket.
And to say at the least, the polls were not great.
It tells us that voters are expressing a lot of apprehension here.
It's pretty clear.
There's not much else you can say when you look at Biden's poll numbers.
Okay, they're losing Axelrod and Van Jones and James Carville and Maureen Dowd.
Get what I've been saying.
Uh anything, everything you need to know about, you know, Hunter Biden's crazy life and dad's shadow, you know, it's it's it's now leading to an ultimate crescendo here.
And I think the crescendo isn't necessarily the impeachment inquiry or an actual impeachment.
I think the crescendo is the push to get him out and off the ticket.
You know, Hunter made all this money, but he admits he had no experience and admitted at the time of all these deals he was addicted to drugs.
Had did Hunter get his hands on a 2.8 carat diamond from the Chinese.
How is he making millions from Ukraine?
What trading on the brand, Devin Archer said.
The brand certainly wasn't Hunter when Barisma executives need DC help.
They weren't looking at Hunter Biden to provide that DC help.
You know, the even a fake news CNN analyst said the only conclusion from the DOJ reversal on Hunter's indictment is that the whistleblowers are right.
And the DOJ's giving me whiplash on this.
Well, not only were they right, but I would argue this is why Joe Biden's attorney general and this prosecutor need to go.
Because they're they're pr they've been protecting them the entire time.
And as Comer says, the gun charge is the low-hanging fruit here.
And by the way, it's it's Democrats that want all these gun restrictions and laws put in place.
Not Republicans, not conservatives.
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So much to get to today.
You know, I watch all the failures of this administration.
I'm like, what?
Well, why are people even still passionate about this guy?
What is it about people?
How is it that everybody doesn't see this?
If you ask every American, are you better off than you were four years ago?
It's a simple standard question.
Not that complicated.
You think the economy's better off.
If you do, tell me what way you think is better off.
You think we're better off with, you know, seven headed to eight million illegal immigrants in three years because of Joe Biden's open border policy?
Do you think that's better off?
Has made the country better off.
What about people that have gotten through that we know on the terrorist watch list?
What about people that might have terror ties?
And you know, look at what's happening in schools in New York.
They have 20 some odd thousand total illegal immigrant children that are going now inundating schools that were already failing on a spectacular level.
What is the plan for all of those kids, and many of whom cannot speak English?
You know, what what impact is that going to have on the students that have not been getting the quality of education that they deserve to begin with?
Well, what impact does that have?
Does anybody even care?
You know, our borders, you happy with $4 a gallon in gasoline?
We're going back now to $100 a barrel for oil, which means gas prices are only going to go higher in the weeks and months ahead.
Here we go again.
You happy with that?
Are any of you, do any of you think that any of our adversaries around the globe?
You think President Chi, you think the Mulls in Iran, you think Kim Jong-un who's meeting with Vladimir Putin, Putin himself.
You think any of them have any fear of Joe Biden?
They don't.
Look at the look at the look at the what's the chaos on the border.
It's amazing.
Nobody seems to care.
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So with Governor Greg Abbott, you know, being hailed as a hero, you know, what is Texas has borne the brunt of this illegal immigration crisis of Joe Biden.
And other border states like Arizona, California.
California's a sanctuary state, though, so I guess they're fine with that.
But anyway, Greg Abbott now is, you know, he's been doing everything he can do.
So they have well over 100, 150,000 illegal immigrants in New York, and it and the mayor of New York is trying to blame Governor Abbott of Texas.
Now, Governor Abbott invited the mayor of New York to come down to the border and tour the border with him so he can get a bigger, you know, upfront understanding of what actually is going on down there and what they are all dealing with.
And lo and behold, you know, the mayor didn't have time to do so.
Now the mayor's lashing out at the governor.
It turns out of the 100,000 plus illegal immigrants in New York City that's going to cost them 12 billion dollars.
Only a small fraction of, you know, 13,000 of them came from Texas, and Governor Abbott, the rest he can blame on Joe Biden.
Now the Biden administration now is a result of that.
Now they think the answer to states like New York and all these liberal sanctuary states and cities is well, we'll just we'll just force illegal immigrants across into the U.S. to stay in Texas.
Oh, what they don't have any shot at winning Texas politically, so we'll just, you know, we'll dump this problem on the on the taxpayers of Texas.
No, thank you.
Administration officials cite the proposed plan as a way to curb the flow of illegal immigrants at the southern border.
It's not gonna no, they're gonna come into the United States, except now Texas has no relief valve, and they'll be forced to care for all of Joe Biden's illegal immigrants.
Now, I'm I'm not sure what else there is to do except to just I guess maybe Greg Abbott's just gonna have to say, nope.
We're just waiting we're we're gonna control the border if you won't, and we'll see you in court.
But knowing the Biden Justice Department as well as we do, I guess we could imagine that Governor Abbott's gonna be arrested.
But anyway, Biden's administration citing the proposed plan to curb the flow of illegal immigrants at the southern border.
It's not going to do that, according to the LA Times.
Three U.S. officials not authorized to discuss the matter wouldn't go on record, but the plan would force illegal immigrants to remain in Texas or other border states by tracking their location through GPS monitoring devices like ankle bracelets.
Well, if I'm Texas Governor Abbott, I'm still sending them to sanctuary cities and states.
I'm not going to stop.
Now, one of the uh, you know, when Congress comes back next week, they're gonna have 11 days to get to the September 30th deadline on the on the budget deal.
Um I've been telling Republicans they need to be working a lot faster.
Whereas they originally said they were gonna have the 12 separate budgets.
That doesn't look like it's gonna happen.
Anyway, but I've been told by a number of Republicans that they want to change border policy as well as an increase in overall border border security money, and that they're willing to negotiate additional Ukraine aid.
Why are we spending 500 million dollars on Ukrainian green energy programs?
Tell me what the point of that is.
Why are we giving yet another billion dollars to Ukraine?
We've given per capita, you know, four times the amount of money per Ukrainian citizen that we've given the people of Maui, whose entire lives have been uprooted.
You know, never mind the latest disaster down in Florida, and how many people are suffering down there as well.
So we'll see what happens.
House GOP investigators now have threatened to subpoena Hunter Biden.
That's that's gonna get pretty interesting.
It's about time, frankly, for my point of view.
Anyway, Jim uh James Comer, Jim Jordan, and House Ways and Means Committee Chair, Jason Smith all want to subpoena Hunter.
He should be subpoenaed.
And I guess if you know, he doesn't show up, you hold him in contempt of Congress, and I'm sure he'll be found guilty just like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.
Why?
Because I'm sure this equal justice and equal application of our laws in America, right?
You believe that.
Yeah.
Uh anyways, that's what their plan is, and I don't think that's going to work.
I don't.
Biden administration wants to force illegal immigrant families to remain in Texas.
I'm sure the mayor of New York will be happy.
I'm sure the people of California will be happy.
I know the people in Nantucket and Mothers Vineyard will be happy.
You know, the very people that want these policies don't want anything to do with the illegal immigrants.
New York City, by the way, is now building another mega illegal immigrant housing project.
This one in Long Island City.
And the building on Austel Place, close to a train yard near Queens, New York, has been designated a humanitarian response and relief center.
They already took away soccer fields and baseball fields for kids in New York City at Randall's Island, you know, right adjacent to New York City.
Interiors, the top floors of the five-story building will be rebuilt for housing.
Okay, where's that money going to come from?
So far, the federal government hasn't opened up their pocketbook.
Not at all to help in any of this.
So we'll see what happens on all of it.
Pretty pathetic.
A lot of people now, when I meet people, they're all talking about the 2024 election and what I think is going to happen.
Let me give you my short answer.
I can't give you an answer.
I don't have a crystal ball.
There are way too many things that can happen between now and then that will change and alter my thought process on where this is headed.
You know, as of now, it's just kind of undeniable.
Donald Trump has a strong, you know, overwhelming lead against his Republican primary opponents.
Uh can that change?
I don't know because these are kind of unprecedented political waters that we're waiting through here.
You know, Donald Trump gets indicted, gets arraigned, and his poll numbers go up.
That defies all conventional political gravity or understanding of my understanding of politics.
You would think, oh, well, you know, faith and confidence.
It's just the opposite has been happening.
Now, getting the nomination is one challenge, one hurdle.
What do you do, you know, to get the nomination if in fact these trials take place, all of them as these prosecutors and uh special counsels would all like during an election year?
You know, we know, for example, they originally wanted to start the DC case on January 2nd.
Well, that's leading right into the primaries in the caucus season, right into Iowa.
And then out of Fulton County, Georgia, they wanted to begin that trial on March the 4th.
The day after March 4th is March 5th, Super Tuesday.
And then as a second backup date, then the DC case, they want to now start that on March 4th.
How, you know, logistically, how does somebody run for president when you got four separate criminal trials that you've got to go through and a couple of civil trials that you're also dealing with?
In the case of New York, it's the attorney general going after the family business, and then this E. Gene Carroll case that is coming back up.
And then apparently the judge is, you know, given summary judgment that the only question in that case is gonna be how much Donald Trump will have to pay.
Okay.
You have prosecutors, AGs running on platforms to run against one man to get one person, one family, one organization, and there's not a single person that I've heard.
Where's the ACLU in all of this?
Is anybody on the left have any problem with People running on a platform to go after one individual this way?
Sort of unprecedented to me.
Not really heard much of that before.
Anyway, maybe maybe Donald Trump continues to defy conventional political understanding.
And you know, but the hard part for him is, and I think he raises a good question by saying that this is election interference.
How is it election interference?
How do you run for president while you're being tried again and again?
Now, why didn't they, in the case of the New York case, for example, involving Stormy Daniels, that goes back seven years.
Why did you schedule that case during an election year in the middle of a primary season?
In these other cases, you go back to January of 2021.
Well, why didn't they bring that case up?
The only case where you might make an argument developed over time is down in Florida.
But if they were seeking these documents in 2021, why did they wait so long?
If they felt cooperation was not forthcoming, why did they wait so long to go to Mar-a-Lago and rate it the way they did?
I'd also like an answer to the question why didn't they raid Joe Biden's homes and the UPenn Biden Center and the University of Delaware?
Because that doesn't sound like equal justice and application of our laws.
That sounds like a dual justice system to me.
And then so if the if if it destroys the opportunity for somebody to go out and campaign the way they normally would, which is what this is doing, then what if that person appeals like Bob McDonald, the former governor of Virginia did, and the guilty, if there's a guilty verdict, it's vacated.
That would take place after the election.
So Americans might have a candidate on a ballot that was just convicted of a crime, a crime that perhaps a year or two from now is going to be vacated and overturned.
That doesn't seem fair to the American people in any way, shape, matter, or form.
It seems like you know that works out totally completely in favor of everything Democrat.
Especially in light of when you start comparing and contrasting the timeline of David Weiss investigating Hunter Biden.
What was it, four or five years?
And then you have the IRS whistleblowers and the FBI whistleblower and others now coming forward, all saying that Hunter Biden and the Biden's got special treatment and that they allowed the statute of limitations on major felonies to pass during this process of investigating Hunter Biden,
and now they only want to go for the low-hanging fruit of the gun charge and stay away from everything involving his father and the tens of millions of dollars the family made with no experience?
And with the help of Joe Biden, who said he'd never even discussed these matters with anybody.
Or do you think this country has really gone off track here?
And then the people that say, well, we need somebody else because you know there's too much baggage.
Well, do you think if you think Donald Trump was treated unfairly here and is being treated unfairly here, then why would you hold it against them for being treated unfairly?
I think it's a fair question.
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The Canary in the Cold Mine Test, all these Democrats now going against Joe Biden, all these bad poll numbers, fake news CNN, and all the commentary, Van Jones, and uh Dana Bash talking about how awful his poll numbers are, and then you got David Axelrod.
Now you got James Carville, uh Maureen Dowd, New York Times, you know, hardcore leftists.
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