Posted on 01/06/2025 5:59:40 AM PST by MtnClimber
If you thought awarding Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson the Presidential Citizens Award was Biden giving the middle finger to America on his way out the door, you ain't seen nothing yet.
We watched as Joe Biden (and his handlers) continued to dishonor the Office of the Presidency as he finally exits the political stage in little more than two weeks. Last week, in a clearly partisan effort, he cheapened the prestige of the nation’s second highest civilian honor, the Presidential Citizens Award, awarding it to J6 Committee chair and vice chair Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney who were complicit in deleting records before the GOP retook control of the House of Representatives in 2022. But on Saturday, he outdid himself with many of his selections for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation’s highest civilian honor.
First, let’s look at the list (in alphabetical order):
José Andrés, Bono, Ashton B. Carter (posthumous), Hillary Clinton, Michael J. Fox , Tim Gill, Jane Goodall, Fannie Lou Hamer (posthumous), Earvin Johnson , Robert F. Kennedy (posthumous), Ralph Lauren, Lionel Messi, Bill Nye, George W. Romney (posthumous), David M. Rubenstein, George Soros, George Stevens Jr., Denzel Washington, Anna Wintour
While several on the list are deserving of the honor for their humanitarian efforts (Andres, Bono, Hammer), public service (Kennedy), philanthropy (Fox, Gill, Washington), science (Goodall, Nye), and artistic endeavors (Stevens), several are not. Let’s start with the two most egregious and notorious figures on this list: George Soros (born György Schwartz) and Hillary Clinton.
The Hungarian-born Soros, possibly the largest Democrat and progressive mega-donor in U.S. history, is a hedge-fund investor and currency speculator responsible for breaking the Bank of England in 1992. Since becoming a U.S. citizen in 1961, he has immersed himself in American politics, funding Democrat candidates and far-left prosecutors like Alvin Bragg, Larry Krasner, George Gascón, Chesa Boudin, and dozens of others who have been more concerned with social justice and persecuting Donald Trump than prosecuting violent criminals that threaten everyday Americans. His activities over the past 40 years should be closely examined and investigated by incoming Attorney General Pam Bondi. If it is found that he’s violated any U.S. laws that result in a conviction, he should be stripped immediately of his U.S. citizenship and deported to Hungary, where he is vilified by most Hungarians and will not be welcomed with open arms.
What can we say that has not already been said about career criminal Hillary Clinton, the unsuccessful Democrat presidential candidate in 2016? She has a long history of being one of the most polarizing figures in American politics. Starting as the wife of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton with the Whitewater scandal, then as First Lady, where she accepted her husband’s dalliances with interns within the People’s House. She is also responsible, as President Obama’s Secretary of State, for turning Libya into a failed state when she boasted to Democrat activist CBS “journalist” Leslie Stahl, “We came, we saw, he died,” about the killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi. At the time of its broadcast, watching this many accused Clinton of being a psychopath. You decide.
Let’s remember her brazen lawlessness in unilaterally transferring twenty percent of U.S. uranium deposits to Russia in exchange for “charitable donations” to the Clinton Global Initiative. Let’s also remember her purposely destroying emails and government-issued mobile phones in criminal violation of Congressional subpoenas. A reprehensible figure by every measurement standard, Clinton is probably best known for vilifying over a quarter of her fellow Americans with her infamous 2016 “Basket of Deplorables” speech that probably ended any chances of her being elected the first female president. Does Clinton really deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom? We say… not.
Most of the rest of the list, with few exceptions—George Romney (Mitt’s father) and Robert Kennedy (Robert Jr’s father)—are a collection of Democrat campaign financial bundlers and big-dollar contributors. Some on the list, as with Soros, are not even native-born Americans, like Conde Nast’s Global Editorial Director of Vogue and Chief Content Officer, Anna Wintour. Fashion icon Wintour put a Democrat presidential candidate on the cover of Vogue three weeks before the 2024 election, clearly an in-kind campaign contribution for Kamala Harris. This is in addition to the tens of millions of dollars she’s bundled and raised for the Democrat Party since 2000. If this isn’t selling out the prestige of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, we don’t know what is.
Who is missing from his list? Let’s start with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who in 2020 gave almost half a billion dollars to Democrat causes that helped knowingly elect a cognitively challenged president. We didn’t see Barbra Streisand on the list either. How could Dementia Joe (or his puppet masters) miss her? Maybe the next Democrat president, hopefully there will never be one, can further cheapen this award, rendering it utterly meaningless.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom once meant something. Over the years it has been awarded to notable AMERICANS (but you do not need to be an American citizen to receive the award), the likes of John Franklin Enders (Kennedy), Edward R. Morrow (Johnson), Neil Armstrong (Nixon), James A. Michener (Ford), Tennessee Williams (Carter), Jackie Robinson (Reagan), Jimmy Doolittle (Bush), Simon Wiesenthal (Clinton), Pope John Paul II (Bush), John Glenn (Obama), and Antonin Scalia (Trump).
We can speculate that the criteria for Biden choosing this particular group for the award had little to do with actual achievement. Could it be possible that the Presidential Medal of Freedom was issued to those promising to donate to Biden’s presidential library? Looking at the sketchy behavior of this president and his family over the past few decades, we would not rule this out.
Like almost everything he’s touched in his 50+ years of government service, Biden has cheapened the Presidential Medal of Freedom, turning it into a partisan act and cementing his legacy as the most corrupt and divisive president in our country’s 248-year history. Once again, Joe Biden has acted solely in his own (and his family’s) best interests and proven over and over how little regard he has for the American people and the office of the presidency.
Jimmy Carter can truly rest in peace now. When Biden exits office in disgrace on January 20, 2025, he cements his legacy as the worst post-World War Two president, possibly in U.S. history overall. Way to go, Joe!
And to think this disgraceful bucket of spit will be buried in the same Cemetary as my dad, who fought in WWll, Korea and Vietnam.
Intelligent, honest people have known what Biden is all along. The only surprise is that so many were too stupid, dishonest, or easily manipulated to see it.
Joe is doing what he is told by the handlers.
Before Memorial Day we will begin to get news that he is in decline and in full time memory care.
Elsewhere on this board this am there is a post about surging crime in New York, and the subway assaults. Much of increase in crime in major US cities is the consequence of Soros money helping soft on crime DAs get elected (including Bragg). How in the world can anyone justify giving Soros any American honor?
Nye is a pseudoscientists. Nothing, but science showman, with perch for pushing global warming hoax.
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Nye, BS in mechanical engineering. Meteorology? No. Physics? No. Atmospheric science? No. Climate science? Hell no.
He keeps pushing his climate alarmism but knows nothing about what he preaches. He’s a true believer, propagating politics masquerading as science; a useful idiot of the powers-that-be. Him and deGrasse Tyson. Tyson is an average astrophysicist, nothing to write home about. He narrated the remake of Cosmos, big deal. Carl Sagan’s Cosmos was much better.
deGrasse Tyson: BA in physics, MA in astronomy, University of Texas: doctoral dissertation committee dissolved, Columbia: MPhil in astrophysics, PhD in astrophysics (after receiving funding from NASA and ARCS). Must be nice.*
Carl Sagan: BS and MS in physics, PhD in astronomy and astrophysics, University of Chicago.
* You can’t get a PhD in hard science unless you play the game: Darwinist, militant Atheist, climate-change advocate, liberal politics. They make you drink the Kool-Aid or you don’t get your PhD. No room for a Christian world view (Intelligent Design, climate skeptic, conservative politics).
THANK YOU! I've been saying that since 2007. He's a no talent, "present" voting junior senator who charmed key simpletons on the left. Nearly 25 years of public speaking and he still can't unglue his eyes from a teleprompter.
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Rush deserved it. I find it remarkable that Rush was not a fan of Trump nor his supporters.
Even his senate seat was stolen. The deep-state puppeteers who groomed him for POTUS picked him out of obscurity, changed his name to sound exotic, and spent millions on his sham senate seat - spreading pure lies to destroy his opponent.
They even assigned him a little fake family to hide that he was gay, along with a fake back-story, a fake birth certificate and a fake autobiography.
And the rest is history - the history of how stupid Democrat voters can be.
You have offered a very important point. Obama is anti-American not just a senile crook like Biden.
Rush deserved it. I find it remarkable that Rush was not a fan of Trump nor his supporters.
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Rush supported Trump after the 2016 election. Heck, I voted for Ted Cruz in 2016, wasn’t sure about Trump. But Trump’s policies were more conservative than that of Ronaldus Magnus. Rush became a fan of Trump as did I.
During his second term, Trump will implement conservative policies “unhindered by what has been,” i.e., Democrats using the federal government and the media to get Trump. See Crossfire Hurricane et al.
Your assertion that Rush was not a fan of Trump supporters is misleading. Rush was a conservative, I am a conservative, Trump is a conservative, many Trump supporters are conservative. Therefor, Rush was in agreement with Trump supporters. If A=B and B=C, then A=C.
Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other. Euclid
Ya. Thats using logic
When Rush found out that Cruz lost to Trump on big Tuesday he was angry. He went to commercial scolding his staff
Then he was insulting. He guessed that Trumpists were getting their way. We’d just have to see how it went
It was the Trump and trump supporters hatred I’ve come to know all too well
That’s just the fact
When Rush found out that Cruz lost to Trump on big Tuesday he was angry. He went to commercial scolding his staff. Then he was insulting.
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That doesn’t sound like the Rush I knew and loved, since 1988. He was a great guy, friendly, loved his audience, loved the working class, very approachable, like Trump.
But Thank You for your interest in the real Rush Limbaugh. I still love listening to his show. When presenting an argument, it’s always best to bring receipts.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/videos/audio/3-02-2016-hour-1/
You can find the broadcast if you’re interested in the truth.
It doesn’t matter to me that Rush calling Trumpsupporters “Trumpists” doesn’t sound like Rush to you, he did it. It’s on record
Don’t accuse me of making it up just because you don’t like it
It was insulting. It was nasty and it reduced my regard for him. He was among the many conservatives who did not like Rmtrump
You can find the broadcast if you’re interested in the truth.
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No, you find the evidence. You are the one making the argument. Do you expect me to believe you on faith? Were you there at the EIB microphone? Do you think you are Snerdly or something?
Or are you a troll? Trolls are disgusting, intellectually dishonest, disingenuous, an endless parade of human debris. Do you want to start a flame war? Is it time to fling poo? I love flame wars. “We are all Rich Rosen.”
Seriously, I have given you the entire Rush Limbaugh audio archive. I posted the 1st hour, the day after Super Tuesday, 2016. There was no anger in that broadcast.
Here’s hour 1, the day after Ted Cruz dropped out. No anger there also.
You have no evidence. Man, Rush had the best bumper music. I miss Rush.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/videos/audio/5-04-2016-hour-1/
And to think Joe was never legitimately elected president in the first place. They used the virus as a tool to cheat and rig the voting and counting. Shame on the American govt for letting the democrats steal it and now look at what we got.
“ No, you find the evidence”
Rush was nasty calling Trump supporters Trumpists.
You can believe it or not
I do no care at all
“When Rush found out that Cruz lost to Trump on big Tuesday he was angry. He went to commercial scolding his staff. Then he was insulting.”
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Does not sound like Rush. You have provided no evidence.
“Rush was nasty calling Trump supporters Trumpists.”
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Now you are trying to change the argument. The term Trumpists or Trumpsters is not insulting. It’s just a shortened version of “Trump Supporters.”
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
Trumpists is a nasty term and Rush was quite anti Trump.
Trumpists is a nasty term and Rush was quite anti Trump.
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He can talk brilliantly upon any subject, provided that he knows nothing about it.
Oscar Wilde
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