Maybe Biden can pardon Democrat Czeropski’s having anal sex in a
Senate hearing room to “save democracy” and watch his numbers soar?
Posted on 12/19/2023 7:56:05 AM PST by FarCenter
Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers are inciting panic among Democratic Party insiders, not to mention the progressive tech oligarchs who bankrolled his 2020 campaign. As the President rages about his poor ratings, even sympathisers in the media are no longer casting him as the next FDR; more, they’re increasingly pleading for him to exit the race for the White House.
Biden appears unaffected, though, and has just raised a large amount of money from Hollywood players. Part of the problem may be the lack of viable alternatives. Vice President Kamala Harris polls about as poorly as her boss, while other Democratic candidates, usually from the gubernatorial class, have economic records that do not even measure up to Biden’s .
California’s Gavin Newsom, anointed by some in the press as the future of the party, now suffers his highest disapproval level ever. His claim about the Golden State’s “peerless economy”, made in his debate with Florida’s Ron DeSantis, reflects either calculated dishonesty or utter delusion. Despite California’s historic allure, far more Americans prefer the hurricane swamp of Florida to the Golden State’s natural majesty.
California has among the highest unemployment rates in the US, is one of the slowest growing states, and continues to suffer a huge outmigration of companies and people. It now has a remarkable $68 billion budget deficit, brought about in part by an unprecedented exodus of wealthy residents. The deficit complicates Newsom’s policy of extending largesse to his biggest backers, the public employee unions. He has ceded support for his backing of social policies such allowing children to change genders without parental approval, all while fostering the highest crime rate in a decade.
Damaged though Newsom’s appeal might be, the other big Democrat pushing for the White House, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, arguably has an even worse record. Like California, his state has fallen behind on unemployment, performing well below its Midwestern neighbours. Due to excessive expenditures and weak incomes, Illinois now places 49th in US News fiscal rankings.
Both the state and its dominant city, Chicago, are in demographic and economic free-fall. In 2022 over 80% of Illinois communities lost residents, with Chicago shrinking by more than 30,000 people. The state is also losing its tax base. Over the past year alone, Illinois has lost three major companies — Boeing, Caterpillar and Ken Griffin’s Citadel hedge fund.
Record and policy positions are irrelevant. A significant number of Americans vote as if it’s a beauty contest.
The Beltway Bureaucrats are brilliant. The massive beast of government now inserts its own tools into the Whitehouse and national politics in order to breathe, consume, and grow, chewing up anything contrary to its interests.
"Boxers or Briefs?"
The savior of the Democrat Party in 2024 will be…drum roll, please…
Michelle Obama.
Yes, she’s lazy. But if the DNC can convince Michelle that only she can stop Trump, she’ll do it. And why not? A President Michelle need only sign a few papers now and again. Barack and the gang will continue running things just as they do now.
A significant number of American (women) vote as if its a beauty contest.
And they have done so since JFK. Especially so since Clinton. There were even validating news clips from back then zwith women saying they were going to vote for him because he was so cute. Same with Algore in 2000. Same with ineligible gay boy Barry.
The article cont.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer might make a worthier case for a White House run. But she too has baggage, some of it tied to her authoritarian Covid policies, which were among the most extreme nationally. Even her own husband violated the rules she set. Whitmer has not been able to resuscitate Michigan’s long-suffering economy, compounded by low levels of population growth. Her bets on the electric car industry have been undermined by slower than expected growth, and the industry is now experiencing a spate of white-collar layoffs while EV and battery production continues to cluster in non-union sunbelt locations. The state’s dominant city, Detroit, continues to shrink and remains among the country’s most dangerous places.
Whitmer is also in a plainly difficult position when it comes to the Middle East. Her state has a significant, and an increasingly alienated, Muslim population, amid broader global tensions. Yet Jews have long been and continue to be a prominent force in the state’s Democratic Party. If she were to run for president, Whitmer would have to be careful not to alienate Jewish voters in key states like New York, California, and New Jersey, while avoiding the wrath of Muslim voters in her home state.
Then there is New Jersey’s junior senator, Cory Booker. He may not have a budget deficit to worry about, at least outside of the obscene one in Washington, but he has squandered much goodwill among moderates with his “Spartacus” posturing in recent years. He also carries the burden of being the former mayor of Newark, which still suffers a poverty rate three times that of New Jersey overall, and remains among the most crime-ridden places in the country. Although he made a bold attempt to fix schools, with a $100 million gift from Mark Zuckerberg, little has changed, and the reforms are widely believed to have failed.
What to make of all this? If Biden is a poor candidate, it would seem his potential replacements are hardly any better. Democrats should be careful what they wish for.
I keep hearing that Barack was running things, I have never believed it.
As far as Michelle, I think it unlikely, why would she want to give up what she has now, and besides I do not think the daughters would be happy at all.
on the other hand sometimes when you are called/drafted you have to serve.
“she’s lazy.”
Michelle and her husband got a book deal and as I recollect she wrote a book long before her husband did.
Michelle suffers from depression I believe.
I think she comes from the black “striver” class, so she probably believes in doing what it takes.
> I keep hearing that Barack was running things, I have never believed it. <
One thing is for sure. Biden is not running things. So who is? Jill is keeping her husband somewhat steady, but I can’t believe she’s making policy.
I’m betting on Barack, but that’s just a guess. It could be anybody. If we had even a mildly curious press, there’d by 100 investigative journalists looking into this.
“Gretchen Whitmer”
The Wicked Witch of the Midwest
American skies would be filled with ‘flying monkeys’.
https://corybooker.com/about-cory/
WIKI
The law as enacted [First Step Act] is divided into six titles[28] and codified at various parts of Titles 18, 21, and 34 of the United States Code, based on the subject of legislation.[29]
Title I directs the U.S. Attorney General to develop and publicly announce a risk and needs assessment system for all Federal Bureau of Prison inmates within 180 days of enactment, and to recommend evidence-based recidivism reduction activities. This risk and needs assessment system, once developed, is to be used under the First Step Act to classify prisoner risk of recidivism, match prisoners with suitable recidivism reduction activities based on their classification, inform housing decisions so that prisoners in similar risk categories are grouped together, and create incentives for participation in and completion of recidivism-reduction activities. These incentives include increased access to phone privileges, transfer to penal institutions closer to a prisoner’s primary residence, and time credits to reduce sentence length. However, time credit rewards are not available to all prisoners; 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(D)—where Title I of the First Step Act was codified—details nearly 70 types of convictions that render an inmate ineligible to accrue time credits for successfully completing recidivism-reduction activities.[30] Additionally, prisoners subject to “a final order of removal”—which renders an individual deportable—are also ineligible from receiving good time credit incentives. Those who participate in risk and needs assessment activities may be eligible for prerelease custody or supervised release as described in 18 U.S.C. 3624(g).[31] This title also increases the number of good-time credits per year—small sentenced reductions earned by prisoners for good behavior—from 47 to 54, which many believe was consistent with the original intent behind 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b)(1).[32] Importantly, the law retroactively applies the good-time credits, making some prisoners immediately eligible for release based on accrual of seven additional good-time credits per year.
Title I of the First Step Act, as codified at 18 U.S.C. § 3621(h), also directs the Director of Bureau of Prisons to perform an initial risk and needs assessment of all federal prisoners within 180 days of the Attorney General’s release of the risk and needs assessment system, and to begin expanding recidivism-reduction activities.[33]
Title II, as codified at 18 U.S.C. § 4050, stipulates that the Director of the Bureau of Prisons must ensure that federal prison directors provide employees a secure place to store firearms outside of the prison, or allow employees to store firearms in an authorized and approved vehicle lockbox.[34] It also allows federal BOP employees to carry concealed firearms outside of the prison.
Title III, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 4322, prohibits the use of restraints on prisoners during pregnancy, labor and postpartum recovery, subject to limited exceptions.[35] If a correctional officer determines that the prisoner is a flight risk or poses serious harm to herself or the community, or if a healthcare professional concludes that use of restraints is consistent with medical safety, restraints must be used. However, they must be the least restrictive means possible to prevent escape.
Title IV makes a variety of sentencing reforms. Section 401 amends the Controlled Substance Act (21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq.) to constrain the application of sentencing enhancements for defendants with prior drug felony convictions by redefining “serious drug felony” and “serious violent felony,” to reduce the mandatory minimum sentence for a second violation from 20 years to 15 years, and to reduce the mandatory minimum sentence for a third violation from life to 25 years. It makes similar revisions to the Controlled Substance Import and Export Act at 21 U.S.C. § 960(b).
Section 402 expands the number of defendants who may be eligible for “safety valve” relief. Prior to the First Step Act, only defendants with one “criminal history point” could receive sentences below the mandatory minimums, but under the Act, defendants with up to four points (depending on the type of offense) may be eligible.[36]
Section 403 eliminates the “stacking” provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c).[37] Prior to this legislation, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)—which stipulated that an enhanced mandatory minimum sentence could be added when a gun was used in the commission of a “second or subsequent” conviction—was interpreted to permit the imposition of enhanced mandatory minimum sentences where a gun was used in a concurrently charged offense. The First Step Act clarified that gun enhancements can only be added where the defendant was previously (i.e. non-concurrently) convicted of a gun violation, so as to restrict sentencing enhancements to “true” repeat offenders.[38]
Section 404 applies the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010—which, among other things, reduced the discrepancy between sentences for crack cocaine and powder cocaine convictions—retroactively. Under the First Step Act, prisoners who committed offenses “covered” by the Fair Sentencing Act are permitted to petition a court directly to reconsider their sentence (after certain administrative steps are satisfied).[39] Prior to this law, the Bureau of Prisons acted as the “gatekeeper” of prisoner petitions, and prisoners were not able to make motions to federal courts directly for back-end sentencing review.[40]
Title V reauthorizes the Second Chance Act of 2007 from 2019 to 2023. This reauthorization directs the Attorney General to make grants to state and local projects which support the successful reentry of juvenile and adult prisoner populations into their communities after incarceration—including projects which improve academic and vocational education for offenders during incarceration.
Title VI includes more than ten miscellaneous provisions, including those that place prisoners as close as possible to (and no more than 500 miles away from) their primary residence where practicable (Section 601); encourage home confinement for low risk prisoners (Section 602); lower the eligibility age and reduce to the time-served requirement for compassionate release, and broaden the prisoner population eligible for compassionate release to include terminally ill offenders (Section 603); mandate the Bureau of Prisons to provide identification to returning citizens (Section 604); authorize new markets for Federal Prison Industries (Section 605); mandate de-escalation training for correctional officers and employees (Section 606); direct reporting on opioid treatment and abuse in prisons (Section 607); direct data collection on various metrics for inclusion in the National Prisoner Statistics Program (Section 610); improve availability of feminine hygiene products in prison (Section 611); and prohibit the use of solitary confinement for federally-incarcerated juveniles, excepting certain circumstances (Section 613).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Step_Act
Maybe Biden can pardon Democrat Czeropski’s having anal sex in a
Senate hearing room to “save democracy” and watch his numbers soar?
Statement by Democrat Sen Ben Cardin on LGBT Pride Month 2018.
“In order to guarantee protection for LGBT civil rights, I have joined my fellow senators in sponsoring the Equality Act (S. 1006). This federal legislation would rightfully define sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes...... alongside race, religion, age, and sex.”
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Thankfully, Democrat Sen Cardin protected the rights of his tax-paid aide, Aidan Maese-Czeropski, to have anal sex in a Senate hearing room.
Democrat Cardin shoots to the top of the viable Democrat candidates list.
I keep hearing that Barack was running things, I have never believed it.
As far as Michelle, I think it unlikely, why would she want to give up what she has now, and besides I do not think the daughters would be happy at all.
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People seem to forget the crack that Obama made shortly before leaving the White House.
“Michelle can’t wait to leave the White House, so we can make some money.”
Apparently it wasn’t a joke.
The staffer just removed from Cardin’s office is probably the one “driving” the admin. Graphically for sure.
“Joe Biden’s Democrat rivals are even worse than him“
This is not true. Biden is the perfect fall guy. He shoves through every nation killing policy the rats have dreamed about implementing for years. He does because he is told to and he does without a thought about public opinion. Any other candidate would at least worry about re-election.
They are ignoring Dean Phillips, Congressman from Minnesota, who is an announced candidate. Maybe he’s considered nonviable in the Democratic Party because he’s Jewish.
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Ughh...
Why do people persist in this myth that the Jewish vote matters to democrat control in CA and NY. Those states, while having a large Jewish population, also have democrats winning by margins larger than the Jewish population. The States where any noticeable change in Jewish voting patterns as a group would change things are MI, PA, VA and AZ. These are sates where any significant change in block voting will change the party in control of the state.
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