Biden Brags About Being Able to ‘Blow Up the World’

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Biden Brags About Being Able to ‘Blow Up the World’

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden bizarrely bragged about being able to “blow up the world” with his nuclear code during a visit to Colorado this week, according to the New York Post.

Biden was touring South Korean company CS Wind’s factory in Pueblo, Colorado when he made the comment: 

“This is not nuclear weapons, is it?” Biden asked nearby factor workers. “Now, look, my Marine carries that, but it has the code to blow up the world.”

The 81-year-old president then went on to give a bumbling, 23-minute speech, in which he made numerous gaffes.

“I am friends with your leader, Mr. Moon, you know,” Biden said, appearing to refer to former South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who left office in 2022.

The current South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has interacted with Biden at many events—including the administration’s second state dinner in April, where Yoon was honored.

In images of the visit, the plant workers appeared, for the most part, to be American.

Biden then mistakenly referred to former President Donald Trump as a congressman while trying to attack Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.

“We can use [a billionaire minimum tax] to strengthen the Social Security and Medicare system instead of cutting them like Congressman Trump and Boebert want to do,” Biden said.

At another point in his speech, Biden claimed to have “cut the federal deficit by over $7 billion” even though his administration has continued to increase spending every year since he took office.

The frequent gaffes are sure to increase voters’ concerns about the president’s age and mental acuity. Already, 71% of swing-state voters say Biden is “too old to be an effective president,” according to a New York Times poll released this month.

Even top Democrats have warned that Biden’s age is a problem, with former senior Obama adviser David Axelrod warning that the more Biden is in front of the camera, the bigger the problem will become.

“In front of the camera, what he’s projecting is causing people concerns, and that is worrisome,” Axelrod said.

Chris Cuomo Is Open to Vote for Trump in 2024

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Chris Cuomo Is Open to Vote for Trump in 2024

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Former CNN anchor and propagandist Chris Cuomo made some surprising remarks during a recent interview, during which he suggested the country might head in a safer, more prosperous direction under Donald Trump, adding that he would be open to voting for Trump himself.

During the interview with a famous podcaster Patrick Bet-David, Cuomo said that he thinks that America is stronger than any individual while adding that Trump was a better president for the country than Joe Biden, according to Trending Politics.

“Would we survive another [term of Trump]… uh, yes. I don’t think there’s any greater risk to America with him than with Biden. And for people who are now going to attack me and say, what are you talking about, Trump is like this crazy man. Well, look, as Patrick says, the data’s the data. Nobody was trying to kill us when Trump was president in the way that they are now. If anything, there’s more hostility,” he said.

Cuomo then continued with his idea of Americans surviving a lot of things, like “Russian election interference” and “Biden the gaffe machine,” and moving on. He also added that sometimes things should have been “done differently” to keep this country in a better shape.

“In terms of who I’m going to vote for, I would really have to see where we are at that moment in time,” he said.

When asked by Bet-David if he is open to voting for Trump, Cuomo gave an affirmative answer.

“I am always open, and people will say ‘Bull***, you’ve never voted for a Republican in your life.’ Wrong. And not only have I, the first vote I ever cast was for a Republican,” Cuomo replied.

After he was disgracefully fired from CNN at the end of 2021, Cuomo joined NewsNation where he wasn’t able to get the same number of followers that he had while he was still working for his previous network.

Durbin Denies Blocking Congressional Subpoena for Jeffrey Epstein’s Flight Logs

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Durbin Denies Blocking Congressional Subpoena for Jeffrey Epstein’s Flight Logs

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has denied an allegation from his colleague, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., that he blocked her attempt to subpoena the flight logs of notorious multimillionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who hosted numerous politicians, national security officials, businessmen and other power brokers on his private plane.

Blackburn made her allegation on Twitter following a heated Senate hearing chaired by Durbin, where members ultimately voted to subpoena Republican donor Harlan Crow and conservative legal activist Leonard Leo as part of an ongoing Supreme Court ethics investigation.

Durbin pushed through the vote in the meeting’s final moments after Republicans walked out in protest.

After the meeting, Blackburn tweeted the following: “[Sen. Durbin] BLOCKED my request to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs. What are Democrats trying to hide?”

 

However, Durbin’s office has denied Blackburn’s allegation in response to a Headline USA media inquiry.

“That is simply false,” said Durbin’s communications director, Emily Hampsten, in an email response to this publication.

Senate Democrats are blaming Republicans for “filibustering” throughout the hearing, Headline USA understands. That filibustering prevented Blackburn from amending the subpoena resolution to include Epstein, according to the Democrats.

Earlier this month, Blackburn surprised her colleagues with the announcement that she was issuing the subpoena for the flight logs.

“Since we’re in the business of issuing subpoenas now, here’s a few more I’ve filed: A subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to provide the flight logs for his private plane,” Blackburn said during a Nov. 9 congressional hearing.

“Given the numerous allegations of human trafficking and sexual abuse surrounding Mr. Epstein, I think it is very important we identify everybody that was on that plane, and how many trips they took on that plane, and the destinations to which they arrived.”

A congressional subpoena for the Epstein flight logs be perhaps the most significant move by Congress to investigate Epstein’s ties to the various political elite.

Elsewhere, the Senate Finance Committee is investigating Epstein. However, that investigation is concentrated on tax evasion, rather than Epstein’s intelligence connections, his friendship with multiple U.S. presidents and other high officials, his sex crimes, his mysterious death or other Epstein-related topics.

“In particular, the Committee seeks information on Epstein’s participation in structuring trusts and other complex transactions designed to avoid federal gift and estate taxes on as much as $2 billion in wealth transferred to your children,” Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in a letter.

Wyden revealed that his investigation has been ongoing since June 2022.

Thus far, the investigation has found that Epstein helped billionaire Leon Black avoid more than $1 billion in federal taxes, Wyden said.

The senator also revealed that the IRS has not audited any of Black’s trusts or transactions that are subject to the congressional probe.

And according to Wyden, Black has not been cooperative in the probe.

“You have refused to answer questions or provide documents related to payments you made to Epstein or substantiate how such payments were calculated or were compensation for services,” the senator said in a letter to Black.

Wyden asked Black to provide him with information on a number of Epstein- and Apollo-related topics. Wyden seeks, among other things, a copy of a “written service agreement” between Epstein and Black, as well as information about Epstein’s financial advice related to Black’s private art collection, which is worth over $1 billion.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

China Runs Operation to Get Americans Hooked on Drugs

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China Runs Operation to Get Americans Hooked on Drugs

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) It was recently revealed that China has been running operations in the United States to flood the country with illegal drugs and make Americans addicted to them.

Just the News reported that police operations from various states, including California and Maine, have busted Chinese citizens who were operating illegal marijuana growing sites.

In addition to that, American officials got clear evidence of China providing Mexican drug cartels with the precursor chemicals to flood America with fentanyl. It was also discovered by the Drug Enforcement Administration that Beijing has been flooding U.S. cities with a wide range of addictive and harmful drugs for decades.

Other sources stated that there is growing evidence of communist China launching concerted operations to hook Americans on drugs as part of a larger effort to supplant the United States as the strongest superpower in the world.

Aside from the foreign communist government trying to destroy the United States and turn Americans into a bunch of drug addicts, there is also a problem that comes from within the country, with the Biden administration implementing open border policies that only accelerated operations that have killed tens of thousands of Americans from fentanyl poisoning alone.

Drug overdose death rates involving fentanyl increased by 279% from 5.7 per 100,000 in 2016 to 21.6 in 2021, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

“I’m just saying that from a strategic plan of the CCP, it’s a brilliant concept that if we can get into America and sell this very pure marijuana and destroy Americans’ brains, so then they go to pills and other drugs, that’s a brilliant, unrestricted warfare,” former DEA Chief of Special Operations Derek Maltz Sr. said.

He then added that the problem is way bigger than some people think it is.

“When you look at the Chinese Communist Party and you look at the role of China and their criminal networks in the overall drug crisis in America – because people are not connecting the dots – this is way bigger than just a bunch of, you know, illegally selling marijuana up in Maine… [It’s] all over the country. It’s not just Maine, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington State, California. And, you know, all different states,” Maltz said.

Mayorkas Met w/ Border Patrol Agents Accused of Whipping Migrants, but Didn’t Apologize

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Mayorkas Met w/ Border Patrol Agents Accused of Whipping Migrants, but Didn’t Apologize

(Headline USA) Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reportedly met with the Border Patrol agents who were falsely accused of whipping migrants in 2021, but he refused to apologize to them.

The private meeting took place on Wednesday in Uvalde, Texas, according to a local news outlet.

Sources close to the DHS said Mayorkas intended on apologizing to Border Patrol Chief Jason Owen and the other agents who were smeared over the alleged whipping incident, but never did. Instead, Mayorkas merely listened to the agents, who explained how the accusations affected their lives and careers.

Despite Mayorkas’s non-apology, the meeting was “professional and respectful,” according to Fox News.

The “whipping scandal” followed shortly after the Biden administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal, and to many it appeared that Democrats and the media were cynically using it as a distraction to change the news cycle into one more favorable.

In fact, they continued to push the bogus story even after it had been debunked and disavowed by the photographer who took the photographs.

Mayorkas was one of the first Biden administration officials to react to images of the agents riding on horseback with split reins while trying to block migrants from entering the U.S. near Del Rio, Texas.

He called the images “horrifying,” claiming they “conjured up images of what has occurred in the past,” referring to slavery in the U.S.

President Joe Biden also publicly denounced the agents.

“To see people treated like they did, horses barely running over, people being strapped—it’s outrageous,” he told reporters.

“I promise you, those people will pay,” Biden said of the agents. “There will be an investigation underway now and there will be consequences. There will be consequences.”

However, a subsequent Customs and Border Protection internal investigation found that the agents did not carry whips nor strike anyone with their reins, and that no migrants were harmed during the incident. 

Even if Mayorkas and Biden did apologize, law enforcement advocates say it would be “too little too late.”

“They dragged through the mud not only the border patrol agents on horseback but also the border patrol service,” said retired Homeland Security special agent in charge for San Antonio Ari Jimenez.

Another Rapper Comes Out in Support of Trump Ahead of 2024

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Another Rapper Comes Out in Support of Trump Ahead of 2024

(Headline USA) Another rapper came out in support of former President Donald Trump this week, blasting President Joe Biden for his inept handling of the economy.

Jonathan Gray, whose rapper name is PROLIFICJONNY5, said he wished Trump were still in the White House and that he will have no trouble supporting the former president in 2024.

“I know that Trump did the stimulus checks to people. I know that Trump has let a few artists out of jail [like] Kodak Black. I know Kodak, but personally. So Trump let Kodak out of jail. So, you know, I don’t know what Biden has done. I just know about Trump,” he explained to Fox News.

Trump issued executive pardons to Kodak Black and Lil Wayne during his final weeks in office. Ironically, Black (real name: Bill Kahan Kapri) spent time in prison for a firearms case similar to the one for which presidential son Hunter Biden received a sweetheart plea deal.

Asked for his thoughts on the Biden administration, Gray said the economy is much worse today than it was under Trump.

“When [Biden] became president, gas prices rose,” he said. “I never bought a pack of eggs that was over $10 and the eggs is over $10 now.”

Biden has “got to go,” the rapper added. He said it’s possible Biden did something right, but he hasn’t heard or read about it. 

“Oh, I haven’t heard Biden doing anything yet. I just haven’t read it. … I just haven’t.”

Gray also mentioned the Biden administration’s legal prosecution of Trump, which is one reason commonly cited among black Americans for their increased support of the former president.

“I wish he was still president, even though they’re going to say they tried to put him [in jail]. Re-elect Trump again. I’m voting for Trump. Re-elect Trump,” he added.

Asked about the Democratic accusation that Trump is racist, Gray said, “Trump is not racist. Everyone going to have their negative and positive opinion. That’s life. And yeah, whoever don’t like him, it is what it is. I support him. Trump 2024.”

Several high-profile rappers have also come out in support of Trump, including Lil Wayne, DaBaby, Kodak Black, Chief Keef, Benny the Butcher and Waka Flocka Flame.

Elon Musk to Boycotting Advertisers: ‘Go F**k Yourself’

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Elon Musk to Boycotting Advertisers: ‘Go F**k Yourself’

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Billionaire Elon Musk had a stern message for companies that planned to boycott Twitter after the George Soros-backed propaganda outlet Media Matters waged a smear campaign that accused Musk of endorsing an anti-Semitic post, Time magazine reported.

“What it’s going to do is it’s going to kill the company, and the whole world will know the advertisers killed the company,” Musk said at a conference on Wednesday, suggesting that Twitter could take a major financial hit after woke companies like Apple and Disney pulled out.

Nonetheless, Musk rejected the suggestion from interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin that a recent visit to Israel was part of an “apology tour” or that he would make any effort to rehabilitate his standing with the former advertisers.

“Somebody’s going to try to blackmail me with advertising?! Blackmail me with money?” he said. “Go f**k yourself. Go. F**k. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.”

Musk then specifically called out Disney CEO Bob Iger, who had spoken earlier in the conference.

The entertainment giant has faced its own share of backlash and controversy from conservatives who have boycotted over its left-wing political grandstanding and child-grooming.

Several of its 2023 movies have bombed at the box-office, and a recent annual report from the Securities and Exchange Commission warned investors that it could continue to shed investors if the trends continue.

“Hey, Bob, if you’re here in the audience,” Musk said, addressing Iger following his profane outburst. “Sorry, that’s how I feel.”

Despite his defiant attitude, Musk expressed regret for the offensive post that triggered the boycott, wherein he appeared to endorse the claim that Jewish people adhered to a “dialectical hatred” of white people, noting that it was among “worst and dumbest I’ve ever done.”

The Twitter CEO said that not only was he not anti-Semitic, he was “philosemitic,” a lover of the Jewish people.

Yet, “Once in a while I will say something foolish,” Musk admitted.

In clarifying what he meant by his post, he explained that the Jewish people in some ways are paying the price for indiscriminately backing minority groups through the decades.

“You have seen protests for Hamas in every major city, and they receive funding from prominent people in the Jewish community,” he said, noting that if you “fund persecuted groups in general,” some may eventually “want your annihilation.”

Mike Pence’s Homeland Security Stooge Supports Censoring Congress

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Mike Pence’s Homeland Security Stooge Supports Censoring Congress

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) At Thursday’s congressional hearing into social media censorship, the Democrats’ witness, former Mike Pence advisor Olivia Troye, accused Republicans of promoting the conspiracy theory that the government is pressuring tech firms to remove conservative content.

“Members of this committee and their witnesses make grand and vague accusations about government censorship, but those foggy allegations are refuted by the facts: that private social media companies moderating content on their own, private platforms is not government censorship,” said Troye, who was Pence’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor.

It didn’t take long to prove Troye incorrect.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., showed her proof that the U.S. government-funded Stanford Internet Observatory’s “Virality Project” flagged one of his tweets in 2021 for censorship. Massie’s tweet, which can be found below, simply quoted an Israeli study that found natural immunity to be just as effective as the vaccine in combatting COVID-19.

But instead of correcting herself as any rational and fair-minded intelligence analyst would do, the snarky and over-credentialed Troye doubled down on her assertion that government censorship is a conspiracy theory.

“Is there any reason this tweet should have been flagged?” Massie asked, to which Troye responded: “It depends on whether you’re spreading inaccurate information … You seem to do that often.”

When Massie pointed out that his flagged tweet simply quoted an Israeli study, Troye insisted that social media companies can make their own content-moderation decisions—ignoring the evidence Massie just presented to her that, in his case, government was pushing for censorship.

Troye’s pigheadedness seemed to flabbergast Massie.

“Are you going to sit here and maintain that this occurred? We have the documents … that show this occurred,” he said.

Undeterred, Troye tripled down.

“Well then it was flagged for a reason,” she said.

Massie closed his time by underscoring the importance of Thursday’s committee hearing.

“Is there ever a good reason to censor a member of Congress? This is my official account … this is my communication with my constituents,” he said.

“I bring this up to show that: One, your testimony is false,” he said to Troye. “But two, if they can do this to an official member’s account, they can do this to anybody.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Gaetz Speculates on McCarthy’s Future amid Rumors of Early Retirement

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Gaetz Speculates on McCarthy’s Future amid Rumors of Early Retirement

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Speculation has mounted that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., may decide to call it quits early, Axios reported.

McCarthy fueled speculation that he might retire when he posted a photo on Instagram showing his district office in a state of disarray, as if everything was being packed away.

Although McCarthy’s California district is not seen as competitive for Democrats, the vacancy would further narrowing the GOP’s razor-thin majority even as a House vote to oust Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., was already likely to turn the GOP’s nine-member advantage into a seven-member one, pending the outcome of a special election.

Still, not all Republicans think that the former speaker should remain.

Among those speculating on McCarthy’s future was Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who spearheaded the effort to eject him from the speakership in October by invoking a motion to vacate after McCarthy surrendered to Democrats on a contentious budget negotiation.

Gaetz suggested that McCarthy would return to the protection of those whose interests he advanced while in office—the corporations and lobbyists who bankrolled him.

“I suspect the former speaker will return to spend more time with the people he’s always represented—on Wall Street and K Street. I don’t imagine he’ll be walking the streets of Bakersfield,” Gaetz noted.

Gaetz’s relationship with McCarthy has been understandably fraught following the October shakeup, which caught the over-confident GOP leader off-guard and resulted in several weeks of disarray in the GOP caucus.

“[T]he only reason people think there’s chaos in this town right now is because the special interests aren’t in control any more,” Gaetz said at the time. “I think we’re going to have an upgrade on the position of speaker of the House.”

But the Florida congressman was not the only elected official with thoughts about McCarthy’s potential departure.

Other lawmakers who commented anonymously agreed that it was time for McCarthy to call it quits after the anticlimactic finish in his 16-year climb to power.

“I can’t really imagine that Kevin really wants to stick around,” one lawmaker said, while expressing support for the deposed leader.

“I’ll support him with whatever he wants to do,” said the McCarthy ally, adding that he “did a lot of really good things he doesn’t get nearly enough credit for.”

Others were not so conciliatory.

“Why the hell would he stay?” another member of the House asked.

“Damn shame,” said another.

Thuggish Union Bullied Nurses for Years Thanks to Broken U.S. Labor System, Congress Hears

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Thuggish Union Bullied Nurses for Years Thanks to Broken U.S. Labor System, Congress Hears

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions held a hearing Thursday on legislation that would protect workers from being forced to pay dues or fees to labor unions as a condition of employment.

Proponents of such legislation have been making the economic case for the “right to work” for years—pointing to the fact that states prohibiting mandatory union membership consistently outpace non-Right to Work states in manufacturing output and GDP growth.

And at Thursday’s hearing, lawmakers heard personal stories about how the current U.S. labor system has allowed unions to bully nurses and other workers.

 

Retired nurse Jeanette Geary told the committee that she once worked at a Kent Hospital in Rhode Island. There, the United Nurses & Allied Professionals demanded that she pay dues to the union or be fired.

Geary said she attempted to invoke her rights established under the Supreme Court case CWA v. Beck, which restricted unions from collecting dues for political activities if a union member chooses to opt out.

However, “the union refused to acknowledge me, belittled me, and refused to provide any audited financial disclosure about what it did with the compulsory dues it forcibly extracted from my salary,” Geary said Thursday.

In late 2009, Geary and several other Kent Hospital nurses resigned their UNAP memberships and objected to paying for the union’s political and non-representational activities.

Represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, she initiated an unfair labor practice charge against UNAP with the National Labor Relations Board on November 23, 2009.

A decade-plus legal battle ensued.

After numerous disputes in multiple legal jurisdictions, Geary eventually received back pay for the dues that had been illegally seized from her eleven years earlier.

However, the harrowing process illustrates how broken the current system is, she said.

“The Beck objection system is broken and does not protect employees’ rights. Unions do not tell employees about their rights because union officials have no incentive to do so, and regular employees without lawyers like those at the National Right to Work Legal Foundation are left to fend for themselves,” she said.

“For all of these reasons, I wholeheartedly support the National Right to Work Act, so that no employee will be forced to pay his or her heard earned money to a private organization they do not support,” she added.

“This is America, and membership in a union and payment of dues should be strictly voluntary.”

While Thursday’s hearing focused on legislation that would reduce unions’ power to coerce workers, congressional Democrats are working in the opposite direction.

Left-leaning lawmakers, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Robert Scott, D-Va., have reintroduced the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which would eliminate every single state Right to Work law in America.

National Right to Work Committee’s vice president of legislation, Greg Mourad, said that luckily, the PRO Act has little chance of making it through this Congress. Voting for this “ridiculous big labor idea” would be political suicide for Democrats in Right to Work states, according to Mourad.

“If they could actually pass it, they might make that sacrifice. But they’re not going to cut their own throats for no reason,” he told Headline USA in June.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

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