How would he know?

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Biden falsely claims he's never spoken to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as president

Biden met with Powell in the White House in May 2022

At least three times, in fact.

President Biden on Thursday falsely claimed he had never spoken to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as president, despite having a meeting with him at the White House two years ago.

Biden, during a speech to the Economic Club of Washington, said, "Unlike my predecessor, I respect the Federal Reserve's independence as they pursued a mandate to bring inflation down."  

"And that independence has served the country well. And by the way, I've never once spoken to the chairman of the Fed since I became president," Biden added. "We'll also do enormous damage to our economy if that independence is ever lost." 

However, in May 2022, Biden met with Powell in the Oval Office in what Bloomberg described in a report as his "third in-person session with Powell" since becoming president. 

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

In fairness to Ol’ Dependables, he lost his memory long ago, despite Kampalla’s and various media types’ insistence that he was sharp as a tack and functioning as late as June of this year. Here he is in 2022, around the time he was meeting with Jerome Powell for one of those three meetings. Can we really blame him today for not remembering where he was, or who he talked to two full years ago?

You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh; I am not that man.

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Report: Hezbollah Hiding Heavy Death Toll From Exploding Devices, Leadership of Elite Radwan Terror Force Decimated

Consecutive waves of exploding devices have incurred heavy losses on Hezbollah’s leadership and terrorist fighting forces. The command structure of Hezbollah’s elite terrorist Radwan force has been ‘decimated’ by the well-coordinate strike, Israeli sources confirm.

Officially, around 3,000 Hezbollah terrorists were wounded in Tuesday’s pager explosions. The walkie-talkie blasts on Wednesday reportedly injured 450 terror operatives. The actual figures are much higher, reports suggest.

… Significant damage was inflicted on Hezbollah’s special operation forces unit Radwan force, which lost large parts of its command structure. At least 450 were injured in the explosion of the hand-held walkie-talkie radios throughout Lebanon, and these join the more than 3,000 Hezbollah operatives who were injured by the pager blasts.

… . The Iran-backed terrorist group is in disarray following the strike. Twice bitten, the Hezbollah terrorists were now scared of touching electronic devices and electric switches, social media posts show.

Look for them soon at the medical school of their choice

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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Chicago Public Schools teachers say they were told by administrators to give migrant students passing grades.”The teachers we spoke with work in CPS elementary schools and say they spoke no Spanish, while their migrant students spoke no English, making communication virtually impossible. They also added that because their schools were located in predominantly Black neighborhoods, they offered no English as a Second Language (ESL) support. Despite this, they say they were instructed by school administrators to give their migrant students a 70 percent in every subject and pass them on to the next grade.”

Ladies of the Order of the Perpetually Outraged

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I personally haven’t met a cheerful AWFL in years; in fact, they’ve all been shrieking banshees, but one’s finally surfaced — alert the media!

Liberal Woman Says MAGA 'Freakin' Hate Us' Because They're the Party of Fun

Responses have been … rude.

Maybe we can sub out our national defense to the Israelis

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DailyCaller:

EXCLUSIVE: New Docs Shed Light On Air Force’s ‘Goal’ To Reduce ‘White Male Population’ Joining Officer Ranks

The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.

… CASA requested records regarding the Air Force’s new officer applicant standards through a federal transparency request, called a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in 2023. At the time, the Air Force said it couldn’t find any records, according to a letter obtained by the DCNF.

CASA then sued the Air Force for the records in April 2024 and received hundreds of documents and slides in response, which the DCNF subsequently obtained.

… One of the slides in question, labeled “AFROTC White,” depicts a graph that shows the percentage of white male ROTC officer applicants declining from approximately 60% in fiscal year 2019 to a projected 50% in fiscal year 2023. The graph further details how the Air Force’s goal is to reduce that percentage down to approximately 43% by fiscal year 2029, denoted by a star with the label “achieve(d) goal.”

“White male population will decline as other demographics increase,” the slide reads. [See chart above — ed]

In a separate set of documents from as early as 2022, the Air Force outlines its efforts to modify ROTC scholarship programs, which “play an important role in accession and diversity goals.” The Air Force suggests modifying the scholarship models could remove certain “testing barriers” to entry for under-represented groups.

The diversity plans extend to the Air Force’s Aim High Flight Academy (AHFA), an aviation scholarship program for high school, ROTC and Air Force Academy students, according to the documents. The Air Force notes that the AFHA applicant pool should be made up of a “minimum” of 60% underrepresented groups, further noting that it must be at least 35% minorities. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Former Navy SEAL Says Biden, Harris Haven’t Learned ‘Any Lessons’ From Afghanistan Withdrawal)

Like other branches of the military, the Air Force has struggled to keep up with recruiting and retention targets in recent years. The Navy is expected to miss its recruiting goals in 2024; the Marine Corps, Army and Air Force are on on track to meet their goals, although the latter two branches missed their targets in 2022 and 2023, according to Military Times.

Only approximately 57% of servicemembers or military families polled by the Military Family Advisory Network in 2023 said they’d recommend joining the service, compared to 74% in 2019. Among some of the reasons the respondents wouldn’t recommend service were the politically charged nature of the military, differences and divisions, and low pay, among others.

She's something special, alright UPDATE: A reader insists that the owner is a Trump supporter, and was only joking. I'm not convinced, but his comment can be found below; you can decide.

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Old Greenwich florist displays a skeleton dressed as Trump dangling from a noose. She removed the bandage on his ear, representing the first unsuccessful assassination attempt, only after someone complained; such a lovely person.

This flower girl is just part of what passes for mainstream politics these days:

According to a new survey that RMG Research conducted for the Napolitan News Service, a staggering 17% of voters believe that America would be better off if last week’s assassination attempt on Trump had succeeded. This includes an alarming 28% of Democrats, with another 24% unsure whether America might be better off if Trump were dead.

Only 48% of Democrats could definitively say that the country would not be better off if Trump had been killed.

Miss Salley doesn’t say which part of the 52% of her fellow Democrats she’s part of: sure that the country would be better off had Trump been killed, or just “conflicted”. Either way, I’ll shop accordingly.

Were the exploso-pagers unfair to Hamas terrorists? All the best people say yes, the lower orders think they were just fine

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Catholics Who Cheer Exploding Pagers Need to Learn Their Faith and Repent. Uh huh — sure.

As Twitchy reported, the usual suspects — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Rashida Tlaib — were appalled at Israel's strike at Hezbollah militants by selling them thousands of exploding pagers. Most of us thought it was pretty clever and even made some great memes out of it.

Even though Israel pulled it off, some people didn't think it was very Christian of them. MuslimSkeptic.com founder Daniel Haqiqatjou noted that no Muslim had ever committed "terrorism" via mass-distributed consumer goods. Consumer airlines, maybe, but not mass-distributed consumer goods.

And then a modern mackerel snapper — you know, all paths lead to God? — weighed in:

She's as garbled as her would-be heir

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won't somebody please page her?

Hillary Clinton says it's a 'double standard' to ask Harris about her policies

Hillary Clinton forcefully argued [they mean shrieked] that Vice President Kamala Harris didn't need to clarify her policy positions in interviews and said that the 2024 Democratic candidate was facing a "double standard" from voters and the media.

"She does not have to do it, Kara. I'm going to just cut to the chase," Clinton told journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher on the "On with Kara Swisher" podcast this week.

"In fact, she's put out policies on her campaign website. Anybody who's truly interested can go and read about them. [And her voters are very much NOT interested, they just hate Trump]. She referenced policies. She actually doesn't just have policies and concepts. She has plans [in her head[ about what to do," Clinton said, referring to a policy page Harris added to her campaign website earlier this month.

It’s a “double standard” because male candidates aren’t questioned about their policies and positions? Really? Examples, please.

"I think it's, um, you know, it's a double standard, and it's a double standard that is partly because they are still getting to know her. But also because they're still grappling with the idea like, ‘Oh, am I really going to vote for a woman to be president and commander in chief?’" she continued.

And it’s racist because white women are the ones who are demanding details of who and what they’d be voting for?

"This is particularly true, let's just say it and underline it, about White women [voters]," Clinton continued. 

Certainly not the AWFLS, and they comprise 72.3% of all likely voters who identify as females or girly-girls. (All statistics cited in this post have been generated by FWIW’s AI On-the-Spot Number Generator, and are infallible).