TargaGTS | August 27, 2025 at 8:22 am
The New World Screwworm is yet another pestilence/disease that was once eradicated in the United States only to be reintroduced by poor border control. Back in the 1950s, a massive project to interrupt the life-cyle of the pest by introducing a critical mass of sterile flies, was surprisingly effective. By the mid-1960s, NWS was no longer a thing in the US & Canada (although they still persisted in parts of Mexico for another 40+ years)….until Joe Biden’s tenure.

Do I think Biden was making all the decisions on those pardons? I highly doubt it. But the way the power is allocated, there is no requirement for written approval. If Biden says he approved them verbally, and that's what he maintains, then there's nothing else to be done here. So it's a scandal worth exposing, but don't get your hopes up that anything is going to be found null and void. That's not going to happen. //

The pardons were sketchy, but they are not null and void, and they won't be found null and void. Unfortunately, as long as Biden himself denies he was duped, there is no mechanism by which to overturn the pardons. That power is given directly to the executive in the U.S. Constitution, and the legislative and judicial branches have no ability to challenge pardons or even change how the process works in the future.

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"I made the decisions..."

Joe Biden's statement uses that phrasing twice. A lawyer wrote this, and that lawyer is taking care not to directly address whether Joe Biden personally signed anything.

Why? Because Joe didn't sign anything, and they all know it's going to come out.

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Former President Biden in wake of President Trump order for investigation: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”
7:34 AM · Jun 5, 2025

On Friday, the Supreme Court allowed President Trump to suspend a program that provided “parole” to 500,000 aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Democrats are crying foul, saying Trump isn’t following the law. But it was President Biden who broke the law when he allowed these migrants here in the first place.

While the Supreme Court’s reprieve doesn’t assure that the Court will ultimately rule in the administration’s favor, it is good news for now. For these parole programs were some of the most egregious misdeeds of Alejandro Mayorkas, President Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security.

This program ushered into the United States on a red carpet over half a million aliens who, under our
nation’s immigration laws, were flatly inadmissible.

In fact, the House of Representatives impeached Secretary Mayorkas for high crimes and misdemeanors in part because of these very programs: proclaiming that “Mayorkas willfully exceeded his parole authority” by “creat[ing], re-open[ing], or expand[ing] a series of categorical parole programs … which enabled hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens to enter the United States in violation of the laws enacted by Congress.”

When Congress granted the President the parole power in 1952, it was strictly for, as the House Judiciary Committee made clear, ONLY “emergency cases,” such as “an alien who requires immediate medical attention” or an inadmissible alien who needs to be here as “a witness or for purposes of prosecution.” //

In 1996, Congress reacted to decades of abuses by administrations of both parties by tightening the language of the parole power in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Among other changes, IIRIRA required that parole only be granted “on a case-by-case basis.” //

While Biden ignored the “case by case basis” requirement, and provided a mass parole, the lower-court judge who ruled against Trump, said that since parole can only be granted on a case-by-case basis, it likewise can only be terminated on a case-by-case basis.

So one law for Biden, another for Trump.

The Trump administration has canceled $3.7 billion worth of grants for multiple climate-related infrastructure projects, the majority of which were approved in former President Joe Biden's lame duck period after he lost the 2024 election.

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright made the announcement on Friday and said the 24 projects failed to advance the energy needs of the American people, were not economically viable and would not generate a positive return on investment of taxpayer dollars.

The department said that after a "thorough and individualized financial review of each award," it found that nearly 70% of the awards (16 of the 24 projects) had been signed between election day on Nov. 5 and Biden's last day in office on Jan. 20. //

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions is claiming a loss of $4.6 billion in economic output, along with the loss of thousands of jobs, and it would be roundly interesting to see them show their work on that estimate. That loss of economic output, of course, requires that there is some profit somewhere along the way. If any of these enterprises were profitable, if any of them actually generated any economic output, they wouldn't require millions or billions in taxpayer subsidies.

There is also a storm of whining about how these cuts and others like them under President Trump "stifle innovation." Horsefeathers. If there is a profit to be made in any of these technologies, someone will go to the effort to develop them.

President Joe Biden, with strong backing from environmental lobbyists and a last-minute defection from West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, pushed through the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Bill. These measures allocated billions of dollars in federal credits and loan guarantees to favored industries, all under the banner of environmental protection.

What followed was a Soviet-style industrial strategy in which a handful of Washington bureaucrats determined the winners and losers of America's energy future. //

Biden's green agenda had another critical flaw: financing. Much of it depended on borrowing from China—ironically benefiting Chinese companies dominating the very industries Biden sought to boost. Since the launch of China's "Made in China 2025" initiative, Chinese firms—heavily subsidized by their government—have taken over more than 85% of the global rooftop solar panel market. Battery components for solar installations have even higher Chinese market dominance. In effect, Biden borrowed money from China to finance the growth of Chinese companies that sold solar products to U.S. installers.

The new House bill aims to dismantle this entire framework in one stroke. It eliminates the trading of green credits between corporations, revokes low-interest green loans, and entirely phases out subsidies for renewable energy initiatives.

To those who claim this approach is irresponsible, we pose a simple question: How many more decades should the green energy sector rely on government aid to stay afloat? Sustainable energy and transition projects are essential, but they must prove their viability in the open market—just like oil and gas companies do every day. This is classic Adam Smith-style capitalism: let competition and innovation—not government favoritism—determine success.

Trump also supports nuclear power, one of the cleanest and most efficient methods of generating electricity. //

By issuing appropriate permitting waivers, Trump aims to unlock this potential, even if a modest federal investment is necessary to overcome ideological resistance from the Left.

A watchdog representing energy workers is raising red flags after conducting a review of significant executive orders signed by autopen under the previous administration and finding "no evidence" that President Biden was aware of them. //

"This autopen scandal is evidence that these green EOs are invalid, and the instigators should be thoroughly investigated by the DOJ for violating the trust of the American people and perpetuating a great fraud on the nation," asserted Turner. //

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Recall that former President Biden admitted to @SpeakerJohnson that he did not remember signing an executive order pausing LNG exports.

So, who signed it?

For investigators to determine whether then-President Biden actually ordered the signature of relevant legal documents, or Show more

2:10 PM · Mar 6, 2025. //

The problem, according to constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, is that Presidents have the right to use the autopen, and courts aren't necessarily going to buy into theories about someone using it on Biden's behalf.

All the more reason for Congress to start calling in witnesses and get to the bottom of this. If Biden legitimately signed them, case closed. If he didn't - a scandal beyond comprehension. Either way, the American people have a right to know. There surely must be an electronic paper trail showing who initiated these autopen signatures and when. //

Retired Professor pat
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Notice that President Trump videos almost every one of his signing sessions? I gave him that piece of advice, to avoid this kind of charge against him later on, and I'm sure that's the reason he's doing it. ;-)

Project Veritas issued a statement on their website:

Project Veritas today released Part One of an explosive undercover investigation revealing shocking truths about who truly controlled the Biden White House. Through covert meetings with David Hogg, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Deterrian Jones, former staffer in the Biden White House Office of Digital Strategy, Veritas uncovered a web of influence centered around Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff, Anthony Bernal, and a tight-knit inner circle. //

In the video, a Project Veritas undercover reporter asked Hogg, “The foundational question for me is, how corrupt is the DNC if so many knew or few people knew about Biden?”

Hogg’s answer: “The bigger issue was like the inner circle that was around Biden. That’s it. Like Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff [Anthony Bernal] had an enormous amount of power.”

“'Joe Biden is not Richard Nixon, and the hiding and cover-up of his deterioration is not Watergate,’ Morgan said, quoting from the book. "I am not entirely sure I agree, Jake, with that conclusion.” //

“It is a scandal. It is without question – and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways,” Tapper confessed. “Because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he was not drinking.”

“This is an entirely separate scandal,” he added. “Maybe even worse … maybe even worse.” //

Here's the thing - Tapper is trying to convince people that the media simply missed the Biden story. That the daily videos and transcripts coming out showing Biden mumbling and bumbling about didn't cause a lightbulb to go off in their heads that 'Hey, maybe we should start digging a little more on this.'

How bad is everybody in your profession today that you missed the biggest White House deception in American political history, Jake?

Making this even more amusing is that Tapper, currently fancying himself an investigative journalist, only had to check old reels from his network to find that a Watergate reporter himself, Carl Bernstein, had sounded the alarm about Biden's cognitive decline - and revealed that it had been ongoing for almost two years before the presidential debate. //

There are only two conclusions to be drawn here - either Tapper and CNN contributed to a cover-up worse than Watergate, or they're staggeringly inept. //

AirdaleNavy_AX3
3 hours ago
Hiring people to put bugs in the DNC offices in the Watergate complex was rarely talked about during the entirety of the Watergate scandal. It was, and it always is, the cover-up that gets these scoundrels. And the country wouldn't have really known about the Watergate cover-up if Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield hadn't blurted out in a hearing that all the conversations in the Oval Office, including phone calls, were tape recorded. That's the match that lit the fire that brought Nixon down.

What Biden's aides, and their pet rocks in the feckless press, all conspired to do was outright Sedition and classic Insurrection. They sought to negate the will of the American people because these seditionists didn't like the chose the people made. If the Congress, the DOJ and the FBI don't take this seriously and find out who the culprits are and deal with them accordingly, the very foundations of our Republic are gone. //

Rufus McGee
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Authors: "Ultimately we decided that the scandal doesn't quite measure up to Watergate."
Also Authors: Because Democrats did it. //

Tolly
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I'll give you odds that Fake Yapper doesn't even understand what Watergate was. Otherwise he wouldn't conflate the two scandals.

Watergate was basically a champaign hustle, more attune to Russiagate, where an advantage in an election was sought. Coupgate was the actual overthrown of an elected administration hidden from the American people with the cooperation of the deep state, MSM, the executive departments, Congress to an extent, and probably to a degree some foreign agents.

Surfer Boy Tolly
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The difference was Coupgate was intended to preserve 'democracy' and Tapper agreed with it all the way. Hence the coverup. Also, Coupgate was covered up by the press (and Tapper) while Watergate was 'exposed' by the press. Compare the roles of Tapper vs. Woodward/Bernstein. //

Turns out the morality-free staffers had a frankly treasonous plot ready to enact: they’d just need to show “proof of life” once in a while. Appearing with "FOX News Sunday" host Shannon Bream, Thompson laid out their devious plan : //

ALEX THOMPSON: Well, this person went on to say that when you’re voting for a president, you’re voting for the aides around him. But these aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides. These are White House aides. These were unelected people. //

They planned to use these "proof of life" moments to prop up the commander in chief, but actually run the country themselves. In other words, they were able to convince themselves to do evil in the name of "good." //

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'Even worse than Watergate'

Jake Tapper admits to Piers Morgan the Joe Biden health scandal might actually be worse than the Nixon one.

Watch more 👇

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the extent of the cover-up in the Biden-Harris White House and even how far back Biden family cover-ups of health issues goes, which is much further than previously known.

For instance, after Biden's son, Beau, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in the summer of 2013, the Biden family decided to keep it a secret, with the then-vice president "instructing his team to mislead the media about [Beau's] whereabouts." This included when Beau Biden, who was in his second term as Delaware Attorney General, would fly to other states to get treatments while using a different name. Physicians at the time also reportedly issued fraudulent "clean bill of health" reports about Beau Biden to the public. //

My biggest concern with all of this has to do with the state of the media in America today. And let me explain what I mean by that. I watched bits and pieces of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner this year, and I listened to speaker after speaker, all Washington reporters, all defend "freedom of the press." And I kept thinking, they wouldn't have to defend it if they didn't work so hard to undermine it every day.

The American people saw what I saw, what you saw, for years with respect to President Biden. And I'm sorry President Biden is sick, but we all saw the same thing for years. We saw a president who couldn't finish a sentence without taking a nap. We saw a president - an elderly man - who talked like he was from outer space. He walked like he was underwater; you could bake a Thanksgiving turkey in the time it took him to walk across the stage.

90 percent of the American media not only never reported that, but when [some] Democrats and many Republicans raised the issue, they pushed back. And this is just one more example of so many members of our media squandering the trust of the American people. There are other examples - the Steele Dossier, the Hunter Biden laptop. I mean, I could go on and on and on. But that, to me, is what makes me want to stick my head in an oven.

Today, the media's happy after Mr. Tapper's book's coming out, the media's happy to report it. But none of them have taken responsibility for not reporting what was so obvious to the American people. Hypocrisy never takes a vacation around here, I can tell you. //

Now, many in people in the media now are reporting on Mr. Tapper's book. But I haven't heard a single - other than Mr. Thompson - a single member of the Washington press corps stand up and say "boy, we blew that."

And that's what I mean by squandering the American people's trust. Why did they do that? I don't think they were in love with President Biden. I think they thought that anything that hurt President Biden would help the Republicans and would help President Trump, and it's this persistence in practicing advocacy journalism that is destroying freedom of the press and the First Amendment in America today.

There's either no self-awareness among many members of the media, or they're lying. Because it's so obvious. I'm not asking them to take my side on everything, I'm just asking them to be curious, to report what they see.

https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/1925901392499093569

The Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as "Domestic Violent Extremists," or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records obtained by Public @shellenberger @galexybrane and Catherine Herridge Reports. The designation created an 'articulable purpose' for FBI or other government agents to open an 'assessment' of individuals, which is often the first step toward a formal investigation, said a former FBI agent. //

Herridge shared some additional context regarding the reporting, noting that the declassified documents suggest that the Biden administration based its intelligence collection on political goals, thus turning the process of intelligence collection and analysis "on its head."

Kennedy asked Wright about the money that went out the door in those 76 days between the time President Trump was elected and the time Joe Biden left office. //

"During that short period of time, 76 days, how much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy?" Kennedy asked.

"From the loan program office, in loans and commitments, $93 billion. Well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years," Wright replied. //

Wright responded, "I think it's probably pretty clear it wasn't done in many cases...There's lots of funds that have gone out the door and commitments that were made from businesses that provided no business plan, no numbers about their own financial solvency..."

"So you're telling me that the Department of Energy, in the 76-day period, before their boss was gonna leave office, gave or loaned money to entities that had no business plan?" Kennedy inquired.

"Correct," Wright said.

Kennedy continued, asking Wright if he was going back and checking over these applications. Wright said, "Yes," and "My blood pressure is rising right now" over what they had found. He said some of the people who applied "should be ashamed."

Kennedy, who always has a quip for everything, observed, "It's rare that I'm speechless." He asked again if this money was "shoveled out the door" by the Biden team in this period. "It is correct and distasteful," Wright confirmed. "Confidence undermining."

"My God!" Kennedy exclaimed. Kennedy said Wright should take whatever time he needed to go through all these projects, "penny by penny." "They were spending money at the Department of Energy like it was ditchwater! Their budget went from $60 billion to $160 billion since fiscal year 2021. It just sounds to me like there were a lot of people coming to the Department of Energy who had all four feet and their snout in the trough. I hope you'll turn down the boondoggles and refer the thieves to the Department of Justice."

"We will indeed," Wright promised.

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Scarborough learns he was the target of a White House psyop. Hysterical.
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WATCH: Jake Tapper tells MSNBC 'Morning Joe' hosts that Biden made targeted effort to convince Scarborough he was fit for office
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Then, too, tucked away in there is another juicy point: Tapper spoke about Democrats saying Kamala was not up to the job behind the scenes. But then, of course, the Democrats/media tried to sell us that she was.

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THEY BLAMED THE LIGHTING LMAO
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The Biden campaign spent millions to stage a fake town hall — and it was so bad, they couldn’t even use any of it for campaign commercials.

Some people blamed Biden being incoherent, some blamed the “lighting."

Jennings: "They spent millions of dollars to stage a town hall and then 'oh we didn’t get the lighting right??' Unbelievable." 😂
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"Some said this was because Joe Biden was incoherent, that he could not articulate his thoughts in a pithy, or even semi-normal way," Thompson explained. "Some people just said the lighting was bad. That was the two different points of view." Consider how bad that must be when they can't even get anything usable. And that's something they could control. What about all the day-to-day issues that he was supposed to be addressing that couldn't be controlled? Who was addressing them?

Two Notable Quotes

This is from Jake Tapper talking to Megyn Kelly.

Alex [Thompson] and I are here to say the conservative media was right and conservative media was correct and that there should be a lot of soul-searching, not just among me, but among the legacy media to begin with, all of us, for how this was covered or not covered sufficiently 100 percent.

On the same day Jake Tapper was saying this to Megyn Kelly, CBS News was carrying water for Joe Biden.

Dr. Gounder worked with Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain and served on a Biden advisory board. She’s trying to claim that doctors would not check the PSA level of the sitting President of the United States because of his age.

In Chapter 3 of the book, Tapper and Thompson outline how the Biden family covered up Beau Biden’s cancer, even getting a doctor to release a “clean bill of health” statement to the media after determining Beau would not survive. But the media continues to carry water for the Biden Team.

Last night, on Leland Vittert’s must-watch show on NewsNation (307 on DirecTV / 207 on Dish / Also on YouTube TV, Hulu, Fubo, etc.), Leland interviewed Alex Thompson, Jake Tapper’s co-author of Original Sin.

Leland asked Alex Thompson if Biden’s inner circle ever expressed amazement at how much water the American political press was willing to carry for them. As a matter of fact, yes they did. This is the must-watch clip of the year so far and the other notable quote.

Just remarkable. Even the Biden Team was shocked at how much the American press was willing to lie on their behalf. Just remarkable.

That's true, but there were also signs of the decline.

"One of us didn't miss the biggest story of the century," Kelly said to him, and "one of us did." //

But that's the problem. The information was there to report, and he didn't press. Even if all he did was read RedState, he would have seen it day after day.

The big pause in the following clip, where he has no real answer for why he didn't follow up, says it all for how much the liberal media failed. //

Kelly walked through so many instances that he ignored. She called out how his network called the truthful videos about Biden "cheap fakes." That's when he made a truly surprising comment that "conservative media was right." //

He denied that he had anything to do with a "cover-up."

But he did admit there should be a lot of soul searching not just by him but also for a lot of legacy media. Yes, he can say that now, because what is said about Biden now no longer matters.

The question is what it says about them when it did matter.

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It’s unfathomable how far @jaketapper and @cnn have fallen. Can you imagine Walter Cronkite constantly hawking a book?! And having all his colleagues join in?! Especially one about news they should have been reporting on all year?! Good job @jonstewart!

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.@jonstewart is getting whiplash watching CNN pivot from promoting Jake Tapper's "bombshell" book to lamenting Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis
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How weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should’ve told you was news a year ago — for free!

Harper also tweeted that "People close to Biden tell the authors that his deterioration first became noticeable in 2015. Tapper and Thompson point to tapes from 2017 that suggest 'Biden was really struggling' and 'his cognitive capacity seemed to have been failing him.'"

In other words, it "first became noticeable" when Biden was still Vice President of the United States. //

"..by 2024, cabinet secretaries confessed he couldn’t be relied on in an emergency," Harper also shared from the book.

Perhaps most disturbingly, Harper provided a quote from a Biden aide who said the quiet part out loud about Biden's 2024 reelection campaign:

“He just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years—he’d only have to show proof of life every once in a while.”

Which, of course, meant that people who were not elected effectively would have been running the country, as many of us suspected was already happening.

Now, two other parts of the audio have been released by co-authors Thompson and Jake Tapper, including a tense moment where Biden's attorney, Bob Bauer, intervenes to help him when Biden was asked about an Afghanistan classified memo found at his house. Biden's brain sounds like it is complete mush.

"Was this something you consciously kept after your term as Vice President?" Biden was asked.

Biden says he doesn't recall, and he doesn't even seem to understand that the memo was found at his home.

You can hear him being advised, "Your answer is you don't recall," by Bauer, after Biden starts to speculate.

But then, Biden responds, "I guess I wanted to hang onto it just for posterity's sake."

That, of course, could expose him to problems. Bauer intervened, telling the prosecutor, Krickbaum:

"I just really would like to avoid, for the purpose of a clean record, getting into speculative areas.… He does not recall specifically intending to keep this memo after he left the vice presidency. I want these questions to be as clearly entered and as recorded on the transcript as possible.". //

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Throughout his interview, Biden sounded more like a nostalgic, grandfatherly storyteller than a potential defendant who could be accused of hoarding secret papers.
He waxed on about several topics including shooting a bow and arrow in Mongolia.
Here is that exchange.

7:05 PM · May 16, 2025