When Vice President Joe Biden met in 2011 with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing, the two men joked about their age. “I note that we were born in the same year,” Wen said when the two made a joint public appearance. “You have spent about 35 years in public service, and I’ve been working in the government compound of Beijing for more or less the same period of time.” “What a magnificent place,” Biden said of that facility. “Now I know why even though we were born in the same year, you look so much younger than I. You worked in a much more commodious environment than I do.” As this column has noted before, Biden then thanked this communist leader for China’s help to fund the U.S. debt. “We appreciate and welcome your concluding that the United States is such a safe haven because we appreciate your investment in U.S. treasuries,” Biden told him. On that day—Aug. 19, 2011—the federal debt was approximately $14.639 trillion, according to the Treasury Department. At the close of last week, it was approximately $34.944 trillion. That is an increase of $20.305 trillion—or 138%. History will record that Biden himself oversaw a massive increase in the debt—which as of last Friday had increased by approximately $7.1923 trillion during his term. That will not be the only negative mark on Biden’s legacy. Biden picked Sept. 11, 2021—the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks—as the deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan. “President Joe Biden … officially announced the drawdown of all 2,500 U.S. troops in that country beginning May 1 and concluding by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the war,” the Defense Department reported April 14, 2021. “I believed that our presence in Afghanistan should be focused on the reason we went in the first place: to ensure Afghanistan would not be used as a base from which to attack our homeland again,” Biden said in remarks delivered that day. Then the president said: “We will not conduct a hasty rush to the exit. We’ll do it responsibly, deliberately, and safely.” About two weeks before Biden’s 9/11 withdrawal deadline, an ISIS-K suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. service members in an attack outside the Kabul airport. The Defense Department reported that the terrorist “was one of thousands of ISIS-K members the Taliban released from a pair of detention centers in mid-August 2021.” Did Biden’s withdrawal leave behind an Afghanistan that is free of terrorists who could try to attack the United States in the future? “ISIS-K and its allies retain a safe haven in Afghanistan, and they continue to develop their networks in and out of the country,” Gen. Michael Kurilla, commander of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in March. What about al-Qaeda? “Al Qaeda, while weakened, still enjoys safe havens in Afghanistan and Yemen,” Kurilla said, as this column has noted before. Then there is the surge of “inadmissible” Afghans caught trying to cross the southwest border. According to an inspector general’s report, as this column has noted before, the Border Patrol encountered 932 “inadmissible” Afghans there through March 5 of this fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. During fiscal 2019, according to data published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol did not encounter even one individual on the terrorist watchlist trying to sneak across the U.S.-Mexico border between the ports of entry. So far this fiscal year, it has encountered 93. When Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware appeared on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” in 2007, he conceded that human life begins at conception—but spoke of it as a religious principle, not a scientific one. “Do you believe that life begins at conception?” host Tim Russert asked him. “I am prepared to accept my church’s view. I think it’s a tough one,” said Biden. “That is a tough, tough decision to me. But there is a point relatively soon where viability—it’s clear to me when there’s viability, meaning the ability to survive outside the womb, that I don’t have any doubt.” “Are you still opposed to public funding for abortion?” Russert asked him. “I still am opposed to public funding for abortion,” he said. In this year’s State of the Union address, Biden said: “If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again.” After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Biden’s Defense Department issued a policy that, as NPR put it, would “pay for service members to travel for abortion care.” “But the Biden DOD abortion travel policy forces taxpayers to pay the transportation costs for military members and dependents to travel to procure an abortion, for any reason, right up until the moment of birth,” Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said in a speech on the House floor. So, Biden believes life begins at conception—and that the government should force taxpayers to help fund the ending of that life. Biden says he will leave the presidency after one four-year term. But decades from now, history will recall the massive debt he accumulated, his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the border he did not secure, and the innocent lives his policies worked to destroy. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post How History Will Remember Biden appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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On Wednesday, PolitiFact beclowned itself as it claimed it is “mostly-false” for Republicans to say Vice President Kamala Harris was appointed “border czar.” However, that was not all. Also on Wednesday, PolitiFact tried to attack the party for condemning Democrats for not knowing what a woman is and other “LGBTQ+ talking points” from the Republican National Convention. The first claim that LGBTQ issues writer Grace Abels tried to discredit was Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim that “[Democrats] promised normalcy and gave us Transgender Visibility Day on Easter Sunday."  Abels labeled that “misleading” because it was just a coincidence that the two happened to fall on the same day, but that does not explain why President Joe Biden felt the need to issue a proclamation acknowledging it. Further down, under a “LGBTQ+ ‘ideology’ in schools” subheading, Abels cites former Donald Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro, declaring, "They're indoctrinating them with poisonous attitudes on race and gender." After some more quotations, Abels twisted herself into a logic pretzel, “In 2022, we looked into what research says about gender and sexuality in schools. There is no evidence that increased exposure to LGBTQ+ people or topics makes children more likely to join the LGBTQ+ community, experts in psychology and child development told PolitiFact. Rather, an environment of increased acceptance allows people to more openly consider whether they might be part of the LGBTQ+ community, experts said.” Even further along, Abels takes on the issue of “Transgender athletes in school sports.” She cites Sen. Steve Daines remarking, “These liberal senators want boys in girls sports. "They want men in your daughter’s and my daughter's locker room." Abels tried to discredit the idea, “There is no official count, but estimates show the population of transgender athletes participating in school sports is very small. So few that lawmakers supporting restrictions have previously struggled to cite examples of trans athletes competing in school sports.” Struggled? It was only two months ago that a biological male from Washington won the state’s 2A 400 meter championship. There are several other examples if only Abels would take the time to find them. Finally, Abels sought to take on the idea that “Democrats can’t ‘define what a woman is.’” While Republicans ridiculed Democrats for being unable to answer such a simple question, Abels wrote, “Today, medical experts and most major medical organizations agree that sex and gender are different.” For Abels, being a woman is just a feeling, “Gender identity refers to someone’s internal sense of being a man, woman or nonbinary.” The word “gender” was always another choice for people who were squeamish about the word “sex,” at least, until political activists decided to rewrite the English language to fit their political agenda. Speaking of political agendas, Wednesday made it clear that PolitiFact has one. For them, it is a fact to say Harris was not the “border czar,” but not to say that whether one is a man or a woman is objective. This is who PBS teamed up with to save democracy.

Dave Rubin, as a former Democrat, loves when lefties see the light and have the humility to switch teams. No one perhaps better exemplifies this than tech billionaire Elon Musk, a longtime Democrat who’s unabashedly ripped the radical left for its adoption of wokeism and commended the right for its rejection of it. In Jordan Peterson’s recent interview with Musk, Peterson asked him about his Trump endorsement, which in a way crystallized Musk’s political leanings. Watch Jordan Peterson’s Face When Elon Musk Tells Him Why He Ditched Democrats www.youtube.com “So you've obviously decided to lay your efforts down on the side of the Trump administration in the forthcoming election,” Peterson said. “I think we need a change of administration. Many years ago ... the Democratic Party was the party of meritocracy and of personal freedom. They used to be the free speech party, and these days, they seem to be the censorship party under the guise of hate speech,” Musk said. “So weirdly, in my view, the Republican Party is actually the party that's the meritocracy party because, you know, the Democrats are also promoting DEI, which is really just another form of racism and sexism,” he continued. “It’s the most pernicious form, I think,” Peterson said of DEI, pointing to the fact that “it insists on dividing people by groups.” Musk agreed, adding, “I think the Democratic Party is stoking division,” while “the Republican Party is more in line with meritocracy and with personal freedom.” To hear more of their conversation, watch the clip above. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

CNN political analyst Scott Jennings went there. After President Joe Biden spoke from the Oval Office on Wednesday — never explaining why he chose to end his re-election campaign — a CNN panel that featured Biden allies swooned over the president for being "selfless" and "heroic," claiming Biden willingly chose to step away from power. 'You're asking the country to overlook a lot of dishonesty about Joe Biden's abilities, capabilities — his capacity to serve for another four years.' But Jennings quickly rained on their parade. The Republican commentator, instead, brought forth all of the evidence indicating that Biden's decision to step aside is not the selfless act of courage Democrats are claiming it to be. "It's odd to me that just a few weeks ago — heck, a few days ago — most Democrats were still looking at television cameras and saying that this person is up to another four years. I mean, he's obviously running on fumes," Jennings began. "They weren't 'cheapfakes,' no matter what the government told you." "In fact, I still think it's a legitimate scandal how they ever arrived at the decision to run again in the first place," he added. The Biden family and his staff, Jennings continued, "have a lot of explaining to do," referring to their decision seemingly to hide Biden's cognitive decline. But that's not the only problem for Democrats. In fact, the praise for Biden, Jennings said, hides the fact that Democratic Party leaders forced Biden to step down from his re-election campaign, thus ignoring the will of voters. "I'm still shocked at how easy it is to overthrow the president," Jennings observed. "He got 81 million votes in 2020, and then he get 14 million more. But at the end of the day, he was no match for a handful of party bosses who run the Democratic Party." "At the end of the day, a bunch of people looked into TV cameras over the last days, weeks, and months, and told you a lot of things — a lot of things that were not true about this president," he pointed out. The panel did not immediately challenge anything Jennings said.But later in the discussion, David Axelrod, a close ally of former President Barack Obama, took exception to Jennings' observations. He claimed Biden wasn't "toppled" by Democratic Party bosses before chastising Jennings for not giving Biden enough "grace." Jennings, however, did not have the patience for Axelrod's revisionist history. "What you're asking Republicans to do is to overlook a lot of dishonesty that came right out of this White House, that came right out of the vice president, people who worked for him, his family, other Democrats, Democrats in Congress," Jennings told Axelrod. "You're asking the country to overlook a lot of dishonesty about Joe Biden's abilities, capabilities — his capacity to serve for another four years and so on." Jennings ultimately told Axelrod that it is "weird" Democrats are pretending that Biden wasn't pushed out by party bosses, especially considering that Biden and Democratic Party leaders were insisting just one month ago that Biden is capable of serving another four years as president. Despite the fact that Democratic voters chose Biden in their primary elections, Vice President Kamala Harris became the party's presumptive nominee this week when enough delegates pledged to support her campaign. Harris, unfortunately, has an uphill fight if she wants to seriously challenge Donald Trump for the White House. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Belonging to a man who died in present-day Taiyuan in 736 C.E., the tomb is adorned with a wealth of other paintings, including farmers working in their fields, sentries with swords, and several multicolored dragons. The post Archaeologists Discovered A Mural Of A ‘Western Man’ With Blonde Hair And A Beard In An 8th-Century Tang Dynasty Tomb appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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