Bribem says he will run for re-election in 2024 if he remains in good health

Biden says a rematch against his 2020 rival, Trump, would make him more likely to run

The current 'condition' of his presidency.

Somehow I don't see it.

The final destination of his presidency has a lot in common with TWA flight 800.

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President Biden said he would run for re-election if he was “in good health” and that he believed “fate” would help bring him a second term.

Biden, 79, made the commitment in an interview with ABC News Wednesday, telling “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir he would welcome a rematch with former President Donald Trump.

“If I’m in the health I’m in now — I’m in good health — then, in fact, I would run again,” Biden said.

“I’m a great respecter of fate. Fate has intervened in my life many, many times.”

Biden said a rematch against his 2020 rival would add to the appeal of a run for re-election.

“You’re trying to tempt me now. Sure. Why would I not run against Donald Trump if he were the nominee? That would increase the prospect of running,” the Democrat said.

Trump, who is 75, would also be in his 80s in the White House if he won a second, nonconsecutive term.

Biden was grilled by Muir over a reported scarcity of availability of tests in the days before Christmas, a year into his presidency and two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Nothing’s been good enough,” Biden allowed. “But look — look where we are, when last Christmas we were in a situation where we had significantly fewer vaccinated — people vaccinated, emergency rooms were filled. You had serious backups in hospitals that were causing great difficulties.”

Biden said the U.S. response to a surge in infections by the omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was not a “failure,” but he conceded that he regretted not ordering millions of free rapid tests for Americans “two months ago.”

Biden, who announced plans Tuesday to purchase 500 million at-home tests and give them out for free next month, said the administration should have been better prepared to combat the highly transmissible variant and the long lines at testing centers and unavailability of tests on many pharmacy shelves.

“I wish I had thought about ordering” the tests “two months ago,” he told Muir.

“I don’t think it’s a failure,” Biden said of the response. “I think it’s — you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago.”

The president touted crossing the benchmark of 200 million fully vaccinated Americans and said inoculations and booster shots remained the best defense against omicron. Nevertheless, he told the network he would not federally require airline passengers to get vaccinated as millions hit the airport for Christmas.

“It’s been considered, but the recommendation I’ve gotten [is that] it’s not necessary,” Biden said. “Even with omicron, that’s the recommendation I got so far from the team.”

Bribem says he will run for re-election in 2024 if he remains in good health

U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon aka "defund the police" carjacked

Democratic congresswoman who sponsored police 'reform' bill carjacked in crime-surging Philadelphia

Scanlon was the second elected Democrat to be carjacked in a major city in 24 hours

U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., was carjacked at gunpoint in Philadelphia on Wednesday as crime continues to surge in major cities across the country.

"Wednesday afternoon, at around 2:45 p.m., Congresswoman Scanlon was carjacked at gunpoint in FDR Park following a meeting at that location," Scanlon’s office said in a statement. "The Congresswoman was physically unharmed. She thanks the Philadelphia Police Department for their swift response, and appreciates the efforts of both the Sergeant at Arms in D.C. and her local police department for coordinating with Philly PD to ensure her continued safety."

Scanlon's phone and purse were stolen by the attacker, according to WPVI-TVof Philadelphia.

Police say Scanlon was approached by two Black males, aged approximately 20-30,

OMG they were Black! 

(Rarely mentioned by the MSM)

as she walked to her vehicle before they demanded she hand them the keys. Scanlon handed over the keys to her blue 2017 Acura MDX and one of the suspects drove away in it while the other drove away in a dark-colored SUV. 

Scanlon represents Pennsylvania's 5th Congressional District, which includes part of South Philadelphia.

So far in 2021, the Philadelphia Police Department has reported 521 homicides, which is a 13% increase compared to 2020 and the city's highest number of killings since at least 2007. Incidents involving a shooting have also increased by 4.4%, and the number of people who are victims of a shooting has risen by almost 3% over the past year.

The City of Philadelphia is seeing at least an 80% increase in carjackings in 2021, compared to the total number in 2020, police told FOX 29 earlier this month.

DEMOCRATIC MAYORS UNDER FIRE AS CRIME, VIOLENCE PLAGUES CHICAGO, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA

Scanlon was not the first prominent Democratic official to be carjacked in a crime-ridden city in the last 24 hours. On Tuesday night, Illinois’ Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford and her husband were carjackedin Broadview, Illinois, in the Chicago area, where crime has been surging.

"First and foremost, I am thankful that my husband and I are alive and physically unharmed," Lightford said in a statement. "I am trying to process the trauma of what happened. I want to thank everyone who has offered their love and support." 

Concerned police officers 

Both Scanlon and Lightford have been staunch supporters of police reforms in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020. 

"We have seen too many lives taken and communities devastated by police brutality and racial profiling," Scanlon tweeted shortly after Floyd's death. "Action is long overdue. @HouseDemocrats are fighting for REAL reform in our country’s police departments. #JusticeInPolicing."

Scanlon is one of 125 co-sponsors of the Mental Health Justice Act, which aimed to place some police officers as first responders with mental health specialists. All of the bill's sponsors are Democrats. The bill's text says its purpose is "To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to States and political subdivisions of States to hire, employ, train, and dispatch mental health professionals to respond in lieu of law enforcement officers in emergencies involving one or more persons with a mental illness or an intellectual or developmental disability, and for other purposes."

At the time the Mental Health Justice Act was introduced in February 2021, with Scanlon on board as one of its original co-sponsors, The Hill reported, "Congress wants to make it easier for state and local governments to defund the police by instead funding mental health services and empowering them to respond to emergency calls instead of armed officers."

U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon aka "defund the police" carjacked

Probably the reason I don't own any Bitcoin

 On a tip from Ed Kilbane

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Probably the reason I don't own any Bitcoin

Nancy Pelosi DEFENDS members of Congress trading stocks after report said 49 have violated conflict of interest law and with her husband Paul buying thousands of shares

Let's be honest here. Does anyone honestly believe she didn't use her  position and influence in Congress to make them rich? 

BTW... She always knocked Capitalism but now she's worth millions defends "The Free-market economy".

Paul Pelosi bought 4,000 shares of Google parent Alphabet in June, with an initial gain of $4.8 million

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended rules that allow members of Congress to own individual stocks, batting down concerns about lawmakers using insider information to juice their portfolios.

The liberal congresswoman from San Francisco said lawmakers should be able to own stocks because the US is a “free-market economy.”

Her comments Wednesday came amid rampant apparent violations of the STOCK Act, which is supposed to reign in lawmakers’ trades. 

When asked whether the opportunity to profit on trades could create a conflict of interest, the speaker flatly said “no” to the idea of supporting a ban on trading individual stocks.

“We’re a free-market economy,” Pelosi told reporters. “They [members of Congress] should be able to participate in that.”

The speaker conceded that lawmakers needed to follow rules on public disclosure of the trades.

“If people aren’t reporting [stock trades], they should be,” she said.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that lawmakers should be allowed to take part in stock dealings as long as they follow the federal rules. 

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Still, Pelosi’s reaction was seen as flippant by some given the rash of apparent stock trade violations. 

Pelosi’s most recent financial disclosure shows her husband has millions of dollars worth of holdings. That includes stock in Amazon and Apple that are each worth between $5 million and $25 million. Other assets she reported include stock options held in Google’s parent company worth between $1 million and $5 million, Comcast stock worth between $1 million and $5 million and stock in Visa worth between $5 million and $25 million.

Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, is a businessman who runs a venture capital and investment firm Financial Leasing Services Inc. Over the years he’s made countless bets on high-profile companies his wife is supposed to regulate, like Amazon, Apple and Google.

Pelosi has long said she has no involvement in or prior knowledge of her husband’s trading decisions and does not own any stock herself.

Critics slammed Nancy Pelosi’s response saying that it was flippant given the number of violations. 

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended lawmakers saying that the US is a “Free-market economy” and lawmakers should be allowed to buy stocks even though there has been a surge in STOCK Act violations. 

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Pelosi’s position contradicts sharply with the position of most liberals, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. 

In the past month both lawmakers have slammed the idea of members of Congress trading stocks as “brazen” and “ludicrous.” 

The issue of congressional stock trading has taken on new urgency since the beginning of the pandemic, when suspiciously timed stock trades by lawmakers in both parties provoked outrage and led to multiple investigations.

To date, no one has been charged in connection with stock trading investigations undertaken by the Justice Department and the Securities Exchange Commission.

But the often lucrative trades nonetheless shine a spotlight on the inadequacies of a 2012 law called the Stock Act, which bars members from using inside information to make investment decisions and requires that all stock trades be reported to Congress within 45 days.

The 2012 law was passed with bipartisan support in the wake of a stock trading scandal. Yet in the nearly 10 years since it was enacted, no one has been prosecuted under it even as many members continue to conspicuously trade.

In some recent cases, lawmakers have failed to report their trades altogether, as required by the law.

Nancy Pelosi DEFENDS members of Congress trading stocks after report said 49 have violated conflict of interest law and with her husband Paul buying thousands of shares

Just another fine example of how stupid he is...

So he goes to Kentucky where 74 people were killed (including seven children on one street) by a devastating tornado undoubtedly the worst in history, supposedly to support the people of Mayfield and give them comfort, total destruction is all around him, and what does the asshole do???

Breaks out into a speech about voting rights!!!

'There's nothing more important, domestically, than voting rights. It's the single biggest thing,' President Joe Biden said Wednesday as Democrats feverishly sought to negotiate a rules change to allow legislation to move

(He said this after people lost family, friends, and their home right before Christmas)

Think this woman right here typifies what most people were thinking!

Just another fine example of how stupid he is...