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What We’re Reading: Biden’s Mixed Messages On Default, Ice Cube’s Message To Blacks … And More

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May 22, 2023
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Debt Ceiling Blues

Biden Says He’s ‘Blameless’ If U.S. Defaults on Debt: ‘I’ve Done My Part’ — Fox News

Biden says he thinks he has authority to use 14th Amendment on debt ceiling — The Hill

McCarthy Says Biden Beholden To ‘Radical Socialists,’ POTUS Calls GOP Debt Ceiling Position ‘Extreme’ — Daily Wire

Debt ceiling talks break down and attacks escalate as deadline approaches  —  Politico

McCarthy Slams Biden on Debt Negotiations: Would Rather Default than Cut Radical-Left Spending… — Breitbart

Election 2024

And Now, New Acts Emerge in the GOP’s 2024 Drama With Hope, but Big Doubts  — Andrew Malcolm, RedState

Prominent Dem Rep Comes Right Out And Says DNC Moved The Primaries To Boost Biden — Daily Caller

RFK Jr. Gives Keynote Speech at Bitcoin Summit: ‘Totalitarians Hate Anything That They Can’t Control’ — PJ Media

MSNBC labels Ron DeSantis ‘pro-white supremacy’ — American Thinker

Ice Cube suggesting blacks leave the Dem party — Hot Air

Biden’s Brain

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 43)

Joe Biden Chases a Bout of Senility With Outright Delusion at Japan G7

Woke Watch

State Dept. Spox Rattled by Question About Why Email System Is Forcing Pronouns on Senders – And Getting Them Wrong — MRCTV

Numerous Democrats Join Rep. Cori Bush in Demanding $14 Trillion Reparations — Legal Insurrection

 How DEI is openly attempting to marginalize and silence Jewish students — Commentary

Climate Insanity

Liberal City Exempts Celebrity Chef’s Restaurant From Gas Stove Ban

For California to achieve 1.8 Million EV trucks it must exploit developing countries

Misc

Durham Declared the DOJ and FBI’s Hearts and Minds Corrupted — The Federalist

Nearly Half a Million Residents Have Moved Out of NYC Since 2020 — Fox Business

SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch criticizes US gov’t abuse of power during pandemic — Straight Arrow News

‘Shush Up!’: Biden Snaps At Reporter; Obedient Media Obeys — Off the Press

15 yrs, $BILLIONS, not a mile of track & running out of money – what am I? — Hot Air

Nearly 90 million adults struggling to make ends meet in Biden’s America, Census data shows — Just the News

Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ Is Back, But With New Branding — Daily Caller

Biden says China’s ‘silly balloon’ derailed open communications with Beijing — Fox News

Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Scott Winship: Governments Can’t Increase Birthrates. They Shouldn’t Even Try. — Reason

Here’s how noted anti-capitalist Bernie Sanders reportedly ‘doubled his income last year’ — Twitchy

Humor

The Week in Pictures: F-Men Edition — Powerline

State Department Issues Travel Advisory for Florida Due to Increasing Liberty and Freedom — Genesius Times

Doctor Cures Long Covid By Telling Patients To Quit Faking It — Babylon Bee

Seattle Man Found With 8 lbs. Of Heroin In Plastic Bag, Arrested For Possession Of Plastic Bag — Glorious American

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