Biden’s final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure

 

By Michael Goodwin

“‘This is the way the world ends,” T.S. Eliot famously wrote.

“Not with a bang but a whimper.”

He might have been talking about Joe Biden’s presidency.

As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden’s final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure.

He pardoned his convicted-criminal son after vowing not to and his mass commutations included one for a judge convicted of taking kickbacks to send juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.

The judge was in Scranton, Pa., meaning Biden even betrayed distraught parents in his hometown.

How’s that for a legacy?

His most recent dereliction fits another pattern.

Just as he paid no attention to raging inflation, the open border and the decline of America’s global standing, Biden has gone missing as swarms of drones spark fears among millions of Americans on the East Coast.

Biden has said nothing, Vice President Kamala Harris has disappeared since losing the election and the White House offers only bland assurances that there’s nothing to worry about.

But asked who is behind the noisy, bright and large drone presence expanding night after night, the administration says it doesn’t know.

In other words, we don’t know and we don’t really care, but trust us anyway.

Sorry, it’s too late in the game for that, especially when drones forced the White Plains airport to close runways Friday night.

Even the usually somnolent Gov. Hochul stirred to demand answers.

Syrian Druze Clans Ask To Be Annexed To Israel

 Residents of six Druze villages in southern Syria held an emergency council meeting over the weekend in the wake of the fall of the Assad regime.

In a video of the meeting that circulated on social media, the head sheikh says that it is far better for them to be annexed to the Israeli Ramat Hagolan than to live under the rebels, and the audience yells their agreement.

Senior Druze officials are adamantly opposed to allowing the Islamist rebels, many of whom have extremist views against non-Muslims, to enter their villages.

High Court Judge Visits Oct 7 Terrorists To Ensure They Have Winter Clothes, Toilet Paper. Justice Reform Now!!

 Israeli Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ronen made a surprise visit to the Ofer high-security prison facility to examine the conditions of detention for the security prisoners held there. The judge requested to visit the wing where “illegal combatants from Gaza,” who were captured after October 7th, are incarcerated. The wing includes members of the Nukhba terrorist unit who attacked Israeli villages and indiscriminately murdered residents.

According to a report by Kan 11, during her visit Justice Ronen inquired whether the prisoners had winter clothes, toilet paper, and whether they were allowed to receive paper and pen to enable them to petition judicial authorities to appeal their conditions of imprisonment.

It was also reported that Justice Ronen has recently been deliberating on several petitions filed by terrorists regarding their detention conditions. The visit to the security prison may have stemmed from her desire to closely monitor the policy of the minister in charge, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has significantly tightened the conditions of detention in high-security prisoner wings.

The visit sparked significant criticism, as social media influencers asked when the judge had visited high-security Jewish prisoners in the hands of the Shin Bet or in prison facilities and checked on their conditions of detention. Others asked whether she had met with families of victims of these terrorists.

Ronen came under fire recently for the early release of a terrorist who had planned to perpetrate an attack – simply because he exhibited “normative” behavior. Ronen also ruled in November that a terrorist who had planned to assassinate Itamar Ben-Gvir and kidnap soldiers should receive two bedcovers at his request.

ABC News Chickens Out Wants to Settle with Trump Over Stephanopoulos Lies and BS

  ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.

As part of the settlement made public Saturday, ABC News posted an editor’s note to its website expressing regret over Stephanopoulos’ statements during a March 10 segment on his “This Week” program. The network will also pay $1 million in legal fees to the law firm of Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito.

The settlement agreement describes ABC’s presidential library payment as a “charitable contribution,” with the money earmarked for a non-profit organization that is being established in connection with the yet-to-be built library.

“We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit on the terms in the court filing,” ABC News spokesperson Jeannie Kedas said.

A Trump spokesperson declined comment.

Drones shut down runways of NY airport, causing Hochul to demand feds step in: ‘Gone too far’

 

The mysterious drones that have been plaguing the skies over the Northeast shut down the runways of Stewart International Airport Friday night, prompting Gov. Hochul to demand the feds step in.

“This has gone too far,” Hochul said in a terse statement Saturday, in which she noted the runway of the Orange County facility was shut down for an hour because of the unidentified aircraft.

Stewart Airport services both commercial and military flights and is adjacent to a New York Air National Guard base, where the 105th Airlift Wing is stationed.

The unidentified drones — which have been hovering over New Jersey for nearly a month and have been seen in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts — were also recently spotted flying over LaGuardia International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport.

The runways were closed at 9:40 p.m. “following a report from the FAA about a drone sighting at the airport,” according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Stewart.

The runways were reopened at 10:45 p.m., “and there were no impacts to flight operations during the closure,” the spokesperson told The Post.

The Biden Administration should give federal law enforcement support to the region “to ensure the safety of our critical infrastructure and our people,” Hochul demanded, adding she “directed the New York State Intelligence Center to actively investigate drone sightings” back in mid-November.

She also urged the state police “to coordinate with federal law enforcement to address this issue.”

While “those efforts are ongoing,” Hochul said it is time for Congress to take action.

“In order to allow state law enforcement to work on this issue, I am now calling on Congress to pass the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act, first introduced back in June by Rep. Mark Green (R-TN).

“This bill would reform legal authorities to counter-UAS and strengthen the FAA’s oversight of drones, and would extend counter-UAS activities to select state and local law enforcement agencies,” she wrote in her statement. Counter-UAS stands for “counter unmanned aircraft system.”

“Extending these powers to New York State and our peers is essential. Until those powers are granted to state and local officials, the Biden Administration must step in by directing additional federal law enforcement to New York and the surrounding region to ensure the safety of our critical infrastructure and our people.”

Drone sightings have also been reported across the five boroughs as well as on Long Island.

Most of the sightings have occurred in New Jersey, where scores of drones have been spotted by Coast Guard sailors and local cops.

Thieves swipe suitcase with $500K worth of jewels but Apple AirTag helps cops track them down

 Thieves stole $500,000 worth of jewels from a tourist visiting a pizza shop in Queens — but they were quickly caught by cops thanks to an Apple AirTag in the victim’s suitcase.

Sandro Angiolini decided to stop by Rosa’s Pizza in Astoria for some food — with a suitcase filled with jewels valued at approximately $500,000 in tow, according to the NYPD.

Just as Angiolini, 50, walked from his car to the pizza joint, he was promptly jumped by several men who popped out of a black SUV.

Those men pushed Angiolini to the ground, beat him up and made off with the fully loaded silver suitcase, police sources said.

The punks then jumped back into the SUV and lammed it — but little did they know that the bag was equipped with an Apple AirTag, which tracks location.

NYPD investigators were able to track the vehicle to 217 Street in Bayside, where they recovered the suitcase full of jewels and apprehended two suspects in connection with the strong-arm robbery.

Brayan Pulido, 23, and Sandy Pulido, 22, were arrested and now face a slew of charges.

Each is being hit with criminal possession of stolen property, reckless endangerment, unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle and a violation for a windshield tint, according to the NYPD.

Brayan faces an extra charge of resisting arrest.

Police sources say several individuals of interest in connection to the robbery are still at large.

Biden pardons Chinese spies convicted of stealing American tech secrets

 

President Biden pardoned two Chinese spies and the relative of a high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party who was caught with tens of thousands of images of child pornography on his computer last month in a prisoner swap between the two countries that was made public Thursday when the three received clemencies.

Yanjun Xu and Ji Chaoqun, who were both convicted of espionage, were granted clemency last month, along with Shanlin Jin, who was convicted of possession of more than 47,000 images of child pornography while a doctoral student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 2021.

Their clemencies, signed by President Biden, are dated Nov. 22

Prestigious private school diversity conference devolved into ‘festival of Jew hate

Princeton Professor Ruha Benjamin Chief Antisemite!

An “equity and justice” conference involving many of the country’s most prestigious private schools devolved into a “festival of Jew hate” that had scared students leaving in tears, according to outraged parents and attendees.

Speakers at last week’s National Association of Independent Schools’ annual People of Color Conference accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” and downplayed the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks that killed 1,200 Israeli civilians — prompting some frightened kids to hide their Jewish stars as they left early.

“There was an overwhelming feeling that we were not welcome,” one Jewish senior from the Milken Community School in Los Angeles told The Post.

“We felt small and insignificant,” said the student, who asked for anonymity out of fear of retribution.

Iran’s massive drone ship left home port last month – and went weeks without being spotted... Is the Ship launching the Drones Seen in New Jersey and Staten Island?.

 

A newly minted and massive Iranian drone carrier was captured in new satellite images sailing in the Persian Gulf this week — the ship’s first reported sighting since leaving its home port for the first time in mid-November.

The satellite images taken Thursday by commercial operator Maxar Technologies shows three Iranian drone ships in the waters off the country’s coast as theories have swirled in the US that Iran could be behind the mysterious drone sightings across the tri-state area, according to Business Insider.

Iran’s new carrier — the Shahid Bagheri — is a converted shipping container that was outfitted to support drone operations and was last seen on Nov. 12, when it was captured by satellite imagery sitting in Bandar Abbas, the report said.

The Shahid Bagheri left its home Iranian home port sometime between Nov. 12 and Nov. 28, revealed by satellite imagery that shows an empty dock where the ship once sat, according to another Business Insider report.

The new images from this week show the overhauled ship was pictured with two other Iranian drone vessels — Shahid Roudaki and Shahid Mahdavi — off the Bandar Abbas port in the Persian Gulf, according to NDTV

News of the Shahid Bagheri’s whereabouts came days after speculation that an Iranian drone “mothership” was parked out in the Atlantic and was carrying out clandestine drone operations in the airspace of New Jersey and Staten Island.

Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) claimed to Fox News on Wednesday morning that the drones were possibly being launched by Iran, citing confidential sources.

“I’m going to tell you the real deal. Iran launched a mothership that contains these drones,” Van Drew said. “It’s off the East Coast of the United States of America. They’ve launched drones.”

The Pentagon quickly poured cold water on those claims — saying there was “no evidence” that the country was responsible for the mysterious drones that have reportedly been seen across the state of New Jersey since Nov. 18.

However, no explanation has been provided to state and local officials who have been receiving thousands of reports from concerned New Jerseyans.

On Thursday, White House national security council spokesperson John Kirby said no federal agency has been able to corroborate any of the reports made of drone activity — saying all crafts reviewed by feds have been flying in accordance with the law.

Kirby backtracked on those comments in an interview on Fox’s “The Story” on Friday.

“I said many of the corroborated sightings have turned out to be piloted aircraft, I didn’t say all of them. I said those were the ones we were able to corroborate,” Kirby said.

“There’s certainly the ones that we have not been able to [corroborate] and don’t know the answers to it,” he added.

Erin Molan pro-Israel host fired by Sky News

 Erin Molan, a pro-Israel host who was fired by Sky News Australia, responded to her firing with a video message, thanking her supporters and everyone who reached out to her, and stressing that she is "harder to kill off than you think" and adding that her mission "has just begun."

"I loved every second of my time with Sky," she said, adding that her job had become her entire life, other than her child, partly because she "cares too much."

"I'm just getting started," she promised.

In her message, Molan promised to continue fighting for children, and for "every single hostage still held captive in Gaza."

But the international community insists on "falling for the demonization of Israel - hook, line, and sinker."

She stressed that evil thrives on three things: weak leadership, useful idiots, and a silent majority. "I’m here to be the loudest member of the silent majority that I can be," she added.

"When hate is allowed to fester, we all lose; when stupidity isn't called out, it becomes very dangerous, and if I sit idly by, I am just as much to blame as the fool waving the flag at the Hamas protest."