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DAVID MARCUS: Trump awarded PolitiFact's 'Lie of the Year,' but site skips Biden's Iie of the century
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According to readers and editors at PolitiFact, an organization which claims to be a neutral arbiter of truth in politics, the biggest lie of 2024, surely a competitive category, was Donald Trump suggesting that cats and dogs were being eaten by Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio.
But I think we can all remember a much, much bigger one.
On Thursday, June 27th of this year, Joe Biden and Donald Trump participated in a presidential debate that not only changed the fate of the country, but exposed the lie of this century, namely that octogenarian Biden was fit as fiddle.
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It was with pure shock that America watched its sitting president, life all but drained from his cold visage, barely capable of coming up with words. And at that moment, years of lies about Grandpa Joe’s mental fitness utterly collapsed.
There had been signs of Biden’s decline, even though he was hidden as much as possible. But we were assured by the White House that behind closed doors Joe had the stamina of a 20-year-old and recited Aquinas’ proofs of God in Latin while doing jumping jacks.
On the Mount Rushmore of political lies, “Biden is fine” will be right up there between Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook,” and Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
Back in February, after Joe Biden told a story about how had recently talked to French President Francois Mitterand, who, um, died in 1996, Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about Biden’s fitness. Here is the exchange:
“I’m not even going to go down that rabbit hole with you, sir,” KJP said.
“Why is it a rabbit hole?!” Doocy asked.
“You saw the president in Vegas, in California,” Jean-Pierre replied. “You’ve seen the president in South Carolina. You saw him in Michigan. I’ll just leave it there.”
They should have left Biden there.
So, not only was Jean-Pierre lying about Biden’s mental state, she basically accused anyone who dared to question it of being a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist.
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Even when Mumbly Joe was caught on camera enduring an episode or two, the White House told us those videos were “cheapfakes,” despite the fact that they were not manipulated at all.
On the Mount Rushmore of political lies, “Biden is fine” will be right up there between Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook,” and Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
However, instead of choosing the White House’s triple whopper of blatant prevarication regarding Biden’s ability to serve, the geniuses at PolitiFact say that the top lie is Trump saying pets are being eaten by migrants in Springfield.
First of all, we do not actually know that reports of Haitian migrants eating pets in Ohio are, in fact, lies. In September, I travelled to Springfield and spoke to multiple people who had heard accounts of the pet eating practice, and believed them.
Even if those accounts are false, the purpose of highlighting them as Trump did was to draw attention to the very real crisis brought to that community by settling 15,000 migrants in the small city of 60,000 souls in just 2 years.
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I heard directly from the citizens there about the havoc wrought, overcrowding in schools, rents soaring, and public safety at risk. Even if Trump did get the details wrong in terms of the pets, he was at least pointing to something very real.
Conversely, the pernicious lies that hid the true, decrepit state of the man supposedly running the nation served absolutely nobody’s interests except for Biden himself, and his band of lying flunkies.
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Politico would have you believe that Trump was engaging in dangerous, racist attacks against the migrants by platforming the plight of Springfield’s natives, but in Springfield I found no racism, no threats to migrants.
What I did find was raw anger at the Biden administration and local government who the people think threw their beloved city under the bus.
Ultimately, Joe Biden’s lie of the century blew up in his face, leaving him to limp out of his single term as president in disgrace.
Meanwhile, Trump, fresh off of his convincing win in November, is poised to finally help the desperate people of Springfield, whether that includes saving cuddly animals or not.
Sorry Politifact, a year from now nobody will remember the cats and dogs of Springfield, but 100 years from now everyone will still be learning about the president who wasn’t there in their history books.
And sadly, for Joseph Robinette Biden, the 46th president of the United States, this lie of the century will be his sad and enduring legacy.
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Midwest
Top DOGE senator to demand lame-duck Biden agencies halt costly telework talks, citing voter mandate
The Senate’s top DOGE Republican will send 24 letters – one to each major federal agency head – demanding a halt to last-minute work-from-home negotiations before President Biden returns to Delaware.
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, made the demand days after crafting legislation for 2025 that would “decentralize” and relocate one-third of the federal workforce outside Washington, D.C.
That bill’s lengthy acronym spells out “DRAIN THE SWAMP Act.”
Ernst said that not a single government agency’s office space is half-occupied two-plus years on from the COVID-19 pandemic, and she previously called for the Biden administration to sell off unused real estate for taxpayers’ benefit.
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In her letters, Ernst laid out that 90% of telework-eligible federal employees are still working from home and only 6% report they are working on a “full-time basis.”
Additionally, she wrote that public-sector unions are purportedly “dictating personnel policy” without regard to federal directives from the Office of Management & Budget (OMB), which is running up a massive tab and leading to wastes of time, space and money.
“The union bosses are rushing to lock in last minute, lavish long-term deals with the lame-duck Biden administration—extending beyond President Trump’s next term in office—guaranteeing that bureaucrats can stay at home for another four years or longer,” Ernst wrote in one letter prepped for Office of Personnel Management director Robert Shriver III.
“Apparently, protecting telework perks for public employees is a higher priority than showing up to serve American taxpayers,” she wrote, calling Biden’s submission to union demands “shocking and unacceptable.”
She noted it was a similarly liberal president who vociferously opposed unionization of public employees in the first place, as Democrat Franklin Roosevelt wrote in a letter to a union steward declining a 1937 invitation to a national federal employee union convention.
“All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,” Roosevelt said.
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“It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with government employee organizations.”
“The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress.”
Ernst suggested federal workers and their union representatives have forgotten Roosevelt’s warning, citing the last-minute push to ratify collective bargaining agreements and telework privilege pacts before President-elect Donald Trump can begin his oversight endeavors through DOGE.
The lawmaker told Fox News Digital on Thursday that her report cited in the letters “exposed that telework abuse is so rampant in Washington that there are more reindeer on Santa’s sleigh than employees showing up at the Department of Energy headquarters.”
“As if that was not bad enough, President Biden is working hand in hand with unions to help ink more last-minute contracts allowing for telework privileges for years. Bureaucrats have forgotten their job is to serve the public, and I am happy to remind them with a little Christmas cheer.”
In the letter, Ernst pointed out situations she said show union bosses and career agency management have the “government wrapped around their finger.”
In the letters, she embedded a photo of former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley while he was serving as Biden’s Social Security Administration chief and who was wearing a Captain America T-shirt alongside a purported union official at a party.
Ernst cited news reports of O’Malley going to Florida to party with union members before endorsing a contract preventing easy reduction of work-from-home ability.
She said O’Malley spent the trip “crooning” Irish ballads on his guitar and drinking alcohol.
“This buddy-buddy relationship between the Social Security Commissioner and the union bosses representing his workforce during what is supposed to be a negotiation resulted in a contract unbelievably slanted towards the union and against the interests of taxpayers and the mission of the agency,” she said.
In another case, she pointed to Housing & Urban Development employees who may not have deserved the TFUT or “taxpayer-funded union time” they filed for.
One such worker successfully claimed compensation while in jail.
Ernst demanded the agencies report data on TFUT claims and payouts, unused or underused real estate holdings designated for use through collective bargaining, and any cases of each agency permitting unions or their employees to use department property at a discount or for free.
“Giving bureaucrats another four-year vacation from the office is unacceptable. Bureaucrats have had enough gap years—it’s time to get them back to work,” she said.
Fox News’ Julia Johnson contributed to this report.
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Detroit, MI
Auto shop hosting free oil change giveaway in Detroit on Christmas for those in need
DETROIT (WXYZ) — FastLane Oil Change in Detroit is giving back this holiday.
The shop on W. 8 Mile Road near the Soutfield Freeway is gifting 25 free oil changes and wiper blades for people in need Wednesday on Christmas Day.
And it doesn’t end there. Customers in line behind the first 15 cars will get half off a regularly priced oil change.
To add to the holiday giving, the business is helping a mother of nine get her car back on the road with new brakes, rotors, pads and filters for free. It’s something that she says significantly help her this holiday.
“A stress that was lifted off of my shoulders because this was something that was gonna need to be done sooner than later, but I was putting it off because it wasn’t in the budget, especially right now,” Rashanda Martin said.
In addition, the Blazin’ Grill right next door to the car shop is giving away 100 free meals on Wednesday. The free and half-off promotions will run from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. The offers are good for Christmas Day only for families and individuals in need.
Milwaukee, WI
Two killed in shooting in Milwaukee on Monday
Two people were killed in Milwaukee on Monday in a double shooting.
A 24-year-old and a 42-year-old were shot and killed on the 3800 block of West Nash Street, Milwaukee police said in a media release. Police said the incident happened at about 1:35 p.m.
Little is known about the shooting. Police said the circumstances leading up to it are still being investigated and authorities continue to seek any suspects.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the department at 414-935-7360 or, to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 414-224-Tips or P3 Tips.
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