~ The Great Pretense of Biden ~
CTH has been preparing to write about this for a week. Today a serendipitous event took place which highlights the dynamic within the current Biden administration.
During a Senate Energy Committee hearing today, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a woman specifically appointed for her progressive identity as a native American indian – with no skills to be interior secretary, was questioned by Senator Joe Manchin about a press release [LINK] from the interior department that took place in real time as Secretary Haaland was giving testimony. Secretary Haaland had no idea what the press release was about. WATCH:
[The Press Release is Here]
The issue surrounds the U.S. Interior Department, which is filled to the brim with left-wing climate activists, pushing out a press release saying that any further oil and gas leases are not going to happen. Secretary Haaland was telling congress the Interior Department was doing everything they can to allow oil and gas leases and expand drilling with additional permitting.
The press release from the dept says the proposal the Secretary was stating “is not a decision to issue specific leases or to authorize any drilling or development,” literally undercutting her testimony in real time, and reaffirming that no further oil drilling will be authorized. Secretary Haaland was caught completely off-guard, stammered and admitted she had no idea what the bureaucrats in the dept were doing.
What this example reveals is something we have noticed and discussed but has become very clear in the past few weeks.
Everything about the Joe Biden presidency is a big game of pretending. The media pretends Biden is running the executive branch, while the people clearly see he is not.
The Biden administration, and even the senior executives within it, are not in control of the functions of government. As with this example of the Interior Dept., the Obama era group used eight years to fill the administrative positions in various agencies with devout ideologues. The activists in the government are running the mechanics of the machinery toward their own ideological objectives.
One clear example came through a little more than a week ago.
On May 10th, Joe Biden delivered a national address on the topic of inflation. [LINK] Within the prepared remarks he read, Biden told the public he was committed to lowering costs by focusing on expanded energy development – to include additional drilling for oil and gas. Literally hours later the Interior Dept cancelled oil/gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico [LINK], exactly the opposite of the Biden remarks.
As noted by CNN, “The cancellation of the previously planned Cook Inlet sale in Alaska, as well as the lease sales in the Gulf, ensures that millions of acres of offshore waters will not be developed for oil and gas — a significant victory for climate advocates.”
Biden gives a policy speech that is factually undermined within hours by the actions of the Biden administration. The machinery of the government is operating autonomously, without regard for the president or any cabinet official. What happened with Secretary Haaland today is just another example of this.
Joe Biden has no idea who is operating in any executive branch agency. Nor does he have any idea what they are doing, or what their agenda consists of. Biden is irrelevant to the objectives of the ideologues; and he is irrelevant by design. This is why Biden was selected by Obama and then installed by the crew of Chicago activists who have spent their entire life designing a framework of government that operates for their intents regardless of the White House.
We The People are playing this grand game of pretense. It is a Potemkin village, and it is held together in part by a willful media who support the framework. Heck, they even installed a fake White House stage set on the White House grounds to help maintain the pretending.
This house of cards is also tenuous, very unstable. If any media outlet were to ask Joe Biden any generally baseline question like: “who is your interior secretary?” Or “who is your EPA administrator?” The house of cards would collapse visibly because Joe Biden has no idea.
The agenda inside the critical agencies like energy, transportation, interior and EPA, is pre-established and independently operating regardless of policy.
The mechanics of the executive branch are directed by ideological climate-change pilots at the controls. THAT is our reality…
Brandon’s regime is full of unqualified diversity hires. What a clown show.
Today’s Democratic Party is full of lunatics and DeepState sabateurs.
William Barr, who served as U.S. attorney general under then-President Donald Trump, is in talks to cooperate with the democrats’ witch hunt Congressional committee investigating the January 6th
riotrally at the U.S. Capitol.Axios reports: “Barr is likely to cooperate with the committee, according to a source familiar with his thinking. Tim Mulvey, a spokesman for the Jan. 6 committee, declined to comment. No firm decision has been made by the committee on whether to invite Barr to appear in the public hearings that begin in June.
Barr has said Trump became angry at him for dismissing the president’s claims of election fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
Your photo doesn’t show the pipe stuck up Ol’ Bob’s rectum.
Sure it does I see it right there.
…the pipe is Mike’s, when he was playing that “Squeal Like a Pig” scene from the movie “Deliverance”, with Porky Barr. You know who’s keeping the footage and why…
Next time we protest a stolen election we should treat it as war and take no prisoners.
MAKE NO MISTAKE………these sonsab!tches declared war on America at 1030 pm EST, 3 November 2021.
OH so much longer ago than that…3 Nov was just the latest major manifestation of its visible effects…..some age it back to post-Civil War…personally I see the major push getting its birth during TR’s administration and it went on steroids pre and during the Wilson administration…this ages it at over a century already…..Dimm/commies are wily, patient and primarily evil in their quest to control the lives of others
Hang on tight, my friends. The already extremely bumpy ride is about to get a lot bumpier. May God go with you all.
the non-diversity hires aren’t worth a shit either
The joke is on us. They’re laughing all the way to the Bank.
This has to stop. These people are not clowns. They are highly intelligent, highly motivated and highly funded. The real clown show is the American electorate. Seriously if they were clowns or incompetent explain how those clowns got so far pushing their agenda?
You can’t hope to beat your enemy if you don’t even understand them and continue to underestimate them.
Still doesn’t necessarily mean they understand their job or it’s duties. Don’t even get me started on qualifications, might as well be irrelevant. It’s the Peter principle at work!
Clown shows are better organized and the people are actually qualified to be clowns. Not so much with these ones.
The destruction of this country by democrats and the left is clearly, CLEARLY deliberate.
They know what they are doing, and enjoy it.
They just hate getting caught doing it.
It is time for AMERICANS, not communists, to actually run this country, by the Grace of God.
Yes…and they know the media has their backs and don’t care.
Cloward Piven. It’s all there in black and white.
Yes it is…!
They honestly don’t hate “getting caught”. Who’s “catching” them? No one! No one, that is, with any spine or authority to do anything to correct the problem and bring them to codified justice.
Corded justice will do.
That will suffice for me too…..
FedGov is just like Twitter
Worse. It’s harder to bounce/censor these twits.
Well, that’s encouraging. Simultaneous statements from the Interior Dept. that new oil and gas leases will not happen, and new oil and gas leases will happen. At least Biden’s team knows what they’re doing.
There has never been a time in the entire history of the United States when force should be used if necessary to remove every piece of shit that occupies positions in the US government that specifically undermine the interests of the American people.
Putting it mildly.
What above poster said in spades!
Polititions come and go, beauracrats last forever. Imagine how they worked behind the scenes when Trump was President.
That is so, yet President Trump still accomplished many great things for America while being a target of the uniparty.
Tell that to Elon Musk. He seems to think the fact that his administration got stuff done had nothing to do with President TRUMP.
It’s a sickness.
Destroy what exists, and hope to “Build Back Better” – what could possibly go wrong??
Step 1 – Burn everything to the ground.
Step 2 – ????
Step 3 – Utopia!
yes, does Build Back Better imply they are about to Demolish Everything?
It’s burning down all around us.
They just pretend not to see it.
While they plan more burning.
Gives them more time to figure out what’s next, as Shelley above outlines perfectly.
Something like that for certain. It seems like the means to the end is to bring about enough misery that the people will beg for ANY government remedy. And THAT, we know, is something this government will gladly deliver under the promise of Utopia.
Power vacuums get filled, one way or another.
What panic was that? I do not recall any panic about becoming energy independent.
Yeah that guy who said that is a LYING pos.
Please tell me Manchin wasn’t the only one to ‘drill’ this flunktard. There was a Republican with real questions, right??
Panic by the environmentalists – he’s talking about the Democrat base, not Main Street USA.
Exactly!
Orange Man Energy Dominance destroyed their ability to ensure the seamless extraction of energy.
Wut?
I think he was referring to the lefties hair on fire.
Not so long ago we were energy independent. Then came brandon.
Aren’t communists by definition treasonous for attempting to change our form of govt?
In the manner in which they are doing it, yes.
Yes. First comes the coup and then comes the consequences for us.
This is a result of the Justice Democrats/Sunrise agenda
The Fifth Branch.
The Administrative State, accountable to NO ONE.
Permanent employees like SES?
(Special Executive Services)
All conducted with out any accountability, what so ever.
Who set the fire which burned our nation to the ground?
RINO’s oh no, were only in charge of the Matches…
Conservatives, No we simply regulate Gasoline…
Socialists, No we just hold the meetings…
Nobody knows what happened, it just happened.
Mostly agree but, I think the Secretary is aware of what is going on and is fully supportive. What she is not is very quick on her feet when caught trying to portray that they were working hard to bring production up when she knows perfectly well, they are not. Fumbling the ball, her associate snatched it to explain how much has been dumped into their laps to sift through and analyze and this is only phase 1. No decision can be made about extending any leases or allowing any drilling until phase 3. Everyone knows that. Come on man. This is government work.
None of the political appointees are running anything.
None of the elected officials are running anything.
None of them want to know anything.
Just pretend and collect money! People calling them lawmakers or leaders is laughable.
So the Trump energy plan caused a panic in Florida?
WTH?
I guess the Greenies could see melting ice caps from their beach homes.
Another example of how the permanent bureaucrats of any of the federal departments refer to the political appointees that come in with each new administration as the “summer help.” We see who’s really running the show, and it ain’t pretty.
The country is being run by Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice, who are following Obama’s direction, and Jill Biden has final say.
I doubt Jill Biden has a say in anything
Dr. Jill selects which flavour of pudding ole Joe gets.
the person sitting at the top of each place doesnt know what the place is doing.
this is what they mean by diversity – pick a stupid one of each so we can puppet them around and bull the rest of the world for not being diverse.
This is true and they don’t want to know.
They’re so besotted with their identities they’ve no clue how badly they’re being played.
If it is true that “the previous Administration” stopped work on the five year plan in 2018, WHY did that happen?
Cause it sucked. But according to that Bolshevik they “scared” people. UFB
I believe it reads quite plainly as this step, a ‘ proposed program’, is not a decision on drilling or leases. That would come afterwards in the final 3rd step.
I think ya jumped the gun Sundance.
I never thought I’d feel like an island in here. But I smell the ocean breeze tonight.
so its going to expire- and they say they are going to extend it?
but havent’t used it since 2018?
talking about the new process, old one?
I don’t have the time or patience any more. You’re on your own , good luck.
where is that video of the Black kid calling Joe a Ho?
So, does anyone with a lick of sense really think we’re gonna make it to 2024?
Second question: assuming we do, does anyone really think that an America-First President will be allowed to reverse the four years of Xiden, including the 20 years of Uniparty Presidents? Really???
We. Are. Not. Voting. Ourselves. Out. Of. This.
No chance. Something cataclysmic is going to happen. Whether man made or earth. Something is gonna give. And if people don’t see it, well, good luck.
My humble opinion: Schumer has already Hit The Fan. I hope and pray the Lord remembers those of us who love Him and follow Him while he burns this wretched, sinful, place to the ground.
Sorry, it’s the way I see it. So much of the sickening corruption and immorality (Epstein didn’t kill himself) is out in the open now. Only the willingly blind cannot see it. I know a few people like that, by the way. They’ll be living in their pretend worlds while their cities literally burn down around them. And they’ll wonder what happened.
Matthew 24
Biden and his minions are shutting down our natural gas industry as of June 30. INSANE! These people REALLY hate us! Quote: The press release from the dept says the proposal the Secretary was stating “is not a decision to issue specific leases or to authorize any drilling or development,” literally undercutting her testimony in real time, and reaffirming that no further oil drilling will be authorized. Secretary Haaland was caught completely off-guard, stammered and admitted she had no idea what the bureaucrats in the dept were doing.
Come on folks. It reads ‘A Proposed program’ not ‘The Proposed program’.
Sod off, swampy.
Bye, bye Miss American pie, can’t drive my Chevy to the levee cause my gas tank is dry.
Them good ol’ boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin’ “this ‘ill be the day that I die”.
The people who are running my country make my skin crawl. They are pure evil and I despise every last one of them.
Oh my, the commie female had to have the plan ‘mansplained’!
Good job on Senator Manchin’s part by calling out this smoke and mirrors.
I trust Manchin as far as I can throw him. He’s a canny politician…that’s all.
Manchen was simply negotiating a new kick back. He was saying if you don’t cut me in on xxxx deal then I’m gonna call out embarrassing s—t like this regularly.
No. Manchins job depends on the coal miners in WV. He has to care about energy, or seem to care, or he’s out of a job.
It’s all they have. They hate America and they hate us.
The DEMs, once again, are after our 2nd Amendment Right!
“Attempts to ram through massive gun control packages during Barack Obama’s presidency ended in failure for Democrats.”
We need to keep it that way…
https://www.westernjournal.com/red-alert-breaking-dem-legislation-end-gun-sales-current-firearm-owners-forever-require-doj-license/
The Western Journal (https://www.westernjournal.com/red-alert-breaking-dem-legislation-end-gun-sales-current-firearm-owners-forever-require-doj-license/)
Red Alert: Breaking Dem Legislation Could End Gun Sales to All Current Firearm Owners Forever, Require DOJ License
A new Democratic bill would require federal permission from the Department of Justice every time you purchase a gun.
This makes me sick. First we have “lobbyists” writing the legislation that Congress passes without reading it. Second we have US Supreme Court underlings, or possibly Roberts himself, leaking correspondence to intimidate the court, and now we have executive bureaucrats running the show. Under these conditions there is not a lot that a Trump or Desantis White House could do to thwart the administrative state. The political solution is not at the federal level at all. Irish Democracy. Influence local events and ignore the American federales.
jThe intentional and wonton destruction of our country is Obama’s idea of “transformation of America”. Never doubt this isn’t all planned. Open border & stop oil & gas drilling, permits & pipeline 1st day in office. Keep printing that $$$ so we lose our position at the world’s currency. The murdering Marxist democratic party of Ameria is doing a bang up job. This is why they had to steal the election. Never doubt they’re going to try and do it again.
THIS ^^^: “Obama’s idea of transformation of America”. I recall he identified it as
“the fundamental transformation of America“.
It was an announcement; never posed as a question to the American people. Used to shake me to the core each time I heard him say it. And he loved to say it.
We also saw this in PDJT admin and Leftist Democrats and the MSM would cheer it.
Here is the thing though, why didn’t Trump have massive layoffs in these agencies to downsize them? The EPA in particular could be at least cut in half as it duplicates state offices. Same with Education. There is so much Federal bloat and that in part supports this nonsense.
The lesson for the next MAGA president is tell your cabinet heads to start trimmimg their departments top to bottom. A culling is in order throughout every department. Where you see most resistance is where most of the vipers hide.
You can’t fire people in the Fed civil unions. So, they need to be defunded, meaning we need a CONgress that does budgeting that will defund this crap. No other way than civil war.
Then make their jobs redundant and let them sit at home.
You CAN…they just made it extremely difficult to do so…..one thing about ANY organization is the rules and policies are written so if they WANT to get rid of you they WILL find a reason
Trump tried that. With Tillerson at the State Dept. for example. The top two bureaucrats under Tillerson disregarded him and wouldn’t hire any “Trump republicans” and wouldn’t cut loose any minions. Trump advertised for 4000 govt. positions but the bureaucrats always stood in the way of new hires. Unfortunately, with the size of our bloated govt., one man couldn’t do everything himself. In a recent rally, Trump proposed having the ability to fire these people. As it is, there’s so much red tape it’s almost impossible to get rid of a govt. employee, even when they are atrocious.
we need a top to bottom reform of the civil service…when these bureaucrats actively oppose the policies of the ELECTED manager they have set themselves up to be in charge…these EMPLOYEES rightly need to get their comeuppance
These idiots will get us in a war if not careful. Sadly, what better way to…pains me to say it; ”build back better.”
When does all of this become treason?
Who’s going to prosecute them?
Of course that sniveling little jewdeo-bolshevik has to blame Trump.
All these pricks must have received word they will be whisked away when Sri Lanka comes to the US. And if that does happen I expect a several things to happen.
1. Some of these snakes will be left behind by their fellow commies.
2. Things are going to go very badly for them when they are left behind.
3. These idiots don’t even seem to grasp that they are destroying the currency they are feverishly clamoring to plunder as the empire is crumbled intentionally.
4. If/when they get whisked away, that gives us Americans an opportunity to restart the republic and be ready for these simps when they think they are to return. And make that an impossibility.
5. Once the military isn’t being paid they are going to be turning their attention to their leadership.
At the end of the day all I know is I’m not caving and crying like a punk when things go sideways. We MUST use that as our opportunity to fortify and never allow them to return.
I guess I’m a conspiracy theorist. But if these people don’t realize they are destroying their own wealth on the way out the door, then they are scary stupid and it’s worse than we thought.
I just wonder when the good people of this country will finally have had enough and will begin massive civil disobedience.
What more is it going to take to get people stirred up to take action? And even more importantly – who will be the leader?
We now have:
Baby killing on a grand scale and also shortages of baby food that don’t seem to be getting better.
Deliberate destruction of our energy industry.
Deliberate destruction of our children and families.
Completely open borders that are allowing millions of barbarians from all over the world into our country.
We need LEADERS and we need ACTION.
Soon the damage will be irreversible. Which is just what our Satanic overlords, the DemonRats are working on.
May God have mercy on our country and on our immortal souls.
Why aren’t we talking about the Biden hoax? Are we afraid to mention it? Do we not trust our own eyes?
There is not one Joe Biden occupying the position of President; there are two. This is not a wild-eyed conspiracy; it is a fact, proved by the ears of the two Bidens. Ear lobes can be either attached or detached. The actual Biden has detached earlobes, clearly visible in multitudes of photographs taken over decades. The fake Biden has attached earlobes. He has been active since at least November 2020, when a CNN photo of him is dated. Enlarging actual photos over the past two years that show the ears make the difference abundantly clear.
Biden’s presidency is not just a fraud, it is a hoax. We need to be shouting this from the rooftops, calling out every appearance by the fake Biden. A person cannot have both attached and detached earlobes, and POTUS cannot be two different people.
Please stop and think.
The wrinkles in his forehead and his hairline also change. There is absolutely a body double. Not eve up for debate.
The original model has undergone a substantial amount of cosmetic surgery – unless the body double took over when Brandon was sworn in as VP in 2009.
I remember noticing the changes to his face – I think it was during O’s 1st Innauguration. Biden’s face looked like it was hitched up and locked into place on both sides above his ears – most noticeable at the eyes. The skin looked stretched, almost beyond the max possible. Did not look normal; did not look like himself. I wrote it off to vanity.
He was a jerk then and he was a jerk during his entire time in the Senate.
Now, simply being a jerk would be a blessing over the evil that has overcome him, with its accompanying delusions of power and grandeur which have overcome him..
Remarkably, and in spite of his “campaign” truth telling re: planned fraud in 3Nov20 election, he appears to really believe now that he is the President, and that having handlers make all his decisions for him is business as usual. Reference: “They won’t let me…”
Apologies to all readers for the redundancy above: “has / have overcome him”
Retired language teacher here.
Supposed to know better.
Doesn’t Botox eventually affect brain function?
💯% agree
Body doubles. Hitlery had the same thing. Two simple DNA tests would prove or disprove this.
I have an idea. NO BUDGET for this department until gas prices are back to TRUMP era prices again, our reserves are fully restocked, and we are energy independent and selling our God given products nationally and globally again.
The gubt has no business telling the states what they can do with the people’s land. It belongs to us, not them. It is time for them to give it up and get out of the way.
Exactly who panicked with Trump’s energy independence policies??????
That dude’s ending comment is so passing the buck when we know all was fine.
It really is past time to secede from this fake “united states” – the states need to shut off the feds, eliminate all federal agencies, eliminate the money machine, stop the payments, pull this house of cards down around their ears. Eliminate the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives; the DOJ, EPA, CDC, FBI, CIA, and whatever other “federal” agencies these bozo’s have created.
STOP THE INSANITY.
They are all leaching off the American people and our Produce/ Production, while harming our abilities to provide and protect our own family.
Been saying the same thing myself, for years… No one is listening.
Laugh in their faces when they complain.
Nothing against the State.
Everything of the State.
The politicians will be allowed to read press releases out loud.
Only then will they find out what the State has decided.
If that standard operating procedure is unappealing to you, you aren’t Joe Biden.
I realize e- mailing ” legislators” is an exercise in futility. Most of us who do it probably just blow off some steam. I never check responses-I sent a doozy to the White House this morning. But I’ve been thinking about writing Sen. Manchin and suggesting he become one of the greatest patriots in our history by caucusing with the (hold your nose) repubes, and after 2022, the MAGA and repubes till the end of his term to halt the obvious collapse of our nation.
Why is Manchin, a Democrat, the one who is allowed to ask pertinent questions. Seems he is always the one. Of course we know no GOPrick would care enough. Is he independent enough from Chuck U?
It’s only to give the sense of across isle imaging. He’s been given permission to do the stunts he does. And other times like this situation, he’s basically negotiating a better kick back. Saying, “hey I want this much or I’ll keep calling you out in this issue”.
On days when the gov’s stupidity piles up & starts to annoy me, I watch this video. I find it has a lovely sentiment that elevates my mood. Daydream while you still can! 😉
“TREVOR MOORE – TIME FOR GUILLOTINES”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/AJrlNRFDoOCb/
Lol, that’s hilarious. Best laugh I’ve had all month.
Can you imagine, out here in the real world, being made to look a fool by your subordinates like this?
It wouldn’t be pretty and it wouldn’t happen again. Not in the corporate world I lived in.
Happened to Trump 3 or 4 times a week. Recall his Syrian ambassador bragging to NYT that he and the Pentagon just lied to Trump about troop levels? The “resistance” op ed? His own NSC and Ukrainian staff and Intel IG and acting AG and multiple generals attempting multiple coups?
Maybe it’s time for public hangings for treason.
it isnt going to be ordered by Congress
I isn’t going to ever be ordered by anyone. The Sock Puppet gets crosswise with our Constitution almost every time he starts reading from his teleprompter. The puppet masters are making every decision and they have infiltrated every Bureaucracy in our Federal Government. They all take their queues from the leader of the apparatchik they belong to. Although, they never actually know the leader of their own apparatchik. This has been the way Communists are organized for over 100 years.
Only after the Country is under their complete control, do you ever actually see some of them. But you will never know who they really are. And, in about 3 generations, we may get a chance to finally throw them out. But the general population will not even understand the concepts of a free Republic and will likely just recreate what they have overthrown.
This crap has recycled itself for thousands of years and will never stop until humanity finally goes the way of the dinosaurs and gets replaced by some other hapless species.
cues. and if we get cracking we won’t have to wait any three generations. more like three years to get a good start on it.
wont happen unless you guard the elections and vote MAGA
that’s the idea..
Maybe we start by voting out a single RINO in a primary.
more than one if possible. for the worst and most powerful, especially in the house, support a democrat temporarily if necessary and possible.
We can then all talk about the significance of the passage of time.
Yes.
My question is, now that the extent of infiltration is known, can the agencies be gutted?
Can they ‘unemploy’ completely, then open interviews for each and every position?
Since obamma was able to fill the gov’t with his idealogues, is it possible to start over with people that don’t hate America?
The Grifter doesn’t know and doesn’t care. He’s a mental invalid.
Subordinates stating what you said in a press release before/while you are saying it to Senate Committee?
Clearly, they wanted to clarify what she might say before she said it, no?
The tail is wagging the dog throughout the Biden regime.
“Can you imagine, out here in the real world, being made to look a fool by your subordinates like this?”
Yea, he is their subordinate, but what can be done at the top levels of the NWO when brandon was purposely installed because he is disposable.
Clearly Haaland has………………..
Just like the “secretary of transportation” who was off chest feeding during the ongoing supply chain and transportation crisis.
The White House is filled with furries, queers, confused people, and imbeciles.
It is just not the White House filled with traitors. It is the entire non-State of Washington District of Communists !
And the ideologues run the show.
Just can’t imagine anybody experienced as POTUS and is powerful, that hates absolutely anything and anybody “normal” and has weaponized just about all of the federal bureaucracy.
They are not “confused people!” They are very determined to do as much malevolence to this country as they possibly can. That is not caused by a state of confusion.