Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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Joe Biden will prove over the next 16 days just how much he and the democrats hate America. Just sit back and watch.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
I’m sorry so why are Fox cry babies cry-babying about this list?
clinton , soros...
those two dont hold a candle to the likes of rush limbaugh and jim jordan
looking forward to the whiner in chief throwing a toddler tantrum over todays list. should be good, I dont think he is over cheney and benny thompson from the other day.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
I’m sorry so why are Fox cry babies cry-babying about this list?
clinton , soros...
those two dont hold a candle to the likes of rush limbaugh and jim jordan
looking forward to the whiner in chief throwing a toddler tantrum over todays list. should be good, I dont think he is over cheney and benny thompson from the other day.
Don’t forget My Pillow guy, he’ll be right at the top when Trump is in, if Elon will allow it
President Biden gave some parting attacks to the press during a public White House event Sunday night.
Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson reported that after signing the Social Security Fairness Act, Biden took a few questions from the crowd which led the president to target President-elect Donald Trump.
"Do you still believe he’s a threat to democracy?" a reporter asked.
"I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy," Biden responded.
US President Joe Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act at the White House in Washington, DC, January 5, 2025. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images)
After responding to the allegation that Trump plans to end birthright citizenship, Biden switched the topic to attacking the reporters.
"I might be the oldest president, but I know more world leaders than any one of you have ever met in your whole goddamn life!" Biden said.
Some X users quickly blasted the comment.
"He’s fine guys," journalist Salena Zito joked.
Conservative communicator Steve Guest commented, "What a bitter person."
"This is Washington credentialism in a nutshell. Politicians become ‘qualified’ by simply existing. It doesn't matter that Biden is an abject failure and the worst foreign policy figure in American history. You see, he knows a lot of people, and that's all that matters," RedState writer Bonchie wrote.
CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings quipped, "The most civil, decent, and devoutly Catholic president we’ve ever had."
Biden has lashed out at the press throughout his term, sometimes lobbing aggressive comments at the reporters themselves.
In November, Biden mocked a reporter asking him whether he could broker a hostage deal between Hamas and Israel before leaving office.
"President Biden, do you think we can get a hostage deal by the end of your term?" an Israeli Channel 13 correspondent asked.
Biden replied, stating, "Do you think you can keep from getting hit in the head by a — a camera behind you?"
In 2022, he went as far as to refer to Fox News’ Peter Doocy as a "stupid son of a b----" after asking a question about whether inflation would be seen as a political liability ahead of the midterms. Doocy said Biden later called him to "clear the air," claiming the comments were "nothing personal."
THIS IS WHY JOEY IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN BED BY 4:00 P.M. - HE GETS CRANKY WHEN HE STAYS UP LATE!
Biden's Own Data Debunks His Great Economy Narrative
By Eric Mack | Sunday, 05 January 2025 10:52 AM EST
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are quick to say their economy was working for American voters during their 2024 presidential campaigns, but the data tells a different story, conservatives and researchers say.
Not only did inflation render moot gains in gross domestic product, consumer spending, if not wages — making for higher costs and spending for less goods and services — but also illegal immigration sucked up jobs for working-class Americans, while alleged Biden administration job gains were a guise for return to work from the COVID-19 pandemic and the massive expansion of the government workforce under Democrat policies, the Daily Caller News Foudation reported.
"This idea that somehow this is a great labor market, which I know is something that the Biden administration keeps saying — 'We're handing the Trump administration a robust labor market': I'm sorry; I think that the Biden administration's own data contradicts that narrative," Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget research fellow EJ Antoni told the Daily Caller.
"There are actually fewer native-born Americans working today than there were before the pandemic in 2019. So no progress in terms of native-born Americans working. All of the net job growth has gone to foreign-born workers. That's a category that the Bureau of Labor Statistics even admit on their website, they admit that category includes an unknown number of illegal aliens. More and more job growth has gone to foreign-born workers."
And record-high inflation wipes out any claims of increased GDP, consumer spending, or wage growth, effectively making it cost more for less while showing the guise of increases, according to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo.
Smith denounced the October 2024 BLS jobs report as "more evidence of the stunning incompetence" of the Biden administration, including the expansion of the federal workforce as being a leading contributor to holding up jobs reports.
"If you look under the hood of the Biden-Harris jobs market, the facts show an ongoing struggle for blue-collar workers, a boom for bureaucrats, and paychecks that don't pay the bills anymore," Smith wrote in his Nov. 1 statement.
"Taxpayers funded over 1.6 million new bureaucrats under the Biden-Harris administration, while manufacturers cut 50,000 jobs in the last year. The average paycheck is worth 3.2% less today than at the start of the Biden-Harris administration."
Biden's job reports never reflected the return to work after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report.
Before the pandemic in 2020, President Donald Trump's first administration had lowered unemployment rates for the majority of his term. In the final year of Biden, unemployment rates have steadily ticked up, going from 3.4% in January 2023 to 4.2% in November 2024.
Biden touted adding 16 million jobs to the U.S economy, but that total was mitigated by illegal aliens joining the workforce, the return of post-pandemic workers, and the 1.6 million more federal jobs under Biden, according to Antoni.
"We can only assume that given the huge surge in illegal aliens under the Biden administration, that a disproportionate number of the foreign workforce now includes illegal aliens," Antoni told the Daily Caller. "I guess if you had to coin a phrase here to describe it, it would be 'America last.'
"What we have seen with this huge influx of illegal aliens into the country has been the depressions of wages for low-skill labor. Anytime that an American first enters the workforce, they almost always do it by low-skill labor. What you effectively do by pushing down those wages is greatly disincentivize Americans from getting their first job and cut down the first rung on the ladder of success for average Americans."
Biden's data covers the reality American voters felt and responded to in November, according to Competitive Enterprise Institute research fellow Sean Higgins.
"The long and the short of it is that workers are not making any more money, they are slightly less employed than they were, and prices seem a lot higher than they were," Higgins told the DNCF.
"It is not surprising that people were in an ornery mood and did not take very well to the [Biden-Harris] administration’s claim that everything was good."
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.
Biden's Own Data Debunks His Great Economy Narrative
By Eric Mack | Sunday, 05 January 2025 10:52 AM EST
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are quick to say their economy was working for American voters during their 2024 presidential campaigns, but the data tells a different story, conservatives and researchers say.
Not only did inflation render moot gains in gross domestic product, consumer spending, if not wages — making for higher costs and spending for less goods and services — but also illegal immigration sucked up jobs for working-class Americans, while alleged Biden administration job gains were a guise for return to work from the COVID-19 pandemic and the massive expansion of the government workforce under Democrat policies, the Daily Caller News Foudation reported.
"This idea that somehow this is a great labor market, which I know is something that the Biden administration keeps saying — 'We're handing the Trump administration a robust labor market': I'm sorry; I think that the Biden administration's own data contradicts that narrative," Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget research fellow EJ Antoni told the Daily Caller.
"There are actually fewer native-born Americans working today than there were before the pandemic in 2019. So no progress in terms of native-born Americans working. All of the net job growth has gone to foreign-born workers. That's a category that the Bureau of Labor Statistics even admit on their website, they admit that category includes an unknown number of illegal aliens. More and more job growth has gone to foreign-born workers."
And record-high inflation wipes out any claims of increased GDP, consumer spending, or wage growth, effectively making it cost more for less while showing the guise of increases, according to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo.
Smith denounced the October 2024 BLS jobs report as "more evidence of the stunning incompetence" of the Biden administration, including the expansion of the federal workforce as being a leading contributor to holding up jobs reports.
"If you look under the hood of the Biden-Harris jobs market, the facts show an ongoing struggle for blue-collar workers, a boom for bureaucrats, and paychecks that don't pay the bills anymore," Smith wrote in his Nov. 1 statement.
"Taxpayers funded over 1.6 million new bureaucrats under the Biden-Harris administration, while manufacturers cut 50,000 jobs in the last year. The average paycheck is worth 3.2% less today than at the start of the Biden-Harris administration."
Biden's job reports never reflected the return to work after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report.
Before the pandemic in 2020, President Donald Trump's first administration had lowered unemployment rates for the majority of his term. In the final year of Biden, unemployment rates have steadily ticked up, going from 3.4% in January 2023 to 4.2% in November 2024.
Biden touted adding 16 million jobs to the U.S economy, but that total was mitigated by illegal aliens joining the workforce, the return of post-pandemic workers, and the 1.6 million more federal jobs under Biden, according to Antoni.
"We can only assume that given the huge surge in illegal aliens under the Biden administration, that a disproportionate number of the foreign workforce now includes illegal aliens," Antoni told the Daily Caller. "I guess if you had to coin a phrase here to describe it, it would be 'America last.'
"What we have seen with this huge influx of illegal aliens into the country has been the depressions of wages for low-skill labor. Anytime that an American first enters the workforce, they almost always do it by low-skill labor. What you effectively do by pushing down those wages is greatly disincentivize Americans from getting their first job and cut down the first rung on the ladder of success for average Americans."
Biden's data covers the reality American voters felt and responded to in November, according to Competitive Enterprise Institute research fellow Sean Higgins.
"The long and the short of it is that workers are not making any more money, they are slightly less employed than they were, and prices seem a lot higher than they were," Higgins told the DNCF.
"It is not surprising that people were in an ornery mood and did not take very well to the [Biden-Harris] administration’s claim that everything was good."
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.
Let’s put a pin on this post and let’s revisit in a year! What kind of changes do you predict will happen in that time?
Will gas be lower than 2.25$ a gallon across America will eggs be below 3.00$ a dozen how about the housing market will that be fixed will he have a better healthcare plan?
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Multiple intelligence and security sources at the highest levels of the U.S. and Israel confirm that authorities believe only about 20 of the 251 hostages taken alive by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, remain alive.
One U.S. government source said that 20 is the "working number" of those believed to be alive in ongoing negotiations underway in Qatar between Israel and Hamas.
The figure of 20 is approximate and includes only civilians and female Israeli soldiers taken prisoner.
"If the number included Israeli male soldiers, it could go higher," one senior Israeli source told Newsmax, but suggested it would not be a large increase.
Some public assessments, however, say the number of remaining hostages could be closer to 40.
Neither Israel's embassy in Washington nor the Israel Defense Forces would confirm the accuracy of the numbers.
"We have no information to share on this matter at the moment," said Einav Hadari, spokeswoman for the Embassy of Israel.
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, spokesman for the IDF, similarly refused to confirm or deny the number of hostages believed to be alive.
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has also been informed of the known survivor count, and the matter has already become a high focus for his national security team. Trump has spoken to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at least three times in the past several weeks, according to a transition source.
Trump has vowed serious and deadly consequences unless the American hostages are released.
At his Mar-a-Lago press conference Tuesday, Trump vowed that "all hell will break out in the Middle East" if the hostages are not released by Jan. 20, the date of his inauguration.
"And it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone," Trump said. "We want to get back those hostages for Israel and for us."
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas took 251 Israelis, foreigners, and soldiers from Israel back into the Gaza strip.
Over 100 of these captives were released in a ceasefire deal that ended in December 2023.
Publicly, Israeli authorities state 100 are still possibly alive and 36 are believed to be dead. Privately, the working number is much less than 100.
"I have heard a wide array of accounts concerning the alleged count of live hostages, ranging from around 30 to well over 60," said Irina Tsukerman, an analyst with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
"Part of the reason is that Hamas has been deliberately vague and misleading, depending on the direction of the talks. And part of the reason is that, apparently, some of the hostages have been held by groups other than Hamas, so it's very difficult to assess their status," Tsukerman said.
One source said the "20" number was what Hamas is purporting to have alive under its control.
Tribal clans or other groups in Gaza may be keeping some hostages separately from Hamas. Hamas also has acknowledged to having dozens of corpses of dead hostages, whose return is important to Israel.
"We just don't know," the Israeli source said, explaining the ambiguity in the numbers.
But Israelis blame the Biden administration for the expected high loss of life among hostages and the prolonged suffering of their families.
The Biden administration delayed for nearly four months Israel's military engagement in Rafah, allowing for hostages to be moved or killed.
One senior source described the Biden administration as having engaged in "blackmail and every conceivable threat" to stop Netanyahu from giving the order to enter Rafah.
At the time, Biden had warned that if the IDF engaged in an all-out attack on the city, the U.S. would slap an arms embargo on Israel.
Israel did launch an offensive into Rafah last May, wiping out Hamas bases on its outskirts while making targeted strikes in the city.
Currently, negotiations between Israel, Hamas, and Qatar for the release of the remaining hostages continue.
Netanyahu agreed Friday to send a delegation consisting of representatives of the IDF, Shin Bet, and the Mossad to Doha.
"There is a good chance that the negotiations will succeed this time," Moussa Abu Marzook, a senior member of the Hamas political bureau with ties to the U.S. pro-Hamas network, told a Qatari newspaper.
PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP IS NOW INVOLVED. BIDEN IS USELESS. GO AWAY, JOE, SO WE CAN FORGET YOU FOREVER.
Multiple intelligence and security sources at the highest levels of the U.S. and Israel confirm that authorities believe only about 20 of the 251 hostages taken alive by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, remain alive.
One U.S. government source said that 20 is the "working number" of those believed to be alive in ongoing negotiations underway in Qatar between Israel and Hamas.
The figure of 20 is approximate and includes only civilians and female Israeli soldiers taken prisoner.
"If the number included Israeli male soldiers, it could go higher," one senior Israeli source told Newsmax, but suggested it would not be a large increase.
Some public assessments, however, say the number of remaining hostages could be closer to 40.
Neither Israel's embassy in Washington nor the Israel Defense Forces would confirm the accuracy of the numbers.
"We have no information to share on this matter at the moment," said Einav Hadari, spokeswoman for the Embassy of Israel.
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, spokesman for the IDF, similarly refused to confirm or deny the number of hostages believed to be alive.
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has also been informed of the known survivor count, and the matter has already become a high focus for his national security team. Trump has spoken to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at least three times in the past several weeks, according to a transition source.
Trump has vowed serious and deadly consequences unless the American hostages are released.
At his Mar-a-Lago press conference Tuesday, Trump vowed that "all hell will break out in the Middle East" if the hostages are not released by Jan. 20, the date of his inauguration.
"And it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone," Trump said. "We want to get back those hostages for Israel and for us."
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas took 251 Israelis, foreigners, and soldiers from Israel back into the Gaza strip.
Over 100 of these captives were released in a ceasefire deal that ended in December 2023.
Publicly, Israeli authorities state 100 are still possibly alive and 36 are believed to be dead. Privately, the working number is much less than 100.
"I have heard a wide array of accounts concerning the alleged count of live hostages, ranging from around 30 to well over 60," said Irina Tsukerman, an analyst with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
"Part of the reason is that Hamas has been deliberately vague and misleading, depending on the direction of the talks. And part of the reason is that, apparently, some of the hostages have been held by groups other than Hamas, so it's very difficult to assess their status," Tsukerman said.
One source said the "20" number was what Hamas is purporting to have alive under its control.
Tribal clans or other groups in Gaza may be keeping some hostages separately from Hamas. Hamas also has acknowledged to having dozens of corpses of dead hostages, whose return is important to Israel.
"We just don't know," the Israeli source said, explaining the ambiguity in the numbers.
But Israelis blame the Biden administration for the expected high loss of life among hostages and the prolonged suffering of their families.
The Biden administration delayed for nearly four months Israel's military engagement in Rafah, allowing for hostages to be moved or killed.
One senior source described the Biden administration as having engaged in "blackmail and every conceivable threat" to stop Netanyahu from giving the order to enter Rafah.
At the time, Biden had warned that if the IDF engaged in an all-out attack on the city, the U.S. would slap an arms embargo on Israel.
Israel did launch an offensive into Rafah last May, wiping out Hamas bases on its outskirts while making targeted strikes in the city.
Currently, negotiations between Israel, Hamas, and Qatar for the release of the remaining hostages continue.
Netanyahu agreed Friday to send a delegation consisting of representatives of the IDF, Shin Bet, and the Mossad to Doha.
"There is a good chance that the negotiations will succeed this time," Moussa Abu Marzook, a senior member of the Hamas political bureau with ties to the U.S. pro-Hamas network, told a Qatari newspaper.
PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP IS NOW INVOLVED. BIDEN IS USELESS. GO AWAY, JOE, SO WE CAN FORGET YOU FOREVER.
Are you prepared to take up arms against our Canadian neighbors? I got $100 that 🍊idiot doesn’t get a peaceful deal done in the Middle East? Remember Jarred was supposed to bring peace to the Middle East instead he made a deal with Saudi Arabia and walked away with 2 billion capital B
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
President Biden gave some parting attacks to the press during a public White House event Sunday night.
Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson reported that after signing the Social Security Fairness Act, Biden took a few questions from the crowd which led the president to target President-elect Donald Trump.
"Do you still believe he’s a threat to democracy?" a reporter asked.
"I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy," Biden responded.
US President Joe Biden speaks to the media after signing the Social Security Fairness Act at the White House in Washington, DC, January 5, 2025. (CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images)
After responding to the allegation that Trump plans to end birthright citizenship, Biden switched the topic to attacking the reporters.
"I might be the oldest president, but I know more world leaders than any one of you have ever met in your whole goddamn life!" Biden said.
Some X users quickly blasted the comment.
"He’s fine guys," journalist Salena Zito joked.
Conservative communicator Steve Guest commented, "What a bitter person."
"This is Washington credentialism in a nutshell. Politicians become ‘qualified’ by simply existing. It doesn't matter that Biden is an abject failure and the worst foreign policy figure in American history. You see, he knows a lot of people, and that's all that matters," RedState writer Bonchie wrote.
CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings quipped, "The most civil, decent, and devoutly Catholic president we’ve ever had."
Biden has lashed out at the press throughout his term, sometimes lobbing aggressive comments at the reporters themselves.
In November, Biden mocked a reporter asking him whether he could broker a hostage deal between Hamas and Israel before leaving office.
"President Biden, do you think we can get a hostage deal by the end of your term?" an Israeli Channel 13 correspondent asked.
Biden replied, stating, "Do you think you can keep from getting hit in the head by a — a camera behind you?"
In 2022, he went as far as to refer to Fox News’ Peter Doocy as a "stupid son of a b----" after asking a question about whether inflation would be seen as a political liability ahead of the midterms. Doocy said Biden later called him to "clear the air," claiming the comments were "nothing personal."
THIS IS WHY JOEY IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN BED BY 4:00 P.M. - HE GETS CRANKY WHEN HE STAYS UP LATE!
Biden's Own Data Debunks His Great Economy Narrative
By Eric Mack | Sunday, 05 January 2025 10:52 AM EST
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are quick to say their economy was working for American voters during their 2024 presidential campaigns, but the data tells a different story, conservatives and researchers say.
Not only did inflation render moot gains in gross domestic product, consumer spending, if not wages — making for higher costs and spending for less goods and services — but also illegal immigration sucked up jobs for working-class Americans, while alleged Biden administration job gains were a guise for return to work from the COVID-19 pandemic and the massive expansion of the government workforce under Democrat policies, the Daily Caller News Foudation reported.
"This idea that somehow this is a great labor market, which I know is something that the Biden administration keeps saying — 'We're handing the Trump administration a robust labor market': I'm sorry; I think that the Biden administration's own data contradicts that narrative," Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget research fellow EJ Antoni told the Daily Caller.
"There are actually fewer native-born Americans working today than there were before the pandemic in 2019. So no progress in terms of native-born Americans working. All of the net job growth has gone to foreign-born workers. That's a category that the Bureau of Labor Statistics even admit on their website, they admit that category includes an unknown number of illegal aliens. More and more job growth has gone to foreign-born workers."
And record-high inflation wipes out any claims of increased GDP, consumer spending, or wage growth, effectively making it cost more for less while showing the guise of increases, according to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo.
Smith denounced the October 2024 BLS jobs report as "more evidence of the stunning incompetence" of the Biden administration, including the expansion of the federal workforce as being a leading contributor to holding up jobs reports.
"If you look under the hood of the Biden-Harris jobs market, the facts show an ongoing struggle for blue-collar workers, a boom for bureaucrats, and paychecks that don't pay the bills anymore," Smith wrote in his Nov. 1 statement.
"Taxpayers funded over 1.6 million new bureaucrats under the Biden-Harris administration, while manufacturers cut 50,000 jobs in the last year. The average paycheck is worth 3.2% less today than at the start of the Biden-Harris administration."
Biden's job reports never reflected the return to work after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report.
Before the pandemic in 2020, President Donald Trump's first administration had lowered unemployment rates for the majority of his term. In the final year of Biden, unemployment rates have steadily ticked up, going from 3.4% in January 2023 to 4.2% in November 2024.
Biden touted adding 16 million jobs to the U.S economy, but that total was mitigated by illegal aliens joining the workforce, the return of post-pandemic workers, and the 1.6 million more federal jobs under Biden, according to Antoni.
"We can only assume that given the huge surge in illegal aliens under the Biden administration, that a disproportionate number of the foreign workforce now includes illegal aliens," Antoni told the Daily Caller. "I guess if you had to coin a phrase here to describe it, it would be 'America last.'
"What we have seen with this huge influx of illegal aliens into the country has been the depressions of wages for low-skill labor. Anytime that an American first enters the workforce, they almost always do it by low-skill labor. What you effectively do by pushing down those wages is greatly disincentivize Americans from getting their first job and cut down the first rung on the ladder of success for average Americans."
Biden's data covers the reality American voters felt and responded to in November, according to Competitive Enterprise Institute research fellow Sean Higgins.
"The long and the short of it is that workers are not making any more money, they are slightly less employed than they were, and prices seem a lot higher than they were," Higgins told the DNCF.
"It is not surprising that people were in an ornery mood and did not take very well to the [Biden-Harris] administration’s claim that everything was good."
Eric Mack ✉
Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.
But pray tell, what indicators will indicate “Happy days are here again?”
Betcha can’t or won’t.
will eggs be below 3.00$ a dozen
how about the housing market will that be fixed
will he have a better healthcare plan?
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
One U.S. government source said that 20 is the "working number" of those believed to be alive in ongoing negotiations underway in Qatar between Israel and Hamas.
The figure of 20 is approximate and includes only civilians and female Israeli soldiers taken prisoner.
"If the number included Israeli male soldiers, it could go higher," one senior Israeli source told Newsmax, but suggested it would not be a large increase.
Some public assessments, however, say the number of remaining hostages could be closer to 40.
Neither Israel's embassy in Washington nor the Israel Defense Forces would confirm the accuracy of the numbers.
"We have no information to share on this matter at the moment," said Einav Hadari, spokeswoman for the Embassy of Israel.
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, spokesman for the IDF, similarly refused to confirm or deny the number of hostages believed to be alive.
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has also been informed of the known survivor count, and the matter has already become a high focus for his national security team. Trump has spoken to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at least three times in the past several weeks, according to a transition source.
Trump has vowed serious and deadly consequences unless the American hostages are released.
At his Mar-a-Lago press conference Tuesday, Trump vowed that "all hell will break out in the Middle East" if the hostages are not released by Jan. 20, the date of his inauguration.
"And it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone," Trump said. "We want to get back those hostages for Israel and for us."
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas took 251 Israelis, foreigners, and soldiers from Israel back into the Gaza strip.
Over 100 of these captives were released in a ceasefire deal that ended in December 2023.
Publicly, Israeli authorities state 100 are still possibly alive and 36 are believed to be dead.
Privately, the working number is much less than 100.
"I have heard a wide array of accounts concerning the alleged count of live hostages, ranging from around 30 to well over 60," said Irina Tsukerman, an analyst with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
"Part of the reason is that Hamas has been deliberately vague and misleading, depending on the direction of the talks. And part of the reason is that, apparently, some of the hostages have been held by groups other than Hamas, so it's very difficult to assess their status," Tsukerman said.
One source said the "20" number was what Hamas is purporting to have alive under its control.
Tribal clans or other groups in Gaza may be keeping some hostages separately from Hamas. Hamas also has acknowledged to having dozens of corpses of dead hostages, whose return is important to Israel.
"We just don't know," the Israeli source said, explaining the ambiguity in the numbers.
But Israelis blame the Biden administration for the expected high loss of life among hostages and the prolonged suffering of their families.
The Biden administration delayed for nearly four months Israel's military engagement in Rafah, allowing for hostages to be moved or killed.
One senior source described the Biden administration as having engaged in "blackmail and every conceivable threat" to stop Netanyahu from giving the order to enter Rafah.
At the time, Biden had warned that if the IDF engaged in an all-out attack on the city, the U.S. would slap an arms embargo on Israel.
Israel did launch an offensive into Rafah last May, wiping out Hamas bases on its outskirts while making targeted strikes in the city.
Currently, negotiations between Israel, Hamas, and Qatar for the release of the remaining hostages continue.
Netanyahu agreed Friday to send a delegation consisting of representatives of the IDF, Shin Bet, and the Mossad to Doha.
"There is a good chance that the negotiations will succeed this time," Moussa Abu Marzook, a senior member of the Hamas political bureau with ties to the U.S. pro-Hamas network, told a Qatari newspaper.
PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP IS NOW INVOLVED. BIDEN IS USELESS. GO AWAY, JOE, SO WE CAN FORGET YOU FOREVER.