Video: Was Biden ‘Fake Driving’ New Ford Truck?
Yesterday reporters laughed at Joe Biden for ‘joking’ about running them over in a new Ford pickup truck, but it has now been suggested that the President appears to have been ‘fake driving’ the truck and that the whole thing was a weird PR stunt.
Biden was filmed and photographed driving the new electric F-150 truck from Ford, after having given a speech about the need to move to electric vehicles (Biden has helped sell off a huge swathe of this sector of the industry to China).
But was he really driving the truck?
Woke Foundations Use Dollars Acquired Through Capitalism to Undermine Free Market Principles
Recently, the Ford Foundation announced plans to provide $1 billion in funding toward social justice programs, an extension of the $1 billion it handed out in 2015. The resulting press coverage, including a profile of its president on “60 Minutes,” was effusive.
Ford is not alone in its philanthropic wokeism. Many other large foundations have followed suit. The Mellon Foundation, one of the largest funders of the arts and humanities, is now prioritizing social justice in all its grant-making. The Rockefeller Foundation too is committing $1 billion over the next three years to “catalyze a more inclusive, green recovery from COVID.”
While well-intentioned, there has been almost no scrutiny of grant-making that supports social justice activism. Have the billions of dollars spent on it resulted in greater equity and quality of life for those it purports to help?
To be clear, a diverse range of philanthropies are supporting tremendous organizations with noble causes. America’s ideals allow everyone from the average citizen to the wealthiest foundation to fund what they choose. And certainly, charity should continue to help the most vulnerable in society.
The concern, though, is philanthropy that singularly looks at grant-making through a lens that judges people by their gender and ethnicity both sets America back and undermines the principles of free enterprise that have improved far more lives than any government or social justice program.
Take, for instance, grant-making efforts that increase regulatory burdens on job creators. Or the funding of advocacy groups associated with last summer’s civil unrest, severely damaging small businesses in underserved communities. Or grant-making that sends the dispiriting message that not everyone is capable of being hired on their own merit.
Further, such efforts are antithetical to the free market beliefs of these foundations’ namesakes, who are the reason they exist in the first place. Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Mellon all embraced the free market principles that made it possible to invent, produce, fuel, and finance the transportation industry. That, in turn, enabled millions of Americans to be more upwardly mobile and generated limitless possibilities in innovation.
In his letter resigning from the Ford Foundation board in 1977, Henry Ford’s grandson conveyed “respect for the potential for the foundation’s good.” He also thought it was straying too far from the free market principles that make philanthropy possible.
On Jobs, It’s Not Bad News, And It’s Not My Fault, Biden Says.
On Day 107, President Joe Biden said the abysmal jobs report was not actually bad news—but it’s the last president’s fault.
On April Jobs Report, It’s “Best” To Average Things Together.
The April jobs report released Friday, May 7, fell far below expectations, with just 266,000 jobs added in the last month—against forecasts close to one million—and March’s jobs gains were revised lower, from 916,000 to 770,000.
President Joe Biden took the podium at 12:00 p.m. sharp to “put today’s jobs report in perspective,” blaming the economic situation on former President Donald Trump and touting his own massive spending bills as both working well and not enough.
“Listening to commentators today as I was getting dressed, you might think that we should be disappointed,” the president said with a laugh. “But when we passed the American Rescue Plan, I want to remind everybody, it was designed to help us over the course of a year—not 60 days, a year. We never thought that, after the first 50 or 60 days, everything would be fine.”
Church of Sweden diocese proclaims itself ‘trans’ in open letter denouncing ‘narrow gender norms’
A Church of Sweden diocese has published a statement declaring itself transgender and condemning the media, ‘right-wing’ groups and even feminists for allegedly discriminating against people with different gender identities.
Published on the Vasteras diocese’s website, the declaration, titled ‘Personal letter to you who are trans,’ states that the Lutheran national church could arguably identify as transgender because of its diverse array of priests, employees and parishioners.
“We write to you from a church that is also trans,” the letter begins. “A church is made up of people. People are different. We have confirmees, employees, churchwardens, elected representatives, non-profits, and other parishioners who define themselves as trans people. The church also consists of trans people. Therefore, the church could be described as trans.”
House GOP To Put Forward 2022 Budget Plan, Suggests It Could Eliminate Deficit In 5 Years
House Republicans are expected to reveal their answer to Joe Biden’s massive 2022 budget proposal. Those representatives are confident their proposal, set to be announced Wednesday, will balance the federal budget in five years and cut taxes by nearly $2 trillion.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), the head of the Republican Study Committee, said Democrats are “introducing socialism and radically expanding the role of government.” He pointed out that in just a short amount of time, the U.S. is already seeing the negative effects of their agenda on the economy.
Banks stated, “it’s time Republicans reclaim the mantle of fiscal responsibility and show voters an alternative vision for conservative governance.”
