The Endless Political Failures Of Barack Obama (His Condescending Narcissist "Legacy")

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Obama Administration Sent Guns To Drug Cartels

The Obama administration’s botched Operation Fast and Furious, which provided weapons used in hundreds of crimes and killing sprees in Mexico, was broader than previously thought: Univision reported that the effort wasn’t just limited to one ATF office in Arizona — it had other operations in Florida and Texas as well. The ATF and Department of Justice lost more weapons than they have so far acknowledged, and those weapons have been tied to even more murders than previously thought — including a massacre of teens and young adults.....

“....On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party. . .Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled. Indirectly, the United States government played a role in the massacre by supplying some of the firearms used by the cartel murderers....”

Although Operation Fast and Furious occurred entirely under the Obama administration, President Obama has falsely claimed that it began “under the previous administration.” In reality, as ABC’s Jack Tapper and others have noted, “Fast & Furious started in the fall of 2009, 9 months after President Obama was sworn in.” ....As the revelations about this scandal continue, more lawmakers have called for the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder, who was held in contempt by Congress for allegedly withholding documents about Fast and Furious. ....The Office of the Inspector General recently cleared Holder of deliberate wrongdoing after an 18-month-long investigation that some critics have derided as a whitewash designed to give the administration an excuse to avoid handing over incriminating documents to Congress during that 18-month period..... Meanwhile, Holder has drawn significant criticism not only for Fast and Furious, but also for his politicization of the Justice Department through partisan Justice Department hiring, especially in the Civil Rights Division, and through ideologically motivated prosecutions that violate free speech, and retaliation against whistle blowers.....

https://cei.org/blog/obama-administration-sent-guns-to-drug-cartels/

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'Fast And Furious' Just Might Be President Obama's Watergate

...Why a gunrunning scandal code named "Fast and Furious," a program run secretly by the U.S. government that sent thousands of firearms over an international border and directly into the hands of criminals, hasn't been pursued by an army of reporters all trying to be the next Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein is a story in itself....Fast and Furious was an operation so cloak-and-dagger Mexican authorities weren't even notified that thousands of semi-automatic firearms were being sold to people in Arizona thought to have links to Mexican drug cartels. According to ATF whistleblowers, in 2009 the U.S. government began instructing gun store owners to break the law by selling firearms to suspected criminals. ATF agents then, again according to testimony by ATF agents turned whistleblowers, were ordered not to intercept the smugglers but rather to let the guns "walk" across the U.S.-Mexican border and into the hands of Mexican drug-trafficking organizations.....

....A Jan. 8, 2010 briefing paper from the ATF Phoenix Field Division Group VII says: "This investigation has currently identified more than 20 individual connected straw purchasers…. To date (September 2009-present) this group has purchased in excess of 650 firearms (mainly AK-47 variants) for which they have paid cash totaling more than $350,000....."

....The next important event we know of occurred in October 2009 when the ATF's Phoenix Field Division established a gun-trafficking group called "Group VII." Group VII began using the strategy of allowing suspects to walk away with illegally purchased guns....."The purpose was to wait and watch, in hope that law enforcement could identify other members of a trafficking network and build a large, complex conspiracy case…The case was soon renamed 'Operation Fast and Furious....."

....For political context we now need to step back to April 16, 2009 -- four or five months before we think Fast and Furious began. On this day President Barack Obama was visiting Mexico. While there he said, "This war is being waged with guns purchased not here but in the United States ... more than 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that lay in our shared border......".....This 90% statistic was, to be kind, math so shoddy a third grader should know better.... according to statistics from the Mexican government, only about a third of the guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico are submitted to the ATF. The Mexicans, as it turns out, only send guns to the ATF they think came from the U.S. Also, many guns submitted to the ATF by the Mexicans cannot be traced. As a result, the reporters determined that only 17% of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced by the ATF to the U.S.....Now, because President Obama used the made-up 90% figure to push political positions -- he was using the statistic to argue that the U.S. needs more gun-control laws -- it's difficult not to sniff politics in what happened next....

....Later in 2009 the ATF started the Fast and Furious program by allowing firearms to be smuggled from U.S. gun stores into the arsenals of Mexican criminal gangs. As these guns wouldn't be seen again until they resurfaced in crimes (there were no tracking devices installed or other means to trace these guns), the only purpose for letting these guns "walk" seems to be to back up the president's position that guns used in Mexican crimes mostly come from the U.S.....

....Sometime around September 2009, ATF agents began pressuring gun store owners in Arizona to sell firearms to people the ATF thought would sell the guns to Mexican cartels and gangs. As gun-store owners can't do business without federal licenses, and because the ATF has the authority to shut down a gun store if the establishment's paperwork isn't in order, these requests were likely taken as orders. This put the gun storeowners in a catch-22: the law requires them to report suspicious activity and not to sell to people they think are breaking the law, yet the ATF was telling them to sell to suspicious people who wanted to buy AK-47s by the dozen.....Congressional and law-enforcement sources say this situation suggests the FBI, which operates the NICS system, had to have knowingly allowed the purchases to go forward after consulting with the ATF. Given that we know the director of the FBI was in on at least one early meeting on this issue, this seems logical.....

....One of the suspects the ATF was watching as he bought guns from Lone Wolf Trading Company was Jaime Avila. He allegedly bought AK-47s at Lone Wolf Trading Company that turned up at a crime scene in which drug smugglers killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent (Brian Terry) ....The other was Uriel Patino. As the ATF watched, he bought hundreds of firearms from Lone Wolf Trading Company and reportedly sold them to Mexico's brutal Sinoloa drug cartel...."Acting (ATF) Director Melson was able to sit at his desk in Washington and himself watch a live feed of straw buyers entering the gun stores and purchasing dozens of AK-47 variants...."...Given that the director of the ATF, a department that is overseen by the U.S. Justice Department, was watching closed-circuit television of illegal gun sales that officials knew were likely to cross the U.S.-Mexican border, is it even conceivable that Attorney General Eric Holder didn't know about this secret program? And if he didn't, shouldn't he have?....

....ATF field agents were sending protests up their chain of command, because, as ATF Special Agent John Dodson told the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee on June 15, 2011, he and fellow agents were regularly ordered to abandon surveillance of suspicious gun purchases "knowing all the while that just days after these purchases, the guns that we saw these individuals buy would begin turning up at crime scenes in the United States and Mexico...."....Meanwhile, Mexican drug cartels were evidently finished sighting in their U.S.-bought AK-47's and looking for bigger guns. On April 2, 2010, Voth sent an email to a government-redacted recipient that said, "Our subjects purchased 359 firearms during the month of March alone, to include numerous Barrett .50 caliber rifles....."

....Just as ATF agents feared, on Dec. 14, 2010, in the dark of night in a remote canyon in Rio Rico, Ariz., some of the firearms sent over the border to arm Mexican drug runners were used in a gun battle with the U.S. Border Patrol. During the gunfight, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, 40, was killed by suspected operatives of a Mexican drug-smuggling organization. After a battle that U.S. Border Patrol officers started by shooting bean bags at smugglers armed with AK-47s, police arrested four suspects and recovered three firearms from the scene that have since been traced to Fast and Furious.....When asked how he thought sending guns into Mexico could lead to busts of drug cartels, Dodson replied, "I have never heard an explanation from anyone involved in Operation Fast and Furious that I believe would justify what we did...."

....On Jan. 27, 2011, Sen. Grassley wrote a letter to ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson that said: "Members of the Judiciary Committee have received numerous allegations that the ATF sanctioned the sale of hundreds of assault weapons to suspected straw purchasers, who then allegedly transported these weapons throughout the southwestern border area and into Mexico…."....Days later, on Jan. 31, 2011, Grassley wrote a second letter to Melson that claimed whistleblowers were being targeted. Grassley wrote, "This is exactly the wrong sort of reaction for the ATF. Rather than focusing on retaliating against whistleblowers, the ATF's sole focus should be on finding and disclosing the truth as soon as possible...."

....Then, on Feb. 15, 2011, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata was murdered in Mexico. The Associated Press reported (on Feb. 28), based on an unnamed source, that the weapon used to kill Zapata "was shipped through Laredo with the possible knowledge of the ATF...."....On March 22, 2011 President Obama was finally asked about Operation Fast and Furious. The question came from Univision, a Spanish-language network. "Well, first of all," answered President Obama, "I did not authorize [Fast and Furious]. Eric Holder, the attorney general, did not authorize it. There may be a situation here in which a serious mistake was made. If that's the case, then we'll find -- find out and we'll hold somebody accountable....."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2011/09/28/fast-and-furious-just-might-be-president-obamas-watergate/?sh=3243a365752a

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Joe Biden was Vice President during Operation Fast And Furious. 

Not only did Biden get Marines killed in his idiotic and ill planned withdrawal from Afghanistan, that left millions of dollars in high tech weapons for the Taliban, ISIS and other terrorist groups to kill future generations of Americans ( And all paid for with YOUR TAX DOLLARS)

But he also did his part, along with Obama and Eric Holder, to get the Sinaloa drug cartel a bunch of Barrett Light 50 sniper rifles. As a sweetener on top of an endless parade of AK47s. The logistics and policy administration for that was funded with... you guessed it.. MORE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS. 

Meanwhile, Biden, the establishment Democrats, the DNC and the radical left have all conspired to -

1) Defund The Police

2) Make the career of the average police officer so hostile and punitive that there are now massive personnel shortages in law enforcement agencies all over the country

3) Turned the Southern Border into an open swinging gate, making it easier for career criminals, drug dealers, cartel members and even those on the Terror Watch List via DHS to enter into America so they can use some of those OF&F AK47s against innocent Americans and their families. 

4) Enabled the rioting, looting and burning of 2020

5) Pushed to "bail out" with "bail reform" those who were rioting and looting and burning so they could do it over and over again

6) Allowed the open massacre of small businesses all across the country, right after locking them down. People just trying to feed their families and pay their rent saw their small businesses being looted and destroyed while their calls for help in Big Blue Cities were ignored. 

7) Pushed in corrupt District Attorneys, funded by George Soros, to create functional "policy" that enabled criminals to hunt down even more innocent tax paying American citizens

8 ) Mock you and gaslight you for using your actual Constitutionally protected rights, while hiding behind highly trained bodyguards all armed with massive firepower, all paid with your tax dollars.

While trying to also take all your guns away at the same time. 

They make it easier for you to get killed and then villainize you for wanting the tools to defend yourself since you and your family are being shown again and again that you are all on your own. 

But those same idiotic woke radical politicians engaged in this utter stupidity had no problem using your tax dollars to get assault rifles to the Mexican Drug Cartels. 

I invite any of the resident radical leftists here to even begin to try to defend any of this. 

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The Red, and Blue team have been doing this for a very long time.  

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What's interesting here is you have the ATF, under Biden, testifying talking about the "dangers" of certain types of weapons. 

But apparently they had no problem under Biden, as VPOTUS under Obama, sending AK47s and 50 caliber sniper rifles to the Sinaloa drug cartel. With all the logistics and administration paid for with your tax dollars. 

Where is the majority of fentanyl being processed before it comes into the US, killing tons of Americans? It's being done in Mexico, by the drug cartels. 

Biden used your tax dollars to help arm a bunch of murdering drug dealers, so they can better defend their process of pumping fentanyl into this country. 

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Mexico claims proof of Chinese fentanyl smuggling

....The Mexican president says his country has proof that illegal shipments of the powerful opioid drug fentanyl are arriving from China....A container with hidden packages of the drug was intercepted in the Pacific port of Lázaro Cárdenas, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said. "We already have proof," he said....

US authorities say fentanyl is now the main driver of US drug overdose deaths.....Mexican Navy Secretary Rafael Ojeda said the container intercepted in Lázaro Cárdenas had packages weighing 34-35kg (75 pounds) with traces of fentanyl and methamphetamine hidden in fuel resin. The cargo had left the Chinese city of Qingdao and passed through Busan in South Korea before reaching Mexico.....Fentanyl is up to 50 times more powerful than heroin. The US Drug Enforcement Administration says 67% of the 107,375 US deaths from drug overdoses or poisonings in 2021 were linked to fentanyl or similar opioids. Fentanyl is linked to more deaths of Americans under 50 than any other cause, the DEA says.....

The US authorities blame Mexican drug gangs for supplying fentanyl to users across the US. Last month three sons of drugs kingpin "El Chapo" - members of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel - were charged in the United States with fentanyl trafficking, but only one of them is in custody. Their father Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is serving a life sentence in the US.

Last month Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said "there is no such thing as illegal trafficking of fentanyl between China and Mexico"....Mao Ning said the widespread fentanyl abuse in the US was a problem "completely 'made in USA'".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65506087

 

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Let's see if we can get this all straight

1) Obama, Biden and Eric Holder use your tax dollars and my tax dollars to run Operation Fast And Furious, which gives assault rifles to drug cartels, specifically the majority of them going to the Sinaloa Cartel. 

2) These cartels are in league with the CCP. The precursor materials are shipped from China and head into Mexico, where the gangs process them and take up across the border, which Joe Biden has left open like a swinging gate, to be sold to poison Americans and kill many of our children. 

3) Since Hunter Biden and James Biden (Joe's brother) are noted by the WSJ and WaPo as having heavy business dealings with the CCP, apparently most this gets buried under the rug by the activist complicit radical left leaning MSM.

Our tax dollars were used to arm drug cartels with heavy firepower ( the same kind of guns that Obama, Biden and Holder wanted to take away from actual tax paying American citizens) so they could better protect and guard the fentanyl that's being pumped into our country to massacre our kids. But since Hunter Biden profits, the DNC and Biden Administration pretend nothing wrong is happening here. 

Joe Biden wants to use your tax dollars by proxy so he can do as little as possible to stop the CCP and drug cartels from killing your kids. Thanks Joe. Wonderful. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,510]

On 5/1/2023 at 9:28 PM, Blue Horseshoe said:

 

Joe Biden was Vice President during Operation Fast And Furious. 

Not only did Biden get Marines killed in his idiotic and ill planned withdrawal from Afghanistan, that left millions of dollars in high tech weapons for the Taliban, ISIS and other terrorist groups to kill future generations of Americans ( And all paid for with YOUR TAX DOLLARS)

But he also did his part, along with Obama and Eric Holder, to get the Sinaloa drug cartel a bunch of Barrett Light 50 sniper rifles. As a sweetener on top of an endless parade of AK47s. The logistics and policy administration for that was funded with... you guessed it.. MORE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS. 

Meanwhile, Biden, the establishment Democrats, the DNC and the radical left have all conspired to -

1) Defund The Police

2) Make the career of the average police officer so hostile and punitive that there are now massive personnel shortages in law enforcement agencies all over the country

3) Turned the Southern Border into an open swinging gate, making it easier for career criminals, drug dealers, cartel members and even those on the Terror Watch List via DHS to enter into America so they can use some of those OF&F AK47s against innocent Americans and their families. 

4) Enabled the rioting, looting and burning of 2020

5) Pushed to "bail out" with "bail reform" those who were rioting and looting and burning so they could do it over and over again

6) Allowed the open massacre of small businesses all across the country, right after locking them down. People just trying to feed their families and pay their rent saw their small businesses being looted and destroyed while their calls for help in Big Blue Cities were ignored. 

7) Pushed in corrupt District Attorneys, funded by George Soros, to create functional "policy" that enabled criminals to hunt down even more innocent tax paying American citizens

8 ) Mock you and gaslight you for using your actual Constitutionally protected rights, while hiding behind highly trained bodyguards all armed with massive firepower, all paid with your tax dollars.

While trying to also take all your guns away at the same time. 

They make it easier for you to get killed and then villainize you for wanting the tools to defend yourself since you and your family are being shown again and again that you are all on your own. 

But those same idiotic woke radical politicians engaged in this utter stupidity had no problem using your tax dollars to get assault rifles to the Mexican Drug Cartels. 

I invite any of the resident radical leftists here to even begin to try to defend any of this. 

Great post! 

[Mr Fantasy 67]

 

[The Real timschochet 6,844]

Gekko (Blue Horseshoe)’s posts take so long to read that most people simply don’t; they take in the headline without absorbing the truly crazy sh!t that lies deep within his paragraphs. No exception here. 

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19 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Gekko (Blue Horseshoe)’s posts take so long to read that most people simply don’t; they take in the headline without absorbing the truly crazy sh!t that lies deep within his paragraphs. No exception here. 

Pot meet kettle  

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[MDC 7,494]

You’ve GOT HIM NOW!!!  

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Alleged ‘Serial Killer’ Caught In California Is Illegal Alien Who Came Into U.S. Under Obama: Report

....A man arrested in California late last week — who allegedly carried out a string of murders — is an illegal alien who came into the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor during the Obama administration.....Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer request against 21-year-old Carlos Dominguez, who illegally came into the U.S. in April 2009 from El Salvador, according to ABC 10. The report identified Dominguez as “an alleged serial killer.”...Dominguez, who attended UC Davis, is accused of stabbing two people to death and attempting to stab another person to death in the area. The three stabbings, all separate incidents, happened between April 27 and May 1. He was arrested by the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office....

Those killed include David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm, and a third victim, Kimberlee Guillory, is still in the hospital....“I’m grateful that I’m alive and that I wasn’t killed,” Guillory said from her hospital bed at UC Davis Medical Center. “I was so scared when he started punching me. I thought that’s what he was doing, was punching me. I didn’t realize he was stabbing me until afterwards. Everything just went kind of black from there.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-serial-killer-caught-in-california-is-illegal-alien-who-came-into-u-s-under-obama-report

[JustinCharge 2,397]

doesnt matter.  the left controls the MSM so they will excuse it or ignore the story.  forum liberals will ignore it because they are here to troll.

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On 5/15/2023 at 4:40 PM, MDC said:

You’ve GOT HIM NOW!!!  

 

 

Guns used to carry out cartel violence came from the US

....Gun smuggling from the U.S. to Mexico is a well-documented practice, and Mexico’s leaders have long called for stricter firearm laws on the U.S. side of the border. Just this week, a
Federal authorities believe the two suspects were involved in a scheme to sell at least 90 rifles in Florida and Cleveland to people they believed worked for Mexican cartels.....“(Gun trafficking) fuels and facilitates the continued expansion of criminal enterprises in Mexico that are feeding this demand.....” 

.....Mexico’s homicide rate is more than 4 ½ times the world average and so far, no agency has fully developed a way to measure its ability to disrupt firearm trafficking to Mexico.....U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized 902 firearms leaving the country last year — a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated 200,000 firearms trafficked from the U.S. into Mexico each year.....Those weapons ultimately contribute to organized crime violence by helping the illicit drug trade, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO analyzed the cross-border gun-running between 2014 and 2018 — the most recent analysis available.....

.....A separate ATF analysis found 70% of firearms recovered in Mexico originated from the U.S. between 2014 and 2018, the most recent data available form Mexico. More recently, the ATF found estimated 27% of international crime guns recovered between 2017 and 2021 could be traced back to a U.S. purchaser. “These are firearms that were recovered by Mexican law enforcement officials and that were either used in a crime or may be found at the scene of a crime,” said Chelsa Kenny, director of international affairs at the GAO.....Trafficked guns have included .50 caliber sniper rifles that can shoot down helicopters and penetrate lightly armored vehicles and bulletproof glass....

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/guns-cartel-violence-came-from-us/

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