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Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

Argus Hamilton

By Argus Hamilton

Published Nov. 20, 2023

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

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President Biden met with reporters in San Francisco Wednesday to review the details of his four-hour meeting with China’s President Xi and advisors. I think the meeting was long overdue. After all, Joe Biden has been President of the United States for three years, it’s about time he met with the owners.

President Biden all but anointed Governor Gavin Newsom as his successor at a Thursday press conference praising him for everything he’s done to California. Gavin’s on top of the world now. A homeless encampment fire totally destroyed an Interstate 10 overpass this week, so nobody can escape.

China’s President Xi got a standing ovation from a conference of American CEOs at the APEC Summit. They love the profit margins only slave labor provides. The CEOs retired to the conference theater to watch Gone with the Wind and they ran the movie backwards so it would have a happy ending.

China’s government ripped Joe Biden as absurd and out-of-control for calling China’s President Xi a dictator Wednesday. It gets crazier. Pro Israelis and Pro Hamas protestors are calling each other Nazis day and night until surviving members of the Hitler family might sue for trademark infringement.

Iran warned the Israeli-Hamas war could escalate into a regional war if Israel doesn’t declare a cease fire. Israel’s first object was to flush Hamas leaders out of their headquarters. Israeli troops entered the hospital in Gaza City Thursday and according to reports, they ignored the Quiet Please signs.

Ron DeSantis expressed doubts about how supporting the war in Ukraine furthers U.S. interests. A Republican has to really thread the needle in order to get the GOP nomination and still win the fall general election. You must agree with Tucker Carlson without appearing to agree with Tucker Carlson.

Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz accused the RNC of siding with the Nazis for not ripping Trump’s use of the word vermin to describe his adversaries. Her own father conjured the Iraq war under false pretenses. For what it’s worth, Dick Cheney sounds like something Hillary ought have around Bill.

House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled Friday that the GOP House Members are moving toward impeaching Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas. Since he was put in charge of guarding the U.S. border, six million migrants have entered illegally. It appears that the honor system isn’t working.

The Wall Street Journal poll said three fourths of Americans think Joe Biden is too old to serve a second term. I see his worth. When Joe finishes his prepared remarks and starts wandering and stumbling around onstage while the audience watches horrified, you realize he’s the first president who would have made a great silent movie comedian.

The Farm Bureau survey says the average family will spend sixty-three dollars on Thanksgiving dinner in 2023. This year I’m going to host an old-fashioned Thanksgiving. I’m inviting all my neighbors over to my house for a great big feast, and then I’m going to kill them and take their land.

Fox News released a poll Monday that found Donald Trump leading Joe Biden by four points nationwide and leading Joe in five out of six of the battleground states. This is all setting up a battle royal in 2024. I called my stock broker this morning and he told me to buy canned food and ammunition.

The Congressional Budget Office reported the U.S. Treasury Department collected four-and-a-half trillion dollars in federal revenue from income taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes and excise taxes. The process is just exhausting. Even with all the withholding, I still owe $3,500 to Ukraine.

NBC Dateline with Lester Holt drew an eighty-four percent viewer approval rating for its deep dive into criminal behavior. The investigators delve into creepy, seedy, lusty and violent crime. I’ve seen so many Dateline episodes that every time I turn off the TV, I wipe my fingerprints off the remote.

Jimmy Carter reported receiving fourteen thousand letters on his 99th birthday last month. He’s grown in stature over the years for his work for Habitat for Humanity The Carter Presidency itself prompts me to be grateful that generation did all our insane crazy stuff before there were camera phones.

President Biden flew to San Francisco Tuesday to meet with China’s President Xi. For the first time in years, the U.S. economy is much stronger than China’s, an advantage that Biden cheerfully exploited in their talks. Joe agreed to drop sanctions if Xi will stop slipping those menus under the doors.

President Biden reportedly discussed mutual security issues with President Xi in San Francisco this week. There was no mention of the spy balloon that China flew over the U.S. last year. The FBI is still angry at China for the spy balloon over-flight, saying that spying on Americans is covered already.

Fox News reports that a house in suburban San Jose was put on sale for a million and a half dollars but a meth lab is still in the house. The seller likely can’t afford to clean it up. The homeowner’s income is pretty much down to whatever the tooth fairy leaves him under the pillow each night.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass drew plaudits after ordering homeless encampments completely cleared in Koreatown and Hollywood Boulevard this past weekend. I try to help out by handing the homeless counterfeit one-hundred-dollar bills. That way they will go to prison and no longer be homeless.

The New York Police Department reported that homicides are down thirty percent in New York this fall with a big increase in gun seizures. Even the FBI joined in on the New York crime busting act. Last week, Mayor Adams' cell phone and laptop were seized and it wasn’t by someone on the subway.

President Biden met with China’s President Xi in at an economic conference in San Francisco Wednesday. The city was cleaned up and put on its best face for the summit meeting. Homeless people having sex on the sidewalks were admonished by passers-by to get a box.

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