Joe Biden tells his donors we are on the brink of nuclear Armageddon.

Plus, Joe Biden pardons anyone with a criminal conviction for marijuana possession

and the Department of Justice reportedly prepares to prosecute Hunter Biden.

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right now to get started with my friends over at the USC.S. CCA. Well, Joe Biden is now saying true things about the risk of nuclear war with Russia. The problem is he has no strategy to deal with it, and when he says these true things publicly, all he does is increase the incentive for Vladimir Putin to threaten the use of nuclear weapons. See, here's the thing about being president. It's a different job than what I do for a living. What I do for a living is I explain to people how politics works.

I try to give a bird's eye view of what is going on on a daily basis from a conservative perspective.

What Joe Biden does is governance. And governance requires that you actually have an eye on policy.

You have an eye on what exactly you are going to do.

It requires you to, on domestic policy, negotiate sometimes, where people like me are speaking to principle. And on foreign policy, it requires you to actually strategically think about the words that are coming out of your facehole. When you are Joe Biden, however, you apparently don't think about this. And this is why it's a real problem what he said to a bunch of donors, even though I agree with much of what he said to the donors.

There are certain things you don't say out loud in public if you're the president of the United States because you are skewing the incentive structure for your enemies. And this is a perfect example of that. So here's what Joe Biden said. According to the Associated Press, he said on Thursday that the risk of nuclear Armageddon is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. As Russian officials speak of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering massive setbacks in the eight-month invasion of Ukraine. Speaking at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Biden said that Putin was, quote, a guy I know fairly well and that the Russian leader was not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons.

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