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A Day In The Life Of U.S. . . . Young Climber Scales Pro-Life Heights While Old Biden Probes Sinful Depths

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By DEXTER DUGGAN

PHOENIX — On the same day that a courageous, death-defying college student scaled the heights for preborn babies and their moms, a luxury-loving, confused old multimillionaire with serious defects and multiple homes went to the depths with his lies and immorality to rot the United States some more.
With the 2023 Super Bowl and WM Phoenix Open golf tournament coming up on the weekend calendar here, the amazingly self-collected young “Pro-Life Spiderman,” Maison Deschamps, used the national sports focus to add another skyscraper to the list he free-scaled athletically, clambering without ropes on their exteriors, to raise money for pregnant mothers.
Later that same date, February 7, almost all the way across the nation, physically impaired, notorious bad Catholic Joe Biden gave his State of the Union address to Congress, once more shamelessly pushing his culture of permissive abortion and other depravity as he again clearly exhibited cognitive problems.
What seems even more amazing about Deschamps is that he doesn’t look like a hulking bodybuilder as he swings on the outsides of skyscrapers to ascend, in what would appear to be an exhausting effort. His website is prolifespiderman.com.
As he went up nearly 500 feet to the roof of the Chase Tower in downtown Phoenix, he braced his feet across from each other as he wedged himself upward while looking out during the sunny morning on other buildings and the street below.
One of his previous conquests was San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower last May, going more than 1,000 feet high, as he grabbed onto exterior rails from floor to floor.
In an October 17, 2022, interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, Deschamps said he wouldn’t recommend trying this to other people, but it’s a gift God gave him to help needy pregnant mothers.
At his website, the rock-climbing adventurer Deschamps says: “I would never recommend or encourage another person to climb without a rope. There are definitely dangers involved. However, most skyscrapers are significantly easier to climb than rock.
“The large rails and positive windows sills are ginormous in comparison to the credit-card-sized holds found on rock,” he says. “As an experienced climber, I see climbing skyscrapers as a safe and creative/effective way to peacefully protest.”
As for legality, Deschamps notes that many places lack laws against climbing the exterior of skyscrapers. (Maybe for the same reason that many places lack laws against flapping your arms so you can fly off to plant carrots on the moon?)
With a goal of raising money for the pro-life charity Let Them Live (letthemlive.org), Deschamps says, “All proceeds go towards helping abortion-minded pregnant women who are in need of housing, medical care, food, or adoption services.”
On the other hand, while lauding serious sexual disorientation and more abortion in his wandering State of the Union talk on February 7, Biden went off-script in his distressingly familiar way.
Saying that autocratic governments have grown weaker, Biden raised his voice and shook his index finger before the assembled Congress and the world as he demanded, “Name me a world leader who’d change places with Xi Jinping! Name me one! Name me one!”
Cong. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), seated just behind Biden as the speaker of the House, looked wary, or maybe weary.
It actually didn’t seem likely that the issue was which Western official wanted to take on the role of Communist totalitarian Xi — unless Biden was jealous of Xi being able to order forced abortions on mothers he victimizes.
Among Twitter reaction that seemed perplexed by Biden’s challenge was this, by “BKactual”: “Name a single world leader who would like to take charge of the most populous and second richest country in the world that has an advanced military while wielding almost unlimited autocratic power over a subservient obedient population; haha see you can’t do it can you.”
Nevertheless, bleary old Biden remains the commander-in-chief of the United States, able to start nuclear war or else to retreat into his dementia when strong action is required. Such as when he watched passively as a Chinese spy balloon recently crossed the continental United States, when he could have ordered it shot down back on the western frontier instead of way over on the Atlantic coast.
Biden portrayed his first two years in the White House as ones of tremendous achievement. But, as The Wall Street Journal posted on February 8 in an editorial, if things are so great, “why does most of America not seem to appreciate it?”
Having watched some of Biden’s State of the Union, national radio talker Brandon Tatum said on February 8 that he “is clearly dead in the brain.”
It was well past time to eject this dangerous benighted narcissist from White House power, but the powerful establishment that put him there seemed too embarrassed to admit the severe damage that its arrogance had ushered in.
The moral of the folk tale of The Emperor’s New Clothes seems to fit Biden very well, even if the presidential clothes themselves do not. The moral lesson chastises people’s vanity and pride, both the ruler’s and the ruled.
In the tale, some swindlers offer to provide a king with magnificent new clothes — which, however, they say aren’t visible to the eyes of stupid or incompetent people. The swindlers then mime dress the king with royal garments which in fact consist of just the empty air in their hands.
Neither the king, his officials nor his subjects want to admit they’re such fools that they actually see him naked, so out of pride and fear they join in the pretense of admiring his finery. Until a little child innocently pipes up that the king has no clothes.
Thus powerful politicians treat Biden with deference even when they know how dangerous he is to the nation’s and world’s well-being.
As do media barons who would quickly cut a blundering politician like this to shreds if they considered him to be a conservative Republican rather than the left-wing Democrat that he is, with one foot in Marxism.
So, too, do highly placed Catholic Church officials who are fully aware that, objectively speaking, Biden is a gravely sinful Catholic intent on imposing mortal sin on people everywhere he goes, but they errantly treat him as worthy of their gracious esteem.

Deep Dismay

In a similar way here in Arizona, the establishment elite has maneuvered into power politicians whose talents seem best-suited to do damage. Behold Democrat so-called Gov. Katie Hobbs and her executive team of Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes.
The elite simply couldn’t bear the fact that these Democrats’ Republican foes in the November 8 general election were MAGA candidates endorsed by Donald Trump. Thus, as detailed in recent issues of The Wanderer, massive problems in voting and election security suddenly sprang forth strangely on Election Day in significant Republican areas of populous Maricopa County.
Both Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates were on record during their current terms of office as opposing MAGA candidates, with Richer establishing a PAC against them and Gates expressing his deep dismay in interviews that they had won their GOP primary elections last August.
Richer and Gates both are what could be defined as “moderate” Republicans.
Gates said he didn’t want election deniers to serve in office and that for the good of the Republican Party, “the only way back is by humiliation at the ballot box” for the MAGA primary-election victors.
The MAGA statewide candidate who supposedly suffered the narrowest loss was attorney general hopeful Abe Hamadeh, down by fewer than 300 votes to Democrat Kris Mayes, out of a total of more than 2.5 million votes cast.
It turned out that Katie Hobbs, who had been secretary of state before supposedly winning the gubernatorial race against Kari Lake, was aware of more than 500 unreported votes cast in Pinal County in the attorney general’s race which she didn’t reveal while Hamadeh was challenging his election result in court.
A story posted February 8 at the Arizona Sun Times said that Hamadeh was seeking a new trial because, among its reasons, “Then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs knew about the additional votes for eight days but did not inform the public or Hamadeh.”
Although these votes alone wouldn’t have given Hamadeh the victory because Mayes received some of them, his legal team argued that it should be able to inspect the undervotes in all 15 of Arizona’s counties.
The Sun Times story added, “He noted that in regard to the undervotes in Maricopa County, ‘The misread rate of 0.61 percent is more than 60 times the 0.01 percent margin of victory’.”
In another embarrassment to elite pretensions of superior morality, Hobbs’ team reportedly sought $250,000 contributions from various donors for her inaugural fund, receiving nearly $2 million but spending only about one-tenth of that for the inauguration.

She’s Not Going To Tell You

Amid concerns that Hobbs planned to use that excess money for purposes like funding campaigns for liberal Democrats, Republican legislative leaders called for her to turn over the rest of the donations to a state protocol fund.
Presumably donors who thought the dollars being solicited from them for the inauguration wouldn’t expect Hobbs to transfer them to political war chests.
Another illustration of the way the rather secretive, left-wing Hobbs planned to operate occurred during a media availability after she had issued an executive order requiring a review of the prisoner-execution process, thereby putting on hold any state executions.
When a reporter asked about Hobbs’ own stand on the death penalty, Hobbs waved that off as not necessarily relevant.
However, when another reporter pressed that Arizonans “probably have a legitimate question” about her stand, one of Hobbs’ handlers off-camera jumped in to say, “She said she’s not going to tell you.” And then swatted off another attempted follow-up.
Cutting off the matter, Hobbs in effect threatened to kick out the reporter, saying, “Don’t make me use this boot.”
While blocking possible executions of convicted criminals, Hobbs, like routine leftists, was promoting more abortion of defenseless babies, as noted by her gubernatorial foe, Lake.
During a February 6 appearance on conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s livestreamed national radio program, Lake noted Hobbs’ proposal to remove aid from pro-life pregnancy centers and give it to abortionists.
As Ronald Reagan once noted, all the people for abortion already have been born.

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