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This is America on July 4th, 2020

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This is a clarion call.

One year ago, the United States of America looked and felt quite different than today. I should know. I was there. I recognized it. Do you?

I care. Do you? How many of us do? One percent? Two percent? Ten percent? Fifty percent? I suppose we’ll find out in November, won’t we?

But what’a happening right now? What makes up America around us, on this July 4th of 2020?

I’m going to show you, for a very salient reason. I want you to wake up.

Let’s begin with the Wuhan-19 virus, what the politically correct amongst us call the Coronavirus. It’s not what you think, and it’s not what the LDAMM — Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots — are telling you. Here are some recent facts that the LDAMM aren’t telling you.

Yes, the numbers are going up. So is the testing. But we know that figures lie and liars figure. No one is apparently doing an examination of the numbers themselves, or the situations revolving around the numbers of Wuhan-19 — or, dare I say it — the money.

From GatewayPundit.com:

STUNNING: Fauci’s Remdesivir Costs $9 Per Dose, Will Be Sold at $3,000 per Treatment — China Company Linked to Soros Will Also Mass Produce the Drug

by Jim Hoft, 6-29-20

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (https://aapsonline.org) filed a lawsuit against Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA for “irrational interference” by the FDA with timely access to hydroxychloroquine.

Never in history have we seen such a determined effort by the scientific community and pharmaceutical industry to downplay and lie about the use of a successful drug to treat a deadly disease.

Hydroxychloroquine is the first choice in a study of 6,000 doctors treating the coronavirus.
In the field and in independent testing hydroxychloroquine displayed amazing results in treating the COVID-19 virus.

But there was great pushback against hydroxychloroquine for two reasons. The first reason was because it was safe and very inexpensive. The second reason is because Donald Trump promoted its use.

It is not a stretch to say the Democrat establishment would rather see people die than see President Trump be proven right.

As we reported earlier from the beginning Dr. Fauci was against the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus. Fauci was thrilled about its use just a few years ago.

Dr. Fauci did promote the use of remdesivir. He was excited to share the news on its effectiveness in April.

Gilead, the company that produces remdesivir, is a large company that spends millions in its lobbying efforts annually:

Gilead is also connected to Wuxi AppTec and George Soros.

The one person behind the promotion of Gilead’s remdesivir is the doctor who has worked with Gilead for a long time, Dr. Fauci. He also has downplayed and criticized the use of the much cheaper drug hydroxychloroquine:

Can there be any uncertainty as to why Dr. Fauci, who worked closely with Gilead, is strongly promoting its more expensive and less effective medication, which has already failed against Ebola, over a readily available, markedly affordable medication with a 91% success rate?

 

Pharmaceutical giant Gilead announced the pricing for its coronavirus drug remdesivir.

Gilead said the drug will cost $520 per vial, or $3,120 for a six-vial treatment.

A previous report at Bloomberg noted the cost to manufacture remdesivir is only $9 per treatment. Hydroxychloroquine is only $1 per treatment!

Cui bono, Dr Anthony Fauci?

Then there was this from Dr Marc Siegel, on the Wednesday, July 1st episode of Tucker Carlson. Cheating the numbers. Cooking the books. Listen very closely. Begin at 24:20.

And by the way, YouTube has already taken down this segment TWICE.

If you can’t find it, check this story out, cut and paste, and play the video:

Now, it turns out ONLY THAT SEGMENT was removed to YouTube.

Every patient in Texas with Wuhan-19 is being counted in their totals, even if they’re getting treatment for something completely different. Skewed numbers, “widely reported.” But not reported? As the case numbers go up — and even those now are questionable — the death rate remains under 700 per 24 hours per day of new cases. Most of the people getting Wuhan-19 are young people.

The CDC just said that, of the last 15,000 deaths, only 3.9% were under the ages of 44 years old, the same group spreading it. That group has mild cases.

And here’s Dr Siegal’s KICKER: it’s been “widely reported” that “hospitalizations are going up.” But it’s NOT reported that it’s not mostly Wuhan-19.

Instead, it’s because of other cases, because people are finally getting the elective surgeries they needed, cancer operations, hernia, heart operations. Young people are rebelling because of the lockdowns.

WHY isn’t this reported? One answer: politics. “Everything that happens in an election year is about the election.”

A continuing and naked attempt to make President Trump look bad and defeat him in November. Plain and simple.

This is America on July 4th, 2020.

We know where the issues of science and race meet as well, regarding Wuhan-19, as delineated by this story in Newsweek:

Oregon County Exempts Non-White People From Mandatory Face Mask Order

by Katherine Fung, 6-23-20

Lincoln County in Oregon has exempted non-white residents from a new order mandating mask-wearing in public in an attempt to counter racial profiling.

Last week, health officials declared face coverings would be required in public settings where individuals may come within six feet of someone outside their household after the county saw a spike in coronavirus cases.

On Tuesday, the county said “people of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public” will be exempt from the order.

Because science realizes that the Wuhan-19 virus is so incredibly intelligent that it can differentiate between whites and blacks.

That was based upon declarations by “scientists” as well.

Officials who pushed strict lockdowns now argue protesters are an exception

by Adam Shaw, 6-5-20

You must stay home to save lives. You must socially distance and lock down.

Unless you’re protesting racism and police brutality.

This appears to be the message from some government and health officials, who for months enforced a rigorous and unprecedented economic shutdown in the name of stemming the spread of the coronavirus pandemic — resulting in millions losing their jobs and students being sent home from schools across the country.

But as states just now begin to emerge from those lockdowns, some have argued in favor of an exception to those guidelines for those protesting the death of George Floyd — suggesting the gains from seeking police reforms outweigh the risks of a new surge in virus cases.

I told you the Wuhan-19 virus knows the difference between good people and bad people!

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whose state had some of the harshest lockdown measures in the country, was pictured shoulder-to-shoulder protesting with other officials and demonstrators. 

But the outlet noted a page of frequently asked questions about the order on the governor’s website specifically says, “Persons may engage in expressive activities protected by the First Amendment within the State of Michigan but must adhere to social distancing measures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including remaining at least six feet from people from outside the person’s household.”

The report also noted that a month ago, she was warning that anti-lockdown protesters who showed up at the Capitol risk forcing the stay-at-home order to continue for longer.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, meanwhile, suggested that protesters against police brutality were more important than business owners keen to know when they could regain their livelihoods.

“I don’t want to make light of this, and I’ll probably get lit up by everyone who owns a nail salon in the state,” Murphy said during a Monday briefing. “But it’s one thing to protest what day nail salons are opening, and it’s another to come out in peaceful protest, overwhelmingly, about somebody who was murdered right before our eyes.

Remember: all you racists have to stay inside and social distance. Unless you’re protesting racism. So only racists protest protesting racism and social distancing doesn’t apply, you racist.

From Politico.com:

Suddenly, Public Health Officials Say Social Justice Matters More Than Social Distance

by Dan Diamond, 6-4-20

For months, health experts told Americans to stay home. Now, many are encouraging the public to join mass protests.

Now some of those experts are broadcasting a new message: It’s time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism.

“We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus,” Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, tweeted on Tuesday. “In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus.”

“The injustice that’s evident to everyone right now needs to be addressed,” Abraar Karan, a Brigham and Women’s Hospital physician who’s exhorted coronavirus experts to amplify the protests’ anti-racist message, told me. “While I have voiced concerns that protests risk creating more outbreaks, the status quo wasn’t going to stop #covid19 either,” he wrote on Twitter this week.

It’s a message echoed by media outlets and some of the most prominent public health experts in America, like former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Frieden, who loudly warned against efforts to rush reopening but is now supportive of mass protests. Their claim: If we don’t address racial inequality, it’ll be that much harder to fight Covid-19. There’s also evidence that the virus doesn’t spread easily outdoors, especially if people wear masks.

And Conor Friedersdorf of TheAtlantic.com pointed out:

NPR represented this line of thinking to the masses by tweeting, “Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests.” A casual Twitter user could be forgiven for inferring that joining a crowd of protesters carries little risk of catching or spreading disease. But great uncertainty remains—which is why public-health experts spent weeks warning about what might happen if society reopens too quickly.

NPR’s article on concern that protests could spread the coronavirus and the public-health experts’ letter contain a remarkable juxtaposition. The NPR writer Bill Chappell quotes an elected official, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, as saying, “I’m so concerned about [the risk] that I’m urging everybody to consider their exposure if they need to isolate from their family members when they go home and if they need to be tested, because we have worked very hard to blunt the curve.”

Immediately afterward, the article declares, “But the risks of congregating during a global pandemic shouldn’t keep people from protesting racism, according to dozens of public health and disease experts who signed an open letter in support of the protests.” In other words, the politician is emphasizing the epidemiological risk, while disease experts stress the potential political gains.

Yep. All you racists have to stay inside and social distance. Unless you’re protesting racism. So only racists protest protesting racism and social distancing doesn’t apply, you racist.

This is America on July 4th, 2020.

Then we had hate crimes. Or did we?

We know that Jussie Smollett’s case was a fake hate crime. We know that Bubba Wallace’s incident was a fake hate crime. Predominantly not reported was the alleged “nooses” found in an Oakland park were, instead, pieces of equipment that a black man used to exercise in said park. But the lies continue unabated.

I concluded, because of those continuing incidents, that racism in America is apparently so widespread that it needs to be manufactured. Again and again and again.

Then there’s the very foundational issue of law enforcement in America, and one’s ability to defend yourself against violence.

From the DenverPost:

Federal judge orders Denver police to limit firing tear gas, projectiles at peaceful protesters

by Kiernan Nicholson, 6-5-20

A federal judge in Denver issued an order late Friday night that limits the Denver Police Department’s use of chemical weapons and non-lethal projectiles on protesters, saying that protecting First Amendment rights were more important than protecting buildings.

“The threat to physical safety and free speech outweighs the threat to property,” U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote.

Jackson issued an 11-page ruling on Friday night after four protesters filed a lawsuit, asking for a temporary restraining order against aggressive police actions. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Denver District Court had been moved to federal court.

So there is no real non-violent free speech guarantees. There are no more “peaceful protests.” Free speech can now be interpreted as rioting, burning, vandalizing, and being forced to allow rioters to destroy whatever pieces of government or private property they wish. YOURS too, of course.

But here’s the big kicker. The huge elephant in the room. Removal of qualified immunity for law enforcement officers. This could easily break the back of officers throughout the nation and the plan could rapidly spread throughout the states.

Colorado Reforms Allow Departments To Offer Big Settlements, Force Cops To Pay Part Of Them

by Sandy Malone, 6-17-20

Denver, CO – Colorado state lawmakers passed legislation on Saturday that fundamentally changes policing in the state, and the governor is expected to sign it quickly.

Senate Bill 217 – the Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Bill – calls for multiple dramatic changes to the manner in which policing is conducted across the state.

Under the new law, every officer in the state will wear a bodycam by July of 2023, and bodycams are required to be activated whenever officers respond to a call, the Denver Post reported.

Failure to activate the camera could result in criminal liability or other penalties.

The law also creates timelines for the release of bodycam footage to the public.

SB 217 also requires officers to intervene if they see another officer using excessive force or face a class 1 misdemeanor or greater charge, according to the Denver Post.

Here is the crux of the biscuit.

The new law also removed qualified immunity protections for police officers, meaning that individual cops can be sued for actions taken in the course of doing their jobs that may violate an individual’s civil rights.

If a police department determines that an officer acted in bad faith, they may hold the officer accountable for up to 5% or $25,000, whichever is less, of the settlement or judgement collected by a plaintiff, the Denver Post reported.

A $25,000 bill can easily bankrupt a cop. And that’s precisely the point.

This leaves officers with no due process to avoid fines outside of their police department’s review. A police department may offer a large settlement to a plaintiff and then force the officer to pay 5% of it.

SB 217 bans chokeholds and carotid control holds, and would ban the use of deadly force against someone for a minor or nonviolent offense.

It also changes the standards of deadly force to say it can only be used as a last resort when absolutely necessary and it cannot be used against a fleeing suspect unless he poses an immediate risk to the officers, according to the Denver Post.

The legislation calls for officers to lose their Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) board certification permanently after having pleaded guilty to an inappropriate use of force, failure to intervene to stop excessive force, or after having been found civilly liable for excessive force or failure to intervene.

All the Leftists and Demorats in Colorado — and across the nation — are pissing their pants rights now, thinking “we need this now in our state!”

SB 217 also gives the Colorado Attorney General the authority to go after persistently bad police departments and officers.

SB 217 takes much of the decision-making out of the hands of local police chiefs and puts it in the hands of the state, the Denver Post reported.

And as I said:

Justin Nix, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, told the Denver Post that he thinks that is a good thing and that other states will follow Colorado’s model.

“The level of government that’s best suited to reform police right now is the state government,” Nix said. “I expect that we will see states move pretty quickly to some of the reforms similar to what Colorado is doing.”

The natural path of this will be the demand that officers carry their own insurance policies, much like doctors, to protect against lawsuits.

Awards from lawsuits in law enforcement, however, are frequently the equal to if not greater than those in medicine. Surgeons, for example, pay anywhere between $30,000 and $50,000 per year in premiums. Contrast that with some agencies that pay officers anywhere between $20,000 to $30,000 to $40,000 per year, and you have an individual entering a profession who will, right off the bat, lose money.

Or people will simply avoid the profession altogether. Again, the goal of Leftists, Demorats, BLM, Antifa, anarchists, Socialists and Communists. Make absolutely no mistake.

We know that each police car burned, of the roughly 200 to 400 torched, disabled or made irreparable throughout the nation, is a vehicle that won’t be responding to whatever 911 call people happen to make.

Because of their various specialties and equipment, those vehicles can range from $45,000 to $100,000. Each. That’s already millions and millions of dollars. That’s not counting any other form of equipment or building. Things that won’t be used to help you, because they don’t exist any more.

Yet, remember, things that you will get charged for, because your tax dollars are the source. You know your taxes are going to explode.

On TV, “Cops” was pulled. “Live PD” was pulled. Netflix yanked “Gone With The Wind.”

This is America on July 4th, 2020.

While Chicago was roiled by days of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961.

From 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 5 a.m. Monday, June 1, 25 people were killed in the city, with another 85 wounded by gunfire, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

This is America on July 4th, 2020.

And with that, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, she of the “my hair is more important than yours,” told her white Alderman to go to hell with his community’s silly ass concerns. Play the audio cut in the story.

LAPD homicides are up 250% in the first week of June. Manufacturing companies are leaving Minneapolis because their buildings weren’t protected. The wealthy are fleeing San Francisco.

It must be racism. Too much racism in San Francisco. But wait. Leftists control nearly every major institution in America:

  • – Mainstream media
  • – Academia
  • – Administrative government
  • – Courts
  • – Hollywood
  • – Big Tech
  • – Demorat Party, etc.

So if “institutional racism” really did exist, whose fault would that be? I’ll leave you with that contemplative question.

An interesting kerfuffle that you may have missed occurred on the Hannity show of June 9th. On it, Professor Cornel West and civil rights attorney Leo Terrell have opposing views. Interesting point: Terrell, who used to upbraid Hannity constantly and loudly, sides with him now on riots, BLM and George Floyd.

This is America, on July 4th, 2020.

I wish I knew this man’s name. But listen.

And there’s the riveting truth of Candace Owens.

Leftists are also gleefully consuming their own, as many who once thought they could, can no longer pass the Advanced Leftist Purity Tests, or ALPTs.

From FoxBusiness.com:

North Face pulling ads from Facebook amid backlash over Trump ads

by Audrey Conklin, 6-19-20

The North Face on Friday said it would no longer be publishing advertisements on Facebook amid backlash over the social media giant’s policies.

The announcement came after groups in the “#StopHateforProfit” campaign, launched Wednesday, including Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Sleeping Giants, Color Of Change, Free Press and Common Sense, called on large advertisers to cut ties with Facebook.

“It is clear that Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, are no longer simply negligent, but in fact, complacent in the spread of misinformation, despite the irreversible damage to our democracy. Such actions will upend the integrity of our elections as we head into 2020,” NAACP CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

They called it “poor speech moderation.” I speak Leftist, so I’ll translate: you haven’t clamped down hard enough, Markie, on Conservative speech, you bastard.

And it’s not just North Face. It’s now a veritable plethora of businesses who accuse — this is the delicious point — Mark Zuckerberg of being in league with President Trump. Oh, the exquisite irony, the dripping schadenfreude. Facebook, insufficiently left for The Left.

Jimmy Kimmel, Mr Blackface, is gone.

Jimmy Kimmel announces summer leave amid blackface controversy

by Joe Concha, 6-19-20

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday announced he will be taking the summer off after facing criticism over wearing blackface in a recurring skit he performed while working on “The Man Show” on Comedy Central.

But wait; there’s more. Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post and Amazon? Are you certain?

Activists set up guillotine outside Jeff Bezos’ home, call for end to Amazon

6-29-20

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was targeted on Sunday by activists, who set up a guillotine outside his Washington DC home and called for an end to the “exploitation” of the company’s employees.

In front of the guillotine was a sign reading: “Support our poor communities not our wealthy men.”

Footage from the scene shows demonstrators outside the residence saying: “It is still exploitation, and when they become threatened, and we have no voice, the knives come out.”

Can black men be betrayers and not pass the Leftist Purity Test? Apparently so.

Terry Crews Faces Backlash … Again … for Black Lives Matters Tweet

6-30-20

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star Terry Crews is facing the ire of social media again on Tuesday, after sending out another controversial tweet about the Black Lives Matter movement.
“If you are a child of God, you are my brother and sister,” he wrote. “I have family of every race, creed and ideology.”

He then added, “We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter.”

And WCM (Woke Child Mob) Leftist camshafts were thrown all across the US — but mostly on the coasts, of course.

This is America on July 4th, 2020.

There is a clear indication that Leftist city governments don’t want cops doing their jobs. There are two types, generally, of law enforcement: proactive, and reactive. Reactive means: you call, the comes show up. Proactive means: the cops go out and search for crime. Sometimes they don’t wear uniforms. UH-OH. BAD.

Shootings surge in NYC amid disbanding of NYPD’s plainclothes anti-crime unit

Shootings are surging this week in New York City, with 28 incidents and 38 victims reported since Monday — the day the NYPD disbanded its plainclothes anti-crime unit, The Post learned on Friday.

By comparison, the same week last year there were only 12 shootings for the entire week.

“This is what the politicians wanted — no bail, nobody in Rikers, cops not arresting anyone,” one angry law enforcement source said Friday.

Simultaneously, from FrontPageMag.com:

Minnesota State Rep: Antifa and Muslim Groups Plan to ‘Police Minneapolis Under Muslim Rule’

by Robert Spencer, 6-24-20

It would have sounded farfetched just weeks ago. It doesn’t anymore.

As the city of Minneapolis moves to dismantle its police force, Minnesota state Rep. Steve Green on Tuesday stated the obvious that virtually everyone else has been tiptoeing around and pretending isn’t there: “What you’re looking at, in my humble opinion, is communism moving into Minneapolis and St. Paul.” And not just Communism, but the Leftist/Islamic alliance. Green asserted that Antifa and Muslim organizations plan to “police Minneapolis under Muslim rule.” Those who scoff at such a notion simply aren’t paying attention to recent developments.

The Minneapolis City Council voted two weeks ago to abolish the city’s police force. Its plans beyond that have so far been sketchy, but something is going to have to be put in place as an alternative to the police. The New York Times noted that “many have called for relying more on self-policing by the community, in the way attendees often do at events like music festivals, with the police stepping in only when a true emergency arises. Some cited as an example how, in the days after the killing of Mr. Floyd, teams made up of dozens of members of the American Indian Movement patrolled streets and directed traffic in the Little Earth housing community in Minneapolis.”

If members of the local community end up policing Minneapolis, what might that look like? Back in 2016, a series of Minneapolis Muslims in man-on-the-street interviews stated matter-of-factly that they preferred Islamic law over American law. We have seen Sharia patrols in Germany, Britain, and even New York City, where the Muslim Community Patrol (MCP) is decked out in uniforms that strong resemble New York Police Department uniforms, and drives cars carefully designed to look like NYPD cars, to enforce “fundamentals of the Sharia.”

Muslim leader Siraj Wahhaj explained what that meant: “The mosques need protection and the MCP cars can help stop people who were not following the rules and regulations of the sharia, doing what they’re not supposed to be doing, but still doing it.” According to a Muslim involved with the MCP, this would involve stopping “Muslim women being out after dark, Muslim men hanging out in the corners doing dope, Muslims drinking liquor,” and enforcing, “basically, the fundamentals of the Sharia.”

If such a community patrol is launched in Minneapolis, it is likely to focus on the same things, but not do anything about the fact that the 5th Congressional District in Minneapolis, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district, is the jihad terror recruitment capital of the United States. Stopping young Muslims from engaging in jihad activity is unlikely to be a high priority for a group that is dedicated to enforcing Sharia, since Sharia calls upon Muslims to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers.

The Sharia enforcers’ hard-Left allies in Antifa would have no problem with this. Islam historically has never had any difficulty coexisting with authoritarian governments; in fact, it is free republics that have never proved to be compatible with Islamic law. Consequently, Steve Green’s words don’t appear farfetched at all. The unholy alliance of Leftists and Islamic supremacists sees that its moment is now, and is grabbing all it can.

How likely is it that Minneapolis really could end up under Islamic rule, with the blessing and cooperation of the hard-Left? According to the Minnesota Reformer, another Minnesota state Representative, Mohamud Noor of Minneapolis, did not deny the truth of Green’s statements. Instead, when asked about them, he “said rather than talk about things that inflame people and create division, Minnesota needs to address the challenge before it.” And of course, talk of Antifa/Islamic rule in Minneapolis might “inflame people,” so keep quiet. Keep quiet, that is, if you oppose such an eventuality, not if you favor it. Said Noor: “Minnesota is awake. They understand the challenges; they have been hearing the challenges for far too long. And we can’t wait any longer.”

Steve Green may turn out to have been a prophetic voice far sooner than anyone expects. And if any free people who may still be in Minneapolis want to head this off, the time is now to “inflame people” – not to riot and destroy after the manner of the Left, but to stand up decisively now and stop the power-grab of these insidious totalitarian forces.

Now it’s also time to tear down anything associated with the positive aspects of law enforcement, because clearly cops are all racist — considering that whites are 40% of NYPD and “minorities” are now the majority. You racists.

Washington community honors officers with signs – Police Chief rips them down because it’s “divisive”

VANCOUVER, WA – Today, a huge membership of the Vancouver community came together to honor, support, and love on our police.

Today, the officers felt that love. They felt lifted up and appreciated in a way they haven’t felt in a very long time.

Today, the Vancouver Chief of police, Chief James McElvain, spat in all of their faces.

A few hours after I got home, my phone rang. My heart skipped a few beats in fear because it was an officer calling that I don’t talk to regularly, so of course my mind went straight to my husband, who was working.

Thank God, it was not about that. It definitely wasn’t good news, though.

The officer, whose voice was quivering, said that the Chief ordered everything that was put up by our families and community to be taken down.

Because it was divisive.

Divisive.

Chief McElvain decided today to follow in Clark County Sheriff Atkins’ pandering footsteps and ban the thin blue line from being displayed outside or inside the precincts, on cars, and on mourning bands. 

And another incident from PJMedia.com:

HOA Bans Police Chaplain’s Thin Blue Line Flag, Calling It a ‘White Lives Matter’ Symbol

by Stephen Green, 6-25-20

A Denver homeowners’ association has ordered a local police chaplain to remove the “thin blue line” flag from his property, even while allowing neighbors to fly similar flags for other first responders and the military.

The chaplain, who wishes to remain anonymous for sadly obvious reasons, has flown his Thin Blue Line flag since National Police Officers Day in May.

He told Fox News 31’s Deborah Takahara earlier this week, “I believe that’s why I’m being targeted — because I’m associated with them. I believe it’s just because it’s everything going on in the world right now, in this country.”

The notice from his HOA insisted that the well-known flag flown to show support for all police officers is actually a “white lives matter” symbol.

This is America, on July 4th, 2020.

We know the state of Colorado removed qualified immunity from its law enforcement officers. A GOP Senator, Mike Braun, is advocating the same thing.

Sen. Braun bill would change qualified immunity for police. Here’s what it would mean.

by Elizabeth dePompeii, 6-23-20

U.S. Sen. Mike Braun introduced on Tuesday a bill taking aim at qualified immunity, a controversial standard that protects police officers and other government officials from  being sued for alleged misconduct. 

Currently, qualified immunity can be used as a defense to avoid lawsuits so long as the accused’s behavior doesn’t violate existing and “clearly established” laws or constitutional rights.

Translated: what would another reasonable officer do in a similar situation? Are those actions out of bounds of the standard?

Braun, R-Ind., said the current interpretation of the standard is “overly broad” and “allows law enforcement in many of the high-profile excessive force and abuse of power cases to avoid civil suits.”

His bill would allow qualified immunity to be used as a defense only if the officer’s conduct is already protected by law or a previous court ruling.

Because, as GOP Senator Mike Braun is asserting here, there is no such thing as a “reasonable officer.”

It’s not just Mike Brain. It’s also my former Congressman from Kalifornia, Republican Tom McClintock.

Tom McClintock Supports Efforts To Get Rid Of Qualified Immunity For Cops

6-10-20

Rep. Tom McClintock is one of the rare Republicans in office who speaks for the conservatives in California. But this time he’s side with Congress’ liberals in an effort to overturn the “qualified immunity” that can protect police and other state and local officials from civil lawsuits.

Ah, Kalifornia — land of the fee, and the home of the slaves.

From LawOfficer.com:

Sheriff orders removal of thin blue line flag from all county equipment

6-24-20

CLARK COUNTY, Wash. – A local sheriff is taking action against a symbol that honors fallen officers and demonstrates appreciation for law enforcement—the thin blue line flag.

However, the meaning of the flag has been hijacked by anti-police groups who’ve associated it with hatred and bigotry.

The symbol is sometimes flown as a flag, attached as a sticker, or weaved into material for a variety of items.

Sadly, the thin blue line flag is now removed from anything associated with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. In a directive sent out late last week, Sheriff Chuck Atkins told all workers that fall under the Clark County Sheriff’s Office to remove all thin blue line materials from uniforms, cars, and office buildings, KPTV reported.

This is, of course, hand-in-hand with Vancouver PD Chief McElvain’s edict.

This is America, on July 4th, 2020.

Let’s not leave attorney generals out of the mix.

Dem AG: Letting America Burn Is the Path to Growth

by Josh Cristenson, 6-3-20

Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey (D.) on Tuesday refused to denounce the violent riots occurring nationwide, likening them to the purifying effects of a forest fire.

“Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow,” Healey said in a speech delivered to the Boston Chamber of Commerce.

Healey, who is also the co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, repeated her remarks in a tweet later the same day, adding that Americans need to “seize the opportunity” to rid the country of “institutionalized racism,” which she blamed for the violence.

Not to be outdone by anyone, Virginia decides it’s past due time to invite assaults on law enforcement officers, almost begging criminals to commit violence against them.

Virginia Democrats Want to Reduce Charges for Assaulting a Police Officer

by Jeremy Frankel, 6-30-20

There are currently 28 proposals from the Virginia Senate Democrat Caucus to reform law enforcement systems. One of which is something so egregious that it should put to bed, once and for all, the myth that the Left cares about law and order or about the police.

According to the Daily Wire, Virginia Senate Democrats want to reduce the charge of assault on a police officer to a simple misdemeanor offense. This would abolish the current law that states that assaulting a police officer is a Class 6 felony with a mandatory minimum of 6 months in prison.

Good luck recruiting new cops to your state, Governor Blackface.

From LawOfficer.com:

Louisville Police Ordered Under Threat of Suspension To Remove Protective Equipment

6-30-20

There may be no more evidence of weak and cowardly leadership than what has occurred in the Louisville (KY) Police Department.

Following a murder and numerous injuries due to an encampment in Jefferson Square Park, Louisville Metro Police Officers were directed to prevent more encampments and other unlawful behavior that would lead to additional dangerous conditions.

Officials made public statements that no overnight camping would be allowed in Jefferson Square Park and laws would be enforced to prohibit further violence and conflict in Louisville.

Louisville Police Officers stood waiting on Saturday to take necessary enforcement action and restore order if needed.

According to a statement by the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police, officers were ordered to remove protective equipment, up to and including ballistic-rated helmets and approach an unruly crowd with a “soft-approach.”

This order was preceded with the “threat of immediate suspension.”

This is America, on July 4th, 2020.

In New York, it’s official. $1 billion dollars to the NYPD. Gone.

New York City Lawmakers Approve $1 Billion Cut From NYPD Budget; Protesters Say It Still Falls Short

7-1-20

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – New York City lawmakers approved a more than $88 billion budget overnight.

The deal includes a $1 billion cut from the NYPD, but some protesters say it still falls short of their demands.

“I think they should have put in the hard work, which is the council should have come up with a different budget,” another protester said.

Protesters built a barricade outside City Hall, only to have it torn down by police, followed by several arrests. The demonstrators said the council only moved budget lines to different agencies, claiming it’s creative accounting, not real cuts.

“They didn’t do what the people needed,” one protester said.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said he stands with the protesters and was also disappointed, saying he is committed to “holding the mayor’s feet on the fire on this and continue to work for reform.”

“I wanted us to go deeper. I wanted us to take larger head count reductions. I wanted a true hiring freeze. I wanted us to cancel additional classes. But this is a budget process that involves the mayor, who would not budge on these items,” he continued.

The NYPD’s July class of more than 1,100 recruits is canceled, overtime will be reduced, and crossing guards, school safety and homeless outreach will be shifted out of the department to other agencies.

This is America, on July 4th, 2020.

You can’t leave Kalifornia out again. From KRON4.com:

Oakland Unified School District votes to eliminate its police department

by Gayle Ong

6-24-20

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — Oakland Board of Educators voted Wednesday to eliminate its police department.

A virtual meeting was held Wednesday night on whether the city’s school district would eliminate the Oakland schools police department.

“This is a historic moment, letting go of the issue of law enforcement that has oppressed our communities for centuries is critically important.”

The district wants OUSD police gone by the end of the year.

Right next to Oakland, Berkeley felt ignored.

Berkeley City Council passes a budget with $9.2 million cuts to police

by Rachel Swan, 7-1-20

Leaders in Berkeley passed a budget Wednesday that included a $9.2 million cut to the city’s Police Department, a sign of how swiftly the protests over George Floyd’s death have moved from streets and Twitter feeds into City Hall.

Mayor Jesse Arreguín proposed the cut, just as the Oakland City Council took steps to further slash its own police budget. The Oakland council had passed a budget last week that chopped law enforcement funding by $14.6 million, then council members decided Tuesday to amend the budget on July 21, after activists said the reduction wasn’t sufficient.

Enough? It’s never enough.

LA School Police Chief Resigns In Response To Deep Budget Cuts

7-1-20

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – The chief of police for the nation’s second-largest school district has resigned just one day after board officials voted to slash his department’s budget.

Los Angeles School Police Chief Todd Chamberlain tendered his resignation Wednesday. A Los Angeles Unified School District spokesperson confirmed the resignation.

Officials say more information on what they’re calling the “department leadership transition will be forthcoming.”

The Board of Education voted Tuesday night to slash the school police budget by $25 million, or roughly 35%.

Chamberlain released a statement that read, in part:

“In good conscience, and in fear for safety and well-being of those I serve, I cannot support modifications to my position, the organization and most importantly, the community (students, staff and families) that I believe will be detrimental and potentially life-threatening.”

This is America, on July 4th, 2020.

Studies have proven there is no systemic police racism–despite the propaganda by the American Media Maggots and politicians on both sides of the aisle — there is no proof of widespread racial bias.

In 2019, there were more than 10 MILLION arrests in the United States.

Of those 10,000,000+ arrests, 1,004 ended in the suspect being fatally shot (most were armed).

Of the 1,004 who were fatally shot, 41 were unarmed.

Of the 41 unarmed suspects who were shot, 9 were black, 19 were white and the other 13 were Hispanic, Asian, etc.

Meanwhile, in 2019, 89 police officers were shot and killed in the line of duty.

The whole narrative of systemic racism?

The data doesn’t support the claim, and several thorough studies don’t support that claim.

I haven’t seen one shred of evidence yet that the white police officer who had his knee on George Floyd’s neck or that the other 3 non-white officers who helped to hold Floyd down acted out of racism.

George Floyd was killed by these officers, but it appears to be an excessive use of force, abuse of power, and a callous disregard for Floyd’s health. And even that investigation hasn’t concluded.

No one really needs to defund the police. Demorats and Leftists are actively working to make it the most untenable job in America, whereby no intelligent person would ever want to do it. That is their goal. The reverse may soon be true: police will defund themselves by choosing not to appear for work, to retire early, or resign.

I say this to cops today:

None of us took this job for kudos, praises, pats on the back or hugs. We predominantly didn’t get it. Nor did we expect it.

What we did expect is to be treated like adults, allowed to do our jobs, supported when we were correct and smacked when we weren’t. We expected to support the social construct, safeguard lives and property, use discretion, document crimes, arrest criminals, and protect our communities.

That social construct has since dissolved. Law enforcement officers are now one bad call away from having their lives ruined, their families ruined, or prosecuted for doing what 99% of all other officers would have done in a similar situation.

Cops are human beings and, as such, certainly make mistakes.

But when the cards are stacked so distinctly against you, to the point where the department, the community, the media, mayors and governors don’t want you to do your jobs, why are you in law enforcement anyway?

NYPD disbanded their plainclothes unit. They proactively policed. Local and national cops have been told for so long that they “over-police,” they have mostly decided to push the button to acknowledge each call as dispatched, and that’s it.

No self-initiated activity, no proactive policing.

We know where that’s gotten this nation. Look at Chicago. Look at Baltimore. Look at Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, New York. Murders are up, property crimes have skyrocketed, overall crime is rising.

There comes a time in a given profession where, when people don’t want you to do that job and, further, you’re targeted for violence, poisoning, assassination and prosecution for defending yourself — well, maybe it’s time to find a new profession.

It’s not your duty to have your life destroyed and that of your family in order to make a paycheck. There are so many others to choose.

The job is tough enough and eats more than a sufficient number of souls under ideal conditions. Add these additional current stressors and you have a recipe for disaster. People aren’t built to work 20 or 40 years under conditions like these.

Get out while you still can. Because one of BZ’s Axioms, “commit less crime, get less shot,” is resonating with very few people today.

It’s pretty simple. If you’ve decided not to support the police — they can easily decide not to support you.

This is America — on July 4th, 2020.

Let us also recognize this:

Democrats are the ENEMY of the United States.

They are the ENEMY, every bit as much as China — and they are more insidious, because they are dissolving America from within due to their hatred of everything American.

Democrats hate the founding fathers. They hate the US Constitution. It doesn’t provide them enough power. It exists to hinder government, not grow it. Your rights come from God, not government. They despise that foundational concept. They want you to revere government, to bow and scrape before government.

To kneel before government.

They hate the First Amendment. They don’t embrace free speech. They want normal people muzzled, you and me, for speaking our minds. Their social media giants do it for them. If they had the power, they’d imprison you for speech. That’s coming.

If they could get away with it, they would burn physical books. At this point they don’t have to. Yet. Because if they wish to eradicate history one day, they could do it with the flip of a switch — and everything you “own” in the cloud is gone. Fiction they don’t like. History they don’t like. Movies they don’t like. It’s happening already with Netflix.

If you think you “own” content, you own nothing. If It’s digital, it’s air. It’s nothing. Books are a guarantee that immure history and thoughts in the physical world. And they’re working on that.

De Blasio doesn’t believe you should own property. Communists don’t believe in the concept of private property. All property belongs to the State. YOU belong to the state.

Democrats hate the Second Amendment. It is the right that stops them from immediately removing your free speech wholesale, which is their goal. Only one speech. Theirs. Only some thoughts. Theirs. Firearms protect your speech and your family and your property.

Democrats hate your free speech. Democrats hate your family. They hate mothers and fathers together in a family. They hate children. They don’t want them born. Many despise the human race. And they certainly hate your private property and its very concept.

They hate your firearms and if they had the power, they would break into your home and forcibly take them. Altogether too many Americans would surrender them, and altogether too many law enforcement officers would obey the order to do so. Even one officer doing so is too many.

They hate your firearms. But they still fear your firearms. Good. Government should fear the people. People should not fear their government.
Democrats exist to remove your freedoms and liberties — occasionally deigning to sell them back to you at a terrible price.

Think: when was the last time a Democrat expanded your freedom or liberty? Reduced government? Respected your rights instead of trampling on them?

There is a lesson to be learned from President Trump. If government, in concert with the media — another issue altogether — could array itself against a presidential nominee, a president-elect, and a sitting president, essentially a soft coup, then that government could crush you in an instant and wouldn’t give two thoughts about it.

NEVER kneel before the mob, never kneel before Democrats, never appease them, never capitulate, never prostrate yourself. Because they will take and take, and can truly never be appeased.

I repeat: Democrats are the ENEMY. There is no shielding this truth any more. No trying to sugarcoat it or downplay it. Democrats are, in no uncertain terms, the enemy.

They despise you, me, normal people, actual Americans. I couldn’t care less about anyone’s “paint job.” This isn’t about color. It’s about holding our country, “a Republic if we can keep it.”

It’s about our liberties, our rights, our freedoms, the very things that so many others are willing to put their lives on the line to enjoy. If this country is so inherently evil, so racist, so misogynistic, why would people care or want to live here?

We must realize that the very things people around the planet are fleeing, Democrats are working for now. Socialism. Communism.Massive, impersonal governments who exist to remove the rights of people and simultaneously acquire more power, more control, more personal wealth for themselves.

NEVER kneel for the mob. NEVER kneel before Democrats. Never attempt to appease them, capitulate to them, acquiesce to them.

We’re seeing the results in Seattle today. Anarchy, chaos, the repression of people, crimes against people. the subjugation of taxpayers. destruction of property.

You and I have been thinking this for some time, but I’m writing and saying it now.

Democrats are the ENEMY.

There can be no bipartisanship or compromise with those persons who wish to completely destroy this country.

Don’t listen to me American Media Maggots as November nears. They want you disillusioned. They want you depressed. They want you to stay away from the polls and from casting your ballots.

They will tell you that President Trump is so far ahead that your vote is not necessary.

Or they will tell you that he is so far behind that your vote is immaterial.

Don’t believe the American Media Maggots. Because so-called “modern journalism” is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Demorats.

One of those facts being that, in 1964, on the floor of the US Senate, Demorats held the longest filibuster in the history of the United States, 75 days. All trying to prevent one thing: the Civil Rights Act.

In summary, we know the election in November is binary. We’re voting for Trump. . .

. . .or we’re voting for what may LOOK like Joe Biden, but will truly instead be his handlers or whomever is chosen to run as Biden’s VP. THAT will be the Demorat Evil pulling the strings in the White House’s Oval Office.

This translates to voting for Trump — or voting for the destruction of what civilization exists in the United States and, by dint of that, the destruction of, essentially, any kind of Western Civilization.

We’re voting for creativity vs demolition. We’re voting for freedom vs Socialism — which any clear thinking person knows leads to Communism.

Because the ultimate goal isn’t any kind of “police reformation.” One billion dollars cut from the NYPD budget? Not enough. Elimination of the Minneapolis Police Department? Not enough. Defunding any number of police departments across the country? Not enough. Removing any protections, figuratively and literally, law enforcement has? Not enough.

Police “reformation”? That’s just a temporary excuse. George Floyd was a tool, long used and, now, long discarded. By this time next year — actually, in perhaps six months or less — no one will remember his name. No one will care.

Just as no one cares about all the black lives lost in Chicago. Or in Seattle, in CHAZ-CHOP, with Horace Anderson. Or New York. Or Atlanta. Any Urban Rat Cage where the greatest mortal enemy of black males are other black males. Not cops.

You’d think this binary decision would mean that the Republicans, knowing this, are stalwart supporters of President Trump, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

The Republicans continue with their history of spineless cowardice, conveniently leaving a puddle of yellow piss behind, wherever they’ve been. If they’re walking, look for soiled pants, pantsuits or squishy sounds from an assorted collection of shoes, both male and female.

Oh, there are a few who still have courage and guts. Off the top of my head, Tom Cotton and Dan Crenshaw. But my fetid little brain is tasked with thinking of any more — though I’m sure there are a few.

The rest need to be dumped and changed faster than a baby with crab cake diarrhea.

Altogether too many Republicans, even my once-admired Tom McClintock, are taking pandering and cowardice to new heights — or perhaps depths. They are frightened NOT OF YOU, REPUBLICANS. Not of you voting them out.

They are frightened of the MOB. They are frightened that the mob will track them down. Find their house. Harass their family. Locate the schools of their kids. Camp outside their home. Kill their dog. Maybe even target them for death.

You won’t. Republican voters won’t. They don’t fear you.

Here’s what these capitulists don’t realize: when you meet the insanely unhinged halfway, in an attempt to placate, capitulate, subsume, pander or appease, it makes you dangerously insane too.

Because that means you lack the capability to see and understand that these insane lunatics will not be appeased. They cannot be appeased. Logic, facts, all completely immaterial.

Lengthy history has illustrated this very clearly, as well as recent history. But you know most Americans — and certainly the bulk of politicians — they are riddled with what I term Historical Alzheimers.

There is a phrase I heard recently that sums it all up. The Republicans — sadly, the apparent bulk of Americans — don’t understand that unless you’re willing to surrender EVERYTHING — you’d better surrender NOTHING.

And guess what? The Demorats, Leftists, American Media Maggots, anarchists, Antifa, BLM, Socialists and Communists are COUNTING ON IT.

Two traitorous and betraying Republican Senators have called for the removal of Columbus Day or Columbus. Even Joe Biden hasn’t. So apparently THEY are more in tune with Leftists than Biden? Two Republicans have called for the removal of qualified immunity for law enforcement — Mike Braun and Tom McClintock. Joe Biden hasn’t. So what’s going on?

Republicans are also silent. Dangerously and deathly silent. They are quaking with fear under their desks, in the fetal position.

They are allowing America to be taking down one statue, one landmark, one bit of freedom at a time, along with wholesale chunks of free speech, the First Amendment, the Second Amendment and more.

Their silence only enlivens, supports, buttresses, emboldens and energizes the Demorats, Leftists, American Media Maggots, anarchists, Antifa, BLM, Socialists and Communists.

Altogether too many Republicans have joined hands and locked lips with the enemy.

And make no mistake, Demorats are the enemy. The ENEMY.

Of everything American.

This is America on July 4th, 2020.

It’s a Republic. Can we keep it?

I hope what I write now is true.

Dear Government:

We The People have entrusted the preservation of our history, freedom and liberty with you.

You are now on notice: if you’re disinterested in preserving these things, WE will do it FOR you. Some may not care for our methods. But we will NOT relinquish the US.

Pastor Martin Niemoller already reminded us.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out —
because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out —
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me —
and there was no one left to speak for me.

Wake up America.

We can save this country.

We have all the requisite training, education and experience to do it. We have the number of people to do it. We have the infrastructure to save her and pull her back.

But the biggest question remains: do we have the WILL?

We’ll find out on November 4th, won’t we?

And so:

This is America — on July 4th, 2020.

BZ

 

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Flynn proves: yes, it’s a Soft Coup

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I have said and written since January of 2017 — three long years — that what we are witnessing in the United States of America is a Soft Coup against a presidential nominee, a president-elect, and a sitting president.

I was writing and saying that, again, years before it became “cool” to do so. Because I had insight to laws violated and, well, I also have at my disposal a grasp of history, facts, logic, rationality, proportion, tradition, context, intent and common sense.

And because those things — power, mighty applications of power, propaganda and weight — can be applied to one president by whom the forces of the Deep State disagree, well, it can thusly be easily applied to another president of a different party by similarly-arrayed forces.

But that’s immaterial with the LDAMM: Leftists, Demorats and American Media Maggots.

With a number of caveats, of course, including the American Media Maggot factor. Because the AMM will never side with Republicans or Conservatives, not unless and until the AMM are totally eradicated and reinvented. Which may, in time, occur. We certainly know they are moribund.

The AMM hate to be called Fake News, except they continue to go out of their way to prove, each and every week, that they are indeed Fake News.

NBC admits Chuck Todd’s ‘Meet the Press’ deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn

by Greg Re, 5-11-20

NBC News’ Chuck Todd aired a deceptively edited clip of Attorney General Bill Barr discussing the Michael Flynn case during his “Meet the Press” broadcast on Sunday, prompting the network to concede the mistake hours later — but there is still no word on whether Todd will apologize on-air.

Asked by CBS News’ Catherine Herridge how history would judge the DOJ’s decision to move to dismiss the Flynn case, Barr initially responded, laughing: “Well, history is written by the winners, so it largely depends on who’s writing the history.”

After the brief clip aired, Todd remarked that he was “struck by the cynicism of the answer — it’s a correct answer, but he’s the attorney general. He didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this was a political job.”

In the full clip, which the NBC show did not air, Barr immediately went on to state explicitly that, in fact, he felt the Flynn decision upheld the rule of law.

“I think a fair history would say it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law,” Barr said. “It upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.”

Here’s how the full cut went, with Catherine Herridge.

That was NBC’s American Media Maggot hit job on William Barr — because he had the guts to do his job.

This all stemmed, of course, when the Department of Justice decided to drop charges against General Michael Flynn on May   .

But even before that, documents were unsealed on April 30th, indicating the collusion really occurred with the FBI regarding General Flynn.

Gregg Jarrett: FBI’s actions in Michael Flynn case should send a chill down your spine

by Julia Musto

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Thursday that explosive new internal FBI documents unsealed Wednesday evening in the government’s case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn are the most “outrageous” and “unethical” actions by government officials that he has seen in 40 years of practicing law.

In an interview on “Fox & Friends” with hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade, Jarrett explained the findings.

“You know, I thought this is the most outrageous, unethical, dishonest, and corrupt act I have ever seen. And, I have been a lawyer for 40 years. I have never seen such misbehavior by government officials,” he remarked.

You can read the documents here.

Rep Jim Jordan told us what he thought the released documents indicated.

And then former Rep Trey Gowdy weighed in on same.

But what did fired former FBI Director Jimmy “The Leak” Comey say, in 2019, about why he sent FBI agents to the White House? Jimmy reveals: it was a purposeful Perjury Trap. And he did it because he could. He thinks it’s amusing.

Never before have I seen such a sanctimonious, hypocritical, entitled, arrogant, self-serving, preening, alleged law enforcement officer in my life. He is right is better, more sacrosanct and devout than you will ever be.

From RedState.com:

New Docs Tie Obama in to Effort Against Flynn, Biden Also in Room

by Nick Arama, 5-7-20

You can make the judgment call here, but this does not look good for former President Barack Obama.

According to the newly released documents from the Department of Justice, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates learned about the effort against Gen. Michael Flynn from Obama himself.

From Townhall:

“Yates first learned of the December 2016 calls between [LTG Michael] Flynn and [Russian Ambassador to the United States, Sergey] Kislyak on January 5, 2017, while in the Oval Office. Yates, along with then FBI-Director James Comey, then-CIA Director John Brennan, and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, were at the White House to brief members of the Obama Administration on the classified Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Activities in Recent U.S Elections. President Obama was joined by his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, and others from the National Security Council,” the document states.

“After the briefing, Obama dismissed the group but asked Yates and Comey to stay behind. Obama started by saying he had ‘learned of the information about Flynn’ and his conversation with Kislyak about sanctions. Obama specified he did not want any additional information on the matter, but was seeking information on whether the White House should be treating Flynn any differently, given the information. At that point, Yates had no idea what the President was talking about, but figured it out based on the conversation. Yates recalled Comey mentioning the Logan Act, but can’t recall if he specified there was an ‘investigation,’” it continues.

But how can you discover information if you fail — as the American Media Maggots have purposely failed to do — to even ask the basic question:

And even after all this time, has anyone asked Obama or Biden: what did you know and when did you know it?

John Solomon — an excellent journalist — writes at Just The News:

Schiff releases transcripts undercutting Dem claims of Russia collusion proof

by John Solomon, 5-7-20

FBI officials admit they knew Papadopoulos had little contact with Russians but opened probe anyways. DNC-connected lawyer reveals CIA contact.

The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released thousands of pages of declassified interview transcripts from the Russia investigation that show that more than a year into the probe senior FBI and intelligence officials could offer no specific proof of collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow and instead offered rambling explanations of why the probe had persisted.

The testimony of fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe typified the testimony that was given back in 2017 to the committee, then under the leadership of Rep. Devin Nunes.

McCabe admitted at one point that while the FBI opened up the entire Crossfire Hurricane investigation based on a tip from Australia that George Papadopoulos may have been told Russia possessed emails of Hillary Clinton, the bureau suspected the former Trump campaign adviser had little or no contact with Moscow.

You can see for yourself. Go here for Russia Investigation Transcripts and Documents.

So agents pivoted instead to another adviser, Carter Page, who had been the focus of Christopher Steele’s now-discredited dossier, he explained.

“Papadopoulos’ comment didn’t particularly indicate that he was the person that had had — that was interacting with the Russians,” McCabe answered when asked by lawmakers why a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant request in October 2016 focused only on Page and not the man the FBI originally predicated the Trump investigation upon.

It was one of the few extraordinary admissions from McCabe: The FBI opened up an entire counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign on a figure agents did not believe was having contact with Moscow.

But wait; it’s all a Nothing Burger that Schiff had to cover up. Schiff said this:

In releasing the transcripts Thursday, the current Democratic House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff claimed they provided proof of nefarious connections between Russians and Trump associates. “The transcripts released today richly detail evidence of the Trump campaign’s efforts to invite, make use of, and cover up Russia’s help in the 2016 presidential election,” he alleged.

But this was actually in the documents.

JAMES CLAPPER:

In fact, witnesses were repeatedly pressed to offer specific evidence of a conspiracy between Trump and Russia and could offer none, saying it was either too preliminary or they did not have any. 

“I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told lawmakers. “That’s not to say that there weren’t concerns about the evidence we were seeing, anecdotal evidence.

“But I do not recall any instance where I had direct evidence,” he added  

LORETTA LYNCH:

Former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified that by the time she left office on Jan. 20, 2017 with the case more than six months old, she was unaware of any direct evidence of collusion.

“I don’t recall anything being briefed up to me, and it’s just my recollection at this point is not,” she said. She added that what officials had was mostly fears Russia might be working with Trump.

“Certainly the information that was given in [redacted] was concerning to me and indicated that there was a goal to have coordinated activity,” she said. 

SALLY YATES:

Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who worked for both Obama and Trump, also acknowledged there had been no determination of any conspiracy to collude before she was fired. Her winding answer was typical of many of the witnesses.

“I think you need to learn — if you want to get to the bottom line answer of was there collusion, conspiracy or coordination — if I got the three Cs right — then you also need to learn about who had contact, because you can’t get to that collusion — the other — the three Cs there, until you figure out who’s having contact with who,” she said.

Pressed to be more specific, Yates conceded there was no finding. “I don’t believe anybody had reached a conclusion yet as to whether there was a nefarious alliance … with the Russians. We were at the fact-gathering stage here, not the conclusion stage.”

MARY McCORD:

Mary McCord, the former assistant attorney general for national security, also testified that by the time she left the department a year into the probe there was no evidence that anyone from the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia to hack DNC or Clinton campaign officials.

“I can’t recall if there was information, any information or evidence at the time I left about conspiring to take part in the actual intrusion,” she said.

ANDREW McCABE:

“What is the most damning or important piece of evidence in the dossier that you now know is true?” McCabe was asked during his December 2017 interview.

“Well, as I tried to explain before, there is a lot of information in the Steele reporting. We have not been able to prove the accuracy of all the information,” he answered.

Pressed further to confirm that he did not know if Christopher Steele’s dossier was true, McCabe said, “That’s correct.”

BEN RHODES:

When asked under oath by House investigators if he had any evidence of coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, Rhodes said he did not.

“I wouldn’t have received any information on any criminal or counterintelligence investigations into what the Trump campaign was doing, so I would not have seen that information,” Rhodes told investigators.

Pressed again on the topic, he continued, “I saw indications of potential coordination, but I did not see, you know, the specific evidence of the actions of the Trump campaign.”

SAMANTHA POWER:

Samantha Power, former US ambassador to the United Nations, has publicly accused Trump of catering to Russian President Vladimir Putin to compensate him for interfering in the 2016 election.

“Every day @realDonaldTrump finds new ways to compensate Vladimir Putin for his election interference. And every day Putin gains additional incentive to interfere again on Trump’s behalf in 2020,” she wrote on Twitter in November of last year.

But when speaking under oath to House investigators, she sang a different tune.

Asked whether she had seen evidence of Russian interference, she said, “I am not in possession of anything—I am not in possession and didn’t read or absorb information that came from out of the intelligence community.”

SUSAN RICE:

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice told ABC’s “This Week” in July 2018 that questioning if President Trump was compromised by the Russians was “legitimate” because Putin was benefitting by the commander in chief’s policy decisions.

“What his motivations are I think is a legitimate question … the policies that this president has pursued globally have served Vladimir Putin’s interests,” she said at the time.

Less than a year earlier, however, Rice told House investigators that she hadn’t seen evidence proving then-candidate Trump coordinated or colluded with Russia to take the 2016 election.

“I don’t recall intelligence that I would consider evidence to that effect that I saw prior…to my departure,” she said when being questioned by former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC).

The American Media Maggots also did their jobs on behalf of Russia — as you knew they would.

From TheFederalist.com:

Obama, Biden Oval Office Meeting On January 5 Was Key To Entire Anti-Trump Operation

by Mollie Hemingway, 5-8-20

Susan Rice’s bizarre Inauguration Day email about that meeting helps explain the campaign of leaks, lies, and obstruction that followed.

Information released in the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case it brought against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn confirms the significance of a January 5, 2017, meeting at the Obama White House. It was at this meeting that Obama gave guidance to key officials who would be tasked with protecting his administration’s utilization of secretly funded Clinton campaign research, which alleged Trump was involved in a treasonous plot to collude with Russia, from being discovered or stopped by the incoming administration.

“President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia,” National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote in an unusual email to herself about the meeting that was also attended by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, and Vice President Joe Biden.

Remember that convoluted email?

A clearer picture is emerging of the drastic steps that were taken to accomplish Obama’s goal in the following weeks and months. Shortly thereafter, high-level operatives began intensely leaking selective information supporting a supposed Russia-Trump conspiracy theory, the incoming National Security Advisor was ambushed, and the incoming Attorney General was forced to recuse himself from oversight of investigations of President Trump. At each major point in the operation, explosive media leaks were a key strategy in the operation to take down Trump.

Not only was information on Russia not fully shared with the incoming Trump team, as Obama directs, the leaks and ambushes made the transition chaotic, scared quality individuals away from working in the administration, made effective governance almost impossible, and materially damaged national security. When Comey was finally fired on May 9, in part for his duplicitousness regarding his handling of the Russia collusion theory, he orchestrated the launch of a Special Counsel probe that continued his efforts for another two years. That probe ended with Mueller finding no evidence of any American colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election, much less Trump or anyone connected to him.

Read the rest of the article. It goes step-by-step in a clear timeline delineating everything.

Listen now to Adam Schiff. Psychologists term this kind of thing “projection.”

One of the biggest questions, of course, is this: who will fold first? Who will try to cut a deal with the DOJ first? Because whoever makes that decision will get the cushion deal and the rest will be out in the cold.

Here is Obama’s former DNI, Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, throwing Barack Hussein Obama under the bus. Do you enjoy hot kitchens much, JC?

You know; the same James Clapper who lied before Congress in 2013.

The case against General Flynn was dropped by the Department of Justice on Thursday of last week. Here is Politico’s take — and please note the biased stance.

DOJ drops criminal case against Michael Flynn

by Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, 5-7-20

The move comes after the president and his allies stepped up their assault on the legal case against the former national security adviser.

The Justice Department has abandoned its prosecution of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, throwing in the towel on one of the most prominent cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.

The move represents a remarkable reversal two and half years after Flynn initially pleaded guilty to the FBI about his dealings with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. In that time, the case has taken a number of dramatic turns: Flynn went from the precipice of being sentenced in 2018, to abruptly switching legal teams in 2019, to trying to withdraw his guilty plea in 2020. Flynn’s attempt to take back his plea led Attorney General William Barr in January to assign a federal prosecutor to review the case.

It was that review that led to the move on Thursday to dismiss the case altogether. Department officials, including Barr, concluded in light of recently disclosed evidence that the FBI’s questioning of Flynn just four days after Trump’s inauguration lacked a proper investigative basis. Flynn admitted in front of two federal judges that he intentionally lied during that interview about his dealings with the Russian ambassador, but the retired U.S. Army lieutenant general formally retreated from those admissions in January.

“A review of the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information, indicates that Mr. Flynn’s statements were never ‘material’ to any FBI investigation,” read the motion filed Thursday seeking to dismiss the criminal prosecution.

This was a Mark I, Model I “Perjury Trap” plain and simple, because I’ve seen them, I’ve worked them. Director Comey admitted to it, plainly and clearly. It was a fishing expedition.

For what? Russia “collusion”? You want to talk about Machiavellian? How’s this for convoluted? The famed Susan Rice “cover your ass” email at the end of the Obama regime.

Try to follow. The Obama Regime and Susan Rice believed General Flynn had to be Putin’s Poodle because he was — correctly, as certainly is confirmed now — emphasizing the threat and danger China is to the United States, whilst also indicating that Russia was — and is — the world stage “has been.”

Thusly proving that General Flynn was a Russian stooge and required targeting.

But mostly because Flynn was a clear threat. For one, he planned to revamp pretty much all seventeen intelligence agencies and, to them, that was a true existential threat. Jobs could be lost! Power could be lost! Control could be lost!

The bastard’s gotta go, the Obama Administration agreed.

For a moment, let’s go back to 2017 and the truthful Marie Harf, Obama devotee extraordinaire.

Let’s also go back to 2018 for this article from the WashingtonExaminer.com:

Memo: FBI recommended Michael Flynn not have lawyer present during interview, did not warn of false statement consequences

by Byron York, 12-11-18

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who arranged the bureau’s interview with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 — the interview that ultimately led to Flynn’s guilty plea on one count of making false statements — suggested Flynn not have a lawyer present at the session, according to newly-filed court documents. In addition, FBI officials, along with the two agents who interviewed Flynn, decided specifically not to warn him that there would be penalties for making false statements because the agents wanted to ensure that Flynn was “relaxed” during the session.

The new information, drawn from McCabe’s account of events plus the FBI agents’ writeup of the interview — the so-called 302 report — is contained in a sentencing memo filed Tuesday by Flynn’s defense team.

Citing McCabe’s account, the sentencing memo says that shortly after noon on Jan. 24 — the fourth day of the new Trump administration — McCabe called Flynn on a secure phone in Flynn’s West Wing office. The two men discussed business briefly and then McCabe said that he “felt that we needed to have two of our agents sit down” with Flynn to discuss Flynn’s talks with Russian officials during the presidential transition.

McCabe, by his own account, urged Flynn to talk to the agents alone, without a lawyer present. “I explained that I thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a conversation between [Flynn] and the agents only,” McCabe wrote. “I further stated that if LTG Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like the White House counsel for instance, that I would need to involve the Department of Justice. [Flynn] stated that this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with the agents without any additional participants.”

Can anyone say “Perjury Trap” again? Hands? Bueller?

Chief conspirator himself, Barack Hussein Obama, had to weigh in on the DOJ dropping the Flynn investigation. Ever notice how Obama isn’t the so-called incredibly brilliant orator when a TelePrompter isn’t around?

Why does Barack Hussein Obama care? His presidential ship has sailed. That’s yesterday’s news. Unless he somehow fears that orange really is the new blue.

And speaking of Obama, why doesn’t he want to let us see his archives? I thought — no, wait, I know — Obama said his was going to be the most transparent presidential administration in the history of history.

Obama Sends Private Letter to National Archives Claiming ‘Confidentiality’ To Not Release Biden-Ukraine Docs

by Gregg Jarrett, 5-10-20

What exactly is Obama concerned with in regard to the “confidentiality interests that all presidents have sought to protect?”

Former President Barack Obama has inserted himself into the Russia, Ukraine fiasco; arguably this was not the first time. While Democrats have been denying and protecting their guilt in creating and advancing the Russia Hoax, there is evidence that suggests President Obama likely was aware of the probe. Fox News has obtained a letter from the office of former President Barack Obama to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which manages presidential records.

Why would Obama, four years after leaving office, suddenly get involved? The letter to the National Archives was privately sent in March. Arguably they did not want Fox News to obtain a copy. Nonetheless, the letter bashes Senate Republicans and their investigation of Hunter Biden’s dealings with Ukraine. Hunter, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, joined the Ukraine company during the Obama administration. Very intriguing.

Obama’s letter to the NARA is a response to Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson having requested the Obama administration records on Ukraine-related meetings, placed on November 21, 2019. Obama’s letter claims the senators’ inquiry is an effort “to shift the blame for Russian interference in the 2016 election to Ukraine.”

In retrospect, it appear the Obama Administration was in fact one of the most opaque administrations.

So depending upon the prevailing political prairie winds, the Leftists and American Media Maggots will always align with, alternately — whenever it suits their purposes of working against President Trump in any fashion — Russia, China, or the loving Nazi George Soros.

While we’re here, let’s remind ourselves of what was said between Hillary Clinton and James Comey in 2016.

And let’s review how I knew James Comey was lying back in 2016, and couldn’t be trusted or believed from that point forward. As I wrote in early 2017:

It is crystal clear from the evidence released by the FBI after the first investigation that the former Secretary of State used a private email server to transmit national security information rather than safeguard such information, as required by law, and that she subsequently made statements contrary to the facts as we continue to learn.

Second, the real actor in this Theater of the Absurd is the Justice Department’s decision to commence an investigation that was a sham from the very beginning. After all, it was the Justice Department that failed to convene a grand jury, issue search warrants for computers, place witnesses under oath and appoint a special prosecutor who could operate free from conflicts of interest. Hey, just like Robert Mueller, right?

Then FBI Director James Comey “cleared” Hillary Clinton of all wrongdoing on July 5th of last year.

Comey admits that Clinton lied.  But here is the difference (that we won’t know precisely because there was no oath and no recording).

You can lie publicly all you want, if people are sufficiently stupid to believe it — like much of the electorate and the American Media Maggots are doltish enough.  But you should not lie to the FBI.  My guess is that Hillary Clinton came relatively clean in 3.5 hours.  And that is why I believe she was not placed under oath and the interview was not recorded.  Things like that make it easier to dispute later when politically necessary.

But James Comey outed himself to Jason Chaffetz:

Chaffetz then asked whether it was that he was just not able to prosecute it or that Clinton broke the law.

“Well, I don’t want to give an overly lawyerly answer,” Comey said. “The question I always look at is there evidence that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that somebody engaged in conduct that violated a criminal statute, and my judgment here is there is not. “

And this is how James Comey attempts to rationalize his decision.  He states he does not believe his case established guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

NEWSFLASH: It is not UP to YOU, Director Comey, to assemble a case that yields a determination of “beyond a reasonable doubt.”  That threshold is up to the DOJ or more pointedly a Grand Jury, not you or your organization.  All you need to compile a case for submission is “probable cause.”  That’s what real cops and real DAs in America do. Their jobs.  They stay in their lanes and do their jobs.

As I have said time and again, there are two kinds of crimes as written by statute: those of general intent and those of specific intent. Comey stated that HRC had to have possessed a very specific intent to commit her crimes. EXCEPT that the US codes applicable are not those of specific intent because they do not include the phrase “with the intent to.”

That is how a crime of specific intent is crafted. It is stated.

Even more disturbing: Attorney General Lynch did not recuse herself from the final decision on whether to prosecute the case — nor did she give that decision to a career prosecutor at the Department of Justice. She instead prejudged the case by supposedly blindly accepting the FBI’s recommendation.

“[AG Lynch] said…she would accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director made…” –NYTimes July 1, 2016

Of course she would. The fix was in. And Comey was predestined to take whatever fall occurred, not her. After all, he is white and male; she is black and female.

Here, Maria Bartiromo speaks with Devin Nunes about the situation.

Now we’re discovering that, of course, Barack Hussein Obama knew what was going on with Flynn — but Joe Biden knew as well. From FoxNews.com:

Obama knew details of wiretapped Flynn phone calls, surprising top DOJ official in meeting with Biden, declassified docs show

by Gregg Re, 5-7-20

President Obama was aware of the details of then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn’s intercepted December 2016 phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, apparently surprising then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, according to documents released Thursday as exhibits to the government’s motion to dismiss the Flynn case.

Obama’s unexpectedly intimate knowledge of the details of Flynn’s calls, which the FBI acknowledged at the time were not criminal or even improper, raised eyebrows because of his own history with Flynn — and because top FBI officials secretly discussed whether their goal was to “get [Flynn] fired” when they interviewed him in the White House on January 24, 2017.

Obama personally had warned the Trump administration against hiring Flynn, and made clear he was “not a fan,” according to multiple officials. Obama had fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014; Obama cited insubordination, while Flynn asserted he was pushed out for his aggressive stance on combating lslamic extremism.

Obama knew what was going on. So did Joe Biden. No one can possibly think that Barack Hussein Obama was either a stupid or an uninformed individual in the Oval Office. And particularly when dealing with issues of these importance.

So it’s official: we have a name. ObamaGate. Jesse Watters talks about same.

And listen how the LDAMM, the Leftists, Demorats by way of the American Media Maggot Brian Stelter, want it both ways. Flynn is just a smoke screen for avoiding Wuhan-19 deaths, which is essentially an overblown flu targeting the elderly while — in the meantime — the nation spent almost four straight years being put through the wringer of the constant whining and keening of little officious pricks like George Costanza on CNN.

General Flynn’s lawyer weighs in, from the New York Post:

Flynn’s lawyer accuses Obama of framing the ex-national security adviser

by Mark Moore, 5-10-20

The lead attorney for former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Sunday accused former President Barack Obama, other top administration officials and the FBI of setting up her client.

Sidney Powell on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” cited the revelation in recently released-documents that FBI agents didn’t tell Fynn he was under investigation or that lying to them would be a federal crime.

“These agents specifically schemed and planned with each other how to not tip him off, that he was even the person being investigated,” she said.

“So they kept him relaxed and unguarded deliberately as part of their effort to set him up and frame him.”

“The whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the FBI, [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper, [Former CIA Director John] Brennan, and in the Oval Office meeting that day with President Obama,” Powell said.

And finally, when you’ve lost New York media, you know things aren’t going well for you. This, just today, from the New York Post:

It looks like President Obama ordered up phony RussiaGate scandal

by The Post Editorial Board

RussiaGate is now a complete dead letter — but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his successor?

It’s now clear the Obama-Comey FBI and Justice Department never had anything more substantial than the laughable fiction of the Steele dossier to justify the “counterintelligence” investigation of the Trump campaign. Yet incessant leaks from that supposedly confidential probe wound up consuming the Trump administration’s first months in office — followed by the Bob Mueller-led special counsel investigation that proved nearly the “total witch hunt” that President Trump dubbed it.

Information released as the Justice Department dropped its charges against Gen. Mike Flynn shows that President Barack Obama, in his final days in office, played a key role in fanning the flames of phony scandal. Fully briefed on the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, he knew the FBI had come up with nothing despite months of work starting in July 2016.

Yet on Jan. 5, 2017, Obama told top officials who’d be staying on in the new administration to keep the crucial facts from Team Trump.

And there you have it. ObamaGate.

Sadly, Comey’s FBI played along — sandbagging Flynn with the “friendly” interview that later became the pretext for the bogus charges dropped last week, as well as triggering the White House chaos that led to his ouster. This when the FBI had already gone over the general with a fine-tooth comb, and concluded that, no, he’d done nothing like collude with the Russians.

Meanwhile, Comey himself gave Trump an intentionally misleading briefing on the Steele dossier. That was followed by leaks that suggested the dossier was the tip of an iceberg, rather than a pack of innuendo that hadn’t at all checked out under FBI scrutiny.

Pulitzer Prizes were won for blaring utter fiction; the Trump administration was kneecapped out of the gate. Innocents like Flynn were bankrupted along the way.

Say this about Obama: He knows how to play dirty.

Everyone, up to and including Barack Hussein Obama, in this treasonous chain, should be prosecuted criminally and civilly.

Criminally, under 18 USC 242.

Civilly, under 42 USC 1983:

Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.

And finally: the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine should prevail. Everyone caught, sentenced or affected by the illegal FISA warrant should be set free, to include Manafort and all others.

I have said and written since January of 2017 — three long years — that what we are witnessing in the United States of America is a Soft Coup against a presidential nominee, a president-elect, and a sitting president.

Heads should roll.

And this can never happen again.

BZ

 

 

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The truth about Joe Biden

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The truth is, he has early onset dementia, otherwise known as Alzheimers.

For a time, this was funny. People called him “Uncle Joe” and just chalked up his behavior — including egregious and sexually-inappropriate behavior with kids, young girls and women — as “well, that’s just Joe.”

First it was Lucy Flores.

Former Nevada lawmaker accuses Biden of inappropriate kiss

by Katie Galioto

Lucy Flores, the former Democratic nominee for Nevada lieutenant governor, on Friday accused former Vice President Joe Biden of what she described as an inappropriate encounter when he campaigned for her in 2014.

Writing in “The Cut,” Flores said she was standing at the side of the stage at a campaign rally when she felt Biden approach her from behind and lean in to smell her hair.

SOP for Joe Biden.

“He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head,” Flores wrote. “My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused.”

“I couldn’t move and I couldn’t say anything. I wanted nothing more than to get Biden away from me,” she added. “My name was called and I was never happier to get on stage in front of an audience.”

“Well, that’s just Joe” everyone said. They all knew it about him. That kinda wacky Joe Biden, what a great guy.

Biden has long had a reputation for overly familiar physical contact with women — most notably when he massaged the shoulders of new Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s wife in 2015 and during swearing-in ceremonies for senators and their families.

“Biden was the second-most powerful man in the country and, arguably, one of the most powerful men in the world,” Flores wrote. “He was there to promote me as the right person for the lieutenant governor job. Instead, he made me feel uneasy, gross, and confused.”

But wait; there’s more. Actual sexual assault. From Newsweek.com:

JOE BIDEN’S SEXUAL ASSAULT ACCUSER WANTS TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK OUT WITHOUT FEAR OF ‘POWERFUL MEN’

by Chantal da Silva, 03-27-20

Joe Biden’s campaign team has vehemently denied the sexual assault allegations of a former Senate staffer who says she wanted to come forward to ensure that “powerful men” are held to account.

Last year, Tara Reade, had been among a number of women to speak out about how Biden’s behavior had made them feel uncomfortable in the past.

At the time, Reade said she was still left disturbed by memories from nearly 30 years ago when, while working as a Senate staffer for Biden in 1993, the then-senator would do things like put his hand on her shoulder or run his finger up and down her neck. Other women told similar stories of shoulder rubs or nuzzling of their hair.

Oh come on. “That’s just Joe.”

Now, however, Reade says that during that same time period, Biden sexually assaulted her, pushing her against a wall and digitally penetrating her. When she moved away, the former Senate staffer says, Biden said he thought she had “liked” him.

Yeah. When I finger-fuck a chick against her will, I simply assume that “she likes it.” Likes it; hell, she wants it.

Thank God for a worldwide pandemic, because otherwise the American Media Maggots may have had to pay attention to this claim for, say, an hour or two.

“Squirrel.”

But because the American Media Maggots are who they are, and because the Deep State couldn’t take Orange Man Bad down with Russia, Mueller, pussy, impeachment or anything else short of a worldwide pandemic — hold that thought — the Demorat choice for President of the United States is standing all alone.

And he’s not well. Not by a long shot.

First, “it’s just Joe.” Or is it?

Then the issue began to be discussed in public.

I’ll be honest. It would be so easy to pile on Joe Biden.

But it really isn’t funny any more. It’s just really sad.

Joe should have retired two years ago in order to actually enjoy life with his family.

Instead the DNC and the Demorats thought it would be exquisite to hang their 2020 hats on his addled pate. They used him like a cracked tool and hung him up damaged.

“A brokered convention can’t happen,” pundits said. “How stupid is that?” pundits asked.

Yeah. Plenty stupid.

What next?

BZ

 

 

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Don’t believe the American Media Maggots — there’s a lot of good news about President Trump

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There’s a lot of information out there on the internet and in the world that the American Media Maggots — what others would term the “mainstream media” — either aren’t covering at all (purposely), are glossing over (purposely), or are “reporting” in an outright false fashion.

Otherwise known as Fake News.

Let’s begin with the two most obvious and recent Fake News stories; the first glaring one from ABC News because, apparently, ABC thought no one was paying attention to much of anything. From RealClearPolitics.com:

ABC News Footage Of “Slaughter In Syria” Is Actually Footage From A Kentucky Gun Range

by Tim Hains

ABC News show “World News Tonight” issued a correction and apology Monday for reportedly using video from a Kentucky gun range while falsely claiming it depicted a fierce battle between Syrian Kurds and Turkish forces.

“This video, right here, appearing to show Turkey’s military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town,” ABC’s Tom Llamas said as the video played.

Here is the footage available on YouTube.

What do you think would have happened had, say, Fox News distributed that video and portrayed it as truth? Correct. You’d still be hearing about their error this week and next week and the rest of this month and on into the next.

And why was ABC concocting this illicit and false video? Because it was part of an ongoing attempt — successful or not, you be the judge — to portray President Trump in as poor a light as possible for having the sack and temerity to pull American troops out of northern Syria in contravention of all the NLH (New Leftist Hawk) factions rampant throughout DC and such environs.

As well as various and sundry “military professionals” throughout — again, you guessed it  — the northeast portion of the United Snakes of America.

Starting to recognize just a wee bit of a current theme here, eh wot?

As your realtor would say: “location, location, location.”

CNN couldn’t not be outdone, so we recently discovered that CNN editors take their daily marching orders personally from owner Jeff Zucker, who tells the HOPs (Huddled Opiate Heads) to constantly beat the following drums:

  • Impeachment, impeachment, impeachment;
  • Russia, Russia, Russia;
  • Recession, Recession, Recession;
  • Racist, Racist, Racist

And anything else Zucker can think of as long as it works against OMB, President Donald John Trump, the guy with the dead orange cat on his head.

How about some visual proof from Project Veritas?

  • You can’t trust ABC.
  • You can’t trust CBS.
  • You can’t trust NBC.
  • You can’t trust CNN.
  • You can’t trust MSNBC.
  • You can’t trust CNBC.
  • You can’t trust NPR.

And I haven’t even hit newspapers or websites yet. Those negative anti-Trump elements are legion and almost too numerous to mention. Some much less worth mentioning and attracting any attention to them. Okay; you win. Here are a few more examples of CNN’s bullshrimp — from just a couple months in 2017.

Here Are Five Fake Stories CNN Pushed

by Justin Caruso, 6-17

False Story 1: CNN Reports Hands Up, Don’t Shoot

This claim has been proven to be untrue. Barack Obama’s Justice Department investigated the shooting and concluded that the use of force was not unreasonable and that Brown charged at Officer Darren Wilson before being shot.

The Washington Post ran an article in early 2015 on its’ “Fact Checker” blog entitled, “Hands up, don’t shoot’ did not happen in Ferguson.”

False Story 2: CNN Falsely Claims Sherelle Smith Was ‘Calling For Peace’

Sherelle Smith, the sister of Sylville Smith, a black male shot by a black police officer in August spoke to news reporters after his shooting. CNN deceptively edited the clip to make it sound like she was calling for peace in response to the shooting, when in fact she was encouraging violent behavior in the suburbs of the city.

In the full video, Smith also says, “Stop burning down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn they shit down. We need our shit. We need our weaves. I don’t wear it. But we need it.”

Because hair weaves are, well, important.

False Story 3: CNN Says It’s Illegal To Look At Wikileaks

In one baffling moment from October 2016, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo claimed that it was illegal to look at Wikileaks.

Except that he could do it. Because he’s Chris Cuoma and, well, he’s much more important than you are, you proles, you serfs, you commoners, you rabble, you groundlings, you unwashed peasants, you pond-scum subjects.

Of course, this isn’t true. It is not against the law to view Wikileaks or possess hacked documents, as long as you are not involved in breaking the law by hacking them.

False Story 4: CNN Says Rape Is Pre-Existing Condition Under ACHA

A headline on CNN.com from early May of 2017 read, “Rape and domestic violence could be pre-existing conditions.” CNN argued that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) could make sexual assault a pre-existing condition, preventing women who survive rape from getting health care.

This claim was contested by many fact checkers.

The Washington Post posted an article on its “Fact Checker” blog saying, “Despite critics’ claims, the GOP health bill doesn’t classify rape or sexual assault as a preexisting condition.”

Polifact, which has previously displayed some liberal-leaning bias, said the claim that “[u]nder the House Republican health plan, sexual assault is a pre-existing condition” was “misleading” and “mostly false.”

Jimmy “The Leak” Comey. My. That’s a topic worthy of hundreds of posts. So, just one:

False Story 5: CNN Had To Correct False Comey Report

CNN reported on June 6th that Comey was going to contradict President Trump’s claim that he wasn’t under FBI investigation in his Senate testimony, a report which obviously was going to make Trump look like a liar.

The article, originally titled, “Comey expected to refute Trump,” featured in its byline Jake Tapper, Gloria Borger, Eric Lichtblau, and Brian Rokus.

Of course, this isn’t what Comey said in the Senate. Instead, Comey did not dispute Trump’s claims that he told the president that he was not under FBI investigation.

And because I haven’t heard it for so long, I’m tossing this in for good Karmic measure on account of, well, I just like to bob my head to the beat:

That said, let’s move on to the stories you won’t be hearing about on any other non-Conservative site, and you certainly won’t hear on the American Media Maggots.

The New York Times cocked it up once again, and trust in the American Media Maggots is — wait for it — plummeting. From FoxNews.com:

Trust in mainstream media on the decline: ‘The news industry is in chaos’

by Brian Flood

In the wake of the latest controversial New York Times story, many are saying the mainstream media is in big trouble.

“The View” co-host Meghan McCain on Tuesday confronted a pair of New York Times reporters who blamed Gray Lady editors for botching a now-revised story accusing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.

“You guys left out a key detail,” McCain said, referring to the paper leaving out the tidbit that the alleged victim doesn’t remember the incident. “I think this is sort of Ground Zero for why so many people mistrust the media.”

From the NYTimes.com:

Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle

by Matthew Rosenberg and Kevin Roose

On any given day, the Trump campaign is plastering ads all over Facebook, YouTube and the millions of sites served by Google, hitting the kind of incendiary themes — immigrant invaders, the corrupt media — that play best on platforms where algorithms favor outrage and political campaigns are free to disregard facts.

Even seemingly ominous developments for Mr. Trump become fodder for his campaign. When news broke last month that congressional Democrats were opening an impeachment inquiry, the campaign responded with an advertising blitz aimed at firing up the president’s base.

Bottom line?

The onslaught overwhelmed the limited Democratic response. Mr. Biden’s campaign put up the stiffest resistance: It demanded Facebook take down the ad, only to be rebuffed. It then proceeded with plans to slash its online advertising budget in favor of more television ads.

Most of the Democratic Party is “not even fighting last year’s war — the war that they’re fighting is 2012,” said David Goldstein, chief executive of Tovo Labs, a progressive digital consulting firm.

Yay President Trump. Boo-fucking-hoo Demorats. Maybe you can teach an old Republican new tricks.

But wait; why would people possibly want to contribute to President Trump anyway? Could this be one possibility? The NBQ, or No Bullshit Quotient? I mean, how many times have we screamed at Republicans as we watch on television or at press conferences that “you don’t have to put up with that crap”?

And Trump doesn’t. With each act like this the Demorats and RINOs despise Trump even more viscerally, to the point where they’re stroking out and dying.

Then there’s this from NPR. Is this Russian disinformation? Is NPR working for the Russians now?

NPR Poll: More Americans Trust Trump Administration Than Congress, The Media

by Timothy Meads

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll released Thursday shows that more Americans trust the Trump administration than the media and Congress as a whole.

The poll also found that at this point in their presidency, more Americans believe the country is headed in the right direction under President Trump than under President Barack Obama. In this poll, 35 percent of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the right direction. In September 2011, just 22 percent of Americans felt the nation was headed in the right direction.

Then here’s the jobs report for September of 2019:

  • Unemployment Rate: 3.4%, the LOWEST since December 1969
  • For Women: 3.4%, tying LOWEST since 1953
  • For Hispanic-Americans: 3.9%, a RECORD LOW
  • For African-American: 5.5%, remaining at a record low
  • For Asian-Americans: 2.5%, near historic low

From the WashingtonExaminer.com:

Economy added 136,000 jobs in September to bring unemployment to 5-decade low

by Melissa Quinn

The U.S. economy added 136,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%, a new 50-year low, according to federal data released Friday.

The monthly employment report from the Labor Department fell short of expectations from economists that 145,000 jobs would be created in September, up from 130,000 in August. Unemployment was expected to hold steady at 3.7%, indicating the labor market remains tight and the economy strong.

The unemployment rate last hit a 50-year low in May and has continued to hover at record lows. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobless rate was last this low in December 1969. The unemployment rate for Hispanics and high school dropouts also hit record lows.

Average hourly wages changed little in September after increasing 11 cents in August. Earnings are up 2.9% for the year.

Did you hear ANYTHING about this in last week’s Demorat debates? Of course not. Not ONE WORD. Because all the Demorats have is more Social Justice Warrior emotive crap and a race to offer more “free stuff” to everyone — and no way to pay for it. Not one they’ll tell you about, anyway.

Because who will pay for it? The Middle Class will pay for it; there just aren’t enough billionaires around to hit that nut. But wait; there was this from WesternJournal.com:

While Dems Obsessed over Whistleblower, Senate Confirmed Justice Scalia’s Son as Labor Secretary

by Joe Setyon

While the whistleblower controversy and impeachment have been the talk of the town, other important things have also been going on this week, as evidenced by the Senate’s 53-44 vote Thursday to confirm Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as secretary of labor.

The position opened up in July, after then-Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigned over his handling of a plea deal given more than a decade ago to wealthy financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who has since died in an apparent suicide.

Here’s something it’s guaranteed you haven’t heard or read, from Mediaite.com:

Most Americans Now Have an Unfavorable View of the Democratic Party, A Flip From 2018

by Joe DePaolo

A column in The New York Times Tuesday cited a Pew Research Center survey which found that Americans currently hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic party. According to the poll, 45 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Democrats, compared with 52 percent who hold an unfavorable view. Those numbers mirror the Republican party exactly. The GOP also stands at 45-52 in those metrics.

Last September, ahead of the 2018 midterms, the numbers told a different story. Fifty-three percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of Democrats prior to the election, compared to 42 percent who had an unfavorable opinion. Republicans, meanwhile, boasted just a 43 percent favorable number, with 52 percent unfavorable.

What’s the difference? Impeachment 24/7. And a continuing strong economy.

Then from the DailySignal.com:

Black Americans Are Doing Great Under Trump

by Star Parker

The August jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed more great news for all Americans. And particularly for black Americans.

The nation’s unemployment rate of 3.7% puts it near the lowest ever in the last half-century.

Black unemployment is at an all-time low at 5.5%.

Also at an all-time low is the gap between black and white unemployment. With white unemployment at 3.4%, the gap is 2.1 percentage points.

As President Trump himself said:

Then there is the wall itself. From the Associated Press:

450 miles of border wall by next year? In Arizona, it starts

by Astrid Galvan

This 5-mile (8-kilometer) section of fencing is where President Donald Trump’s most salient campaign promise — to build a wall along the entire southern border — is taking shape.

The president and his administration said this week that they plan on building between 450 and 500 miles (724 and 806 kilometers) of fencing along the nearly 2,000-mile (3,218-kilometer) border by the end of 2020, an ambitious undertaking funded by billions of defense dollars that had been earmarked for things like military base schools, target ranges and maintenance facilities.

In Yuma, the defense-funded section of tall fencing is replacing shorter barriers that U.S. officials say are less efficient.

The MilitaryTimes.com weighs in with this story:

About a mile of new wall built each day along Mexico border, Pentagon says

by Military Times Staff

About a mile of border wall along the border with Mexico is constructed each day, according to the Pentagon.

The Army Corps of Engineers awarded about $2.5 billion in projects in April and May to build 129 miles of the border wall in New Mexico, Arizona and California. With the exception of $3 million, the entire $2.5 billion pool of money is obligated on contract. The remaining chunk will be obligated before the end of September, the Pentagon said.

Leftists, Demorats, American Media Maggots and even many Republicans don’t want you to know about that little factoid.

There’s this from the EpochTimes.com, something no one mentioned at the last Demorat debates as well:

REPORT: Over A Million Households Have Risen To Middle Class Under Trump, According To Census Data

by Petr Svab

More than 1.2 million American households moved to above $50,000 in annual income between 2016 and 2018, according to Census Bureau data released on Sept. 10, a sign of a growing middle class.

The data is a boon to President Donald Trump, whose platform is centered on a strong economy and promises of increased prosperity.

While in 2016, some 58.5 percent of households enjoyed more than $50,000 in total money income, the share rose to more than 60 percent in 2018. The median household income, meanwhile, rose by nearly 2.3 percent—with all figures adjusted for inflation.

Remember how everyone said that President Trump’s tariffs would relight the Chinese economy and enable them to leapfrog over us — how terrible the tariffs were? This is from Reuters.com:

China’s slowdown deepens; industrial output growth falls to 17-1/2 year low

by Kevin Yao and Stella Qiu

BEIJING (Reuters) – The slowdown in China’s economy deepened in August, with growth in industrial production at its weakest 17-1/2 years amid spreading pain from a trade war with the United States and softening domestic demand.

Retail sales and investment gauges worsened too, data released on Monday showed, reinforcing views that China is likely to cut some key interest rates this week for the first time in over three years to prevent a sharper slump in activity.

Despite a slew of growth-boosting measures since last year, the world’s second-largest economy has yet to stabilize, and analysts say Beijing needs to roll out more stimulus to ward off a sharper slowdown.

Helen Raleigh says the trade war has already been lost.

Helen Raleigh: China has already lost the trade war. Here’s why

China already lost in the trade war with the U.S. Although you will never hear Chinese authorities, especially President Xi Jinping, admit it as such, the evidence is everywhere and only becoming more compelling by the day.

Reuters recently reported that based on the Chinese government’s own data, China’s economic slowdown has worsened in August, with “growth in industrial production is at its weakest in 17-1/2 years amid spreading pain from a trade war with the United States and softening domestic demand. Retail sales and investment gauges worsened too.” Despite such poor readings, Premier Li Keqiang insists that China is still on track to achieve 6 to 6.5 per cent growth rate this year.

Given the Chinese government’s tendency to present a rosier economic picture to satisfy political goals, most China watchers believe that Li’s statement was an about-face, and that the actual economic situation is much worse.

Say not so!

Researchers at the Brookings Institute estimated that China had inflated its GDP growth rate by close to 2 percent every year between 2008-2016. So in reality, China hasn’t seen a 6 percent growth rate for nearly a decade (someone should send a copy of this to Premier Li). Moreover, the actual size of the Chinese economy was an estimated $10.9 trillion, 18 percent lower than the officially stated $13.4 trillion, as of 2018.

Beijing can’t count on Chinese consumers to stimulate economic growth either because of rising pork prices. Pork is a staple food for Chinese households. Since the trade war began, China had imposed higher tariffs on agricultural products from the U.S., with the tariff on pork rising from 12 to 62 percent. China hoped that causing pain to U.S. farmers would pressure Trump to back off his trade war. That strategy failed spectacularly in two ways. First, while U.S. farmers are suffering and are critical of the trade war, their support for the president is growing. Bloomberg reports that, “about 67 percent of farmers are saying that they’d back Trump for reelection in 2020.”

Second, China’s own hog industry is experiencing the worst African swine fever in decades. The government has been criticized for its ineffective measures to stamp out the epidemic. It is estimated that China could lose up to 50 percent of its pig population by the end of 2019. Pork prices have spiked by more than 46 percent so far, and some experts predict the price increase may be over 80 percent by next year. This spike has pushed prices for other types of meat higher as well, increasing inflation pressure to the overall economy. This has hindered Chinese consumers’ willingness and capacity to spend in other areas. Given the pivotal role pork plays in the Chinese diet, the country could potentially experience social unrest if the pork price continues to skyrocket while the supply continues to be sparse.

But the American Media Maggots haven’t told you about this, have they? The Demorats in their talking points and in their debates haven’t mentioned this at all, have they?

While we’re at it, an MSNBC poll about firearms went down in flames.

MSNBC Poll About Guns Backfires Fabulously

by Kemberlee Kaye

A poll hosted by the MSNBC asked respondents a simple question: Do you think people should be allowed to carry guns in public?

Given that it’s MSNBC, the leftist conspiracy machine, hosting the poll, I doubt they thought the results would be so favorable to our beloved Constitution.

At the time this post was published, more than 547,000 people voted and 92% of them answered “Yes! The second amendment guarantees it.”

That’s pretty clear. What’s also clear is, from The Five, that President Trump came to Kalifornia recently and raised MILLIONS of dollars, then tore their alleged “leadership” in Sacra-shithole-mento apart:

From FoxNews.com, while no one was looking.

Trump nominates wave of California judges, in fresh bid to reshape courts

by Judson Berger

President Trump nominated a slew of judges Friday to posts on California-based federal courts, ramping up efforts to reshape the judiciary after hitting a milestone earlier this month with the confirmation of the 150th federal judge on his watch.

Two nominations are for the influential San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a long-liberal bench with jurisdiction across the American West whose political makeup has shifted with Trump’s aggressive appointment campaign.

While it is traditional for a nominee’s home-state senators to give their approval, it is not required, and Trump lately has bypassed the so-called “blue slip” tradition in order to get conservative judges on the bench.

While Democrats have fumed at the tactics, conservatives cheered Trump this month for seeing the 150th federal judge confirmed.

“This is a historic milestone,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a statement. “As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will continue to push through highly qualified, conservative judges at all levels of the federal courts.”

This video from OAN:

Trump also focused the EPA on San Franshithole:

Trump: EPA to hit San Francisco with violations notice over homeless crisis

Details: Per pool reporter Peter Baker, Trump said the EPA would serve the city of San Francisco with a notice because there was “tremendous” pollution flowing into the ocean because of waste in storm sewers, specifically citing used needles. 

“It’s a terrible situation — that’s in Los Angeles and in San Francisco. And we’re going to be giving San Francisco, they’re in total violation, we’re going to be giving them a notice very soon. EPA is going to be putting out a notice. They’re in serious violation. … They have to clean it up. We can’t have our cities going to hell.”

— President Trump’s comments to reporters

From TheHill.com:

Federal judge blocks California law requiring Trump tax returns

by Naomi Jagoda and Justine Coleman

A federal judge issued a temporary injunction against a California state law that requires presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns to appear on the primary ballot.

President Trump‘s lawyers and the Republican National Committee had challenged the law.

U.S. District Judge Morrison England Jr., a George W. Bush appointee on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, said there would be “irreparable harm without temporary relief” for Trump and other candidates if he did not make the rare temporary decision to block the law, The Los Angeles Times reported.

The California law, which was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), requires candidates for president or governor to provide five years of federal tax returns to appear on the state’s primary ballot.

Further, Trump flatly rejected Newsom’s request for federal homeless aid.

Trump Rejects California Governor’s Request for More Homeless Aid

by Noah Buhayar, Christopher Palmeri and Jordan Fabian

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson rebuffed California Governor Gavin Newsom’s request for more federal money to combat a homelessness crisis, instead demanding the state revise its housing regulations and crack down on undocumented immigration.

Carson’s letter, which he said he’d written at the request of the president, escalated a feud between the Trump administration and California over the state’s ballooning population of homeless people.

Dr Carson’s letter to the State of Kalifornia is here.

Let’s be honest. Texas Representative Al Green was correct when he said that, “if we don’t impeach him, Trump’s going to get re-elected.”

Maybe there’s such a thing as an “impeachment bonus”? From FoxBusiness.com:

Republicans rake in $15 million of donations over Trump impeachment threat

by Megan Henney

In the few days since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Republicans have capitalized on conservative outrage, pulling in millions of dollars in donations.

As of Friday, Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign received $15 million in small donations, including 50,000 from new donors, according to a tweet from Eric Trump.

And this from the WashingtonExaminer.com:

If Democrats impeach Trump, a GOP House would probably impeach the next Democratic president

by Philip Klein

House Democrats are poised to impeach President Trump once they’ve spent more time following the leads in the whistleblower complaint. But should they take that step in a heavily partisan process in which most Republican voters believe Trump was unjustly targeted, it’s quite likely that the next time there’s a Democratic president and a Republican House, we’ll have another impeachment.

Trump himself hinted at this on Saturday when he tweeted about a hypothetical scenario imagining if Republicans acted toward Barack Obama as Democrats are acting toward him. “Oh well, maybe next time!” he concluded.

To be clear, I’m not saying that the decision to impeach should be determined by the prospect of potential retribution by a future Republican Congress. But I’m acknowledging the reality of the potential long-term fallout of impeaching Trump.

Right now, 85% of Republicans oppose impeaching the president. Many prominent voices led by Trump are pushing the idea that the Ukraine scandal is a hoax in which the intelligence community, the Democrats, and the media are attempting to take a president down because they hate him.

If Trump gets impeached over what Republicans believe were nonexistent or minor misdeeds, then they are likely to want to jump on any scandal in a Democratic administration to pursue impeachment. And of course, should they take that path, Democrats will not soon forget.

It only stands to reason.

Here’s how CNN sees things as of a couple of hours ago. No. Not kidding.

Trump must get it together to avoid another disastrous week

Analysis by Stephen Collinson

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump is under severe pressure after a disastrous run which saw his impeachment defense shredded by current and ex-officials and, most stunningly, by his own acting White House chief of staff.

He must also placate fellow Republicans on whom he will depend to save his presidency in any Senate trial, after triggering self-inflicted crises over Syria and the G7 summit that tested his party’s tolerance for its volatile leader.
Every Monday over the month since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initiated an impeachment inquiry, it seemed like life could not get much worse for an increasingly isolated President.

Yet every week it does.

Right. A “disastrous week.” Here’s the truth, from Breitbart.com:

Mansour: While Democrats Pursue Impeachment, President Trump Builds Impressive Record of Accomplishments

When candidate Donald Trump promised to be “the greatest jobs president God ever created,” the pundits rolled their eyes. What kind of an idiot would say or believe that?

Here are the facts. You decide:

More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history. More than 6 million new jobs have been created since Donald Trump took office.

Keep in mind that the labor participation rate has risen under Trump. That means Americans who had been sitting on the sidelines out of the job market for years are finally going back to work. Since January 2017, 4.2 million more Americans joined the civilian labor force, and 1.5 million fewer Americans are unemployed.

In fact, the unemployment rate has reached a 50-year low under Trump. And when you drill down, the details are even more amazing. African-American and Hispanic unemployment has achieved the lowest rate ever recorded in our nation’s history. Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years. The unemployment rate for Americans without a high school diploma has also reached the lowest rate ever recorded.

Those are real jobs and real opportunities for Americans. And thanks to President Trump’s immigration policies, this tight labor market has forced employers to invest in training American workers for the jobs they need to fill.

“Americans are not only working, but they are making more money today than they have in the past,” Rick Manning from Americans for Limited Government noted. “The household median income rose to a record $61,372 in 2017, as more Americans are benefitting from wage gains earned.”

And:

Over 500,000 new manufacturing jobs have been created since Trump took office. In fact, the U.S. economy added nearly as many manufacturing jobs during Trump’s first two years in office as it did during Obama’s entire second term. In 2018 alone, the manufacturing sector added more jobs than it had in any other year since 1997—a 20-year high. 1997—that’s before China was admitted into the World Trade Organization!

You’ll recall that in his campaign kickoff speech, candidate Trump said he would tell the Ford Motor Company that if they moved their plant to Mexico they could expect a tariff from President Trump.

I don’t know if a conversation like that took place between President Trump and any of the Detroit automakers. But I do know that thanks to Trump’s threat of auto tariffs, Chrysler announced last February that it would build the first auto plant within the city of Detroit in a generation.

And:

Trump is fulfilling his promise to reorient the nation’s trade policies to put America first, despite furious pushback and denunciations from Wall Street, K Street, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue.

The centerpiece of this effort is the deal Trump negotiated with Mexico and Canada—called The United States Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA—which is a vast improvement on the flawed and outdated North American Free Trade Agreement. USMCA tightens rules of origin, including raising the North American content for auto manufacturing from 62.5 percent to 75 percent. It also guarantees Mexican workers the right to form and join unions, preventing U.S. workers from having to compete with exploited workers. Most importantly, the new agreement will need to be renewed every six years, allowing the agreement to be updated if the results are not acceptable to the U.S., Mexico, or Canada.

And:

Despite obstructions, Trump successfully brokered a “Remain in Mexico” policy. The initiative has allowed the U.S. to send more than 42,000 migrants to Mexico while they await the adjudication of their asylum cases rather than being released directly into the nation’s interior. The policy has exposed the fact that the overwhelming majority of these asylum claims are fraudulent. The so-called “catch-and-release” policies of past administrations allowed a person to make a bogus asylum claim, get released into the country, and just disappear. The majority would not even show up for their asylum hearings.

Similarly, Trump signed a “Third Safe Country” agreement with Guatemala ensuring that migrants are not allowed to pass through the Central American country in order to travel to the U.S. to claim asylum. Instead, migrants must seek asylum in Guatemala. Even moving beyond the border, Trump enacted visa sanctions in his first year in office on countries like Eritrea and Cambodia after they failed for years to take back their nationals who were ordered deported from the U.S.

And:

  • To fight the opioid crisis, Trump signed into law the SUPPORT Act, the largest legislative package in history addressing a single drug crisis. He’s also beefed up funding for drug treatment, cracked down on prescription-drug abuse, and pressured China to cease its fentanyl trafficking as a requirement of any trade deal.

  • Trump got us out of the bogus Paris Climate Agreement (i.e. a sham treaty that allowed the world’s biggest polluter, China, to go on polluting while punishing us.)

  • He signed an executive order defending free speech on college campuses (i.e. the Orwellian indoctrination centers for future woke apparatchiks). Universities now risk losing federal funding if they fail to uphold the First Amendment.

  • He’s appointing constitutional conservatives to the federal judiciary at a record pace, recently reaching 150 appointments.

  • He picked two good Supreme Court justices. (And if you don’t think the Kavanaugh hearings were crazy enough, just wait till you see what happens if he gets to pick another one).

  • Despite Democrats’ refusal to work with him on nonpartisan healthcare reforms, Trump signed executive orders that have helped lower drug prices for the first time in half a century and keep health insurance premiums—which skyrocketed under Obama—relatively stable.

  • His Department of Justice has launched an antitrust probe against big tech giants who are busy censoring conservatives, violating our privacy, and interfering in our elections. In fact, Trump has brought global attention to the problem of Silicon Valley’s political bias and censorship, raising the status of the issue in America’s public discourse and in his speech before the United Nations.

Oh. I almost forgot this, from Breitbart.com.

More than 2.5 Million Households Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump

by Katherine Rodriguez

More than 2.5 million households dropped off food stamps since President Donald Trump’s first full month in office, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data.

The most recent USDA data shows that 2,543,924 households stopped receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits— the program in charge of food stamps— between the end of Trump’s first full month in office and July 2019.

As of July 2019, the most current data available, 18,393,979 households and 36,285,397 individuals have participated in the nation’s food stamp program.

Even John Roberts is wondering:

We thusly close with this.

More truth.

And yet, despite all of this — or perhaps because of it — I say Donald Trump has a great shot at being re-elected in 2020.

BZ

 

 

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