$1.8 trillion for other non-pandemic spending…That bill is not popular to anyone with a functioning brain.
The MSM and dems are “All wee-weed up” because the GOP, led by Sen. Ron Johnson, demanded the over 700 pages of the dems’ alleged “COVID Relief Bill”, at nearly $2T, on the floor of the Senate last night…
Awww. You "All wee-weed up", brah? What, exactly precisely, is in this near $2T bill, w/roughly $1T of a previou$ 'relief' bloodletting $till$ocked away & un$pent by Nancy & Co, that'll spare these alleged 1400 lives? How many documents/checks do you sign w/o 1st reading?
So you were too busy 'counting' an alleged 'death toll' while 880 ppl allegedly died? Why didn't you get there & stop them from dying!? Oh & I guess you didn't listen to the content/context of the dem money laundering list while clicking your counter. You've 0 to offer Amer ppl.
If you haven’t yet caught onto the Demo-commie Party’s bait-and-switch game, and you keep chomping down on that rusty hook in the voting booth, well you’re not only too stupid for your own (and the country’s) good, but you are complicit in their scam.
Just a reminder for the people who voted for the Puppet in Chief. He’s been president for 44 days, you still haven’t gotten the $2k check he promised would go out the door immediately and on average you’re paying .60 cents more per gallon.
Happy days are here again
The skies above are so clear again
So, let’s sing a song of cheer again
Happy times
Happy nights
Happy days
Are here again!!!
If the leftists running the country now were so confident that they were elected, that they beat Trump because the voters “wanted to bring civility back”, then they should feel no need even to consider H.R.1, a disgusting piece of legislation being proposed. If they were sure that they won handily, they should simply continue to trust the voters.
Well, the House must not be confident that they are beloved and popular. They just voted in favor of this terrible legislation. Now we must pray that the Senate will not let it pass.
If Manchin, and Sinema want to be known as “moderates”, this is the perfect time to show it. If they both vote for this one, forget about ever considering them as anything but loser liberals.
H.R.1 includes:
Nationalizing voter laws, ending the Constitutional mandate that ONLY the State Legislatures, those closest to the voters who elected them, have the power to make election laws.
Allowing any non citizen who is involved in a government giveaway program to vote.
Allowing felons to vote.
Allowing redistricting to be done by the unaccountable federal government instead of state legislatures.
Changing the number of members of the Federal election Commission from six members, three from each party, to five so that the party in power would maintain a natural majority.
No cleaning up of the rolls, or matching of signatures so there will be no way for voters to be properly identified and no way to stop people from voting more than once.
Financing of elections to be allowed by government money. You will pay taxes and have your money go to candidates you do not support. Who thinks that is a good idea?
Mandating unsolicited paper ballots so elections will never be without fraud in perpetuity.
And other goodies.
Again if those in control of the left party truly knew that they were freely elected and won fair and square in November, they would trust the voters and not feel the need to codify tyrannical rules based in Washington to make sure they never lost power again.
The Democrat Party does not look like one that trusts the voters, but rather one that never wants to allow anyone else to run the country.
The left likes to call Trump a liar. They like to sit in judgment of him that his questioning of a “perfect election” and his rallying of his “dangerous, violent and disruptive” supporters causes a genuine threat that forces the powers that be to engird America’s city with a barbed wire decorated fence.
The danger is not the ignored anarchists who destroyed cities all over the country for months. The danger is white supremacists and Trump loyalists.
The left likes to talk about how they have good intentions and “care” and are doing what the American people want. Well, again, if that were true, why would they need H.R.1? Why do those on the left think they need to work so hard to keep their power?
They are saying they won fair and square and Trump is outrageous to question that. Then what is wrong with the way things have always been in election law until now? If they are popular then they will keep getting voted in. Right?
We must not only work to prevent H.R.1 from ever becoming law. We must go to the state legislatures and make them do their jobs. They alone must make election law as the Founders wanted it. Here are some of the things state legislatures should codify:
No more unsolicited ballots ever again.
We learn who won election night. The only exceptions are close elections, and for those, we allow military absentee ballots which didn’t show up in time to be counted. They at least require applying for them and voter ID’s.
Make sure voters are listed on the rolls and match voters who vote.
We must have voter ID’s.
We must have elections we can believe in and trust that they are real.
And any ballot counting where one party is denied the right to sit in on the count – all of those ballots should not be counted in the totals.
I once left this comment on an article and I like it:
The left says it is committed to equality. I’ll buy that.
It is committed to equality of illegals to legal immigrants, of murderers and other criminals to law abiding private citizens, of police to pigs or Nazis or any other vicious invectives they can find to use, of Christians and Jews to Islamophobes, of Anti fa and BLM and other anarchists or terrorists who destroy property, try to erase our history or distort it, who steal and commit arson and murder, to “mostly peaceful demonstrators.”
Oh yeah. They are committed to equality, alright.
Today we can update that list to include that the left is committed to the equality of Trump supporters with dangerous cultists and white supremacists who are to be feared and whose liberties must be limited so they do not take over the country, to the equality of the danger of global warming with a looming threat that means we must be forced to give up our quality of life to save the earth,
(but that only goes for regular citizens – for the elite, they are too important to have to give up those luxuries – and that goes for most of the legislation they force us to live under).
Members of the left are for the equality of socialism/communism to capitalism, nay they consider the latter inferior to the former. They are for the equality of the cancel culture and tyranny for those who are not willing to accept the reigning orthodoxy with rational laws and Constitutionalism, equality of lies about Trump and his supporters with reality and common sense, equality of a stolen election with a legitimate transfer of power, and equality of a handful of MAGA supporters who foolishly followed anarchists into the Capitol with a million peaceful protestors in Washington, D.C. and thus logically with every single Trump supporter as the greatest danger to this Republic, which they equate with a democracy.
The left as it is constituted today bears no resemblance to the Democratic Party I knew as I was growing up and learning about politics.
Today the left is sickening.
The paragraphs that follow will have as their concluding sentence the title of this essay.
I keep hearing the left talk about violence and the dangers of what happened January 6th at the Capitol. The entire episode was over in a few hours and the Capitol was back in operation early that evening. Some big danger!
The same people who harp on January 6th incessantly had no problem with the violence in cities run by leftists which destroyed buildings, caused many deaths, erased history, and terrified locals for months.
If the leftists didn’t have double standards…
We hear about a return of civility to our country now that Trump is out of office and replaced by Democrats.
What is civil about members of our Justice Department from the moment Trump was elected using treasonous behavior to try to undermine his presidency, lying about the Russians influencing the election, lying about a Ukraine phone call that even the President of Ukraine said was a misrepresentation of what happened, trying to destroy the lives of law abiding private citizens, calling Trump a Nazi, a traitor, a murderer and implying that anyone who supports Trump is either a cultist or a danger to the country?
If leftists didn’t have double standards…
Big tech and the leftist media are doing all they can to limit the ability of Trump supporters to communicate. The cancel culture wants to make it impossible for conservatives to keep their jobs or get new ones.
Do you remember when there was a time we used to ask – first they came for the gypsies and I didn’t care because I wan’t a gypsy; then they came for the homosexuals and I didn’t care because I wasn’t a homosexual. etc; and finally they came for me? Remember that? Well, now they are coming for the Trump supporters.
Democrats like to talk about fairness and freedom, yet they don’t seem to care about this selective punishing because it is happening to Trump and his supporters and they deserve it.
Just remember if leftists didn’t have double standards…
Democrats brag they care about the American people. They want to bring about the end of this pandemic as soon as they can. We have developed – now – three vaccines in record time. But they can’t applaud that because that would give Trump credit and that must never happen.
If Leftists did not have double standards…
Democrats and the left media complain about Trump assuming that the election was stolen. But who are the worst sore losers in recent history? You know their names. They are allowed to fight every minute of Trump’s presidency and not allow a duly elected president to have one moment of peace during his four years in office and that is supposed to be acceptable.
If leftists did not have double standards…
When the cities were being destroyed The National Guard was not allowed to be called in.
Pelosi was told to have the National Guard in Washington on January 6th and she refused to accept that. The Democrats needed the image of the Capital under invasion for their political theater and games.
And NOW the Guard are in force in Washington. To protect Biden from those dangerous, terrorists – Trump supporters. Ha.
But a wall on our Southern border to protect Americans from invaders? Nah.
If leftists did not have double standards…
When Trump carried out separating children from adults while the adults were being investigated as they tried to come into our country, Trump was castigated 24/7 about those children in “cages”. The pictures they used to blaspheme Trump were from the Obama years and Trump was carrying out American policy that Obama and others had been using. No matter. We can pummel Trump.
Now that Biden is using the same tactics, the left media do not show the pictures and do not talk about the behavior.
If the leftists did not have double standards…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies. Half the country is in serious mourning for this great loss. The other half is respectful and speaks well of her. We are united in respecting her memory. Rush Limbaugh dies. Half the country is in serious mourning from this loss. The left spits on his grave.
Now if anyone wants to say this is a silly comparison, it is not. The point is not the person who died but the courtesy shown those who mourn. The right shows proper courtesy. They left revels in being disrespectful and mocking the pain of those on the other side.
Andrew Cuomo has pointed his dirty digits at everyone else, particularly Pres. Trump, for the state of the pandemic within the state under his direct control. There needs to be a full investigation and a grand jury looking into his actions/inactions and the conspiracy and cover-ups.
Seems like a lot of people knew a lot of terrible things about Cuomo that they kept quiet until he became politically expendable for Democrats.
Did these brave "people with knowledge of the report's production" consider saying something in July when Cuomo was lying about deaths of nursing-home patients? pic.twitter.com/I7UisM5FG3
Well, 9 members of the COVID/Health response staff left in the middle of the pandemic, wonder why? Your tweet also indicates you are aware of Cuomo's reputation for retaliation yet you mock people for being anonymous?
I wish people stood from the rooftops, but we all know bullying and threatening to destroy people's careers works very effectively in silencing people. Cuomo threatened @rontkim thinking he could silence him and finally came up against the wrong guy.
This bombshell was breaking late yesterday evening.
Just as we have been saying over this past year of the China plague pandemic, the cure is worse than the disease … Well, in Gov. Cuomo’s case the cover-up definately is worse, if possible, than his asinine nursing home policy. Owing up to said policy would be bad and hard enough. However, covering it up, especially in the way(s) that are coming into focus now, makes it far worse. It criminalizes it.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top advisers successfully pushed state health officials to strip a public report of data showing that more nursing-home residents had died of Covid-19 than the administration had acknowledged, according to people with knowledge of the report’s production.
The July report, which examined the factors that led to the spread of the virus in nursing homes, focused only on residents who died inside long-term-care facilities, leaving out those who had died in hospitals after becoming sick in nursing homes. As a result, the report said 6,432 nursing-home residents had died—a significant undercount of the death toll attributed to the state’s most vulnerable population, the people said. The initial version of the report said nearly 10,000 nursing-home residents had died in New York by July last year, one of the people said.
The changes Mr. Cuomo’s aides and health officials made to the nursing-home report, which haven’t been previously disclosed, reveal that the state possessed a fuller accounting of out-of-facility nursing-home deaths as early as the summer. The Health Department resisted calls by state and federal lawmakers, media outlets and others to release the data for another eight months.
State officials now say more than 15,000 residents of nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities were confirmed or presumed to have died from Covid-19 since March of last year—counting both those who died in long-term-care facilities and those who died later in hospitals. That figure is about 50% higher than earlier official death tolls.
Mr. Cuomo now faces mounting political pressure over both his administration’s handling of the pandemic in nursing homes and accusations that he sexually harassed two former staffers. Republicans and some Democrats have called for the governor to resign from office or be impeached…
Yeah, about those sexual harassment charges surfacing that the MSM has been all-too-eager-and-willing to “BREAKING NEWS”… Some are speculating that, yes, they are to be taken very seriously. Yet, the sudden timing of that dam breaking on Cuomo is odd, to say the least. And so, some ponder not only was it possibly viewed as a tactic to bump the nursing home issue off the front burners of the MSM (‘sex sells’ more so than ‘if it bleeds it leads’ with the rabid MSM, especially if the MSM seeks to save democrat ass), but there are a few other states’ democrat governors who could be in their own heap of trouble for how they handled/mishandled this past year of the pandemic. If Cuomo goes down, they are susceptible as well. Hell, Gov. Gavin Newsome in California is on the event horizon of an official recall for his un-ending and acute statewide lockdown(s) of businesses, schools, churches that he himself did not abide by.
And is there enough BBQ sauce to go around for all the smug crow that will be eaten by those that sycophantically hoisted this arrogant prick up onto their collective shoulders as a hero… the China virus anti-Trump.
Sorry, Frodo. There’s not a swab big enough for the mess Gov. Cuomo has made all over himself…
In pursuit of their “higher objective” of unseating former President Donald Trump, the Leftist legacy media vocally rallied behind New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2020, presenting him as the hero of the pandemic, as the supposed ultimate example of leadership when compared to President Trump.
Now that he no longer serves an obvious purpose with a Democrat in the White House, the tide has suddenly turned, with the adoring coverage dying down amid a growing number of sexual assault and harassment allegations — all while the COVID cover-up which contributed to the death of thousands of elderly New Yorkers continues to hang over his administration.
In this “new light,” with information available throughout the past year, the sheer level of propagandizing by the legacy media stands as evidence of their partisanship and disdain for reality, sparking immediate “memory hole” tactics. And none are more guilty of shamelessly building Andrew Cuomo’s false image than his chief media operators, CNN.
Unfortunately for the network, the “internet is forever.” Here is a brief timeline of the adoring coverage Andrew Cuomo received from CNN, despite growing evidence of his failure, all to achieve a political goal….
Hit the above link for the list.
Here is the other rub… Families of relatives who died of China virus in nursing homes and in hospitals where they were taken from their nursing residences, have been yelling for nearly a year that the Cuomo numbers were not accurate, on top of the asinine nursing home policy he signed and implemented. One in particular is part of the MSM industry, Janice Dean of FOX News. She has lead the charge for almost a year that this needed investigating and brought out into the open. But the rest of the MSM refused to do their job(s) and investigate something they would definitely have investigated were it republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida. The MSM is most assuredly part of the cover-up cabal to protect Cuomo.
We’ve been screaming for almost a year now about the undercounting of the deaths. Our voices are hoarse but now they’re finally being heard.
And God willing they will see that the March 25th order was not based on science at all. It was more corrupt, sinister and evil with our loved ones being used for profits.
Need to investigate NJ, PA, MN, MI and CT for similar “adjustments”.
Breaking News: Aides to Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York rewrote a report by state health officials to hide how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic. https://t.co/VBdu4w2Taz
Barring anything ‘other’ that may come up, including my congenital laziness and ability to talk myself out of being even marginally productive, I plan to completely gut my youngest daughter’s room, clean ceiling to floor, and rummage through and toss atleast 40% of her accumulated ‘rat-packing’ surplus, and re-organize as I put it all back together. (PS, Please don’t call it ‘spring cleaning’ … too much pressure and I’ll abandon it completely before I’ve even started.) *siiiiiigh* Wish me luck.
And just like my daughter’s disorganized room, here we go. Onward.
So Biden hasn't done a press conference in his first 43 days and he skipped the traditional first address to Congress…and no one in the media finds that odd?
Hey, by the way, I love what they’ve done with the White House basement///…
.@SpeakerPelosi: "Our nation is blessed with Joe Biden as President of the United States. He is an extraordinary president. He knows how to get the job done." pic.twitter.com/Qp02wfIFz1
Six weeks into the Biden regime, Joe’s professed commitment to truth and transparency continues to wane, with the President of the United States failing to hold a press conference, refusing to publish his schedule, hiding visitor logs from the public, and deleting the White House pages for comments and public petitions. Cynics might say that democracy is currently dying in darkness…
The article of impeachment from the House was hastily and carelessly drafted and contained so many flaws and self-inflicted wounds that it would have been dismissed nolle prosequi in any courtroom in America. It certainly had no chance in the evenly divided U.S. Senate to achieve anywhere close to the required two-thirds vote needed to convict. It was all just WrestleMania with old, out-of-shape wrestlers…
1/ Look, I am not saying the vaccines aren’t somewhat protective against #Covid. They clearly are. But the difference between 95/75/50% efficacy is huge.
At 95%, vaccinate 20 people and only 1 will get #Covid. At 75%, 5 will. At 50%, 10 will…
2/ At 95% mRNA vaccines may make sense for most people even with ugly side effects. At 50% they do not.
Knowing how long they work is also critical, but @pfizer@moderna_tx blew our chance for a clean look at that by offering the vaccine to people who got placebo in the trials.
Merrick Garland is sure there's room for President Biden to unilaterally act on gun control, not so sure if there are any limits on that power https://t.co/GabAXDoxSr
Chris Papst: City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA … I seriously refuse to hear another thing about how “there’s not enough money” being put into schools. Just 100— 200 years ago school kids and teachers/schools managed with a Hell of a lot less than what the Baltimore public school system gets today. The left/dems want to talk about “systemic” this and that? It’s time to recognize the systemic failures of school systems that have consistently failed their students, and the taxpayers, many of whom are the students’ parents. Right now the biggest concern is banning children’s books???
History has never looked back fondly on those who banned or burned books.
“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Or, and I do like this one…
“Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!”
Make no mistake, this has been a coup of our government and our republic that has been in the making, and ‘the ready’, for these last 4-5 years, and cumulating with the overtly rigged and stolen 2020 election. Doubtless, there are even ‘players’ within the SCOTUS that for whatever reason are caving to this political power thiefdom. The oligarchy of political party, government, corporation(s), courts, and leftist socialist contructionists is upon us, America. And late last night, while most of us had tucked-in our kids and went to bed to rest for yet another real work day, the demo-commies were paving the road for a smooth highway robbery of our future elections…
This is a dangerous, naked federal power grab that would put quite a few nails in the coffin of the good old Republic. It would also make it nigh on impossible to clean up any of the very real messes that need to be dealt with. Dealt with at the state level, that is. HR 1 is like using a machete to close up a wound that needs a tourniquet. It’s not a cure, it’s an exacerbation of the problem.
This is so serious and Republicans and Big Media do and say nothing. Now the Democrats are taking their lead from the communist playbook, elections in America will soon be over if they get away with this. A select few members of the Democrat Party will decide who wins each and every election going forward…
They are basically and ‘fundamentally’ removing Americans’ Constitutional power of the vote(s) from all of us.
… and we all had better recognize Donald Trump was right about the United States and the rest of the world being back-end ravaged by China/CCP for decades, and now plaguing the world with their lab designed China virus that not only made a Hell of a lot of humans sick, and many dying, but imposing chaos on individual nations’ economies and societies. More importantly, we had better recognize our own demo-commie and leftist social constructionists are ramming us up our collective and individual backsides for several years now with their bullshit and tearing down of our republic and our society. By the way, how long until Fauci insists we need to fully adopt this testing method, huh?
Here’s a fun thing that liberals do literally every day: They call you a fascist if you want the government to leave you alone. They say you’re a Nazi if you insist you can run your own life without some bureaucrat telling you what to do. If you think a problem, old or new, can be solved with anything short of a federal agent pointing a gun at your head, you’re the worst person in the world and you need to be #canceled. Libs always get it exactly backwards, and then they congratulate themselves for being so smart.
That’s why our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters are falling all over each other to applaud the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain for bravely requiring masks, after Texas Governor Greg Abbott just lifted the state’s mask mandate…
Putting aside the implication that the CDC somehow isn’t political, this is exactly how it should work. Unless Gov. Abbott is forcing private businesses to let in people without masks, what’s the problem? He’s not sending in Texas Rangers to tear the masks off the faces of moviegoers. A theater chain named after the Alamo isn’t bravely repelling an invasion. Just the opposite.
Fun fact: You can do things you believe are going to protect you, without the government forcing you to do those things!
I’m firmly in the Better Safe Than Sorry camp, myself. If a business requires masks, fine. Plus, I don’t want to go viral when somebody sticks a cellphone in my face at the grocery store and demands to know where my mask is. But if you don’t want to wear one, the government shouldn’t force you. I’d appreciate it if you’d stay away from me, but I wanted that even before COVID.
And there’s another side to that coin: If you don’t want to frequent a business that requires you to wear a mask… don’t! Take your business somewhere else. Capitalism is great that way….
I was just on the phone when this question came up: If a state decides to prematurely lift rules against the guidance of CDC, should it be eligible to receive federal help if it later needs it as a result? Discuss…
You mean the 'federal funds' that the same state & its people have vampire-sucked from their paychecks. BTW, when did CDC become our overlords? BTW CDC issued guidelines for HIV/AIDS. So by your logic any1 that didn't/doesn't follow them/gets infected should be denied fed help?
They’re incentivizing a “Why bother?” attitude towards vaccination.
Meanwhile, as anthropologist Joe Biden recognizes “Neanderthals” lifting mask mandates and re-opening businesses in red states, immunologist Joe Biden is releasing countless thousands of illegal aliens into public…
Ironically, two days ago was the 50th anniversary of a real terrorist attack on the US Capitol…
50 years ago today the radical leftist Weather Underground bombed the US Capitol Building. "Anti-imperialist, pro-"Black Power" and anti-Vietnam War, the group had declared on the US in 1970. Its leaders later became tenured academics at American universities. pic.twitter.com/iFNI703pg5
— Alberto Miguel Fernandez (@AlbertoMiguelF5) March 1, 2021
A splinter of the Socialist SDS university student group, the Weathermen were formed in June 1969 and a month later traveled to Castro's Cuba where they met with officials from North Vietnam and discussed tactics and training.
— Alberto Miguel Fernandez (@AlbertoMiguelF5) March 1, 2021
whoa that's crazy, I was told that January 6th was the first attack on the Capitol ever!!!!
To date, Wray has barely acknowledged the existence of Antifa and he struggled to utter the “A” word during his hearing on Tuesday.
“We have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribing to Antifa in connection with the 6th,” Wray said.
Wray’s testimony contradicts statements made by ex-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund and other eye witnesses who were on the ground at the Capitol on January 6.
Last Tuesday ex-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund dropped a bombshell on lawmakers in his opening statement during a hearing before the Senate Rules and Homeland Security committees.
Mr. Sund testified that according to intelligence gathered by law enforcement groups, members of the Proud Boys, white supremacist groups, ANTIFA and other extremist groups were expected to participate on January 6 and that they may be inclined to become violent.
Michael Waller, a senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy specializing in propaganda, political warfare, psychological warfare, and subversion, said he was at the Capitol on January 6 and witnessed…
Antifa protester John Sullivan was caught on video posing as a Trump supporter during the rioting at the US Capitol on January 6th.
Despite all of the reports indicating that Antifa played a role in the January 6 riot, Wray and the media continue to blame President Trump and his supporters…
Look, I’m not a follower of Q-anon. I mean, I occasionally hear stuff from friends who are, and a lot of it makes sense. And I have never really been one of those who sees every event as a “false flag operation”. However, given the bits and pieces of what did/didn’t happen prior to the January 6th “Black Wednesday”, as some call it, I am inclined to believe it was a set-up meant to falsely implicate Trump supporters who had planned to be there to protest the US Congress ratifying the Electoral vote because the election irregularities had not been and were not being taken seriously and investigated to make certain the election was legit. That is our right. And it was obvious target-rich environment for nefarious interlopers to infiltrate with the primary reason of not only besmirching Trump and his supporters gathered that day, but to set-up and hand democrats yet another bullshit reasoning for trying to impeach Pres. Trump for a second (or is it a third) time. In addition, the democrats, and apparently, the heavily soiled FBI can now designate not only Trump supporters as “domestic terrorists” but anyone who dares object to and oppose anything this coup says and does going forward. What happened that Wednesday was very mild compared to what has been happening for the last four years with antifa and blm, and most especially this past year in places like Seattle, Portland, NYC, DC, Kenosha, St. Louis, and other big cities in the U.S. that the MSM and the demo-commies refuse to recognize and call out as the unending ‘domestic terrorism’ it is. Neighborhoods invaded in the middle of the night. Businesses broken into, looted, burned down, obliterated. Countless people brutalized in the streets. Police and federal guards harassed and physically attacked, some permanently wounded. Over 30 people killed. Yet, The MSM and the demo-commies insist on pushing the ‘big lie’ that these two groups and their destructive and deadly violence is insignificant, almost ‘non-existent’, compared to the mini-riot in the Capitol building on January 6, 2021…
Hell, that’s some BIG “idea” and “myth” Joe and Jerry…
And this is their (antifa/blm) “idea”…
By the way, contrary to the MSM’s and the demo-commies’ nagging and false premise, Pres. Trump has, countless times, denounced radical rightwing groups. Last count, October 2020…
As soon as antifa and blm are brought into the ragged conversation the conversation ends. Why? Because it is a conversation they don’t want to have. And when they do give it a short moment to address, they deflect blame and responsibility to the phantom “white supremacist” groups that allegedly infiltrate the antifa/blm riots…
Black leaders in many communities have echoed these calls, urging protesters not to shift their focus from “justice” to “violence.” Some also blamed the violence on “white fringe elements” infiltrating the demonstrations.
So, how does antifa’s biggest champion in Washington DC feel about the group’s status???
Lot of unknowns still. There could have been reps in those offices or staff members. If they breached the capital and entered the Senate chamber who knows. She shouldn’t have been there or going through that window
I believe at that point they had already evacuated, but it's clear he shot an unarmed trespasser who literally had other cops at her back without even trying to make an arrest.
They still have a responsibility to wait until someone is in immediate danger to kill someone. The door was barricaded and there were officers literally standing beside the rioters on the other side of the door. He could have hit them as well. He's gonna be in trouble.
He’s been made into a hero by the left, dems and the MSM, who typically, like clockwork, deem such police killings, especially of unarmed civilians, as evil bastards. Look, I know the woman and her group had no business doing what they did that day. And the officer had his orders to do what he had to do in order to ‘stand his ground’. But is it asking too damn much for context in this and in the police who have to face and deal with this sort of ‘unknown’, and at times obvious, threats? It is just more stark inequity in how these things have been completely politicized in order to designate certain people as ‘protected groups who must never be held accountable’ and those who are unquestionably ‘shoot now and ask questions later’ expendable because of their political beliefs. And that is precisely what has infected the FBI, at the very least since the Obama regime. The unmitigated illegalities the FBI carried out against then candidate Donald Trump and those working for him, and into his presidency, are yet unresolved and completely unaccounted for and unpunished. And so, the FBI is emboldened … and not just by dems…
For the record, somewhere around 80+ have been arrested to date from the January 6th riot. However, over the past year thousands of ‘arrests’ of antifa/blm actors have been made … and little if any prosecutions. Most have been let go uncharged, and bailed out by the likes of Kamala Harris.
But while this is conveniently going on, for as long as it is useful for Pelosi and comrades company, it is a smoke screen for the next phase of the demo-commie coup on the American republic…
Michael Lee: Video shows protesters inside Georgia state Capitol as lawmakers pass expanded voter ID laws … Always amazes me how the left/dems will show ID for everything else, but somehow showing ID for voting is ‘racist’, ‘bigoted’, evil, WTF ever else. And as DC dems try to claim republicans assisted the January 6th rioters, and try to get them thrown out of Congress, well, this is A-OK, of course…
Sen Johnson asks FBI official how many firearms were confiscated from suspects arrested at Capitol riot on January 6. 'To my knowledge, none,' official answers.
Federal Prosecutors Confirm the Violence Was Planned
The prevailing narrative was that the violence was the spontaneous action of hordes of Donald Trump supporters incited into insurrection by the then-president’s rambling speech. That narrative collapsed weeks later.
Federal prosecutors issued indictments alleging that the Capitol raid was, indeed, a conspiracy planned in advance. FBI investigators agreed. Prosecutors say that elements of the criminal conspiracy began as early as November 3, 2020.
At the Senate hearing, current and former top U.S. Capitol security officials gave similar assessments, saying that “wide-ranging intelligence failures” prevented detection of what became a “military-style, coordinated assault.” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who co-chaired the hearing, concluded, “This was a planned insurrection.”
The Federalist article said that from the beginning, on Jan. 14. I was the eyewitness who wrote it.
Johnson Enters the Article into the Senate Record
Sen. Ron Johnson read extensively from the article, summarizing it in parts, during the hearing. The Wisconsin Republican asked that the full text be entered into the official record. The Federalist article was accepted without objection from senators of either party. The eyewitness account was now officially evidence for the Senate investigation.
Johnson was one of the first senators to suspect that the riot had been planned. In The Federalist article, I identified four groups that appeared to have planned for violence well in advance….
Johnson accurately related what I wrote in The Federalist article. That was a faithful summary of my exact description of the four organized groups of operatives I witnessed before the violence began in the Capitol:
Plainclothes militants. Militant, aggressive men in Donald Trump and MAGA gear at a front police line at the base of the temporary presidential inaugural platform;
Agents-provocateurs. Scattered groups of men exhorting the marchers to gather closely and tightly toward the center of the outside of the Capitol building and prevent them from leaving;
Fake Trump protesters. A few young men wearing Trump or MAGA hats backwards and who did not fit in with the rest of the crowd in terms of their actions and demeanor, whom I presumed to be Antifa or other leftist agitators; and
Disciplined, uniformed column of attackers. A column of organized, disciplined men, wearing similar but not identical camouflage uniforms and black gear, some with helmets and GoPro cameras or wearing subdued Punisher skull patches.
The Fact Too Terrible to Be Told
Three of those descriptions would not have been controversial. But one of them was too inconvenient for some people to bear: the fact that, during the march along Constitution Avenue from the White House to the Capitol, I saw furtive, small groups of left-wingers wearing Trump-supporting attire.
“I presumed these fake Trump protesters were Antifa or something similar. However, that entire afternoon I saw none of them act aggressively or cause any problems. At least, not from my vantage point,” I wrote. I didn’t know then that a notorious leftist from Utah had been at the vanguard of the fatal attempt to smash down the door to the House chamber and ran through the Capitol screaming that it should be burned down.
That didn’t matter to a lot of the journalists covering Johnson’s comments. To them, the fact that I had seen “fake Trump protesters” before the riot was a fact that had to be discredited and destroyed, before it could even be evaluated.
New Narrative: It’s a ‘Ridiculous Conspiracy Theory’
Yeah, I’m sorry not sorry, but if you continue to highlight and falsely grow a “rightwing groups” conspiracy while completely dismissing and supporting the left’s documented violent groups, you got nothing to say that I give a damn to hear. If people do not recognize and understand the full-fledged Orwellian gaslighting that is going on in the MSM and especially in DC, then this nation is just about completely lost to Hell itself.
… According to a new Harvard/Harris poll, most Americans say Democrats are using the Capitol riot “as an excuse to silence political voices on the right.”
“Do you think the Capitol riots are being used as an excuse to silence political voices on the right or is the reaction to them a legitimate response to the violence?” pollsters asked.
Most respondents (59 percent) said the Capitol riot is being used to silence conservative voices, while 41 percent said the reaction was a legitimate response to the violence.
Pollsters also asked a broader question: “Do you think that the events at the U.S. Capitol are being used by politicians to suppress legitimate political movements or do you think there is no such suppression of legitimate movements?”
Most respondents (64 percent) said politicians are using the Capitol riot to “suppress legitimate political movements, while only 36 percent said “there is no such suppression.”
Americans also said they found the violence of the Black Lives Matter and antifa riots over the summer — which destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments in the name of fighting “institutional racism” — more concerning than the Capitol riot…
Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of respondents said they think authorities will find and fully prosecute the Capitol rioters, while only 48 percent said they think authorities are searching for and fully prosecuting the Black Lives Matter/antifa rioters. A slight majority of respondents (52 percent) said “the perpetrators of violence in America’s cities over the summer” are not “being looked for and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”…
Recall the latest “Nazis!” allegation by the left due to the shape of the CPAC 2021 stage? Well, come to find out it was designed by a company rife with leftists. Go figure. Another ‘set-up’??
A CPAC spokesperson tells me it will no longer use the firm for future events. “It’s clear that the company we retained designed a stage that has become an unwelcome distraction," the spox said. https://t.co/wvtNUBruLm
4. And none of you will admit you got it wrong or apologize because in your minds it means you’re caving into Trump.
Now an event company, which is a liberal owned and run small business, is associated with a horrific allegation that is based on conspiracies and no evidence.
When I was raising my first two daughters, who loved to get even more grimy and dirty than boys, both of my Grandmothers insisted every kid had to eat a little dirt, not only in order to grow but to build resistances to the diseases ahead.
There is not a single person who lived 80 years ago who did not have views that our culture would find objectionable today. Not one. Either we cancel everyone who committed the crime of being born in the 20th century or earlier, or we stop this madness and get some perspective.
Fence update: The Architect of the Capitol’s office says the razor wire is NOT coming down. They are replacing the current fencing with different anti-climb fencing, and then the razor wire will go back up on the new fences once those are in place, per @EleanorNorton office. https://t.co/oFILgPT728
Makes perfect sense, now that China and Iran are fully in-bed together. Wait until China starts doing what bedfellow Iran does to gays. No rope too strong. No building not too tall and pavement below too hard. NBA/Disney/Hollywood/MSM will yawn.
David Solway: On Gravity—and the Truth of Science … I love this! Makes my mind spin. And then it reaffirms my argument against the era of the junk science(s) we are having rammed down our collective throats that are quickly followed by gagging our free speech and blindfolding us to opposing information/views…
It’s common knowledge that gravity is one of the four fundamental forces of nature. The strong force binds the fundamental particles of matter together to form larger particles. The electromagnetic force consists of two parts, electricity and magnetism. The so-called weak force is responsible for particle decay, Schrödinger’s Cat, and radioactivity, and has been descriptively combined with the former as the electroweak force—models predict it can be united with the strong force as the electronuclear force. Gravity is the feeblest of these forces especially at atomic and quantum scales, resisting unification with the other forces into a single equation.
Indeed, gravity remains one of the greatest problems for understanding the nature of the universe. Isaac Newton first proposed the idea of gravity as an attraction between two objects—the apocryphal apple—and developed, or discovered, the inverse square law to describe its operative principle. Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity posited that gravity is not an attractive force but the effect of massive stellar objects bending space and time—a gravitational field minus gravity, so to speak, as it is generally felt and understood. Given an initial push in the Big Bang, for example, after billions of years planets would simply “follow the curve,” banking hard like race cars in natural orbit around their stars. What is called “gravitational lensing” is the effect of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, busy curving spacetime and bending light rays as they hurtle by…
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Here I should add an explanatory remark to the reader. Though in my daily work I continue to focus on politics and social commentary, I am convinced that absolute truth—or at least stable truths—can be found only in the scientific realm, in chemistry, physics and math, founded on fundamental principles of observation, testable theory, experimental confirmation and Karl Popper’s notion of falsifiability, articulated in his The Logic of Scientific Theory. For a theory to be accepted as scientific, it must be able to be proven false. The problem with the discursive fields of commentary, scholarship, the misnamed “social sciences,” and the Humanities in general (with the exception of music, which is built on mathematical ratios) is the inevitability of bias, prior convictions and assumptions, and partisan viewpoints that can never be ruled out.
Expository writers—at any rate, the good ones—are also searching for truth, but in the human sphere of culture, politics, society and history. Here the quest for truth is shadowed by the intrusion of personal values and beliefs whose moral component is never rigorously assured. Quarrels and contestations are part of the game. There are strongly held personal convictions and considerable bickering in science, too, but eventually incontestable fact, if not absolutely unsettled truth, will emerge. 2 plus 2 will always equal 4—but poet e.e. cummings can plausibly title a volume Is 5. The distinction between the two spheres of investigation is commonly construed as the difference between subjective parallax and objective methodology.
Even if ultimate truth continues asymptotically to recede, even if science is never settled, which is as it should be, the quest for reliable knowledge is authentic, impartial, scrupulous, never-ending and honorable, producing disparate but incontrovertible results in various fields of inquiry that can test true, as evidenced by practical applications…
No other state like Texas knows and understands the purpose of liberty is so that Americans have choices, and the freedom to make them.
The people of Texas can now make the choice whether to wear or not to wear a mask(s) out in public. Businesses now have the choice to open and to schedule their own days/hours to be open … and whether or not to post signs “No shoes. No shirt. No mask. No service.”
As my Twitter pal Zuby lays out, there has been very little, if any, empirical scientific proof that any extreme (in many cases) measures done in this last year of China’s viral bio-weapon pandemic has had any real effect, one way or another…
One year into this foolishness and I'm yet to see any CONCLUSIVE evidence that masks OR lockdowns actually 'saved' lives…
I can see that the latter ruined hundreds of millions though.
They want everyone to keep playing this stupid game forever.
For the past year political science has been a poor & destructive substitute for real empirical science. What's frightening is how it has now set a precedent for anything/everything going forward.
Texans celebrated the state’s Independence Day with news that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott would re-open restaurants and businesses to full capacity—and repealed the statewide mask mandate….
The Texas governor announced the reopening of the state at the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce, where he signed an executive order rescinding his other COVID restrictions.
CNN reported that Abbott proclaimed people smart enough and knowledgeable enough to take care of themselves and their families….
Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published because of “racist and insensitive” imagery.
The business that preserves Dr. Seuss’ legacy announced 6 books will no longer be published because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”
“Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said in a statement to the Associated Press.
“Dr. Seuss Enterprises listened and took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists in the field as part of our review process. We then worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review our catalog of titles,” it said.
One book portrayed an Asian character eating food with chopsticks and another book depicted bare-footed African men wearing grass skirts.
The following 6 Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published:
“McElligot’s Pool”
“On Beyond Zebra!”
“Scrambled Eggs Super!”
“The Cat’s Quizzer”
“And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”
“If I Ran the Zoo”
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Each year on Dr. Seuss’ birthday, schools across the country host “Read Across America Day” in his honor.
However, this year, activists with a liberal group called ‘Learning for Justice’ are pressuring schools to drop the fun celebration. You see, while the right wants to keep children out of politics — the left is obsessed with reaching them as young as possible with their agenda…
Soooo, Asians don’t eat with chopsticks (BTW, I strictly eat Asian foods with chopsticks, not a fork. It’s a cultural respect thing for me) or still wear their practical conical hats…
And tribal African men don’t go barefooted and wear grass skirts (typically in cultural ceremonies)…
Alrighty then, almighty culture-denying ‘Learning for Justice’ and enabling leftist teachers union-occupied schools.
I read a lot about Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and his politics when I was working on Five Came Back, and there's not a doubt in my mind that he would have thought all the people at Fox News suddenly taking him up as a cause are the world's biggest assholes.
Geisel was a fascinating and remarkably non-defensive man who deplored racism and was also capable of recognizing where he himself had erred. So the blowhard right should stop panicking. There are still 39 Seuss books left. The Trump Library will be fine. https://t.co/xWbBrsVxu2
It's a subset of the totalitarian Left's aversion to absolute principles. There are no inalienable rights. Only people with the correct politics have privileges like free speech. If you stand up for someone's freedom of speech, you must be endorsing everything they ever said. https://t.co/qskNO1VaNi
You mean 30 Seuss books. I'm sorry now it's 26. My bad down to 18. Oops now look it's 9. Well we're down to one. Nope it's gone too.#slipperyslope#CancelCancelCulture#CCC
The good news: in short order, we'll no longer need to worry about our failing educational system because books are racist and math is racist and everything is racist.
In my position as a professor of mathematics at Princeton, I have witnessed the decline of universities and cultural institutions as they have embraced political ideology at the expense of rigorous scholarship. Until recently — this past summer, really — I had naively thought that the STEM disciplines would be spared from this ideological takeover.
I was wrong. Attempts to “deconstruct” mathematics, deny its objectivity, accuse it of racial bias, and infuse it with political ideology have become more and more common — perhaps, even, at your child’s elementary school.
This phenomenon is part of what has been dubbed “The Great Awokening.” As others have explained powerfully, the ideology incubated in academia, where it indoctrinated plenty of bright minds. It then migrated, through those true believers, into our important cultural, religious and political institutions. Now it is affecting some of the country’s most prominent businesses.
Unlike the traditional totalitarianism practiced by former communist countries, like the Romania I grew up in, this version is soft. It enforces its ideology not by jailing dissenters or physically eliminating them, but by social shaming, mob punishment, guilt by association, and coerced speech.
When it comes to education, I believe the woke ideology is even more harmful than old-fashioned communism…
Read the whole thing. History, if our society manages to survive this total bullshit, will look back on this time and these dictatorial and bullying “influencers” for the neo-dark ages diseased monsters that they are.
You’d better buy and read Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” before that gets banned for Ray somehow being a ‘racist’, but mostly a ‘crazy conspiracy theorist’. And while you’re at it, grab Orwell’s “1984” and a couple of Ayn Rand’s too.
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