[Washington Examiner] Our nation’s capital is experiencing a wave of violent crime this year. Compared to 2022 , there has been a 54% increase in robberies, an 18% increase in homicides, and a 6% increase in assaults with a deadly weapon. There have been numerous murders of young people, predominantly occurring with firearms , with seemingly no end in sight. Damn White supremacists!
How could this be when the District of Columbia has some of the nation’s strictest gun laws in the nation?
The anti-gun lobby constantly tells the public that more gun control laws will stop violent crime. But their intentionally vague call to "do something" almost always includes restrictive policy proposals that make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to purchase a firearm or carry it in public for self-defense. The District of Columbia government has already implemented many of these laws — before the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision last year, which affirmed the constitutional right to carry a firearm in public, it had been nearly impossible to obtain a concealed carry permit in the District — and clearly, they are not lowering violent crime rates in any capacity.
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Wiki:The metro DC area is the second-most popular destination for African immigrants after NY City. In 2019 more than 192,000 African-born live in DC and nearby suburbs... The largest concentration of Ethiopians in the United States are found in D.C. and metro area. conservative estimate number at around 75,000 residents... other estimates as high as 250,000 Ethiopians in DC and surrounding neighborhoods... Other notable groups include those from Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Cameroon and Kenya, who congregate in the suburban areas, in contrast to the Ethiopian and Somalis which show a decided urban concentration in areas such as Shaw, the U Street Corridor and Adams Morgan. African migrants display higher education, labor participation and English usage rates than other migrants to the US.
[Gateway] The best way to get rid of ants is to kill the queen. The most effective way to do away with the spread of toxic progressive ideology is to eliminate its advocates from positions of power.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion officers are like queens in the progressive anthills of corporations and universities. The good news? They’re beginning to die off.
The Wall Street Journal published an article by Te-Ping Chen and Lauren Weber this month entitled, "The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer." The findings will enrage leftist ideologues. Those who have been wondering what happened to common sense can sigh a breath of relief. Conservatives are likely to cheer.
According to the Journal, Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have recently been rethinking their progressive stand on DEI to the extent that high-profile diversity, equity and inclusion executives are going to lose their jobs. Just since last year, thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off.
For those of us who have been scratching our heads wondering how and why corporations ever thought that DEI, gender theory, critical race theory, and the rest of the progressive nonsense would make money, the downfall of DEI not only makes sense, it was inevitable. Most people — no matter how many times progressives pump their lies through establishment media — don’t buy it, figuratively or literally.
In other words, though DEI is an effective method for radical progressives to spread their gospel, it’s bad for business. It was only a matter of time before corporate stakeholders would notice their investments were suffering because corporate leaders opted to hire postmodern-infused wokeness into their ranks.
Miriam Warren, chief diversity officer for Yelp, told the Journal about some of the challenges facing executives in the DEI field. "There’s a combination of grief, being very tired, and being, in some cases, overwhelmed," Warren said.
I don’t want to come off as callous, but I could care less how Warren feels. How many people has she damaged while pushing her radical left agenda into the workplace? She’ll feel better in an honest line of work.
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Peter Drucker: An organization can have one mission. As soon as it has two or more it will fail at all of them.
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Good riddance. The HR folks are sufficiently annoying by themselves.
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Barnacles - just another form of a priestly caste that has infested societies since the Egyptians that enrich themselves at the expense of the rest.
The LSD's have recently allowed in about 4+ Million Illegal immigrants that may be used to cut the labor costs. IF the LSD's just write a new Federal Immigration Regulation, or Biden decides to pardon them.
[AmericanThinker] Do leftists believe what they say they believe? And if not, how would we know?
On key issues, the evidence shows that their positions cannot be taken at face value.
In "Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model", David Horowitz quoted an SDS radical who wrote, "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." In other words, when the left picks an issue to demonstrate on, the issue itself is seen as a step to bigger goals.
Let us look at a few such issues.
While many undoubtably believe in the dangers of man's contribution to global warming, consider Christine Stewart — former Canadian environment minister — who said, "No matter if the science is all phony, there are still collateral environmental benefits. ... Climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world."
So if you were to debate Christine Stewart on E.V.s or wind turbines, for example, you would not persuade her, because you would not be arguing against "social justice," which is the deeper issue.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, admitted that the true motivation behind her Green New Deal, which proposes transitioning the U.S. economy away from all fossil fuels in ten years, is to overhaul the "entire economy." Note that AOC didn't call the Green New Deal the "Socialist New Deal," even though the Green Party site says it is a "major step towards ending unemployment for good and a tool to fight the corporate takeover of our democracy and exploitation of the poor."
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The "greater truth" is never either great or true...
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It is better to expose communists than to debate them. For instance, you could publish the amount of fuel was in the national reserves before Biden and now. Calculate how much money it will require to replace that fuel at Biden era prices. Then publish who bought the fuel. Finally, draw the connection between Hunter and the buyers.
Otherwise, you can debate the Administration on its global warming policy but they will just use the appeal to authority fallacy.
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I'd no sooner debate a commie about govt,
than I would debate a catholic about G-d.
How California’s weather catastrophe turned into a miracle
Gushing waterfalls, swollen lakes and snow-covered mountaintops transformed the state’s arid landscapes.
Californians were preparing for another year of unrelenting drought in 2023. Instead, they got months of incessant rain and some of the heaviest snowfall they have ever seen.
They feared blasts of spring warmth would quickly turn snow into floods, adding to the havoc from a series of winter storms. But, until recently, temperatures remained mercifully cool, allowing for a slow and steady melt.
The result: A return of water to California that has erased drought maps, poured into long-dry irrigation systems and raised expectations that, after months with water bursting from their gates, reservoirs will end the summer melt filled to capacity.
It has been a stark transformation, with arid landscapes and trickling rivers replaced with swollen lakes, gushing waterfalls and snow-covered mountaintops. Instead of pumping groundwater to keep crops alive, farmers have access to brimming canals carrying more water than they could use.
The climate has always changed cyclically and naturally and always will. The dire predictions have never been true. They are made up to push an agenda.
We didn't get more rain, cooler weather, and full reservoirs because California, and the federal government are forcing people to drive inefficient, expensive electric cars powered by a flammable pollutant.
We didn't get this beautiful result because politicians and bureaucrats are seeking to destroy industries that use natural resources to produce reasonably priced and reliable energy and other products that make our life better.
We didn't get this marvelous climate this year in California because of windmills and solar panels.
Nope, we got this because the climate changed as it always has, without the help of humans.
Policies should be based on scientific data instead of easily manipulated computer models that have always been wrong.
We have to stop this massive fraud before it destroys America and especially the poor and middle class who the media and other Democrats pretend to care about.
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A lot of lithium in the Salton Sea too. As it's Cali, it must be left in the toxic lagoon that is the Salton Sea, regardless of Cali's "green dreams."
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The issues are never the issue. The *agenda* is the issue (total enslavement of the proles). Everything else is just a series of distractions meant to keep everyone from escaping the matrix.
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"As part of the Biden administration’s commitment to combating climate change, the Department of Energy is shelling out $400 billion for green energy projects, according to The Wall Street Journal."
Its about the money, looting the public purse and giving it to friends who reward you with perks afterwards. Democrat graft on an industrial scale across the entire schema of government policy.
Climate change is real, but natural, and human causation/remediation are insignificant components in the grand scheme of things. I posted an article for tomorrow that said a leading Climate scientist has recognized that the modeling is NOT predictive, and has become a political tool for global treasury looting.
[2023 publication of Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response, geoscientist Judith A. Curry, Ph.D.]
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Nasreddin, bareheaded, alone,
Debates at the gate. With a groan,
The guard: "Now you're trans,
Mollah, what are your plans?"
"I am going, he says, "to be stoned."
[Federalist] Sharon is as tired as her husband. Work takes them away from their kids. They both need a break, but can they afford a vacation? Sharon also misses her folks in Texas, and they miss their grandkids. To add despair to exhaustion, her church is more intent on making members feel good than doing good. Indeed, Hollywood culture is shaping her area more than Christ. Even their governor seems more focused on transitioning tomboys than fixing crime. Before bed, she tells her husband: "Where are our taxes going?" The rent is overdue.
Sharon is just a symbol, but her issues are all too real. They’re why thousands of families are leaving (fleeing?) California and other deep-blue states. It’s a sociological phenomenon. Like it or not, families are voting with their cars and plane tickets for red states. Many Christians are among them. Sociologists and pastors alike are paying attention.
A new book, Fight by Flight by Pastor Joel Webbon, advances the view that it’s OK to leave deep-blue states. Indeed, such trends could shape future elections for the better. As Webbon says, "If less than 100,000 conservatives/Christians living in California had moved to Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, or Wisconsin before the 2020 election, the whole world might look different. 6 million votes for Trump in California, and all we needed was 76, 514 (less than 1 and a half percent)."
It’s worth considering. Conservatives/Christians feel pressured to stay in places where they have little effect. In Sharon’s case, a move to Texas from California would honor her father and mother. She’d also have more time with her children and husband. She’d have more money to spend on essentials and experiences that reflect her family’s values. And as for her evangelical tradition? Not everyone is called to be a professional missionary, and there are mission opportunities in Texas.
Boiled down, Webbon says that leaving godless places is often loving godless places.
Fight by Flight has been praised by Megan Basham of The Daily Wire and Steve Deace of Blaze TV. This slim book is one of the most interesting reads I’ve come across in years. Part theology, part memoir, it’s a reminder that simple ideas can carry much weight. Webbon has a gift for distilling time-tested values for use in many contexts.
Currently, I live in Victoria, Australia, one of the most controlled states in the world during the Covid-19 hysteria. As a result, thousands of families left or are planning to leave. The mental health costs on children and adults, from breakdowns to suicides, are still being felt and will be for decades to come. Telling families they can leave for their children is a sign of compassion built on truth. Pastors like Webbon offer a Bible-based map out of regime-first mindsets, an alternative to passiveness.
History is also instructive. Did English Pilgrim fathers "fight by flight" when they hopped on the Mayflower? Did Jesus encourage a "fight by flight" lifestyle when he asked his disciples to travel light and carry swords? Did Moses "fight by flight" when he left Egypt with his people in the thousands? Indeed, "fight by flight" patterns occur across cultures, regions, and centuries. They involve strategy. They signal liberty. "Fight by flight" men built your area, most likely.
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I'd welcome any one moving to GA. as long as they adopt ways to understand this is the South. Where we have our own culture, BBQ, centrist morals, treat neighbors like friend as long as they act accordingly.... politics or not.... and that government STOPS at the mailbox.
Plus we don't constantly here the usual "That's not how we did it back in _____'" speech.
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The blue states have become a new Confederacy in that their political power is inflated by theoretically non-voting non-citizens. Conservatives should leave because their efforts will be better rewarded vis-a-vis the tax rates in liberal states. If for every liberal that leaves, a conservative leaves, the political impact on red states is negated. The impact of conservative tax payers leaving will send some of the liberal policies into remission due to funding issues. Finally, staying in a liberal state allows them to indoctrinate your children.
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Some frogs note the temperature trend in the pot sooner than others...
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They’re why thousands of families are leaving (fleeing?) California and other deep-blue states.
I had ancestors who felt the same and left Europe to come here.
[AlAhram] Are Arab refugees in Egypt taking jobs away from Egyptians? The statistics say no, at least with regard to Syrians, many of whom brought along large sums of money which they invested in various enterprises.
As a result, we have seen, for example, a proliferation of Syrian food outlets in Cairo, Giza, Alexandria and other towns and cities.
Many of the employees in these enterprises are also Syrians but, according to a World Bank report on Syrian investments in Egypt, over half the employees are Egyptians.
The report, which came out in 2017, said that recorded investments made by Syrians in Egypt that year came to $880 million. It added that the real volume was probably much higher because some Syrians registered their projects under the names of Egyptian partners or did not register them at all.
According to this year’s report by the International Organisation for Migration in Egypt (IOM Egypt), Syrians have transferred around $1 billion to Egypt since 2013.
It states that Syrians have contributed more effectively than other nationalities to boosting employment in Egypt. In addition to the more visible enterprises, such as restaurants and other food outlets, Syrians have invested in other sectors, such as clothes, furniture and plastic manufacturing.
And why should this come as a surprise from the descendants of Selim and Samaan Sednaoui, George Abyad, Aziz Eid, Sami Shawa and the many other Syrians that came to Egypt over the centuries and made indelible marks here.
They, like the Zananiri, Lutfallah, Zeidan and other families that settled in Egypt and became Egyptian, contributed to our country’s economic prosperity and to the development of the press, the arts and other areas of life. They were merchants, farmers, manufacturers, writers, lawyers, poets and journalists.
Selim and Samaan Sednaoui originally came from the Syrian village of Seidnaya. When they arrived in 1870, they barely had enough money to open a small clothing shop, the items in which Samaan made himself.
By the time they died, they had bequeathed the largest department store in Cairo. The elegant building on Khazendar Street was designed by the same architect who designed the Galeries Lafayette in Gay Paree.
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In advance, during and immediately after the Six Day War in 1967 the Syrian community in Alexandria and the Delta left Egypt in the tens of thousands. Nasser left no doubt that not only would Egypt be quit of its minuscule Jewish population, it would be quit of Syrians, Greeks, Lebanese and Turks. Egypt would be for the Egyptians. The result was an Egyptian economy, and Alexandria itself, that languished in the doldrums for years.
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"Selim and Samaan Sednaoui... By the time they died, they had bequeathed the largest department store in Cairo. The elegant building on Khazendar Street was designed by the architect who designed the Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
I believe this is incorrect. The largest store was the Hannaux, owned by a Jewish family of French history. Hannaux spent years trying to recoup after Naser sequestered his business. But France (beginning with DeGaulle) never supported his claim for recompense.
All that is required is chronic government stonewalling of reasonable requests for transparency. Then add in high officials serially lying under oath, along with the blatantly unequal application of the law. Institutionalize arguments from authority of politicians and bureaucrats who refuse to adjudicate arguments empirically.
Include the weaponization of investigatory and intelligence bureaucracies. Finish with the transformation of an obsequious media into a mouthpiece of the state. And presto, you end up with a skeptical, cynical public that learns to believe the very opposite from what it is told by elites.
JANUARY 6th
Curiously. some conservative politicians, media and politicos often remark of their surprise that so many of the Trump base insists that the January 6 riot at the Capitol was in part a federally driven conspiracy, or perhaps just a mere "demonstration" gone awry.
But whether true or not, why would some not believe that—given the efforts of the state to hide and warp facts?
Consider what drives rational people to embrace supposed "conspiracy" theories around the so-called "insurrection?"
One reason, of course, is that there was evidence of FBI informants present on January 6. Do not take the word of conservatives for such suppositions.
Instead, remember what award-winning New York Times’s reporter and keen follower of right-wing political activity, Matthew Rosenberg said of January 6, albeit in an ambush interview conducted by Project Veritas:
The left’s overreaction — the left’s reaction to it in some places was so over the top. They were making it too big a deal ... that gave the opening for lunatics in the right to be like, ’Oh, well, nothing happened here. It was just a peaceful bunch of tourists,’ you know, and it’s like, but nobody wants to hear that."
Rosenberg then remarked that he spotted numerous FBI informants among the crowd milling around the Capitol. Or as he put it, "There were a ton of FBI informants among the people who attacked the Capitol." Cannot the FBI refute such allegations?
Apparently not. Given such speculation, one would expect that FBI Director Christopher Wray might at least categorically deny such inflammatory accusations.
Yet in congressional testimony when asked whether the FBI had inserted informants among the protestors, sphinxlike Wray merely shrugged, "So I really need to be careful here talking about where we have or have not used confidential human sources."
Then there is the mysterious case of Ray Epps, initially sought by FBI "as a person of interest" for allegedly inciting demonstrators to break the law and enter the Capitol.
But then oddly Epps was de facto exempted for some 30 months from arrest—even as hundreds who urged no such action were indicted and convicted of "illegal parading" or unlawfully "demonstrating in front of the Capitol"—misdemeanors that ended up resulting in felony-type sentencing.
In one video clip, as Epps attempts to gin up the stationary crowd to move illegally into the Capitol, he is met with "conspiratorial" accusations from skeptical bystanders calling out: "Fed! Fed! Fed!"
Epps filed suit against Fox News for defamation on grounds that anchor Tucker Carlson had tied him to efforts to incite January 6 violence. Yet then suddenly Epps announced that he believes he will soon be charged, after all, by the government for his role in the January 6 protests.
If true, such an arrest was long anticipated, since Epps is caught on tape, unambiguously, on more than one occasion, urging demonstrators to enter the Capitol unlawfully (e.g., "We need to go to the Capitol").
If one would like to hatch an Epps conspiracy theory, then one could do no better than quoting another Ray Epps braggadocious claim that he had texted to his nephew: "I orchestrated it."
It did not help the Left’s construction of a January 6 "insurrection" theory that it serially misled the country about the actual loss of life. At first, Democrats insisted, falsely, that Officer Sicknick’s tragic death was due to protestor violence. Yet an autopsy revealed that he died a day later from a stroke.
Then Democrat leaders pivoted to claim that any law enforcement officer present on January 6, who for any reason subsequently committed suicide, was to be counted a victim of protestor violence.
All the while, the media kept largely quiet about the fact that the only unambiguously violent death that day was that of military veteran Ashli Babbitt. She was unarmed as she was shot unlawfully entering the Capitol through a broken window.
The name and identity of the officer, remember, were suppressed for months—a protective protocol unlike any other accorded law enforcement officers in the country who lethally shoot unarmed suspects.
ASYMMETRIES
If all that was not enough to create suspicion about media and political narratives, then there was the asymmetrical media coverage and the reaction of the Justice Department to the 2020 summer riots.
Touch an officer on January 6, and one sat in jail for months. Club an officer in summer 2020, and the offender was likely to become certified as a member of the Antifa or BLM resistance, albeit acting up a bit during the "summer of love."
Unlike January 6, the violence of arsonists, murderers, rioters, and Antifa and BLM mobs resulted in 1,500 injured law enforcement officers, more than 35 violent deaths, nearly $2 billion in property damage, and 14,000 arrests. Yet most of the indictments were dropped, or plea bargained down to minor misdemeanors by sympathetic leftwing city and state prosecutors.
Note that the 2020 rioters also targeted iconic and government buildings. Rioters attempted to burn down a federal courthouse, a police precinct headquarters, an historic Washington D.C. church—all topped off by the mob’s nocturnal effort to stampede into the White House grounds to get to the president.
That failed assault precipitated a hasty Secret Service effort to put Trump and his family in a secure subterranean bunker. Again, why was such violence aimed at the White House largely unpunished given its intensity matched or exceeded that of the Capitol riot?
Even more importantly, the investigatory January 6 committee also fed rather than quieted conspiracy theories. The Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives first denied nominated Republican representatives any seats on the select committee.
Instead, they cherry-picked just two Republicans—on the apparent requisite that both Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were a) die-hard Trump haters, and b) politically inert and headed for forced retirement.
The committee neither called any contrarian witnesses nor subpoenaed documents and videos felt to be antithetical to their narrative of a rightwing violent and armed "insurrection." Yet, again, they did not produce evidence that anyone arrested inside the Capitol was in possession of a firearm.
Nor were any plans found of "insurrectionists" planning to occupy government property for any length of time—in the fashion of, say, Seattle’s "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ) or (CHOP) "Capitol Hill Organized Protest."
In that case, rioters simply annexed government space as their own for over three weeks, ran the sanctuary-like mini-revolutionary state, forbid the police to enter, and were granted exemptions from city and state authorities.
The January 6 narrative of continuous threats of an armed revolution was leveraged to justify deploying 20,000 armed soldiers —the largest militarization of Washington D.C. since Jubal Early’s Confederate raid of 1864. Again, such use of federal troops stood in dire contrast to the abject appeasement of the far more violent 2020 rioters, when sympathetic mayors and governors resisted calls to deploy federal troops to their jurisdictions.
Recall that the suspicions arising around January 6 followed a long series of revelations about government misconduct that confirmed the suspicions of once reviled "conspiracists."
In numerous cases, the wild charge of conspiracists eventually were proven, while the sober and judicious defense narratives of government officials were exposed as outright lies, and occasionally themselves conspiracies.
THE TRUE CONSPIRACISTS
There was no "Russian collusion" conspiracy.
There was a Clinton conspiratorial effort.
It sought to hide campaign money through three paywalls to hire Christopher Steele to add to his ad hominem lies and to ensure that they were disseminated throughout the media and government. The point was solely to emasculate her opponent, Donald Trump.
As far as the first Trump impeachment phone call, given the multimillion-dollar corruptions abroad of the Biden family syndicate, and the boasts of Joe Biden about his past interference in Ukraine politics to fire a bothersome prosecutor, any president would have warned Ukraine to clean up its act with the Bidens or face holds on American largess.
The Covid-19 virus did escape from a nearby Chinese virology lab. It was a media and government fed lie that it was birthed naturally in the wild by a bat or pangolin, part of a three-year long effort to appease the Chinese communist party. And there was a clear role of the NIAID and NIH in funding dangerous gain-of-function research under the auspices of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
Most of what the government assured about the quarantines and vaccinations proved eventually to be wrong or only half-true. That reality proved ironic when those who warned of lockdown dangers were eventually vindicated, but never received apologies from their accusers.
Given the blanket exemptions provided to Hillary Clinton for unlawfully destroying subpoenaed material and using a home server to transmit classified information, and the reduction of Hunter Biden’s numerous felonies to minor misdemeanors, and the likely exemption given Joe Biden for storing classified files for years at his various homes and offices, why would anyone not believe that the government and the media work hard to suppress the truth?
And why would any citizen believe the government or the media after the Biden campaign solicited "51 intelligence authorities" to swear falsely that the genuine Hunter Biden laptop was likely a product of "Russian disinformation."
The entire concocted lie was a Biden-campaign effort to use the gravitas of former government officials and the complicity of the media to promote a fantasy to influence the impending presidential debate. And it worked to a tee.
Note as well that the FBI hired out Twitter employees to suppress information concerning the Biden laptop. The truth was deemed "disinformation" in order to mislead voters on the eve of the 2020 election.
Normally, distinguished government heads of hallowed bureaus carefully weigh in on investigations to warn against idle speculations and convulsed conspiracies. But who currently in Washington could be sure of any such voice since our most esteemed intelligence and investigative directors are admitted liars?
Former FBI Director James Comey feigned amnesia in congressional testimony. He passed off a dossier he knew to be fallacious as genuine evidence to a FISA court.
His successor Andrew McCabe lied on four occasions to federal investigators. Current Director Christopher Wray has continually stonewalled congressional oversight committees.
Special counsel and former FBI Director Robert Mueller preposterously claimed he knew nothing of the Steele dossier or Fusion GPS.
Both John Brennan, former CIA Director, and James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, admittedly lied under oath to Congress. None of these liars faced any legal consequences.
Anthony Fauci’s incriminating emails keep appearing in the public domain, making a mockery of his earlier, ludicrous claim that he had not channeled U.S. dollars to the Wuhan lab to ensure the continuance of outlawed gain—of-function research.
Worse still, so often those screaming "conspiracy theory" are conspiracists themselves. Hillary Clinton schemed with dark money and paywalls to smear her 2016 opponent.
As election denialists Hillary Clinton ("He knows he’s an illegitimate president") and Jimmy Carter ("He [Trump] lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf") refused to accept the 2016 verdict, projecting such denialism onto others.
So how does the government abort a conspiracy theory?
Simple: Quit the chronic lying and for once tell the truth.
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[Gateway] Democrats are moving to jail President Trump on illegitimate charges in garbage court cases. "Republican nerve." Will someone please explain that term ?
Where are the Republicans?
We all know the answer to this.
Before Joe Biden is impeached he will have a slip, a fall, or a medical emergency. His administration will tearfully announce Joe is stepping down from office.
Democrats and their lapdog media will then insist the Biden Crime Story is "yesterday’s news" and "has already been prosecuted." The American public will be lectured on what a great leader Joe Biden was and how he should be forever honored in our memories and the history books.
Republican leadership and Uniparty members will breathe a sigh of relief that they will not be forced to go through impeachment proceedings. They will tell us, "This is not who we are."
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^ Sorry, there are enough RINOs to sink that in the house.
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The math is not in the votes. The important statistic is Joe’s favorability rating. As this plays out, his favorability will dip low enough so that he will appear to be no match for Trump and he will also be an apparent drag on Senate and House races. There is a threshold that exists where they yank him for medical reasons. Biden told us that going in.
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The Republicans never do anything, regardless of voting majority. I repeat, they never do anything. Trump is so fondly remembered because he actually had the nerve to fight.
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Wait'll RFK Jr. beats the crap out of Biden in the early Democrat primaries. Joe will then take a page from the LBJ playbook...
"Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
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^ He will no doubt make it as a radio address...
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Republicans? Laughable. Whatever happens will be by Dem design. The GOP House majority will be no more than interested bystanders.
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A smart medical opinion might be helpful here. The was a recent twitter video of his fist-clenching as he left the podium after a word salad ending. I did some research at it was mentioned repeatedly as a symptom of advanced dementia-onset, matched with inappropriate anger issues. The NATO dinner absence, and the increasingly frequent "lids" on the WH press days are the latest in a well-publicized series of events all pointing to rapidly cascading deterioration. I think SuperHose is right about there being triggers(#5above), but I think they have very little time left to shovel money and favors out the door before he becomes impossible to hide and Dr. Jill tries in vain to play Edith for about a week. My guess is draft Pardons are already written, and Jojo won't really need one since the subsequent Impeachment Trial would look like a mix of Elder Abuse and the Cartoon Network.
The good news for the Biden Crime Family is no one will even notice their post-Pardon antics as the Madness of Queen Cackles takes center stage.
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Joe’s administration has been calling so many lids that I am expecting KJP to come out to the podium dressed as HooDoo. Joe is and has been toast. Yes, he is getting worse.
To me the replacement hold up has always been Kamala and then they lost the House to boot so they will have to negotiate with McCarthy for the VP replacement. They should have done all this in the lame duck session. They thought McCarthy would do what they want when they wanted. Gaetz messed that up for them. Although McCarthy has demonstrated that he would eliminate the debt ceiling for a handful of magic beans, Gaetz will push back against the preferred Newsom swap which McCarthy would have green lit. McCarthy might still facilitate Newsom, but if he does the primaries will turn into a MAGA slaughterhouse for all his punks.
The current process is what we need. No snap impeachment. No Special Prosecutor to block continued investigation. Just let all the Biden details bleed out. As for pardons - Hunter’s plea deal is a quasi pardon. It will be an incredibly expensive one. The judge who signs off on it will eventually face impeachment.
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However, this LSD coup ends.
They have fiscally hosed the USA, every citizen, including their own voters, and Special Interest Group supporters.
Those who have stolen, skimmed, pocketed wealth, acquired gifts & the real DC Swamp powers behind the scene. All likely already have evacuation locations, dual citizenship and paid for immunity from extradition.
#13
Kurt's point (#3) was similar to #11. The impeachment process willhighlight all the evil deeds. Sure, the MSM will deflect and twist it, but they'll have to say something. Kurt figured to many squishes to leave the House, and the Dems in the Senate would all vote against it.
Fine. Get your popcorn and then let the voters decide. I hope he's right...
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07/24/2023 15:45 Comments ||
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#14
They don't dare run Kamala in 2024. They have to get rid of her first. See: Spiro Agnew.
Posted by: Tom ||
07/24/2023 16:04 Comments ||
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#15
The Dems will run Kamala because it does not matter. Biden technically did not run in 2020. And Biden technically is not President as he does nothing. The deep state runs America and anyone selected is just a place holder. So RFK Jr is out as he will get Bernied.
#16
U.S. Grant succeeded where others failed because he kept the pressure on in all cases and every day. McCarthy had his chance during the debt ceiling. He failed us. We will see how Jacketless Jim Jordan does. Is he William Tecumseh Sherman or Fighting Joe Hooker? We will discover in the next several months. This Administration cannot take the pressure. They are the worst we have ever had.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/24/2023 16:39 Comments ||
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#17
News Flash: Body of 43-year-old Black Male, Found in Pond Behind President Obama’s Martha Vineyard Estate -
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/24/body-of-43-year-old-black-male-found-in-pond-behind-president-obamas-marth-vineyard-estate/comment-page-2/#comments
#18
How inconvenient! Couldn't he die in a public place, like Ft. Marcy Park?
Posted by: Bobby ||
07/24/2023 17:26 Comments ||
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#19
Re #14. Cocaine was found in that area of the White House called "The VP's Entrance". Perhaps that's what's in store for her. Harris is ousted, Newsom gets installed as VP, Biden gets ousted via the 25th Amendment, and thus Newsom becomes the **acting** president. As Newsom would be the **acting** president, and not the actual president (unless Biden croaks), he could still hold 2 more terms (assuming the Supreme Court doesn't get involved). Maybe Pelosi would become the new VP.
#20
Pelosi is busy puppeteering Feinstein’s votes. It is likely that they will try to puppeteer Kamala first. I think she is too arrogant to follow their script as her speechwriters have all discovered.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/24/2023 18:21 Comments ||
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#21
Kamala follow scripts? She's too stupid and too routinely drunk to follow much of anything.
#22
That pond is protected from ocean waves and probably doesn't get a lot of wind either. So it's smooth water, not wavy, choppy or rough but ideal for paddle boarding and kayaking. So how did the paddle boarder drown? Did he not know how to swim? What was he doing out there without a life jacket if he didn't know how to swim? What was he doing out there without a life jacket even if he was an excellent swimmer? Who was he? Inquiring minds want to know but it's a good bet the medical examiner will say whatever Baraq wants him to say.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
07/24/2023 19:04 Comments ||
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#23
As for RFK Jr., I could be wrong but I get the impression he would not be willing to make the kind of a deal that Bernie did. Not that I would vote for him any more than I would have voted for Bernie.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
07/24/2023 19:08 Comments ||
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#24
Why were they looking for him if they did not know who he was?
As for RFK Jr, this is not about earning another vacation home. He is settling scores. I will not vote for him, but I will honor salute him upon the occasion of his Viking funeral. His campaign will resembl The Gauntlet.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/24/2023 19:20 Comments ||
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#25
Stay out of hotel kitchens, dude...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/24/2023 19:52 Comments ||
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#26
it was Obama's chef who died
Posted by: lord garth ||
07/24/2023 20:59 Comments ||
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#27
Let me guess, Moochelle decided he wasn't serving enough arugula?
Anyway, my bet is on Joe Biden being found in Fort Marcy Park with two gunshot wounds in the back of his head from attempting to commit suicide. Since he doesn't have a brain, it'll just let air into the vacuum inside his head. Then he'll be forced to resign.
I'm not advocating anything, just expressing my expectation of his fate once he's no longer puppet-worthy.
[Wash Examiner] In a recent interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo, former President Donald Trump recounted a long-ago conversation he’d had with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. He claimed he asked Kennedy whom he considered to be the smartest senator. "I won’t tell you the answer because I don’t particularly like the guy. I said, ’Who’s the dumbest?’ He said, ’Probably Joe [Biden].’"
According to Trump, Kennedy said, "He’s hale and hearty and well meant, [great] personality, but you go to policy or you go to taxes or anything that’s complicated, he doesn’t have a clue."
It’s not hard to imagine this conversation taking place. Even in his prime, President Joe Biden often came across as a buffoon. When we think of Biden’s long career in Washington (before his presidency), we think of his humiliating forced withdrawal from the 1988 Democratic presidential primary for plagiarism, his vile treatment of Supreme Court nominees Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, his unwanted touching, and his lies and exaggerations.
But his reemergence on the national stage in 2019 brought new attacks. Accusations that he had enriched himself and his family members during his tenure as vice president were leveled against him — serious charges he managed to dodge ahead of the 2020 presidential election with a little help from his friends.
But those allegations have not gone away. In fact, they’ve only grown louder and more damning since his first day in office. And today, four years later, they’ve become too big to hide.
Since taking back Congress in January, House Republican investigators have uncovered incontrovertible evidence that the Biden family enriched itself by trading on the ability of its patriarch to influence U.S. policy decisions for cash. The evidence includes bank records, the content on Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the sworn testimony of a growing number of IRS and FBI whistleblowers who participated in and even led their agencies’ investigations into Hunter Biden.
#4
How can they consider reinstalling him? I don’t think that is their plan.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/24/2023 12:43 Comments ||
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#5
No one wants Biden (except the bureaucracy.) He is a terrible liability as a President and a candidate. So next year I am willing to bet all the Democrat ads won't even mention him. All you will hear is
"abortion" and "Trump is icky."
Posted by: Tom ||
07/24/2023 16:02 Comments ||
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[JNS] The terror chief’s miscalculation prevented Israel from making extremely dangerous territorial concessions and bringing on a war that would have been far more costly than the one it got.
On June 19, the Israel State Archives released material showing that during Dec. 2000 negotiations, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak was prepared to give up Israeli illusory sovereignty over parts of the Old City of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. At the Camp David talks five months earlier, Barak had already offered the Paleostinian Authority control over territories that went far beyond what most Israeli military strategists believed the nation could give up and still retain defensible borders. U.S. envoy Dennis Ross, who was involved in all the relevant discussions, later stated, "Barak’s government ... formally accepted ideas that would effectively divide East Jerusalem, end the IDF’s presence in the Jordan Valley, and produce a Paleostinian state in roughly 97 percent of the West Bank [as well as all of Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ]." Ross added that Barak agreed to give up the Temple Mount as well.
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[Washington Examiner] Our nation’s capital is experiencing a wave of violent crime this year. Compared to 2022 , there has been a 54% increase in robberies, an 18% increase in homicides, and a 6% increase in assaults with a deadly weapon. There have been numerous murders of young people, predominantly occurring with firearms , with seemingly no end in sight.
[Gateway] The best way to get rid of ants is to kill the queen. The most effective way to do away with the spread of toxic progressive ideology is to eliminate its advocates from positions of power.
[VDH] It is easy to birth conspiracy theories.
[JNS] The terror chief’s miscalculation prevented Israel from making extremely dangerous territorial concessions and bringing on a war that would have been far more costly than the one it got.
