Posts on Friday, November 13, 2020
WASHINGTON—When Joe Biden turns to acknowledge the speaker and vice president during his first address to Congress, it will not only be the first time two women sit behind the president on the dais, but the first time two Californians do.It’s exceptionally rare for the president or vice president to be from the same state as the House speaker. While Californians have led House Republicans and Democrats in recent years, and controlled half a dozen committees, never before has the state held such power in Washington as it will come January.After four years as the face of the anti-Trump resistance, the state’s elected leaders are practically giddy about the chance
FNC’s Wallace: Trump Can’t ‘Credibly’ Say
the Election Was Taken from Him —
No ‘Serious Fraud’ replies
the Election Was Taken from Him —
No ‘Serious Fraud’ replies
“Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace said Friday that President Donald Trump could not credibly claim the 2020 presidential election was taken from them because there is no “fraud of a dimension that would overturn the results.”Guest anchor John Roberts said, “The president does seem in a way though, Chris, to be winning even as he is losing in the current vote count. Because for his die-hard fans, he is trying to make the case that he didn’t really lose the election, that it was taken from him. Is that an argument that he can credibly make?”Wallace said, “Well, not in terms of the numbers at least so far.
AOC to Have a Zoom Thanksgiving as Cuomo
Bars Large Gatherings: ‘Time to Get Creative, Folks!’ replies
Bars Large Gatherings: ‘Time to Get Creative, Folks!’ replies
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is reportedly planning to hold a Zoom Thanksgiving this year, telling her 10.2 million Twitter followers that it is “time to get creative.”“.@AOC Thanksgiving plan: She and her family will all cook from the same recipe, then eat over Zoom,” Politico’s Erin Durkin reported, prompting a response from the New York lawmaker, who did not deny her purported plans.“Time to get creative, folks!” Ocasio-Cortez exclaimed: (Tweet) On Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced a series of Chinese coronavirus restrictions just in time for the holiday season — restrictions that include the 10 p.m. closure of gyms, bars, and restaurants, as well as
CNN International anchor Christiane Amanpour is being criticized after she compared President Trump’s four years in office to Kristallnacht.“This week 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened,” Amanpour said on air, Fox News reported.Kristallnacht, literally the “Night of Crystal,” was a series of violent Nazi pogroms that heralded the Holocaust — its name prompted by the broken glass that littered the streets from vandalized Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues and homes.“It was the Nazis’ warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity and, in that tower of burning books,
Earlier today Rep. Louie Gohmert told Chris Galcedo on Newsmax that people on the ground in Germany report that Scytl, which hosted elections data Improperly through Spain, was raided by a large US ARMY force and their servers were seized in Frankfurt. Andrea Widburg at American Thinker earlier reported that Scytl is a Barcelona-based company that provides electronic voting systems worldwide, many of which have proven vulnerable to electronic manipulation. Scytl has (or had) Soros and Democrat party connections.
Former California Assemblywoman Young Kim (R) has defeated Democratic Rep. Gil Cisneros in a rematch of 2018, returning a traditionally red seat to the GOP. The Associated Press called the race for Kim on Friday night, 10 days after the election. Kim led Cisneros by just over 1 percentage point with 99 percent of precincts reporting, according to the AP.
Kim joins more than a dozen other Republican women elected to the House this year and will take over a seat held by Democrats for only one term after the retirement of Republican Ed Royce, who held the seat from 1993 to 2019.
We caught them! We caught their fraud! And in this post tonight — OUR FIRST OF MANY — We will reveal how they stole the battleground states! The fix is in. The current results of the Presidential election in Pennsylvania reported to the public are fraudulent because they are statistically impossible. On election night President Trump totally run away with the election in Pennsylvania. [Snip] no reporting on how many votes were outstanding at the end of election night. There was no reporting ever that we are aware of where the state announced how many votes were left to count after the election.
President Trump on Friday got more buzz on social media for his hair color — a shade somewhere between gray and white — than his latest news on the coronavirus vaccine. The president’s signature do — a blonde combover — appears to have faded to a natural tint of gray and white in his first public appearance since the 2020 election was called in favor of Joe Biden. Trump, speaking about the coronavirus vaccine Friday, didn’t mention his fading locks — which he has shown previously — but social media users were quick to point out his new style.
Thursday’s The ReidOut was an exercise in irony for MSNBC viewers, thanks to hilarious lamentations from host Joy Reid and Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) (a man she dubbed a modern-day Thaddeus Stevens) that congressional Republicans will spend the next four years investigating President-elect Joe Biden and his family.
So, to make sure we’re clear here, we have quite the dichotomy. So after four years of believing Donald Trump was an illegitimate President that had to be investigated and removed from office, the left is worried about what the right might look to probe in a Democratic presidency.
President Donald Trump said Friday that Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine will be available to the entire American population by April but seemed to concede for the first time publicly that he might be out of office at that point in time.“Millions of doses will soon be going out the door. They are already, waiting for that final approval,” Trump stated during a press briefing on Operation Warp Speed, the government’s coronavirus vaccine initiative. “As soon as April, the vaccine will be available to the entire general population, with the exceptions of places like New York state.”Trump, speaking publicly for the first time in eight days,
The behavior of the Democrats in regard to the appointment of federal judges, especially Supreme Court justices has been abysmal for decades, starting with Robert Bork and finishing with Justice Amy Coney Barrett. It has been so bad for so many years that the Republicans finally learned to fight back during the attacks on Brett Kavanaugh during his hearing and stood their ground with Amy Coney Barrett despite the Democrats throwing a tantrum and leveling all kinds of attacks at them.
Now, with a supreme lack of self-awareness, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA),
In a Rose Garden address Friday, President Trump announced that a coronavirus vaccine will be readily available to the public as soon as April, but then took aim at Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after he condemned the Trump administration’s vaccine roleout plan as “flawed” and suggested he would try to stop it earlier this week. “We can’t let this vaccination plan go forward the way the Trump administration is designing it because Biden can’t undo it two months later, we’ll be in the midst of it,” Cuomo told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an interview with “Good Morning America” Monday.
As President Trump provided promising updates regarding a coronavirus vaccine, he vowed no new lockdowns under “this administration,” but added only “time will tell” who would be in charge come January. He said in a news briefing that a coronavirus vaccine would be available to everyone by April, except possibly New York. “We won’t be delivering to New York until we have authorization to do so. It pains me to say that. Governor Cuomo will have to let me know when he's ready for it.”
Cuomo announced in late September that New York would form its own task force to independently review
Amid a spike in coronavirus cases in the state, Democrat New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lynn Lujan Grisham has issued a stay-at-home order and demanded nonessential businesses close for 14 days.
According to Grisham, a two-week shutdown, set to begin on November 16, will attempt to curb the spread of the virus in the state. “We are in a life-or-death situation, and if we don’t act right now, we cannot preserve the lives, we can’t keep saving lives, and we will absolutely crush our current health care system and infrastructure,” Grisham said.
Non-essential businesses include hair salons, gyms, and spas.
President Donald Trump continues to rage about the Russia probe raise unfounded claims about voting systems – even as he told longtime friend Geraldo Rivera he will 'do the right thing.'The president, who hasn't spoken in public for nearly a week, reached out for a 'heartfelt phone call' with longtime talk host Rivera. He said Trump told him he is a 'realist' who would 'do the right thing' but also wants to see 'what states do in terms of certification,' he wrote. (Photo) He also said Trump 'seemed particularly aggrieved by the savage attacks on his presidency from the minute he was elected' – an indication Trump is
Some members of Joe Biden's campaign team are reportedly worried that Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C. might turn into a huge President Trump rally, similar to the raucous "Make America Great Again" events he held throughout the campaign.
In a Daily Beast piece headlined "Biden World Fears Trump Will Bring 'Weird S***' to Their Inauguration," the liberal website says Biden supporters, more worried about COVID-19 than Trump supporters, might not attend — but MAGA supporters just might fill that void.
Senior Administration Officials Lied To
Trump About Troop Levels So He Wouldn’t
Pull Out Of Syria replies
Trump About Troop Levels So He Wouldn’t
Pull Out Of Syria replies
JJim Jeffrey, the United States’ retiring Special Representative to Syria and the special envoy in the fight against the Islamic State, confirmed Thursday that he and other senior administration officials routinely misled President Donald Trump on troop levels in the Middle East. Jeffrey, speaking to Defense One, explained how despite Trump’s stated promise to withdraw America from endless Middle Eastern engagements, he was able to convince the president to commit to keeping between 200 to 400 troops in the region in 2019 to “secure” oil fields held by U.S. allies and other strategic positions. “We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership
Understanding the bigger picture is to understand how the “fundamental change” issues are not directly connected to the ongoing 2020 debate challenges, ballot issues, election outcome, etc; yet, the “fundamental change” issues required a Biden election.(Snip)Why is COVID-19 being disproportionately hyped as such a dangerous threat, when the reality of the statistical danger is much less than the intense level of hype?(Snip)The answer is… social changes under the guise of COVID-19 mitigation, are the entry point for the goals and aspirations of the political left on a national and global scale. COVID-19 is a virus, but also a very important political weapon,
Republican Senator David Perdue and Democratic rival Jon Ossoff are locked in a tight head-to-head race with less than two months until the Georgia runoff election, according to a new poll from a national Republican-leaning pollster. Remington Research Group's poll found incumbent Perdue at 50 percent among likely voters surveyed to Ossoff's 46 percent, with a 2.6-point margin of error and 3 percent still undecided—nearly matching the results in their tight race just last week. The survey of 1,450 likely voters from November 8-9 was first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It's the first major public poll since the
One of the immediate effects of a Joe Biden presidency will be the near-complete reversal of President Donald Trump’s America First immigration policies, to include his administration’s approach to limiting the number of refugees allowed into the country.At a time when Democratic and RINO governors are either continuing or reintroducing mandatory business closures and lockdowns because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Biden – upon taking office in January, if in fact he does pull off an electoral victory one way or another – will reinstitute refugee admission programs on a grand scale.It will no doubt lead to exactly the kind of problems (violence and tribalism) that European countries are currently experiencing
Memoir: Obama Trashes Conservatives As
Xenophobic Rubes Filled With ‘Racial
Anxieties,’ Blames Palin replies
Xenophobic Rubes Filled With ‘Racial
Anxieties,’ Blames Palin replies
Excerpts from former President Barack Obama’s forthcoming memoir “A Promised Land” trashes conservatives as intellectually inferior xenophobes filled with “racial anxieties,” and blames former vice presidential candidate Sarah Plain for the supposedly mainstreaming bigotry.“Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party — xenophobia, anti intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks — were finding their way to center stage,” Obama accuses in the memoir, as noted by The Blaze.The former president ponders in the book if the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would have chosen Palin
If I told you an incumbent president had 52 percent approval on Election Day and ended up winning 10 million more votes than during his first election, would you predict victory? What if 56 percent of voters felt they were better off since the president had entered office? What if you knew that the incumbent had a nearly 30 percent enthusiasm edge over his opponent, or that when asked for whom they thought their neighbors were voting, nearly 10 percent more Americans expected the president to be re-elected than to lose? With those numbers in mind, wouldn’t you feel pretty confident that the sitting president had, indeed, been re-elected?
President Donald Trump floated the possibility of surprising his supporters at a Saturday march in Washington, D.C.“Heartwarming to see all of the tremendous support out there, especially the organic Rallies that are springing up all over the Country, including a big one on Saturday in D.C.,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “I may even try to stop by and say hello.”The “Million MAGA March” and “Stop The Steal” groups are planning to rally at Freedom Plaza at noon Saturday and march to the Supreme Court to protest the election results after former Vice President Joe Biden gained late big margins in states critical to the president’s re-election.
It’s a whale of a tale.
On the 50th anniversary of the “Florence whale explosion” Thursday, a former Oregon TV newsman recalled what it was like to cover the infamous event — where authorities used half a ton of dynamite to blow up a beached whale.
“I was asked about it virtually every day of my life, or commented on it, by everybody, strangers alike,” Paul Linnman told KATU-TV in Portland.
On Nov. 12, 1970, Linnman and his cameraman Doug Brazil were just 23 when they were assigned to capture the blubber blast on a beach in Florence, Ore.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) said in a press conference on Thursday that “Republicans in Congress are spreading conspiracy theories” about the 2020 presidential election.“We just had a divisive and hard‑fought presidential election,” said Schumer. (Video) “But instead of working to pull the country back together so that we can fight our common enemy, COVID‑19, Republicans in Congress are spreading conspiracy theories, denying reality and poisoning the well of our democracy,” he said.“When it comes to the election, Republicans, Congressional Republicans, don't have the evidence. They don't have the proof. They don't have anything,” Schumer said.
resident Trump has won the battleground state of North Carolina with its 15 electoral votes.
The Associated Press called the state for Trump Friday afternoon, 10 days after Election Day.
The call comes several days after former vice president Joe Biden was projected over last weekend to be the winner of the presidential election. His win in Pennsylvania put him over the 270 electoral vote threshold needed to win the presidency.
The only state the AP has yet to call is Georgia, where Biden leads by about 14,000 votes.
Whitehouse coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci thinks that Americans have an independent spirit, but that there are times when it’s in our best interest to follow the rules. Fauci, speaking on Thursday at Washington National Cathedral with other top health experts on the pandemic, noted that it is a bit unfair to compare the United States’ coronavirus response with other countries. The United States isn’t an island with five million people that can easily be shut down, he notes. So suppressing and controlling the virus is a lot more of a challenge.
Truck Series driver Josh Reaume was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR on Tuesday for violating its social media policy. And according to Reaume, that violation was unintentional.
Reaume, who owns a team in the Truck Series, says he posted a picture to Snapchat of a toaster strudel last week. That seems pretty innocuous, right?
Well, the icing on that strudel was drawn in the shape of a swastika. And Reaume said he somehow didn’t realize that he had drawn a strudel swastika when he posted the picture to Snapchat.
The CEO of the social media platform Parler says he believes that the company can outpace Twitter within a year.“We have seen an amazing surge in downloads and new accounts from what was about 4.5 million only one week ago to over 10 million accounts now,” Parler CEO John Matze told the Washington Examiner’s Elisha Krauss this week. “People don’t trust these big tech oligarchs anymore,” Matze added, referring to the social media giants Twitter and Facebook that have been criticized for years over the censorship of conservatives.“What really sets us apart is that we are ‘hands off,’” Matze told Krauss. “We respect the First Amendment. We respect what people
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar (D) on Friday said she would not order a recount her state’s election results as the Trump campaign attempts legal challenges in key battleground states. (snip) Earlier Friday, attorneys for the Trump campaign withdrew from representing him in challenges to election results in Pennsylvania. Correction***
It looks as though the Trump Accountability Project, a vile, literally fascist scheme to hound and persecute former Trump supporters big and small in the presumed post-Trump era, is shutting down. It had been touted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former Pete Buttigieg spokesman Hari Sevugan as the next order of action. According to Breitbart News:
The Trump Accountability Project, which targets supporters of President Donald Trump by adding them to a list and "holding them accountable" after the election, has announced that it is "no longer active."
Legacy media are lying when they claim that all of President Trump’s allegations of voter fraud are baseless. I know, because I argued a case on the president’s behalf in federal court in Philadelphia.
At issue was President Trump’s request for an order changing the way Pennsylvania absentee and mail-in ballots are being reviewed at the Philadelphia Convention Center. CNN and others claim he “lost.” That’s false: he won. As I made that argument on behalf of the president’s campaign, I can tell you what really happened.(Snip)I’m no longer surprised by anti-Trump non-news coming from the likes of CNN. But I cannot imagine why Pennsylvania Republican leaders have
Georgia GOP Chair Responds to
Reports of Liberals Moving to State
to Vote in Runoff Election replies
Reports of Liberals Moving to State
to Vote in Runoff Election replies
Top Republicans in Georgia are calling on the state’s board of elections and Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger to investigate individuals who may be moving to the state to vote during the upcoming runoff election for two U.S. Senate seats in January, following calls from prominent Democrats and media pundits.
Earlier this week, former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, on Twitter, wrote that both he and his wife are moving to the Peach State to campaign for Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock against Sens. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Loeffler (R-Ga.).
The Republican Party spent millions of dollars on lawyers in anticipation of election-related legal battles who have abandoned President Donald Trump, said Harmeet Dhillon, the former vice chairwoman of the California Republican Party.
Dhillon observed how Republican donors have been parasitized by political consultants, campaigns, political action committees, and related operations. She shared her analysis on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Joel Pollak.
“If we continue to run [elections and campaigns] like we have now, which is sort of a clique of grifters taking a bunch of money as middlemen from in between donors and giving it to candidates and ground and and party infrastructure, we will lose,”
White House economic advisor Peter Navarro said Friday he is operating under the assumption of a 'second Trump term' as he parroted the president's claims of voter fraud.Navarro made the comments at the White House, where President Trump has not spoken publicly in days, instead blasting out repeated tweets claiming fraud in states that Joe Biden won or where Biden is leading. 'We’re moving forward here at the White House under the assumption that there will be a second Trump term,' Navarro told host Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Network.
President-elect Joe Biden will spend Friday and the weekend considering potential nominees to his Cabinet, aides said, but they cautioned that any major announcements were not expected to take place in the coming days.Advisers to Biden describe him as "notoriously deliberative" in making personnel decisions, pointing to the most recent example of the multiple delays in selecting his running mate. The deadline for that announcement was repeatedly pushed back, aides said, as Biden asked for more information.While he has leading contenders for nearly all of his Cabinet positions in mind, the outcome of the election has changed the calculus
In a little over a week, groups of volunteer IT specialists, Data Analysts, Auditors and more, have uncovered enough potential fraud to overturn the 2020 Election.Over the past week, groups of professionals have gathered to ensure election integrity was present in the 2020 election. These groups of Trump and America loving patriots are working on their own time and digging into election data to identify potential evidence of fraud. Despite the MSM promoting a group of ‘experts’ claiming this was ‘the most secure election ever‘, the real evidence indicates a total different story.In just a week we have uncovered enough potentially fraudulent activities and votes to overturn
Using the Olympics as a metaphor, Outkick’s Jason Whitlock blasted white liberal “gatekeepers” in Hollywood who “define blackness” and influence black celebrities such as Dave Chappelle, LeBron James, Jay-Z, and John Legend, on how they can conform to their ideals of what it means to be “black.”
Whitlock had been writing about comedian Dave Chappelle for several days, and in his November 12 editorial, he seized onto analogy that “proper” black people in popular culture — including sports and entertainment — vie for the honor of being a proper black person in the “Unapologetically Black Olympics.”
The Los Angeles Times featured a story on Thursday about a wedding in Maine, which the CDC believes “likely” caused a COVID-19 outbreak, to argue that people should reconsider their small holiday gatherings.
“If you want to know why public health officials are so nervous about how much worse the COVID-19 pandemic will get as the holiday season unfolds, consider what happened after a single, smallish wedding reception that took place this summer in rural Maine,” the article states.
The LA Times claims that while only 55 people were actually at the reception, one guest reportedly spread the virus before the onset of their symptoms, causing 176 others to test positive
Senior U.S. Diplomat and special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey repeatedly lied to the Trump administration about how many troops were stationed in Syria over the last four years.
“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey said in an interview.
While President Donald Trump announced late in 2018 that he would be withdrawing troops from Syria following the defeat of the Islamic State, Jeffrey, whose term ended on Sunday, and his team continually found reasons to prevent total removal from the region.“What Syria withdrawal? There was never a Syria withdrawal,” Jeffrey said.
Give ’em hell, Leta.
A Nebraska morning show host is getting her day in the sun after a supercut of her refreshingly devastating celebrity interviews from the ’70s and ’80s went viral this week.
Leta Powell Drake spent decades producing and hosting segments for a Lincoln, Nebraska, CBS station — most notably as the blunt interrogator of big name actors from Tom Selleck to Tom Hanks.
“You don’t consider yourself a great actor, do you?” she asked a laughably-serious “M.A.S.H.” actor Elliott Gould, just after reminding him that the “M.A.S.H.” television series which he didn’t appear in went on to make “a fortune.”
“Never bet against me.” Those were President Trump’s closing words to Byron York in a Washington Examiner interview about the election battle being fought by the Trump campaign. York said that Trump initiated the interview with a phone call. Trump spoke about each state where his campaign is contesting the election results with Democrat nominee former Vice President Joe Biden, expressing confidence that he will eventually win reelection.
The Trump administration has struck a deal with pharmacies across the nation to make the COVID-19 vaccine available more widely and with no out-of-pocket costs.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Nov. 12 announced that the arrangement would involve both large chain pharmacies and networks representing independent pharmacies and regional chains. Partnership with pharmacy chains covers around 60 percent of pharmacies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These include names like Albertsons, Costco, CVS, Publix, Walgreens, and Walmart, with a complete list available in the HHS release.
Justice Alito: Pandemic Has
‘Resulted in Previously Unimaginable
Restrictions on Individual Liberty’ replies
‘Resulted in Previously Unimaginable
Restrictions on Individual Liberty’ replies
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday said the coronavirus pandemic has “resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty” and warned that religious liberty is “in danger of becoming a second class right.”
Alito’s comments came during his virtual keynote speech to a conference of the conservative Federalist Society, in which the 70-year-old justice warned that the U.S. can’t allow the restrictions on personal liberty to continue after the pandemic has ended, noting that houses of worship have been treated particularly unfairly.
“Nevada was unable to provide any justification for treating casinos more favorably than other houses of worship,”
It is not the least of ironies that in the week following Election Day, President Trump has conducted himself as many of his supporters have long advised him to do. He has left most comments to subordinates, especially lawyers, and repeated without bombast or unnecessary flourishes his belief that the apparent election result is compromised. He will assert his right and fulfill his duty to do all that he can to assure that all legal votes and no illegal votes are counted. (Snip) The president’s most distinguished act this week has been the firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper. His insolent and sanctimonious public statement at the height of the
A 12-year-old boy was shot multiple times in Chicago while picking up school supplies with his father, relatives and police said. Lamar Davis sat in a parked car with his dad Wednesday in the city’s Lawndale section, when someone in a maroon SUV rolled down a rear window and opened fire with a .45-caliber handgun, hitting the youngster in the back, hip, leg and buttocks, the Chicago Tribune reported. The boy was rushed to Stroger Hospital in fair condition; his father was not wounded, the Tribune reported.(Snip) “Kids can’t go outside, they can’t do anything,” added the worried mom,
A major world bank proposed a 5% tax on anyone working from home after the COVID-19 pandemic ends. Deutsche Bank researchers argued that people working from home enjoy economic privileges that do not extend to those forced to work in person. “Remote workers are contributing less to the infrastructure of the economy whilst still receiving its benefits,” analyst Luke Templeman wrote. In its “What We Must Do To Rebuild” report, Deutsche Bank said such a tax was long overdue. Researchers argued that remote workers don’t make as many daily purchases as in-person workers, therefore they should contribute to the economy in some other
The official who is responsible for certifying the election in Arizona is a staunch NeverTrumper who once said President Trump panders to his “neo-Nazi base.”
Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s Secretary of State, registered her disgust with the president and his supporters on Twitter in August of 2017.
August 15, 2017 is the day President Trump said during a contentious press conference that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the Confederate statue debate. (Snip)
Democrats and their media allies immediately accused the president of calling the neo-Nazis at the “Unite the Right” rally “very fine people. (Snip)the president did no such thing. He actually stressed during the press conference that he
During a speech before the Federalist Society on Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said that the coronavirus pandemic has “highlighted disturbing trends” in the law such as “dominance of lawmaking by executive fiat, rather than legislation.” Which he characterized as “the movement toward rule by experts.”(Snip) "The vision of early-20th century progressives and the New Dealers of the 1930s was that policymaking would shift from narrowminded elected legislators to an elite group of appointed experts. In a word, that policymaking would become more scientific. That dream has been realized to a large extent. Every year, administrative agencies, acting under broad delegations of authority, churn out huge volumes of regulations
President Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday morning.(snip)
General Mark Milley, another Never-Trump general and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fired off a warning shot to President Trump during a speech on Wednesday.(snip)We do not take an oath to a king or a queen, a tyrant or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual. No, we do not take an oath to a country, a tribe or religion. We take an oath to the Constitution. ...”
The Biden-Harris Transition team announced Thursday that Mr. Biden had spoken by telephone with Pope Francis, who offered him “blessings and congratulations.”
The press release does not specify who initiated the call, but only that “President-elect Joe Biden spoke this morning with His Holiness Pope Francis.” Since, however, the pope as a rule does not call to congratulate people for political victories, it must be assumed that the Biden team made the call.
All too many people, on the right as well as the left, are acting as if Joe Biden has won the 2020 election, when they must know that, as of this moment, he has not.
Given the accumulating evidence of illegal maneuvers and documented corruption amounting to massive election fraud -- duplicate voting, mail-in voting subject to pervasive manipulation, ballot harvesting, illegal voting, deceased voting, trashing of Trump votes, censorship and spreading of misinformation via the media and Big Tech, miscounting, forging of signatures, granny farming, “creative voting,” extending of mail-in deadlines
Now that the most radical elements of the socialist left have successfully used Joe Biden as a Trojan horse in order to dupe low-information voters into believing that he is a moderate, they are ready to make their move. Last Saturday, Biden was unanimously declared as the winner of the 2020 election by a crooked media that ran interference for him throughout the campaign and coordinated to censor a late story on his son Hunter's abandoned laptop. Nevermind that not one state has certified their elections or the courts have had a chance to rule on multiple legal challenges over irregularities
Target said Thursday night that they have removed a book critical of the transgender agenda after a customer complained about the book being “transphobic,” an accusation strongly denounced by author Abigail Shrier.The censorship, as is usually the case, ironically led to a spike in the purchasing of “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” on other platforms.“Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention,” Target’s online help desk responded to the complaint. “We have removed this book from our assortment.” The user who made the complaint has now set their account to private.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem slammed the “ridiculous message” from former President Barack Obama’s forthcoming memoir.The Republican leader called out Obama’s hypocrisy over the “possibility of America” and his insulting blame-game in the soon-to-be-released memoir, “A Promised Land.” Noem gave the Democratic two-term president a reality check on Thursday about his own administration and the mess he left for his successor.(Video) “I’m not yet ready to abandon the possibility of America,” Obama said in the book which was excerpted by The Atlantic.He explained that he wrote the 768-page memoir, due for release Nov. 17, “for young people — as an invitation to bring about, through hard work, determination, and
Fox News Channel had a great market niche: half of the country, as the late Roger Ailes and Charles Krauthammer both quipped. For reasons that only can be speculated on, the network that once was a safe harbor for conservatives navigating the Trump-hating media seas, discarded its lock on half of the market. (snip) Wall Street has noticed:
Class A shares of Fox News parent-company Fox Corp. dropped as much as 6% on Thursday (snip) This one-day decline is on top of earlier losses since Election Day:
Class A shares of Fox Corp. are down as much as 12%
Lawyers for President Donald Trump from the Porter Wright firm have withdrawn as of Friday from representing him in challenges to election results Pennsylvania.
Though the lawyers’ legal filing claims that the withdrawal is in the best interest of the plaintiffs, the New York Times reported Friday morning that the firm suffered “internal tensions” over its work for Trump — partly as a result of pressure from the Times‘ own coverage
Today in Michigan two state house representatives have written a letter to the Secretary of State asking for an election audit ahead of the state certification for the 2020 election. The likelihood of success is not high as the Secretary of State in Michigan is a participating Democrat in the ballot issues. [Link to Letter] (Image - Letter in pdf]
We’ve seen this kind of thing from Iran before in the Persian Gulf but now Russia seems to be escalating things in the North Pacific. The NY Times reports on a series of actions threatening US commercial boats that are well within the exclusive US commercial zone.
The crew of the Bristol Leader was laying out its long cod-catching line well within U.S. fishing territory in the Bering Sea when a voice crackled over the VHF radio and began issuing commands: The ship was in danger, it said, and needed to move.
With the conclusion of the election, Washington is now in that precarious period known as the lame duck. Unlike the wounded waterfowl, lame duck presidents tend to be more active in the waning days of their terms. From those midnight judicial appointments of John Adams to those last minute executive orders from Barack Obama, presidents often cement policies or officials before the chiming of the constitutional clock. This year, however, it could be prosecutors who feel the greatest pressure to move.
Months before the election, many Democrats demanded that the Justice Department refrain from bringing additional indictments or releasing new information in either the Russia investigation or the Hunter Biden scandal.
Should Joe Biden survive the election legal challenges ahead, he will roll into the Oval Office fully intent on doing what Democrats do – rob Americans of their liberty. We have every expectation he will try to shut down the country, not because the coronavirus makes it necessary but because the oxygen of the political left is controlling other people’s lives.
The Bongino Report tells us that Biden’s coronavirus adviser is proposing a lengthy national shutdown to mitigate the spread as positive test results climb during the early weeks of the North American flu season.
“Under a Biden presidency (God forbid)
Election officials in Georgia stated the hand recount process will be completed by next week.In a news conference on Thursday, officials said they received numerous reports of voting irregularities that may have swayed the election. They stressed Joe Biden is currently leading President Trump by only 14,000 votes and stated that instances of fraud are possible.Georgia officials also rejected Democrat accusations of political bias behind their decision to recount.“Let me be perfectly clear on this,” Voting System Implementation Manager Gabriel Sterling said. “If it was 14,000 votes the other way, we would be doing the exact same thing.” The recount in Georgia is widely expected to give President Trump
The ballots are still being counted -- and, in some states, being recounted -- for the 2020 presidential election between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.No winner has been declared but, somehow, some of the people on NBC News believe that the president should concede.But, in a hilarious fashion, they want him to concede the way former Vice President Al Gore did after the 2000 election.NewsBusters reported: As the ballot counting dragged on Thursday in key states around the country and President Trump continued to fight for a second term, the partisan “journalists” at NBC News had grown obviously irritated that they couldn’t declare their candidate
Pollsters across the gambit told us that in 2020, Donald Trump would be lucky to hold his numbers from 2016. In fact, we were told he wasn’t going to win additional support from the minority community (he did), he was going to lose considerable support amongst women (he didn’t), and that there was going to be a massive Republican cross-over vote that would deliver the race to Biden (there wasn’t). (snip) He (Trump) gained additional votes over his 2016 performance in every Georgia county except 2.
The election integrity group True the Vote is suing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) and county officials in Wayne County, Washtenaw County, and Ingham County, Michigan, alleging that dead people and felons voted illegally in the presidential election.The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, is seeking to invalidate ballots in counties where they allege widespread illegal ballots and fraudulent ballot-counting took place. The lawsuit cites reports claiming that about 10,000 dead people returned mail-in ballots to vote in Michigan.True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht said: Every illegal vote that is counted dilutes the voting rights of law-abiding American citizens,
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended her support for “defund the police” Thursday night after an election season in which Republicans weaponized the mantra to paint Democratic opponents as anti-cop and soft on crime. Democratic leaders complained that two issues closely associated with AOC — defunding the police and socialism — contributed to Democratic losses in House races last week, including Republican challenger Nicole Malliotakis ousting first-term Democratic Rep. Max Rose in the Staten Island congressional race. AOC defended her position when a 14-year-old student asked her during a virtual town hall meeting
I came to Minneapolis in 1972, lived in the western burbs until I married in 1991, and bought a house in a small but growing suburb northwest of town. We have been very happy here. We like the place and the people. It was our intent to spend the rest of our days here. (snip) Then, in May, a guy took a fatal overdose of multiple drugs, tried to pass a counterfeit 20, and died in the custody of the arresting officers. Opportunity had knocked. (snip) In reaction, the "mostly peaceful" rioters burned down a swath through Minneapolis that is five miles long
Election Day 2020 was unusual for several predictable reasons involving high in-person turnout and veritable avalanches of mail-in ballots. One exceptionally odd event, however, took everyone by surprise — vote counting suddenly stopped for hours in several key swing states late Tuesday night. One of these mysterious halts occurred in Fulton County, Georgia, where election officials insisted that a broken water pipe necessitated a four-hour delay before counting of absentee ballots could resume. Yet evidence for what would have been quite a serious plumbing issue has been strangely elusive. There doesn’t appear to be any paperwork involving this leak.
This week’s news that Iran has amassed a huge stockpile of enriched uranium beyond the limits it agreed to makes it all the more absurd that President-elect Joe Biden wishes to return the United States to the disastrous Iran nuclear deal.
The truth is that thanks to the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign, Iran is much weaker today than it was when the nuclear accord was enacted. Refusing to engage in talks toward a more robust agreement, Iran has suffered crippling sanctions. These restrictions have depleted Tehran's ability to fund terrorist groups such as its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Lebanese Hezbollah, and the Kata'ib Hezbollah in Iraq.
One of the big changes we should expect under a Joe Biden administration is an explosion of illegal immigration and a renewed crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. The reason for this is simple: the immigration and border policies the Trump administration has put into place over the past four years have succeeded in driving down illegal immigration, and Biden has promised to reverse nearly all of them.
Throughout the campaign, Biden was forthright about his plans to dismantle Trump’s immigration and border security agenda. His team is now planning to carry out those plans, including a 100-day moratorium on deportations, directives to curtail arrests of illegal immigrants,
At around 10.30 P.M. E.T. on Election Night, a friend who lives on the East Coast sent me a WhatsApp message: "You can see that Trump now leads in N.C., and the margin is growing. Same thing happened in Ohio. I switch back and forth between CNN and Fox. The CNN folks are starting to get depressed."
In response, I sent him a picture of a bottle of Trump red wine with a caption "I am ready." It would be a repeat of Election Night 2016.
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Gov. Tony Evers‘ coronavirus stay-at-home order Wednesday, ruling that his administration overstepped its authority when it extended it for another month without consulting legislators.
The 4-3 ruling essentially reopens the state, lifting caps on the size of gatherings, allowing people to travel as they please and allowing shuttered businesses to reopen, including bars and restaurants. The Tavern League of Wisconsin swiftly posted the news on its website, telling members, “You can OPEN IMMEDIATELY!”
The decision let stand language that had closed schools, however, and local governments can still impose their own health restrictions.
Democrats went into last Tuesday’s election with a clear strategy: flip enough suburban Republican voters to beat Donald Trump. This paid off: Joe Biden won the election by flipping enough voters in the suburbs of Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Phoenix. The election, however, exposed the gaping flaws in this strategy for any party that hopes to win and wield power. Democrats may have accomplished their near-term goal, but in the long term the party is in an extraordinarily weak place, built on a rickety coalition united only by a hatred of a president who will soon no longer be a threat.
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On Election Day, I entered my local polling place in Philadelphia, expecting to cast my vote for president, when I was informed that because I had received a mail-in ballot I could not vote at the facility. Instead, I would have to fill out a provisional ballot. But I never received a mail-in ballot because, two months prior to the election, I requested that my name—which a housemate had inadvertently added to the mail-in ballot list—be taken off the list. My name was stricken, and I was assured that I would not experience problems voting in person on November 3.
On Thursday, The Atlantic published an excerpt from former President Barack Obama’s forthcoming memoir, A Promised Land, set to be released next week. The excerpt echoes Obama’s classic style, praising America while furthering radical and subversive critiques. In one critical passage, Obama suggests he may have gone too easy on America’s faults during his eight years in office.
“I recognize that there are those who believe that it’s time to discard the myth—that an examination of America’s past and an even cursory glance at today’s headlines show that this nation’s ideals have always been secondary to conquest and subjugation, a racial caste system and rapacious capitalism,
In American criminal law, there is a doctrine called the “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree,” a term that obviously derives from the Biblical Adam and Eve account. Under that doctrine, government violations of citizens’ core constitutional rights are deemed so severe and egregious that, for example, if the police violate a Fourth Amendment right in conducting their investigation of a crime, the whole government case can be thrown out even if that illegal search led to finding perfectly admissible legal evidence that unequivocally proves the culprit’s guilt.
For example, say a person murders someone and buries him or her somewhere in a forest, or steals gold
Too many Americans who never had a civics class are learning about the Electoral College, which they are coming to realize may be James Madison’s “Do-Over Button” for times just like these. (If you are under 35, Madison was a president a long time ago.)
The Electoral College is the last chance to stop a presidential election from going off a cliff. (snip) The Electoral College has a “do-over button.” States fail to certify the vote, and Congress decides. Remember, Congress is the house of the people -- Nancy Pelosi notwithstanding.
Madison and his pals actually thought that through over two hundred years ago, no kidding.
Beijing’s boot is crushing the last facades of Hong Kong’s freedoms, purging the island’s Legislative Council of supporters of the democracy that the Chinese Communist Party had promised would remain for another quarter-century.
Officially, the CCP’s puppet, Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, only kicked four dissident lawmakers off the LegCo. But the other 15 quite rightly resigned en masse.
“Sooner or later we would all have been disqualified,” Democratic Party chief Wu Chi-wai explained. This leaves the legislature composed entirely of Beijing’s bootlickers.
Eight pro-democracy ex-lawmakers also face up to a year in jail for being too feisty at a meeting in the spring.
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The crossfire between the Democratic Party’s left and moderate wings, each blaming the other for the party’s flaccid performance in congressional races, has been diverting enough that it has obscured a striking point of commonality.
Both sides have similar descriptions of Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill — arrogant, bereft of creativity, generationally obsolete.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in an interview with The New York Times, accused her party’s leaders of losing elections by relying on “magical thinking” rather than grappling with changing power dynamics, and by being “blinded [by] anti-activist sentiment.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden's transition team is reportedly considering installing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as his administration's ambassador to the United Nations.
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that a person familiar with the matter said Clinton was "being discussed" as a potential pick because it would purportedly raise the prestige and standing of the U.S. after President Trump's time in office.
News of Clinton's potential nomination came as Biden attempted to alter world leaders' perceptions of the U.S. in foreign relations. "I'm letting them know that America is back. We're going to be back in the game," he said.
Roman Catholic diocese seeks
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Supreme Court emergency relief
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is turning to the Supreme Court over coronavirus restrictions that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo imposed that include limits on how many congregants can gather for religious services.
The emergency court filing, submitted Thursday, compares the prohibitions houses of worship face with the relative freedom afforded to many businesses under an order that Cuomo issued in October, in which he designated color-coded zones with varying degrees of limitations.
‘That Did Not Occur’: Fox News’ Bret Baier
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Fox News anchor Bret Baier addressed the network’s incorrect election night estimation that Democrats would expand their majority by about five seats.Fox’s Decision Desk correctly predicted that Democrats would continue to control the House, but overreached by estimating the party would garner more seats than it did – a note that Baier pointed out on Wednesday evening. “Democrats have clinched a majority in the House by reaching 218 seats. There are still a handful of races undecided,: Baier said. “On election night, the FOX News Decision Desk correctly predicted soon after 9:00 Eastern that Democrats would retain control of the House.”
Some of President Trump's conservative evangelical advisers and other Christian leaders are encouraging him as he files legal challenges in several battleground states over the results of Nov. 3's presidential election. However, they are not necessarily joining in the President's claim that he won the election despite former Vice President Joe Biden's electoral lead in those swing states. The Religion News Service (RNS) reports Ralph Reed, the founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, said Trump has the right to request recounts and investigate any reports of election irregularities, including voter fraud.
Joe Biden will immediately halt construction of Donald Trump's southern border wall as soon as he is sworn into office, but will leave whatever has already been built in place.So far, Trump's administration has spent $15 billion on adding to and reinforcing areas with existing barriers and building brand new 30-foot-tall bollard fencing.While 400 miles of these see-through black metal slats have been built, only 12 miles of the border did not have some sort of existing barrier before construction commenced, The Dallas Morning News noted in a report Wednesday evening.Texas Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar said that voters not opting for a second Trump term
Thanks to President Donald Trump’s leadership, our country (and the world) are on the cusp of seeing a brand-new anti-viral vaccine – for COVID-19 – be introduced in the midst of an ongoing pandemic.It’s just another of the unprecedented things that Donald Trump, as president, has brought about. And we want to say that again: The fact that America is on the cusp of having a COVID-19 vaccine while the pandemic is ongoing is thanks to President Donald Trump. He launched “Operation Warp Speed” with his administration earlier this year to speed the private sector development of a vaccine so our country could stop living in fear
As Arizona continues its effort to count all the legal votes cast in the presidential election, on Thursday, actor James Woods took note of the anti-Trump history of Arizona’s Secretary of State, Democrat Katie Hobbs. Woods noted that in August 2017, before she held her current position, Hobbs tweeted, “@realDonaldTrump has made it abundantly clear he’s more interested in pandering to his neo-nazi base than being @POTUS for all Americans.”Woods blasted Hobbs on Twitter, writing, “This woman is calling every Trump voter a ‘Nazi.’ As Arizona’s Secretary of State, she will be in charge of any recount. Should she not recuse herself after vocally dismissing
During a portion of an interview set to air on “CBS Sunday Morning” and “60 Minutes” released on Thursday, former President Barack Obama stated that President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread election fraud are “one more step in delegitimizing, not just the incoming Biden administration, but democracy generally, and that’s a dangerous path.”Obama said Trump’s claims “appear to be motivated, in part, because the president doesn’t like to lose, and never admits loss. I’m more troubled by the fact that other Republican officials, who clearly know better are going along with this, are humoring him in this fashion. It is one more step in delegitimizing, not just the incoming
On Thursday, Republican senators in the Michigan legislature called on Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to conduct a “full audit” of the 2020 election. The letter was signed by Tom Barrett and Lana Theis, two state senators, who urged Benson to delay certifying the final results of the election until a full audit was conducted.“Every citizen deserves to have faith in the integrity of the election process and its outcome. It is our responsibility, as elected public servants, to assure the people of Michigan of the process’s integrity through complete transparency and the faithful investigation of any allegations of wrongdoing, fraud, or abuse,” the senators wrote.
Obama stokes division with red hot coals,
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smears millions of Americans as racists
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Despite President Donald Trump having won significant support from minorities in the 2020 presidential election, former President Barack Hussein Obama remains staunchly convinced that Trump’s base is comprised of “millions” of racists.This unsurprising revelation can be found in “A Promised Land,” a second memoir by the former president set to be published on Nov. 17th. The left-wing “news” network CNN obtained a copy of the memoir and published excerpts from it this week. (Video) In the excerpts, Obama predictably blamed every iota of obstructionism and dissent against him on racism, regardless of the actual reasons.“It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic,