Posts on Tuesday, January 19, 2021
As we prepare to head into week three of the Great Conservative Canceling/Purging of 2021, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) continue to be two of the main Republican targets of the left’s/media’s perpetual anger and rage.https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/01/19/heartbreak-mitt-romney-reminds-dems-hes-mitt-romney-when-asked-about-punishment-for-hawley-and-cruz-n312966The Democrat-floated idea that both Hawley and Cruz should be punished in some way by their fellow senators over voicing objections to some electoral votes two weeks ago has reached a fever pitch — so much so that Republican senators are being bombarded daily with questions from journalists as to where they stand on the idea of expelling two of their Republican colleagues
Crowds Of Patriotic Supporters in West
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President Trump is scheduled to arrive in Palm Beach, Florida tomorrow after departing Washington, D.C. in the morning. The President is scheduled to arrive in Florida after departing Washington, D.C. in the morning. He has scheduled an event at the airport (Joint Base Andrew) for those who wish to send him off. Unfortunate for the Republican Party, top Republicans will not be there: (Snip) But the people in Florida are ready for the President’s arrival. Today people were sharing their flags above the highway in support of the President:
Goodbye to the swamp and hello to the Sunshine State.Moving trucks were seen Monday arriving at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida as he embraces his final day in office.Trump is expected to depart the White House for a final time at 8 a.m. Wednesday — the morning of Joe Biden’s inauguration.The longtime New Yorker will now make Palm Beach his permanent home as his presidency comes to an end. The property has been referred to as the Winter White House. Trump, 74, purchased the mansion in 1985 for a mere $10 million before transforming it into a golf club. The 20-acre estate, now with 128 rooms,
Rapper Snoop Dogg has a message for President Trump and his aides: “I love what they did,” he said, in granting clemency to Death Row Records co-founder Michael “Harry O” Harris.Harris learned Tuesday that he will be released early from prison on Trump’s orders, though the White House has not yet publicly said so.The music and marijuana mogul was told of the decision Sunday and said he wanted to share a message with the outgoing president.“That’s great work for the president and his team on the way out,” Snoop Dogg said in remarks shared with The Post.“They did some great work while they was in there and
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced on Tuesday he would place a hold on Alejandro Mayorkas, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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“Mr. Mayorkas has not adequately explained how he will enforce federal law and secure the southern border given President-elect Biden’s promise to roll back major enforcement and security measures,” Hawley said in a statement.
“Just today, he declined to say he would enforce the laws Congress has already passed to secure the border wall system. Given this, I cannot consent to skip the standard vetting process and fast-track this nomination when so many questions remain unanswered," he added.
President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Jan. 19 that the Trump administration took the correct stance toward the Chinese regime, although he disagrees with the approach.
“President Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China. I disagree very much with the way he went about it in a number of areas, but the basic principle was the right one,” Blinken said at a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the day before Biden was set to take office. “And I think that that’s actually helpful to our foreign policy.”
The World Health Organization acted too slowly in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, allowing the virus to spread worldwide and eventually kill more than 2 million people, an independent report found. The report, commissioned in July by the WHO itself, also blamed world leaders for their lack of action, saying China locked down too late in January 2020 but otherwise refusing to single out nations. The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response suggested that had the WHO taken emergency measures sooner, perhaps its member nations would have realized the severity of the virus and reacted accordingly.
The vandalism of a mural of Bernie Sanders in Washington DC that was defaced with a picture of Pepe the Frog is being investigated as a hate crime, police have said. D.C. police confirmed their investigation into the vandalism of the mural in the Navy Yard area.(Snip) Police were called to investigate the vandalism on Sunday by one of the artists, who felt 'that the defacement may be motivated by hate or bias of political or religious affiliation', according to a report in Fox 5. In recent years, the cartoon image of a frog known as Pepe has become associated with the 'Alt-right'
The Justice Department will not criminally charge Sen. Richard Burr in connection with stock trades that the North Carolina Republican executed on the heels of being briefed about Covid-19 last year, shortly before the coronavirus pandemic rocked the U.S. economy. The probe of Burr had included the highly unsusual seizure of his cell phone by the FBI in May, and led to his stepping aside as chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee that same month.
"Tonight, the Department of Justice informed me that it has concluded its review
President Donald Trump still has a strong base of support, but he’s leaving office with record low approval ratings and with some top Republicans either privately grumbling about him or publicly saying the party should move on from him.
And it’s perhaps no surprise that, per a new Wall Street Journal report, the outgoing president is considering forming a new political party called the “Patriot Party.”
The Journal reports:
President Trump has talked in recent days with associates about forming a new political party
Joe Biden had difficulty getting anyone out of his events and campaigned mostly from his basement. His speeches would frequently have more press than guests, looking isolated in their little white circles drawn on the ground. So how many people was he going to be able to get out for an inauguration?
Biden’s team is downplaying the number, claiming the pandemic and security concerns
He’s made it mostly virtual, according to reports, and reports are there are no real events the public can officially attend in person.
So instead having a live inaugural with very few people which is what likely would have resulted and which would have been embarrassing
WASHINGTON - Facing a 50-50 partisan split in the U.S. Senate, the chamber's top Democrat and Republican discussed adopting a power-sharing deal similar to one struck two decades ago in similar circumstances, a Democratic spokesman said on Tuesday. Democrat Chuck Schumer, set to become majority leader on Wednesday thanks to incoming Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote, told the chamber's top Republican, Mitch McConnell, that he favored adopting a deal along the lines of the 2001 arrangement "without extraneous changes from either side," a Schumer spokesman said.
Despite more than four years of endless attacks on him and his character, President Trump will leave office with a higher approval rating than the previous Republican president, George W. Bush, did when he left office in 2009. According to the Real Clear Politics average, Trump will leave office with an approval rating of 40 percent, while George W. Bush left office with Real Clear Politics average of 29 percent.
President Trump’s presidency was long overshadowed by the bogus Russian collusion narrative, the partisan impeachment in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the second impeachment. But most of it was defined by record-breaking economic growth and prosperity, even for those left behind
On Tuesday afternoon, on his last night in office, President Trump declassified a cache of documents related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
“At my request, on December 30, 2020, the Department of Justice provided the White House with a binder of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” Trump said in a statement. “Portions of the documents in the binder have remained classified and have not been released to the Congress or the public.” “I requested the documents so that a declassification review could be performed and so I could determine to what extent materials in the binder should be released in unclassified
On the eve of Joe Biden’s inauguration as president of the United States, he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris participated in a national memorial at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to honor the more than 400,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19. The inaugural committee encouraged Americans to join in the memorial by lighting candles in their windows and ringing bells. The event, billed as “A National Moment of Unity and Remembrance,” included the first-ever lighting of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in memory of the lives lost. Leaders across the country were asked to light up city buildings in amber and ring church bells.
A more contagious strain of
COVID is spreading in the U.S.
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COVID is spreading in the U.S.
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The more contagious strain of the coronavirus — first identified in the U.K. in September 2020 — has been detected in at least 20 states in the U.S. so far, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting 122 COVID-19 cases caused by the variant. The CDC predicts the new coronavirus strain will grow rapidly in 2021, and become “the predominant variant in March.” So should you double up on face masks for added protection against the more contagious strain of the virus? “The short answer is ... no,” Dr. Dean Winslow, infectious disease physician at Stanford Health Care
Fox News’ settlement with the parents of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich came with one very unique provision: The deal had to stay secret until after the presidential election.
(Snip) Fox News agreed to pay the multimillion-dollar settlement to Rich’s family only if the cable news network wouldn’t be required to apologize for lying about Rich’s murder, and only if the deal was not disclosed until after the Nov. 3 election.
The lawsuit (Snip) came after Fox News propelled the conspiracy theory that Seth Rich –a 27-year-old DNC employee who was murdered in July 2016 — was assassinated after he sent internal DNC emails to Wikileaks.
President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for defense secretary, retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, laid blame on military leaders for failing to detect and root out white supremacy from the ranks during his Tuesday nomination hearing. “We have to train our leaders to make sure they are in touch with the people they are leading,” said Austin, who would be the first African American secretary of defense if granted a congressional waiver to become the Pentagon's top civilian leader after recently serving on active duty and confirmed by the Senate. “I don’t think this is a thing you can put a Band-Aid on
In his letter of the morning of January 6, Vice President Mike Pence asserted that “[s]ome believe that as Vice President, [he] should be able to accept or reject votes unilaterally.” .(Snip With all due respect to the vice president, that is not what the president asked (Snip) the vice president was not being asked to decide the matter himself, but to pause the proceedings long enough to give the couple of states whose legislators had asked for more time to assess whether the illegal conduct by their state election officials (Snip)was sufficient to warrant revoking the existing certification and submitting a new one
Apres Trump, Le Deluge
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For four years, Donald Trump gave the U.S. a sane, America-first immigration policy. A legal one, too; he actually did his best to enforce the immigration laws, unlike the scofflaw Barack Obama. All of that will come to an end with Joe Biden’s inauguration tomorrow, and the results will be disastrous for millions of Americans. From Breitbart:
President-elect Joe Biden’s amnesty plan will reportedly provide the glittering prize of U.S. citizenship to everyone who can show they were in the United States illegally on January 1, if Congress passes the wage-cutting, nation-changing legislation amid a deep economic recession.
“To qualify
Guerilla journalism organization Project Veritas revealed devastating footage of Twitter leadership’s plans for a “global” approach” to censoring “conspiracy theories.”
Guerilla journalist and Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe released a video tweet exposing Twitter leadership’s “Plans For Political Censorship On Global Scale” on Jan. 18. O’Keefe’s tweet specifically noted that Twitter leadership is cracking down on what they call “misleading information or coded rhetoric.” Twitter’s Legal, Policy and Trust & Safety Lead Vijaya Gadde could be heard in the footage saying that Twitter must go “Beyond de-amplification” and spoke of “conspiracy theories,” alleging the platform will be “permanently suspending those accounts.”
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has a message for Dominion Voting Systems, which sent him a cease-and-desist letter over his continued claims that its technology allowed for an election that was rigged against President Trump: "Please sue me." "That letter is two weeks old, it's a letter telling me to apologize. It's a joke," Lindell told the Washington Examiner. "Those machines are set to rig elections. If Dominion wants to sue me, I welcome it." He claimed the company was refraining from a lawsuit "because we have all the evidence of foreign interference," referring to himself and other pro-Trump allies seeking to overturn the Nov. 3 election results.
This week, Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for a “9/11-type commission” into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol following a pro-Trump rally. This may suggest the Democrats are mulling a new War on Terror — against domestic enemies. Both Clinton and Pelosi also returned to the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory, suggesting Russian President Vladimir Putin played a role in the Capitol riot. Pelosi appeared on Clinton’s podcast on Monday. Clinton claimed that Trump “disdains democracy” and suggested that Putin may be controlling him.
“I hope, historically, we will find out who he’s beholden to, who pulls his strings.
Three members of the far-right group Oath Keepers are facing the first conspiracy charges to arise from the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, with prosecutors alleging they plotted to disrupt the electoral vote confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden. Thomas Edward Caldwell, Jessica Marie Watkins and Donovan Ray Crowl were charged Tuesday by federal prosecutors in Washington with conspiracy as well as obstruction of official proceedings and destruction of government property, among other charges. Caldwell, 65, served as a leader in “planning and coordinating” the breach of the Capitol, the government claims. The riot by supporters of President Donald Trump left
President Donald Trump received an unsettling warning on his final Saturday night in the White House.
Huddled for a lengthy meeting with his legal advisers, Trump was warned the pardons he once hoped to bestow upon his family and even himself would place him in a legally perilous position, convey the appearance of guilt and potentially make him more vulnerable to reprisals.
So, too, was Trump warned that pardons for Republican lawmakers who had sought them for their role in the Capitol insurrection would anger the very Senate Republicans who will determine his fate in an upcoming impeachment trial.
Trump Issues Executive Order Preventing
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 18 prohibiting career bureaucrats—rather than presidential appointees—from authorizing and having the final word on new federal regulations.
“The President chooses Federal agency heads who exercise executive authority and implement his regulatory agenda. The American people, in electing the President, thereby have a role in choosing the individuals who govern them,”(Snip)
“However, some agencies have chosen to blur these lines of democratic accountability by allowing career officials to authorize, approve, and serve as the final word on regulations. This practice transfers the power to set rules governing Americans’ daily lives from the President, acting through his executive subordinates, to officials insulated from the accountability
It seems everyone has an opinion about Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ ambition. The Atlantic examined “Kamala Harris’s Ambition Trap.” Bloomberg asked “Is Kamala Harris Too ‘Ambitious’ to Be Vice President?” Over the summer, even the Vice President-elect herself said, "There will be a resistance to your ambition.” Once Harris is actually sworn in, her niece, children’s book author and founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, Meena Harris, believes it will change the conversation around ambition once and for all. “It inherently will open the door for more women of color to achieve and it will normalize ambition. Female ambition,”
Thousands of people are calling for the evangelist Franklin Graham to be fired for supporting Donald Trump after armed rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in the president’s name. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 17,000 people have signed a petition by the Christian community Faithful America that pushes for Graham’s removal from Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. The petition, created Jan. 15, is addressed to the board of directors at both organizations. Graham is the son of the late evangelist Billy Graham and is the chairman, president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse and BGEA.
On Tuesday, the last full day of Donald Trump’s presidency, Trump released a strong farewell address, expressing best wishes for the incoming Joe Biden administration and touting his historic accomplishments during his four years.“This week, we inaugurate a new administration and pray for its success in keeping America safe and prosperous. We extend our best wishes, and we also want them to have luck,” Trump said of Joe Biden, who will become president on Wednesday.He also quickly condemned the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. “All Americans were horrified by the assault on our Capitol. Political violence is an attack on everything we cherish as Americans.
Those of you who are reading this post are the type of people who pay attention to things. That’s why you already know that 26,000 National Guard troops drawn from all over America and from Puerto Rico, have assembled in Washington, D.C., in advance of Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. (That’s about three divisions worth of troops.) But have you given serious thought to what the troops’ presence means?
I’ve heard from some optimistic people who believe that the troops are the last phase in a Trumpian plan to reclaim America and maintain it as a true constitutional republic, rather than the socialist tyranny the Democrats seem to have planned.
Tiffany Trump definitely got everyone’s attention when she announced that she got engaged to her boyfriend Michael Boulos. “It has been an honor to celebrate many milestones, historic occasions and create memories with my family here at the White House, none more special than my engagement to my amazing fiancé Michael!” the first daughter captioned her post Tuesday on Instagram, along with a photo of the two standing close outside the White House. “Feeling blessed and excited for the next chapter!” she added.(Photo) Tiffany’s long-time boyfriend, a London graduate student and heir to a multibillion-dollar conglomerate in Nigeria,
Vice President Mike Pence is reportedly not expected to attend President Donald Trump’s military sendoff at Andrews Air Force Base on Tuesday, but he will attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, a source familiar with Pence’s plans told the Daily Caller.
The White House declined to comment on Pence’s travel plans. Pence choosing to attend Biden’s inauguration instead of the president’s farewell would be the culmination of the growing rift between the pair. (Snip) He is attending the inauguration later in the day, and aides say it would be logistically challenging for the vice president to do both,”
Say what you will about President Donald Trump, but love him or hate him, the man got things done while he was in office.What’s more, he kept promises like no other in modern history, worked insane hours like an Energizer Bunny, was fairly transparent, and had virtually no scandals outside of those concocted by deep state enemies and the disgustingly dishonest ‘mainstream’ media.
And for those reasons, he will go down in history (or he should, anyway, if we get honest historians writing about his legacy) as one of the most consequential one-term presidents ever.
Joe Biden’s Plan to Shut Down Keystone XL
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President-elect Joe Biden’s announcement that he will shut down a oil pipeline that has created thousands of jobs and safely increased domestic energy production may be popular with environmental activists, but Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the province that is home to the project are vowing to fight back.Trudeau has supported the $9 billion project despite protests, arguing it will help reduce reliance on foreign oil imports and create jobs. Alberta, which has pitched in $1.1 billion on the pipeline, is also miffed.The Canada Energy Regulator has details about the pipeline on its website:
Chris Stirewalt, the Fox News political editor in charge of the decision desk which called Arizona for Joe Biden before the polls closed on election night was laid off on Tuesday.According to the Washington Post, Stirewalt, alongside approximately 20 other Fox News staffers were let go today.(Tweet) The Fox News decision desk called Arizona for Joe Biden while voters were still standing in line on election night.Richard Baris of the People’s Pundit explained Fox News’ decision to call Arizona for Biden during his post election day analysis.
Joe Biden became teary-eyed Tuesday afternoon as he delivered a speech thanking his staff and honoring his late son, Beau Biden, saying it should have been Beau who was about to be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. At the Major Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard Center, named after his son who died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46, the former veep’s voice broke and he shed a tear as he told a crowd of supporters that Delaware was “written on his heart.” “Ladies and gentlemen, I only have one regret:
Regular Beatniks know that since last summer I’ve been enrolled in the clinical trials for the Pfizer COVID vaccine. Because it’s a “blinded” study, I never really knew whether I’d received the vaccine or a placebo.
The clinic called me last week to tell me that Pfizer was unblinding the study for people in my demographic (translation: old farts) if we wished. Moreover, Pfizer was offering to administer the vaccine to those whom the unblinding revealed had received the placebo.
I accepted Pfizer’s offer. They then told me I’d received the placebo.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said it is likely unconstitutional to carry out a Senate impeachment trial of a president after they leave office.
President Donald Trump was impeached by the House earlier this month over his remarks that he made before the Capitol was breached on Jan. 6, despite the president calling on his supporters to “stay peaceful.”
“My overall question is: Why are we doing this when the president is out of office tomorrow?” Ernst told reporters on Tuesday. When asked about whether it would be constitutional to try Trump when he leaves office, Ernst said, “I don’t think it is.”
(Snip) he’s not our president after tomorrow.
As if waiting for a stimulus check to arrive wasn't frustrating enough, now it turns out some people are throwing their $600 away.
Jim Wallace almost tossed a letter he received in the mail the other day.
"I received a white envelope, with clear plastic on the top left corner and in the middle," Wallace said.
Nowhere was a U.S. Treasury or IRS return address in Washington, D.C. that would have indicated a stimulus payment.
"There was this address here with a little seal, and it didn't look like U.S. government mail. It looked like junk mail," Wallace said.
Chief Justice John Roberts is eager to avoid presiding over Donald Trump's second impeachment trial–after he became a lightning rod during the first one. Just as the Senate is seeking to ascertain how it might proceed with an impeachment trial without blowing up the start of Joe Biden's term, the Supreme Court could face its own business being rearranged. The Constitution states that 'When the President of the United States is tried the Chief Justice shall preside.' But with the Senate having been in recess since the House voted to impeach, the trial will occur when Trump is no longer in office
Washington—Treasury secretary nominee Janet Yellen urged Congress to “go big” and pass President-elect Joe Biden’s massive $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package in opening her Senate confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. “When economists look back on the pandemic, I expect they’ll conclude that Congress’ actions averted a lot of suffering,” Yellen told the Senate Finance Committee. “Over the next few months, we’re going to need more aid to distribute the vaccine, to reopen schools, to help states keep firefighters and teachers on the job,” she continued. “We’ll need more funding to make unemployment insurance checks still go out and help families
After the Fall
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This week the ruling class will install Mumbly Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States and symbolic ruler of the empire. This will take place in a scene out of a Hollywood movie. The Imperial Capital looks like a war zone, with 25,000 troops patrolling the streets and the core of the city closed off entirely. Biden will take the oath of office behind layers of razor wire fencing (Snip)
The grandees of official Washington, of course, will be celebrating. Their long nightmare has finally come to an end. Donald Trump has been evicted from their presence. For four long years—in defense of our democracy, of course—they have
The United States became the first country to officially declare Chinese government of Uighur Muslims an act of "genocide," announcing findings Tuesday which found China's policies toward the minority group are "crimes against humanity." Outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said U.S. investigation into the Chinese Communist Party's treatment of ethnic and religious minorities found overwhelming evidence China has committed genocide against the Xinjiang region Uighurs. Pompeo said "we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state" in his Tuesday statement. The announcement is seen as a final scathing blow
Twitter shares—since President Donald Trump’s permanent ban—slid even more on Monday.
As of Monday at around 11:20 a.m. ET, the San Francisco-based company’s stock was trading at $44.96—dropping about 0.50 percent. Earlier in the day, shares were trading below $44.60.
On Jan. 6, during the Joint Session of Congress, the company’s shares were trading at $53.26. At this point, Twitter is down about 17 percent so far in 2021.
Despite no plot against Biden being found, two National Guardsmen have been removed from duty in Washington, D.C. after government agencies began scouring their social media feeds for pro-Trump sympathies. The Associated Press reports from an anonymous source: “two National Guard members have been found to have ties to fringe right group militias. No plot against Biden was found.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is explicitly pointing his finger at President Donald Trump for helping to spur the attack on the Capitol by the outgoing president’s supporters. The Kentucky Republican said Tuesday on the Senate floor, “The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people.” McConnell spoke six days after the Democratic-led House impeached Trump on charges of inciting the Jan. 6 attack. A Senate trial on whether to convict Trump and perhaps bar him from ever again holding federal office is expected to begin in coming days. After years of supporting Trump
Ex-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr said Tuesday that President Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen “precipitated the riots” at the Capitol.
In his first television interview since his ouster and break from Trump, Barr blamed the violent riots on the weeks-long effort to cast doubt on President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the November vote. “That was the thing that precipitated the riots on the Hill’,” Barr told the British ITV network. Barr stopped short of accusing his ex-boss of inciting the mob of supporters, but he didn’t refute it either. “I’ll leave it to the people who are looking
Now, the Left Owns It All
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That mob that split off from the Donald Trump rally of Jan. 6 to invade the Capitol has proven a godsend to the left.
The death of a Capitol cop has enabled the left — which spent the summer after George Floyd’s death trashing “racist cops” and shouting, “Defund the Police!” — to posture as fighting allies of the men in blue.
Liberals who implored us to understand the grievances of the rioters, looters and arsonists last summer have become sudden converts to the church of law and order.
Elites who had condoned the smashing of statues and monuments to Columbus, Washington, Jefferson and Jackson as a needed cleansing of our hateful history
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) is about to become the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and regardless of his current disposition the deepest part of the deep state will have full blackmail control over every aspect of his activity.
To understand just how severely compromised Senator Warner is it becomes necessary to review why, when and how his corrupt legislative engagements with the intelligence apparatus took place.Keep in mind all dates connect. All dates are important. “You’ve got Bill Priestap on Feb. 15th, 2018, with four other people from the FBI briefing this Senate Intel Committee, completely whitewashing the truth about the reliability of the dossier,”
Joe Biden may be taking his last ride. The president-elect may be banned from bringing his Peloton to the White House—because the high-tech exercise bike poses a threat from hackers, according to experts. The 78-year-old Democrat is known to start his mornings with a workout on the popular $1,895 home exercise bike that links riders up to intense workout classes, according to a report in Popular Mechanics. But because it has a microphone, camera and access to the internet, Biden’s bike opens up security fears—which could force him to ditch it in Delaware when he moves into
As the forces of Donald Trump break ranks and scatter in the wake of Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the United States, all seems lost.
The president’s strong record of accomplishment—including the roaring economy, until it met its COVID doom; middle-class tax relief; and stabilizing the Middle East—is about to be overturned in an orgy of vengeful Democratic executive orders. Meanwhile, conservatives find themselves falsely tarred with “sedition” and unceremoniously booted off social-media platforms, while Trump and his family may be under investigation for years to come.
A young Syrian man shared his experience of being raised by a biological father with Down syndrome. Now a dentistry student, the young man says that in spite of the condition, his dad shaped him into the man he is today. Their touching story is indeed worthy of admiration.(Snip) he describes his dad, Jad, as a “father a husband and family leader.” He explains that while the situation may be hard to comprehend by others, being raised by someone with Down syndrome gave him “all the love and tenderness that anyone can offer.”
Not too far out along the Bayport Berm, the maw of earth-moving machinery gives way to the chirping of songbirds. Deer and bobcat have left tracks in the mud. Coyotes have dropped furry scat. Hawks soar overhead.The Port of Houston built the berm, a 2.6-mile-long, 20-foot-high ridge that curves from about Texas 146 to Galveston Bay, to buffer the communities of Seabrook and Jardin del Mar and preserve nearby natural areas from the sights and sounds of its busy Bayport Container Terminal. A massive land development is now under construction on the terminal side. But wildlife sights and sounds appear to be increasing, too.
Newly elected Rep. Jamaal Bowman said Monday that the U.S. Capitol riot provided Congress the opportunity to “stop spreading the myth of American exceptionalism” and seriously address systemic racism in the country. “This is a chance for all of us in Congress to sort of begin at a new baseline and stop spreading the myth of American exceptionalism and accept the fact that this is exactly who we are, and this is exactly who we’ve been throughout our country’s history,” Mr. Bowman, New York Democrat, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Monday evening. “Whenever there’s social progress, there’s White backlash, particularly from the people
On this year's anniversary of Martin Luther King Day, corporate America is stepping up its commitment to promoting and advancing diversity. Just last week, Apple unveiled a series of new racial equity and justice projects as part of a $100 million investment announced in June 2019 to help combat racial inequality. And Walmart is asking employees to honor King with a special fundraising campaign.Both initiatives come as OneTen, a coalition of 37 leading CEOs and organizations, launched last month as a new initiative aimed at upskilling, hiring and advancing a million Black Americans over the next 10 years into family-sustaining jobs with opportunities for advancement.
President Donald Trump has announced the names of more than 200 Americans who will fill a new “National Garden of American Heroes,” which Trump said will override a “reckless attempt to erase our heroes.”The garden, which does not yet have a location, will include famous scientists, like Jonas Salk, who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines; entertainment celebrities, like Alex Trebek, the longtime host of “Jeopardy!” who recently passed away; and sports stars, like heavyweight boxer Muhammed Ali.Trump said the garden came about in response to protests that occurred across the country last summer,
Biden picks Levine, openly
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WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine, who is openly transgender, has been nominated to become assistant secretary of health under President-elect Joe Biden’s administration, The Associated Press is reporting. (Tweet) With the nomination, Levine, who has served in her current position since 2017, could soon make history: If confirmed, she would become the first openly transgender person to receive U.S. Senate confirmation for a federal post, according to the AP. In a statement, Biden called Levine a “deeply qualified choice” for the job, the AP reported. “Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need
Has Hillary Clinton taken one too many walks in the woods?
She's starting to sound outright crazy, in a podcast with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
According to The Independent of London:
Former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, have suggested that Donald Trump might have been in contact with Russian president Vladimir Putin on the day of the deadly riots at the US Capitol, and called for a “9/11-type commission” to investigate the events of 6 January.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a tweet Monday night that he will not authorize the deployment of the Texas National Guard to Washington, D.C. again if the troops are going to be disrespected.Responding to a Washington Post article on the Pentagon was vetting National Guard members tapped to help with security on Inauguration Day for extremist ties, the Republican governor called it “the most offensive thing I’ve ever heard.”In effect, with an assist from the FBI, the 25,000-plus soldiers deployed to DC in a show of force are being submitted to background checks — essentially a political purity test– to ensure that they are not an inside threat
Four years ago, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton helped launch the Russian collusion conspiracy theory that took up the news cycles for three whole years.Now, the disgruntled former politician is promoting a new conspiracy theory about President Donald Trump, stating she would “love” to see the President’s phone records to see “whether he was talking to Putin the day that the insurgents invaded our Capitol.”The comments from Clinton came during her podcast You and Me Both on Monday with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi while they were discussing the events that unfolded on January 6th.“We learned a lot about our system of government over the last four years
WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden’s key cabinet nominees will be in the hot seat on Tuesday for their first round of Senate confirmation hearings.The hearings will take place one day before Biden’s inauguration, meaning the former veep enters the White House with his cabinet still very much in flux.Treasury nominee Janet Yellen, Defense nominee Lloyd Austin, Homeland Security nominee Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken and Director of National Intelligence nominee Avril Haines will all front their respective committees on Tuesday, creating a blockbuster day of hearings in the nation’s capitol.
Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the dumbest administration on earth. Make America Senile Again. Joe Biden was supposedly elected to end all the madness. Make the crazy stop. Give in to the media’s lunatic four-year temper tantrum so the rest of us can get a wink of sleep. All Joe Biden had to do is … nothing really. Just about all of his supposed plans for combatting the Chinese plague have been tried by Democrat governors and disastrously failed. Or they are ideas he stole from President Trump and are already working.So, Joe, just leave it alone and continue to deliver Mr. Trump’s miracle “Warp Speed” vaccines.
Recently Michael Brown wrote a column titled Neither Never Trump Nor Forever Trump in which he urges Trump supporters to move on.
Another pundit, Robert W. Merry of The American Conservative writes "But now Republicans must push beyond their disgraced and deeply flawed standard-bearer to remake themselves under new leadership."
In the House, a Democrat representative spoke about the necessity for the second impeachment to ensure that Trump will never run for office again. The mistake that all of these pundits make is assuming that we Trump supporters(snip) No way do we want him to run again. Why not? We do not consider him a disgrace. We love him.
Joe Biden’s promised stimulus is meant to boost an economy devastated by the Democrats’ national shutdown by handing out more checks and imposing a $15 national minimum wage. Sorry, it won’t work.
“We must act now, and we must act decisively,” Biden said.
Sounds good, but do we really? What he and Congress have proposed is an incoherent mess that will do the precise opposite of what he says it will. Even worse, it’s premised on the long-discredited idea that the government can stimulate the economy by spending more.
From false premises come bad policies that will hurt many low-income
Thank you, Mr. President, for everything you’ve done. It shouldn’t be ending this way, but I and 74 million other Americans just want to thank you for all your efforts on our behalf over the past four years, actually since you came down the escalator at Trump Tower back in the summer of 2015. In no particular order: Thank you for restoring the U.S. as the world’s leading producer of energy – after your predecessor sternly lectured us that we “couldn’t drill our way” out of our dependence on unstable Middle Eastern oil providers. Thank you for the tax cuts for the middle class.
Those of you who are reading this post are the type of people who pay attention to things. That’s why you already know that 26,000 National Guard troops drawn from all over America and from Puerto Rico, have assembled in Washington, D.C., in advance of Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. (That’s about three divisions worth of troops.) But have you given serious thought to what the troops’ presence means? (snip) I’m inclined to agree with Tucker Carlson’s brilliant Monday night opening monologue regarding the deeper meaning behind a massive D.C. lockdown
Joe Biden's pick for a top Pentagon post works at a research center partnered with China's Peking University, a school that has long been eyed as a security risk by western intelligence.
Colin Kahl, whom Biden tapped for undersecretary of defense for policy, has served as a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University since the beginning of 2018. The institute oversees the Stanford Center at Peking University in northern Beijing, which opened in 2012.
While America burned, Democrats and their media insisted loudly that the Black Lives Matter protests were mostly peaceful. Aside from all the people dead and wounded, the $2 billion in damages across entire ruined cities, and the sheer level of devastation nationwide.
Despite that, Democrats and the media claimed that the BLM riots were mostly peaceful by arguing that when considered across time and space, most of the protest activity was not violent. This was an exercise in serious hairsplitting with Democrats and the media classifying a protest as "peaceful" before it somehow "turned violent".
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell revealed Monday that retail stores Bed Bath & Beyond and Kohl's will stop selling his products on account of his continued support of conspiracy theories centered on false allegations of election fraud.
Lindell, whose company is based in Minneapolis, made the announcement during an interview with conservative commentator Brian Glenn on Monday night.
'Just got off the phone with Bed Bath & Beyond. They’re dropping My Pillow. Just got off the phone not five minutes ago. Kohl’s, all these different places,' Lindell said during the interview.
A hopeful anthem from the ’90s is making a patriotic return.The New Radicals will perform their 1998 hit “You Get What You Give” as part of a virtual “Parade Across America” celebrating the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday.The name-dropping, vaguely political one-hit-wonder was Doug Emhoff’s walk-on song during campaign rallies for his wife, VP-elect Kamala Harris, and Biden.As of Monday afternoon, it was also a trending topic on Twitter.Now, the band, which wrote the song in the midst of Y2K fever but broke up shortly after its release, says it’ll be honored to come back together
Fans of Garth Brooks are divided about the country icon's upcoming performance at the inauguration ceremony for President-elect Joe Biden.
On Monday, the "Friends in Low Places" singer, 58, officially joined Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez in the lineup.
Many fans were excited to learn that the star would be offering up his talents for the ceremony.
"Apparently, Garth Brooks has some friends in high places too!" said a Twitter user. "Looking forward to his performance during our virtual inauguration celebration, for our very real President, Biden and Vice President, Harris."
President-elect Joe Biden’s amnesty plan will reportedly provide the glittering prize of U.S. citizenship to everyone who can show they were in the United States illegally on January 1, if Congress passes the wage-cutting, nation-changing legislation amid a deep economic recession.“To qualify, immigrants must have been in the United States as of Jan. 1, a move meant to blunt any rush to the border,” according to a description provided “by transition officials” to the Washington Post.But the “rush to the border” is likely because migrants and the coyotes’ smuggling industry can backdate documents
The Trump administration's 1776 Commission has slammed what it calls 're-education attempts' that re-frame the United States as 'an evil country' in a scathing report released on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The 45-page document blasts 'destructive scholarship' that the commission says misrepresents the history of slavery and racial discrimination in the nation's schools and colleges. It also likened American liberals to the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, who the commission said 'sought to centralize power under the management of so-called experts.' 'States and school districts should reject any curriculum that promotes one-sided partisan opinions,
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and other lockdown critics have been accused for months of ignoring the science on the novel coronavirus, but a recently released study by Stanford University researchers is providing an empirical boost to those who want to shut down the shutdowns. A peer-reviewed article in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation found “no clear significant beneficial effect” from stay-at-home orders and business closures in eight nations, including the United States, versus voluntary measures adopted by South Korea and Sweden. Published Jan. 5, the article offers what may be the strongest scientific challenge yet to more restrictive
A Staten Island man who allegedly livestreamed his participation in the Capitol riot was arrested Monday, according to reports and the FBI.
Nicolas Moncada of Taunton Street was arrested at his home, with federal agents remaining at the scene. “[Moncada] is now in custody for his role in assaulting the US Capitol while our representatives were inside performing their Constitutional duties,” the agency said on Twitter.(Snip)Moncada’s mother told The Post on Monday that her son wasn’t rioting—he was just wanted to see what was going on inside the capitol. “I’m upset that everyone’s jumping to conclusions,” Joan Moncada said. “He’s such a good kid.