Posts on Wednesday, January 27, 2021
MSNBC political analyst Jason Johnson said Wednesday on “Deadline” that citing the example of QAnon supporter Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) that Democrats should declare all Republicans are “terrorists,” adding “you can’t negotiate, you can’t legislate and you can’t work with terrorists.”Discussing Greene, anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “This isn’t even about views. She’s a conspiracy theorist, committed the very same kinds of disinformation act that today the Department of Homeland Security warned against, in almost an unprecedented bulletin. She is what they are describing in the Homeland Security Department’s bulletin about the world views of potentially violent extremists
Melania Trump is reportedly establishing a post-White House office in Florida.
The former first lady is bringing along three of her former East Wing staffers in establishing the new office, according to CNN. Trump's new chief of staff Hayley D'Antuono, former East Wing staff assistant Mary "Casey" Finzer, and senior adviser Marcia Kelly are all expected to join Trump in Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, Florida.The office's purpose is to "maintain 'Be Best,'" the former first lady's White House initiative designed to help children, the report said.“It concerns me that in today’s fast-paced and ever-connected world, children can be less prepared to express or manage their emotions and
This is one of those stories that’s so good that you have to double check it’s not parody.
The talk of the stock market right now involves GameStop (among other stocks) and a group of Reddit users that decided to play Wall Street’s own game against them. If you don’t understand stock trades, it can be a bit in the weeds, but the general idea is simple. A bunch of hedge fund managers shorted stock trying to make money. In response, a group of Reddit users banded together to legally buy up those stocks and squeeze the short. This has some hedge funds in dire financial straits because there’s insufficient money
Op-ed calls very real conservative censorship,
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From the left’s standpoint, claims that the 2020 presidential election — which was marred by millions of unsolicited mail-in ballots sent out because of the pandemic — was stolen is a “big lie,” insisting there is “no evidence” to support the assertion.Never mind that three out of four Republicans with eyes that can see believe it to be true — an anomaly dismissed as just a bunch of rubes being manipulated by former President Donald Trump.This being the same cabal that insists conservatives are not being censored by Big Tech. No, it’s just more conspiracy-mongering on the right.
After repeatedly taking subtle jabs at former President Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, now says that talking about the past administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is “not productive.”Speaking on “America Reports,” Fauci said “a lot of good things” happened with Operation Warp Speed and that he felt no reason to talk about President Trump despite spending all last week bashing President Trump.“I really don’t want to go back and rehash. That is not productive,” he said, adding that the goal during the Biden administration is to get a “broader plan” for vaccine distribution.“A lot of good things did happen
It’s not really clear what people were expecting in terms of transparency within the new Biden administration. But if we go by the “expertise” of current White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, people will have more questions than answers for the next four years.In what has already become a noticeable trend, Psaki seems to use the same phrase — “circle back” — over and over when being asked questions about what President Joe Biden and his administration are doing, among other questions.Psaki has basically become a walking meme at this point, and we’re only one week into the new presidency.Take a look: (Video)
Without question, CNN host Don Lemon is one of the most ineffective ‘journalists’ on television.He’s arrogant. Smug. Lacks self-awareness. And he is so convinced that he’s the only one with the facts on everything he is incapable of grasping reality.But what’s really’s really offensive is his hubristic dismissal of anyone who disagrees with his version of the truth (we can’t say ‘facts’ because he doesn’t deal in those). Those people are rubes and idiots incapable of engaging in higher brain function, as he demonstrated again Tuesday evening while interviewing former Ohio governor and 2016 presidential RINO candidate John Kasich. The Daily Caller has more:
One of the most favorite past times of official Washington (and the establishment media) in between presidential elections is guessing who will be the leading candidates for the various political parties the next time Americans go to the polls.Since Joe Biden allegedly ‘won’ the 2020 race, it’s easy to predict who will lead the Democratic ticket in 2024 — Vice President Kamala Harris (you read it here first).But what about the Republican ticket? Who is already a “frontrunner” barely a week into Biden’s presidency? A new survey gives us some insight.The Daily Wire notes:Morning Consult and Politico surveyed 595 Republicans between January 8 and 11 —
This Is Not Normal
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For four years, we were informed by our establishment media that President Donald Trump's behavior was "not normal." The abnormality of Trump's behavior became a near rallying cry for the self-appointed heroes of journalism, who spent every waking hour poring over his bizarre tweets and his bloviating self-absorption. The media dedicated themselves to preventing Trump's supposed normalization.
Now, the media inform us, we have been graced by the most normal normal person to have ever normalled: President Joe Biden. Biden, they proclaim, is utterly boring, nondescript, barely worthy of coverage.
Politico Canceled Guest Slot For Guy
Benson And MK Ham After The Newsroom
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Benson And MK Ham After The Newsroom
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A couple weeks ago I wrote about the meltdown at Politico over Ben Shapiro being allowed to write for the magazine’s newsletter. Yesterday, Ed wrote a follow-up piece noting that more than 100 staffers at the site were still so angry weeks later that they had written a letter to publisher Robert Allbritton to express their displeasure. It was ultimately too late for the staffers to cancel Ben Shapiro’s appearance, that already happened. But yesterday Shapiro pointed out on Twitter that in the wake of this blowup, Politico suddenly canceled plans to have Guy Benson and Mary Katherine Ham co-write the newsletter.
Mets owner Steve Cohen’s attempt to bail out a former business protege’s investment firm has some fans worried.
Cohen joined forces this week with fellow finance tycoon Ken Griffin to save hedge fund Melvin Capital from some troubled investments, including bets against GameStop.
Melvin was reportedly down 30 percent as rookie investors who frequent stock message boards like Reddit helped push up shares of the video game retailer — putting pressure on Melvin’s bet that the stock would fall, known as a “short.”
Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management and Griffin’s firm Citadel gave Melvin a combined $2.75 billion investment on Monday to help it through the market turmoil.
After watching a third consecutive day of Redditors helping to push the stock of a beleaguered retail chain to an undeserved record valuation of more than $10 billion Tuesday, I saw rapid fire jokes on Twitter about the situation.
So I fired off a response to the general tone of the conversation.
“I get that people think it’s funny when bad things happen to Wall Street types, but this GameStop GME, +134.84% thing is not a joke,” I tweeted. “These are stock traders conspiring to manipulate the markets in open view of us all and using the ‘nah, its for the lulz, and the other side
You know it had to irk President Trump intensely for House minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to blame the Capitol Hill riots squarely on him. Additionally, thanks to Rand Paul, with 45 senators voting to dismiss the article of impeachment, President Trump now knows the almost certain February outcome of the ridiculous partisan effort. That’s the background for a report that Kevin McCarthy is heading to Florida this week for talks with President Trump.The MAGA movement President Trump inspired is itching to break down the republican party in the next set of primary races.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) bragged about designing President Joe Biden’s job-killing energy agenda after an NBC News reporter pointed out the similarities between it and her Green New Deal.(Tweet) We can debate numbers another time. We all know that killing the Keystone XL Pipeline costs jobs.But we all knew this would happen.Fuzzy wrote about it in September: Biden’s Build Back Better’ is Essentially the Green New Deal.Fuzzy quoted from Biden’s website: Mobilize American manufacturing and innovation . . . . he is releasing a plan today to build a strong industrial base and small-business-led supply chains to retain and create millions of good-paying union jobs
Jared and Ivanka's former home has hit the market, with listing agents describing it as 'one of the most well known and photographed houses on the planet, given recent tenants' and boasting the Obamas among its famous neighbors. The recently renovated property in the affluent Kalorama Heights neighborhood in Washington DC is up for grabs for a staggering $18,000 a month and could be the new home for someone who wants to live like the Trump clan.The Kushners lived in the family home from 2017 while they both worked as senior advisers to then-President Donald Trump.They rented the property for $15,000 per-month from Chilean mining billionaire Andrónico Luksic
The man behind pro-Trump Twitter troll account “Ricky Vaughn” was busted in Florida on Wednesday for spreading disinformation during the 2016 presidential election in a scheme to limit black turnout, officials said.
Douglass Mackey, 31, was arrested in West Palm Beach on one charge of conspiracy against rights, for which he faces up to 10 years in prison.
Between September and November 2016, Mackey allegedly conspired with others to use social media messaging to encourage blacks to cast their votes via text message so their ballots wouldn’t count, according to Brooklyn federal prosecutors.
On Nov. 1, one week before the presidential election that ushered in President Donald Trump’s term, Mackey allegedly tweeted
A Washington DC police officer who responded to the January 6 Capitol siege committed suicide days later, the force's police chief has revealed. Jeffrey Smith, a 12-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department, died on January 15, nine days after the violent insurrection where a Donald Trump-inspired mob stormed the US Capitol building. Smith was assigned to patrol the 2nd District, which includes the neighborhoods of Chevy Chase and Georgetown, the Metropolitan Police Department shared with DailyMail.com.
He’s the second police officer who was present at the Capitol on January 6 to take their own life. Capitol Police Officer Howard Liebengood,
The Biden administration is not interested in giving credit where its due, apparently; especially, it seems, as it concerns the plan to rollout coronavirus vaccines in a plan developed under the Trump administration through Operation Warp Speed.According to a report from National Review, Team Biden has been insisting through press conferences and administration talking heads that there was no vaccine plan to speak of when they entered the Oval Office, and they’ve been forced to start from scratch (Snip) Operation Warp Speed staffers have pushed back on this claim, saying they had in the area of 300 transition meetings with Team Biden to get the incoming administration prepared to
WASHINGTON — When the Biden administration held its first coronavirus briefing Wednesday, there were no cameos from the president, no speakers behind the White House podium jousting with reporters, and no data coming from outside the federal agencies involved in the pandemic response. And in a sign of the awareness of the risks of putting people in a room together, the briefing wasn't even held in person, which brought its own problem of technical glitches. It was a much different scene from the coronavirus news briefings of the Trump administration, which often became freewheeling televised spectacles with the president jockeying with
Cruise missiles—low-flying, precision-guided warhead delivery systems—revolutionized military strategy with their debut on the battlefield in the decades after World War II. But with a new administration in Washington, the Air Force is stepping up its case for adopting what it calls a long-range standoff weapon to replace the aging air-launched cruise missile in order to maintain the strategic bomber leg of the nuclear triad. It’s not just another weapons contract. Pentagon officials worry that all three legs of the classic nuclear triad, whether launched on land, underwater or in the skies, are showing serious signs of wear and tear.
The Reddit subgroup fueling the unprecedented surge of GameStop shares in a campaign that is rattling Wall Street, was briefly made private shortly after its users were kicked off gamer messaging app Discord due to hate speech violations. Discord on Wednesday confirmed it has banned the WallStreetBets server from its platform, where thousands of users had shared messages hyping up GameStop's stock and urged other investors to hold on to their shares or buy more. The campaign effectively sent the company's shares up 1,700 per cent in four weeks, with three of its largest individual investors gaining more than $3 billion in net worth
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will have his work cut out for him as he tries to maneuver through the 50-50 upper chamber. To pass most legislation, he'll need to work with Republicans to get things done, but that won't be easy, especially after he rigorously campaigned against a few of them in recent election cycles, CNN reports. Take, for example, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who ultimately won a hard fought re-election campaign last year against Democratic challenger Sara Gideon. Despite the victory, Collins appears to have taken Schumer's efforts to unseat her personally. "What this campaign taught me
The head of the Republican National Committee on Wednesday declined to encourage former President Donald Trump to run for the White House in 2024, saying the GOP would stay 'neutral' in its next presidential primary.In an interview, RNC Chairman Ronna Romney McDaniel also described the pro-Trump conspiracy theory group known as QAnon as 'dangerous.'The national GOP, under McDaniel's leadership, spent the past four years almost singularly focused on Trump's 2020 reelection. But should he run again in 2024 - and he has publicly and privately suggested he wants to - the national party infrastructure would not support his ambitions over other prospective candidates in accordance with party rules,
John Kerry, the Biden Admin’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, has a message to oil and gas workers: make solar panels.Joe Biden killed tens of thousands of jobs his first day in office when he canceled contracts with the Keystone XL pipeline and waged a war on the energy business.This is just the beginning — millions of US jobs are at risk now that Biden is stopping new oil and gas leases on federal lands.But fear not because John Kerry, who has done nothing but lie, cheat and grift his entire life is here to save the day.
One of the big sea changes in the Trump administration for conservative media came at White House press conferences.
President Trump and his people opened up the press conferences from the narrow confines of the White House Correspondents Association and the mainstream media to a range of conservative media. That infuriated the media and the Biden White House is predictably signaling that will come to an end. Democrats and their media define "disinformation" as anything they disagree with. Or anything Republicans say.
Reading one of the first new presidential executive orders—titled “Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government”—was for me a depressing experience.
Even the term “racial equity” sent shivers up my spine; it’s reminiscent of the terms “Jewish science” and “bourgeois morality,” as used by the Nazis and the Bolsheviks, respectively. (Snip)
But if by equality of opportunity is meant equality of outcome between distinguishable groups of human beings, no more dictatorial or totalitarian principle could well be enunciated: for the fact is that different groups have, in aggregate, different ambitions, aims, traditions, and capacities.
President Joe Biden’s American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter reportedly manages a pro-Trump Facebook group that provides sign language accompaniments to right-wing videos. ASL interpreter Heather Mewshaw was introduced by press secretary Jen Psaki as “today’s interpreter, Heather” on Monday, as the administration announced it would be adding a sign language interpreter to its daily press briefings. However, on Wednesday, Time magazine reported that Ms Mewshaw manages the Hands of Liberty Facebook page, which has featured ASL interpreters providing sign language accompaniments to videos featuring former President Donald Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. Correction*
The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday warning that “domestic violent extremists” who object to the outcome of the presidential election still pose a threat following the U.S. Capitol siege on January 6, just three weeks ago. The notice indicated a “heightened threat environment across the United States” that the agency “believes will persist in the weeks following the successful Presidential Inauguration.” “Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit
Kamala Harris undermines
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her historic vice presidency
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Kamala Harris made history when she became our country’s first female vice president.
While electing the first woman to a nationwide office serves as an important milestone, Harris’s policy positions themselves provide little comfort to women. On numerous issues, Harris will undermine, rather than advance, causes that are important to women.
To Insults Of U.S. Troops, Biden
Administration Adds Forcing Female
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The newly inaugurated Biden-Harris administration is off to a rocky start with military men and women. Serious affronts have come from Congress as well as the White House, adding insults to injuries with even more damage on the way.(Snip)President Biden is especially letting down military women, who will be ordered to share their private facilities with biological males who claim to be transgender. Directives issued during the Obama-Biden administration, such as the 2016 “Military Transgender Policy Implementation Handbook,” brushed off concerns about personal discomfort and worse. Women, said the guidebook, will just have to “get used to it.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took credit Wednesday for President Biden’s newly unveiled $2 trillion set of environmental policies, which include eliminating coal, oil and natural gas as electricity sources by 2035. “It’s almost as if we helped shape the platform,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wrote in a tweet, followed by a winking face emoji. The tweet was in response to NBC News reporter Geoff Bennett, who noted the similarities between the Biden’s executive orders and Democratic socialist AOC’s “Green New Deal” proposal Wednesday. “It’s striking how much of Biden’s climate executive actions reflect major elements of the Green New Deal—tackling climate change while addressing economic/racial injustice
Washington—President Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry, admitted Wednesday that the US reducing its emissions to zero wouldn’t make much of a difference in the global climate change fight—before pushing domestic manufacturing of electric cars and solar panels in favor of energy production.(Snip)“He knows Paris alone is not enough,” Kerry told reporters at a White House press briefing, referring to Biden re-entering the US in the Paris Climate Agreement in one of his first acts as president. “Not when almost 90 percent of all of the planet’s global emissions come from outside of US borders. We could go to zero tomorrow
GameStop Corp.’s stock movement continued to turn efficient market theory on its head Wednesday, streaking to a record that valued the retail chain at more than $20 billion. [SNIP] GameStop was joined Wednesday by a host of other heavily shorted stocks targeted by investors after users on a Reddit message board encouraged readers to attempt to force short squeezes in such stocks. The most prominent was theater chain AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. which more than tripled in Wednesday trading. Bed Bath and Beyond Inc. shares rallied 32%, National Beverage Corp. shares surged 32%.
Facebook has hired Roy Austin, former Obama administration official and a member of President Joe Biden’s transition team, as the social media company’s vice president of Civil Rights and deputy general counsel.
Austin used to serve as civil rights prosecutor and supervisor in the Department of Justice (DOJ) before becoming a deputy assistant to President Barack Obama for the Office of Urban Affairs, Justice and Opportunity in 2014. In 2017, he went into private practice as a criminal defense and civil rights attorney at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis. In November, Biden named him as one of the volunteers on the Agency Review Team for the DOJ in his transition.
No 'Status Quo Joe': Leftists mount
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A far-left Democratic group is mounting a #NoHoneymoon campaign to hold President Biden’s feet to the fire to ensure his backing of their socialist-style agenda. RootsAction, a liberal activist network claiming 1.2 million supporters in the U.S., has enlisted several prominent liberals to its cause, including Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream; Robert Reich, former labor secretary in the Clinton administration; and Carmen Yulin Cruz, former mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico; among many others.(Snip) Many of the activists leading the charge are former supporters and surrogates for Sen. Bernard Sanders’ failed presidential campaign.
Xi Twists Biden’s Arm at Davos
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Xi Jinping’s kick-off appearance at the winter Davos week this Monday had a simple message for newly inaugurated President Joe Biden: bring America back into the fold, or suffer the consequences.
The speech, which opened and closed with World Economic Forum (WEF) Chairman Klaus Schwab heaping praise on Xi, was the Chinese president’s first appearance at Davos since he spoke there in 2017.
The atmosphere this time around was no less surreal, at least at first glance. What is the strongman leader of the largest communist nation in the world doing headlining the premier event for the world’s free-trading liberal internationalist elite?
President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, divvied out millions in taxpayer funds during her two terms as Michigan governor to alternative energy companies that eventually went bankrupt. In one instance, Granholm’s administration provided a $9.1 million refundable tax credit to a renewable energy company registered to the address of a single-wide trailer and run by a convicted embezzler named Richard Short. Short was found to be in violation of his parole and sent back to prison after appearing on stage with Granholm in 2010 to accept assistance from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority, according to Michigan Capitol Confidential.
President Joe Biden campaigned on a promise to turn the tide of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, telling Americans that he had a superior plan to the one that was being executed by the administration of President Donald Trump.
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While some of Biden’s ideas are truly novel, including his vision for a centralized national contact-tracing workforce through the establishment of the U.S. Public Health Job Corps, the plan largely mirrors what had been set in motion by Trump, plus the addition of several layers of bureaucracy and the infusion of the quasi-Marxist “equity” agenda into every aspect of the pandemic response.
CVS has begun offering in-store COVID-19 vaccinations in New York and other states — as the drugstore chain ramps up plans to administer millions of shots a month.New Yorkers age 65 and older can make appointments for the shot at locations in the Long Island town of Center Moriches and the Erie County village of Blasdell. Other stores in Indiana, Connecticut, Ohio and Massachusetts have also already begun giving shots. “Per an agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services, COVID-19 vaccines will eventually be available at all CVS Pharmacy locations throughout the country subject to product availability
Pentagon officials have announced that Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, the younger sibling of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, is being assigned to head U.S. Army Pacific.
The Chief of Staff of the Army made the announcement as part of a range of general officer assignments, according to a Jan. 25 statement from the Department of Defense (DoD).
Flynn, who was previously approved to become a four-star general, has been serving as deputy chief of staff, G-3/5/7, U.S. Army. Under the new assignment, Flynn will be posted at the headquarters of the U.S. Army Pacific at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, where he will serve as commanding general.
The GOP-led Wisconsin senate on Tuesday voted 18-13 to repeal Democrat Governor Tony Evers’ statewide mask mandate. Governor Evers issued an emergency 60-day order in August of 2020 and continued to extend his unlawful mandates – until now.
The Republican state lawmakers are working to put an end to Evers’ abuse.The resolution will head to the GOP-led state assembly on Thursday. If the joint resolution passes the assembly, it does not need Governor Evers’ approval.
President Joe Biden paused during a speech to apologize to Vice President Kamala Harris for saying “I” instead of “we” when speaking about administration priorities. President Biden delivered a speech Monday on his executive order to strengthen American manufacturing, after which he took several questions from reporters. In a small but telling moment, Biden interrupted himself as he explained how he would try to build support in Congress for the administration’s policies. “It’s not enough for me just to come up to you and say, ‘I like this. I expect you to support it’,” Biden said. “I want to explain
Beijing is using anal swabs to test its residents for coronavirus, a method that experts say is more accurate and raises the chances of detecting the virus. To collect test samples, the swab needs to be inserted about three to five centimetres (1.2 to 2 inches) into the rectum and rotated several times. After completing the motion twice, the swab is removed before being securely placed inside a sample container. The whole procedure is said to take about 10 seconds. The Chinese capital began using the derriere detecting method more frequently during a mass testing drive after a nine-year-old boy tested positive
Democrats Introduce Legislation To Make DC The 51st State (And Give Dems Full Control Of Senate)
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Well, we all knew it was coming.
Democrats have been salivating over the idea of making Washington DC a state for years. Why? Because they know Washington DC is a cesspool of radical Democrats and thus want to increase their majority with two more Senators and who knows how many Congressmen.
And today, Democrats have just introduced legislation in the Senate to make Washington DC the 51st state:
The San Francisco school board has voted to strike the names of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln from 44 of the district's institutions, it was revealed Tuesday. The former presidents were among the historical figures deemed by the board members to have ties to racism in a 6-1 vote.(Snip) The $400,000 price tag to replace the signage at all the schools was also criticized in light of the district's budget deficit. The price could rise to more than $1million to include new uniforms and gymnasium floors.
The school board had voted in 2018 to establish a task force
Xinjiang Genocide Means US Firms Can’t
‘Continue to Deceive Themselves’ About
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‘Continue to Deceive Themselves’ About
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The Trump administration’s determination that the Chinese regime is committing genocide against Muslim minorities should cause American companies to rethink their business in the country, said Commissioner Gary Bauer of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).The declaration made by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo indicates that “what the Chinese communists are doing is trying to eliminate a whole people—in this case, Chinese Uyghur Muslims, to literally wipe them off the face of the earth,” (Snip) Pompeo cited Beijing’s expansive repressive practices targeting ethnic Muslim minorities in the far-western Xinjiang region, including detaining more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in concentration camps,
Former Trump administration staffer Stephen Miller appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to detail the impact of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on immigration enforcement. While Biden billed the order as a temporary halt on deportations for 100 days, it appears to include much more. (Snip)
The Biden administration sent a directive to ICE detention centers instructing them to release all detainees obtained by the host. The order read:
“As of midnight tonight, stop all removals. This includes Mexican bus runs, charter flights and commercial removals (until further notice) … all cases are to be considered [no significant likelihood of removal in foreseeable future].”
President Joe Biden told Americans on Tuesday that they had “never fully lived up to the founding principles of this nation.”
Biden was speaking at the White House on the occasion of signing four executive orders that, he claimed, would address racial “equity.”With Vice President Kamala Harris — the country’s first African and Asian American woman in that role — looking on, Biden said: We have never fully lived up to the founding principles of this nation, to state the obvious, that all people are created equal and have a right to be treated equally throughout their lives. And it’s time to act now, not only because it’s the right thing
President Biden's plan to replace the government’s fleet of 650,000 cars and trucks with electric vehicles assembled in the U.S. by union workers is easier said than done. Why it matters: The populist "Buy American" message sounds good, but the vehicles Biden wants are still several years away and his purchase criteria would require an expensive overhaul of automakers' manufacturing strategies, not to mention a reversal of fortune for labor organizers long stymied by Tesla and other non-union companies. Reality check: Right now, not a single model fits the president's criteria: battery-powered, made in America, by union workers. Tesla produce
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to acknowledge the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the COVID-19 pandemic, hours after the White House released a memorandum condemning the use of references “by the geographic location of its origin.”
The remarks came shortly after President Joe Biden signed the memo that condemns rising racism, xenophobia, and intolerance against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.(Snip)“I’ve called it the ‘Wuhan virus’ almost ever since its inception,” Pompeo said(Snip) emphasizing the importance of recognizing where the virus first emerged. It is common to name a virus after its place of origin.
The Justice Department said it was concerned that the Pennsylvania woman accused of stealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the US Capitol riots might be destroying evidence—and encouraging others to do so.
Lawyers for the department said during a hearing Monday they believe Riley Williams changed her phone number and deleted her Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Telegram and Parler accounts, CBS Pittsburgh reported. Williams, 22, was arrested on Jan. 18 after her former romantic partner accused her of taking a laptop or hard drive from Pelosi’s office with the intention of selling it to the Russians, authorities have said.
Former President Donald Trump’s YouTube channel will remain suspended indefinitely, the online video platform said Tuesday. Trump was first banned from the Google-owned company Jan. 12 for at least a week in wake of the riot at the US Capitol.(Snip) “In light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, the Donald J. Trump channel will remain suspended,” YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi said in a statement obtained by Politico. “Our teams are staying vigilant and closely monitoring for any new developments.”
(Snip) Former President Trump’s Facebook has also been indefinitely suspended, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced this month. “Our ban is indefinite.
U.S. intelligence findings recently declassified by the State Department provide fresh evidence for the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic likely began at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China’s sole high-security laboratory that has links to the country’s military. The department, in a report made public this month by the outgoing Trump administration, disclosed for the first time that several workers at the Wuhan institute, where research on deadly viruses is conducted, were sickened in the autumn of 2019 with COVID-19-like symptoms. The report also made public U.S. intelligence that the People’s Liberation Army conducted secret research on covert biological warfare
Biden’s Order to Stop Trump’s Border Wall
Construction Will Be Costly and Also It’s
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Joe Biden’s Executive Order demanding stopping the building of the southern wall may be costly but also unconstitutional.Joe Biden signed an executive order to stop the building of the border wall immediately after his his unattended inauguration. ABC7 in Los Angeles reported: Biden on Wednesday ordered a “pause” on all wall construction within a week, one of 17 executive orders issued on his first day in office, including six dealing with immigration. The order leaves projects throughout the border unfinished – but still under contract – after Trump worked feverishly last year to build 450 miles
Chicago Teachers Union
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As the standoff between city government officials and the Chicago Teachers Union over reopening the Windy City's public school system has now reached the White House, the CTU released a video over the weekend that has received pushback. The video features six of the Chicago public school system's dance teachers, expressively depicting their yearning for safety as they are being pressured to return to work. The performance, shot in various locations, is entitled "The Moment We're Safe."(Snip) The responses to the video were not overly supportive.
Former Trump Adviser Larry Kudlow Tapped
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Former President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow is joining Fox News as a contributor and business host, the network announced Tuesday.“FOX News Media was among the first news organizations in the country to understand the critical importance of the relationship between Washington and Wall Street,” Kudlow said in a statement included in the press release. “I’ve long admired their insightful coverage and am excited to join many of my former colleagues now at FBN, creating a show that speaks to the real issues truly impacting Americans.”Kudlow will “provide expert financial analysis on domestic and global affairs across all” Fox News platforms, according
Newly ensconced President Joe Biden is – with his mad flurry of Executive Orders (EOs) and actions – dramatically ramping up government in one large swath of the economy after another.And here’s where it gets unintentionally, morosely hilarious:The “GOP’s willingness to cooperate?” With whom? Biden’s doing everything all by his himself.The “bipartisanship hope is probably already lost” because….Biden’s rapid-fire, all-encompassing assault on the private sector is making it dramatically more difficult to do any sort of business anywhere in America.Big Media is STILL pretending Hyper-Unilateral Biden is looking to lord over us – with anyone besides himself.
Construction workers on the U.S.-Mexico border were notified to stop all border wall projects by the end of Tuesday, according to a congressman whose district sits on the international boundary. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, said in a statement issued late Monday that federal contractors working with U.S. Customs and Border Protection were notified by the agency to stop installing the 18- to 30-foot-tall portion of slatted steel wall across California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.“I received notification that in accordance with President Biden’s executive order, all CBP contractors have now been formally notified by CBP Procurement to pause construction activities on CBP self-executed projects,"
Joe Biden is set to announce on Wednesday a radical proposal for tackling climate change, which will emphasize the fact that marginalized communities and ethnic minorities frequently bear the brunt of global warming.Biden, who rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement on the first day of his presidency, will direct agencies across the federal government to invest in minority communities hardest-hit by pollution, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.Two sources told the paper that the president will sign an executive order establishing a White House interagency council on environmental justice.
One of the hottest topics in Illinois government in the aftermath of the recent lame-duck legislative session is the massive criminal-justice package that’s thrilled some and outraged others.
The rhetoric has been dominated by either generic comments of support or disdain. (Snip) It’s also important to remember that when a case is over, no matter its outcome, 10 percent of any bond returned to a defendant is kept by the county to fund the criminal-justice system.
That’s why ending cash bond has been described by some as a backdoor method of defunding the criminal-justice system.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has joined a conservative think tank in Washington DC — a move that could possibly set him up for a 2024 presidential run. Pompeo, who is now a private citizen, took a job with Hudson Institute, a non-profit based in DC, where he would have the opportunity to engage in policy discussions and be close to major donors of the Republican Party, Axios reported Tuesday.“I am pleased to be joining Hudson Institute and look forward to contributing to its mission of promoting American leadership and global engagement,” Pompeo said in a statement to the outlet.
Every Thursday morning, Arizona parent Marta Mac Ban dresses her six-year-old daughter in khaki shorts and a navy blue shirt and takes her to a neighbor’s house to study with other children. Participants recite the Pledge of Allegiance, review the calendar and collaborate on enrichment activities. Other days during the week, Mac Ban teaches her daughter at home. (Snip) Many families across the United States have made similar moves during the past 10 months, as teachers unions have lobbied to keep campuses closed. The showdown in Chicago, where union members have refused to resume in-person instruction, is just one example.
The Democrats are racing ahead with their third effort to impeach former President Donald Trump. Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the impeachment articles to the Senate on Tuesday, and the now evenly split Senate will take it up on Feb. 8. It’s a waste of time and taxpayer money for one simple reason: It’s not even legal.
No, that’s not a mere assertion or our opinion. It’s based on the only document we know that guides how impeachments should take place. It’s called the Constitution.
We still live in a constitutional republic, which means we are bound by its laws.
On Tuesday, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) issued another important warning about the Democrats like former CIA Director John Brennan who appear to have seized on the Capitol riot as an excuse to crack down on dissent from the Left’s orthodoxy. Democrats seem to be mulling a new domestic “War on Terror” complete with surveillance of American “insurgents” like… Libertarians.
In his first week in office President Asterisk has done his old boss proud. In just six days, lunch bucket Joe has signed 36 executive orders and put tens of thousands of jobs at risk. (snip)Even though the Harris/Biden administration is in its infancy, it has already triggered a flood of complaints of “buyer’s remorse.” It seems many who voted for Joe weren’t expecting this. (snip) I say we help those with “buyer’s remorse” get over it. We should give them a scapegoat. Let’s blame the press. It wasn’t the voter’s fault -- they were misled.
We have long suspected that the left would use the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to take greater control over people’s lives, whether or not it helped fight the disease. The evidence appears to support this.
Wallethub has been ranking states based on their COVID-19 restrictions – things such as mask mandates, limits on travel and gatherings, school closings, liability protections, work-at-home requirements.
The nearby table lists the 10 states with the most and least restrictions in place as of Jan. 25.
Notice anything?
WASHINGTON — Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy was taken to a hospital Tuesday evening after not feeling well and later sent home after tests, a spokesman said, hours after the 80-year-old Democrat began presiding over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Leahy, who’d been in his Capitol office, was taken to George Washington University Hospital “out of an abundance of caution” after being examined by Congress’ attending physician, Leahy spokesman David Carle said.The senator underwent an evaluation before his release from the hospital and looks forward to returning to work, Carle said. Leahy had commenced his role of overseeing Trump’s latest impeachment trial by swearing in his fellow lawmakers.
I’m feeling that the possibility of the title above will truly happen. I’m almost as sure of this as that Joe Biden is going to say something really dumb in front of a T.V. camera and the press will excuse it away as some sort of mindless brilliance.
I have written here before that Donald Trump would actually become a bit of a tour de force if he so chooses in his post Presidency life. So far, almost a week into this new phase for him, he is right on track to start using his massive influence on the political scene with the announcement of ‘Office of Former President’.
Impeach Harriet Tubman
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Now that Joe Biden is in the White House, Democrats are once again on the march, this time to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. They don’t actually know very much about Harriet Tubman, but she was Black, and Democrats desperately want to put somebody Black on our money. So here she comes.
I say they don’t know very much about Ms. Tubman because Democrats announced this on the same day that Democrats sent a procession of House Managers over to the Senate to deliver an Article of Impeachment against former President Trump. They are charging him with “inciting insurrection.”
A former Keystone XL Pipeline worker is speaking out about the unemployment troubles he and his fellow workers are facing due to the Biden administration’s decision to stop construction on the years-long project suddenly.
On day one, Joe Biden signed an executive order to halt the construction of the pipeline meant to bring Candian crude oil safely and swiftly into the United States. Democrats gave the excuse that the project was being halted due to its adding to the climate crisis but there is still no evidence that the risk of leaks outweighs the damage done and oil lost during transportation.
Nearly every day of former President Donald Trump’s term, someone — either from the opposition party or from the Democrat-aligned media — called him some version of authoritarian.That was especially the case whenever Trump issued an executive order, many if not most of which were summarily challenged by left-wing groups in court, often successfully. It never made any sense to call a president whose executive orders were overturned and who eventually got kicked off of all social media a tyrant and a dictator since not too many tyrants and dictators throughout the history of Humankind had their orders contradicted
Stark County commissioners are getting dozens of complaints from people urging them to more thoroughly vet or block the Stark County Board of Elections' expected purchase of Dominion Voting Systems touchscreen machines and optical ballot scanners.
The company has been the target of baseless claims about the 2020 election, with many conservatives blaming it for Donald Trump's loss and alleging without evidence that its systems were easily manipulated. Dominion filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit Monday against Rudy Giuliani, who led the former president's efforts to spread the claims.
Joe Biden signed an executive order today that banned the term “China virus.”
It’s not clear how this will help with the pandemic.The coronavirus is widely believed today to have been created in a lab in Wuhan China. This was one of his 37 executive orders in six days.(Tweet) This is not a joke.CBS reported: The Biden executive order is also expected to direct federal agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to examine whether there are xenophobic references like “China virus” in any existing policies, directives or government websites
As part of his promise to advance racial equity, President Joe Biden has instructed the Department of Justice not to renew private prison contracts.The policy change was part of a fresh set of four additional executive orders the president signed on Tuesday to eliminate alleged institutional discrimination within federal agencies.“No one should be profiteering off of our criminal justice system,” President Biden tweeted on Tuesday evening. “That’s why today, I ordered the Department of Justice to end the use of private prisons by the federal government.”(Tweet)
On Monday, the Washington Post published an op-ed by columnist Brian Klaas whereby he expresses the near futility of attempting to “deprogram” millions of Trump supporters, claiming that many have “gone far enough down the rabbit hole of conspiratorial thinking.” The essay, titled “‘Why is it so hard to deprogram Trumpian conspiracy theorists?” depicts millions of Trump supporters as so devoted to “dangerous lunacy” that nearly all hope is lost of bringing them “back to reality.”
AUSTIN, Texas — On Tuesday, Texas Rep. Kyle Biedermann (R-Fredericksburg) filed House Bill 1359, otherwise known as the Texas Independence Referendum Act. If passed, it would allow Texans to vote on whether the Texas Legislature should create a joint interim committee to develop a plan for achieving Texas independence. According to Biedermann, the bill is not a resolution to allow for immediate Instead, it would give power to the people via referendum to allow the right to discuss, debate and vote on creating a path toward independence.
“This act simply lets Texans vote," said the Texas representative. "This decision is too big to be monopolized solely by the power brokers
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband has placed up to $1 million worth of bullish bets on Tesla stock, the politician revealed in a financial disclosure form last week.(Snip)The call options give him the right to buy 2,500 Tesla shares at $500 each at any point before they expire in March 2022.(Snip)The purchases are legal but have raised eyebrows. Nancy Pelosi now has a financial interest in Tesla's success, even as she's poised to play a key role in passing green initiatives that stand to help the automaker.
The fiasco involving the Democrats' misuse of the National Guard just keeps expanding.
According to the Washington Examiner's Tim Carney:
National Guard troops stationed at the Capitol famously have had to nap on the building's marble floors, but that's not the worst thing about their working conditions. The food is. The reason: The National Guard Bureau hired a food contractor to feed the troops, but the contractor simply messed up.
The fare, it turns out, was junk food, which one Guardsman's wife called "toddler snacks." One example, from Carney, whose story has all the miserable proof in the pictures: