Posts on Thursday, January 28, 2021
To Hell With Unity
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The recent betrayal by Republicans like Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and former Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is a reminder that the ruling class in Washington, D.C. values nothing so highly as being the ruling class in Washington, D.C. Offer them a choice between maintaining a “good working relationship with their colleagues across the aisle” on the one hand, and democracy on the other, and they’ll stick with their colleagues: (Snip)
Their priority is that they be able to chat amicably at parties with people who just called them liars on cable TV. It’s just politics, after all. It’s just a game.
Fascbook is doubling down.
Since the violence at the Capitol our dear leader, the almighty Zuck, has sought out to silence dissent against his comrades in the Democrat party. While of course Fascbook is free to do as they please as a private company, somehow claiming to be a free and open forum at the same time is a bit disingenuous. Their actions continue to threaten the free exercise of speech by individuals and by the press, as numerous personal accounts have been suspended for alleged “hate speech” and seemingly innocuous articles posted by news organizations on only one side of the aisle (guess which side)
With Fox News out of the rotation for White House Briefing Room seats, Thursday’s briefing left plenty of space for reporters from the liberal media to step up and commit random acts of journalism. Thankfully, some did with pointed questions calling out President Biden’s plethora of executive orders and the reality that the administration had sided with teachers' unions over “science” when it came to keeping schools closed.
Unfortunately, there were still reporters that were far more casual and friendly, lobbing either bland or outright softballs. In this latter category, Bloomberg’s Nancy Cook closed the briefing with this lament:
Toledo Man Shoots, Kills Police Officer
After Spraying “Jesus is Black” During
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After Spraying “Jesus is Black” During
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A man wanted in connection to a racially motivated crime against a Toledo, Ohio Catholic cathedral shot and killed a police officer executing a warrant for his arrest last week. 27-year old Christopher Harris reportedly shot and killed 24-year old police officer Brandon Stalker.
Arrest warrants had been issued for Harris in connection to an alleged vandalism and arson at Toldeo’s Rosary Cathedral on January 18th. Harris had allegedly spraypainted the phrase “Jesus is Black”and “black” on the cathedral multiple times, before dousing the church doors with fuel and lighting them aflame.
The Oversight Board has overturned Facebook’s decision to remove a post which it claimed, “contributes to the risk of imminent… physical harm.” The Board found Facebook’s misinformation and imminent harm rule (part of its Violence and Incitement Community Standard) to be inappropriately vague and recommended, among other things, that the company create a new Community Standard on health misinformation.
About the case
In October 2020, a user posted a video and accompanying text in French in a public Facebook group related to COVID-19
This week, the Biden administration announced that it would resume efforts to put the image of Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, a move first championed by the Obama administration in 2016. Biden press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the Treasury Department is “exploring ways to speed up” the process to ensure the 19th century freedom fighter is recognized. (Snip) But some Black activists say putting Tubman on the $20 bill is an uneasy fit with her legacy. “Harriet Tubman did not fight for capitalism, free trade or competitive markets,” Feminista Jones, an activist, author and advocate wrote in
Doug Emhoff toured an urban farm Thursday in his first outing as second gentleman, saying everyone should care about food insecurity and revealing he tells all about his trips to Vice President Kamala Harris.Emhoff is mulling tackling food insecurity as his primary issue as second gentleman. It's tradition for a vice president's spouse to have a signature issue.'It's got to be an issue for everybody. So, I want to do what I can to amplify it. I think it's something everyone needs to be concerned about,' he said after his visit to The Farm at Kelly Miller Middle School.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the release of four Islamist militants convicted and later acquitted in the gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2012. The court also dismissed an appeal against the militants—including British-born Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh who had been on death row—by the Wall Street Journal reporter's family. Sheikh, Fahad Naseem, Syed Salman and Muhammad Adil were found guilty of the abduction and murder of the journalist in 2012. Sheikh, of Wanstead, in east London, UK, was sentenced to death while the three other militants were sentenced to life imprisonment. But last year, a Pakistani lower court acquitted
Did you know that Minnesota government is for sale? That is, with enough money and an appropriate agenda, you can hire your own staffer to inject your private agenda into an important government office of your choosing?
In 2013, the New York-based Rockefeller Foundation founded its Resilient Cities program and committed $164 million toward hiring chief resilience officers (CROs) in 100 cities around the globe. Minneapolis eagerly jumped on the bandwagon and received $129,508 from the foundation in 2017 to fund the city's first CRO. That position was filled by former DFL state Rep. Kate Knuth, whose salary was paid for by the Rockefeller grant.
Here we go again. The Biden family has done very well for themselves with the help of Joe Biden’s name and connections. Now there is another example of a family member cashing in on the family connection. An ad for a Florida law firm featured Joe Biden’s brother Frank touting their relationship. The ad ran on Inauguration Day. Subtle, eh?The ad is on behalf of the Berman Law Group based in Boca Raton, Florida. Biden is a non-attorney adviser to the firm. Frank Biden has a home in Florida. In 2019 lawyers with the Berman Law Group filed a lawsuit alleging a link between controlled burns of sugar cane
We reported during the campaign on Joe Biden’s frequent confusion, misstatements, gaffes and fits of anger when challenged by a question.But he was able to have limited debates thanks to the virus and hide out in his basement for a good part of the campaign. When he did venture out, it often didn’t go well.You can see a good breakdown here from my colleague Sister Toldjah of his short temper and how he’s gone off on voters, everything from calling a voter a “lying dog-faced pony soldier” to telling a voter he was
Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen received more than $800,000 in speaking fees from a hedge fund that has become embroiled in the saga over stock trades for video game retailer GameStop, according to her financial disclosures.Citadel, a hedge fund founded by Ken Griffin, a major GOP donor, paid Yellen $810,000 to speak at several events from October 2019 to October 2020, according to Yellen’s filings with the Office of Government Ethics.The Chicago-based hedge fund paid Yellen $292,500 for a speech on Oct. 17, 2019, $180,000 for one on Dec. 3, 2019, and $337,500 to speak at a series of webinars held from Oct. 9-27, 2020.Citadel is invested heavily
The question isn’t whether the groundhog will cast a shadow and bring on six more weeks of winter. What I want to know is: Were kids way back in the day really walking 5 miles uphill through knee-deep snow to get to school, where they huddled by a small wood stove to thaw frozen fingers and toes? Pull up a chair and share some time-worn tales in “A Sense of Place: Winter Now and Then,” a virtual romp through the snowdrifts at 8 p.m. on Groundhog Day, Tuesday, Feb. 2, via Zoom.
Twenty-four Senate Republicans backed Sen. Cynthia Lummis’ (R-WY) legislation Thursday that would prevent President Joe Biden and his administration from blocking energy or mineral leasing permits on federal lands without explicit congressional approval.Lummis, who won election to the Senate last November, unveiled the Protecting our Wealth of Energy Resources (POWER) Act of 2021. The POWER Act would prohibit the president or the secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and Energy departments from blocking energy and mineral leasing on federal lands with approval from Congress.The legislation comes after Biden’s announcement that he will block
Kamala Harris' stepdaughter Ella Emhoff has signed with IMG Models after an eye-catching appearance at the January 20 inauguration.Emhoff, 21, is the daughter of Harris' husband Doug Emhoff and his first wife Kerstin, a film producer.A fine art student at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, specializing in textiles, Emhoff had been in talks with the agency since her stepmother's career pushed her into the spotlight.Her Miu Miu coat and viral eyebrow-wiggling at Mike Pence sealed the deal: before inauguration day she had about 50,000 followers on Instagram, and a week later the total had surpassed 300,000.
Republican lawmakers are tearing into Joe Biden's Thursday executive actions related to women's reproductive rights, claiming 'abortion is murder' as the president reverses Trump-era orders that restricted taxpayer money funneling to abortions.'Let me be clear – abortion is murder, and the federal government should not support it let alone PAY for it,' Representative Ronny Jackson, who once served as presidential physician to former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, wrote on Twitter Thursday.'I will not support any bill that eliminates or weakens the Hyde Amendment. #SaveHyde' the freshman Texas congressman continued.
Earlier today, President Trump met in Florida with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and now they have issued a brand new joint statement summarizing the meeting.In short, it sounds like Trump is going to stay right in the thick of things. The statement said Trump is committed to helping Republicans win back the House in 2022. There is also a mention about how popular Trump still is (could this mean he’s considering another run at the Presidency? Time will tell)“The meeting between President Donald J. Trump and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, was a very good and cordial one,” the summary reads.
President Joe Biden’s administration doesn’t support splitting his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal in two, officials said Thursday.(Snip)Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on “Fox News Sunday” called the amount “pretty shocking.” On CNN’s “State of the Union,” he added: “I think people recognize it’s important that we don’t borrow hundreds of billions, actually trillions of dollars from the Chinese for things that may not be absolutely necessary.”
Republicans have questioned why the proposal includes items not directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as a federal minimum wage hike.
Former President Donald Trump held a meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday in Florida, said Trump’s team in a statement, while including a photo of him and the GOP leader.
The two had a “good and cordial” meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, said Trump’s Save America PAC.
The pair discussed several topics, but the No. 1 priority was “taking back the House” for Republicans in the 2022 midterms, Trump’s team said. They did not elaborate on a strategy or what candidates to promote.
Environmental Protection Agency Principal Deputy General Counsel Melissa Hoffer may have violated federal law by asking the Department of Justice to put a hold on all litigation involving EPA, according to Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).
In a Jan. 25 letter made public Thursday, Blackburn asked EPA Inspector-General (IG) Sean O’Donnell and Comptroller General Gene Dodaro to “open an investigation into potential violations of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (FVRA) and other potential violations of ethics rules.” (Snip) “Ms. Hoffer electronically signed the letter in her purported capacity as EPA’s Acting General Counsel. In her haste to deliver her message, Ms. Hoffer neglected to acknowledge that the Acting General Counsel
Gaetz to host Trump supporters in Wyoming
as new survey finds Liz Cheney’s
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as new survey finds Liz Cheney’s
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Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz will host a rally for supporters of Donald Trump in Wyoming on Thursday as support for the state’s lone congressperson, Liz Cheney, is tanking following her vote to impeach the former president. Earlier this month Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House, voted with nine GOP colleagues to impeach the former president following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol Building.Cheney, who chairs the House Republican Conference, claimed Trump “summoned,” “assembled,” and “lit the flame of this attack.”
“There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and oath to the Constitution,” she added.
The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that they would be restoring diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority, Times of Israel reports.
(Snip) the United States will be restoring diplomatic aid to the Palestinian authority, a move which has been heavily criticized by pro-Israel groups.
Critics of the decision warn that US diplomatic aid may go towards the Palestinian policy of "pay-for-slay," whereby the Palestinian Authority pays the families of terrorists who murder Israeli civilians.
The Trump administration had previously cut off significant amounts of diplomatic aid to the Palestinian Authority due to this pay-for-slay policy, saying that the aid would be restored when the Palestinians abandon that practice.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that House Republicans pose a threat to Democrats, and she pledged additional federal money to boost security in the Capitol. Pelosi said Congress must pass a supplemental spending bill to provide funds “for security for members, when the enemy is within the House of Representatives of a threat that members are concerned about, in addition to what is happening outside.” Pelosi and Democrats fear Republican members of Congress carrying guns.
Abdulaziz Mohamed can hardly fathom the idea of having his student loan debt wiped away. The University of Minnesota sophomore, who has amassed about $10,000 in debt, often thinks about his job prospects and whether he will be positioned to quickly pay off the loans. President Joe Biden's call to cancel $10,000 in federal student loan debt for all borrowers gives Mohamed hope of a future where young people aren't crushed by debt. "That would be a huge lift off my back," he said. The debate over how to tackle the mounting student debt crisis has intensified since Biden was elected,
The American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday it is launching a six-figure advertising spree demanding that President Biden honor his campaign promise to reduce the number of people incarcerated across the country.
Both print and digital spots will be part of the ACLU’s campaign. The ACLU says Mr. Biden hasn’t stuck to his pledge to grant clemency to thousands of people incarcerated for minor drug offenses, are elderly or imprisoned under a statute that has since changed. Those individuals could be released through an executive order, the ACLU said. “The American public, voters, and most importantly, incarcerated people and their families were encouraged
President Joe Biden will sign a presidential memorandum on Jan. 28 rescinding the ban on U.S. funding for international nonprofits that provide counseling or referrals for abortion.
President Donald Trump reinstated and expanded the ban, known as the Mexico City Policy, during his first days in office in 2017. It was previously rescinded by Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
(Snip) first announced in 1984 during the Reagan administration and has been rescinded and reinstated along party lines since. The policy requires non-governmental organizations to certify that they will not “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning” in order to receive U.S. taxpayer money for global health initiatives.
President Biden signed an executive order Thursday afternoon reversing the Mexico City policy, permitting U.S. aid money once again to fund groups that provide or promote abortion around the globe.
The policy was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan in an effort to ensure that taxpayers were not required to indirectly fund abortion procedures performed in other countries. The policy has been undone via executive order by every subsequent Democratic administration and reinstated by each Republican one.
The Trump administration expanded the policy to include not only family planning funds distributed by the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development but also
President Biden is expected to sign executive orders Thursday aimed at getting more Americans signed up for health care by reopening the federal Health Insurance Marketplace during a special enrollment period of the Affordable Care Act.
Regular enrollment through Healthcare.gov is usually the last six weeks of each year and the special enrollment period will run from February through May, the White House said in a release.
The order is part of a campaign promise Biden repeatedly made during the election to expand access to ObamaCare.
DETROIT — General Motors wants to end production of all diesel- and gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs by 2035 and shift its entire new fleet to electric vehicles as part of a broader plan to become carbon neutral by 2040, the company said Thursday.
The company plans to use 100% renewable energy to power its U.S. facilities by 2030 and global facilities by 2035 — five years ahead of a previously announced goal.
GM’s announcement comes a day after President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders that prioritize climate change across all levels of government and put the U.S. on track to curb planet-warming carbon emissions.
Maricopa County in Arizona will carry out a comprehensive forensic audit of its voting systems to allay concerns raised by some constituents about the integrity of the November 2020 election.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at a meeting Wednesday to hire two independent companies to conduct an audit that will probe whether voting machines counted votes correctly, and whether they were tampered with or hacked in any way.
The Republican-dominated board defended the accuracy of the county’s election results while expressing hope that a comprehensive equipment and software audit would dispel concerns that the results were inaccurate.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) is following President Joe Biden's unilateral lead, pushing forward with plans to enact a host of progressive policy goals without GOP votes.
Days after Biden issued a historic 17 executive orders on his first day in office, Schumer urged the president to declare a national climate emergency, saying the move would authorize Biden to do "many, many things under the emergency powers of the president … that he could do without legislation." Schumer also joined Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) to encourage Biden to cancel up to $50,000 in student debt via executive order.
Biden's normal is abnormal
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The media is peddling the narrative that Chairman Xiden is bringing back normalcy.
Well, let us see what the media and the rest of the Democrats consider normal.
The new normalcy is impeaching a president and trying him after his term ends and he has gone home to Mar-A-Lago.
The new normalcy is arresting and prosecuting a man for making memes on Twitter.
The new normalcy is 25,000 National Guard troops in Washington on Inauguration Day.
The new normalcy is replacing a viewing audience for the occasion with 100,000 American flags.
The new normalcy is cries of deprogramming political opponents. The new normalcy is banning reporters who ask tough questions at press conferences.
Hey, if anyone has the credibility to make this comparison, it’s the guy who took his mom to an X-rated movie. But how does unity relate to pornography? Is the correct answer: A: It’s overrated
B: It’s a vehicle for exploitation
C: It never really pays off
D: It’s in the eye of the beholder
Bzzzzt! You’re all wrong. The answer is E: All of the above. That’s not quite what freshman Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) had in mind with his bon mot to the Washington Post, which spends a lot of time trying to extricate Joe Biden from his “unity and healing” pledge
The left's fake Senate majority
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The left wing of the Democratic Party has a plan, and it goes like this:
With the party controlling both houses of Congress along with the presidency, Democrats in the Senate need to vote as a bloc (with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the winning 51st vote) to eliminate the filibuster, the parliamentary procedure that enables the minority party (in this case, the GOP) to require 60 votes to advance most forms of legislation. With this accomplished, the Democrats should then ram through a long list of policies, ranging from additional trillions of dollars' worth of pandemic relief to various institutional reforms
Sometimes heroism has a name, and sometimes — well, at least once — that name is u/ronoron.
In recent weeks, users of a Reddit message board called r/WallStreetBets decided that they would like to do something they'd tried to do often in the past: mess with a big hedge fund trying to short a public company. In this case, they wanted to mess with the hedge fund attacking GameStop, the debt-mired retail chain that buys back video games from consumers and sells the used copies alongside new and used games, systems and controllers. GameStop isn't popular with the electronics and entertainment companies that develop
A throng of violent protesters set a dumpster alight and hurled rocks at federal agents outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Ore. according to police and video of the chaotic scene. Footage of the unrest shows a dumpster ablaze outside a boarded-up ICE building, where a team of Federal Protective Service agents in riot gear responded at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday after it was pushed in front of the building, police said. Federal officers responded with tear gas and pepper-ball rounds as police advanced on the demonstrators, the footage shows. At one point, a large explosion occurs
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed two executive orders and issued a memorandum pushing the climate alarmist narrative and boosting the climate-industrial complex. Biden claimed that his administration’s climate boondoggle will create more jobs, but his first climate move — nixing the Keystone XL pipeline — cost 1,000 jobs right away, and an estimated 10,000 more. His climate orders will upend America’s national security as well as its economy. “Today is ‘climate day’ at the White House, which means that today is ‘jobs day’ at the White House,”
Longtime safeguards for U.S. bird populations took a hit under former President Donald Trump, whose administration made it harder to prosecute industry-caused deaths — such as the 2019 destruction of a sprawling Virginia seabird nesting ground — and chipped away protections for endangered species.President Joe Biden wasted little time seeking to turn things around. Hours after taking office, he ordered a review of his predecessor’s decision to weaken enforcement of the century-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act. It was among more than 100 business-friendly Trump actions on the environment that Biden wants reconsidered and possibly revised or scrapped.
ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State attorney general accused the Cuomo administration of undercounting coronavirus-related deaths at nursing homes by as much as 50 percent, according to a report released on Thursday. The count of deaths in state nursing homes has been a source of controversy for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state Health Department officials, who have been sensitive to any suggestion that they played any role in the number of nursing home deaths, which the state put at more than 8,500. They have also been accused of obscuring a more accurate estimate of nursing home deaths, because the state only counted deaths at the actual facilities,
News broke yesterday that the Feds arrested and indicted a Trump supporter for using the social media platform Twitter to ‘spread election disinformation’ to Hillary Clinton voters in 2016.
31-year-old Douglass Mackey, who went by “Ricky Vaughn”, was arrested in West Palm Beach on one charge of conspiracy against rights and faces up to 10 years in prison.
He was charged due to memes he posted to Twitter trolling Hillary supporters to stay home and text their votes in.
But, guess what.. Democrats were just caught doing the exact same thing. And she’s still walking around, scot-free. Could it be that the new Administration has a double standard for “voter fraud”?
Dem Sen. Tammy Duckworth 'profoundly
disappointed' Biden Cabinet doesn't
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth said she’s “profoundly disappointed” President Biden hasn’t chosen a person of Asian American or Pacific Islander descent to fill his Cabinet positions. The Illinois Democrat, an Army combat veteran of Thai descent, told CBS News in an interview Tuesday that Mr. Biden‘s decision not to appoint a Cabinet secretary who is Asian American or Pacific Islander, or AAPI, signals to the community that they aren’t important. “Yes, I am profoundly disappointed also that there is not a member of the AAPI community at the Cabinet secretary level,” Ms. Duckworth said. “And I think that for a Cabinet that is so historically diverse,
It appears that Democrats have decided to go after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) announced on Wednesday that he will introduce a resolution to expel Greene from Congress because she poses a “direct threat” to other lawmakers.“Her very presence in office represents a direct threat against the elected officials and staff who serve our government, and it is with their safety in mind, as well as the security of institutions and public servants across our country,” Gomez stated.This move follows Greene introducing articles of impeachment against President Biden immediately after he took office. But the reasoning put forth here is that she supported the rioters,
An analysis of West Wing offices thus far handed out to senior advisers demonstrates that President Joe Biden’s innermost circle of aides with prized real estate in the building is mostly white.Out of 22 offices on the first and second floors, only four offices, including one occupied by Vice President Kamala Harris, are held by nonwhite individuals. The rest — a supermajority of 18 such West Wing offices — are occupied by white people, according to Politico.The report comes as Biden signed four executive orders on Tuesday focused on “racial equity,” remarking on the day of the signing that “deep racial inequities” exist in America and that “systemic racism”
New York may have undercounted coronavirus nursing home deaths in the state by as much as half, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday in a report.
New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office released its initial report on an investigation into nursing home deaths in the state, an issue that has dogged Governor Andrew Cuomo since New York logged more than 8,500 virus deaths among residents of those facilities.
“Among those findings were that a larger number of nursing home residents died from COVID-19 than the New York State Department of Health’s (DOH) published nursing home data reflected and may have been undercounted by as much as 50 percent,”
Several members of Congress wrote to House leadership on Thursday, asking for the flexibility and funds to hire armed guards and upgrade security measures in their districts as they are terrified of threats against them.'Reflecting the tense and troubling times we live in, Members of Congress have reported receiving a significant uptick in threats of violence and even death,' states the letter, a copy of which was obtained by DailyMail.com.The lawmakers ask for greater flexibility to use their taxpayer-funded office expenses for security measures at their homes - which would presumably include items such as bullet proof glass and alarms - in addition for personal guards
Fears about the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as images of violent unrest across the country — including at the U.S. Capitol — and a surge in hunting and outdoor pursuits have sent firearm and ammunition sales in America soaring. Ammunition of just about every caliber is in short supply in many areas of the country. From the ammunition used by more than a half-million Wisconsin deer hunters to rounds for semi-automatic handguns and revolvers, store shelves have largely been cleared out. Correction*
The current threat from (or hysteria over) “domestic terrorists” is often compared to incidents in Nazi Germany. Arnold Schwarzenegger referenced Kristallnacht, while I pointed out how Hitler did not let the crisis of the 1933 attack on the Reichstag capitol go to waste, but instead exploited it to crack down on German liberties. Yet, a better analog might be the Wilson administration’s demonization of German-Americans in 1917.Although we are constantly lectured on the crucial role of immigrants in American history, the vast contributions of Germans to American culture have been vanishingly hard to notice for the last century due to the anti-German craze unleashed during the Great War,
The New Regime
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If you were to round up a random collection of people and lock them up in a school gymnasium, you would have a bunch of people locked in a gymnasium. It would not be a society or a movement or a religion. The reason is those people would have nothing in common, (Snip) What the new regime inherits is a tinderbox of its own creation. Generations of making war on the basic rules that make human organization possible have led us to civil unrest and a divided, embittered people. They took away that which made it possible for disparate people to coexist. Now they demand that everyone come together
Robinhood has restricted trading of highly volatile stocks including GameStop and AMC on its platform, leaving its users unable to buy the highly volatile stocks. The discount brokerage informed clients they could close out positions in the affected stocks but could not purchase additional shares. Companies affected by the restrictions are GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, Bed Bath & Beyond, Express, Koss, Naked Brand, and Nokia.
Robinhood also lifted margin requirements for certain trades. The move came Thursday before markets opened.
How a Bunch of Redditors with $600 Stimulus
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The craziest financial story of the week has got to be GameStop stock’s meteoric rise from $6 a share to $340 a share overnight. It all began when Melvin Capital hedge-fund managers decided to short GameStop, betting the stock would fall. But a lot of retail investors viscerally hate billion-dollar hedge-fund managers who make a living manipulating the stock market and driving small investors out of the game. The investors on Reddit’s “Wall Street Bets” page got together to buy, buy, buy GameStop and drove the stock way up, costing Melvin Capital billions of dollars. You could say it was a massive redistribution
Texans are fed up. They have had enough of the far Left turn that America has taken and they aren’t going to follow it down that path. Now a Representative in Texas has formally filed a bill that would put Texas on track to be the first state to secede from the nation.
The bill filed in the Texas legislature on Tuesday would put the issue of secession and Texan independence before voters of the state.
Rep. Kyle Biedermann of Fredericksburg, Texas, filed the “Texas Independence Referendum Act,” which is seen as the necessary first step towards the Lone Star State leaving the union.
t appears that some Democrats have come to terms with the inevitability that another impeachment circus won’t work out in their favor. Several left-leaning lawmakers are trying to convince their colleagues to vote for censuring former President Donald Trump instead of attempting to convict him during impeachment proceedings. It appears they are willing to settle for Diet Impeachment™ rather than the real thing. The Hill noted, “members of the upper chamber are pitching their colleagues on the idea as it becomes increasingly clear that Trump’s impeachment trial will hand him a second acquittal
John Kerry, President Biden’s top environmental policy adviser, still owns a private jet—despite his intention of fighting fossil fuels in the new administration, according to a report. A Federal Aviation Administration registry shows a Gulfstream Aerospace aircraft owned by Flying Squirrel LLC, the name previously reported as the climate czar’s wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry’s private charter jet company, Fox News reported.(Snip) It unclear how much Kerry benefited from his wife’s company, but corporate jets have been estimated to emit upward of 40 times as much carbon per passenger as commercial aircraft, the outlet noted. During his 2004 presidential run,
Top Republicans on three House investigative committees are demanding that the University of Pennsylvania release funding records on the school’s Penn Biden Center, a policy institute launched by President Joe Biden in 2017.In a letter sent Thursday to University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann, the lawmakers also asked for records related to the recent surge in donations to the university from China as well as information on any contracts and agreements between Penn and the Chinese government.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accused Republican lawmakers of being racists again. In fact, she claimed that there are “legitimate white supremacist sympathizers” among GOP House members. In other news, dogs bark, pigs stink, and CNN’s Don Lemon isn’t really a journalist. The socialist lawmaker made the comments during an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday evening during a conversation about her experience with the U.S. Capitol riots. She previously stated that she chose to hunker down in a less safe area because the more secure area was occupied by Republican lawmakers. AOC intimated that she was too afraid to hide alongside GOP representatives because she supposedly believed they
President Joe Biden plans to create a New Deal-style “Civilian Climate Corps” to mobilize “a new, diverse generation of patriotic Americans” for the battle against climate change.On Wednesday, Biden unveiled a flurry of executive actions his administration planned to undertake to “tackle the climate crisis at home and abroad.” The president, who campaigned for the White House last year on a platform “environmental justice,” argued the actions were necessary if the United States had any hopes of leading a “global response” to the climate crisis.
Oscar winner and multiple Emmy winner Cloris Leachman, best remembered as the delightfully neurotic Phyllis Lindstrom on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and her own subsequent sitcom, died of natural causes on Tuesday in Encinitas, Calif. She was 94.“It’s been my privilege to work with Cloris Leachman, one of the most fearless actresses of our time,” her longtime manager Juliet Green said. “There was no one like Cloris. With a single look she had the ability to break your heart or make you laugh ’till the tears ran down your face.
It appears that some Democrats have come to terms with the inevitability that another impeachment circus won’t work out in their favor. Several left-leaning lawmakers are trying to convince their colleagues to vote for censuring former President Donald Trump instead of attempting to convict him during impeachment proceedings. It appears they are willing to settle for Diet Impeachment™ rather than the real thing.The Hill noted, “members of the upper chamber are pitching their colleagues on the idea as it becomes increasingly clear that Trump’s impeachment trial will hand him a second acquittal after 45 GOP senators backed an effort this week to declare it unconstitutional
The 'After Trump' Era Begins
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The new AT age -- "After Trump" -- began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented.Pfizer had hinted that a vaccine could be ready in late October. Then, mysteriously, it wasn't. Then, stranger still, it appeared -- a few days after Election Day.Suddenly, after Joe Biden's inauguration, Illinois, Michigan and other blue states eased some of their lockdown restrictions to get their economies back on track despite little change in COVID-19 rates.During the Trump Age, the president was supposedly responsible for every death from COVID-19.
How to Deprogram Us
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A new buzzword on social media, cable news, and among leftist activists is “deprogramming.”
Along with terms like “reprogramming,” “de-Baathification,” and “deplatforming,” deprogramming refers to cleansing the incorrect mentalities of former Trump Administration officials—and even those who voted for Trump.
Note that deprogramming does not refer to elites who peddled the “Russian collusion” hoax for years, despite the abject absence of evidence.
Not long ago, two Washington Post columnists offered some solutions to the Trumpist threat. One, Max Boot, wished to ban Fox News and other conservative stations from cable subscriptions.
The other, Eugene Robinson, suggested that there was a need to focus on mostly “white” Republicans to “deprogram” their thoughts.
Comrades, the United States Department of Homeland Security is asking for the public’s help in identifying subversives who carry thoughts against the interests of the JoeBama regime. In a proclamation today DHS officials have elevated the national security alert against U.S. citizens who may engage in wrong-think.
Each good citizen has a responsibility to support the objectives the new Biden regime and report any friends, neighbors or community members who may need to be placed on the subversive watch list. The FBI is awaiting your contact and information: (Image-Bulletin)
Well folks, for those few remaining Americans who did not accept we were entering the full Orwellian era, you can eliminate those remaining shreds of hope. As unbelievable as it might sound federal authorities in the DOJ have arrested the person behind the Twitter Account “Ricky Vaughn” for posting memes against the interests of the U.S. government.
Let that sink in for a few minutes.
Literally all the guy did was post snarky memes poking fun of democrats and Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election… However, the United States government has now claimed: “the defendant exploited a social media platform to infringe one the of most basic and sacred rights
The Federal Reserve panel sent a warning about the U.S. economy starting to suffer as the JoeBama administration starts to institute “America Last” policies. The financial media will not directly point to the Biden policy agenda as the primary source of the issue, but the background context of a new administration is exactly the difference.Even during the worst aspects of the 2020 COVID-19 impact during the Donald Trump administration, the underpinning of the U.S. economy remained strong. However, now that JoeBama has taken office the 2021 COVID-19 impact is being used as an excuse.
A 2020 Joe Biden campaign ad described the pending election as an “opportunity to leave the dark, angry politics of the past behind us.” After Biden’s election, he, Democrats and media urge a “return to civility.” But when did the Democrats practice the very civility to which they seek to return?
Let’s go to the videotape:
When Barry Goldwater accepted the 1964 Republican nomination, California’s Democratic Gov. Pat Brown said, “The stench of fascism is in the air.”
Former Rep. William Clay Sr., D-Mo., said President Ronald Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from ‘Mein Kampf.'”
Rep. Jimmy Gomez on Wednesday announced that he plans to introduce a resolution to expel the controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress, accusing Greene of previously supporting calls for "political violence" and advocating "extremism and sedition."
The resolution would require the support of two-thirds of the members of the House to pass.
(Snip) had previously supported social media posts calling for political violence against the Speaker of the House, members of Congress, and former President Barack Obama," Gomez, D-Calif., said.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has always claimed that he has based his coronavirus-related stay-at-home orders solely on the “science,” yet suddenly — without any dramatic changes in scientific breakthroughs, albeit following some hopeful decreases in hospitalizations — he announced a wide-ranging reopening that lifts stay-at-home orders and gives county officials the final authority on such matters. “As cases surged after Thanksgiving, Newsom tore up his playbook,” AP’s Don Thompson reported last week. “Rather than a county-by-county approach, he created five regions and established a single measurement — ICU capacity — as the determination for whether a region was placed under a stay-at-home order.” That regional approach was particularly frustrating
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — When Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, decided to vote to impeach a president from her own party, she knew she'd cause some waves. She might not have expected the seismic impact at home. But Cheney's vote against Donald Trump has put her home state of Wyoming — by some measures the most Republican state in the country — on the front lines of the GOP civil war. The rising GOP leader and daughter of a former vice president is now facing the prospect of censure from the state party, a primary challenge and the wrath
Biden Refocusing National Security Around
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President Joe Biden will sign a series of new executive orders Wednesday that will formally place a new national security focus on climate change and promote scientists’ work on the subject, the White House announced Wednesday morning.“President Biden set ambitious goals that will ensure America and the world can meet the urgent demands of the climate crisis, while empowering American workers and businesses to lead a clean energy revolution that achieves a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035 and puts the United States on an irreversible path to a net-zero economy by 2050,” the official release from the White House reads.
US Capitol police officers were “betrayed” by their bosses, who left rank-and-file cops poorly equipped to handle the storming of the Capitol building — and weren’t told the violence was expected, the department’s union chief said Wednesday.Nearly 140 cops were either physically injured or emotionally traumatized in the Jan. 6 assault, US Capitol Police Labor Committee Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said.“I have officers who were not issued helmets prior to the attack who have sustained brain injuries,” he said in a statement, according to a report in The Hill.“One officer has two cracked ribs and two smashed spinal discs,” he said. “One officer is going to lose his eye,
OTTAWA — The Canadian government continues to press U.S. officials to avoid the shutdown of a key pipeline supplying southern Ontario, marking another point of conflict in the energy relationship between the two countries after Keystone XL was scrapped last week.
Officials in Michigan are looking to force the shutdown of Line 5, a pipeline carrying 540,000 barrels of Canadian oil and other petroleum products each day from Superior, Wis., to refineries in Sarnia, Ont. If successful, Canadian officials warn, the move would have a devastating impact on the Canadian economy, vaporizing thousands of jobs and cutting off a crucial supply of gasoline and jet fuel to Ontario and Quebec
Donald Trump was treated by the opposition party and media (we repeat ourselves) like no other president in our memory. He was called a dictator, a tyrant, an authoritarian, and a fascist, to name a few childish invectives hurled his way. Of course his adversaries were projecting. It’s the Democrats and their media collaborators who yearn for absolute power.
Trump was accused of being a dictator at the same time he was trying to weaken the federal government through tax cuts and deregulation. The agitators – the elected, unelected, functionaries, and self-appointed – who made the allegations were never required to explain
Everyday is jobs killing day for the Biden Administration.Joe Biden killed tens of thousands of jobs his first day in office by canceling contracts with the Keystone XL pipeline.Biden doesn’t care about Americans so he signed more executive orders today that benefit globalists and the government’s international interests.Biden’s executive orders are aimed at ‘tackling climate change, creating jobs and restoring scientific integrity’ – whatever that means.
A pro-Trump meme maker and Twitter troll was indicted Wednesday by the feds for using the social media platform to ‘spread election disinformation’ to Hillary Clinton voters in 2016. “Ricky Vaughn” AKA, Douglass Mackey, used Twitter to post memes and troll Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election cycle. 31-year-old Mackey was arrested in West Palm Beach on one charge of conspiracy against rights and faces up to 10 years in prison.
According to the unsealed indictment, Mackey conspired with others on Twitter to encourage black people to cast their votes via text message.
Pro-Abortion Group Storms Catholic Church in
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A far-left pro-abortion group disrupted a church service at St. Joseph’s Catholic Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio Friday on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
The group of Marxists barged into the church, knocked over a table and shouted profanities.
“Two, four, six, eight this church teaches hate!” the protesters shouted. “Roe is the floor, we demand more!”
Security quickly rushed in and tossed out the screaming protesters.
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The Marxist protesters were emboldened by Biden’s vow to codify Roe v. Wade on Friday.
“The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to codifying Roe v Wade and appointing judges that respect foundational precedents like Roe,” the White House said.
A New Party:
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A major theme among conservatives over the past few weeks is that “Donald Trump should start a new party” – the American Conservative party, the American Patriot party, or something similar.
The impulse behind this is understandable, considering the collapse of the GOP in the face of open electoral fraud and the Capitol false-flag operation, in which we learned that it’s okay for a cop to shoot an unarmed white woman if she’s a Trump supporter (snip)But despite all this, a new party would still be a mistake. (snip) It would split the conservative movement at the time it most needs unity.
This was powerful!
A black construction worker on the Keystone XL Pipeline took to social media after Joe Biden and Democrats fired him and 10,000 co-workers this week so that Americans could pay more on their utility bills.
The man talks about his new car he will likely have to sell. Then he adds this,
“It just doesn’t f*ckin make any sense. It doesn’t make any sense. HOW! Did Donald Trump… I know how – They took it! They didn’t steal the election. When you steal something that’s when no one knows that you took it. But they outright boldly went in and said, “We’re gonna f*cking take this presidency from you.
On Tuesday, Democrats introduced a bill that would raise the minimum wage nationally to $15 an hour over five years. That would more than double the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
The Raise the Wage Act would increase pay to $9.50 an hour in 2021, $11 in 2022 before rising n in 2023 to $12.50 per hour. The minimum wage under the legislation would tick upward to $14 in 2024 and then $15 in 2025.
Job losses from the minimum-wage hike would be at least 1.3 million, according to the Congressional Budget Office. But most economists who aren’t socialists think that number will be much higher.
Social Services Won't Speak to Biological
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Ariel Robinson, winner of Food Network’s America’s Worst Cook, was arrested and charged along with her husband Jerry Robinson for the murder of 3-year-old Victoria Rose Smith. They had recently adopted her from the Greenville, S.C., Department of Social Services (DSS) in March of 2020.
DSS removed Victoria and her two brothers from her biological family due to a positive marijuana test at birth and an incident where her young brothers wandered out of the home at night and went to a neighbor’s house, according to family members. The family said DSS took the children and placed them into foster care
Joe Biden has brought on former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice as a domestic policy aide to promote racial justice and equity. This is the latest example of Biden promoting policy that sounds like it came directly off of a college campus.(Snip)White House domestic policy adviser Susan Rice said Tuesday the Biden administration will work to advance “racial justice and equity,” adding that building a “more equitable” economy is “essential” to economic growth.(Snip)Rice, who is “leading this effort out of the Domestic Policy Council,” said that the administration has “a first-rate team to drive this agenda forward” to advance “equity for families across America.”
Officials with the American Conservative Union on Tuesday accused Politico of attempting to “cancel” the Conservative Political Action Conference utilizing a campaign of “misleading claims” aimed at scaring off sponsors.Organizers of CPAC sent a letter to the CEO and top editor of Politico blasting the outlet and threatening to take legal action.The letter opened by claiming Politico has put aside its “ethos” to provide readers with accurate, nonpartisan reporting and information.“We see Politico’s ethos abandoned, and instead find its reporters working, not to report news, but instead to create a self-justifying narrative to support its own partisanship,” said the letter from the ACU’s general counsel, David Safavian.