Quit Pretending
Posted By: earlybird, 8/15/2022 9:00:12 PM
Given the events of the last six years as the baseline…. If you cannot recognize the events over the past 75 days as coordinated, including: …. The FBI raid on August 8 ….. Joe Biden “vacation” ….. Ron DeSantis presented as the palatable illusion of choice. Then you have not been paying attention, or you are in denial. What is the great offense? Answer: The people elected someone who was not approved. There is one permanent, political and administrative deep state running the United States Government. It does not matter which color flag rests atop the congressional spire, republican or democrat, it does not change the behavior of the participants.
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People often ask me why I seem to highlight datapoints and background events that do not trend to the media-driven narrative priority of the moment. The answer is simple; everything is connected to the next thing that happens. If you do not outline the originating point, the accurate reference is missed when needed.
This approach is why I have focused significant research on Elon Musk’s financial situation with Twitter (snip)
The issue (snip)speaks to the motives of Musk that later surface – like his relationship with Fox News billionaire Rupert Murdoch. Once you see the connections, suddenly everything makes sense. Musk and Murdoch have intersecting interests.
The Senate passed through a Republican bill blocking President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program on Thursday, with a 52 to 46 vote. It gained the support of Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana, and independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
The resolution, )snip) would repeal the Biden administration's program to cancel up to $10,000 in federal student loans for borrowers whose income falls below a certain level and up to $20,000 for students who have received Pell Grants—a federal student aid subsidy.t would also end a pandemic-era pause on interest accrual and retroactively add several months of student loan interest that were waived
Sen. Chuck Grassley has already seen the FBI’s lengthy summary of a confidential human source’s claims that then-Vice President Joe Biden agreed to accept money from a foreign national to affect policy decisions, the Iowa Republican revealed on Thursday. Grassley further pledged to make the FBI report public as soon as the bureau complies with a congressional subpoena to provide an official copy of the FD-1023 form — something Director Christopher Wray has so far refused to do.
War And More War
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Yesterday Zhou announced that the American Empire is still considering sending ATACMS systems to Ukraine. That would be the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), which is a tactical ballistic missile with a range of up to 190 miles and is capable of precision strikes based on its GPS based guidance system. I have no idea of how the ATACMS would fare against Russia’s world class air defense system, but conceptually this would be a major escalation of the US war on Russia.(snip). That is the US “poking the bear” as an active participant of war on Russia, while there is no responsible public discussion of our war in
Bureaucrats in President Joe Biden’s Department of Education just put their thumb on the scale of a book dispute in Georgia by not only smearing parents’ concerns about sexually explicit books in schools but also leveraging their federal power to intimidate districts that have successfully purged porn from campuses.
In the Biden administration’s latest attempt to weaponize an arm of the federal government against parents, the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) wrote a letter to Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Jeff Bearden on May 19 outlining everything it deemed wrong with the district’s decision to pull several inappropriate books from school bookshelves.
Former president Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s eying a “most spectacular” 250th birthday celebration of the United States if he is elected, coming days after he promised to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. But the former president, a leading GOP candidate, has made a range of other new policy proposals.
“Three years from now, the United States will celebrate the biggest and most important milestone in our country’s history—250 years of American independence,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.(snipMonths before that, Trump also vowed in a campaign video to fight against who he described as “Marxist” left-wing district attorneys and “overhaul” the Department of Justice
The FBI was a bad idea from its start in the days of J. Edgar Hoover. The agency began in an atmosphere of blackmail.
Now resembling police forces in totalitarian countries, the FBI has become an instrument of oppression of the people it was allegedly meant to protect and serve.
Reports that the bureau has been infiltrating almost all right-of-center organizations are myriad. In our elections, it hasn’t just put its finger on the scale; It has placed its full arm, elbow first.
Just as it’s said that Xi Jinping’s China is “Communism with Chinese characteristics,” it can be said that the FBI is the “STASI or KGB with American characteristics”
Why this compromise sucks
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Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden brought the nation together with their compromise on raising the national credit limit. Just about everyone hates it.
The left is upset because there will be $136 billion in spending cuts in the next two years. The right is upset because that is only 1.7% of the money that will be spent. Right now, for every dollar Washington takes in taxes, it spends two.
Republicans agreed to suspend the limit — allow the government to borrow whatever the deep state wants — until after the 2024 election.
NYT said, “In exchange for suspending the limit, Republicans demanded a range of policy concessions from Mr. Biden.
Some conservatives have suggested a boycott of Chick-fil-A after the fast-food chain was discovered to have a vice president of “diversity, equity, [and] inclusion,” or DEI.
In a previously issued Chick-fil-A news release, the company said that Erick McReynolds serves as its vice president of DEI, saying: “Chick-fil-A restaurants have long been recognized as a place where people know they will be treated well. Modeling care for others starts in the restaurant, and we are committed to ensuring mutual respect, understanding, and dignity everywhere we do business.”
DEI is a set of principles that large corporations, government agencies, and schools have increasingly incorporated into their work environments, often mandating employees receive
George Bush, MIA
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As Durham’s Report exposes the lies about RussiaGate and the truth about Obama using the FBI as his personal police unfolds, there is one silence that roars above the white noise of denial. George Walker Bush has not said a word. Not one darned word. He has been one silent lamb while the Democrat Party ran roughshod over our political institutions — weaponizing the IRS, the FBI, FISA, the media, the courts and the border.
Hundreds of Trump’s voters were jailed over a protest at the Capitol over the counting of the votes and we have not heard his protest. Indeed, Bush has condemned these protesting patriots as threats to America.
2,600 people at $15/hr is $39,000 per hour. Anticipating 1,000 hrs per campaign worker, that’s $39 million. At $25/hr that’s $65 million. At $40/hr that’s $104 million.
This is the scale of spending that Ken Cuccinelli and Jeff Roe have for the Never Back Down SuperPAC to support Governor Ron DeSantis in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada on behalf of the Sea Island billionaires who want to manipulate the 2024 election. That’s just payroll for new hires.Overall, the New York Times is reporting a campaign support spending plan of more than $200 million. (snip)The context of the New York Times report sounds accurate.
Research journals have withdrawn well over 300 articles on COVID-19 due to compromised ethical standards and concerns about the publications’ scientific validity.
Retraction Watch has provided a running list of withdrawn papers on COVID-19 ranging from “Acute kidney injury associated with COVID-19” to “Can Your AI Differentiate Cats from COVID-19?”
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During the pandemic, researchers have compromised on ethical standards and tried to either get more publications approved or to take shortcuts around ethics, senior researcher Gunnveig Grødeland at the Institute of Immunology at the University of Oslo says, after going through the list of articles that have been withdrawn, and the reasons for some
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Fort Bragg, one of the largest military installations in the world, was renamed as Fort Liberty on Friday, dropping its Confederate namesake once and for all.
It is the largest Army base by population to be renamed so far with around 29,000 people serving on the North Carolina base.
A ceremony took place in which some veterans said agreed was a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to current and prospective black service members.The North Carolina base was originally known as Camp Bragg and named in 1918 for Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general from Warrenton, North Carolina,
Some college graduates are suggesting there should be a general boycott on repaying student loans, once the current federal loan payment pause ends in the summer. The debt ceiling deal agreed between President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy says the pause, initially introduced as a temporary measure during the coronavirus pandemic, will "cease to be effective" from 60 days after June 30. (Snip) Some graduates responded with anger after hearing the pause would be ending, with a number even suggesting a payment boycott on social media. One Twitter user, from Detroit, wrote: "You know we could all just refuse to
Dozens of transgender people who live in Florida have turned to crowdfunding appeals in an effort to move out of the state, ABC News reported Friday.
Reportedly, the transgender people who are trying to leave the state of Florida are doing so because of a slew of “anti-LGBTQ+” laws that have been passed in recent years.
Sage Chelf, a 30-year-old “trans woman,” told the outlet that the clinic that prescribed “her” hormone therapy was ending all treatments for patients who identify as transgender.
“I don’t want to go back to the person that I was forced to be at the time,” Chelf told the outlet.
An Arkansas thug who tried to victimize an out-of-town family during their Memorial Day visit to Little Rock got more than he bargained for when an armed mom reacted to being attacked in a parking garage by fighting back, with the pregnant mom pulling a gun and shooting the attacker.
The incident went down at a River Market public garage when the family was packing up after spending the day celebrating the birthday of a seven-year-old girl. They were confronted by the criminal who assaulted them, striking the father several times as he was loading a wagon onto the top of the vehicle.
Former Vice President Mike Pence pulled on a helmet and straddled at Harley Davidson motorbike on Saturday, riding at the head of a biker procession to a major gathering of Republican 2024 hopefuls.
He has not yet declared a run but is expected to launch his campaign on Wednesday.
Pence joined Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Gov Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott and other declared candidates in Des Moines, Iowa.
The US Capitol Police on Friday said it silenced a children’s choir performing the national anthem inside the Capitol Building last week because of a “miscommunication,” which House Speaker Kevin McCarthy derided as “unacceptable.”
(snip) Rasbach told The Daily Signal on Friday that a female Capitol Police officer had directed a congressional staffer to immediately put an end to the children’s performance despite having obtained permission from South Carolina Republican Reps. William Timmons, Joe Wilson and the office of the House speaker.
Ford has warned owners of over 140,000 SUVs to park outside amid fears the electric batteries could short circuit and catch fire, even when the engine is off.
The Lincoln MKC SUV is said to have a short-circuit which causes the sensor to overheat, which can cause a fire in the engine block.
So far, Ford is aware of 19 of the vehicles going up in flames worldwide that may be connected to the sensor problems.Out of the nineteen cases, 11 were in the United States, 7 in China, and 1 in Canada.
Pictures shared on social media by one user who had
The First Lady Jill Biden enjoyed sightseeing with her daughter Ashley Biden at Egypt's Pyramids and Sphinx on her 72nd birthday after attending the royal wedding of Jordan's Crown Prince.
President Biden posted a photo for her birthday on Twitter, showing him handing the First Lady a yellow flower and calling her 'Jilly.'
As part of her trip to the Middle East, the First Lady and her daughter attended the wedding of the King Abdullah II and Queen Rania's son Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II and Princess Rajwa held at Zahran Palace in Amman, Jordan.
The outspoken host of ESPN’s “First Take” and “The Stephen A. Smith Show” podcast is fed up with black-on-black crime and the silence that surrounds it. This week Smith said during his eponymous podcast that he “had no choice” but to talk about it. Lamenting the high number of shootings in Chicago over the long Memorial Day Weekend, Smith had a question for the black community: “When are we going to look at ourselves when it comes to black people being killed in the streets of America?”Smith is right to be angry. Over the long holiday weekend, fifty-three Americans were indeed shot in Chicago alone.
Senator Tim Scott announced Saturday that he will be appearing on 'The View' on Monday, after speaking out against Joy Behar's claim that he doesn't understand racism.
The African-American 2024 hopeful said he wanted the chance to respond to the claims.
And it offers him a huge national stage to present himself as a different type of Republican candidate. But he may miss out on the chance to go head to head with Behar as Monday is generally her day off.
'I'm going on a view on Monday because I think it's time for a conservative with a backbone to look those ladies in the eyes
Florida woman was shoplifting when her
car with 2 children inside burst into
flames: police 17 replies
car with 2 children inside burst into
flames: police 17 replies
A Florida mother was busy shoplifting inside of a department store when her car suddenly burst into flames with her two children trapped inside, according to police.
Alicia Moore, 24, parked her car outside the Dillard’s department store at the Oviedo Mall on May 26 with her two young kids inside who “could not care for themselves” according to a police report obtained by Fox Orlando.
The Orlando native then went inside the store with a man, who has not been identified, and allegedly began stealing from the store, according to police.
Nearly an hour later, she left the store and found her car engulfed in a massive blaze.
Survey: One-Third of Democrats Disagree
with Laws Protecting Children from ‘Sex-Change’ Surgery 17 replies
with Laws Protecting Children from ‘Sex-Change’ Surgery 17 replies
Over-one third of Democrats disagree with laws protecting children from “sex-change” surgery, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday found.
The survey asked respondents if they approve or disapprove of legislation making it illegal to perform sex-change surgeries on minors.
Overall, 62 percent at least somewhat approve of those laws, and of those, 46 percent “strongly” approve. Another 30 percent at least somewhat disapprove, but that figure is even higher among Democrats, specifically, as 35 percent at least somewhat disapprove of laws preventing children from mutilating their bodies in the name of “gender-affirmation.”
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I do hope that Sundance is wrong about DeSantis, whom I have liked since he was in the House. We’ll see, won’t we… In the meantime, this article goes on to the corrupt Clintons and revisits a transcript of Donald J. Trump’s speech of October 13, 2016, on his running and his plan to work with us to take back our country. A good thing to read now and then. No one else could give that speech. MAGA...