Posts on Sunday, October 9, 2022
This is the easiest column I’ve ever written. It’s so simple to imagine what America would be like today if Trump was still President. What a tragedy that we allowed a brain-dead, feeble, confused, old man with dementia and diapers, and his radical, anti-American, globalist, communist handlers to destroy the greatest country in world history – in only 22 months.
Let’s start with the obvious. How did this happen? The 2020 election was stolen. That’s how they removed Trump from office and installed a man who doesn’t know who he is, where he is, or what he’s doing. A man who can’t put 2 sentences together,
October surprises — typically identified as events or stories that have the potential to upend the election chances for a candidate or party — have been relevant to numerous presidential and midterm elections throughout American history, but whether there are any in store for the upcoming November races is a question political insiders are weighing.
Strategists from across the political spectrum insist there are a few events or stories that could drive voters to the polls, or away from them, in the Nov. 8 election.
President Donald Trump focused on the drug cartels and human traffickers pouring across the southern border in a fiery speech in Mesa, Arizona, on Sunday night.
“The cartels and human traffickers have seen their income skyrocket,” Trump told the crowd.
Trump told supporters attending the Save America rally that there was a “2500 percent” increase in the criminals’ income since he had left the White House.
“We had the safest border in the history of our country,” Trump said.
“…If you want to stop the destruction of the country and save the American Dream – the good old American Dream…then you have to vote Republicans up and down the line,” Trump said.
Minnesotans celebrated Native American culture at Midtown Global Market on Sunday afternoon to honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
It was first formally recognized last year when President Biden declared it a national holiday.
With every beat of the drum, Native American traditions were front and center celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day. (snip) Indigenous Food Lab members gave step by step instructions on how to make sunflower cookies
William Shatner said seeing Earth from space aboard Jeff Bezo's Blue Origin rocket was a profoundly sorrowful experience, but one which inspired him to cherish the beauty of our planet.
In an excerpt from his new memoir, Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder, revealed that the 91-year-old Star Trek star was struck with one of the 'strongest feelings of grief' he had ever experienced.
Shatner wrote that rather than being filled with awe, as he expected to be, the sight of Earth's warm blue glow surrounded by the cold black of space left him feeling like he was at 'a funeral.'
Two people were shot outside the Long Island home of Representative Lee Zeldin on Sunday while his 16-year-old daughters were home alone, the GOP New York gubernatorial candidate said Sunday.
“My 16-year-old daughters, Mikayla and Arianna, were at our house doing homework, while my wife, Diana, and I were in the car, having just departed the Bronx Columbus Day Parade in Morris Park,” Zeldin said in a statement.
He continued: “After my daughters heard the gunshots and the screaming, they ran upstairs, locked themselves in the bathroom and immediately called 911. They acted very swiftly and smartly every step of the way and Diana and I are extremely proud of them.”
‘Intolerant, Stuck-In-His-Ways Old Man’
– Major UK Newspaper Slams ‘Useless
and Nasty’ Biden replies
– Major UK Newspaper Slams ‘Useless
and Nasty’ Biden replies
President Joe Biden, whose inauguration was supposed to herald a return to international esteem for the U.S., has been slammed as “useless and nasty” by one of Britain’s leading newspapers.
The Telegraph, close to Britain’s governing Conservative (Tory) party and the country’s best-selling broadsheet, published an article by Associate Editor Camilla Tominey suggesting that “Biden’s qualities for the Oval Office are almost non-existent.”
Leading by recalling Barack Obama’s alleged warning that the Democratic Party should “[not] underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up” as he vied to be nominated as its presidential candidate in 2020, Tominey said that Biden’s time in office
Longtime Democrat 'embarrassed' by Oregon
politics shakes up race for governor,
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politics shakes up race for governor,
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Betsy Johnson is not running for Miss Congeniality. The longtime Democrat now running for governor of Oregon as an unaffiliated candidate is more likely to drop a swear word than a political platitude. When voters asked if she would repeal Oregon's drug decriminalization law, she responded, "Hell yes." On education, she declared, "Let's not worry about pronouns. Let's worry about mathematics."I am not beholden to any political agenda or ideology, and I'm certainly not running to do something other than fix a place I love," Johnson told Fox News.
Three Latino members of the Los Angeles City Council and a top county labor official held a conversation last fall that included racist remarks, derisive statements about their colleagues and council President Nury Martinez saying a white councilman handled his young Black son as though he were an “accessory,” according to a recording of the meeting reviewed by The Times.
Martinez, while discussing Councilman Mike Bonin’s child, said, “Parece changuito,” or “He’s like a monkey,” soon afterward.
A few minutes after Martinez discussed Bonin’s son, the topic of conversation moved to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón, who was facing growing political opposition.
“F— that guy,” Martinez said,
A new policy was implemented last week by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which seeks to collect the addresses of gun purchasers in a bid to comply with new federal law.
Federally licensed firearms dealers (FFLs) will now be required to provide the FBI with the personal addresses of individuals who attempt to make a purchase but are denied or have a delayed transaction. The FBI will also provide local law enforcement with details of failed transactions, which include delayed transactions, as well as the personal information of rejected individuals. Earlier, firearms dealers only had to provide a purchaser’s state of residence rather than their full address
Dem LA council members exposed for racist
comments about colleague’s son on secret recording replies
comments about colleague’s son on secret recording replies
Democrats on the Los Angeles City Council were caught making racist remarks about a colleague’s black child on a leaked audio recording, according to a report on Sunday.
The recording — which was reported on by The Los Angeles Times and has not been reviewed by The Post — captured Council President Nury Martinez referring to her colleague Mike Bonin’s black son as “ese changito,” which means “that little monkey” in Spanish, the newspaper reported.
Martinez, who is Latina, also said Bonin, who is white, was raising his toddler “like a little white kid.”
“I was like, this kid needs a beatdown. Let me take him around the corner
Politico Obtains Stolen Military Records
of GOP Candidate, Releases Unbelievably
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of GOP Candidate, Releases Unbelievably
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In what may be the most egregious example of gutter politics of the 2022 cycle, Politico obtained and wrote a story on the stolen military records of GOP House Candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green, who is facing off against Democrat incumbent Frank Mrvan in Indiana.
But while the hacks at Politico were obviously looking for dirt, what they instead found was an instance of Green being sexually assaulted by an Iraqi soldier while she was serving a tour in the Middle-Eastern nation. Yet, instead of hitting pause, recognizing the sensitive nature of such personal information and the harm releasing it could cause, Politico published it anyway. [Tweets]
Two Minnesota teens received a settlement for $80,000 from the federal government because of their treatment at Texas Border Patrol facilities in 2019.
FIVE EYEWITNESS NEWS sat down with the sisters who say they’re still healing from the abuse and mistreatment. (snip) In June of 2019, the girls, who were 14 and 16 at the time, crossed the Mexico border seeking asylum, hoping to reach their mom in Minnesota. They were arrested by border patrol.
In the Texas border facility, the sisters say they did not have access to water or enough food. In some cases, they say they were forced to play games to be fed.
U.S. Bank Stadium is among the venues the NFL announced as voting sites on Saturday, one month before the 2022 midterm elections.
Through its NFL Votes campaign, the league is encouraging fans to vote in November. Visit THIS LINK for more information on the initiative, which began in 2020.
KSTP has reached out to stadium representatives for more information about the polling process. Check back for updates and stay with 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS for all of your 2022 election coverage.
See all NFL stadium polling sites in the tweet below.
On Saturday, Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, made waves by becoming the first major health official in the country to recommend against males 18-39 getting the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. That came after an extensive, multi-year study showed an 84 percent rise in cardiac-related deaths among the age group. That backed up prior studies which had also pointed to an increased risk of heart issues.
Ladapo’s job is to make those determinations and give his recommendations to the general public. That would be the same general public that chose to elect Ron DeSantis, who appointed the surgeon general, as governor of Florida.
Election Integrity Watchdog Files Lawsuits
Over Millions of Cases of Voter Registration Fraud replies
Over Millions of Cases of Voter Registration Fraud replies
In this episode of Here We Go — Again?…
With the 2022 midterms less than a month away, and the country arguably more divided on numerous fronts than at any time since the Civil War, an election integrity watchdog group has filed multiple lawsuits over voters registered more than once, over millions of voter registrations missing required identifying information.
As Yogi Berra was famously quoted as saying, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.”
Conservative election law nonprofit Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed six lawsuits in six Minnesota counties over 515 duplicate registrants, as reported by Just the News.
A group of U.S. House Republicans on Oct. 7 sent a letter questioning Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the presence of Chinese service stations in New York City.
“We are writing to express our grave concern over reports of the law enforcement presence of the People’s Republic of China in New York City,” (snip)
“The Chinese overseas police service station established in New York City earlier this year appears to be a further step of China’s illicit long arm policing on U.S. soil that violates our sovereignty,” Republican Study Committee chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Reps. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), and 18
Ashli Babbitt, the slain Air Force veteran who was murdered by Capitol Hill Police officer Michael Byrd on January 6, would be celebrating her 37th birthday tomorrow if her life wasn’t suddenly taken by a leftist who the federal government continues to protect.
Ashli’s mother, Micki Witthoeft, continues to relentlessly fight for justice.
Advocating for the hundreds J6 political hostages, mother Witthoeft has spent more than two months praying and protesting in front of the DC jail where the political prisoners are detained.
Patriots from across the nation have convened at the jail with Babbitt’s mother
President Trump is holding a rally in Mesa, Arizona, tonight and is expected to deliver remarks at 4 PM MST.
Mike Lindell spoke to a huge crowd with thousands of tens of thousands of Patriots waiting to see President Trump and the incredible MAGA candidates in Arizona.
Trump-Endorsed Kari Lake, Blake Masters, Mark Finchem, and Abe Hamadeh are expected to deliver remarks to warm up the crowd.
As the Gateway Pundit recently reported, Blake Masters absolutely destroyed Mark Kelly in a recent debate, hammering him
Senate Republicans are on track to pick up two seats in the western United States in the 2022 midterms to win back a majority in the upper chamber, according to a projection 30 days until Election Day.
Blake Masters could beat out Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, a RealClearPolitics projection shows, despite the incumbent having an average 1.8 percent polling advantage over his GOP challenger in the adjusted October figures.
The projection also estimates that Republican Adam Laxalt will best Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada in November. Laxalt has a 1.3 percent average polling advantage over the incumbent senator
There’s something seriously wrong with Joe Biden. I realize that’s not exactly breaking news, but it is something we’re going to have to discuss because the implications are beyond the point of being able to ignore them. The 25th Amendment exists for a reason, and Joe is demonstrating that reason almost daily.
Remember all the talk about Donald Trump and the 25th Amendment? “He walked slowly down a wet ramp, he must be removed!” “Did you see that mean tweet? He’s got to go!” It didn’t matter what the then President did, a leftist was insisting it was a threat to the republic
Last month, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams made the stunning claim that “there’s no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks.” She added, “It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.”
Despite the best efforts of the media to give her cover, Abrams was 100% wrong. And yet, she somehow managed to embarrass herself even further with a new doozy of a claim when she was asked during an appearance on Fox News Sunday where she would draw the line on abortion.
“Were you become governor, where would you draw the line? 15 weeks? Viability? 36 weeks?
Abortion allegations against Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker have roiled one of the country’s tightest races that could decide the majority in the now 50-50 chamber.
The closeness of the race — Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) leads by 1.3 points in the RealClearPolitics polling average — means it could be swung by any bombshell report, and abortion is a key issue.
But national Republicans are standing by Walker, who said the latest accusation against him is a “flat-out lie,” and if he wins, five factors might contribute.
The reliably left-wing Los Angeles Times has published an unusually candid analysis: that California’s policymakers, given ample warnings about the state’s vulnerability to high gas prices, have failed to do anything to address the basic problems that cause them.
The Times recounted how the state created special committees in the 1990s, and again in the last decade, to deal with the challenges created by California’s “green” regulations and its aggressive environmental rules on the one hand, and market realities on the other.
The Times noted Friday:
California officials have had repeated warnings over the last two decades that the state’s unique blend of gasoline is susceptible to supply shortages
Kamala Harris was at the LBJ Library in Austin on Saturday. You would think that since she was in Texas, she might be planning on going to the border. But no such luck, at least according to reports. She’s blowing in to talk about abortion at the Library and then she’s off to beg for money at a fundraiser. Priorities. Kamala’s don’t include doing anything at all about the border.
Harris was in rare form with her remarks. I’d wonder if she was high, except I’ve listened to so many of her speeches. So either she’s high all the time or this is her normal state of being.
Biden administration pays $265,000 a year
for staff whose job it is to deflect Hunter stories replies
for staff whose job it is to deflect Hunter stories replies
The Biden White House is staffing up to defend the president and his administration against the potential coming onslaught of Republican-led probes focused on first-son Hunter Biden.
In anticipation of a GOP victory in the House in November, the White House has so far agreed to part ways with $265,000 of taxpayer dollars for salaries of staffers who will primarily fend off the coming attacks.
And that number is expected to grow.
President Joe Biden and top administration officials are seeking to downplay the decision from OPEC+ to cut daily oil production by 2 million barrels after steadily decreasing domestic gas prices boosted the president and Democrats' electoral odds heading into the midterm elections. The decision comes shortly after Biden traveled to Saudi Arabia, where the president met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and asked Saudi officials to ramp up production as a means of easing global energy prices amid the war in Ukraine. Publicly, the White House is putting on a strong face in responding to the new cuts. Biden
The prestigious Vanderbilt University has suspended gender altering surgeries at its medical center after outrage over claims the hospital 'chemically castrates' minors for financial gain. Vanderbilt University Medical Center [VUMC] confirmed it was freezing all 'gender affirmation surgery' on underage patients pending a review of their processes, in response to calls from Tennessee lawmaker to investigate the hospital. VUMC came under fire last month after conservative activist Matt Walsh released a 2018 video showing Dr. Shayne Taylor—an LGBTQ specialist at the hospital—touting the lucrative financial business of performing transgender surgeries. Walsh also sent a report following his own investigation into VUMC's trans program which found the hospital 'drugs,
Migrants bused into New York City have been walking through the streets of a Staten Island neighborhood asking for food, clothes and work after they were put up in hotels there.
The migrants — many not ready for the colder temperatures of the Big Apple — are staying at a property in Travis-Chelsea that includes the Staten Island Inn, Holiday Inn, and Fairfield Inn and Suites Marriott, sources and workers told the Post.
The Staten Island Inn is completely booked with migrants, one worker claimed.
A woman in Evanston is hospitalized after she was gored by a buck just outside her back door Thursday. The buck also jabbed her husband when he jumped in to help.
It was a real shock for a neighborhood that is used to seeing plenty of deer.
Mid-morning on Thursday, Wanda Kaynor stepped outside to take her husband, Daniel, to an appointment.
“There was this buck sitting there, just laying there,” he said.
Wanda Kaynor was startled, and so was the couples’ dog. The dog went after the buck.
New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams wants $1 billion from other Americans to subsidize the city’s economic strategy of importing penniless immigrants for use by New York’s business leaders.
“We need help—and we need to now,” Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said in a Friday press conference, adding: Today we’re issuing a clear message—[the] time for aid to New York is now. We need help from the federal government. We ned help from the state of New York. Our city is doing our part and now others must step up and join us …. We need those to come through.(Snip)“We expect to spend at least $1 billion
Trump questions when will DOJ ‘investigate
and prosecute’ Obama, Bush, and Clintons
over docs? replies
and prosecute’ Obama, Bush, and Clintons
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Former President Donald Trump has called for his predecessors to be given the same treatment that he’s faced over his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
Speaking at his latest rally this Saturday evening in Nevada, the former president specifically called for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Presidents Barack Hussein Obama, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton to be investigated and prosecuted for their own mishandling of classified documents.
The fact that they haven’t faced the same consequences, he added, is a sign that, one, America contains “a two-tier system of justice,” and two,
Democrats are napping peacefully through the US-Mexico “border” crisis they engineered. Perhaps these data will snap them from their slumber:
The US Department of Homeland Security reports that the Mexican cartels’ income from smuggling illegal migrants into America has soared from $500 million in 2018 to $13 billion this year — up 2,500%. If these criminals merged into a corporation, their 2022 gross revenues would rival that of — are you sitting down? — Fox Corporation. Fox News Channel’s parent company earned $12.91 billion in the year ended June 30, 2021, and $13.97 billion 12 months later.
The mainstream media has claimed that hurricanes have grown more frequent and intense in recent years, though scientists have found no major changes in hurricane activity in over a century.
With the landfall of Hurricane Ian in Florida, the media has repeatedly instilled fear over the impacts of climate change and its alleged worsening effects on the Category 4 storm. Media outlets including The Washington Post, AP News, Miami Herald and Reuters have immediately framed their coverage around the climate crisis and its role in intensifying storms.
Sunday Morning Coming Down
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Today is the anniversary of the birth of John Lennon. Murdered at the age of 40, he should be here to celebrate his 82nd birthday today. What a loss.
His work has always struck a chord with me. Now that so much of the Beatles’ work is available on YouTube, I thought I would take the occasion to adapt comments I have made previously and note some of his less famous songs. I am a Lennonist at heart; I identify with his idealistic streak and his cynicism. In the jaunty rockabilly number “I’ll Cry Instead” he let on, “I’ve got a chip on my shoulder that’s bigger than my feet."
Just over a month after the FDA approved an updated COVID-19 booster, only 6% of eligible Minnesotans have received the extra dose.
“Of course we always wish vaccine uptake was faster and people were clamoring to get vaccinated but I think we’re going to see the 6% rise,” said Jennifer Heath, a vaccine and preventable disease supervisor with the Minnesota Department of Health.
The controversial Marxist co-founder of Black Lives Matter recently completed tens of thousands of dollars in renovations at her posh Los Angeles home, including building a new plunge pool and backyard sauna, according to a new report.
Patrisse Cullors, 39, the former leader of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, also added a children’s play area for her young son outside her 2,580-square foot three-bedroom, three-bathroom home in Los Angeles’ Topanga Canyon neighborhood, photos show.
The upcoming midterm election is a chance for Americans to humiliate President Joe Biden (D), former President Donald Trump told a huge crowd in Minden, Nevada, on Saturday.
“This election is your chance to send a strong message to all of the arrogant… leftwing radicals who want to dictate what you can say, what you can think, and how you should live your life. I don’t think so,” he said during the Save America rally:
Democrats are reportedly running dozens of “quasi-local” news sites across multiple swing states, producing pro-Democrat and anti-Republican content under a veneer of non-partisanship.
At least 51 of these “local” news sites across 10 swing states are being run by Local Report Inc., founded last year in Florida, Axios reported. Six writers from “progressive” Washington-based The American Independent have also contributed to most or even all of the websites, according to Axios. Many of their articles appear exclusively on the news sites, although the sites aggregate content from other sources as well.
The outlets have non-partisan-sounding names, such as Milwaukee Metro Times,
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he was open to another run for the White House in 2024.
The brash-talking Garden State pol floated the idea during an appearance on “Real Time With Bill Maher,” which aired Friday, in response to an audience question on the subject.
Sure,” he said, when if he was interested.
“This show’s rubbing off on him, he’s getting very bold,” Maher said.
“Yeah, that was me, I never had the reputation of being bold. Wallflower type,” Christie shot back.
Christie ran for president in 2016, along with 16 other major contenders — all of whom were defeated by Donald Trump.
Migrants should be imported to fill millions of empty jobs, even though about seven million working-age American men have dropped out of the workforce, says a right-of-center columnist at the Washington Post.
“We need immigrants to help fill these jobs,” Marc Thiessen wrote on December 4, after dismissing the millions of American men who have been sidelined during the last 20 years.
Thiessen’s discard Americans proposal is “morally abhorrent” but is also commonplace among the GOP establishment, responded Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies:
He is just one among many saying that
The Constitution is Color-Blind
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This week, President Biden suggested that the federal government has engaged in racial discrimination with respect to sentencing people for marijuana possession. “Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives.... That’s before you address the clear disparities around prosecution and conviction.”
(Snip) But if he thought this was the case, he shouldn’t have selected Kamala Harris as his running mate. She made her mark as a California attorney general in securing almost 2,000 convictions for marijuana use and possession:
In that position she oversaw the arrest and prosecution of thousands of people, mostly young people of color, for marijuana and other drug offenses.
The headline over at Fox News this last week told the tale:
Tony Bobulinski tells Tucker Carlson Joe Biden was 'chairman' of Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings
Fox’s Tucker Carlson — aka a real journalist — had scored another interview with one-time Biden family business associate Tony Bobulinski. And mysteriously?
Two days later the Washington Post soon appeared with its own Hunter Biden story, headlining this: Federal agents see chargeable tax, gun-purchase case against Hunter Biden
The Post story reported this:
“Federal agents investigating President Biden’s son Hunter have gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge him with tax crimes
During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers reacted to OPEC+’s production cut by stating that “we made a mistake by canceling the Keystone pipeline. We made a mistake by slowing down all kinds of permitting activity. We made a mistake by being hostile as a country to natural gas.” And arguing that “we need a different kind of energy strategy than the one that we’ve had. We need a strategy that is balanced, rather than an unbalanced
First new cobalt mine in decades opens
in Idaho; key component in electric vehicle batteries replies
in Idaho; key component in electric vehicle batteries replies
A new cobalt mine, the first in decades, opened in Idaho Friday to meet the demand for a key rare-earth mineral used in electric vehicle batteries and other military and aerospace parts. The mine, operated by Australia-based Jervois Global, is located near a defunct open-pit cobalt mine. In an effort to be more environmentally conscious, the new mine is mostly underground and will be capped once its operations eventually cease. Department of Energy Undersecretary for Science and Innovation Geri Richmond told the crowd gathered for the opening that “We’re talking about building a world class clean energy economy, and this mine, this project … is key