The Slippery Slope
Posted By: earlybird, 4/3/2023 2:34:32 PM
Yesterday The American Thinker published an article by an author who was prompted by the transgender terror attack on the Christian school in Nashville. The author, Sha'i ben-Tekoa, was prompted by the attack—but not for the first time—to examine the slippery ideological slope that has America on an ever downward trajectory. As regular readers will be aware, I’m a firm believe in the principle of the slippery slope—the principle that the logic of ideas, once accepted, will be worked out to their most extreme consequences. Unless rejected in principle
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Read: Donald Trump’s Indictment
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Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Trump was indicted by a New York grand jury following a probe by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The 16-page indictment, released on April 4 after Trump was arraigned, says that Trump falsified records related to multiple payments made to keep concealed negative information about him.
That includes the payment made to Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress who has claimed Trump had an affair with her, according to the charges.
Nothing, not one single thing, is going to break the resolve of the MAGA movement to support the one and only option to the UniParty apparatus in Washington DC.
We are wide-eyed and awake to the constructs that surround us. We are steadfast, resolute and resolved to the task at hand. As Winston Churchill said, “If you’re going through hell, keep going,”… as long as we don’t stop, we succeed. Never relent. Never give in. Never give up. {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:
A controversial proposal by Los Angeles County Board members to "decarcerate" jails was withdrawn from Tuesday’s agenda after opposition from the public and law enforcement.
The agenda item was titled "Los Angeles County to take Actionable Next Steps to Depopulate and Decarcerate the Los Angeles County Jails."Introduced by Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis, the proposal outlined that it would "Declare the state of mental health services and overcrowding in the Los Angeles County jails a humanitarian crisis, requiring the County to move with all deliberate speed on meaningful solutions; and prioritize decreasing the number of individuals entering the Los Angeles County Jails."
Just minutes after misfired tear gas canisters drove police back into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the retreating officers left unsecured the sets of double doors in the Lower West Terrace tunnel, giving protesters easy access to the entrance and sparking several hours of brutal violence, videos reveal.
Cell phone video entered into evidence in a recent Jan. 6 criminal case shows that protesters walked right through the sets of double doors (snip)
For months, questions have been raised by defense attorneys and case observers whether the doors at the tunnel entrance were locked and secure. Prosecutors contended in court filings that the doors were locked
James Comer: Four Biden Family Business
Associates Cooperating with Investigation
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Associates Cooperating with Investigation
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Four Biden family business associates are cooperating with the House investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) said Monday.(snip)“We are in communication with four former Biden family business associates,” Comer told Fox Business. “They are cooperating with our investigation.”
“And I will tell you it’s very concerning,” he said about the information the whistleblowers revealed to the committee.
The Slippery Slope
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Yesterday The American Thinker published an article by an author who was prompted by the transgender terror attack on the Christian school in Nashville. The author, Sha'i ben-Tekoa, was prompted by the attack—but not for the first time—to examine the slippery ideological slope that has America on an ever downward trajectory. As regular readers will be aware, I’m a firm believe in the principle of the slippery slope—the principle that the logic of ideas, once accepted, will be worked out to their most extreme consequences. Unless rejected in principle
Crisis breeds fascism
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Bloomberg reported, “U.S. Bank Deposits and Lending Both Dropped Last Week Amid Turmoil.
“Deposits fell nearly $126 billion, while bank loans retreated. Decrease in overall lending was largest since June 2021.”
It was deliberate.
Democrats and RINOs never let a crisis go to waste because a crisis allows them to expand their powers. 9/11 is just one example. Bush and company used it to add a Cabinet-level department, make the unpatriotic PATRIOT Act law, and start two wars they later would abandon.
Washington does not wait for a crisis to come along.
Former President Donald Trump will hold a speech on Tuesday night at his Mar-a-Lago resort, a senior 2024 campaign adviser confirmed on Sunday morning.
Trump adviser Jason Miller confirmed to Newsmax on Sunday he would deliver the speech at his Florida residence after he is arraigned by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg following a grand jury indictment last week.
“Trump is going to be giving a speech on Tuesday night at Mar-a-Lago 8:15 p.m. I think the entire world will be watching
Everything about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is shallow fakery and manipulative astroturf.The term “astroturf” is given whenever a political operation attempts to generate the illusion of support where little to no support exists. Astroturf politics is pure fabrication and highlights the smallness of the candidate for whom the astroturf operation is conducted.
In republican national politics we saw astroturf operations around Carly Fiorina and Ted Cruz in 2016, so it doesn’t come as a surprise to see the same individual’s surface again as hired by Team DeSantis to create his 2024 astroturf campaign. Yesterday’s trip(snip)to Georgia was pure astroturf, complete with free DeSantis ’24 swag, t-shirts, and various
Jonathan Turley Warns Alvin Bragg Judges
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Will Not Like His ‘Legally Pathetic’
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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley has issued a warning to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over his politically motivated case against President Donald Trump.
The legal scholar notes that New York judges, especially at the Appellate level, will not like the George Soros-funded prosecutor’s case against Trump.
“This indictment, if it is reportedly following the theory that we’ve been talking about, is political,” Turley said.
“It’s a raw political prosecution.
I know you are angry, I’m angry, we are all angry. However, in the past 24 hours I am more filled with resolve than ever before.
Every whiteboard is cleared, every distraction is removed, everything is now singularly focused on this corrupt and manipulative war that is going to take place in the battlefield of presidential politics with Donald John Trump at the center of it. I have prayed more in the past several weeks than in my entire lifetime and now we reach the phase where we lift our heads, get off our knees and confront this corrupt, conniving system.
I will share more later. In the interim, what former
U.S. House lawmakers voted in support of an energy bill amendment that would prevent the Department of Energy from introducing energy efficiency standards that could outlaw most gas stoves on the market today.
More than a dozen Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, part of a Republican-led pro-fossil-fuel legislative package H.R. 1, also referred to as the Lower Energy Costs Act, which the Biden administration has vowed to veto.
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Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said Monday on “NewsNation Prime” that former President Donald’s participation in and playing of a song recorded by the J6 Prison Choir is “undermining our system of justice.”(Snip) “Obviously, he did it because he thought it would create a stir, and he’s good at creating stirs.”Hutchinson added, “I don’t think we should elevate Jan. 6. It was a serious challenge to our democracy. It was a blight against the United States, against the world.(Snip)We need to move on and talk about the future
Jill Biden will lead the U.S. delegation to King Charles III’s coronation, representing America at the investiture of the new British monarch instead of President Joe Biden, who will not attend.
President Biden called King Charles on Tuesday to say the first lady would be going on his behalf, a source familiar told DailyMail.com.
She will attend the May 6th ceremony at Westminster Abbey in London, where coronations have taken place for nearly 1,000 years.
The Department of Defense announced a massive new military aid package for Ukraine on Tuesday valued at $2.6 billion.
President Joe Biden authorized $500 million worth of ammunition for U.S.-provided HIMARS, air defense interceptors, artillery rounds, anti-armor systems, small arms, heavy equipment transport vehicles, and maintenance support through his authority to take weapons from U.S. stockpiles. (Snip) The remaining $2.1 billion in aid comes via the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and will include air defense capabilities, as well as artillery and tank ammunition, mortar systems, rockets, and anti-armor systems.
Bud Light on Monday addressed the criticism it received over its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, saying the collaboration was meant to “authentically connect with audiences.”Anheuser-Busch created a special can to celebrate what Mulvaney, a biological male, has claimed is “365 Days of Girlhood.” (Snip) While critics continued to mock the company, Kid Rock let the company know how he really feels.
(Language warning) (Tweet/Video)
Rupert Murdoch and Ann Leslie Smith have called off their engagement, only two weeks after it was first announced. The 92-year-old media baron had proposed to the former dental hygienist, 66, with an 11-carat diamond ring thought to worth up to £2m just last month. The couple, who previously described their whirlwind romance as a 'gift from god', planned to wed this summer. But their engagement was abruptly called off today after the pair were said to have reluctantly come to 'mutual decision' after talks last night.
Renowned San Francisco drag performer Heklina was found dead Monday in London, England, where she was performing in a touring show, CBS Bay Area reported. The death of Heklina — also known as actor Stefan Grygelko — was first reported in social media posts by fellow drag artist and performing partner Peaches Christ (aka Joshua Grannell), with whom Heklina was touring in "Mommie Queerest," a musical parody of the 1981 Joan Crawford biopic "Mommie Dearest." "I am living in a real-life nightmare so forgive me if I don't have all the answers just now," read the message Grannell posted on both the
Hippocrates wrote, in Of the Epidemics, “The physician must…. have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.” (snip) The Texas Medical Board, however, does not see it that way. Because Dr. Eric Hensen of Palestine, Texas, did not universally force his ear-nose-and-throat patients to block their airways by masking, the TMB has suspended his medical license. So, the medical tyranny of the TMB continues. (Earlier this month, the TMB declared war on Dr. Mary Talley Bowden for prescribing Ivermectin off-label.)
The need for control is a reaction to fear. On the eve of the indictment of President Donald J Trump, Google, the parent company of YouTube, suspends Right Side Broadcasting Network from its broadcast platform. Let there be NO DOUBT, the coordinated Big Tech effort to control U.S. politics continues…. AUBURN, Ala. — Just one day before RSBN was set to cover President Trump’s arraignment in Manhattan, YouTube has resumed its censorship practices and suspended RSBN’s channel, blocking our ability to livestream for seven days.
Chicago voters will go to the polls on Tuesday to choose their next mayor with the out-of-control crime rate uppermost in their minds. Former Chicago public schools CEO Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson offer two different visions for the voters — and two different versions of reality.
Both men are Democrats and men of the left. But there are stark contrasts that separate the candidates and give the voters a clear choice.
Vallas portrays himself as a hard-headed realist. He believes that without public order, the rest of his agenda won’t matter that much. He wants to rebuild the Chicago Police Department and not just in manpower.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said in a written statement on Tuesday that Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg is setting a “dangerous precedent” by criminalizing a political opponent.
Romney, who is no fan of Trump, said in reaction to the indictment of Trump:I believe President Trump’s character and conduct make him unfit for office. Even so, I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda. No one is above the law, not even former presidents, but everyone is entitled to equal treatment under the law.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg reportedly asked Judge Juan Marchan to hold the trial of former President Donald Trump in January 2024, which happens to be the middle of the presidential primary season.
Fox News reporter Jake Gibson, who was in the courtroom, said that prosecutors had asked for the January 2024 trial date. The Iowa caucuses — the first contest in the Republican primary — will be on February 5, 2024.That means prosecutors want a trial that would undoubtedly affect the race for the Republican nomination, both by distracting the current frontrunner, and by tarnishing him relative to other candidates in the race.
This weekend, Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears (R-VA) and Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher. When Maher asked them about President Trump’s indictment, both skirted the topic.
Sears said they hadn’t seen the charges and didn't comment any further. Sununu called the indictment a circus but immediately proceeded to attack Trump, claiming he didn’t think Trump will be the GOP nominee in 2024 and that Trump can’t win the general election. `Maher’s show was a great opportunity for Sears and Sununu to explain Democrat voters how Trump is being targeted, but alas it was squandered as they opted to sit on the fence.
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