Thursday 30 June 2022

Michelle Obama Is Running for President in 2024

American Thinker

For those who have monitored the Obamas closely, as I have, the plot to elect Michelle president has been obvious since at least 2016.  Michelle has been following a formula scarily like the one that got Barack Obama elected president.  Like her husband, Michelle served as the keynote speaker at a Democrat Convention.  Barack's 2004 breakout speech introducing John Kerry made him a viable candidate four years later.  Michelle's 2020 speech on behalf of Joe Biden established her as the favorite next nominee."

Germany's experience with COVID 'vaccines' suggests they increase omicron infections

 American Thinker

The former East Germany has a lower vaccination rate than the former West Germany, and this has resulted in a lower incidence of the latest COVID variant.  It seems, though the Berlin Wall fell more than 30 years ago, the former East Germans have a memory of distrusting government pronouncements and edicts, for self-preservation.  This instinct has served them well at a time when the only reason governments bother to tell us anything is in order to lie to us."

Tucker puts together the long list of political arrests in Biden's America

 American Thinker

We've all been aware of the stories about the FBI arresting conservatives — and by that, I don't mean the way the FBI has hunted down every granny and veteran who, made ignorant by the systematic removal of "no trespassing" signs and fencing, and the Capitol Police holding open doors, entered the Capitol and wandered around reverently.  That's bad enough.  But the FBI is also going after high-level, high-profile political operatives (advisers, politicians, journalists) who have dared challenge Biden's rise to the White House.  On Wednesday, Tucker Carlson finally put together a list of the brutal, humiliating, seemingly lawless arrests, and it's really shocking.   ....."

Tucker Carlson exposes the totalitarian Biden regime

 American Thinker

Tucker Carlson reminded his viewers of political opponents who have been targeted since Biden's inauguration in his monologue yesterday.    ....

The criminalizing of political opponents occurs only in third-world dictatorships, where the despot wants to leave no stone unturned in his monopoly on power and the narrative.  All opposition is outlawed.  Questioning journalists, members of the opposition party, protestors, activists, and even artists are targeted.

These are not the kind of occurrences expected in one of the world's leading democracies.

The goal behind these arrests, confiscations, and raids is to outlaw political opposition and association with political opponents.  

The targeting is also supposed to function as a deterrent. ......

Tucker meticulously detailing the political opponents that the Biden administration unfairly and systematically targeted is an eminent journalistic effort. 

Tucker Carlson is among the few who speak truth to power, irrespective of party.

If only there were more such as him!

Friday 24 June 2022

Sneaky Joe's new plan to steal the midterms

 American Thinker

Joe Biden has a new plan to rig and steal the midterms. He's not only doing it now, he's been working on it for a while. Hemingway notes that it probably isn't legal, given that the executive branch has no right to get involved with elections. As a result, Biden and his Democrats are really determined to keep news of its basic details from the public:    .......The short way of describing the plot is that Biden has asked any federal agency that delivers government services of any kind to voters to be converted into a voting operation.

Any government jobs center is now converted to a voting registration or voter "outreach" center. Ditto for any health care agency, any college, any housing agency.

Worse still, the Biden plan involves "partnering" with NGOs, which are partisan in the extreme and not subject to government rules against partisanship or political compaigning to get the dirty work done:  ....

Bitter, hateful, ultra-partisan Obama-era leftist Susan Rice, who is now Biden's "chief domestic advisor" is reportedly running this scam and keeping news of it from the public, with presumably Sorosian NGOs serving as her handmaids. Anyone who thinks a federal agency that doles out benefits can't pressure recipients into voting the way they want them to vote is naive in the extreme.

No wonder Joe doesn't want anyone to know. Hemingway points out that NGOs played a pivotal role in swinging the 2020 election far enough into Joe's column for all the cheating efforts to make it come out a victory for him."

6 Ways McConnell Betrays the Republican Base

 American Thinker

 But…you knew it was coming…I sure wish we could move on from Mitch McConnell.  Or rather, I wish we could find an effective way to compel Republican senators to move on from McConnell (and his lackeys) as their leader.

I don't like him.  I don't like the way he conducts business in the Senate.  I don't like his imperious nature and his backroom double-dealings.  I don't think he represents the vast majority of Republican voters, and even worse, I don't think he even cares.  I find him off-putting and arrogant and a terrible spokesperson for the Republican Party.  I do not think he has ever convinced a single non-Republican voter to come onboard.  I'm not certain he believes in much aside from the accumulation and maintenance of raw power.  And to the extent he actually does have sincere beliefs, those beliefs seem hopelessly aligned to an outdated Republican Party still grazing in the country-club safe spaces of bourbon-swilling "elites." 

(1) Russia collusion hoaxer:  The Russia collusion hoax was Obama and Hillary's baby (uh, gross), but Mitch gave it legitimacy by pretending that it deserved serious investigation. 

(2) Backstabber extraordinaire:Had polling not ultimately cowed him, he certainly would have joined Mitt Romney in voting for Trump's second farcical impeachment. 

(3) Corporate stooge and anti-labor globalist:  He's what most Republicans have come to despise: a politician who does the bidding of corporate lobbyists, not his constituents.  He's a globalist in an America First party.

(4) War hawk with a China problem:And nobody trusts McConnell's obsession with Russia when he turns a blind eye to China's genocide, market manipulation, and aggression.

(5) Election manipulator:  McConnell has cost Republicans Senate seats time and again.  His my way or the highway approach to Senate elections has given Chuck Schumer a majority. 

(6) Party boss, not a leader:  He lacks gravitas, eloquence, charm, or even the inkling of an inspiring demeanor.  He rules through fear and punishment, and voters do not like or trust him.  "

 

Putin didn't cause gas price rise

 American Thinker

To hear it from President Brandon, the current high cost of gasoline is all Vladimir Putin’s fault.  “Putin’s gas hike!” is a common Brandon theme.

But it’s all nonsense.  Putin is actually responsible for very little of the cost of gasoline.

According to the U.S. Energy Energy Administration, the cost of gasoline was $2.096 a gallon on Election Day 2020.  By Inauguration Day it had climbed to $2.334 a gallon.  The date of the invasion of Ukraine was February 24; at that time the price had risen to $3.517 a gallon.  Putin cannot be blamed for any price rises which occurred before the date of the invasion.

Since that time, it is true that the United States has embargoed Russian oil imports into the United States.  However, this has had a minimal impact on the cost of gasoline because Europe has not embargoed Russian oil.

According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Europe has taken only baby steps to reduce its appetite for Russian oil and gas.  Europe has announced, not one, but six packages of sanctions, and all fall woefully short of ending their import on Russian oil.  ......Russia is still adding its oil production to the world’s markets.  In addition to Europe, Russia now is selling discounted oil to China and India.  This will result in less demand for oil from the Mideast, which frees up that oil for sale elsewhere."

 

Tucker Carlson savages Republican politicians' disrespect for Americans

 American Thinker

There's no distance between what Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer want, on the one hand, and what Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, and all the other extremely powerful RINOs want:

  • A monetary policy that gives the government more money to play with.
  • An open border providing cheap labor for the monied Democrats and Republicans and possible decades of votes.
  • A military-industrial complex that floods politicians with money as long as the politicians divert taxpayer money to Ukraine.
  • A total bow-down to the Critical Race Theorists, which the Democrats do because it gives them political power and the Republicans do because they're milquetoasts who are embarrassed about America.
  • Same goes for the LGBTQ+++ tyranny that's spreading across America.
  • And, of course, an endless spigot of Chinese money; never mind that accepting it means selling out their own country.

Pay special attention to the last minute or so of Tucker's speech.  It's a warning I sincerely hope Republican politicians, from Mitch McConnell on down, heed, lest America become ungovernable and the whole American experiment devolves into a welter of violence, blood, and famine."

 

https://rumble.com/v19gic7-tucker-carlson-destroys-dirtbag-repubican-lawmakers-for-rescuing-joe-biden.html

https://rumble.com/v19gi9p-tucker-carlson-slams-republicans-who-are-propping-up-biden.html 

 

Monday 20 June 2022

D'Souza's Mules Left Tracks

 American Thinker

Many conservative commentators have noted that Dinesh D'Souza's documentary, 2000 Mules, offers compelling evidence of large-scale vote fraud.  It offers more than this, though.  It provides compelling evidence of a massive, centrally coordinated conspiracy to commit vote fraud.  Examining several states with different voter laws while focusing on just one form of fraud, the movie found that the method of fraud was executed identically in each of these states.  That is prima facie evidence of central organization and management.

From the moment counting was stopped in the dead of night in five Democrat-run swing states on election night, Democrats and the media have treated anyone who questioned election integrity in 2020 like a mob boss treats anyone who threatens to testify against him: shut up, or we will cancel you.  .....However it comes, D'Souza's documentary is the seminal moment the tide washed away enough mud that, despite their shrieks and howls, the left can no longer hide the ugly truth of what it did.  Massive election fraud in 2020 is a conspiracy, but it is no longer merely a theory."

 

The Coming Economic Storm

American Thinker 

Internet entrepreneur Kim Dot Com recently posted a Twitter thread about the world being on the brink of a major economic collapse, not because of Putin or Russia, but because America and much of the first world has been spending money they don’t have. Is that the coming storm? Is it already here?

What are those in charge doing about it? Investigating January 6, promoting drag queens in elementary school classrooms, and trying to neuter the Second Amendment, making it difficult for the American people to defend the rest of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. None of these will help the economy.

Where are Republicans? Are they pushing back and offering a new pathway out of this economic storm? Or they busy cozying up to Democrats and the corporate media, trying to gut the Second Amendment? Where are the warriors when we need them?

Was this the storm Trump was referring to? Whether it was an economic storm or not, buckle up as the American house of cards is wobbly and may collapse in the months ahead."

 

Sunday 19 June 2022

The N.Y. Times’ Bret Stephens fails Geopolitics 101

 American Thinker

Now, Bret Stephens and other American war hawks want to risk war with Russia in Ukraine to save Taiwan because “China is watching.” What China is watching, however, is a Biden administration that cannot make up its mind whether to recognize Taiwan as an independent country and adopt a policy of “strategic clarity” in defense of the island or to continue the policy of “strategic ambiguity.” Mackinder, Spykman, and Mahan would likely say: “If your goal is to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and to defeat such an invasion if it occurs, arm, support and defend Taiwan, not Ukraine. China is watching what we are doing -- and not doing -- in the South China Sea, not in Eastern Europe. We should focus, as Clausewitz said, on the “center of gravity,” which is Taiwan, not Ukraine.

China should be watching U.S. military aid and supplies pouring into Taiwan; a significantly enhanced U.S. naval presence in the South China Sea; visits by high-ranking U.S. defense and foreign policy officials to Taiwan; diplomatic solidarity among the U.S., Japan, and other regional allies; and the use by U.S. officials of quiet diplomacy to make it unmistakably clear to China’s leaders that the U.S. and its regional allies will defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack or invasion. That is Geopolitics 101-- and Bret Stephens gets an “F.”

 

Simon & Schuster will distribute the Jan 6 committee report but with a twist

American Thinker 

The folks at Mother Jones, the unabashedly hard-left magazine, cannot get over the horror: Simon & Schuster is planning to distribute the final report from the January 6 Committee. That’s not the problem. The problem is that the forward will be from a “conspiracy theorist.” Translation: Someone who believes that the events on January 6 may have involved a large amount of federal activity, including entrapment, is going to be able to have a say about a committee report that was issued following a Stalinist proceeding without any semblance of due process.

Here's what Mother Jones has to say:

With the January 6 hearings dominating the headlines, publishing giant Simon & Schuster has announced that it will distribute the final report of the congressional committee investigating the insurrection. But there is something odd about the Simon & Schuster announcement: This edition of the report will come with a foreword from Darren Beattie—a former Trump speechwriter who was fired from the White House for attending a conference that is popular with white nationalists. More recently, Beattie has spread pro-Trump, far-right conspiracy theories about the attack on the US Capitol.

 .....Beattie and the Revolver have also carefully examined whatever footage they could from events on January 6. Notably, the Capitol Police have refused to release some 14,000 hours of footage, suggesting that there’s a whole lot more to events on that day than we’re privy to.....

Based on examining that footage, there’s at least credible evidence that (a) well-prepared people, including Ray Epps, deliberately encouraged and steered people into the Capitol; (b) the same well-prepared people methodically removed all fencing and signage that would have warned late-comers that they were trespassing; (c) the same military-style discipline was seen in the attacks on the Capitol’s windows and doors; and (d) the police were inviting people in, again depriving them of knowledge that the People’s House was forbidden to them.

When it comes to Epps, Mother Jones has a bit of its own disinformation. It claims that the only Epps footage shows him whispering something to Ryan Samsel before the latter confronted an officer. In fact, if you go to the link in the above paragraph, you can see two days’ worth of footage showing Epps actively encouraging people to “go into the Capitol.” Incitement much? And yet the FBI won’t touch him."

Saturday 18 June 2022

Biden's Deathly Presidency

 American Thinker

The most galling thing is that Biden never says a word about the victims of crime unless he can twist the incident into an anti-gun lecture, and he takes no action to protect anyone, especially law-abiding citizens in middle-class neighborhoods like my own.  In this and so many other ways, he seems on the side of those who wish to destroy us.  It's no accident that murder rates are spiraling at home and war is breaking out overseas.  Both are a response to Biden's weakness, and death is the consequence.I fear there will be more death ahead.  I expect an invasion in Taiwan, Moldova, or Finland, and new outbreaks of violence in the Middle East involving either Iran or its surrogates.  The incomprehensible Iran deal, which Biden is pushing, would "make Biden 'the biggest funder of terrorism in the world,'" according to Rep. Jim Banks.  "Terrorism" is not just a derogatory word; it is the act of murdering innocent human beings, including women and children.  Hasn't that fact entered into Biden's Iran deal calculations? .....

As a citizen, it is difficult to watch my country besieged by violence.  Biden's presidency has been deadly in every respect: turning off economic growth and imposing environmental restrictions, proposing inflation-adjusted cuts in national defense while paying off student loans, and putting citizens at risk with his anti-police rhetoric.

There is little chance of a second Biden term, but just another two and a half years is painful to imagine.  How many thousands will lose their lives because of one incompetent and wrong-headed leader?  How far will America go into danger and destruction?  And how much more difficult will it be for our next president, Trump or a Trump lookalike, to repair the damage and Make America Safe Again?"

The Engineered Stagflationary Collapse Has Arrived – Here's What Happens Next

 ZeroHedge

In my 16 years as an alternative economist and political writer I have spent around half that time warning that the ultimate outcome of the Federal Reserve’s stimulus model would be a stagflationary collapse. Not a deflationary collapse, or an inflationary collapse, but a stagflationary collapse. The reasons for this were very specific – Mass debt creation was being countered with MORE debt creation while many central banks have been simultaneously devaluing their currencies through QE measures. On top of that, the US is in the unique position of relying on the world reserve status of the dollar and that status is diminishing ......

Production of fiat money is not the same as real production within the economy… Trillions of dollars in public works programs might create more jobs, but it will also inflate prices as the dollar goes into decline. So, unless wages are adjusted constantly according to price increases, people will have jobs, but still won’t be able to afford a comfortable standard of living. This leads to stagflation, in which prices continue to rise while wages and consumption stagnate.

Another Catch-22 to consider is that if inflation becomes rampant, the Federal Reserve may be compelled (or claim they are compelled) to raise interest rates significantly in a short span of time. This means an immediate slowdown in the flow of overnight loans to major banks, an immediate slowdown in loans to large and small businesses, an immediate crash in credit options for consumers, and an overall crash in consumer spending. You might recognize this as the recipe that created the 1981-1982 recession, the third-worst in the 20th century.

In other words, the choice is stagflation, or deflationary depression.”

Housing Crash Imminent: As Mortgage Rates Explode Price Cuts Soar And Buyer Demand Collapses (USA)

 ZeroHedge

A little over a month ago, when mortgage rates were still "only" 5% we shared several devastating anecdotes from real estate agents and industry execs who validated our worst fears: US housing was imploding... fast, with subsequent observations only confirming this dire conclusion about the state of the most popular asset class among the US middle class.

Fast forward to this week when things have gone from worse to catastrophic, because with 30Y mortgage rates soaring at the fastest pace on record to above 6%, or levels last seen just before the housing bubble burst..."

 

The Great Reset: Turning Back The Clock On Civilization

 ZeroHedge

The covid-19 pandemic featured an unprecedented fusion of the interests of large and powerful corporations with the power of the state. Democratically elected politicians in many countries failed to represent the interests of their own citizens and uphold their own constitutions and charters of rights. Specifically, they supported lockdown measures, vaccine mandates, the suppression of a variety of early treatment options, the censorship of dissenting views, propaganda, interference in the private spheres of individuals, and the suspension of various forms of freedom. All of these policies and measures were centrally designed by the social engineers of the pandemic.

Globalists, who are obsessed with societal control, decided to take advantage of the pandemic in order to increase their authoritarian power. Prominent among them was, Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of World Economic Forum (WEF). In June 2020, he stated that “the pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.” According to him, “every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed.”

It is no secret that the WEF has focused on accelerating the implementation of central planning for the entire global population since the early days of pandemic. This plan to establish a new world order, known as the Great Reset, was a key theme at the recent annual meeting of the WEF, which was held during May 22–26 in Davos, Switzerland.

Drastic changes to the world order like the Great Reset do not happen spontaneously; rather, they are designed by global policy makers, including influential billionaires, politicians, celebrities, biased academics, wealthy philanthropists, and the bureaucrats of international organizations and institutions. These types of people support social engineering, because it will enable them to acquire control over the world’s wealth and natural resources, and strengthen their ability to shape society as they see fit."

Texas's Gov. Abbott blocks and breaks that gargantuan incoming caravan

American Thinker 

What we see here is an amazingly good creative effort, by two governors, to keep life normal, and illegal migrant disorder away from Texas.  The Coahuila governor keeps cross-border trade in his home state.  The Texas governor is spared the expense and mess of yet another border surge inundating his state.  This has a rather interesting echo of how President Trump used to deal with Mexico — with direct force and action — shutting down the border until Mexico agreed to play ball on the "remain in Mexico" pact.

For Texans, this has to be a relief.  There's not a thing Joe Biden can do to stop this, and the caravan itself will be diminished in its impact with a simple solution that seems to be working, at long last getting home the message that lawlessness has some consequences for lawbreakers, too.  Joe Biden could have done this, but he didn't.  If a solution can't be done through Biden, well, Abbott and his Mexican counterparts will show how this is done.  Kudos to Abbott."

 

When Globalism Falls, American Liberty Will Rise

 American Thinker

The globalist cartel lies about everything.  The same players who bemoan "income inequality" have used the post-WWII order to steal at least half the value of every person's lifetime of labor.  (American colonists rebelled over a tax rate of 1%!)  The same "woke" corporations that rail against the "structural racism" of Western "colonialism" have been conquering the world, exploiting poor nations for cheap manufacturing, and sucking up the savings of wealthier nations through the new-age religion of rampant consumerism.  Globalism is colonialism, but public relations firms have spent decades hiding that obvious truth.

The globalist cartel does not care about "trans rights" or "fighting hate" or "climate change."  It cares about keeping society distracted with silly mass movements, idol-worship, and unscientific doomsday fantasies while it pursues its own interests and hidden agendas.  New World Order "elites" couldn't be happier that they have whipped up so many mindless "serfs" into such a frenzy that the peasants senselessly demand that their own speech be regulated, religion outlawed, and energy use rationed.  When the squabbling members of society fight among themselves, government power grows to control the chaos.  When only the globalist cartel is allowed free speech, and only the rich and powerful can afford fuel, then only the globalist religion can be heard and spread.      .....At the end of the day, it comes down to trust.  Nobody is buying what the globalist cartel is selling.  Their lies and manipulations have become too obvious for too many.  People now realize that truth lies only outside the system.  "

 

The D.C. Swamp hates Trump because he represents the real America

 AmericanThinker

If Trump is guilty of insurrection, why was it necessary to pack the January 6 Committee with Trump haters? The answer: Because Trump is an existential threat to the DC swamp! Pelosi could not take a chance that the committee would hold fair hearings—forget 240 years of precedent for due process and fair participation by House members.  .....Making Trump the focus of leftist hatred really means they hate traditional Americans who see Trump as their last best hope. The left loves the DC swamp and its powerful tentacles throughout the country seeking to destroy America.   ..........How will we resolve the issue encapsulated in Ray Epps and other possible provocateurs? They would have you believe that those charged with trespassing misdemeanors and held in the D.C. torture chambers/jails for months are evil beyond belief. They would have you believe that Trump plotted an attack on the Capitol. They want you to believe that your representatives are courageous men and women in the face of insurrection."

How Trump Became the Only One

 American Thinker

The left thinks the hatred they have stoked against Donald Trump is the best idea they ever came up with.  They can make a lot of people angry about anything, but anger is hard to sustain--it's tiring.  Hatred however, now there's a keeper.  It lives a life of its own, it can't be killed.  The left jumped on that horse and now they have to ride it to the end--and the horse isn't paying attention to the rider.

The left can't stop the sequence of events they have begun.  This is partly because it really wasn't the idea of the useful idiots carrying this plan out, it was all part of the Great Reset and they didn't get that.  Lefties look at goals within arm's reach, such as getting friends to like them, injecting meaning into a life without religion or belief of any kind, or getting re-elected.   ........We saw what Donald Trump was doing and we liked it.  His enemies will never convince us that he is worthy of this hatred and they will never convince us that he was not re-elected.   A plurality of Americans don't hate him, and even if they don't like his style, they want him back.  .......Unfortunately, our system is such that we can't put him in place for two  more years. I pray we have the time. Keep safe, Mr. President."

 

Monday 13 June 2022

The J6 Committee's Real Target Is You

American Thinker 

The J6 Clown Show made one thing clear: D.C.'s despots hate Donald Trump with the heat of ten thousand suns. They hate his success. They hate his fearlessness. They hate his common sense approaches to America's foreign and domestic problems. They hate that he can't be bullied into silence or submission. They hate that he is beholden not to the globalist Davos clan attempting to conquer the world but rather to the ordinary American people and their families.   ......In other words, the Establishment Class hates President Trump because he proved them all liars, grifters, and frauds. A touch of Patrick Buchanan, a dash of Ron Paul, a hint of Andrew Jackson, a fistful of Ronald Reagan, and a double-scoop helping all his own, Donald Trump represents what all those Washington toadies abhor: an unapologetically pro-American president.    .........What I took away from the abusive J6 hearing is this: the D.C. Establishment is deathly afraid of the American people. Because we have the majority of likeminded voters, Congress is desperate to divide, distract, and dilute. It cannot tolerate J6's visibly demonstrable proof that a powerful coalition has risen. We must be made to feel small. It all reminds me of a prescient tweet President Trump sent out right after House Democrats' first perfidious impeachment: "In reality they're not after me / They're after you / I'm just in the way." As usual, he was right."

The RINOs are out in force on the ‘framework’ for new gun laws

 American Thinker

It was news that sent shudders through every person who supports the Second Amendment: Ten Republican senators have signed on to a “framework” that will allegedly improve gun safety in America. You can guess who these RINOs are—it’s the same bunch who will always agree to limit American rights to keep up with their friends on the Democrat side of the aisle. And while there are a couple of good ideas in the framework, the rest of it is either useless, harmful, and/or unconstitutional.

According to a statement from the bipartisan group of senators, they have an agreement in principle for legislation that includes “needed mental health resources, improves school safety and support for students, and helps ensure dangerous criminals and those who are adjudicated as mentally ill can't purchase weapons....” More specifically, the senators have agreed on the following concepts, which I’ve listed along with my comments:   .....................

Before America went crazy in 2020, around 40,000 people died annually from gunshots (the majority of which were and are suicides). Meanwhile, guns are used defensively between 500,000 and 3 million times a year. To the extent red flag laws run the risk of unconstitutionally interfering with this massive number of defensive uses, they shouldn’t be passed and, if passed, should be stricken.

But what about those RINOs who signed on to that red flag monstrosity? Here’s the list:  ......Multiple names on that list voted yes on the $1.2 trillion “infrastructure bill” that is destroying America’s economy: Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Rob Portman, and Thom Tillis were all on board with that. .....Lindsey Graham, on January 6, urged the Capitol police to shoot people in the Capitol and wants amnesty for illegal aliens. Pat Toomey has been calling for gun control for almost a decade and castigated Trump for commuting Roger Stone’s sentence (handed down as part of the Russia collusion hoax).  John Cornyn has been working for years to try to outlaw private gun sales. Mitt Romney voted to impeach Trump, and he and Susan Collins sided with Democrats against Judy Shelton’s Federal Reserve Board nominee. Bill Cassidy supported the impeachment trial."

 

When Democrats Want Gun Control, It's Not to Protect You

 American Thinker

Why did the Biden administration react so rapidly to redirect the American people about the facts surrounding this shooting?  How can it be blamed on an inanimate object like a gun when it is clear that this individual had severe behavioral problems, most likely amplified by his dysfunctional family life and extensive drug use?

We know that both parents and the grandmother of the Uvalde shooter had criminal records.  The shooter was a high school dropout, a loner, and a violent videogame–player.  His father was not present in his life.  Almost certainly, he had no religion.  His nickname was "school shooter."  Four years ago, he was arrested for threatening to shoot up a school.  He cut up his face with knives for fun.  He held up bags of dead cats with a grin on his face that was captured on video.  "He liked hurting animals," according to a relative of his grandmother.  One classmate said he had a tendency to be "violent towards women" and was described by an ex-girlfriend as "scary."  He was a pot-smoker, just as his mother and father were. His grandfather actually served time in prison for drug-trafficking.  His mother was about to be evicted due to her drug use.    .....

Let's be clear: America does not have a gun problem.  America has a societal problem, where today's society, predominantly through liberal political policies, are causing irreparable harm to our young people.  There is nothing good to come from legalizing dangerous drugs.  Additionally, there is nothing good coming from defunding the police, being soft on crime, electing George Soros–funded district attorneys, promoting the breakdown of the nuclear family, eradication of religion, hyper-sexualizing young people, pushing Critical Race Theory, and the notion that young people can chose their own sex. 

There is no doubt that these issues are immeasurably damaging to our young people and the disease we must cure.  Hardening our schools is beneficial, but it only addresses the symptom of the disease.  As for gun-grabbing after a school shooting, that is an evil and dishonest attempt by Biden and the other globalists to rob we the people of another right and to further their goal of a one-world dystopian communist government."

 

It’s the Mental Health System, Stupid

 American Thinker

According to Johns Hopkins University: “An estimated 26% of Americans ages 18 and older -- about 1 in 4 adults -- suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.” Going further, “Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time. In particular, depressive illnesses tend to co-occur with substance abuse and anxiety disorders.”  ...They also note that, “9.5% of American adults ages 18 and over, will suffer from a depressive illness (major depression, bipolar disorder, or dysthymia) each year.” And that, “Approximately 1% of Americans are affected by schizophrenia.”    ....

Psychiatry has come a long way since Joe Kennedy had his daughter Rosemary lobotomized to prevent her from embarrassing the Kennedy family and thwarting her brothers’ political aspirations. Rosemary was too promiscuous for Joe and his sensibilities. Unfortunately, this happened in 1941 and not 80 years later when such behavior would be celebrated and excused, as it is with President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

Rosemary ended up institutionalized for the remainder of her life post-lobotomy."

Why Democrat Poll Numbers Are Worse Than You Think

 American Thinker

If the polls are overestimating approval numbers for Biden and other Democrats, how bad is it?  The political climate today is different since the 2020 election, but the Democrat poll bias seems intact, which was 4% nationwide.  Since nonresponse bias, 4%, and registered voter bias, 2.6%, should be mutually exclusive, we can add them together.  This gives us a total Democrat bias of roughly 6.5%

What does this mean?   Until pollsters switch to sampling likely voters right before the election, you can subtract a solid 6 percent from Joe Biden's approval numbers.  And if nothing changes before the election, any Democrat who leads by 3 percent or less is likely to lose."

 

Saturday 11 June 2022

Inflation spoils the January 6 show

 American Thinker

Call it bad timing or Trump luck, but most people today are talking inflation.  This is from Fox News:

The Labor Department said Friday that the consumer price index, a broad measure of the price for everyday goods, including gasoline, groceries and rents, rose 8.6% in May from a year ago. 

Prices jumped 1% in the one-month period from April. Those figures were both higher than the 8.3% headline figure and 0.7% monthly gain forecast by Refinitiv economists.

It marks the fastest pace of Inflation since December 1981.

Well, I remember 1981 and the recession that followed in 1982.  In other words, my memory tells me it's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.  Wait until companies shut down and lay off people.  It's coming because I saw this movie 40 years ago."

 

The Show Trials Begin

 American Thinker

Even Democrat strategists and media commentators admit that the hearings are not aimed at changing public opinion. "Instead, the committee's work is most clearly aimed at the top brass at the Department of Justice who will decide whether to bring charges against Trump and members of his inner circle," Jonathan Allen wrote in a commentary for NBC News.

That in itself should be enough to terrify any American who lived through the Cold War, or who read Kafka in high school or college.

We have entered an era of show trials, just like the extravaganzas produced by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in the 1930s.    .....From the beginning, they used the phrase the "Big Lie," a term introduced by Hitler's propaganda chief, Josef Goebbels, to describe efforts by President Trump to call attention to rampant evidence of election irregularities.   ......

But the more the American people looked, the more they believed President Trump and their lying eyes. How was it, in the most tech-savvy country in the world, that most of us went to bed at midnight on election night with TV images of unassailable Trump margins of victory in all five swing states with 98% of the vote counted, and woke up the next morning to see those margins had collapsed and somehow only 92% or 94% percent of the votes had now been counted?

In the months between the election and January 6, we saw dozens of lawsuits filed in these swing states, with thousands of eyewitness affidavits, filed upon penalty of criminal perjury, describing clear-cut violations of election law, and all of them were dismissed. As I wrote at the time, it made many Americans lose faith in our system of justice."

 

Sunday 5 June 2022

Biden's Energy Inflation Is No Accident

 American Thinker

In a press conference last week following his meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Japan, President Biden praised the escalating price of gasoline as a positive step toward realizing the Democratic Party’s dream of enacting the Green New Deal.

“[When] it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it is over, we will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over,” Biden said. Biden followed these comments by giving lip service to the millions of Americans forced to spend an increasing percentage of their disposable income on putting gasoline in their vehicles.

According to a study recently by economist Dr. Edward Yardeni, American families are now paying what amounts to $5,000 per year to put gasoline in their automobiles, a painful increase from just $2,800 a year ago.      ....

Biden’s statement in Japan refused to acknowledge that his administration bears a significant causal link to increased energy prices in the United States and worldwide. The Biden administration has made a series of decisions reversing Trump administration energy policies by shutting down the Keystone pipeline and canceling offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

The Biden administration is developing into a sad repeat of the Carter administration’s economic policies, as evidenced by a redux of the 1979 stagflation that brought the type of double-digit inflation and stagnant economic growth we are again seeing today."

 

Navarro arrest is a Democrat assault on American liberty

American Thinker 

The arrest of Peter Navarro by the FBI, shock troops of the radical Democrat party, should make clear to the most hidebound Republican member of Congress that the anti-Constitution cabal is confident it will maintain power after the November 8 elections, and the presidency for decades to come. 

As Breitbart pointed out, the June 3 arrest of the freedom-loving Navarro came one day after he predicted that, following the midterms, the impeachment of Biden will take place by the GOP.  He was arrested for defying the assault on liberty that is the January 6 House Inquisition panel.  ..... The Republican congressional leadership was silent as the anti-Constitution party proceeded to impose the Russia hoax on the American people.  Mitch McConnell thereafter broke his silence to denounce the liberty-loving Donald J. Trump, not the liberty-loathing denizens of the Deep State — more likely as not, because he was a swimmer in good standing in the swamp.Republicans must realize, at their peril, that the last, best hope for the spirit of liberty in America is the outcome of a fair election come next Election Day — not election days.  They must focus on making American liberty secure again,  and refuse to deny that our founding heritage of freedom is under attack from the enemy within."

 

Will Monkeypox Replace COVID as the Next Great Democrat Scam?

 American Thinker

As dire COVID warnings fade from public view, they are being replaced by a new health clarion call: monkeypox. Is this a real existential threat to life or is monkeypox the next Democrat (COVID) scam?

The evidence on the COVID scam is incontrovertible. Biden Fauci, Birx, Walensky, the CDC, AMA, and NIH all lied to us. They perpetrated a Big Con using fabricated life-or-death medical threats to justify a massive power grab, when in fact, coronavirus was no more dangerous to most Americans than the seasonal flu.   ......

Monkeypox is not a novel or unknown virus. We had outbreaks in 1958, 1970, 2003, and 2018, but they received no press attention. However, there was no push from Democrats to hype a minor medical matter emanating from animals in Africa – 47 confirmed or likely cases in the U.S. in 2003 with no deaths – into an existential threat.

The monkeypox virus produces mild illness, and poses a low or very low risk of death to the general population. However, because monkeypox is in the same family, Poxviridae, as now-eradicated smallpox with its 30% mortality risk, Democrats might try to use monkeypox to create another “pandemic of fear” and resume their tyrannical, anti-scientific mandates."

 

Like the US, England is being buried under illegal aliens and economic migrants

 American Thinker

With Biden in office, America’s southern border has vanished entirely. Illegal aliens crossed the border over 1.6 million times in 2021 and, this year, they’re going to break that record, given that they’re marching across the border at the rate of around 200,000 per month (a number that may increase if Biden gets rid of the Title 42 health restriction). Once here, if the illegal aliens are caught, the government feeds them, clothes them, gives them free baby formula (if they need it), and ships them across the country to wherever they want to go. But believe it or not, we’re the lucky ones. What’s happening in Europe and, especially, in England is infinitely worse.

Paul Joseph Watson has put together a video that uses the plight of one small village as its starting point to explain England’s invasion—something done with the government’s complicity. Linton-on-Ouse, in North Yorkshire, has about 700 residents. It’s just received word from the British home office that it will be receiving 1,500 North African migrants. That is, 1,500 foreign Muslims, most of them men."