The Democrats elected a joke and now the world is laughing. But the joke is now on them.

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“I started a joke, Which started the whole world crying, But I didn’t see, That the joke was on me, oh no.” Lyrics from The Bee Gees song “I Started a Joke“

Everyone is now laughing at the Biden administration. Biden and his handlers (he has handlers because he is incompetent) are the laughing stock of the whole world.

What is even sadder is that his policies and political positions are now harming working class Americans. Consumer confidence has now reached a 22 year low. It has not been this low since the DotCom implosion under Bill Clinton.

From Biden’s broken national security policies, to his disaster in Afghanistan, to the ongoing border crisis (the border patrol estimated that illegal aliens will top a million for the month of September), to a dangerous immigration policy, to the Democrat controlled Congress’ bills that raise taxes, increase spending and turn one group against another have many Americans of all races crying.

Biden is now openly anti-American in everything that he, and his administration, does. Americans are today paying over $1.00 more per gallon of gasoline at the pump. Oil prices reached $80 per barrel, double the price under Trump prior to the virus from China. And Biden is just getting started on implementing draconian energy policies to “save the planet” from climate change. Go figure!

Biden’s Mandates

Today the Biden administration’s operative word is “mandate.”

Mandates are not leadership. Mandates are unconstitutional. Mandates are not the law.

Congress passes laws, not Biden.

It seems that political satire is becoming political reality under Biden. But who’s laughing now?

Are those who voted for Biden, legally and illegally, happy now with what is going on?

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, sponsored by The ANTIFA by Jack Posobiec, for Tuesday shows that 41% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance. Fifty-eight percent (58%) disapprove. The latest figures include 21% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 49% who Strongly Disapprove.

This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -28. (see trends)

Demented Democrats

It appears that Joe is putting the DEM in DEMENTIA.

Each and every day the Democrats push legislation that is doing more and more harm to the working class and building a rift between those who work for a living and those who vote for a living.

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” — Jack Handey

We the people have walked a mile and Biden is bent on leaving all of us shoeless. Biden’s motto is obey or pay.

I wish I could laugh at what Biden and the Democrats are doing but like the Bee Gees sang, “Oh, if I’d only seen, oh yeah, That the joke was on me, oh no, That the joke was on me.”

Is the joke on them or is it on the U.S.? Well we have 3 more years of Joking Joe Biden.

Biden is just another in a long line of tax and spend big government socialists. From FDR to Carter to Clinton to Obama. Socialists one and all. They’re all birds of a feather who flock together to tax the rich and every single working American to death.

Gird your loins. Pray! Our only hope is to retake one or both houses of Congress.

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Lyrics

I started a joke
Which started the whole world crying
But I didn’t see
That the joke was on me, oh no

I started to cry
Which started the whole world laughing
Oh, if I’d only seen
That the joke was on me

I looked at the skies
Running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Hurting my head from things that I’d said

‘Til I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh, if I’d only seen
That the joke was on me

I looked at the skies
Running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Hurting my head from things that I’d said

‘Til I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh, if I’d only seen, oh yeah
That the joke was on me, oh no
That the joke was on me
Oh, no, no, no

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The Idiocy Of Leftist Beliefs!

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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled” – Plutarch

Today I give you Chris Wrights thoughts on the stupidity of leftist beliefs. When it is written like this I cannot help but shake my head and try work out how Americans came to this place in our history. How do we get where this even begins to make sense? I have to be honest I worked with a Deputy Sheriff once who was as left as they come. He was spiritually and morally bereft of any common sense and was a sworn socialist. We had at times pretty spirited arguments which at times could be acrimonious but somehow we were able to work civilly together when needed and somehow I knew he would have my back.

When I read what I am publishing here, I just remember him. His sheer hatred of President Trump, anything conservative and the GOP was at times irrationally displayed in his verbiage and language which could make a sailor blush!! ( Not me though! ) I believe he probably would see nothing wrong with what is written below.

On a personal side note I have always been amazed at the number of libtard deputy sheriffs I worked with. I am unable to fathom how you can take an oath to defend and protect the constitution of the United States of America while working politically with those whose sole aim is the destruction of the above mentioned United States of America and its constitution! They are the ones who will obey unconstitutional orders and unlawful orders. They are the ones who will come for your guns. They are the ones who will not be on the right side of history.

Anyway. Enjoy the blog today and as always feel free to share! Thanks Chris!

PS:– I also put a few pictures of the typical leftist fools here, here and here.

Hi all,

I believe the longer minority students sit in their seats, the whiter they get.

I believe the more men give birth, the more manly they become.

I believe there’s a racist behind every bush and we need an inquisition to root them all out.  People should be hauled before Congress and asked, “Are you now or have you ever been a racist?”

I believe heterosexuality is a tragedy, a real tragedy, and somebody should have told my parents that.

I believe 8-year-olds should be able to choose their gender and get drugs from rich psychiatrists without their parents knowing.  If parents object, I believe judges should terminate their parental rights.  Who needs parents and families anyway?  What a stupid old idea.  Everybody knows it takes a village to raise a child and change their gender.

I believe we only have 12 years left before the planet turns into a cinder and we all burn up from climate change.  Oh wait, two years are gone already, so we only have 10 years left.  Better start using those old gift cards now.  Time is running out.

I believe we should all have as small a carbon footprint as we possibly can, except when we’re rioting and looting and burning cities to the ground.  Then the bigger the footprint, the better.

I believe healthcare is a basic human right unless, of course, you’re not vaccinated for COVID, then you shouldn’t get any healthcare at all, even if you’re bleeding out right in front of me.  That’s what I believe.

I believe we shouldn’t have borders because we shouldn’t have countries or nation-states in the first place.  I say we save the whole planet and let everybody in, all 7 billion of them.  We’re all global citizens now.  How do I know?  Because my local school board told me so.  None of them are parents, but they’re experts – they know what’s best for everybody, especially children, that’s what I believe.

I believe there are no facts and there is no truth.  Even if that last statement can’t possibly be true if there is no truth.  … I’m getting confused.  No matter.  I believe if somebody jumps off a 30-storey building and goes splat on the sidewalk below, they didn’t really go splat, it was just a matter of perception.  That may sound like post-modern gibberish to some, but it’s still rock-n-roll to me.

I believe there is no bias in the media, even if they themselves have told me four dozen times they are biased.   I believe everything should be evidence-based, except when I don’t like the evidence, or I need to lie to make my point.  Especially when I need to lie to make my point.  That happens a lot.  But that’s OK, because we’re good people and you’re not.

I believe Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Western Civ has got to go!  We need to stop dating our years from the birth of Christ.  You think it’s the year 2021?  No way!  It’s 104 USSR, 104 years since the birth of the first communist state.  Let’s get our priorities straight here, OK?  While we’re on this subject, why are we still using Monday through Sunday for the days of the week?  Those names were invented by dead white Europeans because of their stupid religion.  I believe all religion is stupid, especially yours.  We should toss those names out because all old ideas are stupid.  We need living, breathing ideas.  We need to make 57-day weeks, and give the days new names to honor each one of the 57 genders.  I believe corporations will give me millions of dollars to promote this idea and, given what they’re funding lately, who’s to say I’m wrong?

I believe everything you say is wrong.  And because you’re wrong, you have no right to say it.  So shut up and listen to me.  I’m not finished!

I believe I belong to a small group of people who have secret knowledge that will bring about heaven on earth.  Only we know how to do this because we’re special.  Everyone else is deplorable.  It’s our secret and we’re not gonna tell you, because you wouldn’t understand it.  We know how you should live your life better than you do.  We know how to spend your money better than you do.  It’s not your money anyway, it’s ours, because YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT, we did.  If you can’t see that, you’re stupid, and we’ll just force you to do what we say.  You hear me?  We’ll FORCE you.  So, get used to it, you stupid ninnies, because we’re taking over soon, whether you like it or not.  We’re taking over absolutely everything.  We’re creating a paradise for you, right in your front yard, and we will use any means to get there, even if we have to steal elections to do it.  It’s for your own good, after all.  Why can’t you see that?  It’s as plain as the nose on your face.

Hmm… I hear sirens in the distance.  Wait, somebody’s knocking on my door.  They’re wearing white coats.  See you next time.  What am I saying?  Time?  What is this ‘time’?  I’m getting confused again.  Up is down and down is up.  Do you think they’ll give me a padded cell this time?

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U.S. Household Incomes Increased More in 2018 Than in the Previous 20 Years—Combined

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Why did U.S. incomes suddenly explode in 2018 after decades of tepid growth? The answer is not difficult to find.

For years, a school of economists has complained that US wages have been virtually stagnant for decades.

“Jobs are coming back, but pay isn’t. The median wage is still below where it was before the Great Recession,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich said in 2015. “Last month, average pay actually fell.”

In fact, it’s not hard to find data showing that wages have barely increased since the 1970s, a figure many have used to stoke classy envy.

The truth is, there have always been problems with the claim that real wages (adjusted for inflation) have been stagnant for years. As economist Don Boudreaux has pointed out (see below), Reich and others overlook several important factors—including how inflation is calculated, compensation outside of wages such as healthcare, and the distinction between individuals and statistics.

The stagnant wage narrative was always mostly wrong. Federal Reserve data (which uses a chain-weighted price index) shows US hourly earnings have seen impressive growth in recent years.

Nevertheless, if one does choose to use Bureau of Labor Statistics data to measure family incomes over the last two decades, the picture is indeed a bit bleaker—at least it was.

Government statistics, which use the Consumer Price Index to measure inflation, show that from 2002 through 2015 median weekly earnings didn’t budge at all, but surged between 2018 and 2020.

I’m not the first person to notice this stunning wage growth. Writing in Bloomberg, economist Karl W. Smith describes the growth in income using a slightly different metric, real median household income.

“In 2016, real median household income was $62,898, just $257 above its level in 1999,” writes Smith. “Over the next three years it grew almost $6,000, to $68,703.”

Indeed, median household incomes increased from $64,300 to $68,700 in 2018 alone—an increase of $4,400. To put it another way, US incomes increased more in 2018 than the previous 20 years combined. (Household incomes were $61,100 in 1998 and $64,300 at the end of 2017.)

The question, of course, is why did US incomes suddenly explode after decades of tepid growth? The answer is not difficult to find.

The year 2017 saw massive deregulation and passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Estimates placed the deregulation savings at $2 trillion. But what was likely even a bigger factor was the cut businesses saw in corporate taxes.

Prior to 2017, the US had the highest corporate tax in the developed world (if not the whole world). With a top bracket of 35 percent, its corporate tax rate was higher than Communist China and socialist Venezuela.

This was a terrible policy on a number of levels. For starters, the revenue-maximizing rate of a corporate tax is 15-25 percent, which means anything above that isn’t even generating more revenue, it’s simply punitive and economically harmful. (Evidence bears this out. The United Kingdom, for example, reduced its corporate tax rate and saw revenues grow.)

Second, high corporate taxes actually hurt workers more than “Big Business.” Tax experts point out that roughly 70 percent of what businesses earn in profits gets paid to workers in the form of wages and other benefits. So it’s no surprise to see that studies show that workers bear between 50 and 100 percent of the brunt of corporate income taxes.

But the reverse is also true: cutting corporate taxes leaves companies more capital to grow and invest.

“Lower corporate taxes increase rewards for improving techniques, technology, and increasing capital investments, which increase worker productivity and earnings,” writes economist Gary Galles. “They expand rewards for risk-taking and entrepreneurship in service of consumers. They reduce the substantial distortions caused by the tax. And those changes benefit others, such as workers and consumers.”

So in 2017, when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law, companies saw their tax rate fall from 35 percent to 21 percent. Just that fast, businesses suddenly had more capital to spend to grow their business, improve productivity, and hire more workers—and few things attract workers more than higher wages.

Media scoffed at the possibility that corporate tax cuts would actually result in wage increases for US workers. But the data speaks for itself: Families saw incomes increase faster than at any time in generations.

Moreover, though median wages surged, showing the benefits were broad-based, every segment benefited from these wage gains.

“The lowest quintile increased their pay more than the upper quintile,” Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist recently pointed out in a conversation with FEE’s Brad Polumbo.

To be sure, reducing the corporate tax rate wasn’t the sole factor for the surge in wages, but it was likely by far the biggest.

The surge in family incomes no doubt helped soften the impact of the economic destruction the world suffered in 2020 during the recession precipitated by economic lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic.

Whether the wage gains continue may depend to some extent on the permanency of the corporate tax cut. Former Vice President Joe Biden, who appears poised to become the next US president, has signaled he’d restore the corporate tax to its 35 percent rate or raise it to 28 percent.

“Biden would make our business tax higher than China’s,” Norquist quipped. (He’s not wrong. China’s corporate tax rate stands at 25 percent.)

This appears unlikely to happen, however. Even if Biden’s claim was more than campaign rhetoric, it appears unlikely that he’ll have enough votes in the Senate to roll back the tax cuts.

Even more promising for US workers, Biden appears inclined to roll back Trump’s tariffs, which are basically taxes on Americans and imposed costs on businesses.

“When you put a tariff on steel, you make American cars not competitive anymore. You make everything made with steel less competitive,” Norquist observed. “We did a lot of damage to the American economy that way.”

If a Biden administration rolls back Trump’s tariffs while leaving the corporate tax rate in place, the US economy could build on the gains made prior to the arrival of the lockdowns.

That would be a winning formula for US workers, businesses, and the US economy.

COLUMN BY

Jon Miltimore

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Refuses to Acknowledge Economic Reality Because She Thinks It’s Mean

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Whether Psaki and Biden think that corporate tax hikes should lead to lower wages or high prices is utterly immaterial. They do. 

Ayn Rand famously quipped, “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s latest viral flub seems perfectly calibrated to confirm the late author’s wise words.

At a Monday press conference, Psaki was confronted by journalists citing data showing that House Democrats’ proposed tax increases would violate President Biden’s pledge not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000.

In particular, multiple studies have shown that the proposed increase in the corporate tax rate from 21 to 26.5 percent would lead to lower wages for workers and higher consumer prices. (A de facto tax increase for those earning less than $400,000 if not technically a direct one.) The press secretary responded to the journalist’s query by downplaying the potential pass-along costs and simply declaring them immoral.

“There are some… who argue that in the past, companies have passed on these costs to consumers,” Psaki said. “We feel that that’s unfair and absurd and the American people will not stand for that.”

That’s nice. But the laws of economics are unmoved by Psaki’s personal condemnation, and Americans who will bear the real brunt of the tax hike proposals certainly care more about what the practical impact will be than the White House’s moral musings.

Whether Psaki and Biden think that corporate tax hikes should lead to lower wages or high prices is utterly immaterial. They do.

Both a near-consensus of empirical research and basic economic theory confirm this reality. Indeed, a study by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation found that a previous Biden proposal to raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent—so, slightly higher than the 26.5 percent proposed now—would have shrunk the size of the economy, lowered wages, and eliminated 159,000 jobs. We can safely assume that similar dysfunction would accompany the latest proposal.

Of course, the destructive fallout of their proposed tax hikes is a politically inconvenient reality for the Biden administration. But that’s no excuse for denying or downplaying it. Jen Psaki’s empty moralizing and hand-waving cannot change the laws of economics. Nor will the press secretary’s words comfort workers who bear the brunt of bad policymaking.

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Brad Polumbo

Brad Polumbo (@Brad_Polumbo) is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education.

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BLM Leader Rips Race-Baiting de Blasio, Calls Vaccine Mandate ‘Racist’

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Could the Left’s authoritarian vaccine overreach herald the breakdown of its coalition? Chivona Newsome, who cofounded Black Lives Matter (BLM) Greater NY, gave an indication of this Sunday when she castigated New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for his citywide vaccine rules, which she said were “racist.” Kevin Downey Jr. asked Thursday: “Will Black People Save the Nation From Vax Passport Mandates?” If Newsome has her way, the answer will be yes.

As Kevin noted, BLM held a protest Wednesday at Carmine’s, where three black women recently attacked an Asian hostess who asked to see proof of their vaccination status. At that protest, Newsome said: “Seventy-two percent of black people in this city from ages 18 to 44 are unvaccinated. So what is going to stop the Gestapo, I mean the NYPD, from rounding up black people, from snatching them off the train, off the bus?”

Who indeed? In the statement she issued on Sunday, Newsome doubled down and hit de Blasio for his hypocrisy: “Although Mayor Bill De Blasio ran on progressives values, nothing in his tenure will attest to his campaign promises. The September 13th vaccine mandate is racist and specifically targets Black New Yorkers. The vaccination passports are modern day Freedom Papers, which limit the free will of Black people.”

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VIDEO: Biden’s Calculated Catastrophes

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The Left weaves its malicious destruction from every angle.

We interviewed Daniel Greenfield (Shillman Fellow, Freedom Center) on Biden’s catastrophes.

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Reclaiming 11 AZ Electors: One GOP Senator Blocking Election Integrity

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The breathtaking mis-reporting from the mainstream media on the Arizona election audit hides the fact that tens of thousands of votes (ballots) are questionable at best. At worst, they are fraudulent. The evidence is overwhelming that systemic corruption took place in the 2020 election. And the job in not done. The next step is reclaiming the 11 electors (decertifying the results), however, one state senator is standing in the way of the truth.

Graham Ledger speaks with Arizona state senator Sonny Borrelli about the options at this point and who that lone Republican senator is who stands against election integrity.

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MIKE PENCE: A History of Treachery and Betrayal

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“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for are the ones behind the trigger.” – Taylor Swift

“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honor.” – Benjamin Disraeli

It’s time to take a break from the totalitarian control of citizens via the plandemic and forced jabs.  On December 19, 2020, Mike Pence allegedly received the Moderna COVID-19 jab live on TV.  I have trouble believing any federal politician has actually received the jab because none of them have had adverse effects or died.  But on April 14th, Mike Pence underwent surgery for a pacemaker since his heartbeat had slowed.  In 2016, he had informed candidate Donald Trump that he had a heart diagnosis of an asymptomatic left bundle branch block.  One wonders if Pence actually received the inoculation or if the necessity of a pacemaker was coincidental.

Stalinists v. Trotskyites

Here’s the latest from the comrade in our White House…Joe Biden hates patriotic America so much that he fired Lee Greenwood from the National Council of the Arts.  Greenwood wrote God Bless the USA in 1984 and was appointed to the council by George W. Bush.

Why do I hear no outrage from the Republican Party?  Most folks have figured out that the neo-con Trotskyite republicans aren’t much better than the democrats.  Like Stalin and Lenin, Trotsky was a communist, but he wanted the “slow” acceptance of communism and only murdered three million whereas Stalin and Lenin used iron fists and boots to stomp on any rebellion.  Stalin’s death toll was over 20 million and Lenin claimed the lives of tens of millions of people all over Europe.

The comrades in the Democrat Party are Stalinists, those in the Republican Party are Trotskyites…little difference except for a handful of brave men and women who cling to the truth of our God given rights and the US Constitution.

Back in February of this year, I wrote three successive articles on former VP Mike Pence.  The first article exposed his lifelong congressional friends.  The second article was about his upbringing, his voting record from the time he entered politics, the people he chose for the Trump administration, and his failure of every job President Trump tasked him with, including the hellish nightmare of the Covid Task Force with Fauci and friends.  The third and final article in the series was about the people who funded Pence throughout his political career, big name people who still support him.

Koch Organizations

The Koch brothers have been long time friends and financial supporters of Michael Pence. Accordingly, VP Pence stacked his own office with former Koch brothers’ employees.  Even Kellyanne Conway was affiliated with the Kochs, and she and Pence have been good friends for years and even have family members who have intermarried.  In June of 2017, 16 of 23 senior white house officials had ties to the Koch brothers, including Reince Priebus, Jeff Sessions, Mick Mulvaney, Rob Porter and Don McGahn.  Even Treasury Secretary Mnuchin helped the Kochs out with a change in tax laws.  The Trump administration was packed full of Koch operatives, brought in by their water boy, Mike Pence. Here is a shocking list of the Trump transition team Koch beneficiaries.

The Koch organizations, including Americans for Prosperity, are anathema to Constitutional conservatism.  They prefer open borders with cheap labor, amnesty for illegals, across the board abortion, Agenda 21 sustainability and environmentalism and the financing of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) who has promoted an Article V Constitutional Convention for decades.

Dick and Betsy DeVos

Financial support from Dick and Betsy DeVos commenced when Pence first entered politics.  Betsy DeVos is known for her support for school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools.

Betsy and Dick DeVos were impressed by Pence’s support for their pet project of charter schools.  One wonders if Pence and DeVos back American tax-funded charters by Islamic Imam Fethullah Gulen, Rudolph Steiner’s Anthroposophical Waldorf Schools and Communist Chinese charter schools.  Chinese investors are putting millions into Florida Chinese charters.

Pence’s devoted financier, Betsy DeVos was nominated for Education Secretary after Michelle Rhee was dropped. DeVos donated to Bush’s unsuccessful presidential campaign and was lauded by Jeb Bush as she previously sat on the board of his Foundation of Excellence in Education which promoted common core. The two share an education reform policy that supports the transfer of public dollars to privately run schools, such as for-profit charter schools and voucher programs that use taxpayer funds to pay for private schools.

Columnist Diane Kepus researched Betsy DeVos and knew she would be a disaster; her two articles on DeVos are well worth your time, Link and Link, and her fears were well founded.

Mike Pence played an important role in the confirmation of DeVos for Education Secretary. Amid protests from Democratic critics and teachers’ unions that DeVos, a billionaire charter school supporter with no public-school experience, was unqualified for the position, the Senate deadlocked in a 50-50 tie. Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined their Democratic colleagues in voting against DeVos. Normally we wouldn’t laud their votes, but this time they were right.  On February 7, 2017, Vice President Pence cast the historic tie-breaking vote to confirm her, the first-time a vice president has been called on to break a tie in a cabinet nomination.

DeVos announced her resignation on January 8th, 2021 in the wake of the assault on the U.S. Capitol. She said in her resignation letter to President Trump there is “no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.”

On September 25th at a Republican Leadership conference in Mackinac Island, DeVos implicitly criticized the GOP’s ongoing capture by former President Donald Trump insinuating that Trump supporters were like a cult, when it’s Betsy and her ilk who are the real cultists.

Heritage Foundation

Mike Pence joined The Heritage Foundation as a distinguished visiting fellow in February 2021 after serving four years as President Trump’s VP.  They are old friends.  Three decades ago, it was The Heritage Foundation’s influence that inspired Pence to help create a think tank in his home state of Indiana. After coming to Washington as a congressman and later as vice president, Pence frequently collaborated with Heritage.

In 1991, Pence became president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation (IPRF), which is part of the State Policy Network in Indiana. Link  They are satellite affiliates of the Heritage Foundation whose goals and interests are similar to the Koch’s.  The IPRF was a small group back when Pence was their president, but in the years since, it has amassed an enormous budget thanks in great part to the largess of the Koch network of donors and others.

Pence now advises Heritage experts on public policy issues and ensures Heritage remains the leading conservative voice on solutions to America’s biggest challenges. Pence also writes a monthly column for The Daily Signal, Heritage’s multimedia news outlet.

Heritage is well-known controlled opposition.  They are funded by long time pro-aborts and Council on Foreign Relations members.  Heritage fellow Richard Allen (CFR member) wrote NAFTA, and Stuart M. Butler wrote a Heritage monograph mandating all households obtain adequate health insurance.

In early August of 2021, Pence spoke at Young America’s Foundation, an “associate” member of the State Policy Network, and was immediately booed when he told them to get the COVID jab, despite telling the audience that he and his wife Karen and their children had all had the inoculations.

Pence and the Leadership Institute

A few months ago, I received a 12-page letter from Mike Pence extolling the virtues of Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute and pressing me for a large donation.  I saved the 12-pages, and last week I received another letter from David Horowitz asking me to pledge funds to the same organization.  Mr. Horowitz is now promoting an Article V Constitutional Convention.

Morton Blackwell is a long-time member of the rightwing Council for National Policy (CNP), and back in the late 90s he was urging a chaplain friend of mine to join the CNP.  One Sunday, Blackwell took my friend to his Episcopal Church in DC, and the female preacher asked for prayer for her husband as he was an abortion doctor and was doing a particularly difficult abortion that morning.  The chaplain was horrified, got up and left, and refused to join the council.

The Leadership Institute is also an “associate” member of the State Policy Network.  Their past students include:

  • Mitch McConnell (who in 2020 had a Freedom Index score of 20, which means he voted against President Trump and the US Constitution 80% of the time. Don’t forget that he and his wife Elaine Chao are very connected to a Chinese shipping company through Chao’s father and sisters.
  • David McIntosh – head of pro-amnesty Club for Growthwho spent $2 million to defeat Donald Trump in Iowa in 2016.  McIntosh was also a co-founder of the Federalist Society.  Kellyanne Conway and her husband are members and they urged Trump to use the Federalist Society for a list of possible supreme court justices.  (Mike Pence urged Trump to also use the Heritage Foundation for possible justices.)
  • Grover Norquist – head of Americans for Tax Reform and board member of the National Rifle Association is also married to a Palestinian Islamist and has allegedly become one himself. Norquist has a strange alliance with radical Islam and introduced the Muslim Brotherhood to the George W. Bush White House. Frank Gaffney has fully exposed Norquist.
  • Ralph Reed – originally the head of Christian Coalition for Pat Robertson and mailed out voter guides where many true constitutional conservatives were lied about or ignored and neo-con RINOs and Trotskyites were promoted. Reed was also involved with Jack Abramoff who went to prison for the Native American Lobbying scandal.  According to Abramoff’s book, Capitol Punishment, Reed made at least $5 million and should have gone to prison with Jack.  Abramoff also promotes his friend Grover Norquist in his final chapters.
  • Mark Souder – Congressman from Ft. Wayne, Indiana who promised to serve only six terms, but ran for a seventh and resigned when he was exposed for having an affair with a married part-time staffer.

Mike Pence’s good friend, Nikki Haley also endorses and promotes the Leadership Institute.  Many people believe Nikki would make a fine President or Vice President, because she did what her boss, President Trump, asked her to do at the UN.  One of Trump’s business friends in South Carolina called him in early 2017 and asked him to give Haley a position in his administration.  He told Trump that their Lt. Governor was far more conservative and South Carolina needed to be rid of Haley.  After January 6th, 2021, Nikki Haley excoriated her former boss by saying, “We shouldn’t have followed him.”

The old saying, “Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than open it and have it known,” describes Haley to a T.

Advancing American Freedom

Mike Pence joined the advisory board of Advancing American Freedom with several former Trump hands, including his close friend, Kellyanne Conway, Larry Kudlow and David Bernhardt.

The advisory board includes a number of heretical doctrine “Christians” who are confirmed dominionists, several neo-con Trotskyites, and even members of the Council on Foreign Relations.  My friend, JW Bryan has thoroughly exposed the CFR in his articles as a globalist enemy organization within America.  Pence’s old Indiana buddy, David McIntosh is also on the board as are several people who are promoting an Article V Constitutional Convention.

John Guandolo Exposes Pence

In this video starting at 5:10, John Guandolo exposes VP Mike Pence and his actions during his four years as Donald Trump’s VP.

He states that when Pence was Governor of Indiana and John’s organization, Understanding the Threat, was doing work in Indiana, “Pence had no desire to hear or deal with the truth about jihadi threats in Indiana.  The Islamic site of North America’s headquarters is there in Plainfield, Indiana, and Indiana is one of the three states where the Muslim Brotherhood settled in the United States in the early 60s, and he did nothing. Even though we were working with state legislators, who got it, we couldn’t get him to budge, but that’s a different story.”

John states, “On January 5th, there was a massive meeting in the Trump Hotel in Washington DC with every major player, ten US Senators, their staffs, all the key players in the entire voter fraud game.  The president’s staff and the VP had people there and people who I know directly. I have looked at their briefs and looked at the information and been briefed about what was apprised there regarding the evidence of the fraud and it’s undeniable.  It’s factually rock solid.  Mr. Pence agreed that he would go with what the decision was.  He was going to do a number of things, but essentially, for the sake of this discussion, he pushed it back to the states.  There were some other things he agreed to do, investigative stuff, and before the clock struck midnight on the 5th, he recanted and told the president, I’m not going to do it.  We know that somebody met with Mr. Pence and we still haven’t identified who it was who got him to turn, but I think Mike Pence is a turd and I think he’s a traitor.”

“He was the guy in the Trump administration who was leading the Republican establishment turncoats and there’s more evidence than just what I’m saying right now.  Just that one point should be enough to make people realize that guy is not batting for the American people in any way, shape or form.”

The interviewing host is absolutely right when she said that Donald Trump supporters have been labeled domestic terrorists.  “The Revolutionary Movement against the Constitutional Republic all said that the people at the capitol on January 6th were involved in a coup and were insurrectionists, when in fact they were the people the Dems supported for the previous year…the Antifa and BLM communist agitators on the streets of America. They openly supported them and everything that supports that ideology.”

“Mr. Trump’s greatest failure was to rely on the RNC to fill his administration and they filled it, not with Phil Haney, not with Stephen Coughlin, not with Rich Higgins (fired by McMaster), not with people who actually knew the threat.  They intentionally blocked those people.  John Gallagher, one of the two people vetting national security positions, was the CEO of the Institute for Global Engagement, a Muslim Brotherhood political think tank front in Washington DC.  He was the guy the RNC put in there to screen national security positions.  That’s why you got only bad guys in the administration.”

Pence in 2024

Pence and his wife Karen have always wanted the presidency, but what he doesn’t understand is the fact that he followed the advice of his good friends from Congress, Paul Ryan and Jeff Flake, rather than standing with the man who gave him the chance to one day lead the country.  Pence is our 21st Century Benedict Arnold…he stabbed the president in the back and the Republic in the heart.

He’s working on an $18 million war chest.  His group, Advancing American Freedom, is shaping up as a vehicle for testing the waters and building the infrastructure needed for a White House bid.  The group is staffed by some of Pence’s top allies and ex-aides, including former Koch employee and Pence chief of staff Marc Short, political adviser Marty Obst and former senior Trump White House staffer Paul Teller.

Pence is touring states and lecturing on election integrity after previously refusing to address it.  Unlike James Comey who is a guest lecturer at Howard University, the same university exposed in Manning Johnson’s book, Color, Communism and Common Sense, as being loaded with communists, Pence is lecturing on something he knows nothing about.  Not surprisingly, Federal Judge Emmett Sullivan who was in charge of General Michael Flynn’s case and would not dismiss it, received his undergraduate degree and JD from that very university.

Pence has become persona non grata amongst Trump supporters; someone needs to tell him his political career is over and lock both him and his frumpy control-freak wife in a closet.  I’d go further, but this is for public fare.  When Pence allowed the certification of Biden as the winner under very shady circumstances and then elbow bumped with Pelosi, we saw it all.

Pence admits that he is proud Biden was certified on January 6th, but there are over eighty million Americans who know the truth.

Conclusion

Few people know that America’s Front-Line Doctors headed by Dr. Simone Gold who is also an attorney, went to VP Pence in July of 2020 and told him that if President Trump made Hydroxychloroquine and over-the-counter drug as it is in so many other countries, that lives would be saved as well as the President’s second term.

She told Pence, “Once it’s Over-the-Counter, there’s nothing Congress can do, there’s nothing the doctors and pharmacists can do to stop it…They were going to hold this coronavirus thing over him [Trump], so if the death rates went down to zero, it would have been beautiful.”

She said she met obstruction at every turn.

Mike Pence truly is a modern-day Judas.

©Kelleigh Nelson. All rights reserved.

Has the time come to regulate social media?

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The brilliant Nicholas Carr has proposed a Digital Communications Act.

Nicholas Carr is a writer whose book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, published in 2010, gained considerable attention by pointing out how new technologies have affected our basic thought processes, and not always in a good way.

In the fall 2021 issue of The New Atlantis journal, he proposes a legislative initiative he calls the Digital Communications Act that would, if adopted, go far toward alleviating some of the worst harms that social media currently cause. But to understand the thrust of his proposals, a little historical background is in order.

Electronic media basically do two different kinds of things: personal communication and broadcasting. Until the internet came along, these two different activities were done by more or less completely different kinds of technology. The telegraph and telephone are classic examples of the first kind: personal communication, one person to another. As regulations evolved in the 20th Century to deal with issues of privacy arising from the fact that telegraph and telephone operators could eavesdrop on personal communications through their systems, legislatures and courts came up with what is called a “common-carrier” doctrine.

Borrowed from the transportation field, the concept of a common carrier is that some industries do things that are so vital to the public good that they need to be regulated in order to enforce goods such as fairness and privacy.

The first quasi-independent federal agency of any magnitude, the Interstate Commerce Commission, was established to enforce common-carrier rules on railroads, which had previously engaged in discriminatory and predatory pricing to exploit farmers who had no other way to sell their crops in wider markets than local ones.

When Western Union and the Bell System came along, the federal government applied common-carrier rules to them. The tariffs, as they were called, could get quite complicated, but the overarching principle was simple: treat all communications as private and treat all (or most) customers the same.

Broadcasting, on the other hand, had to be treated differently once people figured out that one person in a studio could potentially talk to millions of others nationwide. The Federal Radio Commission of 1927, predecessor to the current Federal Communications Commission (FCC), came up with a phrase that described how broadcasters must treat the privilege, granted by an FCC license, of addressing thousands or millions at once: “the public interest, convenience, or necessity,” sometimes abbreviated PICON.

Over the decades, PICON has dictated how broadcasters must behave in order to retain their broadcasting privileges. As the nature of the public changes continually, PICON standards change as well. From the 1940s through the 1980s, the FCC imposed what was called the “fairness doctrine,” which required broadcasters to give equal time to opposing sides in a political contest, for example. After the FCC abandoned the doctrine in 1987, religious and partisan political broadcasting flourished, but the net benefit to the public is debatable, to say the least.

When the internet came along, it put all these nice separate types of communication in a super-speed blender and mixed them all together. From the same computer, I can email one friend, or if I’m a super-influencer, I can send the same image of my latest clothing style to ten million people. But the two categories—personal communication and broadcasting—still apply, and it’s not that hard to separate them by either intent or by statistical means.

As Carr puts it, “An Instagrammer [or an engineering ethics blogger] with a hundred followers can be assumed to be engaged in conversation; an Instagrammer with a hundred thousand followers is a broadcaster.” Carr says—and I agree with him—that the psychological or humanistic categories of personal communication and broadcasting are still useful and should be used to discriminate between two types of regulation that his proposed Digital Communications Act would apply to social media and internet service providers.

For personal communications, ranging from emails, to Facebook posts to a few friends, to search-engine inquiries, the Act would require companies to respect one’s privacy. No more searching for snow shovels online and getting buried in emails and pop-ups for snow shovels, dirt shovels, and snow cones. No more talking about driving to a fast-food outlet and having your phone overhear your conversation and throw ads at you for that chain, or a rival one. We’ve almost gotten used to it, but I know people who have gotten used to living with cancer. That doesn’t mean it’s a good thing to have cancer.

For broadcasting, which means anything anybody does that reaches more than a certain threshold number of people, something like the old PICON doctrine needs to be imposed. Carr is perhaps intentionally vague on what a 2021-era version of the fairness doctrine would look like. Much of the really harmful stuff that runs around the internet is spontaneous, as “going viral” is not something one particular person can infallibly bring about. But the process itself is easily monitored and encouraged by the social media companies, as things like that are their bread and butter. And it wouldn’t be hard to set up rules or software to regulate the process—technically, I mean.

Politically, it’s another can of worms altogether. In what could qualify as the understatement of the year, Carr says his proposed Act “would be complicated and controversial. It would be resisted by many powerful private interests.”

Yes, only Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, well, you know the list. It would be opposed mainly because it would cut off one of their main revenue streams, which is advertising targeted by means of snooping into your private communications, and that would be barred under the Act. A snowball has an excellent chance inside Mt. Vesuvius compared to this bill, at least under present circumstances.

But times and circumstances change, and maybe some day an outrage may occur that is so universally deplored that the political will of the country will favour such a move. As Carr points out, it was the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 that catalyzed international regulation of the radio waves, because interfering stations made it hard to conduct rescue operations by radio. We have had numerous political disasters that social media have played a part in, but nobody has been killed yet, at least not directly.

Anyway, I think Carr has done us all a great service in basing his argument for a Digital Communications Act on a sound historical footing, and now all we need to do is enact it. Stay tuned, so to speak.

Sources: Nicholas Carr’s article “How to Fix Social Media” appeared on pp. 3-20 of the Fall 2021 issue of The New Atlantis.

This article has been republished from the Engineering Ethics blog.

COLUMN BY

Karl D. Stephan

Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977… More by Karl D. Stephan

EDITORS NOTE: This MercatorNet column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

TAKE ACTION: Stop Federal Mask, Vaccine Mandates for Transportation!

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Foreword: This blog continues in showing you things we can do. Looking to the positive rather than the negative. Something we can all do to try stop the continuing madness that is the Biden Administration and their extremist agenda. There are a lot of links off the post below. All are important. As always read and share BUT act on it.

Alert Summary:

Members of Congress are seeking to end the Biden administration’s lawless mask mandate for all public transportation, and prevent the implementation of a vaccine mandate.

URGENT: It’s only a matter of time before a vaccination requirement is imposed for domestic air, train, and bus travel. Anthony Fauci and United Airlines’ CEO, among others, have already voiced support for such a mandate. Tell your U.S. representative and senators, along with the TSA and CDC directors, to end this tyranny now!

Members of Congress are seeking to end the Biden administration’s lawless mask mandate for all public transportation, and prevent the implementation of a vaccine mandate.

The draconian and unconstitutional mandate began on January 21, 2021, when Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring individuals to wear face masks on public transportation. This followed another order mandating masks on all federal property.

The CDC wasted no time implementing the order, mandating on January 29 that face masks would be forced on individuals in “airplanes, ships, trains, subways, buses, taxis, and ride-shares and at transportation hubs like airports, bus or ferry terminals, train and subway stations and seaports.” There are very few exceptions to this order.

The full force of the federal government is behind enforcing this order, except when Deep State government officials choose to violate it. Additionally, the CDC and TSA have modified and extended their mask orders multiple times, while other agencies have played minor roles in enforcement.

Not only is the Leftist-controlled federal government determined to keep its mask mandates in place, but it’s considering increasingly-tyrannical mandates.

For example, the Biden administration is considering mandating the vaccine for individuals traveling from one state to another. Furthermore, Canada has mandated forced vaccinations for everyone traveling in a plane, train, or cruise ship — the U.S. and other countries are likely to emulate such an order. In an interview on September 10, Anthony Fauci voiced his supportfor a vaccine requirement for air travel, and United Airlines’ CEO also announced his support for such a mandate.

Already, Representative Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) has introduced H.R.4980, which would require everybody traveling on a plane to be vaccinated. It is imperative that patriots defeat this bill, any other related bills, and ensure that this tyranny isn’t mandated by executive fiat.

Although the federal mask mandates have no constitutional or legal basis, some congressmen are taking action. For example, six senators and 16 representatives have introduced the Travel Mask Mandate Repeal Act of 2021, or H.R. 4441 and S. 2337. Additionally, four senators and representatives each have introduced the SMART Act, or H.R. 4041 and S. 2084, which would also void the CDC’s mask orders.

Tell your U.S. representative and senators to support these four bills (H.R. 4441, S. 2337, H.R. 4041, and S. 2084) in order to end the federal government’s lawless mask mandates, and tell them to oppose all legislation imposing vaccine mandates. Furthermore, put pressure on the CDC, TSA, and other bureaucratic agencies.

Last, but not least, follow Senator Rand Paul’s advice and “simply say no” to the various mandates and other restrictions imposed by all levels of government.

This is a perilous time for our country, and it is imperative that patriots take bold, smart, and effective action to prevent a total Marxist/collectivist takeover.

Although we provide a way to easily email legislators (blue box), we know from long experience that it takes a lot more interaction with your legislators to get your point across than that provided by emails alone.

That’s why we provide an easy way not only to email them, but to contact them by phone, tweet, and even video message them.

©Fred Brownbill. All rights reserved.

Impassioned Words From A Patriot.

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Today I read something my good friend Adam wrote. It struck a cord and I needed to share it with you all. Let me tell you a little about my friend and brother Adam.

Adam is blind. He is a true patriot. He is a musician- self taught – with an incredible voice. He is a religious man. A married man. A family man. A man who does not need a lot. A highly intelligent man. A moral and ethical man. He is the sort of American that used to be in the majority in this constitutional republic. Not radically right. Not left. A centrist. The sort whose politics made up the bulk of this country.

Please read his great addition to this blog and share it far and wide. His words are 100% correct. They are heart felt and genuine. Thank you Adam and Christie for your love and friendship and yes, support. You are always there when we need advice or just someone to vent to. You are both family.

Here are his words…….

Is it too late?

I wrote the following last night and went back-and-forth about posting it. Though it is only some personal thoughts I figured it might be helpful to anyone else sailing these same rough waters to know that you are not alone in this storm.

It seems to me that this world has become all too cynical, all to reactional and altogether judgmental and not in a positive manner. It seems that everyone assumes that any differing opinion isn’t just wrong but maliciously so, evil at its core. Granted if I am honest I have fallen into this trap of close minded arrogance a time or two and though I do believe that at its core man’s nature is self-serving and malevolent, I also believe that we should always give the benefit of the doubt until we know the true nature of what and why others believe and feel the way that they do. There are a lot of miss-guided and misinformed people both out of willful ignorance and purposeful deception, but even in this we must be careful not to just assume the worst at first glance.

Don’t get me wrong, anger and outrage are necessary when done in all sincere righteousness but this must always be calculated and not simply done off the cuff. I think as I look around at what is going on in our nation I see that the truly sad part is that such a small percentage of fanatical retards are directing the narrative and creating the divisiveness that has so infected our society. Ultimately I am just tired. I am tired of the constant wearing and tearing away of our values. I am not suggesting that my values are any better than anyone else’s, but I am saying that they are just as valid as anyone else’s. I am tired of the hatred, I am tired of the vitriol, I am just tired. I am tired of being played. I am tired of the media, of the social networks, of the government using us as pawns in there games of division where their only goal is money and power and control.

In a nation so rich, so far advanced from where we have come from and where quite frankly any other society has ever been, this all seems just so ridiculously impossible, and yet we find ourselves exactly where we are. Maybe I am just a sentimental fool, or maybe it’s just the rum talking, but let me tell you what, if we don’t make some very hard decisions in the very near future we are screwed!

We can react to hatred with hatred, but I think history shows us exactly where that leads. We can react to the hatred with turning the other cheek, but I am not sure that leads us in any better direction. So what is the answer? Hell if I know, but I know if we don’t figure it out soon there won’t be anything left to figure out! What the hell happened to the society of the 80s and 90s, where did the rational thinking of my generation end? I really don’t know and as I sit here in my own personal darkness, every day brings me closer and closer to really not caring anymore. Is there an answer? I am sure that those with superior education and understanding may think so, but down here for all of us simple and common folks it just seems like the weight of this nonsense is too heavy to bear, that collapse is inevitable.

Agree or disagree, like it or not this experiment that is America is failing and falling and if we don’t wake up and figure it out in the near future there will be nothing left to figure out. You can wave flags, you can rock the vote but the bottom line is that if we can’t come together as a people and put these governmental pariahs in their proper places we are destined to fail just as every other society who has come before us and every society who will come after us has and will.

Now is the time and this is the place!

If you really believe in this American experiment, if you truly believe that this constitutional republic is the only hope for this world then we better start coming together because that is the only way it works! Disagreement should bring conversation not hatred! Diversity should bring understanding and resolution not division! If our leaders can’t bring us to that then we need new leaders and if you can’t come to that then you need to reevaluate yourself, your position and your character!

Freedom was never meant to be free or easy and though every effort has been made to turn us against each other, every effort has been made to dumb us down, every effort has been made to stress us out and take away our will, now more than ever we need to grab our bootstraps and man up!

We are worth fighting for, our children are worth fighting for, our way of life is worth fighting for, America is worth fighting for but that cliff of no return is fast approaching and the powers that be see their envisioned “promised land” of total power and control and are pushing us ever faster and closer toward it.

Is it too late?

I don’t know and maybe only history will show us, if that history is even allowed to be spoken of in the future that we are speeding to??? I am so glad that my grandparents aren’t around to see this and that my parents won’t have to live through the worst of it. I fear for the younger generations who will have to live through it and may never know what we destroyed and what they missed…

In the short term I think we must start by building strong communities. We must circle the wagons not to keep others out but in order to support and protect each other. We must start relying on and caring for each other because Lord knows there is coming a day when each other will be all that we have. Our government has done all in their power to break down the family and break down the community because they know all too well that with family and community comes independence and true freedom. The government has done everything in their power to take away our self-reliance, to build absolute dependency on them and the system that they have created, no, that we have allowed them to create. Hell, in all honesty that we have demanded they create.

We need to start doing with less and doing without. We need to start making difficult choices not to shop at these industrial giants that turn around and use our money against us. We need to realize that we are going to have to spend more and get less, but in the end it will bring us so much more! We need to support the local small businesses even if that means we don’t get the brands that we like or the products that we have grown to love. We need to get back to the basics of self-preservation and independent living.

When was America great?

When we were self-reliant, when we didn’t need or demand that the government feed us, clothe us, employ us, educate us… America was great when WE the people were great, when we cared about ourselves and each other.

We had better get back to the basics of living and being able to provide for ourselves. Growing our own food, making our own clothes, bartering within our community for services and goods. We had better get back to the simplicity of life and appreciating every little thing instead of expecting the latest and greatest and comparing ourselves to everyone else. We need to get back to the simplicity of entertaining ourselves. Of finding the pleasure in sitting on the pourch, family meals, community BBQ’s. Of reading and writing and music. Not just consuming it but producing it. Not just expecting it but teaching it and valuing it. Something far worse than where we are is right around the corner, and when it drops it will drop fast and hard. We had better start coming together, preparing ourselves and our communities for the demanding times that are literally right over the horizon.

©Fred Brownbill. All rights reserved.

Ron DeSantis Presents Felix Rodriguez Governor’s Medal of Freedom

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Governor Ron DeSantis awarded the Governor’s Medal of Freedom to Felix Rodriguez. Mr. Rodriguez is only the second recipient of the highest honor in the state.

Throughout his life, Felix Rodriguez has fought for freedom and liberation. He was born in Cuba in 1941, but after his family’s possessions were seized by Fidel Castro’s tyrannical government, he dedicated his life to fighting for freedom and liberty.

Felix joined the famous Brigade 2506, which carried out the Bay of Pigs invasion, worked with CIA, and participated in the capture and execution of Marxist leader Che Guevara. Not only that, but after becoming a U.S. citizen he joined the United States Army during the Vietnam War.

Felix’s firsthand knowledge of the pain and suffering caused by oppressive Communist dictatorships is reflected in his dedication to service. We know the horrors caused by these oppressive regimes and it takes men like Felix to remind us how important it is we rebuff those attempting to plunge us into those dangerous policies and systems here in America.

There is nobody who has demonstrated a greater commitment to liberating those most oppressed. As Democrats embrace Socialist policies like a warm hug, we should remember sacrifices those like Felix Rodriguez have made to eradicate that tyrannical ideology and continue to fight back in preservation of freedom here in America.

Thanks to Felix Rodriguez, countless individuals were able to experience the blessings of freedom, and Governor DeSantis was proud to recognize his heroism with the Governor’s Medal of Freedom.

©Friends of Ron DeSantis. All rights reserved.

Why does Joe Biden consistently attack U.S. friends and befriend U.S. enemies?

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Last week, Greece announced it would be sending US-made Patriot anti-missile batteries and soldiers to man them to Saudi Arabia, to replace US-manned Patriots the Biden administration withdrew in April.

It was a momentous development in the rapidly changing geopolitical environment of the Middle East, and received zero coverage in the corporate media in the United States. When Greece steps up to fill the vacuum left by a US pullout, it gives you a measure of just how far the United States has retreated from the world stage over the past nine months.

This is not the Greece of Alexander the Great, but today’s Greece. Nearly bankrupt just a few years ago, Greece has now replaced the United States as defender of the world’s largest oil producer. Ouch.

Team Biden has been upset with Saudi Arabia from day one. In February, they admonished the Saudis for their war against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen and cut off pending US arms deliveries to the Kingdom. They also snubbed Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman for his involvement in the grisly murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi, a Qatari-aligned Saudi dissident.

While the crown prince is certainly no angel, Biden’s decision to outwardly alienate the Saudis has real-world implications. With the US turnover of Afghanistan to the Taliban, another Qatar-ally, a pattern is beginning to emerge: This administration foolishly prefers Sunni Muslim jihadis and Iranian mullahs building nuclear weapons over traditional allies of the United States who oppose a nuclear-armed Iran.

The dismissal of these allies could also be seen in the way Washington simply ignored the first anniversary of the groundbreaking Abraham Accords negotiated by the Trump administration and the governments of Israel, the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco last year.

Presented to the public with pomp and ceremony by then-President Donald Trump at the White House on Sept. 15, 2020, no one in DC seemed to recall them just one year later.

The only official ceremony attended by a Biden administration representative was held at the United Nations in New York among UN ambassadors.

While US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield muttered praise for the agreement, she “purposefully abstained” from using the term “Abraham Accords,” according to the Times of Israel, and quickly turned to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was precisely the lack of progress in those talks — stalled for years because of Palestinian refusal to accept the Jewish state, curb terrorism and anti-Semitic teachings in government schools — that led Trump aide Jared Kushner to look further afield to widen the circle of peace.

Already in 2018, UAE leader Mohammad bin Zayed was telling American author and evangelical leader Joel Rosenberg that he wanted to “be the next” to make peace with the Jewish State.

In just one year, trade between Israel and the UAE has skyrocketed, climbing from $51 million for the first seven months of 2020, before the accords, to nearly $614 million during the same period this year. And even though Saudi Arabia did not join the agreement, the Kingdom allowed Israeli and Emirati commercial jets to fly over its territory within weeks of it being signed.

These are not mere coincidences, but part of a geopolitical worldview held by Team Biden that subordinates the security of the United States and our allies to self-avowed enemies such as the Islamic Republic of Iran and the newly reborn Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

To its credit, the Biden White House — so far, at least — has not criticized Greece for helping Saudi Arabia defend itself from the Iranian missiles hitting its capitol. Perhaps National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is still trying to figure out how a tiny party island like Mykonos acquired Patriot missiles.

©Kenneth R. Timmerman. All rights reserved.

Michelle Malkin: Same Players, New Wave of Invaders

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In case you missed it, and you might have because corporate media and even some Republicans have been working hard to silence the indomitable Michelle Malkin, here is her analysis of the sudden Haitian invasion of our wide open southern border.

At the Santa Barbara News-Press:

The manufactured border crisis

In nearly 30 years of covering America’s corrupted immigration and entrance policies, I can tell you definitively that every “border crisis” is a manufactured crisis.

Caravans of Latin American illegal immigrants don’t just form out of nowhere. Throngs of Middle Eastern refugees don’t just amass spontaneously. Boatloads of Haitians don’t just wash up on our shores by random circumstance.

All the world’s a stage, and as I exposed in my most recent book, “Open Borders, Inc.,” the world’s migrants are nothing more than expedient tools to globalist elites, profit-maximizing corporations, self-aggrandizing religious and nonprofit groups, and criminal smuggling syndicates.

That’s how the so-called border crises under former Presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all played out.

The players are always the same: United Nations operatives, U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyists, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its sovereignty-undermining shelter operators around the world, Jewish and evangelical Christian refugee resettlement contractors, international drug cartels, human traffickers, and their militant multicultural abettors.

It’s the same old, same old under President Joe Biden.

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ELECTRIC! President Trump Thunders Into Georgia, Tens of Thousands Cheer ‘Glorious Victory in 2024’ [WATCH]

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The massive crowd was on fire — Trump is our lightening rod for justice. Save America Rally: Trump Invites Marine Who Saved Afghan Baby on Stage…

President Trump slams Biden over border crisis and botched Afghanistan withdrawal

“One thing is certain: This would never ever be happening if I were president,” Trump said of the Biden administration’s border crisis.

By: Mia Cathell, Post Millenial, September 26, 2021:

Trump speaks at massive Georgia rally, slams Biden over border crisis and botched Afghanistan withdrawal

Chants of “build that wall” erupted at the rally after Trump called the Biden administration’s ongoing border crisis “an invasion.”

At Georgia rally, former President Trump promises ‘glorious victory in 2024’

The rally comes one day after the Arizona election audit.

Just The News, September 25, 2021 :

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday promised a “glorious victory in 2024,” a vow that comes amid ongoing signals from the Republican former president that he fully intends to run in the next presidential election.

Trump this week revealed that only a “bad call from a doctor” would derail his 2024 ambitions. At a rally in Perry, Ga., on Saturday, he offered further strong implications that he would be running that year.

“If we have a country left in 2024, that’s the problem,” he said to the raucous crowd.

“What they’re doing at this level, you’re not going to have a country left,” he argued further, criticizing the Biden administration for its handling of domestic and international affairs, including the ongoing crisis at the U.S. southern border.

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