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1/19/22 - The League for Islamic-American Relations (LIAR) - Part 1
CAIR - the Council on American-Islamic Relations - holds itself out as a civil rights organization, but it is actually Hamas in America and was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing case. False narratives are CAIR’s stock in trade.
I’m about to be critical of CAIR - very critical. But, before you dismiss everything I say as ‘Islamophobic’, you should know CAIR itself says, "It is not appropriate to label all, or even the majority of those, who question Islam and Muslims as Islamophobes." (CAIR Report 2013, Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States, p. ix).
False narrative number one is found in a CAIR op-ed from last August - ‘jihad’ does not mean holy war. “It refers instead to a general striving towards the good,” CAIR claims or, as it is often put, ‘jihad is just a spiritual struggle’. Which is ridiculous, like the time a Muslim FBI employee told an official gathering in Detroit, ‘jihad is a struggle against eating too much cheesecake.’ Tell it to the families of the 9/11 victims. CAIR knows it is being disingenuous. It distributes an approved translation of the Quran for America which contains footnotes referring to taking prisoners and holding women as captives in jihad as holy war. Moreover, CAIR does not deal with or even mention in its op-ed the many passages in the Quran calling for holy war. Here are just three:
The second false narrative in CAIR’s op-ed holds that ‘sharia’ or Islamic law is just about praying to Allah, being honest, and giving charity to the poor. Here again, CAIR does not mention the passages in the Quran calling for sharia supremacy, that is world domination and the forced conversion of all humankind to Islam. Here are three passages from standard Islamic doctrine documenting that Islam is all about sharia supremacy:
That’s it for today. I’ll pick up with this tomorrow.
1/18/22 - How to Build Artificial Islands in the China Swamp
A book due out January 25th gives new details about how communist China has corrupted American elites. The author is Peter Shweizer who has made a name for himself exposing the corruption of the Clintons, the Biden family, and Congress critters. His new book, Red-Handed, is subtitled “How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win”. The book reveals “the secret deals wealthy Americans have cut to help China build its military, technological, and economic might.... [M]any of these elites quietly believe the Chinese dictatorial regime is superior to American democracy.” Schweizer calls this the scariest investigation he has ever undertaken.
But you don’t have to wait for the book to get a good idea of what our corrupt elites have been up to with China, lately. A quick trip through recent news gives you that:
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the $10 million civil servant, has investments in China, including a pharmaceutical company. Fauci has ties to EcoHealth Alliance which was funded by NIH to work with the Chinese military on gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The connections between the U.S. government - specifically NIH and its National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases run by Fauci - and China’s biological weapons program are all out in the open now. No lab leak here, no sirree.
I previously reported to you how John Kerry, who can’t be bothered about China’s human rights abuses because he’s just the “climate guy”, also has investments in China, big ones. In December, Kerry objected to the Uighur anti-slavery bill moving through Congress because it would upset China. Or was it because it would upset his investment portfolio?
Two members of the House January 6th Committee have sizeable investments in China. Elaine Luria has six figures invested in a Chinese company with ties to China’s military, a company our State Department calls a “tool” of the Chinese Communist Party. The company develops surveillance technology for social control. The husband of Stephanie Murphy manufactures in China. Foreign companies in China must wear a ‘red hat’, that is, establish units to carry out the wishes of the Chinese Communist Party. Yet we are supposed to believe Murphy’s tough talk on China.
There’s more, including lots on Hunter Biden, but I’ll save it for another day. Let me end with a story that’s in the news today. The co-owner of an NBA team, a million-dollar Democrat donor, was widely criticized for saying ‘nobody cares about the Uighurs.’ The NBA does substantial business in China, which the U.S. has accused of genocide of the Uighurs.
If you think China’s dictatorial communist system is superior to ours, we’ll start that conversation with the 35 to 60 million people who starved to death in the deliberately engineered famine of China’s Great Leap Forward, the protesters who were reduced to pulp when the tanks rolled over them in Tiananmen Square, the rape of Tibet, and the genocide of the Uighurs. Then we’ll see how much of your case is left.
Enjoy the Olympics.
1/17/22 - Unhinged Leftists: Now, That’s Entertainment!
It’s hard to keep up with all the crazytalk gushing out of the Left these days, but I’ll try my best.
A leftist writer said parenthood should be abolished, raising your own kids should be illegal, and kids should swapped with those of homeless neighbors to achieve “true equity”. That’s very far down the rabbit hole.
An eco-warrior threatened to blow up pipelines because, in his view, political leaders aren’t acting fast enough on climate change.
Squad member Ayanna Pressley said student debt is “policy violence”. Violence? That’s crazytalk. But, then, the Democrats are given to crazytalk. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said Republicans are “dangerous”, “chaotic”, “reckless”, “divisive”, “cynical”, and “a threat to public health”. Did I mention “dangerous”? This, from the people who brought you the KKK and Antifa. Who’s “dangerous”, again?
An opinion piece in the New York Times said people are better off dead than adopted. Dave Thomas, the creator of Wendy’s who was adopted, would have been surprised to hear that.
A teacher’s union official wrote unvaccinated people with religious exemptions deserve to die. And Republicans should kill them. Wow, I’m not even going to try to figure that one out.
Chicago’s Mayor said retailers deserve what they get because they haven’t done enough to protect themselves from looting. Didn’t they used to call that ‘blaming the victim’? AOC denied the existence of smash-and-grab robberies despite the fact they’ve been widely reported. There’s a psychiatric diagnosis for people who cannot accurately perceive reality - it’s called schizophrenia.
As if crazytalk weren’t bad enough, threats and actual physical violence from the Left are escalating.
A former teacher pled guilty to threatening a New Hampshire legislator who had spoken out against teaching critical race theory in schools. “Hope you get skull-f**ked to death,” the teacher said. Charming. But not as charming as the man who began yelling at parents at a school board meeting in Texas for opposing CRT who claimed to have an army of a thousand soldiers locked and loaded, ready to wipe them out.
Unhinged leftists are increasingly acting out their craziness. Like the leftist teacher who stuck her kid in the trunk of her car because the kid had tested positive for COVID. Or the feminist who hit a pro-life demonstrator in the face with a sign. She shouted “I hate you”, as she walked away.
The Left loves to whip up race hatred so it’s not surprising a black man in Florida killed a 14-year-old white boy for racial reasons. Records show the man used anti-white slurs after he was arrested and he killed the boy to take revenge for what white people have done to black people in the past. Another black man cut to the chase on Twitter, calling for genocide against whites and saying he wanted to ‘put all you white opossums in a gas chamber.’ I blame the Left for producing people like this.
I wish I could say I was making all this up. But I’m not.
There is hope, however. I’ve been waiting for moderate Democrats to take their party back from the unhinged Left. Finally, some of them are openly criticizing Progressives for putting the Democrat Party on an unsustainable path and forcing candidates into unelectable far-left positions. Let’s hope this blossoms into something like Bill Clinton’s Democratic Leadership Council which formed in the 1980s to keep the Democratic Party from going too far left.
1/14/22 - Single Payer: A Toxic Brew of Politics and Medicine
The Left’s dream of socialized medicine is still kicking around. The Left has been salivating for single payer for a hundred years, and they’re not about to give up now.
A single payer healthcare proposal made it out of a committee in California’s legislative Assembly earlier this week. Governor Gavin Newsom campaigned on single payer in 2018, but a separate measure would have to be put to the voters to fund the gargantuan program with huge tax increases. Even then, the tax increases being proposed would only bring in less than half of what single payer was estimated to cost when it was considered in 2018.
Unsurprisingly, there are no cost estimates this time, because the idea was shelved in 2018 after Californians realized how much it would cost. The same reality check occurred some years ago in Vermont. Single payer died there when it became known payroll taxes would have to consume 25 percent of everyone’s paycheck to pay for it.
The radical California Nurses Association is pushing single payer, holding a ‘Day of Action’ in 15 California cities last Saturday. Leftists elsewhere in the country also continue to agitate for single payer. A nationwide march for single payer was also held last Saturday in all 50 states. Far-left publications recently urged their readers to continue to fight for single payer, although the publications are split on whether to fight at the national or state level. The Yale School of Medicine ran an editorial praising single payer and the resolution New Haven passed last August supporting Medicare for All for the entire country.
Similar resolutions passed in several New Jersey cities and Duluth last year. Single payer proposals are also kicking around in New York, Oregon, and Ohio. The idea has not been abandoned at the national level, either. Joe Biden’s Build Back Better proposal would put more building blocks in place by creating a public option for health insurance, increasing Obamacare subsidies, and ramping up Medicaid. Critics say this is just a stone’s throw away from single payer.
But no matter how you get there, single payer is still a bad idea. The stratospheric cost is reason enough to oppose single payer, not to mention the experience of the National Health System in Britain which shows such programs are continually broke and always pleading for more money. There’s never enough money for single payer and, when more money isn’t forthcoming, single payer is forced to ration your healthcare even more than it usually does. Long wait times and rationing, that’s the fate of anyone on single payer. It takes three years to get a tooth removed in Britain. Is that what you want?
Horror stories about rationing and long waits are familiar. But there’s another aspect of single payer that’s just as insidious that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. Healthcare would become completely politicized under single payer and, if private medicine is banned, you won’t have anywhere else to go. Look what’s happened recently in the pandemic. The federal government told Florida to pound Daytona Beach sand when the state asked for more monoclonal antibody treatments. The Woke FDA is saying life-saving COVID treatments should be doled out based on skin color. That’s despicable. We also have the spectacle of public health authorities falling all over themselves lately to tell everyone they need an N95 mask. Maryland’s going to give out 20 million of them. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, what this really means is everything you’ve been told about cloth masks for the last two years has been a lie - that cloth masks work and should be mandated. You’ve been fed a line of bull for political reasons. What do you think’s going to happen when the government gets its hands on all of healthcare under single payer? Every single aspect of medicine will become politicized. You will be told what healthcare you can have and no more. You will be told how to behave and what rules you must obey in order to get it. Too bad for you if Washington decides it doesn’t like your diet or your lifestyle choices. When rationing isn’t enough, we will have to bring the hammer down to make sure you don’t cost the government too much money for your healthcare.
And, of course, the politicians who pass single payer and implement it will exempt themselves from whatever rules they impose on the rest of us. That’s what happened in Obamacare with the congressional exemption. It’ll happen again in spades if you fall for single payer. You’ve been warned.
1/13/22 - Open Borders, Hidden Agendas
Joe Biden’s approval numbers keeps sinking to new lows. The chaos he’s created at the border is not among the top reasons, but it should be. The news today is not good.
DHS records show 50,000 illegal aliens released between March and August last year failed to report as instructed. The agency has no idea where they are. Also in the news today, Republican lawmakers in the House are demanding answers from the Biden administration as to why ICE arrest and deportation numbers are way down, despite steady agency funding. The head of Homeland Security essentially said in September we shouldn’t be deporting illegal aliens if it would make them feel bad. We should only deport them if we have a special reason. He followed this up with another policy change the next month declaring illegal aliens could not be arrested at schools, parks, daycare centers, or just about anywhere else they might actually be. Some congressional Republicans say the administration is hiding the ball by refusing to release official deportation numbers for last year. Could be. DHS only released a report showing the number of foreigners overstaying their visas is up after a news outlet made a big stink to get the report.
In other border news:
A record number of unaccompanied alien children were taken into custody in FY21 - 122,000. Reports continue about child sex abuse at the shelters where they are housed.
Border agents caught 2,200 illegal aliens in Texas and stopped seven human smuggling attempts over New Year’s weekend.
The Biden administration is falling down on the job so bad that private armed groups with drones are catching illegal border crossers and turning them over to appreciative officials and law enforcement in Kinney County, Texas.
Reports continue that the Biden administration is reallocating COVID relief money meant for Americans to house illegal aliens pouring across the border.
The Biden administration was accused of falsely claiming the alien asylum backlog is down despite the unexplained disappearance of 50,000 files.
The UN, which supports free migration to destroy Western countries, charters buses for illegal alien caravans, coaches illegal aliens how to file asylum claims, and pays their travel expenses to reach the U.S., all with the help of U.S. taxpayers.
An Arizona sheriff said the situation is the worst he’s ever seen it and the cartels are making more money than ever, thanks to the Biden administration.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection report admits illegal aliens from Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Somalia, and other terror-prone countries are coming across the southern border.
The Biden administration has never given a satisfactory explanation of why its open borders policies are good for the country. One explanation I’ve heard is the ‘Great Replacement Theory’ - change America into a socialist country by replacing the people who live here. Before you dismiss that as a crazy conspiracy theory, you should know left-wing activists openly talk about it. If that’s not what’s going on, the Biden administration should open up and tell us why it’s doing its best to help illegal aliens overrun the country.
1/12/22 - Show Me the Parent and I’ll Show You the Crime
The FBI is starting a new domestic terrorism unit. It’s not clear what the focus will be, but there’s reason to believe the unit will spend part of its time going after ordinary parents who object to radical school board policies. This is because, in October, Attorney General Merrick Garland instructed the FBI to work with local officials to investigate parents who challenge such policies, effectively hanging the label ‘domestic terrorist’ around parents’ necks.
Here’s the latest in the War on Parents:
The FBI used a battering ram to break down the front door of a woman who has run a website objecting to school board policies since 2018. The FBI invaded her home while she was homeschooling her children.
Parents near Detroit held a rally to protest their school district's "21 Day Equity Challenge" which, among other things, teaches that calling America ‘the land of opportunity’ is a microagression. The school board thumbed its nose at the parents and said the program would continue.
Education groups in North Carolina objected to an early learning program that teaches “we are all products of a racialized society” and that “Whiteness affects everything … inside and outside the classroom.” The three- and four-year-olds in the program are being taught to “deconstruct whiteness”. Parents also criticized the state for hiding the materials.
A teacher in Indiana was fired after blowing the whistle on the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) concepts in math, science, and other subjects which officials had denied doing.
Parents were apoplectic at a school board meeting in California after it became known that teachers were coaching 12-year-olds to change genders and were changing children’s names and pronouns without telling parents. The teachers had renamed the Gay-Straight Alliance Club to an “equality club” to cover their tracks.
In Illinois, parents will no longer be informed when their young daughters are getting an abortion.
The creator of the 1619 Project repeated the idea that cost Terry McAuliffe the Governor’s mansion in Virginia last November, namely, that parents should have no say over what their children are taught in school.
A Virginia school district took a parent to court after she filed a freedom of information request for details on how it was spending its $3 billion budget.
A school board in Texas shut down parents from speaking at a school board meeting and - get this - sent its school police officers to their homes afterwards to arrest them for disorderly conduct.
A grandmother and two parents were arrested for trespass for attempting to attend a closed school board meeting about a principal who had been arrested for molesting dozens of boys. They were smeared as ‘insurrectionists’ as they were being hauled away.
Parents are fighting back with lawsuits and recalls, as well they should. But as school boards double down on radical Left agendas, one can’t help but wonder where their willing accomplices in the Justice Department and FBI will use their battering ram next.
1/11/22 - Joe Biden’s Crocodile Tears About Voting Rights
Joe Biden is in Atlanta today to shed crocodile tears about voting rights. Georgia is the place where Democrat ballot harvesters were caught on video illegally stuffing tens of thousands of ballots into drop boxes across the state in the middle of the night in the 2020 and Senate runoff elections. One of them admitted being paid $45,000 for his illegal activity. So spare me the crocodile tears and phony rhetoric about voter suppression.
I can hear Joe Biden’s speech now:
January 6th was an insurrection even though nobody’s been charged with insurrection. Every day is January 6th now because the mean old Republicans want voter ID, which polls show most Americans including minorities support. The mean old Republicans and Donald Trump are a threat to democracy, even though it is we Democrats who are the true threat to democracy because we want illegal aliens to overrun the country, noncitizens to vote like we just got passed in New York City, and prosecutors to ignore duly elected state legislatures and refuse to prosecute crimes the legislatures enacted and duly elected governors signed into law. We need federal voting rights legislation to counteract the mean old Republicans’ voter suppression laws and we need it now. We have to break the filibuster rule to get it done, even though Chuck Schumer and myself have spoken glowingly about the filibuster in the past. Chuck even said getting rid of the filibuster would be ‘doomsday for democracy’. Forget we said all that; that was then, this is now. Upcoming elections will not be fair because the mean old Republicans are already conspiring to steal them and install fascist dictatorship forever, even though it’s we Democrats who harbor dreams of being in power to the end of time and will stop at nothing to steal elections to stay there. Even if we have to spin phony narratives about January 6th to get federal control over every election in the country from here on out. Forget the problems in the 2020 election; we’ve changed the subject, January 6th is all that matters now. We created those problems in 2020, but WE ARE THE SOLUTION.
The truth is the voting rights legislation the Democrats want is really a federal takeover of elections. They want to make it so that no state or locality can ever insist on voter ID again, no state can ever get rid of drop boxes, and no state can ever stop liberal billionaires from funding Democrat get-out-the-vote drives in the name of providing financial help for the official business of election administration. This is a recipe for mischief and disaster. It’s also unconstitutional. The Constitution gives most of the power to oversee elections to the states.
The Democrats call any questioning of the 2020 election ‘the big lie’. But there are lots of unanswered questions about what happened - Why did officials turn elections over to private liberal groups in Wisconsin? Why were Republican poll watchers thrown out of the vote counting center in Detroit? Why can’t we inspect the machines? Why is evidence being destroyed where investigations are taking place?
There are still plenty of problems with election integrity - voter ID not required in many places, dead people on the voter rolls, noncitizens registered and voting, loosey-goosey same-day registration, lack of signature verification on absentee ballots, the list goes on.
But here’s the biggest problem with the Democrats’ whole approach. I was at the Washington Monument on January 6th watching Trump speak. There were about a million people there that day to say they had no confidence in the 2020 election. A handful of ignoramuses broke the law that day at the Capitol Building. But if you federalize elections, as the Democrats want to do, you will guarantee lots of people will have no confidence in elections going forward. If you’re going to make it impossible through federal law to check voter ID, or clean the voter rolls, or get rid of drop boxes, elections will be less secure than ever and you will guarantee great masses of people will be deeply suspicious of the outcome of every election in the future. Institutionalize these things and every day will be January 6th, in the sense a sizeable portion of the electorate will have no confidence in our elections, whatsoever. Break the filibuster, pass this by the slimmest of majorities, and ram federal control over elections down our throats and see what you get. What you are attempting is horribly divisive. It will never be accepted by a strong majority of the American people and you will have no end of trouble. Efforts to reverse your takeover will never end. Now sit there with a straight face and tell me that will be good for our democracy.
1/10/22 - The Snakes and Devils of the Abortion Biz
Today, we pick up with exposing the wretched Left and Democrats and their despicable methods.
Turning now to abortion, Planned Parenthood in Chicago failed to report sex abuse against an underage girl. A former middle school principal drove the girl from Indiana, with whom he was sexually involved, to get an abortion. Planned Parenthood had to know something was not right when a grown man shows up with an underage girl, but they didn’t report the abuser to the police, as far as anyone knows. This is really not surprising when you consider repeated reports Planned Parenthood pushes abortions on girls as young as 11, without their parents’ knowledge or consent.
Evidence suggests abortion clinics do not routinely screen for whether expectant mothers are being pressured into having an abortion by partners, parents, employers, or others. This can result, as in a recent case in Argentina, with the woman not being allowed to leave the hospital and the abortion being performed without her consent.
Abortion activists are trying to get around the new abortion laws in Texas by transporting pregnant women to Mexico and smuggling dangerous abortion pills into the U.S. They openly state they do not care if this makes them criminals.
Claims that large numbers of women die in back-alley abortions where abortion is illegal have been debunked, again. The architect of Roe v. Wade, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, admitted he repeatedly told the press the number was 10,000 when the true number was closer to 200. Now the WHO has been caught lumping in miscarriages to overstate the number of deaths arising from illegal abortions.
Abortion advocates use dishonest poll results to hoodwink people into thinking abortion is popular. In one poll, people were asked if they support or oppose a law banning abortions after a heartbeat is detected. 58 percent responded they oppose, but that would include people who oppose the law because they want abortion banned BEFORE a heartbeat is detected.
If abortion advocates get their way, medical schools would be forced to teach students how to perform abortions. This is because so few doctors want any part of this dirty business.
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Pennsylvania has denied it performs abortions, but state records show it is conducting telemedicine abortions involving abortion pills, or plans to do so.
A liberal foundation played a key role in getting abortion pills approved and distributed, but they did it in the service of a hidden agenda - population control. They’re not the only ones with a hidden agenda. The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in 2009 that Medicaid funding for abortion would limit population growth in poor communities, “populations that we don’t want to have too many of,” in her words.
Covering up for pedophiles. Evading parents. Lying and making stuff up to feed to the press. Criminal activity. Hidden agendas. To abortion advocates I say, if this is the only way you can win, you don’t deserve to win. You deserve to lose, and to be condemned for your despicable acts and atrocious attitudes.
1/7/22 - Bad Rhetoric, Bad People
The Democrats and the Left were on their high horse yesterday, yammering on about how January 6th was as bad as 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Holocaust. Talk about over-the-top, overheated rhetoric, that takes the cake. Walking into the Capitol when the police opened the doors and let people in, that’s somehow like the Nazis sticking six million Jews into ovens? Who are they kidding? They are preaching to us about morality, so let’s take a look at what these people are really like, shall we? Let’s expose their methods.
Democrat operatives were caught in a sting video talking about paying people to incite violence at Trump rallies.
The Democrats tried to hoodwink people into thinking their original Build Back Better bill would only cost $3.5 trillion dollars. But then all their accounting gimmicks were exposed and now we know it’s really trillions more.
They’re dishonest about the way they regulate. For example, first they institute a standard for what’s considered lead poisoning in children. Then they tighten the standard which allows them to tighten the screws and regulate a lot more things supporters of the original standard never contemplated. Regulatory sleight-of-hand.
The Left tried to make hay with fires in the Amazon forest, linking them to climate change. But some of the fires were deliberately set by activists who being paid by an environmental group for taking pictures of fires.
A teacher in Iowa recently bragged about how she was getting around the state’s ban on teaching critical race theory (CRT) in schools.
Gun control advocates have been caught telling lies with statistics claiming, for example, gun deaths go down after background checks are instituted. They cherry-picked the results. Changing the time period slightly disproves the claim.
Their dishonesty in the service of phony narratives doesn’t stop there. A professor at Florida State University faked his data in published studies, which journals later retracted, studies which misportrayed the role of race in criminal sentencing.
The left-wing AARP got sued for taking kickbacks on health insurance policies purchased by its members.
The Left created conservation easements to lock up as much rural area as possible, keeping it as pretty as a postcard and preventing any real agriculture from going on. There are tax benefits for these easements, but the scam is to inflate the value of the land being placed under easement, thus inflating the tax benefits. This incentivizes the placement of more land under easement. See the machine the Left has created? Pretty clever, but it’s all based on tax fraud.
Left-wing unions lost the fight at the Supreme Court over mandatory union dues, but that hasn’t stopped them or even slowed them down. Later cases complain about the same thing and a hundred bills to get around the Supreme Court’s ruling have been introduced at the state level.
One way euthanasia activists gin up support for assisted suicide laws is to scare the old folks by telling them they will suffer mightily through a torturous death without assisted suicide. Actually, just the opposite is true. There are lots of horror stories about people lingering in pain and gasping for air for days after taking drugs that were supposed to kill them.
If you’re a Democrat or a Lefty listening to all this, you’re thinking right now all of these things are good because they help your side win and winning is the only thing. Winning is the only morality. But for normal people who still have a conscience, these things are not good. They're bad, and the people who do them are bad. The ends do not justify the means.
This I know for sure: We don’t need lectures on morality from the Democrats and the Left. They don’t know the first thing about it.
I’m going to pick up with this on Monday, when I talk about abortion. Now there’s a Holocaust for you. Tune in Monday when I expose how the Democrats and the Left deal from the bottom of the deck in pushing abortion.
1/6/22 - Of Insurrections and Threats to Democracy
As long as the Democrats are all hepped up about Law & Order today, let’s see if they’ll do something about the gargantuan criminal monster they created. I’m talking about the Soros DAs, the prosecutors who won’t prosecute. They are a threat to democracy.
Manhattan’s new DA Alvin Bragg has taken it upon himself to ignore the state legislature and change the laws so that many crimes no longer carry jail sentences. He’s doing this in the name of “fairness and safety”. That’s pretty cheeky, don’t you think? He is also imposing ‘incarceration impact statements’, meaning prosecutors can’t recommend prison terms if it will make it harder for defendants to get a job or they will suffer racially disparate outcomes in the future. He also changed the law where it allows sentences of life without parole. He unilaterally limited punishment in those cases to a maximum of 20 years.
Bragg claims all this will make the city safer because criminals will find it easier to reintegrate into society. Maybe that will actually happen in a handful of cases where the criminal wouldn’t eventually straighten out anyway, but what about the rest of the cases where criminals have no intention of reforming? They will receive kid glove treatment under Bragg’s policies and thus be incentivized to commit more crimes. What’s the net?
Police unions did not hold back in their criticism. “In Bragg’s Manhattan, you can resist arrest, deal drugs, obstruct arrests, and even carry a gun and get away with it,” one said. Another said this is all very demoralizing for the police. “Police officers don’t want to be sent out to enforce laws that the district attorneys won’t prosecute and there are already too many people who believe that they can commit crimes, resist arrest, interfere with police officers, and face zero consequences.”
In Seattle, where crime is spiking, police are allowed to go to the scene where a stolen vehicle is reported, surround the vehicle, and draw their guns. That’s it. They’re not allowed to pursue the vehicle if the car thief drives away, as just happened in a case this week. But don’t worry, under the logic of the Soros DAs, the poor oppressed car thief should be allowed to keep the car because it’s a crime of poverty. The car thief needs the car, and the rich owner of the car has insurance and can replace the car. In other words, the car thief wins because the car thief is a class hero and everybody else loses because they are class enemies, just like in communist countries. I defy you to tell me what democracy can survive if those are the rules of the game.
The Soros DA in San Francisco has been in office two years. He has made it easier for violent and non-violent offenders to get released, but, to hear him tell it, recent smash-and-grab robberies are not his fault. It’s society’s fault because society doesn’t prevent these crimes before they happen. Let me see if I’ve got this right. Prosecutors shouldn’t have to prosecute, because there shouldn’t be any crime in the first place. It is society that is bad, not criminals who are bad. So I guess that means the criminals should be prosecuting US for giving THEM a hard time when it is US who are bad. I feel so much better now that I understand just how bad I’ve been all this time, including the two times robbers have stuck a gun in my face and gotten away with it.
By the way, the San Francisco DA faces a recall election next June. I hope San Francisco voters come to their senses and kick this guy out. It’s not impossible. In November, voters in Seattle rejected a candidate for City Attorney who wanted to abolish the police and prisons entirely.
However, a recall effort against the Soros DA in Los Angeles failed last year. One consequence is that a murderer who received a 50 year sentence is free after just six years. The Soros DA did not even have the decency to tell the victim’s family the early release was in the works. It’s not the first time he sought a reduced sentence for a murderer. So, apparently, murderers are class heroes in this guy’s book and everybody else just has to suck it up.
If you’re worried about insurrection today, you should worry about the Soros DAs who are overthrowing the criminal justice system in cities around the country. If you don’t want to see the death of democracy, then you need to mobilize against the Soros DAs who ignore state legislatures, turn criminals into class heroes who always win no matter what, and you the voters into chumps who should just keep paying big salaries to prosecutors who won’t prosecute because some billionaire wants to turn your cities into cesspools.
1/5/22 - Woke Pentagon Provokes Organized Resistance
A group of retired and active duty military personnel along with concerned citizens has been actively opposing the Woke Pentagon since November. I will describe their activities to you, but first let’s get caught up on what the WokeMeisters running our military into the ground have been up to lately.
The Pentagon issued new guidelines cracking down on social media posts it deems ‘extremist’. Simply ‘liking’ a post or attending a meeting the Pentagon doesn’t like can get a soldier in trouble. The guidelines don’t really define what is considered ‘extreme’ and what is not. Groups and symbols the Pentagon brass will find unacceptable are not listed. Critics worry the loose definition will let the Pentagon target Christians and conservatives while giving black nationalists and other leftist radicals a pass.
That’s not all. The Pentagon ordered its contractor to stop making faith-based dog tags. The Air Force now encourages personnel to sign documents with their preferred pronouns. It’s also asking personnel to vote on which new “diversity, equity, and inclusion” logo they want. A Pentagon spokesperson said climate change is as big a threat to the U.S. as communist China which has actually declared ‘people’s war’ on us.
You might ask what all this has to do with war-fighting. Beats me. All this sound and fury is bizarre when you consider the number of supposed extremist incidents in the military is miniscule - “fewer than 100” over the past year - despite all the effort devoted to finding them. The Pentagon’s priorities are completely in the wrong place. It’s no surprise the public’s trust in the military is dropping like a rock under Joe Biden’s Woke appointees.
All of this prompted the group I mentioned at the outset - now known as STARRS to organize to oppose the implementation of Marxist critical race theory (CRT) and other aspects of the Woke agenda in the military. Members of the group have published a book, written articles, and given over 50 media interviews. And they’ve gotten somewhere already, persuading the Air Force Academy to replace a film extolling the virtues of the trained Marxist group Black Lives Matter with something less objectionable. STARRS is looking for more members and donors to press on with its mission of unifying service personnel around love of country. If you’d like to get involved, go to S-T-A-R-R-S-dot-COM.
[more on Secure Freedom Radio on 11/5/21 and 1/4/22]
1/4/22 - COVID Derangement Syndrome
You might be one of those people who absolutely refuse to look at anything from the political Right because you’ve been trained by the Left to believe everything on the Right is ‘fascistic’ and ‘reactionary’ - whatever that means. I ran into another person like that over the holidays. But you owe it to yourself to take a look at how your government has messed up the response to COVID by getting you to believe the most insane things.
Your government wants you to believe that cloth masks are effective against a tiny virus. But the WHO admitted there is no evidence masks are effective against COVID. One flawed study claiming masks work had to be redone and the revised results showed almost no difference. Other studies show surgical masks don’t work in operating rooms and some of those studies concluded disease transmission is actually LOWER when surgeons don’t wear them. A former FDA commissioner just said cloth masks do not protect against COVID. It’s crazy to go on believing masks work.
It’s also crazy to go on believing the lockdowns ultimately did any good when an examination of 400 studies concluded that COVID “mask mandates, lockdowns, and school closures have had no discernible impact of virus trajectories.” There’s no evidence any of these things work.
Then we have the whole obsession with COVID vaccines while effective treatments for COVID illness get overlooked or shut down. Ivermectin is safe and effective but your government doesn’t want you to have it. In addition to previous evidence from India and Japan that Ivermectin works, we now have evidence from Brazil. COVID hospitalizations and mortality were cut in half in a southern Brazilian city after Ivermectin was offered as a prophylactic to every resident. It’s crazy for the government and medical associations to threaten doctors with losing their license for prescribing Ivermectin for their COVID patients who want it. But the government is also trying to disrupt other COVID treatments. Florida wants more monoclonal antibodies, but the federal government says no. Over a hundred studies show a strong correlation between high levels of Vitamin D and better COVID outcomes. But when was the last time you heard Dr. Fauci talk about Vitamin D? Senator Ron Johnson and others accuse Fauci and the entire public health establishment of deliberately sabotaging the use of cheap and effective generic drugs like hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin for COVID. It’s crazy to go on believing public health authorities have your best interests at heart when they are deliberately trying to keep safe and effective treatments away from you.
The COVID quackery never ends. Fauci just admitted the number of child hospitalizations for COVID is grossly inflated. Authorities include children who happened to test positive for COVID when they are in the hospital for something else. Then there’s the whole PCR test fiasco. The CDC just admitted the PCR test cannot distinguish between COVID and the flu and withdrew emergency use authorization for COVID testing. Also, it turns out that the Pfizer vaccine does not really protect you 95 percent of the time, as the results of clinical trials are often portrayed. The marginal benefit of the Pfizer vaccine versus being unvaccinated is less than one percent. This is because, contrary to what public health authorities want you to believe, the risk of contracting COVID while unvaccinated is very low to start with. The 95 percent figure is a statistical gimmick and the text version of today’s commentary gives you a link where you can read up on it.
It’s also crazy to go on believing everything you are being told about COVID when the people giving the advice are making money off the pandemic or gratifying their lust for power by getting to control you. The federal CARES Act gives bonus incentive payments to hospitals for COVID testing, diagnosis, certain favored treatments, and vaccinations. As much as two-thirds of the federal COVID relief money to reopen schools was diverted to new sports facilities and other non-pandemic uses, a watchdog group found. The head of the CDC just said its COVID guidelines are based on what the agency thinks people will be able to tolerate. And you thought they were following the science. Pushing you as far as they can get away with might be political science, but it’s not science.
Fourteen days to flatten the curve. Get vaccinated and your life can go back to normal. Wear a mask, don’t wear a mask. Get a test, don’t get a test. Sorry, but you have put your faith in people who can’t even put their underwear on straight, or who are trying to line their own pockets in all this, or who get their jollies from controlling you. It’s crazy to go on believing them and all the crazy things they tell you. I call it COVID Derangement Syndrome, but I know many of you will go right on believing them regardless of what I say here today. You’re not thinking clearly, and I feel sorry for you.
1/3/22 - COVID Nazis Goose-Stepping Their Way to Thousand-Year Reich
The COVID Nazis were out in full force over the holidays.
A video shows a woman on a domestic flight yelling at a man to put his mask on. After the man refuses because he is eating, the woman hits him and spits on him. New York police are enforcing the city’s vaccine mandate by surrounding diners at their tables, demanding to see their vaccination cards, and threatening to arrest them if they don’t leave. New York Democrats have proposed legislation to silence critics of COVID policies under the guise of prohibiting what they call ‘medical disinformation’ on social media. Catholic Charities in Spokane refused to feed the homeless on Christmas if they weren’t vaccinated, so some people got together and did it themselves. A commentator on MSNBC said the unvaccinated should be refused hospital care. How about we just take them away in ambulances with the windows blacked out and incinerate them, instead?
In recent weeks, A Portland school forced children to eat outside in 40-degree weather in order to enforce the state’s indoor mask mandate. Oregon Democrats are itching to make the mandate permanent. Santa Cruz County in California imposed an indoor mask mandate that applies to private homes. New York City required all private sector employees to be vaccinated. Doctors and nurses are being warned not to speak out against COVID vaccines on pain of losing their license. I have a friend whose doctor just received such a letter.
Things could be worse. In the Netherlands, police sicced dogs on anti-lockdown protesters and beat the protesters with batons. The Australian Army is forcibly removing people who test positive and their close contacts to quarantine camps. Austria has announced mandatory universal vaccination over age 14 and will soon send out swarms of inspectors to collect fines from people who refuse to pay up, or drag them to jail. A Canadian province has decreed no vaccine, no access to grocery stores.
It’s getting crazier, and for no good reason. I’ve commented before that COVID rules are becoming more authoritarian precisely at the same time the phony narratives supporting them are getting weaker and weaker. Tomorrow, I’ll delve more deeply into the phony narratives which, collectively I call COVID Derangement Syndrome. But for today, I leave you with hope. Resistance is not futile. Resistance works. Los Angeles public schools canceled their COVID vaccine mandate because 30,000 students were not in compliance. Some big hospitals have dropped their vaccine mandates because so many hospital workers refuse to get the shot. A Virginia hospital was held in contempt of court for withholding ivermectin from a patient. If you are refused treatments like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin which have been proven safe and effective against COVID, you should sue, too. Sue every single medical professional who refuses to provide a reasonable standard of care for political reasons. They want to play politics, make them pay, that’s what I say.
CAIR - the Council on American-Islamic Relations - holds itself out as a civil rights organization, but it is actually Hamas in America and was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing case. False narratives are CAIR’s stock in trade.
I’m about to be critical of CAIR - very critical. But, before you dismiss everything I say as ‘Islamophobic’, you should know CAIR itself says, "It is not appropriate to label all, or even the majority of those, who question Islam and Muslims as Islamophobes." (CAIR Report 2013, Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States, p. ix).
False narrative number one is found in a CAIR op-ed from last August - ‘jihad’ does not mean holy war. “It refers instead to a general striving towards the good,” CAIR claims or, as it is often put, ‘jihad is just a spiritual struggle’. Which is ridiculous, like the time a Muslim FBI employee told an official gathering in Detroit, ‘jihad is a struggle against eating too much cheesecake.’ Tell it to the families of the 9/11 victims. CAIR knows it is being disingenuous. It distributes an approved translation of the Quran for America which contains footnotes referring to taking prisoners and holding women as captives in jihad as holy war. Moreover, CAIR does not deal with or even mention in its op-ed the many passages in the Quran calling for holy war. Here are just three:
- Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion shall reign supreme. Quran 8:40
- I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads; strike off the very tips of their fingers. Quran 8:12
- If you encounter the disbelievers in a battle, strike-off their heads. Take them as captives when they are defeated. Quran 47:4
The second false narrative in CAIR’s op-ed holds that ‘sharia’ or Islamic law is just about praying to Allah, being honest, and giving charity to the poor. Here again, CAIR does not mention the passages in the Quran calling for sharia supremacy, that is world domination and the forced conversion of all humankind to Islam. Here are three passages from standard Islamic doctrine documenting that Islam is all about sharia supremacy:
- Muhammad said: “I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify to the fact that there is no god but Allah, and believe in me (that) I am the Messenger and in all that I have brought.” Muslim: C9B1N31 (hadith)
- The only religion acceptable before God is Islam. Quran 3:19
- He it is who has sent his Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to make it victorious over all religion even though the infidels may resist. Quran 61:9
That’s it for today. I’ll pick up with this tomorrow.
1/18/22 - How to Build Artificial Islands in the China Swamp
A book due out January 25th gives new details about how communist China has corrupted American elites. The author is Peter Shweizer who has made a name for himself exposing the corruption of the Clintons, the Biden family, and Congress critters. His new book, Red-Handed, is subtitled “How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win”. The book reveals “the secret deals wealthy Americans have cut to help China build its military, technological, and economic might.... [M]any of these elites quietly believe the Chinese dictatorial regime is superior to American democracy.” Schweizer calls this the scariest investigation he has ever undertaken.
But you don’t have to wait for the book to get a good idea of what our corrupt elites have been up to with China, lately. A quick trip through recent news gives you that:
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the $10 million civil servant, has investments in China, including a pharmaceutical company. Fauci has ties to EcoHealth Alliance which was funded by NIH to work with the Chinese military on gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The connections between the U.S. government - specifically NIH and its National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases run by Fauci - and China’s biological weapons program are all out in the open now. No lab leak here, no sirree.
I previously reported to you how John Kerry, who can’t be bothered about China’s human rights abuses because he’s just the “climate guy”, also has investments in China, big ones. In December, Kerry objected to the Uighur anti-slavery bill moving through Congress because it would upset China. Or was it because it would upset his investment portfolio?
Two members of the House January 6th Committee have sizeable investments in China. Elaine Luria has six figures invested in a Chinese company with ties to China’s military, a company our State Department calls a “tool” of the Chinese Communist Party. The company develops surveillance technology for social control. The husband of Stephanie Murphy manufactures in China. Foreign companies in China must wear a ‘red hat’, that is, establish units to carry out the wishes of the Chinese Communist Party. Yet we are supposed to believe Murphy’s tough talk on China.
There’s more, including lots on Hunter Biden, but I’ll save it for another day. Let me end with a story that’s in the news today. The co-owner of an NBA team, a million-dollar Democrat donor, was widely criticized for saying ‘nobody cares about the Uighurs.’ The NBA does substantial business in China, which the U.S. has accused of genocide of the Uighurs.
If you think China’s dictatorial communist system is superior to ours, we’ll start that conversation with the 35 to 60 million people who starved to death in the deliberately engineered famine of China’s Great Leap Forward, the protesters who were reduced to pulp when the tanks rolled over them in Tiananmen Square, the rape of Tibet, and the genocide of the Uighurs. Then we’ll see how much of your case is left.
Enjoy the Olympics.
1/17/22 - Unhinged Leftists: Now, That’s Entertainment!
It’s hard to keep up with all the crazytalk gushing out of the Left these days, but I’ll try my best.
A leftist writer said parenthood should be abolished, raising your own kids should be illegal, and kids should swapped with those of homeless neighbors to achieve “true equity”. That’s very far down the rabbit hole.
An eco-warrior threatened to blow up pipelines because, in his view, political leaders aren’t acting fast enough on climate change.
Squad member Ayanna Pressley said student debt is “policy violence”. Violence? That’s crazytalk. But, then, the Democrats are given to crazytalk. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said Republicans are “dangerous”, “chaotic”, “reckless”, “divisive”, “cynical”, and “a threat to public health”. Did I mention “dangerous”? This, from the people who brought you the KKK and Antifa. Who’s “dangerous”, again?
An opinion piece in the New York Times said people are better off dead than adopted. Dave Thomas, the creator of Wendy’s who was adopted, would have been surprised to hear that.
A teacher’s union official wrote unvaccinated people with religious exemptions deserve to die. And Republicans should kill them. Wow, I’m not even going to try to figure that one out.
Chicago’s Mayor said retailers deserve what they get because they haven’t done enough to protect themselves from looting. Didn’t they used to call that ‘blaming the victim’? AOC denied the existence of smash-and-grab robberies despite the fact they’ve been widely reported. There’s a psychiatric diagnosis for people who cannot accurately perceive reality - it’s called schizophrenia.
As if crazytalk weren’t bad enough, threats and actual physical violence from the Left are escalating.
A former teacher pled guilty to threatening a New Hampshire legislator who had spoken out against teaching critical race theory in schools. “Hope you get skull-f**ked to death,” the teacher said. Charming. But not as charming as the man who began yelling at parents at a school board meeting in Texas for opposing CRT who claimed to have an army of a thousand soldiers locked and loaded, ready to wipe them out.
Unhinged leftists are increasingly acting out their craziness. Like the leftist teacher who stuck her kid in the trunk of her car because the kid had tested positive for COVID. Or the feminist who hit a pro-life demonstrator in the face with a sign. She shouted “I hate you”, as she walked away.
The Left loves to whip up race hatred so it’s not surprising a black man in Florida killed a 14-year-old white boy for racial reasons. Records show the man used anti-white slurs after he was arrested and he killed the boy to take revenge for what white people have done to black people in the past. Another black man cut to the chase on Twitter, calling for genocide against whites and saying he wanted to ‘put all you white opossums in a gas chamber.’ I blame the Left for producing people like this.
I wish I could say I was making all this up. But I’m not.
There is hope, however. I’ve been waiting for moderate Democrats to take their party back from the unhinged Left. Finally, some of them are openly criticizing Progressives for putting the Democrat Party on an unsustainable path and forcing candidates into unelectable far-left positions. Let’s hope this blossoms into something like Bill Clinton’s Democratic Leadership Council which formed in the 1980s to keep the Democratic Party from going too far left.
1/14/22 - Single Payer: A Toxic Brew of Politics and Medicine
The Left’s dream of socialized medicine is still kicking around. The Left has been salivating for single payer for a hundred years, and they’re not about to give up now.
A single payer healthcare proposal made it out of a committee in California’s legislative Assembly earlier this week. Governor Gavin Newsom campaigned on single payer in 2018, but a separate measure would have to be put to the voters to fund the gargantuan program with huge tax increases. Even then, the tax increases being proposed would only bring in less than half of what single payer was estimated to cost when it was considered in 2018.
Unsurprisingly, there are no cost estimates this time, because the idea was shelved in 2018 after Californians realized how much it would cost. The same reality check occurred some years ago in Vermont. Single payer died there when it became known payroll taxes would have to consume 25 percent of everyone’s paycheck to pay for it.
The radical California Nurses Association is pushing single payer, holding a ‘Day of Action’ in 15 California cities last Saturday. Leftists elsewhere in the country also continue to agitate for single payer. A nationwide march for single payer was also held last Saturday in all 50 states. Far-left publications recently urged their readers to continue to fight for single payer, although the publications are split on whether to fight at the national or state level. The Yale School of Medicine ran an editorial praising single payer and the resolution New Haven passed last August supporting Medicare for All for the entire country.
Similar resolutions passed in several New Jersey cities and Duluth last year. Single payer proposals are also kicking around in New York, Oregon, and Ohio. The idea has not been abandoned at the national level, either. Joe Biden’s Build Back Better proposal would put more building blocks in place by creating a public option for health insurance, increasing Obamacare subsidies, and ramping up Medicaid. Critics say this is just a stone’s throw away from single payer.
But no matter how you get there, single payer is still a bad idea. The stratospheric cost is reason enough to oppose single payer, not to mention the experience of the National Health System in Britain which shows such programs are continually broke and always pleading for more money. There’s never enough money for single payer and, when more money isn’t forthcoming, single payer is forced to ration your healthcare even more than it usually does. Long wait times and rationing, that’s the fate of anyone on single payer. It takes three years to get a tooth removed in Britain. Is that what you want?
Horror stories about rationing and long waits are familiar. But there’s another aspect of single payer that’s just as insidious that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. Healthcare would become completely politicized under single payer and, if private medicine is banned, you won’t have anywhere else to go. Look what’s happened recently in the pandemic. The federal government told Florida to pound Daytona Beach sand when the state asked for more monoclonal antibody treatments. The Woke FDA is saying life-saving COVID treatments should be doled out based on skin color. That’s despicable. We also have the spectacle of public health authorities falling all over themselves lately to tell everyone they need an N95 mask. Maryland’s going to give out 20 million of them. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, what this really means is everything you’ve been told about cloth masks for the last two years has been a lie - that cloth masks work and should be mandated. You’ve been fed a line of bull for political reasons. What do you think’s going to happen when the government gets its hands on all of healthcare under single payer? Every single aspect of medicine will become politicized. You will be told what healthcare you can have and no more. You will be told how to behave and what rules you must obey in order to get it. Too bad for you if Washington decides it doesn’t like your diet or your lifestyle choices. When rationing isn’t enough, we will have to bring the hammer down to make sure you don’t cost the government too much money for your healthcare.
And, of course, the politicians who pass single payer and implement it will exempt themselves from whatever rules they impose on the rest of us. That’s what happened in Obamacare with the congressional exemption. It’ll happen again in spades if you fall for single payer. You’ve been warned.
1/13/22 - Open Borders, Hidden Agendas
Joe Biden’s approval numbers keeps sinking to new lows. The chaos he’s created at the border is not among the top reasons, but it should be. The news today is not good.
DHS records show 50,000 illegal aliens released between March and August last year failed to report as instructed. The agency has no idea where they are. Also in the news today, Republican lawmakers in the House are demanding answers from the Biden administration as to why ICE arrest and deportation numbers are way down, despite steady agency funding. The head of Homeland Security essentially said in September we shouldn’t be deporting illegal aliens if it would make them feel bad. We should only deport them if we have a special reason. He followed this up with another policy change the next month declaring illegal aliens could not be arrested at schools, parks, daycare centers, or just about anywhere else they might actually be. Some congressional Republicans say the administration is hiding the ball by refusing to release official deportation numbers for last year. Could be. DHS only released a report showing the number of foreigners overstaying their visas is up after a news outlet made a big stink to get the report.
In other border news:
A record number of unaccompanied alien children were taken into custody in FY21 - 122,000. Reports continue about child sex abuse at the shelters where they are housed.
Border agents caught 2,200 illegal aliens in Texas and stopped seven human smuggling attempts over New Year’s weekend.
The Biden administration is falling down on the job so bad that private armed groups with drones are catching illegal border crossers and turning them over to appreciative officials and law enforcement in Kinney County, Texas.
Reports continue that the Biden administration is reallocating COVID relief money meant for Americans to house illegal aliens pouring across the border.
The Biden administration was accused of falsely claiming the alien asylum backlog is down despite the unexplained disappearance of 50,000 files.
The UN, which supports free migration to destroy Western countries, charters buses for illegal alien caravans, coaches illegal aliens how to file asylum claims, and pays their travel expenses to reach the U.S., all with the help of U.S. taxpayers.
An Arizona sheriff said the situation is the worst he’s ever seen it and the cartels are making more money than ever, thanks to the Biden administration.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection report admits illegal aliens from Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Somalia, and other terror-prone countries are coming across the southern border.
The Biden administration has never given a satisfactory explanation of why its open borders policies are good for the country. One explanation I’ve heard is the ‘Great Replacement Theory’ - change America into a socialist country by replacing the people who live here. Before you dismiss that as a crazy conspiracy theory, you should know left-wing activists openly talk about it. If that’s not what’s going on, the Biden administration should open up and tell us why it’s doing its best to help illegal aliens overrun the country.
1/12/22 - Show Me the Parent and I’ll Show You the Crime
- Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.
Stalin’s Secret Police Chief Lavrentiy Beria
The FBI is starting a new domestic terrorism unit. It’s not clear what the focus will be, but there’s reason to believe the unit will spend part of its time going after ordinary parents who object to radical school board policies. This is because, in October, Attorney General Merrick Garland instructed the FBI to work with local officials to investigate parents who challenge such policies, effectively hanging the label ‘domestic terrorist’ around parents’ necks.
Here’s the latest in the War on Parents:
The FBI used a battering ram to break down the front door of a woman who has run a website objecting to school board policies since 2018. The FBI invaded her home while she was homeschooling her children.
Parents near Detroit held a rally to protest their school district's "21 Day Equity Challenge" which, among other things, teaches that calling America ‘the land of opportunity’ is a microagression. The school board thumbed its nose at the parents and said the program would continue.
Education groups in North Carolina objected to an early learning program that teaches “we are all products of a racialized society” and that “Whiteness affects everything … inside and outside the classroom.” The three- and four-year-olds in the program are being taught to “deconstruct whiteness”. Parents also criticized the state for hiding the materials.
A teacher in Indiana was fired after blowing the whistle on the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) concepts in math, science, and other subjects which officials had denied doing.
Parents were apoplectic at a school board meeting in California after it became known that teachers were coaching 12-year-olds to change genders and were changing children’s names and pronouns without telling parents. The teachers had renamed the Gay-Straight Alliance Club to an “equality club” to cover their tracks.
In Illinois, parents will no longer be informed when their young daughters are getting an abortion.
The creator of the 1619 Project repeated the idea that cost Terry McAuliffe the Governor’s mansion in Virginia last November, namely, that parents should have no say over what their children are taught in school.
A Virginia school district took a parent to court after she filed a freedom of information request for details on how it was spending its $3 billion budget.
A school board in Texas shut down parents from speaking at a school board meeting and - get this - sent its school police officers to their homes afterwards to arrest them for disorderly conduct.
A grandmother and two parents were arrested for trespass for attempting to attend a closed school board meeting about a principal who had been arrested for molesting dozens of boys. They were smeared as ‘insurrectionists’ as they were being hauled away.
Parents are fighting back with lawsuits and recalls, as well they should. But as school boards double down on radical Left agendas, one can’t help but wonder where their willing accomplices in the Justice Department and FBI will use their battering ram next.
1/11/22 - Joe Biden’s Crocodile Tears About Voting Rights
Joe Biden is in Atlanta today to shed crocodile tears about voting rights. Georgia is the place where Democrat ballot harvesters were caught on video illegally stuffing tens of thousands of ballots into drop boxes across the state in the middle of the night in the 2020 and Senate runoff elections. One of them admitted being paid $45,000 for his illegal activity. So spare me the crocodile tears and phony rhetoric about voter suppression.
I can hear Joe Biden’s speech now:
January 6th was an insurrection even though nobody’s been charged with insurrection. Every day is January 6th now because the mean old Republicans want voter ID, which polls show most Americans including minorities support. The mean old Republicans and Donald Trump are a threat to democracy, even though it is we Democrats who are the true threat to democracy because we want illegal aliens to overrun the country, noncitizens to vote like we just got passed in New York City, and prosecutors to ignore duly elected state legislatures and refuse to prosecute crimes the legislatures enacted and duly elected governors signed into law. We need federal voting rights legislation to counteract the mean old Republicans’ voter suppression laws and we need it now. We have to break the filibuster rule to get it done, even though Chuck Schumer and myself have spoken glowingly about the filibuster in the past. Chuck even said getting rid of the filibuster would be ‘doomsday for democracy’. Forget we said all that; that was then, this is now. Upcoming elections will not be fair because the mean old Republicans are already conspiring to steal them and install fascist dictatorship forever, even though it’s we Democrats who harbor dreams of being in power to the end of time and will stop at nothing to steal elections to stay there. Even if we have to spin phony narratives about January 6th to get federal control over every election in the country from here on out. Forget the problems in the 2020 election; we’ve changed the subject, January 6th is all that matters now. We created those problems in 2020, but WE ARE THE SOLUTION.
The truth is the voting rights legislation the Democrats want is really a federal takeover of elections. They want to make it so that no state or locality can ever insist on voter ID again, no state can ever get rid of drop boxes, and no state can ever stop liberal billionaires from funding Democrat get-out-the-vote drives in the name of providing financial help for the official business of election administration. This is a recipe for mischief and disaster. It’s also unconstitutional. The Constitution gives most of the power to oversee elections to the states.
The Democrats call any questioning of the 2020 election ‘the big lie’. But there are lots of unanswered questions about what happened - Why did officials turn elections over to private liberal groups in Wisconsin? Why were Republican poll watchers thrown out of the vote counting center in Detroit? Why can’t we inspect the machines? Why is evidence being destroyed where investigations are taking place?
There are still plenty of problems with election integrity - voter ID not required in many places, dead people on the voter rolls, noncitizens registered and voting, loosey-goosey same-day registration, lack of signature verification on absentee ballots, the list goes on.
But here’s the biggest problem with the Democrats’ whole approach. I was at the Washington Monument on January 6th watching Trump speak. There were about a million people there that day to say they had no confidence in the 2020 election. A handful of ignoramuses broke the law that day at the Capitol Building. But if you federalize elections, as the Democrats want to do, you will guarantee lots of people will have no confidence in elections going forward. If you’re going to make it impossible through federal law to check voter ID, or clean the voter rolls, or get rid of drop boxes, elections will be less secure than ever and you will guarantee great masses of people will be deeply suspicious of the outcome of every election in the future. Institutionalize these things and every day will be January 6th, in the sense a sizeable portion of the electorate will have no confidence in our elections, whatsoever. Break the filibuster, pass this by the slimmest of majorities, and ram federal control over elections down our throats and see what you get. What you are attempting is horribly divisive. It will never be accepted by a strong majority of the American people and you will have no end of trouble. Efforts to reverse your takeover will never end. Now sit there with a straight face and tell me that will be good for our democracy.
1/10/22 - The Snakes and Devils of the Abortion Biz
Today, we pick up with exposing the wretched Left and Democrats and their despicable methods.
Turning now to abortion, Planned Parenthood in Chicago failed to report sex abuse against an underage girl. A former middle school principal drove the girl from Indiana, with whom he was sexually involved, to get an abortion. Planned Parenthood had to know something was not right when a grown man shows up with an underage girl, but they didn’t report the abuser to the police, as far as anyone knows. This is really not surprising when you consider repeated reports Planned Parenthood pushes abortions on girls as young as 11, without their parents’ knowledge or consent.
Evidence suggests abortion clinics do not routinely screen for whether expectant mothers are being pressured into having an abortion by partners, parents, employers, or others. This can result, as in a recent case in Argentina, with the woman not being allowed to leave the hospital and the abortion being performed without her consent.
Abortion activists are trying to get around the new abortion laws in Texas by transporting pregnant women to Mexico and smuggling dangerous abortion pills into the U.S. They openly state they do not care if this makes them criminals.
Claims that large numbers of women die in back-alley abortions where abortion is illegal have been debunked, again. The architect of Roe v. Wade, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, admitted he repeatedly told the press the number was 10,000 when the true number was closer to 200. Now the WHO has been caught lumping in miscarriages to overstate the number of deaths arising from illegal abortions.
Abortion advocates use dishonest poll results to hoodwink people into thinking abortion is popular. In one poll, people were asked if they support or oppose a law banning abortions after a heartbeat is detected. 58 percent responded they oppose, but that would include people who oppose the law because they want abortion banned BEFORE a heartbeat is detected.
If abortion advocates get their way, medical schools would be forced to teach students how to perform abortions. This is because so few doctors want any part of this dirty business.
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Pennsylvania has denied it performs abortions, but state records show it is conducting telemedicine abortions involving abortion pills, or plans to do so.
A liberal foundation played a key role in getting abortion pills approved and distributed, but they did it in the service of a hidden agenda - population control. They’re not the only ones with a hidden agenda. The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in 2009 that Medicaid funding for abortion would limit population growth in poor communities, “populations that we don’t want to have too many of,” in her words.
Covering up for pedophiles. Evading parents. Lying and making stuff up to feed to the press. Criminal activity. Hidden agendas. To abortion advocates I say, if this is the only way you can win, you don’t deserve to win. You deserve to lose, and to be condemned for your despicable acts and atrocious attitudes.
1/7/22 - Bad Rhetoric, Bad People
The Democrats and the Left were on their high horse yesterday, yammering on about how January 6th was as bad as 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Holocaust. Talk about over-the-top, overheated rhetoric, that takes the cake. Walking into the Capitol when the police opened the doors and let people in, that’s somehow like the Nazis sticking six million Jews into ovens? Who are they kidding? They are preaching to us about morality, so let’s take a look at what these people are really like, shall we? Let’s expose their methods.
Democrat operatives were caught in a sting video talking about paying people to incite violence at Trump rallies.
The Democrats tried to hoodwink people into thinking their original Build Back Better bill would only cost $3.5 trillion dollars. But then all their accounting gimmicks were exposed and now we know it’s really trillions more.
They’re dishonest about the way they regulate. For example, first they institute a standard for what’s considered lead poisoning in children. Then they tighten the standard which allows them to tighten the screws and regulate a lot more things supporters of the original standard never contemplated. Regulatory sleight-of-hand.
The Left tried to make hay with fires in the Amazon forest, linking them to climate change. But some of the fires were deliberately set by activists who being paid by an environmental group for taking pictures of fires.
A teacher in Iowa recently bragged about how she was getting around the state’s ban on teaching critical race theory (CRT) in schools.
Gun control advocates have been caught telling lies with statistics claiming, for example, gun deaths go down after background checks are instituted. They cherry-picked the results. Changing the time period slightly disproves the claim.
Their dishonesty in the service of phony narratives doesn’t stop there. A professor at Florida State University faked his data in published studies, which journals later retracted, studies which misportrayed the role of race in criminal sentencing.
The left-wing AARP got sued for taking kickbacks on health insurance policies purchased by its members.
The Left created conservation easements to lock up as much rural area as possible, keeping it as pretty as a postcard and preventing any real agriculture from going on. There are tax benefits for these easements, but the scam is to inflate the value of the land being placed under easement, thus inflating the tax benefits. This incentivizes the placement of more land under easement. See the machine the Left has created? Pretty clever, but it’s all based on tax fraud.
Left-wing unions lost the fight at the Supreme Court over mandatory union dues, but that hasn’t stopped them or even slowed them down. Later cases complain about the same thing and a hundred bills to get around the Supreme Court’s ruling have been introduced at the state level.
One way euthanasia activists gin up support for assisted suicide laws is to scare the old folks by telling them they will suffer mightily through a torturous death without assisted suicide. Actually, just the opposite is true. There are lots of horror stories about people lingering in pain and gasping for air for days after taking drugs that were supposed to kill them.
If you’re a Democrat or a Lefty listening to all this, you’re thinking right now all of these things are good because they help your side win and winning is the only thing. Winning is the only morality. But for normal people who still have a conscience, these things are not good. They're bad, and the people who do them are bad. The ends do not justify the means.
This I know for sure: We don’t need lectures on morality from the Democrats and the Left. They don’t know the first thing about it.
I’m going to pick up with this on Monday, when I talk about abortion. Now there’s a Holocaust for you. Tune in Monday when I expose how the Democrats and the Left deal from the bottom of the deck in pushing abortion.
1/6/22 - Of Insurrections and Threats to Democracy
As long as the Democrats are all hepped up about Law & Order today, let’s see if they’ll do something about the gargantuan criminal monster they created. I’m talking about the Soros DAs, the prosecutors who won’t prosecute. They are a threat to democracy.
Manhattan’s new DA Alvin Bragg has taken it upon himself to ignore the state legislature and change the laws so that many crimes no longer carry jail sentences. He’s doing this in the name of “fairness and safety”. That’s pretty cheeky, don’t you think? He is also imposing ‘incarceration impact statements’, meaning prosecutors can’t recommend prison terms if it will make it harder for defendants to get a job or they will suffer racially disparate outcomes in the future. He also changed the law where it allows sentences of life without parole. He unilaterally limited punishment in those cases to a maximum of 20 years.
Bragg claims all this will make the city safer because criminals will find it easier to reintegrate into society. Maybe that will actually happen in a handful of cases where the criminal wouldn’t eventually straighten out anyway, but what about the rest of the cases where criminals have no intention of reforming? They will receive kid glove treatment under Bragg’s policies and thus be incentivized to commit more crimes. What’s the net?
Police unions did not hold back in their criticism. “In Bragg’s Manhattan, you can resist arrest, deal drugs, obstruct arrests, and even carry a gun and get away with it,” one said. Another said this is all very demoralizing for the police. “Police officers don’t want to be sent out to enforce laws that the district attorneys won’t prosecute and there are already too many people who believe that they can commit crimes, resist arrest, interfere with police officers, and face zero consequences.”
In Seattle, where crime is spiking, police are allowed to go to the scene where a stolen vehicle is reported, surround the vehicle, and draw their guns. That’s it. They’re not allowed to pursue the vehicle if the car thief drives away, as just happened in a case this week. But don’t worry, under the logic of the Soros DAs, the poor oppressed car thief should be allowed to keep the car because it’s a crime of poverty. The car thief needs the car, and the rich owner of the car has insurance and can replace the car. In other words, the car thief wins because the car thief is a class hero and everybody else loses because they are class enemies, just like in communist countries. I defy you to tell me what democracy can survive if those are the rules of the game.
The Soros DA in San Francisco has been in office two years. He has made it easier for violent and non-violent offenders to get released, but, to hear him tell it, recent smash-and-grab robberies are not his fault. It’s society’s fault because society doesn’t prevent these crimes before they happen. Let me see if I’ve got this right. Prosecutors shouldn’t have to prosecute, because there shouldn’t be any crime in the first place. It is society that is bad, not criminals who are bad. So I guess that means the criminals should be prosecuting US for giving THEM a hard time when it is US who are bad. I feel so much better now that I understand just how bad I’ve been all this time, including the two times robbers have stuck a gun in my face and gotten away with it.
By the way, the San Francisco DA faces a recall election next June. I hope San Francisco voters come to their senses and kick this guy out. It’s not impossible. In November, voters in Seattle rejected a candidate for City Attorney who wanted to abolish the police and prisons entirely.
However, a recall effort against the Soros DA in Los Angeles failed last year. One consequence is that a murderer who received a 50 year sentence is free after just six years. The Soros DA did not even have the decency to tell the victim’s family the early release was in the works. It’s not the first time he sought a reduced sentence for a murderer. So, apparently, murderers are class heroes in this guy’s book and everybody else just has to suck it up.
If you’re worried about insurrection today, you should worry about the Soros DAs who are overthrowing the criminal justice system in cities around the country. If you don’t want to see the death of democracy, then you need to mobilize against the Soros DAs who ignore state legislatures, turn criminals into class heroes who always win no matter what, and you the voters into chumps who should just keep paying big salaries to prosecutors who won’t prosecute because some billionaire wants to turn your cities into cesspools.
1/5/22 - Woke Pentagon Provokes Organized Resistance
A group of retired and active duty military personnel along with concerned citizens has been actively opposing the Woke Pentagon since November. I will describe their activities to you, but first let’s get caught up on what the WokeMeisters running our military into the ground have been up to lately.
The Pentagon issued new guidelines cracking down on social media posts it deems ‘extremist’. Simply ‘liking’ a post or attending a meeting the Pentagon doesn’t like can get a soldier in trouble. The guidelines don’t really define what is considered ‘extreme’ and what is not. Groups and symbols the Pentagon brass will find unacceptable are not listed. Critics worry the loose definition will let the Pentagon target Christians and conservatives while giving black nationalists and other leftist radicals a pass.
That’s not all. The Pentagon ordered its contractor to stop making faith-based dog tags. The Air Force now encourages personnel to sign documents with their preferred pronouns. It’s also asking personnel to vote on which new “diversity, equity, and inclusion” logo they want. A Pentagon spokesperson said climate change is as big a threat to the U.S. as communist China which has actually declared ‘people’s war’ on us.
You might ask what all this has to do with war-fighting. Beats me. All this sound and fury is bizarre when you consider the number of supposed extremist incidents in the military is miniscule - “fewer than 100” over the past year - despite all the effort devoted to finding them. The Pentagon’s priorities are completely in the wrong place. It’s no surprise the public’s trust in the military is dropping like a rock under Joe Biden’s Woke appointees.
All of this prompted the group I mentioned at the outset - now known as STARRS to organize to oppose the implementation of Marxist critical race theory (CRT) and other aspects of the Woke agenda in the military. Members of the group have published a book, written articles, and given over 50 media interviews. And they’ve gotten somewhere already, persuading the Air Force Academy to replace a film extolling the virtues of the trained Marxist group Black Lives Matter with something less objectionable. STARRS is looking for more members and donors to press on with its mission of unifying service personnel around love of country. If you’d like to get involved, go to S-T-A-R-R-S-dot-COM.
[more on Secure Freedom Radio on 11/5/21 and 1/4/22]
1/4/22 - COVID Derangement Syndrome
You might be one of those people who absolutely refuse to look at anything from the political Right because you’ve been trained by the Left to believe everything on the Right is ‘fascistic’ and ‘reactionary’ - whatever that means. I ran into another person like that over the holidays. But you owe it to yourself to take a look at how your government has messed up the response to COVID by getting you to believe the most insane things.
Your government wants you to believe that cloth masks are effective against a tiny virus. But the WHO admitted there is no evidence masks are effective against COVID. One flawed study claiming masks work had to be redone and the revised results showed almost no difference. Other studies show surgical masks don’t work in operating rooms and some of those studies concluded disease transmission is actually LOWER when surgeons don’t wear them. A former FDA commissioner just said cloth masks do not protect against COVID. It’s crazy to go on believing masks work.
It’s also crazy to go on believing the lockdowns ultimately did any good when an examination of 400 studies concluded that COVID “mask mandates, lockdowns, and school closures have had no discernible impact of virus trajectories.” There’s no evidence any of these things work.
Then we have the whole obsession with COVID vaccines while effective treatments for COVID illness get overlooked or shut down. Ivermectin is safe and effective but your government doesn’t want you to have it. In addition to previous evidence from India and Japan that Ivermectin works, we now have evidence from Brazil. COVID hospitalizations and mortality were cut in half in a southern Brazilian city after Ivermectin was offered as a prophylactic to every resident. It’s crazy for the government and medical associations to threaten doctors with losing their license for prescribing Ivermectin for their COVID patients who want it. But the government is also trying to disrupt other COVID treatments. Florida wants more monoclonal antibodies, but the federal government says no. Over a hundred studies show a strong correlation between high levels of Vitamin D and better COVID outcomes. But when was the last time you heard Dr. Fauci talk about Vitamin D? Senator Ron Johnson and others accuse Fauci and the entire public health establishment of deliberately sabotaging the use of cheap and effective generic drugs like hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin for COVID. It’s crazy to go on believing public health authorities have your best interests at heart when they are deliberately trying to keep safe and effective treatments away from you.
The COVID quackery never ends. Fauci just admitted the number of child hospitalizations for COVID is grossly inflated. Authorities include children who happened to test positive for COVID when they are in the hospital for something else. Then there’s the whole PCR test fiasco. The CDC just admitted the PCR test cannot distinguish between COVID and the flu and withdrew emergency use authorization for COVID testing. Also, it turns out that the Pfizer vaccine does not really protect you 95 percent of the time, as the results of clinical trials are often portrayed. The marginal benefit of the Pfizer vaccine versus being unvaccinated is less than one percent. This is because, contrary to what public health authorities want you to believe, the risk of contracting COVID while unvaccinated is very low to start with. The 95 percent figure is a statistical gimmick and the text version of today’s commentary gives you a link where you can read up on it.
It’s also crazy to go on believing everything you are being told about COVID when the people giving the advice are making money off the pandemic or gratifying their lust for power by getting to control you. The federal CARES Act gives bonus incentive payments to hospitals for COVID testing, diagnosis, certain favored treatments, and vaccinations. As much as two-thirds of the federal COVID relief money to reopen schools was diverted to new sports facilities and other non-pandemic uses, a watchdog group found. The head of the CDC just said its COVID guidelines are based on what the agency thinks people will be able to tolerate. And you thought they were following the science. Pushing you as far as they can get away with might be political science, but it’s not science.
Fourteen days to flatten the curve. Get vaccinated and your life can go back to normal. Wear a mask, don’t wear a mask. Get a test, don’t get a test. Sorry, but you have put your faith in people who can’t even put their underwear on straight, or who are trying to line their own pockets in all this, or who get their jollies from controlling you. It’s crazy to go on believing them and all the crazy things they tell you. I call it COVID Derangement Syndrome, but I know many of you will go right on believing them regardless of what I say here today. You’re not thinking clearly, and I feel sorry for you.
1/3/22 - COVID Nazis Goose-Stepping Their Way to Thousand-Year Reich
The COVID Nazis were out in full force over the holidays.
A video shows a woman on a domestic flight yelling at a man to put his mask on. After the man refuses because he is eating, the woman hits him and spits on him. New York police are enforcing the city’s vaccine mandate by surrounding diners at their tables, demanding to see their vaccination cards, and threatening to arrest them if they don’t leave. New York Democrats have proposed legislation to silence critics of COVID policies under the guise of prohibiting what they call ‘medical disinformation’ on social media. Catholic Charities in Spokane refused to feed the homeless on Christmas if they weren’t vaccinated, so some people got together and did it themselves. A commentator on MSNBC said the unvaccinated should be refused hospital care. How about we just take them away in ambulances with the windows blacked out and incinerate them, instead?
In recent weeks, A Portland school forced children to eat outside in 40-degree weather in order to enforce the state’s indoor mask mandate. Oregon Democrats are itching to make the mandate permanent. Santa Cruz County in California imposed an indoor mask mandate that applies to private homes. New York City required all private sector employees to be vaccinated. Doctors and nurses are being warned not to speak out against COVID vaccines on pain of losing their license. I have a friend whose doctor just received such a letter.
Things could be worse. In the Netherlands, police sicced dogs on anti-lockdown protesters and beat the protesters with batons. The Australian Army is forcibly removing people who test positive and their close contacts to quarantine camps. Austria has announced mandatory universal vaccination over age 14 and will soon send out swarms of inspectors to collect fines from people who refuse to pay up, or drag them to jail. A Canadian province has decreed no vaccine, no access to grocery stores.
It’s getting crazier, and for no good reason. I’ve commented before that COVID rules are becoming more authoritarian precisely at the same time the phony narratives supporting them are getting weaker and weaker. Tomorrow, I’ll delve more deeply into the phony narratives which, collectively I call COVID Derangement Syndrome. But for today, I leave you with hope. Resistance is not futile. Resistance works. Los Angeles public schools canceled their COVID vaccine mandate because 30,000 students were not in compliance. Some big hospitals have dropped their vaccine mandates because so many hospital workers refuse to get the shot. A Virginia hospital was held in contempt of court for withholding ivermectin from a patient. If you are refused treatments like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin which have been proven safe and effective against COVID, you should sue, too. Sue every single medical professional who refuses to provide a reasonable standard of care for political reasons. They want to play politics, make them pay, that’s what I say.
12/22/21 - Left’s Guns Falling Silent in War on Christmas
The Left is losing the war on Christmas - badly - so now it’s trying to convince you it never happened. That’s a laugh.
There are the usual atheist groups flying ‘religious freedom’ banners doing their usual thing this year - protesting Christmas wreaths on military graves and installing yet another boring Satanic display in a state capitol building. These people are violating Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, the most important of which is ‘don’t repeat your stunts, don’t be boring.’
But the rest of the Left is mostly missing in action this year. Things have definitely changed from just a few years ago. (These links are old and may not work.)
In 2015 alone:
Ah, the good old days. But, according to the Left, these things never happened, there never was a war on Christmas. It doesn’t exist. Conservatives made the whole thing up.
“There is not, and there never has been, a widespread campaign to harass, exclude, or persecute anyone who dares to wish a stranger a ‘Merry Christmas,’ as the Christmas warriors would have it,” an atheist recently wrote in Politico. According to this writer, the Left’s war on Christmas is just a “conflict invented to fill right-wing cable airtime,” a creation of the “grievance-industrial complex”, and an “effort by activist Christians to retain their cultural supremacy.”
And, of course, it’s all Donald Trump’s fault for appointing himself General Patton to fight the war on Christmas. Trump said recently, “When I started campaigning, I said, ‘You’re going to say “Merry Christmas” again,’ and now, people are saying it.” What left-wing article would be complete or even get published without bashing Trump?
But I digress. In the upside down world of this writer, the Left never tried to embarrass everyone out of saying “Merry Christmas”. No, it was the Right that started the whole thing by turning the phrase into a political weapon to pound on the Left. Sure, and I’m Santa Claus. The author’s bottom line: the Right should give up its phony claims there ever was a war on Christmas and just go away.
That’s ridiculous. This is gaslighting of the highest order. It presupposes the atheist groups never made an issue out of Christmas without anyone asking them to. Even today, you can go to the Freedom From Religion Foundation website and read all about how Christmas is just a relic of sun worship. The phony narrative presupposes there never was an endless parade of legal challenges to nativity scenes at the Supreme Court. So many we now have the reindeer rule requiring jurisdictions to mix in other symbols with their nativity scenes to pass constitutional muster. And it presupposes that the University of Tennessee, the National Geographic cable channel, and all the other anti-Christmas warriors didn’t have guns blazing in 2015, as noted above.
Here’s what’s going on. The Left is losing the war on Christmas, just like it’s losing the abortion fight and the war on parents. So the Left is trying to get you to believe it was all in your head and you’re delusional for thinking they’ve been up to no good and trying to destroy Christmas. Don’t fall for this line. They’re known liars - Trump/Russia collusion hoax, anyone? - and, what’s more, they think it’s their duty to lie to you because truth doesn’t matter; winning is the only thing.
So now I wish you all - gay, straight, Christian, Jewish, atheist - a Merry Christmas. I love saying that because it drives the Left nuts.
12/21/21 - Fourth Down and 98 to Go
The Left thought it was within inches of the goal line, close to finishing off the political Right forever. Not even close. That was before Trump came along, completely disrupted their plans, and inspired millions to emulate his fighting spirit. And it was before the Cuomo-Industrial complex completely collapsed with the Governor and his journalist brother knocked off their perches in complete disgrace. Not only that, the political Right gets better organized by the day. We’re wise to all your tricks. We’re immune to your dazzling word games. We’re getting more creative by the day. And we’re taking you head on everywhere you look.
Fifteen states put woke banks on notice they will pull $600 billion in deposits if the banks refuse to provide financing to fossil fuel companies. That’s pretty creative; I haven’t seen anything like that, before.
The National Fraternal Order of Police blasted the NFL for its support of defund the police efforts. “I find it incredibly ironic that NFL teams travel and play every week under the protection of local law enforcement,” the group’s president said.
A police officer in Virginia who was fired for donating to the Kyle Rittenhouse legal defense fund demanded his job back.
Parents around the country are suing public schools for initiating students into gender transitioning and hiding it from parents.
Female prisoners sued California for moving transgender biological males into their facilities. The suit cites, among other things, increased risk of rape, sexual harassment, and STDs.
Over 700 mathematicians and scientists signed an open letter condemning schools for turning math education into social justice drivel that leaves students unprepared for the workplace and life.
Republican lawmakers in New Jersey sued the Democrat majority for trying to make them get COVID vaccines or submit to incessant testing. The Republicans entered the statehouse in defiance and the Democrat COVID Nazis are losing in court, at least so far.
Speaking of COVID Nazis, a town in California declared itself a ‘constitutional republic’ to block state and federal COVID mandates.
An assistant football coach sued Illinois State University for firing him for putting an ‘All Lives Matter’ sign on his office door.
A Christian student club sued the University of Nebraska for requiring it to balance its speakers with opposing points of view, something the university itself does not do when bringing left-wing speakers to campus.
A pro-life nurse won her case against a health clinic in Illinois that fired her for refusing to refer women to abortion providers or help them get drugs to terminate their pregnancies.
A new documentary features black people who have left the Democrat Party and accuse it of lying to them and keeping them down for decades.
Memo to the American Left: cut it out. Give up now, you’ll never knock us out. We’ll never submit to your rule, because we know we’re right and we know you’re full of it. You want to conquer us - you’ll have to bleed for every inch, and you’ll lose in the end. So take your lust for power and shove it! You accuse us of making war on democracy. That’s pretty funny, because you ARE the war on democracy. Mind your own business and leave us alone.
12/20/21 - The “Messed Up World of White Wokeness”
Burlington, Vermont cut its police force by 30 percent, back when ‘defunding the police’ was cool. Now Democrats are admitting the cut did a lot of damage. Officers left in droves because of the hostility. Overtime costs soared. Only five officers patrol at night. A crime-fighting team was disbanded. Emergency call response times got longer. Burglary and vehicle thefts are up. But not to worry, City Hall hired its own private security firm for their own safety. But like other places, Burlington had to confess error and reverse course. In October, the City Council voted to raise the number of officers and to offer bonuses to keep any more from quitting.
Burlington’s police chief called the whole ‘defund the police’ movement “a grand experiment on a national and local level that’s gone awry.” You got that right. But defunding the police is not the only way the magical thinking mush-for-brains Left has messed up criminal justice in recent months.
Take zero bail, for example. Crime is up in Democrat cities that enacted bail reform, including New York City. One reason is that repeat offenders who are let out go on to commit more crimes. Duh! How many repeat offenses would it take for you to think there might be a problem here - three? five? California’s no-bail policy resulted in a car-theft suspect being re-arrested 13 times in 12 weeks. Zero bail - another crazy left-wing idea. Police in Los Angeles arrested 14 suspects in smash-and-grab robberies last month, but they were all released from jail because of the Democrats’ low-or-no-bail policies. Just the facts, ma’am.
If stolen watches don’t matter to you, maybe murder will get your attention. Twelve U.S. cities, all run by Democrats, broke homicide records this year. Philadelphia had more than 500 murders. Critics are pointing to the defund the police movement as the cause. It only took Philadelphia a year and a half to go from cutting its police budget by $33 million to the most murders on record since 1990. The spike in homicides in Chicago is attributable to a lack of support for the police and to left-wing prosecutors who coddle violent offenders out of some misguided notion they are downtrodden and oppressed. Chicago is where gangs can shoot up entire neighborhoods and get released without charges.
Left-wing Democrats would rather chase unicorns and rainbows than criminals. It’s gotten so bad in L.A., the head of the police union is warning tourists to stay away because the police cannot guarantee their safety. In San Francisco, residents call the police to deal with stolen packages, break-ins, open drug use and other problems created by the homeless - but the police won’t come.
But Leftists are either in denial or actually trying to gaslight you. Take left-wing District Attorney Larry Krasner in Philadelphia where homicides passed 500 this year. Krasner said recently, “We don’t have a crisis of lawlessness, we don’t have a crisis of crime, we don’t have a crisis of violence.” In response, former Mayor Michael Nutter who is black said, “I have to wonder what kind of messed up world of white wokeness Krasner is living in to have so little regard for human lives lost, many of them Black and brown, while he advances his own national profile as a progressive district attorney.” Amen.
A “messed up world of white wokeness.” Had enough of these left-wing crazies, yet?
12/17/21 - National Security Front and Center
America’s adversaries are on the march, national security experts warn, because the Biden administration and, thus America, are perceived as weak. The experts fear Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran will act in coordinated fashion to make moves they’ve been wanting to make for a long time, but did not dare to make when Donald Trump was President. [Secure Freedom Radio, Dec 15th and 16th] So, for example, Russia might invade Ukraine and, while the U.S. is occupied with that, China would invade Taiwan, North Korea would move against South Korea, and Iran would mobilize its proxies like Hamas to further its aims in the Middle East. This scenario has probably never occurred to the left-wing ideologues in the Biden administration who don’t realize the world is a dangerous place. Nor do they understand that weakness is provocative and only emboldens rogue nations around the world.
While you’re sticking your head in the sand about that, try ignoring all the other growing threats to national security we face today:
In case you haven’t noticed, China is busy building superweapons that can deliver knock-out punches. I warned you in October China has acquired the ability to mount surprise nuclear attacks anywhere in the world with hypersonic missiles launched from space. Since that time, it’s been reported China’s military has declared biowarfare to be its fundamental guiding principle and is developing bioweapons to target race and ethnicity. Imagine a world where only Han Chinese remain because people of every other stripe have been wiped out. In addition to weaponizing Han Chinese racism, China has developed other superweapons including a “satellite-crusher” that can capture and disable or destroy other satellites and an antenna to communicate with its submarines thousands of miles away. China is also investing heavily in quantum computing to break any encryption which has profound implications for war-fighting and commerce. The U.S. Space Force is warning that China is advancing its ability to fight in space at twice the rate we are.
Russia, meanwhile, is building hypersonic weapons, the world’s best air and missile defenses, and underground shelters for millions of people which show Russia does not believe nuclear war is out of the question.
The U.S. military is only “marginally” able to defend America’s interests, according to the recently released 2022 Index of U.S. Military Strength. The Index singles out the Air Force and Space Force as particularly weak and unprepared to fight.
And what are we doing in the face of all this? Making sure every member of America’s armed forces is taught America is a horrible rotten racist country not worth fighting for. Let us give thanks to our Woke Pentagon for that. We are also purging the military of personnel who refuse to get vaccinated for COVID, most recently over a hundred Marines. This is a luxury we cannot afford. The purge is just beginning and has the prospect of wiping out key capabilities like, for example, entire Navy Seal teams. Seven hundred Seals are refusing to get vaccinated. [Sam Faddis on Secure Freedom Radio, week of 10/11/21]
If you think America is safe and we can fiddle while other countries with hostile intent ramp up their military capabilities for possible use against us, you are taking an awful lot for granted.
12/16/21 - Transgenderism Is Communism
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So many narratives, so little time. Today, we take another look at the transgender narrative and zero in on how the wheels are falling off this stupid lie in so many ways.
Before we get started, I’ve said many times there have always been transgender people and always will be. Nobody should hate them or want to do them harm. But that doesn’t mean I want them in control of public policy or to give them every bit of political power they desire. These are separate questions.
Transgenderism is communism. I’ve talked before about the communist technique of Hegelian dialectical negation. Take a foundational idea, set up a contrary idea in motion against it, and keep agitating until the foundational idea is destroyed. Up to now, it’s been universally understood there are only two biological sexes, male and female. Set in motion the contrary idea that gender is just a social and psychological construct and, Voila!, all of a sudden there are 57 genders, men need tampons and can get pregnant, and women’s sports are dead. The point of all this obvious insanity is to help usher in the socialist revolution which, in case you don’t know, really means wealth and power for a tiny elite.
But don’t take my word for it. Now we have video evidence that transgenderism is communism. There’s a video on YouTube with four trans activists saying, among other things. “Trans liberation calls for communist revolution.” In the video, they discuss ways to bring about a “communist society” to benefit trans people. Revolution would “require the abolition of society as it currently is. When we demand that society be arranged in certain ways, this is part of the project.” There you have it, in-your-face Hegelian dialectical negation in spades, and proof that transgenderism is at root communism. It couldn’t be any clearer.
So the ideology of political transgenderism is rotten to its core. But communism is not the only thing wrong with it. Transgenderism has been destroying women’s sports for a couple of years now, but a particularly egregious example came up recently. The nation was horrified when a biological male on the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team, who formerly competed as a man, recently wiped out a bunch of records previously held by real women. It was a massacre. This guy shattered one women’s record by 38 seconds. The women on the team are distressed by the fact they will never have a chance of winning again. Viewed dispassionately, one could say the patriarchy is destroying women’s sports, but women’s rights groups won’t stand up for women’s rights. Why? Because they’re hard core Leftists first, committed to the revolution. They don’t give a darn about women’s rights. Stop sending them money.
The obliteration of women’s rights in the name of political transgenderism is occurring worldwide now, thanks to the United Nations. The UN is busy reinterpreting all its documents containing the term “gender equality” to mean ‘transgender identity protection’. Its women’s rights office has switched from women’s rights to promoting gender identity as a core value.
The stupid transgenderism lie has also been forcing compelled speech, a big constitutional no-no. The latest example is New York’s new law ordering utilities, phone companies, and municipal governments to use preferred pronouns when interacting with the public verbally or in writing.
Here are some more wheels falling off the transgenderism narrative recently: Children under 16 presumed to be able to give informed consent to puberty blockers when they aren’t old enough to consent to a car loan; public schools pushing transgenderism on very young kids 4 to 8 years old and hiding student gender transitioning from parents; a psychiatric journal admitting it falsely claimed gender transitioning improves mental health when it doesn’t; and commercial transgender vendors not disclosing hormones are physically addictive. I don’t know which is worse - the communist ideology of political transgenderism or the transgender-industrial complex whose only interest in all of this is making money.
Before you Lefties attack me for transphobia, sweep your own doorstep before you come after me. Ibram X. Kendi, patron saint of antiracism wokitude and great hero of the revolution, said last month he was horrified when his young daughter told him she wanted to be a boy. So much for intersectionality. Kendi must be a great disappointment to his fellow travelers who pushed his shtick at every turn. Maybe he won’t get invited to speak at any more socialist conferences. So go attack Kendi before you attack me. Meanwhile, if you want to defend your communist ideology of political transgenderism, your use of the communist technique of Hegelian dialectical negation, or the crassly commercial transgender-industrial complex, I’m all ears.
(h/t Mark Levin 12/15/21 6pm hour played the trans activists’ video sound track)
12/15/21 - New York City Takes a Wrong Turn on Noncitizen Voting
Last week, the New York City council granted noncitizens with green cards or work visas the right to vote in local elections, becoming the largest U.S. city to do so. About a million adult noncitizens live in New York City, equal to roughly 20 percent of currently registered voters. This is enough to change the outcome of close primaries and elections. New York City joins 14 smaller jurisdictions in the U.S. that allow noncitizens to vote, including San Francisco which recently let noncitizens vote in school board elections. This trend is going in the wrong direction for several reasons, some of which I will outline here today.
First, every vote cast by a noncitizen nullifies a vote cast by a U.S. citizen who should come first in their own country. The noncitizens had the right to vote in their own country, but they freely left it behind. It can’t have been very important to them. The fact they pay taxes here is completely irrelevant.
Which raises the second objection. This is all part of the Democrats’ plan to devalue citizenship, trash patriotism, get people to think it’s no longer important to be an American, and destroy America as it was founded. This is so the Democrats have a better chance of staying in power forever and imposing their collectivist authoritarian ideology on the rest of us. The Democrats are up to no good and are using noncitizens as pawns in their cynical power games.
Third, noncitizen voters don’t have to know anything about the Bill of Rights or the U.S. Constitution. They don’t have to have any acquaintance with freedom of speech or religion, underlying constitutional values like popular sovereignty, or understand our American form of government in the least. And they certainly don’t have to believe in any of these things to cast their vote. They can come from any system - communism, dictatorship, oligarchy, what have you - support those systems, not swear allegiance to the U.S., even hate America, and still have their vote count just as much as citizens who faithfully believe in American ideals.
Not every Democrat is on board with this. One New York City councilman, a Democrat, pointed out that, with just a 30-day residency requirement, a large group of noncitizens could easily move to New York City, take it over, then leave. In addition, immigration advocates worry that noncitizens will mistakenly vote in state and federal elections, putting them in legal jeopardy and forever ending their chances of becoming citizens. They also worry voter roll information about noncitizens will fall into the wrong hands and be used to injure noncitizens in various ways.
The Democrats always prattle on about how their opponents are waging war on democracy. But they should look in the mirror. Nothing wages war on democracy more than letting noncitizens potentially determine what goes on here. A poll showed most New Yorkers do not want noncitizen voting. What about them? What about their democracy? The Democrats are such hypocrites in this regard. They call noncitizen voting the ‘next frontier of democracy’ when what they are really trying to do is destroy democracy and frustrate the popular will.
This is the wrong direction, but there are ways to stop this movement. Citizens in Alabama, Colorado, and Florida approved amendments to their state constitutions by large majorities last year to bar noncitizen voting. Senator Marco Rubio will introduce legislation to strip federal funding from cities that allow noncitizens to vote. I encourage you, if you still believe in America and want it to remain the land of the free, to get up off the couch and do something to prevent noncitizens from voting in any of our elections. If you don’t know what to do, go to the OnlyCitizens [dot]Vote website on the Internet.
12/14/21 - Meanwhile, Back in the Swamp
Our corrupt elites never fail to disappoint. In recent weeks:
Chuck Schumer, who criticized President Trump for being in bed with Russia, along with other top Democrats took campaign contributions from a prominent Democrat fundraiser whose lobbying firm received $8.5 million from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline which is owned by Gazprom, the Russian state-run energy giant. Schumer recently refused to have a floor vote on sanctions against Russia. No conflict of interest here, nosiree.
Then, again, congress critters are not known for their high ethical standards. Nancy Pelosi’s husband owns up to a million dollars in call options on Tesla stock, while Nancy is out there pushing federal subsidies for electric vehicles to the tune of tens of billions of dollars for charging stations and tax credits. It might all be legal, but it sure stinks -p-ew! - and Nancy won’t comment.
Lawmakers are supposed to report stock trades but seven of them - four Democrats and three Republicans - did not, according to an ethics watchdog group that filed complaints. One lawmaker failed to report 300 transactions. Critics say lawmakers are finding ways around reporting requirements and little is being done to enforce the rules.
Democrat Maxine Waters paid her daughter another $81,000 in campaign funds in fiscal 2021, raising the total to more than $1.2 million since 2003. Nice work, if you can get it, but most of us can’t.
A Democrat Congresswoman from Florida used her official Twitter account to push followers to her Senate campaign account, apparently violating House rules against using taxpayer-funded resources for campaign purposes, critics said.
Speaking of campaign contributions, a health firm in California whose personnel donated almost a million dollars to Joe Biden and other Democrat campaigns was just ordered to pay $90 million to settle claims it had defrauded Medicare. Worst case, this is an example of companies greasing the palms of politicians in the hopes they will look the other way when it comes to questionable activities.
A lawsuit is alleging the EPA violated the law when it threw out a Trump administration conflict of interest rule in order to replace Trump appointees on advisory committees. “In an unprecedented purge, EPA eliminated all industry representatives from two important advisory committees in order to stack those committees with academics who are financially beholden to EPA for multimillion-dollar research grants,” the complaint reads. People dependent on the EPA for their livelihood now passing judgment on what the EPA wants to do - imagine that.
Over at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the agency announced its intention to prohibit the use of education benefits at some for-profit schools, but investor activity in the stocks affected picked up before the announcement was made. Some are concerned the announcement was either mishandled or intentionally leaked to facilitate insider trading.
Finally, sixteen Biden appointees have gotten ethics waivers exempting them from the ethics rules other people have to follow. Observers anticipate the adventures of these swamp creatures will become the subject of congressional investigations if Republicans take over the House or Senate next year. We can only hope. We deserve better than swamp gas, don’t we?
12/13/21 - The Unraveling of a Modern-Day Lynching
They made a big deal out of the fact Jussie Smollett was supposedly the victim of a hate crime, so I’m going to make a big deal out of the fact it was all a hoax and everybody who pushed the story really should apologize. They were either only too willing to be duped, at best, or left-wing propagandists deliberately pushing a phony narrative to score political points.
This story was made to order for the Left’s phony narrative on race and diversity. A gay black actor gets beaten up while out for a sandwich at 2 a.m. in downtown Chicago. The attackers put a noose around his neck and yelled, “This is MAGA country.” Except we now know it was all a crock, it never happened.
Despite the implausibilities of the story, the media ran wild with it, it was all over the news. Politicians fell all over themselves to condemn the attack and show us how virtuous they were.
Joe Biden said, “homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie.” Kamala Harris called it a “modern-day lynching”. The lynching theme was echoed by Senator Cory Booker. Bernie Sanders said the attack was evidence of “surging hostility” against minorities. Elizabeth Warren said, “no one should have to live in fear of being beaten on the street because of who they are.” Except it never happened.
A bevy of Hollywood celebrities fell for it, too. One tweeted: “OMG!! THIS is why the LGBTQ community continue[sic] to fight to be seen and PROTECTED against hate! We ALL have to take this racist and homophobic act of violence very personally!” Except it never happened.
Other people who gushed about the fake attack at the time now have egg all over their face. This includes Adam Schiff, Rashida Tlaib, Pete Buttigieg, and the Reverend Al Sharpton. Because it never happened. That’s what happens when mindless leftists believe their own phony narratives too much. America is a horrible rotten place full of white supremacists, Ku Klux Klanners who forgot their hoods, and systemic racism. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
The Jussie Smollett story blew up in their face but, sad to say, that didn’t stop the Left from continuing to push their phony narratives. Charges of racism continue unabated. The latest example is the preposterous claim that farmers markets and food charities are evidence of white supremacy.
As was brilliantly observed recently, charges of racism can work only because present-day America is not a fundamentally racist country. This is not 1861, when slavery existed. It’s not even 1961, when lunch counters were segregated. In fact, the most visible racism I can see in 2021 is reverse racism coming from activists who want things like separate dorms, events, and graduation ceremonies for minority college students.
The Left’s whole race narrative has gone just about as far as it can go. It’s actually counterproductive now, as the Jussie Smollett hate hoax shows. It’s time to drop this well of poison and get on to better things.
12/10/21 - Marching Orders to America From the Progressive Left
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Hello. I’m from the Progressive Left. We will soon be in charge of everything, so I wanted to tell you what you can expect from us and what you’re supposed to do.
We will tell you how to live and when to die.
First, we have to talk about your lifestyle. You’re just a tiny percentage of the world’s population, but you consume most of its resources. We’re gonna fix that. After we get done with our Green New Deal, you will cut your energy use by 90 percent, stop all that unnecessary traveling, make do with one tank of gas a year, cut your food consumption by a third, and only buy 9 pounds of clothing every 12 months. Your kids might like visiting Grandma in another state, but they’ll get over it. It’s for their own good. We have to stop our computer models from telling us the planet will burn up a hundred years from now.
Everything you get from now on will be determined by us. So forget all that stuff about industriousness and being rewarded for your hard work. Don’t worry about doing well in school. It won’t matter if you can’t read or write. We will reward you for your obedience, instead. Government will control the goodies and we will control the government. From each according to their ability, to each according to their obedience. Obey, and you can go to nicer restaurants. Obey and you can get your own apartment instead of being assigned to a flophouse and the roommates we select for you. Obey and we will let you shop where we shop. Obey and we will let you travel outside your zone, maybe even go see Grandma. Obey and we will let you into university and give you a good job. Obey and we might even let you see a doctor when you need it. Disobey and.... Well, do we have to spell it out? Your life will be miserable.
You will pay higher taxes, for sure. After all, it’s just your fair share, your shared responsibility payment. A small price to pay for heaven on earth, wouldn’t you say?
Freedom and self-government? We the People are sovereign? Forget all that stuff. That’s so 1776. We have evolved since then. Submission is so much better than freedom, you’ll see. Your life will be great when we build back better. No worries, no pain, no pesky choices to make. You will submit to us and you will be happy. You will own nothing and be happy about it
This is all for your own good. Don’t pay attention to those people who tell you we’re doing all this just to get wealth and power for ourselves. We have the most valuable moral code. We are ending all human suffering and creating heaven on earth. So what if we get rich in the process? So what if we’re in power forever? So what if people get hurt by our policies? Our intentions are good and that’s the only thing that matters. Like one of us said when we were ramming Obamacare down your throats: We have to do these things to “control the people”. They can’t be left to their own devices if we’re going to get to where we want to go - the Brave New Progressive Future. People are just no darn good. We have to fundamentally transform human nature. We have to force people to fall in line with our directives or we won’t reach our goals. So we have to destroy this entire horrible rotten country to save it.
But don’t worry. You’ll love being ruled by us - or else!
12/9/21 - What the Left Has Planned for You
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Today’s efforts by the Left to supersize Obamacare, federalize all elections, and create new entitlements are bad enough but, as I’ve said many times, the Left never quits. So let’s look ahead a bit, shall we, to see what the Left has planned for you down the road.
First, look for the Left to escalate its war on parents. It is not content with siccing the FBI on parents who disagree with left-wing school board policies. It eventually wants to require everyone to get a government license before they can have children. They will comb through your life, give you psychological tests, and invade your home all to determine whether you are fit to be a parent. Universal home child welfare visits are already the law in Scotland. Make no mistake - the ultimate goal is to abolish the family and impose collective child-rearing by social engineers. It takes a village to make sure everyone grows up to be a left-wing village idiot, you see.
Meanwhile, another battlefront has opened in the war on parents. There is a $100 million effort underway to build a pipeline of social justice warrior principals to run public schools. Forget education, these principals will be there to produce ‘equity’ which means equality of outcome which means dragging top achievers down so they don’t embarrass the disadvantaged kids who, under this line of thinking, can’t possibly achieve anything in life in this horrible rotten place called America. Tell it to Ben Carson.
Second, look for the Left to escalate its war on law & order. The Left is not content with defunding the police in the abstract. It is actively trying to stop the hiring of new police officers. It is not content with opening safe injection sites where drug addicts can shoot up without penalty. It is actively working to decriminalize ALL drug use. You want less crime? Simple. Just take the laws off the books, normalize all aberrant behavior and, Voila!, you will have less crime, except you will actually end up with more crime as society unravels.
Third, look for the Left to ramp up new-fangled notions of ‘personhood’ to create all kinds of mischief. It’s been a couple of years since the Left first went about trying to make rivers ‘persons’ with rights that can’t be violated without due process. The bottom line there is less freedom for human activity, especially economic activity, because it might cause pollution and thereby deprive rivers of their ‘rights’. The same thing is starting up with animals. A recent federal court ruling recognized hippos as legal persons for the first time in U.S. history, legally protected from cruelty and exploitation. One immediate consequence is that hippos now have the right to file lawsuits, take discovery, and conduct depositions. Or rather, I should say, left-wing animal rights groups now have legal standing to do all these things on behalf of hippos. Just wait until this idea gets expanded to challenge what’s on your dinner plate. You might have teeth as a product of human evolution for a reason, but don’t assume you will still be allowed to eat meat after the Left sics Bessie the Cow and her lawyer on you. No leather briefcases, please! You got milk? Forget it!
Speaking of food, the Left is coming after you in other ways, too. California has started to enforce a law passed in 2016 requiring residents to put food scraps in containers for recycling instead of in the garbage or disposall. This is being done in the name of stopping climate change. The city will check your bins and fines for noncompliance start at $30. Suppose you’re away for a month and you get fined for not having anything in your bins? Sounds like justice to me.
Look across the ocean to see the future of all this: They want people to eat less meat and cut food waste in half. So they are setting about to force farmers to use less fertilizer, antibiotics, and pesticides. Nobody knows how this experiment will turn out, because nobody has ever attempted it before. But what is clear already is the mindset of the Left: Control the food, control the people. And Senator Corey Booker wants to bring it all the U.S., and make “food policy the center of the progressive agenda.”
Control the food, control the people. Abolish the police, control the people with federal police. Control the parents, control future generations. Yep, the Left has it all figured out. They will create heaven on earth and end all human suffering. All you have to do is keep them in power and obey. Pol Pot and Mao Zedong thought that way. Pretty soon, tens of millions of people were dead. And that’s today’s round-up of what the Left has planned for you. Have a nice day!
12/8/21 - January 6th: The Democrats’ Star Chamber
A new report from House Republicans put a spotlight on the cruel treatment of the January 6th prisoners who are still awaiting trial, none of whom have been charged with insurrection. The report cites, among other things, detention without court dates or bail, no family visits, and intentional abuse by prison guards. C-SPAN Gateway Pundit
Before detailing the abuses further, first, a little perspective. The charges against these prisoners are things like trespass, assault on a police officer, and obstruction of official proceedings. None of this amounts to insurrection, despite the Democrats’ robotic and ubiquitous incantations of the term. Prosecutors haven’t charged insurrection because they know they can’t make a case for it.
When I was a criminal defense attorney, a charge like trespass for first offenders would have been handled completely differently. There would have been a chance of first offender treatment whereby, if certain conditions were met, the charge would be dropped and the record expunged. If not first offender treatment, the defendant would have been granted release on their own recognizance or small bond, probably pled guilty, and been sentenced to probation and a fine. To keep a first offender in jail on a minor charge for almost a year without a finding of guilt or even a court date would have been unthinkable. The way the January 6th cases are being handled is crazy, and the only reason is politics.
Back to the abuses: A congressional delegation toured the facility where the prisoners still awaiting trial are being held and talked to them. The delegation heard stories of broken toilets, prison guards mocking prisoners as members of a cult and telling them to denounce Trump, not being fed properly, not being allowed religious services, being denied medical treatment or even haircuts, not getting their mail on a regular basis, being confined to their cells most of the day, and not being allowed to talk to their attorneys.
This is America? No, this is more like the Star Chamber of Merry Olde England, where the King used criminal process to control his political enemies. [Criminal Evidence: Principles and Cases by Thomas J. Gardner, Terry M. Anderson, p. 175]. Constitutional rights and due process were thrown out the window. What is happening to the January 6th prisoners is starting to look like indefinite detention, which is a big constitutional no-no. Why don’t we just cut to the chase and put them on the rack until they denounce Trump and admit they conspired with him to overthrow the U.S. government?
The Democrats want to paint these prisoners as insurrectionists, committed revolutionaries who conspired to take down the whole system. Stupid wahoos who didn’t know what their goal was or how to achieve it, but were just upset, is more like it. Anybody like me who has tried to organize anything will tell you the grassroots political Right is completely incapable of pulling together anything as complicated as overthrowing a government. Heck, we organizers have a hard enough time getting people to write to Congress on important issues. Don’t tell me this was a planned insurrection. I don’t believe you. Twelve years of trying to herd cats on the political Right tells me otherwise.
So how about a little justice for the January 6th prisoners whose cases have not yet been resolved? Why not let them see their families? Why not grant them bail? Why not give them court dates and get on with it? If there’s an insurrection here, it’s by the Democrats who have turned this whole thing into a big circus to persecute their political enemies, and who are stomping all over these prisoners and the Constitution in the process.
12/7/21 - Where Are the Government COVID Vaccine Safety Studies?
Yesterday I reported to you the number of adverse reaction reports filed about COVID vaccines in the U.S. has topped 900,000 and the number of deaths shortly following COVID vaccinations now exceeds 19,000, according to official government numbers. Today, we look at what happened in the first 90 days after the government approved the Pfizer vaccine and at additional evidence that’s come in regarding the withholding of information by Pfizer before its vaccine was approved. Both of these add urgency to the question: Has the government conducted follow-up COVID vaccine safety studies and, if not, why not?
We start with the fact the FDA wanted to hide its records about adverse reactions which occurred in the early days after the COVID vaccines were approved. A court disagreed, and the first batch of records has been released, with more to come. One record already released is a smoking gun. It’s entitled “Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports”. [available here] This document shows Pfizer received 42,000 adverse reaction reports, including 1,223 deaths in the first 90 days of vaccine use, originating from several countries. The most frequently reported adverse reaction was nervous system disorders. Adverse reaction “(r)eports are submitted voluntarily, and the magnitude of underreporting is unknown,” the document notes (p. 5). This puts the nail in the coffin of the argument made by my critics that adverse reactions are being over-reported. The document goes on to discuss additional findings that three times as many women as men were injured, the Pfizer vaccine can make COVID symptoms worse, and there were a number of miscarriages and premature births which occurred in the period under consideration.
Despite all this, the Pfizer vaccine remains in use today and the government keeps pushing the phony narrative the vaccines are ‘safe and effective’ without ever discussing the undeniable risks. The government, as far as I can tell, has not performed follow-up safety studies as it is supposed to do when a problem with a vaccine becomes apparent.
Let’s turn, now, to the period before the vaccines were approved. Pfizer originally said publicly 15 people died during its COVID vaccine trials out of 22,000 who were vaccinated. But it submitted a report to the FDA showing the number was actually 21, not 15. Even though most died from other causes, the discrepancy means deaths linked to Pfizer’s vaccine were 24 percent higher among those vaccinated during the trial than Pfizer was publicly letting on. That’s significant given the fact more than 19,000 deaths associated with COVID vaccines have occurred since in the U.S. alone.
As you may recall, a whistleblower made even more serious allegations about Pfizer’s trial data last month. The British medical journal BMJ published a whistleblower account claiming, “the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial.”
Others have accused government officials of engaging in conspiracy and criminal cover-up. My point is that the astoundingly high number of adverse reaction reports and deaths - completely unprecedented in 30 years of vaccine injury reporting - should have prompted government officials to conduct follow-up safety studies on these vaccines, as indicated in the second half of the VAERS disclaimer. To the best of my knowledge, no such studies have been conducted. I have filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out for sure. I also want to know if the government has ever reached a decision whether to conduct such studies and I want to know the reasons for the decision, if any was made. The government has essentially asked for the rest of December to respond to my request and I will start pressing for answers after the first of the year.
The government rushed into COVID vaccines at “warp speed”. Normal approval processes and safety protocols were not followed. It should come as no surprise there are big problems with these vaccines. We the People should know just how big these problems are before we’re tempted to support politicians who want to rush into vaccines in future pandemics.
12/6/21 - ‘The Vaccines Are Safe and Effective’ - Hah!
It’s only been two weeks since I last reported to you on COVID vaccine injuries and deaths, but there’s a lot going on.
Since my last report, the number of adverse reaction reports filed about COVID vaccines in the U.S. has topped 900,000 and the number of deaths shortly following COVID vaccination now exceeds 19,000, according to official government numbers. The adverse reactions and deaths associated with COVID vaccines dwarf all other vaccines combined since the vaccine injury reporting system began 30 years ago. The numbers for prion brain diseases and unborn baby deaths follow the same pattern. But the COVID vaccines are ‘safe and effective’, right? That’s what your government wants you to believe. What do you think, after hearing these numbers? Think there might be a problem here?
If numbers don’t grab you, real stories about what happened to real people might. A Texas man died from heart problems shortly after being forced to take the Moderna vaccine to stay eligible for a lung transplant. A 13-year-old Canadian girl’s heart stopped after getting the vaccine, leaving her in critical condition. A former Australian pro basketball player suffered pericarditis heart problems after getting the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
The government, apparently, refuses to do the indicated safety studies, but other research is starting to come in. Research scientists found a possible explanation for why the Astra Zeneca COVID vaccine may cause blood clots. They published their findings in a scientific journal.
Twitter labeled the American Heart Association website unsafe after the Association published a report linking COVID vaccines to heart inflammation. Watch out, or the government’s narrative enforcers like Twitter will break your kneecaps if you dare go against the narrative. At least the American Heart Association’s research got published. Similar research findings have been completely suppressed.
Meanwhile in Europe, where the vaccine injury numbers are just as bad, hundreds attended a ‘March of the Dead’ in Parma, Italy to mourn the loss of loved ones they believe were killed by COVID vaccines. A similar vigil was held in South Korea.
But don’t worry, the vaccines are ‘safe and effective’. I know because my government told me so.
If you believe that, ask yourself why the government has established a compensation fund for injuries and death resulting from COVID vaccines. Kind of blows up the narrative, doesn’t it? There haven’t been any payouts yet, but liability is continuing to mount as the adverse reaction and death numbers grow by the day. It looks like 40,000 Americans are already permanently disabled by COVID vaccines. How much is that gonna cost and who’s gonna pay? You can be a sheep and not question your government, but you can’t do it for free, there’s a price to pay.
12/3/21 - Abortion-on-Demand: The House That Deceit Built
The Supreme Court heard arguments in the momentous Dobbs abortion case this week. Some are hoping for a quick decision, but I’m betting the Court won’t announce its ruling whether to overturn Roe v. Wade until June. The Court usually waits until the end of the term to announce its most important decisions. I don’t know what the Court will do, but what is clear to me is that the Left is losing this argument and deservedly so.
The Left ginned up an entire phony P.R. campaign to get the decision it wanted 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade. The campaign was based on deception - they just made stuff up - and was later repudiated by its architect, Dr. Bernard Nathanson. Nathanson performed 75,000 abortions himself, but later renounced what he had done and, in his dying days, asked people to publicize the fact he had changed his mind.
That P.R. campaign started with framing the argument in terms of ‘choice’, even though Nathanson knew he was trying to legalize murder. A P.R. firm helped Nathanson create slogans on the pro-choice theme, slogans you still hear today like ‘My Body, My Choice’ and, ‘a fetus is just a lump of cells.’ Abortion advocates enlisted the aid of complicit media outlets to spread the pro-choice message.
And yes, they made stuff up and fed it to the idiot press - “We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000 but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1,000,000. Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200–250 annually. The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000.”
The lies didn’t stop there. Nathanson told the media 60 percent of Americans wanted abortion to be legal. The true figure was one-half of one percent.
In the almost 50 years since, the pro-life movement has steadily gained ground by being endlessly inventive and not giving up, while the pro-abortion crowd has made mistake after mistake and never convinced the grassroots that abortion-on-demand is a good idea. An abortion activist recently admitted in the New York Times that principally relying on the courts instead of changing people’s minds about abortion was a mistake. What the courts giveth, the courts can take away, which the Supreme Court may very well do this term.
The pro-choice campaign was born of deceit, but the awful truths of abortion can no longer be denied - the steady stream of botched abortions, the large number of women injured or killed by abortion pills, the lasting damage to women’s health, the infertility, the depression and regret, the continuing lies and deceit (more here and here) - there’s not a whole lot to like here. The sooner the Left’s phony narrative on abortion bites the dust, the better. Abortion needs to stop but, for the moment, the Supreme Court needs to send the entire abortion issue back to the states, where it belongs.
12/2/21 - Holding Politicians Accountable for the Border Crisis
Politicians who deliberately screw things up for people deserve to get punched in the nose - metaphorically speaking, of course! Business owners are suing politicians in Seattle for egging Antifa rioters on in causing harm to businesses in the lawless CHOP zone. Good, I hope the business owners win. Today’s news brings the story that Texas landowners are demanding federal compensation for property damage caused by Joe Biden’s open borders policies. This comes as a report from Texas law enforcement detailed the extent of the border crisis, including the capture of illegal aliens from terror-prone countries. OAN Epoch Times Joe Biden and his radical cronies deliberately caused this mess, so I hope the landowners are made whole and the money comes out of Joe Biden’s ice cream budget.
Joe is still screwing things up at the border.
A catch-and-release illegal alien from Honduras murdered a man in Jacksonville, Florida. Twenty-three illegal aliens previously convicted of homicide in the U.S. have been caught illegally trying to reenter the country since February.
Biden’s Build Back Better bill would expand child tax credits worth billions of dollars to illegal aliens who don’t have Social Security numbers. Can you spell M-A-G-N-E-T? Fox News
ICE terminated a 25-year-old relationship with a Massachusetts sheriff who had been running a detention facility under contract for criminal illegal aliens with immigration holds. ICE claimed the facility was no longer needed, which the sheriff says is clearly not true given the exploding illegal immigration in the country.
Border agents encountered a large group of 47 illegal aliens in Texas late last month. Among them was a 3-year-old boy from Honduras who had been abandoned by his mother.
Meanwhile, drug overdose deaths are way up because Mexican cartels are flooding the U.S. with fake pills laced with fentanyl.
In the face of all this chaos, all our insane DHS Secretary can do is yammer on about how his department is prioritizing ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.’ Alejandro Mayorkas has been accused of lying in Senate testimony, claiming he is working to deport catch-and-release illegal aliens who fail to show up for ICE appointments when ICE has been telling them they won’t be arrested. That’s right up there with Joe Biden initially claiming that news reports separated alien families would receive million dollar payouts were “garbage”, then moving ahead with the scheme.
Here’s where it gets weird. It’s been reported that DHS is deporting tens of thousands of illegal border-crossers from Central America and Haiti by air. Some were supposedly protected from deportation. This started in August and the deterrent power of such deportations may account for the declining number of alien border encounters in the last three months. We don’t know why the removal flights are being done; the government isn’t talking. Is it a confession of error? Is it the result of infighting among different factions inside the Biden administration? Does the secrecy indicate the administration is trying to avoid criticism from its open borders constituency? Is the administration temporarily trying to make the border problem go away just in time for the 2022 midterm elections?
At this point, we don’t know. But, whatever the reason, the Biden administration still deserves a big punch in the nose for screwing things up at the border and lying about it - metaphorically speaking, of course!
12/1/21 - “Words Have Consequences”
It’s not often I find myself agreeing with André Carson, the Muslim Congressman from Indiana. He spoke at a news conference yesterday on behalf of himself, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib. They were reacting to Congresswoman Lauren Boebert who caused controversy with her ill-considered remarks about the “Jihad Squad” and her insinuation - meant to be a joke - that Ilhan Omar is a terrorist who would blow up the Capitol building. This was just stupid. Boebert made herself an easy target and handed Carson and the others a golden opportunity to make hay and score points. The Muslim penetration of American political circles raises serious concerns, but what Boebert did is absolutely the wrong way to address those concerns.
At the press conference, Carson said, “Words have consequences and can incite violence.” [C-SPAN at 2:48] Words have consequences - they sure do. Words can incite violence - they sure can. Let’s open the Muslim holy book, the Quran, and see what the words say, shall we?
These words, among many similar passages to be found in the most authoritative Islamic source there is - the Quran - have had horrible consequences. They have inspired innumerable doctrinally-motivated jihad attacks around the world for centuries. Here are just two relevantly recent examples from the U.S.:
There are Muslims who admit their doctrine inspires attacks, starting with the Egyptian government that has stopped the teaching of some passages from the Quran in schools there because the passages are known to inspire violence. The hateful doctrines, the savage attacks, and the admissions from Muslims themselves they know they have a problem - all this ground is covered in my court filings in my FOIA case against the FBI currently pending in federal court. The documents are available on my website, Liberato.US.
“Words have consequences and can incite violence.” That’s right, André Carson. I’ve criticized Lauren Boebert for being stupid and I’m criticizing you for not renouncing the passages in the Quran promoting sharia supremacy and espousing jihadi violence as the means to achieve it.
There’s a right way and a wrong way to proceed. If you are upset by a group of people who believe their religion and not the Constitution should be the supreme law of the land, and whose holy book imposes a religious duty on followers to wage violence to achieve world domination, then roll up your sleeves and get to work. Stop your ranting, stop making personal insults, and use their own doctrine and their own words against them. You can’t be accused of hate speech or anything else if you simply throw their own scriptures back in their face. Start confronting Muslim politicians about the many conflicts between their religious beliefs and the Constitution on the campaign trail and elsewhere. Educate activists in your area about how sharia supremacy and jihad are subversive and threaten the American way of life. If you don’t know how to do these things, get up to speed. Lots of resources are available, including the Muslim Oath Project and the Journalist’s Guide to Vetting Muslims and Mosques on my website, Liberato.US.
The Left is losing the war on Christmas - badly - so now it’s trying to convince you it never happened. That’s a laugh.
There are the usual atheist groups flying ‘religious freedom’ banners doing their usual thing this year - protesting Christmas wreaths on military graves and installing yet another boring Satanic display in a state capitol building. These people are violating Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, the most important of which is ‘don’t repeat your stunts, don’t be boring.’
But the rest of the Left is mostly missing in action this year. Things have definitely changed from just a few years ago. (These links are old and may not work.)
In 2015 alone:
- a VA hospital in Virginia banned Christmas trees. Washington Times
- Starbucks moved to plain red holiday cups. Gateway Pundit
- the University of Tennessee told employees to "ensure your holiday party is not a Christmas party in disguise” and no more “Secret Santa”. The Tennesseean
- a city councilwoman resigned to protest her town’s Christmas tree lighting. She was later reinstated and appointed to head a newly-created diversity committee. Washington Post
- The ‘Killing Jesus’ mini-series drew the largest audience in National Geographic cable channel history. Truth Revolt
- And a Kentucky school district purged scripture references from a ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ program. Daily Signal
Ah, the good old days. But, according to the Left, these things never happened, there never was a war on Christmas. It doesn’t exist. Conservatives made the whole thing up.
“There is not, and there never has been, a widespread campaign to harass, exclude, or persecute anyone who dares to wish a stranger a ‘Merry Christmas,’ as the Christmas warriors would have it,” an atheist recently wrote in Politico. According to this writer, the Left’s war on Christmas is just a “conflict invented to fill right-wing cable airtime,” a creation of the “grievance-industrial complex”, and an “effort by activist Christians to retain their cultural supremacy.”
And, of course, it’s all Donald Trump’s fault for appointing himself General Patton to fight the war on Christmas. Trump said recently, “When I started campaigning, I said, ‘You’re going to say “Merry Christmas” again,’ and now, people are saying it.” What left-wing article would be complete or even get published without bashing Trump?
But I digress. In the upside down world of this writer, the Left never tried to embarrass everyone out of saying “Merry Christmas”. No, it was the Right that started the whole thing by turning the phrase into a political weapon to pound on the Left. Sure, and I’m Santa Claus. The author’s bottom line: the Right should give up its phony claims there ever was a war on Christmas and just go away.
That’s ridiculous. This is gaslighting of the highest order. It presupposes the atheist groups never made an issue out of Christmas without anyone asking them to. Even today, you can go to the Freedom From Religion Foundation website and read all about how Christmas is just a relic of sun worship. The phony narrative presupposes there never was an endless parade of legal challenges to nativity scenes at the Supreme Court. So many we now have the reindeer rule requiring jurisdictions to mix in other symbols with their nativity scenes to pass constitutional muster. And it presupposes that the University of Tennessee, the National Geographic cable channel, and all the other anti-Christmas warriors didn’t have guns blazing in 2015, as noted above.
Here’s what’s going on. The Left is losing the war on Christmas, just like it’s losing the abortion fight and the war on parents. So the Left is trying to get you to believe it was all in your head and you’re delusional for thinking they’ve been up to no good and trying to destroy Christmas. Don’t fall for this line. They’re known liars - Trump/Russia collusion hoax, anyone? - and, what’s more, they think it’s their duty to lie to you because truth doesn’t matter; winning is the only thing.
So now I wish you all - gay, straight, Christian, Jewish, atheist - a Merry Christmas. I love saying that because it drives the Left nuts.
12/21/21 - Fourth Down and 98 to Go
The Left thought it was within inches of the goal line, close to finishing off the political Right forever. Not even close. That was before Trump came along, completely disrupted their plans, and inspired millions to emulate his fighting spirit. And it was before the Cuomo-Industrial complex completely collapsed with the Governor and his journalist brother knocked off their perches in complete disgrace. Not only that, the political Right gets better organized by the day. We’re wise to all your tricks. We’re immune to your dazzling word games. We’re getting more creative by the day. And we’re taking you head on everywhere you look.
Fifteen states put woke banks on notice they will pull $600 billion in deposits if the banks refuse to provide financing to fossil fuel companies. That’s pretty creative; I haven’t seen anything like that, before.
The National Fraternal Order of Police blasted the NFL for its support of defund the police efforts. “I find it incredibly ironic that NFL teams travel and play every week under the protection of local law enforcement,” the group’s president said.
A police officer in Virginia who was fired for donating to the Kyle Rittenhouse legal defense fund demanded his job back.
Parents around the country are suing public schools for initiating students into gender transitioning and hiding it from parents.
Female prisoners sued California for moving transgender biological males into their facilities. The suit cites, among other things, increased risk of rape, sexual harassment, and STDs.
Over 700 mathematicians and scientists signed an open letter condemning schools for turning math education into social justice drivel that leaves students unprepared for the workplace and life.
Republican lawmakers in New Jersey sued the Democrat majority for trying to make them get COVID vaccines or submit to incessant testing. The Republicans entered the statehouse in defiance and the Democrat COVID Nazis are losing in court, at least so far.
Speaking of COVID Nazis, a town in California declared itself a ‘constitutional republic’ to block state and federal COVID mandates.
An assistant football coach sued Illinois State University for firing him for putting an ‘All Lives Matter’ sign on his office door.
A Christian student club sued the University of Nebraska for requiring it to balance its speakers with opposing points of view, something the university itself does not do when bringing left-wing speakers to campus.
A pro-life nurse won her case against a health clinic in Illinois that fired her for refusing to refer women to abortion providers or help them get drugs to terminate their pregnancies.
A new documentary features black people who have left the Democrat Party and accuse it of lying to them and keeping them down for decades.
Memo to the American Left: cut it out. Give up now, you’ll never knock us out. We’ll never submit to your rule, because we know we’re right and we know you’re full of it. You want to conquer us - you’ll have to bleed for every inch, and you’ll lose in the end. So take your lust for power and shove it! You accuse us of making war on democracy. That’s pretty funny, because you ARE the war on democracy. Mind your own business and leave us alone.
12/20/21 - The “Messed Up World of White Wokeness”
Burlington, Vermont cut its police force by 30 percent, back when ‘defunding the police’ was cool. Now Democrats are admitting the cut did a lot of damage. Officers left in droves because of the hostility. Overtime costs soared. Only five officers patrol at night. A crime-fighting team was disbanded. Emergency call response times got longer. Burglary and vehicle thefts are up. But not to worry, City Hall hired its own private security firm for their own safety. But like other places, Burlington had to confess error and reverse course. In October, the City Council voted to raise the number of officers and to offer bonuses to keep any more from quitting.
Burlington’s police chief called the whole ‘defund the police’ movement “a grand experiment on a national and local level that’s gone awry.” You got that right. But defunding the police is not the only way the magical thinking mush-for-brains Left has messed up criminal justice in recent months.
Take zero bail, for example. Crime is up in Democrat cities that enacted bail reform, including New York City. One reason is that repeat offenders who are let out go on to commit more crimes. Duh! How many repeat offenses would it take for you to think there might be a problem here - three? five? California’s no-bail policy resulted in a car-theft suspect being re-arrested 13 times in 12 weeks. Zero bail - another crazy left-wing idea. Police in Los Angeles arrested 14 suspects in smash-and-grab robberies last month, but they were all released from jail because of the Democrats’ low-or-no-bail policies. Just the facts, ma’am.
If stolen watches don’t matter to you, maybe murder will get your attention. Twelve U.S. cities, all run by Democrats, broke homicide records this year. Philadelphia had more than 500 murders. Critics are pointing to the defund the police movement as the cause. It only took Philadelphia a year and a half to go from cutting its police budget by $33 million to the most murders on record since 1990. The spike in homicides in Chicago is attributable to a lack of support for the police and to left-wing prosecutors who coddle violent offenders out of some misguided notion they are downtrodden and oppressed. Chicago is where gangs can shoot up entire neighborhoods and get released without charges.
Left-wing Democrats would rather chase unicorns and rainbows than criminals. It’s gotten so bad in L.A., the head of the police union is warning tourists to stay away because the police cannot guarantee their safety. In San Francisco, residents call the police to deal with stolen packages, break-ins, open drug use and other problems created by the homeless - but the police won’t come.
But Leftists are either in denial or actually trying to gaslight you. Take left-wing District Attorney Larry Krasner in Philadelphia where homicides passed 500 this year. Krasner said recently, “We don’t have a crisis of lawlessness, we don’t have a crisis of crime, we don’t have a crisis of violence.” In response, former Mayor Michael Nutter who is black said, “I have to wonder what kind of messed up world of white wokeness Krasner is living in to have so little regard for human lives lost, many of them Black and brown, while he advances his own national profile as a progressive district attorney.” Amen.
A “messed up world of white wokeness.” Had enough of these left-wing crazies, yet?
12/17/21 - National Security Front and Center
America’s adversaries are on the march, national security experts warn, because the Biden administration and, thus America, are perceived as weak. The experts fear Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran will act in coordinated fashion to make moves they’ve been wanting to make for a long time, but did not dare to make when Donald Trump was President. [Secure Freedom Radio, Dec 15th and 16th] So, for example, Russia might invade Ukraine and, while the U.S. is occupied with that, China would invade Taiwan, North Korea would move against South Korea, and Iran would mobilize its proxies like Hamas to further its aims in the Middle East. This scenario has probably never occurred to the left-wing ideologues in the Biden administration who don’t realize the world is a dangerous place. Nor do they understand that weakness is provocative and only emboldens rogue nations around the world.
While you’re sticking your head in the sand about that, try ignoring all the other growing threats to national security we face today:
In case you haven’t noticed, China is busy building superweapons that can deliver knock-out punches. I warned you in October China has acquired the ability to mount surprise nuclear attacks anywhere in the world with hypersonic missiles launched from space. Since that time, it’s been reported China’s military has declared biowarfare to be its fundamental guiding principle and is developing bioweapons to target race and ethnicity. Imagine a world where only Han Chinese remain because people of every other stripe have been wiped out. In addition to weaponizing Han Chinese racism, China has developed other superweapons including a “satellite-crusher” that can capture and disable or destroy other satellites and an antenna to communicate with its submarines thousands of miles away. China is also investing heavily in quantum computing to break any encryption which has profound implications for war-fighting and commerce. The U.S. Space Force is warning that China is advancing its ability to fight in space at twice the rate we are.
Russia, meanwhile, is building hypersonic weapons, the world’s best air and missile defenses, and underground shelters for millions of people which show Russia does not believe nuclear war is out of the question.
The U.S. military is only “marginally” able to defend America’s interests, according to the recently released 2022 Index of U.S. Military Strength. The Index singles out the Air Force and Space Force as particularly weak and unprepared to fight.
And what are we doing in the face of all this? Making sure every member of America’s armed forces is taught America is a horrible rotten racist country not worth fighting for. Let us give thanks to our Woke Pentagon for that. We are also purging the military of personnel who refuse to get vaccinated for COVID, most recently over a hundred Marines. This is a luxury we cannot afford. The purge is just beginning and has the prospect of wiping out key capabilities like, for example, entire Navy Seal teams. Seven hundred Seals are refusing to get vaccinated. [Sam Faddis on Secure Freedom Radio, week of 10/11/21]
If you think America is safe and we can fiddle while other countries with hostile intent ramp up their military capabilities for possible use against us, you are taking an awful lot for granted.
12/16/21 - Transgenderism Is Communism
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So many narratives, so little time. Today, we take another look at the transgender narrative and zero in on how the wheels are falling off this stupid lie in so many ways.
Before we get started, I’ve said many times there have always been transgender people and always will be. Nobody should hate them or want to do them harm. But that doesn’t mean I want them in control of public policy or to give them every bit of political power they desire. These are separate questions.
Transgenderism is communism. I’ve talked before about the communist technique of Hegelian dialectical negation. Take a foundational idea, set up a contrary idea in motion against it, and keep agitating until the foundational idea is destroyed. Up to now, it’s been universally understood there are only two biological sexes, male and female. Set in motion the contrary idea that gender is just a social and psychological construct and, Voila!, all of a sudden there are 57 genders, men need tampons and can get pregnant, and women’s sports are dead. The point of all this obvious insanity is to help usher in the socialist revolution which, in case you don’t know, really means wealth and power for a tiny elite.
But don’t take my word for it. Now we have video evidence that transgenderism is communism. There’s a video on YouTube with four trans activists saying, among other things. “Trans liberation calls for communist revolution.” In the video, they discuss ways to bring about a “communist society” to benefit trans people. Revolution would “require the abolition of society as it currently is. When we demand that society be arranged in certain ways, this is part of the project.” There you have it, in-your-face Hegelian dialectical negation in spades, and proof that transgenderism is at root communism. It couldn’t be any clearer.
So the ideology of political transgenderism is rotten to its core. But communism is not the only thing wrong with it. Transgenderism has been destroying women’s sports for a couple of years now, but a particularly egregious example came up recently. The nation was horrified when a biological male on the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team, who formerly competed as a man, recently wiped out a bunch of records previously held by real women. It was a massacre. This guy shattered one women’s record by 38 seconds. The women on the team are distressed by the fact they will never have a chance of winning again. Viewed dispassionately, one could say the patriarchy is destroying women’s sports, but women’s rights groups won’t stand up for women’s rights. Why? Because they’re hard core Leftists first, committed to the revolution. They don’t give a darn about women’s rights. Stop sending them money.
The obliteration of women’s rights in the name of political transgenderism is occurring worldwide now, thanks to the United Nations. The UN is busy reinterpreting all its documents containing the term “gender equality” to mean ‘transgender identity protection’. Its women’s rights office has switched from women’s rights to promoting gender identity as a core value.
The stupid transgenderism lie has also been forcing compelled speech, a big constitutional no-no. The latest example is New York’s new law ordering utilities, phone companies, and municipal governments to use preferred pronouns when interacting with the public verbally or in writing.
Here are some more wheels falling off the transgenderism narrative recently: Children under 16 presumed to be able to give informed consent to puberty blockers when they aren’t old enough to consent to a car loan; public schools pushing transgenderism on very young kids 4 to 8 years old and hiding student gender transitioning from parents; a psychiatric journal admitting it falsely claimed gender transitioning improves mental health when it doesn’t; and commercial transgender vendors not disclosing hormones are physically addictive. I don’t know which is worse - the communist ideology of political transgenderism or the transgender-industrial complex whose only interest in all of this is making money.
Before you Lefties attack me for transphobia, sweep your own doorstep before you come after me. Ibram X. Kendi, patron saint of antiracism wokitude and great hero of the revolution, said last month he was horrified when his young daughter told him she wanted to be a boy. So much for intersectionality. Kendi must be a great disappointment to his fellow travelers who pushed his shtick at every turn. Maybe he won’t get invited to speak at any more socialist conferences. So go attack Kendi before you attack me. Meanwhile, if you want to defend your communist ideology of political transgenderism, your use of the communist technique of Hegelian dialectical negation, or the crassly commercial transgender-industrial complex, I’m all ears.
(h/t Mark Levin 12/15/21 6pm hour played the trans activists’ video sound track)
12/15/21 - New York City Takes a Wrong Turn on Noncitizen Voting
Last week, the New York City council granted noncitizens with green cards or work visas the right to vote in local elections, becoming the largest U.S. city to do so. About a million adult noncitizens live in New York City, equal to roughly 20 percent of currently registered voters. This is enough to change the outcome of close primaries and elections. New York City joins 14 smaller jurisdictions in the U.S. that allow noncitizens to vote, including San Francisco which recently let noncitizens vote in school board elections. This trend is going in the wrong direction for several reasons, some of which I will outline here today.
First, every vote cast by a noncitizen nullifies a vote cast by a U.S. citizen who should come first in their own country. The noncitizens had the right to vote in their own country, but they freely left it behind. It can’t have been very important to them. The fact they pay taxes here is completely irrelevant.
Which raises the second objection. This is all part of the Democrats’ plan to devalue citizenship, trash patriotism, get people to think it’s no longer important to be an American, and destroy America as it was founded. This is so the Democrats have a better chance of staying in power forever and imposing their collectivist authoritarian ideology on the rest of us. The Democrats are up to no good and are using noncitizens as pawns in their cynical power games.
Third, noncitizen voters don’t have to know anything about the Bill of Rights or the U.S. Constitution. They don’t have to have any acquaintance with freedom of speech or religion, underlying constitutional values like popular sovereignty, or understand our American form of government in the least. And they certainly don’t have to believe in any of these things to cast their vote. They can come from any system - communism, dictatorship, oligarchy, what have you - support those systems, not swear allegiance to the U.S., even hate America, and still have their vote count just as much as citizens who faithfully believe in American ideals.
Not every Democrat is on board with this. One New York City councilman, a Democrat, pointed out that, with just a 30-day residency requirement, a large group of noncitizens could easily move to New York City, take it over, then leave. In addition, immigration advocates worry that noncitizens will mistakenly vote in state and federal elections, putting them in legal jeopardy and forever ending their chances of becoming citizens. They also worry voter roll information about noncitizens will fall into the wrong hands and be used to injure noncitizens in various ways.
The Democrats always prattle on about how their opponents are waging war on democracy. But they should look in the mirror. Nothing wages war on democracy more than letting noncitizens potentially determine what goes on here. A poll showed most New Yorkers do not want noncitizen voting. What about them? What about their democracy? The Democrats are such hypocrites in this regard. They call noncitizen voting the ‘next frontier of democracy’ when what they are really trying to do is destroy democracy and frustrate the popular will.
This is the wrong direction, but there are ways to stop this movement. Citizens in Alabama, Colorado, and Florida approved amendments to their state constitutions by large majorities last year to bar noncitizen voting. Senator Marco Rubio will introduce legislation to strip federal funding from cities that allow noncitizens to vote. I encourage you, if you still believe in America and want it to remain the land of the free, to get up off the couch and do something to prevent noncitizens from voting in any of our elections. If you don’t know what to do, go to the OnlyCitizens [dot]Vote website on the Internet.
12/14/21 - Meanwhile, Back in the Swamp
Our corrupt elites never fail to disappoint. In recent weeks:
Chuck Schumer, who criticized President Trump for being in bed with Russia, along with other top Democrats took campaign contributions from a prominent Democrat fundraiser whose lobbying firm received $8.5 million from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline which is owned by Gazprom, the Russian state-run energy giant. Schumer recently refused to have a floor vote on sanctions against Russia. No conflict of interest here, nosiree.
Then, again, congress critters are not known for their high ethical standards. Nancy Pelosi’s husband owns up to a million dollars in call options on Tesla stock, while Nancy is out there pushing federal subsidies for electric vehicles to the tune of tens of billions of dollars for charging stations and tax credits. It might all be legal, but it sure stinks -p-ew! - and Nancy won’t comment.
Lawmakers are supposed to report stock trades but seven of them - four Democrats and three Republicans - did not, according to an ethics watchdog group that filed complaints. One lawmaker failed to report 300 transactions. Critics say lawmakers are finding ways around reporting requirements and little is being done to enforce the rules.
Democrat Maxine Waters paid her daughter another $81,000 in campaign funds in fiscal 2021, raising the total to more than $1.2 million since 2003. Nice work, if you can get it, but most of us can’t.
A Democrat Congresswoman from Florida used her official Twitter account to push followers to her Senate campaign account, apparently violating House rules against using taxpayer-funded resources for campaign purposes, critics said.
Speaking of campaign contributions, a health firm in California whose personnel donated almost a million dollars to Joe Biden and other Democrat campaigns was just ordered to pay $90 million to settle claims it had defrauded Medicare. Worst case, this is an example of companies greasing the palms of politicians in the hopes they will look the other way when it comes to questionable activities.
A lawsuit is alleging the EPA violated the law when it threw out a Trump administration conflict of interest rule in order to replace Trump appointees on advisory committees. “In an unprecedented purge, EPA eliminated all industry representatives from two important advisory committees in order to stack those committees with academics who are financially beholden to EPA for multimillion-dollar research grants,” the complaint reads. People dependent on the EPA for their livelihood now passing judgment on what the EPA wants to do - imagine that.
Over at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the agency announced its intention to prohibit the use of education benefits at some for-profit schools, but investor activity in the stocks affected picked up before the announcement was made. Some are concerned the announcement was either mishandled or intentionally leaked to facilitate insider trading.
Finally, sixteen Biden appointees have gotten ethics waivers exempting them from the ethics rules other people have to follow. Observers anticipate the adventures of these swamp creatures will become the subject of congressional investigations if Republicans take over the House or Senate next year. We can only hope. We deserve better than swamp gas, don’t we?
12/13/21 - The Unraveling of a Modern-Day Lynching
They made a big deal out of the fact Jussie Smollett was supposedly the victim of a hate crime, so I’m going to make a big deal out of the fact it was all a hoax and everybody who pushed the story really should apologize. They were either only too willing to be duped, at best, or left-wing propagandists deliberately pushing a phony narrative to score political points.
This story was made to order for the Left’s phony narrative on race and diversity. A gay black actor gets beaten up while out for a sandwich at 2 a.m. in downtown Chicago. The attackers put a noose around his neck and yelled, “This is MAGA country.” Except we now know it was all a crock, it never happened.
Despite the implausibilities of the story, the media ran wild with it, it was all over the news. Politicians fell all over themselves to condemn the attack and show us how virtuous they were.
Joe Biden said, “homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie.” Kamala Harris called it a “modern-day lynching”. The lynching theme was echoed by Senator Cory Booker. Bernie Sanders said the attack was evidence of “surging hostility” against minorities. Elizabeth Warren said, “no one should have to live in fear of being beaten on the street because of who they are.” Except it never happened.
A bevy of Hollywood celebrities fell for it, too. One tweeted: “OMG!! THIS is why the LGBTQ community continue[sic] to fight to be seen and PROTECTED against hate! We ALL have to take this racist and homophobic act of violence very personally!” Except it never happened.
Other people who gushed about the fake attack at the time now have egg all over their face. This includes Adam Schiff, Rashida Tlaib, Pete Buttigieg, and the Reverend Al Sharpton. Because it never happened. That’s what happens when mindless leftists believe their own phony narratives too much. America is a horrible rotten place full of white supremacists, Ku Klux Klanners who forgot their hoods, and systemic racism. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
The Jussie Smollett story blew up in their face but, sad to say, that didn’t stop the Left from continuing to push their phony narratives. Charges of racism continue unabated. The latest example is the preposterous claim that farmers markets and food charities are evidence of white supremacy.
As was brilliantly observed recently, charges of racism can work only because present-day America is not a fundamentally racist country. This is not 1861, when slavery existed. It’s not even 1961, when lunch counters were segregated. In fact, the most visible racism I can see in 2021 is reverse racism coming from activists who want things like separate dorms, events, and graduation ceremonies for minority college students.
The Left’s whole race narrative has gone just about as far as it can go. It’s actually counterproductive now, as the Jussie Smollett hate hoax shows. It’s time to drop this well of poison and get on to better things.
12/10/21 - Marching Orders to America From the Progressive Left
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Hello. I’m from the Progressive Left. We will soon be in charge of everything, so I wanted to tell you what you can expect from us and what you’re supposed to do.
We will tell you how to live and when to die.
First, we have to talk about your lifestyle. You’re just a tiny percentage of the world’s population, but you consume most of its resources. We’re gonna fix that. After we get done with our Green New Deal, you will cut your energy use by 90 percent, stop all that unnecessary traveling, make do with one tank of gas a year, cut your food consumption by a third, and only buy 9 pounds of clothing every 12 months. Your kids might like visiting Grandma in another state, but they’ll get over it. It’s for their own good. We have to stop our computer models from telling us the planet will burn up a hundred years from now.
Everything you get from now on will be determined by us. So forget all that stuff about industriousness and being rewarded for your hard work. Don’t worry about doing well in school. It won’t matter if you can’t read or write. We will reward you for your obedience, instead. Government will control the goodies and we will control the government. From each according to their ability, to each according to their obedience. Obey, and you can go to nicer restaurants. Obey and you can get your own apartment instead of being assigned to a flophouse and the roommates we select for you. Obey and we will let you shop where we shop. Obey and we will let you travel outside your zone, maybe even go see Grandma. Obey and we will let you into university and give you a good job. Obey and we might even let you see a doctor when you need it. Disobey and.... Well, do we have to spell it out? Your life will be miserable.
You will pay higher taxes, for sure. After all, it’s just your fair share, your shared responsibility payment. A small price to pay for heaven on earth, wouldn’t you say?
Freedom and self-government? We the People are sovereign? Forget all that stuff. That’s so 1776. We have evolved since then. Submission is so much better than freedom, you’ll see. Your life will be great when we build back better. No worries, no pain, no pesky choices to make. You will submit to us and you will be happy. You will own nothing and be happy about it
This is all for your own good. Don’t pay attention to those people who tell you we’re doing all this just to get wealth and power for ourselves. We have the most valuable moral code. We are ending all human suffering and creating heaven on earth. So what if we get rich in the process? So what if we’re in power forever? So what if people get hurt by our policies? Our intentions are good and that’s the only thing that matters. Like one of us said when we were ramming Obamacare down your throats: We have to do these things to “control the people”. They can’t be left to their own devices if we’re going to get to where we want to go - the Brave New Progressive Future. People are just no darn good. We have to fundamentally transform human nature. We have to force people to fall in line with our directives or we won’t reach our goals. So we have to destroy this entire horrible rotten country to save it.
But don’t worry. You’ll love being ruled by us - or else!
12/9/21 - What the Left Has Planned for You
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Today’s efforts by the Left to supersize Obamacare, federalize all elections, and create new entitlements are bad enough but, as I’ve said many times, the Left never quits. So let’s look ahead a bit, shall we, to see what the Left has planned for you down the road.
First, look for the Left to escalate its war on parents. It is not content with siccing the FBI on parents who disagree with left-wing school board policies. It eventually wants to require everyone to get a government license before they can have children. They will comb through your life, give you psychological tests, and invade your home all to determine whether you are fit to be a parent. Universal home child welfare visits are already the law in Scotland. Make no mistake - the ultimate goal is to abolish the family and impose collective child-rearing by social engineers. It takes a village to make sure everyone grows up to be a left-wing village idiot, you see.
Meanwhile, another battlefront has opened in the war on parents. There is a $100 million effort underway to build a pipeline of social justice warrior principals to run public schools. Forget education, these principals will be there to produce ‘equity’ which means equality of outcome which means dragging top achievers down so they don’t embarrass the disadvantaged kids who, under this line of thinking, can’t possibly achieve anything in life in this horrible rotten place called America. Tell it to Ben Carson.
Second, look for the Left to escalate its war on law & order. The Left is not content with defunding the police in the abstract. It is actively trying to stop the hiring of new police officers. It is not content with opening safe injection sites where drug addicts can shoot up without penalty. It is actively working to decriminalize ALL drug use. You want less crime? Simple. Just take the laws off the books, normalize all aberrant behavior and, Voila!, you will have less crime, except you will actually end up with more crime as society unravels.
Third, look for the Left to ramp up new-fangled notions of ‘personhood’ to create all kinds of mischief. It’s been a couple of years since the Left first went about trying to make rivers ‘persons’ with rights that can’t be violated without due process. The bottom line there is less freedom for human activity, especially economic activity, because it might cause pollution and thereby deprive rivers of their ‘rights’. The same thing is starting up with animals. A recent federal court ruling recognized hippos as legal persons for the first time in U.S. history, legally protected from cruelty and exploitation. One immediate consequence is that hippos now have the right to file lawsuits, take discovery, and conduct depositions. Or rather, I should say, left-wing animal rights groups now have legal standing to do all these things on behalf of hippos. Just wait until this idea gets expanded to challenge what’s on your dinner plate. You might have teeth as a product of human evolution for a reason, but don’t assume you will still be allowed to eat meat after the Left sics Bessie the Cow and her lawyer on you. No leather briefcases, please! You got milk? Forget it!
Speaking of food, the Left is coming after you in other ways, too. California has started to enforce a law passed in 2016 requiring residents to put food scraps in containers for recycling instead of in the garbage or disposall. This is being done in the name of stopping climate change. The city will check your bins and fines for noncompliance start at $30. Suppose you’re away for a month and you get fined for not having anything in your bins? Sounds like justice to me.
Look across the ocean to see the future of all this: They want people to eat less meat and cut food waste in half. So they are setting about to force farmers to use less fertilizer, antibiotics, and pesticides. Nobody knows how this experiment will turn out, because nobody has ever attempted it before. But what is clear already is the mindset of the Left: Control the food, control the people. And Senator Corey Booker wants to bring it all the U.S., and make “food policy the center of the progressive agenda.”
Control the food, control the people. Abolish the police, control the people with federal police. Control the parents, control future generations. Yep, the Left has it all figured out. They will create heaven on earth and end all human suffering. All you have to do is keep them in power and obey. Pol Pot and Mao Zedong thought that way. Pretty soon, tens of millions of people were dead. And that’s today’s round-up of what the Left has planned for you. Have a nice day!
12/8/21 - January 6th: The Democrats’ Star Chamber
A new report from House Republicans put a spotlight on the cruel treatment of the January 6th prisoners who are still awaiting trial, none of whom have been charged with insurrection. The report cites, among other things, detention without court dates or bail, no family visits, and intentional abuse by prison guards. C-SPAN Gateway Pundit
Before detailing the abuses further, first, a little perspective. The charges against these prisoners are things like trespass, assault on a police officer, and obstruction of official proceedings. None of this amounts to insurrection, despite the Democrats’ robotic and ubiquitous incantations of the term. Prosecutors haven’t charged insurrection because they know they can’t make a case for it.
When I was a criminal defense attorney, a charge like trespass for first offenders would have been handled completely differently. There would have been a chance of first offender treatment whereby, if certain conditions were met, the charge would be dropped and the record expunged. If not first offender treatment, the defendant would have been granted release on their own recognizance or small bond, probably pled guilty, and been sentenced to probation and a fine. To keep a first offender in jail on a minor charge for almost a year without a finding of guilt or even a court date would have been unthinkable. The way the January 6th cases are being handled is crazy, and the only reason is politics.
Back to the abuses: A congressional delegation toured the facility where the prisoners still awaiting trial are being held and talked to them. The delegation heard stories of broken toilets, prison guards mocking prisoners as members of a cult and telling them to denounce Trump, not being fed properly, not being allowed religious services, being denied medical treatment or even haircuts, not getting their mail on a regular basis, being confined to their cells most of the day, and not being allowed to talk to their attorneys.
This is America? No, this is more like the Star Chamber of Merry Olde England, where the King used criminal process to control his political enemies. [Criminal Evidence: Principles and Cases by Thomas J. Gardner, Terry M. Anderson, p. 175]. Constitutional rights and due process were thrown out the window. What is happening to the January 6th prisoners is starting to look like indefinite detention, which is a big constitutional no-no. Why don’t we just cut to the chase and put them on the rack until they denounce Trump and admit they conspired with him to overthrow the U.S. government?
The Democrats want to paint these prisoners as insurrectionists, committed revolutionaries who conspired to take down the whole system. Stupid wahoos who didn’t know what their goal was or how to achieve it, but were just upset, is more like it. Anybody like me who has tried to organize anything will tell you the grassroots political Right is completely incapable of pulling together anything as complicated as overthrowing a government. Heck, we organizers have a hard enough time getting people to write to Congress on important issues. Don’t tell me this was a planned insurrection. I don’t believe you. Twelve years of trying to herd cats on the political Right tells me otherwise.
So how about a little justice for the January 6th prisoners whose cases have not yet been resolved? Why not let them see their families? Why not grant them bail? Why not give them court dates and get on with it? If there’s an insurrection here, it’s by the Democrats who have turned this whole thing into a big circus to persecute their political enemies, and who are stomping all over these prisoners and the Constitution in the process.
12/7/21 - Where Are the Government COVID Vaccine Safety Studies?
Yesterday I reported to you the number of adverse reaction reports filed about COVID vaccines in the U.S. has topped 900,000 and the number of deaths shortly following COVID vaccinations now exceeds 19,000, according to official government numbers. Today, we look at what happened in the first 90 days after the government approved the Pfizer vaccine and at additional evidence that’s come in regarding the withholding of information by Pfizer before its vaccine was approved. Both of these add urgency to the question: Has the government conducted follow-up COVID vaccine safety studies and, if not, why not?
We start with the fact the FDA wanted to hide its records about adverse reactions which occurred in the early days after the COVID vaccines were approved. A court disagreed, and the first batch of records has been released, with more to come. One record already released is a smoking gun. It’s entitled “Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports”. [available here] This document shows Pfizer received 42,000 adverse reaction reports, including 1,223 deaths in the first 90 days of vaccine use, originating from several countries. The most frequently reported adverse reaction was nervous system disorders. Adverse reaction “(r)eports are submitted voluntarily, and the magnitude of underreporting is unknown,” the document notes (p. 5). This puts the nail in the coffin of the argument made by my critics that adverse reactions are being over-reported. The document goes on to discuss additional findings that three times as many women as men were injured, the Pfizer vaccine can make COVID symptoms worse, and there were a number of miscarriages and premature births which occurred in the period under consideration.
Despite all this, the Pfizer vaccine remains in use today and the government keeps pushing the phony narrative the vaccines are ‘safe and effective’ without ever discussing the undeniable risks. The government, as far as I can tell, has not performed follow-up safety studies as it is supposed to do when a problem with a vaccine becomes apparent.
Let’s turn, now, to the period before the vaccines were approved. Pfizer originally said publicly 15 people died during its COVID vaccine trials out of 22,000 who were vaccinated. But it submitted a report to the FDA showing the number was actually 21, not 15. Even though most died from other causes, the discrepancy means deaths linked to Pfizer’s vaccine were 24 percent higher among those vaccinated during the trial than Pfizer was publicly letting on. That’s significant given the fact more than 19,000 deaths associated with COVID vaccines have occurred since in the U.S. alone.
As you may recall, a whistleblower made even more serious allegations about Pfizer’s trial data last month. The British medical journal BMJ published a whistleblower account claiming, “the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial.”
Others have accused government officials of engaging in conspiracy and criminal cover-up. My point is that the astoundingly high number of adverse reaction reports and deaths - completely unprecedented in 30 years of vaccine injury reporting - should have prompted government officials to conduct follow-up safety studies on these vaccines, as indicated in the second half of the VAERS disclaimer. To the best of my knowledge, no such studies have been conducted. I have filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out for sure. I also want to know if the government has ever reached a decision whether to conduct such studies and I want to know the reasons for the decision, if any was made. The government has essentially asked for the rest of December to respond to my request and I will start pressing for answers after the first of the year.
The government rushed into COVID vaccines at “warp speed”. Normal approval processes and safety protocols were not followed. It should come as no surprise there are big problems with these vaccines. We the People should know just how big these problems are before we’re tempted to support politicians who want to rush into vaccines in future pandemics.
12/6/21 - ‘The Vaccines Are Safe and Effective’ - Hah!
It’s only been two weeks since I last reported to you on COVID vaccine injuries and deaths, but there’s a lot going on.
Since my last report, the number of adverse reaction reports filed about COVID vaccines in the U.S. has topped 900,000 and the number of deaths shortly following COVID vaccination now exceeds 19,000, according to official government numbers. The adverse reactions and deaths associated with COVID vaccines dwarf all other vaccines combined since the vaccine injury reporting system began 30 years ago. The numbers for prion brain diseases and unborn baby deaths follow the same pattern. But the COVID vaccines are ‘safe and effective’, right? That’s what your government wants you to believe. What do you think, after hearing these numbers? Think there might be a problem here?
If numbers don’t grab you, real stories about what happened to real people might. A Texas man died from heart problems shortly after being forced to take the Moderna vaccine to stay eligible for a lung transplant. A 13-year-old Canadian girl’s heart stopped after getting the vaccine, leaving her in critical condition. A former Australian pro basketball player suffered pericarditis heart problems after getting the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
The government, apparently, refuses to do the indicated safety studies, but other research is starting to come in. Research scientists found a possible explanation for why the Astra Zeneca COVID vaccine may cause blood clots. They published their findings in a scientific journal.
Twitter labeled the American Heart Association website unsafe after the Association published a report linking COVID vaccines to heart inflammation. Watch out, or the government’s narrative enforcers like Twitter will break your kneecaps if you dare go against the narrative. At least the American Heart Association’s research got published. Similar research findings have been completely suppressed.
Meanwhile in Europe, where the vaccine injury numbers are just as bad, hundreds attended a ‘March of the Dead’ in Parma, Italy to mourn the loss of loved ones they believe were killed by COVID vaccines. A similar vigil was held in South Korea.
But don’t worry, the vaccines are ‘safe and effective’. I know because my government told me so.
If you believe that, ask yourself why the government has established a compensation fund for injuries and death resulting from COVID vaccines. Kind of blows up the narrative, doesn’t it? There haven’t been any payouts yet, but liability is continuing to mount as the adverse reaction and death numbers grow by the day. It looks like 40,000 Americans are already permanently disabled by COVID vaccines. How much is that gonna cost and who’s gonna pay? You can be a sheep and not question your government, but you can’t do it for free, there’s a price to pay.
12/3/21 - Abortion-on-Demand: The House That Deceit Built
The Supreme Court heard arguments in the momentous Dobbs abortion case this week. Some are hoping for a quick decision, but I’m betting the Court won’t announce its ruling whether to overturn Roe v. Wade until June. The Court usually waits until the end of the term to announce its most important decisions. I don’t know what the Court will do, but what is clear to me is that the Left is losing this argument and deservedly so.
The Left ginned up an entire phony P.R. campaign to get the decision it wanted 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade. The campaign was based on deception - they just made stuff up - and was later repudiated by its architect, Dr. Bernard Nathanson. Nathanson performed 75,000 abortions himself, but later renounced what he had done and, in his dying days, asked people to publicize the fact he had changed his mind.
That P.R. campaign started with framing the argument in terms of ‘choice’, even though Nathanson knew he was trying to legalize murder. A P.R. firm helped Nathanson create slogans on the pro-choice theme, slogans you still hear today like ‘My Body, My Choice’ and, ‘a fetus is just a lump of cells.’ Abortion advocates enlisted the aid of complicit media outlets to spread the pro-choice message.
And yes, they made stuff up and fed it to the idiot press - “We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000 but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1,000,000. Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200–250 annually. The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000.”
The lies didn’t stop there. Nathanson told the media 60 percent of Americans wanted abortion to be legal. The true figure was one-half of one percent.
In the almost 50 years since, the pro-life movement has steadily gained ground by being endlessly inventive and not giving up, while the pro-abortion crowd has made mistake after mistake and never convinced the grassroots that abortion-on-demand is a good idea. An abortion activist recently admitted in the New York Times that principally relying on the courts instead of changing people’s minds about abortion was a mistake. What the courts giveth, the courts can take away, which the Supreme Court may very well do this term.
The pro-choice campaign was born of deceit, but the awful truths of abortion can no longer be denied - the steady stream of botched abortions, the large number of women injured or killed by abortion pills, the lasting damage to women’s health, the infertility, the depression and regret, the continuing lies and deceit (more here and here) - there’s not a whole lot to like here. The sooner the Left’s phony narrative on abortion bites the dust, the better. Abortion needs to stop but, for the moment, the Supreme Court needs to send the entire abortion issue back to the states, where it belongs.
12/2/21 - Holding Politicians Accountable for the Border Crisis
Politicians who deliberately screw things up for people deserve to get punched in the nose - metaphorically speaking, of course! Business owners are suing politicians in Seattle for egging Antifa rioters on in causing harm to businesses in the lawless CHOP zone. Good, I hope the business owners win. Today’s news brings the story that Texas landowners are demanding federal compensation for property damage caused by Joe Biden’s open borders policies. This comes as a report from Texas law enforcement detailed the extent of the border crisis, including the capture of illegal aliens from terror-prone countries. OAN Epoch Times Joe Biden and his radical cronies deliberately caused this mess, so I hope the landowners are made whole and the money comes out of Joe Biden’s ice cream budget.
Joe is still screwing things up at the border.
A catch-and-release illegal alien from Honduras murdered a man in Jacksonville, Florida. Twenty-three illegal aliens previously convicted of homicide in the U.S. have been caught illegally trying to reenter the country since February.
Biden’s Build Back Better bill would expand child tax credits worth billions of dollars to illegal aliens who don’t have Social Security numbers. Can you spell M-A-G-N-E-T? Fox News
ICE terminated a 25-year-old relationship with a Massachusetts sheriff who had been running a detention facility under contract for criminal illegal aliens with immigration holds. ICE claimed the facility was no longer needed, which the sheriff says is clearly not true given the exploding illegal immigration in the country.
Border agents encountered a large group of 47 illegal aliens in Texas late last month. Among them was a 3-year-old boy from Honduras who had been abandoned by his mother.
Meanwhile, drug overdose deaths are way up because Mexican cartels are flooding the U.S. with fake pills laced with fentanyl.
In the face of all this chaos, all our insane DHS Secretary can do is yammer on about how his department is prioritizing ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.’ Alejandro Mayorkas has been accused of lying in Senate testimony, claiming he is working to deport catch-and-release illegal aliens who fail to show up for ICE appointments when ICE has been telling them they won’t be arrested. That’s right up there with Joe Biden initially claiming that news reports separated alien families would receive million dollar payouts were “garbage”, then moving ahead with the scheme.
Here’s where it gets weird. It’s been reported that DHS is deporting tens of thousands of illegal border-crossers from Central America and Haiti by air. Some were supposedly protected from deportation. This started in August and the deterrent power of such deportations may account for the declining number of alien border encounters in the last three months. We don’t know why the removal flights are being done; the government isn’t talking. Is it a confession of error? Is it the result of infighting among different factions inside the Biden administration? Does the secrecy indicate the administration is trying to avoid criticism from its open borders constituency? Is the administration temporarily trying to make the border problem go away just in time for the 2022 midterm elections?
At this point, we don’t know. But, whatever the reason, the Biden administration still deserves a big punch in the nose for screwing things up at the border and lying about it - metaphorically speaking, of course!
12/1/21 - “Words Have Consequences”
It’s not often I find myself agreeing with André Carson, the Muslim Congressman from Indiana. He spoke at a news conference yesterday on behalf of himself, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib. They were reacting to Congresswoman Lauren Boebert who caused controversy with her ill-considered remarks about the “Jihad Squad” and her insinuation - meant to be a joke - that Ilhan Omar is a terrorist who would blow up the Capitol building. This was just stupid. Boebert made herself an easy target and handed Carson and the others a golden opportunity to make hay and score points. The Muslim penetration of American political circles raises serious concerns, but what Boebert did is absolutely the wrong way to address those concerns.
At the press conference, Carson said, “Words have consequences and can incite violence.” [C-SPAN at 2:48] Words have consequences - they sure do. Words can incite violence - they sure can. Let’s open the Muslim holy book, the Quran, and see what the words say, shall we?
- Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion shall reign supreme. Quran 8:40
- I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads; strike off the very tips of their fingers. Quran 8:12
These words, among many similar passages to be found in the most authoritative Islamic source there is - the Quran - have had horrible consequences. They have inspired innumerable doctrinally-motivated jihad attacks around the world for centuries. Here are just two relevantly recent examples from the U.S.:
- Omar Mateen spoke about jihad before killing 49 and wounding 58 more in the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando in 2016.
- Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani killed three and wounded eight before being shot dead when he attacked the Pensacola Naval Air Station in 2019. The Justice Department officially classified the incident as an act of terrorism, motivated by "jihadist ideology".
There are Muslims who admit their doctrine inspires attacks, starting with the Egyptian government that has stopped the teaching of some passages from the Quran in schools there because the passages are known to inspire violence. The hateful doctrines, the savage attacks, and the admissions from Muslims themselves they know they have a problem - all this ground is covered in my court filings in my FOIA case against the FBI currently pending in federal court. The documents are available on my website, Liberato.US.
“Words have consequences and can incite violence.” That’s right, André Carson. I’ve criticized Lauren Boebert for being stupid and I’m criticizing you for not renouncing the passages in the Quran promoting sharia supremacy and espousing jihadi violence as the means to achieve it.
There’s a right way and a wrong way to proceed. If you are upset by a group of people who believe their religion and not the Constitution should be the supreme law of the land, and whose holy book imposes a religious duty on followers to wage violence to achieve world domination, then roll up your sleeves and get to work. Stop your ranting, stop making personal insults, and use their own doctrine and their own words against them. You can’t be accused of hate speech or anything else if you simply throw their own scriptures back in their face. Start confronting Muslim politicians about the many conflicts between their religious beliefs and the Constitution on the campaign trail and elsewhere. Educate activists in your area about how sharia supremacy and jihad are subversive and threaten the American way of life. If you don’t know how to do these things, get up to speed. Lots of resources are available, including the Muslim Oath Project and the Journalist’s Guide to Vetting Muslims and Mosques on my website, Liberato.US.