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12/8/22 - War on Parents: The Left Calls Out the Big Guns
The Left has called out the big guns in the War on Parents. For those concerned about the early sexualization of children, there’s a lot more to worry about than just the small arms fire of individual school boards and teachers. It’s time to pay attention to the infrastructure and institutionalized support networks behind them.
The biggest child abuser of them all just may be the state of California. The state has been moving for the early release of inmates to reduce the prison population for the last five years. The result has been more than 7,000 sex offenders convicted of “lewd or lascivious acts” with children under 14 being released in the same year they were convicted. Those released early include kidnappers and rapists.
California is closely followed by Planned Parenthood whose sex education director has claimed babies are sexual from birth and children should be given pornography. Planned Parenthood propaganda proclaims “sexuality is a part of life through all the ages and stages.” If pornography is taught in the classroom, some kids will want to watch it and that’s a good thing, the director says. This from a guy who wants to start sex education in kindergarten.
Big Philanthropy is not far behind. The Walton family and their Walmart Foundation have given millions of dollars for LGBTQ-related causes, including drag queen story hours and drag shows for children. Their money also funded a kid zone at a gay pride festival and a nearby ‘Sensory Zone’ targeting autistic children. Why autistic children? Because they have trouble grasping gender concepts, making them perfect fodder for the transgender-industrial complex.
The American Library Association is another big gun. The ALA views any attempt to keep pornography out of the hands of children as ‘censorship’. It works with well-funded LGBT pressure groups to train librarians how to thwart the efforts of parents and public officials to fight pornography in public libraries and how to disarm the media. Hostility to religion is on full display. Demonization of parents is a go-to technique. So are shutting up parents at library board meetings and making them jump through hoops to challenge particular books. The purpose of libraries pushing pornography is to “change lives” and soften kids up for acceptance of the gay political agenda. Librarians relabel pornography as ‘diverse materials’ and deflect criticism by saying libraries just put books out there and it’s up to parents to monitor what their kids are reading. But the ALA’s actions go way beyond that, feverishly collaborating with left-wing groups to oppose parental oversight boards and other parental rights measures in state legislatures around the country.
In essence, what public libraries are demanding is for taxpayers to continue to fund them, but for the public not to have any say in what materials are placed on their shelves. That’s crazy.
The early sexualization of children is metastasizing and institutionalizing, with further examples of TV ads featuring teddy bears in bondage attire, a doll company telling kids how to get puberty blockers without their parents knowing, and hospitals offering sex toys to minors.
I’ve documented in previous commentaries how the early sexualization of children is a communist technique intended to destroy society. I’ve also mentioned no society has survived the loosening of its sexual mores. If you support the gay rights groups and others I’ve mentioned here today in their attempts to sexualize children early, understand you are being manipulated by the professional political Left every step of the way. Understand also you are playing with fire, and it will burn your house down. Let’s leave adult activities to the adults, OK?
12/7/22 - NPR Gets Jiang Zemin All Wrong
NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ last night carried a story about the death of former Chinese head of state Jiang Zemin. The show presented Zemin as a flamboyant lovable toad, a “funny guy” with giant glasses who self-deprecatingly practiced his English with foreign reporters and who set the stage for economic growth in China.
The reality is quite different. Jiang Zemin was a butcher, a human rights violator who created a huge problem with corruption. He moved the country towards greater dictatorship and a police state, keeping a stranglehold on power from behind the scenes after he left office. He took a hard line on the Tiananmen Square protesters, calling their liquefaction under tank treads ‘not a tragedy’ and supporting the death penalty for their leaders.
He is best known for religious persecution, for launching the nationwide onslaught against the spiritual group Falun Gong, a persecution campaign that continues today. Falun Gong, which is derived from Buddhism, claims 70 to 100 million followers in China. There were more Falun Gong practitioners than Chinese Communist Party members at one point. To the communists, anything they think competes with their power - even if it’s not political - must be stamped out. In 1999, Jiang Zemin created the notorious 610 Office to carry out an eradication campaign against the Falun Gong. Government-sponsored hate messages became ubiquitous and millions were imprisoned and tortured in Chinese jails, forced labor camps, and psychiatric wards. I’ve worked with one who finally got out and came to America to tell the world what was really going on in China. I suggest NPR interview Jennifer Zeng and learn her story of what she saw in prison - Falun Gong shocked with electric batons, forced to squat for hours in a stationary position, beaten to give up their beliefs, and the rest of it.
But that’s only half the story. Jiang Zemin also ordered that prisoners of conscience like Falun Gong be killed for their organs. Forced organ harvesting is a multi-billion dollar business in China and the unapologetic practice of it on an industrial scale traces back to Jiang Zemin. A 2016 U.S. House resolution cited evidence proving the Chinese government and military are engaged in forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong and other prisoners. The resolution called for an independent investigation which China has never allowed. China has never explained how it could possibly be performing a hundred thousand organ transplants a year, or how it can find so many exact organ matches so quickly, in a matter of days when people have to wait months for organ transplants in other countries. China denies anything sinister is going on and points to its new official organ donation system, but China has been caught faking its data and its propaganda on the subject is shrill. It attempts to discredit anyone who dares look into the matter and to blame xenophobic ‘anti-China elements’ in Western countries for stirring up trouble. That’s laughable.
Forced organ harvesting in China has been called the perfect crime: “They were in robust health when they were put on the operating table for doctors to carve out their organs. Many of them were still breathing. When the job was done, the bodies were tossed into the incinerator and burned, leaving no trace behind.”
The perfect crime - and Xiang Zemin had a lot to do with it. None of this is disputed. Funny NPR didn’t mention any of it. NPR and other American media outlets really should stop romanticizing butchers and communist dictators. It’s not a good look. And, oh, by the way, they should stop taking money from China in exchange for favorable coverage. That’s not a good look, either.
12/6/22 - Favorite Parlor Tricks of the Left
The White House press secretary’s reaction yesterday to revelations Twitter censored the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election is a case study in favorite parlor tricks of the Left and their fellow travelers in the Democrat Party.
The first thing Karine Jean Pierre said is that the Twitter revelations are “old news”. The Left always says this when they’re caught red-handed. It’s their parlor trick of last resort when they’ve run out of other options. ‘Old news’, huh? Let’s go back and look at the old news. Joe Biden said in 2020 before the election:
Basically, Joe Biden claimed the laptop was Russian disinformation, something which nobody - not even the New York Times - believes anymore. But the news this week is that Twitter suppressed the story in 2020 on the specious grounds it was hacked information when they had no evidence of a hack. So, Jean Pierre’s explanation about ‘old news’ is completely bogus.
Next, she said the new revelations are a “distraction”. This from the masters of distraction. A distraction from what - Joe Biden’s 8 percent inflation rate? His low approval rating? Rising crime?
Then out came another trick the Left always uses when it’s losing - change the subject. Jean Pierre condemned the “rising volume of anger, hate, and antisemitism” on Twitter. If you can’t refute the argument, talk about something else - anything else. In this case, the White House is even holding a roundtable on antisemitism tomorrow to try to change the subject. People won’t even notice the roundtable, but they will remember Elon Musk’s spectacular confession Twitter was trying to rig the 2020 election by killing the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Let’s look at some other favorite parlor tricks of the Left in the news, recently:
Stacey Abrams said she opposes defunding the police, but led a group that worked to defund the police. That’s called gas lighting.
The supposedly impartial civil servants at the Census Bureau admitted they overcounted the population in blue states and undercounted in red states, altering representation in Congress. That’s called stacking the deck, which is what you do when you can’t win fair and square.
The Biden administration is now nudging employers to put workers’ retirement funds into left-wing causes like climate change and diversity through ESG scores. That’s called rigging the system, and it’s what you do when you don’t understand how to create wealth. You glom on to other people’s money, instead.
When all else fails, just lie. Tell people you oppose late-term abortion when you voted for abortions up to birth. Run as a Progressive in the primary, then scrub your website and run as a moderate in the general. Claim the 1994 assault weapons ban reduced gun crime when it didn’t. In fact, lie so much - about gas prices, Social Security, the deficit, your student loan program, and your tax policies - even CNN has to admit you’re a liar.
My nephew recently told me he’s a ‘man of the Left’. Glad I’m not a ‘man of the Left’. What horrible, awful, wretched people.
12/5/22 - The Federal Bureau of Fascism
A deposition of an FBI official in the Missouri v. Biden censorship case last week showed the FBI was meeting weekly with social media companies to coordinate on suppressing information before the 2020 presidential election. The suit alleges a massive ‘censorship enterprise’ involving several federal agencies and dozens of Biden administration officials. The information suppressed included, among other things, COVID treatments and the Hunter Biden laptop story. The theory of the case is that these nominally private companies turned themselves into state actors, extensions of the government, in doing the government’s bidding in suppressing speech.
FBI official Elvis Chan testified in the deposition the FBI gave Twitter and other social media companies specific directions on what information to suppress and asked them to take down specific accounts, which the companies did. The meetings became more frequent as the election approached.
The FBI has defended its actions, saying it routinely supplies information about foreign influence to private companies and those companies decide on their own what to do with the information. But it’s not quite that simple. You’ve got left-wing companies only too happy to damage Trump and help Biden in the 2020 election. You’ve got the FBI in your office weekly telling you which accounts and stories to target. And you’ve got the FBI following up, asking if specific accounts and content were taken down. As for foreign influence, that suggests the FBI was peddling the phony-baloney narrative Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation. To hear Twitter and Facebook tell it, the FBI prepped them to expect hacked information to come from the Russians. The Hunter Biden laptop story comes along and Facebook concludes it fit the pattern of what the FBI was describing. Twitter suppressed the story on the specious grounds it was hacked information when they had no evidence of that. This sounds more like ‘wink-wink-nod-nod’ than private companies exercising independent judgment. There’s enough here to conclude the FBI and other government agencies colluded with Big Tech to censor the free speech rights of Americans. Interestingly, Twitter’s deputy general counsel at the time, who advised the company to block the Hunter Biden laptop story, had previously worked for the FBI.
It’s still early days for this case - lots more depositions to go. Anthony Fauci also sat for deposition recently, painting himself as a hero for saving lives by coaching social media platforms to stamp out so-called ‘disinformation’ about COVID treatments. Which is funny, because Fauci is the source of a lot of bad information about COVID and the treatments he sought to suppress have been shown to be effective. But Fauci doesn’t want to debate the merits. He just wants to claim he ‘represents science’ and shut everybody else up. He is a perfect example of why we don’t want the government in the business of deciding truth for everybody.
Collusion between Big Tech and government officials extends beyond the Biden administration. The California Secretary of State coordinated with social media companies to censor and remove posts regarding the 2020 election that state officials did not like. A Democrat-controlled House committee asked cable companies to stop carrying news networks the Democrats disfavor. And, to bring the story right up to the present day, leaked emails revealed Arizona Secretary of State and now Governor-elect Katie Hobbs was in regular communication with Twitter telling them who to censor.
There’s a word for the combination of Big Business and Big Government. It’s called fascism, and it’s exactly the kind of concentration of power our Founders warned us about.
12/2/22 - War on Parents: Is Disney Learning Pride Goeth Before the Fall?
Disney is back in the news, this time appearing to eat a small slice of humble pie for leading the charge in the War on Parents.
How sincere or long-lasting Disney’s new tune will be is anybody’s guess, but let me start by saying something I’ve said many times before: There have always been gay and transgender people. Nobody should hate them or shoot them up in a nightclub. But that doesn’t mean I want them in charge of public policy. I do not want the tail to wag the dog, or for religious liberty to come under assault in a country founded on religious liberty. If the radical communist-inspired gay political agenda upsets you, roll up your sleeves and get to work - the right way.
Disney went all out in pursuing its self-described “not-so-secret gay agenda” and “adding queerness”, in its own words, to children’s programming. Which led me to wonder why any parent of young children would invite Disney into their living room. But this week, returning Disney CEO Bob Iger said it’s “important to listen to an audience. It’s important to have respect for the people you are serving.” He suggested the company should refrain from getting so involved in politics.
You might recall Disney had publicly condemned Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law aimed at preventing the sexualization of young children in public schools. Disney went even further and said it would work to repeal the law. This led to a battle with the state of Florida over the company’s special self-governing status in Orlando. “I was sorry to see us dragged into that battle,” Iger said this week.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was not impressed with Iger’s comments. He said the state has no plans to restore Disney’s legal privileges in Orlando. “They brought this upon themselves,” DeSantis said. “All we did was stand up for what was right.”
You have to wonder if the big flop at the box office of Disney’s “Strange World” - an animated feature film about a gay teen romance - had something to do with Iger’s expression of regrets. The film could lose as much as $100 million dollars. The shareholders aren’t gonna like that.
It remains to be seen whether the Magic Kingdom will really listen to them or anybody else. I have my doubts. Disney has been pedal-to-the-medal sexualizing children and pursuing the radical gay agenda in recent months:
Disney has a lot of gay and Woke employees. It’s not clear Iger can make any headway against what is now a very entrenched sick company culture that demands the right to sexualize your children and to have you pay them to do it. It’s also not clear Iger even wants to. After all, he’s the guy who said the Florida parental rights bill seemed wrong to him and would harm children. He also said his stance wasn’t about politics. I don’t know about you, but I get very nervous when somebody advocates for a left-wing cause and tells me they’re not political.
Will Disney change course? I’m from Missouri. Show me. Meanwhile, keep your money in your wallet.
12/1/22 - The Unsolved Riddle of Homelessness
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced he is instituting involuntary hospitalization for homeless people deemed to be mentally ill and in crisis. It’s déjà vu all over again. Emptying the mental hospitals is arguably what created the homeless problem in the first place. The thinking at the time was that civil liberties are paramount - homeless people aren’t criminals and you can’t keep them locked up in psych wards. The counter-argument is that people who are not in their right mind can’t fend for themselves and create social problems when left to their own devices on the streets. Involuntary hospitalization is more humane than what is occurring now. The mentally ill now make up about a third of the homeless population in the United States.
I’ve seen all kinds of solutions to homelessness tried over the last 40 years, but nobody has solved the riddle. The ideas have ranged from the intriguing to the truly insane. Washington, D.C. opened city homeless shelters with a capped number of beds back in the 1980s. I asked a D.C. government official at the time if this was rationing and he dissembled. Fast forward to today and you find big homeless encampments in D.C. downtown parks and across from Union Station, so the homeless shelter approach clearly didn’t solve the problem. As for encampments elsewhere, some areas allow camping anywhere as a point of pride, while others confine encampments to designated areas. The worst idea of this lot is to allow the homeless to camp in your front yard with impunity, as in Illinois after the first of the year, but homeowners fled Portland after it was allowed there.
Democrat-controlled San Francisco passed a new tax in 2018 to end homelessness for all time. Spending on the homeless is up 400 percent but there are more homeless than ever in San Francisco and the conditions in which they live are deteriorating. Rat-infested hotels - that’s the solution the Democrats came up with. The police no longer respond to calls about stolen packages, break-ins, and other problems caused by the homeless.
Another idea is to provide free permanent housing for the homeless, but the result in Los Angeles was one-bedroom apartments costing $700,000 apiece and corruption. Meanwhile, the number of homeless people on the street is up 41 percent. The idea also doesn’t seem to be working in Washington, D.C. where the city is placing homeless people in upscale apartment buildings. It only takes one homeless person to create chaos and ruin an entire building, I heard one landlord say.
Another idea is to connect the homeless to lots of social services, like drug treatment and job training. But the most intriguing idea I’ve heard comes from philanthropists who created an entire village, I forget where, in which the homeless can find their dignity by having a role to play in a real community.
But none of these ideas address mental illness, which is one-third of the problem. Critics are already pounding away at New York City’s new involuntary hospitalization policy, but the city defends it, saying it will connect mentally ill homeless people with the psychiatric treatment they need. Some critics say the city doesn’t have enough crisis centers or other capacity to deliver the mental health services required. But involuntary hospitalization is only one new policy taking effect. The city is also going the permanent housing route by cracking down on landlords who refuse to take homeless people with government housing vouchers.
So there doesn’t seem to be a silver bullet that will solve the problem in all cases. I haven’t heard the idea expressed yet that all the approaches have some merit, that triage should occur and a custom solution built for each homeless individual. I also haven’t heard anything about family and friends being brought into the process. Government isn’t the answer to everything.
The Left has called out the big guns in the War on Parents. For those concerned about the early sexualization of children, there’s a lot more to worry about than just the small arms fire of individual school boards and teachers. It’s time to pay attention to the infrastructure and institutionalized support networks behind them.
The biggest child abuser of them all just may be the state of California. The state has been moving for the early release of inmates to reduce the prison population for the last five years. The result has been more than 7,000 sex offenders convicted of “lewd or lascivious acts” with children under 14 being released in the same year they were convicted. Those released early include kidnappers and rapists.
California is closely followed by Planned Parenthood whose sex education director has claimed babies are sexual from birth and children should be given pornography. Planned Parenthood propaganda proclaims “sexuality is a part of life through all the ages and stages.” If pornography is taught in the classroom, some kids will want to watch it and that’s a good thing, the director says. This from a guy who wants to start sex education in kindergarten.
Big Philanthropy is not far behind. The Walton family and their Walmart Foundation have given millions of dollars for LGBTQ-related causes, including drag queen story hours and drag shows for children. Their money also funded a kid zone at a gay pride festival and a nearby ‘Sensory Zone’ targeting autistic children. Why autistic children? Because they have trouble grasping gender concepts, making them perfect fodder for the transgender-industrial complex.
The American Library Association is another big gun. The ALA views any attempt to keep pornography out of the hands of children as ‘censorship’. It works with well-funded LGBT pressure groups to train librarians how to thwart the efforts of parents and public officials to fight pornography in public libraries and how to disarm the media. Hostility to religion is on full display. Demonization of parents is a go-to technique. So are shutting up parents at library board meetings and making them jump through hoops to challenge particular books. The purpose of libraries pushing pornography is to “change lives” and soften kids up for acceptance of the gay political agenda. Librarians relabel pornography as ‘diverse materials’ and deflect criticism by saying libraries just put books out there and it’s up to parents to monitor what their kids are reading. But the ALA’s actions go way beyond that, feverishly collaborating with left-wing groups to oppose parental oversight boards and other parental rights measures in state legislatures around the country.
In essence, what public libraries are demanding is for taxpayers to continue to fund them, but for the public not to have any say in what materials are placed on their shelves. That’s crazy.
The early sexualization of children is metastasizing and institutionalizing, with further examples of TV ads featuring teddy bears in bondage attire, a doll company telling kids how to get puberty blockers without their parents knowing, and hospitals offering sex toys to minors.
I’ve documented in previous commentaries how the early sexualization of children is a communist technique intended to destroy society. I’ve also mentioned no society has survived the loosening of its sexual mores. If you support the gay rights groups and others I’ve mentioned here today in their attempts to sexualize children early, understand you are being manipulated by the professional political Left every step of the way. Understand also you are playing with fire, and it will burn your house down. Let’s leave adult activities to the adults, OK?
12/7/22 - NPR Gets Jiang Zemin All Wrong
NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ last night carried a story about the death of former Chinese head of state Jiang Zemin. The show presented Zemin as a flamboyant lovable toad, a “funny guy” with giant glasses who self-deprecatingly practiced his English with foreign reporters and who set the stage for economic growth in China.
The reality is quite different. Jiang Zemin was a butcher, a human rights violator who created a huge problem with corruption. He moved the country towards greater dictatorship and a police state, keeping a stranglehold on power from behind the scenes after he left office. He took a hard line on the Tiananmen Square protesters, calling their liquefaction under tank treads ‘not a tragedy’ and supporting the death penalty for their leaders.
He is best known for religious persecution, for launching the nationwide onslaught against the spiritual group Falun Gong, a persecution campaign that continues today. Falun Gong, which is derived from Buddhism, claims 70 to 100 million followers in China. There were more Falun Gong practitioners than Chinese Communist Party members at one point. To the communists, anything they think competes with their power - even if it’s not political - must be stamped out. In 1999, Jiang Zemin created the notorious 610 Office to carry out an eradication campaign against the Falun Gong. Government-sponsored hate messages became ubiquitous and millions were imprisoned and tortured in Chinese jails, forced labor camps, and psychiatric wards. I’ve worked with one who finally got out and came to America to tell the world what was really going on in China. I suggest NPR interview Jennifer Zeng and learn her story of what she saw in prison - Falun Gong shocked with electric batons, forced to squat for hours in a stationary position, beaten to give up their beliefs, and the rest of it.
But that’s only half the story. Jiang Zemin also ordered that prisoners of conscience like Falun Gong be killed for their organs. Forced organ harvesting is a multi-billion dollar business in China and the unapologetic practice of it on an industrial scale traces back to Jiang Zemin. A 2016 U.S. House resolution cited evidence proving the Chinese government and military are engaged in forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong and other prisoners. The resolution called for an independent investigation which China has never allowed. China has never explained how it could possibly be performing a hundred thousand organ transplants a year, or how it can find so many exact organ matches so quickly, in a matter of days when people have to wait months for organ transplants in other countries. China denies anything sinister is going on and points to its new official organ donation system, but China has been caught faking its data and its propaganda on the subject is shrill. It attempts to discredit anyone who dares look into the matter and to blame xenophobic ‘anti-China elements’ in Western countries for stirring up trouble. That’s laughable.
Forced organ harvesting in China has been called the perfect crime: “They were in robust health when they were put on the operating table for doctors to carve out their organs. Many of them were still breathing. When the job was done, the bodies were tossed into the incinerator and burned, leaving no trace behind.”
The perfect crime - and Xiang Zemin had a lot to do with it. None of this is disputed. Funny NPR didn’t mention any of it. NPR and other American media outlets really should stop romanticizing butchers and communist dictators. It’s not a good look. And, oh, by the way, they should stop taking money from China in exchange for favorable coverage. That’s not a good look, either.
12/6/22 - Favorite Parlor Tricks of the Left
The White House press secretary’s reaction yesterday to revelations Twitter censored the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election is a case study in favorite parlor tricks of the Left and their fellow travelers in the Democrat Party.
The first thing Karine Jean Pierre said is that the Twitter revelations are “old news”. The Left always says this when they’re caught red-handed. It’s their parlor trick of last resort when they’ve run out of other options. ‘Old news’, huh? Let’s go back and look at the old news. Joe Biden said in 2020 before the election:
- There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what [Trump’s] accusing me of is [being] a Russian plant. Five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except his good friend Rudy Giuliani.
Basically, Joe Biden claimed the laptop was Russian disinformation, something which nobody - not even the New York Times - believes anymore. But the news this week is that Twitter suppressed the story in 2020 on the specious grounds it was hacked information when they had no evidence of a hack. So, Jean Pierre’s explanation about ‘old news’ is completely bogus.
Next, she said the new revelations are a “distraction”. This from the masters of distraction. A distraction from what - Joe Biden’s 8 percent inflation rate? His low approval rating? Rising crime?
Then out came another trick the Left always uses when it’s losing - change the subject. Jean Pierre condemned the “rising volume of anger, hate, and antisemitism” on Twitter. If you can’t refute the argument, talk about something else - anything else. In this case, the White House is even holding a roundtable on antisemitism tomorrow to try to change the subject. People won’t even notice the roundtable, but they will remember Elon Musk’s spectacular confession Twitter was trying to rig the 2020 election by killing the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Let’s look at some other favorite parlor tricks of the Left in the news, recently:
Stacey Abrams said she opposes defunding the police, but led a group that worked to defund the police. That’s called gas lighting.
The supposedly impartial civil servants at the Census Bureau admitted they overcounted the population in blue states and undercounted in red states, altering representation in Congress. That’s called stacking the deck, which is what you do when you can’t win fair and square.
The Biden administration is now nudging employers to put workers’ retirement funds into left-wing causes like climate change and diversity through ESG scores. That’s called rigging the system, and it’s what you do when you don’t understand how to create wealth. You glom on to other people’s money, instead.
When all else fails, just lie. Tell people you oppose late-term abortion when you voted for abortions up to birth. Run as a Progressive in the primary, then scrub your website and run as a moderate in the general. Claim the 1994 assault weapons ban reduced gun crime when it didn’t. In fact, lie so much - about gas prices, Social Security, the deficit, your student loan program, and your tax policies - even CNN has to admit you’re a liar.
My nephew recently told me he’s a ‘man of the Left’. Glad I’m not a ‘man of the Left’. What horrible, awful, wretched people.
12/5/22 - The Federal Bureau of Fascism
A deposition of an FBI official in the Missouri v. Biden censorship case last week showed the FBI was meeting weekly with social media companies to coordinate on suppressing information before the 2020 presidential election. The suit alleges a massive ‘censorship enterprise’ involving several federal agencies and dozens of Biden administration officials. The information suppressed included, among other things, COVID treatments and the Hunter Biden laptop story. The theory of the case is that these nominally private companies turned themselves into state actors, extensions of the government, in doing the government’s bidding in suppressing speech.
FBI official Elvis Chan testified in the deposition the FBI gave Twitter and other social media companies specific directions on what information to suppress and asked them to take down specific accounts, which the companies did. The meetings became more frequent as the election approached.
The FBI has defended its actions, saying it routinely supplies information about foreign influence to private companies and those companies decide on their own what to do with the information. But it’s not quite that simple. You’ve got left-wing companies only too happy to damage Trump and help Biden in the 2020 election. You’ve got the FBI in your office weekly telling you which accounts and stories to target. And you’ve got the FBI following up, asking if specific accounts and content were taken down. As for foreign influence, that suggests the FBI was peddling the phony-baloney narrative Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation. To hear Twitter and Facebook tell it, the FBI prepped them to expect hacked information to come from the Russians. The Hunter Biden laptop story comes along and Facebook concludes it fit the pattern of what the FBI was describing. Twitter suppressed the story on the specious grounds it was hacked information when they had no evidence of that. This sounds more like ‘wink-wink-nod-nod’ than private companies exercising independent judgment. There’s enough here to conclude the FBI and other government agencies colluded with Big Tech to censor the free speech rights of Americans. Interestingly, Twitter’s deputy general counsel at the time, who advised the company to block the Hunter Biden laptop story, had previously worked for the FBI.
It’s still early days for this case - lots more depositions to go. Anthony Fauci also sat for deposition recently, painting himself as a hero for saving lives by coaching social media platforms to stamp out so-called ‘disinformation’ about COVID treatments. Which is funny, because Fauci is the source of a lot of bad information about COVID and the treatments he sought to suppress have been shown to be effective. But Fauci doesn’t want to debate the merits. He just wants to claim he ‘represents science’ and shut everybody else up. He is a perfect example of why we don’t want the government in the business of deciding truth for everybody.
Collusion between Big Tech and government officials extends beyond the Biden administration. The California Secretary of State coordinated with social media companies to censor and remove posts regarding the 2020 election that state officials did not like. A Democrat-controlled House committee asked cable companies to stop carrying news networks the Democrats disfavor. And, to bring the story right up to the present day, leaked emails revealed Arizona Secretary of State and now Governor-elect Katie Hobbs was in regular communication with Twitter telling them who to censor.
There’s a word for the combination of Big Business and Big Government. It’s called fascism, and it’s exactly the kind of concentration of power our Founders warned us about.
12/2/22 - War on Parents: Is Disney Learning Pride Goeth Before the Fall?
Disney is back in the news, this time appearing to eat a small slice of humble pie for leading the charge in the War on Parents.
How sincere or long-lasting Disney’s new tune will be is anybody’s guess, but let me start by saying something I’ve said many times before: There have always been gay and transgender people. Nobody should hate them or shoot them up in a nightclub. But that doesn’t mean I want them in charge of public policy. I do not want the tail to wag the dog, or for religious liberty to come under assault in a country founded on religious liberty. If the radical communist-inspired gay political agenda upsets you, roll up your sleeves and get to work - the right way.
Disney went all out in pursuing its self-described “not-so-secret gay agenda” and “adding queerness”, in its own words, to children’s programming. Which led me to wonder why any parent of young children would invite Disney into their living room. But this week, returning Disney CEO Bob Iger said it’s “important to listen to an audience. It’s important to have respect for the people you are serving.” He suggested the company should refrain from getting so involved in politics.
You might recall Disney had publicly condemned Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law aimed at preventing the sexualization of young children in public schools. Disney went even further and said it would work to repeal the law. This led to a battle with the state of Florida over the company’s special self-governing status in Orlando. “I was sorry to see us dragged into that battle,” Iger said this week.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was not impressed with Iger’s comments. He said the state has no plans to restore Disney’s legal privileges in Orlando. “They brought this upon themselves,” DeSantis said. “All we did was stand up for what was right.”
You have to wonder if the big flop at the box office of Disney’s “Strange World” - an animated feature film about a gay teen romance - had something to do with Iger’s expression of regrets. The film could lose as much as $100 million dollars. The shareholders aren’t gonna like that.
It remains to be seen whether the Magic Kingdom will really listen to them or anybody else. I have my doubts. Disney has been pedal-to-the-medal sexualizing children and pursuing the radical gay agenda in recent months:
- it’s new Christmas TV series features children holding signs saying “We Love You Satan”
- it bowed to pressure from the Left and started running political and issue ads on its streaming service, Hulu
- it teamed up with other companies to give grants to college students to make films promoting abortion
- it funds an advocacy group that is creating propaganda to influence policymakers to advance the LGBTQ agenda in schools
- it lobbied the Senate to pass the so-called Respect for Marriage Act which, critics say, threatens religious liberty
Disney has a lot of gay and Woke employees. It’s not clear Iger can make any headway against what is now a very entrenched sick company culture that demands the right to sexualize your children and to have you pay them to do it. It’s also not clear Iger even wants to. After all, he’s the guy who said the Florida parental rights bill seemed wrong to him and would harm children. He also said his stance wasn’t about politics. I don’t know about you, but I get very nervous when somebody advocates for a left-wing cause and tells me they’re not political.
Will Disney change course? I’m from Missouri. Show me. Meanwhile, keep your money in your wallet.
12/1/22 - The Unsolved Riddle of Homelessness
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced he is instituting involuntary hospitalization for homeless people deemed to be mentally ill and in crisis. It’s déjà vu all over again. Emptying the mental hospitals is arguably what created the homeless problem in the first place. The thinking at the time was that civil liberties are paramount - homeless people aren’t criminals and you can’t keep them locked up in psych wards. The counter-argument is that people who are not in their right mind can’t fend for themselves and create social problems when left to their own devices on the streets. Involuntary hospitalization is more humane than what is occurring now. The mentally ill now make up about a third of the homeless population in the United States.
I’ve seen all kinds of solutions to homelessness tried over the last 40 years, but nobody has solved the riddle. The ideas have ranged from the intriguing to the truly insane. Washington, D.C. opened city homeless shelters with a capped number of beds back in the 1980s. I asked a D.C. government official at the time if this was rationing and he dissembled. Fast forward to today and you find big homeless encampments in D.C. downtown parks and across from Union Station, so the homeless shelter approach clearly didn’t solve the problem. As for encampments elsewhere, some areas allow camping anywhere as a point of pride, while others confine encampments to designated areas. The worst idea of this lot is to allow the homeless to camp in your front yard with impunity, as in Illinois after the first of the year, but homeowners fled Portland after it was allowed there.
Democrat-controlled San Francisco passed a new tax in 2018 to end homelessness for all time. Spending on the homeless is up 400 percent but there are more homeless than ever in San Francisco and the conditions in which they live are deteriorating. Rat-infested hotels - that’s the solution the Democrats came up with. The police no longer respond to calls about stolen packages, break-ins, and other problems caused by the homeless.
Another idea is to provide free permanent housing for the homeless, but the result in Los Angeles was one-bedroom apartments costing $700,000 apiece and corruption. Meanwhile, the number of homeless people on the street is up 41 percent. The idea also doesn’t seem to be working in Washington, D.C. where the city is placing homeless people in upscale apartment buildings. It only takes one homeless person to create chaos and ruin an entire building, I heard one landlord say.
Another idea is to connect the homeless to lots of social services, like drug treatment and job training. But the most intriguing idea I’ve heard comes from philanthropists who created an entire village, I forget where, in which the homeless can find their dignity by having a role to play in a real community.
But none of these ideas address mental illness, which is one-third of the problem. Critics are already pounding away at New York City’s new involuntary hospitalization policy, but the city defends it, saying it will connect mentally ill homeless people with the psychiatric treatment they need. Some critics say the city doesn’t have enough crisis centers or other capacity to deliver the mental health services required. But involuntary hospitalization is only one new policy taking effect. The city is also going the permanent housing route by cracking down on landlords who refuse to take homeless people with government housing vouchers.
So there doesn’t seem to be a silver bullet that will solve the problem in all cases. I haven’t heard the idea expressed yet that all the approaches have some merit, that triage should occur and a custom solution built for each homeless individual. I also haven’t heard anything about family and friends being brought into the process. Government isn’t the answer to everything.
11/30/22 - A Breath of Fresh Air for Free Speech
Elon Musk is really shaking things up at Twitter. In a win for free speech, Twitter will no longer enforce its COVID misinformation policy which had been used to silence people who questioned the government’s COVID vaccine and treatment narratives. It was also announced this week Twitter will reinstate 62,000 large accounts and release its files on the suppression of free speech that occurred under former management. With respect to the latter, Musk tweeted Monday, “The public deserves to know what really happened.”
The Left is freaking out. One leftist at Harvard even said Musk is “opening the gates of hell.... People can come back and engage in doxing, targeted harassment, vicious bullying, calls for violence, celebration of violence. I can’t even begin to state how dangerous this will be.” Yah, yah, we’ve heard it all before - ‘your speech is violence and my violence is speech.’ Some people just can’t stand for other people to be free. The First Amendment has a lot of enemies at this point, I oppose them all. Especially the ones who go on TV and use their free speech rights to trash free speech and tell people like me to shut up. Go fly a kite!
The Biden administration doesn’t like free speech, either. It labels ordinary parents who speak up at school board meetings ‘domestic terrorists’. Dozens of Biden administration officials engaged in a gigantic censorship enterprise with Big Tech firms, including Twitter. The Missouri Attorney General sued to stop it and the first depositions, including Anthony Fauci’s, have gotten underway.
But federal agencies are still trying to stifle free speech in other ways. The National Science Foundation has awarded $39 million in grants in the last couple of years to projects seeking to clamp down on the dissemination of information that runs counter to phony government narratives on COVID and elections. The Education Department wants a rule that would punish pro-life speech as ‘discrimination’.
The Biden administration clearly won’t stop with the censorship. So it should make you more than a little nervous the White House says it is “monitoring” what Elon Musk is doing at Twitter. “We’re all keeping a close eye on this,” the White House press secretary said. “Platforms must be held accountable for the harms that they cause,” she said later. There they go with the ‘harms’, again. The only harm that’s being done is exposing phony government narratives for what they are.
Enemies of free expression outside the Biden administration are busy, as well. California passed a law targeting doctors who don’t toe the government line on COVID treatments. Amazon pulled a book on Islamic terrorism. A California community college won’t allow students to post anticommunist flyers on bulletin boards.
I continue to speak out against all such efforts and to champion free speech. It’s nice to have a new ally, a free speech “absolutist” like Elon Musk, join the fight.
11/29/22 - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid of Your Government
I hope one of the lasting legacies of the COVID pandemic is mistrust of government. Here’s why: government officials and agencies showed themselves to be a bunch of quacks and liars during the pandemic, and they’re still lying today, recent reports show.
Anthony Fauci told us to wear a mask. He even told us to wear two masks. But in a deposition last week, he could not name a single study showing masks work. And now we find out the CDC’s mask guidance for school children was driven by political polling results, not science.
The CDC knew COVID vaccines were associated with heart problems, but did not include heart problems in its list of checkboxes on its v-safe survey phone app. Survey respondents had to write heart problems into the free-text field on the survey and the CDC fought disclosure of those answers in court. We now know from other sources virtually 100 percent of mRNA COVID vaccine recipients suffer some degree of heart injury. Also, the CDC covered up other data showing 18 million people ended up in the hospital after getting their first COVID shot.
I’ve been trying to get more information about why the government didn’t pull the COVID vaccines from the market after they were linked to thousands of deaths and a million other problems, like it pulled the swine flu vaccine in 1976 after that vaccine was linked to only 25 deaths. My case is in federal court, but the government filed a motion to dismiss and the judge has yet to rule.
There’s more. The FDA put out statements prohibiting the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19, even though aggregating all studies shows ivermectin cuts mortality in half. Now the FDA claims it was just giving a recommendation, not putting out a mandate. Three doctors aren’t buying it and have sued the FDA for interfering with their doctor-patient relationships. The government didn’t have the evidence when it was disparaging ivermectin, but that didn’t stop it from pushing bivalent boosters and Pfizer’s Paxlovid treatment without testing the boosters on humans or testing Paxlovid on vaccinated individuals.
Also regarding vaccines, there have been reports along the way their efficacy wanes and even turns negative after a short period of time. Finally, we have the stunning admission - from the Washington Post, nonetheless - that “a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.” Simply put, more vaccinated people than unvaccinated people have died from COVID. The vaccinated are also more prone to repeat bouts of COVID. That whole thing where the government and the media vilified and ostracized the unvaccinated turned out to be completely unjustified. Where are the apologies?
The media campaign to push the vaccines, a campaign that was bought and paid for by the government, was completely unjustified, too. The campaign also enlisted entertainers, celebrities, and late-night TV hosts. The government spent a billion dollars to have hundreds of media outlets spread the government’s phony narratives on COVID, including the phony narrative the vaccines are safe and effective. So the media are a bunch of liars, too. They’ll shill for anything. At least now we know what their price is.
It’s time government officials learn they don’t get to lord over us. They get only the respect and trust they earn. They burned it all up in the pandemic. Right now, they have zero credibility and will have to dig themselves out of a very deep hole. If you trust the government after all this, you’re out of your mind.
11/28/22 - The Human Traffickers of the Biden Administration
House Republicans are expected to move to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to faithfully execute the nation’s immigration laws when they take control in January. Good! I’ve been calling for this for some time, along with impeaching Joe Biden for the same reason. Congressman Ronny Jackson from Texas said over the weekend:
“Every decision he’s made” - I’ve documented in previous commentaries dozens of policy changes to open the border that Mayorkas has made during his tenure. Here’s one more: The Biden administration is taking a tiny provision of immigration law - ‘humanitarian parole’ - and driving a truck through it. The administration is pre-approving parole applications while people are still in Mexico, then they’re driven to border checkpoints and handed off to U.S. authorities who whisk them into the interior sight unseen. Word is getting around about this supposedly legal manner of entry and thousands are stampeding Mexican shelters to apply. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow in a case brought by Louisiana and Texas challenging the Biden administration’s policy not to deport dangerous criminal aliens, releasing them into the U.S., instead. The challenge is supported by 19 other states that argue the administration is ignoring federal immigration law.
Texas isn’t waiting for the legal landscape to improve. Governor Greg Abbott declared an invasion on the southern border, paving the way for the state to, among other things, build a wall and deploy the National Guard. Armored tank-like vehicles are being sent to the border. Texas has now run 300 busloads of illegal aliens to blue states. The Governor of Massachusetts said Joe Biden’s open borders policies are costing his state an extra $139 million dollars next year.
The ravages of these policies have not gone away. We have fresh reminders the fentanyl pouring across the border is killing more Americans than guns and cars combined, cartel money is ending up in the hands of corrupt politicians, and dozens of people on the national terrorist watch list are finding their way here. What do you think those terrorists are doing today?
Here are couple of things coming up to watch: Democrats are looking to pass some kind of immigration legislation during the lame-duck Congress, since Republican control of the House will likely block their chances for the next two years. Full amnesty for all illegal aliens, work permits for DACA Dreamers, and other proposals have all been discussed. Secondly, COVID restrictions at the border are coming to an end. Those restrictions kept a million illegal aliens out and a new rush at the border is expected once the restrictions are lifted. With open borders crazies like Biden and Mayorkas running the show, it’s a good bet most of them are getting in, immigration law or no immigration law.
11/23/22 - Give Thanks for the Rule of Law
Let us give thanks for small favors. Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot reversed course and will once again prosecute misdemeanor thefts of necessary items between $100 and $750. This may not sound like a big deal, but it’s a victory over the progressive prosecutors - the Soros DAs, a group that includes Creuzot - who have been busy dismantling the criminal justice system in dozens of localities across the country.
Creuzot said he ended the policy not to prosecute these thefts because, he claimed, data shows the policy had no effect on crime, one way or the other. The nonprosecution policy, also implemented by progressive prosecutors elsewhere, is straight out of the abolitionist playbook. ‘Abolitionists’ are far-left crazies who want to abolish all police, criminal courts, and prisons. Like them, Creuzot believes in ‘decriminalizing poverty’ and ‘ending mass incarceration’, attitudes which led him to stop prosecuting misdemeanor theft. He also stopped prosecuting criminal trespass and misdemeanor marijuana cases.
In April, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and state Attorney General Ken Paxton sent Creuzot a letter that hit the nail on the head, making the point I’ve made many times that progressive prosecutors are not authorized or entitled to tear up criminal statutes duly passed by their state legislatures. The letter states:
Exactly, and not just in Texas. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted last week to impeach progressive Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner for, among other things, his refusal to prosecute prostitution and retail theft. He also fired 30 experienced prosecutors. The consequences of Krasner’s insane policies are a sky-high murder rate, ubiquitous shootings on public transportation and near schools and, because of increasing retail theft, numerous businesses leaving the city. The impeachment vote is a first step in a process that could remove Krasner from office.
The progressive prosecutor in Baltimore asked the court to give an armed robber first offender treatment that could result in a clean record. The robber was set free and went on to shoot and kill a sheriff’s deputy.
Another thing to be thankful for is the fact resistance to the Soros DAs is growing and getting better organized. You might remember that progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin was recalled in San Francisco earlier this year. A progressive candidate just lost her race for a district attorney’s spot in Arizona. A new group, formed to fight progressive prosecutors at the ballot box, helped defeat a number of them around the country in the recent elections.
Good. The progressive prosecutors are trying to tear down the Rule of Law, tear down the economy, tear down the criminal justice system, and sow chaos throughout the land so people will clamor for left-wing authoritarians to keep them safe.
So let us give thanks and hope the trend against them continues.
11/22/22 - Tales from the Crypto
The spectacular collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange is not just a business story. It’s a Washington swamp story and Republicans will be investigating it when they take control of the House in January. At issue is whether “Individuals within the Democrat Party accepted money with knowledge of potential criminal activity occurring at FTX.”
High-flying FTX bought Super Bowl ads and sports facility naming rights. It amassed a net worth of $32 billion to become one of the largest crypto exchanges in just three years with 28-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried at the helm. It lost half its worth in a matter of days when customers lost confidence and essentially started a run on the bank. It was reported Bankman-Fried secretly siphoned off $10 billion in customer funds and transferred it to another trading firm he also owned, run by his girlfriend. The trading firm invested in FTX’s crypto token, the financial roundtrip prompting investor concern. FTX was left without sufficient assets to pay customers pulling their money out, and bankruptcy ensued.
FTX has been called a Ponzi scheme, but it sounds more like embezzlement and fraud. News reports don’t talk about money from new investors being used to pay previous investors, as in a Ponzi scheme. Instead, $1-2 billion simply vanished. Some of it went into buying $121 million worth of property in the Bahamas, but a lot of it was going into buying influence in Washington.
FTX, Bankman-Fried, and other FTX top executives poured money into Democrat politicians and liberal causes - $28 million went to a Democrat pro-COVID lockdown PAC, and $4 million to a group called Reproductive Freedom for All. Democrat politicians who benefitted include Senators Dick Durbin and Bob Menendez. Bankman-Fried gave more than $5 million to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and was the second largest Democrat donor in the 2022 midterms. Money also went to Republicans, but it’s common for corporations to make contributions on both sides of the aisle to hedge their bets in the influence game. In all, an estimated $57 million went to Democrat candidates and groups and $22 million to Republican candidates and groups. [Steve Moore newsletter, 11/21/22]
Another Democrat politician who benefitted is Maxine Waters. There are pictures of her and Bankman-Fried with their arms around each other, smiling. Another picture shows her blowing kisses to him. And this is the woman who, as current chair of the House Financial Services Committee, will be holding hearings on FTX next month. Moreover, nine members of the committee — seven Democrats and two Republicans — received more than a combined $300,000 in political contributions from Bankman-Fried and others at FTX. It doesn’t take a genius to see the conflict of interest here. It’s shaping up to be a whitewash, with the chair of the committee blowing kisses at the perp.
Meanwhile, critics are asking ‘what did the SEC know and when did it know it?’ It turns out the father of the girlfriend who ran the trading firm I mentioned earlier worked with Gary Gensler, chairman of the SEC, when both were professors at MIT. Gensler, former campaign finance chair for Hillary Clinton, has been criticized for not seeing FTX was going off the rails. A famous short seller who spotted trouble at Enron and other places, had been publicly warning FTX looked like a scam. In addition, there are allegations Gensler was actively helping FTX find legal loopholes to escape regulation.
Bankman-Fried insists all the money he has been throwing around is completely innocent and not meant to influence lawmakers or regulators. The House Republicans will be testing that assertion come January, and we’ll see just how innocent all of this really is.
11/21/22 - Save the Planet, Kill Yourself
The United Nations warned in 2018 we only had 12 years left for global warming to be kept to a minimum of 1.5 degrees Celsius or further warming would bring catastrophic droughts, floods, extreme heat, and poverty for hundreds of millions of poor, suffering humans. Urgent changes were needed, OR ELSE! Urgent, I tell you, URGENT!
You wouldn’t know it from the results of this year’s annual U.N. climate summit which just ended with a deal for rich nations to transfer money to poor nations, but no deal to reduce emissions. So let me get this straight: We have eight years left to keep the planet from burning up, but nothing could be done at the climate summit on the urgent business of curbing emissions?
The whole thing is a joke, a psyop - we’re all being manipulated like puppets on a string. One of the countries eligible for climate reparations under the new deal is China, a rich nation which built almost a hundred new coal-fired power plants last year. The joke just got worse.
One indicia of psychological manipulation is the way they cranked up the propaganda machine for this year’s summit. The U.N. Secretary-General said nations must cooperate or perish - PERISH, I tell you. We’re on “a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator,” he said. Oh, my, that sounds dreadful, what will we ever do? The only thing becoming overheated is the rhetoric. Then there was another sea level scare which arrived right on time, right when the summit was set to begin. The idea the seas are rising because of climate change is bunk. A recent study showed coastal cities are sinking due to groundwater extraction, giving the illusion sea levels are rising. A human-caused problem, to be sure, but not one that can be fixed by eating bugs or buying an electric car.
Another indicia of manipulation is data tampering. I’ve told you previously how climatistas are tampering with temperature sensors and re-writing satellite data. Now comes word they’re lying about the number of 90-degree days increasing in the U.S. They conveniently start their graphs in 1960, deliberately ignoring the fact there were many more 90-degree days in the 1930s than there are now.
A third indicia we’re all being manipulated is the increasing frequency with which climatistas are revealing their true agendas. I told you before the summit Greta Thunberg’s true aim is to smash the capitalist system. She’s not the only one. John Kerry wants to create artificial demand signals in the marketplace for electric cars, renewables, fake meat, and, yes, eating bugs. By the way, it’s been reported John Kerry wants to leave his climate czar post to make more money for himself raising capital for clean energy projects. I keep telling you, these people need to put out financial disclosure statements every time they open their mouth and pontificate about the wonders of clean energy or talk up carbon trading markets. Selling soap, or selling clean energy and carbon credits - what’s the difference? Speaking of hidden agendas, the open borders crowd is rebranding illegal aliens as ‘climate migrants’ to boost acceptance for open borders policies. More manipulation.
The logical conclusion, if you let yourself be manipulated by all this, is that you must kill yourself to save the planet. You have no right to emit carbon dioxide or consume anything. This is what some climate gurus have been advocating for some time. So get the ‘Save the Planet, Kill Yourself’ t-shirt, sing the song, then it’s off to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland with you. As one climate guru put it, the earth will be so much better off when there aren’t any people on it.
11/18/22 - Taking Stock of Election Integrity Efforts
Believe what you like about the 2020 presidential election, but there’s no denying the widespread belief - even among Democrats - the election was stolen motivated a lot of people to work to tighten up future elections. The way I hear the story, donors poured $30 million dollars into election integrity efforts on the professional Right. You can add to that hundreds of citizen’s groups and thousands of individuals in the grassroots all working to secure elections like never before. So what do they have to show for all that treasure and effort?
A lot, actually. There were fewer reports of late night ballot drops and Republican poll watchers being blocked this time around. A Republican lawsuit forced Nevada and Arizona to offer poll-worker data to ensure both parties are equally represented at voting sites. Another Republican challenge struck down a New York law that would have added 900,000 noncitizens to the voter rolls. There was yet another court ruling upholding voter ID, something most Americans support. High voter turnout in Georgia put the nail in the coffin of the Democrat’s phony narrative new election integrity laws passed by Republicans in several states are voter suppression. Jim Crow 2.0? Hardly. It was all Democrat hogwash. Oh, and what happened to all that Republican violence and all those disruptive Republican election workers we were supposed to see on Election Day? It didn’t happen. It was just hogwash. You can put it right next to all the other Democrat hogwash. Now, left-wing organizations have to explain to their base why it didn’t happen and they’re saying it was because elections officials were ready for trouble. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
So there were some wins, but we still have miles to go before we can express confidence in our elections again. A number of suspicious things happened in the midterms. Ballots arrived after the legal deadline with no adequate explanation at the Detroit bureau of elections, reminiscent of the 2020 election. A Democrat candidate got 1,100 votes in a town in New Hampshire that only has 700 people - how does that happen?
Turning to another subject, there is now something of a split among conservatives as to how to deal with the changes Democrats have brought to the election process in the last couple of years - what should we do going forward?
One school of thought holds the Democrats are winning elections because they have succeeded in gaming the system. People on this side of the debate point to Democrat victories in states that sent out over a million absentee ballots or states with permanent absentee ballot lists - ask for an absentee ballot once and you keep getting them in future elections. Having this many ballots floating around facilitates fraud and produced Democrat wins in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona. Republicans did better in Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and Georgia where absentee voting rules are stricter. Swing states with same-day registration like Michigan and Wisconsin went blue in this election. Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia don’t have same-day registration and went red. This school of thought believes all went according to Democrat plan and that Republicans should work to reverse things like mail-in voting and drop boxes.
But a new school of thought holds Republicans should accept all these things are here to stay and should learn to adapt to the new environment. Republicans should become aggressive in ballot curing, ballot harvesting where legal, and encouraging mail-in voting to avoid Election Day glitches. Adherents to this school of thought attribute the Republicans flipping the U.S. House to aggressive Republican ballot curing and harvesting in California. Republican candidates in Arizona urged voters to make sure their ballots were counted and to cure them if they were not.
Call me old school, but I’m not convinced. I get suspicious whenever anyone tells me I should do what the Democrats want me to do. Look at Michigan - voters just approved a ballot initiative from the Democrat side that will loosen voter ID, institutionalize early voting, mandate the use of drop boxes, create a permanent absentee ballot list, narrow the ability of citizens to challenge elections, and allow private money to be used for election administration. As for the latter, it’s pretty clear the true purpose of private money is to allow Democrat election officials to engage in voter registration drives to sign up more Democrats to vote. The consequence of all these changes the Democrats wanted will be less secure elections in Michigan in the future.
That’s the Democrat plan and I, for one, am not going to go along with it. I will continue my work with other activists in my state to fight all the changes the Democrats have made to our elections process. The Democrats will not quit. They will continue to try to subvert our elections. We must continue to oppose them and keep working to right the ship.
11/17/22 - How to Cheat in the Next Election
It’s amazing how many ways Democrats have come up with to cheat in elections.
Ballot harvesters were caught on video stuffing drop boxes with stacks of ballots in Arizona, where ballot harvesting is illegal. It’s legal in Pennsylvania where Democrat election officials voted to allow harvesting of a hundred votes at a time in nursing homes. It may be legal, but I still call it cheating because Democrats have a long history of committing voter fraud in nursing homes where many residents are no longer compos mentis.
One reason ballot harvesting is a bad idea is that it allows cheaters to pay people for their votes. A Texas man admitted a Democrat nominee paid him $200 for every fraudulent absentee ballot he could deliver in the 2016 election.
A Democrat poll worker in Indiana told voters how to vote and even pressed “straight Democrat” on a machine for one of them.
A group of unidentified men in black threw an independent poll challenger out of the big voting center in Detroit in the August primary for asking why a voting machine was apparently connected to the Internet. A court subsequently ruled the Secretary of State did not have authority to issue rules to allow poll challengers to be thrown out for asking too many questions.
Elections officials in St. Louis told volunteer poll workers not to enforce the state’s new photo ID law.
So excuse me for not taking Democrat election ‘reforms’ - so-called - at face value. The only reason Democrats want mail-in voting and refuse to clean the voter rolls is so they can cheat.
Voting by mail is a mess. Some ballots end up on the ground, others are sent to vacant lots. The number returned as undeliverable can run into the tens of thousands in any given county.
Because Democrats refuse to clean the voter rolls in many areas, ballots are sent to dead voters, people are sent duplicate ballots, and ballots are mailed to people who have moved away. Pennsylvania sent 240,000 ballots to voters for the 2022 election without verifying their identity. Michigan had 26,000 dead voters on the rolls last year. Minnesota had over 500 duplicates.
Why does it matter? Because you have to have dirty voter rolls to cheat. First, you have to grab a bunch of ballots floating around from mail-in voting, for example. But then you have to match up your fraudulently cast ballots with records of voters still on the rolls who are not going to vote this time, like dead people. You can’t do that very easily if the voter rolls are cleaned up.
Among other efforts to clean up voter rolls, there is a team working to identify phantom names and incorrect addresses on the rolls in Wisconsin and about 20 other states. This team is using fractal programming technology which starts with small batches but can be scaled up to millions of records quickly and inexpensively. The team will eventually be working in all 50 states.
It’s citizen-led efforts like this that will make cheating much harder and restore confidence in our elections, once again.
11/16/22 - The Boast in the Machine
Voting machines caused chaos in Maricopa County, Arizona on Election Day:
An election judge in a Republican area in the county believes the problems were intentional. The tabulators were set up for 19-inch ballots, but the ballots were 20 inches and rejected.
I wish I could tell you these were the only problems with machines in this year’s elections, but there were lots more.
Twenty-five thousand votes for a third-party candidate for U.S. Senate in New York disappeared overnight. This has not been explained, as far as I’m aware. Also in New York, identical election results were reported across multiple counties, with Democrats winning every time. How does that happen?
Voting machines went out of service in New Jersey and Texas.
Security features were found to be turned off in several voting machines in Georgia. This was discovered when a fraudulent ballot printed on looseleaf paper turned up. The machines are supposed to detect when the paper does not meet requirements. So who turned off the security features and why?
A Democrat in Colorado was arrested for inserting a USB flash drive into a voting machine during a primary election in June. This is one way to get a machine to flip votes.
We keep hearing that voting machines don’t connect to the Internet and, thus, results can’t be tampered with from the outside, but the Colorado Secretary of State admitted in writing Dominion machines have Wi-Fi connectivity.
An audit in New Mexico last month found a 25 percent difference between machine counts and hand counts in a primary election.
In a Virginia county, it was found the number of votes recorded by scanners was different from the number of paper ballots dropping down into the box below. How does that happen?
None of this inspires confidence, especially when you hear things like Barack Obama saying in 2008 “I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines.” Or a Dominion voting system executive caught on video explaining to election officials in 2020 how to use the machines to alter election results. Or the director of an electronic voting system company admitting that an entire election in Venezuela was stolen when a million votes were flipped in 2017.
No wonder some people want to get rid of the machines entirely and count paper ballots by hand again, like in France which doesn’t seem to have any trouble getting it done the same day. Short of that, machine certification standards could be tightened, elections officials could do a better job of selecting equipment that actually meets specifications, and machines could be tested more rigorously before elections. Whatever the solution, it’s clear the present state of affairs causes distrust in our elections and is, therefore, untenable.
11/15/22 - The Elections: Using the Perfect to Spur the Good
Yesterday, I told you about a set of problems that were identified and fixed in the run-up to the elections. Unfortunately, it’s a game of whack-a-mole. Plenty more problems arose in the 2022 cycle that need to be fixed before we can have confidence in our elections again.
We start with the Arizona governor’s race, which media outlets have just called for the Democrat, Katie Hobbs. Problems with voting machines not working lead to long lines and wait times at one out of every five precincts. Critics said the best machines were sent to liberal districts, handing Republicans the short end of the stick. A judge refused to extend voting hours in Republican areas. Another problem: every mail-in ballot in Maricopa County - Arizona’s largest, near Phoenix - is sent from the post office to a printing company to be scanned before being taken to an election office. This takes 10-12 days, keeps elections officials from knowing how many ballots have been returned, and creates additional opportunities for fraud. The whole process could be taken in-house for a relatively small cost, begging the question: why all these extra hoops? All of these happenings in Maricopa County have been heavily criticized as unnecessary and not normal, things that don’t occur in other jurisdictions that manage to count their votes by Election Day.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for an investigation into malfeasance and possible criminal conduct in the Harris County elections near Houston. One of the problems cited is not enough ballots in Republican precincts. The problems in Harris County are long-standing, with the previous elections administrator resigning in March after it was discovered 10,000 ballots weren’t counted in the primary. The Texas Secretary of State has scheduled an audit of Harris County’s midterm elections results.
Funny how so many problems in our elections only affect Republicans. Do you think that’s an accident? Before you say I’m crazy, listen to this: An election worker in Philadelphia was caught on video inside a polling place telling an undercover journalist to “vote Democrat”. “I asked you to vote the ... Democrat down ballot because we’re trying to focus on, if the Democrats win, then at least they represent us,” the worker said. When the elections judge saw the video, he said, “That doesn’t look good.” Ya think?
I wish I could tell you that was the end of the problems last week, but we’re not even close:
More illegal electioneering took place in Philadelphia, with Democrat poll greeters not standing far enough away from the door at a polling place and Democrat candidate posters plastered on the building itself, all of which is illegal.
Also near Philadelphia, mail-in ballots were pre-processed without poll watchers present in violation of state law.
Republicans showed up to vote in Detroit, only to be told they already voted. This is an indication their identities were stolen and their ballots were fraudulently cast in their names.
Conservative Jewish voters in New York had to stand in line for hours, a problem not reported in liberal precincts.
All of this doesn’t even count apparent funny business with voting machines, which I’ll tell you about tomorrow.
But, for now, realize our elections process will never be perfect, there will always be holes and opportunities for fraud. The work will never be finished. All we can do is keep banging away, fix the holes we can, and go on to the next. We can strive for perfection, but we won’t ever achieve it. However, with enough effort, we can reach the point where things will be tight enough we can have confidence in our elections again, but only if enough people keep working at it.
11/14/22 - Election Problem Deniers, Take Note
Today, I start a series on problems with our election system. The election problem deniers will tell you ‘nothing to see here, move along,’ but there’s no shortage of undeniable problems.
Let’s start with stories about courts and government officials who rectified a number of problems in the days and weeks running up to the election.
The Delaware Supreme Court struck down no-fault absentee balloting and same-day voter registration because they violated the state constitution.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidated the use of drop boxes which the state elections commission had instituted without authority.
Elections officials in Pennsylvania were allowing mail-in ballots returned with missing or incorrect dates on the envelope, but the state Supreme Court put a stop to it.
A Virginia judge ordered county election officials to follow state law and assign the main poll workers from different political parties in each precinct. I’m in touch with activists from all over the country and ‘party parity’, as it is called, remains a problem in many places.
Hmm... I detect a pattern here, so far. The problems I’ve mentioned came about because Democrats broke the law. They’re scofflaws.
That means they have a lot in common with people recently charged with voter fraud. Arizona indicted two people with illegal ballot harvesting last month. They collected ballots from early voters and put them in a drop box. That’s illegal in Arizona, but remains a problem in states like Virginia where the practice is legal. It’s a bad practice. Ballot harvesters have been known to pay people for votes, as in a ballot harvesting scheme just uncovered in Florida. Also, nothing prevents fraudsters from stealing mail ballots, say, from apartment building lobbies, filling them out themselves, and dropping them in a ballot box. There are too many loose ballots floating around before election day to think ballot harvesting is a good idea. Ballot harvesting is a Democrat idea. No wonder they don’t want to talk about it, or the unsecured drop boxes that enable ballot harvesting schemes. The Chester County Pennsylvania elections board settled a lawsuit by agreeing to secure their drop boxes after activist surveillance video showed people dropping multiple ballots into the boxes. Voters can only put their own ballot into the boxes, not ballots collected from others. The board agreed to put up cameras and staff the boxes.
Democrats are still trying to hang on to changes made to the electoral process because of COVID, but a state judge ruled New York can no longer use COVID as an excuse for emergency rules and knocked down absentee voting rules that had been expanded during the pandemic. Fewer loose ballots floating around - sorry, Democrats.
For the Democrats to sustain their phony election denier and voter suppression narratives, they’re going to have to prove that all the courts, law enforcement and elections officials I mentioned here today are election deniers who are trying to suppress the vote. They’re all part of a vast conspiracy trying to deny people their civil rights. Good luck with that.
The correct analysis is the Democrats caused a bunch of problems, they won’t talk about the problems they themselves created, and they won’t fix them until forced to. Fine, they’re on notice: the process of fixing our elections has begun and we won’t stop until we are confident we have free and fair elections once again. Don’t mess with OUR right to vote.
11/11/22 - The Problems with ‘Free Stuff’
South Dakota voters approved Medicaid expansion in Tuesday’s election, leaving just 11 states that have not expanded their Medicaid programs to include middle-class able-bodied childless adults making almost $40,000 a year. I hope the remaining states hold the line because they will be in a world of hurt if they don’t.
The first problem is voters demanding free stuff with nary a thought of how to pay for it. Missouri voters previously demanded Medicaid expansion, but the state couldn’t figure out a sustainable way to pay for it. Expansion would cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but nobody knew what the funding mechanism would be. The same thing happened in Idaho and Oklahoma - Medicaid expansion occurred without a stable permanent funding source. Since Medicaid is now such a huge part of state budgets, every expansion state faces fights in the legislature about raising taxes or pulling money from other priorities like education to fund more government-sponsored healthcare.
That’s just for openers. Expansion states face a raft of other problems. Enrollment always exceeds expectations and many states have hit the wall in terms of being able to afford their programs. I haven’t seen any more reports of this lately, but extra federal COVID money has postponed the day of financial reckoning. I would argue the reason we still have a federal COVID emergency, though the medical facts no longer justify it, is to keep the states - especially expansion states - from going bust over their Medicaid expenses. A world of hurt is coming because the fiction of a COVID emergency can’t be maintained forever.
Other problems with Medicaid expansion include
Speaking of special interests, they are busy agitating for Government Healthcare 2.0. It’s not enough that one in four Americans is now on Medicaid, we have to expand the range of services and the amount of government money spent on them for them to become healthy, or so the pretext goes. The theory is called Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). I call it naked redistribution, with calls growing for, and localities dabbling in, providing Medicaid recipients with free housing, transportation, food aid, education, job programs, guaranteed income, and other social services galore. The theory has been around for a while but it is gaining traction, inducing mission creep in the Medicaid program. Proponents claim the theory saves money, but their analysis fails to account for the magnet effect of free stuff from the government drawing ever-larger numbers of people into government dependency. Once again, the Left points to immediate gains and fails to think systemically.
If you think the nation is too far in debt now, and states are biting off more than they can chew with Medicaid expansion, just wait. Insolvency 2.0 is the inevitable outcome of social determinants of health. Insolvency is what you get when no claim on public funds can be resisted and the government tries to put a soft pillow under absolutely everybody for absolutely everything. Ultimately, it won’t work.
11/10/22 - Baby Boy 1 Million
All eyes are on tight races around the country, the results of which are still not known. But something else momentous happened on Election Day, and it’s not good. Voters enshrined support for abortion up to birth in the law in Vermont, Michigan, and California.
In Vermont, voters approved a measure to put abortion rights into the state constitution. Critics say the measure permits “unlimited, unregulated abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy” and “would permanently block any attempt to protect the unborn — even those who can survive outside the womb.”
In Michigan, a ballot proposal put a right to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy into the state constitution, thereby legalizing abortion up to birth. The proposal also wipes out every pro-life law in the state, including parental consent which can no longer be required. The proposal passed after a deceitful campaign largely funded by billionaires from outside the state. Campaigners falsely claimed the proposal would not affect parental rights, allow late-term abortions, or require taxpayers to fund abortions against their conscience.
In California, voters approved a ballot measure which will allow killing babies in taxpayer-funded abortions up to birth. The state constitution now contains a “right” to taxpayer-funded “late-term abortion up until the moment of birth, even if both mother and child are healthy.” The ballot measure must be read in conjunction with a law California passed in September shielding any person from civil or criminal liability or penalty for, among other things, their actions regarding their pregnancy resulting in perinatal death for causes that occurred in utero. ‘Perinatal’ means around the time of birth including after birth, so that’s a fancy way of saying the door has been opened to infanticide in California. The language that passed was trimmed back from earlier versions and looks fairly restrictive on paper. But the Left never quits, and it’s guaranteed they will be back trying to expand the language and loosen the law. You can also expect the Left to push for infanticide in other states.
I want you to see exactly what you are supporting if you advocate abortion up to birth. In April, the iconic photograph of ‘Baby Boy 1’ appeared in the news. He was one of five babies who might have been killed in illegal partial birth abortions, killed after birth, or left to die after being born alive. The circumstances are unclear, but D.C.’s mayor refused to investigate. The photo shows Baby Boy 1 had “a fully formed face, fingers, toes, and all the primary features normally visible in a newborn.” Take a good look at what abortion up to birth really means:
Elon Musk is really shaking things up at Twitter. In a win for free speech, Twitter will no longer enforce its COVID misinformation policy which had been used to silence people who questioned the government’s COVID vaccine and treatment narratives. It was also announced this week Twitter will reinstate 62,000 large accounts and release its files on the suppression of free speech that occurred under former management. With respect to the latter, Musk tweeted Monday, “The public deserves to know what really happened.”
The Left is freaking out. One leftist at Harvard even said Musk is “opening the gates of hell.... People can come back and engage in doxing, targeted harassment, vicious bullying, calls for violence, celebration of violence. I can’t even begin to state how dangerous this will be.” Yah, yah, we’ve heard it all before - ‘your speech is violence and my violence is speech.’ Some people just can’t stand for other people to be free. The First Amendment has a lot of enemies at this point, I oppose them all. Especially the ones who go on TV and use their free speech rights to trash free speech and tell people like me to shut up. Go fly a kite!
The Biden administration doesn’t like free speech, either. It labels ordinary parents who speak up at school board meetings ‘domestic terrorists’. Dozens of Biden administration officials engaged in a gigantic censorship enterprise with Big Tech firms, including Twitter. The Missouri Attorney General sued to stop it and the first depositions, including Anthony Fauci’s, have gotten underway.
But federal agencies are still trying to stifle free speech in other ways. The National Science Foundation has awarded $39 million in grants in the last couple of years to projects seeking to clamp down on the dissemination of information that runs counter to phony government narratives on COVID and elections. The Education Department wants a rule that would punish pro-life speech as ‘discrimination’.
The Biden administration clearly won’t stop with the censorship. So it should make you more than a little nervous the White House says it is “monitoring” what Elon Musk is doing at Twitter. “We’re all keeping a close eye on this,” the White House press secretary said. “Platforms must be held accountable for the harms that they cause,” she said later. There they go with the ‘harms’, again. The only harm that’s being done is exposing phony government narratives for what they are.
Enemies of free expression outside the Biden administration are busy, as well. California passed a law targeting doctors who don’t toe the government line on COVID treatments. Amazon pulled a book on Islamic terrorism. A California community college won’t allow students to post anticommunist flyers on bulletin boards.
I continue to speak out against all such efforts and to champion free speech. It’s nice to have a new ally, a free speech “absolutist” like Elon Musk, join the fight.
11/29/22 - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid of Your Government
I hope one of the lasting legacies of the COVID pandemic is mistrust of government. Here’s why: government officials and agencies showed themselves to be a bunch of quacks and liars during the pandemic, and they’re still lying today, recent reports show.
Anthony Fauci told us to wear a mask. He even told us to wear two masks. But in a deposition last week, he could not name a single study showing masks work. And now we find out the CDC’s mask guidance for school children was driven by political polling results, not science.
The CDC knew COVID vaccines were associated with heart problems, but did not include heart problems in its list of checkboxes on its v-safe survey phone app. Survey respondents had to write heart problems into the free-text field on the survey and the CDC fought disclosure of those answers in court. We now know from other sources virtually 100 percent of mRNA COVID vaccine recipients suffer some degree of heart injury. Also, the CDC covered up other data showing 18 million people ended up in the hospital after getting their first COVID shot.
I’ve been trying to get more information about why the government didn’t pull the COVID vaccines from the market after they were linked to thousands of deaths and a million other problems, like it pulled the swine flu vaccine in 1976 after that vaccine was linked to only 25 deaths. My case is in federal court, but the government filed a motion to dismiss and the judge has yet to rule.
There’s more. The FDA put out statements prohibiting the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19, even though aggregating all studies shows ivermectin cuts mortality in half. Now the FDA claims it was just giving a recommendation, not putting out a mandate. Three doctors aren’t buying it and have sued the FDA for interfering with their doctor-patient relationships. The government didn’t have the evidence when it was disparaging ivermectin, but that didn’t stop it from pushing bivalent boosters and Pfizer’s Paxlovid treatment without testing the boosters on humans or testing Paxlovid on vaccinated individuals.
Also regarding vaccines, there have been reports along the way their efficacy wanes and even turns negative after a short period of time. Finally, we have the stunning admission - from the Washington Post, nonetheless - that “a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.” Simply put, more vaccinated people than unvaccinated people have died from COVID. The vaccinated are also more prone to repeat bouts of COVID. That whole thing where the government and the media vilified and ostracized the unvaccinated turned out to be completely unjustified. Where are the apologies?
The media campaign to push the vaccines, a campaign that was bought and paid for by the government, was completely unjustified, too. The campaign also enlisted entertainers, celebrities, and late-night TV hosts. The government spent a billion dollars to have hundreds of media outlets spread the government’s phony narratives on COVID, including the phony narrative the vaccines are safe and effective. So the media are a bunch of liars, too. They’ll shill for anything. At least now we know what their price is.
It’s time government officials learn they don’t get to lord over us. They get only the respect and trust they earn. They burned it all up in the pandemic. Right now, they have zero credibility and will have to dig themselves out of a very deep hole. If you trust the government after all this, you’re out of your mind.
11/28/22 - The Human Traffickers of the Biden Administration
House Republicans are expected to move to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to faithfully execute the nation’s immigration laws when they take control in January. Good! I’ve been calling for this for some time, along with impeaching Joe Biden for the same reason. Congressman Ronny Jackson from Texas said over the weekend:
- "Mayorkas has got to go, so we're going to start investigating him. We are going investigate every decision he's made. We're going to use the power of subpoena. We're going to use the power of the purse and come after Mayorkas. He needs to go.
“Every decision he’s made” - I’ve documented in previous commentaries dozens of policy changes to open the border that Mayorkas has made during his tenure. Here’s one more: The Biden administration is taking a tiny provision of immigration law - ‘humanitarian parole’ - and driving a truck through it. The administration is pre-approving parole applications while people are still in Mexico, then they’re driven to border checkpoints and handed off to U.S. authorities who whisk them into the interior sight unseen. Word is getting around about this supposedly legal manner of entry and thousands are stampeding Mexican shelters to apply. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow in a case brought by Louisiana and Texas challenging the Biden administration’s policy not to deport dangerous criminal aliens, releasing them into the U.S., instead. The challenge is supported by 19 other states that argue the administration is ignoring federal immigration law.
Texas isn’t waiting for the legal landscape to improve. Governor Greg Abbott declared an invasion on the southern border, paving the way for the state to, among other things, build a wall and deploy the National Guard. Armored tank-like vehicles are being sent to the border. Texas has now run 300 busloads of illegal aliens to blue states. The Governor of Massachusetts said Joe Biden’s open borders policies are costing his state an extra $139 million dollars next year.
The ravages of these policies have not gone away. We have fresh reminders the fentanyl pouring across the border is killing more Americans than guns and cars combined, cartel money is ending up in the hands of corrupt politicians, and dozens of people on the national terrorist watch list are finding their way here. What do you think those terrorists are doing today?
Here are couple of things coming up to watch: Democrats are looking to pass some kind of immigration legislation during the lame-duck Congress, since Republican control of the House will likely block their chances for the next two years. Full amnesty for all illegal aliens, work permits for DACA Dreamers, and other proposals have all been discussed. Secondly, COVID restrictions at the border are coming to an end. Those restrictions kept a million illegal aliens out and a new rush at the border is expected once the restrictions are lifted. With open borders crazies like Biden and Mayorkas running the show, it’s a good bet most of them are getting in, immigration law or no immigration law.
11/23/22 - Give Thanks for the Rule of Law
Let us give thanks for small favors. Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot reversed course and will once again prosecute misdemeanor thefts of necessary items between $100 and $750. This may not sound like a big deal, but it’s a victory over the progressive prosecutors - the Soros DAs, a group that includes Creuzot - who have been busy dismantling the criminal justice system in dozens of localities across the country.
Creuzot said he ended the policy not to prosecute these thefts because, he claimed, data shows the policy had no effect on crime, one way or the other. The nonprosecution policy, also implemented by progressive prosecutors elsewhere, is straight out of the abolitionist playbook. ‘Abolitionists’ are far-left crazies who want to abolish all police, criminal courts, and prisons. Like them, Creuzot believes in ‘decriminalizing poverty’ and ‘ending mass incarceration’, attitudes which led him to stop prosecuting misdemeanor theft. He also stopped prosecuting criminal trespass and misdemeanor marijuana cases.
In April, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and state Attorney General Ken Paxton sent Creuzot a letter that hit the nail on the head, making the point I’ve made many times that progressive prosecutors are not authorized or entitled to tear up criminal statutes duly passed by their state legislatures. The letter states:
- Reform is one thing. Actions that abandon the rule of law and that could promote lawlessness are altogether different. Texas law gives criminal district attorneys the duty to enforce the laws the Legislature writes... It grants no power to criminal district attorneys to categorically rewrite the law. Constitutionally, ‘reforming’ state law is the province of the Legislature.
Exactly, and not just in Texas. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted last week to impeach progressive Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner for, among other things, his refusal to prosecute prostitution and retail theft. He also fired 30 experienced prosecutors. The consequences of Krasner’s insane policies are a sky-high murder rate, ubiquitous shootings on public transportation and near schools and, because of increasing retail theft, numerous businesses leaving the city. The impeachment vote is a first step in a process that could remove Krasner from office.
The progressive prosecutor in Baltimore asked the court to give an armed robber first offender treatment that could result in a clean record. The robber was set free and went on to shoot and kill a sheriff’s deputy.
Another thing to be thankful for is the fact resistance to the Soros DAs is growing and getting better organized. You might remember that progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin was recalled in San Francisco earlier this year. A progressive candidate just lost her race for a district attorney’s spot in Arizona. A new group, formed to fight progressive prosecutors at the ballot box, helped defeat a number of them around the country in the recent elections.
Good. The progressive prosecutors are trying to tear down the Rule of Law, tear down the economy, tear down the criminal justice system, and sow chaos throughout the land so people will clamor for left-wing authoritarians to keep them safe.
So let us give thanks and hope the trend against them continues.
11/22/22 - Tales from the Crypto
The spectacular collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange is not just a business story. It’s a Washington swamp story and Republicans will be investigating it when they take control of the House in January. At issue is whether “Individuals within the Democrat Party accepted money with knowledge of potential criminal activity occurring at FTX.”
High-flying FTX bought Super Bowl ads and sports facility naming rights. It amassed a net worth of $32 billion to become one of the largest crypto exchanges in just three years with 28-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried at the helm. It lost half its worth in a matter of days when customers lost confidence and essentially started a run on the bank. It was reported Bankman-Fried secretly siphoned off $10 billion in customer funds and transferred it to another trading firm he also owned, run by his girlfriend. The trading firm invested in FTX’s crypto token, the financial roundtrip prompting investor concern. FTX was left without sufficient assets to pay customers pulling their money out, and bankruptcy ensued.
FTX has been called a Ponzi scheme, but it sounds more like embezzlement and fraud. News reports don’t talk about money from new investors being used to pay previous investors, as in a Ponzi scheme. Instead, $1-2 billion simply vanished. Some of it went into buying $121 million worth of property in the Bahamas, but a lot of it was going into buying influence in Washington.
FTX, Bankman-Fried, and other FTX top executives poured money into Democrat politicians and liberal causes - $28 million went to a Democrat pro-COVID lockdown PAC, and $4 million to a group called Reproductive Freedom for All. Democrat politicians who benefitted include Senators Dick Durbin and Bob Menendez. Bankman-Fried gave more than $5 million to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and was the second largest Democrat donor in the 2022 midterms. Money also went to Republicans, but it’s common for corporations to make contributions on both sides of the aisle to hedge their bets in the influence game. In all, an estimated $57 million went to Democrat candidates and groups and $22 million to Republican candidates and groups. [Steve Moore newsletter, 11/21/22]
Another Democrat politician who benefitted is Maxine Waters. There are pictures of her and Bankman-Fried with their arms around each other, smiling. Another picture shows her blowing kisses to him. And this is the woman who, as current chair of the House Financial Services Committee, will be holding hearings on FTX next month. Moreover, nine members of the committee — seven Democrats and two Republicans — received more than a combined $300,000 in political contributions from Bankman-Fried and others at FTX. It doesn’t take a genius to see the conflict of interest here. It’s shaping up to be a whitewash, with the chair of the committee blowing kisses at the perp.
Meanwhile, critics are asking ‘what did the SEC know and when did it know it?’ It turns out the father of the girlfriend who ran the trading firm I mentioned earlier worked with Gary Gensler, chairman of the SEC, when both were professors at MIT. Gensler, former campaign finance chair for Hillary Clinton, has been criticized for not seeing FTX was going off the rails. A famous short seller who spotted trouble at Enron and other places, had been publicly warning FTX looked like a scam. In addition, there are allegations Gensler was actively helping FTX find legal loopholes to escape regulation.
Bankman-Fried insists all the money he has been throwing around is completely innocent and not meant to influence lawmakers or regulators. The House Republicans will be testing that assertion come January, and we’ll see just how innocent all of this really is.
11/21/22 - Save the Planet, Kill Yourself
The United Nations warned in 2018 we only had 12 years left for global warming to be kept to a minimum of 1.5 degrees Celsius or further warming would bring catastrophic droughts, floods, extreme heat, and poverty for hundreds of millions of poor, suffering humans. Urgent changes were needed, OR ELSE! Urgent, I tell you, URGENT!
You wouldn’t know it from the results of this year’s annual U.N. climate summit which just ended with a deal for rich nations to transfer money to poor nations, but no deal to reduce emissions. So let me get this straight: We have eight years left to keep the planet from burning up, but nothing could be done at the climate summit on the urgent business of curbing emissions?
The whole thing is a joke, a psyop - we’re all being manipulated like puppets on a string. One of the countries eligible for climate reparations under the new deal is China, a rich nation which built almost a hundred new coal-fired power plants last year. The joke just got worse.
One indicia of psychological manipulation is the way they cranked up the propaganda machine for this year’s summit. The U.N. Secretary-General said nations must cooperate or perish - PERISH, I tell you. We’re on “a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator,” he said. Oh, my, that sounds dreadful, what will we ever do? The only thing becoming overheated is the rhetoric. Then there was another sea level scare which arrived right on time, right when the summit was set to begin. The idea the seas are rising because of climate change is bunk. A recent study showed coastal cities are sinking due to groundwater extraction, giving the illusion sea levels are rising. A human-caused problem, to be sure, but not one that can be fixed by eating bugs or buying an electric car.
Another indicia of manipulation is data tampering. I’ve told you previously how climatistas are tampering with temperature sensors and re-writing satellite data. Now comes word they’re lying about the number of 90-degree days increasing in the U.S. They conveniently start their graphs in 1960, deliberately ignoring the fact there were many more 90-degree days in the 1930s than there are now.
A third indicia we’re all being manipulated is the increasing frequency with which climatistas are revealing their true agendas. I told you before the summit Greta Thunberg’s true aim is to smash the capitalist system. She’s not the only one. John Kerry wants to create artificial demand signals in the marketplace for electric cars, renewables, fake meat, and, yes, eating bugs. By the way, it’s been reported John Kerry wants to leave his climate czar post to make more money for himself raising capital for clean energy projects. I keep telling you, these people need to put out financial disclosure statements every time they open their mouth and pontificate about the wonders of clean energy or talk up carbon trading markets. Selling soap, or selling clean energy and carbon credits - what’s the difference? Speaking of hidden agendas, the open borders crowd is rebranding illegal aliens as ‘climate migrants’ to boost acceptance for open borders policies. More manipulation.
The logical conclusion, if you let yourself be manipulated by all this, is that you must kill yourself to save the planet. You have no right to emit carbon dioxide or consume anything. This is what some climate gurus have been advocating for some time. So get the ‘Save the Planet, Kill Yourself’ t-shirt, sing the song, then it’s off to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland with you. As one climate guru put it, the earth will be so much better off when there aren’t any people on it.
11/18/22 - Taking Stock of Election Integrity Efforts
Believe what you like about the 2020 presidential election, but there’s no denying the widespread belief - even among Democrats - the election was stolen motivated a lot of people to work to tighten up future elections. The way I hear the story, donors poured $30 million dollars into election integrity efforts on the professional Right. You can add to that hundreds of citizen’s groups and thousands of individuals in the grassroots all working to secure elections like never before. So what do they have to show for all that treasure and effort?
A lot, actually. There were fewer reports of late night ballot drops and Republican poll watchers being blocked this time around. A Republican lawsuit forced Nevada and Arizona to offer poll-worker data to ensure both parties are equally represented at voting sites. Another Republican challenge struck down a New York law that would have added 900,000 noncitizens to the voter rolls. There was yet another court ruling upholding voter ID, something most Americans support. High voter turnout in Georgia put the nail in the coffin of the Democrat’s phony narrative new election integrity laws passed by Republicans in several states are voter suppression. Jim Crow 2.0? Hardly. It was all Democrat hogwash. Oh, and what happened to all that Republican violence and all those disruptive Republican election workers we were supposed to see on Election Day? It didn’t happen. It was just hogwash. You can put it right next to all the other Democrat hogwash. Now, left-wing organizations have to explain to their base why it didn’t happen and they’re saying it was because elections officials were ready for trouble. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
So there were some wins, but we still have miles to go before we can express confidence in our elections again. A number of suspicious things happened in the midterms. Ballots arrived after the legal deadline with no adequate explanation at the Detroit bureau of elections, reminiscent of the 2020 election. A Democrat candidate got 1,100 votes in a town in New Hampshire that only has 700 people - how does that happen?
Turning to another subject, there is now something of a split among conservatives as to how to deal with the changes Democrats have brought to the election process in the last couple of years - what should we do going forward?
One school of thought holds the Democrats are winning elections because they have succeeded in gaming the system. People on this side of the debate point to Democrat victories in states that sent out over a million absentee ballots or states with permanent absentee ballot lists - ask for an absentee ballot once and you keep getting them in future elections. Having this many ballots floating around facilitates fraud and produced Democrat wins in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona. Republicans did better in Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and Georgia where absentee voting rules are stricter. Swing states with same-day registration like Michigan and Wisconsin went blue in this election. Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia don’t have same-day registration and went red. This school of thought believes all went according to Democrat plan and that Republicans should work to reverse things like mail-in voting and drop boxes.
But a new school of thought holds Republicans should accept all these things are here to stay and should learn to adapt to the new environment. Republicans should become aggressive in ballot curing, ballot harvesting where legal, and encouraging mail-in voting to avoid Election Day glitches. Adherents to this school of thought attribute the Republicans flipping the U.S. House to aggressive Republican ballot curing and harvesting in California. Republican candidates in Arizona urged voters to make sure their ballots were counted and to cure them if they were not.
Call me old school, but I’m not convinced. I get suspicious whenever anyone tells me I should do what the Democrats want me to do. Look at Michigan - voters just approved a ballot initiative from the Democrat side that will loosen voter ID, institutionalize early voting, mandate the use of drop boxes, create a permanent absentee ballot list, narrow the ability of citizens to challenge elections, and allow private money to be used for election administration. As for the latter, it’s pretty clear the true purpose of private money is to allow Democrat election officials to engage in voter registration drives to sign up more Democrats to vote. The consequence of all these changes the Democrats wanted will be less secure elections in Michigan in the future.
That’s the Democrat plan and I, for one, am not going to go along with it. I will continue my work with other activists in my state to fight all the changes the Democrats have made to our elections process. The Democrats will not quit. They will continue to try to subvert our elections. We must continue to oppose them and keep working to right the ship.
11/17/22 - How to Cheat in the Next Election
It’s amazing how many ways Democrats have come up with to cheat in elections.
Ballot harvesters were caught on video stuffing drop boxes with stacks of ballots in Arizona, where ballot harvesting is illegal. It’s legal in Pennsylvania where Democrat election officials voted to allow harvesting of a hundred votes at a time in nursing homes. It may be legal, but I still call it cheating because Democrats have a long history of committing voter fraud in nursing homes where many residents are no longer compos mentis.
One reason ballot harvesting is a bad idea is that it allows cheaters to pay people for their votes. A Texas man admitted a Democrat nominee paid him $200 for every fraudulent absentee ballot he could deliver in the 2016 election.
A Democrat poll worker in Indiana told voters how to vote and even pressed “straight Democrat” on a machine for one of them.
A group of unidentified men in black threw an independent poll challenger out of the big voting center in Detroit in the August primary for asking why a voting machine was apparently connected to the Internet. A court subsequently ruled the Secretary of State did not have authority to issue rules to allow poll challengers to be thrown out for asking too many questions.
Elections officials in St. Louis told volunteer poll workers not to enforce the state’s new photo ID law.
So excuse me for not taking Democrat election ‘reforms’ - so-called - at face value. The only reason Democrats want mail-in voting and refuse to clean the voter rolls is so they can cheat.
Voting by mail is a mess. Some ballots end up on the ground, others are sent to vacant lots. The number returned as undeliverable can run into the tens of thousands in any given county.
Because Democrats refuse to clean the voter rolls in many areas, ballots are sent to dead voters, people are sent duplicate ballots, and ballots are mailed to people who have moved away. Pennsylvania sent 240,000 ballots to voters for the 2022 election without verifying their identity. Michigan had 26,000 dead voters on the rolls last year. Minnesota had over 500 duplicates.
Why does it matter? Because you have to have dirty voter rolls to cheat. First, you have to grab a bunch of ballots floating around from mail-in voting, for example. But then you have to match up your fraudulently cast ballots with records of voters still on the rolls who are not going to vote this time, like dead people. You can’t do that very easily if the voter rolls are cleaned up.
Among other efforts to clean up voter rolls, there is a team working to identify phantom names and incorrect addresses on the rolls in Wisconsin and about 20 other states. This team is using fractal programming technology which starts with small batches but can be scaled up to millions of records quickly and inexpensively. The team will eventually be working in all 50 states.
It’s citizen-led efforts like this that will make cheating much harder and restore confidence in our elections, once again.
11/16/22 - The Boast in the Machine
Voting machines caused chaos in Maricopa County, Arizona on Election Day:
- "Maricopa County was absolutely insane," [a voter] said. "I mean, I woke up to messages everywhere about, you know, this polling location is closed, people are in line, they're kicking them out, this polling location is closed, whatever."
We "got in line, I got my ballot, filled it out, went to the machines, and it was rejected," she continued. "Then they said, 'Go over to the other machine,' it was rejected.... And finally, after about 10 times, we spoiled it.... And finally, my third ballot and about, you know, five or six times they finally accepted it.... And that was happening all around me.
An election judge in a Republican area in the county believes the problems were intentional. The tabulators were set up for 19-inch ballots, but the ballots were 20 inches and rejected.
I wish I could tell you these were the only problems with machines in this year’s elections, but there were lots more.
Twenty-five thousand votes for a third-party candidate for U.S. Senate in New York disappeared overnight. This has not been explained, as far as I’m aware. Also in New York, identical election results were reported across multiple counties, with Democrats winning every time. How does that happen?
Voting machines went out of service in New Jersey and Texas.
Security features were found to be turned off in several voting machines in Georgia. This was discovered when a fraudulent ballot printed on looseleaf paper turned up. The machines are supposed to detect when the paper does not meet requirements. So who turned off the security features and why?
A Democrat in Colorado was arrested for inserting a USB flash drive into a voting machine during a primary election in June. This is one way to get a machine to flip votes.
We keep hearing that voting machines don’t connect to the Internet and, thus, results can’t be tampered with from the outside, but the Colorado Secretary of State admitted in writing Dominion machines have Wi-Fi connectivity.
An audit in New Mexico last month found a 25 percent difference between machine counts and hand counts in a primary election.
In a Virginia county, it was found the number of votes recorded by scanners was different from the number of paper ballots dropping down into the box below. How does that happen?
None of this inspires confidence, especially when you hear things like Barack Obama saying in 2008 “I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines.” Or a Dominion voting system executive caught on video explaining to election officials in 2020 how to use the machines to alter election results. Or the director of an electronic voting system company admitting that an entire election in Venezuela was stolen when a million votes were flipped in 2017.
No wonder some people want to get rid of the machines entirely and count paper ballots by hand again, like in France which doesn’t seem to have any trouble getting it done the same day. Short of that, machine certification standards could be tightened, elections officials could do a better job of selecting equipment that actually meets specifications, and machines could be tested more rigorously before elections. Whatever the solution, it’s clear the present state of affairs causes distrust in our elections and is, therefore, untenable.
11/15/22 - The Elections: Using the Perfect to Spur the Good
Yesterday, I told you about a set of problems that were identified and fixed in the run-up to the elections. Unfortunately, it’s a game of whack-a-mole. Plenty more problems arose in the 2022 cycle that need to be fixed before we can have confidence in our elections again.
We start with the Arizona governor’s race, which media outlets have just called for the Democrat, Katie Hobbs. Problems with voting machines not working lead to long lines and wait times at one out of every five precincts. Critics said the best machines were sent to liberal districts, handing Republicans the short end of the stick. A judge refused to extend voting hours in Republican areas. Another problem: every mail-in ballot in Maricopa County - Arizona’s largest, near Phoenix - is sent from the post office to a printing company to be scanned before being taken to an election office. This takes 10-12 days, keeps elections officials from knowing how many ballots have been returned, and creates additional opportunities for fraud. The whole process could be taken in-house for a relatively small cost, begging the question: why all these extra hoops? All of these happenings in Maricopa County have been heavily criticized as unnecessary and not normal, things that don’t occur in other jurisdictions that manage to count their votes by Election Day.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for an investigation into malfeasance and possible criminal conduct in the Harris County elections near Houston. One of the problems cited is not enough ballots in Republican precincts. The problems in Harris County are long-standing, with the previous elections administrator resigning in March after it was discovered 10,000 ballots weren’t counted in the primary. The Texas Secretary of State has scheduled an audit of Harris County’s midterm elections results.
Funny how so many problems in our elections only affect Republicans. Do you think that’s an accident? Before you say I’m crazy, listen to this: An election worker in Philadelphia was caught on video inside a polling place telling an undercover journalist to “vote Democrat”. “I asked you to vote the ... Democrat down ballot because we’re trying to focus on, if the Democrats win, then at least they represent us,” the worker said. When the elections judge saw the video, he said, “That doesn’t look good.” Ya think?
I wish I could tell you that was the end of the problems last week, but we’re not even close:
More illegal electioneering took place in Philadelphia, with Democrat poll greeters not standing far enough away from the door at a polling place and Democrat candidate posters plastered on the building itself, all of which is illegal.
Also near Philadelphia, mail-in ballots were pre-processed without poll watchers present in violation of state law.
Republicans showed up to vote in Detroit, only to be told they already voted. This is an indication their identities were stolen and their ballots were fraudulently cast in their names.
Conservative Jewish voters in New York had to stand in line for hours, a problem not reported in liberal precincts.
All of this doesn’t even count apparent funny business with voting machines, which I’ll tell you about tomorrow.
But, for now, realize our elections process will never be perfect, there will always be holes and opportunities for fraud. The work will never be finished. All we can do is keep banging away, fix the holes we can, and go on to the next. We can strive for perfection, but we won’t ever achieve it. However, with enough effort, we can reach the point where things will be tight enough we can have confidence in our elections again, but only if enough people keep working at it.
11/14/22 - Election Problem Deniers, Take Note
Today, I start a series on problems with our election system. The election problem deniers will tell you ‘nothing to see here, move along,’ but there’s no shortage of undeniable problems.
Let’s start with stories about courts and government officials who rectified a number of problems in the days and weeks running up to the election.
The Delaware Supreme Court struck down no-fault absentee balloting and same-day voter registration because they violated the state constitution.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidated the use of drop boxes which the state elections commission had instituted without authority.
Elections officials in Pennsylvania were allowing mail-in ballots returned with missing or incorrect dates on the envelope, but the state Supreme Court put a stop to it.
A Virginia judge ordered county election officials to follow state law and assign the main poll workers from different political parties in each precinct. I’m in touch with activists from all over the country and ‘party parity’, as it is called, remains a problem in many places.
Hmm... I detect a pattern here, so far. The problems I’ve mentioned came about because Democrats broke the law. They’re scofflaws.
That means they have a lot in common with people recently charged with voter fraud. Arizona indicted two people with illegal ballot harvesting last month. They collected ballots from early voters and put them in a drop box. That’s illegal in Arizona, but remains a problem in states like Virginia where the practice is legal. It’s a bad practice. Ballot harvesters have been known to pay people for votes, as in a ballot harvesting scheme just uncovered in Florida. Also, nothing prevents fraudsters from stealing mail ballots, say, from apartment building lobbies, filling them out themselves, and dropping them in a ballot box. There are too many loose ballots floating around before election day to think ballot harvesting is a good idea. Ballot harvesting is a Democrat idea. No wonder they don’t want to talk about it, or the unsecured drop boxes that enable ballot harvesting schemes. The Chester County Pennsylvania elections board settled a lawsuit by agreeing to secure their drop boxes after activist surveillance video showed people dropping multiple ballots into the boxes. Voters can only put their own ballot into the boxes, not ballots collected from others. The board agreed to put up cameras and staff the boxes.
Democrats are still trying to hang on to changes made to the electoral process because of COVID, but a state judge ruled New York can no longer use COVID as an excuse for emergency rules and knocked down absentee voting rules that had been expanded during the pandemic. Fewer loose ballots floating around - sorry, Democrats.
For the Democrats to sustain their phony election denier and voter suppression narratives, they’re going to have to prove that all the courts, law enforcement and elections officials I mentioned here today are election deniers who are trying to suppress the vote. They’re all part of a vast conspiracy trying to deny people their civil rights. Good luck with that.
The correct analysis is the Democrats caused a bunch of problems, they won’t talk about the problems they themselves created, and they won’t fix them until forced to. Fine, they’re on notice: the process of fixing our elections has begun and we won’t stop until we are confident we have free and fair elections once again. Don’t mess with OUR right to vote.
11/11/22 - The Problems with ‘Free Stuff’
South Dakota voters approved Medicaid expansion in Tuesday’s election, leaving just 11 states that have not expanded their Medicaid programs to include middle-class able-bodied childless adults making almost $40,000 a year. I hope the remaining states hold the line because they will be in a world of hurt if they don’t.
The first problem is voters demanding free stuff with nary a thought of how to pay for it. Missouri voters previously demanded Medicaid expansion, but the state couldn’t figure out a sustainable way to pay for it. Expansion would cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but nobody knew what the funding mechanism would be. The same thing happened in Idaho and Oklahoma - Medicaid expansion occurred without a stable permanent funding source. Since Medicaid is now such a huge part of state budgets, every expansion state faces fights in the legislature about raising taxes or pulling money from other priorities like education to fund more government-sponsored healthcare.
That’s just for openers. Expansion states face a raft of other problems. Enrollment always exceeds expectations and many states have hit the wall in terms of being able to afford their programs. I haven’t seen any more reports of this lately, but extra federal COVID money has postponed the day of financial reckoning. I would argue the reason we still have a federal COVID emergency, though the medical facts no longer justify it, is to keep the states - especially expansion states - from going bust over their Medicaid expenses. A world of hurt is coming because the fiction of a COVID emergency can’t be maintained forever.
Other problems with Medicaid expansion include
- middle class dependency on government - a tragedy, not a triumph as the Left would have you believe, and completely unsustainable
- billions of dollars spent on people who aren’t eligible
- new inequities like traditional enrollees - low-income children, pregnant women, and the disabled - getting sent to the back of the line as childless able-bodied adults enter the system
- substandard care - women already on Medicaid account for the majority of pregnancy-related deaths
- longer wait times for ambulances and medical services
- worse health outcomes than private insurance as more doctors refuse to take Medicaid patients because of the low pay and paperwork burdens
- more drug overdoses and lower life expectancy in expansion states
- lower labor force participation, and
- special interests like large hospitals and managed care companies benefitting more than enrollees
Speaking of special interests, they are busy agitating for Government Healthcare 2.0. It’s not enough that one in four Americans is now on Medicaid, we have to expand the range of services and the amount of government money spent on them for them to become healthy, or so the pretext goes. The theory is called Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). I call it naked redistribution, with calls growing for, and localities dabbling in, providing Medicaid recipients with free housing, transportation, food aid, education, job programs, guaranteed income, and other social services galore. The theory has been around for a while but it is gaining traction, inducing mission creep in the Medicaid program. Proponents claim the theory saves money, but their analysis fails to account for the magnet effect of free stuff from the government drawing ever-larger numbers of people into government dependency. Once again, the Left points to immediate gains and fails to think systemically.
If you think the nation is too far in debt now, and states are biting off more than they can chew with Medicaid expansion, just wait. Insolvency 2.0 is the inevitable outcome of social determinants of health. Insolvency is what you get when no claim on public funds can be resisted and the government tries to put a soft pillow under absolutely everybody for absolutely everything. Ultimately, it won’t work.
11/10/22 - Baby Boy 1 Million
All eyes are on tight races around the country, the results of which are still not known. But something else momentous happened on Election Day, and it’s not good. Voters enshrined support for abortion up to birth in the law in Vermont, Michigan, and California.
In Vermont, voters approved a measure to put abortion rights into the state constitution. Critics say the measure permits “unlimited, unregulated abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy” and “would permanently block any attempt to protect the unborn — even those who can survive outside the womb.”
In Michigan, a ballot proposal put a right to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy into the state constitution, thereby legalizing abortion up to birth. The proposal also wipes out every pro-life law in the state, including parental consent which can no longer be required. The proposal passed after a deceitful campaign largely funded by billionaires from outside the state. Campaigners falsely claimed the proposal would not affect parental rights, allow late-term abortions, or require taxpayers to fund abortions against their conscience.
In California, voters approved a ballot measure which will allow killing babies in taxpayer-funded abortions up to birth. The state constitution now contains a “right” to taxpayer-funded “late-term abortion up until the moment of birth, even if both mother and child are healthy.” The ballot measure must be read in conjunction with a law California passed in September shielding any person from civil or criminal liability or penalty for, among other things, their actions regarding their pregnancy resulting in perinatal death for causes that occurred in utero. ‘Perinatal’ means around the time of birth including after birth, so that’s a fancy way of saying the door has been opened to infanticide in California. The language that passed was trimmed back from earlier versions and looks fairly restrictive on paper. But the Left never quits, and it’s guaranteed they will be back trying to expand the language and loosen the law. You can also expect the Left to push for infanticide in other states.
I want you to see exactly what you are supporting if you advocate abortion up to birth. In April, the iconic photograph of ‘Baby Boy 1’ appeared in the news. He was one of five babies who might have been killed in illegal partial birth abortions, killed after birth, or left to die after being born alive. The circumstances are unclear, but D.C.’s mayor refused to investigate. The photo shows Baby Boy 1 had “a fully formed face, fingers, toes, and all the primary features normally visible in a newborn.” Take a good look at what abortion up to birth really means:
Once again, I defy anyone to tell me this is not a human being. But you can expect more such pictures by the millions now that abortion up to birth is frozen into law in Vermont, Michigan, and California. Such proposals have also been made in Colorado and New Jersey, and on the federal level. It won’t take long for the bodies to start piling up. Glad I’m not on the Left - I wouldn’t want this on my conscience. And most Americans agree with me.
11/8/22 - Locking Up the Violence Vote
Today is Election Day and I will show you what the Democrats are really like. The stories I’m about to tell you didn’t get much publicity but, taken together, they tell the tale about how the Democrats trade in political violence.
A canvasser for Marco Rubio was brutally beaten to the point of needing surgery and was told ‘Republicans aren’t allowed in this neighborhood.’
The Republican senate candidate in New Hampshire was hit by an attacker right before his debate with the incumbent Democrat senator was set to begin.
A suspect fired shots into the home of the parents of a Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina, just feet away from where the candidate’s children were sleeping.
A Texas man was arrested for throwing a beer can at Senator Ted Cruz during the World Series parade.
A journalist was choked and slammed to the ground after asking Beto O’Rourke if he would disavow transgender surgery for minors.
A Lee Zeldin supporter needed medical attention after being punched and choked at a Kathy Hochul rally. You might recall Zeldin himself was attacked with a weapon on stage in July.
When Democrats aren’t being violent, they’re threatening violence.
A Chicago man was charged with threatening to kill the Republican candidate for governor. “I’m going to skin Darren Bailey alive, making sure he is still alive, and I’m going to feed his f*****g family to him as he is alive and screaming in f*****g pain,” the threat said.
Two threatening letters containing a white powder were sent to Kari Lake’s campaign headquarters in Arizona. Threatening messages were received around the same time.
Last, but not least, Ohio Democrat Congressman Tim Ryan earlier this year called on supporters to “kill and confront” MAGA Republicans. Ryan is now running for Senate and just last month expanded the list of targets to include his Republican opponent J.D. Vance, whom Ryan called an ‘extremist’. Ryan said this in a debate with Vance with the whole world watching.
None of these attacks or threats was condemned by Democrat Party leaders, giving the green light for more attacks and threats. What else would you expect from the party of Antifa and the KKK - the party that can’t do without political violence, paramilitaries, and street thugs? The Party’s answer to all that is to bail the offenders out of jail so they can riot and maim again. Don’t forget: Kamala Harris is hip-deep in that effort.
Far be it from me to suppress the violence vote. If, after listening to all this, you still want to vote Democrat, go for it. I’m content to know you heard me today, you will never succeed in forcing your utopia on the rest of us through violent means, and you can never be happy about voting Democrat again, knowing as you do, your party is violent to the core. If your party had any real arguments left to make, it wouldn’t be resorting to violence, now would it?
11/7/22 - Lions, Tigers, and Polar Bears - Oh, My!
The 27th annual U.N. climate change conference (COP27) got underway in Egypt today. This time, they promise to get down to business, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the climate. It has to do with poor nations shaking down rich nations for money.
More on that in a moment, but we start with the fact the United Nations, which organized the conference, has a very bad track record on climate predictions. It predicted in 1989 entire nations would be wiped off the face of the earth if global warming was not stopped by the year 2000. It said global warming would be irreversible after that year. Last week - 33 years later - it said we are very close to irreversible changes in the climate. Ah yes, climate change is the fake religion of the future - and always will be.
But a bad track record of predictions didn’t stop the climate change crowd from cranking up the propaganda machine for this year’s conference. The past eight years were the hottest on record, the U.N. screamed. Except there was a 20-year pause in the rise of the global mean surface temperature of the earth ending in 2019 that the climate change crowd can’t explain. Now we’re in a New Pause. They don’t want to talk about that, either. They also don’t want to talk about another one of their great deceptions - rising temperatures killing more older people than ever before. The fact of the matter is that heat deaths among the elderly are not up significantly after you adjust for population growth.
But the glaciers are disappearing, we were told in the run-up to the conference. They say the glaciers will all be gone by 2050, but in 1923 it was predicted the glaciers in Glacier National Park would be gone by 1950. It didn’t happen. So they changed their prediction to 1961, then to 2000, then to 2020. Still didn’t happen. In fact, the glaciers in the park have actually gotten bigger in the last 30 years. You can put the disappearing glaciers right next to the disappearing coral reefs and polar bears. They didn’t happen, either. You know, the climate liars really should give it a rest, especially after NPR let the mask slip last month and revealed recycling is a huge fraud on a gullible public.
But let’s get down to business - there’s money to be made. Despite repeated failures by many nations to live up to past promises, this year’s conference will extract new promises from rich nations to redistribute wealth to poor nations in the name of climate change. ‘Loss and damage funding’, they call it. Rich nations must pay their fair share for causing the climate change that didn’t happen or wasn’t caused by human activity, you see. How much money are we talking about? As much as ten times the amount rich nations are forking over now. Poor nations will need half a trillion dollars by 2050, the U.N. says. But why be so miserly, and why wait? Developing countries are demanding a trillion dollars a year right now. We feel so guilty - how can we not give it to them?
Germany is knocking down wind turbines to make way for coal mining, and the leftist finance minister there now supports fracking to boost natural gas supplies. Climate whiz kid Greta Thunberg won’t be happy until the entire capitalist system is overthrown. Well, that puts the true agenda right out there, doesn’t it? The whole phony climate agenda is continually being shown as unsustainable and for the fraud it really is.
But I’ll make you a deal: I’ll agree to a new carbon tax on fossil fuels IF you’ll agree to child and slave labor taxes on the minerals in your electric car batteries, AND a tax on Chinese influence and Russian funding of American green groups, AND a data tampering tax. Let’s call the last one the ‘hockey stick’ tax. It should bring in a lot of money because the climate crowd keeps cooking the books. I’d propose a failed predictions tax, but the U.N. couldn’t afford it.
11/4/22 - Serious as a Heart Attack: The U.S. Military Is Weak
The 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength from the Heritage Foundation is alarming. For the first time, overall U.S. military strength is rated as ‘weak’ and declining. We are at risk of not being able to fight a war, things are that bad. The Army is considered ‘marginal’ and only two-thirds the size it needs to be. The Navy is rated ‘weak’ because the number of ships is going down and the investment has not been made to keep our adversaries from closing the technology gap. Technology is also a factor in rating the Air Force and our Space Force as ‘weak’. Fighter planes are aging and counter-space capabilities are not being developed, while our adversaries are bounding ahead. The Marines and our nuclear deterrent are rated as bright spots but, overall, the U.S. military suffers from a lack of funding and, most disturbingly, a lack of seriousness. Anyone observing the Woke Pentagon’s descent into critical race theory and transgenderism can see that.
The report recommends, among other things, increased defense funding, more shipbuilding, more stealth F-35 multi-purpose aircraft, and addressing the military’s growing recruitment crisis. I don’t see how you can address recruitment unless you stop teaching the troops America is a horrible, rotten, racist place not worth fighting or dying for.
Let’s see what else the lack of seriousness about national security has pointed up recently, shall we? The Biden administration changed U.S. nuclear doctrine to rely less on nuclear weapons as a hedge against future threats and breakouts by nuclear rivals. In practical terms, the new policy signals the elimination of hundreds of nuclear weapons at a time when China and Russia are beefing up their own nuclear forces. Decreased American nuclear strength will have all kinds of ramifications on the battlefield, in diplomacy, and at the negotiating table.
The administration also stopped the development of nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles, despite the recommendations of senior military officials the program continue.
The lack of seriousness is also shown by the depletion of U.S. stocks of key weapons sent to Ukraine including Stingers, Javelin anti-tank missiles, howitzers, and ammunition. It is feared the U.S. has only a week’s worth of missiles left for its own use. The problem has been ignored for years and experts worry we may not have the industrial base left to meet our needs.
In the meantime, Russia is threatening commercial satellites over the West’s stance in Ukraine, North Korea is building underwater nuclear weapons silos, and China is positioning the ports it owns in Latin America for military and geopolitical advantage. Moreover, the decidedly un-serious Biden administration still refers to the U.S. as being in friendly “competition” with China when knowledgeable observers say World War III has already begun. No surprise there. Chinese communist leaders all the way back to Mao Zedong have declared their goal is world domination and the end of the United States.
We have a President more concerned about his ice cream cones than our national defense, and a Woke Pentagon too busy putting on drag shows to entertain the troops to prepare them for possible conflicts ahead. It’s time to get serious, folks. You can start by throwing the chucklehead Democrats out of office next Tuesday.
11/3/22 - The Biden Administration’s Proxy War on Free Speech
Hold on to your hats. We’re going to be learning a lot more about the Biden administration’s efforts to silence free expression through its proxy stooges in Big Tech.
A federal judge just rejected the Biden administration’s attempt to stop depositions of government officials in a lawsuit alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy by the administration and Big Tech to censor free speech. Anthony Fauci’s deposition is set for November 23rd. House Republicans sent a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling him out for his agency’s role in censoring free speech.
More details about that role have come to light. You might remember the agency’s Disinformation Governance Board that got shut down pretty quickly. But DHS continues its efforts to curb free speech to this day. Records from the conspiracy lawsuit, leaked emails and memos, and public documents show DHS pivoted to monitoring social media for the purpose of suppressing ‘misinformation’ the government doesn’t like about a wide range of topics, including the origins of COVID-19, COVID vaccine safety, and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Facebook created a portal for DHS and other government agencies to flag posts they don’t like, for quick action. The portal is still in operation. Facebook and the FBI won’t comment. A previous report showed social media companies remove or post warnings on over a third of posts government agencies flag as objectionable.
Other agencies are also involved. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on its own motion formed a misinformation team and expanded the agency’s mission beyond infrastructure to ‘building resilience to misinformation’. The agency wants social media platforms to be more responsive to its directives. An FBI official was criticized last year after falsely telling Congress the FBI does not monitor Americans’ social media posts. The fact of the matter is the FBI has spent millions on social media tracking software.
Hunter Biden’s laptop shows you clearly why we do not want the government in the business of deciding what is true and what is false. According to polls, many people would not have voted for Joe Biden if they had known the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop. But government officials called it ‘Russian disinformation’ and social media companies at the FBI’s urging dutifully suppressed the story before the 2020 election, a decision they now say they regret. Thanks a bunch.
There’s really no difference between the government suppressing free speech and government officials getting private actors to violate the First Amendment for them. That’s called the state actor theory and it’s at the heart of the Missouri Attorney General’s ongoing conspiracy case against the Biden administration and Big Tech where depositions are going forward and will soon give us a lot more information about all these bad actors violating your rights.
But there’s more. The federal government paid four private companies to flag so-called ‘misinformation’ on social media during the 2020 election, resulting in the censorship of election coverage from conservative news outlets. The CDC told Facebook COVID vaccines for young children are safe and effective when there was no evidence of that, all so the CDC could suppress contrary information through Facebook in a campaign to overcome ‘vaccine hesitancy’. Twitter has a portal for CDC officials to flag COVID-related posts it deems ‘misinformation’. Documents from inside Twitter show the White House pressured Twitter to ban a New York Times writer who was raising questions about phony government COVID narratives. Facebook spies on private messages and reports users to the FBI for expressing ‘anti-government sentiments’, whatever that means.
The Biden administration is waging a proxy war on our free speech. The social media giants are only too happy to play along. But with 47 more government defendants recently added to the conspiracy lawsuit, the day of reckoning is drawing closer and I, for one, can’t wait to see these overbearing authoritarian government officials and their fascist buddies in Big Tech get hammered for messing with the First Amendment.
11/2/22 - The Cancerous Pustules of Evil Growing from Joe Biden’s Open Borders Policies
I noticed in my time as a criminal defense attorney that the problem wasn’t just the drugs or the guns, it never stayed just one thing. Once you let evil into the equation, it grows like a cancer. I’ll never forget one case I had, where my client was on trial for drug distribution. The trial was halted when the prosecution’s lead witness was found dead. When this was announced in court, my client looked at me and smirked. A chill ran down my spine, as I realized he just might have had something to do with it.
And so it is with Joe Biden’s open borders policies. Yesterday, the Justice Department announced a guilty verdict against an illegal alien who murdered a whistleblower, a witness, who exposed a multi-million dollar scheme to employ illegal aliens in Georgia. So, you see, it’s not just border jumpers breaking our law, or the fentanyl pouring in. It’s the evil, which like a cancer grows - in this case, into labor trafficking and murder.
Fentanyl is not just illicit drug use. It’s overdoses. People are dying from the record amounts of fentanyl now present in the country because of Joe Biden’s open borders policies, some 75,000 in 2022 alone.
Migrants are also dying at the border from the dangerous trip. Joe Biden’s open borders policies don’t just empower the criminal cartels and human smugglers. The policies result in deaths that otherwise would not have occurred - a record 856 of them in the last 12 months. This evil has produced bloated bodies pulled from the Rio Grande, another torn to bits when hit by a train, and corpses found in open fields with skin and organs nibbled away by animals. Joe Biden’s open borders policies are to blame for this festering problem and growing evil.
Another evil, not getting the attention it used to, is the corruption of border agents and other government officials paid to facilitate illicit activity or look the other way. A human smuggler pled guilty a few days ago to bribing a border agent who had set up a little side business sneaking aliens across the border. The smuggler would tell the agent where to pick the aliens up. The agent got the aliens through border checkpoints without a hitch and delivered them to their destinations in Phoenix. The agent has pled not guilty and goes on trial next year. A newspaper investigation in 2016 found 140 corrupt border officials who were arrested or convicted for acts that compromised their mission of keeping the border secure. I am sure that all of those agents were not compromised when they were first hired, and did not realize they could lose their souls after some time on the job seeing how much money was sloshing around. They were tempted and turned. That’s how evil works. Not a sermon, just an observation based on my almost seven decades on the planet. And now the money is bigger and the temptations are greater, thanks to Joe Biden’s open borders policies.
Some years ago, a person in a position to know told me the corruption even reaches all the way to Washington, D.C. Federal government officials have been paid off, and this is one reason illicit activity at the border has been allowed to continue, my source told me. Given what I know about the D.C. swamp, I wouldn’t doubt it.
So, you see, it’s not just letting too many illegal aliens into the country or the disrespect for law that engenders. It’s the evils that compound from the first evil of opening the border and going outside the nation’s immigration laws. The criminal cartels, the overdose and migrant deaths, the labor trafficking, the corruption of government officials, and other evils are all growing out of Joe Biden’s open borders policies. Nice work, Joe. You traffic in evil and evil spreads like a cancer. Evil begets evil. Eventually, you find there is hell to pay.
11/1/22 - Red Wave Follows Democrat Crime Wave
Crime is now the third top issue in the elections, according to a new Gallup poll. No wonder, with people being pushed onto subway tracks for no reason in New York and flash mobs looting stores in California. Fourteen people, including children, were injured in Chicago on Halloween night after two shooters started firing randomly into a crowd.
Sorry, Chicago, but elections have consequences. You elected Democrat Lori Lightfoot as mayor, the same Lori Lightfoot who defunded the police and refused to call out the National Guard to put down the riots in 2020. She has admitted she has no idea how to stop the crime wave and has called on the feds to bail her out. Democrats in Illinois also just passed a new law that will end cash bail after the 1st of the year for aggravated assault, second-degree murder, and other serious crimes. This will free hundreds of defendants awaiting trial, so don’t expect the crime problem in Chicago to get any better any time soon.
You elect Democrats again this go-around and it is guaranteed the situation won’t get any better. In addition to defunding the police and ending cash bail, the Democrat Party has brought you the Soros progressive prosecutors who are a problem in so many parts of the country. Things are so bad in Philadelphia with progressive prosecutor Larry Krasner in charge of the District Attorney’s office there that state Republican lawmakers have moved to impeach him. A murderer, whom Krasner freed from a life sentence last year, is back in custody on another murder charge. “[W]e have heard devastating stories from victims of crime, businesses who are closing because they do not feel safe, and victims who have been revictimized by a district attorney’s office unwilling to help them when they would rather help criminals," one Republican said. Krasner called the Republicans fascists and a threat to democracy. Gee, I’ve never heard that before. I wonder where he got that line.
When confronted on TV with the obvious failure of his policies, Krasner claimed the murder rate is 40 percent higher in states Trump won than in states Biden won. The claim comes from a progressive think tank and progressive authors, so you can take it with a grain of salt, maybe two. But what cannot be denied is the fact that Democrats run all but one of the most dangerous cities in America and they have, in most cases, for decades. The top 16 cities in the country for homicides are all run by Democrats.
Progressive prosecutors have wreaked havoc elsewhere. One in Virginia freed a felon who went on to murder two men. Another in Virginia freed a man from jail twice in a month who later killed a man. A Democrat D.A. in Los Angeles failed to prosecute an illegal alien for domestic violence in 2019. The man went on a stabbing spree in Las Vegas last month, killing two of his eight victims with a knife.
The tone for all this was set in 2020 when the rioters who burned down cities and injured 2,000 police officers got a free pass, for the most part. There were only a relative handful of prosecutions in progressive and Democrat strongholds like Portland and Minneapolis. This invited further criminality and the nation is now reaping the whirlwind. Wrong direction - unless, of course, you like chaos and things spinning out of control. If you do, be sure to vote Democrat in this election because the Democrat Party - by defunding the police, ending cash bail, and installing progressive prosecutors - will surely give you what you want.
11/8/22 - Locking Up the Violence Vote
Today is Election Day and I will show you what the Democrats are really like. The stories I’m about to tell you didn’t get much publicity but, taken together, they tell the tale about how the Democrats trade in political violence.
A canvasser for Marco Rubio was brutally beaten to the point of needing surgery and was told ‘Republicans aren’t allowed in this neighborhood.’
The Republican senate candidate in New Hampshire was hit by an attacker right before his debate with the incumbent Democrat senator was set to begin.
A suspect fired shots into the home of the parents of a Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina, just feet away from where the candidate’s children were sleeping.
A Texas man was arrested for throwing a beer can at Senator Ted Cruz during the World Series parade.
A journalist was choked and slammed to the ground after asking Beto O’Rourke if he would disavow transgender surgery for minors.
A Lee Zeldin supporter needed medical attention after being punched and choked at a Kathy Hochul rally. You might recall Zeldin himself was attacked with a weapon on stage in July.
When Democrats aren’t being violent, they’re threatening violence.
A Chicago man was charged with threatening to kill the Republican candidate for governor. “I’m going to skin Darren Bailey alive, making sure he is still alive, and I’m going to feed his f*****g family to him as he is alive and screaming in f*****g pain,” the threat said.
Two threatening letters containing a white powder were sent to Kari Lake’s campaign headquarters in Arizona. Threatening messages were received around the same time.
Last, but not least, Ohio Democrat Congressman Tim Ryan earlier this year called on supporters to “kill and confront” MAGA Republicans. Ryan is now running for Senate and just last month expanded the list of targets to include his Republican opponent J.D. Vance, whom Ryan called an ‘extremist’. Ryan said this in a debate with Vance with the whole world watching.
None of these attacks or threats was condemned by Democrat Party leaders, giving the green light for more attacks and threats. What else would you expect from the party of Antifa and the KKK - the party that can’t do without political violence, paramilitaries, and street thugs? The Party’s answer to all that is to bail the offenders out of jail so they can riot and maim again. Don’t forget: Kamala Harris is hip-deep in that effort.
Far be it from me to suppress the violence vote. If, after listening to all this, you still want to vote Democrat, go for it. I’m content to know you heard me today, you will never succeed in forcing your utopia on the rest of us through violent means, and you can never be happy about voting Democrat again, knowing as you do, your party is violent to the core. If your party had any real arguments left to make, it wouldn’t be resorting to violence, now would it?
11/7/22 - Lions, Tigers, and Polar Bears - Oh, My!
The 27th annual U.N. climate change conference (COP27) got underway in Egypt today. This time, they promise to get down to business, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the climate. It has to do with poor nations shaking down rich nations for money.
More on that in a moment, but we start with the fact the United Nations, which organized the conference, has a very bad track record on climate predictions. It predicted in 1989 entire nations would be wiped off the face of the earth if global warming was not stopped by the year 2000. It said global warming would be irreversible after that year. Last week - 33 years later - it said we are very close to irreversible changes in the climate. Ah yes, climate change is the fake religion of the future - and always will be.
But a bad track record of predictions didn’t stop the climate change crowd from cranking up the propaganda machine for this year’s conference. The past eight years were the hottest on record, the U.N. screamed. Except there was a 20-year pause in the rise of the global mean surface temperature of the earth ending in 2019 that the climate change crowd can’t explain. Now we’re in a New Pause. They don’t want to talk about that, either. They also don’t want to talk about another one of their great deceptions - rising temperatures killing more older people than ever before. The fact of the matter is that heat deaths among the elderly are not up significantly after you adjust for population growth.
But the glaciers are disappearing, we were told in the run-up to the conference. They say the glaciers will all be gone by 2050, but in 1923 it was predicted the glaciers in Glacier National Park would be gone by 1950. It didn’t happen. So they changed their prediction to 1961, then to 2000, then to 2020. Still didn’t happen. In fact, the glaciers in the park have actually gotten bigger in the last 30 years. You can put the disappearing glaciers right next to the disappearing coral reefs and polar bears. They didn’t happen, either. You know, the climate liars really should give it a rest, especially after NPR let the mask slip last month and revealed recycling is a huge fraud on a gullible public.
But let’s get down to business - there’s money to be made. Despite repeated failures by many nations to live up to past promises, this year’s conference will extract new promises from rich nations to redistribute wealth to poor nations in the name of climate change. ‘Loss and damage funding’, they call it. Rich nations must pay their fair share for causing the climate change that didn’t happen or wasn’t caused by human activity, you see. How much money are we talking about? As much as ten times the amount rich nations are forking over now. Poor nations will need half a trillion dollars by 2050, the U.N. says. But why be so miserly, and why wait? Developing countries are demanding a trillion dollars a year right now. We feel so guilty - how can we not give it to them?
Germany is knocking down wind turbines to make way for coal mining, and the leftist finance minister there now supports fracking to boost natural gas supplies. Climate whiz kid Greta Thunberg won’t be happy until the entire capitalist system is overthrown. Well, that puts the true agenda right out there, doesn’t it? The whole phony climate agenda is continually being shown as unsustainable and for the fraud it really is.
But I’ll make you a deal: I’ll agree to a new carbon tax on fossil fuels IF you’ll agree to child and slave labor taxes on the minerals in your electric car batteries, AND a tax on Chinese influence and Russian funding of American green groups, AND a data tampering tax. Let’s call the last one the ‘hockey stick’ tax. It should bring in a lot of money because the climate crowd keeps cooking the books. I’d propose a failed predictions tax, but the U.N. couldn’t afford it.
11/4/22 - Serious as a Heart Attack: The U.S. Military Is Weak
The 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength from the Heritage Foundation is alarming. For the first time, overall U.S. military strength is rated as ‘weak’ and declining. We are at risk of not being able to fight a war, things are that bad. The Army is considered ‘marginal’ and only two-thirds the size it needs to be. The Navy is rated ‘weak’ because the number of ships is going down and the investment has not been made to keep our adversaries from closing the technology gap. Technology is also a factor in rating the Air Force and our Space Force as ‘weak’. Fighter planes are aging and counter-space capabilities are not being developed, while our adversaries are bounding ahead. The Marines and our nuclear deterrent are rated as bright spots but, overall, the U.S. military suffers from a lack of funding and, most disturbingly, a lack of seriousness. Anyone observing the Woke Pentagon’s descent into critical race theory and transgenderism can see that.
The report recommends, among other things, increased defense funding, more shipbuilding, more stealth F-35 multi-purpose aircraft, and addressing the military’s growing recruitment crisis. I don’t see how you can address recruitment unless you stop teaching the troops America is a horrible, rotten, racist place not worth fighting or dying for.
Let’s see what else the lack of seriousness about national security has pointed up recently, shall we? The Biden administration changed U.S. nuclear doctrine to rely less on nuclear weapons as a hedge against future threats and breakouts by nuclear rivals. In practical terms, the new policy signals the elimination of hundreds of nuclear weapons at a time when China and Russia are beefing up their own nuclear forces. Decreased American nuclear strength will have all kinds of ramifications on the battlefield, in diplomacy, and at the negotiating table.
The administration also stopped the development of nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles, despite the recommendations of senior military officials the program continue.
The lack of seriousness is also shown by the depletion of U.S. stocks of key weapons sent to Ukraine including Stingers, Javelin anti-tank missiles, howitzers, and ammunition. It is feared the U.S. has only a week’s worth of missiles left for its own use. The problem has been ignored for years and experts worry we may not have the industrial base left to meet our needs.
In the meantime, Russia is threatening commercial satellites over the West’s stance in Ukraine, North Korea is building underwater nuclear weapons silos, and China is positioning the ports it owns in Latin America for military and geopolitical advantage. Moreover, the decidedly un-serious Biden administration still refers to the U.S. as being in friendly “competition” with China when knowledgeable observers say World War III has already begun. No surprise there. Chinese communist leaders all the way back to Mao Zedong have declared their goal is world domination and the end of the United States.
We have a President more concerned about his ice cream cones than our national defense, and a Woke Pentagon too busy putting on drag shows to entertain the troops to prepare them for possible conflicts ahead. It’s time to get serious, folks. You can start by throwing the chucklehead Democrats out of office next Tuesday.
11/3/22 - The Biden Administration’s Proxy War on Free Speech
Hold on to your hats. We’re going to be learning a lot more about the Biden administration’s efforts to silence free expression through its proxy stooges in Big Tech.
A federal judge just rejected the Biden administration’s attempt to stop depositions of government officials in a lawsuit alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy by the administration and Big Tech to censor free speech. Anthony Fauci’s deposition is set for November 23rd. House Republicans sent a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling him out for his agency’s role in censoring free speech.
More details about that role have come to light. You might remember the agency’s Disinformation Governance Board that got shut down pretty quickly. But DHS continues its efforts to curb free speech to this day. Records from the conspiracy lawsuit, leaked emails and memos, and public documents show DHS pivoted to monitoring social media for the purpose of suppressing ‘misinformation’ the government doesn’t like about a wide range of topics, including the origins of COVID-19, COVID vaccine safety, and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Facebook created a portal for DHS and other government agencies to flag posts they don’t like, for quick action. The portal is still in operation. Facebook and the FBI won’t comment. A previous report showed social media companies remove or post warnings on over a third of posts government agencies flag as objectionable.
Other agencies are also involved. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on its own motion formed a misinformation team and expanded the agency’s mission beyond infrastructure to ‘building resilience to misinformation’. The agency wants social media platforms to be more responsive to its directives. An FBI official was criticized last year after falsely telling Congress the FBI does not monitor Americans’ social media posts. The fact of the matter is the FBI has spent millions on social media tracking software.
Hunter Biden’s laptop shows you clearly why we do not want the government in the business of deciding what is true and what is false. According to polls, many people would not have voted for Joe Biden if they had known the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop. But government officials called it ‘Russian disinformation’ and social media companies at the FBI’s urging dutifully suppressed the story before the 2020 election, a decision they now say they regret. Thanks a bunch.
There’s really no difference between the government suppressing free speech and government officials getting private actors to violate the First Amendment for them. That’s called the state actor theory and it’s at the heart of the Missouri Attorney General’s ongoing conspiracy case against the Biden administration and Big Tech where depositions are going forward and will soon give us a lot more information about all these bad actors violating your rights.
But there’s more. The federal government paid four private companies to flag so-called ‘misinformation’ on social media during the 2020 election, resulting in the censorship of election coverage from conservative news outlets. The CDC told Facebook COVID vaccines for young children are safe and effective when there was no evidence of that, all so the CDC could suppress contrary information through Facebook in a campaign to overcome ‘vaccine hesitancy’. Twitter has a portal for CDC officials to flag COVID-related posts it deems ‘misinformation’. Documents from inside Twitter show the White House pressured Twitter to ban a New York Times writer who was raising questions about phony government COVID narratives. Facebook spies on private messages and reports users to the FBI for expressing ‘anti-government sentiments’, whatever that means.
The Biden administration is waging a proxy war on our free speech. The social media giants are only too happy to play along. But with 47 more government defendants recently added to the conspiracy lawsuit, the day of reckoning is drawing closer and I, for one, can’t wait to see these overbearing authoritarian government officials and their fascist buddies in Big Tech get hammered for messing with the First Amendment.
11/2/22 - The Cancerous Pustules of Evil Growing from Joe Biden’s Open Borders Policies
I noticed in my time as a criminal defense attorney that the problem wasn’t just the drugs or the guns, it never stayed just one thing. Once you let evil into the equation, it grows like a cancer. I’ll never forget one case I had, where my client was on trial for drug distribution. The trial was halted when the prosecution’s lead witness was found dead. When this was announced in court, my client looked at me and smirked. A chill ran down my spine, as I realized he just might have had something to do with it.
And so it is with Joe Biden’s open borders policies. Yesterday, the Justice Department announced a guilty verdict against an illegal alien who murdered a whistleblower, a witness, who exposed a multi-million dollar scheme to employ illegal aliens in Georgia. So, you see, it’s not just border jumpers breaking our law, or the fentanyl pouring in. It’s the evil, which like a cancer grows - in this case, into labor trafficking and murder.
Fentanyl is not just illicit drug use. It’s overdoses. People are dying from the record amounts of fentanyl now present in the country because of Joe Biden’s open borders policies, some 75,000 in 2022 alone.
Migrants are also dying at the border from the dangerous trip. Joe Biden’s open borders policies don’t just empower the criminal cartels and human smugglers. The policies result in deaths that otherwise would not have occurred - a record 856 of them in the last 12 months. This evil has produced bloated bodies pulled from the Rio Grande, another torn to bits when hit by a train, and corpses found in open fields with skin and organs nibbled away by animals. Joe Biden’s open borders policies are to blame for this festering problem and growing evil.
Another evil, not getting the attention it used to, is the corruption of border agents and other government officials paid to facilitate illicit activity or look the other way. A human smuggler pled guilty a few days ago to bribing a border agent who had set up a little side business sneaking aliens across the border. The smuggler would tell the agent where to pick the aliens up. The agent got the aliens through border checkpoints without a hitch and delivered them to their destinations in Phoenix. The agent has pled not guilty and goes on trial next year. A newspaper investigation in 2016 found 140 corrupt border officials who were arrested or convicted for acts that compromised their mission of keeping the border secure. I am sure that all of those agents were not compromised when they were first hired, and did not realize they could lose their souls after some time on the job seeing how much money was sloshing around. They were tempted and turned. That’s how evil works. Not a sermon, just an observation based on my almost seven decades on the planet. And now the money is bigger and the temptations are greater, thanks to Joe Biden’s open borders policies.
Some years ago, a person in a position to know told me the corruption even reaches all the way to Washington, D.C. Federal government officials have been paid off, and this is one reason illicit activity at the border has been allowed to continue, my source told me. Given what I know about the D.C. swamp, I wouldn’t doubt it.
So, you see, it’s not just letting too many illegal aliens into the country or the disrespect for law that engenders. It’s the evils that compound from the first evil of opening the border and going outside the nation’s immigration laws. The criminal cartels, the overdose and migrant deaths, the labor trafficking, the corruption of government officials, and other evils are all growing out of Joe Biden’s open borders policies. Nice work, Joe. You traffic in evil and evil spreads like a cancer. Evil begets evil. Eventually, you find there is hell to pay.
11/1/22 - Red Wave Follows Democrat Crime Wave
Crime is now the third top issue in the elections, according to a new Gallup poll. No wonder, with people being pushed onto subway tracks for no reason in New York and flash mobs looting stores in California. Fourteen people, including children, were injured in Chicago on Halloween night after two shooters started firing randomly into a crowd.
Sorry, Chicago, but elections have consequences. You elected Democrat Lori Lightfoot as mayor, the same Lori Lightfoot who defunded the police and refused to call out the National Guard to put down the riots in 2020. She has admitted she has no idea how to stop the crime wave and has called on the feds to bail her out. Democrats in Illinois also just passed a new law that will end cash bail after the 1st of the year for aggravated assault, second-degree murder, and other serious crimes. This will free hundreds of defendants awaiting trial, so don’t expect the crime problem in Chicago to get any better any time soon.
You elect Democrats again this go-around and it is guaranteed the situation won’t get any better. In addition to defunding the police and ending cash bail, the Democrat Party has brought you the Soros progressive prosecutors who are a problem in so many parts of the country. Things are so bad in Philadelphia with progressive prosecutor Larry Krasner in charge of the District Attorney’s office there that state Republican lawmakers have moved to impeach him. A murderer, whom Krasner freed from a life sentence last year, is back in custody on another murder charge. “[W]e have heard devastating stories from victims of crime, businesses who are closing because they do not feel safe, and victims who have been revictimized by a district attorney’s office unwilling to help them when they would rather help criminals," one Republican said. Krasner called the Republicans fascists and a threat to democracy. Gee, I’ve never heard that before. I wonder where he got that line.
When confronted on TV with the obvious failure of his policies, Krasner claimed the murder rate is 40 percent higher in states Trump won than in states Biden won. The claim comes from a progressive think tank and progressive authors, so you can take it with a grain of salt, maybe two. But what cannot be denied is the fact that Democrats run all but one of the most dangerous cities in America and they have, in most cases, for decades. The top 16 cities in the country for homicides are all run by Democrats.
Progressive prosecutors have wreaked havoc elsewhere. One in Virginia freed a felon who went on to murder two men. Another in Virginia freed a man from jail twice in a month who later killed a man. A Democrat D.A. in Los Angeles failed to prosecute an illegal alien for domestic violence in 2019. The man went on a stabbing spree in Las Vegas last month, killing two of his eight victims with a knife.
The tone for all this was set in 2020 when the rioters who burned down cities and injured 2,000 police officers got a free pass, for the most part. There were only a relative handful of prosecutions in progressive and Democrat strongholds like Portland and Minneapolis. This invited further criminality and the nation is now reaping the whirlwind. Wrong direction - unless, of course, you like chaos and things spinning out of control. If you do, be sure to vote Democrat in this election because the Democrat Party - by defunding the police, ending cash bail, and installing progressive prosecutors - will surely give you what you want.