A sad hand-off, as America enters its dotage

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

A ‘Symbolic’ Inauguration.

It is the perfect metaphor for the The Decline of a Great Nation. As deTocqueville theorized…nations have a life cycle…and then they die.

Donald J Trump represents… stands for… the first 200 years of the USA. He leaves as a Great America leaves the world scene…strong, robust, courageous, indefatiguable, aware and faithful to its founding values, grudgingly respected by a secretly grateful world, sadly handed off to a spent, mentally & intellectually challenged shell, weak, destined for final failure, with only memories of the one it replaces…the one it always wanted to be, and now, thinks it was…America is now a nation in its dotage.

God Bless pre-Biden America!         dlh

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Inauguration – all for nothing security other than to “send a message”

CITIZEN MUSCLE

ABUSING CITIZEN SOLDIERS

Washington, D.C., has the nation’s highest ratio of law enforcement officers to residents in the nation for cities over 250,000 people, and…

…it isn’t even close. Yet, last night, 2,000+ National Guard troops present for the inauguration, were sworn in as special deputies.

Democrats and the media were also adamantly against the idea that National Guard troops could act in a law-enforcement capacity when President Trump wanted them to go to the southern border when large caravans were arriving. While some were deployed, they were mostly in supportive and administrative roles

Excellent article. Thoughtful, accurate, and highlights the extraordinary hypocrisy of the Democrat Party, very serious stuff:         dlh

U.S. Marshals Swear-In 2,000 National Guard Troops to Serve as Special Deputies 

Related:

U.S. Marshals Swear-In 2,000 National Guard Troops to Serve as Special Deputies
– The overwhelming presence, with Guardsmen carrying arms and now being deputized, flies in the face of a longstanding and genuine aversion to members of the military being deployed against Americans on American soil. When using National Guard troops was suggested to help quell the rioting and violence in major American cities this past summer, the opposition from Democrats and the media was overwhelming.

Tucker Carlson Reveals What He Thinks Is the Real Reason for the Massive Military Presence in DC

“. . . no matter what they are telling you, those 26,000 federal troops are not there for your safety,” Carlson said on Monday night’s segment of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

“Instead, unmistakably, the Democratic Party is using those troops to send the rest of us a message about power: ‘We’re in charge now.’”

Indeed the illigitimate administration is making an effort to purge conservatives from the ranks, make it a Red Guard of sorts, insure that they are Democrat troops:

https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/texas-gov-abbott-blows-stack-fbi-vetting-politics-national-guard-offensive?

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Tomorrows celebrations

-Joey Robinette, aka Biden, will virtually be sworn in as Virtual President of the Virtual United States amid much ‘pimp’ and ceremony:

1) A Mariachi band will play “Aveo El Jefe” as he enters

2) As he is sworn in, the ROOTS will play and Mariah Carey will sing the National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

3) The Oath of Office will be administered by George Soros and Joey will take the oath with his hand on a copy of the Paris Climate accord

4) Ceremonies will conclude with a flyover by the PRC’s ‘lan se tianshi’ (CCP’s ‘Blue Angels’)

5) The virtual ‘electorate’/crowd will be serenaded by the “Margaret Sanger Singers” with their Top Ten recording of “NOT Born in the USA”        dlh

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The purpose of the Capitol incursion

Two of our favorite publications, LifeSite News and Canada Free Press dependably add important perspective commentary and reporting regarding the American scene.  The publications anguish over what is happening to the United States having seen it in Canada.

Set forth in its entirely this lengthy post by Steve Jalsevac offers much concerning insight. The bold emphasis is not to diminish any other insight but to summarize the reasoning of our previous report regarding impeachment of Trump.  There is no case. But it adds a chilling insight that astoundingly had not dawned on this writer.  The timing of the incursion into the Capitol building was  to prevent testimony and to co-opt any reporting of anything that did get said regarding the reasons for delaying Electoral College counting or denying fraudulent counts in some states.

Letter by senior US military raises questions about who is really committing ‘sedition and insurrection’

Joe Biden has given strong indications that he will ‘with speed’ give the United States of America over to the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum

January 18, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The Jan. 12 letter from the Joint Chiefs of staff of the U.S. military to all U.S. service members after last week’s Capital riot, warning them against “sedition and insurrection,” must have caused most loyal Americans to question who the military should really be focusing their attention on during this time of grave crisis for the United States.

The Joint Chiefs are aware that a majority of US military service members admire President Trump for all that he has done for them and for the nation over the past four years to protect the United States from both internal and external threats to the nation. On December 12, Navy and Army cadets greeted President Trump with roaring cheers and chants of “USA! USA!”” as he came out into the stadium at West Point for the 121st annual Army-Navy football game. There was obviously overwhelming support from the assembled military recruits for Trump.

The generals are aware that Trump has been the president who finally woke up the nation to the threat that Communist China has been to the US and the world for decades while all past presidents ignored that alarming situation and even facilitated the growth of the power and influence of the CCP that has become by far the greatest military and economic threat to the United States.

Trump greatly reduced the number of violent criminals, illicit drug suppliers, Islamist and political radicals and other questionable persons who were blithely allowed to come into the US by previous Democrat and Republican administrations through his tightening up of immigration policies and building the southern border wall which has led to a dramatic drop in illegal incursions into the country.

They are also well aware that civil authorities in many states were severely negligent for not taking the strong actions required to stop the devastating violent riots that were allowed to carry on across the nation throughout the summer and caused over a billion dollars of property damage in mostly poorer neighborhoods, thousands of injuries to police officers and civilians and 35 deaths.

In most cases, police had their hands tied by their civic leaders and, incredibly,  Nancy Pelosi, many other Democrats and the mainstream media, constantly downplayed the violence as being “mostly peaceful”.  Pelosi actually excused the violence when she stated in response to a question about it, “Oh, people will do what they do.”

The violence took place overwhelmingly in Democrat states whose political leaders refused to charge, convict and imprison most of the rioters who were repeatedly let go or given bail money so they could continue their terror. Law enforcement resources were actually decreased in response to leftist terrorists’ demands to “defund the police”.

In most cases Democrat governors refused to call in their National Guard to put down the riots that were far beyond the abilities of local police to control. That resulted in hundreds, possibly thousands, of police quitting their jobs because of the constant criticism and lack of support for their dangerous tasks from their civic leaders.

Trump repeatedly urged the governors and mayors of those states to do their jobs to protect the constitutional rights of their citizens and exercise their constitutional duties in this respect.

Most ignored the president’s pleas that were made in response to desperate communications from citizens asking the president to do something to help stop what appeared to be a national revolution to destroy America and replace it with a Communist, or otherwise leftist, violent dictatorship, or just plain anarchy. The violence only stopped as the election was approaching, and it became obvious that the violence was harming Democrat chances of victory at the polls.

As for the Capital riot that the Joint Chiefs referred to in their letter, video and other evidence is now available proving what most of the entirely peaceful participants in the Washington Stop the Steal rally suspected. Antifa/BLM types and possibly also some far-right agitators who cannot be considered genuine Trump supporters, initiated the incursions into the Capital, violence against Capital police and property damage well before Trump had even finished his speech a 45-minute walking distance from the captial building.

The timing of when the rioting started makes it clearly impossible that Trump could have “incited” the violence, as the Democrats, the media and even some Republicans are accusing him of doing. And of course, the text of his speech contains nothing that would have “incited” what took place at the Capital and was obviously planned well before Jan. 6.

What took place there was clearly intended to derail the joint session from hearing the speeches from over 100 Members of Congress and a dozen Senators who intended to ask for further examination of all the evidence of unconstitutional election fraud that took place during the November election.

It has now also become obvious that another intent of the rioting was to give a revolutionary pretext to remove the constitutional rights of freedom of speech, due process and many other rights and freedoms from all those who sincerely believed there was election fraud and/or any who are Trump supporters or conservatives. This was a many days pre-planned, well-coordinated action by professional leftist rioters.

This astoundingly rapid removal of constitutional rights and mass suppression of freedom of speech, that is still carrying on, presents a great danger to the Constitutional Republic nature of the United States.

All of the federal law enforcement agencies that have been missing in action for the past several months as the nation has been under assault from Communist and other leftist agencies, somehow seem to have been complicit in what went on during the summer and also complicit in the purge of patriots that is being allowed to carry on at this time in violation of many constitutional principles.

The current situation appears to be one of a complete suspension of the Constitution to permit what is essentially mob rule by leftist agitators and their Democrat, media and numerous leftist corporate allies.

Individuals, organizations and companies, such as Parler and many other free speech alternatives, are being accused, judged and convicted without any due process. 20 years ago or less, most of the actions being taken against conservatives at this time would have been subjected to swift legal condemnation, lawsuits and charges of illicit, discriminatory actions.

The Joint Chiefs’ Greatest concern should be this

In their letter, the Joint Chiefs stated the following:

The American people have trusted the Armed Forces of the United States to protect them and our Constitution for almost 250 years. As we have done throughout our history, the U.S. military will obey lawful orders from civilian leadership, support civil authorities to protect lives and property, ensure public safety in accordance with the law, and remain fully committed to protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic?

We witnessed actions inside the Capital building that were inconsistent with the rule of law. The rights and freedoms of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection..

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We support and defend the Constitution. Any action to disrupt the Constitutional process is not only against our traditions, values and oath; it is against the law.

I have explained above many very serious violations of the Constitution that have been taking place this year and which are going on right now. In addition, I should add that we are seeing a form of corporate governance of the nation taking place as the big tech giants and many other large corporations are implementing punishing unconstitutional restrictions on large numbers of elected officials and citizens related to either their political or social views or in response to health authority requests to supposedly lessen the spread of the Wuhan virus.

This has been developing into a major tyranny against the American public and totally violates constitutional protections, which courts at all levels are permitting to continue in violation of their responsibility to defend the American public against such lawlessness.

However, if the Joint Chiefs truly mean what they say in their letter then they should above all be deeply concerned about what a “President Biden” and his Democrat Party have promised to do once they are in control of the government.

Joe Biden has given strong indications that he will “with speed” give the United States of America over to the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum. See the list of related articles at the end of this article that explain many aspects of the Great Reset world revolution. This is an extremely serious promise by Biden that poses the greatest threat imagineable to America and the rest of world society.

Among may other things, the Great Reset will destroy capitalism and will also end the concept of self-governing sovereign nations with leaders elected by the people to serve the people.

It is no exaggeration to warn that if Biden is permitted to do this, he will destroy the Constitutional government and sovereignty of the United States and place all American citizens, companies and organizations, and eventually all government entities, including the US military, under the tyrannical authority and control of powerful, evil, anti-American, anti-freedom globalist elites.

This Great Reset also depends on the forced vaccination of the entire world’s population with poorly tested vaccines of a totally new type that actually do not prevent viral spread and require yearly vaccinations, forced masking and social distancing to continue “forever” after vaccination. We are being warned now that this “vaccine” cannot really be called a vaccine because it does not meet the definition of a real vaccine.

It is still unclear what is really in the vaccine, what it really does to the human body and we are seeing numerous deaths and other dangerous reactions to the “vaccine”. There are warnings from credible scientists and others that the vaccine may permanently change the DNA of recipients and that it may contain human sterilizing agents because of an item that is including in the vaccines that is known to negatively affect fertility.

Proof of vaccination is already being required by various airlines in order to board their planes and increasing numbers of corporations and institutions are requiring employees or users of their services to be vaccinated with this false and dangerous “vaccine”.  

All of this is being demanded while simple, very effective and long available treatment and preventative medications for the Wuhan virus are being suppressed and massive disinformation campaigns about the safety and effectiveness of these proven-in-practice medications are constantly being generated.

This is obviously happening to convince the public that the “vaccine” is the only solution to the virus. In reality, there is no real need for these Covid vaccines. Hundreds of physicians who have been using the medications that effectively treat the virus insist that herd immunity and the end of the pandemic could have been achieved months ago if these medication were not prohibited from being used.

These manipulators are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths from the virus that could have easily been prevented.

Compentent, leading physicians and scientists and elected officials who criticize government lockdowns and other devastating, ineffective measures to contain the virus are suffering retribution of various types, including loss of jobs and harsh denunciations from health and other authorities with a totalitarian mindset.

The virus has been weaponized for political purposes to force massive social and political change, totally disregarding the catastrophic impact of these bad decisions on the entire nation.

I bring the virus, vaccine and proof of vaccination into this article because it is a genuine matter of national security and poses a major threat to the economic and social well-being of the nation that is being orchestrated by persons and groups related to the Great Reset revolution.

Americans should all be terrified by the prospect of what the Democrats have openly stated that they will be doing regarding the Great Reset.

How can any U.S. military leaders genuinely concerned about obeying lawful orders from civilian leadership, supporting civil authorities to protect lives and property, ensuring public safety in accordance with the law, and remaining fully committed to protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, not see that a Biden administration presents the greatest threat to the United States in its history?

The Great Reset will eventually, in the not-too-distant future, transform the mighty U.S. military into an instrument to impose tyranny on the world – or – it will lead to the rapid dissolution of the U.S. military that began under the previous Obama administration which had Joe Biden as its vice-president.

And let us not forget the close ties of Joe Biden, his son Hunter and his entire family, with the Chinese Communist Party.

If the Joint Chiefs of staff are sincere about the letter that they wrote to military personnel, should they not possibly above all be required to protect Americans from an administration that is obviously determined to quickly destroy their nation?

It is curious to note that Catholic Church and political leftists played a large role in installing Jorge Bergoglio, an admirer of Joe Biden and Barak Obama, into the papacy of the Catholic Church. Since ascending into that role Borgoglio, under the name of Pope Francis, has undertaken many actions that have caused enormous damage to not only the Church in general, but also to the papacy itself. Pope Francis is also a supporter of the Great Reset.

I believe that Joe Biden is not remotely his own master, and given what he has promised to quickly implement once he is in the most powerful political office in the world, his top priority will be to cripple and destroy the influence and power of the United States, because the U.S. is the only obstacle in the way of implementing the Great Reset slavery of the world’s population and its determination to greatly decrease world population for the benefit of “Mother Earth.”

Will the U.S. military actually go along with this and facilitate the demise of its own existence, the end of U.S. constitutional government and the end of the United States as a sovereign nation?

I am just asking the obvious questions. I have no answers.

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FIVE PEOPLE DIED AT THE DIRECTION OF DONALD TRUMP WHILE MOB HE INSTIGATED SACKED CAPITOL!!!!!

FIVE DEATHS IN DC RIOT!

Here are some of the articles from ten days or so ago, the theme of which continues today in left dominated press outlets and Mitch McConnell’s pearl-clutching imagination. It has been upped to five after a policeman died we are told by NBC News (2nd to last screen shot) from injuries sustained on duty during altercations inside the Capitol. It could turn out that his death is of the nature of so many COVID deaths, related but more complicated than the sensational assignation, just as two of the sensationalized death numberings were protestors, of age and compromised heath, merely part of the massive crowd. It was an emotional time for them but they were there for a political rally/protest, they were not part of any “Capitol incursion”.

To gin up the death count with these essentially coincidental deaths is calumny. You get several hundred thousand people together  and over the course of the many hours they were there, there will likely be a couple of deaths from natural causes. There were deaths in that time period of DC residents in there homes or hospital.  Should they be attributed to Donald Trump?  The media is even attributing a cop’s contemporaneous suicide to the “Trump rioting”

Such distortion and lies pretty much continues to be the gist of the media reports of the protest (including some conservative media). Such reports supposedly motivates spontaneous outrage toward the President and have elicited (sounds like illicited)   impeachment charges against him. Even many pathetic or cowardly pearl clutching elected Republicans and the now out of the closet apparat have gotten in on the act.

Any honest person who heard or read the Presidents comments on January 6th knows that he exhorted no such thing, indeed just the opposite. The so-called rioting was in no way endemic to the crowd, a couple hundred out of hundreds of thousands, possibly mostly made up of leftist provocateurs, but whoever did it, it was mild compared to the leftist instigated destruction injuries and death during the entire four years of the Trump administration. We are not saying there were not police injured, the result of pushing shoving and possibly directly inflicted on them, but we believe the greatest extent was done by fifth columnists, BLM ANTIFA infiltrators.

The truth is the only death directly attributable to the “riot” “insurrection” was of an unarmed female of no threat who may have been indiscriminately shot by a cop.  By the standard of the left there should be “spontaneous”  rioting , burning, and looting and assaults on police officers across the country by us righties. There won’t be.

Other links of note regarding expected heart attacks in the course of a day:

https://professional.heart.org/en/science-news/heart-disease-and-stroke-statistics-2020-update

Professional Heart Daily publication of The American Heart Association

 

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Impeachment Trial? Let the Dems step in it

  • Graham’s unnecessary start to the letter insults Senators from his own party
  • Issues a letter pleading for business as usual
  • To do what he wanted to do required only the warning that the pursuit was unconstitutional
  • We (me anyway) say let the Dem’s step in it and look like the jackals and hyenas they are
  • They have no case
  • Evidence of Trump’s innocence of “inciting insurrection” is clear — roll tape

Report by Beth Bauman at TownHall, our annotation in red

Graham Has a Suggestion for Schumer So This ‘Disgraceful Saga’ Can Come to an End 

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday penned a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Sunday calling for the article of impeachment against President Donald Trump to be dropped. According to Graham, Schumer’s first act as the chamber’s head should be to shut down the “unconstitutional action” that is being taken.

“Vice President Pence stood in the breach (Editor: oh please Senator, see our comment at end of this ) against unconstitutional calls for him to overturn the 2020 election and violate his oath to defend the Constitution. Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s Majority Leader, likewise rejected those same calls. Virtually all of us rejected further challenges to the 2020 election,” Graham wrote.   (Editor:In other words a rather pathetic ~~ We’ve done your bidding, we capitulated early without hearing the full case, don’t make us uncomfortable, let’s move on)

“But now, in your first act as Majority Leader, rather than begin the national healing that the country so desperately yearns for, you seek vengeance and political retaliation instead. (Editor: why should we be so desperate if they are not?!) While the Vice President and Senate Republicans rejected unconstitutional actions, (Editor: that is your opinion Lindsey but thanks for denigrating your betters at Constitution interpretation – Cruz and Hawley)  you seek to force upon the Senate, what would itself be but one more unconstitutional action in this disgraceful saga – the impeachment trial of a former president.”

Graham pointed to the Constitution, saying Congress’ ability to impeach a president can only be done while he or she is in office.

“The impeachment power exists to protect the Nation from the harm that an incumbent president might inflict upon the Nation were he to remain in office, not to vindicate political grievances after a president has left office,” the letter stated.

While removing a president from office and barring him from running for office again are Congressional powers, those remedies have to take place while the president is in office.

“They are not separate remedies for two different constitutional impeachments, the one for a president who is incumbent in office and the other for a president who is no longer incumbent in office,” the senator stated. “If a Senate trial is not constitutional, then the remedy of disqualification is unavailable to the Congress as a punishment for the unconstitutionally impeached president.”

Graham also stated that the Framers never “intended to empower Congress to disqualify any former officer it would like, whenever it would like, and with no investigation.”

He made the argument that this move can and will set a dangerous precedent.

“Where does this all end? When Republicans in the 115th Congress had control of both chambers, should they have impeached and disqualified President Obama from future office for his handling of Benghazi? Should Democrats now just ‘go ahead’ and disqualify Trump administration officials from future office while they hold both chambers, just because they believe they can?” he asked.

Graham concluded his letter by saying the impeachment of President Trump wouldn’t be about protecting the country and the Constitution. He called on the Senate to dismiss the article of impeachment once it’s received in the chambers.  ( Editor: For crying out loud Graham the constitutional absurdity of it is so clear, indeed it amounts to a Bill of Attainder  let the jerks confirm their idiocy )

Below is the full letter: (Twitter link)

My letter to Democratic Leader Schumer.

The Senate should vote to dismiss the article of impeachment once it is received in the Senate. We will be delaying indefinitely, if not forever, the healing of this great Nation if we do otherwise. pic.twitter.com/fjVcf7iVPf


This writer is fine with the matter moving forward particularly as it delays any other Democrat work and capitulation to same by Graham and others , and exposes Dems and a few RINOs and however it makes Graham and McConnell uncomfortable.

As for Pence — Pence viewed his job as ministerial, a complacent demeanor unbecoming what is at stake. I don’t think the framers wasted time putting ministerial folderal duties in the Constitution. He arguably could have asserted a duty to protect the integrity of the electoral college through his evaluation of the votes or he and Graham and McConnell could have argued for and vigorously pursued recommendations of their Constitutional betters — Harvard Law Cruz’s and or Yale Law Hawley’s proposals.  The SCOTUS may well have decided against them but the presentations and arguments would have been valuable and useful for history. Trump supporters want hearings and opportunities to present evidence denied them in a timely manner and do not demand a particular result.    R Mall

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Weekend Notes

Another excellent column at American Thinker. Call me ‘subversive’ but what part of the following is not accurate?     dlh

Our Mounting Orwellian Nightmare

. . . “But the charges against President Trump are Orwellian in that they invert the truth. The president argued, as he had every right to do, that the election was rigged, and he urged peaceful protest to defend our republic.”   . . .

If progressives were honest and straightforward, they would be forced to state that they are radical environmentalists and socialists who want government to control the economy and equalize wages; who want socialized medicine for all; who think religious expression should be outlawed; who believe in a universal guaranteed income; who want to outlaw the use of fossil fuels; who want to expand affirmative action putting blacks and Hispanics farther ahead of whites; who believe that any reference to biological sex should be outlawed; who believe that America should be not a global superpower, but merely one nation among others; who believe that abortion at any stage is a universal right; who believe that American aid should go to the Palestinians and not to Israel; and so on.  . . .

Read more here

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Those “Feds” (FBI) can get investigatin’ in a hurry when they want to…but all that “non-evidence” of election fraud was “baseless”; ‘hats off to the “DFBI” (Democrat Federal Bureau of Investigation)     dlh

Feds back away from claim of assassination plot at Capitol  (the scare was all over the news)

Prosecutors who initially said there was “strong evidence” the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week aimed to “capture and assassinate elected officials” have backed away from that allegation

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Rand Paul Warns One Third of Republicans Will Leave Party if GOP Senators Back Impeachment

Amen! (or, ‘A-Woman’!) to that. Put me down as not voting for that person if one of the traitorous establishment Republicans wins the Primary    dlh

Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) warned Friday that one third of Republican voters could leave the party if GOP senators vote in impeachment proceedings to convict President Trump. Paul made the comments in an interview on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle.

The senator’s remarks come amid an increasing divide between congressional Republicans who oppose impeaching the president, and a smaller number who support the measure following the riots at the Capitol on January 6. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) is reportedly hopeful that Republicans can use impeachment to purge Trump from the GOP, although he would need the support of at least 16 additional Republican senators to vote to convict.“Look, I didn’t agree with the [Capitol] fight that happened last week, and I voted against overturning the election, but at the same time, the impeachment is a wrongheaded, partisan notion, [and] if Republicans go along with it, it’ll destroy the party,” Paul said during the interview.

“A third of the Republicans will leave the party,” Paul continued. “This isn’t about, anymore, the Electoral College, this is about the future of the party, and whether you’re going to ostracize and excommunicate President Trump from the party. Well, guess what,? Millions of his fans will leave as well.”

While a majority of Americans believe Trump should be removed from office immediately, just 17 percent of Republicans support expelling Trump from the presidency, according to an Axios–Ipsos poll released on Thursday. Support for Trump among Republicans has fallen since the Capitol riots, however 60 percent believe the party should continue to follow Trump once he leaves office, an ABC News/Washington Post poll found.

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2 Corinthians…Manchin, an ‘angel of light’

  • “And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
  • Infuriating! Disgusting! Neil Cavuto’s favorite “moderate Democrat”
 
“I.. get along fine with Ted (Cruz)…” Joe Manchin

I doubt there is a bigger phony in Congress than Joe Manchin. He poses as a “moderate Democrat’. In this way he is a “go to guy” for any equally disingenuous “TV anchor” who wishes everyone thought of him as just a nice, happy, honest, self-deprecating, ‘news’ guy…like Neil Cavuto.

Manchin’s specialty is to pose as a politician with a righteous commitment to everything ‘non-partisan’, a Constitution adherent, and, with a total dedication to the prosperity, well-being, and freedom of the American people.

Actually, Joe Manchin is just another partisan Democrat hack. He glibly says one thing and does the other; when Chuck Schumer says, “Joe, you can drop the crap for a minute, we need your vote” . And dutifully, ‘Joe’ drops “the crap for a minute”.

If any body thought that a 50-50 party split in the Senate would yield policies beneficial to anybody except the Democrats’ power hungry leadership because Joe Manchin was there, look no further than this guy’s latest behavior :

MANCHIN SAYS SENATE SHOULD CONSIDER REMOVING JOSH HAWLEY AND TED CRUZ UNDER THE 14TH AMENDMENT

JANUARY 15, 2021
The moderate Democrat says he doesn’t know how Hawley and Cruz ‘can live with themselves’

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) said in an interview this week that he believes the Senate should consider removing GOP Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Ted Cruz (Texas), arguing the Republicans were complicit in insurrection when they objected to certifying some Electoral College votes the same day a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol in protest of the election results.

What are the details?
In an interview posted Friday, PBS “Firing Line” host Margaret Hoover asked Manchin, “Would you support, Senator, the removal of Senator Hawley and Senator Cruz through the 14th Amendment, Section 3?”

“Well they should look—absolutely—basically, that should be a consideration,” Manchin replied, adding, “He understands that. Ted’s a very bright individual and I get along fine with Ted. But what he did was totally outside the realm of our responsibilities or our privileges that we have.”

Hoover had reminded her audience that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment reads, “No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress…who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

Manchin, a moderate, recalled that while the Capitol building was under siege on Jan. 6 and Senators waited in a secure location before returning to the upper chamber to continue their votes, he tried to persuade Hawley not to continue contesting the election results.

The West Virginia Democrat told Politico the same thing, saying an interview last week that he told Hawley, “please think of what you’re doing, please reconsider what you’re doing.”

Manchin was also critical of Cruz, in particular, for continuing to fundraise on his vow to fight the election results on behalf of President Donald Trump, who has insisted the election was “rigged” against him in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.
“There’s no way they cannot be complicit in this,” Manchin said of the Republican senators that voted against certifying the election results. “That they think they can walk away and say, ‘I just exercised my right as a senator?’ Especially after we came back here and after they saw what happened.”

He added, “I don’t know how you can live with yourself right now knowing that people lost their lives.”

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Now the WSJ tells us!

  • A curious editorial, indeed!
  • Spending virus easily caught by proximity to Democrats

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SPENT THE LAST 4 YEARS TRYING TO COMPLETELY DISCREDIT THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY, AND THE MAN HIMSELF:

NOW ITS EDITORS WARN OF THE EXTREME DESTRUCTION BIDEN IS EXPECTED TO WREAK ON THE NATION’S ECONOMY AND REMAINING FREEDOMS     dlh

Biden’s First Spending Blowout  

He doubles Obama’s 2009 plan even as the economy is poised to take off in 2021.

Those two Georgia Senate races were more expensive than even we thought. “With interest rates at historic lows, we can not afford inaction,” President-elect Joe Biden declared Thursday night. He wasn’t kidding as he outlined a $1.9 trillion Covid spending plan, which comes on top of the $900 billion Congress appropriated last month, and the $2.9 trillion in the spring. And this is only Mr. Biden’s “first installment,” as Sen. Bernie Sanders put it.

The first point to understand is that this blowout has nothing to do with economic stimulus. Nearly all of the money is for income redistribution—some to people in genuine need, but most to advance long-term Democratic social policies, and to massage constituencies like teachers unions and state politicians.

This may boost short-term consumer demand, which is already poised to explode once the pandemic eases. But it won’t change incentives for growth because people don’t change their behavior unless they expect long-term earnings to change, as John Cogan and John Taylor described Friday on these pages.

More government spending will only help the economy to the extent it ends the pandemic faster and helps people get back to work. Toward that end Mr. Biden proposes $70 billion for vaccines, therapies and testing in addition to the $42 billion that Congress passed last month. This will make a difference if it delivers vaccines faster, though the main bottlenecks now are bureaucratic and political. Ditto for therapies. The Food and Drug Administration restricts access to monoclonal antibodies for hospitalized patients, for example, but local governments have struggled to set up non-hospital infusion sites.

Most of the rest of the Biden plan is a repeat of the 2009 Obama plan—doubled. State and local governments will get $350 billion, though many have more revenue than before the pandemic thanks to buoyant equity and housing markets. State and local non-education employment has fallen 3.7% since February compared to 6.5% for private business.

Schools that stayed closed (and laid off employees) will be rewarded with $130 billion to open—with no guarantees that they will. This is a payoff to unions that have refused to open schools even as most private schools have. Public and historically black colleges will get $35 billion, but nada for private schools.

One of his worst ideas is to raise the $300 weekly federal unemployment benefits enhancement to $400 and extend it through September. Half of unemployed Americans will earn more with the extra $400 than by working, which may help explain why benefit claims this week surged after the $300 fillip was reinstated. Claims plunged last fall after the $300 lapsed. Many businesses say they can’t pay enough to lure employees back until the payments end.

Mr. Biden also wants to raise the minimum wage to a uniform $15 an hour nationwide. It’s hard to imagine a more destructive policy for small businesses struggling to survive, especially in rural areas and mid-America states with lower wage levels than New York City. The strange economic logic seems to be to make it more expensive for businesses to rehire workers while giving those workers less incentive to return to work.

Mr. Biden plans to make it up to minority-owned small businesses with $190 billion in “equitably” distributed loans and grants. But if this is doled out based on race, it could be unconstitutional. The Paycheck Protection Program was a far better, and less political, way to help small business.
He also prescribes another round of transfer payments including $1,400 checks for most Americans, most of whom have jobs. This will cost some $400 billion or so with almost no larger economic benefit.

He also wants to expand the earned-income tax credit for childless adults, a fully refundable $3,000 child tax credit ($3,600 for kids under 6), a larger ObamaCare premium tax credit and a $4,000 child-care tax credit. This is Democratic social policy traveling as temporary Covid relief. Don’t be surprised if the tax credits all become permanent features of the tax code—and a disincentive to earn more at the risk of losing the credits as they phase out.

As a political matter, Mr. Biden’s timing couldn’t be more fortunate. The pandemic damaged the Trump Presidency, and now he is taking office as the vaccines are rolling out and a return to normal life is at least in sight. When the pandemic does ease, the economy is poised to take off without a single dollar more in government spending. Pent-up consumer demand—the savings rate is already double what it was pre-Covid—and the desire to socialize and travel again will lead to a sharp 2021 rebound even if Congress does nothing.

Yet to sell his plan Mr. Biden portrays the pre-Covid economy as some dystopia of haves and have-nots. The truth is that the jobless rate was 3.7%, wages were rising faster for average workers than for the affluent, and black and Hispanic poverty rates hit record lows in 2019. By the way, aggregate private wages and salaries were higher last November than in February as businesses increased wages, including for lower-paying jobs.

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Trump’s revenge…you go, Donald!

  • That is until some Justice of the Peace in Minnesota rules that a president can’t do that without permission of the DC mayor.  (sarcasm )

THIS IS WHAT OBAMA, BIDEN, COMEY, BRENNAN, CHRIS WRAY, NANCY, SCHUMER, ET AL HAVE FEARED ALL ALONG. THIS IS WHY THERE WAS SUCH ‘URGENCY’ TO ‘IMPEACH’, OR ANY OTHER WAY, GET TRUMP OUT OF THE OVAL OFFICE, ASAP!

Oh, Durham will be so angry. It will ruin his ‘greatest investigation’ (you know…the thing he and Barr were really gonna ‘blow the lid off’ DC goings on.)
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Clearly the FBI new it was all bogus but kept the mill going in service to their swamp loyalties

Trump Declassifies ‘Foot-High’ Stack Of Russiagate, Obamagate Documents; Set For Release Within Days

Tyler Durden
JAN 14, 2021
President Trump has declassified and authorized the release of “more than a foot-high stack of documents” related to the Obama administration’s surveillance and espionage committed against the 2016 Trump campaign, as part of a larger campaign to discredit and undermine the incoming US president.

Trump declassifying trove of FBI memos exposing Steele’s motivations, ties to impeachment witness 

Once-secret documents will show Steele told FBI he leaked Russia collusion narrative to counteract Clinton email scandal.

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His admission (Steele)  that the Russia collusion narrative, later debunked by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, was injected into the public as a means of counteracting Clinton’s email scandal corroborates other information obtained by the CIA.

Late last year, the Trump administration declassified evidence showing the CIA warned President Obama and the FBI that it had intercepted intelligence indicating Hillary Clinton had personally ordered up an operation to “vilify” Trump with a false story of collusion as a means of distracting from the negative publicity of her email scandal.

Multiple investigations have concluded that much of Steele’s dossier was debunked or never corroborated by the FBI and likely contained Russian disinformation planted with his sources.

The probes found the FBI wrongly continued to rely on the allegations of Russia collusion to target Trump campaign figures for investigation and failed to disclose major flaws in their investigations to the courts that had authorized surveillance warrants.

The investigation also found that Steele’s primary source of Russian intel later disowned or distanced himself from the claims attributed to him in the Steele dossier and that U.S. intelligence had concerns the source was tied to Russian intelligence.

The soon-to-be-released records also expose a tantalizing connection between Steele, his primary source and one of the Democrats’ key impeachment witnesses in the Ukraine scandal, former Trump National Security Council Russia expert Fiona Hill.

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