In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency.
“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”
“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”
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Whenever the possibility presents, throw sand into the machinery…
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The Gateway Pundit has a video that everyone should view today.
Julie Kelly: The DOJ Is Going to Indict Trump – May Put Him in Prison Until His Trial (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
I find it fascinating and terrifying all at the same time. It’s certainly something we should be talking about.
Something else bothers me. Civil rape trial goes to deliberation tomorrow 5/9. CNN town Hall 5/1o 8pm. The president better win. This timing was foreseeable to all parties.
John Shewchuk
@_ClimateCraze
Here’s an updated chart. Red line is averaged temperatures from 2 core samples. Green line is averaged CO2 data from 2 proxies. Both noted at bottom of chart.
Well, how am I going to pay my crack dealer? He doesn’t take credit cards.
Ballot signature matching system in Maricopa County is ‘almost illegal,’ says longtime FBI expert
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/ballot-signature-matching-process-maricopa-county-almost-illegal-says?utm_medium=social_media&utm_source=twitter_social_icon&utm_campaign=social_icons
“Almost illegal” means it’s legal.
That is like telling the Sheriff “My meth lab was only 9/10 functional”..
abortion is almost murder.
Kari Lake’s team provided abundant evidence that “it is illegal.” Signature verification is basically the only way to determine if a mail-in ballot is legitimate, and this was shamelessly violated in direct violation of Arizona state law. Unfortunately, trial judges in the state have been corrupted, too. It remains to be seen whether this judicial corruption extends all the way to the top . . .
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs announced plans Monday to ramp up the busing of migrants out of the state, ahead of an expected surge in immigration when Title 42, a Trump-era expulsion order, ends May 11.
Hobbs’ plan includes increasing the busing of migrants to other areas of the state and other parts of the country, she said during a press conference.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/08/dem-governor-plan-to-handle-expected-surge-of-illegal-migrants/
…uhhh…hint to k h ( south is more close )
..to make it simple,
just set the GPS navigator map, on the buse$,
to the south.
to home sweet home…panama, guatamala.. etc.
all aboard!!!
Please fly them to Martha’s Vineyard. That was so much fun to watch. (Sarcasm intended).
Yeah what he really said is that the method that was used is invalid if verifying a TRUE match was the objective…..
A classic:
On Marxism in America, the Communist China Threat, Unconventional Warfare & Hong Kong—Joshua Philipp – American Thought Leaders – Aug 2, 2019
Unrestricted Warfare
Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui
(Beijing: PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House, February 1999)
Aside from what we have discussed above, we can point out a number of other means and methods used to fight a non-military war, some of which already exist and some of which may exist in the future. Such means and methods include psychological warfare (spreading rumors to intimidate the enemy and break down his will); smuggling warfare (throwing markets into confusion and attacking economic order); media warfare (manipulating what people see and hear in order to lead public opinion along); drug warfare (obtaining sudden and huge illicit profits by spreading disaster in other countries); network warfare (venturing out in secret and concealing one’s identity in a type of warfare that is virtually impossible to guard against); technological warfare (creating monopolies by setting standards independently); fabrication warfare (presenting a counterfeit appearance of real strength before the eyes of the enemy); resources warfare (grabbing riches by plundering stores of resources); economic aid warfare (bestowing favor in the open and contriving to control matters in secret); cultural warfare (leading cultural trends along in order to assimilate those with different views); and international law warfare (seizing the earliest opportunity to set up regulations), etc., etc.
An Utter Nightmare: Biden Considering Using Novel Legal Theory To Subvert Congress On Debt Limit Fight
Excerpt:
Asked by Psaki if Biden “has the authority to invoke the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling on its own?” Raskin said, “I think he has that authority under these circumstances, absolutely. The Congress has put him in a constitutionally untenable position.”
https://dcenquirer.com/rumored-plan-for-biden-to-use-14th-amendment-to-subvert-congress-is-a-nighmare/?utm_source=89381
Where do these freaks get these ridiculous interpretations of the Constitution from… I’d wager they just make it up as they go in order to fulfill their anti-American agenda.
The plain text of the 14th amendment states that the debt “authorized by law”…. “shall not be questioned”.
If the debt ceiling isn’t raised by Congress than new debt isn’t “authorized by law” one would think.
Any legal eagles care to explain???
“Where do these freaks get these ridiculous interpretations of the Constitution from…”
Answer = Lawfare
“I’d wager they just make it up as they go in order to fulfill their anti-American agenda.”
That’s exactly what Lawfare does. They look at the Constitution and fabricate an interpretation that was not specifically and literally addressed in the original (signed/approved/ratified) wording, then search to see if any court cases addressed that very issue. Absent any parallel or equal cases, they submit their proposal as “legitimate”.
What they hope we forget is the Tenth Amendment – “The powers not delegated to the United States [i.e., federal government] by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” In other words, the federal government cannot assume authorities it never had per the Constitution and must let the state governments deal with other issues. Various Amendments have been added since 1789 but not one that delegates overall Federal Budget authority to the Executive Branch.
It’s way past time for the right to get top notch lawyers to fight lawfare with fairlaw.
Agree!
The root-cause problem here is something that could never have been anticipated by the authors of that Amendment. Their purpose, over 150 years ago now, was to invalidate the debts incurred by the defeated Confederate States of America – and nothing more. They had no concept of, say, “Bretton Woods.”
Today, “public debt” is a euphemism. When the USA wants to print more money, it “issues Treasury bonds,” and a very-magical private corporation called “The Federal Reserve” magically “buys them.” Of course they neglect to mention exactly where and how it gets the money to do so . . . maybe Rumpelstiltskin would know?
When the authors wrote that Amendment, “public debt” was real. It was borrowed from “someone else,” who had the sole power to decide whether you got the loan or not.
What a load of crap!
They just keep dragging the country further and further away from the way it was originally designed to operate.
The libtards can only get away with their unconstitutional power grab because the impotent republicans faithfully keep impeachment off the table.
What would the role of the lazy Congress be if the Lobbyist’s write all of the legislation and the unlawful Whitehouse is allowed to control the purse strings?
Impeach 46 – He is facilitating an invasion of our country.
Biden’s Border Fiasco Costing Local Taxpayers Billions
Through the end of March, I can confirm that the Biden administration has released 1,765,732 migrants encountered by CBP at the Southwest border. I believe that the actual total is higher than two million, but for the purposes of this analysis I will go with the more modest figure I can confirm with certainty.Note that this figure does not include 288,739 unaccompanied alien children (UACs)With respect to the time that those migrants will receive municipal housing and care, however, note that the comptroller explains:
https://cis.org/Arthur/Bidens-Border-Fiasco-Costing-Local-Taxpayers-Billions
“Biden’s Border Fiasco Costing Local Taxpayers Billions”
Maybe so, but no one will get a bill for their share of it within the next week, so hardly ANY will understand the economically fatal impact of this on the U.S. until the situation has gone beyond repair.
Before biden approx 1/2 of all criminals prosecuted in federal court were illegal migrants with crimes ranging from drug trafficking to kidnapping to murder. I can testify to the latter as we had two family members shot.
https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/federal-report-shows-open-borders-bring-increased-crimes-and-costs-taxpayers
Over 33,000 American have been murdered by illegal aliens
Pages 26 plus page 32
https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/693162.pdf
https://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/
Biden dismisses GOP border security bill as too tough on illegal immigrants, says he’ll veto
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/8/biden-says-hell-veto-republicans-border-security-b/
Wouldn’t get thru senate anyway.
Just look at this story! Fed Prosecutor takes information about Biden’s bribery scheme involving foreign nationals…. and they investigate HIM!
https://nypost.com/2023/05/07/joe-biden-bribery-allegations-were-brought-to-doj-in-2018-two-years-before-similar-claims-by-whistleblower/
FTA: “Bud Cummins, a former federal prosecutor, first reported the bribery allegations to then-New York US Attorney Geoff Berman on Oct. 4, 2018, in an email claiming he had evidence that Joe Biden had “exercised influence to protect” his son’s Ukrainian employer “in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Joe Biden.”
In the email obtained by John Solomon’s Just The News, Cummins said that Ukraine’s then-Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko wanted to travel to the United States to meet Berman, and could produce two “John Doe” witnesses to corroborate his claims about the Bidens.
But Berman never responded to the email.
Instead, in a move Cummins says seemed like “retaliation,” on Dec. 9, 2019, in the middle of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, federal prosecutors secretly obtained data from Cummins’ iPhone with a grand jury subpoena to Apple.”
They also impeached President Trump at the same time!
I swear, the corruption at the DOJ/FBI is beyond saving. There needs to be a HUGE house cleaning.
It is important to realize that Biden corruption went hand in hand with Government corruption, and that was the mechanism that we chose to use in controlling the ex soviet empire as well as other places. We used our corruption to leverage their corruption to control them.
Our corrupt IC and our corrupt government had to protect corrupt Biden, before Trump, during Trump, and now after Trump.
And this corrupt war is the natural result of our corrupt policies.
Putin’s great sin was to free Russian corruption from the control of American corruption.
Everyone involved in attacking Trump for calling out Biden’s admitted corruption was part of the corrupt controlling mechanism over Ukraine.
The corruption runs very deep.
WHAT a coincidence that someone just happened to be filming this woman opening an UNOPENED clam and there just happened to be 20 golden ball bearings in that clam! It’s a Festus Miracle!
I gotta big ol’ bottle of Tabasco up in the cupboard… let’s roll!
🧐
Yeah, I’m gonna call fake on this one too. That said hope they did not waste all the lovely clam meat!!!!
HAH! Yeah. She wishes… I read the thread of replies underneath that tweet… From what I read – it’s a fake, posted to attract upvotes. A similar video was posted in Instagram, only with a much smaller clam and multiple colors of “pearls.”
This is a REAL oil company located in Wolcott, CT.
FJB Oil
https://fjboil.com/?fbclid=IwAR0yOKOW4dVasG6SDHvtnm7KzbarPPvLmIn_OuWChhPa7TjFKmgw9JDcjyM
Am I the only one who fears that a President DeSantis could actually be worse than Biden?
The more we learn about meatball, the more that becomes very clear. At the least, he will be just another betrayer of the American people. But he has horrible potential to be much worse, and he obeys funders who will drive him to be worse.
Probably would be like Romney or McCain if they became potus.
Then maybe rfk is the better choice
Texas Mall Shooter Removed from Army in 2008 over Mental Health Issues
Shocked! Shocked I tell You! /S ..
Edit: Breitbart has really gone down hill. I wonder which diagnoses this Brown Power mass shooter was labeled with? Was he ever hospitalized for these issues? I have more questions than answers.
Did he not like wearing ladies garments or something?
So I was watching Eric Bolling on NewsMax interview Asa Hutchinson running against PTrump. Hutchinson claims P Trump is responsible for J6 since 500 people has been arrested for breaking the law. Or something like that.
Why didn’t Bolling ask Hutchinson if he felt there was any corruption in the 2020 election that we should be concerned with? Was that the most secure election ever ? Is it even possible that the people at the j6 rally had legitimate concerns that there was significant evidence of corruption that was not investigated.
A dumb interview by Bolling IMO.
Still trying to wrap my head around J6 mess.
For some reason the tens of Billions, probably 100s of billion in destroyed property during the summer of 2020 is supposed to be conceded nothing. On top of the destroyed property somewhere between 50 to 100 people were killed during those riots, at least a dozen of them being officers. Then there are the numerous people who ended up in the ER. In Portland alone over 4,000 LEOS(city, state and federal) were taken to the hospital for injuries.
On J6 the 5 who died due to what was happening where Trump supporters,
Also trying to wrap my head around them calling J6 an insurrection If J6 is an insurrection then surely the e Women’s March (2019) must be one. Women’s March also Breached the Capitol, Crossed Police Barricades, Assaulted Police & Occupied a Government Building all day-They even bragged about on tweeter, with the tweets still up. None of them were Shot or Put In Solitaire Confinement! H3ll Democratic Lawmakers Helped with Their bail, which most did not need since they only go a hand slap.
Gubment is heavily arming itself against Americans:
https://frontline.news/post/us-agencies-heavily-arming-themselves-says-report
Here are the stats:
https://www.openthebooks.com/the-militarization-of-federal-bureaucracy—updated-statistics-through-march-31-2023/
I doubt many of those leftists can shoot straight.
I like the odds.
Judge just issued a gag order on Trump in the “hush money” case. Still think this ends with anything but Trump being sent away without a fair trial?
Judge bans Trump from sharing evidence on social media: Ex-President restricted from posting about Stormy Daniels hush-money payments and information about witnesses in Manhattan criminal case
I hold positive thoughts only.
Read the new gag order muzzling Trump in his hush-money case
May 8, 2023
*snipped*
A New York judge banned Donald Trump from posting any evidence on social media in his ongoing “hush-money” case after prosecutors accused the former president of having a history of targeting witnesses.
State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan fulfilled prosecutors’ request this week in issuing a social media gag order on the former president
The order also stops Trump from publicly discussing details about witnesses involved in the case or any other evidence prosecutors plan to use against him.
…the court order explicitly forbade Trump, or anyone else involved in the case, from copying, transcribing, or photographing the material.
Following his March indictment, Trump took to Truth Social, where he railed against Merchan, saying the judge “HATES ME,” and accusing the judge’s wife of being “anti-Trump.”
During Trump’s April 4 arraignment, prosecutors warned that the former president had previously made threatening and insulting comments about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, but declined to request an official gag order at the time.
The Monday order bars any person with access to evidence in the case from disseminating or disclosing it without approval from the court.
Some such evidence includes witness contact information and photos of the inside of the home belonging to star witness Michael Cohen, Insider previously reported.
Read the four-page court order:
https://www.businessinsider.com/read-new-gag-order-muzzling-trump-in-hush-money-case-2023-5
Waiting for the first leak to the NYT and Merchan’s reaction.
Set up?
judge afraid PresTrump will say “yeah, and you’re not my type either” and trying to pre-empt that
True!😂
Bragg’s indictment of Trump is harassment. It’s been more than a month and we still don’t know who Trump allegedly defrauded and what other crime he allegedly intended to commit, and when asked about it Bragg claimed he doesn’t have to say.
Roger Stone: A Trump Gag Order Equals ‘Election Interference’
Apr. 03, 2023
*snipped*
If Trump were made to comply with one, Stone said, it would be “a testimony to his effectiveness as a counter-puncher.”
Stone then deployed one of conservatives’ favorite words in describing the effect of a gag order: being “canceled.”
“So I think canceling him now—gagging him now—is a reaction to the way he has rebounded and actually benefited from what is a naked partisan attack against him,” Stone said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-a-trump-gag-order-equals-election-interference?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
RFK Jr interviews Col Douglas Macgregor today on the Ukrainian Conflict, the JFK Assassination and the Deep State.
What is truly incredible is that RFK2 understands that the United States provoked the Russian attack on Ukraine and that, based on everything he now knows, Russia is going to win.
Macgregor discussed the willingness of Russia to accept the Minsk Agreement and RFK2 points out that Ukraine could have avoided the destruction of it’s country and 300,000 Ukrainian soldiers death by the simple cost of a signature on an agreement.
What totally floored me was RFK2 stating that JFK and his father wanted to normalize our relationship with Russia and that his uncle JFK was on VERY FRIENDLY TERMS WITH KRUSCHEV! He pointed out that JFK and Kruschev completely trusted each other!
This is an amazing 30 minute interview.
Well thats a strange coincidence
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/05/08/tampa-city-council-member-lynn-hurtaks-home-searched-by-fbi/
Tampa City Council member Lynn Hurtak’s home searched by FBI
Hurtak’s husband, Tim Burke, said that it was his name on the search warrant.
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/video-showing-ron-desantis-arguing-with-sean-hannity-about-a-raid-is-satire/
“Ron DeSantis went on Hannity and things got SPICY,” Tim Burke, a former journalist at The Daily Beast, Deadspin and Gawker, posted on his popular Twitter account. Burke, who now operates a media and political consulting firm, is known for finding interesting and sometimes obscure video clips and sharing them with his 110,00 Twitter followers.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/everett-stern-to-release-new-allegations-regarding-the-former-top-fbi-official-charles-mcgonigal-301818713.html
NEW YORK, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Everett Stern, former US Senate candidate, author and Intelligence Director of Tactical Rabbit will hold a press conference on the steps of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42 Street in New York City at 4pm EST to release other damaging allegations against the former head of FBI counterintelligence Charles McGonigal.
McGonigal is charged by the US Department of Justice, Southern District of New York with money laundering and conspiring to commit money laundering for Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch. McGonigal is accused of receiving payments through shell companies and forging signatures in order to keep it a secret that Deripaska was paying him.
McGonigal is charged separately in Washington, D.C., with taking money from an Albanian intelligence agent while still at the FBI.
Stern was introduced to McGonigal in 2018 during a second investigation into HSBC bank for sanction violations and money laundering. Stern was commissioned with seeking additional intelligence information, and McGonigal was his point of contact. “I have good reasons to believe this second investigation of HSBC bank was squashed by McGonigal,” said Stern, “and I believe that this started much earlier in 2015,” he added.
In 2015, Stern was approached to track down a diamond stolen from Oleg Deripaska by a close colleague of McGonigal and former FBI agent who has also been arrested and charged with conspiracy and other charges.
“This is only the tip of the iceberg,” said Stern.
“Victory Day. May 9th.” One of Russia’s most sacred national holidays – already happening “over there.” It is one of this nation’s most solemn occasions – memorializing the final defeat of the German Nazis in what we call “WW2.” Why isn’t it also one of ours?
One of the most sober aspects of this occasion is the so-called “Immortal Regiment.” Family members silently display photographs of family members who were lost in what they now call the “Great Patriotic War,” and virtually every family has one or several.
Today, we should soberly remind ourselves that “the USSR,” predominantly “Russia,” was then a vital ally. Also that it was clearly this nation which paid (by far …) the greatest price in blood in defeating: first the Germans, then the Japanese. No other Ally even came close to their degree of bloodshed.
And yet, “today we fight them.” “Today, we want to destroy them.”
(However: immediately upon the conclusion of WW2, Winston Churchill wanted to declare war again.)
Sometimes, “history” is a very interesting topic, full of very ironic twists.
Just heard about this, on May 5th the State of Louisiana is allowed to amend its lawsuit to add class action in these various State’s lawsuit against the President and Big Tech (if someone was throttled or silenced by twitter, facebook and other sites may be able to become named plaintiffs)
Here is Louisiana AG Landry’s page on this ruling from last Friday:
https://www.agjefflandry.com/Article/13138
NLPC Chairman Peter Flaherty Arrested During Berkshire Shareholder Proposal Presentation After Connecting CEO Warren Buffett to Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/nlpc-chairman-peter-flaherty-arrested-during-berkshire-shareholder-proposal-presentation-after-connecting-ceo-warren-buffett-to-bill-gates-and-jeffrey-epstein-video/
“We all know how much bill gates loves children, he’s been with Epstein…” at berkshire hathaway annual meeting.
Video 👇
Reminds me of a Star Wars senate meeting.
Speaks truth that gates wife left him, and why do they always go for the kids?
I’ve lost my sense of humor on this folks they have no place in our society, or world. Prisons have more morals than our society today.
What was the charge? Truth speaking?
Has anyone seen this? Is part of President Trump money going to DeSantis?
Mike Lee
@BasedMikeLee
We have more than enough votes in the Senate to stop any bill raising the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budgetary reforms. Thank you to my colleagues who signed this letter.
***
Sen. Lee Leads 43 GOP Senators in Opposition to Raising Debt Limit Without Substantive Spending and Budget Reforms
https://www.lee.senate.gov/2023/5/sen-lee-leads-43-gop-senators-in-opposition-to-raising-debt-limit-without-substantive-spending-and-budget-reforms
the best Twitter is Sundance Twitter. Thank you so much. Always brings a laugh after a day of doom and gloomers.
Nobel Laureate John Clauser Elected to CO2 Coalition Board of Directors
Excerpt:
“Dr. Clauser will add tremendously to the intellectual depth of our organization, which already benefits from a membership of more than 120 scientists and researchers representing a broad range of disciplines. His studies of the science of climate provide strong evidence that there is no climate crisis and that increasing CO2 concentrations will benefit the world,” said Dr. William Happer, chair of the board of the CO2 Coalition.
https://co2coalition.org/publications/nobel-laureate-john-clauser-elected-to-co2-coalition-board-of-directors/
Caroline Kennedy meets Assange supporters, fuelling breakthrough hopes
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/caroline-kennedy-meets-with-assange-supporters-fuelling-breakthrough-hopes-20230509-p5d6vc.html
Love this guy!
Check out the old man in the vid above.
Love him! He’s had enough of the BS!
People with lives to live (responsibilities) have time for this?
No way I would ever live in NYC, or any big city.
There is way too much outrage over every single thing
gone wrong. “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.”
Get right with God and Jesus.
Inflation Alert! Fed releases Inflation Expectations Fall at Short-Term Horizon but Rise Slightly at Longer Horizons. One-year (4.4%), 3year (2.9%), and 5-year (2.6%) inflation expectations all higher than the Fed’s target of 2%. Inflation appears to be becoming anchored in consumers expectations.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/inflation-alert-fed-releases-inflation-expectations-fall-at-short-term-horizon-but-rise-slightly-at-longer-horizons-one-year-4-4-3year-2-9-and-5-year-2-6-inflation-expectations-all-higher-th/