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“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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“To ensure that Slovakia remains
on the side of peace, and not on
the side of war.”
He is also friends with Fico, the
current Prime Minister.
👏 👏 👏 👏
Ukraine-sceptic government ally Peter Pellegrini wins Slovakian presidential election | Slovakia | The Guardian ☝️ ☝️ ☝️ ☝️
This headline says it all……
😁 😁 😁 😉 😉
It also means Samantha Powers
and company will be trying to
stir up trouble. 😡😡
Slovakia is EU and NATO
country.
A close ally of populist prime minister tops a pro-Western diplomat to become Slovakia’s president | AP News
☝️ ☝️ ☝️ ☝️
Wonderful news!
To the River, Deny the Sea, Novorossiya will be free!
Vdaka Bohu……Thank you Lord….
The Battle for Chasov Yar Has Begun – Russian Troops Reach the Outskirts of Key Donbas City – What We Learned From the Sieges of Mariupol, Bakhmut and Avdeevka
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/battle-chasov-yar-has-begun-russian-troops-reach/
“Paratroopers of the 98th Svir Guards Airborne Division stormed and occupied the eastern outskirts of Chasov Yar, Kanal microdistrict.
Assault units continue to attack, smash and destroy the enemy from the southeast and northeast, knocking out the Ukronazis from fortified strongholds in the forests.
[…] Along Chasov Yar, artillery and aviation with S-8 rockets are working closely, inflicting fire on identified targets.
The Russian Aerospace Forces are actively working and using KABs in sectors to burn out the enemy.”
Certain Ukrainian mistakes of the past are also about to be repeated: Zelensky can’t admit another military defeat after Avdiivka, so he is driving reserves into Chasov Yar.
How many will be willingly drafted into this meat grinder after Ukraine joins NATO?
I believe Kharkov will be
next after Chasov Yar.
Massive exodus of people
leaving there since Russian
airstrikes knocked out
power last week.
I saw videos of the traffic
leaving…..bumper to bumper.
They know what the airstrikes
mean……
Sad to see so much loss
of life that could have
been avoided. 🕊️🕊️
The take on Ukraine joining
NATO…probably not going
to happen.
France wants conflict freeze. Russia said NO
☝️ ☝️ ☝️ The Duran
If Ukraine joins NATO as Antony Blinken has stated, how many weeks will pass before Presidente Biden sends American soldiers to fight against Russia?
You mean more American soldiers?
he ..will not send US troops to glorious ukraine…
Since the dump laundromat Ukraine has been completely hollowed out, the globalists have to pump fresh meat into the grinder. Ya sure, since citizens of every western nation have all of the lies they can stand re Russia Russia Russia, let’s open up the human fodder pipeline by slapping a NATO banner on the dump. How else can the corrupt kickback cash keep flowing.
I don’t believe Blinken, as I don’t believe Ukraine will be joining NATO, not unless the hostilities cease, in which case the west may try to make this a part of an agreement.
Won’t be acceptable to Russia, but these idiots still think its not about bullets and bombs, its about perceptions.
Biden may have trouble getting on Ohio’s general election ballot.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-may-trouble-getting-ohios-general-election-ballot-rcna146706
It’s not up to the Ohio legislature to correct a dumb move by the Democrats. Make them move up their convention date so as to be in compliance with Ohio law. We will soon find out who the RINOs are in Ohio if they pass a bill changing the Ohio law. Ohio Republicans hold over a 2-1 majority in both the House and Senate.
Let’s not soon forget that two states, Colorado and Maine, tried to keep President Trump off the 2024 ballot.
Recent earthquakes. Now Mt Etna doing something new
I love Mt Etna!
Climbed as far as I dared twice, in Wintertime, unforgettable experiences, she put on quite a show!
Awesome you climbed it and in winter too! These smoke rings look unreal!
I didn’t get to see any rings, but the first climb it was alternately puffing little clouds of black ash or white steam.
Second time it had had a “throat clearing” the night prior, so rocks large and small had been strewn across the snow and ice, the little ones sat on top as they quickly cooled, but the larger ones melted down into it; we had a picnic sitting on a big one, scootching around a bit as it was still quite warm, and discussing which direction each would run if it erupted again.
lol – very brave.
<The Italian volcano Etna has started erupting smoke rings>
No one knows exactly what this means…
But so far three new Popes have been chosen 🙂
Let me know when white smoke goes up for Archbishop Vigano.
Love Vigano, he’d be my choice.
or Cardinal Sarah……
For years now, I have been calling him Pope Vigano.
Wor ,,, rdy, thy name ought to be.
Where does it say no one knows what this means? Why dig at the Catholic church?
Just a good natured play on words.
I suspect.
Exactly…Thanks, Maquis!
Agree, and I saw it that way too. But I wasn’t kiddin’ about the Archbishop:)
Nor was I when I liked that comment, and I’m not even Catholic, I know a righteous man when I hear him.
Thank you Maquis. No sweat. Every one has their 2 cents – myself included:-) Learning all the time.
Speaking of Italy, the Italian Health Minister cannot walk down the street w/out Police protection. The public is calling him a murderer for enforcing the jab on them. I can think of a few Americans that need this treatment.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/former-health-minister-roberto-speranza?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=383085&post_id=143341906&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=o7m0p&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Pretty sure Tony has the 24 hr protection that Joe is refusing Jr.
Self-appointed importance sans qualifications.
With the single exception of Greg Gutfeld, all of the liberal late night ‘entertainment’ hosts now come off as consultants for the Democrat party.
Colbert’s message to Netanyahu after World Central Kitchen deaths: ‘Consider ending the war’
… with Hamas, following the deaths of six World Central Kitchen workers and a translator in Gaza.
“One of our self-imposed mandates is that, if we can, we talk about what everybody’s talking about. And today, what everybody’s talking about is something that’s pretty hard to talk about: Israel and Gaza,” Colbert on Wednesday’s “The Late Show.” That sounds so much like any Kamala word salad saying nothing.
Here’s another Prima Donna
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/msnbcs-nicolle-wallace-ceos-business-owners-not-supporting/
Dinesh D’Souza
@DineshDSouza
Busted: Mike Pence Helped Jack Smith! ‘Secret’ Notes on Trump Unveiled
(11) Dinesh D’Souza on X: “Busted: Mike Pence Helped Jack Smith! ‘Secret’ Notes on Trump Unveiled https://t.co/oUKjEKB0Vk” / X (twitter.com)
The gaslighting in this article is amazeballs. Mike Pence is being as disingenuous and diversionary as beyond belief. If being questioned during a deposition, any lawyer with a few years experience would roast him. Yet, this is what we are served up.
Pence provided Jack Smith with post-2020 election details detrimental to Trump
https://conservativebrief.com/pence-provided-78829/
Your link is vital to destroy a major part of Smith’s case. This is Smith’s claim that Trump’s “state of mind” during the days leading up to January 6th was that Trump really thought he lost the election legally, without reference to any cheating by the Democrats. This “state of mind” theory of Smith, or mens rea as it is known in the legal profession, shows that Trump was conning everyone about fraud in election. Trump knew was no fraud, or least not enough to make a difference in the outcome, according to Smith’s argument. This means that Trump’s entire effort to change the outcome of the Electoral Count proceeding on January 6th was a kind of “confidence game,” which Smith described as the use of “dishonesty, fraud, and deceit to impair, obstruct, and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted, and certified by the federal government (sic–It is CONGRESS that performs this function). Please remember: I am presenting SMITH’s opinion about what Trump believed. It is not mine. In order to ascertain the accuracy of Smith’s work, one must quote from it. I don’t think it is accurate, and Pence does not either.
Here is what Pence gave Smith. Smith is crazy if he uses it. This is right from the article you linked.
“The outlet also reported that Pence told federal investigators he is “sure” that, in the days before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol Building, he told Trump he had yet to see any real evidence of significant election fraud, adding that the then-president was not convinced and continued to make claims of a “stolen” election while acting “recklessly” on that “tragic day.”
The above quote basically does both of the following:
Ruins Pence as a major witness for Smith, since Pence truly believes Trump always thought he was cheated in 2020, not that Trump was making it all up that he was cheated in order to hijack the Electoral Vote Count in order to stay in the White House. Rather, Trump was fighting an attempt to steal the election that Trump thought was real, and still believes was real.
If Smith uses Pence, Pence destroys Smith’s mens rea.
Hmmm . I seriously can’t think of much else to say!
“Explosion and Fire Reported on Akal Bravo Maritime Oil Platform in Mexico”
An explosion followed by a severe fire has been reported on the “Akal Bravo” maritime oil platform, part of the Catarell production complex in the Campeche Sound, Mexico.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/explosion-fire-reported-akal-bravo-maritime-oil-platform/
Like everything bad that happens it’s just a coincidence!
Tony Shaffer (Pronouns: Apocalypse/Now)
@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y
Indeed…
I’m always happy to discuss on the record the findings of my investigation and the Bill Barr call that resulted in my removal from the investigation and ended the investigation…
Well girls, enjoy losing.
Cuz there’s no way you’re gonna win track vs. a 6’3″ guy, and apparently, you’re fine with that.
where are the “fathers” of these young women? Where are they?
Sean Spicer reposted
Concerned Citizen
@BGatesIsaPyscho
This American Home-Owner Electrified his Trump Sign.
Watch this TDS sufferer try to remove it.
100% guaranteed you will laugh.
That one never gets old. lol
From the comments here, a lot is going on in this old world. Jesus is the Truth. Satan is the liar. There are 2 spirits in the world. The Spirit of Truth is calling folks to live righteously and Godly in this present evil age. The spirit of antichrist is driving folks to approve of perversion and deceptive “realities” which bring confusion. Which spirit is in us?
THE REAL USE OF LAWFARE IN THE SMITH JANUARY 6TH CASE. HOW LAWFARE WAS ABLE TO BUILD A CRIMINAL CASE OUT OF WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN A CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CASE ONLY
I’ve been working around the perimeter of the Smith case about the Electoral Vote Count (and that is really what the case is about, and attempt to “hijack” the Electoral Vote by Congress, which could have never succeeded even if it was real. I have told liberal/Democrat commentators on Twitter more than once that Smith’s main problem is there are no criminal elements in the Electoral Count Act. There are no actions that are prohibited along with the penalties that can arise if someone is found guilty, legally, of committing those actions. One such action is the filing of “Alternate Electors’ Votes. This is what is referred to the Electoral Count Act as “papers PURPORTING TO BE THE ELECTORAL VOTES OF A STATE.” Such papers have been filed in the past, the latest being in 1961 from the Hawaii Elector Nominees of John F. Kennedy. They were not indicted, nor were arrested. There have been practical joke “certificates of electoral votes” filed, and no one was arrested for those, either. As the Electoral Count Act (ECA) informs us, Congress has the job of deciding which “papers purporting to be the Electoral Votes of a State” are the proper “papers.” Congress not only the counts the votes, but decides which “Electoral Votes” shall BE counted. The ECA actually describes how the Congress settles such controversies. It also interesting that Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution declares that the President of the Senate (Vice President-it is important that this title is used in the Constitution, however) is required to “open ALL the papers,” telling us, once again, there could be more than one “paper purporting to be the Electoral Votes” of a PARTICULAR State. Since the ECA is saying that, having “more than one paper” is NOT a crime, but something that is EXPECTED to HAPPEN from time-to-time. Congress is expected to settle the dispute about the outcome of the election in that particular state.
Here we see the problem is some people seem to think that some things about the Electoral Count should be illegal, or somehow regulated, so why not call some these things crimes by rummaging through Title 18 of the United States Code, the CRIMINAL CODE of the federal government, and charge people for violating THOSE statutes? For example accusing Trump of “Fraud,” and call any “Alternate Electors” “FRAUDULENT ELECTORS”? Smith calls them “fraudulent electors,” but has not yet charged any of the seven states’ Elector nominees of Trump, and some “Replacements” among them, for any kind of fraud in casting those votes. Michigan has charged those “Alternate Electors,” belatedly,” of such a violation, when they could have done it as early as 2020 in December.
None of them were “frauds” in reference to any federal statute about fraud. The most that can be said is that every “Replacement” elector among those seven delegations of Trump electors, was NOT an Elector Nominee who was chosen according to the applicable law of the state in which they were chosen. For example, in Pennsylvania there were 20 total Elector Nominees for each candidate on the ballot who were chosen originally according to the law in Pennsylvania. The candidates choose their Elector Nominees in Pennsylvania. Once chosen, there can be no others listed as the Elector Nominees for that candidate. This does not mean that any federal law about fraud was violated. No, the CONSTITUTION was violated. That would result in a federal court either disallowing those “replacement Elector Nominees” votes from being counted or disallow the entire 20-member delegation’s votes. It is NOT a matter for a CRIMINAL COURT. They are not “Fraudulent Electors.” They are “UNCONSTITUTIONAL Electors.”
Since Congress has not taken up any kind of effort to write any regulations about such things as the filings of “Alternate Electors’ Certificate of Votes,” or any other aspect of objecting to the results of an election during the January 6th Electoral Vote Count and Certification by CONGRESS, there is no real crime committed here. There are Constitutional issues, that could have been adjudicated before a federal court, including SCOTUS, but no one goes to jail in such proceedings. This is what the ECA really sets forth–Constitutional and Procedural matters, not criminal prosecutions.
Now, I’m going to do what Smith did to Trump. I’m going to look into his mens rea. I say Smith knows this is not a criminal matter. He’s made it one by using “novel legal theory” to repurpose at least three statutes, and retitle another one, to do it. Congress has not changed any of these laws to apply to the Electoral Vote Count and Certification. Smith did it on his own. This is one aspect of LAWFARE that is hardest to take when you have trained to apply the “Elements of a statute,” which are the CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS that control whether or not the actions an accused constitute violations of that statute.
The statute Smith is actually using as the main charging statute is the old “Ku Klux Klan Law” of the 1870s, 18 United States Code, Section 241. This law has since, somehow, gained a TITLE. It is called “Conspiracy Against Rights.” Now, that title doesn’t mean that, once a judge, and/or a jury, decides something is a “conspiracy against rights,” and, therefore tbe accused is guilty, is the right and proper decision. In order violate 18 USC 241 one has to do ONE of any of the following physical acts against an individual person, such as a black person who has voted, or has been planning to vote, in an election. You can INJURE the black person; or you can OPPRESS the black person, or you can INTIMIDATE the black person, or you can THREATEN the black person, or you can kidnap them, commit sexual assault on them, or other forms of physical violence. You can also lurk about the highway, in disguise, and threaten or intimidate, a person for exercising a right or planning to exercise a right, or you can come on to his property and do the same things. Now that is what the statute says. Is that what Smith accused Trump of doing?
NO, Smith acccused him of using “dishonesty, fraud, and deceit to impair, obstruct, and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted, and certified…”
There is no mention of any of the actions alleged by Smith that met any of the elements of 18 USC 241. No one individual was physically abused in any way by Trump or anyone who worked for him at that time. No individual was injured, or threatened, or intimidated, or oppressed in any way in this matter. And no one went anywhere in disguise to do anything. What Smith has done is use the Statutes of 18 USC 371, which concerns fraud against the US committed by government contractors; and the ENRON Statutes 19 USC 1512 (k) Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, and 18 USC 1512 (c) (2) Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct on Official Proceeding to stand in place of Elements that would required to be inside 18 USC 241 in order to charge under it. The three listed above are the “New Elements” of 18 USC 241. If, somehow, Smith convinces a jury in DC that works according to the law, he’ll win all four counts.
But no, there is still no evidence that any element of 18 USC 241 was violated in this matter at all. By titling the KKK Act as “Conspiracy Against Rights,” which only tells part of the story, Smith hopes he can use convictions of the other statutes to prove “Conspiracy Against Rights,” even though none of the elements of 18 USC 241 has anything to do with what Smith himself wrote in the rest of his indictment. You cannot charge people for violating a statute’s supposed “TITLE.” You charge when someone violates the ELEMENTS of that particular statute, not its “TITLE.”
Using three other statutes, and hoping one, or all three stick, in order to prove “conspiracy” in every one of them, and then claim this means “Conspiracy Against Rights,” the mere TITLE, or the PRESUMED title of 18 USC 241 has been violated, is how the LAWFARE group treats the law like a kind of “Instant Crime,” like Ramen Noodles make an “instant meal.”
Meanwhile, Eastman gets disbarred for trying to test HIS legal theories.
I don’t like “Novel Legal Theories” at all.
I was watching Levin’s show on FOX last night and listened to how Smith applied the statutes he chose to use to prosecute Trump. Thanks to what he provided about the Enron case related statutes, and what I looked up this morning, I’m at least 95% confident that the “code” used by LAWFARE to obtain statutes they believe they can use to charge a defendant is based only on the TITLE of the statute. He chose the Enron and Government contractor fraud statutes because the word “Defraud” is in the title of the Government Contractor Fraud Statute, while the words “Obstruct;” “Official Proceeding; “Obstruction;” are in all of them.
18 USC 371—“Conspiracy to Defraud the United States”–Government contractor statute about contractors who cheat the government out of money. Trump allegedly tried to “defraud” the United States out of Biden’s Electoral Vote being certified by Congress. If he did that then, according to LAWFARE, he violated the KKK Act, 18 USC 241, “Conspiracy Against Rights”
18 USC 1512 (k)–(Enron Statute paragraph)–“Conspiracy to Disrupt an Official Proceeding” The Electoral Count is an official proceeding. In the original statute, the violation involved only criminal cases in a court, not the Electoral Count.
18 USC 1512(c)(2), 2–(Enron Statute) Obstruction of, and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding (See 18 USC 1512(k) above, plus there is no witness tampering or destruction of evidence being charged against Trump.
This gambit of charging based on STATUTE TITLES works because, apparently, jurors have no exposure to how the ELEMENTS OF A STATUTE work. The emphasis in arguments by the prosecution must be on the terms used in the TITLES of the statutes. It also doesn’t hurt to make sure charges are filed in cities where a large number of the people are biased against the defendant.
This means the “code” used by Lawfare Prosecutors to pick statutes in cases where they can’t find a clear-cut statute that describes the crime they want to charge, they just use terms in the statute’s title and charge based upon that.
The Lawfare code is broken.
Spent Saturday with my granddaughter and worked Sunday so only now posting. When Rush and PDJT played golf, PDJT would constantly bring up a name and ask Rush “good guy or bad guy?”. I pray this time he asks “conservative or swamp?”. Only ask your most trusted life long confidant; if you don’t have one, ask God in his Son’s name.