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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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Amazing to watch the print media in Australia take the side of government censors who want to keep Australians in the dark about important events in Australia. The business of the news business is apparently now to censor rather than report the news.
<there was that time they censored Galileo with his outlandish telescopes… >
What really got them angry was when Galileo told them:
‘I’m looking for Uranus’ 🙂
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What really frustrated them was
“I bet you can’t find it with both hands and a flashlight.”
See what you started, WORDMAN?
I feel as if I shouldn’t give that an up vote.
It’s really not amazing at this point. The Australian overlords were some of the most obviously totalitarian during the throes of the pandemic and vaxx forcing aftermath. They were absolutely horrendous.
I was surprised at the amount of acquiescence from the Aussies. I knew the woke crowd had been working on them for years, but still.
https://wentworthreport.com/2024/04/25/mental-freedom-the-covid-vaccine-damaged-our-bodys-ability-to-produce-cells-responsible-for-decision-making/
FTA ” Dr. Michael Nehls is a molecular geneticist and former CEO of a biotech company. His new book, “The Indoctrinated Brain,” offers a novel explanation for why he says some people seemed to blindly do as they were told during the COVID pandemic — even when the advice was questionable or bad. Nehls argues that the COVID vaccine damaged our body’s ability to produce cells responsible for decision-making.
Nehls: Conscious thinking requires these cells to be produced, and if they’re not produced, conscious thinking is not possible, and then we are just sheep following the herd. Nehls says both COVID and the vaccine cause measurable brain changes that can affect people’s ability to think clearly and critically. And he argues that’s by design.”
More proof that Covid-19 and the experimental mRNA shots worked hand in hand to destroy critical thinking!!! Dumbing down the sheeple was the real goal! Unbelievable what we are learning about Covid and the so called “vaccines” which are still being pushed by the Feds and Pfizer!!! “Permanent in the zombie mode.” that’s the real goal!
They are putting this “vaccine” in our meats and vegetables!
Not sure how effective that is supposed to be after cooking your food.
Those lipid nano-particles encasing the mRNA sequences for transfection were quite sensitive to temperature in the Covid-19 shots. mRNA once exposed quickly degrades. Heat denatures all proteins to an extant. Which is why it works well in eliminating microorganisms.
My neighbor, ignorant of the Chicom factor, loves Temu.
As a scary version example, Temu, Amazon, et al, know their customers, have a mutually voluntary relationship with them, and have largely automated distribution centers which ship items.
Something came to me back during Covid when Amazon boxes would arrive with a strange smell coming from them. I’d never noticed such an odor in the20+ years doing business with Amazon. In the old days it was styrofoam peanuts and kraft paper for filler in the boxes.
Lately, and almost exclusively, post-Covid, it’s been ‘air pillows’.
What do people like to do/do with those air pillows?
What’s in that air?
I was reminded of the late 70’s movie ‘Coma’ where a specific operating room was set up to arbitrarily throw a switch and send carbon monoxide to the anesthesia mask, leaving the patient with a nearly undetectable, as to cause, coma condition. Then the patient was sent to a ‘storage’ facility for long term coma and their organs were harvested and sold around the planet.
Some patients came out of surgery fine. Some didn’t. All it took was a throw of a switch.
Imagine air-dispersed bioweapons DNA targeted and deployed in, of all things, packaging cushioning. If I can come up with wild ideas like that, imagine what the Communists have war-gamed. Covid was a game-changer. We can examine it in detail now. Unprecedented in history IMO.
Evil lurks.
Not to discount that idea but volatile organic compounds related to various manufactured polymers have quite an array of odors associated with them.
Whatever else is contained in the “air” inflating those air pillows is being drawn in by the equipment from the local atmosphere. China is known to be heavily polluted.
A simpler explanation at any rate.
Yes, my work life was within and tangent to the petro chemical industry and I machined and formed plastics in the shop for customers, along with working with other solvents and chemicals daily, as one can imagine in a machine shop that services agriculture and the chemical industry.
To clarify, the odors I detected came from the packaging itself, not any cushioning, and were uniform in consistency over a number of months, I’d posit around six months from March 2020 to Sept.2020.
You do posit one aspect I have a question about…. where exactly are those air pillows filled? Common sense tells me locally to the distribution centers, if not within them, to reduce transportation of light, bulky product as much as possible.
They can be filled with anything.
Forex, I used to fill garbage bags with helium, oxygen and acetylene and fly them. Add a radio controlled heat strip detonator and they make a nice aerial fire show.
I don’t discount anything the enemy can do. Today’s paranoia is tomorrow’s common sense.
I can think of all kinds of badness and if I can think them others probably have too.
Still I think I will keep mouth shut.
Possibilities abound. It will take time and research to ascertain the truth one way or another.
Certainly is odd on the packaging itself. Reminds me of the packaging on a replacement lcd screen that I ordered to fix my laptop one time.
Multiple layers of boxes of course. One for the shipping and another from the factory in China. That one oddly seemed to have a bit of mold inside the layers of tape used to seal it.
Seems it was sitting somewhere on a shelve for an inordinate amount of time.
All the products I was receiving during the Covid period in the boxes where odors were detected were food products; imagine what you’d stock your rainy day pantry with. Canned and dry goods mostly.
The odor reminded me of a combination of some of the old-time insect treatments we’d spray from aircraft and that spray we’d get in airplanes when arriving at/from international destinations for certain biologics. It was kind of a sickly sweet smell that lingered on the boxes, and the food items, for quite some time.
After that period, never have encountered it again. However, I also remember Covid altered/muted sense of smell and taste so balance the perception with that reality. I did have a couple iterations of it. I decided to function like a canary; no prophylactics, no treatment, no vaccination.
What’s in store for us I do not know. I do believe it will be something new, as Covid, the operation, was new. My opinion is it was brilliant and very effective, particularly to damage PDJT’s presidency and open the avenue for his removal.
Watch out for upgrades if he beats the cheat in November. 🙂
Reminds me of the hot air ballons we used to make with trash bags, plastic straws, scotch tape, and those joke birthday candles you can’t blow out.
Tape several straws together x 2, so you have two cross pieces for the frame, and tape so they form an “X” that will just fit in the open end of the trashbag, holding it open.
Melt the back end of the candles, so you can attach them to the cross.
Light them, and away she goes!
Yes, we made many of these using balsa wood and dry cleaning bags. Attached the birthday candles to balsa wood light, fills the bag and up they go, until we caught the neighbors tree on fire:)
I use those air pillows and bubble wraps on my windows as insulation from the cold. Do you think that is a bad idea?
I’d never thought of that. However, you can easily quantify effectiveness by testing surface temperature of an untreated versus treated window with a thermal imaging app for an appropriately equipped cell phone or via an infrared temperature gun. I used the latter a lot when checking house windows, the double pane variety, for damage and effectiveness. In my experience they worked pretty well.
If effective, I’d posit sheets of that dense mid-size, say one-half to one inch bubbles, bubble wrap would be more effective since it covers the window more uniformly.
The main negatives in my view might be polymer outgassing in heat events, like hot sun on the windows and interference with egress and/or adding fuel for potential toxic fume inhalation during a fire event. One can compare to more normal polymer uses like vinyl mini-blinds in such examples.
IMO, if an idea occurs, try it. Such inventiveness, success or failure, is what has made this Republic great. 🙂
Good movie. Just watched it a few days ago.
I will NEVER pop air pillow packaging, again!
Or at least I will do it outside and holding my breath.
Good. Thank you. There is more than enough other scary events and things to be paranoid about.
“Nehls argues that the COVID vaccine damaged our body’s ability to produce cells responsible for decision-making.”
Voting democrat produces the same results.
Perhaps voting democrat IS the result.
Very handy to have a dumbed down sheep citizenry when you are pulling off the greatest election steal in History too. No one questions it.
Yeah, they really didn’t need to come up with a biologic way to destroy critical thinking.
If you can evoke a STRONG emotional responce, the brain automatically diverts brain cells that would normally engage in critical thinking, into experiencing the emotion, thereby effectively muting critical thinking.
Con artists instictively have known this, since the dawn of civilisation, and Scientists with PET Brain scans have conclusively proved it.
“to replace authoritarian regimes with Western liberal democracies”
And now, the tool is backfiring against “Western liberal democracies” (aka corporate controlled globalist oligarchies) as pointed out in great detail (see below) by Michael Benz and, therefore, MUST be censored.
Katherine Maher’s Color Revolution
The NPR boss is a symbol of regime change—foreign and domestic.
Apr 24 2024
https://www.city-journal.org/article/katherine-mahers-color-revolution
The Color Revolution is restless. Beginning in the former Soviet republics in the early 2000s, it moved along the coast of North Africa with the so-called Arab Spring in the 2010s, and, into the current decade, has spread further.
The ostensible purpose of Color Revolutions—named after the Rose Revolution, Orange Revolution, and Tulip Revolution in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, respectively—is to replace authoritarian regimes with Western liberal democracies. American and European intelligence services are often heavily involved in these revolutions, with ambitions not only to spread modern ideologies but also to undermine geopolitical opponents.
The West’s favored methods of supporting Color Revolutions include fomenting dissent, organizing activists through social media, promoting student movements, and unleashing domestic unrest on the streets. Americans hold varying opinions on such efforts, but what many don’t realize is that they occur not only overseas but also here in the United States. The summer of rioting following the death of George Floyd, which ushered in the new DEI regime, was in many ways a domestic Color Revolution, advanced by progressive NGOs, media entities, and political actors.
A minor figure in these movements, a woman named Katherine Maher, has recently come to greater prominence. Maher was involved in the wave of Color Revolutions that took place in North Africa in the 2010s, and she supported the post-George Floyd upheavals in the United States in the 2020s. She was also the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, and was just recently named the new CEO of National Public Radio.
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Everything You Need to Know about the Government’s Mass Censorship Campaign – Tucker Carlson with Mike Benz – 16 Feb 2024 – (1:05:08)
https://rumble.com/v4dtxtu-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-governments-mass-censorship-campaign.html
On that “oligarchy” thing, Trust the science!™
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens [Princeton University, 2014]
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B/S1537592714001595a.pdf/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens.pdf
Excerpts:
A great deal of empirical research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors, but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical model. We report on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes.
When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system [that describes the overwhelming influence of the administrative state and lobbyists – W], even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
To be sure, this does not mean that ordinary citizens always lose out; they fairly often get the policies they favor, but only because those policies happen also to be preferred by the economically-elite citizens who wield the actual influence.
Most of mans worst achievements have been brought about by government/elite’s edict and the desire for power over others. i.e. solar/wind energy
Second Thoughts on James Burnham
by George Orwell (1946)
http://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/ShootingElephant/jamesburnham.html
Excerpt:
What Burnham is mainly concerned to show is that a democratic society has never existed and, so far as we can see, never will exist. Society is of its nature oligarchical, and the power of the oligarchy always rests upon force and fraud. Burnham does not deny that “good” motives may operate in private life, but he maintains that politics consists of the struggle for power, and nothing else. All historical changes finally boil down to the replacement of one ruling class by another. All talk about democracy, liberty, equality, fraternity, all revolutionary movements, all visions of Utopia, or “the classless society”, or “the Kingdom of Heaven on earth”, are humbug (not necessarily conscious humbug) covering the ambitions of some new class which is elbowing its way into power. The English Puritans, the Jacobins, the Bolsheviks, were in each case simply power seekers using the hopes of the masses in order to win a privileged position for themselves. Power can sometimes be won or maintained without violence, but never without fraud, because it is necessary to make use of the masses, and the masses would not co-operate if they knew that they were simply serving the purposes of a minority. In each great revolutionary struggle the masses are led on by vague dreams of human brotherhood, and then, when the new ruling class is well established in power, they are thrust back into servitude. This is practically the whole of political history, as Burnham sees it.
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Of course, Burnham was an elitist who believed in the rule of an oligarchy as a substitute for his former Trotskyite belief in the revolutionary mission of proletariat, but I believe his description above is mostly correct.
“At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move all the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.” – Frank Zappa
The eternal assertion that Might makes Right, which can only be countered, by being mirrored.
Gvt is like kudzu. (an invasive import for the “best” of reasons)
If it finds fertile soil must be vigorously and continuously chopped back or it will strangle everything in it’s path. Our founders warned us!
Think of the World view, politics, religion, social and cultural OF the researchers “from Princeton” that conducted this research, and how that view MUST have colored their judgement at every phase of the operation to conduct this research.
Aaron Sibarium
@aaronsibarium
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1783169503947305476.html
NEW: UCLA medical school’s mandatory health equity class teaches students that weight loss is a “hopeless endeavor” and that “ob*sity” is a slur “used to exact violence on fat people.”
The full syllabus has shocked prominent doctors—the former dean of Harvard Medical School.
All first year students are assigned an essay by Marquisele Mercedes, a self-described “fat liberationist,” who “describes how weight came to be pathologized and medicalized in racialized terms” and offers guidance on “resisting entrenched fat oppression,” per the syllabus.
Mercedes claims that “ob*sity” is a slur “used to exact violence on fat people”—particularly “Black, disabled, trans, poor fat people”—and offers a “fat ode to care” that students are instructed to analyze, taking note of which sections “most resonate with you.”
The assignment shocked Jeffrey Flier, the former dean of Harvard Medical School and one of the world’s foremost experts on obesity, who said the curriculum “promotes extensive and dangerous misinformation.”
UCLA “has centered this required course on a socialist/Marxist ideology that is totally inappropriate,” said @jflier, who reviewed the full syllabus and several of the assigned readings. “As a longstanding medical educator, I found this course truly shocking.”
They destroyed our universities, they are destroying our medical schools. They are destroying our military. They destroyed our media long ago.
They have destroyed our medical schools a decade ago–and nursing schools as well.
With the covid hoax the medical profession destroyed and is continuing to destroy ITSELF. They don’t need any help from the medical schools.
Every aspect of the practice of medicine was systematically destroyed as they created its monster replacement “Healthcare”.
From education/training, to research, to financing and administration, it took around 70 years, but things have accellerated over the last 30.
It seems even more rapid, because until the Vid, many did not notice the changes as they were occurring.
“Managed” care destroyed the healthcare model between a doctor and his patient. Now, the doctor’s foremost concern regards reimbursement from the patient’s health insurance plan which, coincidentally, aligns with Big Harma.
I once thought it so odd that when I offered to pay for a blood test or something else outside of my “plan,” most doctors gave me a blank stare. They simply could not fathom caring for their patients outside of that little box known as insurance reimbursements.
“Revealed: Court Document Release Indicates Jack Smith and FBI Were After Obama and North Korea-Related Documents in Mar-a-Lago Raid”
permission.
Newly unredacted documents in the Mar-a-Lago raid case indicate that Jack Smith was after Obama and North Korea-related documents. After the raid the DOJ was pleased with their findings and wrote, “I think we are in good shape.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/revealed-court-document-release-indicates-jack-smith-fbi/
A Thank You card from Kim.
ho hum.
What if . . .
North Korean relations mattered even more than we think?
What if N Korea is /was to the CIA as ISIS is / was to the CIA (A/K/A Bush family worldwide criminal cabal)?
Might that explain the obsession with private communication between President Trump and Kim?
That has been poisted in the past.
Among other things. lol
MNN BREAKING NOW…
* SCOTUS TO HEAR PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY CASE TODAY
Immunity Case Centers on THREE BASIC QUESTIONS of “LAW”:
Experts are keeping an eye on Chef Justice John
“it’s a tax”“it’s a marriage”“it’s an election”Roberts, Justice Neil“it’s a gender”Gorsuch and Associate Justice Jumanji“it’s a biologist”-Brown.Pictured here: Jack Smith aggressively cross-examines Bill Barr’s Poisoned Fruit of the Looms
Manufactured News Network: “Micheal Cohen is a Big Doody-Head, Your Honor!”
Rest in the Vine: The MNN Legal Briefs Minute
Wonder if President Trump made copies?
I certainly hope so.
Or, what if they didn’t find what they were really looking for?
Why WOULDN’T he? After all, he did not ever posess the originals himsrlf, only copies.
And all 11″ could easily fit on a thumbdrive.
Wonder why this only came out after article posted at CTH yesterday giving very detailed research as to the raid.
Makes this look like narrative control effort. Also, gives reason of protecting national security for indictments and redactions.
Interesting assessment as to what entities are reporting this today. Not yesterday. Not the day before yesterday.
Good point, D.G.
It DOES sound like B.S “spin”.
Stefan Molyneux in a video long since wiped from YouTube used various psychological data and common sense to show why many single women vote for the nanny state. For them the term “nanny” is a misnomer. For them it should be called a “reliable spouse/partner” state. They feel they can trust upon reliable (stolen) support from the State more than they can from the sort of men they associate with. The importance of reliable support is instinctively important to the naturally child rearing part of the male/female pair.
So essentially we are looking at nuns married to the State replete with all associated neuroses attendant upon such an alliance.
It’s more biology than psychology. Humans are herd creatures but women moreso than men. As a group, women prefer an authoritarian social structure with lots of rules rather than individual freedoms. Married women traditionally looked to husbands for authority. Single women look to the state.
Same here in Canada..add to that the single women that have had abortions and the number stated is likely far higher. ( we know a number of such individuals)
Politicians know this of course, and pander to it.
Cheers!
As much as I hate to say it, Canadian women for some reason, the single, white proverbial cat ladys, all vote for Castro Jr.
I dont know any women like that personally, but there was a poll that suggested as much.
In fact I dont know 1 single person who voted for that weasel dictator.
As Ive always said, that election was stolen too. He who counts the votes, wins……
“for some reason”
See Stefan Molyneux’s natural science and cultural effects based reason above. In his great video he also said that once women were given the vote that for those reasons, now far more evident now than way back then, we would be going down a steeper nanny/socialist state path. Also, since socialism also SEEMS to be a more humane political path they would also be more susceptible to being useful idiots.
I rest my case about the “destroyers”. That’s why the cardboard cutout has put many of them in his regime.
That 68% has destroyed our Republic.
Around 1960, Birth control PILLS became available, and accepted for use, including for teenage girls still going thru puberty, with no idea the effect they would have on their still developing minds.
With all medications, the final stage of drug testing, is marketing, as it is simply not practical to test a medication for long term effects, BEFORE marketing it.
They are also the ones taking their ‘fatherless’ children to drag shows.
But it’s men putting on the shows.
Biden mocks Catholics by making sign of the cross at abortion rally
I don’t think this is senility. I think this is intentional. Is this really Biden? Or is someone spoofing him?
I’m really beginning to wonder.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/biden_mocks_catholics_by_making_sign_of_the_cross_at_abortion_rally.html
I am convinced that the man playing the role of “President Joe Biden” is not the same man as Sen Joe Biden.
They look completely different starting with the ears/earlobes, previously detached and are now not detached. The eyes and shape of the head are different too.
What I don’t know is who is controlling the current version. Don’t know if it’s the good guys or the bad guys. His “perfect” incompetence at every turn tells me the good guys are in control and the task/operation being conducted is to wake everyone up.
As I’ve said here many times, I think the good guys are in charge now. Enough people need to be woken up so that they demand the change President Trump and the team of Patriots are bringing forward.
They are ready to bring it forward but they can only do it if the majority of people/citizens want it.
In 2020 there would have been significant resistance. Now, most would welcome it with open arms. It’s to the point where most would demand it.
Sounds like baseless Q type coping. There’s no mysterious group of ‘good guys’ to save us coming.
So my noticing things with my own lying eyes that Sleepy Joe looks completely different now compared to the past is some sort of Q type coping?
Cool story bro. You go with that.
I’ll continue to see the world as I see it.
Revolver had an article on how Showering Joe had $100,000 of plastic surgery – to explain away your lyin’ eyes.
I think Joey’s was $100,000 worth of embalming; head turned towards the back of coffin, legs and arms removed and crossed against the body…you know, your usual vampire stuff.
Just curious, how do you know there is no group of good guys to save us coming? You seem pretty sure of it. What’s your source?
I just simply take the words and actions of President Trump himself.
You?
President Trump just talked about dreaming of punching the fake Biden in the nose and watching the plastic pieces scatter.
That particular jig is up now.
I was at that rally where he said that. Thought it was interesting how he phrased it.
I then saw his post on Truth Social the night of the Sleepy’s State of the Union. It was cartoon/plastic stretchy versions of him and Kamala.
MAGA Minuteman’s analysis of the observable reality is on point.
No one falls UP stairs.
Trained comedic actor.
The almost perfect doofus displays do tend to suggest a red pilling purpose.
Don’t dismiss the evidence of your eyes and ears. Instead, observe the net effects.
Just because “Biden” is a red pilling machine doesn’t mean “the good guys are coming to save us.”
But it might suggest some good guys are holding off the Cabal just long enough for us to wake up and save ourselves.
Q = Hopium squared
I’ve noticed a lot of anomalies over the last several months myself. Ear thing, eyes constantly changing colors, video of seemingly stretchy skin when he scratches the back of his head, etc.
Whether it is an actor or CGI being put on media outlets is possible.
Probable, not so sure.
There have been a few times that I thought a brother was his ‘double’ stepping in.
What are you smoking there are very few good guys and none are in Joe’s circle.
The incompetence is too good. It’s so good that it seems fake.
They are the same person. I’ve followed the bastard for decades.
Look for pictures that show the earlobes before and after. Once you see, you can’t unsee.
FNC Live: “Live Audio: Inside The Supreme Court”
https://vaughn.live/livenow1
PDJT/MAGA 2024
Listen for any questions on standing. Two amici briefs have raised the issue of Smith’s standing to bring indictments, arguing that he was unconstitutionally appointed.
Aren’t they going to limit this to strictly the question of immunity? I would love to have standing brought up, but doubt that it will be entertained, unless they say PDJT doesn’t have standing to appeal /sarc.
I am going to throw up, the immunity claim by team Trump was awful.
And yet you don’t say WHY it was awful 🙂
Why is that??
You are a Law Expecy? Maybe!
Explain why was it Awful?
Maybe hasn’t stopped puking yet, so can’t explain?
It could happen.
Okay…so I laughed out loud..
Definitely needed that!
🤣🤪😂
The presentation was not strong. No real case law. Weak examples about Franklin. Jackson was scoring points against the attorney. You have to listen to it. It is my Opinion! It is “my” take. My advice, listen to it! This should be a strong solid case. I am not seeing the A team.
Sotomayor is saving the arguments of the special console. It is bad. It is so bias.
The court will not talk about rights of the President. They are purposely avoiding issues.
Sotomayor, Jackson [and Kagan] are usually reliable lefty votes. The ones to watch are Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Gorsuch.
And reading the tea leaves from the oral arguments isn’t very helpful in predicting the opinion.
Check Scotusblog (not affiliated with the Court) tomorrow for analysis by some experienced appellate lawyers.
Back to puking again. Double puke when listening to Jackson.
Oral arguments are small potatoes in the final opinions
I miss Scalia.
Absolutely. It’s a dance for show. Has almost no bearing on the outcome.
Maybe Trump’s lawyers have been paid off and are sabotaging him??
Maybe Trump lawyers suck.
Case law and precedents are in the briefs/filings that were submitted to the court that granted the writ to even be heard.
The ‘court’ (justices) don’t argue the rights of the President during the oral arguments you are watching.
What they do at this phase is ask questions of the parties in a ‘devil’s advocate’ type fashion.
That will be addressed once they retire to write their individual opinions and vote to confirm or deny.
While I have no idea like everyone else how this will go, some of your dismay may be to not understanding exactly how the process works at the level of the SC.
Another one sails out of the park, B.K.!
So many that comment on Court proceedings, that have no idea how the Courts actually work.
Well, most have never had the experiences you and I have had with the ‘system.’
And hopefully, they never will.
But, TY much.
Just trying to bring some clarity is all.
Since they persecute anyone who defends him I’m sure they are getting harder to find. Sick basturds.
Should hired Johnny Depp’s team. 🤣
You might have something there🤣
Or Ken Paxtons team….
The coup did come up. That would pertain to Obama.
I thought the Trump lawyer did a hell of a job. Clerked for Scalia so he ain’t no dummy. I disagree completely.
Good God.
Dreeben just told SCOTUS that the reason there have been no prosecutions of prior Presidents is because ” there were not crimes”!
The government’s position is that there is zero immunity even for clearly official acts. Thus is an extreme and radical position that would make the presidency more vulnerable to prosecution than even your average local cop.
And Sotomayor saves Dreeben.
There were not crimes then or now.
Unless your definition of “crime” is Lawfully Re-Elected President Donald J. Trump.
Listening to Dweeb, it is obvious it is a get Trump arguement.
Listening to Kagan and Jackson and, strangely, Barrett, it is very clear there’s an emotional component to getting Trump in this case.
Barrett brought up the prosecution’ “need for speed.”
And seemed to agree with it.
Interesting.
#Haiti??
On further argument, Dreeben pulled back from that position. He agreed that core Article II functions such as recognizing foreign powers, pardons, and appointments are, in fact, completely immune from any criminal prosecution.
He fell back to a middle ground on shared functions – troop movements would be immune, but not internment of US citizens after Korematsu was overruled.
I hope our meager efforts at lawfare work and if they deny immunity who has standing to bring cases against Hillary and Oblamo tomorrow?
It is a lot more complex than ” if they deny immunity.”
They are in no way ruling on the particulars of the current indictment itself here.
They are ruling on the question of when and under what circumstances, and for which particular kinds of acts, a US President, in general, can be criminally prosecuted. Private acts? Official Acts? Core Article II acts? Does motive matter? Does it matter whether the underlying criminal statute names the President as being subject to prosecution? What if the underlying statute does not mention the President – Does that mean the President is always exempt?
That very complex question is the only thing they are ruling on.
And it is an extremely complex issue whose answer will impact the US for the next 100 years, should our Repubic last that long.
It is not binary. It is a not get Trump or vindicate Trump kind of thing. It is nuanced, multi-faceted, and informed both by the framing of the Constitution at the time of its adoption and by the likely impact on future behavior (for example, will every President just issue himself a blanket pardon two days before leaving office from now on?)
Everyone seemed to agree private acts receive no immunity, while core Article II Official acts receive complete immunity.
There is a LOT of gray in between, and in the indictment there may be a mix of official and private, and then what is the trial judge to do with that?
Dreeben argued for being able to introduce the immunized official acts into evidence in a mixed case. I suspect the Kavanaugh /Gorsuch opinion would foreclose that kind of back door prosecution of official acts.
These opinions are going to probably run hundreds of pages. . .
Random thought vis-a-vis the ludicrous trial now going on that Bragg has brought against Pres Trump…..
I would think that it would be a smart move for Trump’s lawyers to bring in as witnesses both Jonathon Turley and Alan Dershowitz where they would be asked detailed questions by Trump’s lawyers about why this whole prosecution is legal nonsense.
One goal of Trump’s legal team has to be to convince at least a couple of the jurors that the entire premise behind this trial is corrupt lawfare. One way to do that would be to convince them that the actual basis for the trial was totally a political hit job by showing them that Bragg’s “legal theories” supporting the charges have no basis in actual law.
Thoughts??
Judge might refuse to let them testify as those are legal issues to be decided by a judge; the jury decides the issues of fact.
I am not sure why there is no motion for judge to recuse and an appeal for recusal. The situation in NY is only missing the judge having a liaison with the DA’s wife.
IIRC, the motion to recuse was already denied, and Trump’s attorneys did not appeal. One has to be selective in appealing during a trial, as an appellate court does not have to take a mid-trial appeal.
Yes, you file the motion,where you make the case for recusal in your written arguments, IN ORDER TO set it up AS grounds for appeal, AFTER a guilty conviction.
There is a long established defence strategy lawyers have successfully used in “unwinnable” cases (which would commonly include, but not be limited to cases where the defendant was obviously guilty, and could be used in any case where the defendant can NOT get a “fair trial” such as with a biased judge that refuses to recuse, etc.
The strategy starts by accepting that you ARE going to lose, and so not waste efforts attempting the impossible, and instead ficus on insuring that you lose on such a,way that you are (ideally) guaranteed to win on appeal.
With these Lawfare cases, in the initial Court cases with Bragg, Fanny and Smith we may well see this strategy employed, and some not understanding may unduly criticise PDJT’s lawyers, percieving their efforts as being less than they expect.
There is NO WAY of PDJT prevailing in any of these initial cases, excrpt possibly in the Fla. Classified documents case.
So, getting IN THE RECORD, as many valid grounds for appeal, is the goal because remember an appeal is NOT a retrial, it is ONLY a review of the RECORD of what occurred in the lower Court.
If the SCROTUS cannot figure out lawfare is being waged then they aren’t as smart as folks think they are.
Some of the incredible ill informed statements that were made about COVID by Sonia sotomayer proved to me she was just another brain washed dolt. I won’t even get into Brown.
It doesn’t work that way at the SC level.
This is not a trial level hearing with witnesses.
I believe l4grasshopper was addressing the trial brought by DA Bragg, not the case before the Supreme Court.
My mistake. Had my head wrapped around the SC thing. Should have read closer.
Sorry l4g.
Good luck to the six LAWFUL alternate electors in finding competent attorneys willing to face the Beast, and then probably pay with their own respective careers.
What our country has become in just my lifetime.
In the bottom picture, are the “Always-Follow-Orders-Even- When-They-Are-Immoral” agents about to raid a grandmother for publishing “memes” against The Manchurian Marionette?
You talking my home–LOL. Its one of the reasons fled Oregon. Maybe South Dakota is not as Red as most out of staters think, but here in the Black Hills I do believe I am safer if the crap hits the fan.
Good guess, or taking a capital police directed tour of the capital bldg, praying outside an abortion clinic, speaking at a school board meeting,.. or anything MAGA, really
I would replace “fear” with “fight” in that gif. When it comes to fight or flight, I fight back.
The democrat party must be designated as terrorists. There is no other explanation for their attacks on America and its patriotic citizens using lawfare, the southern border, racism, world wars, etc.
And/or Espionage, given the obvious heavy influence of foreign STATE bad actors (CCP, IRAN) in the policies being pursued by BOTH WINGS of the Uniparty.
Meanwhile in New York…
Weinstein Rape Vetdict Overturned
The state Court of Appeals found that the judge in the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the former film mogul with improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case.
Doesn’t this also apply then to the Bragg case against Trump since he has other women he wants to testify against Trump, allegations that have nothing to do with his case?
Exactly.
Basically they called it a mistrial and said the remedy would be a new trial.
Me Too has not helped true victims of rape.
Exactly right. Add Balsey-Ford and Carroll to that list.
It started strong and then became a farce.
It’s a shame, Weinstein did some terrible things and there are real victims waiting for justice.
Once Tara Reid spoke out, the Farrow kid seemed to lose interest.
I don’t believe in “me too.” There was quid pro quo and the women involved chose to play the game so *they* could get what *they* wanted.
It’s because of women who accept payment for their ‘services’ that the casting couch exists. Same wishywashy thinking how people were ‘forced’ to receive poison death shots.
Take the high road instead. It’s the path less traveled.
Still serving 16 years in California. This is a win for Trump because they allowed a lot of BS into the argument. Same thing they are doing now in NY.
He will be re-tried and convicted again.
Now Dreeben is relying on the high integrity and ethics of Attorneys General and DOJ lawyers as adequate protections against going after ex-Presidents for official acts.
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🤪🤪
Dreeben is getting his ass kicked, IMO.
The 800 lb. gorilla in the Courtroom is the OVERWHELMING evidence of the stolen election and the fact that the courts – including the SCOTUS itself – refused to address it.
It is noise to me. Barrett say to Dweeb, “I agree with you”…….your right. They are not going where they should go. We have a WOKE SC.
I did not listen to the whole thing, but did even a single Justice ask, “We are proceeding on the assumption that the allegations in the indictment that there was no election fraud are to be taken as fact for purposes of the question of immunity. How would your arguments change if the Defendant could show that election fraud occurred that changed the certified result from the actual results, and that some or all of the acts alleged were carryingout the public purpose of investigating and challenging fraud?”
No, and it ended with the Trump attorney doing no rebuttable. That was painful. I don’t think they addressed any major issues like burden of proof is immunity is not granted. It makes the assumption that the legal system is not flawed and missing checks and balances. They pretty much made the case that the founders did not like kings so the president does not get immunity.
I disagree.
The burden of proof is not at issue here. It would remain the same as any criminal conviction- beyond a reasonable doubt.
The reason that there was so much discussion of Franklin and Washington is that this is a case of first impression that presents novel considerations of the separation of powers.
The Justices were clearly very concerned more about the future impacts on the relationship between the branches and the impacts of any President to do his job in the future than they were about the particular facts of this case– and that is exactly the correct approach.
They are there to say what the Constitution permits or prohibits. The issues around the particular indictment (Trump) are to some degree merely context.
Although at least one Justice tried to characterize this as a “once in a lifetime ” occurrence or one off, at least 7 Justices aren’t buying that.
I did appreciate Kavanuagh or Gorsuch pushing back on the whole “but prosecutors and AG’s are ethical people and that’s good protection against the let’s get the last guy abuse of power concern.” The Justice detailing two AG’s corruption helped.
Then Dreeben admitted it, but called it rare and invoked Nixon (but not Barr, of course).
Wrong. Absolutely wrong. You must not have listened to it all.
Exactly my point.
This whole charade is operating in a fantasy world where the underlying assumption is that the OVERWHELMING evidence of the stolen election simply doesn’t exist.
Below is one of the better overviews / compendiums outlining the entire sordid affair that is the stolen election of 2020.
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/other/the-2020-presidential-election-fraud/
Fraud & the 2020 Presidential Election
“This is why Donald Trump won the election…. [I]f the federal Constitution had not been violated, yes, Donald Trump would be … president of the United States today. Putting all fraud aside…. This is why you should be furious with the United States Supreme Court, that had as its duty, as its sworn responsibility … to insist that the states comply with the federal Constitution under Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, and that any changes made outside that clause, by governors, secretaries of states, by courts, federal or state, by election boards or other bureaucrats, will be deemed unconstitutional. [The Supreme Court] had a case [in Pennsylvania] … before a single vote was counted, they had a case [alleging unconstitutional changes to election laws] and they didn’t take it up…. [The Democrats] made these changes, they plotted, they planned, they litigated, they pressured, they lobbied, and now we have, if he’s sworn in, Joe Biden, who will be an illegitimate president of the United States in every meaning of that word, ‘illegitimate.’”
~ Mark Levin
And then, we had SCOTUS punt on the whole “democrats trying to keep President Trump off the ballot”.
Now we have SCOTUS determining whether or not President Trump had the authority (immunity) to question the election by investigating the fraudulent activities of several states. My Hopium is running out.
But that would be sensible and we are in Bizzaro World where everything is backwards and opposite.
Calcutta pimps have more integrity and better ethics that the DOJ.
Even discussing this criminal Gestapo horseshit as “law” is an anti-moral grotesque parody of Real Law.
Yes, and it speaks to the complete bubble in which everyone in that courtroom is operating that they do not understand that more than half the country would roll their eyes or burst out laughing at the assertion that the justice system and its courts and prosecutors (*the courts supervising and dismissing politically motivated prosecutions was also invoked as a protection) would provide some sort of check on the country becoming an open banana republic.
Just a ridiculous lack of insight into the current public understanding of the level of corruption we face.
I really liked the show he is in – “Reacher” on Prime. I will no longer watch it! What a stupid man!
They suck relative to the books. Read those and you’ll find some legit entertainment.
The second season is abysmal and probably indicates where his apparent drug or alcohol abuse began. He obviously let his 1st season success go to his head and he’s sucking up to liberal Hollywood.
He’s low IQ virtue signaling.
What’s funny is how many of these energy issues mirror what happened with the covid.
The truth was known, but withheld from the public and even the governments, in order to advance a hidden agenda.
Where is my shocked face? What did I tell you about the most stupid decision by this German government to get rid of its last nuclear power plants in the middle of the worst energy crisis in Europe?
“I suspect that “human flourishing” to this fellow is not “progress,” at least as I understand it. I see progress in the scientific as well as cultural and political sense: better medicine, cooler media, faster information-distribution systems, more freedom, more prosperity, the spread of individual and property rights across the globe. I think he means “human flourishing” to mean everyone agrees to wear the same itchy hemp robe and chant the Happy Planet Song while we tote buckets of night soil to the communal plot.”–James Lileks
Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and Short.
Cold, Dark, Hungry, Sick and Woke, too.
Trump can’t go to Supreme Court so instead he surprised construction workers in NYC
Will Hamas supporters step into this? Doubt it……….
Qatar is the home base for Hamas leadership, the country providing the most economic grants for US universities (amazingly not China) and is the country “monitoring” the billions given to Iran by BHO to make sure it’s being used ONLY for “humanitarian reasons” (as if that doesn’t free up OTHER billions to be used to support terrorist Iranian proxies in the Middle East… and potentially coming across our open borders)
USCIS to Open International Field Offices in Qatar and Turkey
Release Date
04/23/2024
https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-to-open-international-field-offices-in-qatar-and-turkey
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced the upcoming opening of international field offices in Doha, Qatar, and Ankara, Turkey, to increase capacity for refugee processing, strengthen strategic partnerships, and facilitate interagency cooperation.
“Opening these field offices establishes a USCIS presence and expertise in critical locations in the Middle East and is part of our commitment to the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to facilitate safe, lawful, and orderly migration and family reunification,” said USCIS Director Ur M. Jaddou. “Our presence in Qatar and Turkey expands USCIS’ footprint outside the United States, supports our humanitarian mission, and strengthens the integrity of the U.S. immigration system.”
I acknowledge Judge Aileen Cannon’s bravery in resisting the prosecution efforts of Grand Inquisitor Jack Smith in the FLA Documents Case as she has more than likely been threatened (actually extorted) already by the Lawfare team, DoJ and INTEL Community.
So, she has already crossed the Rubicon with this latest ruling and so why not complete the job by dismissing the case with prejudice.
She is a member of the 11th Circuit, supervised by a favorable Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, and 11th Circuit has 12 Judges ( 1 GW Bush, 6 Trump-McConnell Uni-party and 5 Obama-Clinton).
I suspect this is the reason AZ and MI AG’s have recently ramped up their Election Related cases vs President Trump and his Associates.
She has to be careful not to create an appeal opportunity for Smith.
I agree with your point, yet when has a Lawfare effort NOT moved forward with an appeal no matter the outcome??
Even Weinstein. He will probably sue for wrongful arrest and win $600 million dollars and give it directly to Biden.
Right now any appeal to the Eleventh Circuit would be interlocutory, i.e., an appeal during a legal proceeding. It is not an appeal as of right, which can be taken at the end of a case. One must petition the appellate court to hear an interlocutory appeal, so the Eleventh Circuit could just refuse to hear it.
You want to make Jack & Co. go forward in their case. Make them play out their hand. Then rule in a reasonable time.
I sense she has matters well within hand.
Agree with viceroy and gipper.
WE do not WANT a dismissal, we want a ruling that clarifies defitively that the Presidential records Act, affirmed by the CLINTON socks drawer case, IS the controlling, relevant legislation and NOT the espionage act, which would absurdly make any President subservient and submissive to unelected beurocrats in I/C.
Concur.
And therefore, he has a right to the contents in the binder (declassified) that he can proceed with to bring the whole proverbial house to its knees.
Do you remember how bad the media’s “Covid lab leak” – the hypothesis that the virus came from a lab – coverage was?
I thought I did. But it was a more dramatic example of uniform media malpractice than even I remembered.
So I revisited it. Buckle in, it’s long.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1783260897361723856.html?utm_campaign=topunroll
Need to make one slight observation on that media coverage.
Since Media Response was not being coordinated (initially) by the US Government as is has been since January 2021, the Media Ownership was actually very very slow as well as very sloppy and disjointed in their initial reactions. Big Pharma and their US Government Operatives were too slow to realize the level of coordination needed with the media.
There were stories printed and reported of a Wuhan Lab Doctor stating there was a LEAK.
There were reports from Australia Sky News of a leak and initial coining of the Term Chinese Virus, before that same outlet switch to it being racist to call it the Chinese Virus.
There were numerous stories in October 2019 describing a Bird Flu Outbreak and cautioning traveler to China for the Chinese New Year Celebration that morphed into a SARS type outbreak, later dubbed COVID.
Stories were rife with infected bats smuggled out of the Wuhan Lab that ended up in Wuhan Wet Meat Markets.
There was even a story that exposed the Wuhan Lab inspection by the US NIH that declared the Lab Unsafe.
The Uniform media response was more a cover-up of earlier stories morphed into support of Government Policy.
Even the media at the start was calling it the Wuhan Virus until the Uni-Party actors within President Trump’s administration and Media Owners got a handle on the coordination efforts.
The way the coordination was able to emerge to dominate from within President Trump’s own Administration illustrates just how deep control over the US Executive Branch runs by the Puppet Masters. Because any sane response would not have unfolded as it did over 3 years of the Shamdemic.
President Trump was never allowed the same support and latitude enjoyed by Bush II and Obama during the more potentially deadly disease outbreaks in the US that occurred during their administration.
That’s because Bush II and Obammy were IC controlled or willing affiliates.
Bullseye!
one of the overlooked aspects of the U.S. coup in 2014 is the subsequent deep embedding of U.S. operatives in the Ukrainian government and resulting micro-management. Here is an undiscussed example: David Sakvarelidze, a Georgian protege of Biden favorite Sakaashvili, was parachuted into Ukrainian Prosecutor General Office as Deputy Prosecutor General in Feb 2015 and quickly attempted to undermine Shokin, his ostensible superior.
Paranoia on this site is growing leaps and bounds. I realize being lied to constantly creates fertile ground for paranoia to grow, but some of this becomes crazy. Afraid of bags of air in your package…..look up those machines on youtube. They use the air around them.
You can respond to me directly. Absolutely I’m paranoid. It’s kept me safe in a dangerous industrial world for decades.
Now, use your brain. Those machines use the air around them, you say.
Now, engage your brain. If you are a vet, you know the military has engaged in chemical warfare for decades. How did they do that?
Now apply it to DNA-based weapons aerosolized or via fomites. Then add a targeting mechanism that has a complete dossier on the target, provided by the target itself.
Does PDJT have his food tested? Would he be paranoid if he did? Do you think he’d care if I or you called him paranoid?
………..and vaccines are just bits of a dead virus.
To say that free Western civilization now stands at an inflection point, would be a gross understatement. Survival takes on a whole new meaning.
” vaccines are just bits of a dead virus.”
Not any more. That’s the old Inoculation Model.
yup – I was being facitious. and air is air. 😉
I was a little slow on the uptake and intake.
Only cause you were holding your breath, as you popped the packaging bubble blankets, LOL.
It depends on what site you’re on.
The internet has something for everyone.
https://proparanoid.wordpress.com/2021/01/11/is-mewe-a-conservative-profile-psyops-project/
New York Union Workers Chant “USA!” As President Trump Visits Their Construction Site – Union Leader Trashes Democrats, Praises Trump (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/new-york-union-workers-chant-usa-as-president
Look for a “spontaneous” Joe Biden visit in which he visits a worksite or store.
Either staged supporters or customers who simply ignore him. Regardless, it’ll b e a skimpy crowd.
And then when the people ignore him, the EPA will come in and shut the site down, just because….see Sheetz.
They will chant “FJB” and he will say to his aides “See, I STILL got it, everyone wants to have sex with me!”
The BIG GUYS and DOGS exercising their pre-planned short scam while at the same time attempting to drive the little guys to ruin.
Next week will be the BIG RALLY.
They used the MEGA CAP and LARGE CAP rally stories to sucker in the buyers.
Also, suckered in folks on the BITCOIN side with NASDAQ “re-crossing the “Historic 5,000 Mark”. Note: BITCOIN trading is considered Technical and is reflected in NASDAQ.
MEGA FOOD Company Pepsi-Cola and others tipped their hand with its earnings headline, “Profits rise on higher (domestic) prices and growth in INTERNATIONAL MARKETS”.
As November Elections approach, the BIG DOG Super Computer Based Traders will continue to wag the market.
C-SPAN Court audio via Robert Gouvia :
Trump’s SUPREME COURT Oral Arguments on PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY Live (rumble.com)
Dreeban even sounds like a Dreeban.
El Paso DA Indicts 140 Illegal Aliens on Rioting Charges After Leftist County Judge Dismissed Their Case
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/el-paso-da-indicts-140-illegal-aliens-rioting
More details related to that Politico piece.
Norman Eisen – Leading the Lawfare Against Trump
By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke
This is a long piece.Here are afew excerpts:
Norman Eisen, a Brookings senior fellow, co-founder of CREW and Obama’s former White House Ethics Czar, has been a driving force behind the ongoing Lawfare attacks that have targeted Trump throughout his presidency and into the present date. And he continues to lead the behind-the-scenes legal actions against Trump to this day.
Eisen played a lead role in the 2020 election war games which predicted a contested election scenario unfavorable to Trump and was one of the primary forces behind the first impeachment of Trump. Eisen is also the author of the highly influential color revolution manual, the Democracy Playbook.
As it turns out, Eisen had good reason to be aware of everything that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was doing. Just like he did with his first report focusing on Obstruction, Eisen had been planning well ahead of everyone else. On October 4, 2021, Brookings published a report by – yes, you guessed it – Norman Eisen, titled Fulton County, Georgia’s Trump Investigation – An Analysis of the Reported Facts and Applicable Law.
As Eisen himself notes, Willis launched her investigation into Trump on February 10, 2021. Eisen completed his first report on October 4, 2021. Almost as if he wrote his detailed report in parallel with Willis’s Initial phase of her investigation. Eisen’s second, more detailed report came out a year later, in November 2022. The new report detailed Willis’s progress but also noted the second “report updates and expands on the first edition and takes account of the considerable additional information that is now available.” Eisen is always careful to cite outside references but it’s all but certain he was working with her office – either directly or indirectly.
Eisen’s level of involvement in the legal attacks on Trump almost defies belief.
https://hardfacts.substack.com/p/norman-eisen-leading-the-lawfare
You do know that Sundance has repeatedly exposed Eisen over the last few months or years including yesterday or the day before?
Along with Weisssman and McCord.
Of course. These gentlemen are working on it too.
Two top headlines at Revolver: Tells it all:
Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction overturned in New York; DA will attempt to retry
UPDATED: AZ’s Dem AG Indicts Giuliani, Meadows, Ward, Eastman, Epshteyn In Major New Election Interference Attempt.
Ah–The Sequel.
He has the control of our nuclear arsenal.
VIRAL GAFFE: Biden Appears To Read Teleprompter ‘Pause’ Instruction During Speech (1:08)
24 Apr 2024
Appears? No, he read it!
This is scary $#it!
So right Arnold’s brother. Look at his smile at 0:14, he feels the mask slipping.
He is not competent to stand trial and apparently not competent to read a teleprompter.
Michelle Obama warming up hurriedly in the bull pen.
Michael? Too lazy to work that hard.
Actually, they made it clear, during PDJT’s first administration, that they don’t really take that whole “POTUS is CiC” thing too seriously OR literally.
Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Says He is Open to Voting for Trump in 2024 Presidential Election
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/billionaire-hedge-fund-manager-bill-ackman-says-he
If FJB get re-elected he will enact a $2 Trillion tax hike on the American People…
“Joe Biden Just Promised America A Massive Tax Hike”
Well, obviously Trump should be “proud” of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which is set to expire at the end of 2025. If the GOP presidential candidate had any sense, he would be running Biden’s promise to enact a $2 trillion tax hike, one of the biggest in American history, in a perpetual ad loop.
A careful analysis of the IRS tax data, one that includes the effects of tax credits and other reforms to the tax code, shows that filers with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $15,000 to $50,000 enjoyed an average tax cut of 16 percent to 26 percent in 2018, the first year Republicans’ Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went into effect and the most recent year for which data is available.
Filers who earned $50,000 to $100,000 received a tax break of about 15 percent to 17 percent, and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 in adjusted gross income saw their personal income taxes cut by around 11 percent to 13 percent.
By comparison, no income group with an AGI of at least $500,000 received an average tax cut exceeding 9 percent, and the average tax cut for brackets starting at $1 million was less than 6 percent. (For more detailed data, see my table published here.)
That means most middle-income and working-class earners enjoyed a tax cut that was at least double the size of tax cuts received by households earning $1 million or more.
What happened? The bill passed at the end of 2017. In 2018, the real GDP increased 3.1 percent, compared with an increase of 2.5 percent the previous year. The price index for GDP purchases increased 2.1 percent in 2018, compared to 1.9 percent in 2017.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/24/joe-biden-just-promised-america-a-massive-tax-hike/
LOL!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just Endorsed me for President despite the fact that I called him “Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy” (New York Post!). Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word “Lethargic” from my statement. Thank you Bill. MAGA2024!
Apr 24, 2024
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112329627037807609
😀 ROFLMAO 😀
Come on… how could you not laugh at the Mean Tweets…
Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund Has Paid BlackRock Over $250K in “Political Consulting” Fees in 2023 raising questions about the agenda behind their candidate endorsements in key Senate races.
https://lauraloomer.substack.com/p/exclusive-mitch-mcconnells-senate?
I’m old enough to remember when they broke up AT&T as a monopoly. They should do the same thing with BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard. That would go a long way in tamping down this money laundering and Wall Street manipulation.
Me too – even worked in tech when antitrust restructured IBM and Microsoft.
But everything has changed. Back then the monopolists knew how far they could push their control of capital and markets. Back then open competitive markets were driving tech so they maintained the appearance of letting politicians check their power in the “interest of the people”.
Now we’ve flipped to a model of benevolent fascism. Amazon, Apple, Twitter, Google, Tesla and other like monopolies are cool and hip. Global capital owns Blackrock. Blackrock controls all major Boards and the CEOs. In turn, they all together own the politicians, regulators and judges who make sure independent businees is crushed and that the taxpayer money and borrowed money all flows through them.
Until the natural slaves feel the pain, until the ponzi scheme collapses, the pretending will continue.
What “they” are counting on is getting CBDC in place before we peasants revolt.
Mitch is the consumate professional polititician, and has been in the swamp for 40+ years.
There really can’t be anything about politics that he doesn’t already know, and certainly nothing the likes of Blackrock could teach him.
Money laundering, ….pay off, …?
So Biden/Obama Inc with the blessings of an imbecilic Congress confiscated Russian assets.
And expected what??? No reprisals?
It didn’t take a millisecond for Russia to deliver its response.
Could there be an entity more criminally stupid than these DC morons??
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-seize-440-million-jpmorgan
Jamie Dimon is worried the US economy is headed back to the 1970s
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jamie-dimon-is-worried-the-us-economy-is-headed-back-to-the-1970s-182241605.html
Jamie is one of the BIG DOG BUTTS wagging the Market as part of the SHORT SCAM by his brother hounds.
This time he was assigned the role of justifying the big wag DOWN by the Markets.
Keep in mind … yahoo, google, microsoft-bing, etc. use CNN, Reuters and MSNBC as their primary sources. The same stories always appear on them ALL, just timed to cycle at different times.
Yeah, right?
I saw that article this morning and had the same or similar thought you did.
Dimon complaining (sic) about something he assisted in creating.
But no one is supposed to know or notice.
“Dijon complaining (sic) about something he assisted in creating.”
It’s like the $Billionaire donors to “elite” universities now complaining about the campus protests.
Touche
Jaime Dimon surely has changed his tune.
Jaime Dimon is thick. The internet is forever..
This article is for subscribers only, but the headline is enough.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-16/dimon-says-he-s-hopeful-biden-would-fix-some-of-america-s-issues
Dimon is a Gangster. But he’s right in this sense:
President Putin led Russia out of the Soviet Era. Obama led America into it.
#NewEvilEmpire
“We love Trump because he loves this country!” one supporter told The Post.
You would never see this kind of energy with Joe Biden.
“New York Union Workers Chant “USA!” As President Trump Visits Their Construction Site – Union Leader Trashes Democrats, Praises Trump (VIDEO)”
President Trump on Thursday morning arrived at a construction site to greet union workers in New York.
Trump made the surprise visit to the construction site ahead of his ‘hush money’ trial in Manhattan.
New York union leader Bobby Bartels trashed the Democrat party after he met with Trump on Thursday morning.
“We are basically Democrats— all of us. [But] after what’s happened the last 4 years in this country, Democrats have basically pushed everybody to the other side,” Bobby Bartels told Newsmax.
According to The New York Post, supporters lined up as early as 5 am to catch a glimpse of Trump.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/new-york-union-workers-chant-usa-as-president/
They are his people 💕
Its those Reagan Democrats, coming back once again to a Populist/Nationalist President.
You think you’ve seen pandering to minorities? Trudeau again reaches a new low in desperation to attract support from any source he can find. In this case, acquiescing to strict Muslim tradition. As bad as things are with Biden asleep at the wheel, it’s nothing compared to the woke idiot and his cronies up north. This on top of a budget that blows multi billions with the expressed purpose of buying votes and pushing their agenda.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/why-canadas-banks-should-avoid-halal-mortgages-at-all-costs
Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, All he Needs Now is a Crime
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/04/24/alvin-bragg-has-his-trump-trial-all-he-needs-now-is-a-crime
“Again, it is not clear. But that does not appear to matter in New York. The crime may not be clear or even comprehensible. However, the identity of the defendant could not be more clear and the prosecutors are hoping that the jury, like themselves, will look no further.”
Perfect summation.
We talk about not letting the left dictate our language, but we do it all the time, progressives, undocumented migrants, etc.
They have won on the “hush money” trial in NYC. Though it’s really a bookkeeping disagreement for a nuisance claim, something every large corporation has to deal with due to the perception of easy money/deep pockets.
Please don’t let them win on their “fake electors” claim. Every single time someone says or writes it correct them. It is a charge against LEGAL alternate electors and exactly as used previously by the left. And as war-gamed out by the left in 2020 should their other election theft be unsuccessful. It is yet another Lawfare effort to bankrupt patriots and to intimidate them and others from ever objecting to even the most obvious of election fraud, in the past and in the future.
Every media outlet is going to hammer those words, fake, fake, fake, it will have an effect on any trier of fact. Fight back!
Guaranteed, if PDJT is declared the winner in 2024, they WILL race to meet the legal deadlines, to swear in alternate electors, to preserve that line for challenging election results.
And, if the process was illegitimate to begin with, WHY did Democrats strive to block the alternate electors in AZ from gaining access to the State Capital building, which by AZ law is WHERE electors must be sworn in?
They attempted to use LE or security to block access, as I recall.
Julie Kelly’s thread on scotus hearing re presidential immunity….
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1783498292799688931.html
Justice Kavanaugh asks DOJ Lawyer if Barack Obama should be prosecuted over his use of drone strikes against civilians.
IOW ……. “we get to make up the rules as we go and apply them how we like to whom we like”
Yes, and the answer was, basically, the government investigated whether the drone murder of a US citizen child could be prosecuted as murder and the AG decided there was an exception as long as the murder was in the context of an official act, so the government declared Obama innocent in advance — and that is sufficient to provide immunity.
Sick.
“We investigated ourselves and found us innocent”
Nice how that works, huh?
=> Door wide is open to “putting down ‘insurrections’ ” by droning US elementary schools.
Because it was for a public purpose in a time of violence, doncha know.
The FCC has voted to restore net neutrality, which will further increase government control of the internet.
Clarence Thomas asks why previous presidents haven’t been prosecuted for orchestrating coups and carrying out attacks against civilians under Operation Mongoose.
It will be interesting to the Response by the Justices, if the claim is made, “because there was no evidence supporting a coup attempt by previous presidents”. This “potentially” opens the door for a demand by the Justices for actual evidence discovery that President Trump attempted a coup.
The fact the ‘justices’ are even entertaining this circus to begin with is more then interesting.
tempted to make a meme showing them all holding a box of popcorn.
Can’t disagree. It has always been my position that “major decisions regarding; control, money and power” are the ones Puppet Masters work the hardest to influence. ( i.e. the bought and paid for Justices; Roberts, Gorsuch and Barret will be TOLD how to vote.)
Minor wins for the “people” on Abortions, 2nd Amendment, some mandates and other constitutional issues that do not impact these are bones thrown to the populace to show “the system works”.
Well if they don’t entertain it the presidency is gone. That simple. Why are smart legal minds on our side saying this is a revolutionary hearing for president’s……..not just Trump.
Oooooo, that one stings.
Something interesting to consider as the Democrats switch to buying the Islamic as well as HAMAS Supporter Vote vs the traditional Christian Bases “Black Vote” social justice messaging.
Huge Numbers of Islamic Voters from ALL economic backgrounds are legally and illegally are being let into the US. They are settling around major metropolitan areas BLUE and RED. Recent polls indicate they do support efforts by HAMAS.
About 1% of Black Americans identify as Muslim and this wedge is showing growth.
There is also a growing wedge of “White Americans” identifying as Muslim.
Plus, historically Black Voters and idiot White “Social Justice Virtue Signalers” are easily swayed to actively favor causes and messaging that aligns with their Social Justice causes, no matter how tangential the relationship. [Recall that BLM, Black Politicians and Church Group Leaders aligned with Obama ALL support the Social Justice issues impacting HAMAS and PLO.]
This effort is NOT abandoning Black Voters but actually merging NEW ISLAMIC voters into the fold with Black Voters. Plus White Social Justice Warriors are not the sharpest tools in the shed and will do the lemming follower thing in this case.
Never trust Black Voter’s moving to President Trump stories until the numbers emerge after election day … the numbers have yet to reflect these stories over the past 10 years.
Stories about black voters moving toward the GOP come out before most elections. They are planted by get out the vote groups to get more $$. And then every election the numbers don’t change. But some people on the right fall for it each time.
We ARE experiencing a CLEAVING, as people are being forced to choose, politically, culturally and of coarse those are just reflecting the SPIRITUAL cleaving and binary choice presented.
As part of this process, many long maintained ILLUSIONS are being exposed, and so falling by the wayside.
The whole notion of “Black voters” or any other “demographic” group of voters, is an illusion created by the black arts of “opinion polling” and maintained and enhanced by the corporate media, because it served their interests.
There are only Unipsrty Globullust voters, and MAGA AmericanFirst voters, and both come in every demographic; young, middle aged and old,..black, White, pink and purple, male, female and whatever.
Let the great cleaving, part and parcel with the big Ugly,…continue.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
Rereading (again) unredacted motion in classified documents case.
One of Biden’s top WH lawyers conspired with NARA atty Stern to circumvent laws related to notification of holder of records (Trump) under Presidential Records Act.
Now this is a legit criminal conspiracy…
Cont…
I don’t know if anyone has addressed Biden’s confiscatory tax increases yet.
I will leave two links
The second is a pretty in-depth outline of where these taxes are targeted..
My own footnote: Remember when Biden call for tax increases on the “rich”? That no one earning under that amount would have extra taxes added??
Medicare taxes for anyone earning over $200,000/ single or $250,000/married will see a .9% increase in their contributions if this dessicated excuse for a human being gets his way.
https://www.atr.org/biden-calls-for-44-6-capital-gains-tax-rate-highest-capital-gains-tax-since-its-creation-in-1922/
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2024/04/president-bidens-budget-calls-for-raising-43-trillion-in-revenues-over-ten-years-heres-how
Hate to point out this missing fact about those income numbers … those are Adjusted Gross Income (or AGI on the FED Tax 1040 Forms) figures. This needs to be stated because this year, for example, that means subtracting a standard deduction of $27,700+ from Gross Income Earnings.
This rule will impact less than 7% of the Population, as written. Less than 7% of the US population earns over $200,000 while those above the 1-2% line have enough money to legally escape via loop holes purposely put in place.
Definition of the “The Rich” by the US Government is accomplished by the shifting of the dollar range for TAX BRACKETS used to determine FED INCOME TAX (collected as well as adjustments or deduction), Social Security (collections as well as taxable and payouts) and Medicare Taxes (collected, premiums and payouts).
The more disconcerting discussion should center around the Democrat definition of “The Rich”. That number always starts at $10 Million and rapidly sinks to the $200,000 figures. There have even been Democrats calling for that definition to sink as far as $150,000 … i.e. closer to encompassing more of those remaining in the Middle Class. Then having the tax brackets adjusted accordingly.
Pay very close attention to the stories related to the “definition of various tax brackets” and updated definitions related to exemptions as well as deductions . This is how taxes are raised and lowered by the government. It is much more than dollar figures.
Income taxes were deemed unconstitutional in the late 19th century, and as you know, came around again and were codified during the odious President Wilson’s disastrous tenure. With lots of now-broken promises about who would be affected.
Has there ever been an income tax on unrealized gains? Ever? Seems there would have to be deductions later when those gains were reversed.
Setting aside the legality question of “Income Tax” (right or wrong), which by the way stands upon the still existing and un-amended 16th Amendment to the US Constitution.
Taxing unrealized gains has never been allowed. Even the courts disallow this with their support of the definition of “income” in the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution. There was a recent ruling along these lines in CA, when the state of CA had their tax case thrown out of court for imposing a tax on unrealized gains because it violated the definition of income in the 16th Amendment. CA tried to tax the unrealized gains in value of a companies overseas holdings.
Any tax that “changes” or “violates” this definition is illegal, without amending the 16th Amendment.
I hope you are correct. However, with the wokesters in charge of the legal/judicial system I’d say anything is possible.
I regret to say “illegal” has never stopped them. And the Constitution is up for “re-imagining” in today’s faddish parlance.
Creative definitions and bureaucratic edicts are the stock and trade of the Regime and its attendant functionaries.
Look what they did with the word and meaning of “vaccines” to introduce a deadly gene therapy they knew would cause death or lifetime side effects (74 pages of said effects from Pfizer attesting that they knew and that they tried to hide for 75 years).
This had better be sorted because what is taxation of “unrealized” gains if it isn’t a wealth tax?
Stocks today, your home the next.
The goalposts better be cemented in permanently to prevent their being moved, as Communists are wont to do when it comes to confiscation.
Who defines “Rich” has always been the issue.
The same as with “who counts the votes”.
Trump Attorney
@willscharf: “At the end of the day, President Trump did NOTHING wrong. The facts are on his side, and I think that his story is a compelling one here.”
Video linked…
NYC union leader says members support Trump over Biden 3-to-1: ‘I see a wave coming’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyc-union-leader-says-members-support-trump-biden-3-1-see-wave-coming
Wait for it…
“YOU CAN’T STOP DONALD TRUMP”:
@DavidAsmanFox
highlights President Trump’s visit to a New York construction site early this morning to visit union workers….
Video linked…