Hamilton 68 Fraud Regarding Russian Bots

The problem is, the criminals are in control of the media, the information highway, and they are the auditors of their own actions, the elections, and the legal system. It is they who guide the voices everyone hears in the media. 

By Douglas V. Gibbs February 2, 2023 @ New York Post

Editor's Note: I've not asked for, nor have I received permission to publish this in full, but I think it need to widest possible distribution.  If the author or the New York Post object, I will break this down to a link. RK

Tyrants lie, cheat, and come up with some pretty diabolical schemes. In their schemes that arose when Donald J. Trump stuck a stick in their spokes the hard left consortium of globalists and power-seeking collectivists concocted a scheme to convince the public that a perpetual war is going on, and that the enemy has infiltrated American politics. 

The Russians were the scapegoat for the 2016 election, and the cabal behind online opinion that dared to disagree with the progressive commie left's narrative. Then, after putting the message out there that the Russians were crawling throughout the Republican Party and were the puppet masters behind everything Trump did, and everyone around him, they created an image revealing hordes of those enemies. The smoke and mirrors worked perfectly, until Elon Musk decided to release Twitter files showing the reality behind the curtain.

Most of those Americans tagged as "Russian" were actually conservatives; the "real" enemy of the hard left Democrats and their RINO allies

The Russia-Russia-Russia narrative had real players who "they" said were Russian infiltrators and influencers, but the reality was nearly all of it was simply a mask that looked Russian, placed on the identities of some very real people that, to be frank, had nothing to do with Russia, and instead were pro-liberty enemies of the hard left machine perpetrating the scheme.

Twitter file releases have been flying into the public eye for a while now, ever since Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. He's not a conservative, or constitutionalism ally, but he's definitely not a fan of what the hard left has been doing, and so in that sense Musk fits the enemy-of-my-enemy-is-a-friend label. Musk's Twitter file releases have exposed fraud and media complicity with government that has been used against the critics of the power players of an evil cabal of globalist leftism and mercantilist elitists in ways that this writer could not have even imagined for a fictional novel about hostile government and societal takeovers if I tried. Truth is stranger, and more diabolical, than fiction, in this case.

The Russia-Russia-Russia election hoax was only step one. It needed to be followed up if the hard left was to dismantle the Trump problem that had flopped on their front porch. The data cheat for the election was overwhelmed by Trump's popularity, and to hide their Voter Roll/Election Fraud game the Russian hoax game was dreamed up, and put into action. Then, during the early years of Trump's presidency "Hamilton 68" emerged as a source of news that the leftist media gobbled up. 

The news stories largely claimed that Russian bots were being tracked online and that the Russians were feeding us all kinds of fake news. In truth, it was all a game to cover-up the Democrat Party's (and their myriad of allies) part in the attacks against the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump.

Hamilton 68 produced a list of 600 accounts that were tied to the Russians. However, with recent Twitter file releases the list was found and the Russian influence on that list of accounts was, well, not there. Instead, the list was full of real Americans who in ordinary conversations were tagged as being Russian-influenced or Russian influencers. In short, all of it was one great big fraud.

The fact that the enemy resorts to lying is not a surprise. That is what they do, and have been doing since the beginning of time. Most of those Americans tagged as "Russian" were actually conservatives; the "real" enemy of the hard left Democrats and their RINO allies. 

Hamilton 68 was a fraud from the get-go, designed to propagate the Russian Election Collusion hoax while vilifying and censoring any messages coming from conservative voices. Trump was popular, and they were willing to do whatever it took on the technology information battlefield to end the discussions that were pro-Trump. Then, as Twitter and other social media sites turned conservative talk into "Russian-influenced propaganda" in the eyes of the public, the leftist media ran with it, happy to claim that the Russians who were the international enemy were also sounding like Trumpsters, and behind Trump's popularity.

Who were the masterminds behind this craziness? They included (but it was not limited to):

• Clint Watts, Former FBI Special Agent and MSNBC Contributor.
• William "Bill" Kristol, CNN Contributor, Co-Founder Weekly Standard.
• John Podesta, Hillary Clinton Advisor, Obama Advisor, and current Biden clean energy advisor.
• Michael Morell, Career Intelligence Analyst, Acting Director of the CIA in 2011.
• Michael Anthony McFaul, Ambassador to Russia from 2012-2014, International Studies Professor at Stanford University, contributing columnist at The Washington Post, former U.S. National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and senior director of Russian and Eurasian affairs. Architect of U.S. President Barack Obama's Russian reset policy.

The Russian Election Collusion story, and the Russian Bots influencing the various stories regarding various politicians, definitely had an impact on our system and the culture. Conservatives were targeted, and the opinions of the normies were altered by it. Hamilton 68 went after anyone who was a critic of the leftist consortium run by people like the Clintons, Obamas, George Soros, and all of the other collectivist globalist anti-liberty players. Thanks to Elon Musk, another cat is out of the bag. 

If truth had been allowed and recognized from the beginning, and if we were even able to broadcast the truth broadly even for a moment, today, the power players would all be behind bars. The problem is, the criminals are in control of the media, the information highway, and they are the auditors of their own actions, the elections, and the legal system. It is they who guide the voices everyone hears in the media. Until that hold on our institutions has been shattered, the fraud, lies, and evil will continue.

Thank you, Donald Trump

By Don Surber Thursday, November 10, 2022 

Before I wrote, "Life after Trump," I should have written this post thanking President Donald John Trump. Allow me to correct this by quoting one of my dearest and now confused readers. To protect his identity, I will simply call him Mister Jones.  He wrote, "Trump gave us a conservative majority SCOTUS....tax cuts.....lowest unemployment in recorded history, especially for POC....Started no new military 'conflicts'....Jerusalem embassy....world respect...USA out of climate accords....tough on China.... need I go on? Continue to Refresh the memory? Remind who brought us to the dance?

No presidential candidate was more hated, despised and ridiculed by the media. Lincoln comes closest but at least a few major newspapers had his back. Trump had no one. Not even Fox. Remember those dreadful Fox All-Star panels? Charles Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg battled over who could smear him the best. It was the Fox version of The View with three men and a dame............

But above all, President Trump took one for the team -- Team MAGA. And by one I mean hundreds. The daily harassment, legal threats and flat-out lies would have broken a lesser man.  Critics say he has a large ego. Well, you need something to serve as a buffer from the constant attacks. Given that he helped save New York, built a billion-dollar empire, wrote best-sellers, had a top-ranked TV show and won the presidency on his first try for public office, I would say he earned bragging rights on many, many fronts.

Donald Trump indeed brought us to the dance.......To Read More....

Robin's Take - In addition, Trump also brought us historically very low unemployment for all, and lowest ever for blacks, Hispanics, all minorities, and women, and lowest ever for at least 13 states (maybe more), drastically reduced illegal immigration, cut an estimated $2 Trillion in excessive regulations (estimated over 10 years), got rid of DAPA (illegal migration amnesty for parents of "Dreamers."  

That was ~5 million people plus all the knock on chain migration had they been granted amnesty), made it far easier to fire corrupt/incompetent/failed VA personnel while also providing more protection for whistleblowers, got us out of the Paris Accords thus saving us several Trillion dollars more, eliminated the Obamacare mandates (again saving people tons of money), reopened federal land for energy exploration, removed impediments to coal mining, approved both Keystone and Dakota pipelines (which Biden turned around and killed again only months from them being operational).  Stopped the obscene "fair waters act," has removed roughly 22 regulations for each new one he's signed into law and directed all departments to remove two regulations for any new one they add, etc., etc., etc.

Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Part IV

The left wins the battle of emotions, they always have.  The right wins the battle of facts, they always have.  To win the war you must win the battle of emotions and the battle of facts.  

By Rich Kozlovich 

Amir Levy/Getty Images

In my first post on this subject, Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?, I noted the appearance of this in Geopolitical Futures' Friday, June 4, 2021 daily briefing: 

Unseating Bibi. Israeli opposition parties reached a deal on Wednesday to form a government and unseat current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The coalition consists of Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party and Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party as well as an Islamist party called the United Arab List led by Mansour Abbas. Under the agreement, Bennett would serve as prime minister for two years and then be replaced by Lapid. Israeli ambassadors to the United Arab Emirates and Greece have already said bilateral relations will not be significantly affected by the change in government.

My take on this was these three groups are at odds with each other’s goals, visions and views of what Israel is and what it should be.   Bennet was allegedly far right, which turned out to be fallacious.  It seemed to me that Lapid is a former journalist who is more leftist than centrist.  And Abbas is a liar, and the ruling arrangement is a formula for incoherence.   What could possibly go wrong? I made that statement because I took the time to look up these characters to see what they were all about, and it was abundantly clear to me:  Israel was in trouble.  I was right.  Imagine that.

In Part II  I quoted from a July 7, 2021 article by Paul Mirengoff,  Israel’s ruling coalition splits at first time of asking saying:

The first real test of the coalition’s adhesion occurred yesterday. At issue was a law that, as I understand it, prevents Arab-Israeli citizens from conferring their citizenship rights — e.g., obtaining a driver’s license or a legal job — on non-citizen spouses who once lived in the West Bank or Gaza............The law was passed in 2013 in response to the wave of bombings and murders that were occurring during the second intifada. It has been renewed annually ever since.

My take on this? It was a tie vote because this ruling coalition is not in harmony philosophically, politically or morally.  And there's a second reason it didn't pass.   Netanyahu's party didn't vote for it!    Shocker?  Well, that refusal to vote on this exposed this coalition's inability to rule, and to rule for Israel's best interests.  That exposure made all those who in government "deep state" positions and  media who railed against Netanyahu look foolish.  Netanyahu makes it clear, "toppling the government" is more important to Israel's long term interests. And he was right.

In Part III I reported: So, you think America politics is complicated do you? Well, compared to Israel, American politics is a cake walk. And I find that's true of all these Parliamentarian style governments. They are, at least from an American point of view, complicated, compromised and unfocused.  They create governments out of coalitions with opposition parties, who get ministerial positions in the new government, and they have this crazy penchant for "Shadow Cabinets". Everybody has a say, and everybody says a lot, not usually in harmony.  Watch the British Parliament in action.  Insane!

Currently it appears, according to Geopolitical Futures:

"Israel's parliament is evenly split after a resignation stripped Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's government of its majority. The move raised concerns that the opposition is close to being able to dissolve the government."

And we're shocked why?  Idit Silman bolted to Netanyahu's group, and in spite of Bennett's claim she was being harassed by Netanyahu's party, this apparently is a popular move among a great many Israelis.  She says:

"she "could not take it anymore," and that she could not continue undermining the Jewish identity of the State of Israel, a reference to a disagreement she had with Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz over allowing chametz (leavened grain products) into hospitals over Passover.....[and she claimed] she was treated with disrespect".

This government was created as an "anyone but Bibi" government, since there was no one party that could get enough votes to form a government, totally divergent groups came together to form a totally irrational government, that, irrespective of these various groups positions, as a government they functionally believed in nothing.  No shared vision, no shared policies, no shared goals.  It was created to be one thing and one thing only:  An anti-Netanyahu government.  That was the only moral, intellectual and philosophical foundation they shared.

Well, it was clear to me the "Anyone But Bibi" theme was eventually going to die on the ash heap of  history because Israel is constantly faced with existential crises.  So, while in the short term rhetorical hyperbole may overcome facts, in the long run facts will eventually become unpleasant realities that must be dealt with, and who in Israel is the best qualified to deal with those unpleasantries?  Bibi!  

It was clear to me from the very beginning he was coming back, and soon.  Remember my first piece appeared in July of 2021, it now November of 2022, and guess what?  Bibi is back, and big time.  It's not easy to win big in Israel.  This is a country with 40 different political parties, and even though  only ten of those parties passed the electoral threshold, that represents a real hurdle to get enough votes to form a government.

Netanyahu Wins Election as Israel’s Prime Minister 16 Months After Defeat: Benjamin Netanyahu has once again become prime minister of Israel in the country's fifth election in less than four years......Netanyahu’s return to the executive office came as his Likud Party formed a political alliance with two other political parties known as Jewish Power and Religious Zionism.

The Return of Bibi Netanyahu:   It turns out that, sometimes, the fifth time is a charm. With the final ballots now counted in Israel's fifth national election in four years, the results are officially in Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, already the longest-serving prime minister in the 74-year history of the modern Jewish state set to return as premier. After four elections of decisively mixed results, where both the Right -- which has been added by its disgruntled "Never Netanyahu" camp -- and the Left have consistently failed to secure a durable governing coalition, the Israeli people have finally spoken up loud and clear: Bring Bibi back.

Not only has Israel voted to bring Bibi back, they voted overwhelmingly to do so.  The series of indecisive elections of the past has apparently caused them to .....for lack of a better term.... Get Woke, but in this case they've awakened to the ludicrous positions and functionally incompetent performances of these leftist coalitions.  Both of which were totally detrimental to the very existence of Israel, an existence that is constantly undermined by their leftist media, judiciary and law enforcement institutions, all of which have been shown to be intellectual and philosophically corrupt.

The author goes on to ask:

The relevant question, then, is: Why did Israel finally vote so decisively this time around, and why did it elect such a right-wing coalition?

His answer, to be concise, security!   Conservatives have always been better at performance than at rhetoric, at least until recently.   Leftists have always been remarkable at rhetoric, until recently.  But rhetoric is a straw hut that will not keep the wolf away from the door.  That takes performance, and reality made it clear the only politician in Israel capable of keeping Israel secure was Bibi.   

 

Happiness and well being!  Both hard to define, neither or which are items found in polls.  Yet those are the items that change governments.  Now, would anyone wish to discuss "Anyone But Trump"? 

• Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong
• Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Part II
  
• Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Part III
• Anyone But Netanyahu! What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Part IV

NeverTrump Hearts Cassidy

NeverTrump is up to its old tricks: bashing Trump, berating his supporters, and cheering his latest nemeses who almost always end up as farcical as NeverTrumpers themselves. 

By Julie Kelly June 30, 2022

At least their taste in Trump antagonists is getting better.

After more than six years of bandwagoning with every haggard nemesis of Donald Trump—Stormy Daniels, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Alexander Vindman, and Marie Yovanovitch to name a few—NeverTrump reunited this week to swoon over a telegenic 25-year-old former aide in Trump’s White House: Cassidy Hutchinson. The latest actor to offer a cameo appearance in the January 6 select committee’s show trial caught the collective eye of pundits on the putative Right whose mypoic contempt for Donald Trump caused them to be wrong about basically everything since 2016.

Playing the part of the aged rescuer to the J6 damsel-in-distress, NeverTrump praised her courage and defended her uncorroborated and at times outlandish claims about Trump’s conduct related to the events of January 6. Over-the-top descriptions of her surprise performance headlined their immediate reaction to her two-hour testimony. ..........To Read More.....

• Mark Meadows: My Aide Is Lying About Me Wanting a Pardon After the January
• A Jan 6 witness ludicrously claims Trump tried to choke his Secret Service agent
• Here are headlines and editorials in the dishonest WaPo a day after Secret Service agents effectively called Jan. 6 witness a liar 

Ripping the Veil off the Hate-Filled Lincoln Project

They made a living off of bludgeoning Donald Trump but are now riven by scandal. 

By: Tim Donner May 24, 2022 - Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics @ Liberty Nation News

The first blush of the establishment types who resented, despised and/or feared Donald Trump did not take long to materialize. Moments after the eventual 45th president descended that escalator at Trump Tower almost seven years ago, the resistance formed against him. But in this case, we’re not talking about leftists and Democrats who would be expected to paint him as the enemy. No, we are referring to Bush-era neoconservative Republicans threatened by Trump’s meteoric rise to the top of the GOP. They were the ones who wailed the loudest, affronted by this bombastic billionaire laying siege to their turf.

Enter the Lincoln Project.

  From the start, this group of Trump rejectionists was intent on not just publicly opposing Trump but unleashing vicious personal attack ads and going full scorched earth on leftist outlets like MSNBC in an effort to derail his candidacy, and later his presidency. All along, the attacks centered on Trump’s character, with the clear implication that the Lincolnites were speaking from the moral high ground – despite their own long histories of producing attack ads many considered morally reprehensible. But why else would they make such a spectacle of signaling their virtue to wound a party to which they had long belonged?

The Not-So-Fab Four

Well, to borrow from Shakespeare, this group of embittered losers doth protest far too much. The foursome of Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, George Conway, and John Weaver – all former GOP operatives – co-founded the only organization in memory dedicated to the single proposition of destroying one man and removing him from office. Of course, they went on to join Hillary Clinton (and later Joe Biden) and the Trump-deranged crowd in defaming everyone who voted for Trump, or had the temerity to back his presidency, or even to support a single thing he did or said.

They were certainly able to profit from their savage attacks on Trump. The Lincoln Project raised some 90 million dollars for its singular anti-Trump messaging, but now their chickens are finally coming home to roost, and they have seen the spotlight turn to their own severe indiscretions. An exhaustive exposé published by the Associated Press unmasked a cascading scandal surrounding the group, reporting that “in June 2020, members of the organization’s leadership were informed in writing and in subsequent phone calls of at least 10 specific allegations of harassment against co-founder John Weaver, including two involving Lincoln Project employees.”

The Unsavory Lincoln Logs

George Conway (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

 

 Weaver “sent unsolicited and sexually provocative messages online” to as many as 21 men, according to The New York Times, which added that, in some cases, Weaver “offered professional and personal assistance in exchange for sex,” and was the subject of at least ten specific allegations of harassment. When co-founder Jennifer Horn quit following these revelations, the group released defamatory private information about her on Twitter, very possibly violating federal law.

That led to co-founder George Conway abandoning the sinking ship. The one-time conservative activist, whose hatred of Trump was so intense that he insisted on continuing to publicly condemn the 45th president even though his wife Kellyanne was serving as Trump’s senior counselor, has accused the group of criminal activity in the wake of their defamation of Ms. Horn and their efforts to intimidate journalist Amanda Becker, who was writing a piece on the organization’s scandals.

Now, Wilson has dived off the deep end, calling for his supporters to “mow down” independent investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald – whatever that means – for daring to unmask the seamy reality of this group of embittered slash-and-burn down-and-outers. Greenwald authored an article recently describing the organization as run by “life-long scammers, sleaze merchants and con artists” positioning themselves as “noble men of conscience, enabling them to fleece and deceive the public.” And he summed up their state of play:

“They are drowning in allegations of financial scamming, lying to the public and to their own employees about what they knew about a predator at the top level of their organization, and engaging in open warfare among themselves playing out in public in the pettiest yet most vindictive ways.”

What may turn out to be the most revealing episode about the group’s message and tactics, and ultimately its final public disgrace, was when it unleashed a fake tiki-torch demonstration outside a rally for then-gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, in a transparent attempt to link the eventual governor to Trump and 2017 events in Charlottesville, VA. The phony gathering revealed just how low Lincolners are willing to go to demonstrate their raw hatred for not just Trump, but anyone who refuses to specifically condemn the man. To many observers, perhaps most, the Lincoln Project had the smell of revenge profiteering from the get-go. Embittered has-beens crying into the darkness has never had much appeal to the general public, and like most things in life, these hate-filled agents of destruction with a uniquely negative message to share are finally reaping what they have sown.

Read More From Tim Donner

Trump White House’s Weapon Against Deep State Saboteurs Rattles Establishment Media

Allum Bokhari 11 Nov 2021 

It’s been over a year since the 2020 election, but the establishment media are still addicted to Trump-bashing. Their latest target is John McEntee, one of the former Trump White House officials who loyalists to the former president believe was effective in implementing his agenda and cutting down on leaks and disloyalty in the ranks.  McEntee is a subject of a recently published book excerpt from Betrayal, from Jonathan Karl, chief Washington correspondent for the establishment broadcaster ABC News.

Published in the Atlantic, a magazine now owned by far-left billionaire tech heiress Laurene Powell Jobs, dubbed the “new Soros” by Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow, the excerpt is overwhelmingly negative in its assessment of McEntee.  On the plus side, the piece provides a useful guide to Republican voters and Republican presidential hopefuls regarding who can and cannot be trusted in the federal government.  McEntee’s crime, in the eyes of the establishment media, is that he fought back against the efforts of establishment Republicans and permanent bureaucrats to sabotage the Trump presidency–and even worse in their view, he actually succeeded.  

Throughout the Trump years, the media made celebrities of bureaucrats and White House political appointees who leaked against the President, undermined his agenda, or turned on him after exiting the presidency..............

A Republican president would face far worse from the deep state. Republicans, unlike Democrats, think the size and power of the federal government are bad. They oppose the pet projects of woke officials like Critical Race Theory and the denial of science on issues of gender.

They think the elected President should run the executive branch, not unelected bureaucrats. Some Republicans (not the swampy ones) even believe that bureaucrats should serve the American people, not the corporations they hope to work for later.

People who can navigate this complex and hostile environment are in short supply......To Read More.......

 

 

Gaetz Turns It Around on CNN Journo After Network Exec Says Their Coverage of Him is "Propaganda"

ByJennifer Van Laar | Apr 14, 2021

CNN has breathlessly covered purported allegations of sexual misconduct against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and the FBI investigation into said purported allegations, and now, thanks to Project Veritas, we know that a great deal of that coverage is driven by a desire to destroy Gaetz. CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester said the network is “going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him,” because “He’s a problem for the Democratic Party because he’s so conservative.” 

As my colleague Bonchie covered, Chester said that CNN’s “focus” in the 2020 election “was to get Trump out of office” and that Chester and his colleagues were “more than keen to take credit for putting Joe Biden in the White House.” Chester even went so far as to add a bullet point to his now-deleted LinkedIn account claiming he “played an integral part in the 2020 Presidential elections.”.........To Read More.....

• MSNBC’s Reid, Kirschner Suggest DeSantis Involved in Gaetz Scandals
•  CNN Tech Director Admits Black-on-Asian Violence is a Problem, But Network Focuses on White Criminals to ‘Help BLM’
•  A CNN employee continues to give away devastating trade secrets
•  CNN 'fesses up: Reporting promotes Black Lives Matter movement

My Take - Another good reason to revisit Sullivan v New York Times!  Although in this case, I think showing "actual malice" is going to be easy to prove if he chooses to sue CNN, which I hope he does.

Why Stop at DC? Neocon Bill Kristol Wants Cuba in the Union Too!

Woke, never-Trump neocon Bill Kristol's argument for D.C. statehood: Annex Cuba?

By: Andrew Moran March 25, 2021Articles, Liberty Rewind, Politics

 Truth, justice, and the neoconservative way. In the post-Trump era, progressives and neocons are trying to keep the romance alive after both ideologies achieved the shared endgame of ousting the former president from the White House. It has been unclear how the alliance could keep the flame going without a common enemy. Like any relationship, it is the little things that add up to mean a great deal to love’s survival. Bill Kristol, the neoconservative in chief, is whispering sweet nothings in leftists’ ears by championing statehood for the nation’s capital. But he may have soured his appeal by taking it a bit

 

Cuba’s Future is Kristol Clear

Democrats are trying everything to sustain their power with President Joe Biden at the helm. From the advocacy of lowering the voting age to 16 to keeping the borders open to illegal immigrants, the donkeys are concerned that America’s current framework might not allow the party to stay in charge past 2024. But the Democratic Party has another trick up its sleeve.

The House Oversight and Reforms Committee is holding a hearing on granting statehood to Washington, D.C., with congressional Democrats arguing that the 700,000 people residing in the district need better representation. Despite being an obvious power-grab for the left side of the political aisle to accumulate more seats, Kristol agrees, tweeting that the country’s growth is reason enough for another state. He also thinks that Puerto Rico and maybe one or two more should join the Union.

But one name on his list is forcing a collective bipartisan scratching of the head – or palm to the face.

“One reason I’m for DC statehood: The growth in size of the republic–and our distinctive manner of growth, admitting states with equal status–has always been a sign of our vigor. 60 years at 50 states is enough. Time for DC, Puerto Rico, Cuba (as soon as it’s free), 1 or 2 more?”

Is Kristol unaware that Cuba is a sovereign nation? Is he recommending an invasion of Havana? Kristol may have concealed his odious positions on MSNBC and CNN to the new generation of political observers over the last four years as he lamented on former President Donald Trump any chance he had. But his imperial itch gets scratched every now and then, drawing a rebuke from both sides.

Ted Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tweeted: “Trump Derangement Syndrome in full flower: Bill Kristol is now a Democrat. Cuban statehood is too far out there even for Bernie (maybe)….” Former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson simply asked: “Are you kidding…?” Former Republican Congresswoman Nan Hayworth called him “a very silly and ignorant man.”

Political activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins labeled Kristol as a “colonizer,” while CNN contributor Frida Ghitis wondered why Cuba would become part of the United States. Perhaps if The Bulwark’s editor at large ended his tweet or followed up with “Orange Man Bad,” he would have garnered more support from his leftist brethren for an apparent policy position that only neocons could get behind.

The Privilege of Neocon Adventurism

For the last four years, the left discovered an unlikely ally in the neoconservatives. They, too, possessed the hatred of the billionaire real estate mogul that consumed every fiber of their being. Despite endorsing policies that were responsible for the deaths of millions of people and the destabilization of entire regions, progressives either forgave or forgot the records from the likes of Kristol, Max Boot, Ralph Peters, and the folks from The Lincoln Project. Some of them not only loathed Trump, but they also became woke by conceding their white privilege and the villainy of lighter skin pigmentation. In today’s toxic political climate, wokeology extends absolution to bloodthirsty pundits – so long as they howl at the moon about white supremacists hiding under every bed in America. Or the go-to get-out-of-jail card: Trump is Literally Hitler™. Neoconservatives will need to grovel since they have, as Liberty Nation’s Tim Donner recently opined, witnessed their influence crumble.

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Read more from Andrew Moran.

When Are Riots Not Riots?

By Rich Kozlovich 

Trump: I'm Skipping the Inauguration

Well, this inauguration will be a day that will live in infamy, so I thought I would go back into my drafts folder and get everything published today.  Wow, I didn't realize how much stuff I've been saving over the last few months.  So, here we go, and primarily I'm posting this in order to have ready reference to so many of the posts dealing with these two issues in one article. 

On January 7, 2021 Julie Kelly published this piece,  The End: It didn’t have to end this way. But most got the ending they deserved, saying:

Graham, who failed for four straight years to fulfill his repeated promises to get to the bottom of Barack Obama's corrupt FBI, called for a special task force to investigate the domestic terrorists involved in the January 6 incident. Sedition might be a charge for some of these people, the tough talker warned. The people sitting in the chairs need to be sitting in a jail cell.

Graham claimed Trump's actions before the incident tarnished the president's accomplishments in office”accomplishments, by the way, that Trump achieved with little help from Senate Republicans, including Graham. Ending their reign in humiliation and defeat, capped off with final gasps of grandstanding and betrayal, is a fitting end to the GOP Senate in the Trump era............ 

Like so many times before, be it a mob in Charlottesville or pro-life high schoolers at the Mall in Washington. it was death by proxy. Trump's presidency will end, but it's unclear where he goes from here. The Republican Party as we know it also is over; the GOP's disloyalty to the president and his voters in the final stretch will not be soon forgotten. And Republican control of the Senate during the Trump era ends just how it began, in making a bargain to do the Left's bidding and ultimately acting as the Democratic Party's useful idiots. 

Graham wasn't alone in his backstabbing, (Singing The Evil Trump is Gone, sung to the tune of the Ding Dong Wicked Witch is Dead) and this piece is in two sections.  Part I will deal with the petty, vicous actions of Pelosi and others; the "run out the door stab in the back" members of his administration; the Never Trumper Republican legislators, like Graham and Useful Idiots around the world and the media.  Part II is about what really went on with this riot, and who really is responsible, and riots in perspective, especially Democrat perspective. 

This list will be updated regularly, but while perusing these lists, think about the  The Big Story: The Biden Crime Family Saga!  (view my

Part I   

1. Some rather cowardly White House resignations 
2. Maryland Guv: ‘No Question’ U.S. Better Off if Trump Resigns or Removed 
3. Graham holds out prospect of invoking 25th Amendment if 'something else happens' 
4. Secretary DeVos Joins Growing List of Resignations After Capitol Violence 
5. Boris Johnson: Trump ‘Encouraged People to Storm the Capitol’ 
6. Former Attorney General Bill Barr: ‘Orchestrating a Mob to Pressure Congress Is Inexcusable’ 
7. Sasse Won’t Rule Out Impeachment, 25th Amendment for Trump — ‘I Will Definitely Consider’ 
8. Pelosi Calls Pentagon, Worried About Nuclear Codes Rush explains why Trump backers in government abandoning ship  
9. Will Democrates and RINO Republicans Impeach President Trump in Last Days of Presidency 
10. Pelosi Calls for Trump to be Removed or Impeached—13 Days from the End of His Term 
11. Cotton: Capitol Riot and GA Senate Loss ‘The Result of Misleading Claims’ on Elections 
12. Mick Mulvaney Explains His Decision to Resign, and Why Some are Staying Put 
13. If Trump Cares About the Movement He Helped Build, He Should Now Go Away
14. Liz Cheney faces ouster moves in GOP Congress and in Wyoming
15. Liz Cheney Censured in Wyoming for Violating ‘Trust of Her Voters’
16. Disgraced Liz Cheney Goes Into Hiding After “Impeachment Vote” Backfires
17. Half of House GOP Supports Movement to Remove Liz Cheney as House GOP Chair
18. McConnell's Latest Remarks on Capitol Building Storming Shows He’s All-In on Purging Trump Wing from GOP
19.  H.R. McMaster: 'We Have Been Talking About the President's Responsibility, but It Didn't Start There'
20. McConnell says Trump 'provoked' the Capitol riot as Senate weighs another impeachment trial
 
Part II
 
 
1. Left-Wing Terrorists Bombed The Senate In 1983. Bill Clinton Let Them Out Of Prison Early — At Jerry Nadler’s Request
2. Turns Out This Capitol Hill Raid Was Not Caused By Trump Supporters  
3.  2 Arrests Made of High-Profile Participants in DC Riot
4. Video Shows Trump Supporters Attempting to Stop People From Breaking Into the Capitol
5. Were leftist provocateurs leading the way into the Capitol? 
6. Press declares Trump-linked demonstrators 'mobs,' 'rioters,' and 'extremists' — Antifa remains 'peaceful protesters' 
7. Why Was Founder Of Far-Left BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol As Police Shot Protester?    
8.  28 Times Media And Democrats Excused Or Endorsed Violence Committed By Left-Wing Activists
9. After Mob Storms Capitol, Kathy Griffin Re-Posts Scandalous Photo of Her Holding Up Trump’s ‘Severed Head’
10. The Left Slanderously Accuses Trump of Inciting the Capitol Riot
11. The Trump Coup Attempt That Wasn’t: Who’s really assaulting democracy?
12. January 6, 2020, a Day that Will Live in Political Infam
13. Recognizing the coordinated attacks on the First Amendment 
    
14. Worrisome Signs the Capitol Breach was Planned to Discredit Trump Supporters: An Eyewitness Account  
15. Labeling and its consequences
    
16. Leftists must stop blaming Trump for storming of the Capitol
17.  Progressives' malicious power grab escalates to the wickedest heights.
18.   Tucker Rails Against CNN's Description of US Capitol Riot: 'Stop With the Lying!' 
19. Biden, Harris Blasted Over False Narrative About What Would've Happened if US Capitol Rioters Were BLM  
20. Facial recognition firm claims Antifa infiltrated Trump protesters who stormed Capitol 
21. US Capitol violence eroded Senate support for Electoral College objections
22.  Logistical Proof Trump Did Not Incite Violence at the Capitol 
23. Left-Wing Organizer Charged in U.S. Capitol Riot 
24. Activist, antifa, or grifter? Self-styled BLM supporter from Utah finds himself at center of the Capitol fallout
25. Capitol Police failed to prep for riot despite warnings, former DHS head Chad Wolf says 
26. HUGE! CNN-NPR Photo-Journalist Jade Sacker was Embedded with Antifa Leader John Sullivan During Siege of US Capitol – Cheered “We Did It!” After Inciting Riot (VIDEO)

A Republican NeverTrump Postmortem

How history will view these self-proclaimed conservatives and protectors of principle.  

Wed Dec 16, 2020 Bruce Thornton  37

Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Of all the bizarrerie over the last four years, the Republican NeverTrump (RNT) phenomenon is the strangest. Pundits, commentators, and writers who self-identified as Republican and conservative did not see Donald Trump’s historic upset victory as a cause for celebration. Instead, they saw it as a disaster to be mourned and attacked with more vitriol than they ever expended on Barack Obama, not just one of the most progressive presidents ever elected, but a failure both at home and abroad.

Many factors explain this mystery, but one stands out: the revelation that there is indeed a bipartisan political guild that cares more about maintaining its own power, prestige, and perks than instituting policies that keep America safe, prosperous, and free..........Indeed, so stricken with Trump Derangement Syndrome were some RNT that they turned to leftist plutocrats to fund websites and outfits for continuing their assaults on the president. One fails to see what’s so “principled” about such behavior, or how it displays respect for their “democratic norms.”

But the RNT unwittingly performed for we the people a great service. They exposed the truth about our ruling class––that it comprises a bipartisan guild made up in the main of people from the same socio-economic class that shares the assumptions of technocratic rule by credentialed “experts,” as well as the politically correct book of manners that demonizes conservatives with question-begging epithets like “racist” or “xenophobic” or “Islamophobic.” ........To Read More.....

•  Revenge of the Lapdogs

 

Rigged: The Chairman of the Presidential Debate Commission is Co-Founder of “Color Revolution” Org Linked to Steele Dossier and More

October 9, 2020

From the failed Chris Wallace-Biden tag-team attempt against Trump, to biased moderator Susan Page’s shrill interruptions of Vice President Pence, to the Presidential Debate Commission’s ridiculous and politically motivated effort to force a “virtual debate” on Biden’s behalf, patriotic Americans have caught on to the fact that there is something deeply unfair about the presidential debates.

This clear bias has justifiably led many observers to wonder what is wrong with the Presidential Debate Commission. Just yesterday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany called out the Commission directly:.......

Kayleigh’s characterization of the Commission is of course correct. However, its corruption and bias goes beyond the simple fact that it’s in the tank for Joe Biden. The nominally Republican Chairman of Presidential Debate Commission, Frank Fahrenkopf, is both a co-founder and current board member of the International Republican Institute (IRI), a top “Color Revolution” propaganda outfit. The IRI was run by Never Trump neoconservative John McCain for decades. It is closely linked to the thoroughly discredited Steele Dossier at the center of the Russia Hoax........To Read More....   

• ‘The Swamp’: Debate Commission Packed with Trump Critics from Both Parties

Big Tech’s Backing of the ‘Transition Integrity Project’ Lacks Integrity

Simply put, the entirety of Silicon Valley is working against Donald Trump and Republicans this year.

By Julie Kelly October 1, 2020

  

During Tuesday night’s debate, while fielding yet another softball from moderator Chris Wallace, Joe Biden promised to accept the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. “I will accept it, and he will too,” Biden replied. “You know why? Once the winner is declared after all the votes are counted, that will be the end of it.”

But Biden, as usual, wasn’t telling the whole truth. The former vice president can publicly assure Americans he will abide by the voters’ decision this year because he knows his campaign team is part of a massive operation—cosigned by the most powerful media, business, and political interests in the country—performing Biden’s dirty work behind-the-scenes to make sure that he, not Donald Trump, takes the oath of office on January 20, 2021...............

According to its detailed battle plan, the Transition Integrity Project could extend Election Day all the way to Inauguration Day as it sows chaos across the country until Biden is installed in the White House, even if Trump is legitimately reelected. 

“The purpose of this report is not to frighten, but to spur all stakeholders to action,” TIP warned. “It is 2 [sic] incumbent upon elected officials, civil society leaders, and the press to challenge authoritarian actions in the courts, in the media, and in the streets through peaceful protest.”.........To Read More...

 

When Wish Replaces Thought

by Roger Kimball

Don’t you just love Paul Krugman? One of loudest of the many anti-Trump hysterics employed by the New York Times, the former economist has been a reliable source of comedy at least since election night 2016. Once the worst was certain and the world learned that Donald Trump had indeed been elected president of the United States, Krugman pondered the markets, which had plunged overnight. “When might we expect them to recover?” he asked. “A first-pass answer is never . . . So we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight.”  

What a card! I think we all deserve a Nobel Prize in economics. If Krugman can snag one, why not Stanley down at the bar? He says a lot of stupid things, too.   Krugman never disappoints..........
 
No, here is the indigestible truth for the Democrats. Donald Trump has had the most successful first term of any president in memory, maybe ever. 

His policies brought unemployment down to the lowest rate in decades, Among black and other minority populations, it was the lowest ever—ever. Wages, especially wages at the lower end, were rising, prescription drug prices were falling, and manufacturing was flooding back to the United States, a direct result of Trump’s America First trade policies. He came to office promising to lose two regulations for every new one enacted, but has managed to lose nearly 20 regulations for every new one. His exploitation of America’s energy resources have not only made the country energy independent, they have made us a net exporter of energy. 

Trump has made extraordinary progress on other fronts as well, from his hundreds of judicial appointments to reducing the flow of illegal immigration by 90 percent. On the cultural front, he has defanged the tyranny of Title IX despotism in colleges and universities and, just a day or two ago, he issued an executive order instructing the Office of Management and Budget to “identify and eliminate any trace of ‘critical race theory’ in the federal government.” 

It would be difficult to overstate the significance of this order. Critical race theory is the pseudo-academic version of identity politics, lending a suitable polysyllabic veneer of obfuscation to the brutish Marxoid and America-hating ideologies of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and kindred sites of festering discontent............To Read More.....

Trump Blows Up The Paradigm of GOP ‘Moderates’

Christopher G. Adamo | Aug 31, 2020 | Commentary | 2 

 

In 1992, when Bill Clinton challenged incumbent George Bush Sr. for the presidency, Clinton political strategist James Carville invented the slogan “It’s the economy Stupid!” His purpose was to deflect from Bush’s victory over Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War, along with any other Bush accomplishments, and focus solely on the nation’s lackluster economic performance.

Amazingly, by November 4, the day after Bill Clinton defeated Bush, the picture changed entirely. Suddenly, America was told by the liberal media and the Democrats that the election had been a referendum on abortion, and that the pro-life stance of Republicans had been flatly refuted by the American people.

Sadly, the feckless and morally rudderless GOP “Establishment’ took the bait.

From that point forward, the predictable party “moderates” sought desperately to tap dance their way out of taking any definable stance on issues of basic morality. The concept of upholding the value and dignity of human life, or any other issue of fundamental “right and wrong,” was supplanted by the insipid pallor of “fiscal conservatism.” And the GOP “Establishment” has been retreating ever since...........

It is no wonder that such people revile the President so completely. He not only overcame the venom and corruption of the cabal of Hillary and Obama; he unequivocally proved that elitists of the GOP “Establishment,” who attempt to present themselves as the “mainstream/Big Tent,” are nothing but lackeys of the left. If they can’t help leftist Democrats actually win at the ballot box, they’ll be content to constantly undermine conservatism from within..............To Read More....

It's Trump's Republican Party Now

August 31, 2020 By Brian C. Joondeph

Before President Trump, the Republican Party, and the Democrat Party for that matter, were controlled by the ruling elites of their respective parties. Neither party had any interest in those they claimed to represent, instead bowing to big money donors in exchange for power and position. Once called the military industrial complex, it is now the globalists, wealthy individuals and families happy to hide behind foundations and corporations, ruling America without the consent of the governed, using coercion and force if necessary. This is what candidate Trump railed against. In an important, but largely ignored speech given just weeks before the 2016 presidential election, he made his case in the opening lines...........To Read More.............

Democrats and NeverTrump carpetbaggers lie about Trump's acceptance speech

August 25, 2020 By Andrea Widburg

The Democrats and their fellow travelers in the NeverTrump Lincoln Project are terrified that if Americans hear Trump without mediation, Americans will (a) like what they hear and (b) know that neither he nor his supporters are racist. (And defamatory racism accusations are the biggest sticks with which they can beat conservatives.)

So it was that when Trump appeared in North Carolina to give his acceptance speech upon receiving the Democrat nomination, CNN cut away from the speech because of alleged "outright lies." Then the hate-filled carpetbaggers in the Lincoln Project, a coalition made up of failed Republican campaign advisers, accused an audience member of calling Obama a "monkey" to Trump's laughing agreement. These are the actions of ugly and desperate people.

Breitbart reported that CNN cut away from Trump's speech. When you read the reasoning, you can see that CNN, accidentally or intentionally, confused "objective" facts with "subjective" opinions to justify saying that Trump stated "outright lies."...............

.Regarding the claim that Trump "'falsely' attacked mail-in voting," there's good evidence from all over America (e.g., New York, Virginia, and New Jersey) that mail-in voting is a disaster and a gateway to fraud.  Someone can make an opposing argument by pointing to instances in which mail-in voting worked reasonably well, but that does not make Trump's position "false.".........What the despicable Lincoln Project did, though, was even worse than CNN’s behavior:........... To Read More. 

How Can You Be Reluctant and Unhesitating?

By Rich Kozlovich

Today I posted a piece by Daniel Pipes entitled, A Reluctant but Unhesitating Vote for Donald Trump.  There's much in this piece that I like and completely agree with.  There's much with which I disagree.

I find the author to be a bit self serving, being afraid to be the rock in the current with those with whom he fraternizes.  A quality if find is unfailingly common among talking heads and writers involved in social issues and geopolitics.  I wonder if they ever read history books?

The article's title is, in my opinion, the give away.  How can you be reluctant and unhesitating? Reluctant but willing possibly, or even reluctant but resolved maybe, but you can't be reluctant and unhesitating.  Look up the definitions, the words are contradictions in concept.

I also wonder if these writers ever read dictionaries?

While he praises Trump a great deal, which is another reason I'm posting this.  Other than Trump's personal character almost everything he complains about Trump is a demonstration of what's wrong with the NeverTrumper talking heads.  He makes an important point about the debt load, but at this point the need to fix the overspending and debt can't be addressed as long as the Democrats hold the House, and this writer has to know that.

As for loyalty.  That's a canard.  It's the hired help that has to be loyal to the President or resign.  Those who were fired were either not loyal, or failures.  And they wouldn't resign.  What's a leader supposed to do when the hired help, who are supposed to salute and say "Yes Sir", refuse to follow his instruction and bolt off on their own?  If you're the boss, and you're a "real" leader, you fire them.

This isn't a private company Trump's running.  It's a nation filled with seriously vile people attempting to destroy the American identity, the American cultural, the American economy and destroy the Constitution, all in order to impose a socialist state on America.  He can't afford disloyal failures surrounding him. 

So, a real leader fires them, and that includes Sessions.  Much has been made of Trump firing Sessions, as he was the first Senator to support Trump, which at that time was gutsy. But that gutsiness was an illusion.  He was clearly over his head and drowning, and taking Trump down with him.  Trump needed a blood and guts Attorney General but ended up with a no guts, no glory failure! I would have fired him earlier.

The President is "the" executive, not the staff, he determines policy, not them.  This is especially true since in Trump's case he came to the White House with absolutely no support from the Republican party, which is a demonstration of just how screwed up they are, including George Bush.

As Monica Showalter notes in her piece, Watch for it: Strange new respect for George Bush as Bush minions form PAC to boost Joe Biden, saying:

The embittered camp of former President George Bush, a man who never defended himself against the left's demonization of him while he was president, has formed a super-PAC to support Joe Biden.

Former officials from the George W. Bush administration have formed a super PAC to support former Vice President Joe Biden’s White House campaign. The super PAC, dubbed 43 Alumni For Biden, referring to the 43rd president, was formed Monday, according to a Tuesday filing with the Federal Election Commission. Karen Kirksey, a former Treasury Department official from the Bush administration, is listed as the group’s treasurer and custodian of records.

Bush is also shooting his mouth off about "America's Failures".  Once again, this was a man "who never defended himself against the left's demonization of him while he was president", and he kept his mouth shut when attacked even after he was no longer President.  Well, two of those failures was the election of his dad and him, but now since that's been fixed, and it wasn't repeated by electing his brother.  As for now - George - go back to sleep!

Then we have idiots like Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, who has declared "Trump Is the 1st President in My Lifetime Who Does Not Try to Unite the American People."  Really?  What does that mean?  What if the opposition wanted to impose a dictatorship?  How exactly would Mattis find a united front with them?  Oh, wait, I know, I know.  He would give up and surrender.

Was he asleep all during the Obama years where Obama laid the ground work for the outrages going on right now?  Isn't this Obama's Army, because for eight years he continually undermined national cohesiveness with race baiting and the victimization of different groups?  All blaming "white privilege".  Or perhaps Mattis is just too stupid to know what's going on around him?

Either way,  I would have fired him too, only I would have fired him much earlier also.  Here's an update on this ridiculous and petty little man, The embarrassing nonsense of General Mattis. Ignorant, self-serving or just plain stupid? I go for stupid!

Trump has had to find his own replacements, and that required a lot of hiring and firing until the right people were in place. People who were there to serve the President.  In fact, for some time there were, and still may be, Obama appointees in positions of authority because of that lack of support.

Solution? Fire anyone who's in opposition to the boss.   Trump is the boss.  Get over it.  They need to do as their told, quit or get fired.  Those are the options.

It's clear, by this author's comments about trade, he doesn't grasp that the Bretton Woods Era is over, and it takes a leader like Trump to get it done.  As for his character, the difference between Trump and so many of these others, his life has been an open book.  Obama, Biden, the Clintons and a host of others have led two lives, and one of them, filled with corruption.  Corruption they're desperately are trying to hide, including Obama.

Not all "real" leaders have the sterling character of Ronald Reagan.  Get over it.
 
Since I disagree with so much of what he's saying, why did I post this piece?  Because he represents what I believe is a large segment of the population that has become so disenchanted and frightened by the opposition they'll either not vote, or vote for Trump.  In that group I include women, blacks, Asians, Catholics, Hispanics, and believe it or not - gays.  All of whom have consistently voted for Democrats in very large numbers.

The alternative?  Antifa and a dystopian socialist state.