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Hey there, Miss On-the-Mend-Flo-zee.
I'd say that's the best news of the day.
Hope the pain is subsiding as the healing progresses.
Take care of yourself sweet stuff.
You deserve only the best.
Cori Bush could be right about those 5 Black police officers being influenced by ‘White Supremacy.
It could be that t they are Transracials that identify as White Supremist.
Yes, I'm joking!
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Jill Biden Shields President From Answering Classified Docs Question
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/jill-biden-joe/2023/01/27/id/1106252/
West Virginia AG Morrisey Flags Concerns of DirecTV CEO Dropping Newsmax
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/directv-censorship-west-virginia/2023/01/27/id/1106257/
and as a required safety disclaimer:
Pay no attention to the fine upstanding, pillars of the community in the back seat!
A line from a recruiting ad:
* You'll have the authority to pull over babes , on dark lonely roads and "bargain" with them.
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Schiff Hit With Ethics Probe Amid Senate Campaign Kickoff
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/adam-schiff-senate-ethics/2023/01/27/id/1106255/
Civilians doing police work is violence, including shooting, in the making!
Even proposing a civilian traffic law enforcement organization is stupid beyond words. A problem with the police is that it tends to attract indiivideals that want to dominate others.
Civilian traffic enforcement would bring that type out of th woodwork.
You can't fix stupid by electing stupid people. For instance--The Story of two Corys.. Cori Bush and Cory Booker.
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How will they recruit the civilians? What incentive will be dangled in front of them to enlist in this very high risk program?
Twitter Files No. 15: ‘I think we need to just call this out on the BS that it is.’
By Andrea Widburg
Matt Taibbi has just dropped Twitter Files #15 (embedded at the end of this post), and it’s a humdinger. It turns out that one of the most aggressive sites to push the Russia hoax and to use its status to silence anyone who challenged the hoax or supported Trump and his agenda was always full of fecal matter. Twitter knew it but refused to act and, when it delicately tried to let the mainstream media know that a major source of pro-Russia hoax information was fake, the media (surprise!) did nothing.
In 2017, when the Russian collusion hoax against Donald Trump was in full flower, a website called Hamilton 68 made big waves. It identified itself as a website capable of tracking Russian-backed propaganda on Twitter. Here’s Reuters, in August 2017, puffing it up:
A website launched on Wednesday seeks to track Russian-supported propaganda and disinformation on Twitter, part of a growing non-governmental effort to diminish Moscow’s ability to meddle in future elections in the United States and Europe.
The “Hamilton 68” dashboard was built by researchers working with the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan, transatlantic project set up last month to counter Russian disinformation campaigns.
The website, supported by the German Marshall Fund, displays a “near real-time” analysis of English-language tweets from a pool of 600 Twitter accounts that analysts identified as users that spread Russian propaganda.
Reuters made a point of noting that the site came along just as the (impliedly guilty) “Trump administration has shown reluctance to address Russian cyber attacks during ongoing investigations into whether his campaign colluded with Moscow during the 2016 election.”
Image: Chris Watts of Hamilton 68. Twitter screen grab.
Hamilton 68 had some interesting people behind it. Clint Watts, a one-time FBI counterintelligence official and now an MSNBC contributor, headed the project. The money came from the Alliance for Securing Democracy (“ASD”), with an advisory council including fanatic Trump hater Bill Kristol, Obama-era ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, Hillary’s crony John Podesta, and various former CIA, NSA, and DHS high officials. It would be accurate to call them career disinformation specialists. Hamilton 68 was ultimately a repository for former Deep State employees and their allies.
With those credentials, all of which were music to Democrat ears, Hamilton 68 had huge reach for years, with the mainstream media constantly citing it to attack Trump and, when he seemed likely to be a Democrat nominee, Bernie Sanders. Academia and politicians relied on it too. For all of them, it was a boon that Hamilton 68 shot down as the product of Russian bots anything that challenged the Russia collusion narrative or supported Donald Trump.
When Hamilton 68 launched, reports Reuters, “Twitter said it was not involved in the project. It had no other comment.” ]
It turns out, though, that if Twitter had commented, it would have said that the site was unadulterated “bulls***.” Or at least, it knew the truth by October 2017, just a short time after it launched. As Yoel Roth, no friend to Trump, wrote in an internal email, “Virtually any conclusion drawn from it will take conversations in conservative circles on Twitter and accuse them of being Russian.”
Hamilton 68 was a scam. To their individual credit, some Twitter executives, including Yoel Roth, wanted to out it as “wrong, irresponsible, and biased.” However, they were afraid of running afoul of the ASD. Despite Hamilton 68’s incredible, dishonest reach, Twitter kept silent. The most it did was delicately try to give reporters “off the record” information.
Those reporters did nothing. They liked Hamilton 68’s narrative and were not going to destroy it. The same was true for academia (Harvard, Princeton, NYU, etc.), which also relied on Hamilton 68 and refused to acknowledge any problems.
In sum, Twitter knew that Hamilton 68 was a disinformation operation against Trump and the Republicans. However, the powerful former Deep State cabal behind Hamilton 68 frightened Twitter executives so much that they did nothing other than quietly whisper their concerns to reporters and academics, who refused to listen.
As you think of that, remember, too, that the Russia hoax sucked up much of Trump’s time, energy and, importantly, political capital. This hampered his ability to make good on his campaign promises and dogged him going into the 2020 election. Twitter was a coward; the media and academia were evil.
2.“I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is.” pic.twitter.com/q2n6pCZRzv
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
4.“Virtually any conclusion drawn from it will take conversations in conservative circles on Twitter and accuse them of being Russian.” pic.twitter.com/g7Ozzj4ST8
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
6.The “dashboard” was headed by former FBI counterintelligence official (and current MSNBC contributor) Clint Watts, and funded by a neoliberal think tank, the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD). pic.twitter.com/XW4JXfAlGM
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
https://t.co/0yk0y7VlGX outlets for years cited Watts and Hamilton 68 when claiming Russian bots were “amplifying” an endless parade of social media causes – against strikes in Syria, in support of Fox host Laura Ingraham, the campaigns of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. pic.twitter.com/Qwf5UuKUkb
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
10. The secret ingredient to Hamilton 68’s analytical method? A list: “Our analysis has linked 600 Twitter accounts to Russian influence activities online,” was how the site put it at launch. pic.twitter.com/8ipRLSfzOm
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
12. Twitter executives were in a unique position to recreate Hamilton’s list, reverse-engineering it from the site’s requests for Twitter data.
Concerned about the deluge of Hamilton-based news stories, they did so – and what they found shocked them. pic.twitter.com/qRZyylALUe
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
14. In layman’s terms, the Hamilton 68 barely had any Russians. In fact, apart from a few RT accounts, it’s mostly full of ordinary Americans, Canadians, and British.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
16. Twitter immediately recognized these Hamilton-driven news stories posed a major ethical problem, potentially implicating them.
“Real people need to know they’ve been unilaterally labeled Russian stooges without evidence or recourse,” Roth wrote. pic.twitter.com/JSDowtPzHY
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
18.Yoel Roth wanted a confrontation. “My recommendation at this stage is an ultimatum: you release the list or we do,” he wrote.
However, there were internal concerns about taking on the politically connected Alliance for Securing Democracy. pic.twitter.com/Ejg1VcH73R
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
20.“I also have been very frustrated in not calling out Hamilton 68 more publicly, but understand we have to play a longer game here,” wrote Carlos Monje, the future senior advisor to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. pic.twitter.com/JvfSkyUlfL
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
22.“I’m shocked,” says Sonia Monsour, who as a child lived through civil war in Lebanon. “Supposedly in a free world, we are being watched at many levels, by what we say online.”
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
24. “When I was growing up, my father told me about the McCarthyite blacklist,” says Oregon native Jacob Levich. “As a child it would never have occurred to me that this would come back, in force and broadly, in a way… designed to undermine rights we hold dear.”
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
26. I’m listed as a foreign bot?” said conservative media figure Dennis Michael Lynch. “As a proud taxpaying citizen, charitable family man, and honest son of a U.S. Marine, I deserve better. We all do!” pic.twitter.com/HhKE9FPfpO
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
28.What makes this an important story is the sheer scale of the news footprint left by Hamilton 68’s digital McCarthyism. The quantity of headlines and TV segments dwarfs the impact of individual fabulists like Jayson Blair or Stephen Glass. pic.twitter.com/zfyjLb5Tkq
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
30.These stories raised fears in the population, and most insidious of all, were used to smear people like Tulsi Gabbard as foreign “assets,” and drum up sympathy for political causes like Joe Biden’s campaign by describing critics as Russian-aligned. pic.twitter.com/3lsuG1ZTrd
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
https://t.co/FAazMoLnTO was a lie. The illusion of Russian support was created by tracking people like Joe Lauria, Sonia Monsour, and Dave Shestokas. Virtually every major American news organization cited these fake tales— even fact-checking sites like Snopes and Politifact. pic.twitter.com/zleliOsckq
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
34.Roth was offended by the idea that tweets on certain themes suggested subversion. “Can we talk about how incredibly condescending…? If you talk about these themes, you must have been duped by Russian propaganda.” pic.twitter.com/gxRWq6jr4G
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
https://t.co/6uoBuoT66e least two other research institutions that used similar methodologies – and were cited as sources in news stories – were also criticized in Twitter email correspondence.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
38.This was an academic scandal as well, as Harvard, Princeton, Temple, NYU, GWU, and other universities promoted Hamilton 68 as a source: pic.twitter.com/CyzGnVUjh5
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
40.The mix of digital McCarthyism and fraud did great damage to American politics and culture. News outlets that don't disavow these stories, or still pay Hamilton vets as analysts, shouldn't be trusted. Every subscriber to those outlets to write to editors about the issue.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
42. For more on this story, read the detailed new story at https://t.co/GqjouRjgmR
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
And a special thanks to @0rf for putting together video for this segment - much more to come.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 27, 2023
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/twitter_files_no_15_i_think_we_need_to_just_call_this_out_on_the_bs_that_it_is.html
Cori Bush is an articulate version of Maxie Waters and Hank Johnson, but , in being articulate, she is more dangerous.
You want Chaos? Let civilians enforce traffic laws. Being articulate does not fix stupid !
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Rep. Cori Bush Blames ‘White Supremacy’ For Police Killing of Tyre Nichols, Calls for ‘Civilian Traffic Enforcement’
(Rep George Santos , is looking better and better)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/rep-cori-bush-blames-white-supremacy-police-killing-tyre-nichols-calls-civilian-traffic-enforcement/
Far-left Congresswoman Cori Bush has issued a statement blaming “white supremacy” for the police killing of Tyre Nichols, despite everyone involved being black.
Rep. Bush is also calling for civilians to handle traffic enforcement.
Nichols, 29, died in the hospital three days after being brutally assaulted by five Memphis police officers during a traffic stop on January 10.
All five former officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III, and Justin Smith — have already been arrested and charged with second-degree murder, among other charges.
In her statement, Rep. Bush began by saying that “Tyre Nichols should be alive today. He should be playing with his four-year-old son. He should be skateboarding and photographing sunsets. But instead, Tyre was brutally beaten to death by Memphis Police officers. And now, instead of seeing the photographs he took, the world watches Tyre crying out for his mother in his final moments of consciousness.
The extremely far-left politician said that charging the police is “not enough” and that the nation needs to dismantle “its racist policing system rooted in enslavement.”
“Charging the officers who brutalized Tyre is not enough,” Bush continued. “Our country will continue to sanction the taking of Black lives with impunity until it embraces an affirmative vision of public safety and dismantles its racist policing system rooted in enslavement and government control. And let’s be clear: merely diversifying police forces will never address the violent, racist architecture that underpins our entire criminal legal system. The mere presence of Black officers does not stop policing from being a tool of white supremacy.”
Rep. Bush continued on to call for “unarmed emergency first responder agencies, 911 diversion programs, civilian traffic enforcement” and other bizarre anti-police “solutions.”
“It is abundantly clear that rogue, militarized policing has never and will never keep us safe. Following a year of record-breaking police killings, prevention is the best path forward,” the congresswoman wrote. “Achieving genuine public safety requires investing in our communities. We need unarmed emergency first responder agencies, 911 diversion programs, civilian traffic enforcement, community-based and -led interventions, safe passage to school and violence interruption programs, behavioral health and crisis support treatment, nutrition support, housing security, and programs for youth and families, survivors of violence, and individuals exiting incarceration or criminal supervision.”
Towards the end of her statement, Rep. Bush once again blamed “the altar of white supremacy” for five black men murdering another black man.
“St. Louis and I mourn with Tyre’s family and echo their call to disband the SCORPION unit of the Memphis Police Department,” Rep. Bush wrote. “I will not stop advocating for a country where our government helps feed, house, educate and support our children, families, and community members, instead of slaughtering them at the altar of white supremacy. Rest in Power Tyre; it is in your name and the name of the thousands of other Black lives killed by police that we will keep pushing to not only end police brutality but dismantle the uniquely American racist and violent policing system.”
The congresswoman concluded with a call to action for her fellow lawmakers, writing, “to my colleagues in Congress: how many more people have to die at the hands of police for you to join our push for an unequivocal, affirmative public safety agenda that saves lives?”
Some News is good. This is an example.
Wokester inferno: Investors flee leftist ESG investment funds"
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Wokester inferno: Investors flee leftist ESG investment funds
By Monica Showalter
As if you needed anything to seal the deal about the fraudiness of green and socially conscious investments, Barron's has a report (free version here) about investors now fleeing wokester Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) investment funds, which bill themselves as "sustainable investments."
Investors yanked the most money out of U.S. sustainable funds in more than five years last quarter, withdrawing a net nearly $6.2 billion to round out a tough year for environmental, social, and governance strategies.
The net flow of money into U.S. sustainable mutual and exchange-traded funds has diminished steadily since it hit a record high in the first quarter of 2021, according to a new report from
Morningstar.
The decline comes as inflation, rising interest rates, and lingering fears of recession have weighed on markets and investor sentiment.
But that doesn’t explain the whole shift. The increasing politicization of ESG investing also hurt investment strategies that prioritize social and environmental issues, said Alyssa Stankiewicz, associate director of sustainability research at Morningstar and a co-author of the report.
The report claims that these groups don't make energy investments (nor apparently, utility investments based on charts such at the one at the last bar graph near bottom of the page here), meaning, they'd lost out on an opportunity to make a profit in energy sector companies which are doing well this year.
Barron's continues:
As for performance, sustainable funds lagged behind the broader market, given their lack of exposure to traditional energy stocks, the best-performing sector of the S&P 500 index with a gain of 66%. Communication services, consumer discretionary, and information technology lost 40%, 37%, and 28%, respectively.
They went for tech and baubles, in other words, and rejected the fossil fuels that propel the economy. Seems they are happy to put gas in their cars, wear vegan leather derived from petroleum products, turn on their gas stoves, jet around on private jets, and flip the 'on' switch on to their computers, but they won't put a penny into all the dreadfully wicked and "morally wrong" energy and utility companies that make this modern lifestyle possible.
Hypocrite much?
Now they are eating crow. Their returns are down and investors are yanking money, big money. A valid investment opportunity in energy was just lying there for them to buy up at big profit this year, but out of the urge to virtue-signal, they left that money on the table and let someone else get it. And that's as if companies like ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and the rest of them weren't greenied-up themselves, continuously insising ad nauseum that they, too, are greenie-virtuous, shoveling large amounts of their own cash into greenie ventures and carbon credits.
A Bloomberg report that didn't age well last week in the Washington Post, titled "How to Understand the Correction in the ESG Fund Market" ridiculously claimed that investors were fleeing because the ESG companies weren't doing it right but that doesn't hold water now that these numbers are in and Barron's has scooped them.
For the first quarter in more than three years, U.S. sustainable funds had a lower organic growth rate than the total U.S. fund universe. The organic growth rate “puts the magnitude of fund flows into perspective,” said Stankiewicz. During the fourth quarter, sustainable funds shrank by 2.2% compared with an 0.8% shrinkage in the overall U.S. landscape.
The three U.S. ESG funds that attracted the most net inflows in the fourth quarter were American Century Sustainable Equity (ticker: AFDAX), Calvert Equity (CSIEX), and the iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (EAGG). Two funds that saw steep outflows were the
iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (ESGU), which suffered $1.8 billion in net outflows, and Parnassus Core Equity (PRBLX), at $1.2 billion.
Now the ESG investors get less. It's not for nothing that Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis put the kibbosh on ESG funds for Florida's public pensions (and curiously, didn't get signficant pushback from pensionholders the way he did for banning a wokester college course). DeSantis protected Florida's pensioners from the kinds of funds investors are already fleeing on their own.
Bottom line here is ... the bottom line. They could have gotten 'more' by investing responsibly, which is to say, with a focus on returns, but they instead chose to have less, so they could virtue-signal, and meddle with corporate management at the shareholder protest level, as this fund brags about doing in its "2022 Stewardship Report" here, which is full of greenie gobbledygook.
Even greenie investors, of course, could have taken that 'more' in returns instead and put that profit into new greenie ventures of their own choosing but that train has left the station. None of these characters seems to understand that that is how investing works. They made less instead of more by failing to put money into legitimate investments on political correctness grounds and are now surprised to see that investors taking their money some place else.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/wokester_inferno_investors_flee_leftist_esg_investment_funds.html
That's quite a statement. I have no doubt that millions of Americans have similar thoughts but keep them to themselves to stay off some kind of National Register.
It's very important to note that DePage is not a Right Wing Extremist. He not even an American. But he does seem to have some sense of Right & Wrong.
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Pelosi Attacker David DePape Calls San Francisco TV Station, Says, “I’m So Sorry I Didn’t Get More of Them” (Audio)
DePape:
“Now that you all have seen the bodycam footage, I have an important message for everyone in America. Freedom and liberty isn’t dying, it’s being killed systematically and deliberately. The people killing it have names and addresses. So I got their names and addresses so I could pay them a little visit. Have a heart to heart chat about their bad behavior. The tree of Liberty needs watering, he needs men of valor. Patriots willing to put their own lives on the line to stand in opposition of tyranny.
I would also like to apologize. I want to apologize to everyone. I messed up. What I did was really bad. I’m so sorry I didn’t get more of them. It’s my own fault. No one else is to blame. I should have come better prepared.
I spent all my time exposing government corruption online, only to have them silence my freedom of speech as quickly as they could. It circumvented the Constitution. Private industry and the ruling class outsources the recession of these civil tights to private industry–it’s called fascism. I have a lot more to say. I had a website of over three hundred pages. That’s three hundred pages of stuff they don’t want you to hear. I’m in the process of trying to set up a new site out of the reach of tyrannical global fascists and their internet censors.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/pelosi-attacker-david-depape-calls-san-francisco-tv-station-says-sorry-didnt-get-audio/
Did he type his notes on WHITE paper?! OMG! He's a racist too!
A total disgrace. And 1/2 the country thinks that they are informed by these DNC eunuchs.
*Live* ~ President Trump’s visit to NH on Saturday, 1/28/23 >
Saturday, January 28 2023 – 9:30am ET...
Concord, NH – New Hampshire Republican State Committee announces
former President Donald J. Trump as Keynote Speaker at 2023 Annual Meeting.
Chairman Stephen Stepanek stated:
“ We are excited to welcome President Trump back to the Granite State
to be the keynote speaker at our 2023 Annual Meeting. President Trump
has long been a strong defender of New Hampshire’s First in the Nation
Primary Status and we are excited that he will join us
to deliver remarks to our Members " ...
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/featured/nhgop-president-trumps-visit-to-new-hampshire-on-saturday-1-28-23/?mc_cid=9e37f7dbc6&mc_eid=a19c8148b2
Hey doing well, on the mend for sure
"Apparently, we can’t allow Russia to clean up this mess we made "
Poor Lil Putin! We tricked him into opening a three front war in Ukraine. Just as we tricked him into invading Ukraine in 2015. He was forced to keep Crimea.
And out of desperation, Poor Lil Putin was forced to invade Georgia and keep part of it. a few year earlier.
IMO, Poor Lil Putin is a despotic Lil Thug, bent on recreating the USSR. And he doesn't care how many Ukrainians or Latvians, or Lithuanians or Estonians he has to slaughter to do it. IMO
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US two-front fentanyl folly, war on gas stoves is real and other commentary
By Post Editorial Board January 27, 2023 7:48pm Updated
China desk: US Two-Front Fentanyl Folly
Former DEA Agent Derek Maltz “became suspicious of China’s role in the fentanyl crisis in 2012,” notes Jonathan Alpeyrie at Tablet. But despite “senior DEA officials trying to communicate the urgency of the issue to the Obama administration,” it was “only during Trump’s presidency in 2019 that China” made fentanyl “more difficult to produce and distribute,” likely thanks to Trump pressuring Beijing. Note that the European Union saw “only 6,400 overdose deaths in 2020 while the U.S., with a significantly smaller population, suffered more than 90,000.” That’s due to our “legal drug crisis”: Opioids “have been pushed onto the general public for over a century.” The two factors are “creating a permanent underclass of addicted citizens and a spiraling crisis of dependency and death.”
War beat: How Not To Negotiate with Russia
“There’s a bigger point,” argues Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba at Politico, “that the ‘peace at any cost’ camp ignores: We have already spent over eight years negotiating with Russia.” “The so-called peace talks known as the Minsk process was initiated in 2014”; “Ukraine agreed to freeze battle lines and engaged in years of fruitless negotiations.” “Needless to say, it didn’t work. While we were holding back, Russia was building up. The Minsk process ended when Russia unleashed a devastating total war of aggression on Ukraine at the end of February 2022.” Some hard lessons learned: “It’s a mistake to freeze the war and postpone the solution of territorial problems ‘for the future,’?” “Russia doesn’t negotiate in good faith,” and “partners should force Russia, not Ukraine, into concessions.”
Libertarian: War on Gas Stoves Is Real
Progressives are blasting conservatives’ freak-out over a supposedly imaginary war on gas stoves, but “climate warriors are indeed trying to ban” them, insists Steven Greenhut at Reason. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says it’ll evaluate indoor gas cooking, and bans “always start with a study” — which produces “predictable results.” CPSC chief Richard Trumka Jr. still warns “products that can’t be made safe can be banned.” New York, Los Angeles and other cities have already banned gas hookups for new buildings, so “it’s no surprise federal bureaucrats are getting into the action.” Meanwhile, greens are using a single dubious study to “scare people about the dangers of gas cooking.” So: “Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking this crusade is imaginary.”
Neocon: Klain’s Cheap ‘Hostage-Taking’ Slur
Outgoing White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain and other Democrats, grumbles Commentary’s Noah Rothman, claim “that the congressional Republicans using their leverage to secure a deal on federal spending are ‘hostage takers’.” Yet in negotiations to raise the debt limit, House Republicans’ “seeking offsets to wild spending sprees isn’t purely ideological — it’s arguably practical.” Indeed, “it seems that it is only ever Republicans who are accused of wielding like a weapon the leverage conferred to them by voters.” Rhetoric about “hostage-taking” persuades no one, and “cheapening the discourse and poisoning the political well is no small price to pay just to indulge your ego.”
Defense watch: Update US Arms Depot in Israel
“A relatively unknown U.S. arms depot in Israel has become a stockpile of democracy in recent months, as the Biden administration has transferred its artillery shells to Ukraine,” observe Michael Makovsky & Blaise Misztal in The Wall Street Journal. Great: That helps Ukraine and offers a chance “to replenish the depot with updated weapons and transform it into a valuable hub for the U.S., Israel and other regional allies.” Set up in 1984, the War Reserve Stockpile Ammunition-Israel “hasn’t been upgraded since before the Obama administration,” so it holds “only shells and other ‘dumb’ — or unguided — munitions” of little use to modern militaries: not just Israel’s, but also ours.
Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
https://nypost.com/2023/01/27/us-two-front-fentanyl-folly-war-on-gas-stoves-is-real-and-other-commentary/
Oh, puh-leeze. Guess Van Jones is disappointed the poor kid wasn't killed by white cops.
Morning, rf.
Glad I have other things to do today.
They should keep me off this thing -- once I get my fix. <g>
It was not race, but bad policing that led to deadly beating of Tyre Nichols
By Jonathan Turley January 27, 2023 10:07pm Updated
(Another black on black crime. The whole thing makes me sick. No excuse for the cops' behavior.)
The release of the videos from the lethal arrest of Tyre Nichols, 29, is shocking for its lack of professional tactics and procedures. This looks like adrenaline-filled rage … from the officers. At certain points, it is the suspect who sounds to be trying to de-escalate the situation.
It is unfortunately not unique. In physical encounters, officers can escalate violence and lose control with lethal consequences.
The footage helps establish a number of legal points. The force is clearly and undeniably excessive. It was a complete breakdown of training and supervision.
It is hard to look at this tape objectively and analytically given the emotional impact of the scene. Yet, the footage helps establish a number of legal points.
There is both a state and federal investigation ongoing and the tapes will help and hurt aspects of those cases.
There is ample basis for taking a second-degree murder case to trial. However, the tape also shows where the defense is likely to go in the coming weeks.
The officers are not just facing second-degree murder charges but a whole slew of charges from aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping to official oppression. The aggravated assault and official oppression charges are amply supported by the videotape. The defense will likely focus on controlling the damage rather than leave the case unscathed.
The defense is likely to attack the second-degree murder charge because there was a rapid escalation and a defendant fled. While the beatings on the tape could well justify most people fleeing in fear, second-degree murder is “a knowing killing of another.” It does not require premeditation. The officers appear out of control but the counsel will argue that they did not knowingly or intentionally try to kill Nichols. Indeed, his death may have been caused in part by the delay in medical aid.
The aggravated kidnapping could also face a challenge. Usually, an invalid stop or arrest is not treated as kidnapping, particularly after a suspect allegedly flees.
Police chief warns Memphis not to react violently after release of Tyre Nichols ‘inhumane’ beating video
Finally, the “one size fits all” charges for five officers could prove problematic. The officers are not using the same level of force. The worst acts include an officer positioning himself to get a clear shot to kick Nichols in the face as two officers struggle with him on the ground.
Most horrific cases tend to look monolithic at the outset. However, more granular details emerge over time that can differentiate the conduct of individual officers. The detail on these tapes shows different conduct and levels of force that a jury will have to balance.
The tapes would initially appear to show a death caused by excessive force rather than racial animus. However, this case was quickly framed in racial terms. That is not unique to our hair-triggered commentary and coverage.
‘Bigotry’ label
This month, when a man killed 10 people and injured 10 others in Southern California, politicians and pundits rushed forward to declare the attack a hate crime. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer denounced the “bigotry and hate” of the crime.
Politicians did not wait to learn that it was committed by an Asian American with a history of mental illness who claimed to be “the president of Tokyo.”
Similar comments followed the death of Nichols before it was revealed that all of the officers are also African-American.
That is why the move of the Justice Department to open a civil rights investigation is surprising. While denouncing this killing, Police chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis told the public that the race of the officers “takes off the table that issues and problems in law enforcement [are] about race.”
There was a general rule that such civil rights investigations would follow state investigations and charges. That rule was discarded by the Obama Administration in cases like the killing of Trayvon Martin. After the fanfare of the investigation, the Administration quietly shut it down and did not bring any charges.
This is another case where the opening of the civil rights investigation may be premature. Memphis quickly fired all five officers and indicted them in a remarkably short time. They then denounced the officers’ actions and sought second-degree murder convictions.
Since a federal prosecution would follow the state prosecution, it is not clear why the Biden administration launched the investigation. Having a set of federal investigators pursuing witnesses and analyzing evidence can present challenges for local police in making the case against these officers.
One element that remains unknown is the reason for the traffic stop. Race-based incidents often involve pre-textual or invalid reasons for a stop. The prosecutors expressly declined to say that the initial traffic stop for reckless driving was pre-textual.
The videotapes suggest a more common explanation of officers who are poorly trained and out of control in a physical altercation.
What is most clear is that the officers all deserved to be fired and that justice is being done. That point may be lost on protesters, but the police, prosecutors, and defense counsel are seeking real justice in the case of Tyre Nichols.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/27/it-was-not-race-but-bad-policing-in-deadly-beating-of-tyre-nichol/
CNN's Van Jones claims black cops who 'killed' Tyre Nichols may be 'driven by racism' - because 'black people aren't immune to anti-black messages'
Jones wrote that cops who killed Nichols may have been 'driven by racism'
He said that black people 'are not immune' to effects of anti-blackness
'Self-hatred is a real thing,' said Jones, a star liberal commentator for CNN
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11686365/Van-Jones-slammed-op-ed-claiming-cops-killed-Tyre-Nichols-couldve-driven-racism.html
(He forgot to say Trump caused it)
Thanks and GM, cap.
Will do my best to have fun.
Hope you have a good weekend, too.
Kunstler:
Pretend-O-Rama
“Not only is there no threat from Russia that is independent of American policy, but it is also the expansion of NATO to ‘meet the threat from Russia’ that creates the very threat that expansion was supposed to meet.” — Alistair Crooke
I doubt that many Americans — even the masses sunk in vaccine smuggery and obsessive Trump-o-phobia — believe that America’s Ukraine project is working out for us. Of course, to even begin thinking about this debacle, you must at least suspect that our government is lying about virtually everything it has its hand in. Name something it is not lying about, I dare you.
So, what is the Ukraine project about? To use that sad-ass country as a vector to disable and destroy Russia. You can’t over-state the stupidity of that objective. And why did we want to do that? Because… reasons. Oh? And what were they? Well, Russia was… there. Oh? And what was it doing? Trying to take over the world? Uh, no. It was actually just trying to be a normal European nation again after its traumatic 75-year-long experiment with communism, which ended in 1991.
And then, after that, coming along pretty well under Mr. Putin. Did I say that? Yes, I did, because it is a fact. Russia wrote new private property laws, made commerce legal again, and allowed its citizens to do business. Russia wasn’t threatening any other nations, most particularly not its former province, Ukraine. It had even invited Ukraine to be a sovereign member of its trade association, the customs union, with a bunch of other regional states who had rational interests in good regional relations. That’s what set off the maniacs at the US State Department — under Secretary John Kerry, a.k.a. the haircut-in-search-of a-brain — who, in 2014, decided to overthrow Ukraine’s government.
The project since then has been to use the US-controlled Ukraine government to antagonize Russia and, finally, to draw Russia into a military operation intended, SecDef Lloyd Austin said more than once, “to weaken Russia.” Well, everything we’ve done there, from eight years of shelling the Donbas, to kicking Russia out of the West’s banking system, to pouring billions of US dollars into Ukraine’s corrupt government, has only strengthened Russia internally, earned the approbation of many other nations who object to US interference in their regions, and steered poor Ukraine into the graveyard of failed states.
We are losing this unnecessary proxy war about as steadily as possible, and actually making Russia look good in the process. Russia could have ended the war in five minutes by turning Kiev into an ashtray, but it spent the first eight months of the operation trying to avoid busting up Ukraine’s infrastructure, so as not to turn it into a failed state (that would present new and worse problems). Mr. Putin made many overtures to negotiate an end to the conflict, all rejected by Ukraine, the US, and its NATO “partners.”
So, now Russia is grinding on-the-ground to reduce Ukraine’s ability to continue making war by systematically killing the troops Ukraine foolishly throws into the battle line, and destroying Ukraine’s heavy weapons. Ukraine is about out of its own soldiers and weapons. Russia is maneuvering to roll over what’s left there and put an end to these pointless and needless hostilities. Contrary to US propaganda, Russia has no ambition to conquer NATO territory. Rather its aim is to restore order to a corner of the world that has been its legitimate sphere of influence for centuries — and more than once been used as a doormat for European armies to invade Russia.
Apparently, we can’t allow Russia to clean up this mess we made — or we pretend that we can’t, even though it’s happening anyway, whether we like it or not. So now, the US promises to send thirty-one M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. A bold move, you think? Not exactly. By the time these tanks get anywhere in the vicinity of Ukraine, this war is likely to be over. Never mind the difficult business of training the few remaining eligible Ukrainian men between sixteen and sixty how to operate the tanks, and training maintenance crews, and delivering inventories of spare parts — you see where this is going — not to mention the certainty that the Russians will simply blow them up as fast as they appear on the premises. Anyway, a measly thirty-one tanks that can barely be operated is meaningless compared to hundreds of T-72s backed by newer T-14 tanks the Russians can muster from just over their border with Ukraine.
The tank proffer is, sad to say (for the dignity of our country), a joke, kind of a last feeble pretense before the whole thing ends in ignominy for the “Joe Biden” team — whoever that actually is. The repercussions are liable to be ugly for our country, not necessarily in terms of more military trouble in other lands (which we probably lack the capacity to engage in now), but something more personal: the collapse of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency and a vicious loss of purchasing power here at home. That would provoke a situation worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s, and that’s probably where things are going.
The Ukraine misadventure will disappear from America’s collective consciousness in a New York minute and a Fourth Turning jamboree of serious domestic political disorder will commence in short order. If you think “Joe Biden’s” term in office has been a disaster so far, just wait. You ain’t seen nuttin yet.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/pretend-o-rama/
Best wishes to you as well, Darlene.
Have a good weekend Ks and all.
With debt out of control, Republicans can’t be intermittent fiscal hawks
By Rich Lowry January 26, 2023 11:11pm Updated
After a hiatus during the Trump years, Republicans are back in the mood for fiscal probity.
It’s very strange not to seriously pursue a deeply held goal when you have unified control of Washington, then to insist on trying to achieve much of it in one fell swoop when you barely have control of one chamber of Congress.
But here we are. This is the Republican pattern. It has been, fundamentally, driven by the fact that two Republican presidents in a row now have won the White House by effectively running against the fiscal conservatism of the party’s congressional wing.
George W. Bush’s compassionate conservatism was an implicit rebuke of Newt Gingrich’s bomb-throwing majorities that tried to balance the budget at all costs. Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again populism was a rejection of Paul Ryan’s debt-obsessed majority that hoped to move the goal posts on entitlement reform.
The problem is that Ryan was right about the substance and Trump is right about the politics, and that dilemma is why the country’s debt-to-gross-domestic-product ratio is nearly 100% and is projected to keep climbing.
It had looked like GOP fiscal hawks had either all molted into big-government populists or at least were happy to associate themselves with that flock. So it’s been some comfort to anyone concerned about spending that the House Republican backbench has sounded almost indistinguishable from the GOP conference back in the Tea Party heyday of 2011.
Of course, Republican budget hawks would have more credibility if their passion and commitment didn’t seem contingent on — with some honorable exceptions — a Democrat being in the White House.
But the barely comprehensible levels of pandemic-era spending over the last three years, when Washington has run more than $7 trillion in budget deficits, should be enough to give anyone pause.
As the economist Herb Stein famously said, if something can’t go on forever, it will stop. No one can know how long we can go on with the debt on the current trajectory without baleful consequences — it could be 20 years, it could be 20 months. Prudence suggests we should avoid finding out.
And that inevitably means squeezing the entitlements that Trump says shouldn’t be cut by a penny.
If the federal budget consisted only of discretionary spending, it’d be in decent enough shape; mandatory spending is where the action is.
As budget maven Brian Riedl of the Manhattan Institute points out, in 2032, Social Security, health entitlements and interest costs are projected to account for 86% of the increase in spending over 2008 levels. The growing Social Security and Medicare shortfalls will account for almost all the growing deficit over the next 10 years. (The 2017 GOP tax cuts contribute to the projected deficits, but only marginally.)
The scale of the challenge means Republicans are unlikely to produce any plan to balance the budget in 10 years, certainly not one without huge magic asterisks.
Making some progress against spending this year during the debt-ceiling fight would be welcome, but the GOP’s expectations for the showdown should be realistic.
Republicans should seek limits on discretionary spending (although it’s tricky because now is not the time to cut back on defense spending); push some technical, not particularly important savings on entitlements; and embrace the TRUST Act that would create bipartisan committees to at least get the conversation going on how to keep Social Security and Medicare from going insolvent and/or overwhelming the budget.
More important than what happens over the next few months is whether the party can nominate and elect a president in 2024 who, unlike Bush and Trump, is in sympathy with the fiscal conservatism of House Republicans.
Ronald Reagan quipped that the deficit was big enough to take care of itself. Now it’s big enough that no single high-stakes battle or act of Congress is going to tame it. Fiscal hawks have to be in for the long haul.
Twitter: @RichLowry
https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/with-debt-out-of-control-republicans-cant-be-intermittent-fiscal-hawks/
Good riddance to Ron Klain and his ridiculous spin obsession
By Post Editorial Board January 27, 2023 5:02pm Updated
The Biden administration’s finally doing something right: saying farewell to Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who’ll step down next week.
After all, when it comes to spinning facts, whitewashing President Joe Biden’s abysmal record and misleading the public, it’s hard to beat Klain.
He’s gotten so infamous for his unhinged tweets and retweets that “The Ruthless” podcast took to featuring a game show mocking them: Hosts had to guess which of four idiotic postings — ludicrously praising Biden, for instance, or blasting conservatives — was not shared by Klain.
The show is now mourning his departure, noting he was “good for content”; it played its parody of the song “Fame,” called “Klain to Fame,” one last time this week.
Just how far did Klain go in misleading Americans? Well, just this week, he shared a doubly false video of Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) claiming Biden “lowered your gas prices and Republicans are upset about it.” And he retweeted liberal pundit Paul Krugman claiming the economy grew 6.7% under Biden, without mentioning that was only because it was recovering from the COVID recession, a recovery that began under Donald Trump.
Klain (who made several appearances in The Post’s Whoppers column highlighting his distortions) also once shared a claim that inflation and supply-chain snags were merely “high class problems” — as if middle- and lower-income families had nothing to worry about. (Eggs are up 57% over a year ago.)
Even in his resignation letter, Klain loaded on the spin, praising his boss for passing “the most significant economic recovery legislation since FDR” and managing “the largest land war in Europe since the Truman era.”
Sorry, but that “recovery legislation” was all about spending tax dollars, mostly to benefit Democrats and their allies, and it wound up fueling both inflation and the national debt.
And Biden’s missteps — his botched bugout from Afghanistan and gaffes like the one suggesting a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine would be OK — likely helped spark the Ukraine war by emboldening Vladimir Putin.
Klain’s departure gave the White House a chance to replace him with someone who’d be more honest with Americans. Yet it chose instead failed COVID czar Jeff Zients, who Biden threatens “will continue Ron’s example of smart, steady leadership.” Oy.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/27/good-riddance-to-ron-klain-and-his-ridiculous-spin-obsession/
Hey, Freebie EZ. Sorry I missed you and equally sorry to hear the snow falleth heavily upon thee.
The Diag (UofM central campus) made The Weather Channel the other morning.
Massive snowball fight. Looked painful.
Lots of guys heaving those heavily packed snowballs with all their might.
Ouch.
Be careful shoveling. Stay safe.
Yes sir!
Same here up until this week. Heavy snow around 12/26/22 and nothing since.
Alas, payback time now…. Snow for next several days coupled with 6-7” on the ground now…. And into the deep freeze we go!
Freebie EZ running out of time…. Have a silly dilly weekend everyone….LOCK your doors Memphis !!!!!
We've been pretty lucky so far this winter, I hope I didn't just jinx us!
<<<< I caught that segment on Tucker last night ~~~ what an eye opener! And, not one second of coverage on this from the Shitshowmediafreaks!
Hello Mr. G ~~~ thx. for some excellent posting ! For the record, we are up to our ass in snow…. Mini blizzard as I type.
I know better here than there, right !
Hi EZ2 .... is it Friday so soon!?
And, Ruth !!
Hi all you NL’s ~~~~ live long and prosper!
And, don’t forget to HUG a COP !!!
Senator Rubio Sends Letter to Pfizer CEO After Project Veritas’ Explosive Undercover Video Reveals Company ‘Mutating’ Covid Virus For Profits
By Cristina Laila
Published January 27, 2023 at 11:20am
Remember when Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said people who ‘spread misinformation’ about Covid vaccines are “criminals”?
This of course was after he falsely claimed his vaccines are 100% effective in preventing Covid.
It turns out Pfizer is experimenting with dangerous gain-of-function on Covid-19 in order to make more money on vaccines, according to a director of research for the Pharma company.
Project Veritas on Wednesday night released explosive video of Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations, admitting the pharma giant is exploring ‘mutating’ Covid-19 via ‘directed evolution’ so the company can continue to profit off of vaccines.
“One of the things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create — preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If we’re gonna do that though, there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine — no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f**king viruses,” Walker told the undercover Project Veritas journalist.
BREAKING: @Pfizer Exploring “Mutating” COVID-19 Virus For New Vaccines
“Don’t tell anyone this…There is a risk…have to be very controlled to make sure this virus you mutate doesn’t create something…the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest.”#DirectedEvolution pic.twitter.com/xaRvlD5qTo
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) January 26, 2023
Senator Marco Rubio on Thursday sent Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla a letter in response to Project Veritas’ explosive undercover video exposing Pfizer:
“I write in response to troubling reports on Pfizer’s intention to mutate the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID) virus through gain-of-function, or “directed evolution,” as detailed by Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Jordan Walker. As has been proven time and time again, attempts to mutate a virus, particularly one as potent as COVID, are dangerous. If the claims detailed in the video are true, Pfizer has put its desire for profit over the concern of national and global health and must hold itself accountable.” Rubio said.
As a company that claims to “innovate every day to make the world a healthier place,” these claims from your leadership charged with research and development are alarming. As the American people deserve to know, I request that you provide the following information:
1. What efforts is Pfizer currently, or planning to, engage in to mutate the SARS-CoV-2 virus?
2. Does Pfizer intend to continue mutating the SARS-CoV-2 virus through gain-of-function, or directed evolution research, with the purpose of creating new vaccines before the variant is present in the greater population?
3. Has Pfizer engaged with federal officials engaged regarding their plans to oversee this research? Please provide the names and agencies for these individuals.
4. What steps has Pfizer taken to ensure the mutated virus does not leak from the laboratory and infect the greater population?
5. Has Pfizer engaged with other biopharmaceutical companies to collaborate on this research effort? Please list the entities that you have been in contact with.
6. Will you commit to halting any future research that mutates the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine as substantial evidence has indicated that similar dangerous research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology very likely led to the initial emergence and global spread of the virus?
Senator Ron Johnson on Thursday called for Congress to investigate vaccine manufacturers and the Covid vax approval process in response to Project Veritas’ explosive undercover video exposing Pfizer’s alleged plans to ‘mutate’ the Covid virus.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/senator-rubio-sends-letter-pfizer-ceo-project-veritas-explosive-undercover-video-reveals-company-mutating-covid-virus-profits/
UPDATE: Fox News obtained the surveillance video from the Pelosi house showing David Depape busting a window with his hammer before entering the home. pic.twitter.com/K8ZfuzVq67
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 27, 2023
I was an FBI Special Agent and if Biden won't fix a bureau in crisis, it will be destroyed
Many now believe that the FBI is merely an arm of one political party
By Michael D. Rogers
The FBI is in crisis. It pains me, as a former special agent and the former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to warn that if we don’t fix it now, we risk irrevocably breaking not only the greatest law enforcement agency in the world, but America’s trust in this invaluable institution.
If you needed any more graphic evidence of institutional and cultural rot affecting the bureau, just this week Charles McGonigal, the former special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York field office was arrested for ties to Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
It should be common sense that a senior agent should not be working for a criminal, any criminal, let alone a Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin, but apparently common-sense ethics are no longer common, and that speaks volumes about the state of the FBI.
From this most recent and staggering security vulnerability, to leadership failures and a lack of accountability at the top, to a seemingly creeping lack of accountability in field offices and the appearance of politicization across the FBI, much of the country now doubts the bureau’s credibility and integrity.
Many now believe that the FBI is merely an arm of one political party, and for a good portion of the country, they believe that the bureau is being "weaponized" against them or their political beliefs.
Why should we be surprised that Americans feel this way when the highest profile cases are handled not with discretion, focus and equal justice under the law, but instead with unwarranted partisan intent from the start?
There is no shortage of cases tainted by politics. There was the poor handling of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election (one certainly further called into question with this latest arrest). The appalling management of the Hunter Biden investigation. The poor tactics in the plot against the Michigan governor. The alleged involvement in content moderation on social media platforms. The appalling double standard of the investigations into mishandling of classified information by both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.
The House Judiciary Committee Republican staff wrote, "The problem lies with the FBI structure that centralizes high-profile cases in D.C., in the hands of politicized actors with politicized incentives." It is the equivalent of the legal concept of the fruit from the poisoned tree, except instead of contaminated evidence, it is the cases themselves that are compromised from the start.
Why should we be surprised when Americans now doubt the efficacy of the bureau when stories of FBI malfeasance and illegal behavior appear regularly in the press: destruction of documents, accepting bribes from organized crime figures, alleged ties to Russia, and an FBI audit report alleging breaking their own rules over 700 times in 18 months when investigating "politicians, candidates, religious groups, news media and others."
Not all agents are bad, and I contend there are far more good agents than not; but bad agents are a stain on the character of the bureau and an insult to their colleagues who follow the rules, uphold the law, and act with integrity.
If the bureau is to survive, it needs to take immediate action.
We need to make common sense common again, and that starts at the top. It must be made abundantly clear that working for or on behalf of a foreign agent – whether under sanctions or not – is not an acceptable post-bureau career option. There must be a cooling-off period for retired senior agents before even considering entering the employment of foreign agents, and there must be an ethics and accountability board reviewing these positions.
The FBI must remove politics from high-profile cases. This includes the Department of Justice lawyers. It is my sense that this is where the trouble begins.
To ensure compliance with DOJ and FBI guidelines and rules, a third-party review that is outside the prosecutor’s and agent’s purview should now occur at the outset of a public integrity case, before it goes to a judge. Ensuring that the bias is not the impetus will be crucial for DOJ lawyers and the FBI to regain the public’s trust and regaining the public’s trust must be the top priority.
FBI leadership must clearly communicate expectations of ethical behavior and take quick and certain action when anyone violates those expectations. This includes addressing agents’ vocal social media commentary highlighting political bias. There is no place for this in the FBI. There must be a pervasive working culture of ethics and accountability at all levels across the organization. Working agents need to see these high standards at work in their leadership every day.
Congress must also resume its oversight responsibility. We cannot afford partisan politics to cloud the oversight of this most important institution.
Just as we cannot allow the FBI itself to become a partisan tool, we should demand that our elected representatives do their duty and provide the robust and consistent oversight of the FBI’s activities and hold the leaders accountable without political theater.
It is important to note that agents all over the country are following the FBI creed of fidelity, bravery and integrity, and risking their lives to make us safer. These agents deserve better and our country deserves better.
President Biden and FBI leadership must recognize this and act now, rather than play politics with the public’s trust.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/fbi-special-agent-biden-fix-bureau-crisis-destroyed
Liddle’ Adam Schiff booted from Intel Cmte and immediately turns to Chinese spyware to grovel for cash
By Olivia Murray
California’s creepiest little congressman — Shifty Schiff, Pencil Neck, Adam Schitt, call him whatever you like — recently received the boot from the House Intelligence Committee, and he’s showing just how wrong new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is… by pleading his case using Chinese spyware. Watch the video below:
LMFAO Adam Schiff posted his first TikTok after being removed from the Intelligence committee by Kevin McCarthy. pic.twitter.com/IQjwQYtvcQ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 26, 2023
As a former member of the Committee, there’s no doubt that Schiff-for-brains has been included in briefings which would have detailed the privacy dangers of using TikTok; yet that’s the medium he chooses to get across the message that he’s been unfairly removed from the Committee which handles sensitive national security information?
You can’t write irony like this.
It didn’t take long for the Twitterverse to do what it does best; take a look at the simplest, most profound edit here:
pic.twitter.com/O8fC6X4Uo9
— NautPoso ?????? (@NautPoso) January 26, 2023
Yes, the man who abused his position on the Committee to spread disinformation regarding the Laptop from Hell lost the seat because of “petty, political payback” — give me a break. As Monica Showalter notes:
Keeping Schiff off the Intelligence Committee will just keep him from using his position to spread falsehoods and lies to the public based on his committee status. He can continue to lie without it now.
Naturally, when you’re accused of being a serial liar and leaker of sensitive material, you turn to questionable ChiCom social media platforms to prove your innocence.
Never one to waste an opportunity to beg for campaign cash (he just announced his run for the Senate), Shifty declared this wasn’t the end of his fight for “democracy” and asked the viewers to “contribute” — for Democrats, shameless money-grubbing always accompanies “civil service.”
Can we just let “democracy” die already so I never have to hear another uneducated and anti-Republic politician make the case for a national popular vote, or tyranny of the majority, or any other bad idea supported in the name of a government our Founders specifically avoided? Someone get this dweeb a copy of Federalist No. 10, stat!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/liddle_adam_schiff_booted_from_intel_cmte_and_immediately_turns_to_chinese_spyware_to_grovel_for_cash.html
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