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Obama rolls up his sleeves, gets busy cleaning up Joe Biden's mess of a campaign
By Monica Showalter
It’s up to you New York, New York
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Biden’s Goldilocks/Ponce de Leon cocktail
By Bill Hansmann
Trump Needs to Hammer This During the Debate
By Brian C. Joondeph
The first and perhaps only presidential debate between presumed nominees Donald Trump and Joe Biden takes place on June 27 in CNN’s Atlanta headquarters. Home court advantage goes to President Biden.
Is there anyone at CNN, aside from the janitors and cleaning crew, that support Trump? Doubtful. The debate will be moderated by the Trump hating undynamic duo of Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
CNN will mute the microphones, to keep Trump from objecting to Biden’s fabrications, and likely to silence Biden’s gibberish, something occurring with increasing frequency.
No live audience will watch the debates, which will run 90 minutes, two commercial breaks, time for Biden to get a shot of vitamins, stimulants, or whatever keeps him awake and coherent for brief stretches of time.
“CNN said they won't be allowed to use any props or pre-written notes but will be given paper, a pen and water.”
This gives Biden an advantage as he won’t read instructions like “pause” off the teleprompter.
If Biden is juiced up and can speak in coherent sentences, he will win since expectations for his performance are so low.
According to a JL Partners poll, “Half of voters expect Biden to forget where he is during first debate in Atlanta and walk off the wrong side of the stage.”
For Trump, if keeps his cool and acts “presidential”, whatever that means, this will go a long way in assuaging potential voters who like his policies but have their noses out of joint over his brash personality, mean tweets, and name calling.
Trump certainly has the issues on his side and if he can channel a Reagan-esque demeanor for 90 minutes, he will win, regardless of whether Biden mumbles incoherently, shakes hands with an imaginary person on stage, talks about his uncle being eaten by cannibals, or simply zones out with a blank stare.
For those in the Democrat establishment nudging Biden toward retirement in a nursing home or memory care center, screwing with his vitamin and supplement cocktail, giving him a Tic Tac rather than Adderall, might provide a debate performance worthy of the 25th Amendment.
Hillary Clinton need not send her suicide squad out to create a vacancy on the top of the ticket, simply messing with his meds would accomplish the same thing. Rumblings on the street are that she is champing at the bit for a rematch against Trump.
Trump can really win the debate bigly by asking the question Ronald Reagan asked the hapless Jimmy Carter during a 1980 presidential debate, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
This question is more relevant in this election than any other as both candidates have served a term as POTUS. They have records to run on.
This would be a more difficult question asked by Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley as conditions four years ago had nothing to do with them. But with Trump, those conditions were his as he was president at the time.
RNC Research on Twitter, offered this quick summary,
WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP LEFT OFFICE:
— Inflation was at 1.4%.
— The southern border was SECURE.
— Gas averaged $2.39/gallon.
— The average 30-yr mortgage rate was ~2.7%.
— The world was at PEACE.
Let’s unpack this, looking at what these metrics were like four years ago.
In May 2020, the inflation rate was 0.1%. In May 2024, four years later, the inflation rate was 3.3%, 30 times higher compared to four years ago. Inflation reached a peak of 9.1% in June 2022.
While the inflation rate has come down some, as long as the rate is above zero, prices are going up. Three percent may be lower than 9%, but inflation is cumulative.
Prices are rising faster than incomes and consumers are spending a larger proportion of their incomes for the same products now compared to four years ago.
The media crows about a small drop in the rate of inflation, but prices are continuing their climb, just a bit slower.
What about food prices? New York magazine answers:
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of groceries has risen by 25.2 percent since February 2020. According to BLS data, you’d have to go back to the 1970s to see that kind of a jump in so short a time span.
Who was president in the 1970s? Oh, that Jimmy Carter guy who Reagan asked the important question I am suggesting Trump ask.
The Washington Examiner explains this all succinctly:
With prices rising faster than earnings, the average worker’s weekly paycheck buys 4.4% less today than when President Biden took office. Homeownership affordability has plummeted because the monthly mortgage payment on a median-price home has more than doubled. Three-quarters of Americans now view fast food as a luxury they can’t afford. Gasoline prices are up 46%.
Are you better off today compared to four years ago?
On to immigration. Our border has never been totally secure, but there is a huge difference between somewhat secure and wide open.
According to Pew Research, monthly migrant encounters were 16 thousand in April 2020. Almost four years later, that jumped to 250 thousand, a 15-fold increase. This doesn’t include gotaways.
What about the endless stream of murders committed by illegal aliens as in this recent story, “Illegal immigrant from El Salvador charged in rape, killing of Maryland mom of 5.” Expect more and more of these stories.
Here’s a summary from Liberty Daily of the many young women raped and murdered by illegal aliens. Were these daily stories four years ago as they are now?
If Biden and his handlers believe opening the borders to Latin Americans will increase his popularity, he guessed wrong. Newsweek reports, “that a majority of Hispanic people favor the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.”
Next on the list is gas prices. Per the U.S. Energy Information Administration, retail gasoline price was $1.96 per gallon in May 2020 and $3.73 per gallon in May 2024, four years later, almost twice as expensive.
Home mortgage rates are another metric that is far worse now compared to four years ago.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis explains:
In June 2020, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage average in the US was 3.1% Four years later in June 2024, the rate has jumped to 6.9%, more than double.
Lastly is peace. Trump, in his four year term, did not start any foreign wars. Under Biden we are at war with Russia, via Ukraine. We are funding both sides of a war between Israel and Iran proxies Hamas and Hezbollah. Yemen is attacking Western ships. China hungrily eyes Taiwan. Russian nuclear capable naval vessels are in Cuba. They would not have dared four years ago.
Congress is advancing a bill through committee mandating Selective Service registration, known as the draft, for men and women aged 18 to 24. What are they preparing for?
Going forward at the debate and rallies, Trump should avoid relitigating the 2020 election. A majority of likely voters already believe that cheating affected the outcome, per Rasmussen Reports.
Trump also does not need to highlight Biden’s stumbles and gaffes as these are painfully obvious to anyone exposed to the news.
The critical and deciding issues are primarily economic. The draft is an abstract concept for young people, at least until they are drafted. The media may gaslight the importance of climate change, gender confusion, abortion, and Trump’s nonsensical lawfare convictions, but those issues won’t drive election choices.
As CBS News reports, “Voters in battleground states say the economy is a top issue.” It’s the economy stupid, as James Carville once said. And things are far worse today than four years ago.
Trump and the GOP need to hammer this point home every day until Nov. 5.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/trump_needs_to_hammer_this_during_the_debate.html
A Desperate Democrat Party Once Again Tries To Call Trump A Jew-Hating Nazi
By Sally Zelikovsky
Once upon a time, The Drudge Report was the go-to news aggregator for conservatives, but it fell into disrepute sometime during the Trump Administration, leaving conservatives in the dust as the site’s new caretakers sought “bluer” pastures.
Feeling a bit nostalgic, I decided to e-mosey on over to Drudge and check it out for the first time in years.
And there it was: “Don joked about ‘Nazi ovens’ in meeting with Jews.”
The crux of the article is that former Trump Organization VP Barbara Res, who left the company in 1998, “told MSNBC host Ali Velshi that Trump was bragging to his team about a new hire, who was German. “And he looked at a couple of our executives who happen to be Jewish, and he said, ‘Watch out for this guy, he sort of remembers the ovens,’ you know, and then smiled.”
Like clockwork and in lockstep, the Democrat-Media Complex swooped in and dredged up the old saw that Trump hates Jews and loves Nazis. Disseminating Res’s story allows the left to perpetuate narratives from 2016 and 2020 that Trump is a Nazi sympathizer who salivated when white-hooded KKKers descended on Charlottesville, that MAGA is the 21st-century equivalent to the swastika, and that a vote for Trump is a vote for Hitler.
They had to dig deep into their bag of election hokum and travel back to 1998 to unearth this new story about Trump’s Nazi inclinations, something that was somehow overlooked in the previous two campaigns.
But it provides just enough of what they need—a small drop of “accelerant” online to explode into a raging inferno that will carve a broad path of destruction (they hope) to Trump’s detriment.
It seems that the “silly season,” where candidates do whatever they can in the last throes of a campaign to garner voters’ attention—no matter how ridiculous or dubious—has become the way the left campaigns. Since Trump alighted on the political scene, there is no lie big enough.
If you are a good faith voter looking for more information on Google about Trump’s so-called Jew-hatred, maybe even an article that refutes it, fuhgeddaboudit. All you will find is the same story recycled as gospel on every Google page in your search. The same words. The same accusations and insinuations. All unsubstantiated and unchallenged. Multiplying like an unchecked COVID infection. What started as recollection qua allegation qua accusation has, with each publication, become indisputable fact.
A solid journalist would dig deeper before publication and uncover the date and location of the alleged meeting and interview those in attendance, particularly the Jewish employees. True journalism would wan either to refute or substantiate the allegations.
But that kind of rugged, hard-hitting journalism no longer exists in America. It’s been gobbled up by hard-hitting political gamesmanship and propaganda. Truth as the goal has been supplanted by pure lust for the win.
But, let’s say for the sake of argument, that Trump did make the “joke” about the ovens. He wouldn’t be the first person to make an off-color joke that went over like a lead balloon. Many have said stupid things, thinking they were being witty or paving a smoother path for what might have been a potentially controversial situation. A bad joke in poor taste does not an anti-Semite make.
So, let’s examine Trump’s actions and words and compare them to those of Biden—and that is where you’ll find your anti-Semite hiding in plain sight.
First, there is Trump himself. There is little dispute that he has been the greatest friend to Israel ever in the Oval Office, reversing the Obama-Biden Iran Nuclear Accord, moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Jerusalem as the capital and the Golan Heights as part of Israel, rejecting Obama-Biden claims that West Bank settlements are illegal, and normalizing relations between Israel, Sudan, Morocco, Bahrain, and the UAE under the Abraham Accords. He is the father and grandfather to a Jewish daughter and grandchildren. Given his extensive business dealings, he’s undoubtedly had considerable interactions with Jewish individuals.
As a former President currently running for office, he has been outspoken about the violence and anti-Semitism taking place at our universities and on our streets. He has not missed a beat supporting Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas/Hezbollah/IRAN. Moreover, Trump has consistently criticized the Biden Admin as well as the ICC and UN for targeting an ally, the only tolerant democracy in the Middle East, and a member-state of the UN that, by all rights under the UN Charter and longstanding norms of international law, has an unequivocal right to defend itself when brutally attacked.
Then, there is Biden. A quisling of the highest order working for the enemies of freedom and tolerance, Biden has served up nothing but lip service and blatant lies in claiming to support Israel, when, in fact, he has been withholding vital arms shipments previously approved by the US Congress. So much for Biden’s “ironclad” commitment to Israel.
Biden is a feckless interlocutor talking out of both sides of his mouth when he declares that Israel has a right to defend itself and completely eliminate Hamas, then immediately undermines those claims by demanding ceasefires that interfere with Israel’s ability to prosecute the war while benefiting Hamas with more time to reset its efforts; spreads lies about what was or wasn’t agreed to in negotiations that never happened; and demands Israel make efforts to limit civilian casualties and offer more humanitarian relief when Israel already goes above and beyond any other nation on the planet when it comes to protecting the citizens of its enemies whose leaders knowingly put their lives in danger.
Most recently, Biden has been an absentee President who has all but ignored the violence and anti-Semitism in full bloom on college campuses and our streets.
Who is the anti-Semite? Denying Israel the legal and military means to protect itself is akin to denying Israel’s right to exist. It is anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic.
Paraphrasing Douglas Murray, the world used to hate Jews because of their religion. When that fell out of fashion, the world discriminated against the Jews based on race. When race fell out of favor as a means to hate, the world turned to nationhood. Now, it is perfectly acceptable to hate Jews for having a nation and defending it. Hating Zionism, Israel’s right to exist and the concomitant right to protect its sovereignty and people at all costs, is the religious and racial hatred of the past with just another name.
Let’s say there was, indeed, a time when Trump was anti-Semitic or held views about Jews that were simply tired old tropes, or that he was just plain ignorant and insensitive to Jewish sensibilities.
Were that the case, there’s no doubt that Trump has grown beyond those views. As a Jewish person and an American, I prefer someone who sees the light and changes his views or ways to one who is merely labeled ignorant, intolerant, or anti-Semitic and remains that way.
This reminds me of a story told by former Oklahoma congressman, Sooners football great, and Baptist minister J.C. Watts in his What Color is a Conservative?. One night on the radio show his father hosted, an avowed KKKer called in, spewing his hateful rhetoric. Instead of castigating and hanging up on him, Watts’ father engaged the man, who continued to call in and eventually saw the errors of his ways, with the two ultimately forming a friendship.
I’ll take the moronic joke accompanied by righteous actions; I’ll take the reformed anti-Semite who comes to genuinely love and respect his Jewish family and the Jewish people; and I’ll take it all any day over Biden’s prevarications, blatant bigotry, and treachery in undermining the safety of American Jews and the survival of Israel. There’s your anti-Semite.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/a_desperate_democrat_party_once_again_tries_to_call_trump_a_jew_hating_nazi.html
Latest Amazon Files Drop Highlights More Biden Admin Censorship
The Biden administration is going after more than just online “misinformation.”
by Graham J Noble | Jun 26, 2024
‘Card-carrying liberal’ professor undergoes radical transformation and becomes a gun enthusiast
By Olivia Murray
Dhimmitude in Germany, where rapists go free and their critics go to jail
By Andrea Widburg
Nothing more clearly exposes how European countries have submitted to their Islamic masters than what happened after a Muslim gang rape in Hamburg. This is the West’s future unless it starts pushing back now.
Hamburg is Germany’s second-largest city, a place the Romans first noted as existing in the 2nd century. (I phrased that carefully because it may have existed as a German tribal region long before it came to Roman notice.) By 808, Charlemagne had built a castle to defend it against raiding Slavs. During the Middle Ages, it became an important North Atlantic trading city, and it was a player (on the Protestant side) in the 30 years war.
After the 1848 Revolution, Hamburg adopted several classically liberal policies, such as freedom of the press, assembly, and association. It was, of course, an enthusiastically Nazi city during WWII, and it paid the price for embracing genocidal, antisemitic totalitarianism because the Allies bombed the Hell out of it. After the war, though, with Allied help, it became one of the great European industrial cities. Now, though, having failed to learn the lessons of WWII, it is again becoming a genocidal, antisemitic, totalitarian city.
That’s not entirely Hamburg’s fault. The fault lies in the fact that, after WWII, Germans became so self-abnegatory that they thought it would be a good idea to abandon the good parts of their heritage and, instead, become a welcome mat for Muslim immigrants. (This was helped by the fact that, as good socialists, Germans stopped having babies, so they needed Muslim labor.)
The early Muslim immigrants were Turks, so they were somewhat Westernized, and they came as a mostly controllable trickle, not an overwhelming flood. However, thanks to Angela Merkel’s insane decision in 2015 to open Europe to the Muslim world (something that should have stopped at the Gates of Vienna in 2015), Europe did not get civilized Turks. It got fanatics from Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, North Africa, and other countries utterly opposed to Western mores and deeply committed to jihad.
Currently, Hamburg has the largest Afghan community in Germany. Overall, Hamburg’s Muslim population is about 8%. This is a bad deal for Hamburg’s women, given Muslim men’s rape propensities.
According to Michael Haltman’s 2010 summary of Dr. Hammond’s famous analysis of patterns of Muslim immigration, when Muslims are nearly 10% of the population, they will already have worked “to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves...under Sharia,” and “they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions.” As if to demonstrate the truth behind these conclusions, two months ago, Hamburg’s Muslims were on the march:
NEW - Islamists march in Hamburg for a caliphate in Germany.pic.twitter.com/A6AYTLyOBV
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 27, 2024
Sreams of Allahu Akbar Echo Throughout Germany!
Hordes of Muslims March Through Hamburg, Demanding a Caliphate in Germany and Media to Abide by Sharia
Mobilizing the Umma (the global Muslim community) to establish their Islamic Civilization is their admitted goal.
Today in… pic.twitter.com/B07C7LqIjz
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) April 27, 2024
This subtle pressure—yield now before we kill you—is working. A truly horrific report has emerged from Hamburg, where gang rapists got a pass, while someone who dared to complain got prison:
A 20-year-old woman in Hamburg, Germany, has been sent to prison after making “hateful” remarks towards a migrant who was involved in the gang rape of a child. The woman is just one of 140 people being investigated for making “harmful comments” towards the rapists.
The horrific assault took place in 2020, and involved multiple groups of migrant men independently attacking a 14-year-old girl in Hamburg’s Stadtpark over the course of one night.
[snip]
The sperm of nine of the men, however, had been successfully recovered from the girl’s body.
Five of the men were in possession of German passports, while the remainder were not citizens of Germany. Among those charged, none were of German heritage. The rapists were identified as a Pole, an Egyptian, a Libyan, a Kuwaiti, an Iranian, an Armenian, an Afghan, a Syrian, and a Montenegrin.
[snip]
However, despite DNA and WhatsApp evidence, eight of the nine men convicted walked free with probation and spent no time in prison at all. The ninth was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison without parole.
[snip]
Angered by the news of the case, a 20-year-old woman from Hamburg messaged the number through WhatsApp. The unnamed woman called him a “dishonorable rapist pig” and a “disgusting miscarriage.” She added: “Aren’t you ashamed when you look in the mirror?”
The targeted rapist then reported the woman to police, and she was charged with sending him insulting messages.
The woman has now been convicted and sentenced to a weekend in prison for her remarks — meaning that she will have spent more time in jail than 8 of the 9 rapists.
[snip]
Authorities in Hamburg are reportedly investigating 140 people for offenses related to issuing “insult, threats, or other detriment” towards the Stadtpark predators.
(I've excised the details of the rape and the trial, but you can read more here.)
In the Muslim world, a dhimmi is a non-Muslim resident in a Muslim state. Dhimmis are second-class citizens with severely limited rights. The raped girl and the outspoken woman are dhimmis. The raping Muslims are their overlords. The window to push back against the state of things is closing.
Meanwhile, here in America, Biden wants to import Gaza residents. Think about those new residents, as well as the existing illegal aliens who are already raping and killing Americans. If you think it can’t happen here, think again:
Angry mob looking for Jews.
Germany 1938?
Nope, Los Angeles 2024 pic.twitter.com/pITCTXaJFo
— Jewish Lumber King 🇺🇲🌳🇮🇱 (@EzraDrissman) June 24, 2024
Then, decide how that will affect your vote in November.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/dhimmitude_in_germany_where_rapists_go_free_and_their_critics_go_to_jail.html
‘Honor killing’ their daughter in Germany because she was ‘Westernized’
By Olivia Murray
George Latimer ousts ‘Squad’ Rep. Jamaal Bowman in NY’s 16th District Democratic primary
By Vaughn Golden , SCarl Campanile and Aneeta Bhole
Published June 25, 2024 Updated June 26, 2024, 6:57 a.m. ET
Westchester County Executive George Latimer sent Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) packing from Congress Tuesday night, defeating the far-left “Squad” member in the 16th District’s Democratic primary.
Latimer, 70, will be heavily favored to defeat Republican Madeline Brame in the Nov. 5 general election to represent the deep-blue Bronx and Westchester constituency.
“Tonight, we turn the page and we say that we believe in the inclusion of everybody,” Latimer told cheering supporters in White Plains.
“It doesn’t matter your age, religion, sexual identity, whether you’re a right-hander or left-hander, whether you’re a Met fan or a Yankee fan — our inclusiveness in Westchester County is how we govern the people,” he added. “You can’t destroy this country with your rhetoric and your arguments. We have to have unity.”
Bowman’s four-year House tenure will come to an end following the most expensive congressional primary ever in terms of ad spending — a race which pitted pro-Bowman groups like Justice Democrats and the Working Families Party against an alliance of moderates turned off by the incumbent’s stances, mainly on Israel.
The incumbent took an early lead Tuesday night after the first results came in from the Bronx portion of the district, where Bowman racked up 83% of the vote.
But the picture changed as the Westchester precincts reported an overwhelming vote for Latimer. With 71% of the estimated vote tabulated as of 10:50 p.m., Latimer led Bowman 55.7% to 44.3%.
Latimer’s coalition of well-funded backers included the United Democracy Project, a super PAC affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that spent a staggering $14 million in the race, and a cryptocurrency group called Fair Shake that bankrolled another $2 million worth of spots.
The race quickly developed into a referendum on the Israel-Hamas war and Bowman’s public comments about the Jewish state and followers of that religion.
Last week, in an interview with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer, Bowman accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza.
In that same interview, Bowman belatedly apologized for denying the horrific rapes of Israeli women during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that killed an estimated 1,200 people — including 33 Americans.
Over the weekend, Politico quoted Bowman as saying that Jews had “segregated” themselves from the rest of Westchester, and had “made a decision to do that for their own reasons,” drawing the ire of South Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY).
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“There’s a word for this scapegoating: antisemitism,” Torres posted to X Sunday.
But perhaps the nadir of Bowman’s campaign came the Saturday before primary day, when he vowed to “show f–king AIPAC the power of the motherf–king South Bronx” during a manic rally alongside fellow “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
In Bowman’s concession speech Tuesday night in Yonkers, he doubled down on his stance, telling supporters: “We will continue to fight for a free Palestine, and God help us that we live in a better world where when we say ‘Free Palestine,’ it is not antisemitic.”
The lawmaker also made a point of shouting out “the Muslim community from Yonkers to San Francisco to Dearborn, Michigan, to St. Louis to Chicago to Long Island to New Jersey [who] surrounded me this entire race with protection, with love, with gratitude and they helped us raise more money than we ever raised before.”
Referencing his weekend antics, Bowman said: “I’m gonna make a public apology for, you know, sometimes using foul language. But we should not be well adjusted to a sick society, we should be outraged.”
Bowman’s supporters were upset by the outcome of what they saw as a bought-and-paid-for primary.
“When the rich and the powerful, you know, sink so much money into it … it’s not unexpected that they will win the race,” said one Bowman backer, Nelson Mar. “It’s disappointing.”
“It’s just so unfair how much the money probably influenced it,” added another supporter, Susan Bonadonna.
Latimer benefited not only from financial support from AIPAC, which pounded Bowman with millions of dollars in attack ads, but by an extraordinary grassroots organizing effort from rabbis and the Jewish community in the district repulsed by the congressman’s open disdain for Israel in the face of rising antisemitism.
“George Latimer’s victory and Jamaal Bowman’s defeat proves in dramatic fashion that being pro-Israel is not just wise policy, but also smart politics,” Mark Mellman, president of Democratic Majority for Israel, wrote in a statement.
The Teach New York Coalition/Westchester United — a group affiliated with the Orthodox Jewish Union — helped mobilize congregants at three dozen synagogues in Westchester to vote in the primary. The initiative was officially “nonpartisan” but clearly the sentiment was pro-Latimer, and anti-Bowman.
“The turnout we’ve generated will be a model for Jewish communities across the country,” said Teach New York founder and CEO Maury Litwack.
Rabbi Evan Hoffman, past president of the Westchester Board of Rabbis and head of the Anshe Sholom synagogue in New Rochelle, was another key figure in the voter mobilization effort.
He voted for Latimer and said “100%” of his congregants did as well.
“Bowman is opposed to Israel and, more subtly, to the Jews in his own district,” the rabbi said.
Bowman, a former high school principal, embarrassed the 16th District in other ways following his election in 2020, after which he aligned himself with the far-left bloc that included Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).
On Dec. 7, Bowman became the 27th House member to be censured by his colleagues — and only the fifth so far this century — after pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol Hill office building Sept. 30 in order to delay a vote to avert a government shutdown.
He pleaded guilty on Oct. 26 to a misdemeanor count of raising a false fire alarm and agreed to pay a $1,000 fine and write an apology letter to the chief of the US Capitol Police.
At the time, Bowman said he “thought the alarm would open the door” and pulled it by “accident,” ??adding that he “was just trying to get to my vote and the door that’s usually open wasn’t open, it was closed.”
However, security camera footage showed Bowman pulling down two emergency exit signs from the doors before pulling the alarm — and then running away.
A Capitol Police investigator who looked into the incident said other security footage showed Bowman “jogging” down a staircase after tripping the alarm and “walking at a normal pace” when exiting onto New Jersey Avenue.
Bowman later passed seven Capitol Police officers without telling them about his “accident,” which forced an evacuation of the building that lasted for an hour and a half, the investigator said.
This past January, Bowman was criticized after the Daily Beast revealed that he kept a personal blog that espoused conspiracy theories related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
In May, the same outlet reported that Bowman maintained a personal YouTube page that subscribed to channels promoting wacky ideas about UFOs and flat Earth theory — as well as Chinese and Russian propaganda.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/25/us-news/george-latimer-ousts-squad-rep-jamaal-bowman-in-16th-district-primary/
This must just be an anomaly:
WTH is going on here? pic.twitter.com/mJmjteM5yW
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) June 25, 2024
Apparently it's ok to plant evidence:
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/25/court-docs-show-pics-from-mar-a-lago-raid-were-part-of-media-stunt/
So, remember, as you are being stabbed to death for the $20 in your wallet, apologize to that poor misunderstood robber while you can!
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Assange ‘buried alive’ for telling the truth – ex-Ecuadorian president to RT
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange pictured inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, England,
on February 5, 2016. © Tolga Akmen/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange should never have been jailed in the first place, former
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has told RT in an exclusive interview.
Correa, who granted Assange asylum in his country’s embassy in London in 2012,
spoke to RT shortly after the news broke that the Australian had been released from prison in the UK
as part of a plea deal with the US Justice Department.
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It’s not just Disney that’s refusing to hire white people; they all are
By Andrea Widburg
School district issues apology to Muslim activists after a teacher labeled Islamic State a ‘terrorist organization’ on a quiz
By Olivia Murray
The snakery of Paul Ryan: One of the first to have the Steele dossier in hand as he sent investigators out to probe Trump
By Monica Showalter
What kind of a political leader sends members of his own party on a wild goose chase to find out whether their party leader was a Russian spy while sitting on a phony dossier full of lies and not telling them?
Well, we now know the answer: Former House Speaker Paul Ryan.
I've defended him for a long time and have never been a Ryan-hater, but this is not a pretty picture.
According to Roll Call:
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger and a longtime aide to Speaker Paul D. Ryan each were given an early look at the final report added to the infamous “Steele dossier,” court documents in a lawsuit against BuzzFeed News show.
Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent who compiled the unsubstantiated research booklet in 2016 about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia before he became president, gave the report to Kinzinger and Jonathan Burks, Ryan’s longtime chief of staff, after he completed it on Dec. 13, 2016, according to the court memo.
In addition to Kinzinger and Burks, Steele also handed off the 17th and final report of his dossier, Report 166, to a longtime associate of Sen. John McCain and the top Russia expert on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council.
That's from a court case involving a Russian who says he was smeared by the documents, which of course, were leaked to the press -- but not the investigators.
According to Kash Patel, who, along with Rep. Devin Nunes, both of whom had to get to the bottom of this without the documents Ryan had, just the haze of allegations in the press, speaking with Steve Bannon on one of his broadcasts:
STEVE BANNON: I've got two tweets about you about my beat down of Paul Ryan the other day about talking about character and you know Trump's lacks character. You brought two brutal tweets up about Paul Ryan's character related to the Steele dossier that has not gotten anywhere near the exposure it is. Tell me what you got brother.
KASH PATEL, TRUMP ADVISER: Hey Steve, great to be with you. Thanks. Remember in 2016, let's rewind the tape. It was Russia collusion, Russia collusion, Russia collusion. And then speaker Paul Ryan enlisted me and Devin Nunes to investigate the Russia collusion. Nobody knew what the Steele dossier was in 2016. They had already gone to the federal court and unlawfully surveilled Donald Trump with it.
But what we didn't find out until after we completed our investigation in 2018 was that the speaker, Paul Ryan, who charged us with investigating Russiagate was the first guy to ever get a copy of the Steele dossier in 2016. He never told us. He still never admitted it. It finally was admitted in a British court where Christopher Steele was being sued. Just think about it, Steve. We could have asked, where did you get it? Who did you get it from? How was it paid for? All of these secrets could have come out under this man's very investigation, but he rigged it from the beginning.
So I'm done listening to lectures about the new conservative brand that is Paul Ryan. And anytime he wants to debate me, I'm all in. He charged us with an investigation that he rigged because he didn't want Donald Trump to succeed. He kneecapped him from the beginning.
The issue is important because Ryan knew the partisan origins of the Steele dossier and chose to not reveal that to the investigators. He preferred that the investigators get caught up in the document and in his mind, hopefully come up with the conclusion that the sleazy allegations were true, and not Russian drunkard stuff which is apparently how the invented trash got put together.
In 2020, New York Post found:
Now it turns out that the biggest political scandal of the century was sourced almost entirely to a man with a history of public drunkenness who did little besides traffic in debunked gossip.
The breathless attacks on Trump, as well as the FBI’s spying on his campaign, were largely sourced to the dubious “Steele Dossier.” The author of the dossier was former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, but it’s long been known that Steele relied on a “primary sub-source” to supply him with the substance behind the wild allegations that Trump was engaged in a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” with the Kremlin.
Recently declassified FBI information and reporting by my colleague at RealClearInvestigations, Eric Felten, confirms the identity of the source as a 42-year-old Russian national living in America named Igor Danchenko.
The FBI memo recounting the agency’s meetings with Danchenko confirms that the Steele Dossier was sourced with little more than Danchenko gossiping with childhood friends back in Russia — not exactly high-level sources in the know. Some of Danchenko’s most prominent allegations, such as the dossier’s claim that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen visited Prague to meet Russian intel operatives, have been subsequently disproven.
All that for the tens of thousands of dollars Democrats paid in order to get the Steele dossier, in order to distribute it to the press, and apparently people like Ryan, who decided to use members of his own party to go on the goose chase to undermine Trump.
What a sleazy, snaky thing for a party member to do to members of his own party.
And this guy now wants to speak at the Republican National Convention this summer, Mr. Loyalty to ... the Democrats who wanted to destroy Trump. Where's his apology? Anybody who'd let that guy in the room would deserve what he gets.
Meanwhile, maybe he ought to explain to the Fox News board why he instigated this dishonest witch hunt, given that truthfulness is an important thing in the news industry. Maybe he has an honest explanation, but I can't see it with the information out now.
Is anyone going to demand that this guy explain himself? He was right there from the get-go in that swampy extended harassment campaign against President Trump as he assumed his first term. We all know how that extended -- and morphed into a monster. Did that help his party? Or did it help the socialists and Democrats? How does Ryan live with himself?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/the_snakery_of_paul_ryan_one_of_the_first_to_have_the_steele_dossier_in_his_hot_little_hands_as_he_sent_investigators_out_to_probe_trump.html
The pogrom in Los Angeles might help Democrat Jews rethink their allegiance
By Andrea Widburg
Little Marco little no more
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
It won’t be easy because there are some great choices. Based on what I’ve seen, let me cast a vote for Senator Marco Rubio in the VP sweepstakes. The other side must agree because there are already articles like this one from Michael LaRosa, a former special assistant to Joe Biden and a former press secretary for Jill Biden. This is what he wrote:
That sound you’re hearing is the collective explosion of heads from my friends in the Democratic Party, followed by admonitions that Latinos do not vote as a monolith. That’s true: Cuban, Venezuelan, Dominican and Mexican Americans, as well as Puerto Ricans, do not vote in unison.
But there is something Latino voters have in common: their Latin American roots and the pride that comes from casting a vote for someone who looks and talks like them. Mr. Rubio would break a significant cultural barrier as the first Latino on a national ticket. We’ve seen how that feeling of cultural and identity pride can marshal voters and transcend ideological and partisan preferences, and it should never be underestimated.
Seldom do running mates play an outsize role in our presidential contests, as most voters focus on the top of the ticket. But Mr. Rubio would give Mr. Trump something no other presidential candidate has offered: the chance for Latinos to vote for one of their own to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
As a Cuban-American, I’d be very proud to vote for a son of Cuban immigrants. My vote for Rubio goes beyond that though; in other words, I would not vote for a Hispanic Democrat just to make an ethnic point.
What makes Rubio a good choice for VP is that he understands the issues that matter, specifically the foreign policy mess that a potential Trump-Rubio team would inherit. He has spent years in important Senate committees dealing with exactly the issues that the new administration will face.
On television, he is an effective and disciplined communicator who can talk about abortion and kitchen table issues well.
Again, there are a lot of options. I am a big fan of Senator Cotton and former Secretary Mike Pompeo. Senator Scott is amiable and likable. So the choices are hard, but give me Rubio by a field goal.
Last, but not least, a Trump-Rubio would be a photographer’s dream with a couple of ladies that the country will love to see.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/little_marco_little_no_more.html
Replacing Joe: The facts
By J.R. Dunn
Who they think we are
By Dawn Merrill
I had an interesting conversation with a die-hard liberal today, a member of my extended family.
I’m in my late 50s, and he’s in his early 70s, and there couldn’t possibly be a more ideological disconnect between us.
What’s seriously strange, though, is what he thinks of “redneck hicks in fly-over country” versus what actual people in flyover country think.
He thinks we are all Christian cultists who despise anyone not like us. He thinks we are all white supremacists, people who would look at a non-white person and shoot him on the spot. Really?
He even went so far as to say that the people here worry about “sinners” and shame the “other.”
He lives in California and has zero experience living in rural America. It shows. He actually believes that everyone here is a Christian Evangelical hell bent on...something...he can’t exactly define what, except that Christian = bad. What is good is even less defined.
His definition of us is boilerplate lefty. It’s saddening but not surprising. He invited me to visit in his Southern California enclave, all expenses paid. I agreed — who would not? As a very poor, white, working-class female, if a lefty white family member with a bit of money wants to spend some on me for a nice vacation, family ties notwithstanding, I’m all in. Damn my lack of feminist proclivities.
He asked me to leave my “Ozark self at home.” My Ozark self? Yes, I live in the Missouri Ozarks. We aren’t exactly Deliverance. We kind of have people of all races, creeds, and beliefs here. We may or may not always agree, but we are still small-town.
You got stuck on the side of the road? Someone will help you, and he won’t care what you look like. We also care for our own.
You need help moving? You need assistance with heating your house in winter? You have a problem feeding your family? Yeah, we will help you. And we don’t care what you look like, whom you worship, or with whom you sleep. We care if you can feed yourself, clothe yourself, shelter yourself, and get to town, and we will help you with all of the above — if you comport yourself honorably.
That said, you come here and commit crimes? We will lock you up in a heartbeat. This ain’t California.
I don’t know if there is help for my relative. I don’t know if he can get past the blinders he has put upon himself to see anyone to the right of Stalin as human. But I am going to give it my best shot, to show him that yes, Virginia, even conservatives care about their communities, their neighbors, and their families, no matter their color, creed, or anything else. As long as they are Americans first and everything else after. Truly, we aren’t so far apart that we can’t at least have a dialogue, right? Right?
Still, the trip should be fun. As long as I leave my “Ozark self behind.”
Wish me luck.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/who_they_think_we_are.html
Julian Assange and WaPo’s deep-telling on itself
By M. Walter
You are, no doubt, waking up to some unexpected news: Julian Assange is a free man.
Citizen journalist Julian Assange, as you recall, founded Wikileaks in 2006 then set about publishing America’s deep state dirty laundry, especially as it related to war and diplomacy, or the lack of it. And hooooo howdy did he piss off the wrong people.
As The Washington Post reported last night, early in President Obama’s first term:
WikiLeaks began publishing a series of bombshell disclosures. They included hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. military documents related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and hundreds of thousands of confidential diplomatic cables that included candid and sometimes unflattering assessments by U.S. diplomats of counterparts overseas — including foreign heads of state.
Somebody’s halo got tarnished and didn’t like it, not one bit. You know who else’s nose got out of joint? The Deep State’s traditional allies in the fake news, er, propaganda press, er, legacy media. As Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse has amply demonstrated over the years, when the FBI wants to shape a story or get ahead of something, they use The New York Times. The CIA? The Washington Post, and oh my, you can practically hear the sniffing and huffing when reliable intel stooges Devlin Barrett and Ellen Nakashima (think Thurston Howell and Lovey) wrote this in their article last night:
Assange was hardly an example of the traditional press. WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Logs disclosures were published with little vetting, for instance, to obscure the names of Afghan civilians who had provided information to the U.S. military — an omission that dismayed human rights groups.
“Little vetting” = “Washing” intel like the agencies want their laundry done. You honestly have to wonder what’s in it for these “reporters” to spin for the people with whom they’re supposed to have an adversarial relationship. I’m old enough to remember when actual reporters loved raw, unfiltered information from deep inside government agencies. Heck, I remember this very paper, The Washington Post, making some hay with it in the 1970s… let’s see… what was that? Oh, it will come to me. Something about a gate… and a throat… it was deep.
Anyway! When a “reporter” sneers and sniffs at deep tells from within the government rather than grabbing them with both hands and running with them, that’s how you know “journalism” under someone’s banner is dying, and darkness has clearly fallen at The Washington Post.
Here’s hoping Mr. Assange stays safe, and, when he gets back to work, starts deep-telling on the rancid, rotten, corrupt pile of press we have in this country next. Let’s see some fake news dirty laundry, Julian. Make it your next Wikileak.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/06/julian_assange_and_wapo_s_deep_telling_on_itself.html
Election Validity Group Files Landmark Lawsuit in Pennsylvania
By Jack Gleason
United Sovereign Americans, Inc., a nonpartisan, all-volunteer election validity advocate group, and two Pennsylvania residents have filed a Writ of Mandamus, directed to Pennsylvania's Secretary of the Commonwealth, the Bureau of Elections, the Bureau of Election Security and Technology, the Department of State, and the state Attorney General.
They have also named Attorney General Merrick Garland and the United States Department of Justice as additional “Respondents.”
They are claiming that the officials named above are not performing their duty to follow existing laws that safeguard our elections.
“A writ of mandamus is a judicial remedy in the English and American common law system consisting of a court order that commands a government official or entity to perform an act it is legally required to perform as part of its official duties, or to refrain from performing an act the law forbids it from doing. Writs of mandamus are usually used in situations where a government official has failed to act as legally required or has taken a legally prohibited action.”
The Petitioners assert, “The Congress of the United States has outlined the minimum standards which must be maintained by every state in order for a federal election to be considered reliable. As outlined below, in Pennsylvania’s 2022 federal election those minimum standards were not met by commonwealth election officials rendering the certified election results that year unreliable. Respondents in their official capacities engaged in insufficient efforts to ensure that the 2022 performance is not repeated in subsequent federal elections beginning in 2024.”
These standards include:
only properly registered voters cast votes
only votes properly cast are counted correctly
all voting systems are compliant with all critical infrastructure requirements and every ballot is correctly and uniformly processed, as well as accurately tabulated and secured
the authenticity of every ballot counted is proven by the maintenance of a comprehensive, unbroken chain of custody from the voter’s hand to the final certified result, and the Commonwealth election officials maintain records of said chain of custody post-election
certification of future elections is understood to be an official act under penalty of perjury.
“The certification by Pennsylvania officials of the 2022 election was done despite the integrity of the election being suspect on account of apparent error rates occurring in that election that exceeded the error rate Congress permits before federal election results cannot be relied upon as accurate, and the Commonwealth did nothing to investigate those apparent errors before certifying the election.”
They cite “the fact that Pennsylvania’s voter registration rolls, contained hundreds of thousands of potential errors at the time of the 2022 General Election… in the form of illegal duplicate registrations, voters with invalid or illogical voter history, voters placed in inactive statuses on questionable authority, backdated registrations, registrations with a modified date prior to registration, invalid or illogical registration dates, age discrepant registrants, and registrants with questionable addresses.”
They conclude, “Such errors jeopardize the validity of elections throughout the Commonwealth, bring doubt as to the accuracy and integrity of the Commonwealth’s currently-in-place voting systems, undermine Pennsylvanian’s collective voting rights, all in violation of existing state and federal election laws.”
These issues have been brought to the attention of the Respondents, “who have done absolutely nothing to address these errors ensuring future elections will suffer from the same deficiencies.”
Individual petitioners include Diane Houser. In 2022, she discovered that her vote was not recorded in Pennsylvania’s Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (“SURE”) system, even though she had voted in person. She reported numerous issues to authorities and was ignored numerous times.
Dean Dreibelbis observed and reported numerous election issues, apparent errors, loopholes, and discrepancies to authorities and was, each time, ignored.
Although not involved in this action, the Petitioners cite data from Audit The Vote PA, a non-partisan, non-profit organization. Although not a named petitioner, they also uncovered overwhelming evidence of registration problems in the 2020 and 2022 elections. For the 2022 election they found:
54,463 people voted in a county in which they were no longer living; and 8,177 people voted despite not actually living in Pennsylvania;
6,356 people were credited as submitting a mail-in ballot, but did not have any votes credited in Pennsylvania’s SURE system;
69,832 mail ballots were sent to an address unaffiliated with the voter’s registration;
18,589 people requested multiple ballots be sent to multiple addresses, with some people requesting additional ballots to be sent to up to four (4) separate addresses; and
5,492 registrations show as having two votes on record in two separate counties.
They cite Help America Votes Act (HAVA), the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, Marbury v. Madison, the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), and existing Pennsylvania election laws.
The Petitioners are not accusing anyone of election fraud or aiming to overturn any election. Instead, they wish to counter future election irregularities and ensure the rights of Pennsylvania citizens.
United Sovereign Americans peer-reviewed data teams analyzed Pennsylvania’s voter registration data from the 2022 general election and found “hundreds of thousands of voter registration apparent errors in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. These apparent errors were not uniform across Pennsylvania -- some counties had far more registration apparent errors than others.”
Out of 8,755,458 voter registrations, there was a total of 3,192,069 voter registration violations including:
20,097 illegal duplicates, where the same voter has multiple registrations
43,083 illegal or invalid vote history
28,256 backdated registrations
268,493 registrations where the period of active registration conflicts with the registration participation
448,335 invalid or illogical registration dates
633,508 illegal or invalid registration changes
154,913 registrants with questionable address
1,580,750 registrations with records altered after certification
They found 1,198,598 evident voting violations, and 1,089,750 unique votes impacted by apparent voting violations, including:
8,026 illegal duplicates, where the same voter has multiple registrations.
340,266 invalid or illogical registration dates
632,215 illegal or invalid registration changes
59,609 registrants with questionable addresses
138,291 registrants with altered votes after certification
Bruce Castor Jr., the lawyer who took up the case on behalf of United Sovereign Americans, has had a long career in Pennsylvania and has represented clients from Bill Cosby to Rudy Giuliani. He is a former Montgomery County district attorney and county commissioner who briefly served as acting Pennsylvania attorney general in 2016. Perhaps most notably, Castor defended Donald Trump in 2021 during the former president’s second impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate.
Castor said, “Congress set minimum standards for every federal election to be considered reliable… In Pennsylvania’s 2022 federal election those minimum standards were not met by Commonwealth election officials rendering the certified election results that year unreliable. Respondents have engaged in insufficient efforts to ensure that the unreliable 2022 performance is not repeated in subsequent federal elections beginning in 2024.”
The United Sovereign Americans mission is “to guard the validity of elections through education and litigation.” They have representatives in over twenty states analyzing voter databases and preparing legal actions. They recently joined a lawsuit in the state of Maryland, which is working its way through the courts.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/election_validity_group_files_landmark_lawsuit_in_pennsylvania.html
The 2024 Election and the Economic Future of America
By Steve McCann
The Poor Legal Arguments of Jack Smith
By Howard J. Warner
On Friday, Judge Aileen Cannon, overseeing the Florida-based records prosecution of former president Donald Trump, heard a lawsuit regarding the legitimacy of the appointment of special prosecutor Jack Smith. On Sunday, his office provided the response to those complaints. On Monday, the court entertained the oral arguments regarding this issue. Based upon his arguments, even a non-lawyer such as myself can see that the two cases (Florida and Washington, D.C.) are illegitimate. Now we must await Judge Cannon’s opinion.
On Sunday evening, Mark Levin announced on Fox News that his Landmark Legal Foundation had filed a brief concerning the validity of Jack Smith’s appointment. He laid out the legal arguments. Further information demonstrates the weakness of Smith’s argument. Levin noted that Ed Meese and Michael Mukasey provided briefs arguing against Smith’s appointment. I will give the information as briefly as possible.
The Appointments Clause in Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution grants the president significant powers to affect the leadership of the federal government: “and [the president] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.”
In this way, the power to create offices and the power to appoint those persons are separated, which was not the case under the British royal power in 1776. The founders chose to allow separation of powers and a check on the power of the Executive through the Congress.
In his answer to the complaint, Jack Smith argued that he is an inferior officer. He cites laws that provide for such appointments under the Justice Department. He quotes Senator Bob Dole’s statement from 1992. All of this is true, since he recognizes that he was not confirmed by the Senate. Further, Smith argues that former A.G. Bill Barr had made similar appointments during his first stint as attorney general.
During his second stint as A.G., Barr appointed special prosecutors, but they were already U.S. attorneys sanctioned by the Senate. Jack Smith never received Senate approval, so he must be an inferior officer. The Supreme Court defined these positions in Buckley v. Valeo, holding that only those appointees “exercising significant authority pursuant to the laws of the United States” are “Officers of the United States,” and hence it is only those who exercise such “significant authority” who must be appointed by a mechanism set forth in the Appointments Clause. The Court listed in Morrison v. Olson (1988) certain factors as hallmarks of “inferior Officer” status, such as removability by a higher Executive Branch official other than the president and limitations on the officer’s duties, jurisdiction, and tenure. In Edmond v. United States (1997), the Court stated that “‘inferior Officers’ are officers whose work is directed and supervised at some level by others who were appointed by Presidential nomination with the advice and consent of the Senate.” Among those officers recognized as “inferior” are district court clerks, federal supervisors of elections, the Watergate special prosecutor, and an independent counsel appointed under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
The Justice Department has established regulatory guidelines for special prosecutors, which would be acceptable under the 1978 law. In early June, Representative Thomas Massie questioned A.G. Merrick Garland about the legitimacy of Smith’s appointment after quoting former A.G. Ed Meese’s brief. Garland had no answer for the issue. Perhaps Garland understood that if he was overseeing the cases that that would mean the White House and he were directly involved, which would be election interference? But they deny this and claim that Smith is independent. That would make him a superior officer, requiring confirmation.
However, there is another problem with Smith’s argument. The law that he cites in Cannon’s court was allowed to lapse in 1999. There is no law authorizing the DOJ to appointment an inferior officer with such power. So this is a violation of the Constitution’s Appointments Clause.
Sorry, but Smith’s legal argument is sophomoric. This situation explains all the leftist articles against Judge Cannon, who clearly is acting as a real judge.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/the_poor_legal_arguments_of_jack_smith.html
Trump on the Rally Road in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
The former president connected at every stop.
by Sarah Cowgill | Jun 25, 2024
Former President Donald Trump hit the rally road to the swing states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin over the weekend to remind voters that he’s the man of the people and, if possible, to give these crucial battlegrounds a shove back into the red, politically speaking. Trump’s messaging had a familiar ring; the economy, crime, illegal immigration — and Joe Biden driving the country toward Third World status.
The campaign stylings of Trump and Biden are polar opposites. The latter loves to appear grandfatherly, quiet, reserved, and ready to give a kid a quarter to buy a stick of candy — until someone makes Paw Paw mad, and then he lashes out and calls people names. Trump comes off as a fun visiting uncle — a little crazy with lots of fist-bumping and dancing around, but you always know where he stands and what he believes, and, somehow, that is more attention-grabbing than the incumbent’s message: Finish the job.
So how did The Donald, convicted of 34 felony counts, fare in the Keystone and Badger states? He rocked his rallies and made a few new friends along the way with his latest message, which appealed to those hard-working people in the food industry.
First Up, Racine
Racine is about 30 miles south of Milwaukee, where the Republican National Committee will hold its official 2024 nominating convention. In 2020, Racine County went for Trump over Biden, 52% to 47%.
This past spring, the Marquette University Law poll surveyed 814 registered voters in Wisconsin with a makeup of 34% Republican, 31% Democratic, and 34% independent. Biden and Trump are effectively neck and neck at 49% and 51%, respectively. The thin majority for Trump is based on voters’ greater confidence in him to handle immigration, border security, and the economy – plus, the Israel-Hamas war and foreign relations.
Biden had the lead on health care, abortion policy, Medicare, and Social Security. Trump played his cards well, taking the stage at 4 p.m. at the Racine Festival Park. It was a hot day, but that did not deter rallygoers, and Mother Nature stepped in with a cool breeze off the harbor. The former president kicked off the whole shebang by debunking his rumored snub of Milwaukee: “You know, I love Milwaukee. I was the one that picked Milwaukee.” The crowd cheered, and he went into rattling off Biden’s failures on immigration, crime, and the economy. He told the animated crowd:
“Crooked Joe is sending a message to the world that he rewards illegal entry, and that’s what’s happening. Don’t kid yourself: the ones that are hurt the most are the black population, the Hispanic population. And you know who else is hurt badly? Unions.”
After the Racine event, Trump took a jab at the coastal elites, saying, “Much better this, or sitting on the Pacific or the Atlantic, which has sharks,” He said to laughter from the crowd. “I’ll take the one without the sharks.” He ended his speech with, “Get out and vote everybody, God bless you all.”
Second Trump Tromp — Philly
The folks of Pennsylvania’s bluest big city, Philadelphia, gathered on the campus of Temple University at the Liacouras Center, where Trump made his case. But first, typical of his unscheduled stops, Trump swung into Tony and Nick’s Steaks to grip and grin. Owner Nicky Lucidonio called the former president’s visit an “unbelievable” moment. For those patrons and staffers, it was indeed momentous.
A teenage boy dressed in a blue suit, red tie, and a Trump blond wig made a new friend and a few bucks. Upon spotting the kid, Trump went over, whipped out his wallet, took a $20 bill and a fine Sharpie pen, signed his signature, and took a photo.
The second “unbelievable” moment was Trump promising wait staff that he would eliminate taxes on tips for those who work in service industry-related jobs. He left a $500 tip for staff and wrote on the ticket: “No tax on tips.”
Trump finally made it to the arena with a crowd of 10,000 or so and more spilling outside and lining his route. Supporters braved 100-degree heat wearing mugshot tees that said “Never Surrender” and carrying signs reading “No More Bull****.”
The message and high energy matched Racine’s. But the crowd was a bit different in Philly. For a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 7-1, minority support has grown since 2020. In Philadelphia, Trump garnered only 5% of that voting group against Biden. Yet the minorities were on hand to speak to the local news as to why they were in sweltering heat to hear the former president speak.
The Philadelphia Inquirer was ground zero for pro-Trump remarks. “Everybody knows he’s not polished,” Kristopher Liu told the daily. “That’s how he is. That’s how he talks. But look what he’s done for the country.”
“It’s President Trump who says, ‘I’m going to open up opportunities for everybody, not just one, but for everybody,’” said James Earl Jones, a black Philadelphia business owner. “And that’s what we need.” Bonnie Harmon, sporting a “Blacks for Trump 2020? shirt, advised people to move on and give Trump his due: “What is in his heart right now, in real-time, that’s what we have to look at,” she said.
Trump’s messages on illegal immigration, unchecked military threats, and the inability of Americans to make ends meet resonated in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Both states are critical to winning the whole kit and kaboodle come Nov. 5. Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker took the stage wearing an American flag shirt and stated: “We can’t afford four more years of Joe Biden. We need President Donald Trump to make Wisconsin and America affordable.”
“We win Wisconsin, we win America,” Walker crowed. In Philly, Trump followed days later: “We win Pennsylvania,” Trump said, “we win the presidency.” And no one has to fact-check those statements.
https://www.libertynation.com/trump-on-the-rally-road-in-pennsylvania-and-wisconsin/
American Women Anxious Over Rising Immigrant Violence
The consequences of an open border are getting uglier by the day.
by Leesa K. Donner | Jun 25, 2024
Monday's Energy Absurdity: These Lithium Battery Factories Burn Like Chicken Farms
David Blackmon
Jun 24, 2024
Many of you will be aware of the rash of unexplained burnings of chicken farms, dairy operations, and meat packing plants around the world in recent years. It’s been a real, um, ‘coincidence’ that so many key links in the global food chain have gone up in smoke since the start of the COVID pandemic without explanation.
Whenever one of these huge fires happens, removing millions of birds or thousands of cows from the food chain, we get obligatory initial reports from a few corporate media operations, but there’s never any follow-up. Were the fires investigated? Did anyone determine how such an enormous facility appeared to just spontaneously combust into flames, burning to the ground before first responders had a prayer of containing them? No, never.
We’ve seen a similar dynamic in recent years related to major fires at lithium battery operations. A huge cargo ship carrying thousands of ICE and EV cars spontaneously combusts in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as it heads for Alaska? After an initial spate of reports, nothing. Never any real explanation of the cause of the fire, because, hey, we all really know what caused it, don’t we? And since it goes against the prevailing “green energy” narrative the corporate media is obligated to push, well, we don’t want to really focus on that, do we?
We see the same pattern around the manufacturing and recycling facilities for the damn things. My podcasting partner Tammy Nemeth tipped me off to a pair of major battery-related fires that took place over the weekend, one at a manufacturing facility in South Korea, the other at a recycling plant in Scotland, and provided links to the initial reporting on them.
In South Korea, Reuters reports that a major plant about 90 miles outside Seoul went up in flames, killing 22 workers - most of them interestingly Chinese nationals - in the process. Reuters states that the fire was “largely” put out, which is that corporate media operation’s subtle way of admitting the damn fire is still burning because it is almost impossible to fully extinguish lithium battery fires once they get going.
Further down in the body of the story, we see this admission: “The blaze began at 10:31 a.m. (0131 GMT) after a series of battery cells exploded inside a warehouse with some 35,000 units, Kim said. What had triggered the explosion remains unclear, he added.”
Well, we all know by now that “what had triggered the explosion” was, um, nothing. One of the batteries just spontaneously combusted, which these things tend to do in certain conditions, and the fire rapidly spread across the factory.
Meanwhile, in Scotland, the Ardrossan and Saltcoat Herald reports that a battery recycling facility in Renfrewshire broke out on Sunday, just 3 months after a similar fire destroyed another lithium battery facility in nearby Kilwinning.
Remain indoors and avoid area': Explosions and smoke amid fire at battery recycling plant near Glasgow | STV News
Luckily, there were no reported casualties from this latest lithium battery disaster.
But you are not to worry about all the heavy polluting black smoke, the undousable nature of the fires, or all the dead workers, because this is delightful “green” energy, and thus immune from reasonable criticism. Your globalist, elitist betters demand it of you.
So, comply, comrades, and be happy.
That is all.
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Florida's Gross Domestic Product Growth Rate DOUBLES ..
Florida also continues to outperform the nation in private sector job growth; beats national unemployment figures for 43rd month in a row
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Florida also continues to outperform the nation in private sector job growth; beats national unemployment figures for 43rd month in a row
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Today, Governor DeSantis announced that Florida’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 21.9 percent from the first quarter of 2019 to the first quarter of 2024, nearly double the national growth rate of 11.1 percent during the same period. Florida remains one of the world’s strongest economies, with an annual GDP of nearly $1.3 trillion. And Florida continues to lead the nation in new business formations, with more than 3 million formed since 2019 and over 266,000 formed already in 2024.
“With yet another major economic milestone like this, Florida demonstrates to the nation that leadership matters,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “Our responsible governance and fiscal constraint mean our state economy has significantly outperformed the national economy, with nearly double the GDP growth rate.”
“Under Governor DeSantis’ strategic investments in workforce education, infrastructure, and financial readiness, Florida continues to outperform the nation across all metrics, including real GDP and private sector job growth,” said Florida Secretary of Commerce J. Alex Kelly. “With the nation’s number one economy, Florida is the most business-friendly state and the best place for families and communities to live, work, and thrive.”
Florida’s private sector job growth rate continues to surpass the national rate, with a 2.2 percent increase (+192,000) compared to the national private sector job growth rate of 1.6 percent. In May 2024, the construction sector gained the most jobs among all major industries, adding 5,500 jobs (+0.8 percent) from the previous month. This was followed by the education and health services sector, adding 2,700 jobs (+0.2 percent).
Job creators continue to demonstrate great confidence in Florida’s economic ecosystem through their investments, creating high-skill, high-wage jobs that make Florida a more competitive state to live and work in. Florida offers hundreds of workforce education and workforce development opportunities for job seekers to gain the skills they need to compete in such an elevated and more competitive job market, ensuring economic resiliency and success for generations of Floridians to come.
Florida’s statewide unemployment rate was 3.3 percent in May 2024—unchanged from April 2024—and 0.7 percentage points below the national rate, which increased to 4 percent. Florida’s statewide unemployment rate has remained lower than the national rate for 43 consecutive months.
Data in the month of May continues to indicate there are ample job opportunities available for every Floridian in search of work, with more than 397,000 jobs posted online. Floridians in search of work and new job opportunities can utilize the CareerSource Florida network for help. Floridians can find guidance on how to register with Employ Florida and search listings of available local job openings. Career seekers also can improve their employability by perfecting resume writing and interviewing skills, establishing career goals, and pursuing customized career training. These services are provided at no cost to job seekers.
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It is Your Economy .. yours, mine, our family, friends and neighbors -- EVERYONE to some degree is touched by the markets and their behavior. So we should be aware of the various mechanisms that make the markets and our economy tick. We live in a new era where politics, rumor, weather and just about anything you can think of effects the markets and our economy in some way, shape or form. Like it or not we are globally tied at the hip and in this new era where the advent of technology and the internet pushes information to the edge of the envelope, we can only hope to keep up with the many challenges ahead and the speed at which they develop. Technology is a double-edged sword and unfortunately can be used for good as well as evil, it just depends on who is holding the sword. This board was created to follow news, markets, stocks, cycles, trends, indicators and most of all to communicate and share ideas. Humor and Cartoons are welcome here, it breaks up the monotony from time to time and I am alays game for a good joke. I enjoy data mining, especially for info that the MSM (Main Stream Media) fail to or are not allowed to report. We must see things from all angles and aspects in order to verify what is true and what is false, basically becoming more atune to separating the wheat from the chaff. Hopefully in the long run this will help us all to make better and more sound decisions. This board is/was basically an information board, but all are welcome to post, (actually I encourage it because looking through another's eyes gives more perspective on issues). We can never learn too much about these ever changing times and the economy at hand.
* I have only a couple of rules and that is if you should post; NO PURE POLITICS or RELIGION and as always expected, please PLAY NICE !!!
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NOTE: What is meant by "pure politics" as stated in this boards' iBox decriptiion is just that.., it has no real ties to the economy and is mainly a composition of political innuendo. As I assume most of you know, it is difficult at times to separate politics from the economy due to the fact that politics plays a very large part in our everyday lives; be it on an economical, personal or other level altogether. Therefore this has created problems in the discernment of which posts should stay or go due to their leaning too far toward the political side and are slight on economic issues. As hard as my assistants and I try, we cannot please everyone. But we do what we do and want to be fair, we do want what should stay as part of this forums curricular. Everyone has an opinion and/or wants to be heard and I will do whatever I can to help ensure that is what takes place and hopefully most will not feel as though they are being targeted or alienated.
In the end all I can ask is that you be patient if a post of yours has been deleted, yet it has economic undertones that state otherwise and you feel should remain. If you feel you have been wronged - relax, sit back and PM me and I will make a final judgement. I am rather liberal, therefore more times than not I most likely will restore your post if it has merit and/or fallen between the cracks. Things happen or are interpreted differently and sometimes incorrectly, we are human. So do NOT throw a hissy fit nor become a foul mouth fool. Also PM harassment is frowned upon and should carry a level of disciplinary action, but I will leave that up to iHub Admin. Besides all that life is too precious to spend in a tirade. These types of behavior will get you no where except a closer view of the exit.. Treat people as you would like to be treated and we can work through most issues. It all starts with civil dialogue, respect for another's opinion even if not agreed upon. An agreement to disagree is the way I like to see things conclude when minds cannot meld. Just because an agreement cannot be reached does not mean we automatically have to trash another for their views and/or opinions. Let's face it, we all want better, we all want to be part of something bigger than ourselves and we all want to gain an edge in the game of life. This cannot be accomplished without an open mind and a certain level of tolerance for all that speak out.
As a matter of fact I encourage as many of you as possible to post, even if it is just once a month. You don't have to take the world by storm, it could be about something as simple as a neighborhood observation such as more homes up for sale than in months past or how empty the parking lots are at a traditionally known hot spot. Post an article or commentary that hits close to home, test the waters and see if others have seen similar events around the country. We have at our fingertips virtually 100s of libraries of information and cyber chat connections we can use to find out how different aspects of the economy are doing all around the nation. I truly believe we all have a lot to contribute and share and while we all will never see eye to eye on every subject or then again maybe none at all, but different points of view may enhance our own outlook or the way we see and do things. Right or wrong, the world is constantly evolving and technology will begin to pick up speed by leaps and bounds So we could serve each other better if we take what is posted for face value instead of an opportunity to lambaste someone that sees things in a different light than our own preconditioned mindset. When opposing views are met with hostile impositions it is of no service to anyone. I certainly would not want a cult following or a bunch of "yes" men setting the tone for this forum, I want diversity !!! Variety is the spice of life !!! You cannot expand your horizons if you automatically shut down and feel as though you have it all figured out. I got news for you, you don't and you won't until you are lying on your death bed. I do not care who you are or how worldly and educated you may be, we never stop learning unless we hold ourselves back with preconceived notions. Knowledge IS Power...
AND if you should feel the need to post on an otherwise different, yet similar stage:
Your Economy OT - Conspiracy, Politics, Religion, Terrorism, War (whatever else you can think of) (YE2OT)
It's open and ready for business. Over there you can post whatever you like to your hearts content, especially political/economic articles and commentary that does not quite fit in at YE1. So now you have 2 boards - One for economics, markets, trends, data, news, commentary, etc. - a more serious site for those who want the straight dope. And now the YE2OT board for everything else. I will play Moderator, but I am taking applications for an assistant who would control 90%+ of the interaction over there.
If people choose, they can travel between boards if they need a fix of some controlled chaos at YE2OT and then want some cold hard facts as (YE1) was intended.
I want everyone to have a voice, now you have a choice .. enjoy
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