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Researchers Call for Urgent Action to Address Mass Contamination of Blood Supply
May 27, 2024
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
>Japanese researchers warn of the risks of using blood from mRNA COVID vaccine recipients, highlighting potential deadly effects and the need for urgent action to secure the global blood supply
>Blood contaminated with prion-like structures from the spike protein raises the risk of inducing fatal neurodegenerative diseases in recipients. The potential transmission of harmful proteins through exosomes ("shedding") and the risk of autoimmune diseases due to the vaccines' mechanism and components like lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are other major concerns
>Proposals for managing blood collection include rigorous donor interviews, deferral periods, and a suite of tests to ensure the safety of blood products
>The researchers advocate for comprehensive testing of both jabbed and unjabbed individuals to assess the safety of blood products and suggest discarding blood products contaminated with spike proteins or modified mRNA until effective removal methods have been developed
>They call for suspending all gene-based “vaccines” and conducting a rigorous harm-benefit assessment in light of the serious health injuries reported. They also urge countries and organizations to take concrete steps to address and mitigate the already identified risks
Much more at the link:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/05/27/blood-supply-contamination.aspx?ui=23bc1bd9fcb4b3356028a747bd75a4fe7be0ae6a710a0f48676267071f8cecf5&sd=20220710&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20240527&foDate=false&mid=DM1578458&rid=31951659
New Video: J6 Wife Catches FBI Agents Covering Her Son, 4, with Laser Sights During Home Invasion
May 25, 2024 at 2:00pm
Annette Kuehne, the wife of Jan. 6 defendant Chris Kuehne, said that when the FBI raided their Kansas home in February 2021, agents had red weapon-aiming lights trained on both her and their young son.
The couple spoke with Nick Searcy, the producer of the documentary film “Capitol Punishment 2: The War on Truth,” at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The movie is the sequel to 2021’s “Capitol Punishment” and tracks the Department of Justice’s treatment of multiple defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion.
Chris Kuehne is a Marine Corps combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient who served on the detail that performed the 21-gun salute at Reagan’s funeral at the library in June 2004. He gave the commands for the salute, The Kansas City Star reported.
Kuehne attended the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol but was not charged with engaging in any violence or property destruction.
He went to Washington because he wanted to make sure that people didn’t get hurt, Annette Kuehne told Searcy.
“That was it. I lost my baby.”
For three years the federal government has waged a war on truth. Now the truth fights back.
Who really died on J6 and why is the Federal Government lying about it to this day?
Who orchestrated and benefited by breaching the Capitol… pic.twitter.com/9qYo1Lil79
— The Western Journal (@WestJournalism) May 20, 2024
The DOJ said in a news release that Kuehne had sent a text to a group he was with in Washington saying he was concerned about potential clashes with antifa or Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
On Feb. 11, 2021, a little over a month after the Capitol protest, the FBI raided the Kuehnes’ Kansas home and arrested him.
“It was about 6:30-ish in the morning, and they surrounded our home with three police vehicles. So at that moment, Chris’ cellphone rang and loud and clear I heard, ‘Chris Kuehne this is the FBI, you need to come out of your house immediately,’” Annette Kuehne recounted.
“And it was freezing cold. It was like 7 degrees without the wind chill there in Kansas,” she said.
The FBI had their weapons drawn, Annette said, and when she looked down, she “saw red lights moving, and I thought, ‘Is that pointed at me?’”
“I looked down at my chest, and I realized my little 4-year-old was standing right next to me and I saw them on him too,” she said.
The agents “were yelling at Chris to turn around, and at that moment I heard them tackle him down and throw him in the snow, and I heard him scream in pain because he had just had surgery on his left wrist,” Kuehne told Searcy.
She then turned and tried to shield her son from everything that was happening.
The FBI agents quickly whisked her husband away from the location and for a while blocked Annette and her son from returning inside their home.
The next morning, Kuehne, who was pregnant at the time, was not feeling well, but attributed it to lack of sleep and stress from everything that transpired.
She went to a doctor’s appointment and began bleeding in the examining room.
The doctor told her that she needed to have surgery immediately or she would bleed to death.
The Kuehnes lost their baby.
“That’s the hardest thing because now you have a loss of life that we’re dealing with besides everything else,” Annette told Searcy.
“There hasn’t been a day that’s gone by that I haven’t thought about that day and the baby and everything else, and what would we be like today,” she said.
Chris Kuehne pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, according to a February news release from the DOJ.
He was sentenced to 75 days in prison and 24 months of supervised release, which includes 60 days of home detention. He also was required to pay $2,000 in restitution for Capitol clean-up costs.
Annette concluded, “I think that law enforcement has been weaponized, and it’s being used against the American citizen. And it’s to make a statement that ‘if you don’t like what we’re saying or we’re doing, then this is the treatment you’re going to get.’ And that’s what it feels like.”
Chris Kuehne agreed.
“I’m really concerned for this country in a lot of ways,” he told Searcy. “This country was founded on a certain set of principles. God is the centerpiece. He sits at the throne. And that’s the way this country was founded by our forefathers, and I think that we have moved so far beyond that.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/new-video-j6-wife-catches-fbi-agents-covering-son-4-laser-sights-home-invasion/
New Video: J6 Wife Catches FBI Agents Covering Her Son, 4, with Laser Sights During Home Invasion
May 25, 2024 at 2:00pm
Annette Kuehne, the wife of Jan. 6 defendant Chris Kuehne, said that when the FBI raided their Kansas home in February 2021, agents had red weapon-aiming lights trained on both her and their young son.
The couple spoke with Nick Searcy, the producer of the documentary film “Capitol Punishment 2: The War on Truth,” at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The movie is the sequel to 2021’s “Capitol Punishment” and tracks the Department of Justice’s treatment of multiple defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion.
Chris Kuehne is a Marine Corps combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient who served on the detail that performed the 21-gun salute at Reagan’s funeral at the library in June 2004. He gave the commands for the salute, The Kansas City Star reported.
Kuehne attended the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol but was not charged with engaging in any violence or property destruction.
He went to Washington because he wanted to make sure that people didn’t get hurt, Annette Kuehne told Searcy.
“That was it. I lost my baby.”
For three years the federal government has waged a war on truth. Now the truth fights back.
Who really died on J6 and why is the Federal Government lying about it to this day?
Who orchestrated and benefited by breaching the Capitol… pic.twitter.com/9qYo1Lil79
— The Western Journal (@WestJournalism) May 20, 2024
The DOJ said in a news release that Kuehne had sent a text to a group he was with in Washington saying he was concerned about potential clashes with antifa or Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
On Feb. 11, 2021, a little over a month after the Capitol protest, the FBI raided the Kuehnes’ Kansas home and arrested him.
“It was about 6:30-ish in the morning, and they surrounded our home with three police vehicles. So at that moment, Chris’ cellphone rang and loud and clear I heard, ‘Chris Kuehne this is the FBI, you need to come out of your house immediately,’” Annette Kuehne recounted.
“And it was freezing cold. It was like 7 degrees without the wind chill there in Kansas,” she said.
The FBI had their weapons drawn, Annette said, and when she looked down, she “saw red lights moving, and I thought, ‘Is that pointed at me?’”
“I looked down at my chest, and I realized my little 4-year-old was standing right next to me and I saw them on him too,” she said.
The agents “were yelling at Chris to turn around, and at that moment I heard them tackle him down and throw him in the snow, and I heard him scream in pain because he had just had surgery on his left wrist,” Kuehne told Searcy.
She then turned and tried to shield her son from everything that was happening.
The FBI agents quickly whisked her husband away from the location and for a while blocked Annette and her son from returning inside their home.
The next morning, Kuehne, who was pregnant at the time, was not feeling well, but attributed it to lack of sleep and stress from everything that transpired.
She went to a doctor’s appointment and began bleeding in the examining room.
The doctor told her that she needed to have surgery immediately or she would bleed to death.
The Kuehnes lost their baby.
“That’s the hardest thing because now you have a loss of life that we’re dealing with besides everything else,” Annette told Searcy.
“There hasn’t been a day that’s gone by that I haven’t thought about that day and the baby and everything else, and what would we be like today,” she said.
Chris Kuehne pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, according to a February news release from the DOJ.
He was sentenced to 75 days in prison and 24 months of supervised release, which includes 60 days of home detention. He also was required to pay $2,000 in restitution for Capitol clean-up costs.
Annette concluded, “I think that law enforcement has been weaponized, and it’s being used against the American citizen. And it’s to make a statement that ‘if you don’t like what we’re saying or we’re doing, then this is the treatment you’re going to get.’ And that’s what it feels like.”
Chris Kuehne agreed.
“I’m really concerned for this country in a lot of ways,” he told Searcy. “This country was founded on a certain set of principles. God is the centerpiece. He sits at the throne. And that’s the way this country was founded by our forefathers, and I think that we have moved so far beyond that.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/new-video-j6-wife-catches-fbi-agents-covering-son-4-laser-sights-home-invasion/
@DC_Draino
Filming gay sex in the Senate?📹
No jail
Pulling the fire alarm in Congress?🚨
No jail
Waving a Ukrainian flag in Congress?🇺🇦
No jail
Walking around peacefully with an American flag in Congress?
FBI raids & Federal prison
This is how you know our gov’t has been hijacked
Filming gay sex in the Senate?📹
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) May 24, 2024
No jail
Pulling the fire alarm in Congress?🚨
No jail
Waving a Ukrainian flag in Congress?🇺🇦
No jail
Walking around peacefully with an American flag in Congress?
FBI raids & Federal prison
This is how you know our gov’t has been hijacked pic.twitter.com/TegacwjSoJ
@DC_Draino
Filming gay sex in the Senate?📹
No jail
Pulling the fire alarm in Congress?🚨
No jail
Waving a Ukrainian flag in Congress?🇺🇦
No jail
Walking around peacefully with an American flag in Congress?
FBI raids & Federal prison
This is how you know our gov’t has been hijacked
Filming gay sex in the Senate?📹
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) May 24, 2024
No jail
Pulling the fire alarm in Congress?🚨
No jail
Waving a Ukrainian flag in Congress?🇺🇦
No jail
Walking around peacefully with an American flag in Congress?
FBI raids & Federal prison
This is how you know our gov’t has been hijacked pic.twitter.com/TegacwjSoJ
He gives no definition of what he classifies as an assault weapon
Trying that is NOT going to happen for me!
One word answer .... NO!
Ragin' Cajun... Carville: ‘Democrat Messaging Is Full of Sh-t’ Stop Ignoring the Economy
PAM KEY 26 May 2024 1:30
Democratic strategist James Carville said on the Politicon podcast that Democrats are losing younger voters and black voters because they were ignoring the economy.
Carville said, “The generational thievery that has occurred in this country is criminality of the first order. We keep wondering why these young people are not coming home to the Democrats. Why are blacks not coming home to the Democrats? Because Democrat messaging is full of shit, that’s why. And talk about cost of living, and we’re going to help deal with this. Don’t talk about fucking Gaza and student loans. That is so out.”
He continued, “Why are we forgiving student loans for people that go to Harvard? Which, according to Scott Galloway, quite accurately, is nothing but a hedge fund that has classrooms. Well, they got a $52 billion fucking surplus. Why are taxpayers going to bail these people out? Why don’t you come out with a proposal to tax every university with an endowment of over $5 billion and use that money to give their former students relief?”
Carville added, “We all know where where we are. We all know the position we are in. We all know what the polls say. We all know how old President Biden is. Quit fucking arguing what’s in front of your face and start laying something out.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/05/26/carville-democrat-messaging-is-full-of-sh-t-stop-ignoring-the-economy/
Ragin' Cajun... Carville: ‘Democrat Messaging Is Full of Sh-t’ Stop Ignoring the Economy
PAM KEY 26 May 2024 1:30
Democratic strategist James Carville said on the Politicon podcast that Democrats are losing younger voters and black voters because they were ignoring the economy.
Carville said, “The generational thievery that has occurred in this country is criminality of the first order. We keep wondering why these young people are not coming home to the Democrats. Why are blacks not coming home to the Democrats? Because Democrat messaging is full of shit, that’s why. And talk about cost of living, and we’re going to help deal with this. Don’t talk about fucking Gaza and student loans. That is so out.”
He continued, “Why are we forgiving student loans for people that go to Harvard? Which, according to Scott Galloway, quite accurately, is nothing but a hedge fund that has classrooms. Well, they got a $52 billion fucking surplus. Why are taxpayers going to bail these people out? Why don’t you come out with a proposal to tax every university with an endowment of over $5 billion and use that money to give their former students relief?”
Carville added, “We all know where where we are. We all know the position we are in. We all know what the polls say. We all know how old President Biden is. Quit fucking arguing what’s in front of your face and start laying something out.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/05/26/carville-democrat-messaging-is-full-of-sh-t-stop-ignoring-the-economy/
Good afternoon Al. Inquiring minds would like to know!
Trump’s sham ‘hush money’ case is a trial that has exposed New York’s corrupt justice system
By Michael Goodwin Published May 25, 2024, 9:37 p.m. ET
The Manhattan court docket says it’s the “People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump.”
Legally, yes, but in a larger truth, no. As the case nears the finish line, it increasingly feels as if New York itself is on trial.
Only a top-quality case, beyond reproach and political taint, should have been used to bring the first-ever indictment of a former president. Instead, the city and state put on a show trial long on theatrics–porn star testifies about sex! — and short on evidence that any crime was actually committed.
And so the script has flipped, with the trial itself an assault on the notion that justice is blind. No matter what the jury says about Trump, the prosecutors, the judge, the state court system and the political class have been revealed as thoroughly corrupt.
This is the third time New York Democrats distorted the legal system to serve their partisan aim of destroying Trump. One case involved a change in a statute of limitations law that ultimately led to a defamation ruling against him and a ridiculous fine of $92 million.
Another murky case, brought by the overtly-partisan state attorney general, concocted a civil fraud charged aimed at bankrupting him. An amateurish state judge who enjoyed the spotlight far too much nodded yes and declared a fine of $355 million.
These are the rotten fruits of a one-party blue state. The only justice so far is a rough one, with New York Dems inadvertently contributing to Trump’s growing popularity and helping him build his lead over President Biden.
Kat’s stumble in Bronx
They also managed to prove the former president’s claim that his supporters are the ultimate target.
Thanks to Gov. Hochul for opening the kimono on that point. Her description of those New Yorkers who attended Trump’s Thursday Bronx rally as “clowns” seals her reputation as a party hack.
Somebody should remind her she’s the governor of 20 million people, not just the 6 million who are registered Democrats.
Imagine if Trump had called thousands of mostly-black and Latino supporters at a Biden rally clowns. The New York Times would have stopped the presses to declare him a racist.
Hochul, who recently had to apologize after saying black children in The Bronx grow up without knowing the word “computer,” denounced Trump and his supporters even as he vowed to work with her and Mayor Adams to make New York safer and better.
She’s never criticized Biden for an open-border policy that has saddled New York with an unmitigated disaster, financially and socially, or played hardball with the far-left radicals running the Legislature.
But she was quick to blast Trump for daring to offer his hand in bipartisanship.
Then again, Hochul’s no rookie at smearing opponents. Recall her demand in 2022 that Trump and her GOP opponent, Lee Zeldin, “jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong . . . you are not New Yorkers.”
She also said Republicans “don’t represent our values.”
Hmm, which values would that be? Corrupting the courts for political purposes?
Or making New York a leader in out-migration of residents as families flee high crime, high taxes and poor services?
Unfortunately, Hochul has lots of company on the loony left. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who coddles criminals and ignores their victims, is paying his party dues with the Trump case.
Bragg can’t make case
The claim that Trump disguised “hush money” payments to Stormy Daniels to conceal an underlying crime was always a stretch, but now seems like a flight of fancy because Bragg never identified an underlying crime.
As even CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria put it, “ I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.”
What a damning indictment of New York!
Bragg once shared the same opinion of the flawed case, dropping the long-running probe soon after taking office in 2022. That put him in good company, with the Federal Election Commission, New York federal prosecutors and his predecessor all previously passing on the case.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks during a news conference at his office in New York City, U.S., February 22, 2024.
REUTERS (DEI at its best.)
But Bragg, in his first elected office, soon caved in to pressure from the Trump haters, including those in the Biden White House and the office of Attorney General Merrick Garland. They saw the criminal case, along with three others Dems brought that are pending, as insurance policies against a second Trump election.
Even then, the lack of direct evidence that Trump committed any crime, let alone 34 felonies, should have been fatal. And any prosecutor who brings a case where Michael Cohen is the prime witness ought to be disbarred.
Cohen is a convicted serial liar and appears willing to say anything if it will help settle his score with Trump.
How ironic that his testimony helped his former boss in key ways.
The weaknesses should have been fatal to the prosecution, and would have been except for a judge who has tilted so far in Bragg’s direction it’s a miracle he doesn’t fall out of his chair.
Justice Juan Merchan clearly suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome and his campaign donations to Biden and Democrats, although small, should have led to his recusal.
Ditto for the fact that his daughter works as a richly-paid consultant for Dems. But instead of stepping aside to give the case a patina of credibility, Merchan slapped a gag order on Trump that, among other things, forbade him from mentioning the judge’s family.
Not surprisingly, his rulings about evidence and testimony mostly favored prosecutors, magnifying his conflicts of interest.
Shallow end of jury pool
A Manhattan jury pool was always likely to tilt against Trump, which was surely a factor in Bragg’s decision to bring the case. Because a majority of the jurors said they read The New York Times, which is in its eighth year of its jihad against him, a conviction wouldn’t be surprising.
Although appeals would not likely be resolved before the election, the case would become an integrity test for the appellate courts. Nearly all of the jurists are Democrats who owe their robes to the state party machine.
For Trump, the partisan math means a hung jury is his best hope. Reports that Biden intends to speak from the White House about the verdict brings into sharp focus the president’s fantasy that a guilty verdict would reverse his fading re-election chances.
Perhaps, but it’s not clear how much a conviction would hurt Trump politically. Although polls say some voters would be less likely to back him if he’s guilty of a felony, the specifics will matter.
Moreover, Trump’s support has never depended on his adherence to conventional conduct.
His quip that he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters has proven true enough to get him this far.
And with polls showing that a big majority of voters see Biden as a failing president, a Trump conviction in a sham case will not determine the November outcome.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/25/opinion/trumps-hush-money-case-puts-on-trial-the-morals-of-new-york/
Trump’s sham ‘hush money’ case is a trial that has exposed New York’s corrupt justice system
By Michael Goodwin Published May 25, 2024, 9:37 p.m. ET
The Manhattan court docket says it’s the “People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump.”
Legally, yes, but in a larger truth, no. As the case nears the finish line, it increasingly feels as if New York itself is on trial.
Only a top-quality case, beyond reproach and political taint, should have been used to bring the first-ever indictment of a former president. Instead, the city and state put on a show trial long on theatrics–porn star testifies about sex! — and short on evidence that any crime was actually committed.
And so the script has flipped, with the trial itself an assault on the notion that justice is blind. No matter what the jury says about Trump, the prosecutors, the judge, the state court system and the political class have been revealed as thoroughly corrupt.
This is the third time New York Democrats distorted the legal system to serve their partisan aim of destroying Trump. One case involved a change in a statute of limitations law that ultimately led to a defamation ruling against him and a ridiculous fine of $92 million.
Another murky case, brought by the overtly-partisan state attorney general, concocted a civil fraud charged aimed at bankrupting him. An amateurish state judge who enjoyed the spotlight far too much nodded yes and declared a fine of $355 million.
These are the rotten fruits of a one-party blue state. The only justice so far is a rough one, with New York Dems inadvertently contributing to Trump’s growing popularity and helping him build his lead over President Biden.
Kat’s stumble in Bronx
They also managed to prove the former president’s claim that his supporters are the ultimate target.
Thanks to Gov. Hochul for opening the kimono on that point. Her description of those New Yorkers who attended Trump’s Thursday Bronx rally as “clowns” seals her reputation as a party hack.
Somebody should remind her she’s the governor of 20 million people, not just the 6 million who are registered Democrats.
Imagine if Trump had called thousands of mostly-black and Latino supporters at a Biden rally clowns. The New York Times would have stopped the presses to declare him a racist.
Hochul, who recently had to apologize after saying black children in The Bronx grow up without knowing the word “computer,” denounced Trump and his supporters even as he vowed to work with her and Mayor Adams to make New York safer and better.
She’s never criticized Biden for an open-border policy that has saddled New York with an unmitigated disaster, financially and socially, or played hardball with the far-left radicals running the Legislature.
But she was quick to blast Trump for daring to offer his hand in bipartisanship.
Then again, Hochul’s no rookie at smearing opponents. Recall her demand in 2022 that Trump and her GOP opponent, Lee Zeldin, “jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong . . . you are not New Yorkers.”
She also said Republicans “don’t represent our values.”
Hmm, which values would that be? Corrupting the courts for political purposes?
Or making New York a leader in out-migration of residents as families flee high crime, high taxes and poor services?
Unfortunately, Hochul has lots of company on the loony left. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who coddles criminals and ignores their victims, is paying his party dues with the Trump case.
Bragg can’t make case
The claim that Trump disguised “hush money” payments to Stormy Daniels to conceal an underlying crime was always a stretch, but now seems like a flight of fancy because Bragg never identified an underlying crime.
As even CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria put it, “ I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.”
What a damning indictment of New York!
Bragg once shared the same opinion of the flawed case, dropping the long-running probe soon after taking office in 2022. That put him in good company, with the Federal Election Commission, New York federal prosecutors and his predecessor all previously passing on the case.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks during a news conference at his office in New York City, U.S., February 22, 2024.
REUTERS (DEI at its best.)
But Bragg, in his first elected office, soon caved in to pressure from the Trump haters, including those in the Biden White House and the office of Attorney General Merrick Garland. They saw the criminal case, along with three others Dems brought that are pending, as insurance policies against a second Trump election.
Even then, the lack of direct evidence that Trump committed any crime, let alone 34 felonies, should have been fatal. And any prosecutor who brings a case where Michael Cohen is the prime witness ought to be disbarred.
Cohen is a convicted serial liar and appears willing to say anything if it will help settle his score with Trump.
How ironic that his testimony helped his former boss in key ways.
The weaknesses should have been fatal to the prosecution, and would have been except for a judge who has tilted so far in Bragg’s direction it’s a miracle he doesn’t fall out of his chair.
Justice Juan Merchan clearly suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome and his campaign donations to Biden and Democrats, although small, should have led to his recusal.
Ditto for the fact that his daughter works as a richly-paid consultant for Dems. But instead of stepping aside to give the case a patina of credibility, Merchan slapped a gag order on Trump that, among other things, forbade him from mentioning the judge’s family.
Not surprisingly, his rulings about evidence and testimony mostly favored prosecutors, magnifying his conflicts of interest.
Shallow end of jury pool
A Manhattan jury pool was always likely to tilt against Trump, which was surely a factor in Bragg’s decision to bring the case. Because a majority of the jurors said they read The New York Times, which is in its eighth year of its jihad against him, a conviction wouldn’t be surprising.
Although appeals would not likely be resolved before the election, the case would become an integrity test for the appellate courts. Nearly all of the jurists are Democrats who owe their robes to the state party machine.
For Trump, the partisan math means a hung jury is his best hope. Reports that Biden intends to speak from the White House about the verdict brings into sharp focus the president’s fantasy that a guilty verdict would reverse his fading re-election chances.
Perhaps, but it’s not clear how much a conviction would hurt Trump politically. Although polls say some voters would be less likely to back him if he’s guilty of a felony, the specifics will matter.
Moreover, Trump’s support has never depended on his adherence to conventional conduct.
His quip that he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters has proven true enough to get him this far.
And with polls showing that a big majority of voters see Biden as a failing president, a Trump conviction in a sham case will not determine the November outcome.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/25/opinion/trumps-hush-money-case-puts-on-trial-the-morals-of-new-york/
Strange that the left can now identify a man and a woman.
Hillary Clinton Blames Sexism for 2016 Loss: Donald Trump Won Because He Is A Man
Hillary Clinton blamed the fact that female voters abandoned her as her 2016 presidential campaign came to a close on her not being “perfect” in a recent interview.
“They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me because, as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect,” the former secretary of state told the New York Times in an interview conducted in February and published Saturday.
She went on to argue that female voters took a “risk” on former President Donald Trump because he is a man.
“They were willing to take a risk on [Trump] — who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection — because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander-in-chief.”
The former first lady also criticized fellow Democrats for not cementing abortion rights before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
“We didn’t take it seriously, and we didn’t understand the threat,” Clinton said. “Most Democrats, most Americans, did not realize we are in an existential struggle for the future of this country.”
“We could have done more to fight,” she added, likening the struggle for abortion access to women’s rights.
“Authoritarians, whether they be political or religious based, always go after women. It’s just written in the history, and that’s what will happen in this country.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/25/hillary-clinton-blames-sexism-for-2016-loss-donald-trump-won-because-he-is-a-man/
Strange that the left can now identify a man and a woman.
Hillary Clinton Blames Sexism for 2016 Loss: Donald Trump Won Because He Is A Man
Hillary Clinton blamed the fact that female voters abandoned her as her 2016 presidential campaign came to a close on her not being “perfect” in a recent interview.
“They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me because, as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect,” the former secretary of state told the New York Times in an interview conducted in February and published Saturday.
She went on to argue that female voters took a “risk” on former President Donald Trump because he is a man.
“They were willing to take a risk on [Trump] — who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection — because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander-in-chief.”
The former first lady also criticized fellow Democrats for not cementing abortion rights before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
“We didn’t take it seriously, and we didn’t understand the threat,” Clinton said. “Most Democrats, most Americans, did not realize we are in an existential struggle for the future of this country.”
“We could have done more to fight,” she added, likening the struggle for abortion access to women’s rights.
“Authoritarians, whether they be political or religious based, always go after women. It’s just written in the history, and that’s what will happen in this country.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/25/hillary-clinton-blames-sexism-for-2016-loss-donald-trump-won-because-he-is-a-man/
Muslim Activists Lead ‘Abandon Biden’ Movement in 9 Swing States to Thwart President’s Reelection
A national Muslim activist group called “Abandon Biden” is organizing operations in nine swing states to prevent President Joe Biden from winning reelection in November as punishment for his handling of the Israel and Hamas war, according to a report.
Minneapolis-based newspaper the Star Tribune reported Sunday of the group’s efforts to keep Biden from a second term, even if it results in a Trump presidency:
Abdel Salam, 48, is among a group of Muslim activists, including several Minnesotans, who are organizing in nine swing states in opposition to Biden’s re-election. The group’s leaders say they want to politically punish the president for what they describe as enabling mass civilian casualties in Gaza.
Salam, a University of Minnesota human rights professor, ditched the campus in April to help head up the movement.
The group prioritizes punishing Biden over preventing a second Trump presidency, the report indicates. Moreover, Salam told the Tribune a Biden loss over his Israel-Hamas policies would move the needle substantially in making the pro-Palestinian stance the mainstream view of the Democrat Party:
He said he and other Abandon Biden leaders are evaluating third-party candidates and plan to make an endorsement this summer. And if Trump wins because of their work, “the big gift that would come out of punishing the president is that an entire party … becomes a pro-Palestinian party against the occupation and will begin to look for equity much more aggressively than we have in the past,” Abdel Salam said.
The threat to Biden’s reelection bid over frustrations on the left among Muslims, Arab-Americans, young voters, and progressives has been well-documented throughout the election year. More than half a million Democrat primary voters protested Biden’s handling of the war and demanded a ceasefire by casting variations of “uncommitted” votes against him.
The Listen to Michigan campaign, which kicked off the movement, notes the threat to Biden is these voters would stay home in November, barring a major change in his policy. Despite Biden demanding a ceasefire in April from Benjamin Netanyahu and threatening to withhold weapons from Israel, the movement persisted in the Maryland Democrat primary on May 14, and with the November election less than six months away, he is running out of time.
While Maryland is not realistically in play for Republicans, the movement in Michigan and other swing states, where margins between Trump and Biden were tight in 2020, pose extreme danger for Democrats and Biden, especially as polling indicates Trump is already leading in many of these states.
The group’s website, Abandonbiden24.com, notes they are targeting Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Jaylani Hussein, who serves on the national Abandon Biden board with Salam and three others, pointed to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin as states where the Muslim vote can really influence the state’s electoral outcome.
“Our math right now shows really no pathway for Biden to win,” Hussein contended to the Tribune.
The report follows a recent New York Times/ Siena College poll showing that Trump has made groundbreaking inroads with Muslim and Arab-American voters in swing states. The poll found Trump was winning 57 percent of these voters to Biden’s 25 percent.
“Those who say they voted in the 2020 election reported backing Mr. Biden by a similar but opposite margin, 56-35,” Times Chief Political Analyst Nate Cohn reported on May 13. The poll sampled 4,097 registered voters between April 28 and May 9.
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/05/25/muslim-activists-lead-abandon-biden-movement-in-9-swing-states-to-thwart-presidents-reelection/
Muslim Activists Lead ‘Abandon Biden’ Movement in 9 Swing States to Thwart President’s Reelection
A national Muslim activist group called “Abandon Biden” is organizing operations in nine swing states to prevent President Joe Biden from winning reelection in November as punishment for his handling of the Israel and Hamas war, according to a report.
Minneapolis-based newspaper the Star Tribune reported Sunday of the group’s efforts to keep Biden from a second term, even if it results in a Trump presidency:
Abdel Salam, 48, is among a group of Muslim activists, including several Minnesotans, who are organizing in nine swing states in opposition to Biden’s re-election. The group’s leaders say they want to politically punish the president for what they describe as enabling mass civilian casualties in Gaza.
Salam, a University of Minnesota human rights professor, ditched the campus in April to help head up the movement.
The group prioritizes punishing Biden over preventing a second Trump presidency, the report indicates. Moreover, Salam told the Tribune a Biden loss over his Israel-Hamas policies would move the needle substantially in making the pro-Palestinian stance the mainstream view of the Democrat Party:
He said he and other Abandon Biden leaders are evaluating third-party candidates and plan to make an endorsement this summer. And if Trump wins because of their work, “the big gift that would come out of punishing the president is that an entire party … becomes a pro-Palestinian party against the occupation and will begin to look for equity much more aggressively than we have in the past,” Abdel Salam said.
The threat to Biden’s reelection bid over frustrations on the left among Muslims, Arab-Americans, young voters, and progressives has been well-documented throughout the election year. More than half a million Democrat primary voters protested Biden’s handling of the war and demanded a ceasefire by casting variations of “uncommitted” votes against him.
The Listen to Michigan campaign, which kicked off the movement, notes the threat to Biden is these voters would stay home in November, barring a major change in his policy. Despite Biden demanding a ceasefire in April from Benjamin Netanyahu and threatening to withhold weapons from Israel, the movement persisted in the Maryland Democrat primary on May 14, and with the November election less than six months away, he is running out of time.
While Maryland is not realistically in play for Republicans, the movement in Michigan and other swing states, where margins between Trump and Biden were tight in 2020, pose extreme danger for Democrats and Biden, especially as polling indicates Trump is already leading in many of these states.
The group’s website, Abandonbiden24.com, notes they are targeting Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Jaylani Hussein, who serves on the national Abandon Biden board with Salam and three others, pointed to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin as states where the Muslim vote can really influence the state’s electoral outcome.
“Our math right now shows really no pathway for Biden to win,” Hussein contended to the Tribune.
The report follows a recent New York Times/ Siena College poll showing that Trump has made groundbreaking inroads with Muslim and Arab-American voters in swing states. The poll found Trump was winning 57 percent of these voters to Biden’s 25 percent.
“Those who say they voted in the 2020 election reported backing Mr. Biden by a similar but opposite margin, 56-35,” Times Chief Political Analyst Nate Cohn reported on May 13. The poll sampled 4,097 registered voters between April 28 and May 9.
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/05/25/muslim-activists-lead-abandon-biden-movement-in-9-swing-states-to-thwart-presidents-reelection/
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Remember George Floyd over Memorial Day Weekend: ‘Should Be Alive’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/25/joe-biden-kamala-harris-remember-george-floyd-over-memorial-day-weekend-should-be-alive/
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Remember George Floyd over Memorial Day Weekend: ‘Should Be Alive’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/25/joe-biden-kamala-harris-remember-george-floyd-over-memorial-day-weekend-should-be-alive/
And the polls show ......
Polls Show Biden Still Has Sizable Lead Among Those Who Will Be Counting The Ballots
POLITICS
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May 24, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
https://babylonbee.com/news/polls-show-biden-still-has-sizeable-lead-among-those-who-will-be-counting-the-ballots?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
U.S. — Though some recent data has indicated large percentages of voters are breaking toward former President Donald Trump, new polls show President Joe Biden still has a sizeable lead among people who will be counting the ballots.
Despite continuing to build what at times has appeared to be a massive lead, Trump reportedly still struggles to make gains among the small number of people who are in charge of counting votes in November.
"For whatever reason, he just can't seem to gain traction with people counting the ballots," said political analyst Blake Rumsey of the Institute of Collecting Information. "Even though he has made significant gains among multiple demographics and voting blocks, our polling of people who count the votes shows Biden still holding an obvious lead. Honestly, I don't even know if it's possible for Trump to win that group. They seem pretty devout."
When reached for comment regarding the new poll results, one ballot counter confirmed the data's accuracy. "Yeah, we're all pretty much in the tank for Biden," said the vote counter who requested to have his identity kept anonymous. "I would think that would have been pretty obvious with the way things went in 2020, but yeah. As one of the many hardcore leftists placed specifically in this position to influence the outcomes of elections, I can say confidently that I am voting for Joe Biden. And my vote means a lot, if you get what I mean. We make up the winner. That's what I mean."
At publishing time, the Biden campaign had put in a request to have the Federal Election Commission hire several million undocumented migrants to serve as extra ballot counters in November.
Polls Show Biden Still Has Sizable Lead Among Those Who Will Be Counting The Ballots
POLITICS
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May 24, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
https://babylonbee.com/news/polls-show-biden-still-has-sizeable-lead-among-those-who-will-be-counting-the-ballots?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
U.S. — Though some recent data has indicated large percentages of voters are breaking toward former President Donald Trump, new polls show President Joe Biden still has a sizeable lead among people who will be counting the ballots.
Despite continuing to build what at times has appeared to be a massive lead, Trump reportedly still struggles to make gains among the small number of people who are in charge of counting votes in November.
"For whatever reason, he just can't seem to gain traction with people counting the ballots," said political analyst Blake Rumsey of the Institute of Collecting Information. "Even though he has made significant gains among multiple demographics and voting blocks, our polling of people who count the votes shows Biden still holding an obvious lead. Honestly, I don't even know if it's possible for Trump to win that group. They seem pretty devout."
When reached for comment regarding the new poll results, one ballot counter confirmed the data's accuracy. "Yeah, we're all pretty much in the tank for Biden," said the vote counter who requested to have his identity kept anonymous. "I would think that would have been pretty obvious with the way things went in 2020, but yeah. As one of the many hardcore leftists placed specifically in this position to influence the outcomes of elections, I can say confidently that I am voting for Joe Biden. And my vote means a lot, if you get what I mean. We make up the winner. That's what I mean."
At publishing time, the Biden campaign had put in a request to have the Federal Election Commission hire several million undocumented migrants to serve as extra ballot counters in November.
Polls Show Biden Still Has Sizable Lead Among Those Who Will Be Counting The Ballots
POLITICS
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May 24, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
https://babylonbee.com/news/polls-show-biden-still-has-sizeable-lead-among-those-who-will-be-counting-the-ballots?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
U.S. — Though some recent data has indicated large percentages of voters are breaking toward former President Donald Trump, new polls show President Joe Biden still has a sizeable lead among people who will be counting the ballots.
Despite continuing to build what at times has appeared to be a massive lead, Trump reportedly still struggles to make gains among the small number of people who are in charge of counting votes in November.
"For whatever reason, he just can't seem to gain traction with people counting the ballots," said political analyst Blake Rumsey of the Institute of Collecting Information. "Even though he has made significant gains among multiple demographics and voting blocks, our polling of people who count the votes shows Biden still holding an obvious lead. Honestly, I don't even know if it's possible for Trump to win that group. They seem pretty devout."
When reached for comment regarding the new poll results, one ballot counter confirmed the data's accuracy. "Yeah, we're all pretty much in the tank for Biden," said the vote counter who requested to have his identity kept anonymous. "I would think that would have been pretty obvious with the way things went in 2020, but yeah. As one of the many hardcore leftists placed specifically in this position to influence the outcomes of elections, I can say confidently that I am voting for Joe Biden. And my vote means a lot, if you get what I mean. We make up the winner. That's what I mean."
At publishing time, the Biden campaign had put in a request to have the Federal Election Commission hire several million undocumented migrants to serve as extra ballot counters in November.
Should come as no surprise:
Report — ‘Troubling’: UCLA Medical School Rankings Drop
AMY FURR 24 May 2024 2:43
One of the top medical schools in the world, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine, has reportedly dropped in the rankings, and some faculty members are pointing to admissions decisions that “prioritize diversity over merit” as a likely cause.
In 2021, Associate Dean for Admissions Jennifer Lucero allegedly became angry when an official with the admissions committee questioned whether one black student, whose grades and test scores were far below the school’s average, was a good fit for the school, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Thursday.
“Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?” Lucero reportedly said before claiming that the applicant’s scores should not matter and the school needed such people.
California’s public schools are not allowed, per state law, to consider a person’s race during the admissions process. Therefore, Lucero’s reaction caused some of the admissions officers to feel uncomfortable, one of them calling it “troubling.”
The outlet continued:
In interviews with the Free Beacon and complaints to UCLA officials, including investigators in the university’s Discrimination Prevention Office, faculty members with firsthand knowledge of the admissions process say it has prioritized diversity over merit, resulting in progressively less qualified classes that are now struggling to succeed.
…
Within three years of Lucero’s hiring in 2020, UCLA dropped from 6th to 18th place in U.S. News & World Report‘s rankings for medical research. And in some of the cohorts she admitted, more than 50 percent of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.
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“Race-based admissions have turned UCLA into a ‘failed medical school,’ said one former member of the admissions staff. ‘We want racial diversity so badly, we’re willing to cut corners to get it.'”
Lucero’s bio on the school’s website says she “participates actively in the recruitment of underrepresented students to the profession of medicine through her work in pathway and outreach programs.”
“As a Chicana physician, she takes a special interest in diversity issues in medicine and disparities in the delivery of obstetric healthcare to women of color,” the site reads.
The school’s website has a “Anti-racism Roadmap” and claims it is committed to fighting “structural racism.”
UCLA required first-year medical students to attend a lecture in March on “racial equity” where a guest speaker had attendees chant “Free Palestine,” according to a report.
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/05/24/report-troubling-ucla-medical-school-rankings-drop/
Should come as no surprise:
Report — ‘Troubling’: UCLA Medical School Rankings Drop
AMY FURR 24 May 2024 2:43
One of the top medical schools in the world, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine, has reportedly dropped in the rankings, and some faculty members are pointing to admissions decisions that “prioritize diversity over merit” as a likely cause.
In 2021, Associate Dean for Admissions Jennifer Lucero allegedly became angry when an official with the admissions committee questioned whether one black student, whose grades and test scores were far below the school’s average, was a good fit for the school, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Thursday.
“Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?” Lucero reportedly said before claiming that the applicant’s scores should not matter and the school needed such people.
California’s public schools are not allowed, per state law, to consider a person’s race during the admissions process. Therefore, Lucero’s reaction caused some of the admissions officers to feel uncomfortable, one of them calling it “troubling.”
The outlet continued:
In interviews with the Free Beacon and complaints to UCLA officials, including investigators in the university’s Discrimination Prevention Office, faculty members with firsthand knowledge of the admissions process say it has prioritized diversity over merit, resulting in progressively less qualified classes that are now struggling to succeed.
…
Within three years of Lucero’s hiring in 2020, UCLA dropped from 6th to 18th place in U.S. News & World Report‘s rankings for medical research. And in some of the cohorts she admitted, more than 50 percent of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.
…
“Race-based admissions have turned UCLA into a ‘failed medical school,’ said one former member of the admissions staff. ‘We want racial diversity so badly, we’re willing to cut corners to get it.'”
Lucero’s bio on the school’s website says she “participates actively in the recruitment of underrepresented students to the profession of medicine through her work in pathway and outreach programs.”
“As a Chicana physician, she takes a special interest in diversity issues in medicine and disparities in the delivery of obstetric healthcare to women of color,” the site reads.
The school’s website has a “Anti-racism Roadmap” and claims it is committed to fighting “structural racism.”
UCLA required first-year medical students to attend a lecture in March on “racial equity” where a guest speaker had attendees chant “Free Palestine,” according to a report.
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/05/24/report-troubling-ucla-medical-school-rankings-drop/
Blinken calls honoring sexual perverts a moral imperative
Dr. Steve LaTulippe
Sat May 25
The same perps who sponsored the global plandemic continue to push an ideology of social mayhem that would be cause for celebration in any insane asylum. Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls sexual deviance normal and healthy for society. In his own words, “LGBTQI+ persons deserve recognition of their universal human rights and human dignity.” But he doesn’t stop there. He affirms:
“We will continue to advocate for the rights of LGBTQI+ persons not just because we have a moral imperative to do so, but because it helps to strengthen democracy, bolster national security, and promote global health and economic development.”
Secretary Of State Blinken Speaks About Need For LGBTQ+ Worldwide Rights
Blinken calls honoring sexual perverts a moral imperative
Dr. Steve LaTulippe
Sat May 25
The same perps who sponsored the global plandemic continue to push an ideology of social mayhem that would be cause for celebration in any insane asylum. Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls sexual deviance normal and healthy for society. In his own words, “LGBTQI+ persons deserve recognition of their universal human rights and human dignity.” But he doesn’t stop there. He affirms:
“We will continue to advocate for the rights of LGBTQI+ persons not just because we have a moral imperative to do so, but because it helps to strengthen democracy, bolster national security, and promote global health and economic development.”
Secretary Of State Blinken Speaks About Need For LGBTQ+ Worldwide Rights
While Trump faces felony charges, NY-based Clinton campaign only faced fines for its records issue
Selective Prosecution? Following the 2016 election, the FEC determined the Clinton campaign incorrectly recorded opposition research as legal expenses, but was only hit with an administrative fine.
By Steven Richards
Published: May 24, 2024 11:00pm
Records from OpenCorporates and the New York Department of State show the Clinton campaign—called HFACC, Inc. or Hillary for America—was registered in 2015 in the state of New York and operates out of an office in the Financial District, which is in Alvin Bragg’s district, theoretically making the campaign subject to the same state laws as Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton’s New York-based presidential campaign was hit with an administrative fine by the Federal Election Commission following the 2016 election when the FEC found the campaign misrepresented campaign expenses by describing the opposition research that produced the discredited Steele Dossier as a "legal expense." The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid $113,000 to settle the charges, the Associated Press reported.
Yet, Donald Trump faces felony charges for allegedly falsifying business records to conceal campaign violations in the same state, echoing the alleged violations in the Clinton case and indicating a double standard in how the violations were handled by investigators.
Legal experts have criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s effort to upgrade what are ordinarily misdemeanor charges to felonies for an undefined federal election crime in order to charge Trump.
“This is a Frankenstein case. They took a dead misdemeanor. They attached it to a dead alleged federal felony and zapped it back into life. So many of us are just amazed to watch this actually walk into court, because it's not a recognizable crime that any of us have seen. This does not appear to be a federal crime, but that's the theory that Bragg is using,” legal analyst and George Washington University School of Law professor and self-professed Democrat Jonathan Turley told Fox News.
“This state misdemeanor died because of the statute of limitations. Then what Bragg said was, well, I'm going to allege that you did false filings on business records to hide a crime, but he was very ambiguous [on] what that crime might be. He still is ambiguous, but it is assumed to be a federal election crime,” he added.
Former President Trump was charged by the Manhattan D.A. “for falsifying New York business records in order to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election,” according to the press release published alongside the indictment.
After the former president allegedly orchestrated a scheme to “catch and kill” negative stories about him in the press, Bragg claims Trump “went to great lengths to hide this conduct, causing dozens of false entries in business records to conceal criminal activity, including attempts to violate state and federal election laws.”
Ordinarily, the statute of limitations on the misdemeanor bookkeeping offense—the falsification of business records—expires after two years. To extend the limitation and charge the former President, Bragg alleged that the entries were created to cover up for another crime, making them felonies. Though Bragg never formally defined the other crime, his case suggests he wants to convince a jury that Trump committed a federal election crime.
However, an FEC investigation did not result in any charges. The "hush money" payments by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to accuser Stormy Daniels were investigated by the FEC for potential campaign finance violations.
Though the full FEC commission had dismissed the allegations along party lines, the Democratic representatives wrote that the Commission’s Office of the General Counsel had “recommended finding reason to believe that Cohen and the Trump Organization made, and Trump and Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. (the “Committee”) accepted and failed to report, illegal contributions.”
The Clinton campaign also ran into a similar issue with the FEC after it misrepresented expenditures in election spending reports designated for opposition research. “An investigation was conducted, and the Commission found probable cause to believe that Hillary for America” and the campaign treasurer violated federal codes “by misreporting the purpose of certain disbursements,” according to the conciliation agreement released by the FEC.
As part of the agreement, the Clinton campaign did not admit to any wrongdoing and insisted that the entries were made in the belief the campaign was complying with the law.
“We settled aging and silly complaints from the 2016 election about ‘purpose descriptions’ in our F.E.C. report,” a DNC spokesperson told the New York Times when the agreement was released in 2022.
The payments in question were sent to powerhouse law firm Perkins Coie to pay for the opposition research that ultimately produced the discredited Steele Dossier which sparked the Russian collusion investigation into Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign. Instead of classifying them as for opposition research, the Clinton campaign labeled the expenses “legal services” and “legal and compliance consulting.”
Records from OpenCorporates and the New York Department of State show the Clinton campaign—called HFACC, Inc. or Hillary for America—was registered in 2015 in the state of New York and operates out of an office in the Financial District, which is in Alvin Bragg’s district, theoretically making the campaign subject to the same state laws as Donald Trump.
According to one legal analysis, several New York politicians have been convicted in the past for falsifying business records in furtherance of another crime, including for covert benefits to a campaign as charged in the Trump case. Clinton or her campaign, though, never faced any investigations at the state level related to the the Steele Dossier payments.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/while-trump-faces-felony-charges-ny-based-clinton-campaign-only-faced
While Trump faces felony charges, NY-based Clinton campaign only faced fines for its records issue
Selective Prosecution? Following the 2016 election, the FEC determined the Clinton campaign incorrectly recorded opposition research as legal expenses, but was only hit with an administrative fine.
By Steven Richards
Published: May 24, 2024 11:00pm
Records from OpenCorporates and the New York Department of State show the Clinton campaign—called HFACC, Inc. or Hillary for America—was registered in 2015 in the state of New York and operates out of an office in the Financial District, which is in Alvin Bragg’s district, theoretically making the campaign subject to the same state laws as Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton’s New York-based presidential campaign was hit with an administrative fine by the Federal Election Commission following the 2016 election when the FEC found the campaign misrepresented campaign expenses by describing the opposition research that produced the discredited Steele Dossier as a "legal expense." The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid $113,000 to settle the charges, the Associated Press reported.
Yet, Donald Trump faces felony charges for allegedly falsifying business records to conceal campaign violations in the same state, echoing the alleged violations in the Clinton case and indicating a double standard in how the violations were handled by investigators.
Legal experts have criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s effort to upgrade what are ordinarily misdemeanor charges to felonies for an undefined federal election crime in order to charge Trump.
“This is a Frankenstein case. They took a dead misdemeanor. They attached it to a dead alleged federal felony and zapped it back into life. So many of us are just amazed to watch this actually walk into court, because it's not a recognizable crime that any of us have seen. This does not appear to be a federal crime, but that's the theory that Bragg is using,” legal analyst and George Washington University School of Law professor and self-professed Democrat Jonathan Turley told Fox News.
“This state misdemeanor died because of the statute of limitations. Then what Bragg said was, well, I'm going to allege that you did false filings on business records to hide a crime, but he was very ambiguous [on] what that crime might be. He still is ambiguous, but it is assumed to be a federal election crime,” he added.
Former President Trump was charged by the Manhattan D.A. “for falsifying New York business records in order to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election,” according to the press release published alongside the indictment.
After the former president allegedly orchestrated a scheme to “catch and kill” negative stories about him in the press, Bragg claims Trump “went to great lengths to hide this conduct, causing dozens of false entries in business records to conceal criminal activity, including attempts to violate state and federal election laws.”
Ordinarily, the statute of limitations on the misdemeanor bookkeeping offense—the falsification of business records—expires after two years. To extend the limitation and charge the former President, Bragg alleged that the entries were created to cover up for another crime, making them felonies. Though Bragg never formally defined the other crime, his case suggests he wants to convince a jury that Trump committed a federal election crime.
However, an FEC investigation did not result in any charges. The "hush money" payments by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to accuser Stormy Daniels were investigated by the FEC for potential campaign finance violations.
Though the full FEC commission had dismissed the allegations along party lines, the Democratic representatives wrote that the Commission’s Office of the General Counsel had “recommended finding reason to believe that Cohen and the Trump Organization made, and Trump and Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. (the “Committee”) accepted and failed to report, illegal contributions.”
The Clinton campaign also ran into a similar issue with the FEC after it misrepresented expenditures in election spending reports designated for opposition research. “An investigation was conducted, and the Commission found probable cause to believe that Hillary for America” and the campaign treasurer violated federal codes “by misreporting the purpose of certain disbursements,” according to the conciliation agreement released by the FEC.
As part of the agreement, the Clinton campaign did not admit to any wrongdoing and insisted that the entries were made in the belief the campaign was complying with the law.
“We settled aging and silly complaints from the 2016 election about ‘purpose descriptions’ in our F.E.C. report,” a DNC spokesperson told the New York Times when the agreement was released in 2022.
The payments in question were sent to powerhouse law firm Perkins Coie to pay for the opposition research that ultimately produced the discredited Steele Dossier which sparked the Russian collusion investigation into Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign. Instead of classifying them as for opposition research, the Clinton campaign labeled the expenses “legal services” and “legal and compliance consulting.”
Records from OpenCorporates and the New York Department of State show the Clinton campaign—called HFACC, Inc. or Hillary for America—was registered in 2015 in the state of New York and operates out of an office in the Financial District, which is in Alvin Bragg’s district, theoretically making the campaign subject to the same state laws as Donald Trump.
According to one legal analysis, several New York politicians have been convicted in the past for falsifying business records in furtherance of another crime, including for covert benefits to a campaign as charged in the Trump case. Clinton or her campaign, though, never faced any investigations at the state level related to the the Steele Dossier payments.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/while-trump-faces-felony-charges-ny-based-clinton-campaign-only-faced
Federal Agents Found Out During 2016 Election That Joe Biden Met with Hunter’s Chinese Business Partners – But Kept It a Secret
by Cristina Laila May. 24, 2024 4:20 pm
Federal agents found out during the 2016 election that Joe Biden met with his son Hunter’s Chinese business partners during a trip to Beijing in 2013, but they kept it a secret.
According to Secret Service travel records obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, Hunter Biden took 411 trips across 29 countries between 2009 and 2014 while his father was US Vice President. On several of these trips, Hunter Biden was hidden from public view or was already waiting in the car before Joe Biden departed the plane.
Notably, Hunter Biden traveled to Beijing with then-VP Joe Biden in 2013 to meet with Chinese banker Jonathan Li.
Hunter Biden received a $1.5 billion loan from the Bank of China 13 days after traveling on Air Force Two with his father back in 2013. The Secret Service has redacted documents related to that trip.
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Joe Biden has repeatedly denied being involved in Hunter’s overseas business deals.
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden previously said to reporters.
However, newly released documents reveal Hunter Biden connected Joe Biden to his Chinese business associates in a Beijing hotel after Joe Biden met with President Xi Jinping.
“They got to meet Dad. All very good. Talk later,” Hunter Biden said in a December 2013 email to his Rosemont Seneca business partner Devon Archer.
Hunter also said his dad was “in love” with Xi Jinping.
“I think they are in love with each other,” Hunter Biden said in emails, according to Just The News. “They all most kissed on departure.”
THE FEDS KNEW ABOUT THE BIDENS
New reported emails from a 2015-2016 federal investigation show agents were looking into Hunter Biden’s communication with business associate Devon Archer leveraging Joe Biden’s trip to China in 2013.
ARCHER: “Did you end up meeting Jonathan… pic.twitter.com/sTC3MiKwox
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) May 24, 2024
Per RNC Research, Joe Biden met with Hunter’s business associates over at least a dozen times:
1. November 2010: Joe Biden had a sit-down meeting with Eric Schwerin — the president of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the West Wing.
2. November 2011: Joe Biden met with Chris Heinz — a co-founder of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the West Wing.
3. March 2012: Joe Biden met with Andres Pastrana Arango — the former president of Colombia who Hunter was doing business with — at his personal residence.
4. December 2013: Hunter flew with Joe Biden aboard Air Force Two to China where he introduced him to Jonathan Li, a Chinese businessman.
5. February 2014: Joe Biden had lunch with Hunter and two of Hunter’s Mexican business partners and was pictured giving them a tour of the White House.
6. April 2014: Joe Biden met with Devon Archer — another co-founder of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the White House a week before Archer joined the board of Burisma.
7. June 2014: Joe Biden met Manuel Estrella — Hunter’s Latin American business associate. After the meeting, Estrella emailed Hunter: “Hunter, I just met your father! So exiting! [sic]” Hunter replied: “I’m glad it all finally came together.”
8. August 2014: Pictures show Joe Biden golfing with his son, Hunter, and Devon Archer while they were both serving on the Burisma board.
9. April 2015: Joe Biden attended a dinner in Washington, D.C. with Hunter’s business partners from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
10. November 2015: Joe Biden hosted his son’s Mexican business partners — Carlos Slim, Miguel Aleman Velasco, and Miguel Aleman Magnani — at his personal residence.
11. February 2016: Biden flew Hunter and Jeff Cooper — a family business partner — to Mexico City for a business trip aboard Air Force Two.
12. May 2016: Joe Biden met with Eric Schwerin — the former head of Hunter’s private equity firm — for dinner in Washington, D.C.
13. September 2016: Joe Biden attended a fundraiser for Francis Person — a business associate of Hunter’s and a former advisor in Biden’s VP office.
14. May 2017: Joe Biden met with family business partner Tony Bobulinski TWICE.
15. June 2018: Joe Biden texted Hunter saying that he was with Jeff Cooper — a family business partner — and that Cooper wanted to “do some work” with him.
In addition to meeting with Hunter Biden’s associates, Joe Biden has also received dirty money from China and other countries.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Monday released subpoenaed bank records revealing Joe Biden received direct monthly payments from Hunter Biden’s business entity, Owasco PC.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/federal-agents-found-during-2016-election-that-joe/
Federal Agents Found Out During 2016 Election That Joe Biden Met with Hunter’s Chinese Business Partners – But Kept It a Secret
by Cristina Laila May. 24, 2024 4:20 pm
Federal agents found out during the 2016 election that Joe Biden met with his son Hunter’s Chinese business partners during a trip to Beijing in 2013, but they kept it a secret.
According to Secret Service travel records obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, Hunter Biden took 411 trips across 29 countries between 2009 and 2014 while his father was US Vice President. On several of these trips, Hunter Biden was hidden from public view or was already waiting in the car before Joe Biden departed the plane.
Notably, Hunter Biden traveled to Beijing with then-VP Joe Biden in 2013 to meet with Chinese banker Jonathan Li.
Hunter Biden received a $1.5 billion loan from the Bank of China 13 days after traveling on Air Force Two with his father back in 2013. The Secret Service has redacted documents related to that trip.
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Joe Biden has repeatedly denied being involved in Hunter’s overseas business deals.
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden previously said to reporters.
However, newly released documents reveal Hunter Biden connected Joe Biden to his Chinese business associates in a Beijing hotel after Joe Biden met with President Xi Jinping.
“They got to meet Dad. All very good. Talk later,” Hunter Biden said in a December 2013 email to his Rosemont Seneca business partner Devon Archer.
Hunter also said his dad was “in love” with Xi Jinping.
“I think they are in love with each other,” Hunter Biden said in emails, according to Just The News. “They all most kissed on departure.”
THE FEDS KNEW ABOUT THE BIDENS
New reported emails from a 2015-2016 federal investigation show agents were looking into Hunter Biden’s communication with business associate Devon Archer leveraging Joe Biden’s trip to China in 2013.
ARCHER: “Did you end up meeting Jonathan… pic.twitter.com/sTC3MiKwox
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) May 24, 2024
Per RNC Research, Joe Biden met with Hunter’s business associates over at least a dozen times:
1. November 2010: Joe Biden had a sit-down meeting with Eric Schwerin — the president of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the West Wing.
2. November 2011: Joe Biden met with Chris Heinz — a co-founder of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the West Wing.
3. March 2012: Joe Biden met with Andres Pastrana Arango — the former president of Colombia who Hunter was doing business with — at his personal residence.
4. December 2013: Hunter flew with Joe Biden aboard Air Force Two to China where he introduced him to Jonathan Li, a Chinese businessman.
5. February 2014: Joe Biden had lunch with Hunter and two of Hunter’s Mexican business partners and was pictured giving them a tour of the White House.
6. April 2014: Joe Biden met with Devon Archer — another co-founder of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the White House a week before Archer joined the board of Burisma.
7. June 2014: Joe Biden met Manuel Estrella — Hunter’s Latin American business associate. After the meeting, Estrella emailed Hunter: “Hunter, I just met your father! So exiting! [sic]” Hunter replied: “I’m glad it all finally came together.”
8. August 2014: Pictures show Joe Biden golfing with his son, Hunter, and Devon Archer while they were both serving on the Burisma board.
9. April 2015: Joe Biden attended a dinner in Washington, D.C. with Hunter’s business partners from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
10. November 2015: Joe Biden hosted his son’s Mexican business partners — Carlos Slim, Miguel Aleman Velasco, and Miguel Aleman Magnani — at his personal residence.
11. February 2016: Biden flew Hunter and Jeff Cooper — a family business partner — to Mexico City for a business trip aboard Air Force Two.
12. May 2016: Joe Biden met with Eric Schwerin — the former head of Hunter’s private equity firm — for dinner in Washington, D.C.
13. September 2016: Joe Biden attended a fundraiser for Francis Person — a business associate of Hunter’s and a former advisor in Biden’s VP office.
14. May 2017: Joe Biden met with family business partner Tony Bobulinski TWICE.
15. June 2018: Joe Biden texted Hunter saying that he was with Jeff Cooper — a family business partner — and that Cooper wanted to “do some work” with him.
In addition to meeting with Hunter Biden’s associates, Joe Biden has also received dirty money from China and other countries.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Monday released subpoenaed bank records revealing Joe Biden received direct monthly payments from Hunter Biden’s business entity, Owasco PC.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/federal-agents-found-during-2016-election-that-joe/
New York Equal Rights Amendment Off the Ballot
Equality under the law is a noble pursuit – but is that really what this ERA offered?
by James Fite | May 25, 2024
The Equal Rights Amendment has been removed as a ballot initiative for the November elections in New York. The proposed change to the state’s constitution easily and quickly passed through the legislature in response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. And the many progressive voters of the Empire State no doubt looked forward to enshrining it in their constitution just as decisively. But according to the judge who struck it down, the speed with which the amendment was approved is the problem. The process was rushed, making the ballot initiative unconstitutional.
“They put forth this amendment to the constitution. There was no open debate. There was no public hearings, there was nothing,” explained Bobbie Anne Cox, the attorney who sued the legislature to stop the referendum. “They referred it to the AG that day, but then they voted that same day. They didn’t even wait one day,” Cox added.
The New York Constitution requires that a proposed amendment must be presented to the attorney general to determine that it isn’t in conflict with other parts of the constitution, and the AG has 20 days to respond. New York Supreme Court Justice Daniel J. Doyle declared the amendment null and void because the Democrats didn’t give the attorney general the required time – or, really, any time at all.
Equal Rights or Progressive Ideology?
Opponents and supporters alike recognize that this Equal Rights Amendment would enshrine in the New York Constitution a legal right to abort. Indeed, many would argue it’s the whole point of the amendment. But that isn’t all that has conservatives concerned about this ERA. Some fear it threatens parental rights, as it would guarantee “gender-affirming” care for kids, including gender reassignment surgery or puberty blockers, without need for parental consent. Some also argued that it would require sports programs to allow biological males who identify as female to compete against girls and women. “Any decent lawyer will take one look at the Proposition One language and say, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” said Greg Garvey, the executive director of the Coalition to Protect Kids – New York. “This ballot initiative is written so broadly and so poorly that it could cause irreparable harm to children and families,” he continued.
The amendment would have modified the New York State Constitution Article 1, Section 11. The text of the proposed amendment reads:
“1. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivision thereof. No person shall, because of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability creed, or religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy, be subjected to any discrimination in their civil rights by any other person or by any firm, corporation, or institution, or by the state or any agency or subdivision of the state pursuant to law.
“2. Nothing in this section shall invalidate or prevent the adoption of any law, regulation, program, or practice that is designed to prevent or dismantle discrimination on the basis of a characteristic listed in this section, nor shall any characteristic listed in this section be interpreted to interfere with, limit, or deny the civil rights of any person based upon any other characteristic identified in this section.”
What makes this stand out from the usual talk of equal rights, which classically evokes the civil rights movements against racism and sexism, is the addition of “gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy” to the list of classes protected from discrimination.
What’s in a Name?
The New York State Bar Association published an article in March titled “What the Equal Rights Amendment Will Mean in New York,” written by Kimberly Wolf Price. The article, which clearly endorses this ERA, makes the point that 29 states have some sort of equal rights amendment in their constitutions but that New York doesn’t.
New banner Liberty Nation Analysis 1“This means that judicial review of any alleged discrimination under the categories of gender, gender identity, sex, age, disability, et al. is based on intermediate scrutiny, a lower standard than that provided to constitutional protections,” Price wrote. “And while laws can be altered each legislative session, any amendment to New York’s Constitution must follow the constitutionally mandated complicated path the ERA has traveled to the ballot.” Notice how Price didn’t mention the abortion protection in that statement, choosing rather to include it in the “et al.” bit?
What the author of this article and the NY Bar Association – or, for that matter, most LGBTQ or abortion advocates – don’t highlight is that not all equal rights amendments are created equal.
“False equivalence is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone incorrectly asserts that two or more things are equivalent, simply because they share some characteristics, despite the fact that there are also notable differences between them,” wrote Dr. Itamar Shatz of the University of Cambridge Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. The simple example he gave after that explanation paints a good picture: “For example, a false equivalence is saying that cats and dogs are the same animal, since they’re both mammals and have a tail.”
Sometimes, however, one must dig a little deeper to find the false equivalence. In this case, the shared characteristic is the name. Many states have equal rights amendments, but how many match the wording of what Empire State progressives hoped to add to the New York Constitution?
Florida’s 1998 amendment reads:
“All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, to pursue happiness, to be rewarded for industry, and to acquire, possess and protect property. No person shall be deprived of any right because of race, religion, national origin, or physical disability.”
“Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national origin. This amendment is self-operative,” reads the 1972 ERA of Texas. Montana has, since 1973, protected people from discrimination based on “race, color, sex, culture, social origin or condition, or political or religious ideas.”
Notice how none of these equal rights amendments constitutionally protect abortion or declare it a crime to insist there are only two genders? These cats and dogs may all be mammals, but they’re far from the same animal.
https://www.libertynation.com/new-york-equal-rights-amendment-off-the-ballot/
New York Equal Rights Amendment Off the Ballot
Equality under the law is a noble pursuit – but is that really what this ERA offered?
by James Fite | May 25, 2024
The Equal Rights Amendment has been removed as a ballot initiative for the November elections in New York. The proposed change to the state’s constitution easily and quickly passed through the legislature in response to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. And the many progressive voters of the Empire State no doubt looked forward to enshrining it in their constitution just as decisively. But according to the judge who struck it down, the speed with which the amendment was approved is the problem. The process was rushed, making the ballot initiative unconstitutional.
“They put forth this amendment to the constitution. There was no open debate. There was no public hearings, there was nothing,” explained Bobbie Anne Cox, the attorney who sued the legislature to stop the referendum. “They referred it to the AG that day, but then they voted that same day. They didn’t even wait one day,” Cox added.
The New York Constitution requires that a proposed amendment must be presented to the attorney general to determine that it isn’t in conflict with other parts of the constitution, and the AG has 20 days to respond. New York Supreme Court Justice Daniel J. Doyle declared the amendment null and void because the Democrats didn’t give the attorney general the required time – or, really, any time at all.
Equal Rights or Progressive Ideology?
Opponents and supporters alike recognize that this Equal Rights Amendment would enshrine in the New York Constitution a legal right to abort. Indeed, many would argue it’s the whole point of the amendment. But that isn’t all that has conservatives concerned about this ERA. Some fear it threatens parental rights, as it would guarantee “gender-affirming” care for kids, including gender reassignment surgery or puberty blockers, without need for parental consent. Some also argued that it would require sports programs to allow biological males who identify as female to compete against girls and women. “Any decent lawyer will take one look at the Proposition One language and say, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” said Greg Garvey, the executive director of the Coalition to Protect Kids – New York. “This ballot initiative is written so broadly and so poorly that it could cause irreparable harm to children and families,” he continued.
The amendment would have modified the New York State Constitution Article 1, Section 11. The text of the proposed amendment reads:
“1. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivision thereof. No person shall, because of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability creed, or religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy, be subjected to any discrimination in their civil rights by any other person or by any firm, corporation, or institution, or by the state or any agency or subdivision of the state pursuant to law.
“2. Nothing in this section shall invalidate or prevent the adoption of any law, regulation, program, or practice that is designed to prevent or dismantle discrimination on the basis of a characteristic listed in this section, nor shall any characteristic listed in this section be interpreted to interfere with, limit, or deny the civil rights of any person based upon any other characteristic identified in this section.”
What makes this stand out from the usual talk of equal rights, which classically evokes the civil rights movements against racism and sexism, is the addition of “gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy” to the list of classes protected from discrimination.
What’s in a Name?
The New York State Bar Association published an article in March titled “What the Equal Rights Amendment Will Mean in New York,” written by Kimberly Wolf Price. The article, which clearly endorses this ERA, makes the point that 29 states have some sort of equal rights amendment in their constitutions but that New York doesn’t.
New banner Liberty Nation Analysis 1“This means that judicial review of any alleged discrimination under the categories of gender, gender identity, sex, age, disability, et al. is based on intermediate scrutiny, a lower standard than that provided to constitutional protections,” Price wrote. “And while laws can be altered each legislative session, any amendment to New York’s Constitution must follow the constitutionally mandated complicated path the ERA has traveled to the ballot.” Notice how Price didn’t mention the abortion protection in that statement, choosing rather to include it in the “et al.” bit?
What the author of this article and the NY Bar Association – or, for that matter, most LGBTQ or abortion advocates – don’t highlight is that not all equal rights amendments are created equal.
“False equivalence is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone incorrectly asserts that two or more things are equivalent, simply because they share some characteristics, despite the fact that there are also notable differences between them,” wrote Dr. Itamar Shatz of the University of Cambridge Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. The simple example he gave after that explanation paints a good picture: “For example, a false equivalence is saying that cats and dogs are the same animal, since they’re both mammals and have a tail.”
Sometimes, however, one must dig a little deeper to find the false equivalence. In this case, the shared characteristic is the name. Many states have equal rights amendments, but how many match the wording of what Empire State progressives hoped to add to the New York Constitution?
Florida’s 1998 amendment reads:
“All natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, to pursue happiness, to be rewarded for industry, and to acquire, possess and protect property. No person shall be deprived of any right because of race, religion, national origin, or physical disability.”
“Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national origin. This amendment is self-operative,” reads the 1972 ERA of Texas. Montana has, since 1973, protected people from discrimination based on “race, color, sex, culture, social origin or condition, or political or religious ideas.”
Notice how none of these equal rights amendments constitutionally protect abortion or declare it a crime to insist there are only two genders? These cats and dogs may all be mammals, but they’re far from the same animal.
https://www.libertynation.com/new-york-equal-rights-amendment-off-the-ballot/
Why I carry a handgun, 2024
By Mike McDaniel
if you’re unarmed and under attack, would you really think to call an unarmed, untrained Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c)? Would an Antifa “activist” assist you? A BLM “mostly peaceful protester”?
No one really knows how many Americans regularly carry handguns, concealed or openly. The number of concealed carry licenses doesn’t tell the tale, particularly since 29 states are now “constitutional carry states.” Unless otherwise prohibited by law, Americans need no license to carry concealed weapons in those states. As I recently noted here at AT, some 36 states allow open carry.
We do know that April was the 57th consecutive month of more than one million gun sales. It’s reasonable to believe tens of millions of Americans regularly carry, and most don’t advertise the fact. But why should anyone carry?
Every year, I provide an updated rationale for carrying a handgun. The complete list is here, but here are some of the reasons:
*Evil exists and may confront anyone at any time and any place.
*Evil exists to destroy all that is kind, good and loving.
*God exists and expects me to protect myself, those I love, and those unable to protect themselves.
*Self-defense is a God-given, natural, unalienable right.
*Our country, circa May 2024, is brimming with tens — even hundreds — of thousands of terrorists. I’m ready.
*The lives of the innocent — friend or stranger — are worth far more to me and to a just society than the lives of vicious criminals and terrorists.
*By carrying a handgun, I honor the foresight and wisdom of the Founders in writing the Second Amendment, which acknowledges, but does not create, the right to keep and bear arms.
*The Biden Mummified Meat Puppet Administration wants to ban common, usual firearms.
*Never in human history has a government disarmed a people for good reasons.
*Never in human history has a government disarmed a people to ensure greater individual liberty and public safety.
*Any government that would disarm a people cannot be trusted.
*Going armed reinforces and upholds the Social Contract.
*An armed society is a polite society.
*Those who lawfully carry concealed weapons are uncommonly law-abiding.
*A government that labels half of the nation “white supremacists” “insurrectionists,” “domestic terrorists,” “racists,” and sends federal law enforcement to spy on and harass parents objecting to the sexual and political indoctrination of their children makes plain the wisdom of the Founders in writing the First and Second Amendments.
*It demonstrates, as nothing else can, that I am the master of my government, not its slave; that elected officials work for me and only with my continuing consent.
*It reminds politicians every iota of power they possess is on temporary loan from me and every other American on condition of good, lawful behavior. They hate that.
*I am a free man and no evidence of that fact is more meaningful and convincing than that I own and carry the firearms I prefer.
*It reminds us all that the whims of the most connected and powerful may not prevail over the Bill of Rights as long as it lives and burns brightly in the hearts of patriotic Americans and is not merely fading ink on yellowing paper.
*Semiautomatic handguns and rifles with “high-capacity magazines” are precisely the kind of common and usual firearms the Founders intended Americans to keep and bear. They were content citizens kept and bore the most powerful, useful military arms of their time, even cannon. The principle does not change with time.
*Gun grabbing politicians don’t want me to have the most effective weapons, or any weapons.
*A single respiratory virus with a 99+% survival rate reminds rational Americans how fragile civilization can be, how quickly some would seize absolute power, how reluctant they are to surrender such illegitimate power over others, and how quickly it can all go bad.
*Those who willingly and meekly surrender to criminals surrender more than valuables; they surrender their dignity and honor; they surrender their sovereignty; they surrender civilization itself.
*I am old-fashioned enough to think it my duty to protect those who have less ability than mine to protect themselves.
*I could not live with myself for failing to protect women in danger. Call it sexist if you must, but if you’re unarmed and under attack, would you really think to call an unarmed, untrained Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c)? Would an Antifa “activist” assist you? A BLM “mostly peaceful protester”?
*Exercising the Second Amendment helps remind women it is the ultimate women’s issue. No one–apart from children–benefits more from the ability to deter and stop criminal attacks.
*The possibility of having to fend off an armed attack in a mall, theater, restaurant, or other public place has never been greater, and if D/s/cs get their way, it will become the new normal. It already is in many places.
*Foremost, I am an American; I am a free man; it is my tradition and heritage.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/why_i_carry_a_handgun_2024.html
Why I carry a handgun, 2024
By Mike McDaniel
if you’re unarmed and under attack, would you really think to call an unarmed, untrained Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c)? Would an Antifa “activist” assist you? A BLM “mostly peaceful protester”?
No one really knows how many Americans regularly carry handguns, concealed or openly. The number of concealed carry licenses doesn’t tell the tale, particularly since 29 states are now “constitutional carry states.” Unless otherwise prohibited by law, Americans need no license to carry concealed weapons in those states. As I recently noted here at AT, some 36 states allow open carry.
We do know that April was the 57th consecutive month of more than one million gun sales. It’s reasonable to believe tens of millions of Americans regularly carry, and most don’t advertise the fact. But why should anyone carry?
Every year, I provide an updated rationale for carrying a handgun. The complete list is here, but here are some of the reasons:
*Evil exists and may confront anyone at any time and any place.
*Evil exists to destroy all that is kind, good and loving.
*God exists and expects me to protect myself, those I love, and those unable to protect themselves.
*Self-defense is a God-given, natural, unalienable right.
*Our country, circa May 2024, is brimming with tens — even hundreds — of thousands of terrorists. I’m ready.
*The lives of the innocent — friend or stranger — are worth far more to me and to a just society than the lives of vicious criminals and terrorists.
*By carrying a handgun, I honor the foresight and wisdom of the Founders in writing the Second Amendment, which acknowledges, but does not create, the right to keep and bear arms.
*The Biden Mummified Meat Puppet Administration wants to ban common, usual firearms.
*Never in human history has a government disarmed a people for good reasons.
*Never in human history has a government disarmed a people to ensure greater individual liberty and public safety.
*Any government that would disarm a people cannot be trusted.
*Going armed reinforces and upholds the Social Contract.
*An armed society is a polite society.
*Those who lawfully carry concealed weapons are uncommonly law-abiding.
*A government that labels half of the nation “white supremacists” “insurrectionists,” “domestic terrorists,” “racists,” and sends federal law enforcement to spy on and harass parents objecting to the sexual and political indoctrination of their children makes plain the wisdom of the Founders in writing the First and Second Amendments.
*It demonstrates, as nothing else can, that I am the master of my government, not its slave; that elected officials work for me and only with my continuing consent.
*It reminds politicians every iota of power they possess is on temporary loan from me and every other American on condition of good, lawful behavior. They hate that.
*I am a free man and no evidence of that fact is more meaningful and convincing than that I own and carry the firearms I prefer.
*It reminds us all that the whims of the most connected and powerful may not prevail over the Bill of Rights as long as it lives and burns brightly in the hearts of patriotic Americans and is not merely fading ink on yellowing paper.
*Semiautomatic handguns and rifles with “high-capacity magazines” are precisely the kind of common and usual firearms the Founders intended Americans to keep and bear. They were content citizens kept and bore the most powerful, useful military arms of their time, even cannon. The principle does not change with time.
*Gun grabbing politicians don’t want me to have the most effective weapons, or any weapons.
*A single respiratory virus with a 99+% survival rate reminds rational Americans how fragile civilization can be, how quickly some would seize absolute power, how reluctant they are to surrender such illegitimate power over others, and how quickly it can all go bad.
*Those who willingly and meekly surrender to criminals surrender more than valuables; they surrender their dignity and honor; they surrender their sovereignty; they surrender civilization itself.
*I am old-fashioned enough to think it my duty to protect those who have less ability than mine to protect themselves.
*I could not live with myself for failing to protect women in danger. Call it sexist if you must, but if you’re unarmed and under attack, would you really think to call an unarmed, untrained Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c)? Would an Antifa “activist” assist you? A BLM “mostly peaceful protester”?
*Exercising the Second Amendment helps remind women it is the ultimate women’s issue. No one–apart from children–benefits more from the ability to deter and stop criminal attacks.
*The possibility of having to fend off an armed attack in a mall, theater, restaurant, or other public place has never been greater, and if D/s/cs get their way, it will become the new normal. It already is in many places.
*Foremost, I am an American; I am a free man; it is my tradition and heritage.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/why_i_carry_a_handgun_2024.html
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOGMay 24, 2024
Of Men and Myths
“Donald Trump doesn’t trust women. I do. ” — “Joe Biden” on “X”
There comes a time when the rigors and exertions of being insane just aren’t worth it anymore. You end up in a deadly Pareto distribution in which 80 percent of your energy gets wasted on hallucinating and the rest is barely enough to get yourself dressed, comb your purple hair, and choke down a granola bar.
Verging on a long, hot summer, the party behind “Joe Biden” looks like a 1950s horror movie, complete with lurching ghouls, evil scientists in white lab coats, and the sore beset denizens of Anytown USA screaming down the streets. Only it’s the actual life of our nation now, and it looks like an awful lot of the people who live here lawfully have had enough of it.
The mysterious cabal in power knows that they must ditch the old stumblebum pretending to run for president, and time is running out to get the dastardly deed done. They are staring down a month of dread days that lead to the proposed great debate between the major party candidates, which is doomed to play like a combo of the classic horror movie endings — the unmasking of the phantom with a wooden stake driven through his heart, with Donald Trump cast as Prof Van Helsing. Can our resourceful intel blob instead maybe find a way before that to make it look like the “president” passed away peacefully in his slumber? Or perhaps it would suffice to just leak the voice recording of his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur and allow people to compare what’s in it with the already-released printed transcript.
Here’s just how crazy the party is: rumor has it that they might just rudely shove oId “JB” aside and try the Hail Mary pass of inviting RFKJr back on-board from exile to head the ticket. The Kennedy name alone used to be synonymous with the party’s brand, is their thinking, you see. Trouble is, the Democratic Party is, in reality, synonymous with the intel blob that infests it, and protects it in the service of protecting its own sorry ass. You might recall that RFKJr has publicly stated that his father and uncle were murdered by that selfsame intel blob, which he has promised to treat very harshly were he actually elected. So, scratch that gambit.
Beyond that, you’re back to the maddening rotation of Gavin Newsom, Michelle, and Rodan the Flying reptile, a.k.a. She-Whose-Turn-It-Is — all of them appallingly impossible. Gavin might have been Mr. Dreamboat incarnate — that hair! that height! those teeth! — prompting a pandemic of The Vapors among ladies who lately predominate in the Democrat rank-and-file. But, alas, under his charge California degenerated into a Woke bedlam of diseased homeless junkies shitting all over his cities, with non-stop flash-mob looting, carjacking, and drag queen promenading in the background, and there’s no way of hiding it. Gavin Newsom has a big “L” carved on his forehead the way that Charlie Manson used to sport a swastika.
The Michelle ploy might tempt them, but let’s face it: it’s really just Barack getting a fourth term in the White House — really his fourth-and-a-half, since the Obama intel blob cabal was behind all the RussiaGate roguery that beset, preoccupied, thwarted, and overthrew Mr. Trump’s turn in office. Behind the still-charming Obama façade lurks a penumbra of menace. It begins to look like maybe he really did want to destroy our country, to complete the Cloward-Piven downfall that dedicated Marxians deem the necessary step to creating their nirvana of equity and inclusion. And there are still those dark tales of his coke-fueled cruising nights in Chicago. . . and the mysterious death of his paddle-boarding chef-pal on Martha’s Vineyard. . . and those persistent rumors that what you see in Michelle is not what you get. Can you really see Barack hosting kaffeeklatsches in the East Room while Michelle plans drone strikes in the Oval?
So, finally there is. . . Hillary. After all, she still stalks this earth. She still pops up on TV regularly pronouncing this and that, mostly in the name of. . . women. . . who just can’t get a fair shake in this land, despite running all the elite universities, the foundations, many corporations (especially MSNBC), and the new misinformation-squelching commissions. She’s still reminding all and sundry that the country owes her the Big Prize in this era of historic firsts. She also happens to own the DNC, the apparatus that actually runs the party’s affairs. Her last time around (2016) she simply shoved primary election leader Bernie Sanders off-the-plank when convention time rolled around and there was nothing else left to do. Personally, I’d love to see the rematch. It would be the end of the party, which apparently doesn’t grok just how much America loathes her.
Much more, I daresay, than even the Golden Golem of Greatness who is metamorphosing day by day into an archetypal hero that the ancient Greek myth-makers would be proud of as he survives one tribulation after another thrown at him by Nemesis. Now, as he awaits conviction in the shuck-and-jive court case under mad dog Judge Juan Merchan, he ventured onto Democratic Party sacred ground up in the South Bronx to a surprisingly warm welcome by exactly the hard-up people the Democrats pretend to care about (as long as they stay down on the plantation and don’t get too uppity).
Will Judge Merchan actually try to send the candidate to jail? Or maybe confine him to Trump Tower under some sort of house arrest? With maybe a big clunky ankle-bracelet for additional humiliation? That will be ripe. Let me proffer some advice to the Judge: the last thing you want to do with an archetypal hero is give him a prison to break out of so he can come roaring out for vengeance. In the end, Mr. Trump could accomplish something truly remarkable: bringing our country back together as a people united against being fucked-around by their own government.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/of-men-and-myths/
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOGMay 24, 2024
Of Men and Myths
“Donald Trump doesn’t trust women. I do. ” — “Joe Biden” on “X”
There comes a time when the rigors and exertions of being insane just aren’t worth it anymore. You end up in a deadly Pareto distribution in which 80 percent of your energy gets wasted on hallucinating and the rest is barely enough to get yourself dressed, comb your purple hair, and choke down a granola bar.
Verging on a long, hot summer, the party behind “Joe Biden” looks like a 1950s horror movie, complete with lurching ghouls, evil scientists in white lab coats, and the sore beset denizens of Anytown USA screaming down the streets. Only it’s the actual life of our nation now, and it looks like an awful lot of the people who live here lawfully have had enough of it.
The mysterious cabal in power knows that they must ditch the old stumblebum pretending to run for president, and time is running out to get the dastardly deed done. They are staring down a month of dread days that lead to the proposed great debate between the major party candidates, which is doomed to play like a combo of the classic horror movie endings — the unmasking of the phantom with a wooden stake driven through his heart, with Donald Trump cast as Prof Van Helsing. Can our resourceful intel blob instead maybe find a way before that to make it look like the “president” passed away peacefully in his slumber? Or perhaps it would suffice to just leak the voice recording of his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur and allow people to compare what’s in it with the already-released printed transcript.
Here’s just how crazy the party is: rumor has it that they might just rudely shove oId “JB” aside and try the Hail Mary pass of inviting RFKJr back on-board from exile to head the ticket. The Kennedy name alone used to be synonymous with the party’s brand, is their thinking, you see. Trouble is, the Democratic Party is, in reality, synonymous with the intel blob that infests it, and protects it in the service of protecting its own sorry ass. You might recall that RFKJr has publicly stated that his father and uncle were murdered by that selfsame intel blob, which he has promised to treat very harshly were he actually elected. So, scratch that gambit.
Beyond that, you’re back to the maddening rotation of Gavin Newsom, Michelle, and Rodan the Flying reptile, a.k.a. She-Whose-Turn-It-Is — all of them appallingly impossible. Gavin might have been Mr. Dreamboat incarnate — that hair! that height! those teeth! — prompting a pandemic of The Vapors among ladies who lately predominate in the Democrat rank-and-file. But, alas, under his charge California degenerated into a Woke bedlam of diseased homeless junkies shitting all over his cities, with non-stop flash-mob looting, carjacking, and drag queen promenading in the background, and there’s no way of hiding it. Gavin Newsom has a big “L” carved on his forehead the way that Charlie Manson used to sport a swastika.
The Michelle ploy might tempt them, but let’s face it: it’s really just Barack getting a fourth term in the White House — really his fourth-and-a-half, since the Obama intel blob cabal was behind all the RussiaGate roguery that beset, preoccupied, thwarted, and overthrew Mr. Trump’s turn in office. Behind the still-charming Obama façade lurks a penumbra of menace. It begins to look like maybe he really did want to destroy our country, to complete the Cloward-Piven downfall that dedicated Marxians deem the necessary step to creating their nirvana of equity and inclusion. And there are still those dark tales of his coke-fueled cruising nights in Chicago. . . and the mysterious death of his paddle-boarding chef-pal on Martha’s Vineyard. . . and those persistent rumors that what you see in Michelle is not what you get. Can you really see Barack hosting kaffeeklatsches in the East Room while Michelle plans drone strikes in the Oval?
So, finally there is. . . Hillary. After all, she still stalks this earth. She still pops up on TV regularly pronouncing this and that, mostly in the name of. . . women. . . who just can’t get a fair shake in this land, despite running all the elite universities, the foundations, many corporations (especially MSNBC), and the new misinformation-squelching commissions. She’s still reminding all and sundry that the country owes her the Big Prize in this era of historic firsts. She also happens to own the DNC, the apparatus that actually runs the party’s affairs. Her last time around (2016) she simply shoved primary election leader Bernie Sanders off-the-plank when convention time rolled around and there was nothing else left to do. Personally, I’d love to see the rematch. It would be the end of the party, which apparently doesn’t grok just how much America loathes her.
Much more, I daresay, than even the Golden Golem of Greatness who is metamorphosing day by day into an archetypal hero that the ancient Greek myth-makers would be proud of as he survives one tribulation after another thrown at him by Nemesis. Now, as he awaits conviction in the shuck-and-jive court case under mad dog Judge Juan Merchan, he ventured onto Democratic Party sacred ground up in the South Bronx to a surprisingly warm welcome by exactly the hard-up people the Democrats pretend to care about (as long as they stay down on the plantation and don’t get too uppity).
Will Judge Merchan actually try to send the candidate to jail? Or maybe confine him to Trump Tower under some sort of house arrest? With maybe a big clunky ankle-bracelet for additional humiliation? That will be ripe. Let me proffer some advice to the Judge: the last thing you want to do with an archetypal hero is give him a prison to break out of so he can come roaring out for vengeance. In the end, Mr. Trump could accomplish something truly remarkable: bringing our country back together as a people united against being fucked-around by their own government.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/of-men-and-myths/