There is nothing more American than questioning the government. America was founded on the idea of questioning the government. Yet, The left has just invented the term “stochastic terrorism” to describe any criticism of anything they do or say. You are not merely guilty of hate speech for disagreeing with them. You are now a literal terrorist.
“The administrative state has blinked. They understand that the peasants are uprising. You’re the most dangerous thing… They’re afraid of you. This is a 30-front war and now it’s game on.” – Steve Bannon.
Odd that a country that launched a full-scale revolution over a 2% tea tax now taxes its citizens at 40% and nobody cares.
The Left’s pitch to the American people has effectively become: “America sucks and is borderline evil, you personally are racist and bigoted, and we know what’s best for you. Vote for us.” In CA they reject nearly 30% of the signatures to recall a radical Democrat, then expect people to believe < 1% of mail-in ballots in a general election are invalid.
On Liz Cheney – “Cheney lost because her constituents saw that she cared more about fighting Trump than fighting Biden…more concerned with waging a civil war within the [GOP]than the inflation that is forcing her voters to choose between…gas and food.” Washington Post.
With Trump supporting Harrington, who destroyed Liz Cheney, Donald Trump has now ended the Cheney, Bush, and Clinton political dynasties. “The ‘Stop Trump’ movement has become a proxy war of the establishment vs. the people.”
Also, I’m old enough to remember the last time they had secret ‘evidence’ against Trump — it was a hoax.
President Trump left office on January 20, 2021. The FBI raided his house on August 8, 2022. If it was such a “national security threat,” why wait 565 days to recover the documents?
BREAKING: The Trump passports were not itemized on the FBI’s property receipt of items seized. The warrant did not state the FBI could take Trump’s passport. Typically, the government needs a separate court order to seize someone’s passport, even temporarily. Understand that the FBI was content to keep lying about the passports via leaks to the press until Trump embarrassed them with that email.
The government leaked information about the FBI raid to reporters that it is now using in court as evidence of why the government shouldn’t have to release information about the FBI raid to reporters.
Obtaining general warrants, seizing the passport of the former president, harassing lawyers, and imprisoning protestors while media lapdogs provide air cover — are acts designed to repress and intimidate ordinary citizens.
Never forget: Democrats filled skateparks with sand in the name of “science”. Please remember: A sitting US president who has taken kickbacks from existential enemies of the United States is not as bad as a former president who tweets mean things.
A group of 90 women that includes former U.S. Olympic team gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman filed a lawsuit against the FBI, alleging it mishandled its investigation of former Team USA doctor Larry Nassar, allowing him to continue to sexually abuse them even after they had reported him to the bureau in 2015. The women are collectively seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI in a lawsuit filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act, a 1946 law that makes the United States liable for injuries “caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment.” They join 13 others who in April filed a similar lawsuit against the FBI, citing a July report released by the Justice Department’s inspector general that found the bureau failed to properly investigate serious sex-abuse allegations against Nassar.
“The FBI knew that Larry Nassar was a danger to children when his abuse of me was first reported in September of 2015. For 421 days they worked with USA Gymnastics and USOPC to hide this information from the public and allowed Nassar to continue molesting young women and girls. It is time for the FBI to be held accountable,” former Team USA gymnast Maggie Nichols said in a statement released by lawyers representing the group of women.
Who gave the order to stop counting votes in the swing states on the night of November 3/4, 2020?
Biden THIS WEEK signed the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” into law.
America could use:
87,000 more healthcare workers
87,000 more teachers to aid reading writing & math deficiency
87,000 more police officers, ATC’s & border patrol agents
But 87,000 IRS agents to further squeeze dry Americans in a recession?
CNN host to Biden economic advisor: “If you passed a bill called the Fill Every Pothole Act…voters should expect you to fill every pothole… So should voters measure the success of this bill on how much you reduce inflation?”
JUST IN – Quadruple vaccinated Jill Biden infected with COVID. How many people did Jill Biden infect on vacation this week? You’d think Jill Biden would’ve avoided catching COVID since she’s a doctor???
BREAKING: A new Icelandic study shows COVID reinfection rate rises with the number of vaccine doses.
The study shows that for most age groups, those who have received two doses or more are more likely to become reinfected than those who have received no vaccination or one dose.
Pfizer CEO in April 2021: “Our COVID vaccine was 100% effective in preventing COVID cases in South Africa. 100%!”
Pfizer CEO in August 2022: I’ve tested positive for COVID after four doses of our vaccine.
Idiot alert: Biden Administration still disappointed that so many unvaccinated people survived their Winter of Severe Illness and Death.
Biden accidentally refers to big drug companies as “big Trump companies,” then corrects himself.
STOP THE STEAL – Starbucks is asking the federal labor board to suspend all mail-in ballot union elections nationwide, alleging misconduct in the voting process by the board’s personnel and the union organizing its baristas. During the 2020 election, Starbucks ran ads encouraging Americans to vote by mail. Now, Starbucks is trying to suspend mail-in ballots in their national union elections due to alleged misconduct in the voting process.
Cardinal Dolan met today with the illegal aliens arriving in New York and promised the kids scholarships. I wonder if there are any other kids living in NYC – you know, our fellow citizens – who could use those scholarships?
In a report released Tuesday, the Defense Department’s Inspector General said the U.S. government provided almost $85 billion in security assistance to Afghan forces from 2005 to 2021. About $18.6 billion of it funded the procurement of weapons and equipment over the years.
After Biden’s cut and run, the Taliban seized more than $923 million worth of military aircraft; $4.1 billion worth of ground vehicles; and more than $511 million worth of weapons when they took control of Afghanistan, according to the report. Also left behind were Humvees and heavy Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles.
There were 199,976 illegal crossings of our Southern Border last month – OVER a 300% jump from July 2020. 66 on the National Terrorist Watch List apprehended at the southern border so far this fiscal year. 16 in all of last year. Prior high was 6; many years, none. The number who managed entry without detection was likely far higher.
Sam Harris: “Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement – I would not have cared”
Former CIA Mike Hayden director believes Republicans are more dangerous than Isis and Al Qaeda and the media wonders why folks think the government agencies are secretly working against them. For all of the talk about reckless rhetoric. What does the CIA do to extremists around the world? They capture and kill them, lots of times by drone. Is that what Hayden hopes the CIA will do to Republicans, who are American citizens on domestic soil?
Congresswoman Jackie Walorski was working with Anne Heche on child sex trafficking. Jackie was killed in a car accident the week before Heche died in a car accident.
Once again, my favorite read on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee to hand.
In the meantime, here is what Joe Biden’s sanctions on his MOST-FEARED ENEMY Putin are doing to Joe’s hapless allies and us as Putin keeps on keeping on, truckin’ with the do-dah man, while watching as Joe Biden’s deal go down and destroys Putin’s enemies, who are Joe’s friends and allies, to wit:
Reuters
“TREASURIES – U.S. 10-year note flirts with 3% yield after German inflation scare”
By Davide Barbuscia
August 19, 2022
NEW YORK, Aug 19 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury yields rose on Friday with the benchmark 10-year note nearly hitting 3% after Germany reported record-high increases in monthly producer prices, which are seen as a leading indicator for inflation.
Producer prices in July in Germany – the euro zone’s leading economy – leapt 37.2% from the same time last year and 5.3% from June, mainly because of rising energy costs.
German bond yields surged, with the 10-year yield hitting a four-week high, as the data was seen as reinforcing fears of “stagflation” – a combination of high inflation and low growth.
“The epicenter of the backup in bond yields is coming from Europe,” said Matthew Miskin, co-chief investment strategist at John Hancock Investment Management.
“The German PPI (Producer Price Index) is causing European yields to rise, and that’s rippling across global bond yields.”
The U.S. benchmark 10-year Treasury yield, an important barometer for mortgage rates and other financial instruments, rose about 10 basis points from its close on Thursday to a month high of 2.988%.
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Reuters
“Record jump in German producer prices adds to gloomy outlook”
By Miranda Murray and Paul Carrel
August 19, 2022
BERLIN, Aug 19 (Reuters) – German producer prices jumped at the fastest pace on record in July, underscoring the gloomy outlook for Europe’s largest economy, which is stuck in a stranglehold of soaring costs and weakening growth due to the Ukraine war.
Producer prices — a leading indicator for inflation — surged 37.2% on the year, the biggest rise since records began in 1949, the federal statistics office said on Friday.
The month-on-month rise, 5.3%, was also the highest on record.
“The outlook for the further development (of the economy) is currently noticeably gloomy,” the finance ministry said in its August monthly report, published on Friday, adding that it was marked by “a high degree of uncertainty”.
The record increases in producer prices were primarily driven by skyrocketing energy prices, which as a whole were up 105% compared with the same month last year, the office said.
The German economy stagnated in the second quarter, with the war in Ukraine, soaring energy prices, the COVID-19 pandemic and supply disruptions bringing it to the edge of a downturn.
“The significantly lower gas supplies from Russia, the persistently high price increases for energy and, increasingly, other goods, as well as the longer-than-expected supply chain disruptions, also in connection with China’s zero-COVID policy, are weighing heavily on the economy’s development,” the finance ministry said.
Feeding into already high energy costs, the German government will impose levies on gas consumers from Oct. 1 that will add several hundred euros to the average family’s annual energy bill.
Higher energy prices mean inflation is unlikely to cool off anytime soon: Germany’s annual inflation rate in July was 8.5%, in line with the wider euro zone’s record rate of 8.9%.
Experts expect German inflation could reach around 9% following the expiration of relief measures, including cheaper public transport and a fuel tax cut, at the end of August.
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Too bad nobody remembers the Weimar Republic.
Excellent article. Thank you for continuing to spread the information.
Federal Farmer 7
December 31, 1787
In viewing the various governments instituted by mankind, we see their whole force reducible to two principles — the important springs which alone move the machines, and give them their intended influence and control, are force and persuasion: by the former men are compelled, by the latter they are drawn.
We denominate a government despotic or free, as the one or other principle prevails in it.
In the representative branch we must expect chiefly to collect the confidence of the people, and in it to find almost entirely the force of persuasion.
In forming this branch, therefore, several important considerations must be attended to.
It must possess abilities to discern the situation of the people and of public affairs, a disposition to sympathize with the people, and a capacity and inclination to make laws congenial to their circumstances and condition: it must afford security against interested combinations, corruption and influence; it must possess the confidence, and have the voluntary support of the people.
Ostracize and shun every Liberal Democrat that you know or come in contact with. Do not hire them, rent to them, speak to them, or allow your wives and children to associate with them.
Start today!
Will the Europeans rue the day they became Joe Biden’s allies in Joe’s war of choice against his hated and feared enemy Putin, whose very name turns Joe’s bowels to water as Joe destroys the economies of his allies with his sanctions to punish Putin?
Business Insider
“Europe is in for 5 to 10 ‘difficult’ winters as energy prices soar, Belgian prime minister says”
Huileng Tan
23 August 2022
Europe could be in for a stretch of long, hard winters as energy prices surge to record highs amid the war in Ukraine.
“The next 5 to 10 winters are going to be difficult,” said Belgian Prime Minster Alexander De Croo at an event in Belgium on Monday, as reported by broadcaster VRT.
“In a number of sectors, it is really difficult to deal with those high energy prices.”
“We are monitoring this closely, but we must be transparent: the coming months will be difficult, the coming winters will be difficult.”
De Croo’s comments come as Europe faces an energy crunch exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The continent depends on Russia for its natural gas needs, importing about 40% of its fuel from the country.
But Russia has slowed gas flows via the key Nord Stream 1 pipeline to 20% of its capacity, citing technical issues.
European officials say the move is retaliation against sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.
Belgium imports just 6.5% of its natural gas needs from Russia, according to The Brussels Times, citing official data.
However, energy bills are still going up in Belgium as prices have soared on the global markets.
On Monday, benchmark Dutch natural gas futures jumped almost 20% in one day to a fresh record high on news of an unscheduled three-day shutdown of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from August 31.
Surging energy prices pushed the cost of electricity in Belgium on the wholesale market to a fresh record high on Sunday, per The Brussels Times.
This in turn translates to record high energy bills for households.
Other countries in Europe are also expecting energy bills to continue rising.
In the UK, household energy bills in early 2023 are expected to be four times higher than they were between 2018 and 2021, per the Financial Times.
In Germany, energy bills are likely to double for households as companies pass on rising natural-gas costs, the AFP reported in early August, citing an electricity provider.
The Left’s pitch to the American people has effectively become: “America sucks and is borderline evil, you personally are racist and bigoted, and we know what’s best for you.”
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HILLARY CLINTON: “They’re a BASKET OF DEPLORABLES!”
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JOE BIDEN: “They’re DREGS OF SOCITY!”
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Full transcript from the July 12 hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
ADAM KINZINGER: When we present our full findings, we will recommend changes to laws and policies to guard against another January 6th.
The reason that’s imperative is that the forces Donald Trump ignited that day have not gone away.
The militant intolerant ideologies, the militias, the alienation and the disaffection, the weird fantasies and disinformation, they’re all still out there ready to go.
That’s the elephant in the room.
What these WITCH HUNTERS are planning to do, according to Democrat WITCH HUNTER Adam Kinzinger in his own words on PRIMETIME TV, is to brand people in America, to smear people, and to make laws against people in America who do not swear fealty to Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, who aim to make this country a one-party political system by outlawing any competition, as their hero Zelensky has done in Ukraine, and as Hitler did in Nazi Germany, and although that is unconstitutional in the U.S., that will not stop the Democrats, who wadded up OUR Constitution into a little ball on 6 January 2021 and flushed it down their toilet.
What Democrat WITCH HUNTER Adam Kinzinger is talking about is called ATTAINDER, and what he is proposing violates Article I, Section 9, Clause 3, wherein is stated “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.”
“Bills of attainder . . . are such special acts of the legislature, as inflict capital punishments upon persons supposed to be guilty of high offences, such as treason and felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings.”
“If an act inflicts a milder degree of punishment than death, it is called a bill of pains and penalties.”
“In such cases, the legislature assumes judicial magistracy, pronouncing upon the guilt of the party without any of the common forms and guards of trial, and satisfying itself with proofs, when such proofs are within its reach, whether they are conformable to the rules of evidence, or not.”
“In short, in all such cases, the legislature exercises the highest power of sovereignty, and what may be properly deemed an irresponsible despotic discretion, being governed solely by what it deems political necessity or expediency, and too often under the influence of unreasonable fears, or unfounded suspicions.”
The phrase “bill of attainder,” as used in this clause and in clause 1 of § 10, applies to bills of pains and penalties as well as to the traditional bills of attainder.
The prohibition embodied in this clause is not to be narrowly construed in the context of traditional forms but is to be interpreted in accordance with the designs of the framers so as to preclude trial by legislature, which would violate the separation of powers.
The clause thus prohibits all legislative acts, “no matter what their form, that apply either to named individuals or to easily ascertainable members of a group in such a way as to inflict punishment on them without a judicial trial.”
We are waiting to see if Joe Biden will give him a pardon:
NPR
“Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, sentenced to 5 days in jail for a DUI”
By Ayana Archie
August 24, 20222:32 AM ET
Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has been sentenced to five days in jail after being convicted Tuesday of misdemeanor driving under the influence in California, the Napa County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Pelosi, 82, was arrested May 28 and later charged with driving under the influence and causing injury — “based upon an automobile collision,” the DA said — and having a blood alcohol level above 0.08%.