THE GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICA ARE LAWYERS!
WE ONLY HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT BILLARY AND HILLARY, THE OBOMB AND HIS REGIME OF BANKSTER RENT BOYS, LAWYER JOE BIDEN AND LAWYER ERIC HOLDER, AND NOW KAMALA HARRIS A CLONE OF ALL THE ABOVE.
The ultimate goal of the efforts was to impede and hobble the duly elected president; to subvert, sabotage, and undermine his agenda; and to ultimately expel him from office — by any means necessary — in the bowels of government, in the media and entertainment, in academia and education, in Big Tech, Big Finance, and Big Business.
On the policy front, the White House has rapidly undone almost all of Trump's reversals of Obama policies, while ratcheting up the Obama agenda with even more radical steps than Obama took in his first eight years of "fundamentally transforming" the country. The border is open again. The Keystone Pipeline is canceled. Coal-mining and energy independence are out. Subsidies to "green energy" and Big Tech are back. So are Big Pork and the great party slush fund.
Barack Obama Has Now Been President Longer than FDR
This week, Barack Obama passed Franklin Roosevelt for the longest presidential tenure in American history.
What's that, you say? — president for longer than FDR? But FDR was elected president four times; Obama was elected president two times.
Yes, all of that is true. That's why this record has an asterisk next to it.
For anyone with eyes to see, the current presidency is being run by Barack Obama.
Even before this presidency began, its roots were laid in Obama's home in Washington. Over the past couple of years, Obama House was the royal court for receiving, selecting, and anointing the party's standard-bearer for 2020. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris were Obama's favored candidates, and Obama House functioned as the campaign war room. But Harris gained no traction, and she dropped out of the race on December 3, 2019, exactly two months before the Iowa caucuses.
That left Warren — to face off against Bernie Sanders in the left-wing bracket of the sweepstakes. The party had already determined, four years earlier, that Sanders was unsuitable as its standard-bearer, because he wielded an abrasive, in-your-face style of Marxism. Obama himself expressed such sentiments more than once. So the party scuppered his campaign in 2016. But in 2020, Sanders was bettering Warren in the early primaries.
So, the Obama camp had to go to plan B — find somebody who was "presentable" to the public.
In the first two contests of the nominating process, Joe Biden fared badly — maybe even worse than Harris would have done had she stayed in. He finished a distant fourth in Iowa and a much weaker fifth in New Hampshire. He was bumbling along on stage and on the hustings and going nowhere fast. Obama didn't even like Biden — but Biden would have to do. There weren't really many other options on hand.
So all the other candidates immediately dropped out, the Black vote in South Carolina and across the South was delivered to Biden, and he was anointed the nominee.
We know the rest of the story: Biden was banished to the basement, the media carried the water for him and continued demonizing Trump, Big Swamp exploited and manipulated a virus, and big-city machines stopped counting the votes late on Election Night to figure out how many "votes" they needed to get their man over the finish line.
This leads us to the inauguration of Joe Biden as president. On his first day in the White House, Biden expelled the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office, as Obama had done on his first day in office. (This was because Churchill was an imperialist and led the suppression of the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, during which, Obama said, his grandfather was tortured. Trump brought the Churchill bust back on his first day in office.)
Then there are Biden's appointments. They say personnel is policy. Well, the old Obama gang is back, and at the center of the action is Susan Rice. A foreign policy specialist (ambassador to the United Nations and then national security adviser under Obama), Rice was one of Biden's first appointments, as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. That's her official title, but her actual job is Obama's "messenger boy" in the White House and to cover any remaining tracks to past criminal activities.
Heading the White House press room is Jen Psaki. She was Obama's communications director. Anthony Blinken moves up a notch, from being Obama's deputy secretary of state to the top job at Foggy Bottom. Obama's chairman of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, is now secretary of the Treasury.
Anita Dunn, who had to resign from her top post in Obama's Department of Education because she'd praised Chairman Mao, is back. Merrick Garland, whom Obama wasn't able to get into the Supreme Court in 2016, gets the consolation prize of attorney general — a "take that" from Obama. Those are the most glaring of a slew of Obama retreads. It wouldn't be surprising if Van Jones and Samantha Power get appointments soon, and David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, Rahm Emanuel, and other members of the Chicago Mafia are major behind-the-scenes players.
Then there are the rewards to the people who tried to sabotage the Trump campaign in 2016 and who took part in the "resistance" to his presidency. Peter Strzok, his wife, and anybody else who made "sacrifices" in the effort are being compensated for their pain and suffering.
On the policy front, the White House has rapidly undone almost all of Trump's reversals of Obama policies, while ratcheting up the Obama agenda with even more radical steps than Obama took in his first eight years of "fundamentally transforming" the country. The border is open again. The Keystone Pipeline is canceled. Coal-mining and energy independence are out. Subsidies to "green energy" and Big Tech are back. So are Big Pork and the great party slush fund.
China is no longer an enemy. Climate change is an existential threat again, and the Paris Accords take center stage. The Iran nuclear deal is back on — actually, John Kerry never stopped negotiating with Iran. And to curry favor with Iran, the administration is lifting sanctions against the country and has halted the sale of weapons to its Arab enemies that recently made peace with Israel. As for Israel, the White House is stiffing the country, big time — especially as it has the wrong leaders.
Okay — so that makes this the beginning of a third term for Obama, but FDR was elected president four times.
To complete the set of four aces, we have to rewind the tape to 2016. Obama was finishing his second term and handing off leadership of the Marxist revolution to Hillary Clinton. On the Republican side, three candidates for president — Trump, Cruz, and Carson — were vehemently opposed to Obama, his policies, and the direction of the country. So Obama spied on their campaigns. Trump still won.
But not only did Trump trump the swamp; he then actually tried to put the breaks on the Marxist revolution. He took steps to reverse the regulatory state, and he allowed the economy to boom. Worst of all, Trump bruised the swamp's ego. He exposed it as arrogant, corrupt, and incompetent, and as the entrenched D.C. front of the Marxist revolution.
After he arrived in Washington, Trump quickly learned that Obama was running the "resistance" to his presidency — the government's opposition from within (in the summer of '16, Trump had informed the world that his campaign was being spied on).
During Trump's four years in Washington, Obama ran the shadow government out of his D.C. home, probably exerting more influence over the wheels of government than the man in the Oval Office did. Obama lined up whistleblowers, leaks to the press, and resistance to the president from within the government, including in the White House and the president's Cabinet. He advised "the gang of four" and other radicals on policy and presentation.
The ultimate goal of the efforts was to impede and hobble the duly elected president; to subvert, sabotage, and undermine his agenda; and to ultimately expel him from office — by any means necessary — in the bowels of government, in the media and entertainment, in academia and education, in Big Tech, Big Finance, and Big Business.
So we ought to face reality. As of this week, Obama has been running the show in Washington for 4,424 days — and counting — and he's not shy about letting us know it.
Ayad Rahim, a former journalist, is a bookseller and tutor in the Midwest.
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Ruling on Murder Case by Judge Suffering From Dementia Will Stand, Court Says
Nelson Cruz, who has maintained his innocence for two decades, wanted a hearing to determine if the judge handling his case had been impaired. His request was rejected.
A New York judge has rejected the claim of a Brooklyn man who said his bid to have his murder conviction overturned was mishandled by a judge later found to be suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
Judge Raymond Rodriguez of State Supreme Court said he found no evidence that his former colleague’s illness had affected her decision to deny the man’s motion to have his 1999 murder conviction vacated.
Judge ShawnDya Simpson went on medical leave in September 2019, days after her decision in the murder case. In July 2020, after she was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, she retired from the bench as part of an agreement struck with the Commission on Judicial Conduct. The decision ended a once-bright legal career for Simpson, who was just 54 and whose rise from the housing projects of Brooklyn had been hailed as an inspiring tale for young women of color.
Nelson Cruz, who had been convicted at age 17 of shooting a rival dead in the streets of Brooklyn, had spent two decades insisting on his innocence and seeking a hearing to have his conviction revisited.
Simpson granted Cruz that chance in 2018. Cruz and his lawyers later presented alibi witnesses and offered evidence that Cruz’s case had been tainted by the work of unscrupulous detectives. Simpson previously had vacated two murder convictions in cases involving the detectives.
In August 2019, Simpson called Cruz’s lawyers and prosecutors to court and from the bench rejected Cruz’s bid. Cruz and his lawyers had been so confident of prevailing that they had brought new clothes for Cruz to wear as he walked free.
When Simpson’s illness was made public a year later, Cruz’s lawyers argued her handling of the case suggested she’d been impaired at the time of the August 2019 decision. They cited delays and alleged inconsistencies in her handling of the case and included the claim of the judge’s husband that she had been showing signs of impairment as early as 2018. They asked for a hearing to be held to assess the judge’s condition at the time of the 2019 ruling.
Prosecutors argued throughout that Cruz had been properly convicted, that his evidence of innocence was faulty and that Simpson’s denial of his bid for freedom had been coherent and persuasive. They argued there was no need for a hearing to explore the timeline and possible impact of her illness.
This week, Rodriguez, assigned the case by the Office of Court Administration, agreed. He wrote that Simpson’s analysis of the faults with Cruz’s arguments of innocence were reasonable and based on the evidence. He said that while Alzheimer’s is a terrible and progressive disease, Cruz had not presented detailed medical evidence that Simpson was compromised in August 2019. He held that Simson’s husband’s assessment of his ailing wife was not specific enough to be compelling.
Oren Yaniv, a spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, said in a brief statement, “We agree with the judge’s decision.”
An earlier review ordered by court officials of scores of rulings made by Simpson over her final months as a judge concluded there was no evidence that she had clearly erred as a consequence of her illness.