America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Friday, January 5, 2024
Trump’s Top 2024 Issues Are the Border and the Economy - BIDEN'S TOP 2024 ISSUES ARE SERVING RED CHINA, STAYING OUT OF PRISON, BIGGER BRIBES AS 'LOANS'
Biden 'Loan Repayments' and the Fourth Bank Records Memo | WSJ Opinion
American people deserve to know what China was up to with Joe Biden, especially when Beijing had already shelled out millions of dollars to Biden family members — including millions in set-asides for “the big guy.” What else is on that infamous Hunter Biden laptop? The conflicted Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to engage in any meaningful oversight on this issue. We need a special counsel now.
TOM FITTON - JUDICIAL WATCH
SERVING RED CHINA: JOE BIDEN AT WORK
Biden admin is ‘enormously dangerous’ to the survival of America: Newt Gingrich
Via John Hinderaker of Power Line, Andy McCarthy at National Review has a stunning piece outlining the depths of Joe Biden's involvement as China's little agent, tying together details which will make you wanting to take a shower afterward.
But it is different, with millions of dollars changing hands and U.S. influence waning significantly. If this isn't dealt with in Congress, the stage will be set for any elected leader to do the same. Now that the facts are known, Andy McCarthy argues, that Joe cannot escape his China scandal paper trail at the very least. One hopes that he is right because the bribery and treason here couldn't be more real.
Joe Biden: "Something TERRIBLE Is Happening To Me Right NOW!"
My colleague Peter Schweizer’s runaway bestseller, Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, first revealed that the Biden family received some $31 million from the highest levels of Chinese intelligence at the same time Hunter was paying the vice president’s bills. Schweizer believes that there is a slam dunk case to indict Hunter Biden.
Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’s investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing to even have a 10 percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.
Hunter has reportedly sold five paintings worth $75,000 each to an anonymous buyer. Hunter’s art dealer, Georges Bergès, has previously boasted he had strong ties to businessmen in Communist China, which has concerned many due to the Biden family’s business ventures abroad.
“We are 95% sure that that artwork went to China,” Comer said. “We don’t know where exactly that went to in China, but we’re going to try to find out when we get subpoena power.”
Peter Schweizer’s new book Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win tells the story of how Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) husband Richard Blum was part owner of a Chinese firm that allegedly sold computers with spyware chips to the U.S. military. The military has never been able to calculate how much sensitive data these computers allowed China to steal.
THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY
RIDING THE DRAGON: The Bidens' Chinese Secrets (Full Documentary)
Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is laser focused on two issues: the chaos caused by President Joe Biden’s open border and the inflationary disaster of Bidenomics, Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and Breitbart Finance Editor John Carney explained in a wide-ranging interview Thursday with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow.
The discussion focused on the many revelations in Marlow and Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle’s exclusive sit-down interview with Trump.
How Democrat “Lawfare” Gave Trump 2024 Momentum
Kudlow kicked off the conversation with Trump’s claim in the Breitbart interview that if he wins the election he will fire Special Counsel Jack Smith.
“I think that what the president wanted to convey to us in the interview is he feels like the efforts to gag him are entirely inappropriate,” Marlow explained. “And they make it so that there can be a full offensive attack on him, but he doesn’t have the ability to defend himself.”
Marlow noted that Trump was particularly keen on conveying former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s role in the chaos of January 6.
“The point he wanted to reiterate to all of us is that he offered Nancy Pelosi 10,000 troops on January 6, and she turned them down,” Marlow said. “And he thinks Jack Smith doesn’t want him to be able to make that point publicly, which is why he’s saying flat out I’m going to can the guy if I get the opportunity. But he suddenly was making that point to me hoping we would print it, and we did.”
Kudlow also noted that Trump told Breitbart he feels that Smith is “losing momentum.”
“[Trump] thinks that the reason why Smith is engaging in tactics that he believes are unethical is because the political battle is failing,” Marlow said. “And he thinks that he’s getting more popular as these political persecutions go on – the weaponization, as he puts it – and I think this is undeniably true. I think I speak for a lot of Americans where I feel like the entire country changed that day when the Biden government was rifling through Melania Trump’s underwear drawer looking for state secrets. It was a true absurdity in any other era.”
Local law enforcement officers are seen in front of the home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on August 9, 2022, after it was “raided” by FBI agents the day before. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)
Kudlow also argued that the “the excesses of the Jack Smiths of the world and all the lawsuits” have “propelled” Trump to his current dominant position in the 2024 polls.
Marlow, whose New York Times’ bestselling book Breaking Biden explores the controversies surrounding the current president, explained that he was “very pessimistic” about Republican chances of regaining the White House after the 2020 election, but he now sees that Trump has “got the edge.” However, he warned that the real question is what impact potential big tech manipulation, Democrat lawfare, and other “community organizing” tactics could have on the outcome.
“The big question… is what’s going to happen with the Democrats’ voting operation in terms of their ability to manipulate with big tech, their ability to get otherwise uninterested people to turn in ballots, to stuff ballot boxes, etc.” Marlow asked. “How much of that is going on? How much community organizing and lawfare is going to play a role in this election? That could be questioned. There’s no question though that the people are behind Trump at the moment.”
Biden Embraced “a Bad Term” Coined by His Detractors
Kudlow mentioned Trump’s belief that Bidenomics is “a bad term for Biden.” Carney reminded Kudlow that the term was actually invented by conservatives and later adopted by Biden.
“We started calling it Bidenomics,” Carney explained. “First, it was just an extension of Bidenflation. We were trying to point out that Bidenflation and Bidenomics were intimately related. He tried to own it, trying to say, ‘Yes, Bidenomics. It’s great.’ But it didn’t work. In fact, the popularity of his economic policies keeps going down. It’s his worst point in all the polls… His popularity is 39 percent, but his economic approval rating is down at like 33 percent.”
President Joe Biden speaks at an economic event at Tioga Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (Joe Lamberti/Getty Images)
Kudlow noted that White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre “is still out there blaming the Trump tax cuts and saying how they’re going to cut the budget deficit” despite it now doubling to close to $3 trillion.
“It all comes back to the original sin of the Biden administration, which was the American Rescue Plan,” Carney argued. “They came in and spent $2 trillion right away that we didn’t need. That set a very high baseline. Yes, now they claim, ‘Oh, we’re not spending 2 trillion extra dollars every year. So, therefore, we cut the budget.’ That’s nonsense.”
Will the Federal Reserve “Goose the Economy for Biden”?
Kudlow was especially interested in Trump’s statement to Breitbart that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell could play a key role in helping Biden get re-elected.
“Trump believes that Jay Powell, the Fed Chair, is going to goose the economy for Biden this year,” Kudlow said.
“He’s not the only person who believes there’s going to be rate cuts,” Carney noted. “What he’s saying is that one of the motivations for that is to help Biden keep Trump out of office.”
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks after President Joe Biden announced Powell’s nomination for a second term as Federal Reserve chair on Nov. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Indeed, as Carney has extensively reported in Breitbart Business Digest, the stock market firmly believes that multiple interest rate cuts are coming this year despite data showing that the economy is not responding to the Fed’s tightening and is, in fact, re-accelerating.
As Carney noted in Thursday’s Breitbart Business Digest:
[A] rate cut early this year could be very risky because the Fed could find itself cutting just before a re-ignition of inflation. Even more explosively, the Fed could find itself in the unenviable position of cutting during an election year and then having to raise rates following the election.
In the increasingly unlikely event that President Joe Biden wins re-election, this would be bad enough. Donald Trump has already predicted—in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News—that the Fed will cut rates to keep Biden in power. An election year cut followed by a rise in inflation and then a new hiking cycle would cement the view that the Fed acted on political motives.
“Jawboning” and “Jockeying” Jay Powell
Trump had an acrimonious relationship with Powell in the past, Carney reminded Kudlow, who served as the director of the National Economic Council in the Trump administration.
“Trump gave Powell a very hard time. You remember. You were in the White House when this was happening,” Carney said.
“Although, he said during the pandemic Jay Powell was most improved when he went to zero,” Kudlow quipped.
“Maybe somebody can send Powell that memo because I’m sure Powell does remember that, and it wouldn’t be his favorite thing to see Trump take office,” Carney replied.
Carney speculated that Trump was unlikely to reappoint Powell as Fed Chair if he wins in November, noting that Trump told Breitbart that Powell “wasn’t his choice — that it was [Treasury Secretary] Steve Mnuchin who pushed it on him. That was his way of saying that he kind of regrets doing that.”
Trump’s claims about Powell in the Breitbart interview had an important subtext, Marlow argued.
“He was implying to me in the interview that he thinks that Jay Powell is a political person, and he can be worked,” Marlow explained. “And Trump was bragging about working him — ‘jawboning’ was Trump’s term — and getting him to change his maneuvers based on political pressure. That was a very subtle and important dig at Powell that could set a lot of framework for the next year.”
“I think there is something to that,” Kudlow agreed. “As I said, I was in the White House when all that jockeying went on. And, you know, Trump is the quintessential salesman.”
President Donald Trump looks on as his nominee for the chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell takes to the podium during a press event on November 2, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Trump Wants to Expand the MAGA Base
Kudlow was impressed with Trump’s statement to Breitbart that he intends expand his base by campaigning aggressively in states like New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Minnesota, and New Mexico.
“When you look at the polling numbers, the so-called Biden coalition – of young people, I’ll say, Hispanics, African Americans – appears to be falling apart,” Kudlow noted. “And if Trump does expand the Republican reach, it just might succeed.”
“I think that he’s very fired up, and he sees some paths in certain states,” Marlow explained. “We know Biden is doing poorly with Muslim voters in places like Michigan and Minnesota. It feels like there’s some level of working-class Republicans rising up in places like Virginia and even New Jersey. Trump threw out there New York. I have to bet that’s sort of Trumpian trolling, but it was so great to hear him say that. He’s talking about having a rally at Madison Square Garden.”
Border and Economy Are Trump’s “Bread and Butter” Issues
As for the issues animating this campaign, Kudlow said Trump’s “bread and butter” issue remains the border, but the state of the economy comes in a close second.
In an aerial view, thousands of migrants, most wearing thermal blankets, await processing at a U.S. Border Patrol transit center on December 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Major surges of migrants illegally crossing the Rio Grande have overwhelmed U.S. border authorities in recent weeks. (John Moore/Getty Images)
“You must know the president very well,” Marlow said. “Because he said specifically the border and the economy [are] the top two things on his mind. He thinks that there’s an effort to have a mass migration into this country. He says other countries are emptying their mental hospitals and insane asylums and sending all their worst people to America. He’s going to go so hard on this issue. It’s going to be incredibly intense, and he’s got all the evidence to suggest that Biden has opened up the [border] I believe in impeachable way.”
“And next on his list is the economy,” he added. “Those are the top two things that came up over and over throughout our time together.”
Kudlow asked Carney whether Trump’s claim to Breitbart that he doesn’t think Joe Biden or Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee was meant “tongue-in-cheek” or whether he really believes that.
“I think he thinks if the Democrats were rational, they would try to find better candidates than the ones they have; and this is a little bit of Trump predicting the maximum chaos outcome,” Carney said. “Look, if I were the Democrats, I would be looking at the weakness of Joe Biden and scramble to find a replacement. I don’t think that they’re going to be able to do that in time for the election.”
“How can they? They won’t let anybody else on the ballot,” Kudlow quipped. “Biden won’t let any Republicans be on the ballot, much less Democrats.”
Read more of Breitbart News’ exclusive interview with Donald Trump here.
Rebecca Mansour is a Senior Editor-at-Large for Breitbart News. Follow her on X at @RAMansour.
The Worst President in the Last 100 Years" - Victor Davis Hanson
President Joe Biden, 81, holds the worst net approval rating in history at this time in office, 1,080 days into his tenure, FiveThirtyEight polling found this week, highlighting just how unpopular Biden is going into a presidential election just ten months away.
The following is the net approval rating of previous presidents in the modern era at the same time of their presidencies:
Biden: -17.2 points
Trump: -11.8 points
Obama: -0.6 points
Carter: +9.6 points
Clinton: +11.2 points
H.W. Bush: +12.5 points
Nixon: +14.6 points
Reagan: +15.3 points
Truman: +16.7 points
G.W. Bush: +20.3 points
Eisenhower: +62.6 points
Biden’s approval rating stands in the mid-thirties, while his disapproval rating is the mid-fifties, FiveThirtyEight found:
FiveThirtyEight
Biden’s popularity never recovered after he directed the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021. Soaring inflation after massive post-pandemic spending, low consumer sentiment, and draconian coronavirus mandates kept his approval numbers poor throughout 2022 and 2023.
As Biden looks to rebound heading into 2024, he will need to dramatically reverse course to improve his popularity.
“And if he can’t get his approval ratings up — and quick — then he and the Democratic Party need to have a serious conversation about replacing him on the Democratic ticket in the 2024 presidential race,” Madison Hallwrote in December at Business Insider.
Politicians have long behaved badly but were heretofore sufficiently self-conscious to still perform a sort of “constitutional fan dance” to at least present a fig leaf of legitimacy to obscure their rapacious behavior. NOT JOE BIDEN!
JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, a Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes. In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK
Shakespeare famously wrote, “First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” This startling suggestion is offered by the character “Dick the Butcher” in Shakespeare’s play, Henry VI, Part II.
Often considered a somewhat tongue-in-cheek criticism of self-interested or otherwise morally compromised practitioners within the legal profession, it has since entered the lexicon of Western societies as shorthand for the upending of the law by those charged with safeguarding it.
The United States was once thought immune to such anti-liberty chicanery — at least as immune as any society comprising fallible human beings can be — but recent decades have shown us to be as vulnerable as Achilles.
Politicians have long behaved badly but were heretofore sufficiently self-conscious to still perform a sort of “constitutional fan dance” to at least present a fig leaf of legitimacy to obscure their rapacious behavior.
Sadly, that façade became obsolete with the wholesale loss of media objectivity, at least as far as Democrats were concerned. Traceable to the campaign of one William Jefferson Clinton, the major media ran interference for the missteps and criminality of his subsequent administration, refusing to adequately investigate obvious avenues of corruption and malfeasance.
In the years between then and now, that dynamic has only advanced, never diminished.
However, while the playing field had been deeply slanted in favor of the political left, the loyal opposition have found themselves under even greater scrutiny as countless journalists with lots of time on their hands, and a perpetually dull axe to grind, focused the entirety of their efforts on only one side of the aisle.
This terrible, immoral poisoning of our body politic accelerated dramatically under the direction of Barack Obama, shielded, like Clinton before him, by a media that was by turns studiously incurious and stridently activist.
Both modes ensured that the American people would face nearly insurmountable obstacles in holding the left accountable for running roughshod over our rights.
The brazen corruption and anti-constitutional behavior that are the hallmarks of Biden’s tenure have set a new standard for ruling hubris. Democrats now openly govern with a mafioso’s attitude of “whatcha gonna do ’bout it?”
In this fertile totalitarian soil have sprouted the mechanisms and processes that, once matured, will finally rid the left of any need for pretextual fig leaves, either constitutional or moral.
This isn’t new ground. Hearkening back to the lawyers Dick the Butcher wanted to exterminate, the path to perdition has long wound dizzyingly among dense thickets of willfully misinterpreted and misapplied laws, along with brazen lawlessness.
Tyrants routinely appeal to the population’s desire to “restore” this or that characteristic of the government or society by passing illegitimate, unlawful legislation under the guise of setting things right.
Think the Nuremburg Laws of the 1930s in Germany, where Jewish residents were stripped of citizenship, ownership of assets, and ultimately, of their status as human beings was sold as a necessary step in returning Germany to pre-WWI greatness.
It is a rare instance indeed that sees government trampling rights underfoot without having a “law” or regulation to wave before those who oppose their usurpations.
In Poland right now, there is underway just such an attempt to reorder society and government to better suit the authoritarian left. There is a strong push within the European Union to gain veto power over any act of a member-nation, an essential precursor to transitioning to a single European government.
Poland is a parliamentary republic and as such has a president and a prime minister. Following the recent election, these two offices are now filled by men diametrically opposed to each other’s politics.
The new arrival, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, is an unapologetic advocate of further enmeshment with the E.U., to the point of ceding Polish sovereignty to the European Parliament and judicial system. This is no tentative first step, but a bold leap toward administrative totalitarianism.
He is opposed by the president of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, who has rightfully challenged Tusk’s administrative coup. Duda has pointed out that Tusk’s citing of European Court judgements as legal justification for ignoring the unambiguous language of the Polish constitution carries no weight of law in Poland.
To facilitate this takeover, Tusk and his cronies have declared the supreme judiciary of Poland to be illegitimately appointed — again, based on the application of European Union judicial decisions that have no force in Poland.
Tusk’s minister of justice and attorney general, Adam Bodnar, issued a decree demanding the replacement of said judges and the nullification of their rulings made since 2018.
Here in the U.S., Democrats engage in lawfare using left-leaning activist judges who routinely issue rulings made out of whole cloth that, unsurprisingly, always advance the leftist “cause.” Poland hasn’t had the opportunity to pollute the courts with puppets as leftists in the U.S. have done, so they are attempting to do so in one fell swoop under the guise of setting things right.
Claiming to be “restoring the rule of law,” the new Polish government is instead ruling in an entirely unlawful manner it describes as a necessary “transitory period.”
According to an interview given by Bodnar, in practice, the transitory period will require the new government to deviate from the normal principles of a law-abiding and democratic state by undertaking actions without legal grounds.
According to an in-depth exposition by Polish legal foundation Ordo Iuris, included among these “deviations” is the use of violence, as evidenced by the violent assault of one member of Parliament who rose to defend Polish public media, the primary broadcast medium made an early target of the new regime seeking to control the narrative.
Bodnar and Tusk admit they will be forced to take “subversive actions,” including undermining the constitution in order to “save it.”
Astute observers will notice the parallels between the behavior of Polish and European leftists and our homegrown American ones.
The many spurious challenges to existing election law crafted to advantage Democrat candidates (and preserve avenues for perpetrating fraud) offers a perfect example of the very activities that prompted Dick the Butcher to offer his prescription for ridding society of dangerous malcontents.
Obviously, our American circumstance would not be well served by following old Dick’s advice, but recalling his reasons may prompt us to forestall the damage to a republic that comes from permitting “transitory periods,” such as one that might be described using the words “fundamental transformation.”
Presently, America’s governments at all levels are pursuing this lawlessness in a largely de facto fashion, but should the left succeed in doing so with no meaningful resistance, like Poland, and Nazi Germany before it, the lawlessness will quickly become de jure.
No one in his right mind wants to live in a world where standing against lawlessness is treated as lawlessness. The destruction of the legitimacy of law is necessary for tyranny to take hold, and the attempt to do so, whether in Eastern Europe or the United States, should trigger a harsh and vigorous response from the people.
We need not resort to following Dick the Butcher’s exhortation, but should we continue pretending the left has our best interest in mind, we’ll discover too late the lethal result of our error.
Mr. Herring is a writer and broadcaster based in Omaha, Nebraska and welcomes visitors to his website, www.dailyherring.com.
JOE BIDEN IS THE GREATEST DANGER AMERICA HAS EVER FACED
JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, a Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes. In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK
Biden tells reporter: ‘Start reporting it the right way’
Recently, a reporter asked President Biden, “What’s your outlook on the economy next year?”
Biden replied: “All good. Take a look. Start reporting it the right way.”
Implicit in that statement: If you know what’s good for you, you lying dog-faced pony soldier.
Yes, for the sake of “our democracy,” reporters had better damn well report the news precisely how Biden tells them to! Forget “speaking truth to power,” today’s “journalists” are expected to be nothing but human remoras attached to the behemoth Democrat whale that runs the country — and all its major institutions.
The media are so docile, the institutions so corrupt, the Deep State so vast, that Democrats know they can get away with anything. Worse yet, they believe that the bulk of the people are too ignorant — and/or complacent — to do anything about it themselves. Thus far, they appear to be correct.
Ergo, they will keep telling us that, for the sake of our democracy, we citizens cannot be allowed to vote for Trump. For the sake of our democracy, the Electoral College must be eliminated, the Supreme Court must be packed, and the District of Columbia must be made a state. Puerto Rico, too. For the sake of our democracy, the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments should be eliminated, and the Constitution revamped, preferably by executive fiat. And of course, certain of their more “MAGA” opponents, AKA “terrorists,” should not even be allowed to speak — on or off campus, at school board meetings, or on social media. (Hence the desire to ixnay the First Amendment.)
Because nothing says “democracy” like an authoritarian, one-party state where political opposition is illegal!
Tragically, due to public school indoctrination, mainstream media bias, and corporate cravenness — as well as Democrat deception and dishonesty, many people don’t even recognize that Democrats’ desired actions are anything but democratic, and are, in fact, precisely tailored to lead to a permanent, one-party state...in which Democrats rule with gleeful abandon until the sun expires.
Politicians have long behaved badly but were heretofore sufficiently self-conscious to still perform a sort of “constitutional fan dance” to at least present a fig leaf of legitimacy to obscure their rapacious behavior. NOT JOE BIDEN!
JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, a Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes. In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK
Shakespeare famously wrote, “First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” This startling suggestion is offered by the character “Dick the Butcher” in Shakespeare’s play, Henry VI, Part II.
Often considered a somewhat tongue-in-cheek criticism of self-interested or otherwise morally compromised practitioners within the legal profession, it has since entered the lexicon of Western societies as shorthand for the upending of the law by those charged with safeguarding it.
The United States was once thought immune to such anti-liberty chicanery — at least as immune as any society comprising fallible human beings can be — but recent decades have shown us to be as vulnerable as Achilles.
Politicians have long behaved badly but were heretofore sufficiently self-conscious to still perform a sort of “constitutional fan dance” to at least present a fig leaf of legitimacy to obscure their rapacious behavior.
Sadly, that façade became obsolete with the wholesale loss of media objectivity, at least as far as Democrats were concerned. Traceable to the campaign of one William Jefferson Clinton, the major media ran interference for the missteps and criminality of his subsequent administration, refusing to adequately investigate obvious avenues of corruption and malfeasance.
In the years between then and now, that dynamic has only advanced, never diminished.
However, while the playing field had been deeply slanted in favor of the political left, the loyal opposition have found themselves under even greater scrutiny as countless journalists with lots of time on their hands, and a perpetually dull axe to grind, focused the entirety of their efforts on only one side of the aisle.
This terrible, immoral poisoning of our body politic accelerated dramatically under the direction of Barack Obama, shielded, like Clinton before him, by a media that was by turns studiously incurious and stridently activist.
Both modes ensured that the American people would face nearly insurmountable obstacles in holding the left accountable for running roughshod over our rights.
The brazen corruption and anti-constitutional behavior that are the hallmarks of Biden’s tenure have set a new standard for ruling hubris. Democrats now openly govern with a mafioso’s attitude of “whatcha gonna do ’bout it?”
In this fertile totalitarian soil have sprouted the mechanisms and processes that, once matured, will finally rid the left of any need for pretextual fig leaves, either constitutional or moral.
This isn’t new ground. Hearkening back to the lawyers Dick the Butcher wanted to exterminate, the path to perdition has long wound dizzyingly among dense thickets of willfully misinterpreted and misapplied laws, along with brazen lawlessness.
Tyrants routinely appeal to the population’s desire to “restore” this or that characteristic of the government or society by passing illegitimate, unlawful legislation under the guise of setting things right.
Think the Nuremburg Laws of the 1930s in Germany, where Jewish residents were stripped of citizenship, ownership of assets, and ultimately, of their status as human beings was sold as a necessary step in returning Germany to pre-WWI greatness.
It is a rare instance indeed that sees government trampling rights underfoot without having a “law” or regulation to wave before those who oppose their usurpations.
In Poland right now, there is underway just such an attempt to reorder society and government to better suit the authoritarian left. There is a strong push within the European Union to gain veto power over any act of a member-nation, an essential precursor to transitioning to a single European government.
Poland is a parliamentary republic and as such has a president and a prime minister. Following the recent election, these two offices are now filled by men diametrically opposed to each other’s politics.
The new arrival, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, is an unapologetic advocate of further enmeshment with the E.U., to the point of ceding Polish sovereignty to the European Parliament and judicial system. This is no tentative first step, but a bold leap toward administrative totalitarianism.
He is opposed by the president of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, who has rightfully challenged Tusk’s administrative coup. Duda has pointed out that Tusk’s citing of European Court judgements as legal justification for ignoring the unambiguous language of the Polish constitution carries no weight of law in Poland.
To facilitate this takeover, Tusk and his cronies have declared the supreme judiciary of Poland to be illegitimately appointed — again, based on the application of European Union judicial decisions that have no force in Poland.
Tusk’s minister of justice and attorney general, Adam Bodnar, issued a decree demanding the replacement of said judges and the nullification of their rulings made since 2018.
Here in the U.S., Democrats engage in lawfare using left-leaning activist judges who routinely issue rulings made out of whole cloth that, unsurprisingly, always advance the leftist “cause.” Poland hasn’t had the opportunity to pollute the courts with puppets as leftists in the U.S. have done, so they are attempting to do so in one fell swoop under the guise of setting things right.
Claiming to be “restoring the rule of law,” the new Polish government is instead ruling in an entirely unlawful manner it describes as a necessary “transitory period.”
According to an interview given by Bodnar, in practice, the transitory period will require the new government to deviate from the normal principles of a law-abiding and democratic state by undertaking actions without legal grounds.
According to an in-depth exposition by Polish legal foundation Ordo Iuris, included among these “deviations” is the use of violence, as evidenced by the violent assault of one member of Parliament who rose to defend Polish public media, the primary broadcast medium made an early target of the new regime seeking to control the narrative.
Bodnar and Tusk admit they will be forced to take “subversive actions,” including undermining the constitution in order to “save it.”
Astute observers will notice the parallels between the behavior of Polish and European leftists and our homegrown American ones.
The many spurious challenges to existing election law crafted to advantage Democrat candidates (and preserve avenues for perpetrating fraud) offers a perfect example of the very activities that prompted Dick the Butcher to offer his prescription for ridding society of dangerous malcontents.
Obviously, our American circumstance would not be well served by following old Dick’s advice, but recalling his reasons may prompt us to forestall the damage to a republic that comes from permitting “transitory periods,” such as one that might be described using the words “fundamental transformation.”
Presently, America’s governments at all levels are pursuing this lawlessness in a largely de facto fashion, but should the left succeed in doing so with no meaningful resistance, like Poland, and Nazi Germany before it, the lawlessness will quickly become de jure.
No one in his right mind wants to live in a world where standing against lawlessness is treated as lawlessness. The destruction of the legitimacy of law is necessary for tyranny to take hold, and the attempt to do so, whether in Eastern Europe or the United States, should trigger a harsh and vigorous response from the people.
We need not resort to following Dick the Butcher’s exhortation, but should we continue pretending the left has our best interest in mind, we’ll discover too late the lethal result of our error.
Mr. Herring is a writer and broadcaster based in Omaha, Nebraska and welcomes visitors to his website, www.dailyherring.com.
Just who are the members of the Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) Party? How do their beliefs differ from those of normal Americans?
I write “D/s/c” as an umbrella acronym for the Democrat Party, which is largely devoured and directed by its socialist and communist-leaning members. It also encompasses various anarchist and fascist—fascists are leftists—branches such as BLM, Antifa and other charming social organizations, though they’re a bit more overt in their destructive designs. Their view of politicians is at once worshipful and cynical. They tend to see and speak of them in messianic terms as they did and do with Barack Obama. He’s “The One,” and “The Lightbringer.” Google “Obama halo” and you’ll find an endless supply of photos and other images of Obama wearing a halo. He's been depicted as a pseudo-Hindu god of death, and in saint-like iconography. One magazine interposed him over a cross in time for Easter, and he often used our troops as worshipful stage props. Even now, his followers proclaim him the most brilliant man ever to have lived, and he continues to brilliantly damage America.
Contrast this with Joe Biden who was, until recently, universally favorably depicted, but not blasphemously worshipped. He’s being cynically used, a rapidly spoiling meat puppet whose political usefulness is nearly expired, a tragic victim of elder abuse. Even so, if he can be drug into a fourth Obama term, his handlers will be delighted to keep propping him up. He can be controlled.
D/s/cs tend not to be overtly religious. Their political beliefs are their faith, and in true communist style, there can be no greater power than the Party, which is their secular faith. This largely explains their increasingly overt hostility toward, and persecution of, Christians. This too is projection. They see Christians as deadly threats, so believe Christians feel the same and will act on those feelings. Thus has the FBI been surveilling Catholics who appreciate the Latin Mass, branding them “Radical Traditional Catholics.” Thus were innumerable Christians arrested for trying to attend church during Covid lockdowns.
Essential to understanding them is knowing many of them think themselves morally, intellectually, and politically superior to normal Americans. They're the self-imagined elite. They really do denigrate the denizens of “Flyover Country”—their term--that vast, cultural wasteland between the enlightened coasts where Deplorables live their pathetic, uninformed, meaningless little lives.
Because they are superior beings, their political beliefs and policies are perfect--non-falsifiable. They cannot fail and no evidence can prove them wrong. When those policies inevitably fail, the failure is either ignored, indignantly denied, or blamed on their generosity in allowing their opponents to keep living to oppose those policies. Perhaps the policies haven’t been in force long enough for their wonders to manifest, they haven’t been imposed on Deplorables good and hard enough, or as always, not nearly enough money has been spent. Failure is impossible, but inadequate messaging may be reluctantly admitted. Doubling down on failure, and the more destructive the better, is their status quo.
They value ideological purity in voting and all else, and virtually always vote in lockstep. They are masters of warping language to their benefit and invent new narratives to suit their transitory political needs. Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) are related narrative systems that reflect their political methods of class/identity warfare where there are oppressors—white Americans—and the oppressed—everyone else. Individuals don't matter.
Joe Biden infamously observed “we believe in truth over facts.” Among their current truths is America was founded on slavery, is irredeemably racist, and is the source of all the world’s evils. All white people are white supremacists, and all political opponents are domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, and existential threats to “our democracy,” their intended tyranny of the majority.
Among their favored oppressed are criminals--the more violent and depraved the better--and their policies have turned our blue cities into third world war zones. Other oppressed are the millions of illegal aliens they’re importing. Non-D/s/c Americans have so disappointed them. They intend to abolish them and import their replacements. That many of them are criminals, terrorists, pedophiles, slavers and masses who can’t speak the language and have no skills with which to support themselves is a feature rather than a bug. They’re worried about the illegal avalanche, but not because of the damage it’s doing to America. They’re afraid of losing power, afraid, despite their best Trump Derangement Syndrome efforts, their election fraud protocols might not prevail.
Some of them still possess a conscience, a modicum of morality and decency. They know what they’re doing is wrong, but their politics appeal to the basest emotions and drives, among them, power, and power corrupts. Pursuing power, they’re becoming increasingly afraid of Donald Trump—of normal Americans—and desperate people do desperate things.
Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor and retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
THE LAWYER INFESTED DEMOCRAT PARTY OF BRIBES SUCKERS, TRAITORS, AND TAX EVADERS AND THE'RE ALL LAWYERS!
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS (WANTS TO BE OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE, AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY (GAMER LAWYER) TONY BLINKEN, AS WELL AS CON MAN (GAMER LAWYER) ADAM SHIFF) AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON.
BRIAN C JOONDEPH
Sen. Bob Menendez Accused of Accepting Bribes from Qatari Royal Family
Embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been slapped with additional allegations of accepting bribes from the Qatari royal family.
“The new allegations accuse Menendez, who has pleaded not guilty to all prior counts, of making positive comments about Qatar in exchange for items of value, including luxury wristwatches,” reported ABC NY.
The wristwatches allegedly offered to Menendez were valued between $10,000 and $24,000, according to the new indictment. Fred Daibes, the co-defendant, was quoted in the indictment as saying, “how about one of these?” to Menendez in a message alongside photos of the watches. The two men allegedly attended an event in New York hosted by the Qatari government. Per ABC NY:
Two days later, September 29, 2021, Daibes sent Menendez a message about a Senate resolution supportive of Qatar as the Qatari Investment Company considered a real estate investment with Daibes.
By March of 2022 the Qataris were offering Nadine Menendez tickets to the Formula One Grand Prix in Florida, prosecutors said, and by 2023 the Qatari Investment Company completed a joint venture with Daibes worth tens of millions of dollars.
The indictment further claims that Menendez “continued to receive things of value” from the Qataris.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife Nadine arrive for a court appearance at Manhattan Federal Court on September 27, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
As Breitbart News reported in October, several Democrats called on Bob Menendez to resign after being indicted, along with his wife Nadine Menendez, in New York in “connection with their alleged ‘corrupt relationship’ with a trio of businessmen and to ‘benefit’ the Egyptian government.” The indictment also alleged that the senator accepted “hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bribes in exchange for favors from the businessmen.”
“Under our legal system, Senator Menendez and the other defendants have not been found guilty and will have the ability to present evidence disputing these charges, and we must respect the process,” said Democrat New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy. “However, the alleged facts are so serious that they compromise the ability of Senator Menendez to effectively represent the people of our state. Therefore, I am calling for his immediate resignation.”
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