The problem with trying to understand Democrats
As a former member of the Democrat party, I still stay in touch with many of its members who are my close friends. However, one thing that strikes me is that my friends are almost universally in denial of what the current administration has brought upon this once great nation in just two years of being in office.
The reality of a soaring crime rate in our nation's cities, runaway inflation that was once termed “transitory,” our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan -- which served as the catalyst for Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, all seem to elude them, as if it never happened. When presented with any hard evidence or facts, they are not only in denial, but typically push back with emotion minus facts as if they live in an alternate universe where they can pick and choose the “facts” that fit their own party's narrative.
Recently, in an online exchange with a nationally syndicated Democrat columnist, I was treated to this: “The FBI in recent years identified not Antifa, or anything on the left, as the major domestic threat to the United States. Rather, the FBI has now repeatedly identified right-wing extremists (militias, etc.) as the biggest threat. Indeed, a bigger terrorist threat than anything from outside our borders.”
I responded with a factual query: “How many deaths in the U.S. are a result of right-wing extremists versus how many deaths in the U.S. have occurred in the U.S. due to fentanyl poisoning (~ 100,000) which can mainly be attributed to our current open borders policy which has only emboldened the Mexican cartels through profits gained from human trafficking and the flood of illegal drugs across the border?” Not surprisingly, there was not a response.
As I recall from my college psychology classes, the condition termed "cognitive dissonance" is defined as: “The distressing mental state caused by inconsistency between a person’s beliefs and an action.” An example of cognitive dissonance would be a health-conscious smoker, this person knows that smoking is bad for them, but they still smoke because they enjoy it. Likewise, I suspect many of my friends from the other side of the aisle are in fact good people, but they are unable to deal with the reality of what the Biden administration has done to our nation in just two years and as a defense mechanism, they pretend all is well. As we saw earlier this week in Moscow, in talks between Putin and China's prime minister, Xi Jinping, where there was once American hegemony, China and Russia now are beginning to dominate the world stage as we dither with climate change and other inconsequential woke issues.
I truly wish my all my Democrat friends well, but they appear unable to cope with what is taking place in America no matter how harsh the reality. Let’s hope they can shake the spell of the cognitive dissonance that now burdens them.
Pretending that all is well in spite of the obvious dysfunction that currently surrounds them was employed by Nero who reputedly fiddled while Rome burned, and we all know how that ended.
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His incompetence (or conversely, his competence in carrying out a destructive agenda) has done more than just bring the country to the brink of a failed state after only half a term, though; it also has endangered Americans in many ways, and its legacy will continue to do so for generations. Indeed, bestselling author Nick Adams, in his new book from Post Hill Press, labels Joe Biden The Most Dangerous President in History.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden is the most dangerously radical President in US history
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PROFILE OF A SOCIOPATH GAMER LAWYER:
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 SKURK
On Biden’s border policy, for example: the Left likes to paint anyone concerned about the open floodgates of our southern border as racist and anti-immigration. In fact, conservatives simply think it’s sensible to have a system in place for the vetting of people who want to come here, and to have reasonable restrictions or guidelines about the flow of people we let in. There isn’t another country in the world that doesn’t do that. But Biden’s party isn’t satisfied with anything less than an unlimited number of potential Democrat voters streaming across the border – and drug cartels, human traffickers, and terrorists along with them.
Does the illegal invasion of millions of criminals over their open border protect kids, or does it put millions of them in harm's way? If leftists care about kids, why are they leaving that same border wide open to a steady stream of deadly fentanyl "imports"?
Industry Is a powerful ally against Biden’s power grab
From day one in the White House, the Biden administration has fumbled one issue after another. Whether it’s sending the American economy into a nosedive or bungling foreign policy crises with some of our greatest adversaries, Joe Biden and his cadre of agency cronies can’t get out of their own way, or that of the American people.
Pressure at the pump, supply chain issues keeping store shelves empty, and rising inflation thanks to this administration have hurt American consumers and businesses. Meanwhile, an America-last approach to foreign policy has left us vulnerable and weak in the eyes of adversaries like Russia and China.
Perhaps nobody has been hurt by this administration more than women, who a 2022 report says are the hardest hit by the cost-of-living crisis we’re experiencing. More generally, it’s women who have been most acutely impacted by Biden’s 40-year high inflation crisis. Then there was the baby formula shortage, which left mothers and families scrambling to find ways to feed their children.
But after two years of one-party rule in Washington where the Biden administration faced minimal opposition from the legislative branch on even some of its most radical positions, Republicans managed to retake the House in November. While short of their midterm expectations, a Republican-led House finally gives the GOP a legislative firewall to defend against Joe Biden.
Biden was already guilty of abusing his executive powers more than almost any president in American history, and that’s even before Republicans were able to secure a divided government. He mobilized his administration to aggressively implement his agenda, often on questionable legal grounds well beyond its authority.
Now, without the ability to act with impunity, we should anticipate government overreach and abuse of executive authority will only see an exponential increase.
Republicans in the House can provide much-needed reinforcement to those in the private sector who have been on the front lines attempting to halt Joe Biden’s power grab and mitigate his destructive policies during his first two years in office.
Outside groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others spent the past two years speaking out against Biden’s missteps on issues like China and his domestic energy agenda -- or lack thereof -- getting their hands dirty fighting back against his administration’s overreach.
These groups are the ones that held the line when Biden was otherwise running unchecked through Washington. The Chamber in particular has taken its efforts right to the source, pursuing legal action to rein in the ever-expanding grasp of groups like the CFPB, FTC, and SEC.
Over two years, Biden’s attempts to procure as much power as possible have caused enormous pain for America’s business community and consumers alike.
Perhaps most notable is the Biden administration’s negligent domestic energy policy. We’ve seen groups from the Chamber to the NFIB and Business Roundtable all take strong stances regarding the pain that high energy costs due to Biden’s energy policies are wreaking on American businesses. For two years, these groups have called out the devastation for both businesses and consumers, hopefully leading to a potential change of heart from the administration in areas of the domestic energy industry.
Not only does domestic energy production help our economy, it also strengthens our national security. That is particularly critical at a time when adversaries like China are pursuing every competitive advantage possible, whether it is stealing our intellectual property, devaluing its currency, or engaging in incomprehensible human rights abuses in a quest to become the world’s most dominant economy.
Yet again, it’s America’s business community leading the charge by calling on Biden to do more to combat China, and now groups like the Chamber are strong supporters and allies of the Republican-led House’s efforts to address these threats through means such as the Select Committee on China.
We know that Biden is more focused on consolidating power to push through unpopular policies than actually delivering for Americans. With outside groups pushing back alongside the Republican majority in the House, we are finally at a point where we can slow down the damage this administration is doing to mothers, families, and Americans of every background, gender, race, and economic status.
Ellen Walter is the Founder of the Walter Group, a grassroots campaign organization that focuses on female voters and influencers. Formerly, she served as a Senior Advisor to Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial campaign. Ellen has over 30 years of political experience working on campaigns, in three Congressional offices and in two different administrations at the White House.
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Democrats 'don't give a crap' about kids, gun violence, or civil rights
What makes anyone think the fascist far left cares about anything at all but the selfish pursuit of power over the people?
Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) recently talked to Salon magazine, complaining that Republicans "don't give a crap" about kids and gun violence. If you're feeling particularly masochistic, you can watch the entire interview on YouTube. We've done that so you don't have to, and have the headache to prove it. Twenty minutes of infuriating propaganda and outright lies will do that, especially when the fascists' invert reality, casting Senator Murphy as Batman and Senator Ted Cruz as the Joker. Yes, this bizarre assertion was made by the interviewer.
Getting back to the senator's falsehood about Republicans and kids, why can't the pro-freedom right assert the same thing about the anti-freedom far left? Given their track record, why do leftists get a free pass when it comes to their utterly failed policies in keeping kids safe?
It certainly wouldn't be a day that ends in "y" if the far left didn't lie. And he said the economy is on fire, definitely, one of those "you keep using that word" moments if there ever was one.
But what makes anyone think the fascist far left cares about anything at all but the selfish pursuit of power? Just because the gun-grabbing ghouls politicize death and claim they care?
Does the illegal invasion of millions of criminals over their open border protect kids, or does it put millions of them in harm's way? If leftists care about kids, why are they leaving that same border wide open to a steady stream of deadly fentanyl "imports"?
If they supposedly care about kids and their future, why are they trying to destroy freedom with what they are doing to the country? Why do they work every day to eviscerate individual liberty and our commonsense civil rights?
If they supposedly care about kids and their future, why is Bolshevik Biden trying to deplete our Strategic Petroleum Reserve and our ordinance stocks while insanely trying to provoke a conflict with China?
It's always been one of the far left's central falsehoods that leftists do everything "for the children." As you can see, just a few rhetorical questions destroy that assertion faster than kids being poisoned by fentanyl.
But since the senator loves to play the ghoulish game of exploiting dead children and other people's pain for his political gain, let's address whether leftists' policy of incremental gun confiscation and disarmament keeps anyone safe.
Does their policy of creating massacre zones where only the innocent are disarmed protect anyone?
We know we're never supposed to ask these questions because the gun-grabbing ghouls are interested only in the "common good" — Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutz in the original German — in every sense of the term. Yes, just like every other tyrannical minority, the National Socialist German Workers' Party was obsessed with gun confiscation.
Supposedly, the far left is interested only in trying to keep kids "safe." This is how leftists avoid having their policy agenda challenged by logic and reason.
But we're talking about critical questions of life and death — nothing to be taken lightly, and certainly nothing to be brushed aside over meaningless issues of virtue-signaling.
Does gun control ever work, or do leftists simply parrot the same excuses time after time to deflect from its incessant failure? It's the fault of the "surrounding areas," or we have to close the "loopholes." ("Loopholes" is the dog whistle term the fascist far-left has for freedom and commonsense civil rights.)
You have to wonder about policies that can never be questioned or examined by objective methods.
Parenthetically speaking, if there were a place in the country where gun control actually worked, don't you think that the ghouls would talk about it 24/7? Let's say, for the sake of argument, that gun control actually worked in Chicago, and it was the safest city in the nation. Don't you think that moms looking for action in Everytown and the Giffordses would be there every day, basking in their success? Don't you think the nation's socialist media would have news bureaus in downtown Chicago coming up with new reasons to talk about how everything is wonderful because of them?
Bolshevik Biden recently went out to the people's republic of California to push for gun control in a state ranked #1 by Everytown. That alone should be a red flag for everyone. Why would they need any more controls in a place that has every policy dreamed up by the gun-grabbing ghouls?
Leftists love to ask when the number of guns is going to start bringing the violent crime rate down.
The fact is that overall, the reported violent crime rate in the United States was coming down from a record high in the early '90s, while gun sales were increasing. Even recently, Bloomberg reported that "the Pandemic Murder Wave Has Crested," while NICS numbers for February 2023 were the "Fourth Highest for Gun Sales."
Having addressed that question, we'd like to know when the promised "safety" and "security" of gun control is going to come to fruition. When is their policy of incrementally disarming the innocent to the benefit of criminals and the government going to show results?
The people have been giving ground on their commonsense civil rights for several decades, and what do we have to show for it in terms of safety? All they've given us are meaningless platitudes and vague promises about reducing "gun violence" without any results.
This proves that they "don't give a crap" about kids, because if they did, they would drop their ridiculous disarmament agenda and see what actually works — having people defend themselves and defend children — instead of relying on silly signs and rules for massacre zones. They would acknowledge the vast difference between criminals and the innocent. And they would acknowledge that guns carried by good guys protect children and everyone else — including the people who oppose constitutional carry. Let's see if they can understand that basic logic.
D Parker is an engineer, inventor, wordsmith, and student of history, the director of communications for a civil rights organization, and a long-time contributor to conservative websites. Find him on Substack.
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The Most Dangerous President in American History
A new book highlights the ways Biden is putting us at risk.
by Mark Tapson
Prior to Joe Biden’s ascension to the White House in early 2021, it would have been difficult for many American patriots to believe that a worse president than Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama could sit in the Oval Office. Then Biden wasted no time proving those patriots wrong. From Day One he has been such an unmitigated disaster for the country that only 19% of Americans said in a poll last Sunday that they want Biden to run again in 2024. A July poll revealed that only 13% of Americans believe the country is on the right track. Apparently few believe that Biden is building back better, much less making America great again.
His incompetence (or conversely, his competence in carrying out a destructive agenda) has done more than just bring the country to the brink of a failed state after only half a term, though; it also has endangered Americans in many ways, and its legacy will continue to do so for generations. Indeed, bestselling author Nick Adams, in his new book from Post Hill Press, labels Joe Biden The Most Dangerous President in History.
Adams, 38, Australian-born but a naturalized American citizen and proud of it, is the author of several bestselling books such as Retaking America, Green Card Warrior, and Trump and Churchill: Defenders of Civilization. He is a tireless public speaker and social media influencer, as well as a frequent commentator in the news media such as at Fox News. In addition to having been appointed by President Trump as a scholar to the Smithsonian, Adams also runs a nationwide nonprofit called FLAG, the Foundation for Liberty and Greatness, whose mission is to educate Americans about the values and principles that make our country exceptional.
His new book, The Most Dangerous President in History, lays out some of the principal ways in which our Divider-in-Chief Biden is running the ship of state aground. In chapters on shutting down the economy instead of the coronavirus; on flooding our southern border with migrants and flooding cities across the U.S. with Afghan refugees; on demonizing concerned parents at school board meetings as domestic terror threats; on undermining our military; and on demonstrating weak leadership regarding China and Ukraine, Adams makes the case that Biden is creating crises that threaten our national security and put American lives at risk.
On Biden’s border policy, for example: the Left likes to paint anyone concerned about the open floodgates of our southern border as racist and anti-immigration. In fact, conservatives simply think it’s sensible to have a system in place for the vetting of people who want to come here, and to have reasonable restrictions or guidelines about the flow of people we let in. There isn’t another country in the world that doesn’t do that. But Biden’s party isn’t satisfied with anything less than an unlimited number of potential Democrat voters streaming across the border – and drug cartels, human traffickers, and terrorists along with them.
As Adams points out in his book, instead of policing our borders, the Department of Homeland Security is instead obsessed with a domestic terror threat that the Biden administration is greatly concerned about: parents expressing their outrage at school boards over the Critical Race Theory indoctrination and gender ideology sexualization of their children. The branding of these rightly-concerned citizens as violent terrorist threats is one of the most disgusting smears the Left has ever used against its political opponents.
But potentially the most serious threat Biden and his administration present is in its subversion of our military – through diversity/equity/inclusion wokeness, the mandating of COVID vaccines to weed out potential dissidents, and the leadership’s focus on climate change and “whiteness” as our greatest existential enemies. Adams addresses this in a chapter that details, among other things, the debacle of our withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Gen. Mark Milley’s treasonous warning to China during the Trump years.
The book concludes with a chapter about Biden being compromised on China and Ukraine, a national security threat that our complicit media don’t want to talk about, much less investigate. And then of course, there’s Joe’s embarrassment of a son, Hunter. The Biden family has no compunctions about selling America out to our enemies or dragging us into a nuclear war with Russia.
Adams notes that Biden is dangerous not only not only on his own, but also because of the people with whom he has surrounded himself in his administration, such as the Secretary of Transportation diversity hire Pete Buttigieg, the epically incompetent Vice President Kamala Harris, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who infamously declared before Congress that she couldn’t define the word “woman” because she isn’t a biologist. There doesn’t seem to be a single appointee in the administration that is there because of actual merit and qualifications.
The Most Dangerous President in History, like Nick Adams himself, is a bracing shot of patriotic common sense. If the book has a failing, it is that it does not include more of the ways in which the grouchy old radical Biden and his administration are putting this country at serious risk (admittedly, doing so would have made the book too unwieldy to lift for anyone but bodybuilders).
But to add one more reason to the mix – one Adams couldn’t have included because it arose just after the publication of his book – consider the recent, treasonous prisoner exchange of the billionaire Russian arms dealer Viktor “Merchant of Death” Bout for women’s basketball star Brittney Griner, who was serving a nine-year sentence in Moscow for drug possession. Besides the fact that the Biden administration left retired U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, unjustly-imprisoned in Russian custody since 2018, this shocking capitulation to Russian demands demonstrated to both our allies and our enemies that America under Biden is pathetically weak, and it exposes Americans to an increased threat of being kidnapped by foreign powers again.
Only the most ideologically deluded Democrat sincerely believes that Joe Biden is anything but a catastrophic failure, both domestically and abroad, as the Leader of the Free World. Nick Adams’ new book demonstrates this abundantly well, but also points the way optimistically forward to the presidential election of 2024 – if we are as committed to taking our country back as the Left is to fundamentally transforming it.
Mark Tapson
Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, focusing on popular culture. He is also the host of an original podcast on Frontpage, “The Right Take With Mark Tapson.
What’s really baffling is Hunter’s success with women. Despite being a total loser with a terrible drug habit and some weird sexual perversions, Hunter managed to seduce his brother’s widow, her sister, a stripper, and the woman he married, all over the course of four years. It’s enough to make one think that Hunter’s charm had less to do with the man himself and more with the benefits flowing from the Biden family cartel. ANDREA WIDBERG
ALL LAWYERS ARE LIARS. THAT'S REALLY ALL THEY DO!
Biden lied about his undergraduate degree and his majors, lied about his rank in law school, lied aboutscholarships and educational aid he had received, lied about his stance toward the Vietnam war while in college, lied about his plagiarism of other politician's writings and speeches, lied about the circumstances around his first wife's fatal accident, lied about how he met his second and current wife, and lied about the affair they were having when they were both married. MARK CHRISTIAN
Most recently and dramatically, Biden lied about his knowledge of his son's shady dealings, lied about his own involvement in corruption and bribery, and lied about his current presidential agenda and what he wants to implement in regards to energy, fracking, court-packing, health care, education, and COVID among other issues.
MARK CHRISTIAN
Nearly $120 Billion of Deposits Were Pulled From Small Banks as Silicon Valley Failed
Customers of small U.S. banks pulled a record $119.9 billion of deposits in the seven days ending March 15, data released by the Federal Reserve showed Friday.
The decline in deposits at small U.S. banks was the largest in records going back to 1973.
That figure is seasonally adjusted. On a not-seasonally adjusted basis, small banks lost $107.8 billion.
Much of those deposits went to large banks. These saw deposits rise by $66.7 billion on a seasonally adjusted basis and $119.8 billion before seasonal adjustment.
On the whole, deposits at commercial banks in the U.S. fell by a seasonally adjusted $98.4 billion, according to the Fed data. Not seasonally adjusted, the decline was $52.8 billion.
The data cover the seven days that ended on Wednesday, March 15.
Large banks are defined as the top 25 domestically chartered commercial banks, ranked by domestic assets. So Silicon Valley Bank, which was the 18th largest bank by assets, would be counted among the large banks that, as a group, gained deposits. In other words, the decline in deposits among small banks does not include deposits that were withdrawn from Silicon Valley Bank.
...... and the 'speech fee' bribes rolled in!
“Attorney General Eric Holder's tenure was a low point even within the disgraceful scandal-ridden Obama years.”
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Silicon Valley Bank Board Included Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Donors
Harvard Prof., Fmr. IMF Economist Rogoff: Fed, Treasury Support for Bailouts of Billionaire Depositors Will Incentivize Risk, Create Problems
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” Harvard University Economics Professor and former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund Ken Rogoff said that the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department have signaled that they’ll “protect depositors, even ones with billions of dollars they’ve bailed out with Silicon Valley Bank” and this will lead to bankers engaging in more risky behavior and “bigger problems in the future.”
Rogoff stated, “I feel like the Federal Reserve and the Treasury have kind of broadcast that they’re going to protect depositors, even ones with billions of dollars they’ve bailed out with Silicon Valley Bank. I think they’re going to continue that. That has a lot of problems, because bankers will do more risky things. It’s going to lead to bigger problems in the future. But they’ve really telegraphed that. The problem is, the other side of the coin is that everyone’s worried the banks will not be able to lend as much. The regulators are going to be looking harder. They’re going to have to raise deposit rates, and they’ll have [fewer] profits to lend out. So, for the moment, it looks like they’ve contained the panic. But, longer term, bankers do risky stuff, and they certainly aren’t reining that in. And the more they regulate it, the harder it’s going to be to get loans. So, there are certainly problems ahead.”
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Dem Rep. Sherman: FDIC Insurance Used to Backstop SVB Depositors Is ‘Not Free’ and ‘Cost Is Passed on to the Depositor’
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) stated that the FDIC insurance that was used to backstop depositors at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and that federal officials have said could be used in the future to backstop depositors “is not free” and “Ultimately, that cost is passed on to the depositor.”
Sherman said that he supports increasing the deposit insurance limit, and “If you’re using the bank as a utility, as a system to pay your bills, then you shouldn’t have to check to see whether that bank is strong or very strong, you should be able to use it as a utility. A million or even higher might be in order. Whereas, if you’re making a million-dollar investment, there’s some onus on you to determine that you’re investing in a sound bank.”
He continued, “The other thing is that FDIC insurance is not free. Ultimately, that cost is passed on to the depositor. If you’re putting — giving your money to the bank on an interest-free basis in a non-interest-bearing account, there’s no way for them to lower the interest rate any lower and so depositors don’t suffer. On the other hand, if you impose this cost on people buying certificates of deposit or other investment accounts, then the bank is going to pass through the cost of the insurance and there’s going to be a real detriment to depositors.”
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