Reader’s Links for April 6th, 2023

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  1. The bride was fat
    The groom a stick
    The air inside the church so thick
    They thought they’d suffocate quite quick
    But love was in that air.

    He, a digital young punk
    Who thought he had the world sewn up
    Said “I do” to the preacher’s junk
    For life was but a dare.

    She, a golden-skinned old bag
    So analog her skin did sag
    Said “I do” to the preacher’s rag
    Their match was made in heaven.

    “With that I wed ye both together
    Through stormy days and sunny weather
    Happy be you both together,”
    The preacher now was drunk.

    The church rejoiced
    The bells they rang
    The choir raised its voice and sang
    “Glory be to this new thang”
    And Keynes was now forgotten.

    “I never did a wedding,”
    Sobbed the preacher to his sleeve
    “And a funeral both all at once
    But now I’m so relieved.”

    58 min:

  2. CNN

    Israeli police stormed the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, one of Islam’s holiest sites, for the second time on Wednesday, hours after they first raided the compound and arrested hundreds of Palestinians despite condemnations from the Arab and Muslim world.

    The clashes, which took place as al-Aqsa sees worshipers offer prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and Jews celebrate Passover on Wednesday evening, sparked retaliatory rocket fire from militants in Gaza.

    During the first incident on Wednesday morning, footage shared on social media showed Israeli officers striking screaming people with batons inside the darkened building. Eyewitnesses told CNN that police had smashed doors and windows to enter the mosque and deployed stun grenades and rubber bullets once inside. Video shared by Israeli police show forces holding riot shields up as fireworks were launched back at them, ricocheting off the walls.

    Israeli police said in a statement that its forces entered al-Aqsa after “hundreds of rioters and mosque desecrators (had) barricaded themselves” inside. “When the police entered, stones were thrown at them, and fireworks were fired from inside the mosque by a large group of agitators,” according to the statement.

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/05/middleeast/israel-al-aqsa-mosque-clash-intl-hnk/index.html

  3. “Cognitive Self-Defense — Tools and Application with Dr Patrick Dubois” World Council for Health – April 5, 2023

  4. FEC Commissioner On Trump-Stormy Daniels Case: “Not A Campaign Finance Violation…Not A Reporting Violation Of Any Kind”
    By ProTrumpNews Staff Apr. 6, 2023 9:30 am0 Comments

    The case against Donald Trump is weak.

    FEC Commissioner James E. Trainor rejected the idea that there was a violation of federal election law in the Stormy Daniels case.

    He said District Attorney Alvin Bragg “is really trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole.”A key member of the Federal Election Commission today rejected the Manhattan district attorney’s indictment of former President Donald Trump as a violation of federal election laws.

    “It’s not a campaign finance violation. It’s not a reporting violation of any kind,” said FEC Commissioner James E. “Trey” Trainor.

    In trying to stretch the law to make it look like a violation, he added, District Attorney Alvin Bragg “is really trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole.”

    …“I don’t know how you get around the evidence that both the Department of Justice in their investigation of the federal campaign finance issues and the Federal Election Commission in their ultimate jurisdiction over campaign finance issues, neither of them found there to be any violations whatsoever, and I think the jury is going to see that and they’re going to have to rely upon the fact that both the law enforcement experts and the civil enforcement experts, as far as campaign finance are concerned, didn’t find any violation of the law here,” said Trainor.

    He pointed out that both the DOJ and FEC already considered the case and dropped it.

    The Federal Election Commission dropped its investigation into the case in 2021.

    Axios reported (05/06/21):

    The Federal Election Commission announced Thursday that it won’t proceed with a case examining whether former President Trump violated election law in 2016 a hush-money payment made through his then-lawyer Michael Cohen.

    The state of play: The election commission, split between three Republicans and three Democratic-aligned commissioners, dropped the proceeding in a closed-door meeting in February, per the New York Times.

    He explained the reasons the case was dropped in a letter he and FEC Commissioner Sean Cooksey wrote in 2021.

    The first reason was that Michael Cohen had already taken a plea deal.

    The next reasons were that the paperwork violation took place after 2016 which means it could not have been done to help with the 2016 election and that it isn’t obvious the payments were meant to influence the election.

    They also stated that the statute of limitations for the case was running out anyway.

    End the witch hunts!

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/fec-commissioner-on-trump-stormy-daniels-case-not-a-campaign-finance-violation-not-a-reporting-violation-of-any-kind/

    • EXCLUSIVE: Soros-Backed Manhattan DA Bragg’s Indictment Not Only Doesn’t Identify a Crime, It Also Is “Trumped-Up” Beyond Belief
      By Joe Hoft Apr. 6, 2023 9:00 am39 Comments
      TruthGettrGab

      Manhattan Soros-Backed and Obama and Biden connected DA Alvin Bragg’s charges against President Trump are bogus but they’re also “Trumped-up” beyond belief.

      If you want to live in peace, stay out of New York City. It’s turning quickly into a corrupt communist hellhole. This week’s arrest of President Trump proves this is the case.

      President Trump was arrested for allegedly making a payment to a porn star who was trying to extort money from him. He allegedly paid her for her silence. This type of agreement is perfectly legal. Non-disclosure agreements are put in place across the country every day in the USA.

      But the Democrats are looking for a way to get President Trump and they love the story that he paid off a porn star for her silence. They won’t let this go. Democrats are destroying our economy, our justice system, and our foreign policy. They were responsible for the deaths of 13 soldiers in Afghanistan during Biden’s surrender to the Taliban and for the deaths of 4 Trump supporters at the Capitol on Jan 6.

      But they want to disparage President Trump for an alleged payment to a porn star. These people are evil.

      The alleged incident happened long ago. There are many problems with this arrest and indictment. What is the crime is the biggest question? The Democrats can’t say. Bragg couldn’t say it in his press conference.

      Another outrageous lie in the corrupt DA’s indictment is that President Trump committed multiple felonies in his actions. This is a lie and also cannot be explained.

      But the overall case also is super “Trumped-up”. The incident in question revolves around payment years ago long past the statute of limitations. But the corrupt DA makes 34 felonies out of the case. Bragg shows his stupidity in doing so and his lack of the law as well as his lack of understanding of how the accounting function works in a company.

      Unbelievably dumb Bragg charges President Trump for 23 actions made in the accounting department(s) of the President’s multibillion-dollar organization. But then stupidly, Bragg lists 11 actions that were not even made by President Trump or his organization at all.

      Bragg made up and charged President Trump with 11 felonies based on actions performed by someone outside his organization.

      Bragg charges President Trump for his organization receiving invoices from outside the company. These invoices were prepared by someone else and sent to the organization. The Trump organization has no control over documents that vendors send to the organization – no company does.

      Bragg’s charges aren’t based on the law or common sense.

      This is explained in the piece below:

      God save this country and protect us all from criminals and corrupt actors in this tyrannical government until they can be weeded out and brought to justice for their real crimes with reasonable charges.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/exclusive-soros-backed-manhattan-da-braggs-charges-not-only-dont-identify-a-crime-theyre-also-trumped-up-beyond-belief/

    • Jim Jordan Subpoenas Former Manhattan DA Prosecutor and Hillary Clinton Lawyer Mark Pomerantz for Deposition
      By Cristina Laila Apr. 6, 2023 11:45 am191 Comments

      House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan subpoenaed former Manhattan DA prosecutor and Hillary Clinton lawyer, Mark Pomerantz for a deposition.

      Mark Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor on the Manhattan DA’s team investigating Trump resigned in protest after District Attorney Alvin Bragg ended the investigation.

      He then went on to write a book on the topic.

      In the book, he claims the investigation “developed evidence convincing us that Donald Trump had committed serious crimes.”

      60 minutes recently brought on Mark Pomerantz to promote his new book.

      Trump slammed Mark Pomerantz in a series of Truth Social posts.

      “The 60 Minutes “hit job” doesn’t say that the Financial Statements have a powerful & complete “Disclaimer Clause,” that the properties & assets are generally worth far more today than they were in the financial statement, that the most valuable asset is not even listed in the statement, that lawyer Mark Pomerantz & his law firm were Clinton’s lawyers who then went to work for the D.A. to “get Trump,” that Pomerantz & his antics make it impossible for me to be treated fairly, & NOBODY WAS HURT!” – Trump said in February.

      Chairman Jordan subpoenaed Mark Pomerantz to compel testimony pertaining to his role as a special assistant district attorney leading the investigation into Trump’s so-called ‘hush payments’ to Stormy Daniels last year.

      “Based on your unique role as a special assistant district attorney leading the investigation into President Trump’s finances, you are uniquely situated to provide information that is relevant and necessary to inform the Committee’s oversight and potential legislative reforms. Although the New York County District Attorney’s Office has directed you not to cooperate with our oversight, you have already discussed many of the topics relevant to our oversight in a book you wrote and published in February 2023, as well as in several public interviews to promote your book.” Jordan wrote.

      As a result, you have no basis to decline to testify about matters before the Committee that you have already discussed in your book and/or on a prime-time television program with an audience in the millions, including on the basis of any purported duty of confidentiality or privilege interest,” Jordan said.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/jim-jordan-subpoenas-former-manhattan-da-prosecutor-and-hillary-clinton-lawyer-mark-pomerantz-for-deposition/

      • SHOWDOWN: Alvin Bragg Slams Jim Jordan Over Subpoena For Ex-Prosecutor and Hillary Clinton Lawyer Mark Pomerantz
        By Cristina Laila Apr. 6, 2023 4:15 pm58 Comments

        Alvin Bragg should be held in contempt of Congress.

        House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan subpoenaed former Manhattan DA prosecutor and Hillary Clinton lawyer, Mark Pomerantz for a deposition.

        Mark Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor on the Manhattan DA’s team investigating Trump resigned in protest after District Attorney Alvin Bragg ended the investigation.

        He then went on to write a book on the topic

        In the book, he claims the investigation “developed evidence convincing us that Donald Trump had committed serious crimes.”

        60 minutes recently brought on Mark Pomerantz to promote his new book to the masses.

        Jim Jordan summoned Mark Pomerantz for a closed-door deposition on April 20, according to the subpoena reviewed by this reporter.

        https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/showdown-alvin-bragg-slams-jim-jordan-over-subpoena-for-ex-prosecutor-and-hillary-clinton-lawyer-mark-pomerantz/

    • Jim Jordan Subpoenas Former Manhattan DA Prosecutor and Hillary Clinton Lawyer Mark Pomerantz for Deposition
      By Cristina Laila Apr. 6, 2023 11:45 am243 Comments

      House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan subpoenaed former Manhattan DA prosecutor and Hillary Clinton lawyer, Mark Pomerantz for a deposition.

      Mark Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor on the Manhattan DA’s team investigating Trump resigned in protest after District Attorney Alvin Bragg ended the investigation.

      He then went on to write a book on the topic.

      In the book, he claims the investigation “developed evidence convincing us that Donald Trump had committed serious crimes.”

      60 minutes recently brought on Mark Pomerantz to promote his new book.

      Trump slammed Mark Pomerantz in a series of Truth Social posts.

      “The 60 Minutes “hit job” doesn’t say that the Financial Statements have a powerful & complete “Disclaimer Clause,” that the properties & assets are generally worth far more today than they were in the financial statement, that the most valuable asset is not even listed in the statement, that lawyer Mark Pomerantz & his law firm were Clinton’s lawyers who then went to work for the D.A. to “get Trump,” that Pomerantz & his antics make it impossible for me to be treated fairly, & NOBODY WAS HURT!” – Trump said in February.

      Chairman Jordan subpoenaed Mark Pomerantz to compel testimony pertaining to his role as a special assistant district attorney leading the investigation into Trump’s so-called ‘hush payments’ to Stormy Daniels last year.

      “Based on your unique role as a special assistant district attorney leading the investigation into President Trump’s finances, you are uniquely situated to provide information that is relevant and necessary to inform the Committee’s oversight and potential legislative reforms. Although the New York County District Attorney’s Office has directed you not to cooperate with our oversight, you have already discussed many of the topics relevant to our oversight in a book you wrote and published in February 2023, as well as in several public interviews to promote your book.” Jordan wrote.

      “As a result, you have no basis to decline to testify about matters before the Committee that you have already discussed in your book and/or on a prime-time television program with an audience in the millions, including on the basis of any purported duty of confidentiality or privilege interest,” Jordan said.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/jim-jordan-subpoenas-former-manhattan-da-prosecutor-and-hillary-clinton-lawyer-mark-pomerantz-for-deposition/

      (Richard: I need to remind people that if Bragg ignores the Subpoena Jim Jordan will have to ask the DOJ to enforce it. Biden’s people run the DOJ. )

    • Unbelievable! National Security Council Releases Report on Biden’s Deadly Afghanistan Withdrawal – BLAMES TRUMP! – 13 Dead Americans Unavailable for Comment
      By Jim Hoft Apr. 6, 2023 2:05 pm146 Comments

      The Biden National Security Council (NSC) released a shocking report on Holy Thursday blaming President Trump for the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

      So now we know the NSC is completely

      It’s like Satan writes their scripts.

      So Trump is responsible for these 13 dead Americans?

      Trump left $85 Billion in military equipment for the Taliban?

      Is this really happening?
      Do they really think Americans will believe this?

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/unbelievable-national-security-council-report-on-bidens-deadly-afghanistan-withdrawal-blames-trump-13-dead-americans-unavailable-for-comment/

    • The Far-left Democrats and Progressives Tried to Destroy Donald Trump…[Tuesday]. They failed.” – Larry Kudlow on the Soros-backed Bragg Indictment
      By Joe Hoft Apr. 6, 2023 11:10 am142 Comments

      FOX Business host Larry Kudlow said on Wednesday that former President Trump is standing tall amid his indictment on ‘Kudlow.’

      The entire indictment was all about politics says Larry Kudlow.

      FOX Business shares the following on Larry Kudlow and his show:

      Kudlow covers the latest headlines and business trends, with an emphasis on the financial impact facing households and businesses across the country. On his show, he has interviewed key newsmakers such as former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, former U.S. trade adviser Robert Lighthizer among others. Most recently, Kudlow contributed to FBN’s 2022 Midterm Election panel alongside Maria Bartiromo, Charles Payne and Stuart Varney.

      Prior to joining FOX Business, Kudlow served as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council under President Trump. He has also been a senior contributor on CNBC, where he hosted a post-market analysis show The Kudlow Report. Previously, he served as chief economist and senior managing director of Bear Sterns. From 1981 to 1985 Kudlow was an associate director for economics and planning at the Office of Management and Budget during the Reagan administration.

      On Wednesday morning Kudlow shared:

      The far-left Democrats and progressives tried to destroy Donald Trump yesterday. They failed. They did put America through the wringer, embarrassing us in front of the rest of the world, and yes, it’s the first time a former President has been indicted, a very unhappy episode.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/the-far-left-democrats-and-progressives-tried-to-destroy-donald-trump-tuesday-they-failed-larry-kudlow-on-the-soros-backed-bragg-indictment/

    • Oversight Chairman James Comer Reveals At Least Two County Officials Have Discussed Indictments Against Biden Crime Family Following Alvin Bragg’s Junk Indictment of Trump
      By Jim Hoft Apr. 6, 2023 4:55 pm6 Comments

      Oversight Chairman James Comer says at least two county officials in red states have called his office to discuss indicting the Biden Crime family.

      Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told FOX and Friends, “If filing false business documents is as serious as the media and the prosecutors are claiming over the last 24 hours then they better have a seat and about a pallet of Kentucky bourbon when they see what all the Biden family has done over the past decade. Every day we find another LLC affiated to the Bidens that they were using to launder money from our adversaries around the world.”

      Comer went on to say at least two county attorneys have called to discuss indicting Joe Biden and the Biden crime family.

      Chairman Comer: I had two calls yesterday, one from a county attorney in Kentucky and one from a county attorney in Tennessee. They were Republican obviously… They want to know if there are ways they can go after the Bidens now.”

      Breitbart.com reported:

      The Trump indictment has encouraged local attorneys to find ways to use their prosecutorial power to investigate the Biden family business for wrongdoing, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said Wednesday.

      “I had two calls yesterday, one from a county attorney in Kentucky and one from a county attorney in Tennessee,” Comer told Fox News. “They were Republican, obviously, both states are heavily Republican. They want to know if there are ways they can go after the Bidens now.”

      Comer explained that far-left Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s charges against former President Donald Trump, which many legal experts consider weak, have “opened a can of worms” and set a precedent on how political opponents are treated.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/oversight-chairman-james-comer-reveals-at-least-two-county-officials-have-discussed-indictments-against-biden-crime-family-following-alvin-braggs-junk-indictment-of-trump/

  5. Full of S**T!” Deranged Democrat Lawmaker Throws Tantrum After Kansas State Legislature Votes to Bar “Transgender” Individuals from Girl’s Sports – Democrat Governor Heartbroken
    By Cullen Linebarger Apr. 6, 2023 9:45 am0 Comments

    Nothing seems to trigger the left more than conservative victories, particularly on culture war issues.

    On Tuesday, the Kansas State Legislature voted to override liberal Democrat Governor Laura Kelly’s March veto of a commonsense bill to protect girls’ sports.

    As reported by the Kansas Reflector, The final vote was 84-40 vote in the House and 28-12 vote in the Senate. Both chambers narrowly met the two-thirds threshold for a veto override.

    HB 2238, the legislation in question, specifically bars biological males from taking part in female sports.

    Athletic teams or sports designated for females, women or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex.

    The bill covers students from kindergarten through college.

    After the House voted to protect girls, the Reflector revealed that one far-left Democrat lawmaker threw a hissy fit and cursed out her colleagues. Rep. Susan Ruiz stood up on the House floor and called Republicans “full of s**t” for approving the legislation.

    She claimed her tantrum was caused by Republicans laughing after passing the bill. She was particularly peeved at GOP Rep. Patrick Penn.

    He came in gloating, and it’s wrong. This is all about wins and losses for them. This is a win for them.

    They don’t care what kind of a win it is. They don’t care about the unintended consequences. They don’t care that trans kids have a target on their back.

    Ruiz was not the only Democrat to embarrass herself on the House floor. Rep. Heather Meyer decided that wearing a “protect trans youth” T-shirt was appropriate House attire.

    LOOK:

    Governor Kelly said she was heartbroken over men no longer having the opportunity to steal female glory in Kansas.

    It sort of breaks my heart. It certainly is disappointing.

    I know that there’s some legislators for whom this was a very, very hard vote, and one that I think they will regret as they look back on their time in the Legislature.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/full-of-st-deranged-democrat-lawmaker-throws-tantrum-after-kansas-state-legislature-votes-to-bar-transgender-individuals-from-girls-sports-democrat-governor-heartbroken/

  6. BOYCOTT BEGINS: Liquor Store Pulling Bud Light From Shelves After Trans Endorsement
    By ProTrumpNews Staff Apr. 6, 2023 12:15 pm0 Comments

    Bud Light went woke and partnered with trans-TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney.

    They sent out packs of Bud Light featuring Mulvaney’s face to celebrate Mulvaney’s “365 Days of Girlhood.”

    They also had a promotional video of Mulvaney drinking beer in a bathtub as part of the campaign.

    Fox News reported:

    Trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney was announced as the latest spokesperson for Bud Light in a pair of videos that were attacked on social media.

    The trans activist revealed on Saturday that the beer company sent packs of Bud Light featuring the influencer’s face as a way to celebrate the “365 Days of Girlhood” milestone Mulvaney recently reached.

    “Happy March Madness!! Just found out this had to do with sports and not just saying it’s a crazy month! In celebration of this sports thing @budlight is giving you the chance to win $15,000! Share a video with #EasyCarryContest for a chance to win!! Good luck! #budlightpartner,” Mulvaney wrote on Instagram.

    Another video featured Mulvaney in a bathtub drinking a Bud Light beer as part of the campaign.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/boycott-begins-liquor-store-pulling-bud-light-from-shelves-after-trans-endorsement/

  7. Please, permit a personal anecdote that is, in my never-humble-opinion, is a reflection on our greater society today…

    OK, the day started as a very mundane, boring day when I had to take my son for some medical tests. Get a ticket to enter the parking lot and bring it with you so you can pay for parking using the machine in the lobby as you leave. Nothing exciting.

    What did strike me as a bit strange was that there was a line up of cars – about 6-8 of them, to try to leave the parking lot. That is unusual, but, I guessed a rush of some sort must have happened, nothing to get excited about.

    After waiting in a long line for a bit over 10 minutes with not one person having been processed by the reception, we thought perhaps we ought to go to a different test-administering spot. In the lobby, I paid for my parking and we headed out. We got in the car and joined the line to exit the parking lot, which, by now, was about 15+ cars long.

    And we waited.

    And waited.

    And waited…

    The line was simply not moving. Something was wrong with the exit gate – the arm letting people out was simply stuck in the down position. Everyone seemed upset, but, nobody was doing anything about it, except pushing the button to talk to the parking management folks, which accomplished exactly nothing.

    So, after an eternity, I realized that if we were ever going to get out of this parking lot and get the medical tests done, I had to take matters into my own hands. I got out of the car, walked down along the line up of waiting vehicles, got to the parking gate and started to manually push it into an upright position.

    ‘Don’t do that – you might snap it!’ said a young man who was hovering about the gate, but clearly did not dare to take action.

    ‘So, I’ll snap it!’ I shot back and continued to wrestle the arm into an upright position. With that, the young man joined me and with our combined muscle power, we were able to wrestle the arm up, into an upright position, so cars could start leaving: which they did, to great cheers!

    The young man stayed to hold the arm up, and I returned to my car to leave – but not before getting great praise shouted at me from all of the previously imprisoned motorists.

    Everybody wanted to leave.

    Everybody knew there was a problem with the exit gate arm.

    Some, like the nice young man, wanted to do something about it – but, nobody dared to actually do anything.

    They were all happy when somebody freed them, but, no matter how unhappy, how unjustly imprisoned they were by a malfunction that no official would correct, they simply would not take any action whatsoever to change their condition.

    Perhaps I am reading into things, but, I see a lot of parallels in this incident to our life in The West today…

    • I often think of all the doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, police, firefighters people who were called heroes at the beginning of the plandemic (Event-201) and how the heroes became anti-Vaxers, racists, superspreaders, labeled by Justine and the mailin guy.

      How the media transitioned sheep to collaborators. I don’t trust must people in my life today. We are living in 1933.

  8. US Supreme Court Rules Transgender Students (Bio Males) Can Compete Against Female Athletes
    By Cristina Laila Apr. 6, 2023 2:34 pm

    The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that transgender students (biological males) can compete against female sports teams.

    The high court rejected an emergency request from West Virginia to lift an appeals court’s injunction.

    The transgender athlete will be able to compete against females until the appeals court makes a decision.

    Justices Alito and Thomas dissented.

    NBC News reported:

    The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an attempt by West Virginia to prevent a transgender student from participating in girls’ sports.

    As a result, a law enacted in 2021 called the Save Women’s Sports Act cannot be enforced against 12-year-old transgender girl Becky Pepper-Jackson while litigation continues.

    Two of the court’s conservative justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, noted that they would have granted the application. Alito in a brief opinion faulted a lower court for failing to explain its reasoning.

    “This is a procedural setback, but we remain confident that when this case is ultimately determined on the merits, we will prevail,” West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, a Republican, said in a statement.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/us-supreme-court-rules-transgender-students-bio-males-can-compete-against-female-athletes/

  9. GREAT AMERICA
    Our French Revolution
    America now has three potential futures and two are bad.

    By Victor Davis Hanson

    April 5, 2023
    We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary.

    The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.

    It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support.

    The American people want affordable power and fuel and energy autonomy. They do not want a Green New Deal that results in dependence on the Middle East.

    They want fiscal sobriety, not a permanent stagflationary economy marked by bank failures, soaring interest rates, crony capitalism, and subsidies for those who choose not to work.

    They know no country can exist without a border, much less while offering blank checks to foreign cartels that kill 100,000 Americans yearly.

    They demand realist deterrence abroad, not the current woke military whose erosion is spelling the end American credibility and global stability.

    Racialists are eerily embracing discredited Neo-Confederate notions of racial chauvinism, discrimination, segregation, and the old-one-drop rule of racial obsession. They are turning America toward a Balkanized war-of-all-against-all.

    To implement such an unpopular program, the new Left must radically alter our institutions.

    So the “Democrats” periodically threaten to pack the courts, end the filibuster, destroy the Electoral College, and override the states’ prerogatives to establish balloting laws.

    They deny the committee assignments of the House minority leader. They engage in stunts like tearing up the State of the Union address on national television. With impunity they mob the homes of Supreme Court justices to leverage their decisions.

    This revolution is run by elites and is a top-down operation.

    University deans all but prompt students to disrupt invited campus speakers. District attorneys release violent arrested criminals without bail. Woke generals call their Chinese counterparts to warn them against their own commander-in-chief.

    The Pentagon lectures the country on its supposed innate racism—even as the United States continues to lose wars abroad, abandons billions of dollars of equipment to terrorists, and allows communist China to surveille domestic American military bases with complete impunity.

    Words change their meanings. “Racist” now means “don’t dare object.” “White” became the pejorative stereotype used by racists. “Diversity” means tired orthodoxy. “Equity” is a synonym for bias. “Inclusion” ensures exclusion.

    Institutions are no longer recognizable. The FBI as we knew it no longer exists. Three former FBI directors either lied under oath to federal investigators, or pleaded amnesia in congressional testimonies.

    Our highest former national intelligence officers lied under oath to the Senate. The IRS is weaponized against political opponents of the Democrats. The Department of Justice is more likely to send the FBI after grammar school parents than mobs threatening the homes of Supreme Court justices.

    Still, to thoroughly erase America, our Jacobins must radically alter our customs and traditions.

    So under the cover of the COVID quarantines, Election Day was made irrelevant. In the new America, 70 percent did not vote on the designated day but, fueled by third-party vote harvesting and relaxation of audits of non-Election-Day ballots, extended the vote over a period of several weeks.

    Like the Jacobins, names and dates had to be radically transformed. 1619, not 1776, is now America’s birthdate and, we are told, it was an ignominious one.

    Statues are toppled, careers Trotskyized.

    Biological males suddenly have hijacked women’s sports—destroying five decades of women’s hard-won efforts to achieve equal treatment and respect in athletics.

    What triggered the collective madness and this Jacobin takeover?

    The Left’s perfect storm of the 120 days of riot, death, arson and looting of 2020? The COVID pandemic? The disastrous two-year lockdown? The 2016 election of the outsider Donald Trump?

    All those catalysts and more.

    As the country collapses under leftist nihilism, the revolution’s last gasp is to destroy Donald Trump—by empowering him. That is, the leftist legal vendetta is designed to win him just enough empathy to be nominated the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, but then to keep on indicting, gagging, and hemorrhaging him legally until Election Day 2024.

    Trump was the first president to be impeached twice, to be tried by the Senate as a private citizen, and to have his private home raided by the FBI. Now he is the first president to have been indicted, effectively ending America’s moral authority abroad.

    America now has three potential futures and two are bad.

    First, the Jacobins have two more years to finish what they started as the founders’ dream descends into our worst nightmare.

    Second, the revolution has so warped our legal system, our voting on Election Day, and the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department, and the IRS, that even a despised, unpopular Left will “win” elections.

    The third is that New York prosecutor Alan Bragg has jumped the shark.

    His pathetic prosecution is so patently incoherent, illiberal, and in spirit anti-American, that two-thirds of the country will soon conclude the center is not holding. The Jacobins’ reign of terror is unsustainable. And so in 2024 the Left will not be defeated, but so defeated so that it is utterly discredited.

    The choice is ours.

    https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/05/our-french-revolution/

    (Richard: He is right and wrong the choice is ours but only if we turn out in large enough numbers no one will believe the steal that is planned. But this can’t be the only thing we do, we have to find prosecutors who are brave enough to go after the criminals on the left. But only the ones we have evidence against. We can’t resort to the random arrest and frame that the left ingages in. We have to stay within the law, this doesn’t mean we can’t fight just that our hands are semi tied.)

  10. BREAKING: First of Three Tennessee Democrats Expelled From Legislature! – Democrats Meltdown – Voting Continues (VIDEO)
    By Cullen Linebarger Apr.

    The Tennessee State Legislature voted on Thursday to expel the first of three Democrat lawmakers for participating in an insurrection last week.

    Rep Justin Jones was kicked out of the State legislature by a 72-24 vote for helping lead an insurrection inside the Tennessee State Capitol.

    This marked the first time the state’s history that a partisan expulsion happened.

    Before the vote, the Tennessee House played a video showing the three Democrats participating in the insurrection.

    The three Tennessee Democrat lawmakers who participated were House Representatives Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin Pearson.

    Rep. Jones invoked the race card while pleading his case before the vote to expel him, calling the process “a lynch mob.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/breaking-first-of-three-tennessee-democrats-expelled-from-legislature-democrats-meltdown-voting-continues-video/