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I have been contacted by the police and numerous accounts inquiring about whether I’m involved and supportive of the “save the children” convoy.
I have not and do not support this initiative. It’s been handled in a very secretive and potentially dangerous manner, with many irresponsible and divisive people at the helm.
I also believe the timing is very distasteful considering the trials taking place in Ottawa.
11:05 AM · Oct 3, 2023
Glen Beck on the Emergency test today at 2:20 pm:
“Mark Dice called in and pranked Fox News on a live broadcast earlier tonight. Dice claims to be from Baltimore, and is calling to report on the Morgan State shooting.” Citizen Free Press – October 4, 2023
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1709441628497195469
I Broke Fox News! (Now I’m Banned for Life)
Mark Dice – 2 hours ago
“LIVE – TRUMP TRIAL DAY 3: Donald Trump in court for civil fraud trial in New York” Reuters – Started streaming 2 hours ago
President Trump @ 38:35…
RAIR has a thorough piece on the muslim who killed his neighbors and shot up a hospital in Rotterdam, the Netherlands:
https://rairfoundation.com/terror-cover-up-in-the-netherlands-medical-student-and-animal-abuser-fouad-l-who-was-known-to-police-shoots-neighbors-and-teacher-dead-leftist-government-pretends-attacker-is-a-far-right-nazi/
Victor Davis Hanson: Who’s The Real ‘Danger To Democracy’?
Tyler Durden’s Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, OCT 04, 2023 – 01:25 PM
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson,
Suddenly after three years, a number of angry former Trump appointees – some on the prompt of potential or real book promotions, or in anger about firings, or their own legal exposure – are replaying all the supposedly atrocious things Trump said in private to them between 2017-21.
If, in fact, they are accurate, then by all means they were certainly atrocious things to have said even in private – and should never have been spoken by a president.
But what is mysterious about their outrage are three other considerations that we hear nothing about from such now quite public critics:
1) Is there not a difference between atrocious bluster in private and public, methodical weaponization and destruction of our institutions?
Can such critics at least say they deplore the weaponization of the FBI (e.g., the contracting of old Twitter to suppress the news, the admitted lying under oath of its interim director Andrew McCabe, the convenient “amnesia” on 245 occasions of James Comey while under oath, and the bureau’s current fixation with parents at school board meetings, traditional Catholics and pro-life activists)?
Or the corruption of our intelligence officials who were knee-deep in the fraud of “51 former intelligence authorities” who willingly lied, on the prompt of the current secretary of state, about a laptop – deliberately so to influence a presidential debate and election?
Or the entire collusion hoax that was hatched by the Clinton campaign, with help from the FBI, DOJ, and CIA?
Or consider two of our top intelligence officials who lied admittedly under oath, such as Brennan and Clapper? Does not all that pose a danger to democracy?
Or the politicalization of the DOJ that was ready to exempt, save a brave dissenting judge, Hunter Biden and by extension the Biden clan from real legal jeopardy. Was it not wrong in 2020 for retired 4-stars officers to attack in venomous terms and publicly their commander-in-chief? If not so, why then is there a statute at all in the uniform code of military justice prohibiting just that?
2) As far as “dangers to the democracy”, cannot some at least cite the radical changes in voting laws done in key states in 2020 under the guise of Covid, or the infusion of $419 million by Mark Zuckerberg to appropriate the work of registrars and voting officials in key states?
Or the “cabal” and “conspiracy” to ensure the Biden 2020 victory as boasted about in stunning detail by liberal Time writer Molly Ball?
Who tried to cancel student loans without a vote of congress, or drained a great deal of the strategic petroleum reserve solely to boost approval before the midterms?
Or the 2016 leftwing effort to pressure the electors not to vote according to their constitutional responsibilities and instead throw the election to Clinton?
Can’t they at least cite the 120-days of looting, riot, arson, attacks on law enforcement, and deaths that were largely exempt from punishment—violence that included an attempt to storm the White House grounds to get at a president, and the torching of a police precinct, federal courthouse, and iconic DC church?
Or cannot they deplore the 2015-17 macabre threats to Trump’s person by celebrities (beheading, shooting, stabbing, incineration, blowing up, etc.)?
What actually had Trump done in his first moments in office when DC rioters went berserk during the inauguration and Madonna screamed about blowing up the White House? What had he done in his first few days that prompted ex-Pentagon lawyer Rosa Brooks to write in Foreign Policy (“3 Ways to Get Rid of President Trump Before 2020”) an outline of how to destroy his presidency before it started by either the 25th Amendment, impeachment—or a military coup (cf. also the later August 2020 pre-election letter of retired officers Nagl and Yingling, calling on Gen. Milley to intervene following the election with the 82nd Airborne to remove Trump from office).
What had he done in his first few months in office in earn 58 House members voting to impeach him?
3) Who injured the country and the lives of its people more, the 4-years of Donald Trump or the 2.5 years of Joe Biden?
Who engineered the exempt crossing of 8-million illegal entrants that will have repercussions for decades? Who has been largely silent about nearly 100,000 annual fentanyl deaths and the direct role of an open border in them?
Who engineered the disastrous and deadly flight from Kabul, timed for the narcissistic public stunt of a cheap 20th-anniversary triumph celebration of 9/11—according to The Washington Post?
Who called the accidental killing of 10 civilians during the Kabul mess a “righteous strike”, or phoned his PLA counterpart to warn about his own commander in chief, or unlawfully hijacked the chain of command?
Who spiked fuel prices, interest rates, and inflation that have caused untold misery to millions of Americans?
Who is silent about the destruction of the criminal code in our major cities that has helped unleash an unprecedented crime wave? That list of current catastrophes that go unnoticed could be expanded.
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So yes, if these recent accusations about crude and cruel Trump private conversations are true, then let us all deplore what Donald Trump said in private to his closest aides and appointees.
But let us also consider that those who voice these expressions of outrage seem to stay silent about the concrete damage to our institutions and country that was neither rhetorical nor spontaneous—but all too real and planned.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victor-davis-hanson-whos-real-danger-democracy
Our Nation’s Capital: CVS Drug Store Twenty Blocks from White House Has Bare Shelves From Child Shoplifting Mobs Who Routinely Loot Store Before and After School (Video)
A CVS drug store in Northwest Washington, D.C. located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood about twenty blocks north of the White House is being routinely looted by mobs of forty-five or more school children and others to the point that the store just has mostly bare shelves in aisle after aisle. Fox affiliate WTTG-TV reported that children steal and destroy merchandise before and after school, as well as late at night, while others steal items that apparently end up being sold by nearby street vendors as part of a crime ring that plans robberies around the store’s delivery times for products to steal.
The store is located at 3031 14th St. NW, near Irving St.
The WTTG news crew witnessed school children looting the store, but did not air any video of the thieves. The report does show the store to be largely empty of merchandise and customers. When asked what gets stolen the most, an employee reportedly laughed and said. “everything.” The store has one security guard on duty. Local residents interviewed for the report gave the typical liberal ‘it’s bad, but those poor people’ response that is killing Democrat-run cities.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/our-nations-capital-cvs-drug-store-twenty-blocks/
“This Is Election Interference!… Our Whole System Is Corrupt!” – President Trump UNLOADS on Crooked Marxist Dems Outside NYC Courtroom (VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft Oct. 4, 2023 1:20 pm366 Comments
President Donald Trump: Marlago is worth $18 million, and it’s worth one and a half billion dollars, or thereabouts. He said it was worth 18 billion. So they defrauded us because he called me a fraud.
He called me a fraud and he valued Mar Lago at 18,008,000,000. And you can’t do that. It’s worth probably 50 to 100 times more than that. And our corrupt attorney general, she’s totally corrupt. She just wanted the publicity to run for governor, and then she failed running for governor.
…She (Letitia James) went after Trump because she was running for governor. That’s the only reason. But she got the judge to value Mar a Lago for $18 million when the smallest house in Palm Beach is probably worth $50 million. And this is the biggest, the best anywhere in the country. There’s nothing like it.
So they put it down at 18 million, and they said I overvalued it because we had it valued at a much lower number than it’s worth. And by the way, my financial documents are valued much less than my actual value, which nobody even knows. But the financial documents that I gave to the bank are much less than my actual net worth. So therefore, I gave them to the bank. They can’t be abroad because I gave them lower numbers.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/this-is-election-interference-our-whole-system-is/
“Protecting Democracy” in Germany: ANTIFA poison ATTACK on AfD Head Tino Chrupalla, Alice Weidel in Hiding After Death Threats
by Richard Abelson Oct. 4, 2023 1:00 pm198 Comments
The Chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Tino Chrupalla was rushed to the hospital in the South German town of Ingolstadt after being attacked by Antifa radicals with a syringe containing an unknown substance. Co-Chair Alice Weidel is in hiding under police protection after credible threats of assassination.
AfD Chair Tino Chrupalla was rushed to the hospital this afternoon under police protection after a rally in Ingolstadt, home of the car maker Audi. Apparently he was attacked by Antifa radicals with a syringe and suffered an anaphylactic shock. Chrupalla allegedly pointed to two young men (photo) before he was taken to hospital in an ambulance. A syringe was found at the scene.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/protecting-democracy-germany-afd-head-alice-weidel-hiding/
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Hunter Biden Gun Pleadings Threaten to Derail Joe’s Entire Agenda
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“Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to three firearms charges during his arraignment in a federal court in Delaware on Tuesday, amid a high-profile legal battle that has pit the president’s son against his Justice Department as the 2024 presidential campaign gets underway,” NBC News reports.
“[H]is attorney, indicated he intends to file multiple motions to dismiss the case and call for an evidentiary hearing tied to that effort,” Delaware Online elaborates. “One of those motions will focus on an agreement prosecutors previously struck with Hunter Biden that would have seen the government not prosecute the gun charges in exchange for the president’s son agreeing to abstain from drug use for two years and never again owning a firearm.”
Biden’s consent to be a prohibited person is the subject of a complaint filed by this correspondent against the Department of Justice after it failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking to determine the department’s statutory authority for unelected employees of the executive branch to effectively create a new classification of “prohibited person” that has not been authorized by Congress.
That dovetails with parallel efforts to determine the same authority – or lack thereof—in legal cases challenging rulemaking diktats on bump stocks, forced reset triggers, pistol stabilizing braces, and so-called “ghost gun” frames and receivers.
“Hunter Biden’s attorneys have told the court the diversion agreement is still in place, which will be the basis of one of Hunter Biden’s motions to toss the case,” Delaware Online continues. “[A]nother basis will center on the constitutionality of the gun charges. The specific law that Hunter Biden is charged with violating is primarily used to prevent felons from possessing a firearm but also contains provisions prohibiting gun possession for other reasons.”
Add to this a recent legal threat by special counsel Jack Smith against Donald Trump when he contended that a person under indictment holding a gun is prosecutable as “possession.”
Cases like these, a successful (so far) pushback against muzzling gunmakers, advancements against magazine bans (resulting in unprecedented legal contortions by the Ninth Circuit), and the Rahimi case challenging restraining orders on due process grounds, and recent actions on “sensitive places” gun bans, reflect a new legal landscape following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bruen basing constitutional permissibility of gun laws on text, history, and tradition at the time the Constitution was written, debated and ratified.
The citizen disarmament house of cards — from the purpose behind Form 4473, the designation of “prohibited person,” and the entire rationale behind the “universal background checks” the Biden administration is making the centerpiece of its new Kamala Harris boondoggle (that should be called), the “Federal Office of Gun Violence Promotion,” along with bans on what you can own, where you can go, and what you can say — may be set to collapse, and “the Big Guy” may have a son who will do anything to save his own skin to thank for it.
It would also remove any further excuses ATF may throw out to try and avoid answering a resurrected FOIA request for documents on its Hunter Biden gun investigation, including identifying all the players involved.
Years ago, NRA’s Wayne LaPierre at his fawning and obsequious best, called Harry Reid “a true champion of the Second Amendment.” It would be satisfyingly ironic if that title ended up sarcastically falling on Hunter Biden by default.
https://www.ammoland.com/2023/10/hunter-biden-gun-pleadings-threaten-to-derail-joes-entire-agenda/#axzz8FDOv8jkm
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Chaos, Crime & Looting ~ the New Normal
Ammoland Inc. Posted on October 2, 2023 by John Farnam
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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident, which everybody has decided not to see.” ~ Ayn Rand
An organized, social-media-communicated, two-pronged attack on private businesses by “flash-mobs,” as well as organized caravans of looters, hit the City of Philadelphia last week for several nights.
There are injuries, and the damage is extensive!
Video of these “mostly peaceful” rioters shows men wearing black balaclavas, with hooded faces, and carrying signs proclaiming “Party for Socialism and Liberation.”
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Police made a few arrests but otherwise did little to control widespread lawlessness.
Liquor stores in Philadelphia are under mandatory closure.
It looks as if what we saw in 2020 may just have been a rehearsal for what’s coming in the approaching election season!
The radical left (Democrats), seeing their hold on power disintegrating as honorable, productive Americans grow weary of their “war on decency,” have decided that when they can’t hold onto political power, they’ll just burn down what is left.
They’ve done it before!
Political violence is thus the “new normal.” As we see, the radical left has no compunction about employing deadly violence against anyone who dares oppose them.
The rest of us are on our own, as we also see. Stay armed and very dangerous.
“Communism is perpetually ‘just one murder short’ of utopia” ~ Solzhenitsyn
https://www.ammoland.com/2023/10/chaos-crime-looting-the-new-normal/#axzz8FDOv8jkm
Veterans Take Over Tennessee Town
For those who wonder why the US hasn’t revolted yet read the following book
In Broad Daylight: A murder in Skidmore, Missouri Paperback – April 23, 2021
by Harry N MacLean (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Broad-Daylight-murder-Skidmore-Missouri/dp/1087800080
Look at the length of time the people took before they decided to defend themselves, note how efficient they were once they decided to act. This book along with the Liberty Doll video about the battle of Athens is a warning of what is coming it the left continues to ignore the will of the people.
Illegal Alien Invasion from Sea to Shining Sea!
By Robin M. Itzler
What do Massachusetts and Tennessee have in common? These two unique states each have a current population of 7 million people. Then there’s Arizona, which is slightly larger, with 7.3 million, while Ohio is just a bit smaller, with 6.8 million population.
Keep those state populations in mind every time you hear or read that, since January 2021, the Democrat Biden politburo has allowed seven-million-plus illegal aliens to enter the United States of America. This is a staggering number of people who have been allowed to illegally waltz into the United States, with more invading every day (and these are just the ones in the official count).
Americans of all political factions are angry that seven-million-plus illegal aliens have strolled into our country since Joey took office. Who knows how many more will be here before the year is over…in fact before you finish reading this column? They are eager to enjoy Marxist Democrat hospitality: free lodging, free medical, free food, free education, free iPhones, free…free…free. In some states, the welcome also includes driver’s licenses, voting privileges, and work permits.
How much are you as American citizens getting for free?
How much are our valiant veterans getting for free?
Are you getting anything free when utilities send rate increase notices? Does the supermarket give you anything for free when grocery shopping? Can you get a free gallon of gas at the service station?
Image: Illegal aliens flood America. YouTube screen grab.
Elected congressional officials and their staffs of all parties are supposed to represent the American people and our nation’s sovereignty. However, many seem more concerned about Ukraine’s borders, with only a few doing little more than paying lip service about the horrors taking place at America’s open southern border. From human trafficking to drug infestation, Republicans (from moderate to MAGA) should gather together at the Texas southern border and stand in solidarity with the heroic efforts of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who is doing his best to stop the invasion at the Rio Grande that borders Mexico.
Please do not tell me that the wall should have been completed during the Trump presidency. We would then have to discuss how two leadership RINOs (Republicans in Name Only)—Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell—did their best with fellow RINOs (also referred to as “Vichy Republicans”) to thwart the Trump agenda, which included building and repairing the border wall.
The Marxist Democrat Biden administration appears to have little to no concern about the invasion at our southern border. Its time and our money are spent indicting President Trump on ridiculous charges and arresting Patriots who peacefully walked into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, often through doors held open by U.S. Capitol Police. It seems our government doesn’t want to know anything about the seven-million-plus illegal aliens entering our country.
However, American Patriots want to know if these illegal aliens:
Were released from prisons and mental hospitals and instructed to go to the United States?
Were trained in sabotage ready to destroy our electric grid? Water supply? Food supply? Rail lines? Communications systems?
Are part of a drug cartel?
Are participating in human trafficking?
Are waiting for instructions to start armed protests as we’ve seen occur in other nations invaded by illegal aliens?
It would also be good to know how much the U.S. federal government spends to send (by plane, train, and bus) illegal aliens to cities (not Blue cities, obviously) throughout the United States.
To many Americans, the only thing the often-incoherent Joe Biden wants to know is where he can dump seven-million-plus illegal. The Biden administration’s goal is to spread the illegal alien invasion from sea to shining sea.
Maybe, just maybe, though, the tide is turning back to Patriotism.
Recently re-elected Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, who is black, announced he is switching to Republican. In his Wall Street Journal op-ed announcing the political party change Johnson wrote:
Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.
In other words, American cities need Republicans—and Republicans need American cities. When my political hero Theodore Roosevelt was born, only 20% of Americans lived in urban areas. By the time he was elected president, that share had doubled to 40%. Today, it stands at 80%. As America’s cities go, so goes America.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is black, recently exclaimed at a town hall meeting:
Let me tell you something New Yorkers, never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to—I don’t see an ending to this. This issue will destroy New York City.
Joe Biden doesn’t seem to care. Or perhaps, as many have observed, Biden doesn’t have the mental ability to care. Die Weltwoche, a popular weekly Swiss newspaper that has been published since 1933, recently interviewed Tucker Carlson, who said in an article entitled, “They’re All Afraid”:
…Joe Biden has dementia. He’s not capable of speaking a complete sentence much less running the largest organization in human history, which is the US government. The whole premise is ridiculous, and now they’re telling us? He’s 80 years old. He can barely speak. He can barely walk. And he’s going to run, again, for president of the United States while there’s a war going on? The whole thing is so demented that we’re moving to the point where they’re not trying to convince anybody. They’re just trying to suppress and arrest people who ask questions. They’ve arrested dozens of people, of political opponents, not for committing crimes, but for opposing them in the past month. Dozens in the past month.
Alarmed Americans are watching in horror as seven-million-plus illegal invade the United States of America from sea to shining sea, equaling either Massachusetts or Tennessee. Should Americans conclude that the Democrat Biden administration (with its two-tiered justice system) goal is to destroy America’s Judeo-Christian constitutional republic?
Today, call, write, or phone your representative and two senators and respectfully but firmly demand that Congress “close the damn border!”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/illegal_alien_invasion_from_sea_to_shining_sea.html
CatholicVote President: ‘We Are Losing Any Real Sense of What it Means to Be Free’
Brian Burch on Dan Proft’s ‘Counterculture’
By AG Staff
October 3, 2023
Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, said there is an “all out assault on the institutions that anchor freedom.”
“We are losing any real sense of what it means to be free, and to be free for the Catholic Church is not to simply pray, pay, and obey, as we’re often accused of,” Burch told host Dan Proft on the “Counterculture” podcast. “But to behave in a way that corresponds with our fundamental nature as human persons.”
“What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to to be happy? What does it mean to be free?” said Burch. “To to live in such a way that corresponds with our deepest longings.”
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He told Proft that there has been an “all out assault on the institutions that anchor freedom.”
Burch is the president and co-founder of CatholicVote, a national, faith-based advocacy organization headquartered in Madison, Wisc. He is the co-author of the America Catholic Daily Reader and the recipient of the “Cardinal O’Connor Defender of the Faith Award” from Legatus International.
A graduate of the University of Dallas, Burch is the founding director of the Illinois Catholic Prayer Breakfast, and resides in suburban Chicago with his wife, Sara, and nine children.
Proft launched “Counterculture” — American Greatness’ newest podcast — in September 2023. He also is the co-host of “Chicago’s Morning Answer” weekday mornings from 5 to 9 a.m. on AM 560 The Answer Chicago. A former Republican candidate for Illinois Governor, Proft attended Northwestern University and received his J.D. from Loyola University-Chicago.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/10/03/catholicvote-president-we-are-losing-any-real-sense-of-what-it-means-to-be-free/
This criminalizes over half the country:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-creates-maga-extremist-category-targets-trump-supporters-ahead-2024-election