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  4. Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) argued that based on whistleblower testimony, now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle lied when she denied her agency withheld resources for former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, before an assassination attempt last month.

    The Missouri Republican suggested a cover-up in the works regarding the matter.

    “So what are these whistleblowers continuing to tell you, Senator?” FNC host Jesse Watters asked.

    “Well, Jesse, what new whistleblowers tell me is that the leadership of the Secret Service told the agents who were advancing the Butler rally not to request additional manpower,” Hawley replied. “They said the same thing to the campaign. So, this directly contradicts, by the way, what the Secret Service Director told Congress. He said, oh, we never denied a manpower request. But what the whistleblowers say, Jesse is they told them ahead of time, don’t request more resources, don’t request counter-snipers, because if you do, we will deny it. Jesse, this is a lie. What the director told Congress is a lie. We need to know why are these guys lying to us and what are they hiding?”

    “You know, government and how it works,” Watters said. “Why would they say ahead of time, don’t request this because we’re not going to give it to you? Because they didn’t want a paper trail.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/08/28/this-was-an-attempt-to-hold-down-the-resources-hawley-says-secret-service-director-lied-to-congress/

  5. Fifth Circuit Affirms Illegal Aliens Do Not Have Second Amendment Rights

    https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/08/28/fifth-circuit-affirms-illegal-aliens-do-not-have-second-amendment-rights/

    Shower thought: Illegal aliens cannot undergo a background check, because they are, well, illegal. If on side argues that they ought to have 2nd amendment rights without a backgr. check, why does that same side claim that citizens need one, or that they should not have guns at all?

    • The decision is the right one if you want to keep the background check, if you want to go full 2A it is the wrong one. We all know they have access to every type of weapon they want any time they want.

  7. Violent knife and sex offenders can increasingly escape prosecution if they show contrition and say sorry, a report Wednesday claims.

    According to the Daily Telegraph, more than 147,000 people accused of offences including sex crimes, violence and weapons possession across the UK were given community resolutions in the year to March instead of being prosecuted.

    Such resolutions do not result in a criminal record. The outlet set out the terms applied to each case of forgiveness against a background of jail overcrowding:

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/08/28/police-let-violent-knife-and-sex-offenders-off-if-they-say-sorry/

  12. UPDATE: Tucker Carlson Responds After Kamala Harris Posts Letter Allegedly from ‘Tucker’ Promoting Gun Control
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/kamala-harris-posts-letter-tucker-promoting-gun-control/
    Aug. 28, 2024 8:30 am

    This new breed of Commie Democrats are truly pathetic. They have absolutely no respect for the American public.

    Kamala Harris posted a letter from “Tucker” Tuesday night on her Twitter page promoting gun control.

    The tweet made people think it was from Tucker Carlson.

    Here is the text:

    Vice President Harris,

    One of my absolute favorite things in America is how people of different backgrounds and beliefs have the freedom to communicate with each other. We are so blessed to live in a country where the greatest currency is the free-flowing exchange of ideas. In America, we are blessed with the ability to come together on common ground.

    In the spirit fo establishing common ground, even though I am fairly conservative and we may have our disagreements, I am writing to express my gratitude for yours and President Biden’s efforts to establish common sense gun safety laws. Owning firearms is every American’s Constitutional right. Like all things, there needs to be reasonable regulation like age restrictions, background checks, and mental health screenings. Thank you for heading the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and for years and President Biden’s push for common sense gun safety laws. I look forward to seeing what the Biden-Harris administration accomplishes in this regard.

    All the best and God bless.

    Tucker

    Here is the alleged hand-written letter Kamala posted.

    Here is Kamala’s disingenuous tweet.

    Tucker, thank you for writing to me. While we may not agree on every issue, we both know that every person in our nation should have the freedom to live safe from gun violence. The majority of Americans stand with us in support of commonsense gun safety legislation. pic.twitter.com/HUdgFUcKtt

    — Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) August 28, 2024

    The first thing that sticks out about the letter is “Tucker’s” praise for free speech. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have destroyed the intent of the First Amendment in the country today. Numerous Americans are in prison, under lawfare attacks (including this website), were censored, (this website among others), were even sent to prison for a meme during the Biden administration.

    Kamala and Old Joe ruled the country like Marxist thugs for four years. Even Mark Zuckerberg finally admitted this earlier this week.

    The second thing readers noted was that the signature was not likely Tucker Carlson’s.

    Viva Frei pointed this out.

    You do realize there are pictures of Tucker Carlson’s signature on the Internet, and none of them even remotely resemble this, right?

    And Tucker, like most meticulous and intelligent people, dates his letters.

    You didn’t just lie to the American people again, did you? pic.twitter.com/2ltlF228jB

    — Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) August 28, 2024

    There are also reports that the language was generated by AI.

    100% ai generated… you people are pathetic pic.twitter.com/CYDXtE1KLO

    — Apple Lamps (@lamps_apple) August 28, 2024

    The Gateway Pundit reached out to our friends at XRVision. They confirmed that the letter was originally created by AI but was then altered and written by hand to make it look authentic.

    In a statement to The Gateway Pundit, Tucker Carlson wrote:

    “Ha! Seriously? I’m carrying a gun right now, as I always do. There are few things I hate more than the Democratic Party’s attempt to disarm the American population. That’s what dictatorships do.

    “People actually think I sent a handwritten letter to Kamala Harris endorsing gun confiscation? That’s moronic.”

    Nothing is real with Kamala’s campaign.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/kamala-harris-posts-letter-tucker-promoting-gun-control/

    • Tucker Carlson Wins the Internet — Trolls Kamala Harris with a Savage Fake Letter After She Pretended He Wrote Her
      thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/tucker-carlson-wins-internet-trolls-kamala-harris-savage/
      Aug. 28, 2024 1:00 pm
      Credit: Tucker Carlson’s X; Getty Images

      Tucker Carlson has once again captured the attention of the internet, this time by mocking Kamala Harris after she posted an alleged letter from him on X promoting gun control.

      The letter, which appeared to support gun control measures, had the internet buzzing, but not for the reasons Harris likely hoped.

      The letter Harris posted, supposedly penned by “Tucker,” gushed about free speech and the Biden administration’s efforts to promote “common sense” gun laws.

      The letter reads:

      Vice President Harris,

      One of my absolute favorite things in America is how people of different backgrounds and beliefs have the freedom to communicate with each other. We are so blessed to live in a country where the greatest currency is the free-flowing exchange of ideas. In America, we are blessed with the ability to come together on common ground.

      In the spirit fo establishing common ground, even though I am fairly conservative and we may have our disagreements, I am writing to express my gratitude for yours and President Biden’s efforts to establish common sense gun safety laws. Owning firearms is every American’s Constitutional right. Like all things, there needs to be reasonable regulation like age restrictions, background checks, and mental health screenings. Thank you for heading the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and for years and President Biden’s push for common sense gun safety laws. I look forward to seeing what the Biden-Harris administration accomplishes in this regard.

      All the best and God bless.

      Tucker

      Tucker, thank you for writing to me. While we may not agree on every issue, we both know that every person in our nation should have the freedom to live safe from gun violence. The majority of Americans stand with us in support of commonsense gun safety legislation. pic.twitter.com/HUdgFUcKtt

      — Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) August 28, 2024

      Eagle-eyed social media users quickly pounced on the inconsistencies. Many noted that the letter’s language was oddly formal and effusive, particularly in its praise for free speech—a right that many conservatives argue has been under siege during the Biden administration.

      Under Harris and Biden’s watch, Americans have faced unprecedented censorship, lawfare, and imprisonment for merely expressing their views. The Gateway Pundit and others have been targeted, censored, and even had supporters jailed for the simple act of posting a meme.

      Second, there are suspicions that the letter was generated by artificial intelligence rather than coming from Carlson himself.

      In a statement to The Gateway Pundit, Carlson dismissed the notion that he would ever endorse gun control measures. “Ha! Seriously? I’m carrying a gun right now, as I always do. There are few things I hate more than the Democratic Party’s attempt to disarm the American population. That’s what dictatorships do,” he said.

      He added, “People actually think I sent a handwritten letter to Kamala Harris endorsing gun confiscation? That’s moronic.”

      Not one to let a good trolling opportunity go to waste, Carlson fired back with a satirical fake letter of his own. In an over-the-top, childlike handwriting style complete with heart symbols, smiley faces, and “XOXO,” the letter sarcastically attributed to Harris praised Carlson in the most exaggerated and fawning terms.

      The letter reads:

      Dear Tucker,

      I can’t believe I’m writing you this letter, but here goes. Honestly, I never thought we had all that much in common. Since college, I’ve considered myself moderately progressive, in the sense that I don’t believe in law enforcement, national borders, or the right of American citizens to exercise fundamental human autonomy. You seemed like you were coming from a totally different place. I thought I disagreed with you on everything! Boy was I wrong.

      The other night I was looking at the Internet and saw your conversation with Bobby Kennedy, Jr. There wasn’t a word I disagreed with. Not one! I turned to Montel and I said “I was very wrong about this man. So, so very wrong. The way he talks. He’s so bold and wise and strong. He’s immovable. Like a towering oak tree in a wind storm, he sways gently but never breaks. His trunk is so broad and firm and rooted to the earth. I can’t imagine the size of his root ball.” I was so impressed!

      So thank you. You’ve shown me something about myself and about the world. I will never forget it. Until we meet,

      XOXO,
      Kamala

      Credit: Tucker Carlson/X

      Letter from a fan. pic.twitter.com/ukRd1Ykpsg

      — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 28, 2024

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/tucker-carlson-wins-internet-trolls-kamala-harris-savage/

  13. THE FIX IS IN! MI Dem SOS Benson Makes THREATENING Video Warning Election Officials Not To Question The Next Cheat… If You Don’t Certify The Election Results…”We will come for you!” (VIDEO)
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/fix-is-mi-dem-sos-benson-makes-threatening/
    Aug. 28, 2024 8:00 am

    In 2020, Democrats pulled off what many still believe is the largest election heist in American history. Sadly, Michigan was at the epicenter of the battle. Stunned Americans watched as windows were covered in the massive absentee counting room at the TCF Center in Detroit. This prevented GOP and Independent poll challengers from looking into the room when they were locked out after a top Wayne County election official suggested they take a break and go to lunch while election workers prepared the “military ballots” to be counted.

    Hundreds of poll challengers filed affidavits, testifying to the harassment, bullying, and fraud they witnessed at the TCF Center. I was a poll challenger who was able to push my way back into the room before they chained the doors, and I was shocked at the number of ballots I watched being processed after election workers couldn’t find the voters’ names in the poll books. Challenges were ignored, and threats were made by an almost exclusively, if not the entire Democrat Party supervisory team.

    When GOP poll challengers left the TCF Center, many of them remarked that they felt like they had just been to war.
    Poll challengers were prevented from observing the vote count at TCF Center by pizza boxes on windows and officials locking them out of the counting area.

    The threats against innocent Republicans who were simply trying to do their jobs and protect the sanctity of the vote didn’t stop with election workers and far-left agitators posing as independent poll challengers at the TCF Center. The life of the Republican Wayne County Board of Canvassers Chair Monica Palmer’s teenage daughter was threatened by a New Hampshire woman after a Democrat State Rep. Abraham Aiyash doxxed her daughter during a Zoom call where outsiders could call in and threaten board members who were refusing to certify the vote because the precincts were out of balance, meaning the vote totals on the tabulators didn’t match the number of ballots in the containers where they were stored.

    MICHIGAN.

    WATCH as Democrat State Rep-Elect Abraham Aiyash threatens the children of Wayne County Board of Canvassers member Monica Palmer.

    “I want you to think about what this means for your kids, who probably go to [redacted]”…

    *CHILLING* pic.twitter.com/uX3SRxct6a

    — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 18, 2020

    Today, Michigan’s tyrannical SOS, Jocelyn Benson, shared a video on social media where she threatened election officials in local communities. “We will come for you,” if you dare to refuse to certify the election results, she warned.

    Watch:

    WATCH: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson issued a threat to any local election officials who choose to withhold certification of election results in the event of fraud

    “WE WILL COME FOR YOU…”

    In other words, they plan to cheat AGAIN, and she’s getting ahead of the… pic.twitter.com/dIyTCiodfN

    — George (@BehizyTweets) August 27, 2024

    Jocelyn Benson bizarrely attempts to play the role of “the sweet girl next door” when delivering a threatening message to her political opponents. Unlike MI AG Dana Nessel, who is openly hostile about her political enemies, the dishonest MI SOS frequently smiles and giggles during interviews with friendly media while delivering warning shots at her political opponents in what appears to be an effort to make her more likeable.

    Only two days ago, in what appears to be a coordinated message, AG Merrick Garland threatened every American that they better not even consider questioning the election results and used Jan 6 political prisoners as an example of what will happen to Americans who try.

    OMG AG Merrick Garland just used J6 political prisoners to threaten anyone from contesting the 2024 Election results

    Would be a shame if we made this post Viral on to show how corrupt Merrick Garland is

    You know what to do pic.twitter.com/9lsfbxwy2R

    — Marjorie Taylor Greene Press Release (Parody) (@MTGrepp) August 25, 2024

    This weekend, MI AG Dana Nessel appeared on MSNBC where the host gushed over Nessel’s use of lawfare, as she abused her power as the state’s top attorney to punish 16 mostly senior citizens who, while acting in their official capacity as elected GOP electors, cast an alternate slate of electoral votes for President Trump. Many, if not all of the 16 alternate electors still believe the 2020 election was stolen from President Trump.

    Tyrannical Dems in MI appear to be setting up the media for a repeat steal of 2020 in Nov.

    Watch MI AG Nessel suggest Trump will “try to subvert the election through illegal means” by “enlisting as many Republican poll workers, clerks & activists as possible.” This is ILLEGAL? pic.twitter.com/nOVSX4qsLH

    — PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) August 27, 2024

    Meanwhile, AG Nessel and the mainstream media continue to mock and discount Americans who no longer trust our elections. They ignore the uncertainty Michigan voters were grappling with after it was discovered that tens of thousands of votes in solidly red Antrim County, MI, where Dominion Voting machines were used, were switched from Donald Trump and given to Joe Biden. They want voters to pretend the multiple election-related lawsuits that were playing out in the courts following the 2020 election never happened. And, of course, they don’t want us to discuss the early morning drop of thousands of ballots in the back hallways of the TCF Center on the day after the election, which was revealed after The Gateway Pundit paid to obtain the surveillance footage from the TCF Center. They want voters to believe that 13 minutes of surveillance footage obtained by The Gateway Pundit of US postal workers and dozens of individuals and even teams of people dropping stacks of ballots into drop boxes in direct violation of MI election law was, according to MI SOS Jocelyn Benson, “normal and legal activity.”

    And then there’s the best-kept secret involving mass voter registration fraud in the 2020 election that was uncovered after a citizen FOIA’d by an MI State Police report. The MSP report revealed a massive statewide investigation into GBI Strategies/Empower Michigan, which was turning in a gigantic quantity of fraudulent voter registrations to clerks across the state. The investigation, which began in Muskegon, MI, only one month before the November 2020 election, was never revealed to the public by either MI AG Dana Nessel or MI SOS Jocelyn Benson, whose departments worked with the MI State Police to investigate the criminal activity.

    In 2021, Democrats opened our southern border for an invasion that has been nothing like our nation has ever seen. Now, the same elected officials who opened the floodgates for people coming from prisons and mental institutions in various South American countries are counting on these millions of individuals they let into our country to vote for them in November.

    Democrat lawmakers in multiple states are shamelessly fighting to ensure there are loopholes in our election laws that will allow illegal immigrants from 160 countries to vote undetected in our elections.

    According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit new record highs in March 2024, reaching 51.6 million and 15.6 percent of the total U.S. population. Since March 2022, the foreign-born population has increased by 5.1 million, the largest two-year increase in American history. The foreign-born population has never grown this much this fast. Although many think of immigrants only as workers, less than half of those who arrived since 2022 are employed.

    An estimated 25-30 million illegal aliens have entered our country while “border czar” Kamala Harris cackled. Why wouldn’t she laugh, it’s very likely that if the Democrat’s plan to make America into a one-party nation becomes a reality, the once free America will be lost forever to tyrants.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/fix-is-mi-dem-sos-benson-makes-threatening/

  14. Editor’s Note: A cold civil war is won or lost by the capture of institutions. Even today, many conservatives regard the military as one of the last institutions resisting capture by the new regime. Will Thibeau, director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, argues that precisely the opposite is true: that the Armed Forces were “among the first American institutions to formally embrace the radical logic of group quotas.“ This new organizing principle is directly linked to a steep decline in military standards and performance, with life-and-death consequences for Americans and America.

    Part I of Identity in the Trenches: The Fatal Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on U.S. Military Readiness.

    In August 2021, the world watched as American forces scrambled to evacuate Afghanistan as the Taliban reclaimed power. The panicked withdrawal reached a tragic climax on August 26, when 13 American service members (and more than 100 Afghan civilians) were killed by a suicide bomber in the Kabul airport, where security was a U.S. responsibility. Four days later, when the last military planes took off from that same airport, hundreds of American citizens were left behind. A month later still, when the secretary of Defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the CENTCOM commanding general were called before Congress to account for the failure, they neither offered explanations nor accepted responsibility. The message was clear: Incompetence would be the new norm for the U.S. military — a predictably lethal status quo.

    The Afghanistan debacle was dramatic, but it was only one small part of a much larger picture. The United States Armed Forces were once the envy of the world, in large part because we selected the best of the best, and instilled in our fighting men an unshakeable military ethos. Both the ethos and the selection, however, have been in steady decline as the Department of Defense succumbs to a dangerous ideology: that of group quotas, or forced outcome equality for identity groups based on race and sex.

    Critics of the current state of affairs in our Armed Forces waste precious breath on disturbing but minor issues like reading lists, drag shows, and TikTok trends. This paper serves as a call for focus and precision on the prevalence of race and sex-based quotas, and the accompanying collapse in professional standards, in the fight to reclaim the integrity of the institution of the military.

    Quotas, by one name or another, have been defense policy since 1965 when Secretary Robert McNamara decided to make the Pentagon the leading edge of the effort to adhere to the principles and policies of the Civil Rights Act. This history is important to understand because it clarifies the mission ahead.

    The military is often perceived by well-meaning Americans as the last holdout in the progressive march through the institutions. In reality, however, it was among the first American institutions to formally embrace the radical logic of group quotas: that any body must proportionally represent the demographics of the nation, or else enjoy the presumption of wrongdoing and discrimination.

    To recover from this institutional overreach, Congress and the executive branch need to commit to a few specific policy changes alongside a bold reorganization of the military personnel process and the structure of the Joint Staff. The policy solutions in this paper do not amount to an exhaustive list of the range of actions to confront DEI, but instead define the minimum necessary action to rebuild the military’s institutional health.

    Before we can recommend policy, or even analyze history, we must come to understand the military as an institution. The prevailing consensus seems to regard our warfighting forces as just one more institution in civil society, bound by every social norm of the country they stand to defend. This is the logic by which group quotas are justified. The United States military, however, cannot serve its basic purpose unless it is set apart.
    The Military as an Institution, Defined

    When a citizen enlists in any of the service branches, he goes through a period of intensive training meant to melt away the effects and the mindset of civilian life, and to forge Americans into soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines ready to devote their lives to the mass application of violence on behalf of American interests. This training must sweat and bleed the individual who reported for duty, because the DoD knows the life of American citizens, formed in individualism and liberalism, does not make for an easy transition to military service. Policymakers would do well to acknowledge this civil-military distinction.

    The American military is a professional fighting force built on competencies and values not commonly found in civil society. Thankfully so, for we do not raise our children under the presumption of a violent life, and most do not even consider joining the military.

    Because the stakes of military operations are so high, the military must define itself by a commitment to the professional factors that make servicemembers and units more effective. Even though the years of all-out war are beyond our memory, the perils of an uncertain future make the stakes of military policy unquestionably high.

    Some would have us believe that a diverse military is somehow the cornerstone of our national security, all the while minimizing any effect of DEI in practical application for men and women in uniform. This position contradicts itself; either the military’s efforts at diversity serve a critical national need, or they are so insignificant that they are not worth their costs to the services’ culture and the government’s bottom line.

    When it comes to policy, the military must maintain a strict separation between values unrelated to the military profession and those values necessary to maintain an effective force. Like a drop of ink in a glass of water, the faintest hint of ideology outside the scope of the military profession will degrade the whole force’s effectiveness. Historical examples from eighteenth century France to the Soviet Army of the late Cold War attest to the reality of this threat.

    At stake is much more than the relative quality of military units. A military consumed by politics and identity threatens the very integrity of our republic. In other sectors of society, the consequences of shirking the primacy of merit amount to a bad hire as university president, or maybe a missed revenue projection for a given fiscal quarter. In the military, the stakes are obviously higher.

    Nowhere are the consequences of hiring anyone but those selected for their professional qualifications higher than in the wars our military may soon fight. In May of this year, the Daily Caller reported on the Air Force’s efforts to diversify flight school. The Air Force created classes that mirrored the race and gender demographics of the nation. This manipulation of the most critical talent of our military produced consecutive flight school classes below sustainable levels, far below average. This brutal case study is a harbinger of things to come in a military whose organizing principle is diversity rather than merit.

    DEI is just that in the military: an organizing principle with specific manifestation in the prevalence of identity-based quotas and the attendant collapse in standards. Future Defense officials, lawmakers, and interested Americans must have a clear understanding of the current personnel and policy landscape to meaningfully effect change.
    The Centrality of Quotas

    Race and sex-based quotas are the driving force behind the U.S. military’s turn to wokeness. These policies may not be as dramatic as drag shows hosted on Navy vessels, nor as direct and undeniable as DoD-mandated diversity seminars, but they are by far the most consequential of the military’s missteps away from merit and toward political ideology.

    read the rest at

    https://tomklingenstein.com/the-crisis-in-the-armed-forces/

    • Unit cohesion has always been vital for military performance. DEI turns that upside-down.
      As Israelis say: This will end in tears.

      • You are right, I don’t live near active duty people so I don’t know what is happening on the posts but the vets aren’t happy with the new way of doing things.

  15. WATCH: California Liquor Store Worker Flips the Tables on Laughing Group of Thugs Brutally Assaulting Him When He Exercises His Right to Bear Arms
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/watch-california-liquor-store-worker-flips-tables-laughing/
    Aug. 28, 2024 10:30 am
    Credit: vongottem Instagram

    A horde of laughing bullies on bikes got a taste of their own medicine late last week after a law-abiding citizen turned the tables on them by exercising his 2nd amendment rights.

    As The Daily Mail reported, thugs riding bikes in Oakland, California got into a dispute with one of the employees at a liquor. The thugs then began assaulting the employee.

    As The Gateway Pundit readers know, these situations do not end well for the innocent citizen. But on this occasion, the protagonist prevailed when he retrieved his firearm and forced the thugs to retreat.

    The Oakland Police Department told DailyMail.com that the incident occurred at 4:15 pm on Saturday outside of Golden Hours Liquor on the 3200 block of International Boulevard.

    Footage captured on Instagram shows the incident began with the worker, who was dressed in a black T-shirt, arguing with a man in a red hoodie who then violently slapped him across the face. The employee then loses his hat after another thug slaps him multiple times.

    Dozens of guffawing bikers then jump on the seemingly helpless worker, land several punches on him, and back him into the store entrance.

    Then a remarkable thing happens. Despite getting viciously beaten, the worker, with his back bent, manages to grab his gun and sends the cowards fleeing in terror.

    WATCH:

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    A post shared by Most Worried About (@vongottem__)

    The worker follows the assailants and points his weapon at the group. Admitting defeat, the bullies who followed him got on their bikes and raced off.

    Others decided to stay at least temporarily while the employee waved his firearm. He is then seen shoving a thug in a gray hoodie to the pavement.

    More people then clear the area, not wanting to risk ending up on the sidewalk or in a coffin.

    Police told the Daily Mail they “located evidence of a shooting,” but no one sustained gunshot wounds. No arrests were made, either.

    The Daily Mail reported it is not clear what sparked the heated confrontation. But what is clear is the incident would have had a far different ending if the vigilant employee had not retrieved his firearm.

    https://www.instagram.com/vongottem__/

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/watch-california-liquor-store-worker-flips-tables-laughing/

  16. Under Tim Walz, Minnesota Banned Christians From Teaching In Public Schools
    By: Joy Pullmann
    August 27, 2024
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    Effective July 2025, teacher licensing rules passed last year in Minnesota under Democrat Gov. Tim Walz will ban practicing Christians, Jews, and Muslims from teaching in public schools. Walz is now the presidential running mate of current U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. His resume includes a stint as a high school social studies teacher who sponsored a student queer sex club in 1999.

    Starting next July, Minnesota agencies controlled by Walz appointees will require teacher license applicants to affirm transgenderism and race Marxism. Without a teaching license, individuals cannot work in Minnesota public schools, nor in the private schools that require such licenses.

    The latest version of the regulations requires teachers to “affirm” students’ “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” to receive a Minnesota teaching license:

    The teacher fosters an environment that ensures student identities such as race/ethnicity, national origin, language, sex and gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical/developmental/emotional ability, socioeconomic class, and religious beliefs are historically and socially contextualized, affirmed, and incorporated into a learning environment where students are empowered to learn and contribute as their whole selves (emphasis added).

    Last spring, administrative law judges finally approved these pending changes The Federalist reported one month before they were finalized. Universities are also affected: starting in 2025, they must either train their teaching students to fulfill these anti-Christian requirements or be banned from offering state licensing — and thus the ticket to the vast majority of teaching jobs — to their students.

    Since 2020 in Minnesota, teachers renewing their licenses, which is usually required every five to seven years, must demonstrate “cultural competency” similar to the requirements imposed in 2025 on new teaching licensees. Teachers renewing their licensing must “Show[] evidence of self-reflection and discussion of” topics that include “Gender Identity, Including Transgender Students” and “Sexual Orientation.” They must also show they understand “bias” in themselves and their students related to race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other cultural Marxist categories.

    read the rest at

    https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/27/under-tim-walz-minnesota-banned-christians-from-teaching-in-public-schools/

  17. Aaron MacLean@AaronBMacLean
    Comment about NYT’s editorial [below]:
    “The view from Munich (er, its Security Conference) is the US ought submit its China policy to Euro approval *and* throw Israel under the bus if we want a healthy NATO. I’m an Atlanticist but “friends” like these shed light on the appeal of isolationism.”

    https://x.com/AaronBMacLean/status/1828142982270480795
    ….
    To Whom It May Concern: America and Europe Need Each Other

    …Given the war in Ukraine, the risks of a larger war in the Middle East and China’s accelerating challenge to American primacy, Europe needs the United States more than it has since the end of the Cold War. And America still has a unique and valuable asset that its growing list of rivals and adversaries don’t: reliable allies and partners in Europe…..

    First: We need to talk about China. Unlike the European Union, which defines China as a partner, competitor and systemic rival, America appears to have concluded, in a rare show of bipartisan agreement, that China is now not only its key rival but also its main long-term adversary in terms of global political and military power and influence. Trans-Atlantic discord about how best to deal with China is already visible, and it seems bound to get worse.

    …..When it comes to handling Russia, Europe and the United States have had an elaborate consultation and coordination mechanism for the past seven decades: NATO. With China, there is nothing comparable. Why wasn’t Europe consulted when the United States decided to deny certain semiconductor chips from being exported to China?

    ……Finally, we need to talk about our common Western values. Isn’t the one major difference between us and authoritarian or dictatorial regimes our commitment to human rights, to the rule of law, to decency in this age of impunity, as David Miliband, the former British foreign secretary, once called the current global disorder? We can and we should be proud of this commitment. The problem is that the Western world – and in particular the United States – is being accused of applying double standards in dealing with wars, conflicts, and human rights abuses……

    https://archive.ph/3Sgas#selection-681.0-681.58

    • Dan makes a lot of important points in this video, if you haven’t been watching the videos go to Bongino.com and watch the back videos he is laying out a lot of facts for everyone to follow.

  20. Exclusive: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey Responds to Judge Amit Mehta’s Ruling on the Missouri Media Matters Case
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/exclusive-missouri-ag-andrew-bailey-responds-judge-amit/
    Aug. 28, 2024 2:00 pm

    On Friday, far left DC Judge Amit Mehta ordered Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to halt his investigation into Media Matters for America Missouri (MMFA).

    Media Matters ran to the DC courts to court shop after Missouri’s AG opened the investigation into the radical far-left group and their organized attacks on conservatives and conservative outlets. MMFA struck gold when they landed far left Judge Amit Mehta, a radical and Obama appointee who openly persecutes conservatives, Christians, and Trump supporters.
    Popular Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey

    Attorney General Bailey launched the investigation in December accusing Media Matters of using fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers.

    AG Bailey stated at the time, “We have reason to believe Media Matters used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers into pulling out of X, the last platform dedicated to free speech in America.”

    The Missouri Attorney General did not hold back in his attacks on Media Matters, alleging the enemies of free speech, like Media Matters for America, are attempting to kill Twitter-X because they cannot control it now that Elon Musk has taken over. Bailey added, “I’m fighting to ensure progressive tyrants masquerading as news outlets cannot manipulate the marketplace in order to wipe out free speech.”

    That’s when Media Matters went court shopping and found landed the Trump-hating judge in DC who halted the Missouri investigation.

    Mehta defended MMFA’s right to destroy and eliminate conservative voices in the public square.
    Far left and controversial Obama-Judge Amit Mehta

    Obviously, Media Matters shopped around to file their case in the most Democrat-friendly district in the country.

    The Gateway Pundit reached out to AG Bailey’s office for comment.

    Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sent The Gateway Pundit a response to the ruling.

    “Make no mistake: Media Matters ran to a DC Court in order to get out of complying with our investigation. The DC Court’s order effectively shuts down Missouri courts. We will be appealing the decision, and look forward to resuming our investigation on behalf of all affected Missourians.”

    As we reported earlier, Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama donor, is famous for his persecution of Trump supporters.

    Mehta threw Trump adviser Peter Navarro in prison for four months for refusing to testify before Pelosi’s January 6th Subcommittee of Democrats and Trump-bashers.

    Judge Mehta threw a Christian missionary in prison for three years for standing on the US Capitol steps on January 6 and singing the National Anthem. David Moerschel from Florida went inside the US Capitol for 11 minutes on January 6, 2021 and committed no crimes. Judge Mehta sent this missionary to prison for three years for his actions on January 6. Truly evil.

    Amit Mehta put Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes in prison for 18 years for a completely made-up crime. Mehta knew this trial was a lie. He didn’t care. He lectured Rhodes on the way to prison.

    Stewart Rhodes stood outside the US Capitol on January 6, committed no violence, had no plans to commit violence that day, and told his fellow Oath Keepers to leave the guns in their hotel rooms outside of Washington DC that day. Mehta gave him 18 years.

    Corrupt DC Judge Mehta Lectures Oath Keeper Founder Stewart Rhodes Then Sentences Him to 18 Years in Prison for January 6

    Judge Mehta is famous for his political persecution of his political opposition. Not one Democrat has condemned his unethical acts.

    Trending: UPDATE: Tucker Carlson Responds After Kamala Harris Posts Letter Allegedly from ‘Tucker’ Promoting Gun Control

    For the record — MMFA has targeted The Gateway Pundit with over 1,300 smears and hit pieces over the past several years.

    MMFA is also behind The Gateway Pundit’s censorship on Twitter that continues to this day!

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/exclusive-missouri-ag-andrew-bailey-responds-judge-amit/

  21. Beyond the New Pelosi J6 Admission – It’s What She Said Behind Closed Doors That’s Chilling! (VIDEO)
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/beyond-new-pelosi-j6-admission-its-what-she/
    Aug. 28, 2024 1:40 pm

    For Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, it’s all about vindictive politics and gaming the system.

    Yes, a new video of Pelosi reveals her stunning admission that she takes responsibility for letting January 6th get out of hand.

    But there’s more to the newly released video the mainstream media isn’t showing you.

    It gives us real insight into just how little Nancy Pelosi cares about the public and how much she cares about destroying Trump.

    In this episode of Stinchfield, we play the must-see and hear video, taken from behind closed doors, that serves as more proof we can’t let Democrats win in November.

    Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris are all cold-blooded political hacks with one goal, get Trump and destroy America.

    We now have even more proof.

    https://rumble.com/v5cqhl9-beyond-the-new-pelosi-j6-admission…its-what-she-said-behind-closed-doors-.html

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/beyond-new-pelosi-j6-admission-its-what-she/

  22. WAYNE ROOT: The Easiest Criminal Case to Prosecute in History: Mark Zuckerberg Just Confessed in Writing, and Implicated Entire US Government & Biden Administration in Conspiracy to Commit Election Interference, Extortion, Treason, Mass Murder & Crimes Against Humanity
    thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/wayne-root-easiest-criminal-case-prosecute-history-mark/
    Aug. 28, 2024 1:20 pm
    Source: Flicker

    By Wayne Allyn Root

    I have a life and death question for red state AGs and DAs. The most important question in modern history…

    What the hell are you waiting for?

    Because we just uncovered the greatest conspiracy to betray the citizens of America and commit treason since Benedict Arnold.

    But this time we can add mass murder and crimes against humanity. And the confession is in writing, for all the world to see. This massive criminal case is gift wrapped with a bow on top.

    So, what are you waiting for?

    Mark Zuckerberg just confessed, in writing, in front of the whole world, to terrible crimes against America, the US Constitution and the American people- all because he was forced, extorted (and I’m guessing bribed, blackmailed or threatened too) by the US government and the highest officials of the Biden administration.

    Just days ago, I made the case for red state AGs and DAs to go after “low hanging fruit” and indict Kamala and Tim Walz. The precedent has been set by New York AG Leticia James and NYC DA Alvin Bragg. A red state AG or DA can file any criminal case they want- even in the middle of a presidential election. If they think crimes have been committed, it’s their duty to indict and prosecute.

    It’s easy to go after Kamala Harris for her role as border czar. Indict her for fraud, malfeasance, dereliction of duty, and treason. How many American have been murdered and raped, or died from fentanyl overdoses, because of her dereliction of duty?

    Red state AGs and DAs- What are you waiting for? Indict Kamala Harris.

    And of course, Tim Walz is the biggest fraud and conman in the history of politics. He’s guilty of “Stolen Valor” (lying about his rank and military service), not to mention lying about his wife using IVF to get pregnant (it never happened). And so many other lies I’ve lost count.

    Red state AGs and DAs- What are you waiting for? Indict Tim Walz.

    But those are no longer the “low hanging fruit.” We have a much bigger criminal case. It’s the world’s easiest case to prosecute. The star witness is one of the richest and famous men in the world- Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Meta.

    And he just confessed, in writing, in front of the entire world, to terrible crimes against the American people.

    But that’s only a small start. Zuckerberg implicated the entire US government, and top officials of the Biden administration. These government gangsters bullied, intimidated, threatened (and no doubt bribed or blackmailed) Zuckerberg and his staff to commit these terrible crimes against the American people.

    These are the highest crimes- including election interference, mass murder, crimes against humanity and TREASON.

    Zuckerberg is a witness to all of it. The government and top officials of the Biden administration intimidated Zuckerberg and his staff into rigging and fixing the 2020 election- by covering up the Hunter Biden laptop. This allowed Democrats to steal a presidential election from President Trump.

    How many trillions of dollars changed hands in the form of government spending and government contracts because the election was rigged and stolen?

    But then it gets worse. Zuckerberg admits the government and top Biden officials forced him to censor, silence and ban the truth about the lack of safety and effectiveness of the Covid vaccines, and cover-up the mounting deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines…

    Trending: UPDATE: Tucker Carlson Responds After Kamala Harris Posts Letter Allegedly from ‘Tucker’ Promoting Gun Control

    And to hide the truth about Ivermectin, the one drug that was actually “safe and effective” for use against Covid 19. Hundreds of studies prove it could have saved millions of lives- with literally no side effects. But few Americans heard about it, because Zuckerberg hid the truth- upon order of this administration.

    How many Americans died as a result?

    That’s called mass murder and crimes against humanity. Not to mention the loss of trillions of dollars.

    It’s time for modern day Nuremberg trials.

    The case is so easy to prosecute. Just offer Zuckerberg full immunity to testify to the crimes and the names involved. Then offer each of them immunity for the names of their bosses. Then offer immunity to each of the bosses for the names of who gave the ultimate orders to rig and fix the election…and to condemn millions of Americans to death and injury, all in the name of greed.

    Trillions of dollars were made as a result of election interference, and from vaccine sales and stock profits by Big Pharma and all their conspirators in the US government and Biden administration.

    All roads lead to Biden, Kamala, Dr Fauci and the top officials of the FBI, DOJ, CIA, CDC, FDA, HHS and NIH. Everyone got rich and Americans died.

    Here is the sum up of these developments…

    *If this was Trump, he’d already be in prison for life, or given the death penalty. We all know that.

    *Why did Zuckerberg suddenly confess? Because he knows how to read the tea leaves- Trump is about to win a landslide victory. Zuckerberg is trying to save his own hide from a prison cell.

    *Do you believe Biden and our government did this only to Zuckerberg? This is the tip of the iceberg. They extorted, threatened and bribed every CEO of every media and social media company.

    *This is the perfect criminal conspiracy case. If no red state AG or DA prosecutes them, then we know the entire system is rigged. They’re all either complicit, bribed, blackmailed, or cowards.

    *Finally, if we can’t get indictments, then this becomes the largest class action lawsuit in world history. Class action lawyers are salivating. There are trillions to be made from suing the federal government, every Biden-Harris official involved, Zuckerberg, and every billionaire CEO of any media and social media company who censored, silenced, banned and covered-up facts that resulted in a stolen election, and death and injury to millions of American citizens

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/wayne-root-easiest-criminal-case-prosecute-history-mark/

    • Why did Zuckerberg suddenly confess? Because he knows how to read the tea leaves – Trump is about to win a landslide victory.

      We’re going to see more and more “sincerity” poses like this. They’ll try to look like decent Americans, but their operatives will be even more determined jihadis.

  24. Israel Undiplomatic w/ Mark Regev & Ruthie Blum: What will it take to push Hezbollah back?

    The news cycle in Israel changes every few hours and this week was no different! On today’s show, we’ll discuss yesterday’s hostage rescue and also try to understand how Israel will bring safety to its northern residents. Was Israel’s “preemptive” action on Sunday enough or will Hezbollah need to be pushed back with ground forces?

  25. France’s Chief Rabbi is reported to prosecutors

    France’s Chief Rabbi has been reported to state prosecutors for ‘apologising for war crimes’ after he said the Israeli military needed to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza.

    Haim Korsia, 60, caused outrage on Monday by openly supporting Israel’s actions against Hamas in Gaza – a war which has seen tens of thousands of Palestinians die, many of them children.

    He said live on a news channel: ‘I have absolutely no reason to be ashamed of what Israel is doing in the way it conducts the fighting’ and that ‘I am not uncomfortable with a policy that consists of defending its nationals.’

    Rabbi Korsia added: ‘Everybody would be very happy if Israel finished the job, and we could finally build peace in the Middle East without people who only want one thing all the time – the destruction of Israel.’

    Now today, French MP Aymeric Caron confirmed he had filed a complaint to Paris prosecutors for comments he claimed were ‘an apology for war crimes’.

    In France this offence can be punished with up to five years in prison and a fine equivalent to £40,000.

    Mr Caron said: ‘On the basis of Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, I have contacted the Paris Public Prosecutor to report these comments by the Chief Rabbi of France publicly apologising for war crimes in Gaza.’

    In turn, prosecutors said they were examining the evidence, including video images, before proceeding.…

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13785353/Frances-Chief-Rabbi-reported-prosecutors-accused-apologising-war-crimes-saying-Israeli-forces-finish-job-Gaza.html

  26. The Lawfare Group Draw up a Modified 4 Count Indictment Hoping to Regenerate Legal Battles Against President Trump
    by Sundance – August 27, 2024
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/08/27/the-lawfare-group-draw-up-a-modified-4-count-indictment-hoping-to-regenerate-legal-battles-against-president-trump/

    TWO BITES – SAME APPLE – Jackass Smith Tries Again! Deep State Rinse, Wash, Repeat!
    OFFICIAL Jovan Hutton Pulitzer – August 28, 2024
    Program begins @ !9:00
    Jovan accidentally muted himself starting @ 1:28:07, and ending @ 1:32:13.
    https://rumble.com/v5cp6j9-two-bites-same-apple-jackass-smith-tries-again-deep-state-rinse-wash-repeat.html

    Jovan played this video with sound when he was muted.
    He posted the video on telegram.
    This is President Trump’s defense! Make it go viral.
    https://t.me/JovanHuttonPulitzer/13401

  27. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is the first Western television series
    (six seasons) written for adults. It premiered four days before Gunsmoke on September 6, 1955.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Legend_of_Wyatt_Earp

    The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp – 6 Season Playlist
    Season 1 – Click the “v” symbol to view seasons 2-6.
    https://www.youtube.com/show/SCP626-owe6bo-4EHdHnHE-w?season=1&sbp=CgExGhoSGFVDanZVdTVPa0E1SVlLWHJBeVQ0Qm5FUQ%253D%253D

    Wyatt Earp interview on gunfighting
    Wildwestfaces – April 12, 2024