House Impeachment Manager Gives the Game Away

 RedState

"President Donald Trump has been officially impeached for a second time, with the latest attempt striking me as no more legitimate than the last. As I’ve shared in other articles, factually, I don’t believe Trump ever incited violence on January 6th when a group of QAnon morons rushed the Capitol Building. He pointedly said to protest “peacefully” in his speech given prior to the action. While his previous comments on the election being stolen may have gotten people worked up, that’s hardly a viable standard for incitement — otherwise, many more politicians would be in jail right now.

"Looking at all the aspects of this, I simply don’t believe there’s some deeply principled, justified reason to be impeaching Trump after he’s left office. Right now, the Senate trial isn’t even scheduled, and the President is gone on Wednesday.

"Now, a Democrat House Impeachment manager is giving the game away. This has always really been about stopping Trump in 2024."

 . . .“One of the other purposes of impeachment in this case is to make sure that President Trump is not able to run for federal office again, that he’s not able to seek the presidency,” Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.” . . .

Opinion: A Trump Future Candidacy Isn’t What Democrats and RINOs Are Afraid Of

. . . "It’s unclear as to whether or not McConnell will vote to convict President Trump. To be quite frank, it’s not really important. What is important, is his and other RINOs’ objectives for the future. More so than any Democrat, McConnell, Sasse, Cheney, and a host of others, want nothing more than to ensure that the likes of Trump never again appears on the political scene (more on that crew of craven cowards in another article).

"There is a reason the term Uniparty has become a common term in conservative circles. As I heard Newt Gingrich once quip, There isn’t a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats, just about who gets to spend the money. " . . .

After fourth American imprisoned, Richard Grenell says Iran is making moves against the Biden team

Maybe Joe will take the Ayatollah behind the gym and beat the daylights out of him. TD

 Twitchy  "NBC News reported Sunday that another American has been imprisoned by Iran on spying charges, and that “the imprisonment of a fourth American could derail a bid by the Biden administration to revive a nuclear agreement with Iran.”

"Benjamin Weinthal is a correspondent for the Jerusalem Post:

Within a week, Iran's regime @khamenei_ir took another American, Emad Shargi, as hostage https://t.co/AoiFtWVDld
and announced it plans to murder a second champion wrestler, Mehdi Ali Hosseini. #United4Navid https://t.co/YD78nfGYo7

 — Benjamin Weinthal (@BenWeinthal) January 18, 2021

. . . "Richard Grenell says that Iran is making moves against the upcoming Biden administration because they believe they can get away with it." . . .

The Daily Beast Actually Revised A Review On A Movie They Called Brilliant Once They Realized Ben Shapiro Made It…

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Democrats Cling Desperately to Trump Hatred

Conrad Black

The Democrats are not going to be able to hide much longer behind their Trump hatred. But it’s really all they’ve got.

"These are among the darkest days of American democracy. With nearly airtight totalitarian uniformity, the American media robotically repeat that there is no possible argument to be made that the 2020 presidential election produced an unjust result. In the same magical spirit of post-electoral unanimity, President Trump has been condemned for his remarks to hundreds of thousands of his supporters in Washington on January 6, and it is now a political commandment that he is responsible for the ensuing illegal forced entry and fatal violence at the United States Capitol.

"He actually told his supporters that they should “peacefully and patriotically make your voices be heard” when they proceeded on to the Capitol; this is a minor inconvenience to the confected consensus that the president shouldn’t serve out the last week of his term.

"There remains no conclusive evidence that Richard Nixon broke any laws in the Watergate affair, though some members of his entourage did. But it was not hard to foresee that driving him from office (a very capable president who had been reelected by what remains the greatest plurality in U.S. history) would addict the American political system to the criminalization of policy differences."

"As the patriotic traditionalist he was, Nixon resigned rather than put the country through the humiliation of an impeachment trial, an extremity that had only occurred once in U.S. presidential history, a silly and unsuccessful action against Andrew Johnson in 1868. President Clinton was impeached in 1998-1999 over a dishonest answer to a grand jury about his extramarital sex life, tawdry but inadequate grounds for removing a president from office. The impeachment of President Trump last year over an innocuous telephone conversation with the president of Ukraine was fatuous: the charges were not impeachable offenses and there was no evidence that they actually occurred.

"No honest and informed person can doubt there is room for skepticism about the accuracy of the presidential vote in five or six states in the November presidential election. As with the elections of 1876 (Rutherford Hayes), 1960 (John F. Kennedy), and 2000 (George W. Bush), we will never know who really won, but once the system has produced a result, it doesn’t matter, except to the individuals involved." . . .

Biden, CNN Seek To Annihilate Trump’s Legacy With Flood Of Executive Orders Within First 10 Days

 RedState  "Former Vice President Joe Biden plans to issue a series of executive orders designed to eliminate much of what the Trump administration put into place within his first ten days in office. He will impose these new measures as a way to indicate a new direction for the country. However, you will be glad to know that he has no plans to govern from his basement, as far as he knows.

“ 'President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., inheriting a collection of crises unlike any in generations, plans to open his administration with dozens of executive directives on top of expansive legislative proposals in a 10-day blitz meant to signal a turning point for a nation reeling from disease, economic turmoil, racial strife and now the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol,” according to The New York Times.

"The former vice president’s team has created a list of executive orders that he will implement after his inauguration on Wednesday. These measures will be designed to reverse some of President Trump’s policies, especially those related to immigration. They will also begin the pursuit of Biden’s agenda for the country as well. The Times noted, “advisers hope the flurry of action, without waiting for Congress, will establish a sense of momentum for the new president even as the Senate puts his predecessor on trial.”

"Biden plans to get started on erasing Trump’s programs on his first day in office by issuing a set of orders." . . .

Let's Not Mince Words on What CNN Will Try to Do Under a Biden Administration  . . . "What these supposed gatekeepers of truth are really trying to do boils down to two things: shut down competitors like Fox News (Oliver Darcy has led the way on that front), and promoting “portion control” — that is, controlling what viewers and readers see come from media newsrooms. The news they “report” will mirror state-run TV, which CNN didn’t hesitate to experiment with after Election Day.

"Stelter said the quiet part out loud in October when he proclaimed it was the media’s job to “protect the public” from certain things politicians, candidates for higher office, and the like say.

"In media-speak terms, that was code for “it’s our job to control the message and to prevent audiences from hearing things we don’t like.”

"His obedient sidekick, Oliver Darcy, also ranted not long after about how media coverage of stories that are damaging to Democrats – like the Eric Swalwell and Hunter Biden stories – must be kept “in proportion” to alleged scandals involving Republicans — because left-wing narratives and so forth." . . .

Biden set to cancel Keystone XL pipeline and right out the gate enrages Canada

U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources confirmed to CBC News on Sunday. A purported briefing note from the Biden transition team mentioning the plan was widely circulated over the weekend after being shared by the incoming president's team with U.S. stakeholders. The words "Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit" appear on a list of executive actions supposedly scheduled for Day 1 of Biden's presidency. 

 

 Monica Showalter   "Well isn't this coming Biden administration special?

"Joe Biden has gotten word out that he intends to use his pen and phone to cut dead the Keystone XL pipeline, kicking off his presidency by annoying Canada.

"According to CBC Canada:

U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources confirmed to CBC News on Sunday.

A purported briefing note from the Biden transition team mentioning the plan was widely circulated over the weekend after being shared by the incoming president's team with U.S. stakeholders.

The words "Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit" appear on a list of executive actions supposedly scheduled for Day 1 of Biden's presidency. 

The list shown to stakeholders is a lengthier version of a list already reported in the media based on a memo released publicly over the weekend by Biden's chief of staff Ronald Klain. That publicly reported memo from Klain did not mention Keystone XL, but cautioned that the memo was not a complete list of planned actions.

"Nice detail there about Biden omitting that planned executive action in the publicly circulated memo. Apparently he didn't want the adoring media, or the Americans set to lose their jobs, or the Canadians -- to see it right away.

"The Canadians, though, have gotten wind of it, their not-so-adoring press has printed it and they're enraged: . . ."

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday

Rich Terrell

'Where Do We Go from Here?' King's question amid the chaos of the '60s still resonates today  . . . "That debate is similar to the one raging today between youthful leaders and supporters of Black Lives Matter and older establishment leaders. Then as now, race was front and center. The youngsters of SNCC had kicked whites out of the group, while the SCLC and other organizations were strong proponents of integration. "

. . . "A schism developed among Black people after Stokely Carmichael, the SNCC leader from 1966-67, raised a clenched fist and shouted, “Black Power,” and said Blacks should cut ties to whites. He was also part of the effort that led to name changes from centuries-old labels of “colored” and “Negro” to African American and Black, which once was deemed an insult.  

"We at the New York Times were puzzled at first over which term to use in our reporting. Executive Editor A. M. Rosenthal finally threw up his hands and instructed writers to use whichever term their sources preferred. For a while, we did just that, until Black and African American became the standards.  

"The decades of the '70s and '80 marked a significant shift with slow but sure progress. More Blacks were elected to political office; there was economic improvement and more progress for other ethnic groups; and the general racial climate began to improve.  

"Recent elections have propelled even more nonwhites and women into elected office. ...  

Not the America of MLK’s Dreams  . . . "But a robust and competitive marketplace of ideas depends on a responsible and free press -- not the Pravda-like agitprop arm of the government we have today -- free expression via any medium on any topic, a virtuous society, and an educated population -- all of which are in jeopardy today. 

"Today’s Democrat message is one of “let hatred, not freedom, ring.”  For whites, as the quintessential scapegoat for all of Black America’s problems, constantly accusing us of racism does little to promote unity and only builds resentment.  While Democrats shroud this hatred as “justice,” it has the bloody stench of revenge. 

"Most of us haven’t done anything racist or supremacist, but revenge is being exacted against us because we are white." . . .

Left Radicals Exploit African Americans