HOW MANY FREAKS WERE ON FULTON COUNTY GRAND JURY? UPDATED

An ethical prosecutor would have made sure this 30-year-old child did not become a juror. THAT is what the voir dire process is for.  But ethics did not hinder Fulton County DA Fani Willis in her pursuit to “get Trump.”

HOW MANY FREAKS WERE ON FULTON COUNTY GRAND JURY? (substack.com)  "When we watched Jury Foreman Emily Kohrs’ bizarre performances on one hate-Trump “news” show after another in February, my husband turned to me and said: “Out of 23 jurors couldn’t they have chosen a sane person to be the foreman?”  We assumed that members of the jury chose their own foreman, as they do for jury trials in most states.  We later learned that grand jury foremen are chosen at random in Georgia, much like wearing a blindfold while one chooses a rotten apple out of the barrel.  No brains needed.

"An ethical prosecutor would have made sure this 30-year-old child did not become a juror. THAT is what the voir dire process is for.  But ethics did not hinder Fulton County DA Fani Willis in her pursuit to “get Trump.” Raised in Washington DC by an “old style” terrorist, a Black Panther (her father), Willis became a hate-filled “social justice warrior” as a child.  Now that the 98-page indictment has been issued will this yellow-toothed, self-proclaimed witch, Emily Kohrs, make the rounds of TV studios again?  My husband and I are waiting anxiously for her return performances.

"Within days of being sworn in as district attorney in January 2021, Willis started her investigation to “get Trump.” She assembled the grand jury in May 2022. Trump declared his candidacy in November 2022, so the race was on to get the indictment issued so the trial process would take him off the campaign trail.

"In order to obtain an indictment, it only takes 12 out of the 23 jurors to vote “yes, we need to indict the leading 2024 presidential candidate and his attorneys.”  [His attorneys? This has never been done before and will be the topic of a future article.] One wonders how many jurors voted for Trump in 2016 and/or 2020.  When selecting the jury, did the prosecutor ask them?  Did this unethical prosecutor dismiss all Trump voters from the jury pool? . . ."

Update:  House Republicans Turn Tables On Fani Willis - She Is Finished - YouTube

Tucker Carlson asks Trump about his enemies in preview of bombshell interview to run at the same time as the Republican debate: 'Are you worried that they are going to try to kill you?'

Daily Mail Online  "Donald Trump called his critics 'savages' and claimed his opponents will try and 'steal' the election again in the preview of his interview with Tucker Carlson - which will run at the same time as the Republican presidential debate.

"Former Fox News host Carlson asked the former president if the U.S. is heading towards a civil war and if he was worried his enemies want to kill him in the first clip of their conversation that will air at 9pm.

"Trump told Carlson he doesn't think President Joe Biden will 'make it' when asked about his health and also accused Mitch McConnell of trying to whip up support to impeach him. 

"That is a reference to Trump's former vice president, who is on the debate stage, polling in the low single digits, but vigorously denying Trump's claims he had the ability to reject votes certified by the states on January 6.

"Early snippets indicate Trump plans to rail against his usual enemies. He claims Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, who voted against his impeachment twice, was whipping votes in favor of it. He said McConnell was 'trying to get senators to impeach me.'

" 'I don’t think he’s going to make it to the gate but you never know,' he says about President Joe Biden, 80, in a remark that appears to indicate he believes his chief rival won't survive." . . .

Who Won the Debate Last Night?

 "Nikki Haley is a shrill, establishment harridan who kept playing the woman card. Speaking as a woman, I was not impressed. When she ridiculed Vivek Ramaswamy’s lack of foreign policy chops, all I could think of was that she’s someone who supports Biden’s foreign policy. What’s that say about her chops?"  Andrea Widberg

Some thoughts, all cynical and sour, about the Republican debate - Andrea Widberg  "So, I sat through all two hours of the debate amongst the Republican primary candidates, although I was very irked by Larry Elder’s absence. Having said that, he didn’t miss much. It was like watching a junior high school debate, complete with the cool kids asking stupid questions and the geeks fighting on the stage. I hated every minute of it, thought it was embarrassing for all involved, and found it insulting to the American voters.

"If you want details about questions and answers, you’ll find them elsewhere. These are just my impressions."

"As is the case every election cycle, the format is appalling. It caters to the media’s assumption that voters cannot hold anything in their brains for more than a minute or two. They think we’re stupid, and the format is set up to cater to that. It’s cruel to legitimate candidates to force them to address complex issues in one-minute soundbites, and it deprives the American people of important information. It’s such a degradation of real political debate." . . .  

Most importantly, every person on that stage other than Vivek believes that you just need to take the government and steer it correctly to fix things. They remind me of American communists who promise we’ll be nothing like the Soviet Union. “Communism,” they insist, “was just never done right.” Every candidate essentially said, “Big government can be done right.” Vivek is the only one who understands that it can’t, that it is fundamentally antithetical to liberty.

Who Won the Debate Last Night? (townhall.com)    . . ."Just left a debate watch event with a few hundred conservative Wisconsin voters. I asked for some show-of-hands responses, then worked the room for more context and color. A few takeaways:

- Notable positive response for Nikki Haley, especially from women

- DeSantis helped himself, particularly by highlighting his record of getting things done. Still lacks a lighter touch, but that’s just him

- Vivek polarizing. Some loved much of what he said, but also thought he was too glib and too cocky at times 

- People like Tim Scott, but thought he was flat 

- Some grudging respect for Pence and Christie on certain things, but no support 

- Burgum/Asa not a factor

- Trump fans in the house were unmoved from supporting him

"My bottom line: DeSantis & Haley may have gained some momentum, but the primary’s overall trajectory wasn’t noticeably altered, which is a win for the status quo…and therefore the far-ahead, no-show frontrunner.". . .

 DeSantis: High stakes, solid performance.  He steered nearly every question to his record, taking command on certain questions (his handling of the climate change raise-your-hand moment was intriguing) and accentuating his strengths.  Multiple good answers, no bad ones.  If I recall correctly, despite some needling and provocations, he never 'punched down' at anyone else, only attacking the Left.  That showed discipline.  

Maui Tragedy Makes a Strong Pro-Second Amendment Point –

  PJ Media

“ 'Trust the government” — at any level — isn’t a wise policy. It’s best to be ready for the worst, especially now. The more that American society breaks down due to the failure of the bureaucracy and our increasingly pro-criminal institutions, the wiser it is for us to do everything we can to protect the ones we love."

. . ."While catching up yesterday and reading about how horribly wrong things have been going in Maui, I immediately found myself back in the throes of being infuriated by the unholy alliance between leftist American politicians and the enemy of the people media.

Hawaii isn’t just run by leftists, it’s under the control of far, far-left ideologues. If there is a bad decision to be made in the service of the Climate Cult, it’ll be made. As Rick pointed out in a post yesterday, that seemed to play a big part in this tragedy:

About 85% of wildfires are human-caused — not by carbon emissions but by failure to take precautions around fire sources, according to the National Parks Service. In the case of the Maui fires, it was a perfect storm of conditions that included severe drought and high winds driven by an offshore hurricane. The spark was apparently supplied by a downed power line that ignited the bone-dry brush, causing the fire to whip across the island at 60 MPH.

The Hawaiian state government had been so busy trying to achieve its renewable goals that it downplayed the risk of wildfires. In the end, it cost them.

Republican debate descends into a SQUABBLE: Chris Christie rips 'amateur' Vivek Ramaswamy as a guy who 'sounds like ChatGPT' as GOP rivals attack each other, DeSantis slams Biden's Maui response and Fox anchors have to stop interruptions |

  Daily Mail Online   

"The first Republican primary debate descended into chaos on Wednesday night with candidates shouting over each other and clashing on issues from climate change to January 6th to Ukraine funding and Donald Trump.

"The stakes were high as the eight candidates searched for a breakout, viral moment that would spark their campaigns and give them some momentum to catch up with Trump, who leads by more than 40 points in polls.

"Vivek Ramaswamy was called an 'amateur' and a 'rookie' and attacked from all his opponents on stage during furious confrontations.

President Joe Biden was targeted with DeSantis tearing into his response to the Maui wildfires during the first Republican primary debate on Wednesday night.

'Biden was on the beach while those people were suffering,' the Florida governor said in a response to question on climate change.

'He was asked about it and said no comment. Are you kidding me? As somebody that has handled disasters in Florida you have to be activated. You have to be there, present and helping people who are doing.'

Biden visited Maui on Monday to see the devastation from the wildfires but was criticized when he tried to relate to the victims by dredging up his own family tragedy and talking about a decades-old kitchen fire in his home. Ahead of his visit he was heavily criticized for not commenting on the disaster while he was on a beach vacation.

But Biden, who is the man the Republicans want to replace in the White House, wasn't the main target of the night. Nor was Donald Trump, who is leading the other Republican contenders by double digits in the polls for the GOP presidential nomination." . . .

California Church Sues Government Over Alleged ‘Spying’ on Worshippers

 California Church Sues Government Over Alleged ‘Spying’ on Worshippers › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)  "On Tuesday, a California church that had previously been ordered to pay over $1.2 million in fines to the state government filed a lawsuit in federal court, claiming that the local government spied on its worshippers.

"Fox News reports that the Calvary Chapel San Jose, led by Pastor Mike McClure, alleges that officials in Santa Clara County utilized the Colorado-based company SafeGraph to engage in “an invasive and warrantless geofencing operation to track residents” without their knowledge. The lawsuit was filed on the church’s behalf by the advocacy group Advocates for Faith & Freedom.

“ 'Geofencing” refers to a location-based tool that is often used by the government to track someone through their cell phone data. In this case, the lawsuit alleges, the local government spied on cell phones located in the vicinity of the church to determine who were regular church-goers.

“ 'This operation took place over a year with seemingly no oversight, boundaries, or limitations – meaning the Defendants could track churchgoers in the sanctuary, prayer room, or bathroom,” the lawsuit states.

“ 'This type of expansive geofencing operation is not only an invasion of privacy, but represents a terrifying precedent if allowed to go unaddressed,” the lawsuit continues. “As it stands, the Defendants are effectively arguing that, as long as they call it research, any level of government can target and spy on any individual or group at any time for any duration, and, if they so choose, they can wield the collected data against said individuals or groups who oppose their orders. This is not just un-American; it is downright Orwellian.” . . .