The Federalist Papers"In his 2016 run for the White House, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to always look out for our troops and if at all possible, avoid needless, costly wars that only serve to put our young men and women in harm’s way for no good reason.
"He also pledged to bring our troops home as quickly and as safely as possible.
"Luckily for the troops and for their friends, families and loved ones back home, Trump held true to that promise during his entire stay in the White House and came through once again with a huge announcement about the status of U.S. troops currently serving in the third-world country of Somalia.
"According toNewsmax, on Friday Trump announced that he is removing a vast majority of U.S. military forces from Somalia. Troops stationed in the area have conducted operations against the Al-Shabaab militant group and have taken part in training Somalian forces.
"The Pentagon report stated that the president “has ordered the Department of Defense and the United States Africa Command to reposition the majority of personnel and assets out of Somalia by early 2021.' ”
. . "While some* have criticized the withdrawal of troops from terrorist hotbeds like Somalia and Afghanistan, it’s probably safe to say that Trump’s expert military advisers, including America’s military generals, have thought of these scenarios and wouldn’t put troops or Americans in harm’s way unless they had a solid plan.." *CNN-ish types?
Allan J. Favish"A current voluntary census of California attorneys, by the State Bar of California, the state's licensing, regulation, and disciplinary agency for lawyers, raises the issue of whether the information obtained will be used to grant preferential treatment to people who identify themselves as something other than their biological sex, and whether people who continue to treat such people according to their biological sex will be punished for doing so." . .
. . . "Near the end of the Attorney Census, after asking for the racial and ethnic group(s) with which I identify, I am asked:
Which of the following best fits with the gender you identify as?
Select all that apply
Female
Male
Gender Variant/Non-conforming/Non-binary
Two Spirit
Not listed (please specify): ___________
The next question asks:
Which of the following best applies to you?
Select all that apply
Cisgender
Transgender
Intersex
Not listed (please specify): ____________
"Here are some screen shots from the state website that's available for viewing only by lawyers, so you can see for yourself:"
Monica Showalter"How's this for a buried lede? This ran in the ninth paragraph of a Washington Post story about presumed president-elect Joe Biden and his coming relations with Mexico:
... Mexican officials have private concerns that any moves to revoke Trump's enforcement mechanisms too quickly could have a dam-bursting effect at their southern border, unleashing pent-up demand from desperate Central Americans.
"Our southern border was a mess, and it's under control now," said a senior Mexican official who spoke on the condition of anonymity for lack of authorization to discuss potential relations with the United States under the Biden administration[.]
"So much for this new era of "restored" comity and normalcy in foreign relations, as Biden, his team, and their press lackeys have promoted. Already we've seen the fear and pre-emptive triage actions in the Middle East based on fears of a return to the Obama lead-from-behind policy of weakness. We've also see the fear in East Asia as small Pacific Rim nations and democracy campaigners in places like Hong Kong worry about a rampant China and a naive and ineffectual Jimmy Carter-style Biden administration.
"Now we've got a full blown concern from Mexico that with Biden ringing the dinner trial of amnesty, migrant surges will trash Mexico, as if that country didn't have enough problems as it is. If you want to start a migrant surge, there probably isn't a better way to do it than to advertise free amnesty at the destination, as Mickey Kaus noted in one of his tweets.
"As for Mexico, too bad. Biden cares so little about the U.S. that he's happy to trigger a migrant surge in a bid to please far-left activists who hate America anyway. He doesn't care about how migrant surges drive down U.S. wages, raise U.S. health and education costs, and set Central American nations up for failure as remittance states, something that the World Bank has noted will underdevelop a country." . . . . . .
"RS -Fraser Ross, owner of trendy Los Angeles boutique Kitson L.A., had at least $400,000 in damages to his stores during the weeks of rioting and looting loosely disguised as Black Lives Matter protests back in May and June, and he, like countless other retailers in California, has been severely affected by the state’s strict coronavirus lockdowns. Using the platform he has – huge shop windows on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles, and social media – he’s calling out the Hypocrites of 2020 and ironically naming people like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Hunter Biden the “People of the Year.”
One sample here:
"What would a list of Hypocrites of 2020 be without Alyssa Milano: Milano’s window highlighted her hypocrisy in calling 911 to report a “man with a gun” in her backyard, who turned out to be a neighbor shooting squirrels with a BB gun, while at the same time advocating to #DefundThe Police.
"Milano’s window also featured a stuffed squirrel."
Victor Davis Hanson"A half-century ago, progressives used to push limitless free expression, blasting conservatives for their allegedly blinkered traditionalism. They boasted of obliterating once-normal boundaries in art, music and literature to allow nudity, profanity, sexuality and anti-American boilerplate.
"Now?
"The left is Victorian — increasingly puritanical, regressive and hypersensitive. Even totalitarian censorship and book-burning have weirdly become part of their by-any-means-necessary methods.
"University of California, Berkeley, professor Grace Lavery was so outraged by authorAbigail Shrier’s book“Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” that she went beyond the usual calls to ban the book.
"Lavery advocated burning Shrier’s book." . .
“ 'I DO encourage followers to steal Abigail Shrier’s book and burn it on a pyre,” Lavery tweeted last month.
"Did the self-appointed liberal watchdog the American Civil Liberties Union step in to defend free expression?
"No. One ACLU official poured gas on the book-burning fire.
“ 'Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on,” tweeted Chase Strangio, the ACLU’s deputy director for transgender justice." . . .
You are looking into a bare, white room, its walls covered with empty book shelves. It reminds us of one of the darkest days of German intellectual history. On the 10th of May 1933 the main event of an organized burning of books took place on the Bebelplatz. Not only in Berlin, but also in many other German towns hordes of National Socialist students looted libraries.
Michael Austin"Former President Barack Obama thinks more black men voted for President Donald Trump this year because they’re “susceptible” to a “macho style” candidate.
"During an interview Tuesday with Peter Hamby, the host of Snapchat’s “Good Luck America,” Obama was asked why so many African-American men decided to vote for Trump in the 2020 election.
"The Democrat’s response was an incredibly simplistic analysis of his fellow black Americans, the type of stereotyping that the left would normally consider to be blatantly racist.
"According to a news release this week from the Republican National Committee, 12 percent ofAfrican-Americans voted for Trumpthis year, which is up from 8 percent in 2016 and the highest percentage for a GOP presidential candidate since 1996. He did particularly well among black men, with 19 percent backing him compared with 13 percent in 2016." . . .
When Democrats chant "COUNT EVERY VOTE", see what they mean?
Does a surveillance video prove Georgia election fraud?"Georgia’s Fulton County, the most populous in the state, claimed it needed to stop absentee ballot overnight on November 3-4 because of a burst pipe. That was a lie. There was no burst pipe, and the counting didn’t stop. At a hearing on Thursday, surveillance footage emerged showing that the ballots being secretly counted came from suitcases hidden under a table." . . .
. . . "Here’s what seems to have happened: In Fulton County, Georgia, the people who planned to add fake ballots to Biden’s vote count on election night had an overall good plan. First, announce that a burst pipe required everybody to vacate the building until morning and, second, count fake votes.
"The planners missed two details. First, they forgot to make sure the government’s documents supported the “burst pipe” narrative. Text messages emerged showing that nothing had burst. Instead, there was a quickly contained slow leak that didn’t even generate a work order.
"Second, they forgot that the State Farm Arena, where the counting took place, has surveillance cameras all over. On Wednesday, intrepid volunteers obtained the videos from the surveillance cameras in the room in which the count took place and, by doing so, may have discovered the election fraud smoking gun.
"In the video below, at a hearing about election fraud in Georgia on Thursday, a volunteer narrates the video showing surveillance footage of the same room from four different angles:"
. . . "Outside of Hollywood movies, plans this complex seldom work. There are simply too many moving parts and, therefore, too many opportunities for mistakes. Forgetting about the surveillance cameras was a mistake and it is to be hoped that every intelligent American who is not a partisan media hack – i.e., members of the public, politicians, and judges alike -- understands that we’re seeing something better than a smoking gun. In those surveillance videos, we’re actually watching in real time the gun being used to commit the biggest crime in American history."
. . . "Her name is R "uby Freeman. And she made the mistake of advertising her purse on her desk the same night she was involved in voter fraud on a MASSIVE SCALE. "Her T-shirt says “Lady Ruby” and her purse says, “LaRuby” which is her company. "This was not a very smart move.Her company is called “LaRuby’s Unique Treasures.” It’s on her LinkedIn page!"
Accusations of racism begin in three...two...one...
"But,accordingto Jacki Pick, an attorney working with Trump’s legal team, even though “two Republican field organizers had been sent” there to observe the vote counting, “At no time were they permitted to observe in any meaningful way.”
"Pick explains that the four election workers remained behind and continued counting and tabulating “well into the night,” even though GOP workers said in sworn affidavits that a poll worker had declared at 10 p.m. that counting had concluded for the evening and would not resume until the following morning
"According to Pick, the poll workers that stayed behind continued “counting, unobserved, unsupervised, not in public view—as [Georgia] statute requires—until about 1:00 in the morning,” Pick said.
"GOP poll workers learned that counting continued from news crews." . . .
"The New York Post: Biden’s negotiations with Iran “would involve the US lifting the President Trump-era sanctions.'”
"Joe Biden plans to reenter the Obama-era nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran if he takes office next month, he told the New York Times in an article published on Wednesday.
"Biden told the NYT that under his administration, “in consultation with our allies and partners, we’re going to engage in negotiations and follow-on agreements to tighten and lengthen Iran’s nuclear constraints, as well as address the missile program.”
"He suggested a Democrat-run White House will also offer the lifting of sanctions on Tehran as part of the negotiations.
"President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal in May 2018 and placed crippling economic sanctions on Iran, the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism.
"The New York Post reported the comments made by the Democratic presidential candidate:..."
Doug Band worked alongside Bill Clinton every day for nearly two decades, first as a body man and then as one of the primary architects of his lucrative and often-fraught post-presidency. Then came a seismic falling out with accusations of self-dealing and soap-opera-level psychodrama. Now, for the first time since leaving Clinton’s orbit, Band goes on the record about his days in Clintonworld.
. . . "Band’s breakup with Clinton remains a subject of fascination and fierce debate in the Clinton diaspora. Some view the split as a father-son story gone awry. Others see it as a cautionary tale. Band mastered the dark arts of self-dealing, power brokering, and conflict-of-interest navigation that made Clinton’s postpresidency seem, at times, like one big money grab. Like his mentor, he grew fabulously wealthy doing it. Band drew multiple salaries from Clinton’s office, the foundation, and CGI. He also had a side deal with Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies. Even his path out of Clintonworld charted directly through Clintonworld. Teneo was essentially an arm of the Clinton Foundation in its early years. Band converted foundation donors to Teneo clients and encouraged Teneo clients to donate to the foundation. With all the dollars flying back and forth, it looked to Band’s critics like Band was cashing in on his boss’s Rolodex. In 2018, Band and his family purchased a $20 million Manhattan town house that once belonged to David Rockefeller and are in the midst of a multiyear renovation. Last year, Band and his partners sold a majority stake of Teneo to private equity firm CVC Capital at a reported valuation of $700 million. . . .
. . . "Meanwhile, Bill’s erratic behavior during the 2008 Democratic primary torched his statesman image. “He dismantled everything we had done,” Band said. Bill took on the role of Hillary’s attack dog and went aggressively after Barack Obama. As the primary dragged on, Bill shouted at voters and reporters in a series of rope-line meltdowns. The spectacle of a former president denigrating America’s would-be first Black president went viral. Prominent Democrats called the outbursts “bizarre,” “ill-tempered,” and “ill-founded.” Al Sharpton said Bill needed to “shut up.' ” . . .
. . . "At the time, Band attributed Bill’s mistakes to aftereffects of his 2004 heart attack, rustiness from not having run a national campaign in over a decade, and a visceral dislike of Hillary’s opponent. “Obama drove him nuts,” Band said. Looking back, however, Band thinks Bill may have consciously or unconsciously not wanted Hillary to win. “He was used to it being all about him, and if she won, it would be all about her. That’s not how he lived his life for the four decades leading up to that election,” he said. “In her White House, he would be back under a microscope but without the benefit of being the one in charge.” . . .
But keep in mind that omerta still governs many of the more central schemers in the Clinton machine, because they made peace with the Obama Machine, and now have or aspire to insider roles in what they assume will be a Biden presidency. People like John Podesta and Rahm Emanuel. I suspect most of them will go to their graves before they tell the truth.
Minneapolis Somali Community Insider: “It’s an Open Secret” … “She [Ilhan Omar] Will Do Anything That She Can Do To Get Elected and She [Omar] Has Hundreds of People on The Streets Doing That.”
[Minneapolis--Sept. 27, 2020] Project Veritas investigators revealed a ballot harvesting scheme here involving clan and political allies and associates of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.) in the first of a series of reports. . . .
. . . "Jamal, as part of his participation in the investigation, interviewed a Somali-American who functions as a ballot harvester his community. In the interview, the harvester described how he was paid to vote in the Aug. 11 special election and primary, along with a Project Veritas undercover journalist.
"The harvester said Somali-American vote-buying operatives from the Omar machine came to his apartment building to oversee the voter filling out the paperwork.
"Omar operatives request the ballots and fill them out for the voters, he said.
"“They come to us. They came to our homes. They said: ‘This year, you will vote for Ilhan,’” he said. “They said: ‘We will make the absentee ballots. We will fill out the forms for you and when you get them back, we will again fill it out and send it.”
" 'There was no need to go to the voting site, because the Omar operatives told him: “You stay home and you will not go to the place.”.
"After the ballots are signed and documented the harvester said he got paid." . . .
But Kamala runs the administration’s marquee initiative herself. The “Eradication of White Racism and Privilege Now” aims not just at reeducating whites -- and recalcitrant blacks, like Candace Owens and Larry Elder -- but making them take a knee and take a seat in the back of whatever bus that comes along.
J. Robert Smith "Immersed as we are in President Trump’s efforts to wrest victory from a sinister collection of fraudsters, we’re understandably sparing little time to consider what happens if addled Joe Biden’s handlers get away with stealing the elections. These Democrat hacks, malignant leftists, BLM grifters, Antifa spoiled brats, D.C. lifers, traitorous RINOs, Big Tech plutocrats, and MSM propagandists, all suffering a variety of conceits, are convinced they’re pulling off the biggest heist in their wretched existences. Maybe a new Leni Riefenstahl will be found in Biden’s press pool to immortalize the feat?
. . .
"Should Biden’s handlers take hold of the levers of power in the executive branch, all bets are off. These assorted swamp creatures know they’ll have 48 months to cement their grip on the federal government and begin the Great Reset. They’ll rule by executive order, if necessary, and dare the federal courts and the GOP Senate -- if Republicans hold the Senate -- to stop them. If Democrats brazenly steal the presidency, why wouldn’t that embolden them to try to steal the rest?
"A Biden/Harris presidency could be the most conflict-ridden and destructive four years in the nation’s history, save for the Civil War. This time, though, we wouldn’t have our Lincoln in the White House, Donald J. Trump. Instead, it would be as if a slave states sympathizing Democrat won in 1860 (lucky for the republic that Dominion and Smartmatic voting systems weren’t around then).
Or imagine something other than open conflict. Let’s imagine the wretchedness of a Biden/Harris presidency as a dystopia. Let’s create our own version of It’s a Wonderful Life, commencing from the plot twist when George Bailey wants to end his life and Clarence the Angel grants his wish. Bedford Falls becomes Pottersville, a bleak, joyless town full of recognizable faces, but whose expressions are filled with tensions, resentments, and fear. By default, Biden gets to play the wheelchair-bound Mr. Potter. But Kamala Harris really wants the role.
How Republicans can protect national security from Joe Biden"Joe Biden is our media-declared president-elect. His ostensible win is terrible news for our national security. A President Biden would lead to more foreign conflicts and more appeasement to China. That's why it's critical that, over the next two months, President Donald Trump and Republicans implement policies that mitigate the threat he can pose to our peace and security." . . .
. . . In his interview with Ingraham, Bhakdi described as "utter nonsense" Dr. Anthony Fauci's claim earlier Wednesday during a live interview on The Story with Martha MacCallum on the Fox News Channel that 75% of Americans would need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to achieve herd immunity. Bhakdi added, "Someone who says this has not the slightest inkling of the basics of immunology."
"In response to Ingraham's final question, "So you think the COVID-19 vaccine is unnecessary?" Bhakdi replied: "I think it's downright dangerous. And I warn you, if you go along these lines, you are going to go to your doom "(emphasis added).
"At that point, Ingraham ran out of time but promised to have Dr. Bhakdi back on her program.
"The only video of the segment available at press time was a clip, complete except for Ingraham's closing comments, posted by Media Matters for America.
"Critics of the Fox News channel who are advocating boycotting it might want to reconsider in light of the fact that no other mainstream media source in the United States would touch an interview like this one."
