An Open Letter To Sen. Joe Manchin: It’s Time To Change Parties

West Virginia set this pattern two centuries ago when they split from Virginia over slavery and secession. Democrats as well; they wanted to end the Civil War on the slave-holders terms, just as they did in the Vietnam War, those thousands killed and wounded notwithstanding. West Virginians did not want to be part of a cause destroying America's history and noble foundation. TD

Manchin

 Issues & Insights  "Last week’s Senate runoff elections in Georgia gave the Democrats full control of the federal governing apparatus. America is now a one-party state, and the Californication of the country will soon begin. But there’s one man who can slow it down if not stop it, at least for a while: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.

"The West Virginian could erase the Democrats’ de facto Senate majority (the Democratic vice president is the tie-breaker in the 50-50 chamber) simply by changing parties. This is no radical suggestion. Manchin is the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, if not all of Washington, and the possibility of him flipping parties has come up before. But he remains a Democrat, and as recently as last week said he had no intention to switch.

"However, we would like to make a formal pitch, inviting him to follow an honorable path taken by others. Here is our open letter to the senator.

The Honorable Sen. Joe Manchin:

Though you have publicly announced that you will not be changing your party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, we would like for you to reconsider your decision. Please allow us to make our case.

First, your voting record. According to FiveThirtyEight, you have voted in line with President Donald Trump’s position 51.2% of the time throughout your Senate career. Congressional Quarterly reported a few years ago that you voted for Trump’s position 71% of the time, more than any other Democrat. Meanwhile, you voted your party’s line only 64% of the time, the lowest portion among Senate Democrats.

And please don’t forget, 68% of West Virginia voters chose Trump in 2016, 69% in 2020. This has happened even though party registrations in your state are almost dead even. Clearly many Democrats are crossing the line to vote for the GOP in West Virginia.

Recall, as well, that it’s your current party that has gone to war against coal, a valuable commodity whose mining supports tens of thousands of West Virginians. As your Wikipedia page notes, you support “a comprehensive, all-of-the-above energy approach that uses coal.”

We also mention that you were the first Democrat to announce you would vote for Trump Supreme Court nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, and have publicly stated you oppose packing the court, a dream of the Democratic Party that could one day become a plank in its platform.

You also oppose another objective of the Democratic Party, which is to “pack” the Senate by granting statehood to Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Furthermore, you are more Republican than Democrat in your strong position on the filibuster.  . . .  Keep reading...

 Sincerely, The editors of Issues & Insights

 Joe, you are a good man; depart from these people and their sick causes! TD

PURE EVIL: Democrats to Censure Mo Brooks and Louie Gohmert in Coming Days for Challenging Election Fraud and Blaming Riots on Them

 The Gateway Pundit

"You knew this was coming.
"Democrats are planning to censure Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) in the coming days for challenging the stolen 2020 election.

"Democrats want to pin the rioting in the US Capitol by Trump supporters and Antifa on the Republican lawmakers who HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!

"This is how a tyrannical government behaves.
"Democrats have all the power and they are going to use it to punish anyone who stands in their way.

The Great Purge Expands As CNN Sets Its Sights On Fox News’ Cable Providers

"The left has said that they want to “cleanse” the Trump movement—i.e. his supporters—from public discourse and that they want a “truth and reconciliation commission” to further that goal. It’s a good idea to believe them." 

Tony Branco

 Legal Insurrection

"CNN: “the TV companies that beam [right media] into millions of homes around the country also bear some responsibility'” 

"The ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ crew are busily turning Wednesday’s Capitol riot into their very own Reichstag fire, using it as the premise by which to ban President Trump across social media and now, apparently, to go after cable companies for being complicit in “spreading disinformation” by giving Fox News a platform. Lest you be (justifiably) confused by the meaning of “disinformation,” remember that it does not include years of the media and Democrats lying about Russia, Russia, Russia, and it most certainly does not include wild-eyed claims that Trump is a Russian asset. It also does not mean spreading fabulist nonsense about Trump’s response to the Wuhan coronavirus, and it definitely doesn’t mean constantly repeating proven falsehoods (Trump called all Mexicans “rapists,” Trump called actual neo-Nazis “very fine people,” and on and on.). “Disinformation” means only one thing: anything that does not fit the Democrat narrative. The narrative changes with some frequency, so yesterday’s “fact,” may well be today’s “disinformation.” To sort it out, just keep in mind that a lie—an absolute provable, demonstrable lie—told by anyone on the left is deemed “truth,” and the actual truth, backed up by facts, if told by anyone on the right is “disinformation,” as is any opinion, policy position, or ideology that veers from the accepted leftist stance. The left has declared a war on “disinformation,” and that war only starts with Trump’s social media. The next target is Fox News . . . via cable service providers. CNN lays it out (archive link):" . . .

Rush Limbaugh Radio Gold (Day After Capital Hill Incident)

 Religio-Political Talk  

…."Then Rush gets into the events of the day more specifically.

“Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people — Americans who have gotten tired of being ignored, and lied about, and smeared as racists by these very Democrats in the media and the popular culture. Americans who have gotten fed up with having elections stolen from them by the Democrats, including the White House. Now they think two more Senate seats have been stolen, and they thought they were going to be stolen even before the election. And these people went to Washington. They weren’t protestors paid by George Soros or the Democrat party. The overwhelming majority of these Americans were well-behaved and respectful.”

"He’s right. And he continued to be right all the way through this clip. THAT’S WHY they’re attacking him. Not because they’re outraged. Because he’s right and they know it."

Rush Limbaugh, January 7, 2021

There is much more to all this than President Trump

 

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Democrats close in for the kill – not just Trump, but all Republicans "In 2020, Democrat riots caused billions of dollars in property damage, destroyed historic sites, and assaulted and murdered dozens of people. Meanwhile, on January 6, President Trump asked patriots to walk peacefully to the Capitol to cheer politicians who, copying Democrats, objected to Electoral College votes. Some hotheads (encouraged by Antifa plants?) entered the Capitol, as Democrat protesters have done many times before. This time, though, Democrats demanded that Trump leave office immediately under the 25th Amendment or be impeached and that all Trump-supporting politicians across America be expelled from office.

"When George Floyd, an ex-con convicted of a brutal crime, died from a drug overdose while Minneapolis police restrained him in accordance with their department’s training materials, Democrats across America went wild. Minneapolis alone suffered half a billion dollars in damages, mostly to small business owners, many of whom were black. " . .  .

The right needs to remember that this is bigger than Trump

. . . "What matters is that we on the right all face a herculean struggle between capitalism and socialism, and between strict construction of the Constitution and judicial activism, and a host of other threats to the Republic. " . . .

Waving Goodbye to the America We All Knew and Loved  ..."All that seems to be changing.  As we move into 2021, to borrow from Shakespeare, something is rotten.  It is difficult to pinpoint the origin or the exact nature of America's disintegration.  It developed a head of steam when a man who hates this country, Barack Obama, was elected president.  For eight years, we watched his concentrated assault on our values. Obama and his fellow Democrats have introduced some new concepts into our vernacular: democratic socialism, identity politics, social justice, diversity, inclusion, political correctness, Critical Race Theory, cancel culture.  They were intended for the express purpose of destroying everything that is laudable about America." . . .

If Social Media Truthfully Cared About Inciting Violence And Spewing Hatred, They Would Cancel Al Sharpton’s Account

The Lid

Their Rationale For Booting Conservatives Is As Full Of Crap As A Porta-Potty On The Last Day Of A State Fair

"In the fallout of the horrible storming of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, Twitter started deleting the accounts of conservatives, followed by other social media, and now other Silicon Valley liberals are trying to kill Parler, a Twitter-like social media which doesn’t censor conservatives. Their excuse for banning the conservatives is the claim they spew hate and incite violence. That claim is as full of crap as a porta-potty on the last day of a state fair.  If they wanted to cleanse their sites of hatred and people who incite violence, they would ban Al Sharpton from their platform.

"For most of his life, Sharpton has been spewing hatred. And at times, he’s incited violence. During the Crown Heights riot, he told people to “kill the Jews.” In Harlem, he incited the firebombing at Freddy’s Fashion Mart, which killed seven innocents. Even in recent years, instead of calming tensions as someone who calls himself a reverend should, he incites hatred and violence.  Despite it all, the liberals love him, and social media such as Twitter are comfortable having him use their platform.

"Sharpton’s hate record didn’t start with making the Eric Garner kill a black/white issue despite the fact the senior cop on the scene was both black and female. Nor did it start when Sharpton took the killing of a kid who tried to grab a policeman’s gun and then menacingly charged the cop in Ferguson, Missouri, into a white/black issue. It didn’t even start with Sharpton promoting the “hands up don’t shoot” fraud to incite more violence, even after it was proven to be a myth.

"After days of anti-Jewish rioting in Crown Heights, at the funeral of Gavin Cato in 1991 where Al Sharpton gave a powerful eulogy inspiring hatred and Antisemitism: . . ." More...

Kelley Paul Rips Jack Dorsey: Where Were You When Tweeters Encouraged Violence Against My Husband?   "Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is no stranger to political harassment that sometimes escalates to violence.

"He, along with House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (LA) and other House and Senate Republicans and aides, was targeted for assassination by a deranged supporter of failed

"Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders during a baseball practice game in the summer of 2017. There were multiple injuries during the attack. Scalise was hit in the attack and was seriously injured, but thankfully he survived.

"In August 2020, Paul and his wife and author Kelley Paul were attacked by a mob of radical, out of control Black Lives Matter leftists as the couple were leaving the White House.

"It was perhaps all of that and more Kelley Paul had in mind when she proceeded to rip Twitter’s Jack Dorsey a new one over the weekend in a tweet responding to Twitter’s crackdown on Republicans including President Trump who they claim are complicit in trying to incite political violence:"...

The Democrat blacklist of Republicans

We saw during the Obama government shutdown the depths of vindictiveness he and his people have sunk to when they sealed off open-air memorials, even to aged WW2 veterans hoping for one last look at monuments of their history. I see absolute evil in the faces of entertainers, athletes, leaders of this nation (elected or rejected by voters), and ex-presidents. All these have shown their willingness to demolish the wise foundations laid by our ForeFathers and replace it all with whatever will give power to the silliest of the mal-educated.

Liberals want to open the gates to this nation for voters who know nothing of our history and care less; voters who choose bitter, angry bobbysoxers and those who harbor grudges toward all Americans unlike them. To oppose their malevolent rioting is to be called "racist" by them. TD

Trump administration ‘blacklist’ pushed by ex-Obama spokesman is panned "A former spokesman for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has been touting an apparent attempt to blacklist allies and staffers of President Trump and his administration, drawing criticism as President-elect Joe Biden has called for unity and healing." . . .

Harvard Students Circulate Petition Blacklisting Trump Supporters from the University

Daniel Burlington

@danielburlingt1

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Nov 17, 2020

"Aggressively unpleasant teenagers who want adult day care and stifled thought. Who the hell wants to spend time on a campus, anyway?"

Marsha Blackburn: Blacklist Targeting Trump Supporters ‘Epitome of Cancel Culture’

From Russia Today: The congresswoman soon prompted a response from Obama

administration alum Michael Simon, a member of the Accountability Project team, who vowed to compile the names of “every administration staffer, campaign staffer, bundler, lawyer who represented them – everyone.”

Evil takes control! AMAZON Joins Tech Tyrants In Blacklisting Conservatives — Pulling Plug On Parler’s Servers    "Does anyone REALLY doubt we are seeing an orchestrated seizure of all available information in an attempt to silence political speech?". . . 

. . . Nobody cared about Parler, the relative newcomer on the block, until Conservatives who had been blacklisted from the bigger players — Facebook and Twitter, for instance — switched over to a platform that wasn’t busy censoring and fact-checking political speech.  "When conservative Twitter accounts started going dark, there was a mass exodus to places like Parler, which was, briefly, the #1 downloaded app" . . .

HEY CNN: Famous Leftist Intellectual Explains How Today’s Left Is Pushing Totalitarian Speech Codes

HEY CNN: Famous Leftist Intellectual Explains How Today’s Left Is Pushing Totalitarian Speech Codes

 The Lid   . . . “ 'I do not think that the state ought to have the right to determine historical truth and to punish people who deviate from it. I’m not willing to give the state that right”

"After a brief interruption from a questioner, he continues.

“ '…but I’m saying if you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don’t like. I mean, Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked, right? So was Stalin. If you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you are in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise you’re not in favor of freedom of speech." . . .

Noam Chomsky - Freedom of Speech II

Trump-hating Lincoln Project announces it's assembling a blacklist

  Monica Showalter

Isn't the victory of Joe Biden enough for them? Not in the least. They're like a monster that just needs to keep feeding and growing, in order to keep the money and contracts rolling in. More about that in a minute.

" Remember the Trump-hating Lincoln Project? That was the big-dollar NeverTrump group that included among its luminaries George Conway, the unhinged Trump-hating husband of the unfortunate Kellyanne Conway. They included many Dubya Bush administration operatives who'd been left out of the Trump administration and wanted revenge. Their loathing of Trump only got greater after that, and they threw their support to Joe Biden, raising $78 million and creating extremely nasty presidential campaign ads to take down Trump. They worked closely with Democrats and took their money, promising to help peel away Republicans to help Joe Biden. When that didn't happen and Trump increased his share of the Republican vote, leftists, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, questioned giving money to the group as a ripoff." . . .

Andrew Feinberg 

Whoa. ⁦

@Forbes

⁩ chief content officer warns against hiring ⁦

@kayleighmcenany

⁩ ⁦or other prominent Trump flacks: “Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie.”

. . . 

Brit Hume

@brithume

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21h

This will not end well.

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stuart stevens

@stuartpstevens

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At @ProjectLincoln we are constructing a database of Trump officials & staff that will detail their roles in the Trump administration & track where they are now. No personal info, only professional. But they will be held accountable & not allowed to pretend they were not involved

Totalitarian Left Promises Purges And Punishment For All Trump Voters  "If 2020 didn’t already feel enough of a Kafkaesque nightmare, the latest bit of depravity from the “hate has no home here” totalitarian left is a ghoulish scheme announced by three former Barack Obama and Pete Buttigieg staffers on Twitter last week called “The Trump Accountability Project.” Aspiring apparatchiks Emily Abrams, Michael Simon, and Hari Sevugan lauded the website whose stated mission is to “never forget those who furthered the Trump agenda.” . . .

"Hate has no home here!" shouts Antifa kid, left, at Republican, right