Criminalizing Protest at the Capitol

 Andrew Paquette  "For four years, Democrats worked hard to criminalize support for Donald Trump. They investigated Lt. General Michael Flynn, advisor Carter Page, personal attorney Michael Cohen, foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulus, and campaign strategist Roger Stone, among others. Most were arrested for brief periods. None were guilty of anything related to Trump, most weren’t guilty of any crime at all. They were prosecuted because of their affiliation with President Trump.

"Now, our duly re-elected President Trump has been ousted from the office of president by a criminal conspiracy to install Joseph Biden, an usurper, in his place. To do this, a combination of voter fraud, election fraud, dereliction of duty in the courts, and suppression of conservative speech was employed.

"One of the more perfidious examples of the new intolerance for all things connected to an honest assessment of the 2020 election are the mass arrests of people who attended the January 6th rally in Washington D.C. Two events took place on that day, each initiated by different groups of people on opposite sides of the election integrity issue.

"On one side, Trump supporters gathered on the Ellipse to hear the president speak on the subject of election fraud and to show their support. On the other side, Antifa-led groups met at the Capitol for the purpose of gaining unlawful entry to the building, vandalizing it,and blaming Trump supporters for their actions. As proof of their goals, they broadcast messages on social media that exposed their plans in enough detail to leave no doubt regarding their intentions. The Antifa members, all of whom attended the Capitol riot for the purpose of defaming President Trump, wore pro-Trump merchandise to disguise themselves as Trump supporters. This is well-documented." . . . 

 for their actions. As

Slanted Journalism and the 2020 Election | Sharyl Attkisson

Author, Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism This speech was given at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on February 19, 2021, in Phoenix, Arizona.

 

"U.S. military launches coordinated strikes against American TV host."

 Don Surber

. . . "Unless Tucker Carlson (the host in question) made a factual error, the Pentagon press secretary should shut his trap. 

"But our military is politicized and part of this anti-American cabal of Washington politicians, the media, the deep state, and corporate America that are hellbent on destroying everything that made America great.

"We the people are allowed to call out the American military -- indeed, the entire government -- without fear of being attacked.

"The spokesman in question, retired Admiral John Kirby, is a former CNN commentator, which raises questions of ethics." . . .

‘We Are Not Training’ For The Super Bowl: Tucker Carlson Guest Slams ‘PC Demands’ In US Military  "Retired U.S. Army Col. Doug MagGregor said Monday that America’s military is so focused on political correctness that it’s no longer training for “the Super Bowl” like other countries." . . ."Macgregor said this has created “a readiness to accommodate PC demands from policymakers who frankly have a cocktail level of familiarity with real war when otherwise senior officers would put up much more serious resistance … I think these policies are detrimental in most cases and probably divisive.”

"He suggested the result of bringing these policies into a war would be “a real surprise under the circumstances. Many of the assumptions we’re making about what will work or won’t work — they will be destroyed.”

"Macgregor said political correctness and reduced training standards “have had a profoundly negative impact on the American military, particularly on the combat forces that have had to go through these long occupations, long deployments, without clear missions and obtainable objections.' ”

Most American Schools Are Damaging Your Child

 Dennis Prager

No matter how much information accumulates about the perversion of U.S. schooling, parents continue to take risks with their children they would never take in any other sphere. 

"I have been telling parents for decades that sending a child to almost any college is playing Russian roulette with his or her values.

"But it is a different version of Russian roulette. In the traditional version, only one of the gun’s six chambers contains a bullet. In the college version of Russian roulette, five of the six chambers contain a bullet. If your child attends almost any university in America (or Canada or anywhere else in the English-speaking world), the odds are that your child’s decency, intellectual acuity, faculty of reason, character, and moral compass will be damaged, perhaps permanently.

"The worse news is that sending your child to almost any elementary school or high school—public or private—is fast becoming equally toxic. More and more schools are being taken r by left-wing ideologues and by nonideologues who lack the courage to confront the ideologues.

"Once infected with leftism, these schools teach children to hate reason, tradition, America, Christianity, whites, excellence, freedom, and masculinity.

"To cite one example, thanks to a $1 million grant from Bill Gates through his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Oregon Education Department has announced that teaching there is “one right answer” in math—yes, in math—is an expression of white supremacy. Why, then, would an Oregon parent who cares about his child’s mind send that child to an Oregon school?

"In addition to perverting education, teachers and their unions have exhibited a contempt for children that has taken even conservatives by surprise." . . . More here... 

The Sovietization of the American Press

The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement

TK News

"I collect Soviet newspapers. Years ago, I used to travel to Moscow’s Izmailovsky flea market every few weeks, hooking up with a dealer who crisscrossed the country digging up front pages from the Cold War era. I have Izvestia’s celebration of Gagarin’s flight, a Pravda account of a 1938 show trial, even an ancient copy of Ogonyek with Trotsky on the cover that someone must have taken a risk to keep.

"These relics, with dramatic block fonts and red highlights, are cool pieces of history. Not so cool: the writing! Soviet newspapers were wrought with such anvil shamelessness that it’s difficult to imagine anyone ever read them without laughing. A good Soviet could write almost any Pravda headline in advance. What else but “A Mighty Demonstration of the Union of the Party and the People” fit the day after Supreme Soviet elections? What news could come from the Spanish civil war but “Success of the Republican Fleet?” Who could earn an obit headline but a “Faithful Son of the Party”?

"Reality in Soviet news was 100% binary, with all people either heroes or villains, and the villains all in league with one another (an SR was no better than a fascist or a “Right-Trotskyite Bandit,” a kind of proto-horseshoe theory). Other ideas were not represented, except to be attacked and deconstructed. Also, since anything good was all good, politicians were not described as people at all but paragons of limitless virtue — 95% of most issues of Pravda or Izvestia were just names of party leaders surrounded by lists of applause-words, like “glittering,” “full-hearted,” “wise,” “mighty,” “courageous,” “in complete moral-political union with the people,” etc.

"Some of the headlines in the U.S. press lately sound suspiciously like this kind of work:" . . .

Full article, followed by this next: No, you're not imagining the media's Pravda-ization  . . . "For Taibbi, the apex of the hagiography that is every major newspaper article today is the Washington Post's recent claim that comedians are finding it impossible to joke about Biden.  You may recall, from the Obama era that the media claimed that it was impossible to parity Obama because he was simply too cool.  According to Richard Zoglin, Biden cannot be parodied, not because he is too cool, but because he is too normal.  His voice, insists Zoglin, is "devoid of obvious quirks," and his manner too "muted and self-effacing" to give comics anything to work with.  Taibbi's response to these risible statements is the following video:

Years ago, I read an old cartoon showing a couple at the breakfast table.  The woman says, "This article says don't believe everything you read."  Her husband replies, "Don't believe it."  That husband represents half the American public.  They've been given proof repeatedly that the media are lying, but they refuse to accept that fact and, instead, continue to believe the garbage they spew.  Now that this garbage has risen to the level of Soviet-style hagiography of a demented old man, America is in a deep dive and needs to pull out soon before it crashes.

Swalwell files lawsuit against Trump over Capitol riots

 

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Lawsuit alleges Trump inflicted emotional distress on Swalwell, a House Democratic impeachment manager

Fox News  Rep. Eric Swalwell, one of the House impeachment managers, filed a lawsuit against former President Trump saying he must be held financially responsible for destruction on Jan. 6 when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol.

"The California Democrat on Friday filed a 65-page lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and GOP Rep. Mo Brooks accusing them of inciting the Jan. 6 riot and demanding they be held responsible in court for the suffering that followed. 

" 'The Defendants assembled, inflamed and incited the mob, and as such are wholly responsible for the injury and destruction that followed," Swalwell said in a statement about the lawsuit." . . .

" Swalwell's lawsuit alleges nine counts against Trump and the others ranging from conspiracy to violate civil rights to intentional infliction of emotional distress on Swalwell. 

"The lawsuit doesn't specify the amount of money and punitive damages Swalwell is seeking. He is demanding a jury trial."   . . . 

'The View': Meghan McCain Says Democrats Send 'Hypocritical' Message by Not Booting Cuomo

MSN  "On Monday's episode of "The View," Meghan McCain pointed out that not pushing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign after being called out for multiple sexual abuse scandals is a '"very murky, nebulous, ugly, hypocritical message for Democrats to be putting out."

" 'I just want someone to show a flash image of the images of people talking about Brett Kavanaugh and the images of people talking about Andrew Cuomo. It's a very weird message to go from 'Believe all women, one accusation is enough, to be put in jail and lose your job,' to 'Oh, if his politics are in the right way, you can grope whoever you want because gun control is more important,'" McCain said. "I think that if you're going to hold him not accountable, then it doesn't matter, that he should stay in office because he's a Democrat and democratic policies are more important than sexually assaulting women, that's a very dangerous road for Democrats to go down.""McCain, who has been outspoken about her feelings regarding Cuomo on more than one occasion, referenced his publicized cover-up in nursing home deaths in the early days of COVID-19 in her response."

UPDATED: Biden finished his speech, turned, then walked away

 

 LAUGHABLE: Liberal Media Claims Comedians Just Can’t Find A Way To Make Fun Of Joe Biden   "Joe Biden is a walking, talking punchline just waiting to happen. He forgets where he is, he forgets what he’s saying, he has trouble forming a coherent sentence.

"Yet if you believe the liberal media, it’s just too difficult for comedians to find a way to mock Joe Biden.

"No one believes this. Biden is being protected from mockery because he is so awful that if Saturday Night Live and other partisan comedy shows really went after him, they would destroy him.

"Christian Toto writes at News Busters: . . .

If Joe Biden was a Republican, Saturday Night Live would portray him as a feeble minded, bumbling idiot.Their mockery would be ruthless and it would happen week, after week, after week. Everyone knows this is true.

Rick Moran:  Letterman writer: Obama 'too competent' to make jokes about  "Newsbusters Brent Baker was following the goings on at a comedy writers' panel that took place in Washington recently that featured Letterman joke writer Bill Scheft who had this to say about why Obama is getting a pass from late night shows:

It's not because he's black and it's not because we're afraid. It's just that he's, just so far, just a little too damn competent and we ain't used to that. [multiple panelists say "yeah."]

CNN and MSNBC Built up That Trump Hate, Now They're Drowning Without Him, Brian Stelter Pitches New Hate Object

Red State

"How are the liberal networks like CNN and MSNBC doing now that they no longer have President Donald Trump to attack anymore to feed the TDS of their liberal viewers?

"How they are doing is badly.

"According to a VIP analysis, while all the networks took a hit, the ratings for both CNN and MSNBC have taken a huge dive."

Yikes. https://t.co/dTwyOEI6ue pic.twitter.com/Zel6erjzrj

— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) March 12, 2021

. . .  "So what are their options? They’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. Saying nice things about Joe Biden and trying to spin him as the second coming when people can clearly see how flawed and deficient he is doesn’t really work. It’s not stoking their hate.

"As we wrote, what did CNN’s Brian Stelter do, he went after Newsmax for their alleged ratings drop post-Trump. Their response was to throw it right back on him and do a stomp all over his head.

“Only CNN would do a story on Newsmax’s drop in ratings when its own Nielsen total day impressions fell by 45% last week compared to the week after the election, and Brian Stelter’s own ‘Reliable Sources’ show fell by 44% over the same period with, more recently, his show having lost nearly 1 million viewers since January of this year.”

"But Stelter is trying to hook onto a new person to sell to his viewers to hate: Tucker Carlson.

"He even proclaimed it on his show, “Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump,” literally trying to sell Tucker to his audience as a replacement for Trump. “Tucker has taken Trump’s place as a right-wing leader, an outrage generator, a fire-starter.' ” . . .

CNN’s war on Fox News goes nuclear – with a twist   "CNN’s on again-on again war (that’s not a typo – it never ends) against Fox News is getting hotter, most likely because CNN is once again seriously trailing Fox News in the ratings. Brian Stelter, his network’s leading attack dog, was at it again yesterday on his weekly program CNN Reliable (sic) Sources.

"The program led with a full-frontal attack on Fox News’s most highly rated show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and its host, veteran reporter, editor, and television talk show host Tucker Carlson. CNN’s online transcript of the program offers this headline:" . . . More...

It was CNN, and Stelter’s program in particular, that assisted in promoting the effort that has now reached the halls of Congress to censor and de-platform Fox News from the country’s cable, satellite, and streaming television providers.

BPR: CNN’s Brian Stelter’s campaign of hate: ‘Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump’  . . . "Stelter proceeded to give a heavily biased, even distorted take on a series of recent stories Carlson covered last week, to include his little tiff with the Pentagon, mocking Meghan Markle, and the “berating” of a New York Times reporter.

"Again, while sounding envious of Carlson’s success, he called out the Murdochs.

" 'What Tucker wants is attention. What Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch want for him is attention — as this headline put it, he’s the post Trump MAGA champion,” Stelter claimed.

 “ 'Fox News is increasingly the Tucker Carlson channel, and the Murdochs recently cut a deal with Tucker to expand his profile on Fox’s streaming service, too,” he ranted on. “It’s ultimately all about the Murdocks and what they want. How they’re going to keep the profits flowing by giving the viewers more and more radicalized content — led by Tucker Carlson.' ” . . .

Gropey Joe punts on Andrew Cuomo

Tony Branco

 Monica Showalter  "As New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo politically immolates in sex-harassment allegations, one guy who's got to be uncomfortable about the entire wretched specter is Gropey Joe Biden.

"Slow Joe's narrative-makers have finally let him come out of his shell with this ridiculous punt of a response:

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday passed up an opportunity to join other Democrats calling for the resignation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is under investigation after multiple allegations of sexual harassment.

Asked by a reporter if Cuomo should resign, Biden responded, “I think the investigation is underway and we should see what it brings us.”

" Biden, who made the comments upon returning to the White House from a weekend at his home in Delaware, had not previously spoken publicly about the allegations against Cuomo. However, his comments reflect the wait-and-see position the White House has taken regarding Cuomo’s future.

"See, if the investigators don't find anything indictable in this he-said, she-said world of sexual harassment accusations, then they didn't happen, right? It all comes down to the investigators and courts to make it real, just as election fraud all comes down to whether the Supreme Court wants to hear about it. If such bosses say 'yes,' then it happened. If the bosses say 'no,' it didn't. Truth is subject to their approval. In Bidenworld, it's never about the merits of the actual case.

"Which is absurd. Either he "believes women" or he doesn't. He probably does believe these seven and counting women because he's got a history of this of his own.

"Hence, the punt. Better for someone else to investigate, and investigate, and investigate long beyond Cuomo's term. It's a delay tactic that could easily be a cover-up for rigging.

"Why might it be rigged? Well, because the Democrat machine in one party blue states are powerful." . . .  More...

Bill Maher: ‘Never Ending Woke Competition’ Is Destroying America, We’ve Already ‘Lost’ To China

Daily Wire

"Left-wing HBO host Bill Maher slammed the “never ending woke competition” that is engulfing America, warning that it has turned Americans into a “silly people” and that China is “eating our lunch” as a result.

“ 'And finally, new rule, you’re not gonna win the battle for the 21st century if you are a silly people and Americans are a silly people,” Maher said on his show “Real Time” on Friday. “That’s the classic phrase from Lawrence of Arabia when Lawrence tells his Bedouin allies that as long as they stay a bunch of squabbling tribes, they will remain a silly people. Well, we’re the silly people now. You know who doesn’t care that there’s a stereotype of a Chinese man in a Dr. Seuss book? China. All 1.4 billion of them could give a Crouching Tiger flying f**k … because they’re not a silly people.”

“ 'In two generations, China has built 500 entire cities from scratch, moved the majority of their huge population from poverty to the middle class and mostly cornered the market in 5G and pharmaceuticals. Oh, and they bought Africa,” Maher continued. “Their New Silk Road initiative is the biggest infrastructure project in history, indebting not just that continent, but large parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East to the people who built their roads, bridges and ports.”

"Maher said that while China is dominating in seemingly every arena that they enter, America is struggling because “half the country’s having a never ending woke competition deciding whether Mr. Potato Head has a d*ck” while others believe in conspiracy theories.“We’re not losing to China. We lost,” Maher said. “The returns just haven’t all come in yet. They made robots that check a kid’s temperature and got their a**es back in school. Most of our kids are still pretending to take zoom classes while they watch Tik Tok and [their] brain cells slowly commit ritual suicide.' ” . . .

Jeanine Pirro Slams ‘Two-Faced, Mealy-Mouthed’ Kamala Harris For Silence On Cuomo Allegations

 Daily Wire

. . . “Finally, tonight, she is a fraud, a phony, a woman without a moral core, a regular two-faced, mealy-mouthed politician who swings with the wind,” Pirro said during the conclusion of her show Saturday evening.

“  'A real role model, ain’t she?” Pirro said, pointing out how Harris’ victory was portrayed in the media as a great leap forward for women and girls nationwide. “But remember, a woman who couldn’t get 1% of support in her party’s presidential primary nomination, a woman destined to be president, many believe, in the very near future, who can’t even answer a question about whether or not Andrew Cuomo should resign after seven women accuse him of sexual harassment and assault.”

"After playing a clip of Harris slinking out of the room after ignoring a reporter’s question about Cuomo, Pirro mocked, “Some supporter of women, huh? A woman paraded around as a champion for women quick to believe all women, unless it doesn’t work to her political advantage. A woman who once prosecuted cases on behalf of rape victims who then turns around to raise money for the Minnesota Freedom Fund that bails out the men who rape women.” . . .  Video Here

Here are all the times Joe Biden has been accused of acting inappropriately toward women and girls   . . . "Over the last year, former Vice President Joe Biden has faced scrutiny over his interactions with women, as well as his refusal to apologize for his controversial behavior." . . .

Biden touches his head to a young girl's forehead as he greets guests afterspeaking  during a campaign event with former President Barack Obama in 2012

Laughing Stock: “Serial Sniffer” Biden Proclaims That Proof Isn’t Required In “Zero Tolerance” Policy  "Apparently, Biden is continuing the stunningly hypocritical conduct of
democrats, but he’s really outdoing himself. He just announced that even an accusation of disrespect is enough to cost someone his or her job in his administration.

"With the insouciant idiocy that characterizes Biden, he boldly proclaimed a “zero tolerance” policy… no proof needed.

"Yet, there’s plenty of proof of “groping Joe’s’ disrespect and assault on women over the past half century." . . .

                                                                                               At right: President La Pew: